He closed the door softly and looked at the sky under the porch, the thick squeak refracting the enchanting light, obscuring both of his eyes. I don't know if he has appreciated the wind in the sky.

Outside the door is the long corridor, the corridor houses are connected in one place, but whether it is the house or the eaves and wooden pillars, they are all gray and black, and the whole looks at the past, there is no trace of protrusion.

His gaze slowly fell, in front of him, outside the corridor, there was an open space, there was not a single clutter, and on the black ground, there were more than a dozen Jianghu men who exuded the aura of death.

These people stood here in an orderly manner, and when they saw that his gaze had returned from the heavens to the mortal earth, there was immediately a stagnation surrounding the crowd, and when they looked closely, these outlaws who were licking blood from the edge of their knives seemed to be carefully holding their breath.

Even the wind stopped.

His gaze fell to the ground and then to his own toes.

Pushing the sneer on his nose, he walked slowly along the corridor with his head down.

As he walked, more than a dozen men from the rivers and lakes outside also followed.

Usually the porch houses are built in straight lines, connected together, and form courtyards with hollow characters.

However, the promenade here twists and turns, and the trend is strange.

The place outside the corridor is all open space, there are no flowers and plants, and there are no furnishings, it is clean and clean, and it is extremely strange to be together with these corridor houses.

He went to the outside of a house, pushed the door in, and the men waited quietly, and after a while he came out with a large bucket and went back to the room where his daughter slept.

His daughter was taking a bath, and he was sitting on the verandah outside the door, holding a bowl of hot tea in his hand, and the fragrance of the tea soup was very strong.

"No matter who the other party is, they will not choose to break in during the day, because they are not easy to hide from those people who are working outside. You still have half a day to relax, and after the evening, you have to lift up your spirits and keep watch all night according to your usual practice. ”

"Sir, how many brothers do you want to send to the outside to keep sentry?"

"You people, you can't do it alone, it's better to hold the position in the fort, and wait for work is the best policy. ”

"Maybe the other party is just a few unsightly wanderers. ”

"If you don't have any skills, who dares to make trouble in the proud fang? The three ghosts of Tanxi are not opponents, you people, can you hold them?"

He finished drinking the tea soup, handed the small bowl to a man beside him, and said, "When did the five evils set off?"

"We left at noon. ”

He heard his daughter in the house shouting "Daddy", and a gentle smile appeared on his face, but he immediately withdrew it and said coldly: "I should be able to come back before evening...... As soon as the five evils arrive, let them stay in the middle of the battle!"

"Yes!"

"I really want to see who can find here. His cold tone made the person on the side involuntarily slant his gaze, not daring to look directly at his face.

In the afternoon, the scenery in the fields was excellent, and he accompanied his daughter Cao Yinzhu to walk in the ridges, watching her greet the people who worked in the fields cordially, chasing the white sheep grazing, and looking at the birds flying in the sky and shouting.

The wind rose, the breeze in the mountains, with the breath of nature, rolled up a small white flower out of nowhere, and he reached out to catch it.

He caught up with his daughter and put the little flower on her bun, looking at her innocent smile, he couldn't help but grin the corners of his mouth and smirk.

Cao Yinzhu had to take Bai Xue, the white rabbit that she had raised for three years, was very close to her, very spiritual, for some reason, she handed Bai Xue to him to hold, Bai Xue changed from the lively and active in the past and became well-behaved.

On the south side of the fort, this field is also the farthest pastoral courtyard on all sides, with a low bamboo fence, a vegetable patch, a chicken coop, an old well, and a thatched hut.

"Is Grandpa Boo there?"

"He's definitely there. ”

"Drinking again?"

"At this time, it's either drinking or basking in the sun. ”

"Why is Grandpa Bu so lazy?"

"When people get old, they don't want to move. ”

As they spoke, the father and daughter walked out of the courtyard.

"Grandpa Bu!" Cao Yinzhu looked through the bamboo fence and saw an old man leaning on a wicker chair, basking in the sun in the yard.

The old man was full of white hair, messy and scattered, listened to the movement, and immediately ran out, without looking at the adult, bent down and picked up Cao Yinzhu, and said with a smile: "Zhu'er is here, good Zhu'er, do you miss grandpa?"

"Think, think, think!"

"Okay, grandpa also wants to bamboo, oops, bamboo has grown taller!"

"Hee-hee, I eat a lot every day, I must be growing fast!"

This old man's wrinkled old face was obviously quite hard when he was young, and the wind and frost were engraved on it. His facial features are ordinary, and when he is old, he is all shrunk together, and a red rosacea nose occupies a lot of space on his face, which looks a little funny and cute.

"Well, do you want to come and have a drink?" The old man obviously didn't know the name of Cao Yinzhu's father, and he didn't know each other very well, so he asked casually, and saw that he was still the same as when he accompanied Cao Yinzhu in the past, like an introverted teacher, wearing strange things, shy and quiet, only nodded and followed in, and sat at the table in the courtyard.

When Cao Yinzhu was three years old, he played in the field and met this old man surnamed Bu, two old and young people who had been different from each other for a lifetime, just the old naughty boy and the little naughty boy, and they got along very well.

Although Cao Yinzhu will not come here more than ten times a year, the relationship between the old man and her is not alienated at all, but as she grows up, they become closer and closer. From an outsider's point of view, it looks like a grandson.

This place of escape from the world has only been built in recent years, some people flee debts, some people flee, and some people do not want to struggle to survive in the city, for different reasons, but most of them have a heart that has no quarrel with the world, and lives here.

When the fort was built, there were already four families in the area, and this man, like Mr. Teach, was still an inconspicuous young man at that time. At that time, there was no wall in the middle, and there were not so many houses, but slowly it expanded little by little, and there were more houses, occupying a large area, and the wall was built the year before last, and they were all tall wooden pillars together, and the inside was circled, and there were some seams left in the middle of the wooden columns, and it was okay to say that it was a high fence.

The few families outside, as the houses inside were built one after another, did not exclude too much. Anyway, although the people inside were armed, they never interfered or violated them, and during the New Year's holidays, they would send some wine and food to each family.

It is said that this old man was the first person to settle in this area.

A large field was reclaimed, and this small courtyard and grass hut were built.

I never go out of the mountains, nor do I run around, I just take care of this field, this courtyard, this side of the world.

Cao Yinzhu talked to the old man for a long time, and when the sun began to set in the sky, her father said, "Go back to dinner, and come back tomorrow to play with grandpa." ”

She obediently said goodbye to the old man and followed her father out of the yard.

The old man sent it to the door, and suddenly said, "Why did you come back this time?"

Her father stopped, turned around and said, "It's nothing, I just want their mother and daughter, so I took it back and lived for a while." ”

The old man looked at him, and as he spoke, he looked at his feet, as if this man was really not good at dealing with people. The old man was not surprised, nodded and said, "I'll make some rice cakes, can I let Zhu'er come for breakfast tomorrow?"

Cao Yinzhu looked at his father, his lowered gaze moved to his daughter's face, smiled, and said, "I will send her over in the morning." ”

The old man smiled happily, rubbing his hands on his worn trousers, as if he couldn't wait to go and prepare food for Zhu'er to taste tomorrow.

He didn't leave for a while, and asked, "Why didn't I see you drinking with that gourd today?"

The old man showed an angry look on his face, and said, "I don't know which thief took advantage of my convenience in the ridge to shun my wine gourd, what a damn old man!"

He sighed and said, "I'll give you one another day." ”

The old man arched his hand with a painful look on his face and said, "It's okay too!"

He took Cao Yinzhu away, and his eyes fell everywhere, full of coldness.