The winter in Chang'an is about to pass, although the sun is shining these days, the cold wind does not stop, and most of the pedestrians are shrinking. There was a wall in the courtyard to block the cold wind that scraped the bones, and the yellow sun was left, which was much warmer than outside.

Yesterday, Zhao Yuanwai took Zhao Yu to Kaifeng, saying that he was visiting relatives, and Ye Yunsheng didn't have to take Ah Yu to teach swords, so he passed the time in the courtyard in the afternoon.

Basking in the sun, accompanied Ah Yu to practice the sword for a while, ate some cakes, chatted with Lao Yun, drank, and in the evening, Lao Yun went to the inn to rest, he coaxed Ah Yu to sleep, gave his wife a breath, and came to the courtyard alone.

On the courtyard wall, there was a flower cat squatting, as if in a fixed position, with a slender body, pointed ears, and a pair of emerald eyes, looking at him without blinking.

The ground was cold, the old locust tree was motionless, there was no shadow of clouds in the sky, it was dark everywhere, only the moon and the halo on the side, it looked a little bleaker, saying that there was less coldness, saying that there was more loneliness, between coldness and loneliness, Ye Yunsheng stood there, like a lifeless wooden stake.

In the past few days, every night, he would always hear someone on the roof, tapping on the tile.

For two nights, he performed light feats in the darkness of the night, walked the cornices and walls, and walked slowly through the streets of the East Market, avoiding the brilliant lights.

He didn't want to go tonight, because sometimes, the mind is relaxed, so that the mood can be calmed, but sometimes, the heart can be scattered to the sky, and when he sees what he doesn't want to see, he is even more depressed.

He didn't pinch the sword technique, he didn't stand on the sword pile, he didn't even think about anything about the internal strength of the sword technique, if someone asked him what he thought at this time, he couldn't even answer.

He was like the darkness in the sky, the old locust tree beside him, and the flower cat on the courtyard wall.

Suddenly, a stone slab rose on the ground on the side of the side room, and Jiang Shouhua, dressed in white, was quiet, but entered the courtyard like a stone mirror lake.

The flower cat jumped off the courtyard wall with a whizz, the old locust tree shook for a while, the branches and leaves were gently blown by the wind, and a cloud drifted under the moon, blocking the glimmer.

The courtyard was immersed in darkness.

Waiting for the clouds to drift away, the moonlight lifted the curtain, and in the faint light, Jiang Shouhua's bright face appeared in front of Ye Yunsheng, like a fairy who had just fallen from the Moon Palace, and a small tear mole hanging from the corner of her right eye was sad and charming under the moonlight.

"I couldn't stay still and wanted to come out for a walk. ”

"Okay, I'll go with you. ”

"Is it okay?"

Ye Yunsheng glanced up at the waning moon and said lightly: "It's almost the past few days, so it's okay for Wei Xian to know." ”

"Auntie's body is better?"

Ye Yunsheng walked out slowly, so his unbearability and helplessness were undoubtedly expressed in this move, and Jiang Shouhua subconsciously covered his mouth.

In the alley, on Fukang Street, there was no one, and it was quietly silent.

Jiang Shouhua's clogs sounded crisply and slowly in the night of Chang'an, and neither of them was willing to go fast. She walked with him, breathing in the clean and refreshing air of the evening, which was very comfortable.

Ye Yunsheng walked east with an expressionless face, passing by the archway on the edge of the fruit shop, he subconsciously glanced back, and silently continued to move forward, coming to the East Market. Approaching the bright lights, he realized that he was followed by a woman.

He turned his head to look, Jiang Shouhua was looking at the market, her eyebrows and eyes were in the lights, she was beautiful, and she was stunning in the world. In the many days of recuperation in the cellar, the previous grievances and emaciation have quietly left.

But whoever it is, after spending more than a month in the cellar, is mostly sloppy.

"Is there a place to take a shower nearby?"

"There is a soup pool behind the fence a few times ahead, but it is not good to bathe at this time. ”

"Why?"

Ye Yunsheng didn't answer her for the time being, but was curious, and asked, "You have also been in Liu Mansion for some years, why don't you even know such a lively place in Chang'an Dong City?"

Jiang Shouhua was embarrassed to be asked, lowered her pretty face, and said in a low voice: "Since Erlang left, I have never gone out at home. ”

Ye Yunsheng said in surprise: "Aren't you bored at home all day?"

Jiang Shouhua raised her head, her eyes were like a galaxy, her expression was calm and content, and she said: "Although the fighting room is small, there is a big world in front of the Buddha, quiet and comfortable, and I don't feel bored." ”

Ye Yunsheng bent over and made a nondescript salute, and joked to her: "Amitabha, the female layman is as beautiful as a flower, and if she has competed with the immortals, the Buddha will definitely bless her!"

Jiang Shouhua couldn't bear him being so frivolous, and she didn't know what to do, so she could only say: "Oh, you can't talk nonsense, how can you be like a child, the Buddha is above, don't talk nonsense!"

He laughed out loud, but not much in his heart.

"Because the soup pool was built close to the hook fence, in the middle of the night, most of the young ladies went inside, and the Dafan Liang family would never want to go. ”

She is not good at words, she can't say it, she seems to look down on those women, but if she wants to say it, there will be some diaphragm in her heart, and if she gets sick, what should she do?

"That's it, anyway, I've endured it for many days, and I don't care about one more day. ”

"I have an idea. ”

"Tell me about it?"

He glanced at the faintly black cloud-like wall in the distance, and was slightly distracted for a moment.

"When you go out from that side and run a small half-pillar of incense with light power, there will be a mountain stream and a stream, backed by Jiexi Village, and the upper stream is Ba Shui. ”

Her face is more distinct than Haruko's, and the tear mole hanging from the corner of her right eye is hazy and not very real.

"The water was clean. He subconsciously said again......

"What speed does it take to run a stick of incense?"

His vision refocused, and he found that she was raising eyebrows at him, and when he saw it, he couldn't help but smile - even if Yan returned, he didn't have to be so particular, right?

"It's about half a mile away at a time. ”

"You lead the way. ”

Ordinary people can't go out of the city at night, and the city gates are closed early.

Ye Yunsheng took her to the bottom of an old camphor tree, jumped up, jumped onto the tree, connected the two branches with strength, flew into the air, and swept obliquely to the top of a building more than ten steps away.

The old camphor tree is about two zhang high, the roof of the building is about three zhang, and the height of the city wall of Chang'an is about four zhang.

When the two of them reached the top of the building, the city wall in front of them was already in front of them, and it seemed to be within reach.

"Slow down!" There was actually a person on the roof of the building, lying blindly in the black light, and when he saw the two of them coming up to leave, he hurriedly got up and stopped him.

Ye Yunsheng didn't ask much, reached out and took a string of copper coins from his arms and threw it to him.

The moonlight was unknown for a while, and the man seemed to smile, took the money, and fell on the roof tiles, and continued to lie down.

When he jumped out of the city wall and fell outside the city, Jiang Shouhua had a chance and asked him, "Why did that man sleep on it, and why did you give him money?"

"This is the only roof near the east that can jump out of Chang'an City with its strength. ”

He looked at her curious look, and couldn't help but explain: "Only people from the rivers and lakes, people with extraordinary achievements, can use their strength to go to the top of the building, and then jump out of the city wall by the height of the roof." Since there is only this place, and it is needed by the people of the rivers and lakes, it is not uncommon for a gang force to put a stake on it to collect tolls. ”

Jiang Shouhua said suddenly: "It turns out that you can still make money like this!"

Ye Yunsheng said with a smile: "The rivers and lakes are far away, and there is money everywhere. On the contrary, those who borrow roads to collect money in this way can be regarded as making a living in the white way, and everyone also turns a blind eye, spends money to borrow roads, and does not cause trouble. ”

Jiang Shouhua smiled: "I can't see that you are withdrawing from the rivers and lakes." ”

Ye Yunsheng smiled bitterly: "I have already withdrawn." ”

"The smell of rivers and lakes is all over the body. Jiang Shouhua thought about something and asked, "That person is really hard enough, he is so tired that he can't sit still!"

The moon floated out of the dark clouds, the shadows of the trees on the side of the road quickly retreated, Ye Yunsheng looked at her face - in the shadow of the trees, the light and darkness changed in the move, so beautiful that people sighed, just like looking at the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the first time I saw lotus flowers in the south of the Yangtze River......

But this beautiful face still could not stop the gushing laughter, he couldn't help but laugh, grinned, and said: "It can only lie down on it, if you sit or stand, it is easy to be discovered." ”

was laughed at by him, but she couldn't do anything about him, so she could only pretend not to know.

After a moment, he stopped and pointed to the dark spot ahead.

She couldn't see clearly, fumbled her way over, and when she got closer, she realized that it was a spacious, gentle stream.

"I'm waiting for you here. ”

She looked back, there was only a black figure, and then she looked up, the forest leaves were thick, and the moonlight was dim tonight, and it was even more sparse here. But she was still a little shy, and whispered, "Don't get any closer." ”

"Good. ”

As the old saying goes, the world is color, and with color, there is everything.

Maybe there is no color in this world, only what color you think it is.

It was pitch black here, the place where Ye Yunsheng was standing was extremely dark, and the whole world, in the sky and on the ground, there was only one color: black!

Jiang Shouhua took off her clothes and stepped into the stream, and suddenly the whole world brightened.

(Once, there was a beloved girl who quietly went away and took the whole world with her, leaving no trace of color.)

Only in the memories, the passing of the years, when I look at you again, it seems that I exist again. ）

Ye Yunsheng looked at the beautiful woman, walked into the water, slowly washed it, and after a while, walked ashore again, groping to find clothes.

Her internal strength can't reach the point of drying her body, only slightly removing the water droplets, leaving a layer of wetness, and her clothes will inevitably stick to her body after wearing.

She walked up to him and found him with his eyes closed, looking distracted.

"Let's go?"

Then he turned around and opened his eyes, tears slowly dripping down.

"Going drinking?"

"I don't like to drink. ”

Originally, he just wanted to drink, but when he heard her say he didn't like it, he had to drink it in his heart.

"Then you should come with me. ”

There were not many people in the largest victorious wine shop in the East City, so he took her into the wine shop, and did not go upstairs, but bought two pots of Taibai at the bottom, and walked out of the restaurant, and went around to the place behind the wall root. He pointed to it, then jumped to the corner eaves of the first floor, borrowed a kick, and went to the second floor, then the third floor, and then the fourth floor. This victory wine shop has a total of four floors, hexagonal eaves bells, red railings and green tiles, and there are residual dews on the top of the tile, he doesn't care, he just lies down and cocks his legs.

Jiang Shouhua sat beside him, looked at the surrounding scenery, and said, "This place is really good for drinking!"

He couldn't help but think of Zhang Qingzi again, and he would always find a place like this with him to drink. Seeing that she took off the clogs, barefoot, and straightened her legs, he turned his head and only looked at the night sky, and when he finished drinking a pot of wine, he and Jiang Shouhua broke away from their respective hearts.

"I'm going to see them with Lao Yun tomorrow, and you're going with you?"

"Good...... Unexpectedly, Fang Daxia's life-saving grace could not be repaid in this body. ”

He took apart the other jug of wine and asked her, "Don't you really drink it?"

She shook her head and said nothing, but she didn't want to say no more.

He raised the flask and poured it into his mouth, and the wine became extremely bitter - singing about wine, life is geometric! Be generous and unforgettable. How can we solve our worries? Only Du Kang.

The woman I drank with is no longer alive, what am I thinking?

The moonlight was faint, Jiang Shouhua looked at Ye Yunsheng, saw him singing and groaning, and was distracted;

She smiled softly and said to him, "How does this wine taste?"

He looked at her delicate and picturesque face, poured the wine into his mouth, threw the flask, and said, "It's not worth the aftertaste." ”

............

In the morning, Ah Yu got up and dressed diligently, ran out of the house, and fetched water in the courtyard, shivering from the cold, wiped his face indiscriminately, refused to rinse his mouth again, turned his head sharply, and looked curiously at the woman sitting in the courtyard.

"Early. The woman smiled at her.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Jiang Shouhua, and I am your father's friend. ”

Ah Yu asked, "How should I call you?"

Ye Yunsheng walked out of the side room, cleaned up a wooden table, and said to Ah Yu, "Call her Erniang." ”

It is said that this is right, the wife of the second son of the Liu family, it is okay to call Liu Erniang and Jiang Erniang, but Ye Yunsheng's words made Jiang Shouhua a little unbearable, and her face blushed. After all, I joked with her a few days ago, saying that she secretly raised a little lady and had a big belly.

The title of Erniang is easy to make people think about it.

The three of them, there were four bowls of noodles on the table, Jiang Shouhua was quiet, and he didn't ask, he took chopsticks to eat noodles, and after a while, someone pushed open the courtyard door and walked in.

She had never seen this person, but when she saw it for the first time, she already knew that this person was the famous Yun Wujing on the rivers and lakes.

But Yun Wujing didn't know who she was.

"Ah Sheng, your mother-in-law is still lying on the bed, so you found a small one and asked my brother to tell you what's good?"

"Then don't say anything, hurry up and eat noodles, I specially added a small yellow croaker to this bowl for you. ”

Ah Yu listened, made a strange face to Yun Wujing, who walked to the table, and said, "The fish is so fishy, it's ...... vomit."

"Yu'er, Yu'er, what is fresh? It's fish and sheep, don't learn from your flowery father, just pick up the fish and don't eat it. ”

Yun Wujing sat down but never held chopsticks, Ye Yunsheng could only say, "This strange man in the rivers and lakes Yan has returned...... is Liu Fu Erlang's mother, who was plotted by Xie Ding and others, and was seriously injured, and Qingzi brought her to me to take care of her. ”

Yun Wujing didn't look at Jiang Shouhua at all, so he pointed at him with white eyes, "So you've been keeping it in the cellar?"

Jiang Shouhua has been chanting scriptures day and night for many years, worshipping the Bodhisattva, and her temperament is extremely calm and peaceful, but at this time, she can't help but want to make a move with Yun Wujing. I can't help but sigh, the rumors in the rivers and lakes are indeed not exaggerated, Yun Wujing is really annoying, and I don't know how to make friends with Ye Yunsheng.

Ye Yunsheng knew this friend very well, so he didn't say anything anymore...... Whatever you say, he can be scolded back, if Jiang Shouhua is not there, it doesn't matter, he can also be scared, but sitting next to him, he must always take care of the other party's feelings.

Yun Wujing saw that he didn't speak, so he moved his chopsticks, ate cleanly, drank the noodle soup, pushed the bowl and chopsticks, stood up and said, "I'll take a look at Ah Tan." ”

Ye Yunsheng thought that he was going to give Ah Tan a crossing, and it would take a while, but he only saw him walk out in a moment, and asked with a gloomy face: "How long ago did you give her a crossing?"

Ye Yunsheng said: "Half an hour ago, when the sky was just dawning. ”

Yun Wujing wanted to speak and stopped, Jiang Shouhua ate half of the noodles in the bowl, got up to go in, and said, "Is my sister-in-law better?"

His tense expression before relaxed, and said, "Fall asleep, don't wake her up." ”

Ye Yunsheng nodded, he hadn't finished eating the noodles, he pointed to Jiang Shouhua's bowl and said, "It doesn't matter, eat quickly, it's easy to get upset when it's cold." ”

After Ah Yu had eaten well, Yun Wujing hurriedly said, "Let's go!"

Ye Yunsheng couldn't cry or laugh, and said, "Let me clean up." ”

"You are a man, mother-in-law, mother-in-law, there is a lady who wants you to do this?"

At this moment, Jiang Shouhua would rather go back to the cellar than face Yun Wujing, watching Ye Yunsheng pick up the dishes and chopsticks with a smile, he felt uncomfortable again, snatched the dishes and chopsticks from his hand, and came to the water tank to scoop water and clean them.

The two men sat at the table, staring at her graceful body, crouching on the ground, their curvy buttocks cocked......

Ye Yunsheng pointed at Yun Wujing.

"Decay. Lao Yun rolled his eyes.

Jiang Shouhua washed the dishes and wiped the table, because she didn't use her internal strength, her hands were frozen red.

Yun Wujing complained: "It's useless!"

Jiang Shouhua drooped her eyelids, and suddenly had a feeling of being picked on by Erlang's family when she went to Liu's Mansion for the first time.

"Let's go. Yun Wujing took Ah Yu's hand.

Jiang Shouhua glanced into the room and asked, "Don't you need to give the eldest lady a breath?" I'm afraid this back and forth time is not enough. ”

Ye Yunsheng was in a slight trance for a moment, nodded and responded: "Indeed, wait for me for a moment." ”

Yun Wujing watched him enter the house, was silent, and reached out to touch Ah Yu's head.

About a stick of incense, Ye Yunsheng walked out, and the three of them took Ah Yu out of the courtyard.