The thunder and the rain on the river are mixed together, as if they want to explode together, the wind and rain are confused, the thunder is surging, tossing and turning in the vast sky, and the waves of rain are sprinkled, like beads the size of beans are connected by invisible silk threads.

The dry wood in the temple burned red, and then turned into ashes layer by layer from the surface, although the heat of the flame was not enough to warm the entire temple, but it was enough for Ye Zhiqiu and the little girl in his arms.

Even though the thunder was rolling outside, the little girl still slept very peacefully, of course, this is indispensable to his embrace as a father, even if he wandered at the end of the world, he never let his daughter suffer the slightest grievance, this is the biggest thing in his life, and it is destined to become his reverse scale.

In addition to a little firelight in Ye Zhiqiu's dry eyes, there seemed to be a glimmer of starlight, and his daughter was asleep, but he didn't even feel sleepy at all.

He buried one hand under his daughter's body and hugged the little girl, knowing that it would give her a sense of security.

Ye Zhiqiu held the broken sword in his other hand, sometimes raising it, sometimes falling it again.

He looked up from the high, small window in the temple wall, and saw the lightning bolt that cut through the air, cutting a long opening in the night.

"Tonight is stormy, tonight is thunder and lightning, I don't know how many will be like me...... Doomed to sleepless......" Ye Zhiqiu said to himself.

At this time, a thunderbolt suddenly cracked the sky, as if the temple was trembling, the girl in Ye Zhiqiu's arms was shocked by this huge thunder, she woke up from her dream in a trance, opened her blurred eyes, and she was just about to open her mouth when she saw Ye Zhiqiu.

Ye Zhiqiu hugged the girl tighter with his arm, and said softly: "Good, it's just a thunder, continue to sleep......"

The girl didn't really cry, she stretched out her tender little hand and brushed the hair that covered her eyes, and then said, "Lao Ye, will you find a satisfactory lady one day and don't want me?"

Ye Zhiqiu originally had a lot of things in his heart that he couldn't figure out, so he didn't sleep all night and didn't feel sleepy, at this time he was amused by the little girl's words, he rarely laughed, and probably only when he faced his daughter alone, he would laugh so sincerely.

"How can it be, who else in this world can be cuter than our little one?" Ye Zhiqiu said with a smile.

How do you know that the little girl didn't buy it, and asked again with bright eyes: "What about Ruan Hongyu, don't you like her?"

At the mention of this name, Ye Zhiqiu seemed to choke on a whole steamed bun in his mouth, not knowing how to take it.

It seemed that the beautiful water-like shadow flashed in front of his eyes for a moment, and her outstanding demeanor was probably nothing more than that, although she was in the dust, she had a pair of incomparably clear eyes, every time she saw her eyes, Ye Zhiqiu couldn't help but feel her heart beating, as if she was hiding a deer.

He closed his eyes, as if a beautiful sound of the harp came out of the cracks of rain and thunder and reached his ears.

"But what's the use of liking her, she's always shining in the middle of ten thousand people, and I'm just a down-and-out swordsman......"

Xiaolai didn't have any rebuttal when he heard him, but directly admitted that he liked Ruan Hongyu, not only did he not have any angry emotions, but laughed out loud with "hehe".

"Lao Ye, I didn't expect a cheeky person like you to have such a time......"

Ye Zhiqiu has always had no way to take her, open her eyes and pretend

As if he was angry, he put down the broken sword in his hand and pinched the girl's soft cheek, but he was careful not to exert any strength.

"Are you laughing at me?"

"If you don't always say that you want a mother, where would I still be looking for it in the sea of people? I'm just afraid that I will find someone to live with us at will, but I'm sorry for you!"

"I've been looking for so many years, and I don't know why she is the only one who can make my heart move?"

Xiaolai stuck out his tongue and laughed, the smile on his face like the rising sun in stark contrast to the wind and rain outside.

"I think you just like the beauty of people's parents!"

"People are indeed beautiful, but I may just want to be beautiful......," Ye Zhiqiu said.

Xiao Lai stretched out his hands, tried to reach Ye Zhiqiu's face, held his face, and then pursed his lips, as if he was thinking about something, and after a while of "ideological struggle", he exhaled softly.

"I've finally come up with a good idea!"

This statement is extremely serious and unequivocal.

Ye Zhiqiu was almost amused by her series of behaviors and serious appearance, and asked, "What good way have you thought of it?"

Xiaolai stretched out an index finger and shook it in front of Ye Zhiqiu, looking quite cute, and then said with a smile: "That must be a good way to get oranges, bananas, and apples!"

Ye Zhiqiu sighed, he should have known that what Xiaolai said was so strange and confusing, and at the same time, he was innocent and cute to the extreme.

Since he had been mentally prepared, he did not show any anger.

"Did you wake up hungry again?" asked Ye Zhiqiu.

Xiaolai scratched his head, laughed, and did not speak, which is equivalent to being said to be in his heart.

Ye Zhiqiu slowly took out an oiled paper bag from his arms, peeled off the tattered oilpaper outside layer by layer, and then revealed a piece of roasted sweet potato, about the size of a palm.

"Fortunately, I have been prepared, otherwise it is raining heavily outside, where can I find you something to eat?" he said as he put the sweet potatoes on the wooden rack of the firewood pile in front of him, hoping to warm the roasted sweet potatoes that had been cold and give them to Xiaolai to eat.

"Lao Ye, you are so ......"

"I'm sure there will be a day when Ruan Hongyu will like you......"

Ye Zhiqiu picked up a small branch and set the fire to make the flame burn more vigorously.

"If only your good idea could .asxs.!"

The flames roasted the sweet potatoes with gas, and soon the aroma entered the nose, especially when you were hungry, and there was a piece of hot roasted sweet potatoes that seemed to be extremely happy.

Ye Zhiqiu picked up the sweet potato, the outer skin was scorched again, and after he slowly peeled off the scorched skin, the yellow-orange-orange sweet potato was revealed, he took a small bite from it, blew it slightly, and then handed it to Xiaolai's lips.

Xiaolai eats hot and sweet roasted sweet potatoes, his eyes are crooked, and his face is happy.

"Old Ye, you can eat some too!" When she was eating fragrantly, she didn't forget to remind Ye Zhiqiu.

"You eat, I'm not hungry!" Ye Zhiqiu continued to feed Xiaolai, and the expression on his face was also full of happiness.

Probably no one will know tonight that there is a father and daughter in this world, sleeping in a temple where no one comes on a stormy night.

They are already in the river

They have been wandering on the lake for a long time, and they don't even have a home of their own, but they still have smiles on their faces, because in their eyes, as long as they have each other by their side, nothing will be bad.

The little girl, who had eaten her full belly, fell asleep slowly, and although her baby-like fat cheeks were a little dusty, even so, she slept very sweetly.

The world of children should be pure, should be full of sunshine and warmth, but in this troubled world, I don't know how many children are born into pain and struggle, they open their eyes that don't understand anything but are full of confusion, looking at the long road that can't find a way back, but they don't know what their fate will be.

Compared to those children, Xiaolai is indeed much luckier.

The fire on the fire was covered with ashes, leaving only some temperature so that Ye Zhiqiu and the little girl who was already sleeping in his arms would not feel the cold breath.

The rain outside had not yet stopped, but the thunder had become much quieter.

Ye Zhiqiu wrapped the clothes on his body, and he habitually put the worn-out sword closest to his hand, so that he could hold the sword in his hand for the first time in any situation, which was a habit he had developed over the years.

Then, he slowly closed his eyes, and he didn't blink in the first half of the night, and he was a little sleepy now.

"It seems that the rain will not stop tonight, and he should not come, so I might as well sleep for a few hours, so that the time will pass easier!" he said the last sentence to himself, and he gradually fell asleep.

However, just as his consciousness began to blur, there were strange sounds from the sound of heavy rain.

Ye Zhiqiu naturally didn't think that it was just a sound in a dream, so he opened his eyes vigilantly, and the drowsiness in his mind had all receded, and the voice was heard much more clearly.

The sound of the rain outside was loud, and the sound was more like the sound of heavy footsteps, stepping on the muddy path after the rain, splashing countless water, although the footsteps were heavy, but not clumsy, but extremely light and brisk, forming a series of sounds that were not only regular but also dense.

Ye Zhiqiu didn't have to think much to determine that it was the sound of horses' hooves, because there was a slight difference between the height and speed of the front and rear hooves of the horses in the process of galloping, maybe this difference was not easy to find, but he could clearly hear it and was very convinced.

With such a dense and regular sound of horses' hooves, it is obvious that there is a team running outside, but in a poor place like Nancheng, there are very few troops stationed nearby, so who is the horse team running in the night rain?

Ye Zhiqiu began to wonder, from the sound of the voice, it sounded like he was running towards the village behind the temple from a distance, could it be that Cao Kou took advantage of the rainy night to go to the village to loot property? But what could such a poor place rob?

Subconsciously clenched the worn-out sword, and then picked another futon to extinguish the fire, he hugged Xiaolai tighter with one hand, jumped up, and landed smoothly behind the idol.

"It seems that even on such a rainy night, strange things will still happen, in this troubled world, maybe there will be no peaceful land except for Lin'an City!" Ye Zhiqiu realized that something was likely to happen tonight, but he didn't want to go out of the temple to find out what was going on, he lowered his head to see that Xiaolai was still sleeping very peacefully in his arms, and couldn't help but let out a long breath.

"Ever since I had a little guy like you, I've started to be timid and desperate!"

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