It was noon, Yu Ming's mother next door Zhang happened to call him home for dinner, and when he saw the woman in red, his eyes immediately became a little weird staring at the little neighbor of her family, and then looked at his son, who hated iron but not steel, and even asked the woman in red if she wanted to go home together for a makeshift meal.

As for Yu Ming, it was even more of a smoke that ran away without any righteous anger. The minds of adults, these children, are naturally confused.

However, Xu Changan turned to look at Zhang's eyes, but he felt a little familiar. I don't remember if it was when the family married their daughter-in-law this spring, the old man looked at his daughter-in-law?

Seeing that the woman in red was indifferent, Zhang had no choice but to lead his son back to the house, and when he walked to the courtyard, he did not forget to stand on tiptoe and observe the situation next door through the low courtyard wall.

Sighed and said softly: "Don't you always say that Chang'an is your cheap son?If nothing else, then the girl should be your future daughter-in-law......"

When the little boy heard this, he immediately put on his face, stroked his delicate chin that had not yet grown a beard, and muttered to himself: "This daughter-in-law doesn't look cheap......

When Zhang saw his son's appearance, he couldn't help but laugh and scold, although he was envious, he was not jealous.

"Can I ask why you're at my house?" asked Xu Changan tentatively.

The girl in red raised her head and thought carefully for a while: "The fish is delicious. ”

"This fish was caught from outside the city, and it tasted the same as most fish. The teenager said.

The girl blinked her beautiful eyes, and instead of answering the young man's words, she asked, "Are you very familiar with Zhang Sancou?"

Xu Changan was shocked when he heard this, he didn't know how the girl knew about these things. But thinking of the short and fat man, the young man's intuition told him that it didn't seem to be a blessing to be very familiar with Zhang Sancou, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Unfamiliar, unfamiliar, I don't even know what he sells in his basket." ”

Regardless of whether his words were a pretext or not, the girl asked again: "Your name is Xu Chang'an?"

In Xu Chang'an's opinion, the woman in red in front of her is full of mystery, why does she know so much about herself?

The boy swallowed and said, "How do you know?"

"The guy told me just now, he said that you are stingy, and that something bad will happen to you if you catch your fish, and now it seems that it is nothing. ”

Xu Changan didn't know how to reply, he was only thinking about how to ask the girl in red who was and what was going to happen in the city.

"Is your father's surname Li?"

Xu Changan came back to his senses, looked at the girl in red like a fool, his eyes were full of weirdness, and he said speechlessly: "My surname is Xu, and my father is also surnamed Xu." My grandfather..... Although I haven't met my grandfather, I feel that he should also have the surname Xu. ”

The girl muttered to herself, "That's weird. ”

Xu Changan said strangely: "Everyone says my name is strange, I heard that there is a place called Chang'an, my name seems to be based on that city, girl, have you been to Chang'an?

"You have a lot of questions. The girl said dissatisfied.

The boy was speechless, from beginning to end, she kept asking, why did she only ask one question and become too much?

Maybe it was boredom, the girl glanced at Xu Changan, who was standing quietly next to her, and asked, "Is your grandfather's grandfather's surname Li?"

The young man's face was gloomy, he had never been the kind of person who was honestly at the mercy of others, maybe before, but since he moved to Xicheng and suffered a lot of Zhang Sanru's poison, he rarely had such a reluctant appearance.

Xu Changan raised his head angrily, and when he saw the good-looking and clean face and the big eyes full of expectation, he was instantly deflated, and replied weakly: "Not surnamed Li." ”

The girl is not lost, it seems that she just asks a few words so casually.

Xu Changan plucked up the courage to ask again: "These days, everyone says that there are three strange people in the city, and I have seen the other two, one in the north of the city and the other in the south of the city, do you know if something is going to happen in the city?"

"You mean I'm weird too?"

Xu Changan nodded: "You are in the west of the city, I am wondering if there is still one hidden in the east of the city, what are you going to do?"

The girl lazily explained: "I am not all the way with them, and I am too lazy to do anything at the city gate. As for the other two......"

There is one person in the south and north of the city, and the girl and the other two don't know each other, and the handsome young man explained this question to Xu Changan, so he didn't doubt the girl's words.

"What about the other two?"

The girl pouted: "I ate your fish for a few days, and it doesn't hurt to tell you." Emperor Zulong was assassinated and died on the banks of the Lubei River. ”

Going out from the West City Gate, you can see a river not far away, and that river is the Lubei River.

The Lubei River is extremely long, and the young man often travels along the river in his spare time, but there is always no end to it, and some people say that the river has no end at all.

No wonder, no wonder there are knives in the water, no wonder the fish suddenly became unpalatable, what happened to the fish stained with blood that others couldn't eat, but Xu Chang'an was different. In the year he has been in Xicheng for a year, almost all of his three meals a day come from that river, and he can always taste the subtle differences.

According to Zhang Sancou's original words, 'even if someone pees upstream, the taste is washed away by the river, and the fish can taste a little salty in his mouth'.

This may sound disgusting, but it is not nonsense.

The young man was shocked and asked, "So the people in the city who are related to the city have moved away one after another?!"

"Slaughter the city. ”

Xu Changan sat down on the ground all of a sudden, too much fear was a reason, and more importantly, the boy didn't understand why his father moved away overnight before his birthday and left himself here, which was undoubtedly a huge blow to him.

The young man squeezed out a smile and said: "No, no, if that's the case, then this matter must be confidential, why did the person in the south of the city refuse to say it, why do you know? And it will be so easy to say it? And, besides, since you know that you are going to slaughter the city, why did you come here again? No one will come to send him to death, right? My father told me that he went to talk about business, then he must have gone to talk about business!"

The boy had already begun to cry at the end.

The girl in red was disturbed by Xu Chang'an's words, and before the young man began to cry, she reached out and knocked him on the head, and said angrily: "I can say it because I am not from the capital." ”

Xu Changan was slightly stunned, rubbed his head and calmed down a little before asking, "Then how do you know?"

The girl in red feigned anger and said, "Are you annoyed? I'm hungry, hurry up and cook!"

Xu Changan was a little aggrieved, silently picked up the fish on the shore that had long been unresponsive and walked towards the house.

The girl couldn't hold back when she looked at this picture and began to laugh.

On the ninth day of the first month of September, the red decay and green decrease, only a touch of chrysanthemum yellow competes for beauty, and it is not withered.

The autumn bird seems to think that this picture is too bleak, too lazy to call twice, but is busy building its new nest, without the cover of dense foliage as a cover, staring at the naughty children under the trees, maybe thinking about whether to build it higher?

The thin scavenger in the city, who held a broom half a head taller than himself, looked at the endless withered yellow ground and fell into deep thought.

Picking up the shiny flat man, stepping on the dead leaves all the way, and not selling, aimlessly going back and forth in the east and west, he met a kind buyer who wanted to buy some taste, but the man did not give half a cent of thin noodles, and a mouthful of 'not selling old rascals' made the old face on the opposite side feel the reprimand that he had only had in his youth for a long time, and vowed to kill the short and fat grandson with a cane.

An unusually tall middle-aged strong man in the north of the city sat in a tavern at random, holding a large Haikou bowl in his right hand like a child's toy, and a pot of water on the table, looking in the direction of further north with an expressionless face, not knowing what he was thinking.

In the south of the city, which is full of fishy and bloody smells, in an inconspicuous fishing tackle shop, there is a drunken old man sleeping on his stomach, the old man has a blue nose and swollen face, but the look on his face is extremely satisfied. A handsome young man at the door looked thoughtfully at the bloody fish flowing under his feet.

The inhabitants of the city have begun to plant dogwoods on their heads, believing that they can ward off evil spirits.

At lunchtime, whether it is in the east or west of the city, there is always a bowl of longevity wine made of chrysanthemums on the table, some people are discussing where to go out after the meal, and some people go to worship the ancestors early, praying to bless themselves with peace and harmlessness.

And some people are already on the way to the end of the world.

Those who flee do not know that they cannot escape, and those who remain know that they cannot go.

On such a day, few people will know that today is still a young man's birthday, and his birthday is a bleak time.

However, the scenery in the courtyard and the outside of the courtyard can be said to be completely reversed, the red outside the courtyard is declining, and the courtyard seems to be only that red.

The young man saw it in his eyes, but he also felt comforted.

A man and a woman, two bowls of fish soup, the scene is unusually quiet.

The young man lowered his head and held the bowl, his stomach was already rumbling with hunger, but looking at the bowl of fish soup in his hand, it seemed to be stuck in his throat, and he couldn't get out of his mouth.

She has long been fed up with the appearance of a young man, picked up the chopsticks and tapped the edge of the bowl twice, perhaps remembering the elders in the family to tell him to be like a begger, and quickly put down the chopsticks and coughed lightly.

"It's not enough, I'll go to Sheng again. The boy came to his senses and got up.

The girl sighed helplessly and said, "Even if you deserve to die like this, you still have to die." ”

......

The young man was speechless: "Are you comforting......"

The girl in red didn't bother to explain, and continued to drink the fish soup in the bowl.

The boy said to himself, "Some things seem to be coincidental, but I feel like they were deliberately arranged." ”

"What do you say?" said the girl, muttering as she bit the fish in her mouth.

The boy put down the dishes and chopsticks, squatted at the door with his back to the girl and said: "My father asked me to go back, when I went to Dongcheng, I met the first strange person, the fishing net was broken, and when I got the fishing net back, I met the second one, and when I came back, I found that the third strange person was at my doorstep, I think there should be no such coincidence in this world." ”

"What do you want to say?"

"You don't want to tell me what's going on, but you all seem to be leading me to explore these things, why are you letting me know this?"

When the girl heard this, she slapped the table with her smooth jade-like palm, gritted her teeth and turned to look at the young man and said, "Is your surname Li or what?"

Xu Changan was stunned for a moment, and replied in a daze: "My surname is Xu." ”

"The surname is Xu! Just now, you had to ask the old lady to tell you what happened!"

Xu Changan was extremely embarrassed, but he still reminded stubbornly: "I didn't ask for it." ”