The ancients said that young people don't know what it's like to be sad. In fact, the reason why young people are young people is not because they don't know what sorrow is. Young men have their own sorrows. Or the loneliness when carrying a book box to bind the book tour, or the spring heart when she longed for the girl in her heart. It's just that the sorrow of young people is not bitter, but like unripe sour plums, which are a little sour, but after many years, they will miss this taste. Moreover, it is easy for a young man to let go of his sorrows, whether it is a pot of wine that is not too strong, or a bowl of meat noodles with oil flowers that he has never eaten, or seeing with his own eyes famous mountains and rivers that have only appeared in travelogue classics before, there are always things that will make a young man forget the sorrow that he should not have.

Yun Xuelan and Ding Ye are such young men. The haze of the Li Mansion and the encounter in the inn did not envelop the two of them for long. The two said goodbye to Takasugi, who had gone south to Nanliang, and walked all the way through the moonlight. Along the way, Yun Xuelan told his companions about his suffering from pulse disease and his childlike words when he practiced with Li Haozi in Yunyin Villa. It's just that when Ding Ye asked the young man if he had really thought about traveling the rivers and lakes with the young master of the Li family, Yun Xuelan did not answer directly, but nodded lightly when Ding Ye looked up at Mingyue and thought about when he would become a martial artist and get revenge.

After Yun Xuelan finished telling the story of the entanglement with the Li Mansion, she saw Ding Ye breathe a long sigh of relief. This made the young man in the white robe a little inexplicable, and then the joke when he met the black felt boy at the beginning and the various performances of this person inside and outside the Li Mansion sounded, Yun Xuelan suddenly realized that the person beside him must have misunderstood him. He put his index finger against his eyebrows and rubbed it vigorously. Then he patted the boy who was sitting on horseback and didn't know what he was thinking about again. Ding Ye turned his head, pointed his middle finger straight to the moon standing in front of him, and before the young man could react, he fell off the horse with the black felt hat.

So, on the official road, a young man in a white robe rode a maroon horse, and a black horse accompanied him. After two rides, a dusty young man waving a black felt hat in his hand ran panting in the dust, and he scolded and said something from time to time: "The bullshit Yunyin Villa will only pray for the poor people, where did the bullshit Yunshao Village owner come from to be such a big official." "One person and two horses are not fast, and the young man behind him can just eat a mouthful of smoke and dust with all his strength. It seemed that he was too tired from running, and it seemed that he had eaten a mouthful of sand, Ding Ye would bend over from time to time, or simply sit on the ground with his butt, crying and begging while sprinkling: "Master Yun Shaozhuang, you can be merciful, don't be like me, a nameless rat, and let me go as a fart." ”

In this way, the two men and two rode on the empty road chasing and fighting, and on the road there was only the neighing of the horses, the frolic of the young man, and the laughter of the moon that only a young man could hear.

The atmosphere in the Li Mansion that night was a little weird. Li Hanren, who has always been honest and honest, set up an unprecedented banquet to entertain the four members of the Yuwen family. The banquet was much more luxurious than originally planned, and many of the dishes that even Yuwenxing was shocked to see were temporarily changed the menu and spent a lot of money to change. It's a shame that the Yuwen family and his party won't care about this meal from time to time, and there are no outsiders present, otherwise just based on the regulation and cost of this meal, not to mention whether the imperial court will cure this Li Tingshi's crime, the image and reputation of a clean official who has been conscientiously maintained by Li Hanren over the years and loves the people will inevitably be ruined.

Fortunately, Li Hanren personally took the menu list of the dinner and went to the courtyard where Yuwenxing stayed, and he apologized and apologized, and even laughed for more than half an hour. After saying all the official polite words or heart-wrenching words that are difficult to distinguish between fiction and reality, Yu Wenxing finally lost his anger, gave himself face to his future father-in-law, and went to the dinner with him.

Although it was not too cold in the south in winter, Lord Thorn Shi who walked out of the room was still soaked and sweating profusely. He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and also took advantage of the situation to hide his gloomy complexion.

During the banquet, Li Hanren and Li Yingxin's father and daughter can be said to be diligent, the former does not have the high level of a scholar, and the latter no longer has the reserve of everyone's ladies, but the action of laughing and drinking is still a little jerky, otherwise I am afraid that even the woman's father will think that the person in front of him is a dusty woman who is used to selling laughter and accompanying wine.

The four members of the Yuwen family seem to have completely forgotten the displeasure of being humiliated during the day. Whether it is an old woman with a cold face or a middle-aged man with an arrogant temperament, it is rare to greet them with a smile on the stinging face that they didn't pay attention to, and there is less arrogance or arrogance with their nostrils facing the sky.

Li Haozi was the only one who was incompatible with the atmosphere of the whole banquet. The young man has always been absent-minded, whether it is the jade plate delicacies or the immortal wine, they can't make him even more interested. The boy's sister and father also warned the boy several times, but the boy ignored it. The future brother-in-law seems to be in a good mood and does not care about the faux pass of the younger brother-in-law. On the contrary, it is rare for Li Haozi to say something to make Lang so affectionate and righteous, and the young man can't think of it for a while, and he doesn't know how to be a father, and so on.

When he was drunk, Yu Wenxing's cheeks were soaked with wine and said with a smile: "When it is the New Year, my father will write to ask His Majesty for marriage." ”

Hearing this, Li Hanren's face was flushed with drunkenness, and there was a smile that couldn't be hidden, even if the Lord Thorn Shi, who had been up and down for many years, finally didn't restrain the joy in his heart. He staggered to his feet. Seeing this, Li Yingxin, who was full of peach blossoms, hurriedly came to his father's side to support the middle-aged man who was already unstable. Although the girl didn't drink much, her apricot eyes were blurred, and Yu Wenxing was a little dry when she saw it.

Li Hanren, who was supported by his daughter, stood for a moment, letting the drowsy alcohol in his brain dissipate a little, and he gave a big gift to Yu Wenxing, a junior. The middle-aged man's words were still a little irrepressible and excited: "Li is here to thank Prince Yuwen for bothering." The prince's great kindness to Li has nothing to repay, and he will be the head of the Yuwen family in the future. ”

Yu Wenxing was also slightly stunned when he saw the solemn appearance of the middle-aged man so grateful to Dade. Immediately, the young man who had already been drunk stood up, returned a junior salute for the first time, and no longer called Master Li but changed his uncle's words: "The little nephew can't afford such a big gift, we will be a family in the future, not to mention what the horse is looking forward to, the Li family and the Yuwen family should be both prosperous." The young man didn't say the second half of the sentence, in the eyes of the people of the Yuwen family, where did the Yuwen Mansion come from?

Li Yingxin originally didn't have much affection for Yuwenxing himself, and it was only because of the family forces behind him that he agreed with this family business. In the past few days, Yuwenxing has been doing something noisy in the Li Mansion, and the girl has been worried that she will be snubbed and bullied if she marries into Yuwen Mansion in the future. And at this moment, seeing that Yu Wenxing would be more respectful to his father, he was still like a young girl's dream, and he couldn't help but ripple in his heart.

Seeing his father and sister, whose temperament had changed greatly from weekdays, Li Haozi felt more and more suffocated in his chest, as if he was the only one who was not from the Li family. The boy always hesitated before doing things, and his hesitation in choosing whether to make a move during the day made him lose the last bit of love with Yun Xuelan, and at this moment the boy wanted to shoot the case and part ways with everyone in front of him. He wanted to catch up with the two of them who had left the city not long ago, and wanted to ask the white-robed man if he was still willing to go with him. But he still hesitated, he didn't dare to imagine whether his rash actions at the moment would bring anything to the Li family. He suddenly began to hate himself, his indecision, his hesitation. He wanted to know why the teenager who grew up with him was able to carry more than himself, but he could do it so freely. And in the eyes of the Yuwen family and the Yun family, the rise and fall of the Li family, which is not worth mentioning, has become a fetter for him over the years.

In another mansion not far from the Thorn Mansion. A middle-aged man dressed as a Confucian scholar is sitting at his desk in the study and writing hard. The man wrote two lines of block letters on the note. The man puts the pen back on the pen holder. The middle-aged man folded the note and put it into a light green purse, then sat up and leaned back in his chair. Close your eyes and pinch your eyebrows with the index finger and thumb of your right hand.

The door was pulled open from the outside, and the middle-aged man did not open his eyes, still leaning back in his chair to recuperate. Entering the door was a middle-aged beautiful woman wearing a lotus-colored long-distance run. The woman's temples could be seen hanging down her ears. Despite this, the woman's demeanor did not look old, and her face was ruddy and graceful.

When the woman entered the house, she closed the door from behind. She came behind the man and reached out her hands to gently rub the man's temples. The tiredness on the man's face slowly dissipated, and he gently patted the back of the woman's right hand with his right hand and said, "Pass it back." ”

The woman understood what the man was referring to, but instead of answering him, she asked herself, "Master, I heard that Lan'er came to Luoshi City today?"

The man, who looked three points similar to Yun Jinhe, let out a slight "um" and then sighed.

"Why don't you leave him to come to the house for a meal before leaving? I haven't seen Lan'er in years, and I heard that he was injured in the early days......"

Before the woman could finish her words, she was interrupted by the middle-aged man, and he said with a slight hint of reproach in his tone: "Don't lose a big one because of a small thing. ”

"Lan'er is your own nephew, you men are ruthless enough, what is the big thing to do informally? I am his aunt, this child has no mother since he was a child, and now he has to ...... for Yun Yun" Maybe the woman's words were a little too excited, and the middle-aged man shivered in pain. He straightened up, and the woman stopped.

The middle-aged man sighed deeply and said, "Why don't I feel sorry for this child, but he is the son of Yun Jinhe without sleeping." The young owner of Yunyin Villa, the future head of the Yun family. His identity is destined for him to be able to bear the grievances that ordinary people can't bear. The man's words were not finished, he wanted to continue, which Yun family's sons and daughters are not suffering grievances that ordinary people can't bear, for the ancestral teachings and missions of the Yun family, for the people of this state, and for the people of Great Xia. If he himself has been away from Yunyin Mountain Villa and Yunyin City for many years, outsiders will think that he is not in harmony with his brothers and sisters, and he is not in harmony with everyone in the Yun family, and he has been away from home for many years, and the abuse he has suffered and the fingers behind others' backs can not be explained in a few words. How do outsiders know about it?

The man's heart tightened when he heard the sobs of the woman behind him. He gently took the woman into his arms and gently wiped the tears from the corners of the woman's eyes and said, "Wait, when everything settles, when Lan'er can provoke the Yun family, it will be time for our family to reunite." ”

The woman calmed down, took the purse on the table into her bosom, got up, and walked out the door. Before going out, she turned around and said to the middle-aged man: "I'm afraid the Li family can't hide this matter for too long." Yuan'er has admired the girl of the Li family since she was a child. If he knew about Li Yingxin's marriage to Yu Wenxing, he was afraid that he would inevitably sulk for a long time. This kid has the same temper as you, and he holds everything in his heart like a stuffy gourd, and I'm really afraid that he won't be able to withstand this blow. ”

"Hasn't he been clamoring to go on a study tour, so let's wait for the New Year to let him go outside. The decree of the imperial court will not be issued until fifteen years later, and it will be almost three months when it arrives with us. At that time, he didn't know where it was. When he comes back, I'm afraid that the Li Mansion has already moved to the north. Let's hide it from him during this time, anyway, he just dies studying all day, and now it doesn't seem to be a bad thing. ”

The woman pondered for a moment, then nodded approvingly. Then he closed the door and departed.

The woman left the study, walked through several courtyards in the house, and came to a room that was still lit. The woman knocked on the door, and after a while the door was pulled open from the inside, and the man who opened the door was a man of seventeen or eighteen years old, and the man was angry and smiled when he saw the visitor, and said, "Mother, why is it that she is still here for me so late?"

The woman entered the room and saw a few books spread out on the table, and smiled a little helplessly: "When you read at night, ask someone to turn up the lights, and you are not a martial arts cultivator, so reading in such a dim light will hurt your eyes." ”

"Mother don't worry, my house is as bright as daytime. "It's rare for a young man to be spoiled like a child.

"Your cousin Lan came to Luoshi City today?"

Hearing this, the young man said with a happy face: "My cousin is here, and now he is in the house, why didn't you tell me earlier, where is it important to see him when you study." But then the young man's expression darkened again, and he said to himself in some frustration: "Even if he comes to Luoshi City, he will live in the Thorn History Mansion, and he has been close to the son of the Li family since he was a child." ”

"He went out of the city in the evening, this time he also has something to do, and he has to hurry to go elsewhere when the matter is done, he is now older Your uncle will find him to do a lot of things, he is very busy. The woman comforted.

"My cousin and cousin are getting better and better, but I'm a nerd. "The loss of the youth has not been improved by the comfort of the mother.

"How can it be, the Yun family has always been a martial artist, and the reading seed like you is the real rarity of the Yun family, but your cousin said that in the future, he will be the owner of Yunyin Mountain Villa, and he will want your cousin to be his advisor." ”

The dark clouds on the young man's face finally dissipated, and he nodded emphatically and said, "That's nature. ”

"I went to your father just now, and he said that the children of the Yun family's generation have grown up, and it is time for them to see the world. After the New Year, you can go on a study tour, you can go wherever you want, and you can travel thousands of miles and read thousands of books. ”

Hearing his mother's words, the boy's mouth was about to reach the root of his ears. He said excitedly: "I have already planned the route of the study tour, and my mother will follow me to see it." As he spoke, he took the woman to the table, unfolded a manuscript, and told the woman about his long-planned study tour.

The shadows of the trees outside the house are swaying, and the candles are dancing in the house.