After eating, Yu Ming ran back to the yard as fast as he could, pricked up his ears and pressed against the earthen wall, and listened carefully to the movement next door, but there was only one big movement, and it was impossible for him to hear the small movement.

Xu Changan lost reason, because he really had to ask the girl in red what was going on in this city, and his rhetorical question even had the meaning of a rake, which was really not beautiful.

The young man in black squatted on the low threshold, covered his head, and sighed, why is he so aggrieved today?

After eating the bowl of fish soup that was already cold in his bowl at a very fast speed, the young man who often deals with water and fish clearly knew the distribution of bone spurs in the fish meat in his mouth, and it was impossible to get stuck in his throat, but he still felt a little choked and panicked, as if there was a breath blocked there, and he couldn't swallow it.

Glancing at the girl in red who was still puffing up, she didn't dare to speak much, and slowly left her small courtyard, not even daring to take the key to the door.

Pushing open the door of the courtyard next door, Yu Ming immediately pretended to wipe the earthen wall that was only an inch away from his face when he heard the movement, and saw Xu Changan slowly raise his head and smiled embarrassedly: "It's dirty, wipe it, wipe it." ”

Xu Changan pointed to his side face and said speechlessly: "Okay, okay, don't pretend, you go and pick up the fish on the shore." ”

Yu Ming wiped his cheek casually and replied loudly, "Okay." ”

To the boy's surprise, Yu Ming's promise this time was very refreshing, the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, and after walking away, he didn't forget to turn around and remind him: "You can't take it to your own house after picking it up!"

"The surname is Li! Who am I? Others don't know and you don't know me?"

I just know who you are not at ease! But Xu Changan was upset, and he didn't bother to argue with him about this, so he just dropped a sentence ruthlessly: "Your grandfather's surname is Xu!

Zhang happened to walk out of the house, and he was not annoyed when he heard this, but just said with a smile: "Chang'an, the seniority is messed up." ”

Xu Changan smiled embarrassedly and said, "Yes, yes, Aunt Zhang said yes." ”

Yu Ming muttered to himself proudly as he walked: "Isn't it too cold to take these fish as a dowry?"

It really looks like he's thinking about his son's future marriage.

The children's verbal argument was harmless, and Yu Ming walked to the pond next door, and his eyes couldn't help but glance into the house.

......

Xu Changan's steps were heavy, and he unconsciously came to the south of the city again, he didn't understand why he had such a good impression of that handsome young man, was it really because of the other party's good looks?

The young man was still quietly watching the blood flowing from his feet.

I don't know when the bloody water with a fishy smell will run out, but I know that the ground can't be clean.

The man looked up, and the boy looked at him.

Somehow, Xu Changan always felt that the good-looking man in front of him should not be a bad person, even if he was most likely sent by those big people in the capital to block the city.

The boy spoke, "The third strange person is a young girl. ”

The young man nodded, but did not reply.

Xu Changan continued: "If you are really from the capital, then there are four gates in this city, and there should be two more people in the east and west cities. ”

The man frowned slightly and asked, "What do you want to ask me?"

"I want to ask if you're a bad person. ”

The man smiled, "For the person who came over just now, I'm the bad guy who mistook their big thing. For you, I don't think I should count. ”

There was a hint of relaxation in Xu Chang'an's eyebrows: "I know that you deliberately let me know the truth of the matter, do you know me?"

The young man shook his head: "I don't know. ”

"Then why do you want me to know this? I don't think it's a coincidence. ”

The young man wondered, "The teacher told me not to tell anyone about what was going on here, and I really didn't tell you. ”

"But why you just had to mend my fishing nets, and tell me that a third strange man was left in my house, I can't make any sense. ”

"Because this shop is the cheapest thing, I was very poor when I was younger, and I always liked to come to this kind of place when I was looking for things. The young man glanced at his right hand and continued, "The teacher told me not to tell anyone about what was going to happen here, and that didn't tell me where the others were. ”

Xu Changan smiled bitterly: "Can I be poorer?"

The young man looked carefully at the section of his right middle finger, nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Since your teacher didn't say that, can you tell me where the other two are?"

"From the capital, it was just me and one other person. ”

"Who is that person?"

"I don't know him well. ”

Xu Changan then asked: "Since you let me know about this matter, does that mean that I have anything to do with this matter? Could it be that I can save this matter? Please tell me what to do." ”

The young man pondered for a moment, shook his head slightly, and picked up a long black box from the room, which was in the middle of his back, without a slight shift to the left or right.

The young man sighed a little, there are really people in the world who can do such a thing, in Xu Changan's opinion, the long black box attached to the man's back actually looks so perfect.

He walked back to the boy and said, "This matter does not need to be reversed, let's go." ”

"Where are you going?"

......

All the way, the boy stared at the long black box behind the young man, as if trying to see through what was hidden inside, and did not notice the dissatisfaction of some people.

The middle-aged man who was carrying the flat shoulder sighed helplessly, looked at the two figures of one big and one small walking towards the west of the city, spat fiercely, and said angrily: "I don't know how to say hello!"

For the first time in his life, he walked towards the south of the city, which was full of fishy smell, and shouted in a rough voice as he walked: "Cooking cakes, selling cooking cakes." ”

......

On the west city wall, two figures, one high and one low, stand together.

Chongyang has the custom of climbing high and looking far, but the young man is not in the slightest mood to take care of these old customs, he just wants to know how to live.

The young man looked down at the boy and asked, "Do you want to live?"

Xu Changan was speechless, he really wanted to drop his sleeves hard, and then pointed to the nose of the man in front of him and said angrily, Who doesn't want to live?

But seeing that handsome face, I had to nod honestly.

The man turned and stood on the rampart looking further west.

Xu Changan followed his gaze, looked at the dark clouds in the distance, and said in a daze: "It's going to rain?"

The young man was a little surprised that the young man's eyes could really see those things that he couldn't see clearly, and asked with a smile, "Do you still want to live now?"

Xu Changan nodded dumbly.

The young man asked, "Before I came out this time, the teacher said that I should take in a student, I wonder if you are interested?"

Xu Changan came back to his senses and asked, "Can you live as your student?"

Rarely do men say so confidently, "Yes." ”

Xu Chang'an's face twitched violently, turned his head to look at the battles outside the city, and then looked at the young man in front of him who only had a long box, and swallowed with difficulty, obviously not believing the words that the man said.

The young man neither urged nor explained, but just stood there quietly waiting for the boy's answer.

Xu Changan lowered his head and whispered, "Can I ask more, did you really not know me before?"

The young man shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"I often see in novels that a master came to a city, and after all kinds of calculations and layouts, he met his chosen apprentice by chance. It's really too much of a coincidence for me and all of this. ”

The young man frowned slightly, remembering his teacher, and then turned his head to look at the long black box on his back, and his eyes began to have doubts and puzzles.

"So, so, if all this is really pre-planned, please tell me that I really don't want to live as written. ”

The young man shook his head and said, "I'm not sure, but I don't. ”

Not sure, I didn't, the seemingly vague answer boy knew what he was going to say.

That sounds honest. He didn't, but he's not sure anyone else had.

Xu Changan looked up at the young man and smiled and said, "I'm sorry, then I can't be your student." ”

The young man laughed, "It's fine. ”

Xu Changan muttered with some hesitation and asked, "Then ...... Will I still be able to live?"

"Yes. ”

"What about the others? Yu Ming and his mother, who live next door to me, and Liu Chunsheng's eldest brother and his calligraphy. Also, the short and fat man named Zhang Sancou, and his beautiful daughter-in-law, his flat shoulder should also be brought...... That's right, the girl in red who ate my fish...... Wouldn't it be too hard for you to take so many people away?" the boy said at last, his voice became quieter and quieter, so that he himself could not hear clearly.

The young man laughed: "Yes, don't be embarrassed." ”

The young man looked at the young man incredulously, a little unsure if he had heard something wrong, but then he thought that he could rent a large carriage, and he didn't have to ask people to carry it out one by one.

Xu Changan turned to look at the city, looking at the dense crowd of pedestrians inside, and his good mood was a little lost.

"I know I can't leave with everybody, and I'm not dissatisfied. The boy explained in a whisper.

The young man just smiled at the young man, and he didn't have any intention of leaving.

"My name is Xu Changan, can I ask what your name is?" Xu Changan looked up at the other party and asked.

"Yang Hejiu, my name is Yang Hejiu. ”