After Xu Jiangnan drove the carriage to Yanbei City overnight, he just caught up with the curfew in Yanbei, and spent a few taels of silver to say that he could enter the city on the official household at the city gate.

Mr. Xu Jiangnanhe's residence is in an ordinary small courtyard in the north of the city, and in Yanbei, there has always been a saying that the grass and trees in the south of the city are spring, and the bones are buried deep in the north of the city.

It is said that the south of the city is the gold cave of dignitaries and scholars, and the third watch is also brightly lit at night, and the red lanterns are hung high in the attic.

From time to time, there was a smoky woman with a silk scarf that had slid down to her white wrist with her bust and stumbled out of the private room on the second floor, crouching on the railing and retching, but was dragged into the room by a rich child dressed as a gentleman in Tsing Yi. With a little sharp eyes, seeing Xu Jiangnan's shabby appearance, he will also reward a mouthful of spittle, and secretly scold, as if Xu Jiangnan disturbed the good mood of this Spring Festival with 10,000 taels of gold.

Even in the middle of the night, the three watches and the bright moon are endless, although it is not as good as the Jinling flower boat for a thousand years, but it is also a kind of morbid and deformed prosperity in Yanbei, which has only been stable for a few years.

The north of the city is also lit by thousands of lights, but these ordinary people are lighting a lamp with an oil pot at the door of their homes, and they deliberately cut the oil core a little, and the lamp is crumbling but can be lit for a long time. Occasionally, it will be extinguished, and it will also be lit by the old man who plays the watch in the middle of the night. This is a tradition left by Yanbei Hao earlier.

Xu Jiangnan once asked Mr. Li curiously, and heard Mr. Li say that according to legend, the earliest time had to talk about the Great Qin thousands of years ago, and it had not yet reached the Later Zhou Dynasty.

That Great Qin resisted the banner of Fuyou barbarians to belong to China, marched north to the Gobi steppe nomadism, and gathered a large army outside the city of Yanbei. It's just a pity that the grasslands are so vast and the Gobi is so desolate that it's appalling. Tens of thousands of elite soldiers and generals did not see the nomadic cavalry, but were dragged alive on the Gobi. And one of them happened to be on the eve of the cave house, and only then did he worship heaven and earth, and he was forcibly recruited to go to the battlefield. The bride was hazy with tears but helpless, and she had also heard the sound of millions of corpses buried under the grassland and rivers of blood. But since ancient times, she has been married to the wife of the Xu family, and it is no longer the saying of the Chen family's daughter, and her parents have to take care of them personally. The bride lights a red candle at the door of her house every night, which is also a glimmer of hope in the midst of all hopes. But who knew that the real old fairy appeared, in the middle of the night dreamed that the husband returned, drew a map of the terrain, the bride woke up for fear of forgetting, biting her finger on the color of the bandeau a little lighter, carefully hidden like an unspeakable heart.

After many years of her parents' departure, she took out a bandeau with a picture of the mountain. It took nearly three years to find the place according to the directions on the map. As early as in the eyes of the neighbors, she ran crazy and ran outside the city with a bandeau for three years, where did she know her thoughts, just watched her deeply on the ground with ten fingers to pick sand, even the flesh and blood ten fingers were worn out and did not ask, just when the neighbors felt sorry for her fingers, but saw her really dig out a pair of dry bones from the ground, and there was still an Ansheng charm that she begged for in the Yuelao Temple step by step, she looked at the Ansheng talisman on the dry bone hand sluggishly, covered her mouth with her hand and cried for a long time, and then left with the dry bones on her back.

After wishing, she hung herself on the plane tree where the two first met with dry bones, and the dry bones were still wearing the red robe that they had married more than ten years ago.

Later, it was formed like this, but the candle flame of ten thousand families only sought the dream of Yingling, ten miles south of the north city of Yanbei, a netherworld, and a yang world.

Xu Jiangnan has followed Mr. to the north and south for so many years, and the rich mansion has also been invited to live, and the City God Temple, which suffers from cold and summer, has also rested, and even the taste of making a bed on the ground has also been experienced. It is useless to know that being cynical is useless, no one will use this to promote you, and the rivers and lakes will not change anything because of this. With a hundred hearts and hearts, why do rich and noble people divide the world with the foundation of their ancestors for no reason, it all depends on your Xu Jiangnan's mood?

Later, I heard Mr. Li say that everyone in the world has their own way of life. Xu Jiangnan thinks about it now, and thinks that it is really a goddamn saying.

finally crossed the north of the city to the residence, during which Xu Jiangnan silently took out the fire fold to extinguish the oil lamp and renew the candle.

Mr. Li's approach to Xu Jiangnan is undeniable, and his expression is normal.

Xu Jiangnan saw that the courtyard was very clean, and it was not surprising that the smoke and rain often came, which was a common thing in the early years.

After packing up his belongings, Xu Jiangnan had nothing to do and couldn't sleep, so he ran to his husband's room and leaned against the eaves to watch the moon as he did when he was a child.

Mr.'s room is very simple, an old pear wood table is facing the door, the left side is a couch, the right side is a pear wood desk, through the sporadic light of Mr. window, Xu Jiangnan knows that Mr. may be writing something again, every time Xu Jiangnan wants to sneak a look, Mr. covers it with a paper. Just like Xu Jiangnan once knocked on Mr.'s name, Mr. responded to Xu Jiangnan with a smile, "When you should know, you will know if you don't ask." ”

Four years ago, it was also the same situation, Xu Jiangnan was upset with Xiao Yanyu and asked Mr. Li why he sent Xiao Yanyu to Chunyanfang. The spring smoke workshop is in the south of the city, where the Qing people and scholars gather. But as long as it is a woman from the south of the city, which one is really a "clean" person? No matter how poor the good family in the north of the city is, they will look down on the women in the south of the city, and after they meet them, they will avoid them like snakes and scorpions, pointing and scolding behind their backs, and they will only seduce men.

When she was nine years old, she was able to talk to me about the chess tricks, and after being a little inferior, the technique was unreasonable, and after the antelope hung its horns to perfection, she liked to use the king's division to chase after the victory, and that Nizi was unforgiving. ”

Xu Jiangnan's face turned red when he heard this, although Xu Jiangnan was not a hindrance in those blind games, but he really had a secret trick. Lacking confidence, he asked suspiciously, "What can you learn there?"

The gentleman sat upright, with a smile on his face. "Woe to the country and the people. ”

Afterwards, Mr. called Xiao Yanyu in, and no matter how bad Xu Jiangnan was, he was also very close to Xiao Yanyu's temperament. Where is Xiao Yanyu a woman who can say no, even if she writes a no, she is like a thousand obedient low-brows and pleasing eyes. It's just that he was very happy when he came out, and I don't know what Xu Jiangnan said during the period. asked Xiao Yanyu, Xiao Yanyu, who had always been obedient to him, looked at him, bit his thin lip, but shook his head unprecedentedly.

After the matter was settled, Xu Jiangnan found that it was he, an outsider, who became an eventful person.

On the second day, Xu Jiangnan led the red horse to the Spring Tobacco Workshop only to find that the smoke and rain were not there, and he was almost beaten by the disciple who was used as a thief and a dog to occupy the girl, but fortunately, the old mother who received the smoke and rain was sharp-eyed and dispersed the disciples, which allowed Xu Jiangnan to survive.

Xu Jiangnan smiled awkwardly and thanked the old bustard who shook the flower fan.

Although she was betrayed by the wrinkles at the corners of her eyebrows, the old mother who still had a posture did not dare to open her mouth like other guests. As early as many years ago, when I met Xu Jiangnan for the first time, the landlord of his house was also polite and liked him very much. She is a veteran of the world. The smile was still the same, but it was much more serious, and he shook the flower fan with various poems written on the white dew of Yangchun, and said softly and respectfully.

Xu Jiangnan didn't seem to want to say more greetings.

I learned from the old mother who still had the charm that it was raining and raining, so I ordered someone to rent a carriage and leave in the direction of the south of the city early in the morning. Xu Jiangnan roughly guessed that it was estimated that Yanyu had received a letter from him and his husband that they were about to return. Estimating that the day was only this time, I went to the south of the city to wait.

Xu Jiangnan thanked him again and rode away.

Seeing this, the old mother didn't say anything, turned around and changed her smile, shook the flower fan to meet the son-in-law who was shaking down the stairs from the attic, and "sneered" and said: "Eh, Mo Gongzi, were you comfortable last night?"

The thin boy who was still on the stairs heard this, his body was shocked, he straightened his clothes, his pale face was full of laughter, and he felt a silver ingot from the sleeve and threw it down without hesitation. "Mother Su, this is a reward for you. ”

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Xu Jiangnan still wondered from time to time on the road whether to let Yanyu change a few people with good eyesight, and he could be regarded as a disciple of such a dashing son. It can be seen that the strength of ordinary eyes is placed on the "scar" on the girl's chest.

The car walked through the streets and alleys with ease, and finally crossed the crowded shop area. There was no trace of the carriage at the gate in the south of the city, Xu Jiangnan thought about it and walked in front of the vendors who got up early to sell breakfast. With a friendly face, he asked the old men who got up early to sell breakfast in the surrounding area, "Uncle, is there a carriage out of the city this morning?"

The old man was also flattered to see the son's brother and his temperament leading the horse, and he pointed to the direction of the city gate in an authentic Yanbei dialect, and then shook the sweat towel on his shoulders and said: "Childe, you are the right person, there is indeed a carriage out of the city this morning, yes, see, this is the direction." ”

Xu Jiangnan looked in the direction pointed by the old man, and knew where the smoke and rain had gone, and when he thanked the old man, he stuffed a few pennies into the old man's hand. The honest old man got a few pennies for no reason, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Thank you, son." “

Xu Jiangnan smiled and waved his hand, under the experience of nine thousand miles of storytelling, stealing chickens and touching dogs, and molesting the good family, Wei Che did not do much with Wei Che, who claimed to be a certain son of Xishu Road, and the two of them did not know how many times they had been "chased" with a wooden shovel, and when they were in Yancheng, they had several times when their lives hung by a thread, and now they have returned to the seemingly stable fireworks days, and they can listen to a few words of praise for their sons by giving a few copper coins, but they are very content.

The only thing Xu Jiangnan feels sorry for. It's been all these years, I haven't known the news of my parents, as if he has never appeared, and he doesn't even have anything on his body that can be used to prove it in the future, and he is an abandoned son who has escaped. When he was depressed, even he felt that maybe he didn't even have the right surname. Go ask Mr., Mr. Li has always wanted to say that you can't find out.

It's just that I thought that I would see Chen Yanyu later, and my sorrow dissipated slightly. Xu Jiangnan took the reins of the horse and led the horse out of the city and rushed to the Peach Blossom Pavilion ten miles outside the city.

It used to be the place where Xiao Jiangnan and Mr. secretly practiced swords, after saving Xiao Yanyu.

Xiao Jiangnan is really a little amazing at Mr. Swordsmanship, and he also wants to learn and be a chivalrous hero. But who knew that after stalking and crying, he saw that Mr. was still the attitude of not moving and not letting go, so he went to the Taoist temple to peek at the Taoist priest practicing swords, and after he was familiar with the rules.

At dusk, I folded a peach branch in Shili Pavilion to review, and I was bound to become famous in the rivers and lakes, and if I didn't succeed, I would become benevolent.

And Xiao Yanyu will come here after writing with Mr. and practicing the piano music. Sitting on the railing of the Peach Blossom Pavilion, watching Xiao Jiangnan "dance" out of his crappy moves with extremely awkward movements. At first, I could hold back, but when I reached the extreme, I lay on the railing, shrugged my small shoulders and snickered, and I did enough solid work for everyone to smile without showing teeth.

There has always been only Xiao Jiangnan who laughed at Xiao Yanyu's crooked handwriting, where was it his turn to be snickered at by Xiao Yanyu, and she was a little girl who couldn't even embroider her legs.

Every now and then, Xiao Jiangnan gave up the follow-up sword moves, hugged Xiao Yanyu's weak thin shoulders and took out a monstrous righteousness and said: "Xiao Yanyu, wait for me to become a master of swordsmanship in the future, if anyone bullies you, you tell me Xu Jiangnan, see if I don't beat him to pieces." ”

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When he was about to arrive at the Peach Blossom Pavilion, Xu Jiangnan walked leisurely. deliberately suppressed the originally slightly excited mood. is more anxious than a woman, so she can't be laughed at by the rain for a few years?

Xu Jiangnan patiently thought about the bits and pieces of these years, but he didn't notice that the peach blossom branches on the side of the road hooked the Aoki hairpin, and he fell off the horse with his hair scattered.

Chen Yanyu received a letter from Xu Jiangnan's trustee half a year ago, but he was a little annoyed that Xu Jiangnan had found such an unreliable person.

The scholar who traveled to study was dressed up and had an average appearance, but his words were really ****, and he was a frequent visitor to the fireworks land. When I met, I was amazed by a smooth tone, how this sister looked like the moon, and how that sister was beautiful.

The moment I saw Chen Yanyu from the wing, I was even more distracted for a few minutes, and the smiling sisters next to me nudged it before they came back to their senses. After smiling awkwardly, the scholar took out a letter that was already stained with oil stains from the bookcase on his back, and handed it to the puzzled Chen Yanyu. Grief-stricken, but before leaving, he didn't forget to wipe it on the girl who had laughed. It's really hard to imagine Chen Yanyu's reaction after he learned how many vulgar things Xu Jiangnan had done with this scholar that were even more unspeakable than this.

Chen Yanyu estimated that he was waiting here for the approximate day, and it was only the third day. After waiting for a few hours, thinking that it might be impossible today, I packed up my disappointment and was about to go to my husband's yard, when suddenly a figure fell into the car recklessly. Before she had time to see this uninvited guest, the person in front of her covered her face with her hands, and said with a flowery mouth: "Child, Miss, Adult, Madam, it is really an unintentional move, an unintentional move, please Haihan." ”

Chen Yanyu's eyes widened, listening to this familiar voice, and suddenly "poofed" and laughed in a hundred turns.

It's really a fairy in the painting, full of charm.

Before Chen Yanyu could speak, the man in front of her, who didn't know how many times he had lost people in front of her, slowly lowered his hand and looked sluggish. Exactly like the scholar who delivered the letter before, she was trying to shake this idiot awake with shyness, but she heard the words that made her even more ashamed in this life.

"Mother, it's only been four years, is it true that Mr. said that he has brought disaster to the country and the people?"