The gates were closed and opened, and the birds came and went.

The two teenagers refused the coachman's send-off, and the short one supported the other and limped back to his residence in the west of the city.

Xu Sikui only said that he would go to find Aqing after saying a word, lifting the curtain of the car, and there was no more words.

Ah Qing asked Li Minghui to pass by the Chunjiang Restaurant, which was usually not qualified to enter the door and pay for his own consumption, and bought two jars of the best Chunjiang Liquor. Ah Qing has a kind of heroism that looks at the world, and shouts that he wants to rely on the east wall for five years, and he doesn't want it in other tanks, and he Ah Qing pays for it.

The two of them carried a large wine jar threaded with hemp rope, and they were very happy when they strangled it heavily around their necks.

There were no side dishes, and the two young men who suffered great misfortune when they were young opened the altar seal in the courtyard and drank bowls of each other. Three bowls of wine went down, and there were no words.

When buying wine, he is heroic, but when he drinks, he is not heroic, when the two of them touch the bowl, but not a drop of wine is spilled, and the wine flowing from the corners of the mouth must be licked clean with the tongue.

Li Mingwei only saw that Ah Qing's eyes kept crying.

Both of them felt that their heads were slightly hot.

Ah Qing took a sip of wine, snorted with wine, and said to the young man: "Fu Ruzong, it's gone." ”

took another sip of wine and said, "Soon, Mu Shan Sect will come forward and take the surviving people of Fu Ruzong to Mu Shan Sect to practice, and I will have it." ”

Li Mingwei inexplicably felt a sour tip of his nose, in addition to joy, there was actually a trace of grievance and jealousy.

Li Minghui squeezed his eyes, recalled the cause and effect of guessing, and asked, "It has something to do with the person in No. 8 Hospital?"

Qing nodded.

Li Minghui took a sip of wine and asked, "Why didn't you tell me." ”

Aqing lowered his head, listened to his true thoughts, and said, "Mingzi, do you understand a feeling that you know that what you do is what you should do, but you are not sure that the way you do things is right?"

Aqing wiped the tears from his face: "I'm not sure, so I'll do it myself." I don't want you to get dirty too. ”

The monks said that people have six reincarnations, such as falling animals, and it should be me.

Li Minghui's eyes were slightly wet, "I can understand, but I don't agree." ”

The children who hugged their heads and comforted each other in pain were two people, and the people who walked up the avenue together to ask Yuntou should also be two people.

Aqing said: "It's too bitter, Mingzi, it's too bitter." If you want to succeed, you have to let go of all anger and live like a normal child. If you want to go up, you have to gain their trust, and then watch them die if they trust you. The angrier you are, the more angry you must be. Whoever is close to you will deceive more. ”

"A lot of people died last night, Akiko. I hid behind the stones, looking at the Mo family flying boat flying all over the sky, which was obviously avenging myself, and suddenly felt so strange. Many people who didn't know each other died one by one, and there were even many children as old as us, who also hugged each other and cried, leaving a lot of blood. ”

A-Qing muttered to himself, his eyes out of focus.

The shochu is cloudy and the limescale is peeling.

Li Mingwei, who had been holding back for a long time, burst out of his tears, and he felt distressed about Aqing like this.

The two teenagers were displaced, fled into the city with the flow of refugees, were willing to endure hardships and were smart, and they did all the work, so they had a dilapidated courtyard in the west of the city. Later, one entered the rich mercury building under the mountain of Furuzong as a partner, and the other entered the Pearl Spring Inn, which is most likely to come into contact with the gods on the mountain, as a small servant.

The two sects each supported one side of the forces to bet on each other, the chase from the edge of the sky and to the edge of the sky was just a gamble for the big shots, the Legalists and Confucianism competed for luck, and the family and the family fought for the court, but they took the life and death of a hidden demon remnant under one of the parties as a bet, so there was a chase of thousands of miles under the eyes of many parties, so the demon giants who were loyal to their lives but were sold by the lord deliberately flew through the human city with the intention of blackmailing those "decent people" Tied hands, so there is a big sword immortal from a family who is unrestrained sword after sword, so there are buildings that have collapsed everywhere and the white-haired head that flies high.

The Legalists set an example by impartially enforcing the law from the hands of the Confucian Academy to win a dynasty court, the family and the family are still harmonious and beautiful without hurting the harmony, Mu Shanzong was able to take the lead with the first family, the Xijing Dynasty in exchange for the war to stop the peaceful and prosperous times, the Cui family is less than an ancestor, and Xijing is more powerful.

A ball of harmony.

Facts have proved that the gamble that seems to be "child's play" is indeed the foregone conclusion with the least casualties. Xijing and Shangyan ended the hundred-year-long chaotic war, with the assistance of the prime minister, the Xijing Dynasty ended the war, and several vassal states, including Dalu, were able to recuperate, and the national strength was visible to the naked eye.

Confucianism is benevolent, Legalism is powerful, the family is powerful, the dynasty is safe, and the sect is profitable.

Everyone was happy.

When the customer was still in the small courtyard, Li Minghui actually changed these things and asked the opinion of the mountain fairy vaguely, and the customer's attitude at that time was beyond the expectations of the young man. This man who is really handsome and handsome like the person in the painting is completely unimpressed, even if he has long seen through the "there is a young man" in the young man's mouth, that is, he himself does not pierce it, but in a few words, he explained to the young man the benefits of this kind of "small to big" game technique commonly used between the clans.

Without him, the stakes are minimal. In the event of a conflict of interest, this habit of setting up a chessboard to win or lose can avoid the direct conflict between the two behemoths, but it is the greatest protection in the world.

Not only on the mountains and clouds, but even before the cultivation of the world, the major dynasties often used the small affiliated countries as a battlefield for the game, whether it was a power struggle or a confrontation between the two armies, they had to "defend the enemy outside the country".

Is it overbearing? Is it unreasonable? But it is precisely this unreasonableness, which is the "reasonableness" that can best integrate the interests of all parties.

Otherwise, if the Confucian Academy had not intervened at that time, when would the situation in the eastern part of Guizhan Chau, which had been disturbed by the soldiers and monks, be calmed down? Once there was a contradiction between several forces, they would have stumbled to the death, and the forces that were coerced would have struck together, and the mountains and mountains would have fought together, how long would this battle have been fought and how many people would have died?

The young man was speechless after hearing this, and he couldn't find the words to refute what the young man said, but his little heart could only slowly echo with grievances.

Li Mingwei stared at the wine jar for a long time, and suddenly asked, "Qingzhi, have you ever thought that in fact, as long as you stand high enough and explain the reason to them?"

Ah Qing was drunk, and suddenly laughed.

"Reasonable? Who is going to reason with us?"

"There is a reason why those mountain gods can destroy a city and kill an old man if they are not pleasing to the eye. I went to kill them, and I had a reason. Since they didn't think about listening to other people's reasoning in the first place, I don't plan to listen to their reasoning when I am qualified to stand in front of their eyes and speak. ”

"I have heard too many great truths, the great truths tell me to obey the great righteousness, the principles tell me not to take revenge, and the principles tell me to take the small and the big. No one thought that the small in their eyes was already the whole world of some people. ”

"Our heaven and earth are gone, do you still want to be all your big?"

Li Minghui said: "Mr. Han once said that we should repay virtue with virtue and repay grievances with straightforwardness. ”

Aqing shook his head: "Mr. Han is a good person, but he has never suffered from others, even if Mr. Han is not qualified to persuade others to be generous." ”

If violence is given with reason, then with what reason?

To complain directly, different positions, each with its own straightforwardness.

So when I was a child, I remembered the words of an old man surnamed Bai in my heart. He said that there is no right or wrong in things. There are public thoughts and private thoughts in the world, and there is never good or evil.

Ah Qing lifted his body, his face flushed, as if all the wine was hidden in his body, but his eyes gradually stabilized.

The quieter I am, the more peaceful I am, the stronger I am, the calmer I am, the more patient I am, the more indifferent I am, and the more boiling the turbulence deep in my body becomes.

Li Minghui suddenly said, "Aqing, I'm afraid that in the future, even if we do everything, we will become what we hate, and I won't see today's Aqing." ”

There was a moment of silence. The two of them each looked down at the stone table in front of them, silent.

Ah Qing said: "Mingi, people will change, but they will never change back to the past." ”

Growth is a transaction, and innocence and whiteness are exchanged for courage.

Ah Qing scolded his mother and said: "Everyone in this world says that they like clean and childlike children, and they all try their best to dirty it, this world is really disgusting." ”

The air was extremely hot, and the two of them were a little shaky when they drank in the summer.

Li Minghui suddenly said: "Qingzhi, I'll show you something good." ”

Li Minghui ran to the house, dug out a square cricket cage from under the floor tiles in the shadow under the bed, ran to Ah Qing with his arms, and then babbled to Ah Qing about the young customer.

Ah Qing suddenly said, "It turns out that Jing Anlang blew all kinds of whistles at night in those days because of him!

Then the boy found a firewood knife and a fire sickle, and demonstrated to Aqing the magic of the cricket cage, the knife is not broken, and the fire does not burn.

Ah Qing wiped off the ashes of the cricket cage blackened by the firewood with his sleeve, and it was as clean as ever. The young man grabbed his hands and shook them lightly, and there was a sound.

The boy gave his own "assertion": although I don't know what a good thing is, I can be sure that it is definitely a good thing.

Then the two poor teenagers were relatively hey and silly.

Ah Qing was hesitant to pull off his sleeves and talk about the "injury" on his arm.

The wooden door of the small courtyard was suddenly slammed and banged.

The two teenagers quickly stood up, most of the alcohol dissipated, and Li Mingwei quickly hung the cricket cage behind him.

A girl's voice shouted, "Is Brother Aqing here?"

At the same time, a head with a small bun scurryed up and jumped up to look through the wooden door. It's Dong Luzhu.

Li Minghui breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time was a little happy, and ran to open the door for the girl.

Dong Luzhu entered the courtyard, and before he could say the reason why he was looking for Aqing, he first saw two wine jars on the table with the seal paper of "Chunjiang Brewing", and his eyes lit up. The last time I had a drink, the girl was drinking for the first time, and the voice of "drinking wins" shouted the loudest, and she fell the fastest, but she liked the drunken taste.

Ah Qing stroked his forehead, but he was a little happy, picked up the empty wine jar and said, "You died of this heart, there is no wine, you can't drink." ”

Then I heard a promise from outside the hospital: "No more alcohol?

Pei Wenhu, the young master of the Pei family, came out of nowhere, raised his hand and rushed into the courtyard gate without seeing it, glanced at the wine jar and wine bowl on the table, and raised his eyebrows, "Yo, Chunjiang brewing! Last time, I was plotted by the two of you, and after I went back, I thought about it for a long time and figured it out, it's because your family drinks too badly! I can't get used to drinking a pot of loose wine for a few pennies, so I lie down so quickly, and if I drink it again this time, I have to change the wine!"

Then he turned his head to look at Aqing: "What about the dishes? If you don't eat food at noon, you are ruining the things in the cup." ”

Aqing narrowed his eyes.

This young man surnamed Pei has been everywhere recently, and his appearance is too coincidental.

Dong Luzhu glanced at Pei Wenhu, "It's reasonable to let you eat and drink for nothing? I think the wine is poor, I want to eat vegetables, and I pay for it!"

Pei Wenhu felt a little humiliated, and said, "Who do you look down on? I, Pei Wenhu, will bring money when I go out?" turned around and shouted outside the courtyard: "You two, go to Zhenbo Building outside the city to order me a table of first-class noodles, and carry a box of immortal wine from the hanging well, be quick!"

The young master of a rich family does not touch this blockage with his hands.

Ah Qing asked Pei Wenhu, "What are you doing here?"

Pei Wenhu's face was embarrassed, "Master, I was walking on the street in Xicheng, and I accidentally remembered that your house was near here, so I came over to take a look." His eyes secretly glanced at Dong Luzhu.

The people in Xicheng are poor, and they can walk here by walking the street, and Ah Qing believes that he is a ghost. Turning his head and asking the girl, "Why is the green bead here?"

The smile on the girl's face disappeared, "Mr. Han came to my house today and said that a gentleman with a high status came to the school palace, and he seemed to be some kind of big official, who wanted to accept me as a student and asked me to leave with him to study." The girl paused, "My father and mother have already agreed." I'm here to say goodbye to Brother Aqing and Akiko. ”

There were four people in the field, and the three teenagers all had their faces changed.

Ah Qing said bitterly, "It's such a coincidence, I was favored by the shopkeeper Chu of Fushui Building, and I should go to Mushan to practice in the future." If you don't come, I'll find time to go to Mr. Han's house to say goodbye to you recently. ”

Pei Wenhu's face changed again.

The girl bowed her head and said in a low voice: "That's it." ”

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In the courtyard, two guards were out of breath.

The two of them stretched their arms horizontally, one of them carried two large vegetable boxes, rushed out of the city from the door of the house in the west of the city, and rushed back with two extremely heavy several layers of vegetable boxes, during which they also had to ensure that the vegetable box was stable and not bumpy, the food in the box was not poured or spilled, the wine pot was still icy, and the soup was still hot.

Then the four young men and women were worried about the stone table that was densely packed and was still far from enough.

Pei Wenhu and the three of them stared at each other with big eyes. Then he turned his head and scolded the guards on the side: "Who told you to buy so much!"

One of the guards looked aggrieved and was about to answer, but was kicked lightly by another guard, and replied first: "Yes, yes, the small one is not good." ”

Pei Wenhu sighed for a long time: "For the sake of you, you are also loyal, and today is a send-off for Brother Aqing and Sister Luzhu, and it is difficult to be gracious, so be gracious." I don't give you any demerits. ”

The four of them sat around the full stone table to eat, and listened to Pei Wenhu introduce to a few people what dishes were on the table, what effort was taken to prepare them, and how rare the ingredients were. The actual owners of Chen Li's two small courtyards have no master's shelf, and they don't mind Pei Wenhu taking the lead at all, listening attentively, and their hands and mouths are non-stop, and the two of them have no food to drink from morning to noon, and their stomachs have long been uncomfortable.

The weather was hot and sultry, but fortunately, the old locust tree in the corner of the courtyard was luxuriant, casting the shade on the table, and caged several young men who were feasting in it.

When I took out the flask with ice cubes in the box, it was steaming white, and it could no longer be placed on the table, but could only be placed at my feet.

Pei Wenhu first introduced to the three of them how precious and magical the fairy wine made by the monks on the mountain with the well water of the upside-down hanging well, and then lifted the hat of the pot and said to the two: "I know that before I came, the two of you had already drunk a jar of Chunjiang Brew by yourself, although the wine was poor, I didn't take advantage of the two of you. "Holding the pot and raising his head, coo-dong is a burst of booze.

Heroic, magnanimous. Ah Qing and Li Minghui's eyes were glazed, and they gasped when they saw it.

Pei Wenhu burped and went to get a second pot. The two people who reacted grabbed their arms and praised the young man's good amount of wine and hurriedly stopped, obediently, such a good wine, said that you want to invite us, but you killed the two big pots yourself?

Dong Luzhu had a lesson from the last time and knew that drinking was not always "drunk and exhausted" as Mr. Storyteller said, and was repeatedly warned by Aqing to take a sip.

Lu Zhu had something on his mind, and he was not reckless, he was very happy to be told by Aqing, and his big eyes were full of smiles.

It is very strange that among several people, the first to show a drunken state was actually Pei Wenhu.

Ah Qing and Li Mingwei were busy eating this time, and they did not persuade Pei Wenhu to drink. After drinking, the eldest young master of the Pei family didn't know where to get a tiredness, holding the small wine glass in both hands, and asked: "Dong Luzhu, if you go to the Nishan Academy in the future, will you not see you in Mr. Han's Academy in the future?"

Green beads nodded, and the boy took a sip of wine. He asked again: "Chen Qingzhi, you also went to Mushan Sect, are you going to see you again, you are an immortal flying around in the sky?"

Ah Qing said truthfully: "There are some other changes, even if you go to Mushan Sect, it is estimated that there are many people who do chores and do small jobs, and there is not much chance of becoming a heavenly immortal." ”

Pei Wenhu said, "Congratulations, congratulations", and took another sip.

Dong Luzhu said: "What's the matter, Pei Wenhu, are you jealous that Brother Aqing has a fairy fate, but you can only marry the eldest lady of the Zhou family in Thud City?"

Pei Wenhu chuckled, "Luzhu, if I say, it's just that I don't want the two of you to go, do you believe it or not?"

Luzhu shook her head, "I don't believe it." ”

Pei Wenhu laughed, an inexplicable look flashed in his eyes, and he didn't say more.

After all, they are all teenagers, and they don't need to be persuaded to drink, and they soon get drunk. Pei Wenhu had already taken off his coat hotly, and his neckline was opened to fan the wind with his open chest, which caused the girl to scold.

Although Dong Luzhu took a small sip, she soon revealed her naïve state, the girl's hairpin sideburns were slanted, apricot eyes were horizontal, and her demeanor was myriad. Aqing nodded his head and replied, and pretended to be a general wrestler, holding a pot like a gong, and wanted to break into the inner palace to "force the palace". Several teenagers laughed.

Life is like morning dew, and when young friends get together, unjustified happiness is often the most moving. How many people are looking forward to the mirror in old age, I don't know if you remember?

The few people who were dining didn't know that last night the Mo family attacked the mountain, and the mountain forest was on fire. The fire soared into the air, meeting the clouds in the sky, making the air extremely hot for hundreds of miles nearby.

After a while, it started to rain.

Bean-sized raindrops fell without warning. Several people woke up a little from drinking, and hurriedly cleaned up the leftovers on the table and brought them to the house. Li Minghui took out a huge rain cloth from the house, pulled out the clothes pole in the yard and removed it, and used the old locust in the corner of the courtyard to prop up a small four-legged "tent".

The two guards also ran into the courtyard and squatted under the shed by the stove, looking at the four teenagers with a look of disdain.

Pei Wenhu hit the pot and sang: "The boy listens to the rain on the stone pier." Yellow bamboo supports the green tent. ”

Ah Qing bumped him on the shoulder to show his respect, and called him "Young Master Pei is talented". Pei Wenhu bumped back in agreement.

The round table is like a well.

It was like going back to that afternoon.

The rain hit the tarpaulin, striking on the top of the four's heads, making a sound of peeling and peeling. The rain bent the rain cloth, and then gathered into thick bundles and poured down along the edge of the rain cloth intermittently, smashing on the dirt floor of the small courtyard, pouring out small pits one by one.

Dong Luzhu simply took off her shoes and socks, stretched out her smooth calf, and poked out the rain cloth with her right toe to catch the raindrops.

Ah Qing wanted to reach out to catch Luzhu's toes, but he took his hand back.

Pei Wenhu was in a trance, but he saw the cricket cage hanging behind Li Minghui's waist. With a sigh, he said, "Good object, Li Minghui, where did you get this elegant thing?" ”

Li Mingwei was too late to cover it up, so he was copied in his hand by Pei Wenhu, bent down and looked at it repeatedly, and only straightened up after a while, "It's an old thing, it's all friends, I won't hide it from you, I have a natural instinct for the baby, and I haven't picked up any leaks on Yaowanglou Street." What's the matter, make a price and sell me?"

Li Minghui pulled it over and said coldly: "It's not easy for a friend to send it." ”

Pei Wenhu is no longer entangled. Several people sat together, Li Minghui tilted his head slightly towards the girl, the earthy smell of the rain wetting the floating soil mixed with the fragrance of decayed locust flowers left in late summer, it smelled very good, well, and a little bit of the body fragrance of the girl next to him.

Li Mingwei turned his head to look at Dong Luzhu, the place where the shoulders touched was warm only in the carcass, and a few strands of the girl's hair touched the young man's face.

I don't know why, I didn't dare to look at her directly before, and when I was in Mr. Han's school, I just watched from afar, thinking about it, but there were branches in my heart, as if I was going to open something.

Li Minghui remembered the words that the customer stopped his shoulder when he left, "You don't take a penny of her money, and you divide the money you earn." My heart was shaken, but then I thought that Dong Luzhu was leaving, and she might always be an innkeeper in the future, but when she said goodbye, she became a well-dressed palace maid -

As soon as Li Mingwei was about to make a move, he felt Pei Wenhu's body beside him straighten, as if he was about to say something, and then heard the girl Dong Luzhu call out, "Brother Aqing?"

Ah Qing hummed softly.

Dong Luzhu said: "Brother Aqing, if I say something wrong, don't blame me." ”

"Did you like me a little bit before?"

Ah Qing was a little flustered and grabbed the sleeve of his left hand.

Dong Luzhu took another sip of wine, "Don't be in a hurry to deny it." But now you like somebody else, don't you?"

All three teenagers were silent.

"Brother Aqing, you secretly liked me before, but you didn't tell me, I don't blame you. ”

"You like people now, and I still don't blame you. ”

Who is to blame? Blame yourself for not saying it sooner.

Blame yourself for thinking that the beauty and gathering in the world can be as usual, and the development will never change.

So greedy for it, stuck in it, and don't take the initiative to become the one who breaks the game.

"I don't know who that girl is, but in the near future, you have to work hard to be happy!"

The girl took sip after sip of wine, and was already a little drunk at this time, and tilted her head on the shoulder of Aqing's back. Ah Qing's back stiffened slightly, and then he tried to straighten his body.

Dong Luzhu continued to mumble to herself, "You say, why are people with low self-esteem so gentle, why are introverts so quiet, and why are slow-burning people so introverted. ”

"You know, people are meant to go farther and farther. Doing nothing is often not the reserved joy of waiting for the other person to take a step closer, but the dullness of watching the warmth gradually lose. ”

"Brother Aqing, if you have someone you like, you should say it earlier in the future. ”

Li Mingwei heard Pei Wenhu on the right side of his body hum in a low voice.

Then I felt a little happy and a little sad in my heart.

The rain grew heavier and louder, and the figures of the two guards more than a dozen paces away were almost invisible. This small space under the rain cloth is even quieter. The rain cloth above the head was getting more and more water, and it was almost pressing on the top of the heads of the four people.

Li Mingwei stood up, stretched out his hand to prop up the rain cloth, and picked out the backlog of rainwater, which smashed outside the tent, poof.

Li Mingwei sat back in place and heard the eldest young master of the Pei family actually whimpering in a low voice.

Pei Wenhu suddenly said: "I just drank two meals, why do you all have to leave." ”

Dong Luzhu straightened his head and said, "It's okay, even if we all leave, you still have other friends." ”

Pei Wenhu whimpered even more, "People like me, how can I have any other friends." ”

Dong Luzhu used to make mocking remarks, but he couldn't speak.

Ah Qing quietly moved his stiff shoulders and asked, "Don't you like the life Wenhu is living now?"

Pei Wenhu thought about it seriously, "If it goes well, I will do a business that I enjoy myself, buy a mountain, build a big house, don't study, don't practice, don't rely on the money given by the family, raise a big dog, marry a girl I like instead of assigned by the family, give birth to a lot of dolls, and live my life freely." ”

Aqing asked, "What if it doesn't go well?"

Pei Wenhu replied: "Study and practice, get married and have children." ”

Ah Qing stopped talking.

Pei Wenhu suddenly sang to the fierce rain curtain: "Life is short and urgent, don't give up if you don't get drunk." Kiss a beauty in the east, and the Yellow River in the west ......"

The rain is loud and can sometimes give people a strong sense of security. Even the two guards on the side could only vaguely hear the "urgent ball".

The four of them took a sip of wine together.

When the heavy rain finally stopped, it was already a long time in the afternoon, and the heat was gone. The small courtyard was full of mud, and the green beads put on their shoes and socks, and the four of them put away the rain tent, as if their mood had become brighter.

When the courtyard door was reopened, there were already people waiting outside.

Mr. Han took his umbrella and stood, his umbrella was wet, and he had obviously been waiting for it for a long time.

Dong Luzhu smiled and said apologetically: "Mr. Han, Luzhu has been drinking." ”

The middle-aged Confucian named Han Hong smiled, "Young man Wuji, it's okay to drink less." ”

Several people saluted to the Confucian surnamed Han together. Dong Luzhu stepped forward, turned around, and saluted the three teenagers goodbye.

Women perform Confucian rites.

The three teenagers returned the salute.

Dong Luzhu said: "There will be a period later." "Leave with Mr. Han.

In the distance, Xu Sikui drove the carriage slowly.

So Aqing also turned around and said to Li Minghui: "I was going to stay in the courtyard for the night." ”

Li Minghui's eyes were blurred, and he sighed, "You haven't slept at home for a long time." When I got there, I wrote to tell me about the girl. ”

Ah Qing's face was embarrassed, he hugged Li Mingwei tightly, hugged him in his arms, and said something in the young man's ear. Then Ah Qing stretched out a fist, rushed his thumb to his chest, and stretched out his palm to pat Li Minghui's head.

Li Mingwei nodded tearfully.

Then Ah Qing also hugged Pei Wenhu, who was eager to try next to him.

In the distance, there was a doll's shout: "Brother Aqing." ”

Ah Qing turned her head, and at the other end of the alley, a few streets away, her grandmother-in-law was standing with a big umbrella, holding her little granddaughter Bai Guo'er in her hand.

The alley was muddy, and the little girl ran over with one foot deep and one foot shallow, Ah Qing took the little girl in his arms and lifted it high, turned around, and the little girl giggled happily.

When Aqing was still living in the courtyard, the little girl liked to stick to Aqing the most, and the last time the two met was a long time ago.

The girl stretched out her right hand and shouted "Brother, yours." Aqing bowed his head, it was a talisman made of ginkgo branches, strung with red thread, carved "peace" with clumsy knife work on one side, and a big tree on the back, under which stood two small people, one tall and one short.

The little girl named Guoguo giggled, "Chen Qingzhi, peace." ”

Ah Qing took it and looked up at the old man at the mouth of the alley, the old man nodded lightly, and Ah Qing thanked him loudly. Guoguo slipped off Aqing's body, ran to Li Ming'ai's side, stretched out his left hand and handed it to Li Ming'ai, and said in a milky voice: "Brother Mingzi's." ”

Li Minghui stretched out his hand to take it, which was also a talisman, engraved with the word "auspicious".

Then Guoguo ran straight back to Grandma Gongsun in Pei Wenhu's expectant eyes.

Ah Qing saluted and boarded the carriage, and the carriage slowly left in the narrow alley.

Li Minghui stood by the door, standing for a long time, unwilling to look back.

Pei Wenhu also stood with him, his delicate boots full of mud. He raised his hand and patted Li Minghui's shoulder, and said with relief: "Don't cry, at least there is me." ”

Then I saw an old steward walk out of the alley, and arched his hand and said, "Young master, it's time to go home." ”

Pei Wenhu frowned, "Don't go, didn't you see my friend with me?"

The old steward's expression remained unchanged, and he also bowed his hand to Li Minghui: "If it is sent by the master, someone will come from Threshing City tonight, and the young master will be named as an accompaniment." ”

Pei Wenhu withdrew the hand that was on Li Mingwei's shoulder, and said with a straight face: "You and I have a deep relationship, and the coming day will be long." ”

Li Minghui held back the swear words in his heart and saluted goodbye.

Pei Wenhu glanced at the cricket cage behind Li Minghui again, and said tentatively: "Really not for sale? ”

Li Minghui said: "Fuck off your eggs." ”

Li Minghui returned to the courtyard, and the small courtyard, which rarely had people on weekdays, was trampled on at this time full of muddy footprints, stagnant water, and bamboo poles were slanted.

The cups and pots near the stone table were dumped, and it was a mess.

The boy did not enter the room, but walked to the place where he had sat at the stone table, and looked at the three empty stone benches in silence.

The young man covered his abdomen, drank wine for a day, and was washed by the rain in the hot summer, and his stomach was sick to his stomach.

In the past, when Ah Qing was there, he would always boil himself a bowl of hot ginger soup after drinking, and if the two teenagers were rich at that time, they would add a little brown sugar.

The rain stopped completely, and the boy sat from cloudy to sunny, and from dawn to dusk.

On the dim horizon, you can vaguely see the incomplete sunset spitting out the afterglow. Presumably this heavy rain has exhausted all the clouds in the sky, and the next few days will be good.

The old locust in the courtyard dragged a vague shadow on the ground.

Old trees chase the light.

Lonely people, lack of soup.

(8504 words.)

Youth is a sudden parting, customers, Qingzhi, Dong Luzhu, and important people have left.

In the next three chapters, the protagonist begins to follow one of the aforementioned bigwigs on a journey away from Linzi City.

Growth is a transaction, and innocence and whiteness are exchanged for courage.

Youth is leaving, filling memories with loneliness and misses.

After writing this chapter, Slow Mountains and Rivers will be 120,000 words. After 150,000 words, the manuscript will be saved for a seven-day explosion. ）