1.

From that moment on, I already had a feeling that Yu Thirteen was by no means someone I could control.

But then I think that a person is born free. Why should I want someone else to be controlled or controlled by me?

Those men who chased the beggars were completely shocked by the ruthlessness of Yu Shisan's shot.

Perhaps, it was also the first time they had seen a person who could sacrifice his own safety to kill his opponent. What's even more terrifying is that this opponent is not his mortal enemy.

The bearded man was badly wounded, but I saw that he seemed to be saved, so I directed his companions and carried him away.

When they left, blood was dripping all over the ground. It's like a gray-brown ground with many bright flowers.

I looked at the boss who bought the shoes. His entire face had lost its color with fright. When he saw that I was looking at him, he unconsciously took two steps back.

I began to rejoice that I had paid for the duster, because it was still stuck in the belly of the bearded man, and was carried away along with his injured body.

I regretted buying the duster again. Because, I feel that I have become an accomplice to Yu Shisan's harm to others. Although, at first, I didn't expect such an outcome at all.

The beggar seemed happy. He knelt in front of me, smiled luckily, and kowtowed to me.

I lifted him up and said to him, "It is not me who saved you, but him." I pointed at Yu Thirteen, but the beggar looked at Yu Thirteen in fear.

Yu 13 didn't want the beggar to thank him at all, he just said lightly: "You owe me a life." Henceforth...... Remember to give it back to me. ”

I said, "That man didn't really want his life. ”

Yu 13 said: "A person who wants to hit someone with a stick can happen anything." Whether he dies or not, is not in his own hands. As long as the person who hit him was a little harder, he could have died at any time. ”

I'm not arguing with Yu Thirteen. I don't think there's any point in arguing. As long as nothing really happens, everything can only be speculation.

I didn't look at the beggar as familiar, but if he could call me a helper. This shows that he is not a beggar in Shaoxing.

I asked the beggar, "Are you from Lin'an?"

The beggar nodded and said, "Yes." ”

I felt a pang of guilt. He still thinks of me as his helper, but since I became their helper, I haven't cared for a day about their lives or deaths. Even later, I almost forgot about them.

I used to be a failed martial arts alliance leader. I was saddened by that outcome. But only now did I realize that I was a failed beggar gang leader. This result makes me feel even more uncontrollable.

I asked him, "How are the beggar brothers?"

He hadn't spoken, but tears had already flowed. He said that the world today is no longer the world of the past, and now the four seas are leveling, and there is a scene of stability and prosperity. It's just a beggar gang, and it's still the same beggar gang as before. The brothers of the beggar gang still live a life of wandering and begging.

I asked him, "Why did you come to Shaoxing?"

He said: "A few months ago, the imperial court issued an edict that Lin'an Mansion was the location of the palace, and begging on the streets was immoral and detrimental to the influence of the imperial court. Therefore, up and down Lin'an, those who beg on the street are twenty zhang, and those who give alms are thirty zhang. ”

I was puzzled and asked, "Why do you beat more people for food than for them?" At that time, I thought that the beggar had misremembered. However, he gave me an irrefutable answer.

"There is no begging without alms," he said. There is no killing without buying and selling. ”

2.

I told the beggar, "Try to inform the other brothers in the beggar gang and ask them to wait for me at the foot of Tianmu Mountain outside Lin'an Mansion in ten days." ”

The beggar's eyes suddenly brightened, and he happily agreed to me, almost jumping away.

I suddenly remembered that I didn't know his name, so I stopped him and asked, "What's your name?"

He stopped, bowed to me very solemnly, and said, "My name is Ming Shaozhong." ”

The beggar is gone.

Yu 13 asked me, "You want to go back and be the leader of the beggar gang?"

I shook my head. Actually, I don't want to be a beggar gang leader. The beggars are all over the world, and they are the most well-informed. I gathered them together just to use them to help me find Shu Yao.

I know that as a helper, it's shameful to do that. But I don't think there's anything wrong with what I'm doing as a father.

Yu Thirteen's steps were very fast. I told him to go slower.

Yu 13 refused, he said: "The road is very long, some are faster, I can see my sister earlier." ”

The road is indeed long, but no matter how fast he walks and walks like a fly, he does not know where the end is.

When we arrived at Lufu, it was noon. A faint smell of rice wafted from the courtyard wall of the Lu Mansion, which was not too high.

Yu Thirteen and I were hungry. I didn't have time to rush to the main gate to report, found a place with the strongest smell of rice, and climbed over the wall into the Lu Mansion.

As soon as we landed, we didn't see a delicious meal. It was an old lady with terrifying eyes, staring at me and Yu Shisan.

She didn't give me the slightest chance to defend herself, and she screamed and shouted, "Come on, there is a thief!"

Soon, men armed with knives, guns and clubs poured into us from all directions. A thin old man who looked like a housekeeper hid behind a group of sturdy family members and asked me, "Who is so bold as to dare to trespass into the Lu Mansion in broad daylight?"

I said, "I'm here to find Lu You." ”

"Shut up!" The old lady, who was still full of horror, saw that there were more and more people behind her, and suddenly became confident, she pointed at me and shouted, "How can You'er recognize such an impertinent person as you......"

At the end of her words, her voice became smaller and smaller, as if the confidence that had been raised by the number of people had fallen because of something. She stared at me, looked up and down, and suddenly looked stupid, and said, "It was you! Five years ago, you climbed over the wall from here and were hit by the old body." Unexpectedly, five years have passed, and you still don't follow the right path. ”

I have always been on the right path. But Lu's mother's words made me ashamed. I know it's not right to climb someone's wall, but I'm hungry, and there's no faster solution.

Fortunately. At this time, Lu You appeared.

When he hurried out of the latrine by the east wall, his hand was still tightly clutched to his slightly loose waistband.

He peeled through the crowd and met me. The moment we looked at each other, it was a flickering flicker, and then the joy of reunion.

"Brother Ji!"

"Brother Lu!"

The old friend who has not seen him for many years, like the Cowherd and Weaver Girl who met between the Magpie Bridge, held each other tightly with four hands in full view.

There is no rain of tears falling on Tanabata. There is only unspoken joy.

Lu Mu was not pleased. She coughed heavily, as a warning to his unruly son.

When Lu You received the warning, he hurriedly let go of my hand, bowed respectfully to his mother, and said, "Mother, don't blame, this is my ......."

"I know it. "Lu

Mother said angrily, "He was like this five years ago, but I didn't expect that five years have passed, and there has been no growth at all." ”

Lu You looked embarrassed. His temples were white, but in front of his mother, he still looked like a child who could not escape his mother's blame. He replied in a low voice, "Frightened my mother." ”

It's been five years. Lu's mother also looks much older than back then.

Everyone gets old, but when your years of aging suddenly show up in front of you, you can deeply feel how terrible it is to grow old.

Because, it can make a terrible person become less terrible.

Lu's mother didn't talk about it as unrelentingly as she did back then. And without saying a word, he turned his head through the gathered family, and disappeared around the corner of this courtyard with the support of the maidservant.

3.

After Lu Mu left. Lu You took me into his study.

The furnishings in his study are still the same as when Li Xiaoqian and I came to visit. It's just the faded red of those tables and chairs, showing me the years.

Lu You stared at Yu Shisan for a while and asked, "This is ......?"

I said, "His name is Yu Thirteen." It's mine...... Apprentice. ”

Right. It's an apprentice. Although I don't want him to call me Master, I like to call him my apprentice. Because it will make me feel that my mantle has been inherited, and I feel that I have to wait for a new improvement.

Yu Thirteen did not refuse. He is still as plain as water, unfazed, and it is impossible to guess what he is thinking.

Lu You smiled slightly and said, "You have accepted all the apprentices." He turned around and poured us tea and asked, "What about Senior Sister Yue'er, why didn't she come with you?"

The joy of reunion was diluted by a sentence.

My mood returned to heaviness again, and I said, "Satsuki is dead. ”

Lu You's hand shook suddenly, and the hot tea poured onto his hand, and he seemed to be unaware.

"How, how can this be?" Lu You asked, "What happened?"

I endured the pain in my heart and told Lu You what I had experienced during this time again. Finally, I said, "I came to you this time in the hope that you could help me find my daughter." ”

I turned my head and saw Yu Thirteen staring at me. I added, "And his sister, Yu Qing'er." ”

Lu You was silent.

I felt as if he was going to reject me. But I also felt that he should have no reason to reject me.

He has always been a chivalrous character. Back then, he went to Dali Temple with us to rob the prison against his principles, and then I knew that he was a person who could sacrifice himself for his friends.

However, this time, Lu You let out a long sigh. "It's not that I don't want to," he said...... Brother Ji, you didn't come at the right time. ”

I was surprised and asked, "Why not the time?"

Lu You said: "The scientific expedition is approaching, and I haven't been successful for ten years. Nowadays, my mother is getting older, and her health is not as good as year by year. This year, I don't want to disappoint her again. ”

I get it.

I didn't say anything more. The maid from the Lu Mansion knocked on the door and came in, bringing a variety of sumptuous meals. But they are no longer tasteless in my eyes.

It turns out that people's hearts change. At that time, Lu You disdained the government and the opposition and only had the rivers and lakes in his heart, he was a chivalrous man at that time, and he had nothing to pay for his friends.

However, people's hearts will not change. At that time, Lu You was a filial son. He obeyed his mother's orders, even if he didn't want to, he still kept taking the exam, he gave up himself, and even gave up Tang Wan. Now, he has given up on me, maybe it's not that he has changed, it's just because he's still the same filial son.