"Friend, let's go!"

Chu Chou turned his head and took one last look at Osmanthus Town in the morning light, waved his hand, turned around and disappeared into the town with Zhao Zhishui.

"Master, where are we going?"

"Go to the place where Master used to be, walk the path that Master once walked, and take a look at the world today. ”

"Master, why don't you seem so happy along the way?"

Because ...... Some of the people and things that used to be are no longer there, and some very good friends are no longer available. In fact, I blame the master, because the woman I liked was gone, I retreated for many years, but after I got out, Qingshan was still there, and the old man was gone. ”

"Master, Master......"

Along the way, the master and apprentice kept talking. Every time Zhao Zhishui asked, Chu Chou answered, many answers, Zhao Zhishui just listened to it as a story, or as a joke, laughed twice.

This way, most of them walked through the mountains and wilderness, and after a few days, they finally saw people.

In the distance, there is a village with white walls and tiles, and there is a crystal clear stream outside the village, and the rice next to the stream is swaying gently in the breeze, and in the distance, there are shepherd boys riding oxen, blowing flutes of unknown materials.

The sound of the flute is melodious and tactful, which makes people indulge in the apricot blossoms and rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

At the entrance of the village, a few children were playing and frolicking, and when they saw a distant guest coming, they smiled and asked where the guest came from.

Zhao Zhishui talked to those children enthusiastically, old-fashioned, because she finally found someone younger than her. She wished she could tell all her knowledge in one sitting.

In the village, the people are warm and welcoming.

And the traffic in the village is strange, there are yellow hair hanging down, happy and happy, even if it is sorrowful, it is also a sigh;

"In our village, there is a respectable old gentleman, two friends from afar, if you have any questions, go to the old gentleman. The villager said.

The village is called Qingxi Village, and the old gentleman lives at the end of the village.

Along the village path, Chu Chou took Zhao Zhishui to the door of the old gentleman's house.

"Shuangshuang Wa Que Xing book case, a little poplar into the inkstone. Sitting in the small window reading Zhou Yi, I don't know how long the spring will go. ”

Outside the fence wall, you can hear the loud and powerful sound of reading in the courtyard room.

Chu Chou tasted it and was a little surprised, this is a reclusive master?

"Master, is this old gentleman very knowledgeable?" Zhao Zhishui asked with a raised face.

"At present, I don't know how to be a teacher. Chu Chou shook his head and replied truthfully.

"There are friends from afar, happy to come? hahaha!" The old man in the house obviously heard the conversation between the master and apprentice, and invited the two into the house after leaving the house.

As soon as Chu Chou entered the house, he smelled the smell of books all over the room. Knowing this, this old man must be a person who loves to read. There are ancient wooden bookshelves with large and small books on them, and a sandalwood desk with a pen and ink inkstone.

When he glanced at the brush, he was a little surprised.

"Sir, I didn't expect to meet a scholar like you in this small village in the south of the Yangtze River, which is really a wonderful thing. ”

"That's fate. This son, at first glance, is a man in the rivers and lakes who is happy to take revenge. And this little girl, who is really good-eyed, and will surely be a gentlemanly and fair lady when she grows up!

"My name is Chu Chou, this is my disciple, and I received it from this trip to the rivers and lakes. Old gentleman, I just saw a few sacred sound bamboos in the courtyard, presumably planted by you, and the old gentleman is a temperamental person, worthy of the word 'sir'. Chu Chou smiled faintly, also politely.

"Hahaha, Master Chu laughed. The old man waved his hand, and then his expression was a little lonely, "If she had such a temperament back then, she wouldn't have ......."

Chu Chou slowly put away his smile, he saw a feeling in the eyes of this scholar, a feeling of regret and guilt.

"Sijun makes people old, and the years are getting late. Chu Chou suddenly said to the old man.

The old man was stunned, then put down the scroll in his hand and took out two large jugs of wine from the corner of the room.

"Is it convenient for Mr. Chu to drink?" The old man glanced at Zhao Zhishui, Chu Chou nodded, and Zhao Zhishui happily ran out of the house to find those children to play.

Then the old man made a few side dishes and served them.

"The old gentleman used to be in a high position in a certain country?" Chu Chou got straight to the point.

"Well, presumably Young Master Chu also saw the imperial brush on my wooden table. I used to be an official to listen to the official of the wind country, and I was the official hat of the second grade. ”

"As for why you came to this remote village...... Because back then, when I was a teenager and a scholar, I had a childhood sweetheart who added fragrance to my red sleeves. I studied with me every day, until I went to Beijing to take the exam, and I never saw her again. ”

"When I was young, I lost my brain when I read books, and I always thought about Zhu Zigui every day, who was full of scholars. Thinking of the spring breeze and the horse's hoof, I saw all the Chang'an flowers in one day. Thinking that one person can support the general of the building, and one person can work vertically and horizontally for the country and the people. ”

"Although I didn't achieve all the fantasies of my youth, I still did many of my fantasies! Marrying wives and concubines, having a group of children, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty need to be respectful when they see me, even if the emperor is a good emperor when he sees me, he is also polite. At that time, I felt that life should be like this, and men should be like this! There will be no regrets in life! Until I was at the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, I accidentally read the poem "Catch red scales and fresh, and wives and children are drunk in front of the lamp." Life is interesting and happy, and I don't envy the prince and the prince for eating thousands of dollars. After that, I suddenly thought of the woman who was as gentle as water back then, the shoes she sewed for me when I went to Beijing to take the exam, and the reluctance in her eyes when I was sent off at the small ferry port in my hometown...... At that time, I resigned directly and returned to my hometown, giving up the opportunity to become the first assistant of the super first product immediately, giving up everything, but I still didn't see her for the last time......"

"The reason why I planted that bamboo is because ...... In her name, there is a word 'bamboo'......"

Speaking of this, the old man didn't choke or cry, just smiled desolately, suddenly poured a sip of wine, and said tremblingly, "At that time, the bright moon was there, and I didn't return to the ......."

"Young Master Chu, I know that you are not an ordinary person, and you may not care about these trivial things about the old and decayed past. But I know that you are also a storyteller, and there will only be more stories than mine. ”

"What I want to tell Gongzi Chu is! I have a pot of wine from the past, which is enough to sing and comfort the wind and dust! Pour all the rivers and seas in the world, and give away the poor people of the same generation!"

Chu Chou drank the turbid wine in his hand in one go. Standing up, facing the old man in front of him, and facing this scholar who was much younger than him, he made a serious joke.

"Sir, there are ten thousand young people in your eyes, and your intentions are rugged!"

Mr. in this life, it is Chu Chou who shouted from the heart, because the person in front of him is worthy of his sir!

"Chu ...... Mr. Chu, what did you say...... That's right......" The old man was obviously drunk, and lay on the wooden table, whispering some old things.

Chu Chou helped the old man to the bed and covered the torn quilt, and walked out of the house, it was already dusk.

"The sunset is infinitely good, just near dusk. ”

The golden sunset, the gold-plated clouds of fish scales, and the returning shepherd boys, the graceful women standing at the door of the house waiting for their husbands to return home, the roosters and dogs barking, and the curling smoke wafting from the roof.

All of this made Chu Chou's heart ache slightly, and he thought of her again.

How nice it would be if she were here! How happy she would be to see these beautiful things! Probably...... I'm sure I'll be smiling every day!

Chu Chou thought about her appearance when she smiled, and couldn't help but outline an arc at the corner of her mouth.

He moved a wooden chair and sat in the courtyard, looking at the sunset on the western horizon, thinking about some things and people in his memories.