......

"This is it. Xiao Che pointed to the small courtyard in front of him.

"Thank you. ”

Luo Xixi nodded his head, and then walked towards the courtyard with the gourd in his arms, and Xiao Che followed behind.

When I came to a strange place, the big eyes of the gourd moved around, and a childish voice came out: "Sister, does my grandfather live here?"

"Yes. Luo Xixi didn't care much.

"Grandpa?" Xiao Che was stunned for a moment, but quickly retracted his thoughts and did not speak.

Pushing open the door and walking in, the glimmer of dawn suddenly filled the wooden house, Luo Xixi looked around, the narrow willow eyebrows couldn't help frowning slightly, this place was not only small, but also dark and damp, and even the air was filled with an indescribable musty smell.

Luo Xixi's reddened beautiful eyes suddenly had water vapor gradually condensed, looked up at Xiao Che, and said with a slight swallow: "My father lives in this kind of place?"

Xiao Che took a deep breath and nodded heavily.

Luo Xixi put down the gourd in his arms, stretched out his hand to touch everything here, the quilt was hard and damp, the tables and chairs were loose, but those painting tools and scrolls were still very well preserved.

On the painting table, a painting of rivers and mountains has not yet been completed.

And in that large area of white space, there are a few scattered ink spots.

Luo Xixi suddenly looked up at Xiao Che and asked, "My father, what do you do for a living?"

Xiao Che said: "Sell paintings." ”

He thought for a moment, then continued: "Although the conditions here are very difficult, the old painter I know has never been depressed because of this, for him, as long as there is a brush and a scroll, it is enough. ”

Luo Xixi said: "Is he doing well here?"

Xiao Che nodded heavily: "Okay." ”

Luo Xixi said: "That's good." ”

Looking at everything in this wooden house, her clear eyes flashed slightly, as if she saw the shadow of his life here: there was the stiff body when he was crouching on the painting case, the excitement of jumping feet when the painting was completed, and the annoyance of thinking and meditating hard......

After a while.

She smiled lightly, tears sliding down her eyes: "Let's go." ”

Xiao Che said, "Don't you need to stay a little longer?"

Luo Xixi smiled and shook his head.

And just as she turned around, her beautiful eyes suddenly flashed and said, "What is that?"

As she spoke, she walked over to the drawing table and leaned over to pick up a large handful of crumbs.

Hulu stepped forward and said a little childishly: "It looks like a torn picture scroll." ”

The corners of Xiao Che's mouth twitched, his expression was slightly flustered, and he explained: "It should be that the old painter is not satisfied, so he tore it apart." ”

Luo Xixi said: "Oh. ”

As she spoke, she took the gourd's little hand and walked out of the wooden house with Xiao Che.

At this moment, the dark clouds that vaguely obscured the sky were all gone, and the stars completely melted into the void, and the twilight sun poured down gently.

The chill faded.

Walking in the deep alley, Xiao Che suddenly said, "I'm leaving soon, what are your plans next?"

Luo Xixi thought for a while and said, "Recently, I will clean up a lot of miscellaneous matters of the royal family, and by the way, I will accompany my father more." ”

Xiao Che said: "And then?"

Luo Xixi glanced at the gourd beside him and said, "Then I will hand over all the things of the royal family to Zuo Xiang, while the gourd and I will go out to travel." ”

Xiao Che nodded: "Yes." ”

At this time, a slightly old and hoarse cough suddenly came from the far alley, and then a voice came: "Go out to travel, can you take me with you?"

In the middle of the voice, a burly figure came out of the forked alley, with a light smile on the corner of his vicissitudes of mouth.

Luo Xixi's whole person froze instantly as if he had been struck by lightning, the blood all over his body seemed to be suddenly tightened, and his frightened look froze on his face.

She stared blankly at the figure, and suddenly there was a little bit of water vapor in her originally reddened beautiful eyes, and she ran out frantically, and the water in her eyes gushed out like a.

"Father!"

She threw herself on the burly body, crying loudly, unable to care about anything else, and the heart-rending cry came out like wolf smoke, echoing like a ghost in this slightly cold space.

Looking at this scene, Xiao Che and the gourd looked stiff like demons, the corners of their mouths twitched slightly, and the voice that was blocked in the throat came out with difficulty: "Painting... Draw old?!"

That figure is Luo Danqing, the king of Luo.

Luo Danqing looked at the criing and crumbling girl in her arms, her nose was sore, her old tears were criss-crossed, her rough and heavy hands gently patted the girl's soft back, and a gentle voice came out.

"Well, don't cry, isn't my father back, and promised to protect you forever, now you don't have to break your word. ”

Listening to the most gentle words from the most domineering person, Xiao Che couldn't help but feel a little funny, and while laughing, tears also dripped down unconsciously in his eyes.

After a long time, Luo Xixi gradually stopped crying, his reddened beautiful eyes stared at his eyes, and he sobbed quietly: "Father, this... Is this true for you?"

Luo Danqing gently rubbed her green silk and said with a smile: "Can't you feel this yet, if it's just a soul, how can it touch you?"

Luo Xixi smiled brightly, the suspicion in the depths of his eyes disappeared, and hugged him tightly again.

Hulu trotted forward, climbed up along Luo Xixi's slender jade legs, opened his arms to hug Luo Danqing's head, and said with a smile: "Grandpa." ”

Luo Danqing couldn't help frowning slightly: "Grandpa?" He stared at Luo Xixi, and said with a tense face: "When did you get married?

Immediately, his gaze suddenly fell on Xiao Che's body.

Xiao Che only felt cold.

Luo Xixi blushed and explained, "The gourd is the holy child of the red ghost. ”

Xiao Che let out a long sigh of relief, then stepped forward and asked hesitantly, "Painting Lao, weren't you ...... before?"

Luo Danqing groaned slightly, and said: "Actually, I don't know exactly what happened, but in my hazy impression, it seems that I met a person, and then the broken Divine Xuandan was reshaped for no reason, and then, I came back." ”

Xiao Che frowned deeply, feeling bizarre.

Luo Xixi's eyes were red, and he said cautiously: "Father, you will also... Will you leave?"

Luo Danqing smiled: "Of course not. ”

He raised his chin in the direction of the cabin and continued, "I'm not done yet." ”

Luo Xixi said: "What about after the painting?"

Luo Danqing smiled and said, "Naturally, it won't." ”

While speaking, Luo Danqing grabbed Luo Xixi with one hand and hugged the gourd with the other, his eyes fell on Xiao Che's body, and said, "Xiao Che, come in and sit down." ”

Inside the wooden house.

Luo Danqing took out the ink pen and worked the desk, while Luo Xixi and the others sat on the wooden bench and stared at him quietly.

Looking at the serious appearance of the painter, the corners of Xiao Che's mouth slightly set off a soft arc.

He suddenly felt that although the old painter at this moment was not as good as Luo Dan Qingwei'an, who was desperately trying to save everyone at the Luoshui banquet, he was much taller than King Luo, who had an ambitious heart at the beginning.

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