Xiaofangzhai, like a dying old man, is decaying, and may disappear completely and silently one day.

Xu Beiyou walked slowly into the small square village with the sword box on his back, at this time the sky was already dark, every house was closed, dark and gloomy, only occasionally a dog barked out.

Xu Beiyou suddenly stopped when he passed by the door of a house, and called out "gray ash", and after a while, a vague black shadow poked out of the dog hole in the corner, and saw that Xu Beiyou seemed to be a little hesitant and hesitant, and he didn't dare to step forward.

Xu Beiyou squatted down, opened his hands, and called "gray ash" again, and the black shadow rushed out with a whin, and it turned out to be a yellow dog, shaking his head and tail and pounced into Xu Beiyou's arms.

Xu Beiyou gently pressed its neck with one hand and rubbed its head with the other.

"Gray Gray" opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue to lick Xu Beiyou's face, but Xu Beiyou could only lean back slightly to dodge, and chuckled: "Don't make trouble." ”

This yellow dog was raised by an old couple in the village, and its name was "Ah Huang", and the reason why it was called "Gray Gray" by Xu Beiyou was because it was not gray when he was born, so he was privately given the nickname "Gray Gray" by Xu Beiyou.

Because the two families are not far away, Xu Beiyou is very familiar with Ah Huang, and will often feed him some food, and Ah Huang also recognized the identity of Xu Beiyou, the half master.

Xu Beiyou touched the dog's head, got up and walked towards Han Xuan's old house.

As early as the age of twelve, Xu Beiyou had already moved out of a single household alone, it was a very narrow house, far inferior to Han Xuan's private school, although it was also a thatched house, but at least it had a small yard.

There was nothing of value in the yard, and the firewood was just covered up at will, Xu Beiyou pushed the door directly, and Ash also came in behind him.

No one came in for two years, and a lot of dust accumulated in the house, Xu Beiyou waved his sleeves to blow away the dust all over the house, picked up the recliner that Han Xuan often sat on and came outside the house, and lay on the chair like Mr. in the past.

Ash lay quietly at his feet.

Originally, there should be a few hens in the yard, but Han Xuan had already given them away before leaving, and the vegetable field in the corner had already been occupied by the nest of the wild grass finch because it was uncared for.

Xu Beiyou lay on the chair, gently scared to beat his knees, and hummed the nameless tune that Han Xuan used to hum.

The moon stars are scarce, Xu Beiyou recalled many old things, such as the fact that there were several children in this private school who studied with Mr. in the end, but in the end they all dropped out of school one after another, and most of them went outside, some people were able to gain a firm foothold outside, such as Fang Sanqing and others, and some people have not been heard from since.

Xu Beiyou understands their feelings and agrees with their actions, but Xu Beiyou is the luckiest person, so it is difficult to empathize with many things.

He has met many people and experienced many things along the way.

He has seen powerful sons in fresh clothes and angry horses, such as Duanmu Yu and Xu Yi, and he has also seen the earth immortals who come and go, with Qiu Ye and Murong Xuanyin being the most mysterious, but he rarely comes into contact with those people at the bottom of the market.

He has experienced the Chonglongguan that was killed, and he also single-handedly planned and personally participated in the Jiangdu Incident where Zhang Zhaonu was booby-trapped, but he rarely cared about the flies and dogs in his life.

Even if there is, it is in a detached posture that overrides it.

Is today's Xu Beiyou still the Xu Beiyou of the past?

Xu Beiyou recalled the experience of these years and sat here all night unconsciously.

Early in the morning of the second day, a woman passing by the door saw Xu Beiyou sitting in the courtyard and was startled.

The woman, or the girl, is not very old, about fifteen or sixteen years old, thin and small, with a vegetable, but a pair of big eyes quite smart, and the appearance is quite good.

Xu Beiyou recognized this girl, her surname is Li, her name is Xiaoxiang, she was just a little girl when Xu Beiyou left Xiaofangzhai, but she didn't expect that in just two years, she had already begun to show the body of a girl.

The girl named Xiaoxiang looked at Xu Beiyou with a little wariness and asked vigilantly, "Who are you?" What are you doing at Mr. Han's house?"

Xu Beiyou got up and said with a smile: "Xiaoxiang, Ash still recognizes me, so you don't recognize me?"

Xiao Xiang saw where a richly dressed boy was sitting before, and didn't think about it anywhere else, but after hearing this familiar voice, she was stunned at first, and then said in surprise: "Brother Beiyou?"

Xu Beiyou smiled, "It's me." ”

The little girl pushed open the door and trotted in, came to Xu Beiyou, and said with a slightly ruddy face: "Brother Beiyou, when did you come back?"

Xu Beiyou said with a smile: "I came back last night, and the people in the village have already slept, so I came over to sit here for a while, but I didn't expect to sit until dawn." ”

Although Xiao Xiang was very strange that Brother Beiyou had turned white somehow, she didn't think much about it and asked, "Brother Beiyou, have you had breakfast?"

"I'm not hungry. Xu Beiyou shook his head and said, he knew that the girl got up so early most likely to go outside the village to pick up some firewood and withered grass and go home to make a fire, and didn't want to cause trouble for her.

Sure enough, the girl said after a sigh: "Brother Beiyou, then I'll go pick up some firewood first, and I'll come back to you later." ”

Xu Beiyou sighed, "Go, I'll go for a walk in the village." ”

After watching the girl run away in a smoke, Xu Beiyou put the sword box in the house and left the courtyard with ashes.

Xiaofangzhai is still the small Fangzhai of the past, there are not too many traces here for two years, everything is still the same, including the people who live here, at first I saw a richly dressed son, most of them were curious, and after learning that Xu Beiyou went out of the village, he turned shocked, which was mixed with a little envy and jealousy, and then there were all kinds of inquiries, such as what kind of name did he mix outside, did he get married, where did Mr. Han go, how did he live, etc.

Xu Beiyou explained one by one according to the pretexts that he had already thought of, and the atmosphere of the people in the village became sighs again, most of them were lamented by Xu Beiyou's good luck, and he was actually taken by the daughter of a large family, and he was able to soar all of a sudden, among which there were a few malicious speculations and unwilling jealousy, Xu Beiyou could also perceive one or two about this, but he didn't take it to heart, just as human nature.

After all, there is no inequality, whether it is a high-ranking official or a common person, they can't escape this trap.

After some greetings, Xu Beiyou returned to Han Xuan's yard, took off his luxurious robe, changed into a regular suit, and began to clean up the yard, which was already overgrown with weeds.

Not long after, Xiaoxiang came back from outside the village with a bundle of firewood, but there was an extra scholar carrying a bookcase behind her.

The scholar was a young man of about twenty-four or five years of age, dressed plainly, and carrying a bamboo bookcase behind him was a good object of some years, shiny and somewhat mellow.

After the scholar glanced around slightly, his eyes fell on Xu Beiyou's body, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he arched his hand: "In Ding Zeyuan, Xiayuzhou, I have traveled so far and seen this brother. ”

Xu Beiyou stopped what he was doing, straightened up and returned the salute and said, "My surname is Xu, and I am a local private school teacher." ”

Xiao Xiang was puzzled and asked, "Isn't the private school Mr. Han's?"

Xu Beiyou smiled and said: "Xiaoxiang, you don't understand, Mr. Han is my father-in-law, so this is called a son inheriting his father's business." ”

Ding Zeyuan was stunned for a moment, bowed again, and said with a smile: "I've seen Brother Xu." ”

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Xu Beiyou made a gesture of please and said, "Brother Ding, please speak in the house." ”