Chapter 20: The Eve of Shangyuan

. Standing in front of the carved railing, Xu Yuyao's beautiful eyes had a ray of essence in his eyes, and he was looking at the flat boat in the distance without blinking, and he didn't look back: "See, Senior Brother Chen, the man I Xu Yuyao has a crush on, is so domineering, 'willing to cut his whole body, dare to pull the emperor off the horse', this is the imperial capital, he is the only one who dares to say this, no, no, Miss Ben has to be admitted to the hospital quickly, this man, I want to decide!"

Chen Sheng stood beside her with a smile on his face, listening quietly, watching from a distance, thinking, but he didn't know where he had drifted.

"Brother Chen, I'm sorry!" Back on the shore, the little monk held up the paper umbrella alone, looked up at Liu Chen beside him with a guilty face, and said, "I should listen to you, don't run around!"

"What do you want!" Liu Chen's head shrank into the hat, reached out and rubbed the little monk's head, casually sorted out his felt hat and said, "I promised the great monk to take good care of you!"

"It's all to blame Brother Tong'er, I brought a fishing rod and bamboo basket, but he said that fishing is boring, he wants to go to the painting boat to drink, and it's just a matter of drinking, he ran in and lifted people's tables, and slapped people first!"

"Ahem!" Wu Tong gently raised his hand to cover his mouth, slightly hiding his embarrassment, seeing Liu Chen looking at him, he had no choice but to smile wryly: "I don't want to, can't help it, but I never expected that the world is so wonderful, but you are so irritable." Young Master Ben has served you today, and I will share the next troubles with you!"

"You still have a conscience!" Liu Chen chuckled, tightened his robe, and quickened his pace towards the eighteenth courtyard.

In the following days, Liu Chen went to class every day, got out of class, and stood shirtless in the middle of the snow with Wu Tong in his spare time playing with the basalt stone lock, what Li Fuzi said was not wrong, this exercise of strength did make Liu Chen feel that his strength had increased slightly, and his physical fitness had become better.

"The day after tomorrow is the Shangyuan Festival, the Grand Duke's car should be able to enter the city tomorrow, these clothes are what the young master will wear tomorrow, the academy will be closed for seven days, we have to move to the Yue Guo Mansion in the imperial capital to live!" Little Lori stood on the side of the bed, chirping and chattering, and her subordinates didn't stop, constantly taking out brand new robes from the wardrobe, slowly folding them and putting them in a small bamboo box on the side, the arrival of Yue Guogong made her very happy, she grew so big, she left Yuezhou for the first time, and it took so long, Xiao Lori had already made up her mind in her heart, Ming'er saw the sisters in her hometown, and she must get together and say something considerate, in order to comfort the pain of long-term lovesickness.

"What about the little monk?" Liu Chen didn't raise his head, and lazily leaned on the edge of the stove to keep warm.

"Young master, you are stupid, the grandfather of the Jin Kingdom also has to enter the city, the little monk goes to the Jin State Mansion, is it possible that you will take him home for the New Year?"

"Is Ji Huan coming?"

"Giggles, young master has to remember, where there is excitement, there is young master Huan!"

After dinner, Liu Chen was really bored, so he put on his coat and walked out of the room, approaching the New Year, the usually lively academy began to look a little deserted, standing alone under the old locust tree, Liu Chen was stunned to look at the distance and wander, the snowflakes that drifted from time to time pressed on his shoulders, and finally melted on him, Ruixue Zhaofeng year, next year's harvest, it should be very good, I don't know if Fugui and his father are doing well in Fancheng, the news of their own visit to the academy, do they know.

Since he can remember, he spent the New Year for the first time outside Fancheng, a little lonely in his heart, and some longing, recently, he will always think of everything in Fancheng, those familiar faces, those warm country sounds, I still remember that when I drank with wealth and was slightly drunk, I once pointed to the largest restaurant in Fancheng and said, when I make money in the future, I must marry the youngest daughter of the restaurant owner home, the little girl who will blush at every turn, once filled all the ambitions of Liu Chen's youth.

"I don't know if she's doing well!" Liu Chen smiled slightly and muttered softly.

"Who is doing well?" I don't know when, Wu Tongti, who was dressed in a black robe, walked to Liu Chen's side with two small pots of wine, with a hint of ridicule at the corner of his mouth, and smiled softly: "I miss the girl!"

"Huh. Liu Chen was noncommittal, shook his head lightly and said with a smile: "When I was in Fancheng, I liked a girl, at that time, I let go of my cruel words, and I will make a lot of money in the future, and I will definitely marry her home!"

"And then?"

"Later, I killed someone, was put in the prison of the Criminal Department, and sentenced me to behead after the autumn. ”

"Is she beautiful?"

"At that time, she was all my dreams!" Liu Chen took the wine jug handed by Wu Tong, raised his head and poured a sip, the Northwest specialty soju made his throat hurt for a while, and finally calmed down, Liu Chen smiled and said happily: "Good wine!"

"My biggest dream when I was a child was to see the world outside the Great Snow Mountain, and every time I had the opportunity to go to Cangzhou, it was my happiest moment!" Wu Tong squinted his eyes, and his gaze was a little confused: "Eight hundred miles of Qinhuai Bank, thousands of sails and snow." At that time, I was thinking, why Cangzhou is so good, I thought it was heaven, and it was indeed my paradise. There, I don't have to get up and go up the mountain every day before dawn, I don't have to raise a knife and practice the same movement day after day, there is my childhood best friend, he once promised to give me the largest painting boat in the whole Cangzhou, when the time comes, let's sit on the boat together, the big ship set sail, walk across the Qinhuai River, walk to the Canglan River, walk into the sea, in that endless sea, we sing together, dance together, and go to see the fish bigger than the house together!"

"Hehe, please knife, but I can't invite you back to come to the snow mountain to eat a dinner made by my mother, chop the rainbow, but cut the nightmares that appear in my heart day after day!" Wu Tong was a little stumped, standing in the snow and slowly reddening his eyes, the black felt hat buried his face deeply, but it made Liu Chen's heart ache, and he slowly closed his eyes," There was a time when I was particularly jealous of him, we were born on the same day, why did His Majesty give me a fief that was only a small city in Weizhou, and when he was born, the people of the world gave him a thousand miles of vicissitudes, we often fought for this matter, I couldn't beat him, but I didn't dare to tell the adults, I was afraid that he would no longer take me to play with me, I was afraid that after he repented, he would not send me that big boat!"

"After that day, I began to hate everything in Cangzhou, I began to hate anything other than Weizhou, anyone, anything, I will never get the big ship that appeared in my dreams countless times, I haven't seen it yet, I don't know if he can carry the little cabin that I spent a year building to build, that is the house I prepared for Dayu, all of you have destroyed it, all of you, it has been destroyed!"

"When I watched the omnipotent father return to Weizhou with anticipation, he was empty-handed, he shook his head at me, I can't forget the hysteria of that day, I can't forget the city of Weizhou that day, I can't forget that day, the stormy world, life and death tore my original dream!".