When everyone drinks to the fullest, the time has come to the second watch.

The man led the way and waited for everyone to stay in the guest house upstairs.

Guan Ren drank too much, and his steps were vague and swaying, but Zhao Yubai looked particularly radiant.

Xiao Su helped the people into the guest room, and the six vermilion wooden lattice windows opened to the south. The night breeze is like water, gently blowing people's faces, and a gauze lamp is erected in front of the bed. Guan Ren stood by the window, looking at the lights on the long street outside the building, a petite and soft body suddenly hugged him from behind, and the side face was against his back.

At the moment, it is late autumn, and it is a cold day, but the clothes of the two are still thin, and each other's bodies tremble slightly.

"When does Childe plan to leave?" Behind him, Xiao Su's voice was delicate and low.

Guan Ren's Adam's apple swallowed, "Ming...... I'll leave tomorrow. ”

Xiao Su didn't say anything for a moment, and then said, "Childe, can you plan to take someone on the road with you?"

On the long street outside the building, there were three or two lone lights, and I don't know when they all went out.

Guan Ren gradually woke up, parted the small hands that were wrapped around his chest, turned around, looked at the pair of shining eyes, and said after thinking: "Guan has traveled in all directions, wandering, if you follow me, won't you be tired of the child in your womb?

Xiao Su lowered her eyes, and some words, no matter how many times she struggled in her heart, it was difficult to blurt out. If she is still a good girl, if she has never been pregnant with someone else's child, she may dare to ask, "Does the son have a plan, what kind of girl do you want to meet, so that she is willing to stop wandering and allow her to be stable for the rest of her life?"

She didn't dare to ask that. She has always admired that Guan Gongzi, and she, a woman who is used to being called a bitch, if she asks this, wouldn't it be very blasphemous to him?

Xiao Shu's eyes were lowered, and he didn't dare to raise his eyes to look at him, so he quietly pulled his left placket, and covered his white and tender thin shoulders, and his voice was like a mosquito, "Let me serve my son for one night." ”

When Guan Ren saw it, he woke up in an instant, his throat swallowed again and again, he drank too much wine, and his chest suddenly became hot, he hurriedly pulled up the placket for her, and hurriedly said: "You are a good girl, but you have fallen to this point involuntarily, and you must be innocent in the future, and you must not be like this again." ”

Xiao Su's face turned red, and when he heard the sentence 'Be innocent in the future', he felt a little disgusted with himself more and more.

The door slammed, and the lame old man sat in the air, he had no habit of knocking on the door, holding a red porcelain wine jug in his hand, and shouted at the door: "Hey, boy, when are you going to leave?"

Xiao Su was suddenly a little flustered when she heard the movement, and hurriedly straightened her clothes, but her eyes were still drooping.

Guan Ren took a step back, leaning against the vermilion window, the night breeze hit, and the heat subsided, but his face was still slightly red from the wine, and said, "Leave tomorrow." ”

"You have to think carefully, you really don't plan to learn swords from the old man?"

Guan Ren shook his head and refused: "It takes too much time to learn the sword, old man, I understand your kindness, if the time is ripe in the future, I will never refuse." ”

"Virtue!" the old man pursed his lips and snorted coldly: "If you are young, it's not good to learn something? ”

The old man took a sullen sip of wine, rolled his eyes, and suddenly smiled: "It's better to be like this, the old man is alone, and he has no relatives in the world, so he will walk around with you." First, it can be regarded as protecting you, and second, I can teach you some swordsmanship in my spare time, how should you do it?"

How could Guan Ren not know that he had experienced the pain of losing his son, and his temperament had changed very strangely, and he was obviously a lonely and desolate situation, but he would rather listen to the sound of tinkling and dripping water than talk too much to outsiders. And now by chance, he met Guan Ren, and the two can be regarded as intersecting and forgetting the year, the old man treated him like a son and a disciple, and poured a piece of heart, so he couldn't bear to separate. Moreover, as the old man said, he is now alone, and he has no relatives in the world, no matter where he goes, he is no different from wandering, it is better to walk around with the Guan people, talk and laugh along the way, drink and teach swords in his spare time, but it is also interesting.

And Guan people have always treated the old man as an elder, although he is also angry, but he no longer minds. What's more, today's matter, the old man did not hesitate to risk his life for him, but fortunately, the Qin State eunuch acted in time, so he was spared, and Guan Ren took his own acknowledgement, so he happily agreed.

And Xiao Su was indeed a little lonely at this time. She is not unaccompanied, and she is not alone in the face of this broken world. As she said, she looked for a direction and walked all the way, and when she met the river, she settled down and built a house surrounded by a white fence. But tomorrow morning, everyone will go their separate ways, and where should she go this way? How far should she go? When she thought of this, her heart tightened with trepidation.

This night, on the first day of the ninth month, it coincided with the new day, and there was no moonlight.

Xiao Su listened to the two talk for a while, and did not mention himself during the conversation, so he planned to return to the room. Suddenly, I thought that Guan Gongzi was going to leave early tomorrow morning, I am afraid that he was in a hurry at that time, and some words were not as good as being clear now.

So he interrupted the small talk between the two and said, "Childe, I still have a few words to tell you." ”

Guan Ren didn't know what was going on, nodded and smiled: "Then you say." ”

"If Childe is tired of the day and doesn't want to travel around anymore, but just wants to find a place to stay, then Childe must come to me. ”

Guan Ren laughed when he heard this, and said in his heart, "This stupid girl, I don't think I know how big this world is in Kyushu, if you want to find someone to come out, wouldn't it be looking for a needle in a haystack?"

But he couldn't bear to hurt the little girl's heart, so he answered, "Okay, if there really is that day, I will go to find you." ”

Xiao Su raised his head and asked, "How can I find it?" ”

Guan Ren smiled: "Na, when you make a name for yourself in making shortbread, I will inquire all the way." ”

This was mostly a joke, but Xiao Su blinked, probably thinking it was feasible. She touched the body for a long time, and then took out a delicate green purse with a few small bright flowers embroidered with silver thread. Open the bundle mouth, there is nothing else in it, only a turtle dragon peizi with a white jade texture, tied with beaded belts on the top, and a blue tape falling down.

Xiao Su handed over the jade pendant in his hand and instructed, "This jade pendant was handed down by my mother, and the son put it away, and in the future, when the 'Lingsu' and 'Zhaoge' grow up, I want to find his father, so it can be considered a token." ”

When Guan Ren went to pick it up with both hands, the turtle dragon jade pendant floated away in the air, and suddenly rushed into the hands of the lame old man.

When Guan Ren and Xiao Shu turned their heads to look, the old man's face was staring at a depth that he had never seen before.

"Girl, where did you get this jade pendant?" the old man's voice was low, and his withered five fingers gently rubbed the lines on the white jade pendant.

Xiao Su didn't hesitate, and said with a smile: "It was given by my mother, old man, what's wrong?"

The old man frowned slightly, thought for a while, and then asked, "Where did you get your mother?"

"Mother's mother's mother ”

The old man raised his eyes and stared at the little girl, and after a while, Fang asked tentatively, "Is it passed down from your grandmother who came from Jianzhou?"

Xiao Su nodded, and looked at the lame old man sitting in the air in a daze, "Doesn't the old-timer recognize this pendant?"

The old man's face suddenly changed a few times, and he wanted to say something, but his lips squirmed for a while, and then closed again.

The room was silent for a while, and Guan Ren and Xiao Su both looked at the old man and waited for him to speak.

Outside the window, there was the sound of the bridegroom's bang, "Knock-knock." Then he shouted 'safe and sound' and walked away, and it was already the third watch.