When everyone drinks to the fullest, the time has come for 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 to enter the fine house upstairs, 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 scattered lights on the long street outside the building, and a petite and soft body suddenly hugged him from behind, and pressed his side face against his back.

It was late autumn now, and it was a cold day, but the clothes of the two were still thin, and they suddenly felt each other's bodies tremble slightly.

"When is Childe going to leave?" Xiao Su's voice was delicate and low.

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

Xiao Su was silent for a moment, and then said, "Childe, can you plan to take someone on the road with you?"

There were three or two lone lights on the long street outside the building, and they all went out at some point.

Guan Ren woke up slightly, parted the pair of plain hands that were ringed on his chest, turned around, looked at the pair of bright eyes, and sighed after thinking: "Guan Mouzhi has traveled in all directions, and I am afraid that he will be adrift in the next ten years, if you go with me, won't you be tired of your unborn child? At a young age, you will have to wander around with you and me?"

Xiao Su lowered her eyes slightly, 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 now, if she has never been pregnant with someone else's child, maybe she dares to ask, "Does the son have a plan, what kind of girl do you want to meet, so that she is willing to let go of her displacement and allow her to live a stable 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, would not be very blasphemous to him if she asked this question?

Xiao Su'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 the white and tender thin shoulders on one side, and his voice was like a mosquito, "Then 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, and 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 became more and more disgusted with himself in his heart.

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 jar in his hand, and shouted when he entered the door: "Hey, boy, when are you going to leave?"

Xiao Su was 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, the heat subsided, but his face was still slightly red from the wine, and he replied: "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 pouted and snorted: "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 lonely and eccentric, 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 like 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 Ren has always treated the old man as an elder, although he has also been angry, but he has long lost his mind. What's more, the old man did not hesitate to risk his life for him, but fortunately, the Qin State eunuch made a timely move, 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 has to face this broken world alone. 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 wooden house surrounded by a white fence. But when tomorrow morning, when everyone went their separate ways, where should she go this way? How far should she go?

It was the first day of the ninth month, which coincided with the new day, and the moonlight was not seen all night.

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 was afraid that he would be in a hurry at that time, and some words might not be as good as telling them clearly now.

So he interrupted the small talk between the two, "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." ”

Xiao Su looked at Guan Ren, and then looked at the old man, before he spoke, his fingers had been broken red by himself, and he thought that this was quite difficult to say: "If the son is tired of the day and does not want to travel around anymore, and just wants to find a place to stay, then the son must come to me." ”

Guan Ren laughed when he heard this, and said in his heart, 'This stupid girl must not know how big the world is in Kyushu, if you want to find someone to come out, isn't it equivalent to looking for a needle in a haystack?' But he couldn't bear to hurt the little girl's heart, so he responded: "Okay, well, if there is really that day, I will definitely go to find you." ”

Xiao Su raised his head and said worriedly: "But I still don't have a fixed place now, how can I find my son at that time?"

Guan Ren smiled: "Na, when you make the shortbread famous, a big name, I can inquire all the way." ”

This was mostly a joke, but Xiao Su blinked, probably thinking it was feasible. She fumbled around her body for a long time, and then took out a delicate pink purse with a few small bright flowers embroidered with silver thread. The purse is deflated, and the bundle is opened, and there is only a turtle dragon peizi with a white jade texture, with a beaded belt on the top and a blue tape on the bottom.

Xiao Su handed over the jade pendant and instructed: "This jade pendant was handed down by my mother, and the son will collect it, and when the 'Lingsu' and 'Zhaoge' grow up in the future, he will go to find his father, and it will be 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 Su turned their heads to look, the old man's face was condensed with a solemnity that he had never seen before.

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

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

The old man frowned and thought for a while, 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, he asked tentatively, "Is it passed down from your maternal grandmother from Jianzhou?"

Xiao Su nodded, and looked at the lame old man sitting in the air in a daze, "Does the old man know the origin of this jade pendant?"

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

There was silence in the room 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 shouted 'safe and sound' and walked away, and now it is the third watch.