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But in such a room, there is now a middle-aged man in a crane kite purple satin coat with his hands on his back, standing by the open window, looking into the distance, at a glance with an extraordinary temperament, he must not be an ordinary person.

"Dangdangdang......"

There was a faint knock on the door.

"Come in. After a moment's pause, the middle-aged man in the room said in a calm voice.

Slowly opened a crack in the door, and a fat body that was more and more bloated squeezed in, looking a little funny, and when the whole body was revealed, who was this fat man not the innkeeper?

I saw him panting and coming to the middle-aged man's side, and said intermittently: "Old ...... board, you are ...... When...... Why don't you mention it to the little one, I'll pick you up and wash the dust. ”

As the panting in the back evened out, the speech was not as stumbling as it was at the beginning, and the fat face was full of flattering smiles, which looked a little disgusting.

"After the New Year, the things at home are almost dealt with, I'll come over to see if I have nothing to do, I just arrived in the early hours of this morning, and I still don't need to wash the dust or something. ”

"Yes, yes, if you say it's exempt, then it's exempt. The fat shopkeeper greeted him.

The middle-aged man turned his head, under the light of the morning sun, his face was clearly visible, although he was no longer dressed like at that time, but this man was undoubtedly Jiang Qing, a businessman who got the right to use this land from Mo Xiaoxie, and his oppressive gaze swept over the fat shopkeeper, and then he frowned, his face was displeased, as if he didn't want to witness, and silently turned his eyes away.

"What kind of system do you look like in a panic? You are still the shopkeeper of the inn designated by me, and you are not stable at all, don't you want to do it?" Jiang Qing rebuked angrily.

When he saw that the fat shopkeeper shrank his head in fear, he slowed down and asked calmly, "Say, what is the big thing that made you run over in a hurry?"

looked at the two fat shopkeepers who were sinking by themselves, and it would definitely not be a trivial matter for people like him to trot all the way over to report.

After Jiang Qing asked, the shopkeeper remembered why he came here, and hurriedly replied with joy on his face: "Boss, it's a good thing, it's a great thing." ”

"A good thing? Jiang Qing speculated in confusion, could it be that this year, the merchants ran the business in advance, and the room in the inn was overcrowded?

"Boss, you should know the guy named Mo Xiaoxie, right?" asked the fat shopkeeper cautiously.

"Hmm. Jiang Qing nodded clearly, not only did he know, but the two had also made a gentleman's covenant back then.

"The scourge, he's gone. The fat shopkeeper said happily jumping on his feet, dancing with his hands and his face full of joy.

"When are you gone?" Jiang Qing was surprised and asked hurriedly, the voice so loud that the unprepared fat shopkeeper was startled.

"That's what just happened, I've already paid his salary for this month, and when he came he came with a package, and now he should have left the inn and walked away. The fat shopkeeper rubbed his hands, squinted his eyes, and trembled.

"Are you really gone?" Jiang Qing was stunned and muttered to himself in disbelief. How is it possible, to know that even if he promised heavy profits and humiliated his body and mind, the young man who was reluctant to leave this inn was now leaving like this, it was really unbelievable.

"Of course it's true, it's true. The shopkeeper thought that the boss was confirming with him, and nodded affirmatively.

"Boss, do you think this is a happy event?"

"Joy is a happy event, but the word happy is not very appropriate here, and it should be ...... Relieved, yes, relieved. Jiang Qing stroked the beard on his chin, smiled and nodded.

Gratifying, for whom? The fat shopkeeper secretly figured out, trying to understand the boss's thoughts, and after a while, he had a plan in his heart, and said with a smile: "Yes, it is gratifying, that Mo Xiaoxie may not be bullied or crippled or die one day, and we will not end well, so he will retreat in the face of difficulties, but everyone is happy, hehe." ”

Stunned, he looked at the head of the word, the more he said, the more he felt that what he said made sense, and the shopkeeper who was complacent, stroking his palms and smiling, Jiang Qing felt the green tendons on his forehead jump.

Suppressing the anger that was gradually rising in his heart, he said in a deep voice, "That's not what I said. ”

Belch...... The fat shopkeeper's laughter stopped abruptly, and he made an ugly cry like a duck.

Looking up and secretly looking at Jiang Qing, the boss with his brows tightly locked, his face gloomy and his anger hidden, his heart was up and down for a while, cold sweat was dripping down, and he looked indescribably embarrassed.

Jiang Qing put his hands on the window lattice and sighed deeply, "If you don't leave here, he will always be just a poor person living in memory, if you can, I hope that when I met him five years ago, he would choose to leave." ”

"But when you saw the guys bullying Mo Xiaoxie, didn't you turn a blind eye?" No matter how stupid the fat shopkeeper was, he also heard the overtones in the boss's words at this time, and he actually had a faint intention to defend Mo Xiaoxie, but some things didn't make sense.

"yes, I did take it to chance, hoping it worked. Jiang Qing smiled bitterly, "But we were all wrong, very wrong." ”

"There are people in this world who you can scold him, bully him, or even beat him, but these are not enough to make him move his unsettling affection and change his will like a rock. That Mo Xiaoye is exactly such a person. ”

Jiang Qing looked at him with a dull eye, and the fat shopkeeper who listened to all this in confusion asked lightly, "You don't understand?"

The fat shopkeeper's eyes widened, his head swayed from side to side like a rattle, and the fat on his face trembled.

"Alas. Jiang Qing sighed in disappointment, and looked at him with regret, this person is really nothing but loyal and commendable.

"Go, prepare a table of dust washing feast, and take advantage of the fact that there are fewer guests recently, and we will also get together. Jiang Qing ordered with a smile.

Now the fat shopkeeper is dumbfounded, the boss just said that he will not hold a dust washing banquet, why did he say that he would do it at this time?

"Okay, okay, I'll go get ready. The fat shopkeeper seemed to be startled by Jiang Qing's sharp words, shook his spirit, and hurriedly replied, and after finishing his words, under Jiang Qing's sharp gaze, he ran out of the room neatly.

Seeing the door closed again and the footsteps gradually faded away, Jiang Qing turned his head and looked into the distance again along the window, hoping to see the young man who had left the inn and embarked on the journey.

But outside the window, there was nothing but the same dead trees and courtyards, and not even a single innkeeper was found.

Although it was not entirely expected that it could not be found, disappointment was inevitable.

Raising his broad right hand to take a closer look, he seemed to see again that five years ago, in the hot summer, in the midst of ruins, a boy stubbornly and tenaciously raised his head, looked at him without flinching, and said in a sonorous and powerful tone that was more mature than most adults: "High-five is an oath." ”

"Okay, high-five. ”

Jiang Qing stretched out his right hand, and there was no high-five echo around, this time the front of the palm facing was empty, only the void air existed.

Shaking his head with a wry smile and withdrawing his right hand, staring at the fingerprints in his palm, faint wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes, he smiled with relief, and whispered to himself: "Mo Xiaoxie, you, you have grown up." ”

As if he had a feeling, Mo Xiaoxie, who had left the inn, turned around abruptly, looking at the inn where he had lived for five years, his heart was naturally full of emotion, and a moment of mixed emotions came to his heart, and there were no words to express his messy mood at the moment.

Reluctant, confused, uneasy, or excited?

I really don't know when I can return here when I leave, knowing that I have left Fenghua Town, the townspeople will definitely be very happy, they have always regarded themselves as a thorn in their side; and Jiang Rong, who came to trouble him when he has nothing to do, will find that he is not in the inn, and if he leaves this town, he will be very lonely; and the innkeeper, when he comes back and finds that he is not there, he will definitely laugh and scold: This kid.

Everything has become a cloud of the past, except for the matter of the Yan family, Mo Xiaoxie has no worries in his heart.

Although everyone said that the fire in the Yan family was an accident, how could Mo Xiaoxiao believe that there was still a pond in the courtyard of the Nuo Mansion, how could it be that a fire could burn it down? There were no survivors at the front and back gates, how could this kind of thing be said to be in the past.

Through these years of overt investigation and covert visits, it has basically been ruled out that it was done by the people of Fenghua Town, so the perpetrator must be outside the town.

Farewell, the Yan family's hometown. Farewell, Maple Birch.

The light of the morning sun draped the whole town in a golden garment, making it mysterious and beautiful.

Mo Xiaoxie carried a small burden, stepped into the light of the newborn, and moved forward.

As if to show the past and the future, at this moment, the light of the sun is with him.

As the figure was gradually elongated and walked farther and farther, Mo Xiaoxie's thin muttering sound came from the morning breeze.

"Where should I go first? from the south gate or from the east gate? I don't have much savings, so I think I'm going to save some money in the future......

The simple words carried some of the ignorance of young people, and they were inaudible.

No one noticed that a flickering seed had unconsciously appeared in Mo Xiaoxie's body, and although the appearance was dim, it was full of vitality.