On the fourth day of November, Alain hadn't seen Elsir for four days. These days, he often goes to Elsir's garden and takes care of the flowers, although they don't really need to be cared for, they are very vigorous.

It was a cloudless day, and the sunny weather made Alain feel good, and Yuan Lai no longer read Anna's letters.

He proposed: "Alain, we don't have any rice at home, it just so happens that I have to go to Qingyu Village to buy rice in the market today, you can go with me." Yuan Lai felt that Alan still knew too few people, and there were only three of them at present.

And making some new friends after separation can also improve your mentality. Alain did not refuse, and under the influence of Asier, his personality became lively, and he had deep expectations for life, especially looking forward to the reunion with Asir.

So Alan didn't refuse Yuan Lai, the two went out together, this time they passed the official road they had walked before, the flowers on the road had changed a lot, and the weeds had changed one after another.

Alain looked at these flowers, and his heart was inexplicably a little excited, and the loneliness of the past few days was washed away under this excitement. Alain still misses Asir, but this longing will no longer bring loneliness, but will linger faintly in his heart for a long time.

The two soon came to the market street, and it was the first time Alan had seen such a lively scene - people were rubbing shoulders one after another, and people were full of voices, and if he didn't speak loudly, Alan couldn't hear Yuan Lai's voice at all. This made Alain wonder: why could he still hear the shouting so clearly?

"Fresh sea bass, I just caught it!"

"Delicious rice, no fragrant and no money!" this is a rice seller......

Alan felt his brain buzzing, looking at Yuan Lai's mouth one by one, his voice was blurred: "Alain, you find a cool place to rest, go there, I'll go buy rice first!" Yuan Lai pointed to a shop on the opposite street, it was a bun shop, on the day of the market, this place was a little more deserted than other places, but it was still full of people, only one table in the store was empty, Yuan Lai asked him to wait for him somewhere.

Alain looked at the sea of people and fell into deep thought...... But he didn't have time to hesitate, so he had to throw himself into it, trying to move forward, and kept saying, "Sorry, let me ......" Alain felt that his body was about to be squashed, and his short stature, when he got out of the crowd, he was three or four shops away from the bun shop.

There are many families scattered around the herring village, and they will get up early in the morning on the day of the market and rush to the market street to buy or sell.

Fortunately, it was not far away, and there was still no one on the wooden table, so Alain walked straight to the table and sat down with some restraint, while watching the bustling crowd.

There was a woman holding her child with a tense expression, holding the child's wrist tightly, and bargaining with the seller at the same time, not loosening her hand or mouth.

There is an old man carrying a bamboo basket, there are fish and vegetables in the basket, the old man has to carry a little rickety, but he is very energetic, and he chats with an old man with rice wine on his shoulder.

There was also an old woman walking by on crutches, and children passed by her, bringing up puffs of dust.

Alain was dazzled by the lanterns, and the scenes flickered by, as if he was acting.

Yuan Lai carried a bag of rice, and fine sweat flowed from his forehead, but it was obvious that he was at ease. He walked straight up to Alain, gently placed the rice bag on the ground, wiped his sweat and asked, "Alain, do you have anything to eat?" I'm a little hungry, I should have breakfast this morning before going out." ”

Alain rolled his eyes, thought for a moment and said, "Hmm...... Is there mung bean soup, I have seen it in a book, and it is said to be very refreshing and thirst-quenching. "Alain loves the word "cool", it feels like swimming in the sea.

"Yes," Yuan Lai nodded at first, then grabbed a passing guy and said, "Little brother, please give us a bowl of hot noodle soup and a bowl of mung bean soup, by the way, you have to trouble the boss to tell the boss to hurry up, let's go." ”

The guy's face was very indifferent, and he didn't flatter the guests at all, and said without humility or arrogance: "Wait a minute, the hot noodle soup and mung bean soup you want will come soon." With that, he turned and walked towards the kitchen. Alain noticed a thin book in his sleeve cage, whose name was unknown, and which looked like an old book.

Yuan Lai looked at him with appreciation, and said while nodding: "This young man has ambition, is arrogant but not arrogant, is diligent but does not delay his work, and is a great talent." If you can continue to work hard, you will definitely achieve great things in the future. ”

Alain didn't know what great talents and achievements were, what he cared about was this person's eyes - as solid as pine, as solid as stone, and as still as water...... Although he doesn't have the same delicate heart as Asir and himself, he also has something that outshines others.

After a while, the young man walked over with hot noodle soup in one hand and mung bean soup in the other, his expression was calm, and there was a steaming heat on top of the hot noodle soup, but no soup spilled out of the two bowls, which showed that he completely endured the high temperature of the hot noodle soup and ignored it, which ensured that it did not affect the end of the mung bean soup. And the book was clamped between his chest, revealing only a few corners.

He quickly approached the two of them, and Alan swallowed his saliva and asked cautiously, "I don't know my brother's name?"

"Don't respect the surname Tu, the name is Fengnian, the little brother is really polite, a certain family is just an ordinary running guy. My ancestral home is in Luzhou, but my father was fond of books in his early years, and he liked to travel everywhere to buy old books, but he mostly read them and put them at home, and he would not turn them again. Later, my father arrived here and said that the land was a great place, so the family moved. Tu Fengnian still has that tone that is neither humble nor arrogant, but he also brings a lot of politeness, and sure enough, as Yuan Lai said: there is arrogance but no arrogance.

Yuan Lai also asked with a smile: "Brother Tu is a diligent person, he works here with books and reads, and he will definitely achieve success in the future." ”

Tu Fengnian was a little flattered, he could clearly feel the extraordinaryness of these two. The man is tall, and his eyebrows are upright, but his eyes are gentle, even the rice bag next to him can't hide the bookish atmosphere, and he seems to be a reader.

The boy's eyes were extremely clear, like amber gems, and his face was elegant, with a kind of natural beauty. "This boy actually made me feel beautiful, but it was not a woman's coquettishness, but more like the beauty of the sky and the sea, and the beauty of the forest ridge stream, which is really strange. Tu Fengnian was really a little surprised.

He didn't be stunned for long, and quickly replied: "My father still can't bear the loneliness, and then I went out to travel, my mother was angry, I wanted to take me back to my parents' house, but I didn't want to go back, I liked this place, so I found a job to do, my father used to collect books have been kept at home, I have been reading, while making money, I want to go north to the Central Plains to study." ”

Yuan Lai and Alan chatted with Tu Fengnian for a while before leaving.

On this day, Alain made a new friend.