he walks in the world

Chapter 106 Joking, Fox Talk, Red Clothes

The township examinations have been very dull these days. When we were in the Gongyuan, everything was isolated from the outside world. After each test, there would be a night's rest time. However, everyone hurried back to the inn for a night's rest. The next day Come to the exam again in the morning.

For three consecutive exams, except for the two times in the middle when Du Ruo had exchanged a few words with others, they all left in a hurry. After nine days and six nights in a row, even though he is currently in good physical condition, he still can't take it anymore.

Of course, he is still relatively good. The scariest thing is that there is a dear friend who sprayed three liters of blood in the middle of the exam and ended the exam early.

At dusk on the last day, the creaking sound of the door of Jiangnan Gongyuan shattered the loneliness of the street.

The first student, wearing a moon-white Confucian shirt, walked out of the gate, walked and stopped, looked back at the gate of the Jiangnan Gongyuan, and confidently raised the corners of his lips, showing a smile.

Immediately after, countless students poured out.

After the exam, all the students were relieved, and outside the Gongyuan, there were even more people, some were relatives, some were servants and schoolchildren, and many police officers were maintaining order.

In the Zhuangyuan Street area, for nearly ten days in a row, all the teahouses, restaurants, Goulan Washes, and all the bustling places were forced to close by the government. The businesses that had been holding back for so long also started to open at this moment.

Everyone knows that the next period of waiting for the results is also a time for all students to relax.

"Brother Du, I wish you the best of luck in advance!"

After going out, Du Ruo and Chu Tianfang walked side by side.

Du Ruo smiled slightly, and said, "This should be said next."

"Oh," Chu Tianfang sighed, and said, "Before I came here, I was still very confident, but after seeing such a person, I lost confidence a long time ago, just because I was afraid of losing face to the Academy."

Du Ruo said: "I think Brother Chu has the appearance of Jie Yuan."

"Du Ruo is really in trouble!"

While the two were chatting, Chu Tianfang and several other students from the academy also came over, and outside the guardrail, Yu Chen had already been waiting for a long time.

Du Ruo looked around, but there were no black heads, so he bowed his hands to Yu Chen and others, took his leave and left.

We all know that after so many days of exams, we are indeed exhausted, and Yu Chen didn't deliberately try to keep him, but made an appointment to watch the rankings together in a few days.

Chu Tianfang and others left slowly under the care of several senior brothers. At dusk, the little sunlight fell on the people coming and going, making it noisy and mottled.

Some people are comforting, some are encouraging, some are talking about the hardships of the exam these days, some are worrying about the exam questions, and some are talking about some interesting things that happened in the exam room.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Du Ruo shook his head slightly, and searched carefully for a long while, but he didn't see the figures of Heitou and the others, so he sighed softly.

It's not hypocritical,
If you really don't have any thoughts on weekdays, but at the moment you walk out of the Gongyuan, you suddenly have a look of anticipation that you also want to see someone waiting for you outside.

It is good to have a friend without parents.

It's just that I don't know why Heitou and the others went. They were waiting outside for the previous two exams, but they were gone this time.

This inexplicable loss and loneliness,

For Du Ruo, it was really strange,

I don't know how many years I haven't felt this way.

This feeling also made him a little uneasy, this emotion made him very insecure.

The afterglow of the setting sun fell on the stone slabs, and some shadows were swaying. There were many pedestrians walking, but they were all far away, and everyone had a smile on their faces.

This kind of smile has made many students who are under pressure relax. Whether they are successful in the exam or have a hard time in the exam, they are greatly relieved under the embrace of relatives, friends or people who accompanied the exam. .

Du Ruo sighed softly, lowered her head and went back to the inn.

In the crowded crowd, he walked very slowly.

Suddenly, a pair of red boots appeared in sight and blocked him.

Du Ruo froze for a moment, raised her head slightly, with a look of surprise in her eyes.

The person in front of him was actually Xue Hongyi.

Xue Hongyi was still wearing a red dress, but it wasn't the headhunting outfit, but a fiery red chest-length skirt, and she didn't carry the two knives either. With her hands behind her back, she showed a faint smile, Very sweet very sweet.

At that moment, Du Ruo's mind went blank.

He seemed to be able to hear his own heartbeat!

"Xue Butou, you...why are you here?" Du Ruo was slightly startled.

"What's the matter, are you disappointed that your swarthy fool didn't come to pick you up?"

The golden glow of the setting sun fell on Xue Hongyi, as if a ray of flame was burning. She slowly released her hands behind her back, holding a small basket covered with a white cloth, and said: "I personally stewed this for you. Chicken soup, make up your body, you must be very tired these days!"

Du Ruo looked at Xue Hongyi in surprise, but couldn't react.

Xue Hongyi twitched her lips and said, "Why don't you look down on my cooking skills?"

"No, no, no," Du Ruo hurriedly took the small basket, and said, "How can it be, how many people will be envious of being able to drink the soup made by Xue Tuotou himself, boy, this is really lucky!"

"It's more or less the same." Xue Hongyi put his hands behind his back again, and said, "Let's go, I'm Muxiu, and I'm here to pick you up and relax with you!"

Du Ruo nodded, followed Xue Hongyi, turned around and walked towards the end of the street.

The setting sun is infinite, so holy,
Two shadows, one long and one short, dragged far, far away on the ground.

…………

The surface of the river shone with golden ripples, and the willow branches swayed, splashing circles of ripples. There were people strolling along the river bank in twos and threes, and some were holding hands, covering the shy young men and women with the setting sun.

In the gazebo, Du Ruo was drinking chicken soup.

Xue Hongyi sat opposite, looking at the couples strolling leisurely on the river embankment, and suddenly said: "Du Ruo, today I found a couple who had no children for many years for that girl, and sent her far away The place."

Du Ruo gently put down the spoon in his hand, and asked doubtfully, "Who?"

Xue Hongyi turned her head and said: "The girl that Chu Tianfang snatched from the Canglang Gang before, Chu Tianfang couldn't take it with her, so she gave it to me, but I can't take a child with her for a long time. I just sent her away, and suddenly I am not used to it!"

Du Ruo picked up the bowl, drank it in one gulp, wiped his mouth lightly, and said, "Xue Butou, I think you are overwhelmed with motherhood now, um, it means, maybe you should find a husband..."

Xue Hongyi suddenly raised his head, his gaze was like a torch.

Du Ruo was so frightened that he hurriedly raised his hand to block the front, and said loudly: "I'm not kidding you, you are not allowed to do anything, I'm telling you the truth!"

"You brat, am I that fierce?"

Seeing Du Ruo's reaction, Xue Hongyi couldn't help rolling her eyes.

Du Ruo still raised his hands and muttered: "Is there any, don't you know?"

Xue Hongyi clenched his fist and waved it, then put it down again, and said, "Forget it, I don't care about you, what you said makes sense."

Du Ruo looked a little weird, slowly put down his hands, and said in surprise: "Xue Butou, you..."

Xue Hongyi put one hand on the stone table, sighed, and said: "I came to see you today, and I didn't come here as an official, so don't call me Xue Tutou, just call me Hongyi .”

Du Ruo didn't speak.

Xue Hongyi continued: "Du Ruo, in fact, I used to be a gangster. At that time, my reputation was not small, and I was much better than you. But, do you know why I entered the Criminal Division?"

Du Ruo shook his head.

"Eleven years ago, I was actually a wanted criminal. I was chased all the way from Qingzhou to Jinling. Here, I met Liu Ci, the criminal officer who was in charge of the Criminal Division at that time, and I was caught by him."

"Originally, I should have been beheaded at the time, but Master Liu Ci was very sympathetic to me and moved his heart. He said that he would let me serve in the Criminal Division for ten years. I falsely agreed to him at that time, and then took the opportunity to escape. Later, I ran into Liu Ci again, and he was on a mission and was seriously injured."

"When I found him, he couldn't be saved. Before he died, he told me a lot. He hoped that I could let go of everything in the past and start a new life."

Xue Hongyi suddenly raised his head, looked at Du Ruo, and asked, "Do you know why Lord Liu Ci died of serious injuries?"

Du Ruo shook his head and said, "I've heard of Mr. Liu Ci. He is a famous iron-blooded judge. It is said that when he died, on the day of his funeral, everyone in Jinling City spontaneously went to see him off."

Xue Hongyi nodded and said: "Sir Liu Ci died to save an ordinary citizen. I was very puzzled at the time. He told me that in his eyes, the lives of ordinary people are his own. Therefore, he I have no regrets about dying."

"I know what he wanted to say to me, and I agreed to him at that time. I will be imprisoned for ten years, not to repay his kindness, but... I think what he said is right, and I may be able to start anew. Be a man!"

The wind by the river is a bit chilly.

Xue Hongyi's underskirt was blown up, and she looked a little lonely with the red fire. She looked at the slightly turbulent river and said, "Actually, I was born in an ordinary family before, but because my ancestors left behind a sword technique, Even my parents didn't know about the saber technique, and the whole family was wiped out."

"My whole family, grandparents, father, mother, younger brother, five people were all killed and burned to nothing. Only I was not at home that day and escaped the catastrophe. Then I went to the yamen to file a complaint. However, not only did I fail to appeal for my family, I was kicked out of the yamen, leaked my whereabouts, and was almost insulted, you know, I really hated it at the time!"

"So, later on, I became that wanted criminal who murdered people without batting an eyelid. I wiped out all those enemies one by one. Regardless of whether they participated or not, as long as they used the ancestral sword technique of my family back then, I wiped out all of them." Ladies, I cut off all the heads of those people, chopped them up and fed them to the dogs!"

Xue Hongyi spoke very plainly, but her petite body was trembling slightly, tears flowed from both sides of her face, and her voice was slightly choked up.

"At that time, I was not a human being at all. I only knew how to kill people, and I didn't know anything else. If I hadn't met Mr. Liu Ci later, maybe I would have been that murderous devil all my life."

"Lord Liu Ci gave me a chance to be born again. That day was the day when the rural examination ended that year, that is, ten years ago today. Master Liu Ci passed away on that day, and I also entered the exam on that day. Criminal Investigation Department!"

Tears flowed slowly from the bed, dripping on the corner of the skirt.

Du Ruo walked slowly to Xue Hongyi's side, and said softly, "It's all over, aren't you living well now? Don't worry about bad things..."

Xue Hongyi burst into tears suddenly, hugging Du Ruo's waist tightly with both hands, crying loudly, crying loudly, crying very sadly.

Du Ruo was stiff all over, her eyes staring blankly ahead.

"Du Ruo, today is the day when the ten-year term expires. Today... I don't know what to do. I'm so panicked and scared. It's been ten years since the day I entered the Criminal Police Department. I've been counting the time, but...but, today...it's really here!"

"In the past ten years, I have been arresting people and solving crimes. I have lived a fulfilling life. I am really happy. I almost forgot what happened at the beginning, but when the time comes, I... in the end... …what to do?"

Du Ruo stretched out his hand, patted Xue Hongyi's shoulder lightly, and said, "You are not the Jianghu people who were so disgruntled in the Jianghu back then, you are Xue Hongyi, the leader of the Yazheng Banner arrester in Jinling Mansion, Xue Hongyi! "

Du Ruo slowly sat down beside Xue Hongyi, gently wiped Xue Hongyi's tears, and said, "Actually, when you came to me, didn't you already have the answer in your heart? Why should you care about other things? If you want to stay, stay, Jiang Hu, it's really not suitable for you!"

Xue Hongyi hugged her harder, cried louder, and stopped talking.

Du Ruo sighed softly, and slowly hugged Xue Hongyi.

Xue Hongyi was petite, leaning against Du Ruo's arms,
Really small and thin, just like a child!
Crying and crying, Xue Hongyi actually slowly fell asleep, tears had already soaked Du Ruo's clothes, a little cold.

Hearing the slight breathing sound coming from his arms, Du Ruo's mouth twitched, he was a little at a loss, he didn't know what to do, he hesitated for a long time, but he still didn't move, just sat like that until it was dark!
…………

In the distance, Zhuangyuan Street was brightly lit.

On the other side of the river, Linlie's restaurants and inns were flickering with various lights, but the river bank here was pitch black, with only the sound of the river wind blowing.

Du Ruo's Confucian shirt was wide, and with his hands folded, he directly wrapped Xue Hongyi in it, so that even if the river wind blew, he would not catch cold.

I don't know how long it took for Xue Hongyi to wake up slowly. She opened her eyes slightly. In the darkness, her face instantly turned red, and she hurriedly got up from Du Ruo's arms. With messy hair, he said in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I..."

"It's all right!"

Du Ruo turned around and looked towards the river freely, as if she couldn't feel the heat on her face, the stiffness of her body, and... and her slightly trembling legs!
Maybe it's too cold!
"I'm sorry, I... lost my composure. The main reason is...the main reason is that I really don't know who to talk to. I suddenly thought of you, and then...then...your men were tied up in the inn by me. of!"

(End of this chapter)