marriage order

Chapter 10
The chirping of the cicadas outside the official media yamen seemed to have stopped for a while, and the surrounding was completely silent, without a single sound.Everyone cast their eyes on the glamorous and unpredictable host and Nanshan who had become a statue.

But the silence didn't last too long, and Nanshan heard the whispering among the crowd. The sound of "swish, swish" was amplified and reached her ears, it really sounded like a lively show!

She came back to her senses, accepted the mess more respectfully than obediently, and glanced innocently at the relieved Yao media official.

Yao Media Officer patted her on the head kindly: "Tell the host about a marriage."

This kindness is also reflected in the last time when Pei Qu's mess was handed over to her, the matchmaker Yao said: "Nanshan, please tell Pei Qilang about a marriage."

Nanshan has fully realized that the nature of Yao's matchmaker is to kick her out of problems.

But she is not a universal matchmaker, she is just a nine-grade matchmaker... Eating the worst Lumi and doing the most worrying work, no wonder she can't grow up.

Nanshan raised his hands and scratched his ears, and lowered his voice in front of Shen Fengge to bargain with the media official Yao, and finally concluded that "Nanshan doesn't have to go to a dozen workshops in the south" and it ended smoothly.

The media official Yao waved his hand, causing the group of people to disperse, then flatteringly turned to Shen Fengge: "What orders does the host have?"

"I don't have much time, please tell the Southern Media official on the way."

Shen Fengge's carriage is parked outside, is this to invite Nan Shan to ride with him?Yao media official touched his bare chin, bent his elbow and arched Nanshan, and ordered in a low voice: "Go quickly."

Nanshan felt that what he did today was a little too much, but it is not easy to show his temper when doing things for others, so he followed Shen Fengge out obediently.

Shen Fengge walked in front, walking very fast, without the slightest intention of waiting for Nanshan, he looked black-hearted and impersonal.

He got into the carriage and sat down, Nan Shan bowed his head and went in without saying a word.

Shen Fengge also didn't speak, he seemed to be enjoying it, and opened a little bit of the curtain to let the sun shine in.He narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the dazzling sunlight falling on his lap, and said inexplicably, "The weather is fine."

Nanshan was like a stuffed gourd, still silent.She is not used to getting along with Shen Fengge like this, especially under the bright sunlight.She didn't know what Shen Fengge was planning, so she decided to stop with silence.

"Don't get too close to Pei Qi." Shen Fengge warned her lightly, "It's public or private, you have to know what you're doing. If you didn't get too close to him this time, Pei Yushi wouldn't be too close to him." won't follow you."

Hearing his words, Nanshan couldn't help but clenched his fists a little bit tighter.

"I don't understand why you want to worship him as a teacher. Play blindfold chess? Do you have to learn from him? Wang Shizhao doesn't teach well?"

"Wang Shizhao can't play two hundred moves away from the chessboard." Nanshan suddenly refuted him.

Shen Fengge was stunned for a moment, said "Oh", and then said after a long while: "That can be learned from others."

"Are you learning from the master?"

Shen Fengge shut up, he hates playing blindfold chess the most.

The atmosphere in the car suddenly became dull, Shen Fengge pursed the corners of his lower lips, and said slowly: "He has nothing to do with you, so don't communicate any more after you finish what you should do. Your identity is not suitable for going too far with anyone." close."

Nanshan raised his head slightly, looking like a fish sticking out of the water in heavy rain, thirsting for enough oxygen.

Shen Fengge glanced at her from the corner of his eye.

Her posture looked a little dying, but her demeanor was very quiet, as quiet as if she had died.

Shen Fengge knew that she had nothing to say to him.

Nanshan's mouth was slightly open, opening and closing as if he had exhausted all his strength.

What is different from the atmosphere inside the car is that outside the official media office, a group of people are gathering together to talk about various bizarre stories between the noble and glamorous Mr. Shen and the small media official of Nanshan.

For example, "Mr. Shen is nearly 20 years older than the Southern media official. The Southern media official must be the master's illegitimate daughter, Heheng." Child." "How is it possible, the Southern media official is a serious child." "It is not easy for Mr. Shen to set up a false identity?" "Then is this going to be taken back to raise, and the little girl is actually brought into the same car? The car really has ulterior motives." "Huh? Maybe the host has taken a fancy to the little girl and wants to keep it for himself! Tsk tsk, the old Kuang Nan is really scary!"...

A group of people chattered and talked, but they didn't know that Nanshan was driven out of the car by Shen Fengge at this time.

Just then Shen Fengge said with his usual cold face: "I've finished my words, you can go down."

Then Nanshan woke up from the posture of slightly raising his head, and rubbed his chin as if he wanted to move his position.When the carriage stopped, she bent down and climbed down.

She was still so dexterous, the expression on Shen Fengge's face moved slightly, but she still put down the car curtain in time.

Just as he put it down, he lifted it up and glanced out again. No wonder he saw Xu Miaowen's carriage again so familiar.It's not that the friends don't get together, he has to wonder if Xu Miaowen has been staring at him, he is really courageous enough.

Over there, Xu Miaowen also sneaked a glance at Shen Fengge's car through the gap in the curtain, he suddenly yelled to stop, and said to the driver: "Wait for that thief girl behind."

The thief girl he was talking about was Nanshan.At this time, Nanshan came slowly, saw Xu Miaowen's very wrapped carriage, walked out of the window, bent down respectfully and said: "Meeting Xu Shaoqing here really makes me feel a little bit excited."

Xu Miaowen opened the curtain with a "wow--" and smiled more freely than anyone else: "Ah, Southern Media Officer, what a coincidence."

Although he was smiling, he clearly spit snake letters secretly, very sinister.Nanshan knew what he was doubting, so he said, "I don't know where Xu Shaoqing is going, can you take a certain distance?"

Xu Miaowen and Yan Yuese: "I just want to go to Chang'an County to file a case, where is the Southern Media official going?"

"Official media yamen."

"That's just on the way, let's go up." As soon as he finished speaking, he rolled his eyes, and then quickly closed the curtain. After sitting leisurely, he greeted Nanshan who came in with a bit of hostility in his eyes.

Nanshan was very peaceful, nestled in a corner, and didn't say a word.

Xu Miaowen was straightforward: "The southern media official knows Mr. Shen well?"

Nanshan opened his eyes and said nonsense: "I haven't seen it a few times, so it shouldn't be counted."

"It's a great skill to be able to ride in the same car with Mr. Shen after only a few times." Xu Miaowen was a little sour.

"I haven't met Xu Shaoqing for a few times, and Shaoqing is willing to share a little bit. It can be seen that all good people in this world are equally good, not that Xu Shaoqing is capable."

Xu Miaowen should be very happy to be praised as a good person, but Nanshan put him in the same category as that old man, which made him feel uncomfortable.He snorted and said, "Isn't Master Shen meeting the Southern media official because he wants to find someone to be a matchmaker?"

"Exactly."

The old man thinks about spring!Xu Miaowen's sitting posture suddenly became a little more upright, he regained his energy, but thought about it cunningly, thinking that Nanshan was lying to him.He guessed that there must be an inexplicable relationship between the two... For example, Nanshan is Lao Kuangnan's "illegitimate daughter", "best friend", or even "minions".

Excluding the first two gossip possibilities, Xu Miaowen carefully considered the possibility of "minions". Yushitai and Meihua Neiwei had an unclear relationship. The man walked so close, could it be Plum Blossom Guard?Thinking about it, the corners of his lips were almost hooked, and his expression was a little distorted.

Nanshan glanced at him: "Is Xu Shaoqing uncomfortable?"

Xu Miaowen rubbed her stomach, pretending to have abdominal pain, but twisted thoughts appeared in her mind.He looked Nanshan up and down, his eyes stopped on her upper arm, and said: "Isn't the Nanshan official hot?"

"not hot."

She returned bored, but Xu Miaowen suddenly became suspicious.

She likes to wear men's clothes, but the problem is that she also covers herself tightly when she wears women's clothes. Could it be that she has some little secret to hide?For example... a plum blossom tattoo on his arm?

Whether there is a plum blossom tattoo on the arm is the best way to identify the inner guard of the plum blossom, but Xu Miaowen thought that he could not pounce on the little girl like a hungry wolf and directly tear off the little girl's clothes to identify her.

He thought of a solution with a sad face, and when he got off the bus at Nanshan, he suddenly thought of a brilliant idea!
After Xu Miaowen watched Nanshan enter the official media office, he completely forgot about going to Chang'an County to propose a son, and immediately asked the groom to turn around and go to Shunyi Gate.

Nanshan didn't come to the yamen for a long time, so he simply sorted out the matters at hand. When he planned to go back, the golden crow was about to fall, the weather was dry and dusty, and the west was even more foggy, which made people feel very depressed.

It was getting darker as she walked home, and the hasty beating of street drums made the hot summer evening even more annoying.There was a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, and there was no one around.She buried her head and walked through the silence, when someone suddenly turned from the alley and blocked her way.

Nanshan frowned quickly when she saw that the person was dressed with her face covered and her head covered. Seeing that the other person had no weapon in his hand, she quickly turned around and ran quickly.She is simply a leader in the world of running. She jumped up the wall quickly, and after standing up, she was able to walk steadily and fast on the wall. She knew almost every corner of the city and knew how to run to the crowded place as quickly as possible. place.

But the other party is not someone who is waiting for nothing, his posture is clearly to catch Nan Shan.Nanshan simply closed her eyes and walked, and the sound of the other party's footsteps following behind her fell into her ears clearly. She knew the distance, and she had already identified the other party's general identity - the other party was definitely not a crooked bandit, but a person who had been educated. Strict orthodox training.

Nanshan tilted her feet, opened her eyes and jumped down. She was extremely brisk, and she ran effortlessly. The man chased her hard enough, and Nanshan had already slipped into the courtyard of a certain big family in Chang'an County.But at this time the courtyard was surprisingly quiet, Nan Shan thought, it's not good, today is the [-]th, the Tong family should have gone to live in another courtyard, this house is empty.

Alas, she doesn't want to fight at all.

Nan Shan turned his head and continued to run, jumping over the wall and running wildly. The man was about to be driven mad by a dexterous little beast like a monkey. He thought that chasing him like this would be fruitless, so he suddenly revealed a hidden weapon in his sleeve.

It is said to be a hidden weapon, but it is just a hidden arrow.The man pressed the mechanism while chasing, the short arrow flew out quickly, and it was about to pierce Nanshan's back, but the girl turned her body suddenly and dodged it.Nan Shan frowned, thinking that the other party might really have bad intentions, if he had to fight, let's fight...

She turned around quickly and faced the enemy on the opposite side.The sound of the drums stopped, the night fell, and the humming of the cicadas gradually faded away. Nanshan's tricks were just right, only attacking the vital points, and the way was very evil. Even though the opponent was also a good fighter, he was too orthodox, and he was a bit weak against her.

In a blink of an eye, Nanshan actually took the hidden weapon in his sleeve, but he didn't realize it, and when he realized it, he was already shot by an arrow in the thigh.A flash of sharpness flashed in Nanshan's eyes, and he took advantage of the situation to restrain him immediately, saying: "I am a cowardly person. I never dare to kill people, and I don't like to fight. I practice this kind of skill just to protect myself. If you want to test That's all I can say."

She bent her leg and hit the hollow of his knee hard, and freed a hand to take off the black scarf covering his face, but was met with a counterattack from the other party. Nanshan frowned in pain, and saw his forehead in the dim light She suddenly let go of a mole on the spot, leaving only one sentence: "I don't care about you, and you don't chase me anymore, that's all." Then she turned around and ran away.

Nanshan climbed over the wall and returned to the workshop. She rubbed her chin that was attacked maliciously, looked up at Feng Niang who was still waiting for her in front of the hall, and shouted: "Feng Niang, I'm back from work, are you hungry?"

"The lady next door brought some steamed cakes, I've already eaten them."

Nanshan then went back to look through the rice vat, and sent some rice to the lady next door in a courteous manner.As soon as the lady next door saw her, she quickly grabbed her and said: "That afternoon Mr. Pei Lang came, but you were not there! He saw that only Feng Niang was there, so he went back alone."

What did Pei Qu want her for?Want her to patrol the streets together?Nanshan didn't think much, gave the rice to the lady next door and folded it back.

She always went to bed late, after putting Feng Niang to sleep, she went back to the dormitory, put some medicine on her chin, rubbed it vigorously, then turned on the light, spread the paper and continued to draw the map of Wannian County Fangli.

It's been a long time since she has been so focused on one thing, as if she can keep drawing without stopping.Everything about the city in my mind is drawn along the scroll, as if there is no end.

She was immersed in the endless restoration of memories, as if she had traveled to every street and alley.However, at this time the door was knocked suddenly, and the sound of "dong dong dong" woke people up from the night.Nan Shan froze for a moment, she seemed to have not recovered from the dream, when she recovered, the door had already been knocked dozens of times.

Nan Shan ran to the door of the room, put on his shoes and hurriedly opened the door.She opened the door, looked up, and saw Pei Qu stuck in the darkness.She looked him up and down, and asked a little curiously: "Why is the teacher here so late?" Could it be that Pei Qu has also practiced the kung fu of flying over eaves and walls, so he can ignore the ban?

Pei Qu said lightly: "I came here today to see you for business. I waited for you for a while, and when I saw that you hadn't come back, I planned to leave, but I didn't want to close the workshop."

"What about the hotel?"

"It's full." He said it as if it was true, but Nanshan felt that he was lying.

She caught a glimpse of the horse behind Pei Qu and said, "Did the teacher come on a horse?"

"Yes."

After confirming this, Nanshan felt even more that he was lying.The neighbor's wife said that he came in the afternoon, even if he waited for a while, he wouldn't be unable to get out of the closed square, not to mention that he didn't walk by foot, but by horseback!

This time Nanshan kindly did not tear his face, and asked: "So the teacher is here to stay?"

"Yes."

Nanshan thought for a while, and finally made way for him, and followed him into the house.She ran back to the house again, and wanted to move the small case, paper and pens to the main room to draw, but she was only halfway packed when Pei Qu walked in.

She thought about it, but didn't drive him out, so she stopped packing the small case and sat down again.

She lowered her head and pressed the paper again, Pei Qu looked down at her carefully, in the dark light she looked much softer, like a poor little shadow, and the hands pressed on the paper were also very thin, but he Know the power in that.

Seeing that she was fine, Pei Qu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but the anger in his heart still did not subside.

Naturally, Nanshan didn't know that her teacher came here non-stop from Xu's house in Wannian County, and she didn't know that after learning that Xu Miaowen had arranged for someone to do such a thing, Pei Qu threw him to the ground and forced him to hand over his hand. After getting out the whitebait bag, he got on his horse and headed straight to Chang'an County without saying a word, but when he got here, he had to pretend to be calm and calm, and opened his eyes and said some nonsense.

At this moment in Xu's residence, Xu Miaowen was angrily asking the steward why he didn't stop Pei Qu: "If he wants to leave, will you let him go? Didn't you see that he took my whitebait bag? He wants to take mine again." The whitebait bag went out to cause trouble, what if I was caught by those boys from Yushitai? He didn't think about me at all, it's a shame that I have worked so hard for him!"

In the end, he was not blaming the steward at all, so the steward stood like a puppet and let him angrily scold Pei Qu for his heartlessness.

When he finally calmed down, the steward said, "Jiulang is here."

Xu Miaowen suddenly calmed down and asked, "When did you arrive?"

"It's been a long time since I arrived in the east hall. I was hungry, so I ate a bowl of Lengtao. It should be finished by now."

"Let him come over."

The steward thought for a while: "Jiulang seems to be injured a little bit, and it's not easy to walk."

Xu Miaowen was horrified, it was simply...

He didn't say a word of nonsense immediately, left the steward and walked quickly to the east hall.

At that time, Xu Jiulang was drinking a bowl of cold ebony drink. When Xu Miaowen came in, he didn't stand up, but still sat casually, with one hand on his lap.

Xu Jiulang was only in his early twenties, and he was full of vigor. He had a small mole on his forehead and a mole on the corner of his mouth, which looked particularly obvious on his fair and clean face.

He studied under the Jinwu Guard Zhonglang General. He has decent kung fu since elementary school, and he has a good foundation. He is really qualified to be a general.But he has no intention of being an official, he just thinks about wandering around, how to live happily.As soon as he came back this time, Xu Miaowen arranged to investigate a certain person's kung fu.

And this person is the Southern Media Officer of Chang'an County.

Xu Jiulang had seen this matchmaker before, when his cousin was said to be the son of Cao Shilang's family, the matchmaker was the Southern matchmaker.So as soon as Xu Miaowen said it was tricky, he became interested, and actually masked his face to spy on Nanshan's reality.

I just didn't expect...

Xu Jiulang finished the ebony drink, feeling a little unhappy.

Xu Miaowen yelled: "You can't beat her in a fight!" Xu Miaowen felt that the sky was about to collapse, Xu Jiulang's kung fu was first-rate, Nanshan could even beat him, he was not a small beast, but an old beast!
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, I also used a hidden weapon, but she even took the hidden weapon away, and in the end I got caught instead."

"You're really playful, look at your prospects, you can't even beat such a person."

Xu Jiulang lazily raised his eyes to look at his brother: "Didn't you want me to check her reality? If the opponent is too powerful, it's normal if she can't beat her." He played with the empty bowl in his hand and said, "She can fly over the roof and walk over the wall. , and her auditory and visual skills are top-notch, and her shots are quite fast. It's just that her moves are clever, and she wins with surprises, and only hits the vital points, which is very wicked."

He emphasized the word "evil door", and his speech seemed to be a bit contemptuous of Nanshan's kung fu background - the teacher's school must be a crooked school, which is disgusting.

Xu Miaowen narrowed his eyes slightly at this time, and he asked: "Do you have a chance to ask her why she is so powerful?"

"It's for self-protection." Xu Jiulang has always been better at skills than brains. Nanshan said a lot, and he just remembered this sentence.

An orphan girl wants to protect herself, how can she need such a powerful ability?What's more, he still learns kung fu from crooked ways.

Xu Miaowen suddenly felt that this game of chess seemed more and more beautiful.

On the other side, Pei Qu had been sitting opposite the Xiaoan for a while, he was a little distracted looking at the aerial view of Nanshan Painting Workshop.Nanshan stopped writing suddenly, Pei Qu came back to his senses, took out a roll of paper from his sleeve pocket and handed it to her.

Nan Shan took it over and unfolded it. It turned out to be a layout map of several workshops in Chang'an County. There were only buildings and directions without any markings.Pei Channel: "In the past few days, after patrolling the streets during the day, I drew it when I got back. I thought I would fill it in with you when I had time, but I didn't think about you..." Pei Qu looked at what she was doing, and stopped. Talked.

It is a rare thing for two people to have such a good understanding.

The pictures and supplementary notes in the blind painting workshop can't be done by non-beasts.Now it happens that a large and a small beast can play this game with ease, and both of them know the subtle pleasures of it, it is really strange.

Nanshan said: "I didn't draw it for the teacher for nothing. The rice at home is about to run out, and I don't want to eat the reduced price Taicang rice."

"Teacher will buy you rice."

Nanshan nodded.

She lowered her head and continued to draw, but suddenly stopped.She suddenly thought of being attacked today, who would have done it?Is it from Pei Liangchun?But it doesn't seem like it.Could it be...

She looked up at the person in front of her, only to see that he was concentrating on the drawings on the case.

Pei Jun, will you doubt her?
Nanshan suddenly felt chills all over her body, and she was a little scared, afraid to think of her former self.But when she was with Pei Qu, she couldn't help but think of herself who followed him like a frightened bird many years ago.

She shrank her upper body unconsciously, and changed the topic relaxedly: "The teacher always comes to my place to stay overnight, and the neighbors will gossip."

"What gossip?" Pei Qu didn't look up, but was still looking at the drawings.

"For example..." She thought about her wording, and then said, "Although the student is a media officer who shows his face all day long, he is still waiting to be married. It is not good to spread some rumors." She seemed I kind of want to push him away.

"Oh, are you planning to get married too?" Pei Qu said lightly, and slowly raised his head.

Nanshan nodded no, shook her head no, she pursed her lips.

"Then you can consider marrying me."

Nanshan's heart seemed to miss a beat, and she froze, but Pei Qu looked at her without any intention of joking.

He dug a hole easily, and waited for Nanshan to jump in. Seeing that Nanshan stepped in with a foot, he filled the hole with a big shovel of soil impatiently, so frightened that Nanshan jumped out quickly.

Pei Qu usually does not act like this.He is a master in the field of digging pits, and he is very calm. Today's behavior is simply abnormal.Nanshan's reaction made him reflect quickly, thinking that he was indeed too anxious.

But his anxiety was not without reason. A series of incidents made him think that Nanshan was like a weak seedling and seemed to be knocked down at any time. He really wanted to shield her from the wind, as if this would keep her safe.But at this moment, he felt that he was a little naive. Nanshan was no longer the little girl who was rescued from the dead. Now she was bright, talkative, and even skilled. There were many secrets hidden in her mind, and her heart was also covered. One layer of shell, it is almost impossible to tell its real appearance.

However, even if Jun Pei did something reckless, he would not panic at all. He loves to see tricks, so he said logically: "Don't you want to marry me? As a teacher, I think this is a win-win thing."

His tone was clearly as if he was discussing conditions on a business-like basis, and Nan Shan quickly calmed down, waiting for his next words.

"I don't have any plans to become a monk or to practice Taoism, so I must decide on a marriage within six months. If you marry me, you don't have to worry about my marriage anymore, and I don't have to see other people anymore. As for you——"

"The teacher feels that I have reached the age of marriage and I am also under the constraints of the marriage order, so I have to find a husband for myself. If this is the case, I might as well eat the grass on the edge of the nest of the teacher. First, it will save trouble, and second... …Secondly, what is it for? Am I familiar with the teacher?” Nanshan interrupted him, and continued, “The teacher asked me that day if I understood the essence of marriage between a man and a woman. So, does the teacher understand it himself?”

Pei Qu was actually stopped by her question, and he replied dryly: "I don't know."

Nanshan spread his hands and said helplessly: "I don't know either, so I can't marry the teacher in a daze. Besides, why did the teacher believe that this is a convenient and worry-free thing for me? The teacher thinks that I am at a loss right now. Don't have a goal?"

Pei Qu was demolished until he lost even the last step, but he was still extremely calm and asked, "Is there any?"

The smile on Nanshan's face remained undiminished, and he released a big move in the world of rhetorical questions: "Is there not?"

Pei Qu thought for a while, but didn't accept the move.

So Nanshan lowered his head very calmly, held the ruler firmly with his hands, as if holding her heart, and continued to draw calmly.

Pei Qu touched a peach from his sleeve pocket and put it in front of her.Nanshan looked at the peach, and then looked up at him.Pei Channel: "The peach tree my teacher planted nine years ago bears fruit early this year."

Nanshan pushed back all the various memories, and vaguely remembered a young peach tree sapling.At that time, she seemed to have asked how long it would take for a peach tree to bear fruit after being planted, and the answer she got was "soon".

I didn't expect that "soon" would take nine years, so it must be an inferior peach seedling.However, the peach in front of me still looks decent, although it is not fully ripe, it is a well-shaped peach.

Nanshan took the peach and looked at it carefully, and said, "Can I eat it?"

"can."

So she took a bite and chewed hard, trying to taste a little bit, but she couldn't feel anything except the crispy texture.She ate a few more mouthfuls, then couldn't eat any more, put down the peaches, and continued to draw her picture of the square.

Pei Qu watched the half-eaten peach she put aside, took it over and wiped it sparingly, and there was half a peach left after eating.

Nanshan felt that Mr. Pei was too greedy and stingy, so he should bring more.Snatching what she has already eaten, and wiping it with distaste before eating, it is really uncomfortable for me to be so small.

The two of them had the idea of ​​spending the night facing the blueprints, and neither of them went to sleep, as if they were competing with each other for the longest time.In the middle of the night, Nanshan's memory seemed to be disturbed, so he bit the pen and closed his eyes to recall.

She thought for a long, long time without moving, until her mind was full of confusion and dizzy, she finally gave up the ability to think completely, and fell asleep sitting up.

The dream was sweet and sweet, and Nanshan slept deeply.Pei Qu observed her for a long time, but he wasn't sure if she was really sleeping or just faking it, so he carefully stretched out his hand and waved it back and forth in front of her dozens of times.

Nanshan didn't respond to this temptation. Pei Qu withdrew his hand, sorted out the drawings that had been drawn, and cleaned up the messy stationery on the case. Then he sat upright again and looked at Nanshan opposite him without moving.

When he saw Chaoge for the first time back then, she was still a poor baby with a small stature, her body was full of blood and the smell of decaying corpses, she was wearing a vermilion red dress with a white skirt, there was no clean place, and her eyebrows were also blackened. Covered by bloodstains, only facial features can be vaguely discerned.

He pulled her out from the pile of dead people, felt the warmth of the survival message under the thin skin, moved his heart of compassion, and took her on the road at risk.She opened her eyes for the first time after waking up from a coma, and the big black pupils in the eye sockets looked scary.

Even though he was only a child, he seemed to know everything, silently accepted the reality that hit his face, and became a lifeless puppet with only a pair of empty eyes.

From then on, when Pei Qu ate, she ate with him, and when Pei Qu walked, she followed him, staying close at every step, like a poor baby bird.Along the way, the war has just subsided, and everywhere is in chaos. The orphan girl who lost her parents is begging for survival with a stranger who doesn't know the details. The only thing that can make her survive is the words "live well" left by her mother.

Live well.

She doesn't trust anyone, except Pei Qu.She knew people's biases at a young age, and she knew that Pei Qu, who was still rummaging through the pile of corpses in the middle of the night, shouldn't be a bad person.

On the night before arriving in Chang'an, the moon had moved to the mid-heaven. She was sitting under the porch of the guest house holding a book, and said her first words after leaving Huainan.She said to Pei Qu: "This book was copied to me by my mother herself. The blood on the book belongs to my mother."

The book she was holding was soaked in blood and crumpled, making it too difficult to read.It can still be discerned only on the cover that the title of the book is "Luoyang Jialan Ji".

She said again: "My mother let me live a good life, thank you for bringing me out." As she spoke, the corners of her lips curved up and gave him a smiling face.

There was a gap in that smile that didn't suit the age, as if it was a meeting ceremony to deal with the uncertain future and this complicated world, jerky but effective.

The days in Chang'an were long, but also short.

He should have expected that there was actually no place in the two capitals that could accommodate her.

The separation came suddenly, but it was premeditated.

And Chaoge is well aware of his situation, even though he is the only person she trusts after leaving Huainan, if he needs to go to the country and leave home to temporarily save his life, he must be let go.She comforted him like an adult: "Don't be afraid, sir. My elder brother said that Fanbang is not that scary, but he eats very little. You should take care of yourself, sir."

At that time, she was frantically looking for his hand, trying to give him some strength, but she finally grabbed it and squeezed it tightly, only to find that her hand was colder than Pei Qu's in embarrassment.Taking advantage of his body temperature, she plucked up her courage and said, "I can live a good life, and wait for my husband to come back... come back..."

She stopped suddenly as she was talking, because she herself was not sure whether she could really wait until the day when Pei Qu came back, whether she could really... see each other again.

It doesn't matter, the way in this world is like this.Mother told her very early on that there are too many forked roads in the world, and you have to separate when you walk. Chaoge, don't be afraid, mother just went to another road, and you also have your own road.

So Mr. Pei has a way to go for Mr. Pei, and she also has her own way to go.She thanked him for being sincere when she was in the most difficult time, but she was afraid that she would not have the chance to reciprocate in the future.

This interval is nine years.

In nine years, many things can happen, or it can be lackluster.

For Chaoge, every day of these nine years is experience; for Pei Qu, every day of these nine years is consumption.

Then she grew up, and his heart was like a deep sea.

Fortunately, she did not lose her conscience, nor did he lose his life.

In the sweet dream, Nanshan sketched out endless happy endings for many things, so the more he slept, the deeper he slept, the more beautiful he became.Pei Qu sat opposite her, slowly closed his eyes, and silently ended the heavy rain in his heart.

He got up, walked to the opposite side and carefully hugged Nanshan, as if he was hugging the child nine years ago, but he was no longer.The girl's body temperature and pulse are vigorous and full of vitality, she lives vigorously and powerfully, but even so, she seems to have been trapped in a cage.

The brighter it is, the more it has the meaning of concealing it, just like the smile she had in the corridor of the guest house many years ago-it was all to cover up the gloomy and dying heart.

Although this heart is currently covered with an invulnerable shell, under this false prosperity and whitewashing, the inside can only be more vulnerable.

Pei Qu put up the bed tent and went out, and sat on the porch for a long time until it was almost five o'clock.

When Nanshan woke up, it was already the time when the street drums were beating. She rubbed her eyes, recalling those intricate dreams, and seemed to have little memory of what happened last night.She sat on the bed and thought for a long time, then slapped her head suddenly, then opened the bed curtain and poked her head out to look outside, but found that Pei Qu was nowhere to be seen.

Could it be that yesterday was just her teacher's dream, and it didn't really happen?
She grinned, as if a little self-loathing, and then quickly got out of bed, just went out barefoot to wake Feng Niang up, but smelled the aroma of food from the kitchen.

She even forgot to put on her shoes, and ran to the door of the kitchen on tiptoe, poking inside.Standing in front of the pot, Pei Qu suddenly turned around to look at her, and said, "Aren't you going to comb your hair and wash your face?"

Nan Shan pointed at him and said, "Why does the teacher cook here?"

"As a teacher, I want you to understand what the essentials are." He opened the pot to serve the porridge, "One is that if you can't marry me, I can still marry you."

(End of this chapter)