Embers

The next day, Li Mei knocked on the door of Ember's room early.Ember said "Come in" with a slightly hoarse voice.

Pushing open the door, Li Mei was taken aback.

Ember was sitting neatly on the edge of the table, looking at him expressionlessly, her eyes were slightly blue and black.

"You...didn't sleep?"

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Thinking that he must have heard what Xiao Taohua said last night, he couldn't help but sighed, walked to the table and touched the teapot, it was completely cold.

Looking down at him: "Then what do you mean?"

Ember whispered: "Teach."

"Are you going to teach her?"

Ember shook her head slightly, raised her eyes and met his eyes straightly: "You teach."

Li Mei was taken aback: "My martial arts are far inferior to yours..."

Ember got up and walked towards the door with a blank expression: "I'm not worthy to be her master."

His tone was very calm, and he couldn't hear any emotion, because his back was facing her, and Li Mei couldn't see what kind of expression he had when he said this sentence.

But he never had any objection to Ember's decision, so he had no choice but to agree at this time.He didn't intend to deny Ember's self-deprecating words, he knew that what Ember needed was definitely not comfort from his powerlessness.

During the meal, he told Xiao Taohua the news.It can be seen that Xiao Taohua is really happy, maybe Ember is right, what makes her desire to become stronger is not only from this conflict, but also from the weak's own fear of danger.

Before meeting Li Mei, Yu Jin wanted to take Xiao Peach Blossom back to the Devil's Cult and let Nie Budu take shelter, but now that there is another Li Piao, he couldn't help but take advantage of the possibility of two people protecting Xiao Tao Hua. I don't want to go back to the Demon Cult.

Even if Nie Budu is still willing to let him go, his pride is preventing him from asking for help.

Li Mei understood what he was thinking, so she offered to propose: "Why don't we return to the Devil's Cult? You can face those people alone, and I will be responsible for protecting Xiao Taohua. Let's find a safe place to hide our names and take Xiao Taohua How is it raised?"

Ember naturally agrees.

After deliberation, they finally decided to go back to Jiangnan.

So they went to the teahouse at the gate of the city at night, and went to find the proprietress when they entered the shop.

The man smiled and called the proprietress down, and went to greet other guests by himself.

The proprietress walked down the ladder slowly, with a smile on the corner of her mouth: "If there is no serious matter, I think you will not come to me on purpose."

Ember nodded slightly, followed her to the backyard, and said, "Forgive me for taking the liberty to speculate that the girl's true appearance is not like this."

The smile in the eyes of the proprietress grew stronger, her heart was clear, but she deliberately said: "Only men who want to chase me will be curious about my true face."

The guy over there paused when he came over to serve the tea, smiled, shook his head and sighed, then turned and went out.

Hearing what she said was tacit agreement, Ember didn't even change her expression: "That's not the case, I just want to ask, who is it who disguised the girl."

The proprietress pretended to be disappointed: "It turns out that you are looking for her."

Ember didn't speak.

The proprietress smiled coquettishly: "Although you are young, you are handsome and tall, maybe she will really like it."

Ember remained expressionless, still silent.

After a long while, the proprietress sighed helplessly, and her expression returned to normal: "It's really boring, I didn't respond to any teasing. Well, I'll tell you."

After a pause, he said, "The one who disguises me is myself."

Ember was not too surprised by this answer, but said: "Then I wonder if the girl is willing to do a favor?"

The proprietress nodded cheerfully: "I can change your appearance for you and the little girl, that's fine."

"It's not just us."

The proprietress raised her eyebrows: "Oh?"

Ember said: "There is also the boy who came with me outside."

The proprietress thought for a moment, nodded and agreed: "Yes, but you have to agree to one condition."

Ember would certainly like to hear about it.

The proprietress looked at him fixedly, and said, "If something happens to my store in the future, help me save him."

Needless to say, Ember naturally understood who she was talking about, nodded in agreement, but couldn't help asking: "Then you?"

The proprietress smiled: "If you can save me, of course you can save me by the way. If you can't, just save him."

She gently lowered her eyelashes to cover the emotions in her eyes, and her tone was still relaxed: "I'm already content, even if I die, I don't have any complaints. But he can't, such a good person."

She involuntarily raised her hand to touch her face. No one else could see it. There was a long scar lying behind the mask.

Ember looked directly at her and said, "Okay."

After that, the proprietress took the three of them upstairs to the bedroom, found out the mask hidden deep in the cabinet, and skillfully began to describe it.

When it was getting dark, three ordinary-looking people walked out of the teahouse, including two men in their twenties and a little girl with a sallow complexion.

When returning to the inn, Ember looked at the completely different facial features on her face in the mirror, with unpredictable emotions in her eyes.

After a while, he let out a low breath, and put his hand on Jieyou's sword.

After buying a few sets of ordinary coarse clothes, the three bought a dilapidated ox cart and set foot on the road to Jiangnan.

The snowflakes were flying, and it was going to be New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye. Nie Budu sat in front of the desk, flipping through the words that Ember had written before.

Most of them are things written casually, or famous sentences that come to mind, or messy words, and most of them are all in Ye Bozhou's name, but he still reads very intently.

All the furnishings in the room were both unfamiliar and familiar, he gently stroked the tabletop, where Ember used to crouch to write.

The embers of the stool I was sitting on also stayed with me every day.

This is the hut in Ember.

He suddenly felt a little regretful, if he hadn't said those words to Ember before, would that person still stay here silently now?Or writing all day long, or looking into the distance, although he seldom speaks, people can still see and touch.

If so—

He shook his head and laughed suddenly.

Embers like that, are they still embers?

Whether it was him who was cold and proud when he was at the lower string door, or the him who is cold and silent now, he is better than the him who lost his soul when he was in this room.

Thinking of the night before the farewell, Ember dressed in white and looked slightly drunk, Nie Budu suddenly felt that, in fact, it was very good.

Thinking, he smiled, but felt a little cold.

Even though I put on the cloak I had brought over, I still didn't feel warm enough.

It was the same temperature before, and it was also the same in the winter, and I never felt that there was anything wrong.Only now, having tasted the taste of warmth, it is difficult to resist the harsh cold.

"Master, Master!"

There were hurried footsteps outside the door, Nie Budu came back to his senses, and watched Mo Yuan push the door in.

"Master, here is a carrier pigeon. It stayed by your window for a long time just now. I guess someone wanted to send you a message, so I brought it here."

As he spoke, he sent a pigeon over.

Nie Budu got up to take it, and the cloak slid down on the stool.After removing the paper strip tied to the pigeon's leg, the font I saw just now came into view again.

Just one line of words, but he read it for a long time.

Mo Yuan felt that something was wrong, guessing what happened, and tentatively asked, "Master?"

Nie Budu suddenly threw the note into the stove next to him, twitched the corner of his mouth, showing an ugly smile: "It's nothing serious, but it's just Ember telling me that he has already met Li Mei."

Of course Mo Yuan didn't know what he was thinking, so he was overjoyed immediately, and said with a smile: "That's not very good, just as the brothers also said that it's so cold to go out to find someone all day in this cold weather, now we finally Don't look for him anymore!"

Nie Budu couldn't stop nodding, and murmured: "It's good, it's good, it's good..."

With a big stride, he left the room and rushed into the wind and snow.

Mo Yuan was a little puzzled, he glanced casually, and happened to see the cloak on the stool.

"..."

He walked over to pick up the cloak in a daze, and stood there for a long time, as if he suddenly understood something.

On the way to the south of the Yangtze River, you will still see portraits of little peach blossoms on the city walls from time to time, but the attitude of the gate guards is very casual.The end of the year is approaching, and no one is in the mood to concentrate on official duties, especially Xiao Taohua is just an insignificant little girl, it doesn't matter if she loses it or not, she just puts on a show for the people above.

Because the appearance and attire have changed, there are no more white people or killers these days.

Li Mei plans to teach Xiao Taohua martial arts with peace of mind when he goes to the place.

On this day, they arrived in a small county early in the morning. Looking at a few passers-by in a hurry, Li Mei rubbed her hands and exhaled while laughing, "I'm rushing back to celebrate the New Year. Today is not New Year's Eve." what?"

Xiao Taohua was dumbfounded when she heard the words, and wanted to say something, but she didn't speak.

Seeing her thoughts, Li Mei said to Ember who was driving the car: "Yichuan, can we take a day off today and have a good New Year?"

After knowing the name Ember told Xiao Taohua, he no longer called Ember Ember. On the one hand, it was to hide the truth from Xiao Taohua, and on the other hand, it was also for safety reasons.

Before Ember replied, he hurriedly said, "After driving for so long, Xiao Taohua is also tired."

Ember's voice was carried by the cold wind: "Yes."

He speeded up and headed towards an inn.

Because it was New Year's Eve, most people went home for reunion, and only a few homeless people would choose to stay in hotels.When Ember stepped into the inn, there was no one else inside except for a middle-aged man who lowered his head to settle accounts, and it was very deserted.

Seeing the three of Ember, that person was a little surprised.

The guest rooms were all empty, and three people shared a room with each other. The middle-aged boss only charged them the price of the common room.

When Li Mei expressed regret, he explained with a smile that his wife and children had died of illness, and he was the only one guarding the inn. Very lonely.I spent four New Year's Eves by myself, and it was hard to come this year. There are so many people, and everyone is happy. It's New Year's Eve.

Li Mei didn't refuse anymore, and the boss even invited them to have a New Year's Eve dinner together.

Ember didn't object, and Li Mei was naturally happy about it, so she led Xiao Taohua out to buy vegetables.

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Ember stood in front of the window and looked at the flying snow outside, with a sad and happy expression on her face.

Li Mei looked at him worriedly, wondering what happened to him suddenly.

Nie Budu walked up to him, frowned slightly: "What are you thinking?"

"I wonder if we have a future."

He turned his head, expressionless.

Li Mei and Nie Budu were taken aback, and Xiao Taohua who was sitting on the side looked over.

"What does that mean?"

Ember let out a sigh of relief, with unpredictable emotions in her eyes: "Because the author said, there are too few comments, and she doesn't even want to write."

Nie Budu was startled: "How can that be done!"

There was also a panicked look on Li Mei's face.

Ember said indifferently: "This is not something we can decide."

After all, he tilted his head and looked at the side of the screen.