Misty rain and heavy flowers accompany the king's return

To go to the township examination, you have to go to Jiangzhou County, the capital of the southern chief envoy, and you need to travel more than 500 miles north by boat.

These few days, Long Qingchen has not been seen. In fact, Shen Bai wanted to meet with him and be one-sided. After all, he often comes here these days, and he often brings people here and there.

But Long Qingchen didn't move at all.

"It seems to be grounded, or what, I don't know, Long Qi said something, this is not good to hear or good, people in the Long family are not very willing to say it, but it seems that the ancestral hall was opened last night to say this Things." Master Asong muttered, Shen Bai will leave tomorrow.

Shen Bai nodded and didn't speak, but opening an ancestral hall for an unmarried brother meant that no matter what happened, it was always bad, and he could imagine the intensity of it.

At this point, Shen Bai thought of what "I" encountered in the palace in the dream, if it weren't for Zihuan's identity as the county king, "I" would be in danger, and it would even hurt my sister.

The two talked for a long time before Shen Bai went back to sleep.

There will be a big ship coming tomorrow morning, Master Asong has already contacted him, and let him board at Wushizui.

The next morning, Shen Bai woke up and packed his things. He didn't bring any books, but only the wooden box on his back, Yueqin, clothes, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and a bag of love flower petals. Why did he bring love flower petals? Can't tell.

He carefully put some silver on his body, and stuffed the rest under the wooden box.

Master Asong gave him all the silver and refused to ask for anything.

"Be careful in everything, go out." Master Asong stood under Wushi's mouth and said, all the fishing boats had gone out, and it was very quiet here.

"I know, Master Asong, take care of yourself and wait for me to come back." Shen Bai kowtowed three times to Master Asong.

"I can't, I can't, son." Master Asong helped him up.

When the big boat came, a figure ran down from Wushizui.

Shen Bai looked back at Long Qingchen who was wearing a scholar's hat and had a bad feeling.

"You?" Master Asong asked in surprise seeing Long Qingchen carrying the burden.

"Take me away, Ah Luo." Long Qingchen looked at Shen Bai and said.

"No." Shen Bai refused without thinking.

"Then I'll jump off Wushi's mouth." Long Qingchen said resolutely.

"You!" Shen Bai looked at him.

Long Qingchen looked at him and shed tears: "A Luo, please, I don't want to marry someone ten years older than me, and I won't bother you. I brought the money myself, so I'll just follow you." OK, okay?"

"A Luo?" Master Asong looked at Long Qingchen and said, "You, you can help this child."

Shen Bai looked at Master Asong: "Grandpa, you can go back, just pretend you didn't see him."

Master Asong was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "He is also a hard-working person to take care of this child."

Shen Bai nodded, Long Qingchen wiped away tears and looked at Shen Bai.

"Don't cry, others will think that I kidnapped you." Shen Bai said.

Master Asong went up slowly, and the big passenger boat slowly approached.

"Why are there two people?" The boatman shouted in front, "I have reserved a cabin for you."

"Yes." Shen Bai replied.

"There will be an additional three taels of boat fare, you two will eat!" The bow of the boat came over and looked at them and said.

"Okay." Shen Bai answered briefly, pulling Long Qingchen up slowly from the wooden plank lowered from the boat.

"This is?" The passenger boat is from Nanjun, and they don't know Shen Bai and the others.

"My brother-in-law." Shen Bai said.

Long Qingchen didn't say a word, but his heart was beating wildly.

"Okay, you guys go to the cabin. The boat fare is [-] taels. You have to pay first. You will be called for two meals a day. When you stop at the pier along the way, you will be asked to come down for a walk." Said the bow, Shen Bai took out Handed him eight taels of silver, and it took nearly six days to reach Jiangzhou.

Shen Bai took Long Qingchen to the cabin together, there was a small window in the cabin, which could be closed with wooden boards, and there was also a hatch that could be taken, but it was very small, the Gong room was at the stern, just flush it with water.

The two sat down together, Shen Bai put down the wooden box, took out the water bottle inside and handed it to Long Qingchen, who took a sip.

Shen Bai closed the cabin door, the two of them took off their shoes, and sat on the wooden cabin, with nothing but a quilt and a pillow.

"How do you say I'm yours?" Long Qingchen asked in a low voice.

"I don't want to be troublesome, it will cause trouble. Even if there is a cabin, it's dangerous for you to live alone." Shen Bai said: "What did you bring to go out?"

Long Qingchen opened the bag, besides the clothes, there was also a bag of silver, about 200 taels, and Shen Bai's painting.

"What are you taking him for?" Shen Bai looked at the painting and asked.

Long Qingchen bowed his head and remained silent.

"The paintings, silver clothes and so on are all in my wooden box, you take some silver and put it on your body." Shen Bai said.

Long Qingchen shook his head, and took out a bank note from his body, with five hundred taels written on it.

"My uncle used to defend me." Long Qingchen explained that the silver ticket was placed in the clip chain of his belt, which was very safe.

"Don't reveal it." Shen Bai said, Long Qingchen nodded.

"Sit down." Shen Bai took out a small copper pot, put some wild camellia in it, and went out to fetch some hot water.

His cabin is considered medium, small, but not bad, and there is the lowest cabin below the boat, which is stuffy with twenty or so merchants.

When Shen Bai came back, Long Qingchen had already taken off his scholar hat.

After closing the cabin door, Shen Bai took out a small porcelain bowl, washed it, and poured the water out of the window. Outside the window, the big ship had gone farther and farther away. On both sides were straight mountains and big lakes. Boats passed by from time to time. It is the buffalo on the shore grazing leisurely.

Shen Bai poured a cup of tea and drank it, then poured another cup and handed it to him.

Long Qingchen smiled and took the tea.

"Did you bring a handkerchief?" Shen Bai asked.

"En!" Long Qingchen took out a handkerchief for him, Shen Bai took it, wet it with tea and gave it to him: "Wipe your face, it's not easy to wash the bed with starch."

Long Qingchen took the tea-scented handkerchief and wiped his face, the tears from crying just now had dried up.

"Why did you run out, do you know that this might cause me trouble?" Shen Bai asked in a low voice.

"I left a letter saying that I'm going to find my aunt, and my father left early in the morning and won't come back until a few days later. They won't know the day I left." Long Qingchen explained.

"Is your uncle gone?" Shen Bai asked.

Long Qingchen nodded, Shen Bai didn't say anything more, no wonder Long Tu dared to continue.

While the big boat was moving, it was already evening when it left Luoying Lake, because the lake was windy and not too hot.

Once the junction of Dajiang and Luoying Lake passed, there were big boats on the busy river.

Between the boats, there are lights shining.

Light the lights in the cabin, and the bow comes over to let them get the food.

"I'll go, you wait." Shen Bai said.

"En!" Long Qingchen nodded.

The food on the boat was very poor, three steamed buns with miscellaneous grain noodles, a small bowl of loofah fried small fish and shrimp, Shen Bai smelled the smell of fish in sour soup, looked into the pot and asked, "Can you sell me a bowl of soup?"

The brother-in-law at the bow looked at him: "Are you a scholar?"

"Yes, I'm rushing for the exam." Shen Bai replied.

"It's not easy, you can just give Shiwen." The brother-in-law at the head of the boat packed a bowl of soup for Shen Bai: "Put the finished bowl at the door, and someone will collect it."

Shen Bai handed out ten copper coins to him: "Thank you!"

The lady at the bow gave him a tray, packed the food and soup, and watched Shen Bai leave.

"Students, they are knowledgeable and reasonable." Mrs. Chuantou laughed.

Long Qingchen heard Shen Bai's voice and opened the hatch.

Shen Bai came in and sat down: "Let's eat."

After speaking, he tore open the steamed bun and gave him the soup: "Soak it in soup and eat."

Long Qingchen nodded, took a bite of the steamed bun, it was very unpalatable, and then took a bite of loofah, it was better.

Shen Bai picked up a steamed bun, and fried fish and shrimp with loofah without any hesitation.

"Do you want some soup?" Long Qingchen asked.

Shen Bai shook his head: "It's just a small bowl, you drink it, and eat some food." After speaking, he picked up some fish and shrimp for him: "It's very fresh and tastes good."

Long Qingchen ordered, and ate a steamed bun with fish and shrimp and sour soup, Shen Bai cleaned up the rest, and gave Long Qingchen all the vegetables: "Eat more dishes, you will be hungry at night."

"En!" Long Qingchen looked at Shen Bai: "A Luo, are you full?"

Shen Bai nodded, packed up the bowls and chopsticks and put them at the door.

In the evening, the two of them took turns to go to the toilet, and then washed their faces with tea.

Shen Bai covered his head with paper, and then put on his clothes: "You sleep inside, covered with a quilt."

After speaking, he took out two old clothes and put them on.

Long Qingchen looked at Shen Bai and nodded.

The two lay side by side, the cabin was small after all, Shen Bai closed the bayonet of the cabin, and put the Yueqin in front to prevent anyone from touching it.

When sailing at night, waves hit the bow of the boat from time to time, making crackling noises.

Long Qingchen's heart was very complicated, he didn't feel sleepy at all, why Shen Luo was willing to take him away, and even took care of him like this.

The person next to him was sleeping peacefully, Qiu did nothing wrong, and his normally indifferent face was now as quiet as jade.

The boat swayed from time to time like a cradle, Long Qingchen slowly fell into a dream, and dreamed of his Ah Mo.

In Shen Bai's dream, he dreamed of playing the piano in the palace.

Seeing 'him' playing the piano calmly and calmly in front of Tian's family, Shen Bai couldn't help being curious about this person's demeanor, didn't he have awe for the emperor in his heart?

The dream was fast, but it made him very puzzled.

Waking up early the next morning, he went to fetch water. After using it too early, he sat in the cabin and was bored.

Shen Bai then played the piece played at the palace banquet in his dream last night, Long Qingchen looked at him and smiled obsessively.

When I was going to get some food in the evening, the brother-in-law at the bow asked curiously, "Master, are you playing the piano today?"

"Yes!" Shen Bai smiled.

"Hey." The man at the head of the ship brought him a big bowl of vegetables and a bowl of fish soup: "For you, I haven't heard such a song for many years, just play it when you have nothing to do, it will make people feel happy." Ah, fluttering."

Shen Bai thanked him with a nod, and returned to the cabin.

Tell Long Qingchen about the matter, and the latter laughs: "A Luo's piano skills will definitely be peerless in the future."

Shen Bai shook his head after hearing this, but felt a little empty in his heart, after all, this is not his own piano art, but 'his'.

His mother taught him the Ruan Qin, and he didn't know why this person would play it in such a mood, after eating, Shen Bai leaned in the cabin, thinking a lot, but couldn't think of the reason.

When the two lay down, Long Qingchen asked him: "A Luo, are you thinking?"

Shen Bai shook his head.

"Is it for the exam?" Long Qingchen continued to ask.

"No." Shen Bai turned to look at him, Long Qingchen couldn't help reaching out to stroke his temples, Shen Bai looked at his fingers and frowned.

"Go to sleep." The cold voice was emotionless.

Long Qingchen nodded, and held Shen Bai's hand. There was a long-lost sense of security between the fingers.

Shen Bai didn't break free from him, because he also needed this sense of security, Long Qingchen was a little happy to see that he didn't break free.

Holding his hand and not letting go, the two of them just fell asleep with their hands lightly clasped in the cabin of the waves.

Shen Bai dreamed of the Fengzuiyuan ensemble, but Zihuan who was playing the xun in his mind turned into Long Qingchen.

When he woke up in the morning, Long Qingchen's quilt was covering his body, and the two of them were sleeping together with only one punch between them.

Long Qingchen's breath was right in front of him, smelling his breath, Shen Bai thought of the love flower forest on Wushi's mouth.

Gently moving his hands, Long Qingchen woke up.

"Sleep again, it's still early, I'll fetch water." Shen Bai said.

"You should sleep again!" Long Qingchen looked at him.

"I'll go back as soon as I go." Shen Bai picked up the kettle and went out.

On the way to Jiangzhou, Jinyang County is a place to stop halfway.

Shen Bai bought some biscuits at the pier, Long Qingchen liked it very much.

From that night on, the two would cover each other with a quilt every day when they fell asleep.

Shen Bai still had that indifferent expression, nothing changed, but he did not reject the existence of Long Qingchen.

Long Qingchen only thought that this was his character, he said little, but his heart was flexible.

It's just that Shen Bai would be in a daze for a long time every day, and after he was in a daze, he would play some new tunes.

There were other wealthy businessmen who were new to the cabin who wanted to visit him, but he also refused.

Shen Bai is like this, with an aloof personality and seems to reject people thousands of miles away, but it makes Long Qingchen very happy. When others can only listen to him playing the piano outside the cabin, Shen Bai closes his eyes slightly to himself, and gently plucks the piano. strings.

The news that there was a qin fairy on the passenger ship to Jiangzhou can't help but leave, attracting many celebrities along the way to visit, but Shen Bai is like an iceberg, standing still.

This makes many people think that he is a completely different celebrity.

"Your qin can bring you so much reputation, so can mine. Is this due to fate?" In the cabin, after playing a song, Shen Bai thought of the dream in Guangde Tower, and couldn't help but say with shame.

Long Qingchen looked at him curiously: "A Luo, who are you talking about? The person who taught you how to play the piano?"

Shen Bai shook his head: "That person is in the dream." After speaking, he smiled lightly.

"You look good when you smile." Long Qingchen remembered Shen Bai talking about himself in Gaofu Temple.

Shen Bai looked at him, and chuckled a few times: "It doesn't cost money to laugh."

Long Qingchen looked at him and couldn't move his eyes: "Then you should smile at me every day!"

Shen Bai put down the piano, closed his eyes slightly.

"A Luo?" Long Qingchen looked at him: "You don't keep your promise."