falling moon swinging flower branches

On the second day, the inn was as lively as usual. Ning Zian sat on the threshold of the inn, holding his sword, but never dared to draw it half an inch away.

The storyteller is still talking about some anecdotes and strange things, true and false, false and true.

Xu Yuan's abacus was smashed by himself yesterday, and he replaced it with a new one today.

Ning Zian touched the back of his bruised hand, thinking that it would really hurt if he smashed it.

The rain outside is still falling, dense and drizzling, and the humid air has the scent of tea from the inn, the scent of peach blossoms from the backyard, and the smell of grass.

The folding fan tapped on the pear wood table again and again, making a rattling sound.

"Last time, I said that the master of the ghost cave sent hundreds of killers to hunt down and kill the young master of the Ning family, but he escaped repeatedly. , and have sent people to investigate, it is bound to force people to tell the whereabouts of the male favorite, and suddenly, the world's martial arts, the situation suddenly rises!"

"But some insiders say that Mr. Ning is just a scapegoat. The owner of the ghost cave is an ambitious wolf, so how can he be willing to live in a small ghost skeleton! The truth and falsehood are insignificant to outsiders. Let's talk about Mr. Ning. The last time I was hunted down, it was in Meili Town not far from here, and the battle was fought in darkness, with no light from the sun and the moon..."

Ning Zi'an was so bored, he looked back at Xu Yuan, and saw him sitting on a low stool, holding a handful of melon seeds, listening to it with great interest, and when the book was finished, he put another ten cents there On the storyteller's tea table.

Ning Zi'an suddenly became enlightened, trotted to Xu Yuan's side, and said with a smile: "I also tell Boss Xu a story, how about the money for the night?"

"I can't accommodate two storytellers in this inn."

"The stories I tell are all true, and I only tell you."

Ning Zi'an leaned closer and bit Xu Yuan's ear, and said, "Do you want to know how beautiful that male pet that the Lord of the Ghost Cave is thinking of is? Tsk tsk tsk, that face is as beautiful as peaches and plums but as cold as ice. Just one glance makes you feel so beautiful." People will never forget it in their whole life.”

"I will never forget it for the rest of my life?" Xu Yuan laughed, and took out another ten copper coins from his pocket, "This silver is yours."

Ning Zian took the copper plate and smiled triumphantly.

"I've sneaked into a ghost cave before, and I met that male pet once. That male pet has peach blossom eyes, willow eyebrows, a straight nose, plump lips, and a creamy skin that can be broken by blowing bullets." Ning Zi'an is quite unique. Seriously, he said: "What kind of person is in the painting, what kind of male pet is like, in short, how to look good."

Xu Yuan sat on the railing under the porch, the rain from outside the porch drifted in and wet his hair.

He unconsciously touched the railing with his fingers, and asked with a smile, "Is it really so beautiful?"

"That's not it!" Ning Zian wiped the railing with his sleeve, and also went up, gesticulating with dances and gestures: "Otherwise, could the master of the ghost cave fascinate him so much?"

Xu Yuan seemed to smile, and asked, "What about you? Have you been fascinated?"

"Me?" Ning Zian pointed at himself, and said disdainfully: "I'm not that superficial person." He paused, and then smiled obsessively: "If you want me to say, Feng Chuixue, the owner of the ghost cave, looks better some."

The wind blowing through the corridor made a "huh", Xu Yuan felt a little cold, and tightened his clothes.

Ning Zi'an didn't realize it, and said with a smile: "Two years ago, Zhengdao encircled and suppressed ghost caves. I saw it once."

He looked at Xu Yuan and said: "I still can't forget the way he held the sword in white clothes, fluttering like a banished fairy, but the sword in his hand was like the judge's pen of the king of hell, and his throat was sealed with blood. Later, the righteous way was defeated And Gui, Feng Chuixue stood on the top of the mountain, watching so many people in Baidao come home in awe, the mountain wind made his clothes flutter, anyone who saw that kind of character would be overwhelmed by it."

Ning Zi'an seemed to be in a sweet dream, his expression was in a trance, with an obsessive smile on his lips - "I seem to like him." After finishing speaking, Ning Zi'an realized that he had said something outrageous. Jumping off the railing, he stepped back while shaking his head, and unconsciously touched the saber by his side. At that moment, the words "kill people and silence them" flashed through his mind.

"Oh—that's how it is~" Xu Yuan persisted, and said in a drawn-out tone, eccentrically, "It's a good show for a hero of the righteous way to fall in love with the leader of a cult."

Ning Zian's face was flushed with suffocation, but he couldn't say a word of rebuttal, and his hand holding the sword tightened a bit.

Xu Yuan continued to add fuel to the flames: "It's a pity that people still look down on you. They would rather raise a group of child prostitutes who can't lift their hands and shoulders. They are blind to your good skin, Mr. Ning."

There was a smile in Xu Yuan's eyes, but the words he said were like a knife, and the knife saw blood.

Ning Zi'an felt like sitting on pins and needles, wishing he could just run away and stop listening to these cynicisms.

"Nowadays both black and white are chasing you, Mr. Ning's ability is not ordinary. Presumably Mr. Ning must be thinking to hide Feng Chuixue's heart, then Feng Chuixue will take a fancy to you, right? "

"How could I act like a villain!" Ning Zian blushed, not just from shame but also from anger.

"Just when I entered the ghost cave, I happened to meet that male pet who ran away! At that time, everyone in the ghost cave was looking around. I thought that my whereabouts had been exposed, so I wanted to escape, so when I escaped, everyone ran away. I think I snatched that male pet away." Ning Zian lowered his head and fiddled with Jiansui, and said in a low voice: "I actually want Feng Chuixue to be my male pet, otherwise it would be wrong for me to be his male pet." OK."

Xu Yuan nodded meaningfully: "So you haven't seen that male favorite before."

Ning Zian: "..."

turn

Ning Zian knew that Xu Yuan's mouth was capable of biting, and sometimes every word that came out of his mouth was like a thorn.

I understand it in my heart, but I still keep provoking it time and time again without being obedient.

It wasn't until yesterday that he started to see Xu Yuan, and he felt lingering fear, and hid around, as if he would be killed by a single blow if he met Xu Yuan's eyes, without a place to bury him.

Xu Yuan seemed like nothing happened, still sitting behind the counter, counting his bills.

Xu Yuan's life is almost the same every day, making tea, brewing wine, settling accounts, listening to books, even being taken advantage of by the guests at the window almost every day, not doing too many extra things, and the things to be done Nothing will fall.

It's like performing a play with the same script every day, but Xu Yuan plays it with gusto every day.

Ning Zian thought, there was a reason why he couldn't beat Xu Yuan, he often acted recklessly like a brat, but Xu Yuan's life had passed as calmly as water, like an old man who saw through the world of mortals.

Naturally, there is no comparison between an expert outside the world and a fledgling kid.

Ning Zian found a good reason for himself, and felt relieved a lot, but he still didn't dare to make trouble in front of Xu Yuan, so he sat on the threshold again, teasing a pug that ran over from nowhere.

The damp spring breeze blew over, and it was still so cold that I had goosebumps all over my body, not to mention that Ning Zi'an was just injured, and last night he tossed and turned without falling asleep. When the dog was hit by him, the body shook, and the rain on its fur splashed all over him again.

"scoff~"

Ning Zian didn't look back and knew that Xu Yuan was laughing at him, he stood up and turned around but saw Xu Yuan pouring a cup of hot tea and putting it on the counter.

"Reward you."

Ning Zian blinked flattered, trotted over and smiled, "No money?"

Xu Yuan looked at Ning Zian with both a smile and a smile, and deliberately sang the opposite tune: "If you ask me again, I will ask for money."

The slightly slanted eyes were stained with a little smile, and the light smoke from the cup of hot tea in front of him made him even more confused.

Ning Zian only felt cold at first, but now he suddenly felt that his throat was dry. He turned his back and raised his head and drank the tea in one gulp, but was so hot that he jumped again.

Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly, he looked at Ning Zian's frizzy appearance, and smiled maliciously.

"Ning Zi'an."

With a crisp and soft sound, Ning Zian never thought that someone could call his name so beautifully.

"Hey." He responded vaguely with his red tongue exposed.

"The tea Feng Chuixue makes for you will taste better than my cup."

Ning Zian stared blankly at Xu Yuan, as if he didn't understand the meaning of Xu Yuan's endless words, only felt that the way he stuck out his tongue seemed ridiculous to Xu Yuan.

At night, Ning Zian had a fever in a daze, and wrapped himself in the quilt like a cocoon, only exposing his head to breathe.

Xu Yuan came in empty-handed from the outside, Shi Shiran sat down on the side of the bed.

"What is Boss Xu doing here?"

"Listen to books."

Ning Zian rubbed his nose: "I'm sick."

"So what's the matter?" He asked knowingly.

Ning Zian found that Xu Yuan was really unreasonable sometimes.

He sat up and leaned against the bedpost, and asked in a low voice, "What else do you want to hear?"

"Don't you want to talk about that male favorite?" Xu Yuan took out a handful of peanuts from his bosom, and peeled them "crack-crack": "It's fine if you don't talk about it, just get out of my store tomorrow."

"..."

"Boss Xu, you are not cute at all, you always scare me with this."

When Xu Yuan heard this, he didn't refute, but deliberately glanced at Ning Zian with his eyes, with the meaning of "say it again if you have the ability".

Ning Zian shuddered, and quickly said, "I'm trying to figure out how to make it up so I can tell you."

Xu Yuan laughed out loud, and divided half of the peanuts into Ning Zian's hands: "Think slowly, think while eating."

Ning Zian stretched out his hands to pick up the peanuts, and as soon as he stretched out his hands, the cool wind poured in. He shivered from the cold and then retracted his hands, looking innocently at Xu Yuan.

"cold."

Xu Yuan had no choice but to put the peanuts on the bed again, and said, "Sure, then tell me, I'll peel them for you to eat."

Ning Zian smiled and nodded.

He tucked in the corner of the quilt, and said casually: "I have never seen that male favorite, but everyone in the Jianghu knows that Feng Chuixue calls him a little bird."

Ning Zi settled down for a while, as if recalling something, and then continued: "When Bai Dao was besieging the ghost cave that year, Feng Chuixue saw so many people coming, the first thing he did was not to think about how to get rid of the enemy, but to ask a question. "Where is the little bird? He doesn't know kung fu, do you know how to protect him?""

Xu Yuan's hands that were peeling the peanuts trembled, and a sheet of peanut skin fell off. He patted the peanut skin on the ground calmly, and asked, "What's next?"

"Next?" Ning Zian said in embarrassment: "I really don't know. But why did you say that Feng Chuixue called him a little bird?"

Ning Zian snapped his fingers and said, "Does it sound like a bird? Or is it as timid as a bird? Or is there a word for bird in the name?"

Xu Yuan laughed: "Zhang Niao'er? Li Xiaoniao? Who picks up a name with the word bird?" While speaking, he picked up the peeled peanut and handed it to Ning Zian's mouth: "Eat."

Ning Zian was taken aback, his eyes moved from the peanut on Xu Yuan's fingertips to Xu Yuan's face, and then to the peanut.

"Eat or not?"

Ning Zian shook his head slightly, then nodded again, and finally moved to the bed wrapped in a quilt, lowering his head and not daring to look at Xu Yuan again, his heart was beating, and he felt thirsty again.

As a result, Xu Yuan lifted his chin at the next moment, and stuffed a large handful of peanuts whose skin hadn't faded completely into his mouth. Xu Yuan clapped his hands and said, "You don't look like a man."

Ning Zian chewed the peanuts one by one, and said vaguely: "Boss Xu, it's not a good habit to feed people casually."

Xu Yuan nodded solemnly: "Young Master Ning, it's not good to think about things all day long."

Ning Zian felt aggrieved: "You didn't recruit me yet."

The light raindrops outside the house were dripping, and the candles in the house were flickering. Xu Yuanba fiddled with the two peanuts left in his hand, and said in a low voice, "Is it alright if I don't feed you next time?"

Two days later, the rare sunshine in the alleys in the south of the Yangtze River cleared up, but the rain from the corners of the eaves was still dripping down, the bluestone slabs were also wet, and there was still gurgling water flowing through the gaps between the slabs.

People in the inn came and went, but when it was approaching noon, there were only two or three sparse people left. No matter how much people who like to wander outside, they will rush back when they smell the aroma of cooking smoke.

When Xu Yuan was free, he sat under the eaves holding an umbrella, stretched out his thin white feet to bask in the sun, and blinked his eyes from time to time.

Ning Zian's illness was also healed, and he leaned against the door with his arms crossed, and asked, "How do you open an umbrella on a sunny day?"

Xu Yuan pointed to the top of his head, and Ning Zian looked up along his pale fingers, only to see that the raindrops on the corner of the eaves just happened to condense into a round pearl, and landed on Xu Yuan's umbrella with a ticking sound.

Ning Zian lowered his head and smiled: "Boss Xu really doesn't look like a businessman."

Xu Yuan turned the umbrella in his hand, and the rain on the umbrella spilled a few drops onto Ning Zian's body.

"You may not be like a desperate swordsman."

Ning Zian wiped his rain-spattered face, and sat next to Xu Yuan. He saw Xu Yuan's feet under the sun were as delicate as jade, and the toes were almost transparent.

Xu Yuan glanced at him, and moved the umbrella to his side by a third without making a sound.

The sun was falling slowly, and the people who were exposed to the sun were lazy and their minds became dizzy.

Ning Zian narrowed his eyes, with a satisfied expression on his face, he said, "You are more suitable to be a canary, to be raised in a cage made of gold silk."

Xu Yuan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled.

Ning Zian couldn't see his expression under the veil, but only knew that Xu Yuan stood up and knocked on his head angrily with an umbrella soaked in rain.

"Mr. Ning can't speak so much, no wonder your sweetheart looks down on you." After speaking, he walked away.

Ning Zian's face was covered with water, he wiped his face and said to himself: "Actually, I want to raise a canary more now."

In the afternoon, there were even fewer people in the store—the people in the alley were talking about the sky outside, and when they smelled the aroma of the cooking smoke, they rushed home one by one, for fear that their mother-in-law would be in a hurry .

Xu Yuan was happy to be at leisure, sitting behind the counter dangling his feet, poured out two large pots of copper plates, and counted them one by one.

Every time Xu Yuan picked up a copper plate, he blew on it, put it to his ear and listened, then wiped it with his sleeve contentedly, and put it back into the jar.

Ning Zian was on the side and carefully wiped his sword. He wiped it gently with a soft cloth dampened with water. He raised his head to look at Xu Yuan after the first wipe. When he wiped it for the sixth time, Xu Yuan was still counting copper coins.

The sunlight shone through the carved window, but unfortunately half of Xu Yuan's face was covered by a veil, so his eyes were illuminated brightly, as if his eyes were wide open for money.

"How long are you counting to?"

"The count is over."

Ning Zian ran over, "Shall I count for you?"

Xu Yuan opened his hand: "Go away, don't touch it."

The back of Ning Zian's hand, which was smashed by the abacus last time, was severely beaten again.

"Boss Xu, you are not gentle at all."

"I don't like you, why are you being gentle?"

"Oh." Ning Zi replied dryly, and then asked treacherously, "Then do you have someone you like?"

Xu Yuan nodded while counting the copper coins.

"Who is it?"

The sun was just right, making people's cheeks slightly hot.

Xu Yuan pointed to a pile of copper coins in front of him, tilted his head and said with a smile, "God of Wealth."

"You're really too flirtatious!"

Ning Zi'an didn't sleep well that night. It just cleared up during the day, and it rained again at night. Ning Zi'an was wrapped in the quilt and closed his eyes in a daze. In the middle of the night, he had a nightmare and woke up again. In a cold sweat.

He stretched out his hand to touch the sword by his side, and then felt a little relieved, but he seemed to remember something, and suddenly laughed alone.Finally Ning Zian got up from the bed, put on some clothes and went to Xu Yuan's room next door.

Xu Yuan fell asleep on his back, and Ning Zian leaned over to poke his exposed hand: "Boss Xu."

"Boss Xu, wake up."

Xu Yuan woke up in a daze, and muttered, "Ning Zian?"

Ning Zian laughed, climbed onto the bed and hid under Xu Yuan's quilt.

Xu Yuan shivered from the cold air he brought in, and he became more awake.

"It's midnight, what are you doing?"

Ning Zian tightened the quilt and said, "I'm having a nightmare, I can't sleep alone."

"Well, what nightmare, scared you so much that you couldn't sleep?"

Ning Zian turned sideways, the room was pitch black, he could only rely on his voice to sense that Xu Yuan was also facing him.

"Boss Xu, are you wearing a veil?"

"you guess."

"I guess not." He smiled and asked, "Boss Xu...do I see your face?"

Xu Yuan yawned: "Master Ning, what happened to you?"

"I had a very scary dream. It seemed like I would have this dream every day, but today's was particularly scary."

"Tell me."

Ning Zian asked: "Boss Xu, are you afraid of death? I am very afraid."

"Since I was hunted down by people in the ghost cave, I can't sleep well almost every night. Sometimes I dream that I was killed by someone, and then I have nothing." Ning Zian smiled and continued: "And every night The other time, they were all killed by the wind and snow."

Xu Yuan laughed and pinched Ning Zian's face: "You must have had a dream."

"Ha~ What does Boss Xu mean to say, is it romantic to die under a peony flower and be a ghost?"

Ning Zian moved closer, and said softly, "Actually, I don't think I like wind and snow that much."

"Why don't you like it again?"

Ning Zian said mysteriously, "Because in the dream I had today, there was one more person."

"Who?"

"you."

"I?"

"I dreamed that I was killed by you."

Xu Yuan was stunned for a while, then he turned his back and said coldly, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Ning Zian was a little puzzled, he had never heard Xu Yuan speak so harshly to anyone.

"Boss Xu, I said it was a dream."

Xu Yuan sat up, his long hair swept across Ning Zian's neck, itching so much that his heart trembled.

"Ning Zi'an, don't talk nonsense if you have something to say. Don't have random dreams, good or bad spirits, you know?"

Ning Zian rubbed in the dark for a while, grabbed Xu Yuan's hand, and squeezed it twice: "Boss Xu's hand is so soft and tender, you can't even hold a sword. How can you kill me?" Gently scratched Xu Yuan's palm.

Xu Yuan laughed out tickled, but Ning Zian still held onto his hand.

"Mr. Ning, if you call eating tofu like that, I'm going to call someone."

"Boss Xu, after listening to me, I won't eat your tofu."

Xu Yuan nestled back into the quilt again, and moved the pillow over: "Let's talk on the pillow, make it more comfortable."

Ning Zian tilted his head, leaned on the pillow, and said, "Boss Xu's pillow has a scent."

"How can it compare to Mr. Ning, his mouth is full of honey fragrance, it's too sweet to die for."

Ning Zian held Xu Yuan's hand tighter, and he said, "I have had many dreams, and most of the time I knew it was a dream, because when the sword pierced my heart, I didn't feel any pain at all."

"But in today's dream, instead of you stabbing me with a sword, I felt very sad, very...very sad..."

Ning Zian noticed that Xu Yuan's hand suddenly became cold. He looked at Xu Yuan, but only saw darkness.

"Boss Xu, what's wrong with you?"

"Ning Zian, if I had a choice, I would definitely not let you die."

Xu Yuan's voice trembled, but Ning Zian didn't notice it.

"Hey, I know." He let go of Xu Yuan's hand and said, "So I don't want to talk to Boss Xu about this matter."

Ning Zian lowered his head and kissed Xu Yuan's palm, and said cheerfully: "What I want to say is, Boss Xu, I'm moving on."

Xu Yuan's palm seemed to be scalded. In the dark, he opened his eyes wide and looked at Ning Zian. After breathing, he heard his heart beat faster than Ning Zian's breathing, and he heard Ning Zian ask: "Boss Xu , what do you mean?"

Xu Yuan came back to his senses, he retracted his hands, put his back behind his back, and covered his face with the quilt.

"It's too late, go to bed."

Ning Zian behind him said "Oh" unwillingly, and suddenly became happy again: "Boss Xu means that you left me here to sleep?"

Xu Yuan shared the quilt and went over without saying a word, Ning Zian leaned closer to him, and was so happy that he didn't fall asleep all night.

Together

The storyteller does not come on sunny days but on rainy days, and tells a little-known story to the sound of the rain, as if the story would be even more bizarre.

But the people in the inn were not interested in listening to the book today, they stretched their necks and looked towards the window—the young man surnamed Ning had a quarrel with the guest by the window, and the innkeeper was jumping in a hurry!

Holding the altar of wine, Xu Yuan said angrily, "Young Master Ning! Can you make it happen without meddling?"

Ning Zian slapped the sword on the table: "I'll take care of it!"

The guest by the window stood up and swept the clothes: "Boss Xu? What's the matter with you?! I'm here to drink for fun, not to see people's faces."

"Be objective, calm down first..."

"Look for it in Happy Kiln, what are you doing in the inn?!"

"I'm happy, it's none of your business!"

As soon as Xu Yuan put the wine on the table, Ning Zian's sword jumped.

"That's right! It's none of your business!" While speaking, she signaled Ning Zian to shut up with her eyes.

Ning Zian's aura suddenly became weaker: "Boss Xu...I'm helping you..."

"What did you do for me?"

"He eats your tofu!"

There was a burst of laughter in the inn, Xu Yuan glared at Ning Zian fiercely, and was so angry that he couldn't speak.

The guest by the window angrily kicked down the stool beside him, pointed at Ning Zi'an and said, "I paid for it! What nonsense are you talking about?!" He waved his sleeves at Xu Yuan again: "Boss Xu, what are you talking about?" I won’t be able to come here anymore, it’s unlucky to be pointed and scolded after having a drink.” While talking, he fled out in despair.

Ning Zian helped up the fallen stool, picked up his sword, and turned his head to smile at Xu Yuan with great satisfaction, only to find that Xu Yuan's face was even darker.

"Xu... Boss Xu?"

Xu Yuan walked back behind the counter without saying a word, moved a small low bench and sat down, looking from the outside, there was no one in sight.

Ning Zian walked over and squatted beside Xu Yuan. After a while, his legs became numb, and he sat down on the ground again.

"Boss Xu, what do you say?" He said cautiously.

Xu Yuan ignored people, and Ning Zian knew that he was upset by him again. When Xu Yuan was upset, he would talk less, or not speak at all, but he really didn't know what he did wrong, and he couldn't even apologize. How could the person he Ning Zian likes be touched by others?

Ning Zian rubbed Xu Yuan's shoulder again, but Xu Yuan still ignored him.

Ning Zian had no choice but to stand up slowly, took a chopstick from the counter and a cup of cold tea and put it on the floor, dipped the chopsticks in water to write and draw on the blue brick floor.

Xu Yuan glanced at it, only to see that Ning Zian drew something square and nondescript, with a small arrow pointing at it - "Ning Zian's tofu, don't let others touch it."

After Ning Zian finished drawing, his eyes drifted to Xu Yuan's side, peeking at Xu Yuan's reaction.

Xu Yuan pursed his lips, and said after a long time: "Young Master Ning, anyone can make small fights, talk about love, but life is still going on, what's the trouble if you don't have money?"

Ning Zian put down his chopsticks, and slowly handed over the sword by his side: "My ancestral sword is worth a lot, does Boss Xu still value it?"

"It's not relative, who wants such a precious thing from you."

"Is it not relative?" Ning Zian stood up from behind the counter and said loudly, "I've been looking at Boss Xu for a long time."

The inn suddenly became lively again, Xu Yuan kicked Ning Zian fiercely: "Lengtouqing!"

At night, Ning Zian ran into Xu Yuan's room with a stern face, smiling so hard that his eyes narrowed together.

"Boss Xu, I'm timid, can I sleep with you?" Then he fell on the bed.

Xu Yuan sat at the table, glanced at him, walked over and pulled him up, and said, "Young Master Ning, your hands and feet are too fast."

Ning Zian sat up, walked to the table, poured himself a cup of tea, and asked, "How do you say it?"

"Some things have to be done step by step. Isn't it too hasty to run to my house as soon as it breaks?"

Ning Zian put down the tea brought to his mouth again, propped his chin and asked, "Didn't you run once yesterday?"

Xu Yuan leaned back on the table, his eyes narrowed slightly, and the candlelight flickered past his eyes, like a deep pool of deep water glowing with fragments of light.

"I kept you yesterday because you didn't know that you had unreasonable thoughts about me. Now that you know it, how can you keep you?"

Ning Zian nodded knowingly, and asked, "Then how can I stay?"

"See if you have any reason to stay."

"I like you, does that count?" Ning Zian blurted out, staring at Xu Yuan with a smile in his eyes.

Xu Yuan raised his eyes to look at him, sat up and poured himself a cup of tea, neither surprised nor happy on his face, but in his heart he felt as if he had been sprinkled with a spoonful of sugar, just waiting for Ning Zian to say something else Come on.

Ning Zian finally blushed a little at this moment, no matter how thick-skinned he was, he couldn't stand being stared at like this when he was talking love.

He stood up, with Xu Yuan on his back, and said slowly and with a little anxiety: "Boss Xu, actually, although it rained a little more on this land, it's not bad. As for you, you have a bit of a bad mouth But it's not bad, the food is delicious, the voice is nice, and the body is also good-looking...so..."

Xu Yuan shook the teacup in his hand: "Young Master Ning talks too much."

Ning Zian said to himself, "So, can Boss Xu show me what you look like under your veil?" After finishing speaking, he turned around and looked at Xu Yuan expectantly, and said, "I still remember Boss Xu saying If you pass, if you are willing to show it to me, I will definitely stay here today..."

Xu Yuan was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head slowly but without hesitation.

The unfinished words remained in his throat, but he could no longer speak them.

Ning Zian lowered his head and whispered, "I want to stay here for a long time." As he spoke, he turned around slowly and walked out in small steps.

But when he stepped out of the door, he heard Xu Yuan say: "Then I will show you after a long time."

Ning Zian turned around in an instant, closed the door tightly with a "bang", and quickly threw himself on the bed, hugging the quilt and chattering endlessly: "I knew Boss Xu was hard-spoken and soft-hearted. Don't worry, Boss Xu. I'm younger than you, I can always afford to wait as long as you want. Don't think I'm just a big mouth, in fact, I just say a lot of things to you. When I saw Feng Chuixue earlier, But I didn't tell him anything."

Xu Yuan got into the quilt and said lightly: "Do you have a chance to tell him?"

Ning Zian was almost biting his tongue when he was blocked by Xu Yuan's words, but he still continued to read: "I won't tell him if I have the chance, but now he wants to kill me all day because of a male pet, even though he hasn't sent anyone for a while. After chasing me, Yuemo finally let me go, but I think Boss Xu is better. He is soft-spoken on weekdays, and he doesn’t know how to fight with others. Occasionally throwing something doesn’t hurt anyone. He has a temper. Just coax..."

Xu Yuan turned over, felt his ears itchy, covered his ears with the quilt, and slowly fell asleep, but he didn't know that Ning Zian didn't sleep all night, and said good night to him at the side.

"Boss Xu~"

"Ok?"

"What's wrong with you saying two more words?"

"What's the matter?"

"Calling you~"

Xu Yuan raised the corner of his mouth, but didn't speak.

Seeing the little smile in his eyes, Ning Zian shouted more and more distortedly: "Boss Xu~"

Xu Yuan looked at him with doubts, and Ning Zian also lay on the counter and looked at him, blinking and blinking: "I just want to hear what you have to say."

The people in an inn listened to the innkeeper flirting with the young man, while pretending to drink tea casually, while poking their ears two inches longer toward the front of the lobby—two days ago, they murmured that they were not relatives. For no reason, this is good.

The sound of the rain outside made the few inaudible sweet words even more lingering.

"Boss Xu, you are so pretty."

"How do you know I'm pretty?"

"Then why is Xi Shi in the eyes~"

"Oh~ what eyes are those?"

"Well, I'll give you something."

The spring breeze from outside came in through the curtains, and some voices were scattered in the warm April spring breeze, making it hard to hear clearly.

The people in the inn suppressed their laughter and pretended to chat with other people, but in their hearts they were clearly trying to blame each other—look at that shameless guy who listens to the whispers of the young couple.

But then I heard the owner of the inn suddenly smashing his teacup and yelling, "Ning Zian! You don't have a brain, do you? I told you I'll keep the flowers for winemaking!"

"I... I don't have any money, so I don't know what to give..."

"Don't give it away if you don't have money! Just waste my things!"

"I picked them all, what do you want?"

"You fucking challenge me? Don't even look at who is supporting you!"

"Boss Xu! What you said is too harsh! You don't want me to leave immediately!"

"..." Xu Yuan smiled instead of anger: "Then Mr. Ning, please go."

"I..." Ning Zian froze all of a sudden.

The people in the inn couldn't hold back any longer, and each of them held their stomachs and laughed.

Ning Zian leaned forward with his head down and tugged at the corner of Xu Yuan's clothes, Xu Yuan took a big step to the side and ignored him.

People laughed harder.

Ning Zian complained in a low voice: "Why are you like a powder keg, it explodes at one touch."

Xu Yuan straightened his cuffs, and then patted the dust on the hem of his clothes.

"I didn't mean to..."

Xu Yuan pulled his hair behind his ears, found something to eat and ate on his own.

"Boss Xu..."

"Xu..."

"Xu Yuan, why are you not cute at all!" Ning Zian gritted his teeth and said angrily.

Xu Yuan threw away the food in his hand, put his hips on his hips and finally opened his mouth: "Yes, yes, yes, I am mean, stingy, tasteless and uncute, but what has it to do with you?" But with some teasing meaning.

The people in the inn all stared at the excitement again.

Ning Zian frowned furiously, wanting to curse madly, picked up the sword on one side and threw it on the ground heavily, finally sat down on the threshold outside, angrily said: "You are not cute at all! "

Xu Yuan couldn't hold back any longer, walked over with a smile, bent down and kissed the corner of Ning Zian's mouth: "Aren't you cute?"

Ning Zian was stunned, the anger in his heart dissipated immediately, he raised his head, he could only see a white veil gently sliding past his eyes, covering the continuous drizzle in the south of the Yangtze River, just for a moment, it seemed like a scene A dream I couldn't wake up from.

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ending

The days seem to be frozen in the rainy alley in the south of the Yangtze River, there are always a few people and a few things going back and forth, Ning Zian thought, if he lives in such a calm manner for a while, he can also become a "worldly person" like Xu Yuan. Foreigner", from now on I am no longer afraid to quarrel with him.

He is not very familiar with the road in the alley, and he walked slowly with an umbrella in his hand. He only knew that Xu Yuan told him to go straight out, and go around when he encountered a dead end. He could get out of the alley in less than half an hour. There is an old man under the gate of the city who specializes in selling all kinds of flower wine—Xu Yuan said: "You have ruined all the peach blossoms I planted, and this year's peach blossom wine cannot be made."

After finally walking out of the alley, his shoes were all wet. Ning Zian turned around and looked at the gate of the city, only to find that there was no one at the corner of the city, and a black ghost mask hung on the wall.

Ning Zian's hand, which was used to holding swords, suddenly clenched the handle of the umbrella - as expected, he still couldn't escape.

The weather was getting warmer day by day, but Xu Yuan felt colder and colder. He thought that he was probably being warmed by Ning Zian.