The peasant boy of crossing

Li Xinyi forcibly pulled her gaze back.

Looking at it further, he might really lose control of himself.

It would scare Wu Su if he was too menglang, he thought, and at the same time sighed at the effect of looking at each other, it was too amazing.

The next time you really confess your love, you can try to create an atmosphere where you can look at each other.

As for Wu Su, he actually heard what Li Xinyi was saying, but what he understood and what Li Xinyi wanted to convey were completely different.

He thought that Li Xinyi was worried because they had different paths to take and would have different identities in the future.

Facing this predictable but difficult to change fact, he was also very sad.

But no matter what the future holds, at least for now, they are sitting together.

Seeing Li Xinyi's really worried appearance, Wu Su thought, maybe those who do art have a much more delicate and sensitive mind.

So he said with relief: "I will always be here, you will not lose me, never."

These words gave people a broad room for reverie. Although Li Xinyi knew that Wu Su's meaning must be very upright and straightforward, he still looked at it with an inquiring gaze.

Wu Su's eyes were gentle and tolerant, so Li Xinyi understood that his good brother really meant nothing else.

Li Xinyi breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt inexplicably lost.

Wu Su finally got Li Xinyi's heart, and he was also relieved.He finally let go of his concern about Li Xinyi's emotions, and his attitude suddenly became relaxed and casual.

Their relationship seems to be back to the old days, when it started, best and closest friends.

Li Xinyi was a little distressed, he kept thinking about where his little note was stuffed into a small corner.

This trip, he brought a total of three packages.

One of them was a bag, which he could carry close to his body, but it was full of odds and ends in a mess, and he didn't know what he stuffed into it.

The other two are slightly larger, one of which contains his clothes, and the other contains things related to painting.

Generally speaking, the most likely place to put the note is the bag that he carries with him.

When Wu Su didn't pay attention, he had actually checked it from inside to outside.

There is a colorful clay sculpture wrapped in cloth, a very fragile gadget, given by Wu Su.

There are two small picture albums. Although the lines are rough and the printing is blurred, it looks shoddy, but the flaws are not concealed, and the contents inside are unexpectedly interesting.

Guessing that the note might be caught in the album, in front of Wu Su, Li Xinyi could only flip through the pages as nonchalantly as possible.

"The car is bumpy, and reading hurts your eyes." Wu Su finally couldn't help reminding Li Xinyi when she saw that Li Xinyi had flipped through one book quickly and was about to flip through another.

Wu Su has already spoken, will Li Xinyi go against his will?

of course not.

Li Xinyi then put down the album and flipped through his bag again.

There are also two wooden bookmarks in the bag, which Li Xinyi made by herself, and they are only half finished.Follow-up polishing, waxing and so on.

But he can't use his right hand too much now, so he doesn't know when these two bookmarks will be given away.

There are still a lot of odds and ends, and Li Xinyi still hasn't found his precious little note.

Wu Su looked at Li Xinyi looking like a groundhog, picking things up, and couldn't help interrupting him again: "How is your right shoulder recovering? I haven't seen you take medicine for a long time. It's really better." ?"

Li Xinyi paused, and finally put down the bag in his hand.

He began to raise his hands to untie his clothes.

Wu Su was taken aback. He didn't understand why his heart beat faster for no reason. He could only attribute it to Li Xinyi's unreasonable playing of cards.

Summer's clothes were thin, and Li Xinyi unbuttoned her clothes in two strokes, revealing most of her fair back and the bruises on her butterfly bones.

Growing teenagers always have a thin body.Wu Su held back his hand that wanted to reach out to touch it, but he couldn't hold back, and his Adam's apple moved.

Just like taking off her clothes when she disagreed with her before, Li Xinyi put on her clothes again before Wu Su had time to make a speech.

Wu Su then blinked his eyes, the speed was too fast, maybe he was dazzled just now.

"It's nothing serious." Li Xinyi said, "Even if it was a broken bone, it would have been reattached long ago, and it will heal."

Wu Su cleared his throat and said, "It's good that you're fine."

As the saying goes, it is very reasonable for Zhaoxia not to go out.

In the evening, the clouds were already very thick. Even though the rain had not yet fallen, a heavy rain at night was still predictable.

Depends on when it falls.

It's raining in the wilderness, people can hide in the carriage, but the horse can't.And if the horse is sick, the next trip will become a problem.

The group of people didn't rest much on the road, the driver drove the carriage fast, trying to find a place to stay before the rain came.

"My lord, there is a village ahead, let's rest there." The coachman turned around and said.

Li Xinyi lifted the window cover of the car, and there were indeed some farmhouses dotted not far away.

He raised his head and glanced at the sky again, it was dark and heavy, and he was afraid that there was going to be a fast and violent rainstorm.

There were eight of them in a group, and each of the three coachmen drove a carriage.Considering that one family might not be able to live there, the three carriages were divided into three groups, each looking for a place to stay.

Li Xinyi naturally wants to follow Wu Su, and Caihe also thinks it is imperative to take care of her young master.

Since there were four people in Wu Su's group, Lin Yujin and Jiao Ruoliu had no choice but to separate and form teams with the driver.

After the groups were over, the coachman came to a farmhouse that looked relatively large.

Li Xinyi followed Wu Su out of the carriage, while Lin Yujin and Jiao Ruoliu went to the other two families.

Not long after, the doors of the other two families opened, and Li Xinyi saw that they had entered with their carriages, and only he and Wu Su were still standing outside the door.

Li Xinyi could already smell the humidity in the air.

"It's going to rain soon, should we knock on another door?" As soon as Li Xinyi finished speaking, the rain began to fall.

Before Cai He took out two oil-paper umbrellas from the carriage, propped up one, and handed the other to Li Xinyi.

Li Xinyi took it, and then put her arms around Wu Su's shoulders, sharing an umbrella with Wu Su.

Caihe: "???"

Li Xinyi pretended not to see it.

Caihe had to fight for an umbrella with the coachman.

The door finally opened, and it was a girl who looked about ten years old who opened the door.

Very thin, with a face as brown as her hair.

"You?" She looked at them suspiciously.

Holding an umbrella alone, Cai He took the initiative to take a step forward and said, "Sister, we are travelers on the road. It's raining heavily and we want to take shelter at your house for a while, is that okay?"

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and an oil-paper umbrella couldn't support two people at all.

Li Xinyi almost hugged Wu Su into her arms, but her clothes, shoes and socks were still wet at an irresistible speed.

The girl hesitated for a while, and finally let Li Xinyi and the others in.

The village is small, and the farmhouses are not connected together, but are separated by a little distance from each other.

The coachman chose to stop here because the houses here are larger than those next door.

But after entering it, I realized that the inside is not the usual depression.

The girl asked the coachman to drive the carriage into the middle hall, and went to the kitchen by herself.Li Xinyi and Wu Su looked at each other and followed into the kitchen.

The atrium is usually used to receive guests, but the atrium of this family is very empty, without even a piece of furniture in it.

It was in the kitchen that Li Xinyi saw the tables and chairs.

The girl moved a bench from nowhere, and it was covered with dust.

Then he said that there is water in the kettle and you can drink it directly.After speaking, he left the kitchen.

Li Xinyi didn't touch the kettle, but picked lotus, as if she was thirsty, she took a bowl out from the cupboard, when she was about to pour it, Li Xinyi suddenly reached out and interrupted him.

Cai He glanced at him suspiciously, Li Xinyi just shook her head slightly.

Seeing this, Wu Su didn't speak, so Cai He put the bowl back.

After a while, a skinny old man appeared at the kitchen door.

Li Xinyi was taken aback. The girl moved a soft chair and followed behind the old man.

The old man leaned on the chair and sat down with difficulty.

With this appearance, anyone who sees it is a little terrified, as if this person may go to another world anytime, anywhere.

The old man claimed to be surnamed Zhong, and he was only in his fifties. He just got a strange disease a few years ago, and then he became old all of a sudden, and has never been cured.

Now I am alive and depend on my daughter to take care of me.

Only then did Li Xinyi realize that the girl was already 14 years old, no, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call her a girl.

The girl looked very malnourished. Mr. Zhong said that the daughter was picked up by him, not his own.

Li Xinyi looked at Miss Zhong with a dark face, only to see that she didn't seem to hear her, her face didn't change at all, obviously she knew it a long time ago.

A fire started to light up in the kitchen, and Mrs. Zhong was preparing to cook dinner.

Wu Su glanced at Cai He, Cai He immediately stood up, following behind the girl, her older sister and younger sister helped her.

Wu Su looked at the old man Zhong with concern, and asked, "Did the old man ask the doctor to come and see?"

Old man Zhong said: "Why not? It's just that the doctor saw it, but he didn't find anything. He said that everything is fine, and asked me to take more tonics."

Wu Su wondered: "This is a bit unbelievable."

Old man Zhong sighed, and said: "Who says it's not? My family was once well-off, but these years, in order to cure my strange disease, I have taken all kinds of medicines to prolong my life. For this reason, I sold everything that could be sold at home. , but the disease is still not cured. Now my old man can see it, and live every day, but it’s hard for me, a girl.”

There was not enough firewood, so Mrs. Zhong brought a pile of firewood from outside, some of which were wet by the rain.

Caihe was cutting vegetables, and the girl threw the wet firewood into the stove with a blank expression.

The movement was so fast that he didn't even have time to stop it.

In an instant, thick smoke billowed, and a choking smell filled the stove.

Li Xinyi couldn't help coughing, and said to old man Zhong: "The smoke is too choking, why don't we go out and avoid it?"

Old man Zhong shook his head and signaled Li Xinyi to open the front and rear doors and windows.

Li Xinyi had no choice but to open the windows and doors, and Caihe cleverly picked out the wet firewood from the pile of firewood and threw it aside.

Mrs. Zhong steamed a whole pot of rice, and Li Xinyi's eyes twitched as she watched.

After the meal, Caihe took the initiative to help clean up the dishes.

Old man Zhong slumped on the bamboo chair, and said: "I am a girl, thrifty and hardworking. I am not boasting, old man. She is absolutely unique in our Ge family village."

Li Xinyi didn't mean to belittle Mrs. Zhong, but she was unique outside Gejia Village.

Wu Su said: "Thank you for the hospitality tonight, old man. It's raining and we have nowhere to hide, so we have to bother."

Old man Zhong waved his hand, expressing that he didn't care, and instead asked, "Do you have any wives?"

Not only did the corners of Li Xinyi's eyes twitch, but the corners of her mouth also began to twitch.

He rushed ahead of Wu Su and said: "I have been married since I was a child." He took out the jade bi with a dragon pattern that had been hanging around his neck, "This is a token from my daughter-in-law who has never been married."

Wu Su looked at the familiar piece of jade, and his forehead twitched.

Li Xinyi said: "My daughter-in-law is the youngest daughter in the family, so she is more pampered. The family plans to stay for another two years. It just so happens that I can also take advantage of these two years to earn more gift money."

Wu Su knew that Li Xinyi was lying, but he would not expose him in front of outsiders.

Old man Zhong looked at Wu Su expectantly.

Wu Su has never lied once since he was a child.Especially since he has a grandmother who can tell if someone is lying at a glance.

Wu Su said nervously: "I'm not married yet, so going to Hangzhou to take the exam at this time is also for fame. With fame and fame, my family can talk about marriage."

Seeing Old Man Zhong's eyes lit up, Li Xinyi cleared her throat calmly.

Wu Su said: "Although I haven't married yet, I have a younger sister who was a childhood sweetheart. It's just that her family hasn't agreed yet. I can only marry her if I get fame."

Although old man Zhong had the idea of ​​marrying his daughter, he was not so hungry and thirsty that he wanted to marry a man when he saw him.

Moreover, he was confident that his daughters were the best and would not worry about marrying, so he let them go.

Old man Zhong said that his family was well-off in his early years. It should not be a lie, because there are several empty rooms in the backyard.

Mrs. Zhong led them through the courtyard and opened one of them. In an instant, dust rushed in.

There is also a thick layer of dust on the ground. Although it is not clear, it can still be felt when stepping on it.

There is a big Kang by the window, but there is no bed.

"There is no one in the backyard, so you can choose one to sleep in." After finishing speaking, he left.

The remaining four people looked at each other in blank dismay.

Li Xinyi didn't believe that Wu Su would really lie, he was thinking of Wu Su's childhood sweetheart sister all the way.

He wondered if Wu Su met a new sister in his loneliness during the two years he was away from Wutong Village.

He ruled out possible candidates one by one in his mind, but in the end he couldn't find out who this younger sister was.

Could it be that it fell from the sky?

The house is full of dust. Even if a few people sleep in the wild for one night, there is no way to live in such an environment.

Caihe went to find a broom, the coachman went to get a rag, and Li Xinyi and Wu Su carried the bedding in the carriage.

The four of them just squeezed together for one night.

Sleeping is not sleeping well, even if you can sleep well, you can't sleep.In particular, it was the first time for Li Xinyi to share a bed with Wu Su.

If the occasion and atmosphere were not right, otherwise such zero distance would really be easy for people to imagine.

The rain stopped in the middle of the night.

Li Xinyi only felt that she had just squinted for a while, and it was dawn.

The ground is still wet, but it won't rain again in a short time.

Wu Su left some money as a thank you, and at the same time gave old man Zhong two tonics.

"It's not some expensive medicinal materials, but some tonics that invigorate qi and strengthen the spleen. I hope the old man will prolong his life."

Old man Zhong accepted it with a smile, and Lin Yujin and Jiao Ruoliu also came out, so the group continued on their way.

Li Xinyi's eyes turned blue, she looked like she hadn't slept well, but Wu Su was still in good spirits.

Li Xinyi said: "You slept well last night."

Wu Su nodded and said, "It's not bad."

Li Xinyi resisted the urge to curl her lips: "Then I'll catch up on sleep."

Wu Su nodded and made room for Li Xinyi.

He's not too polite, he will be like Duke Zhou when he closes his eyes, as if the Li Xinyi who wanted to explode because he was late sleeping was not the same person as him.

During lunch, several people were finally able to exchange face-to-face experiences of last night's accommodation.

"Let me tell you that my mother-in-law was left behind last night. She poured ginger tea for me as soon as I entered the door, and asked me why I drove so far alone. I heard that I was going to the end. In the scientific examination, she also killed a hen that laid eggs for me, let me take the exam well, and wished me the title of the gold medal. No matter how I postpone it, it is useless." Lin Yujin said in a breath, as if holding back for a long time It's over, feel good.

Jiao Ruoliu said: "My mother-in-law lives alone, maybe she depends on the eggs laid by this hen to make a living, so you eat the hen that her mother-in-law laid?"

Lin Yujin said unconvinced: "I didn't eat for free. I gave my mother-in-law money before I left, and she can go to the market to buy another one."

Jiao Ruoliu said firmly, "Mother-in-law will definitely confiscate your money."

Lin Yujin scratched her head: "It's true that mother-in-law doesn't want money, but I still secretly stuffed the money into the cabinet before I left."

Seeing that Li Xinyi and Wu Su remained silent, Lin Yujin asked curiously, "How about you? How was last night?"

Jiao Ruoliu said: "That's it, who is like you, eating other hens that lay eggs."

Wu Su quietly said: "Last night, the four of us squeezed into a kang."

"One kang?" Jiao Ruoliu couldn't believe it, "then the big house only sleeps on one kang for you? Do they have many families?"

"Not many." Li Xinyi answered, "Only father and daughter. There are many empty rooms, but they are all covered with dust, so there is no way to sleep."

Lin Yujin has a question: "What is a kang, why don't you sleep on the bed?"

Jiao Ruoliu wanted to cover his face again, but Wu Su explained, "The kang is similar to a bed made of bricks, but the bottom can be burned with firewood. It will be very warm if you sleep on it when it's cold in winter."

Li Xinyi said: "The bed should have been sold. The owner of the house suffered from a strange disease that can make people grow old overnight."

Jiao Ruoliu said: "No wonder Caihe said that he would come to get some Codonopsis ginseng."

Caihe heard her name, so she also interjected: "It rained heavily last night, the host's house has no sense of hospitality, and the ground is so dirty that no one can stand on it. You don't want to disturb others, so we can only squeeze together .And the kang is not big, we can only sleep sideways. On the contrary, Mr. Li, who has been holding on to our young master, cried for a long time before waking up in the morning."

Li Xinyi was caught off guard and was named.He was not annoyed, but instead smiled at Wu Su.I was embarrassed to sleep again when I got in the car again.

Traveling long distances is difficult at first, even though the drivers are old-fashioned, Jing Ning went back and forth to Hangzhou many times, he knows exactly where the noodle cakes are big and thick, and where noodle restaurants can only drink soup without buying noodles .

However, some situations on the road, such as natural disasters and man-made disasters, are inevitable.

On this day, Li Xinyi and the others encountered trouble again.

In fact, it's not a big deal, just when I was out of the city, I accidentally collided with an oncoming carriage.

He has a docile personality like a little chestnut horse. After being frightened, the coachman took a long time to comfort him before he calmed down.

On the other side, the tall horse went crazy.

There was probably a female family member sitting in the carriage, and Li Xinyi could hear a sharp scream.

Fortunately, the guards reacted quickly, one separated the horse from the cart, and the other stopped the mad horse.

Li Xinyi was frightened and couldn't help sighing, this is the troublesome part of "non-motorized vehicles".

In fact, Li Xinyi and the others had suffered an innocent disaster. They quietly waited for the guards to finish their investigation, and then they went out of the city. It was the carriage on the opposite side that rushed over for no reason and hit them.

Even so, after confirming that neither he nor Wu Su was injured, Li Xinyi and Wu Su got out of the carriage out of humanitarian concern, wanting to confirm whether the other party was injured.

However, before the people in the carriage got off, a group of people in armor and looking like guards arrived.

For the first time, Li Xinyi, a countryman, has the opportunity to encounter a scene surrounded by a group of guards.

He took a step forward, blocked Wu Su behind him, and asked one of them, "What are you doing?"

But no one answered him.

Over there, two girls who looked like maids came out of the carriage and helped the two ladies onto the sedan chair.

When passing by Li Xinyi's side, the sedan chair stopped, the sedan chair curtain was pushed open a little bit, and a girl's crisp voice came out from inside: "Check everything out, don't let anyone go."

Then Li Xinyi and Wu Su, together with the carriage and the driver, were invited to drink tea in the yamen.

Caihe was not with them this time, so he was very lucky to avoid this unwarranted disaster.

In the yamen, Li Xinyi not only separated from Wu Su, but also had to answer various repetitive questions over and over again.

"Surname Li, first name Xinyi, 17 years old, no characters, from Jingning County, the capital of the state."

"Depart from Jingning on July [-]."

"What's the relationship with Wu Su? My fellow villager."

"Why do you want to go to Hangzhou? At the invitation of a friend."

"Which friend?" Li Xinyi paused, a little hesitant to bring Zhao Yuanwei into it.

At this time, another person came in with a letter in his hand, whispering something to the interrogating yamen servant.

Then, he was invited to the side hall, this time for real tea.

After a while, Wu Su also arrived.Seeing Li Xinyi looking over with concern, he smiled reassuringly, indicating that he was fine.

This time, the guards were ordered to surround them, and someone who seemed to be the chief guard came over.

This person was nine feet tall, handsome, and muscular, with a cavalier look on his face, which made Li Xinyi wonder if there was some ulterior relationship between this girl and that girl.

Of course, Li Xinyi had no basis, but he was very angry, and he suppressed a lot of anger in his heart.

The last time I was young and energetic, I left as soon as I said I would leave.This time, I have to bear it no matter what, and then discuss in detail what to do.

Unexpectedly, the head of the guard did not make things difficult for them, but asked them again who they were traveling with, where they came from, and what places they passed on the road.

Then they let Li Xinyi and Wu Su leave, together with the impounded carriage and a bag of tea as a token of comfort.

Lin Yujin, Jiao Ruoliu, and Caihe had long been guarding the gate of the yamen, and they were relieved when they saw Li Xinyi and Wu Su come out in full.

"It's good that people are fine." Jiao Ruoliu said.

Lin Yujin stepped forward to give them a hug one by one, and Li Xinyi pointed at the coachman quietly, meaning you missed one.

Lin Yujin hesitated for a moment, and when she was about to step forward, Jiao Ruoliu grabbed his sleeve.

As for Caihe, her eyes and nose were already red, and she looked like she had been crying for a while.

Wu Su took out a handkerchief and comforted him, "Don't cry, I'm fine."

Li Xinyi was already suppressing her anger, but seeing this inexplicably CP-like scene, she was about to explode.

However, the idea of ​​whether to cry or not was always circling in my mind.

They had reached Zhuji now. The road was flat and wide, and the wheels of the carriage were turning fast.

Wu Su saw that Li Xinyi was depressed, thinking that he hadn't recovered from the sudden detention.

He subconsciously took Li Xinyi's hand, kneaded his wrist, and comforted him: "It should have been an accident, anyway, we are not involved, that's luck."

Li Xinyi was pulled back to God by Wu Su's movements, he found that Wu Su had an inexplicable interest in his wrist.

Frost and snow on the wrist?

He was taken aback by himself. In fact, he also felt that his wrists were too slender. However, he only had a belly but not a wrist, so there was nothing he could do about it.

Wu Su followed Lin Yujin's example, reached out his arms to embrace Li Xinyi, and gave him a gentle hug.

The author has something to say: finally, before twelve o'clock.