linked to the collar

Xiao Ran got up from the ground, straightened his mind, washed up a little, and opened the door again.As soon as he opened the door, he saw a handsome young man standing by the door. He remembered that he was Bai Ye's servant who had brought them over just now, called Huxi.

When Huxi saw Xiao Ran who opened the door, she quickly walked to the door and stood still. "Mr. Xiao, the Second Young Master asked me to follow you these few days. If you have anything to do, please tell Shuxi. The Second Young Master said, it's too hot, so don't run out, Shuxi will take care of it for you."

Kuxi is a shrewd person, otherwise Bai Ye, who was the last picky, wouldn't have followed him by his side to serve.So even if this would show great disdain for the Confucian robe on Li Ran's body that turned white after being washed, and the poor man who could tell at a glance that he had no valuables on his body, Xiao Ran expressed great disdain in his heart. But still respectful as usual.

It's just that I don't understand how the second young master, who is casual but never likes to get close to poor scholars, is so special to Mr. Xiao?

Xiao Ran was taken aback, and took a step back before remembering to refuse.

But how could you agree?But how could Xiao Ran agree?When there was a stalemate at the door, Li Yunfei and Tang Mubai, two of Xiao Ran's companions, were attracted.

Tang Mubai is a lively person, and he met Huxi on the way to the inn together. At this time, he heard Huxi talking about the orders of his second young master and Xiao Ran's firm attitude with intentional grievances and annoyances. Tang Mubai immediately Just for fun.

"Brother Xiao, just let him follow. If you feel sorry, just don't let him do anything."

Xiao Ran sighed, how could Xiao Tang understand the twists and turns behind this?But seeing the way Xiao Tang and Kui Xi were talking affectionately, and seeing Li Yunfei's questioning gaze, he had no choice but to put everything down his throat and nodded in agreement.

Xiao Ran was planning to go out to choose a birthday gift for Mr. He, and he also knew his father-in-law's temperament, that person would not take seriously anything that was not of high quality.

But I'm so shy...

Xiao Ran didn't have any savings in the first place, and the two years of wandering had already used up his savings long ago, so he would not be embarrassingly poor by painting, writing, and writing home letters for others along the way, but now Xiao Ran did have a bit of a headache as to how much money he had to spend on buying birthday gifts.

If it was someone else, it would be enough to send a carefully framed calligraphy and painting made by himself, but Master He can't do it, not to mention that this person is his father-in-law... Bai Ye really gave himself a headache.

But it's really strange to be lovable, he just looked at Xiao Ran and figured out Xiao Ran's background, and along the way, intentionally or unconsciously, he pulled Xiao Ran into the Xuantianmen's shop.His calculations were also simple, the second young master's guest, which shopkeeper would dare not give three points?Isn't the price negotiable?

After all, this is not the Xuantianmen two years ago.

The old man has become more and more courageous these years, and the days of needing to watch the face of the Lu family have gradually become history. The old lady and the old man actually love and protect the second young master, and these years have become more and more known to all the disciples.The Second Young Master now has a bunch of people vying to serve him wherever he goes.

After strolling on the street for a while, Xiao Ran didn't find anything eye-catching immediately, but he was a little tired and was covered in sweat.

So happy to post it again. "Mr. Xiao, Mr. Tang and Mr. Li, my second young master has already ordered dinner at Fumanlou. If the three of you feel tired, why don't you go over?"

"Then I would like to thank your second young master." Tang Mubai was also tired from walking, so he nodded his head first when he heard this, and then left with a pleasing gesture.

Xiao Ran followed behind with a wry smile, but Bai Ye was generous.Fumanlou is an old restaurant with a history of nearly a hundred years. It is one of the best restaurants in Jiankang City. The ingredients are high-quality and fresh, and the dishes will definitely be changed every three months.

However, the most famous thing about this restaurant is their prices. For a meal, even if you order the cheapest price on the list, you don’t even want to sit down if you don’t have five taels of silver for three dishes and one soup.You must know that five taels of silver is enough money for Xiao Ran to spend more than a year.

Bai Ye was not like this back then.Bai Ye is a...somewhat selfish person, he always hopes that everything moves according to his thoughts, and never thinks about what to do for Xiao Ran.What Uncle Bai knows best is to sit on the side with Erlang's legs crossed and wait for Xiao Ran to do everything for him.

And now, after such a day, Bai Ye has already arranged everything for him?

Also, don't think that he really can't see it. All the shops that Kuxi brought them into in the afternoon, they all knew Shuxi, and they knew the tone of the shopkeeper. ", with a bit of aloofness.

Bai Ye has already arranged three of them for him. When did this person become so... considerate?

The shopkeeper of Fumanlou came out from behind the counter as soon as he entered. "How many people are here? Accord has prepared for them. Please go to the third floor."

So he personally led the way and led a few people to the third floor, and led a few people into an elegant room facing south.The private room is relatively open, and after entering it is a small living room, with a couch, chairs, and tea utensils for making tea neatly placed on a pear-wood table.Then there is a large screen with paintings of the four gentlemen of plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum. Behind the screen is the dining table.Several windows had already been opened long ago, and the hanging bamboo curtains swayed with the breeze, and the hot and dry meeting just now seemed to have dissipated a lot.

"Several young masters sit down. Look, should we drink tea first, or eat directly?"

"Let's serve a pot of tea for the young masters first, and let the young masters have a rest first." Just like the previous few times, before Xiao Ran and the others could discuss it, the arrangements were made for the young masters.

So the shopkeeper withdrew and asked a young guy to serve good tea and wait at the door of Ya Ge.

Tang Mubai didn't feel anything, so he sat down in the outer room cheerfully, playing with the jade-carved tea set on the table with great interest.

After all, Li Yunfei is older than Tang Mubai, and he is more sensible and able to observe his words. From the moment when he was in the inn, he had already noticed Xiao Ran's indifference towards pleasing and pleasing the master. Xiao Ran stood alone at the window, and leaned over.

"Brother Xiao, you and that Mr. Bai must be very good friends, right? Seeing how he takes care of us today, I really feel that it is troublesome for him. Please give me a thank you when you meet him."

"...and Mr. Bai, it's okay, it's okay." Xiao Ran looked out the window with a slight frown between his brows. "If I meet him again, I will tell him."

"Brother Xiao, don't talk about it. You are used to being poor on weekdays. Now you suddenly become a young master. This feels really strange. Haha, don't laugh at me!"

Xiao Ran couldn't help chuckling. "How could it be? I'm not used to it in every possible way. I'm afraid Xiao Tang is the only one who doesn't feel anything."

Tang Mubai is also the young master of a well-to-do family. His elder brother had swam with Xiao Ran and Li Yunfei for a few months before. After returning home, young master Tang found it interesting, so he quarreled and went out with Xiao Ran and the others.

"I don't dare to live this kind of life often. It will be difficult to endure hardship after forming a habit." Li Yunfei shook his head and pointed back to this elegant room. "How much do you think this meal will cost? How about Brother Xiao, let's talk to Huanxi, or go out and eat casually?"

Xiao Ran nodded upon hearing this. "It's exactly what I want! I didn't mention it because it's Xiaotang. It's so good. I'll talk about it now."

Before people turned to the outside room, the door of the elegant room was opened, and Bai Ye, who had been missing for an afternoon, walked in, followed by the shopkeeper who dared not straighten up.

"Second young master, do you see the room arranged for you, are you satisfied? If not, I will ask them to change it for you?"

Bai Ye walked directly in front of Xiao Ran, lowered his head slightly and asked him, "What do you think?"

Xiao Ran took a step back and turned his head to the side before saying in a low voice: "Young Master Bai, you don't need to be so polite..."

Bai Ye interrupted his words with a wave of his hand, turned his head slightly and said to the shopkeeper: "Let's go to this room, and order my subordinates to quickly serve the cold dishes first."

"Yes, yes, I'll prepare it for you now." The shopkeeper turned his head and ordered the young man outside, while following Bai Ye.

"Master Bai, does this restaurant belong to your family?" Tang Mubai had already stood up at this time, and walked to Bai Ye with Huanxi, and said in surprise: "Brother Xiao, how do you know such a rich and generous friend?" of?"

Does this person mean that he and Xiao Ran shouldn't know each other at all?Bai Ye was annoyed when he heard it, and was about to speak, but Xiao Ran had already explained it first.

"Bai Gongzi's wife and my late wife are sisters, and he and I are brother-in-law, so we are acquaintances."

"Oh..." Tang Mubai nodded, and looked at Bai Ye again. "Then, Brother Xiao, what does Brother Bai's family do for a living?"

Xiao Ran was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled: "Well, I only know that Mr. Bai is a master of the rivers and lakes, and I really don't know much about the others."

Bai Ye's heart shivered when he heard this, and he hurriedly pulled Xiao Ran to take a seat first, and sat down beside him. After Li Yunfei and Tang Mubai also sat down, he said to Xiao Ran: "I'm really just a martial artist, and this restaurant is just a mysterious place. The property under Tianmen belongs to my elder brother, but not mine, so what shall I tell you?"

"Brother Bai is from Jianghu? What kind of place is Jianghu?" Tang Mubai seemed to be curious about Bai Ye, not only changed his name, but also sat beside Bai Ye deliberately, and asked curiously with one hand propping his forehead.

To be honest, if he had met someone like Tang Mubai a few years ago, Bai Ye might have teased him a lot. After all, Tang Mubai was really good-looking and innocent, so it would be easy to tempt people if he put it aside.

But now it was also strange, when Xiao Ran was sitting beside him, his heart was strangely stable, looking at that delicate face Bai Ye wanted to smile.

It's so strange...

After dinner, Bai Ye asked Xiao Ran to go to the night market again, Xiao Ran only said he was too tired and refused, but Tang Mubai pulled Li Yunfei to follow him, so Bai Ye asked Kuixi to take the two of them out.

So Bai Ye and Xiao Ran were left sitting in the outer room.

After sitting for a while, Xiao Ran started to make tea, first brought a cup to Bai Ye, and then poured another cup for himself.

Bai Ye held the teacup, didn't drink, just played with it in his hands, and said after a while: "It's been a long time since I sat and talked with you like this."

"If I knew you were such a rich man, I wouldn't have dared to invite you to live in my house back then."

"Oh? Now you're admitting that we've had our past?" Bai Ye raised his eyebrows, looking at Xiao Ran with a smile in his eyes.

"...I have been brother-in-law with you for many years, so naturally there was a time when I was brother-in-law."

"Xiao Ran, I was very happy when I lived in your house. I didn't lie to you." Bai Ye took a sip of tea, put down the tea cup, turned to face Xiao Ran, and said seriously.

After a while, Xiao Ran nodded. "I have always been very grateful to you, and will often come to see me and accompany me."

In the beginning, they all just wanted what they wanted, but later on, they all changed their nature.

"I... these years, I have been thinking about you very much. I don't know if you are doing well. Xiao Ran, where have you been these two years?"

"I didn't go anywhere, just walked around to see the scenery that I could only read in books." Xiao Ran smiled lightly and said softly.

Sitting beside him, Bai Ye was sitting beside him. The feeling of the two of them chatting casually made Xiao Ran a little confused. It seemed that this place was not the Fumanlou two years later, but his small kitchen.

With such a feeling, Xiao Ran also unknowingly dropped his indifference, and there was warmth in his slightly drooping eyes.

"... When are you planning to go back?"

Xiao Ran blinked twice. "I went back at the beginning of the year, alas, but my house seemed to be occupied by some great person, and I was stopped by someone when I walked halfway. I said that I was the owner of the house, But even if they don’t let me go, I have no choice but to live in the city.”

Bai Ye almost choked on a sip of water, and never dared to say "The person who occupies your house is I welcome you home anytime", so he asked another curious thing: "Where are you going?" Didn't you find Canxing in the city?"

"...I won't set foot there."

Bai Ye immediately thought of the night in Deyilou back then, suffocated, lowered his head and didn't know what to say, but Xiao Ran said something again.

"But I ran into Canxing at night, and we had dinner together."

Bai Ye suddenly raised his head. "What? When did it happen? At the beginning of the year?"

Xiao Ran seemed to be frightened by Bai Ye's sudden excitement, he was stunned for a while before nodding. "Yeah, it probably happened in early March, what happened?"

What's wrong?It's nothing, but he went back in April and met Canxing, but the coquettish fox didn't tell him about it at all!

That's all!

"Canxing was redeemed by someone, and now he works as a teacher in Deyilou. He and Kong Yan are very good, hehe, I really want to thank the kind person who redeemed him." Xiao Ran didn't know that the fire was burning in Bai Ye's heart. There was a gentle smile on the back of the chair, and the dimples on his cheeks were faintly visible, which gave Bai Ye a desire to lean over and kiss her.

He wanted to tell Xiao Ran that that person was him, but...

He was a little worried about what he said, Xiao Ran would think of the relationship between him and Canxing, and also what happened that night in Deyilou, now the relationship that has finally eased up a little will return to the time when we met at noon so-so.

But, I really want to hear Xiao Ran say thank you to him... Bai Ye knows that Canxing is like a younger brother to Xiao Ran, and he also knows that even if Xiao Ran leaves, he will still think about it and take care of him people.

This person is affectionate, a Qionghua can be kept in his heart for so many years, and it must be the same for Canxing.

If he knew that he was the one who redeemed Canxing's body, Xiao Ran would definitely show him that soft smile back then, right?