[Lu Xiaofeng] Hidden Forest of Flowers and Leaves

Hua Manlou sat in the bamboo forest.The bamboo forest is Xiaoxiao.

On the stone table by his hand were five piccolos.Each piccolo is engraved with the same name.

Hua Manlou picked up one and stroked the writing on it with his fingers.Indeed, each one is engraved by oneself.But from the first to the last, the feeling of the fingers is always a little different.

It seems that the first one has been engraved for a long time, and each knife carries deep feelings.

But the last one he just completed took less than half a stick of incense.

Han Yexin.

Is this person really as Baili Guzhu said?He, like himself, is a person who comes to this snow valley to seek medical advice, but he unintentionally regards himself as a dead friend, so he is very close to him.

Huamanlou always finds it strange.

Han Yexin was really natural to him.If it wasn't that he really couldn't think of such a person, maybe he really believed that they were closer than friends.

The owner of Baili Valley is even more strange.Huamanlou knew that he was hiding many secrets.Whenever Baili Guzhu walked in, Huamanlou was always uneasy.

This uneasiness is getting deeper and deeper.

Just now, when he heard the strange laughter of Baili Valley Master, he felt even more uneasy.

Hua Manlou felt that he had fallen into a helpless trap, but he had no clue.

got windy.He gathered five piccolos, recalled the words of Baili Guzhu, took out one of them, and prepared to give it to the person who lived with him.

When Hua Manlou returned to the yard, Han Yexin was practicing sword.

Hearing the clanging of the long sword outside the courtyard gate, Hua Manlou's hand that was about to push the courtyard gate stopped.In the arena, peeking at others practicing martial arts is a big taboo.Although he couldn't "see", Hua Manlou still felt that it was better not to be misunderstood.

The people in the room moved and jumped, drawing their swords very fast.Hua Manlou is very familiar with this set of sword techniques.Because he himself, will also make this kit.

Hua Manlou frowned, feeling more doubtful, and pushed open the door.

The sword practicer saw Hua ManLou come in, folded the tip of the sword back, put it under the sleeve, and said with a smile: "Qi Tong, it's a bit early to come back today."

Hua Manlou felt that her smile was a little stiff.He doesn't like being called "Seven Children" by unfamiliar people, and he is not used to deceiving others.

The boy wiped the sweat off his face and walked over.

Hua Manlou felt the boy's eyes on his face.

"How did the Baili monster torture you today?"

Hua Manlou was a little displeased when he heard the words, and said: "The owner of Baili Valley is only treating my illness, not torturing me." He said and walked forward.

The boy was startled for a moment, shook his head and smiled, and followed behind him.

Huamanlou seldom gets angry with others, and it is also very rare to speak to others in this tone.But he found that the boy was not angry at all.

Hua Manlou suddenly stood upright, the boy was walking with his head bowed, followed a few times, and almost bumped into him before stopping again.

Hua Manlou was a little embarrassed, he took out the flute from his sleeve: "Here it is for you."

The boy took it.The moment his fingers touched, Hua Manlou felt his hand was cold.Even though he has just practiced martial arts, even though his body is sweating, his fingers are still cold.

It seems that he really came to treat the illness.

Han Yexin took the flute: "The previous one hasn't broken yet, why did you make a new one so soon?" Seeing the words on it, he burst out laughing, walked over and said face to face: "Qitong, you should give it to me. I engraved your name on it, so it's more meaningful."

Hua Manlou was startled, thinking to himself, isn't that just like exchanging tokens between men and women?

Fortunately, the boy didn't say anything else, put the flute on his waist, and walked into the room first.

Hua Manlou entered the room, sat down at the table, and heard the young man wash his face and change his clothes, he did not shy away from being an outsider at all.He felt a little embarrassed, so he lowered his head and coughed.

The boy heard him coughing and looked back at him, but he frowned and didn't speak.

There is a scent of ink on the table.Sure enough, there was a stack of papers in his hand.The handwriting on the paper has been dry for a long time.

The face and the small script are actually... very similar to my own handwriting.

Hua Manlou felt dizzy.The feeling of being in a trap is more obvious.

The young man changed his clothes, walked over quickly, supported him and said, "What's the matter?" He tested Hua Manlou's forehead with one hand, and touched his own with the other, a little worried: "Did you catch a cold? I'll make you a bowl of ginger." Soup."

"No need." As soon as the words were out of his mouth, the boy quickly walked out the door and entered a small kitchen in the yard.

Hua Manlou was a little embarrassed, and couldn't read the book anymore, so she walked over.

Maybe the ginger juice got on his eyes, the boy was rubbing his hands, when he saw Hua Manlou coming in, he blinked hard a few times before putting his hands down.

Put the ginger and green onions into the pot, and make a fire while fanning them.When the fire started to rise, the young man also stood up, chatting with Hua Manlou one after another.

Hua Manlou discovered that the boy was asking him about something intentionally or unconsciously.He will ask about his childhood experience, his relatives and friends.

Hua Manlou couldn't bear to cheat.He doesn't disdain lying.Sometimes, the right lie may give people hope.But he felt that this young man was completely sincere to him, and he really didn't want to always hide it from him.

The ginger soup is ready.The boy scooped up bowls for Huamanlou and himself, and put them on the square table in the kitchen.The ginger soup was very hot.Hua Manlou took a sip cautiously.

The boy looked at him with a smile, but took his bowl and fanned it.

"You cat's tongue, be careful of burning it."

"I, am I really similar to your friend?" Hua Manlou couldn't help asking.

The boy was startled, and pushed the bowl back: "Drink it, it won't work if it's cold."

After speaking, he bowed his head and drank.

Hua Manlou felt a little regretful, feeling that she was too reckless.The boy has been so close to him, isn't it because he is immersed in such a dream and does not want to wake up?Why did he forcefully break it?

The young man finished his ginger soup, propped his hair up and stood still.

When Huamanlou also dropped the bowl, the boy suddenly said: "My friend, let me not forget him."

When the boy said this, he never looked at Huamanlou.

"He is because of me... He made me swear that I must not forget him. I will not forget him either." But the boy buried his head in his arms as he spoke.

"It's just that I suddenly felt very uncomfortable. I didn't want to forget someone, and it was so uncomfortable."

Hua Manlou stretched out his hand, but that hand stayed in the air for a long time, but it did not land on the young man's shoulder.

"Okay." The young man suddenly put up a smiling face and put away the bowl: "Master Hua Qi, we will talk about this later. There is a lot of smoke in the kitchen, so let's go out first."

Hua Manlou lived in the same room as the boy.He even found that there was only one bed in the room.

During the lunch break, the young man made the bed, wrapped himself in a quilt and automatically rolled inside, leaving a neatly made quilt outside.

Huamanlou can't read books.He was rarely upset.Walk out into the yard and feel the wind blowing on your face.

He didn't know what to do with the boy.

The wiser thing to do is to stay away from him.However, there is always a feeling that I can't bear to push him away.The young man regarded himself as his dead friend so sincerely, even though he knew it was just an illusion.

The boy woke up from a nap, rubbed his eyes and saw Huamanlou was still standing in the yard, took out a cloak and put it on Huamanlou.

"You're really going to get sick like this."

Hua Manlou frowned.

"Well, if you don't like this, I won't do it." The boy waved his hand helplessly: "The Baili monster really shouldn't, my injury is not healed yet."

You have already forgotten.

Hua Manlou held the strap of the cloak in his hands: "You haven't told me, what's wrong with you?"

"Me?" The young man walked around the yard with his hands behind his head: "I have a cold poison in my body, which can't be cured, but Baili Chunhuafei said he had a solution, so he asked my friend to do it." It was a very difficult thing to do. My friend went. I am here to recuperate."

"So your friend is not dead."

When the boy heard this, he suddenly laughed.He had a good laugh.

"of course not."

After getting along for half a day, Hua Manlou knew that the boy was not insane.Instead, he wasn't used to being intimate with each other.The boy felt something, and he paid a lot of attention to his words.

Finally it was time to rest for the night.Although the boy didn't seem to care at all, Hua Manlou was always a little embarrassed to sleep with strangers.

"Young Master Hua Qi, you just need to think about it, you have a good conversation with a very familiar friend, and you can fall asleep when you reach your feet."

The boy sat on the head of the bed, hugged the quilt and said.

Obviously, he has dozed off a little.

"...I was only like this when I was a kid."

"You are not very old now."

Hua Manlou thought about it carefully.He always felt that sleeping with another close person was a very familiar thing, but he couldn't remember who that person was.

Lu Xiaofeng?

no no.

Zhu stop?

Nor is it.

The boy yawned and lay down: "Really, I'm not kidding you. That lunatic won't give you another bed, so go to bed early."

Hua Manlou had no choice but to take off her shoes and socks, put on her clothes and lie down.The premise of the predecessor's falling asleep was that they had a "happy conversation", but the person next to him was already breathing steadily and fell asleep.

Hua Manlou thought that she would not fall asleep.Only now did he realize that the second brother was telling the truth. He was really a young man who was raised and raised.How could he sleep in a strange place, especially with strangers?

But after listening to the shallow breathing for a long time, he became more and more sleepy.He didn't know when he fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was daylight.The boy was wearing his clothes, but he was shouting: "Oops, I have to soak the medicine barrel all day today, and I will be read by those women again when I get up late!"

While speaking, the boy quickly dressed, put on his shoes and ran out.There were already several girls in colorful clothes waiting there in the courtyard, seeing him come out, the first one actually reprimanded him.The young man hastily confessed his crimes, and after a soft pleading, the young girl's anger finally calmed down.

The young man got into the soft sedan chair they carried, turned his head and coughed at Hua Manlou before leaving.

Hua Manlou couldn't figure out whether the cough was a signal or something, so he simply ignored it, tidied up, and was ready to see Baili Chunhua.

The bamboo forest is still the bamboo forest of yesterday.His carving knife was still on the stone table.

Baili Chunhua has not arrived yet.Hua Manlou held the carving knife, thinking about something.

After a while, Baili Chunhua came on bamboo leaves.Hua Manlou got up and saluted: "Morning, sir."

Baili Chunhua raised his hand slightly: "Morning, young man."

They sat down at the stone table.Baili Chunhua saw Hua Manlou playing with the carving knife, and asked, "Did you give him yesterday's flute?"

Hua Manlou nodded.

"What was his reaction?"

"He said it should be engraved with my name, that would be interesting."

Baili Chunhua actually sneered.Huamanlou was very puzzled.

Baili Chunhua said: "Some people are always extremely greedy. You give a lot, but they want more."

Hua Manlou said: "But that person seems to know that I am not his friend."

"Don't be fooled. That's exactly what he does."

Huamanlou noticed that Baili Chunhua didn't seem to want him to get close to that boy.Baili Chunhua's body is full of contradictions, but now Huamanlou has no way to penetrate.

He said: "Although Mr. said he was a poor man, he asked me to help him. However, I really don't like getting too close to strangers. My brother sent me to Mr., and didn't say that he must do such a thing for Mr. ?”

Hearing this, Baili Chunhua looked at Hua Manlou's frown and seemed to be extremely patient, so he smiled and said, "I'm troublesome. That child stayed with me for a while, always crazy, I think, he Since he thinks that Young Master Qi is his old friend, it doesn't matter. But since Young Master Qi is not willing, there is no need to continue."

Baili Chunhua seemed very willing to see Hua Manlou's alienation and disgust towards the young man.

Hua Manlou frowned, and continued: "It's okay to live with him, just sleep in the same bed... Qitong has never had this habit since he was a child, and it's really hard to sleep. Sir, this bamboo forest is quiet and no one disturbs you. , can I rest here?"

Baili Chunhua looked at him with real eyes, and said, "Seventh Young Master likes it, of course it's fine. I'll ask my servants to bring over the salute of Young Master."

Hua Manlou pondered for a while: "That's not necessary. Although the boy's illness has nothing to do with me, but we spent a whole day together yesterday, so I really shouldn't leave without saying goodbye."

Baili Chunhua smiled and said: "It's this gift. I'm afraid he will go crazy even more if he knows you left without saying goodbye."

But he thought in his heart: What is better than Hua Manlou saying that he wants to move out?

Han Yexin soaked in the medicine barrel for a day, and came back at night with the smell of medicine.Before entering the courtyard, the courtyard door was opened, and Hua Manlou was standing under a crabapple flower.

Knowing that Han Yexin was back, Hua Manlou first smiled, and then said, "You're back."

Han Yexin nodded.

Hua Manlou said: "But I have to leave."

Han Yexin choked for breath.He saw two servants in the yard, carrying luggage full of flowers.

"Where are you going?"

"There is a bamboo forest not far from here, and there is a hut there, which is very quiet." Hua Manlou paused, then cupped his hands and said, "Thanks for taking care of me these few days."

The young man was stunned, and after a while he said: "It's nothing."

Hua Manlou didn't know what to say, the more silent he was, the more uncomfortable he felt, so he could only say: "Let's leave now. Take care, brother."

"Wait!" Just as he was about to turn around, the boy suddenly said, "You...do you know my name?"

Hua Manlou frowned.He remembered the name he had carved on the bamboo.

"Your name is Han Yexin."

The young man stretched out his hand, intending to grab his sleeve, but his hand stopped in mid-air, as if he had come to his senses: "You...call my name again."

Huamanlou blushed, hesitated for a while: "I..."

"It's just a name!" said the boy.

"Han Yexin..." Hua Manlou felt his face burn a little.He lowered his head: "Your name sounds nice."

The boy looked at him for a long time before letting go.

He turned around and didn't look at Hua Manlou: "I will never forget my friend." Hua Manlou was stunned, only to hear the boy continue to say: "As long as I go out from here, I will definitely go to him, definitely."

He seemed a little sad, but also a little angry, took a deep breath, and said, "The first thing to do after finding him must be to beat him until his teeth are all over the place."

Hua Manlou didn't say anything, turned and left.

A gust of wind blows, and the crabapple flowers fall all over the ground.