Peerless luthier

Yin Zi returned to the room and found that Zhong Yi had moved a bench and sat in front of the cat litter with a heavy expression.

Yin Zizhong closed the door and leaned his back against it: "What's wrong?"

Zhong Yi stretched out her index finger and poked the sleepy Huatian: "I just think that Huatian has been able to sleep especially since last winter..."

Yin Zizhong let out a casual "hmm".

Zhong Yi got up, came to the desk, picked up a piano score and leaned against the window to read it.He has grown a lot taller, his figure is between a teenager and a young man, with a thin figure and a gentle and harmless profile.

Yin Zizhong hesitated for a moment, and unconsciously stroked the door panel behind him with his fingers. After thinking for a while, he asked, "Zhong Yi, is your brother back for the New Year?"

Zhong Yi pursed her mouth: "No. He has some military exercises and has no time to come back."

Yin Zizhong was thoughtful: "Then he still comes to see you?"

Zhong Yi looked up from the book and looked at the ceiling: "Who knows...he has his own business, if he comes, I will be happy of course."

Yin Zi nodded emphatically: "I understand...has he written back since he visited you last time?"

Zhong Yi shook her head: "No, the family only sends it back every two or three months. Ah Li has a heavy task now, and he will be fine after he graduates from Kanyuan Pavilion."

Zhong Yi was about to lower her head and continue reading, when she suddenly felt a little strange: "Old Yin, why are you asking these questions?"

Yin Zizhong looked into Zhong Yi's eyes and said, "Last time I asked your brother to bring a letter to Kanyuan Pavilion, but the letter was not delivered."

Zhong Yi put down the book and asked doubtfully, "Ha Li forgot?"

Yin Zizhong sighed, and said again: "Zhong Yi, your brother... After going to Kanyuan Pavilion during the New Year, he went directly to the instructor to apply for leaving."

Zhong Yi's eyes widened: "What did you say?"

Yin Zizhong said: "Many people saw it at the time, and the instructor chased him outside the door, but he still insisted on leaving."

Zhong Yi felt her heart pounding and muttered to herself, "Impossible... Impossible... Where is he going? Who did you hear from?"

Yin Zizhong said: "My brother, he was also in Kanyuan Pavilion, and he knew your brother. At that time, your brother left because there was a change in the family, and it was difficult for the instructor to keep him, so we had to let him go."

Zhong Yi burst into his chest for no reason: "How could he do this?! Then he still wrote back? What the hell is he doing? Then where is he now?" Zhong Yi threw away the book and walked back and forth in the room Pacing anxiously: "Ah Li is not such a person, he would not leave without saying a word."

Yin Zizhong nodded slightly, and said: "My brother also said that Zhong Li is usually calm and steady, and his actions are indeed a bit reckless, not like his style."

Zhong Yi scratched her head irritably, then suddenly raised her head and asked, "Then where does he usually send letters from?"

Yin Zizhong suddenly remembered that Zhong Li had sent a letter to Andu, and said, "Yes! You can check the address."

Zhong Yi rushed to the bedside to search, and after a while she pulled out a letter beside the pillow. Zhong Yi looked at the mud print carefully and read: "This mud print is... Kanyuan Pavilion in Fancheng."

Zhong Yi reluctantly threw the envelope aside.

Yin Zizhong rubbed his temples and said, "Perhaps, did your brother mention something unintentionally, and you should read these letters carefully?"

Zhong Yi bowed her head and nodded after hearing what he said.

Yin Zizhong sighed: "Don't worry too much, your brother looks like a man of his own mind, maybe there is some urgent matter or some unexplainable plan..." He looked at Zhong Yi's distraught appearance, and said: "Hungry Not hungry? Then I'll go out and buy food." After speaking, he opened the door and went out.

The door closed and the room was silent.

Yin Zizhong's comforting words were full of loopholes, but Zhong Yi could only hope that Zhong Li had something to do.

In the evening, Fu Sanyi came in with a roast duck in his hand to talk to Zhong Yi, but Zhong Yi couldn't lift his spirits, Fu Sanyi felt that something was wrong, so he pestered him to ask.

Zhong Yi thought that this matter should not be publicized, but seeing Fu Sanyi's playful smile on weekdays, she was a little worried, so she was embarrassed to hide it from him, and she simply said the matter.

Perhaps when a person can't bear a big bad news, telling the friends who accompany him may not be a kind of pressure sharing for them.

Fu Sanyi frowned and thought for a long time, knowing that the roasted duck legs had been eaten by Huatian, but still couldn't think of a reason: "Why did your brother leave for no reason? Isn't he quite used to you, and he is willing to bear you?"

Zhong Yi's nose turned sore when he heard this, and he said forcefully, "Why are you reluctant? He probably has been hiding the truth from us for nearly a year."

It rained heavily that night, and Zhong Yi was terrified under the covers, with various unexpected situations always appearing in her mind.

As early as last year, he had some doubts. For example, when Ah Li came to see him, he held Zhong Yi in his arms and said that if he wanted to behave well, he could write more letters, or he would come here often whenever he was free. Take a look, or during the Chinese New Year, you need to bring some small hidden weapons in the army to teach Zhong Yi how to use them, but there is no trace of the military law books that you promised to send over.

Maybe I forgot?But Ah Li was never someone who easily forgets what he said.

I have always thought: Ah Li has what he wants to do and what he needs to do.But this can't completely eliminate Zhong Yi's wild thoughts. Now, Yin Zizhong's words seem to tell him that his "crazy thoughts" seem to be correct, and some things have already happened without his expectation.

But are these things so important?

Zhong Yi turned over, frowning deeply.

The room was dark, and he remembered their conversation on the rooftop many years ago.

He still remembers how bright Ah Li's eyes were under the stars and in the night.

Ah Li... You said that you will not come back easily after you go to Fancheng, is that what you mean?What's haunting you?Even I can't say it?

What annoys you, even lied to us for so long, and you never confess?

Hua Tian lay at Zhong Yi's feet, bringing a little warmth, but his heart was cold.

A day passed, Zhong Yicha didn't think about food, and the three of them gathered together.

Yin Zizhong said: "Did you see anything?"

Zhong Yi shook his head slowly.

Fu Sanyi knocked on the desk: "Then look at your brother's handwriting, is it scribbled or neat?"

Zhong Yi asked: "Why?"

Fu Sanyi said: "At least it can reflect your brother's mentality when writing letters, sometimes it can be reflected in the font."

Zhong Yi looked down thoughtfully.

On the second day, Zhong Yi's clothes were disheveled, the table was full of letter papers, his eyes were reddish, and his voice was hoarse: "Old Yin..."

Fu Sanyi came in from the outside and exaggeratedly called out: "Old Yin, what did you do to the young master?"

Yin Zizhong who was feeding the cat: "..."

Fu Sanyi rushed over and wrapped Yin Zizhong's ink-colored cloak around Zhong Yi: "It's cold now, don't do this."

Zhong Yi nodded slowly.

Yin Zizhong asked, "Do you want to tell your parents?"

Zhong Yi paused for a moment, then shook her head: "Not good... I don't want them to worry."

Fu Sanyi thought for a while, moved a chair and sat down: "How about we go to Kanyuan Pavilion?"

The three were silent.

After a while, Yin Zizhong broke the silence: "I agree. No one knows what your brother said to the instructor at the end. It was just passed around that it was a family accident. If you tell the instructor the truth, maybe he will help us. .”

Fu Sanyi said: "His instructor will help us?"

Yin Zizhong glanced at him: "Zhong Li performed quite well in Kanyuan Pavilion. My brother said that his instructor intends to train him as the next recommended military student."

Zhong Yi nodded: "A Li mentioned it once, he said he didn't want to go."

Fu Sanyi said with a toothache: "Your brother is really a maverick, why don't you recommend sending military students?"

Yin Zi patted Fu Sanyi on the head: "Tell me your opinion."

Fu Sanyi looked at Zhong Yihong's rabbit-like eyes, and said, "A hero is saddened by a beauty... Bah, no, I mean, I'm going to do whatever I can!"

Yin Zizhong selectively ignored Fu Sanyi's scholarly figure, and said to Zhong Yi: "I will write to my brother first, and he will try his best to help."

Zhong Yi was moved: "Thank you."

For the next few days, Zhong Yi kept preparing her luggage and even asked Shi Fuzi for leave.

Master Shi frowned and stared at him fiercely.

Zhong Yi was a little afraid of his gaze, and still said: "Master Shi, please approve."

Afterwards, when he went down the stairs, he felt like a light was on his back.

Master Shi, I'm sorry, I will practice the piano well when I find Ah Li!

He hurried back to the room.

Habitually take out those letters and read them carefully.

Suddenly, looking at it, an idea appeared in my mind like lightning.

In the afternoon, Yin Zizhong came back with his sword in hand.

Zhong Yi sat at the desk, turned around and said, "Old Yin."

Yin Zizhong took off his armor and unbuttoned his clothes: "Huh?"

Zhong Yi lowered her eyes and looked at the letter paper: "I think there is something wrong with Ah Li's writing."

Yin Zizhong tilted his head: "Why is something wrong?"

Zhong Yi stood up, holding a piece of letter paper in her left hand.

"Look, this is from the year before last."

Yin Zizhong took it.

Zhong Yi handed over another piece of letter paper: "This is from last August."

Yin Zizhong compared the two pieces of letter paper carefully.

After a while, Yin Zizhong frowned and said, "I don't see any difference."

Zhong Yi said: "Can't you see it?" He sighed slightly: "I also have an intuition that something is wrong."

Yin Zizhong put down the letter paper and said in a deep voice, "If you say it's wrong, then this letter is wrong."

Zhong Yi smiled slightly: "How do you say?"

Yin Zizhong said casually: "When I was young, I was like this too. In the past, someone deceived me with imitating my brother's handwriting, and I saw through it at a glance."

"However, I can't say a reason."

Zhong Yi said thoughtfully, "Then, who is doing this?"

As soon as these words came out, both of them were frightened by the thoughts in their hearts.