After leaving the mountain, the two traveled all the way back to Chongqing.It took four or five days to leave the accompanying capital this time. Shen Jianli had never asked for leave at the headquarters. Fortunately, he was in a idle position, and it would be the same with him or without him.Therefore, he was not in a hurry to go back to the barracks to plead guilty, and went back to the other courtyard to rest.

When they arrived at the gate of the other courtyard, they immediately saw an envelope lying on the ground.Yue Qiluo picked it up and looked at the signature on the envelope, it was Wuxin's handwriting.Shen Jianli still remembered the fight Wuxin had with her, so he leaned over curiously and asked, "What was written?"

"It's empty." Yue Qiluo squeezed the envelope open, showed Shen Jianli the empty inside, threw the envelope on the ground, and went straight to open the door.

empty?

How could someone leave a signed, empty envelope at the door?

Yue Qiluo also knew that something was wrong, but she and Wuxin were already in a deadlock, and it was absolutely impossible for her to make peace.Anyway, if Wuxin really had something important, he would always come to discuss with her in person, and she was not in a hurry.

But Wuxin never came.

After Yue Qiluo made it clear to Shen Jianli, she no longer shy away from him, and spent all day boring in her hut doing exercises.When Shen Jianli came back from the outside, Yue Qiluo sat cross-legged on the floor of the main room, holding a bowl of black dog blood and drew a magic circle on the ground. After drawing for a long time, she used scissors to cut out paper figurines, surrounded by a circle Candles, a warm wind greeted him directly.

The room was full of blood, Shen Jianli squeezed his nose and leaned over, and saw that the paper figurine in Yue Qiluo's hand was cut with a nose and eyes, and two braids.He asked in a low voice: "Qi Luo, why did you cut the nose and eyes of the paper doll?"

"You don't care about me." Yue Qiluo rolled his eyes at him, "Why don't you come and learn?"

"Forget it, I'm clumsy." Seeing that Yue Qiluo wanted to persuade him to learn magic again, Shen Jianli quickly took a step back, unexpectedly being kicked in the leg, Yue Qiluo said without raising his head: "Then you go cook .”

"Cooking?" Shen Jianli asked in surprise, "Didn't the Yue mansion deliver the food?"

"Shut up, if you are told to do it, do it." Yue Qiluo was very irritable when she cut the scissors crookedly.

So tonight, a plate of scrambled eggs was placed in the middle of the dinner table. There were yellow and white, with a golden oily sheen. It was really gratifying to look at.

With a smile on her face, Yue Qiluo squeezed out a sentence: "...you blow up the kitchen twice, and you made this."

Shen Jianli also managed to smile back at her: "You insisted on me doing it."

"Okay." Yue Qiluo stopped talking nonsense with him, picked up a piece of chopsticks, and put it in his mouth to taste carefully. Not very poor?"

Shen Jianli was stunned, and said, "How do you know?"

"Did you put salt?" Yue Qiluo smiled sweetly.

Shen Jianli raised his interest and explained to her: "When I was leading troops in the field to fight in the field, I marched in a hurry, and the game I brought was roasted and eaten directly, without salt."

"Forget it, forget it." Yue Qiluo felt a headache when he heard it, and motioned him to stop talking, "You can feed it to the birds."

"Then what do you eat?" Shen Jianli was stunned, "The mansion didn't bring dinner, and there are only eggs left in the other courtyard."

"I want to eat Dingxiangju noodles with scallion oil."

Yue Qiluo crossed her feet and stared at him like a pair of longan eyes. Shen Jianli couldn't help her looking at him like this, so she had to beg for forgiveness, put on her clothes and went down the mountain.

It was approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the night in Chongqing was a bit cold. Shen Jianli packed his iron lunch box with a net bag, and went to make noodles with scallion oil for Yue Qiluo with a clang.

When we arrived at Dingxiangju, it happened to be the best time for business, and the huge store was full of seats.Shen Jianli ordered noodles with scallion oil from the same store, so he looked around, trying to pick a seat to sit down.As soon as he turned his head, he unexpectedly saw Wuxin, but at this moment there was a strange girl sitting beside him with a pretty face.He remembered Wuxin Xianghao's appearance, which was not the same person as this girl.

Before he had time to react, he saw him unintentionally, and stretched out his hand to beckon him over.Shen Jianli had no choice but to go over and sit down, Wu Xin ordered a table of food, talking and laughing with the girl, he looked embarrassed, feeling like he was sitting on pins and needles.

"Zhang Xianzong, you and Yue Qiluo haven't been seen for several days, where did you go to play?" Wu Xin was in a good mood, poured him a cup of tea, and asked leisurely.

"I went to Luzhou." Shen Jianli forced a smile, "You and Yue Qiluo, why are you still not in touch?"

"Who says no contact? I even handed her a letter." Wuxin picked up some food with chopsticks, and glanced at Shen Jianli intermittently.

"There is no letter, I just saw an empty envelope." Shen Jianli was not polite to him, took the jug and poured it into his glass.

Wu Xin's expression remained calm, and he said, "You must have misread it."

There was not a single drop left in the jug, not even a Forgen, Shen Jianli put down the jug in disappointment, and when he looked up, the girl beside Wu Xin was staring at him intently.The girl was beautiful, with red lips and white teeth, and her bangs were cut like crescents.After staring at him for a long time, he turned his gaze away and said with a smile, "Wuxin, I'm going to the bathroom."

Seeing that she was gone, Shen Jianli put his arms on the table and asked him in a low voice: "Xinhuan?"

Wuxin poured a cup of tea and drank it, said: "Just play around."

"What do you mean?" Shen Jianli was stunned, "You and this girl—?"

"This girl is weird, but I haven't figured it out yet." Wu Xin picked up the shredded pork in the dish, and glanced to the side out of the corner of her eye, "She came to approach me, why don't you use her tricks and find out her details."

Seeing that Shen Jianli still had a look of disbelief, Wuxin had no choice but to put down her chopsticks and said, "Am I the one who waits for the beginning to mess up and ends up giving up? I'm not you."

"? What's wrong with me?" Shen Jianli was puzzled, "In this case, why don't you discuss it with Qi Luo."

"Discussion? Didn't you see that empty envelope?" Wuxin lowered her voice, and squeezed out a few words from the corner of her mouth, "Someone is watching my every move, Yue Qiluo is not so nice. If you want to, tell me something Words are enough."

"I'm not tired of living yet." Shen Jianli pushed back, "She's been very anxious these days, and she's in Luzhou again...it's hard to explain, you should have an interview with her when you have a chance."

Just as he was talking, the scallion noodles that Shen Jianli wanted were brought over by Xiaoer, and he didn't linger any longer, he picked up his net bag and got up and said, "Let's go, Miss Yue will scold me again when I go back a little later.", After walking a few steps, she turned around and added, "You'd better come and apologize to her earlier, the Mid-Autumn Festival will be in a few days, and the Yue Mansion has boiled sweet-scented osmanthus candy, so you can try it too."

Shen Jianli was carrying the lunch box, and before he reached the door, a soft singing voice came to his ears, the voice was crisp and waxy, and it sounded inexplicably familiar.He followed the reputation, and saw a stage set up at the other end of the store, hung with layers of bead curtains, and behind the curtain sat a girl playing and singing with a pipa, singing word by word: "The ends of the world, the corners of the sea, look for your bosom friend." The little sister sings, and Lang plays the piano..."

Unknowingly, he stopped and listened. The singing was so good that his heart flew to the stage.As he listened, he recalled where he had heard this voice before. As he listened, the noise around him seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him.The singing girl sang a line: "My family is looking at the north, tears are dripping on my breasts... my little sister misses you until now..."

There seemed to be a bit of sadness in that voice, and Shen Jianli's heart felt sore from being pulled.After thinking about it, he still took a step and walked towards the stage. By some coincidence, he stretched out his hand to open the curtain.

The singing girl behind the curtain was charming and charming. Seeing him open the curtain, she glanced at him shyly, then lowered her head and made a deep blessing, saying: "Qing'er pays homage to the general."

"Qing'er." Shen Jianli was stunned, took a step back, his mind was in chaos, "You...why are you here?"

"Qing'er has been waiting to meet the general," Qing'er stared at him earnestly, "Qing'er has been waiting for a long time... After searching for a long time, I finally found the general!"

"You, don't call me a general," Shen Jianli forced a smile, avoiding her gaze, "Why are you looking for me...I have nothing to do with you."

When Qing'er heard this, the smile on her face cooled down, and the corners of her eyes immediately drooped, and tears filled her eyes.She stood up, put the pipa aside and came to shake his hand, saying: "Don't go, General, Qing'er has something important to say!"

"What?"

Qing'er took his hand with both hands, looked behind him, and said, "Follow me."

Shen Jianli didn't know what to do for a while, so she let her pull him out through the back door of the stage. He didn't know that there was such a big space in Dingxiangju. Entering through the back door, it was a long corridor, which was a bit like a long corridor. Three Tangzi.Qing'er led him into a wing room, turned around and closed the door.Shen Jianli took a few steps in, when suddenly there was a muffled plop behind him, and when he turned around, it was Qing'er kneeling on the ground.

"You, you are—" Shen Jianli panicked, and ran over to help her up.

Qing'er refused to get up, looked up at him with tears in her eyes, and said, "I beg the general to save Qing'er!"

"Get up and tell," Shen Jianli said with difficulty, "what's going on."

"Qing'er doesn't want to stay in Changsantang anymore," Qing'er shook her head sadly while shedding tears, "This time... I escaped risking my life. The boss of Dingxiangju was kind enough to take me in This is to sing for him. But if the people in the hall find out...Qing'er will be beaten to death by them!"

"You..." Shen Jianli felt his scalp go numb, "You mean, there is still your contract of prostitution in the hall?"

Qing'er was crying so hard that she couldn't speak, so she kept nodding her head.Shen Jianli said it was troublesome, he had only met this girl once, even though she was quite to his liking, but he had no other intentions for her.He also didn't know why she was entangled with him, but if he just walked away, his conscience would not let it go.Just as she was thinking about it, Qing'er said again: "Qing'er has only met one good man, the General, and is really desperate... Please, General, save me!"

"Okay, don't cry." Shen Jianli was overwhelmed by her crying. He wanted to find a handkerchief to wipe her tears, but he couldn't find it after searching. Instead, he took out his wallet and took out two bills and stuffed them into her In his hand, he said: "You can take this money to redeem yourself, or leave Chongqing and go to another place to make a living."

Qing'er took the money in her hand, knelt down again with a plop, kowtowed and said: "The general is so kind, how can I ask Qing'er to repay you."

"No, Xiaoqian." Shen Jianli went to help her, and at the same time reached out to touch the lunch box in the net pocket, thinking that if his heart was cold, it would inevitably make Yue Qiluo unhappy.

Qing'er kowtowed a few times, got up and took Shen Jianli's arm and said, "Qing'er can only sing, why don't you sing a few songs to repay the general."

When Shen Jianli was about to evade, Qing'er had already opened his voice, and there was a buzzing sound in his head, and he couldn't land on the ground after taking half a step.Qing'er's soft voice was like a jug of strong wine, which was poured down his throat, making him float, unable to tell the difference between east, west, and north.

Shen Jianli struggled in the chaos thinking, he wants to go back, he shouldn't stay here.But this idea was like a bean flame, shaking and trembling, and went out with a splash.Qing'er's hand was as soft as silk, and it was pinched in his hand. He looked along the hands, the lotus root-like arm was like a milk, and looking up, it was Yue Qiluo's face.She was wrapped in a bright red cloak, smiling at him vaguely, in fact, Yue Qiluo never smiled like this, in fact, she was the prettiest when she smiled, she always had a cold face on weekdays, she always smiled defensively, Smart words.She smiles so beautifully, like drinking cold water.

"Qiluo..."

His eyes were wet when he said these words, another voice in his mind was also calling her name, surrounded by countless voices, making his nasal cavity sore.Suddenly, it seemed like he hadn't seen Yue Qiluo in hundreds of years. Every inch of her skin belonged to him. With a gentle pull, her soft and boneless body fell into his arms, and a scent of powder followed her. into the nose.

This scent woke him up a bit, and when he looked down, Qing'er was lying in his arms, and the box of noodles with scallion oil fell to the ground.Shen Jianli lowered his head to pick it up and pushed her away.The lunch box seemed to be a little cold, he put the net bag into his arms, and looked up at Qing'er.

Qing'er stopped singing, and stared at him blankly, as if she didn't expect to be pushed away.After a long time, Shen Jianli lowered his head to avoid her gaze, and said in a low voice, "It's getting late, I'm going back."

"General!" Qing'er rushed over and grabbed his arm.

Without looking back, he brushed that hand off his arm and said, "Miss, take care of yourself, and I will come to see you later."

That's not Yue Qiluo.

Shen Jianli recalled the face he saw just now, and hugged the lunch box in his arms tightly. Maybe it was because of the dim light that his eyes were dazzled.That face really looks like Yue Qiluo, if she smiles, it probably looks the same.He thought for a long time before he thought of the parting, Yue Qiluo's eyes were alive, always flowing with light, the black was rubbed with gold, and the black was unusually black.But those eyes just now were empty, black and empty.

Those were not Yue Qiluo's eyes.

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