[Comprehensive martial arts] Jianghu is too scary

On the second day, the three of them drove to the small courtyard that Zhongyi rented, which was very different from the other courtyard of Hua's family.

Yanli originally lived in the countryside, so she didn't think much of it, but Huamanlou, a nobleman in such a place, although his expression was indifferent, made people feel a little out of place, and there were not many people in the surrounding households. look at them.

Passing by another house, the smell of swill standing at the door was a bit unpleasant, Yan Li wrinkled her nose, and asked Hua Manlou: "You have a sensitive nose, can you take it?"

Hua Manlou smiled slightly, "It's nothing."

After getting here, it is impossible for Yanli to let him go back first, so he can only speed up and find Zhongyi's residence as soon as possible.Arriving at the gate of a courtyard, Yan Li was about to confirm with them if it was this house, when the door in front of her suddenly opened, but there was no one at the door.

Huamanlou and Mo Er immediately became alert, Yanli found a safe place for herself behind Huamanlou, and shouted inside, "Excuse me, is Zhongyi here?"

They stood outside the door and saw no one as far as they could see. At this moment, a person appeared in front of the east window and said softly, "Little scholar, I'm looking for you."

Zhongyi had already heard the familiar voice outside the door, dropped the book in her hand and opened the door, and said pleasantly to the people outside the courtyard: "Ali!"

When Yanli saw him, she immediately came out from behind Huamanlou, walked in quickly, and faced Zhongyi face to face, looked him around a few times, and said with a smile, "I've lost a lot of weight. Studying is hard, right?"

Zhongyi shook her head, and said gently: "It's just that I'm not used to the temperature and food in the capital, and I can barely eat the food I make myself, so I will lose weight naturally." Looking up and seeing the handsome young man behind her, he asked her : "Is this a playboy?"

Yanli turned sideways immediately, and introduced to Zhongyi: "This is Huamanlou, I've been with him all this time."

Zhongyi saluted Huamanlou, "Thank you, Mr. Hua, for taking care of Ah Li."

Hua Manlou smiled faintly, shook his head and said, "Mr. Zhong, there is no need to thank you, you should take care of Ah Li."

"Thank you, Mr. Playboy, for letting me take me to Beijing. I saved a lot of trouble along the way."

"You are Ali's friend, so don't be too polite."

Yan Li saw that one of the two thanked him, and the other kept telling him not to thank him, so he tugged on Zhongyi's sleeve and said boldly: "Zhongyi, it's hard to meet each other, so don't thank me back and forth, you don't have to do that with Huamanlou. polite."

After hearing her words, Hua Manlou and Zhongyi all smiled at her. At this time, another person in the yard who had not interrupted their reminiscence said leisurely: "Little scholar, is this your little Qingmei?" ?”

Yan Li and the others followed the sound, and saw a person leaning against the window, with a soft and feminine face, if it wasn't for his tall stature, his clothes were brightly colored but men's clothing, which would almost make people think it was a man's clothes. Miss.

Zhong Yi seemed to have gotten used to his tone, and was about to introduce him like Yan Li, when he saw this man and said slowly: "My surname is Xiong, and Xiong Bai met this little scholar on the road and met Hen Wan as company. okay."

"Xiong...?" Yan Li felt that it was hard not to suspect that he was deceiving someone with such a tough surname for his appearance and posture?

Xiong Bai didn't take the suspicion in her tone seriously at all, changed his posture and leaned against the window, and smiled softly at Zhong Yi: "Little scholar, you were still talking about this little green plum the day before yesterday, and you are here today." , shouldn’t it be time to catch up on the old days, go out for a walk, I will entertain these two guests.”

Zhong Yi was a little helpless to him who kept calling Yan Li "Xiao Qingmei", but he had been used to this person's willful behavior for so long, so he didn't argue with him, turned around and said to Yan Li with a smile: "A Li, if you How about going out for a walk if you have nothing to do? Shall we go to the restaurant together at noon or buy a la carte and meat to cook?"

"Why don't I cook it for you? I learned some Yangzhou cuisine some time ago, so I cook it for you." After Yanli finished speaking, she looked at Huamanlou again, and she ignored that Xiong Bai had already put Huamanlou and Huamanlou together. Mo Er asked, "Hua Man Lou, do you want to go with us? The vegetable market is a bit messy, otherwise you'll just wait here for me and Zhong Yi to come back?"

Hua Manlou smiled at Yan Li, and said empathetically, "It's been a long time since you guys have a chat, I'll wait for you here."

Naturally, Zhongyi would not just leave the guests in the yard, and greeted the three of them to go into the house to make tea for Huamanlou, before carrying a basket and preparing to go out with Yanli.Before going out, he glanced at Xiong Bai, but he didn't say anything.

Mo Er couldn't say a word all day, when he saw the two people going out, he immediately followed behind them silently, Xiong Bai leaned on the chair like a boneless one, drinking the tea made by Zhong Yi, and leisurely Said: "My childhood sweetheart is talking, why is it that you who have eyes are not as good as a blind man who has eyesight?"

Few people can tell that Hua Manlou is blind when they meet for the first time, so that when he "looks" at Xiong Bai, he has a slightly surprised expression on his face.But Mo Er didn't care what others said, he still stepped out of the gate, and fell far behind them to protect Yan Li.

Neither Yanli nor Zhongyi knew martial arts, and Mo Er himself didn't have any sense of presence when he didn't want to have a sense of presence, so neither of them noticed that he was following behind.

Walking in the alley, when they came in, there were several women of different ages sitting in front of a house, when they saw Zhong Yi and Yan Li walking together, one of them, a middle-aged woman, stood up and laughed Question: "Mr. Zhongju, are you going out to buy vegetables? Just now we wondered who the carriage was looking for? Is this girl a relative of yours?"

Yan Li noticed that although she was smiling on her face, she looked at herself with hostility in her eyes, and then looked at the young girl with shy and defensive eyes behind the woman, she understood.

She listened to Zhongyi talking to them very politely, and took the initiative to help him out: "We Zhongyi went to Beijing to rush for the exam and stayed here temporarily, thanks to the care of the neighbors, thank you all."

Yanli thanked them, and blessed them. Her temperament and her attire were better than everyone else in the alley, and they were a little cautious when they responded.

The young girl was bold, so she stared at her and asked again: "What is the relationship between this girl and Zhong Xiucai?"

The middle-aged woman gave her a tug, but the girl still kept looking at the two of them. Although Yan Li didn't think she was disgusted by her appearance, Zhong Yi obviously didn't mean that, so she made up a decent way: "What's your name?" Girl, don’t look at me as young. In fact, I’m almost 30 years old. I’m Zhongyi’s distant aunt. I didn’t know that Zhongyi came to the capital. This time I found him, but I couldn’t bear him to wash vegetables and cook like a scholar. , I want him to live in my house, so that I can prepare for the spring in peace."

The girl had mixed feelings because of her words. The happy thing was that the two of them didn't have that kind of relationship, but the worry was that Zhong Yi was originally a Juren, and now that he had some background depending on the situation, he definitely looked down on her even more...

The middle-aged woman didn't think too much about it. When she heard that she was Zhong Juren's aunt, who was about to be in her 30s, she looked sympathetically and said, "So it's my aunt who hasn't married yet at such an advanced age..."

Yan Li twitched the corners of her mouth, probably guessing that she knew she was not married because she didn't wear a woman's hair in a bun, but what does this sympathetic tone mean?Even if she is really 30 years old and still unmarried, she doesn't seem to be living worse than them, right?

And Zhongyi, who was watching Yanli's mischief, couldn't help but lower her head and hold back her smile. She didn't delay here anymore, and took Yanli to say goodbye to them. After getting far away, she poked her forehead reproachfully, " I thought you would be more mature during this time apart, why are you still so naughty?"

Yan Li shook her head, and couldn't help sighing: "Actually, a lot has changed, but in front of you, Zhong Yi, I am still me."

Zhongyi was very happy because of her words, and her steps became cheerful.

Yan Li saw that there was a piece of damage on the hem of his clothes when he was moving, and said with some distress: "It's hard outside, right? When you were at home, your aunt would repair your clothes immediately if your clothes were torn... "

Zhong Yi looked down at Yan Li's line of sight, and immediately explained with a smile: "This is old clothes, Dong...Xiong Bai can mend them, he was going to mend them for me, I thought I would be poor if I looked poor." If you won’t be noticed by bad guys, you won’t let him make love.”

"Mr. Xiong still mends clothes like a rich man?" But Yan Li just asked casually, and then said: "Although I don't know martial arts, but seeing the attitude of Hua Manlou in front of the door, Mr. Xiong is very good at martial arts." , you still have to worry about meeting bad guys? But how did you know each other?"

"Hmm..." Zhongyi recalled the scene at that time, and did not tell Yanli everything truthfully, but simply said: "In the wilderness, he drank too much and lay on the rock alone. The people in the caravan said he must It’s not that ordinary people don’t want to get in touch, I thought people would avoid him, snakes, insects, rats and ants, but they wouldn’t, so I sprinkled some insect repellent powder around him…”

Yanli has seen a lot in Jianghu these days, so she knew that Zhongyi was a little naive when she came out, so she ran on tiptoe and patted him on the shoulder, and persuaded: "Don't do this kind of thing in the future, they Jianghu The ability of middlemen is beyond what we can imagine, if you think you want to do something bad and do it regardless, you really can't dodge it."

Zhong Yi rubbed her nose and said with a wry smile: "I've known since Xiong Bai walked with me. I can deal with it casually by myself, but Xiong Bai can't. It's true that the time has been quite rich!"

"I don't think he has any ill intentions towards you. Having such a person by your side can protect you somewhat, and we can rest assured." The two approached the vegetable market at this time, and they could already hear some cries. Sighing, he said, "It's just that you are going to participate in Chunwei, and you are always wasting time on these things and can't take good care of yourself. It's really putting the cart before the horse."

"I'm already pretty good. I have a lot of troubles, and I have to squeeze with many people." But although Zhongyi said so at this time, in fact, when he first arrived in the capital, if it wasn't for the fact that there was an extra person beside him who was not easy to raise. People who live here will definitely choose that kind of place to save money.

But Yanli didn't think so, and said in disapproval: "I didn't know until I was in the capital that Huamanlou wanted you to go to the Huajia Bieyuan to prepare for the exam, but you refused. Nothing is as important as your exam. Why don't you stay here for now?" ?”

Zhongyi walked directly to a familiar vegetable stall, greeted her, put the selected dishes aside, and said to Yanli: "You are temporarily staying at someone else's house, I don't know what your situation is, but I can't trouble you and make people look down on you."

Yan Li had a sore nose and pursed her mouth. Looking at Zhongyi who was squatting there, she wanted to tell him all the things she had experienced during this period of time, but she thought that she could digest it, but Zhongyi couldn't help it. Worried, she can't affect Chunwei, who is very important to Zhongyi.

Zhongyi paid the money, stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go buy some meat."

Yan Li obediently followed behind him, passing by a chicken vendor, and stopped.Zhongyi took a look and asked with a smile: "Ali, do you want to eat chicken? Then let's buy one."

He didn't hesitate to pay the money, but Yanli knew that Zhongyi definitely didn't have too much money, remembering the ring she had been wearing all the time, she suddenly said to Zhongyi: "Didn't I tell you to go back to Shaanxi?" Do you want to deal with my parents' affairs? I just came back from there and got some things. Wait until I ask if there is a house in the capital. If so, you can move there? It doesn't matter. It's better to have someone to help me with meals and laundry. "

Zhong Yi was about to ask carefully, when she turned around, she saw someone following him not far away.Yan Li looked back and saw Mo Er, and immediately said to him: "Mo Er is the one who is protecting me, I will ask him in a while, if you don't want to go to Hua's house, you can't refuse to live in my place, right?" ?”

Yanli didn't wait for Zhongyi's answer, and walked back to Mo Er. Anyway, her idea was that no matter whether there was a house or not, she could have one. Fortunately, Mo Er said that there was indeed a house. Although it was not in the center of the city, Yu Zhongyi came Said it had no effect.

But Zhongyi couldn't compete with her, so she finally agreed.Mo Er took the chicken from Yanli's hand, took Zhongyi's vegetable basket after a pause, and followed them back silently.

The three returned to the small courtyard, Hua Manlou and Xiong Bai sat on each side without talking, Zhongyi and Xiong Bai talked about moving, but the other party didn't care about where they lived at all.