They all say I'm a puppet

Fu Yu has always liked to eat roasted sweet potatoes, after all, for him and Uncle Zhong, any food is very precious.In the cold winter, curled up in front of the charcoal fire, holding a steaming sweet potato, peeling off the dirty outer skin, revealing the golden inner flesh, with a tangy aroma.

Uncle Zhong usually just pretended to eat a small bite and gave it all to Fu Yu. When Fu Yu was a child, he just thought that Uncle Zhong didn’t like to eat. When he grew up, he realized that Uncle Zhong just gave Fu Yu everything he had as much as possible. .

So for many years, Fuyu's best memories of winter are a warm brazier, sweet sweet potatoes, and the folk legends told by Uncle Zhong, slowly falling asleep in the dim light of the fire.

"Are you thinking about how to drive me away again?" Cang Lin's voice woke Fu Yu from his thoughts. He raised his head and faced the young man's dark eyes. When looking at a person with the water light, the other person will have a feeling that the whole person is caught in these eyes. At this time, you can't help but want to agree to what he says.

"Didn't I already apologize to you? Why do you still hold grudges like this?" Fuyu pulled the sweet potato in the charcoal fire with a wooden stick, "Didn't this also roast the sweet potato for you?"

Cang Lin looked down at the sweet potato, his eyes flickered, and finally replied: "You just apologized for what happened just now, but it doesn't mean you won't do it later."

Fu Yu sighed lowly: "You child, why are you so thoughtful?"

Cang Lin raised his head, with dissatisfaction on his face: "I said, I'm not a child, I'm only two years younger than you."

Fu Yu found that Cang Lin seemed to be extremely stubborn in this matter, so he finally nodded: "I know, I know, let's eat something, the sweet potato will be fine in a while."

Cang Lin took a piece of pastry from the paper bag that he had been holding in his arms and glanced at it. He seemed to hesitate for a moment, and brought it to Fu Yu's lips. Fu Yu met his pitiful eyes. eyes, opened his mouth subconsciously, and ate the piece of pastry into his mouth. The sweet feeling permeated the whole mouth, Fu Yu said vaguely: "Well, it's delicious, you can eat it yourself."

Cang Lin blinked, watched Fu Yu swallow the pastry, then reached out to take another piece of pastry, and ate it slowly.His eating was exceptionally gentle and elegant, he chewed carefully and swallowed slowly, and after eating the whole pastry, there was no residue on his lips.Fu Yu looked at him eagerly, and felt that compared with Cang Lin, he was like a servant next to some master.He raised his hand to wipe the corner of his mouth, lowered his head and continued to study the sweet potatoes in the charcoal basin.

When Fu Yu took out the roasted sweet potatoes from the charcoal basin, Cang Lin frowned at the black thing, and looked at Fu Yu in disbelief: "This thing, can you really eat it?"

"Have you ever eaten roasted sweet potatoes?" Fu Yu smiled, "I tell you, it's not only edible, but also delicious." As he spoke, he endured the heat and peeled off the outer skin of the sweet potatoes, revealing the yellow inner flesh, and moved towards Cang Lin walked over to see it off, "Smell it, does it smell good?"

Cang Lin approached carefully and smelled it, then nodded seriously, stared at the sweet potato in Fu Yu's hand for a while, and said in a low voice: "Madam doesn't like it, so there has never been such a thing in the house."

Fu Yu knew that what he was talking about should be the mansion before he entered the palace. As for which mansion and which wife it was, Cang Lin never mentioned it, and he didn't want to ask any more questions. The sweet potato was delivered to Cang Lin: "Eat it, there is no lady here, and there will never be one in the future."

Cang Lin stared at him blankly, then slowly curled the corners of his lips, and nodded vigorously.

Although in Fu Yu's eyes, roasted sweet potatoes are delicious, but in fact, he also knows that in the eyes of others, this may not be such a rare thing, but Cang Lin eats it very seriously, which makes Fu Yu feel that it is not a rare thing in his heart. Feeling a little weak, he lowered his head to peel the sweet potato in his hand, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show lines of laughter.

After taking a bite of the sweet potato, he looked up at Cang Lin: "Want to hear a story?"

Cang Lin looked up suspiciously: "What story?"

"Hmm..." Fu Yu thought for a while, "Today is New Year's Eve, so let me tell you a story about Nian Beast, have you heard it?"

Cang Lin slowed down eating sweet potatoes, and seemed to be really interested in the story Fu Yu was going to tell: "I haven't heard any stories."

"Okay then, let's tell the story of the Nian Beast." Fu Yu bent his eyes, held the roasted sweet potato in his hand and put it in front of the charcoal basin, deliberately lowering his voice, "A long time ago..."

The sky outside the window was gradually dimming, and the sound of firecrackers still sounded intermittently in the alley in the distance, breaking the tranquility of the night. Every family reunited and watched the last night of the year together.

In a corner of the capital, in a small room, under the dim light, two teenagers grilled a charcoal basin, ate roasted sweet potatoes, and spent a peaceful New Year's Eve together.All the joys and sorrows of the previous year, all the fears and fears are left in this night, and when the sky gradually dawns and the new year comes, they will start a new life together.

At the beginning, Fu Yu just wanted to tell a story about the Nian Beast to meet the occasion, but he didn't expect Cang Lin to be very interested in this kind of folklore. The stories I told myself were told one after another.

Cang Lin hugged his knees, opened a pair of big eyes, listened carefully and quietly, and gave Fu Yu water from time to time when he stopped.The two teenagers got together like this, one told stories, the other listened to stories, and spent the first New Year's Eve after they met each other. It wasn't until the sky gradually brightened that they both fell asleep, and then they climbed onto the bed and hugged each other. The other party fell into a deep sleep.

Fu Yu didn't know how long he had slept this time, he was awakened by the movement around him, opened his eyes and found that Cang Lin had woken up, was putting on his outer robe and was about to go out, Fu Yu glanced at him in a daze , asked: "What time is it? Why are you going?"

"Wei Shi." Cang Lin replied, "I heard that there seemed to be movement in the alley outside, so go and take a look, you can sleep for a while."

"What's happening?" Fu Yu raised his eyebrows and got up, reaching for his robe while asking, "What's happening? Today is the first day of the new year. Did someone set off firecrackers?"

"It's not the sound of firecrackers." Cang Lin replied, the words left the inner door and walked into the courtyard.

Fu Yu hurriedly put on his outer robe, followed Cang Lin into the courtyard, watched Cang Lin walk to the courtyard door with light steps, opened the courtyard door a gap, and looked around cautiously.Fu Yu walked to his side and wanted to look out, but Cang Lin blocked him from coming forward.

Fu Yu was slightly dissatisfied, and still unable to speak, Cang Lin had already opened the courtyard door, leaned out half of his body, and asked the passers-by: "Old man, I see that there is a lot of noise outside, what's the matter? "

A somewhat old voice replied: "Duke Qin's army has entered the city! Although there is no massacre like at the border, the city is in great chaos now. The big guys either want to escape from the city, or hide at home and do not go out. , anyway, young people, please don’t run around.”

Cang Lin nodded: "Understood, old man, thank you very much." After finishing speaking, he retracted his body, closed the courtyard door again, looked back at Fu Yu, his brows and eyes slightly frowned, and judged the boy who was obediently listening to the story the night before. If the two of them said, "He Hongyi's army has entered the city, and the city is in a mess now, I'll go out to investigate, and take advantage of his current targets should be in the palace, hurry up and escape from the capital. Otherwise, wait a few days for him to finish After seeing the incident in the palace, I turned around and found that you were not there, searching in the city, it will be difficult for you and me to escape."

"Are you going to find out by yourself?" Fu Yu frowned. He had also heard of He Hongyi's reputation, and knew that he should be no less terrifying than Chen Yuan. The city is in chaos right now. Letting a child like Cang Lin go out to find out, I always feel Some are not safe.

Cang Lin met the worry in his eyes, lowered his eyes slightly: "I don't know what's going on in the city now, it's not safe to take you out, after all, I'm just a..." He paused, "No one will pay attention to me. "

Fu Yu felt that she had something to say, and heard Cang Lin continue: "Don't worry, as long as I don't accidentally die outside, I will definitely keep my word and come back with you in time, and I will never think about how to get you Get rid of it."

Fu Yu: "..."

The kid who ate roasted sweet potatoes and told stories by the fire last night was probably his hallucination. This person turned out to be like this in the morning, which is a bit awkward and unreasonable.

And hold grudges.

Fu Yu sighed lowly, and said patiently: "Okay, I'll wait for you here, I promise, this time I won't think of leaving you alone this time, and come back as soon as you finish your investigation. Convergence, how?"

Cang Lin raised his hand and unconsciously knocked on the wooden courtyard door. He seemed to be struggling for a while, but finally nodded: "Okay, we will do what we say."

"no sooner said than done."

The author has something to say: Fu Yu: I feel like I have found an ancestor.