Night ship

[-]. Cloud Gathering

The strong wind rattled the sails of the bow, and the sky seemed to be dark again.

——The rainstorm is coming.

Tao Xue'an stood up and smiled wryly, "My story is over, it doesn't seem to be interesting, then we will meet indefinitely."

"Little... benefactor," the monk suddenly stretched out his hand, his brows were furrowed, but he finally called benefactor respectfully. "Benefactor, the road to Kyoto is dangerous, the poor monk can..."

"As a poor scholar like me, I don't have much money, and my academic performance is not as good as my brothers'. Is there any fear that I will rob someone else's champion?" Tao Xuean said, "What are you doing with me?"

"I..." The monk was speechless, he couldn't say the reason. "...I don't want to follow you."

Tao Xuean frowned, but heard a barely audible sigh behind her, "I want to guard you."

The monk was finally kicked off the boat by the furious Tao Xuean. He had been a wanton and unruly monk for more than ten years. Even their old bald donkey had nothing to do with him, but he confessed in front of this red-faced and white-toothed young man.

He didn't dare to take a boat, the target was too obvious, he was afraid of being discovered by Tao Xue'an, and he was afraid of losing people if he was too far away, so he had to walk along the river by land, and when he was tired, he rested on a tree by the water for a while, and ran after the boat with all his strength. , very aggrieved.

Tao Xuean was also uneasy on the boat, he always thought of the barely audible whispers of the monk that day, he wondered if it was because the wind was too strong that day, he heard it wrong, maybe the man did say that he would guard him, but that He is a monk who is used to telling lies.

When he thought about this, he felt a little wronged, and it was the same in that year, when the ignorant and foolish child squatted under the leaky tile wall, motionless in the storm, in the vast rain and fog, he felt the first time this world brought him. An emotion is also grievance.

It turned out that the grievance was the red color of the rhododendron.

Tao Xue'an felt that he couldn't go on thinking like this, he should think more about his schoolwork and his uncle's high hopes for him, that's the right thing to do.Four or five days passed like this, before he reached the border of Dongzhou. On this day, he parked the boat at the berth and went ashore to buy some food in the nearby market. Suddenly he heard a voice calling him, and he turned his head. Come on, there is a person coming out of the carriage, a lady from the official family with a yellow skirt.

"Cousin, it's really you, I'm Pei Ziqin."

The woman looked at him with a gentle look and a smile on her face.He met this cousin a few times when he was very young, and his impression is already very vague, but the gentle demeanor of cousin Ziqin is probably what he looks like in front of him.

"Cousin... Hello, cousin, why are you here?"

"Father sees that you have been on the road for so many days, but you haven't arrived yet, so let me come and pick you up." Ziqin smiled.

Tao Xuean was a little embarrassed, he was not very good at dealing with girls, he even had a stuttering problem, "Then... I'm going to trouble my cousin." Pei Ziqin was very generous, and pulled him into the carriage very affectionately, "Cousin, we all It's my own. Daddy told you about us."

"En." Tao Xue'an suddenly remembered that what his cousin was talking about, after all, was a teenager's heart, blushed suddenly, and let his cousin lead him into the carriage.

He just wanted to get into the carriage, but he heard the crackling of tiles on the temple behind him, Tao Xuean thought, the wild cats in this temple are really irritable.

In the middle of the night, on the roof of an inn, a monk reclined drinking and watching a play.

The wine is 30-year-old daughter red from the temple.

Play is a big cliché of wit and beauty.

However, because the person in the play is his little idiot, there is still a different taste in his throat after all.

Under the eaves, Tao Xuean and his cousin were eating, and the cousin put a chopstick of fish into his bowl, "My cousin studies hard, so I need to eat more."

In fact, he is not very familiar with this uncle who is an official in the court, and this cousin only met once when he was young, when he was occasionally allowed to go home, he was ashamed of himself, and did not dare to make a fuss at the family banquet But it was the girl in yellow skirt next to my uncle, who saw his cautious appearance not daring to move the chopsticks, so she grabbed the longan in his hand and stuffed it into his hand.

He always remembered that his cousin was very good at taking care of others.

Tao Xue'an forced a smile, and added a duck leg to the girl's bowl.

Just as Pei Ziqin was about to bow his head to thank him, the duck legs in the bowl were gone.

The monk on the roof looked at the chicken leg in his hand, thinking to himself, if the little idiot is so stupid, would he still date girls?

Tao Xuean didn't know that there was a living Buddha lying on the roof, so he could only smile awkwardly at the girl. It was strange to say that no matter what he gave to his cousin in the future, it would disappear in an instant.

The monk who followed the sheep not only did not feel happy, after a few sips of wine, his throat was bitter and hot, he was afraid that his little idiot would not learn how to lick the cabbage, but he was licked by the cabbage, and he was afraid of his little nerd Melon has learned to arch cabbage.

He felt that it was embarrassing for him to be so entangled, but he really wanted to jump off the roof and tear the claws off the little fool, but he couldn't.

He remembered some past events that he hadn't thought of for a long time, remembered the appearance of that person when he was a child, remembered that the person called him the bald brother, and remembered the wish he had made.

He took a sip of the wine, but heard the voice of gnashing of teeth behind him, "Well, you boy, you don't learn how to do it well, steal the wine?"

The monk turned his head and saw his master was looking at him, the wine jug in his hand had already been in his hand, while reprimanding, the pair were fascinated by the wine.

He looked at the old bald donkey's stupid look of being seduced by the wine so much that his saliva was about to flow out, and he felt agitated, "Master, you lied to me."

"Why didn't you tell me that he was that child back then?" If he had known earlier, he would never have appeared in front of that child again, let alone...

Their masters and apprentices are in the same line about guarding and stealing.

Hui Chan took a sip of wine, spat, and said brazenly, "Teacher, you have wronged me, I tell you this is an old friend, you will know it in the future... I didn't expect you to know it 'in the future', tsk tsk , Even my younger brother will not be spared, beast."

Monk, "..." Do you want to keep such a bad master for the New Year?

The monk was completely enraged. He picked up the Buddhist beads and moved towards Hui Chan's jug. Hui Chan was protecting the jug, hiding while shouting, "It's unreasonable to deceive the master and destroy the ancestors!"

Before he knew it, dozens of tricks had been demolished. Hui Chan thought that he couldn't handle the disciple whose force value exploded. Seeing that he was about to lose his wine, he suddenly remembered the business and signaled a truce, "Good apprentice, I'm here to tell you something. Rumors from the capital, about Miss Pei San's elopement with an actress from the Changqing class..."

The monk came back to his senses, "Then this Pei Ziqin..." is very kind.

He was about to blurt it out, but he quickly recalled it, thinking that it was not good, he turned his head and hurried back.

Holding the wine that he kept, Huichan thought in his heart that it was really a crime, what's the use of raising an apprentice, he and his idiot brother should have been frozen to death in the snow back then, and it would have been settled once and for all.