Ma'am, is there someone out there?

Tomb-sweeping in Qingming in March.A lonely grave in the suburbs of Beijing has grown green grass.A thin man sat on the head of the grave, with an umbrella placed sideways, letting the rain wet his face and clothes.People who come and go carrying baskets and hoes to visit the grave pass by here, and they will always look at it strangely.

But the man paid no attention to the eyes of passers-by.His eyes wandered, his eyes wandered.

"The Supreme Emperor?" The little eunuch couldn't help shouting.Let the Supreme Emperor hang out in the rain, he held an umbrella himself, and the little eunuch was terrified.

Lu Xuanyi raised his head and shook it lightly.

"Go back first. I'll be alone later."

"This..." The little eunuch was very embarrassed, but after all, he couldn't get past Lu Xuanyi's request, and left without turning his head.

And Lu Xuanyi just sat on the graves alone, until it was late in the evening, when the grave-sweeping crowd was almost astigmatized, and there were only scattered pieces of paper and remaining soot on the graves, and then he stood up.

After sitting for a long time, Lu Xuanyi almost fell when he got up, and stood up with one hand on the tombstone.After such a fall, his long hair was stained with muddy water, and he looked especially embarrassed.If it is not said that this is the Supreme Emperor, no one will guess that it is Lu Xuanyi.

Lu Xuanyi took one last look at the tombstone.

I really hate you, Ye Huifeng.

After speaking, he turned and left.The sun was about to set, and it was time for him to go.

The moment Lu Xuanyi turned around, a dry hand stretched out from the wet muddy water, the gap between the fingers was full of muddy water and tiny bugs, that hand wandered in mid-air, and suddenly grabbed Lu Xuanyi's feet...

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One year later.

"Cough cough cough."

When it was rainy and cold like this, Lu Xuanyi could always cough violently in his ears, one after another.

"Drink the medicine." Lu Xuanyi held a pottery bowl, which was filled with pitch-black medicinal juice.

Ye Huifeng took the bowl, brushed his fingers against Lu Xuanyi's skin inadvertently, and was quickly dodged away.

"Hurry up and drink." Lu Xuanyi said sullenly.

Ye Huifeng held the bowl in his hand, and drank the bitter concoction in one gulp.His hand holding the bowl is still thin and long, but it looks ugly, dry and wrinkled like the bark of an old tree.

It has been more than half a year since they moved to this village.A year ago, after crawling out from the tomb, Lu Xuanyi took him away from the capital, and came to an unknown village, bought this simple courtyard, and the two lived incognito.

Lu Xuanyi left without telling anyone else, and only brought a little money with him. After buying the small courtyard, there was not much left.Even for Ye Huifeng's disease, he diagnosed and prescribed the medicine himself, and then Lu Xuanyi went up the mountain to dig.

Over the past year, the changes in Lu Xuanyi's body have been earth-shaking.Almost no one would have imagined that an emperor who used to be a ninety-five-year-old emperor would now go up the mountain alone with a small basket on his back to collect herbs.

He even reclaimed a piece of wasteland near the small courtyard and learned how to grow vegetables with the villagers.Anyone who saw this scene would only be surprised.If he asks for money, he won't miss it.But Lu Xuanyi didn't want it, as if he wanted to prove that if he was separated from everything in the palace, he would have nothing to do with the palace at all.

"What are you doing?" Ye Huifeng's feet were inconvenient to walk.Ye Huifeng was sitting in a wheelchair, from his angle he could only see Lu Xuanyi's back.Lu Xuanyi sat on the threshold with a needle and thread at hand.Ye Huifeng didn't get an answer from Lu Xuanyi, so he pushed the wheelchair forward.

When he got closer, he realized that Lu Xuanyi was holding a needle and thread in one hand, and a pair of blue and black cloth shoes in the other.There was a hole in the toe of the shoe, Lu Xuanyi cut a piece of cloth and was about to mend the shoe.It's just that Lu Xuanyi's ability to mend shoes is very poor, the shoes were not mended properly, and his hands have been pricked several times.

"Shoe mending?"

"Yeah." Lu Xuanyi agreed, without raising his head, he focused on the shoes in his hand, "These shoes are still new, but they were scratched when we went up the mountain yesterday."

"Let me do it."

"No, I can do it." Lu Xuanyi shook his head and refused stubbornly.But Ye Huifeng refused to obey, and directly snatched the shoes from Lu Xuanyi's hand.

"you!"

"I'll do it." Ye Huifeng said hoarsely.Ye Huifeng is not good at doing these things, but he is somewhat more dexterous than Lu Xuanyi.Their lives are different. In the past, they were well-clothed and well-fed, but now they can only eat simple food.This is the life of ordinary people in the world, worrying about every porridge and meal, carefully calculating every stitch and thread.

The life of ordinary people is very hard, but it is the first time that Ye Huifeng is so grateful.

This pair of shoes was Lu Xuanyi's only new pair, but unfortunately they were also worn out.

Ye Huifeng fiddled with it a few times, his workmanship was not good, but he managed to mend it. The brown cloth on the toe cap didn't match the whole shoe.

"Okay, try it."

Lu Xuanyi kicked off the straw sandals on his feet, tried them on, and happily said: "It's finally fixed, and I won't wear new shoes when I go up the mountain."

Ye Huifeng's eyes flickered a few times, thinking that he would have to tell someone's fate a few times before he could afford a new pair of shoes.Ye Huifeng gave fortune-telling to others, and it cost two renminbi a time, and forty renminbi was enough for a pair of better shoes.You have to buy it secretly, otherwise Lu Xuanyi would not agree.He wanted to break one penny into two. Lu Xuanyi agreed to such a big expense.

Lu Xuanyi was very busy, much busier than Ye Huifeng who was in a wheelchair and had trouble walking.He was going to work in the fields, and he had to prepare lunch in advance.

Prepare lunch in advance, not only for Ye Huifeng who stayed at home, but also for himself.Lu Xuanyi went to work in the fields with the villagers, and didn't come back in the middle.Some peasants brought meals from their families, so Lu Xuanyi had to prepare them in advance.Of course he is not very old, but life is always lived by people.Learn to learn, and you will not starve to death.

"I'm going out." Lu Xuanyi was about to go out with a small basket on his back.There are a small hoe, a bag of beans, dry food and water in the basket.All he has to do today is grow beans.

After Ye Huifeng heard this, he also wanted to follow, but he was sitting in a wheelchair and couldn't follow at all, not to mention the rainy road was very muddy.Lu Xuanyi just informed Ye Huifeng and didn't intend to get an answer.

Ye Huifeng was used to it.It's been like this all year.Lu Xuanyi would help him with everything, but he seldom talked to him.The two just live together.

He rubbed his thigh, disgusted with himself.He believed that Lu Xuanyi hated him.Bring him back, but it doesn't make him feel better.But if he leaves by himself, or has the slightest thought of not wanting to live, Lu Xuanyi will get angry again.He wants to tie himself firmly and hang himself.

Ye Huifeng pushed the wheelchair and sat back on the table. The small wooden table was a gift from the previous homeowner when he bought the yard.It's dark and ugly, but it doesn't match the pottery bowls on the table.The earthenware bowl is tea brown with a little black spot on it.There are not many dishes in the pottery bowl, probably just enough for him alone.Thinking of the dry food in Lu Xuanyi's basket, Ye Huifeng couldn't eat it.

He casually picked up a chopstick dish, frowned, and swallowed it bravely.Probably no one is worse at cooking than Lu Xuanyi.But so what?He felt that after he crawled out of the grave, his mind changed drastically.Only when you have lost it will you know what your most precious thing is.

When Lu Xuanyi came back, it was already evening.Ye Huifeng couldn't go anywhere, so he could only sit in front of the door and wait.

Waiting is the most boring thing.You don't know if the person you're waiting for will come back, and you don't know if your waiting is meaningful.But he still likes to wait like this.

Ye Huifeng smiled: "You are back."

It's a pity that Lu Xuanyi turned a blind eye to his smile, put down the basket and went straight to the kitchen to get a small wooden basin, and didn't even give Ye Huifeng a look when he passed by.

In the basket was a lean pheasant with a layer of mushrooms underneath.The mushrooms in the forest after it rained always grew wildly, and Lu Xuanyi couldn't tell if it was edible or not.These are still picked from the villagers.The people in the village are very kind. Seeing him alone with Ye Huifeng, who has trouble walking, they often come to help.A handful of vegetables and a straw hat are all other people's wishes.

Lu Xuanyi, who knows nothing, has also learned a lot from the villagers. For example, this skinny pheasant was hunted up the mountain by the old brother who worked in the next door.The elder brother is a good hunter, and Lu Xuanyi is a blind cat who ran into a dead mouse.

He really changed a lot.Maybe there was a problem with the method I taught him before, Ye Huifeng reflected on himself.

"what are you doing?"

Ye Huifeng was flattered when Lu Xuanyi spoke to him suddenly.

"I didn't do anything." Ye Huifeng felt that their seats were reversed.The people they were then and the people they are now seem to have reversed their lives.At some point, Ye Huifeng also began to panic, feeling uneasy at Lu Xuanyi's indistinctness.Walking on eggshells.

"If you have nothing to do, come and kill the chicken." Lu Xuanyi kicked the pheasant.

"it is good."

When Ye Huifeng killed the chicken, Lu Xuanyi avoided it.He couldn't see bloody scenes, as if whenever he saw red blood, he remembered the past.

There were dead people everywhere in the entire palace, blood everywhere, enemies and friends, and the blood on Ye Huifeng's body had dried up.So that later, when he saw blood, he felt dizzy.

"What were you trying to say?"

"At that time?" Ye Huifeng raised his head while plucking chicken feathers, but Lu Xuanyi still turned his back to him.

"That game of chess, you said if..."

"Actually, you don't need to know." Ye Huifeng wiped his sweat, his eyes skipped over his hands, dry and ugly, just like his current face.Everyone in the village thought Ye Huifeng was Lu Xuanyi's father, but they were right.At that time, he was full of white hair, but his face was young, but now his face and full head of white hair finally match, and he looks like a father.

Same old and wrinkled and dark spots.He who is not old is finally starting to age slowly, which is nothing... He only hopes to live a few more days, and spend a few more days with Lu Xuanyi.

"That if... has now been realized."

"Liar." Lu Xuanyi was suddenly furious, and regardless of the chicken Ye Huifeng was holding, he walked up to him and cursed, "Liar."

"Why didn't you tell me then?"

Yes, why didn't he say it at that time, he never said it for such a long time.

"look at me."

Ye Huifeng was scolded loudly by Lu Xuanyi, he raised his head, but he didn't dare to meet Lu Xuanyi's eyes.Now he is old and ugly... He no longer dares to look at Lu Xuanyi in a fair way.

But Lu Xuanyi's eyes were shining.Lu Xuanyi lowered his head and kissed Ye Huifeng's face.

"Ugly."

But ugly, I just can't help liking you, what should I do?