Become a cat [Zhan Zhao]

That night, Ah Lan couldn't fall asleep.The north wind hovers around the house tirelessly, creating an atmosphere as if in the wilderness, making the world bleak and desolate.The night is between dim and dark, occasionally there will be dim moonlight leaking from the clouds, leaving weird light and shadow patterns on the window paper.

Even though the bed net had been put down and the quilt covered, Ah Lan was still shivering uncontrollably from the cold.There is always a part of the quilt that cannot be covered, so once you stretch your hands and feet into those restricted areas, you will feel a biting chill.This made her shrink into a ball, not daring to move, and could only let the chill run down her back continuously.

Although frankly speaking, this is already much better than the conditions of wandering in the past, but as the saying goes, it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality, and now Ah Lan still feels not completely satisfied in his heart.At this moment, she wished so much that she could hold something warm in her arms, such as a cat, so that she wouldn't be so cold.

It was very late at night, and the doors and windows made a low "bang" sound from time to time when the wind was strong, accompanied by cold wind that swam in through the gaps like snakes.Alan lay on his side, curled up his arms and embraced his knees, shrunk himself into a ball, and then hid his head in the quilt.This can make yourself not so cold, but it doesn't do much.

She has been afraid of the cold since she was a child, probably because she was born in the winter in the north, and her sensitivity to the cold seems to have been carved into her bones.However, A Lan did not become used to enduring the cold winter because of this, and was even more afraid of the cold than ordinary people, but she never wanted to show it.

And whenever she was shivering from the cold, A Lan couldn't help but miss the very short and stable time in her life at the beginning - when she still had something called "home".However, this kind of nostalgia has more complex emotions, which often makes Alan feel even more ashamed in the weather that is already so cold that his blood is about to freeze.

After lying on the bed for a while, Ah Lan felt that he was numb from the cold.She couldn't help getting up from the bed, wrapping the quilt tightly while touching her clothes tremblingly.The bed tent was pitch black, and it took a lot of effort for Alan to get dressed under the covers, but just as she was about to lie down again, a faint movement suddenly woke Alan up.

That was the voice of Lingfeng Yipi.

Alan got up from the bed in a blink of an eye, and before she even had time to go through the door, she grabbed the eyebrow stick at the head of the bed, pushed open the window, and jumped out.

The cold wind was biting outside, but Ah Lan could no longer care about it. She glanced in the direction of the sound, then jumped up and chased in that direction.

This brief glance is enough for her to see clearly: those are two people running in the night with lightness kung fu.The person behind is Zhan Zhao, while the person in front is dressed in white, his figure is like lightning, and looks like a ghost from a distance.

The night wind kept whistling past his ears, and the bluestone slabs under his feet also fell backwards quickly.But even though Ah Lan had tried his best to run, he quickly lost track of him.Panting and slowing down, she looked at her surroundings and wondered where she would run if she was being chased.

At this moment, they have already left the scope of Kaifeng government office, there are not many houses nearby, and the streets are very spacious.Alan raised her neck to look at the height of the nearby houses, then pricked up her ears to listen, and then rushed towards the direction she guessed.

After walking about a hundred steps, a familiar voice came to my ears along with the wind:

"Brother Bai, since you and I have made a one-year agreement, let's abide by the agreement." It was Zhan Zhao's voice, and it sounded that his breath was still stable, and his tone was not dissatisfied, as if he was simply expressing his opinion.

Ah Lan felt refreshed, and then tiptoed over there.

The other person replied with a sneer: "Why, Brother Zhan, does it mean that as long as you, Nanxia, ​​are in the capital, I, Bai Yutang, have to stay in another place?"

This person was actually Bai Yutang.Ah Lan was already standing against the corner of the wall at this moment, and immediately recalled the Chinchilla who had met a few months ago.She couldn't help thinking: Did this person come here specially to trouble Zhan Zhao?Thinking about the last time when Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang fought, Ah Lan couldn't help feeling faintly worried.

"Brother Bai, what are you talking about?" Zhan Zhao seemed to smile when he heard the words, and said sincerely, "Brother Bai can go wherever he wants in this huge capital city. Zhan doesn't care about it, and he doesn't dare to do it." Immediately after the conversation changed, "It's just that Brother Bai wandered into the Kaifeng government office in the middle of the night, isn't that unreasonable?"

But Bai Yutang sneered, and said coldly: "Don't think about it too much, Fifth Master didn't come here specially for you tonight. Our one-year agreement is still valid, and Fifth Master will meet with you at that time." It's a showdown."

"That's natural." Zhan Zhao said calmly, "I just hope that the fifth master will sell my brother's face, and the gate of Kaifeng Mansion will be opened to Brother Bai at any time. I just hope that Brother Bai will stop climbing over the wall in the middle of the night."

Bai Yutang didn't answer right away, nor did he just nod or shake his head.After waiting for a while, Ah Lan couldn't help looking up, but her sight was blocked by the eaves, so she couldn't see clearly what was going on above.

Suddenly, Bai Yutang yelled coldly: "Where did you come from, don't you get out!" He moved very quickly, and after the last word, he had already slid down the roof like a ghost, and immediately raised his hand to leave. It was a palm, forcing Alan out of hiding place abruptly.

Alan rolled quickly on the ground, dodging the savage palm and immediately jumped up, holding a stick in front of him and calmly confronting Bai Yutang.

Anyway, Zhan Zhao was here, so she wasn't afraid of him at all.

"Alan?!" Zhan Zhao, who jumped down immediately after seeing this, couldn't help being taken aback. He immediately stopped Bai Yutang, and hurriedly said, "This is...one of my own." He almost said "my apprentice" After saying it, he reined in at the end of the precipice, and finally changed his mouth.

Seeing that Zhan Zhao knew this person, Bai Yutang couldn't help but frowned slightly. He took a step back, and then hummed softly, "Who is your own?" He glanced at Ah Lan, as if he didn't recognize this person. Is it the child who disguised himself as a man who followed Zhan Zhao before, or he simply didn't deliberately remember these insignificant people.

"Master...Brother." A Lan's tongue was also tied, "I, I chased after me when I heard the sound, I was afraid that you would be in danger, so I didn't intend to eavesdrop." No guilt.

Hearing the words, Zhan Zhao just nodded indiscriminately, he caught a glimpse of the clothes on Alan's body, and immediately turned to Bai Yutang and said, "Brother Bai, it's getting late at night, so Zhan won't keep you any longer, so please." He didn't intend to find out what Bai Yutang was doing in Mr. Bao's room in the middle of the night, and there would be no results - if the delay continued, Ah Lan would definitely be frozen out of order.

"Heh." Bai Yutang smiled coldly, glanced at Zhan Zhao and A Lan, saw something, turned around and walked away in a big way.

Zhan Zhao immediately turned around and took A Lan's hand, using his internal energy to send it over.When he chased him out, he didn't wear windproof clothes for the sake of convenience, and now he wants to take off one and put it on for A Lan.

A Lan still said foolishly: "Master, I'm not cold." She was already too cold.

"Shut up." Zhan Zhao dragged her into the mansion with big strides, "Don't come out and run around at night, are you afraid you won't freeze to death?"

A Lan responded with a nah, and said, "I'm not worried about you." She quickly changed the subject, "That one just now was Chinchilla Bai Yutang, right?"

"Well," Zhan Zhao responded, "Do you still remember him?"

Alan said: "He called himself Bai Yutang just now, I just remembered it." Her face was frozen with cold, but she tried to force a smile, "Master, did he come to trouble you?"

"It shouldn't be this time." Zhan Zhao actually didn't know why Bai Yutang made this trip, he frowned and said, "I heard something in the middle of the night, and when I looked for it, I saw him coming out of Mrs. Bao's room. "

A Lan was taken aback: "Is Mr. Bao all right?"

"It's okay." Zhan Zhao heard it very clearly, Mr. Bao couldn't even wake up from his sleep, so he didn't go in to disturb him, but chased him out directly.

Alan also felt incredible: "What are you doing in someone's room in the middle of the night? Are you a thief?"

"Bai Yutang isn't the kind of guy who's going to be a thief." Zhan Zhao shook his head, he thought for a moment to no avail, then looked down at Alan again, "Is it warmer now?"

A Lan nodded again and again, both of her hands were held by Zhan Zhao, and warm internal energy was continuously sent from the place where the palms of the two held each other.This kind of warm current seemed to not only take away the chill on his body, but also dispel the chill in his heart due to the previous encounter.

Zhan Zhao felt much relieved. He had already brought Alan to the back door, but stopped in his tracks—although there were guards there, he and Alan had climbed over the wall to escape from the government office in the middle of the night. I'm afraid I'll gossip if I go back straight away.

"Get ready." Zhan Zhao looked down at A Lan, and a narrow smile flashed in his eyes.

Alan asked in confusion: "What are you going to do..." Before he could finish speaking, he was suddenly picked up by Zhan Zhao and jumped over the wall and into the government office.

A patrol had just left, and no one noticed them at all.However, Ah Lan still hugged Zhan Zhao's neck tightly in fright, and it took a long time before she realized that she should get off Zhan Zhao's body.

"Why climb over the wall?" A Lan complained mutteringly, while letting go of her hands so that her feet could land on the ground, "You just wanted that chinchilla not to climb over the wall of Fengfu in the middle of the night."

Zhan Zhao said: "Even if I tell him, he still won't hesitate when it's time to turn it over."

"..." Alan was speechless, and then Zhan Zhao took her hand and walked towards the guest room quietly.

After walking for a while, Ah Lan couldn't help but whispered: "Why do you feel like the two of us are thieves?"

"Because I don't want people to find out." Zhan Zhao also replied in a low voice.

Alan wondered, "Why?"

"Because you will be treated as a thief." Zhan Zhao gave a muffled laugh, and after a while, he asked again, "Did you not be found when you chased him out?"

Alan was a little proud: "Of course, my qinggong has improved a lot, and the guards here are not strict, so of course I won't be discovered."

"Really?" Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "I have to tell Dynasty later that the defense of the mansion needs to be strengthened."

A Lan couldn't help curling her lips: "I don't think it's useless. As long as the Jianghu people are good at Qinggong, they will basically not be discovered. And whoever is not good at Qinggong will break into Kaifeng Mansion in the middle of the night."

"Not necessarily." Zhan Zhao said softly, "With a little arrangement, it will be very difficult for a three-legged cat like you to come and go freely."

Alan couldn't help but snorted softly.

"Okay, go to sleep." Zhan Zhao let go of her hand, and the cold wind immediately wrapped their skins again.

A Lan responded, and quickly got into the guest room.She didn't lie down on the bed immediately, but quietly looked at Zhan Zhao through the window.

The latter stood in front of her door for a long time, until the sound of the watchman faintly came, and then he turned and left.