Become a cat [Zhan Zhao]

When the sun gradually rose, the iron-blue sky was gradually shrouded in a bright luster, and the soft white clouds moved at a slow speed, showing irregular and weird shapes in the sky that gradually turned into azure blue.

Alan followed behind Zhan Zhao, and the two walked through the corridor of the government office.The snow from last night began to melt when the sun came out, and now there are only a few puddles of water left, and some are dripping from the eaves.The cold air is very fresh, but after walking out of the corner door of the back office, there is a smell of burning hay coming from nowhere, which makes this freshness more human.

Ouyang Chun was waiting outside the corner gate.With his hands behind his back, he was looking up at an old tree protruding from the courtyard wall. He didn't know what attracted him, and he looked fascinated.However, when Zhan Zhao and Ah Lan approached, he said without turning his head, "You used to have such a tree in your house. Once, you kept climbing until you reached the top."

"Then it fell down." Alan answered the words calmly, and then smiled.Naturally, she recalled the thrill at that time - if it wasn't for Ouyang Chun who happened to follow her, her head would probably have been broken into eight pieces.Obviously, as early as her childhood, she already had various traits such as recklessness and boldness, and she has not changed much until now.

Ouyang Chun turned around, with nostalgic and warm eyes: "You still remember." His tone was calm, and his mellow voice was only a little more vicissitudes than what Ah Lan remembered.

"Hmm." A Lan responded in a low voice, not knowing what to say.

Ouyang Chun then looked down at her, and suggested: "The weather is nice today, why don't I take you around the capital?" He said and glanced at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao said at the right time: "I still have something to do in the yamen, I'm afraid I can't accompany you." After saying that, he cupped his hands at Ouyang Chun and turned his head to go into the yamen.

"Brother, go slowly." A Lan said.

Zhan Zhao almost bumped his head against the wall.

After waiting until Zhan Zhao was gone, Ouyang Chun spoke again, and asked, "Isn't he your master? How can you call him big brother? There's no need to mess up your seniority."

"I can call you whatever I like, my master doesn't care, what else do you care about." Alan retorted almost without thinking, and looked directly at Ouyang Chun boldly.

Ouyang Chun smiled helplessly: "Okay, I don't care." He just looked in the direction Zhan Zhao left, and then looked away.

"Where are you going?" Ah Lan asked in a relaxed tone as much as possible. She recalled that she used to play around with her uncle when she was a child, but that had no similarity to the current situation.

Ouyang Chun also seemed a little dazed, he said: "Let's watch as you walk." In fact, he is not familiar with the capital city.However, he didn't want Zhan Zhao to be by his side, that would undoubtedly seem strange.

"Okay." Alan walked out first, facing the direction of the rising sun.

Ouyang Chun followed silently, he had a strong sense of presence, even if she just walked beside Ah Lan, she couldn't ignore him at all.And the capital had already woken up at dawn, and now there were gradually voices of people, and the streets began to be lively.Alan didn't quite know the way—her ability to know and remember her way had been lost many years ago—but that didn't bother any of them.In fact, it doesn't matter where they go. Both of them are recalling the simpler and more peaceful life more than ten years ago.

"I went to Xiangyang before." When he reached a quiet street corner, Ouyang Chun suddenly said, "I'm afraid your mother already knows about you."

Alan felt indifferent: "If you know it, you will know it."

"She said that she brought you to the capital to play, but she got separated." Ouyang Chun frowned, "She never knew you were still alive." Ouyang Chun's explanation is: Alan was lost like that back then, she was afraid that Ouyang Chun would blame her, so she lied that Alan died of illness.

Of course, Ouyang Chun didn't believe much of these words.Whose fault it was that year, no one can say clearly.However, there is no doubt that the only innocent person is Alan.

However, Alan just said "um" when she heard this, and didn't speak out to defend herself.She didn't seem to care about the past, and even when she heard the news about her mother, she only looked calm.

"You, don't you want to see her?" Ouyang Chun asked.

Alan folded her arms, raised her head and looked at the blue sky, and said, "It doesn't matter. I don't really want to see you, so you're still here?" These words were not polite, but it was really good to say them.Alan felt a kind of satisfaction mixed with guilt.

"I have to come." Ouyang Chun was silent for a moment, then sighed in a low voice, "I have to come."

Alan pursed her lips, unable to express what she felt in her heart. She realized that the facts of the past were still affecting her, and she was completely powerless about it.

The two walked side by side in silence for a while, Ouyang Chun suddenly broke the silence again and said, "How did you get here all these years, tell uncle."

uncle.

Alan felt her body tremble uncontrollably, and a wave of inexplicable complexity surged in her heart.This is the first time Ouyang Chun has called himself like this since he learned of her identity, and his tone of voice is the same as before.As if they were still family, as if he could still care for her as an uncle.

"How did you know Brother Zhan?" Ouyang Chun continued to chat and asked her, his relaxed attitude made Alan feel that it was okay even if he didn't answer.

But A Lan still answered: "I met you on the road." She secretly hoped that this answer would make Ouyang Chun feel unhappy, or at least make him feel frustrated.

"Then you are the same as Uncle. Uncle also met Brother Zhan on the road." Ouyang Chun just laughed, as if this answer couldn't be more normal.

Alan puffed her cheeks, and then asked, "When are you leaving?"

"Uncle just arrived, are you going to chase him away?" Ouyang Chun's tone could not be described as disappointed or sad, but rather teasing.

Alan felt that she had punched the cotton, and she finally couldn't help but said, "Actually, you don't have to worry about me at all, I'm not a child anymore."

"Yes, you are a grown child now." Ouyang Chun said with a smile, "In a few years, you should get married."

A Lan was in a daze, then frowned and looked at Ouyang Chun: "You don't mean to tell me that no one has cared about me for more than ten years, and you suddenly want to make decisions about my marriage, right?"

"But you always want to get married." Ouyang Chun sighed, "Or do you want your mother to take care of it for you?"

Alan replied indifferently: "I don't have a mother."

"So, you just want your master to make decisions for you?" Ouyang Chun didn't express any opinion on Alan's words, but just asked another question.

Alan pursed her lips hard, and said after a while: "I'm in charge of my own affairs, and I don't need to bother others."

"Stupid, how can a girl make decisions for herself." Ouyang Chun couldn't help laughing, "You can ask your master, he can't answer

answer. "

A Lan blurted out: "That's not necessarily the case."

Ouyang Chun finally took a serious look at Alan, then looked away, and said calmly, "Really?"

"Of course it is." Ah Lan felt a rush of blood rushing to her face, and a series of words kept coming out of her throat, and she couldn't stop, "He won't disregard my wishes, and he will take care of me, It's up to me. If I don't want him to meddle in my marriage, he will definitely not interfere indiscriminately. And whether I will marry in the future, who I will marry, has nothing to do with you or anyone else. "

Ouyang Chun responded in silence, neither saying yes nor no.

Alan bit her lip involuntarily.Under the warm winter sun, her heart was pounding and she felt dizzy.

Just when the two of them fell silent, suddenly there was a sound of flapping wings above their heads, and a gray-white pigeon with iron blue stripes "swished" across the sky, as fast as a bolt of lightning.

A Lan couldn't help being startled, her eyes only had time to catch the afterimage of the pigeon flying away.

... This flat-haired beast can fly so fast?Are you mature?

But just a moment later, that "lightning" suddenly turned a corner, and then rushed straight towards her!Alan was dumbfounded, and then, the pigeon landed on Alan's shoulder with a clear goal.It looked very restless, and kept pecking at Alan's ear with its gray-black beak.

"What's going on here?" Ah Lan was really taken aback, and stretched out her hand to hug the pigeon from her shoulders.But the pigeon fluttered its wings and flew up again. It circled Alan a few times at first, and then flew towards the direction it came from.

Ouyang Chun was well-informed and said in a deep voice, "You wait here, I'll go and have a look."

"You asked me to wait, do I have to wait?" Alan ran after the pigeon without thinking, using lightness kung fu to follow behind the pigeon.She seemed to hear Ouyang Chun sigh, and then followed her effortlessly.

The pigeon probably slowed down obviously to allow the two of them to keep up. However, when A Lan and Ouyang Chun followed the pigeon and rushed all the way to a ruined temple, A Lan was still out of breath.She glanced at Ouyang Chun, who was breathing steadily beside her. The latter watched the pigeon fly into the temple, and stepped forward with a frown to push the closed temple door.

With a "squeak", the door was pushed open without being locked.Inside is an empty yard, an overturned stone table, and a dead tree.

Ouyang Chun lowered his voice and said: "Follow me, don't wander around." He walked lightly and walked into the ruined temple without a sound.

Alan didn't dare to continue to be angry with Ouyang Chun at this time, and followed behind him vigilantly, feeling a chill on his spine.The pigeon had disappeared, as if it had completely abandoned them.The cold wind poured in through the open door, making the clothes of the two of them flutter slightly.

Ouyang Chun walked towards the rear of the hall with his back bent. The hard brown ground under his feet seemed to completely absorb the sound of his footsteps. His agile movements were out of proportion to his tall figure.

When he reached the Yuedong gate at the back of the hall, Ouyang Chun gently raised his arm to stop Ah Lan behind him, holding a knife in one hand, and slowly walked through the low arch.Alan's heart rose to her throat, and she couldn't help standing on tiptoe to look forward from behind Ouyang Chun.

And when the two walked into the door silently, the situation in the backyard appeared before their eyes without warning.

A dead body, a living person.

The corpse was lying on the ground, with its head bare, and the moon-white monk robe it was wearing had been soaked red with blood.The living man squatted beside the corpse, wrapped in a black cloak, reaching out to touch the neck of the corpse.As if sensing someone approaching, the man instinctively raised his head.

Under the drooping hat brim, Ah Lan saw a face exactly like Zhan Zhao's.

The author has something to say: continue to pretend to be dead