What a beautiful white lotus

Two days later, they finally arrived in Wuchang Town where Zhou's family is located.

Ye Rongqiu and Heigou were already dressed in rags and their faces were pale. When they entered the city, they were stopped by the defenders for interrogation. They thought they were begging deserters and almost refused to let them enter the city.

After finally entering Wuchang, the black dog asked Ye Rongqiu, "Where do your relatives live?"

Ye Rongqiu looked down at his attire, but asked him instead: "How much money do you have?"

The black dog was stunned: "What's wrong?"

Ye Rongqiu felt that his nose was broken, he couldn't smell how stinky his body was, but it must have made people uncomfortable.He wore a suit and tie and sat in a car to leave Chongqing in a dignified manner, but now that he has gotten to this point, he is really ashamed to meet his old friends.Furthermore, this is not a matter of his own face. Although the Zhou family and the Ye family are a family with an unusual relationship, he represents the entire Ye family after all, and he cannot afford to lose this person.He said, "Buy clothes."

The black dog is funny: "Isn't it your relative's house? What clothes do you still buy? Once you go in, people will definitely give you a few sets of clothes!"

Ye Rongqiu explained: "It's not an ordinary relative, it's a family that our ancestors made good friends with."

The black dog said: "What's the matter, you have encountered an accident, and you are afraid that people will laugh at you? If he laughs at you, this friend will not have to be friends."

Ye Rongqiu was a little anxious: "How much money do you have left?"

The black dog sneered: "As for what, could it be the second young master's fiancée?"

Ye Rongqiu said nothing.

Seeing his strange expression, Heigou didn't expect that he hit the mark. He was stunned for a while, then took out money from his pocket and started counting: "That's the one that needs to be dressed up, and that's the future Second Young Mistress, so don't neglect her! It’s not enough to just buy a set of clothes! You have to change your shoes too, what about scalp oil?”

Ye Rongqiu didn't know why his heart was sour, he grabbed his hand counting the money, and said angrily: "Forget it! Don't buy it! Just go directly!"

The black dog said: "I didn't say I wouldn't buy it. I can't afford it if the second young lady ran away. But I only have these few copper coins, and I can't afford new clothes. I can get such a small piece of lard, and use it as oil on my face." Wipe the rest on your face, and your complexion will look better."

Ye Rongqiu stopped, stared at him fiercely, and said in a very aggressive tone, "What are you doing! Do you want to claw your yin and yang? You are not happy to have a fiancée?" After staying with the black dog for so many days, Ye Er The young master's words became a lot more rude.After asking this sentence ferociously, his heartbeat immediately accelerated.He still regretted it a little, because his sentence was bound to attract the black dog's ten sentences of ridicule. (Claw: What do you do in Sichuan dialect)

However, what surprised Ye Rongqiu was that the black dog didn't continue to retaliate, but instead stayed silent, looking really depressed.

Ye Rongqiu's heart beat faster: "You, do you want claws?"

The black dog curled his lips, and readily admitted: "I'm not happy, you bastard can find a wife. It's really bad luck for any girl to want you."

Ye Rongqiu snorted lightly, unexpectedly not feeling unhappy.So he decided that the adults would forgive the black dog's attack in large quantities, and pulled the black dog to the yard where Zhou's family lived.

When the two arrived at the gate of the Zhou mansion, they saw that the gate was tightly closed, and no one was guarding the gate. Strangely, the gate was also locked.According to common sense, it is very rare for someone to lock the door outside, which means that there is no housekeeper in the house, maybe the family has gone on a long trip.Ye Rongqiu knocked on the door for a while, but there was a dead silence inside, and no one answered the door.

The black dog asked strangely: "Did they go out?"

Ye Rongqiu also felt strange: "Maybe."

So the two sat down outside the gate of Zhou Mansion and waited.

After waiting for more than an hour, still no one came back, Ye Rongqiu knocked on the door again, but still no one answered.

The black dog asked him, "Did you write to them before you came?"

Ye Rongqiu nodded: "Two days before I left Chongqing, my brother wrote a letter to them. Because I came out in a hurry, I came before they replied, but the messenger should have arrived long ago. They knew I was coming when they received the letter." .”

The black dog said: "Then wait a little longer?"

Ye Rongqiu nodded, but there was no other way.

After a while, the black dog stood up: "What kind of business does their family do? Do you know where their shop is? How about we go to the shop and have a look."

Ye Rongqiu shook his head: "I'm not very clear."

The black dog touched the door behind him and wiped the dust with his hands.He said: "I always feel that something is wrong. Look at the dust. Is there anyone living here?"

Ye Rongqiu said: "We communicated with each other two months ago, they live here."

The black dog said: "Then I will go around and ask the neighbors to see if anyone knows where they have gone."

Ye Rongqiu also stood up: "I'll go with you."

The two knocked on the door of a house opposite, and Ye Rongqiu asked him politely, "Do you know where Mr. Zhou Bohai has gone?"

The man was stunned, and looked him up and down: "The Zhou family has moved away a long time ago, and they don't live here now!"

Ye Rongqiu was startled, and quickly asked: "Moved away?! When did you move? Where did you move?"

The man said, "I moved away a month ago! I moved to Yichang!"

Ye Rongqiu hurriedly said: "Then do you know their specific address in Yichang? I am their relative!"

Seeing Ye Rongqiu's ragged clothes, the man thought that he came from a poor family to join his relatives, and his eyes were full of sympathy: "You wait." After a while, he took out a note with the address on it and handed it to Ye Rongqiu: " Right here."

Ye Rongqiu thanked the kind person, and left the alley with the black dog.The black dog scooped up the note in Ye Rongqiu's hand, looked at it and sighed: "Oh, I have to turn around and go to Yichang!"

Ye Rongqiu was at a loss in his heart: "How can you just move?"

The black dog said: "It can't be helped! Let's sleep on the bunk for another night!"

Early the next morning, Heigou scooped up all the money on his body and took Ye Rongqiu on a ride back to Yichang.They spent more than a day and spent all their money, and arrived in Yichang penniless before the evening of the next day.The two found a foreign hotel according to the address given by the neighbor.At this time, Ye Rongqiu no longer thought about whether he was dressed decently, he only hoped that this trip would not be wasted again, otherwise he would have to plow the roots back to Chongqing.

Ye Rongqiu and the black dog knocked on the gate of that place, then waited outside anxiously.After a while, the door was opened, and a young man in a Chinese tunic came out from inside.He glanced at Ye Rongqiu and the black dog, and immediately closed the door impatiently: "Go, go, no money!"

Ye Rongqiu hurriedly stretched out his hand against the door, and shouted at the man, "Brother Hongyu!"

The man froze for a moment, stopped closing the door, and looked at Ye Rongqiu suspiciously.Ye Rongqiu's nose was sore, and he choked with shame and said, "It's me... Ye Rongqiu."

The man Ye Rongqiu called Brother Hongyu was stunned for a moment, and recognized Ye Rongqiu, with an expression of swallowing an egg: "Maoshi?! How did you get into such a ghostly look!"

Ye Rongqiu said: "I encountered Japanese air raids on the road... Alas, I can't describe it in words!"

Zhou Hongyu quickly made a way out: "Hurry up, come in and say." He glanced at the black dog and asked, "Is this your servant?"

Ye Rongqiu hesitated for a moment: "Yes...my friend."

Zhou Hongyu didn't ask too much: "Let's talk first!"

Zhou Hongyu welcomed Ye Rongqiu and the black dog into the door, and hurriedly led them to the wing room: "I will arrange for someone to wash you first, my God, it turned out to be like this! But if you meet the Japanese, you will be lucky if you survive." Already!"

Ye Rongqiu smiled bitterly: "Yes, it's good to be alive."

Zhou Hongyu glanced at his colorful face, and teased: "Hurry up, don't let my sister see you like this, or she will call off the engagement, and my brother-in-law will be lost!"

Ye Rongqiu's first reaction was to look at Heigou, but Heigou didn't show any expression, as if he wasn't interested in this topic.

Zhou Hongyu ordered Heigou and Ye Rongqiu to be taken to wash and change clothes, and Ye Rongqiu and Heigou separated.The servant brought Ye Rongqiu into the bathroom. Ye Rongqiu hadn't seen the bathtub or the shower head for more than half a month. He was as friendly as if he saw a relative, and almost rushed to hug the shower head and kiss him madly. At least he was so reserved that the servant told him to go out after draining the water. Impatiently, he took off his clothes and jumped into the water, burying his whole body in the pool.

Ye Rongqiu washed vigorously for nearly an hour, and rubbed off two layers of skin. If he hadn't been hungry for a long time and was about to run out of oxygen, he would have wished to wash off the third layer of skin.After changing into the shirt and trousers that Zhou Hongyu prepared for him, and after applying the fragrant cream on his hands and face, when he came out of the bathroom, Ye Rongqiu felt that he had been reborn.

Ye Rongqiu walked downstairs refreshed, and Zhou Hongyu was standing downstairs waiting for him.Seeing Ye Rongqiu coming down, he greeted Ye Rongqiu with a smile, and patted Ye Rongqiu on the back: "This is the second young master I know! Look so handsome, if I say something with your elbows out, you are my brother-in-law, you are better than me!" The sisters are all beautiful!"

Ye Rongqiu blushed at what he said, but felt a little unhappy in his heart.He wants to say that the matter between me and your sister is not yet a foregone conclusion, so don't act like it's settled.But he was embarrassed to brush off Zhou Hongyu's face in person, so he could only change the subject: "Where's uncle?"

Zhou Hongyu said: "My father went out, and my sister went out to watch a movie with her friends. She is a new woman in the new era, very lively, and she is not willing to be a lady in a boudoir. They will come back at night, and I have asked someone to inform them early Come back, let's have dinner together at night! It's been a long time!"

The two walked to the living room together, and Ye Rongqiu asked as they walked, "By the way, why did you suddenly move?"

Zhou Hongyu sighed: "It's a long story, but I was actually afraid of the Japanese. My father paid the most attention to the wartime news. He said two months ago that if the Japanese continue to fight like a broken bamboo, Wuhan will be destroyed." Falling is only a matter of time. When the Japanese devils attacked Xuzhou, my father said that once Xuzhou fell, the east was almost finished, and it was time to fight west. The next goal of the Japanese devils was Wuhan, so he immediately took We moved to Yichang with our family. I was expecting... Alas! It’s just a dream, those guys, what is there to expect! In the blink of an eye, Xuzhou was really captured by the Japanese! If it weren’t for the newspapers There are always reports on the dead and wounded on the front line. I wonder if the battle was fought at all. Why are the cities always lost so quickly? However, although we have moved to Yichang, there are still many things to be done in Wuhan, and we have been very busy recently. It’s dead to us, and we run around Wuchang and Yichang all day long. Now I really regret that I set up an industrial factory, the roots are there, and I can’t move it. If I want to sell it, who will sell it during the war? Could it be sold to the Japanese?”

Ye Rongqiu heard it in a daze: "Xuzhou... fell? When did it happen?"

Zhou Hongyu said: "It happened yesterday! Didn't you read the newspaper?"

Ye Rongqiu hasn't read a newspaper for half a month, he can't even eat steamed buns, how can he have spare money to buy newspapers?However, I heard more or less the news on the battlefield while listening to people chatting along the way.Unexpectedly, so many major events happened during the time he and Heigou were delayed on the road, and even Xuzhou fell...

Zhou Hongyu smiled wryly: "We all say that my father predicts things like a god. He is simply better than Chairman Jiang. Before a battle starts, he can determine the final victory or defeat. But from the beginning to now, my father has never I said that our army can win against the devils...all loses...all of them are broken..."

Every Chinese would smile wryly after hearing this, and Ye Rongqiu was no exception.

At this time, the two walked into the living room, and Ye Rongqiu saw a man in a suit sitting in the living room.The man didn't wear his suit properly, but he wore it unruly, with the front of his shirt open, and the first three buttons of his shirt inside were unbuttoned, revealing a large chest and collarbone.However, he is not sloppy in this way of dressing. On the contrary, he is born with a skeleton that is born with clothes racks. The suits designed by Westerners unexpectedly fit on him, and he lazily deduces a different style.

Ye Rongqiu froze for a moment, and just wanted to ask Zhou Hongyu who this young master is from the Zhou family, but Zhou Hongyu called out before him: "Wow, brother-in-law, your friend has a really good figure!"

At this time, the person sitting in the living room raised his head, and Ye Rongqiu took a step back suddenly, his mouth parched with shock: This young master who seemed to him to be extraordinary is actually a black dog!

Seeing Ye Rongqiu's shocked look as if he had lost his soul, the black dog was also taken aback for a moment, and pulled the collar of his shirt uncomfortably: "Master Zhou, do you have casual clothes? I'm not used to wearing these clothes."

Zhou Hongyu wanted to give Heigou a long robe and jacket, but Ye Rongqiu said that Heigou was his friend, not a servant.He wasn't sure what Heigou's identity was, so he prepared the same outfit as Ye Rongqiu for him. He didn't expect Heigou to be a piece of unrevealed jade, and he could wear his clothes with such style!He quickly went up to meet him: "Where is it inappropriate? I think it fits well! You are so handsome in clothes, but I am embarrassed to wear them again in the future!" He turned to Ye Rongqiu and said, "Brother-in-law, quickly introduce your clothes to me." a friend!"

Ye Rongqiu frowned and said in a low voice, "Don't call me brother-in-law."

Zhou Hongyu patted him on the shoulder and laughed loudly: "Yo, I'm still shy!"

Ye Rongqiu pulled away his hand slightly annoyed.He wanted to introduce Black Dog to Zhou Hongyu, but before he could speak, he was stunned: How should he introduce it?He told Zhou Hongyu that the black dog was his friend. Since he was a friend of his Second Young Master Ye, how could he say the names of this cat and dog?But the black dog never told him his name.

Ye Rongqiu met Zhou Hongyu's expectant gaze, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "His surname is Zhong."

"Oh?" Zhou Hongyu waited curiously for him to continue.

Ye Rongqiu glanced at the black dog. The black dog seemed to understand his distress very well, and was watching him with his chest folded.Ye Rongqiu glared at him annoyedly, and said in a vague way: "He is the eldest son of the Zhong family... the Zhong family who ran goods in Chongqing back then. You can call him... Ah Hei."

Zhou Hongyu was stunned for a moment: "Ahei?"

Ye Rongqiu nodded: "This is his... expression."

Zhou Hongyu looked at Hei Gou in surprise, seeing that Hei Gou didn't retort, he smiled and extended his hand to him: "Ah Hei, nice to meet you."

The black dog held his hand politely: "Master Zhou, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Zhou Hongyu hurriedly said: "Young master Zhou, I think you are not very old, you look... 20 years old?"

The black dog said, "Almost."

Zhou Hongyu patted him on the shoulder: "Young man. Since he is Maoshi's friend, he is also my friend, just follow him and call me Brother Hongyu."

After the black dog shook hands with him, he looked at Ye Rongqiu with a half-smile.Ye Rongqiu was terrified by him, and always felt that he seemed unhappy, but he didn't understand what he did wrong to make him unhappy, so he felt uneasy.Because of the anxiety in my heart, my whole body reacted, and my stomach rumbled like thunder.

This burst of sensational sound made everyone stunned.Ye Rongqiu's face turned red in an instant, wishing he could find a crack in the ground to get in.

Zhou Hongyu slapped his head suddenly: "Oh! How did I forget, you must have been hungry for a long time when you came all the way here in embarrassment, I thought I would treat you to a big meal at night, but I forgot to ask someone to bring something to you You guys are hungry! Quick, quick, sit down there, we will send someone to bring some snacks right away!"

So a servant ran over to lead Ye Rongqiu and the black dog to their seats, Zhou Hongyu said: "I still have something to do, you guys eat something first, I'll be back soon!" After finishing speaking, he hurried away.

As soon as Zhou Hongyu left, the black dog came to Ye Rongqiu's side, smiling and calling in his ear, "Ah Bai."

Ye Rongqiu's heart skipped a beat, and he stared blankly at the black dog.

The black dog said: "I black you white, isn't it just right."

Ye Rongqiu didn't understand why, so he thought that the black dog was joking with him, so he smiled happily: "Mmmmmm."

The corner of Heigou's mouth hooked up, but the smile was mocking: "Second Young Master Ye, you are too flattering, how can Heigou be worthy of being the second Young Master's friend. The Zhong family has long since disappeared, so he can't get on the stage."

Ye Rongqiu suffocated, and his joy was completely extinguished.He finally knew where he was wrong.He was ashamed to say the name of the black dog just now, and he really felt a little ashamed, but he... Anyway, he never meant to look down on the black dog!He wanted to make an excuse, but he only said "no", and he didn't know how to continue.

The black dog backed away from him, grabbed a piece of pastry and threw it into his mouth expressionlessly.