Small wood

Amu didn't know how he was feeling, he was very happy, happy that Gu Lin said that, but he was also worried, worried that they came all the way to the Northland, but they didn't get any help.

Gu Lin just looked at Amu, and knew what Amu was thinking. He took Amu's hand and walked into the hall. Without saying a word, Amu gradually calmed down.

No matter how worried he was, it was Gu Lin who made the decision.

Perhaps because he saw Amu's boredom, Gu Lin proposed to let Amu follow him to the meeting hall. As the only son of Mr. Lin, as Shanlin Amu, he could do whatever he wanted.

Amu was so happy that he wanted to catch a puppy, and wagged the dog's tail with his hand, telling him to see how happy he was.

Although no one forced Amu to admit that he was the only son of Master Lin, but Amu felt that everyone looked at him with the meaning of "This is the only son of Master Lin", and he couldn't argue if he didn't say anything, but if he Call him Mr. Lin, and he can't refute, because Mr. Lin's only son is Mr. Lin, and Amu from Shanlin is also Mr. Lin. In his eyes, these two people are not the same person. In the eyes of others, these two are the same person.

The reason why he didn't follow Gu Lin before was because they were discussing matters. Amu was afraid of being disturbed and bored, but now that Gu Lin has suggested this, he is of course happy. It's good to be able to watch Gu Lin.

So in the next few days, there was an extra young man in the meeting hall, wearing a scholar's round bun and wearing ordinary civilian clothes, but he was able to follow behind Gu Lin, his eyes were shining like a puppy, without blinking. Staring at Gu Lin, those who discussed matters with Gu Lin would look at him from time to time.

He can recognize the faces of most of the people in the meeting hall, including the white-bearded grandfather, and people as old as Gu Lin.

He has learned to hide pastries in his sleeves now, and when he feels bored, he takes them out and gnaws them, like a little squirrel, most people are not surprised by this, and continue to talk about them.

They had so many things to say, some Amu could understand but didn't understand, and some Amu didn't understand at all.Money, food, weapons, among the things they talked about, these three appeared the most.

He understood that the war with Gu Guo was inevitable.

On the fifth or sixth day, Amu saw an acquaintance. When he entered the room, Amu waved his hand and whispered: "Uncle Zhou!"

Zhou Xingping changed his attire, his shoulders were covered with soft armor, he was still holding the pointed scimitar, and the boots on his feet seemed to be made of iron. After stepping into the threshold, he stepped on the ground with a bang. Everyone stopped their voices and looked at him.

Someone gasped and looked at Zhou Xingping's saber: "Curved scabbard with black lizard handle, is this Pingfeng saber? Are you General Zhou?"

Zhou Xingping nodded slightly, his voice rough and steady: "Exactly."

The quiet crowd seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and said to Gu Lin with a smile: "With the help of General Zhou, Your Highness is like adding wings to a tiger."

They seemed to know only now that Zhou Xingping was with Gu Lin.

And now Amu knew that Zhou Xingping was a general, he put his hands down and put his back behind his back, thankful that he didn't make too much noise just now.

Behind Zhou Xingping were two people who were holding something in their hands and placed it on the table.

It was a wooden plate with a map on the bottom, filled with small mountain peaks baked with sand and mud, and there were many small flags on the edge of the plate, with many colors.

Amu stared blankly at that thing, only feeling familiar.

It took him a while to remember that this is called a sand table.

Amu had already played in the mountains and forests.

At that time, for my mother who was always lost, my father thought of a lot of ways, planted recognizable flowers on the path, and planted a lot of almond trees on the way home, but my mother still knew Lost, wandering around the mountains and forests for a long time with flowers in one hand, they still had to find them in the end.

Later, Dad asked him to memorize all kinds of trees and roads in the mountains and forests, even tree holes.He said that every time A Niang went out, he always felt like he was marching and fighting. He would make a sand table and mark all the places A Niang went to, and mark those places to make it easier to go home. When you get lost in this place again, you won't be able to find your way home.

For this matter, Amu climbed a tree for a whole month to draw a detailed map, and then Dad made a model, down to the species of trees and the width of the stream.

When the sand table is formed, it looks like a small mountain forest, exquisite and beautiful, and there are many small holes waiting to be inserted into the mark.

But when she showed the sand table to A Niang, A Niang cried, neither happy nor sad, she just hugged A Niang, with tears on her long eyelashes, dim and silent.

Since then, the matter of the sand table has been settled, but A Niang never went out again, but A Niang often came back with different flowers. The few days are gradually dissipating.

Thinking of Dad, thinking of A Niang, and then thinking of Ji Dong, I just felt so uncomfortable in my heart, frowned and lowered my head, I didn't eat the pastry in my hand, just stared blankly at the sand table.

Gu Lin didn't hear the squirrel-like rustling sound, so he stopped talking to look at Amu, touched his head lightly, and asked in a low voice, "But are you bored?"

Amu hurriedly shook his head.

Although it was not intentional, it still interrupted their conversation. Zhou Xingping's face was not very good-looking, and his brows were slightly frowned.

Amu thought, why not make a sand table like that for Gu Linye, he saw his dad did it, as long as there is a detailed map.

He stuffed the pastry into his mouth in one gulp, chewed it twice before swallowing it, almost choking, Gu Lin even patted him on the back, telling him to eat more slowly.

Zhou Xingping's complexion was already ugly, and he couldn't help but say: "It's a trifling matter when discussing important matters. When others need to think quietly, you are eating. What do you look like?" She would smile at him, and would go out of the room specially to let him talk to Gu Lin, but now she always finds Amu not pleasing to the eye, picking his faults everywhere.

But Amu also felt that what he said was right, so he patted the pastry crumbs on his hands, shook his head and said, "I won't eat, I'm sorry." He looked serious, and really thought he was wrong.

Gu Lin's expression faded all of a sudden, he glanced at Zhou Xingping, and turned his eyes away from Zhou Xingping.

Amu was thinking about the sand table, so he said to Gu Lin, "My lord, I won't come tomorrow."

Gu Lin was silent for a while, raised his hand to stroke his head, and asked softly, "Why?"

But Zhou Xingping thought that if he just said a word to Amu, Amu would lose his temper, and he was even more displeased.

Amu moved closer to Gu Lin's ear, and whispered, "I thought of something, and I want to surprise you, Young Master."

Gu Linwei turned sideways, quietly listening to Amu's voice, and suddenly the corner of his mouth curled into a slight smile, causing everyone in the hall to stare wide-eyed.Gu Lin actually laughed, they had never seen Gu Lin smile after staying with Gu Lin for so long.

After listening to Amu's words, Gu Lin'en said, with a faint look of water in his eyes, with a slight expectation and smile: "Go."

Amu hurriedly ran out, and when he was far away, he shouted to the sky: "Jin Yi, where are you?"

Before he finished speaking, Lin Yi was already standing by his side, his clothes hadn't moved at all, as if he was always by Amu's side, instead of appearing suddenly.

"Master?" As if the invisible man had followed Amu for so long, and this was the first time he heard Amu calling him, Lin Yi was naturally a little surprised and asked cautiously.

"Jin Yi, do you have a map of Beiguo and Guguo? I want a very detailed one, with the height of mountains, the width of rivers, and the plains so detailed that you can tell whether it is sandstone or green grass or something else. Do you have such a map? ?"

Ji Dong thought for a moment and replied, "I don't have any, but I know where it is. When will the master want it?"

Amu replied: "Of course, the sooner the better."

Lin Yi said: "Your subordinate will go get it now, and it will be picked up in an hour."

Amu nodded hurriedly, and smiled so much that he showed his small white teeth like shells: "Thank you!"

Lin Yi said: "This is what the subordinates should do." As soon as he finished speaking, the man disappeared, leaving behind a faint wind.

Amu rubbed his eyes, but there was nowhere to be seen Ji Dong.

But after walking two steps, a servant came up and said respectfully: "Young Master Lin, this servant is here to pick you up."

Lin Yi was afraid that Amu would not know how to get back, so he specially found a servant to send him back.

Back to my residence, the two maids at the door were still there, their eyes would pop out when they saw Amu, because they were yawning and talking boredly, when they suddenly saw Amu who hadn’t come back for a few days appear in front of them Then he was frightened, quickly let go, and said respectfully: "Young master is back, but do you want to eat?"

Amu was full after eating pastries, so he didn't want to stop eating, thanked him and went into the house, and asked the two maidservants for a lot of things.Maybe these things are too rare and weird in the palace, the two maidservants looked at each other for a while, then went down to look for them.

After waiting for a while, the maid brought the things, and after a while, Ji Dong also came, holding two rolls of things in his hands.

Amu hurriedly spread out the map, and found that there are especially many mountains, but all the details on the map are carefully marked, and it is easy to make, but I don’t know when it was written, and there is still a wet feeling, I don’t know if it’s the weather Chao is still his illusion.

With the map and the materials, just do it.

Although Amu has never done it, but Amu has watched his father do it, and he will memorize it by heart after watching it a lot. It is a question of whether he is familiar with it or not.

Ji Dong watched Amu roll up his sleeves, wanting to make a big fight, and was a little curious: "What do you want these for?"

Amu replied to him: "Make a better sand table."

Ji Dong was puzzled: "What do you want the master to do with the sand table?"

Amu shook his head: "It's not that I want it, but I want to surprise the young master. Although his sand table is good, I have seen better ones. I want to make one for him."

Lin Yi was silent, his face was not very good-looking, his hand holding the knife was slightly tightened, he looked deeply at Amu, it can be seen that he was so serious and so happy, in the end he didn't say anything, and hid in the darkness.

Amu sat on the ground, sat on the stool, lay on the ground, and lay on the table. After a long time, he changed his position when his body became sore, and he didn't sleep all night.

He was so mysterious that he never left the house, so Gu Lin didn't look for him. He asked someone to make his favorite food and bring it to him every day, and he also brought him some pastries from time to time.

Amu was biting back and forth with the glutinous cake in his mouth, and his hands kept moving.

In the afternoon of the third day, he was finally more than half done. When he was dyeing with colored ink, the maid at the door informed that someone was looking for Amu.

When Amu wondered who would look for him, the door was pushed open, and Zhou Xingping walked in, followed by two people.

When he saw Amu, he frowned tightly, and said to the messy things on the ground: "What are you doing?"

Afraid that Zhou Xingping would see it, Amu hurriedly pulled the sheet and covered it on the sand table. In a hurry, he was afraid that the sheet would get stained and damage what he had just painted, so he had to cover himself in it as a support point so that the sheet Do not touch the still wet sand table.

The person behind Zhou Xingping looked at the things on the ground with a flickering expression, thoughtful.

Zhou Xingping didn't pay attention to what Amu was doing, but his face was ugly. After all, when someone entered the door, the owner would cover himself with a sheet so that no one could see him. To Zhou Xingping, it was simply too rude.

He didn't want to talk to Amu Duo, so he put the things in his hand at the door, and said briefly: "Your Highness asked me to give this to you." After speaking, he pushed the door and went out.

Amu felt that he was being too rude, so he hurriedly lifted the bed sheet to talk, but Zhou Xingping had already closed the door.

And by the threshold, there is a small thing.

Amu hurriedly walked over and picked it up.

It was a grasshopper made of straw, with a round body and a pointed head, and it was lifelike.

It was written by Gu Lin himself.

Amu rolled his eyes, and laughed softly, Gu Lin couldn't wait any longer, wanted to see a surprise, so he gave this grasshopper that only the two of them knew, but for some reason Zhou Xingping specially asked Zhou Xingping to send it over.

He carefully held the straw grasshopper and placed it on the bedside, poked it with his hand after looking at it, giggling.