Touch the cold

"It's a good thing you're still in Yongcheng, otherwise I won't be able to do business when I go back." Axue found Lingyou who was wiping the table in front of a wonton stand, approached him and said.

Lingyou raised his head, glanced at A Xue, felt that the girl looked familiar, narrowed his eyes slightly and thought for a while before remembering, and said in a calm manner: "Why are you looking for me, I have nothing to do with you."

"You can't say that." Axue moved half a step closer to Lingyou with her hands behind her back, and said, "There are really not many people in this world who know us, and you are one of them."

Lingyou glanced at A Xue coldly, turned around and walked into the stall.

"Hey, I haven't finished talking yet." Axue grabbed the corner of Lingyou's clothes.

"What else do you want to say?" Ling You asked impatiently.

A Xue curled her lips, if Ren Xiuqi hadn't asked her to come to Lingyou, she would rather not talk to him in this life, but because of Ren Xiuqi's order, A Xue could only continue to say: "Uncle Ren wants to see you, Ren Uncle is, that old man you saw last time, he wants to see you again."

"I don't have the time." Lingyou flatly refused.

Ah Xue sighed, and said lightly: "Then don't regret it."

"I have nothing to regret." Lingyou rolled his eyes.

Axue sighed again, heavier than before, and then her attitude took a 180-degree turn. The face that was originally calm and clear immediately changed into an expression of grievance, and then tears came down. When people saw such a flowery girl dropping golden beans, they all cast reproachful glances at Lingyou.

Lingyou's eyes were almost popping out, and he didn't know what to do for a while, so he coaxed Axue and said, "Gu... Miss, why are you crying, I didn't offend you."

Ashe wiped her tears aggrievedly while sobbing, "Why didn't you offend me? If you don't go back with me, I will be punished."

"But I...I..." Lingyou stomped his foot, "Oh, that's all right, all right, don't cry, why don't I go with you?"

"That's what you said." After hearing this, Ah Xue immediately returned to normal.

Lingyou looked at Axue lifelessly, with a resentful expression on his face.

A Xue bared her teeth and smiled, turned around and sighed quietly: "Tsk, it's still too tender."

Back in the courtyard, after Axue handed Lingyou over to Ren Xiuqi, she hurried to find Mo Zijin, but he searched all over the house and on the roof, but he still didn't see Mo Zijin. After searching the yard for a long time, I found Mo Zijin in an open space behind the house.

Mo Zijin was in a daze with a blade of grass wrapped around his finger, and he didn't even know that Ah Xue was walking towards him.

"What are you thinking about?" Axue bent down and asked Mo Zijin.

Mo Zijin was brought back to his senses by her voice, clapped his hands after throwing away the blade of grass in his hand, raised his head and smiled and said to A Xue: "I didn't think about anything, I just stared alone for a while."

"Liar." Ashe narrowed her eyes, "I know you have something on your mind, you have been wrong since yesterday."

"Don't worry too much, miss, I'm really fine." Mo Zijin stood up, patted the dirt on his body and said.

"Is it because of the Qin family in the capital?" A Xue didn't beat around the bush, and directly expressed her guess.

Mo Zijin paused obviously, then looked up at A Xue in surprise.

Axue shrugged and said, "I guessed it, and it seems that I guessed it right. Did you have a relationship with the Qin family before?"

Mo Zijin lowered his eyes, smiled self-deprecatingly, nodded and said, "Well, an old friend of mine lives in the Qin residence, I don't know how he is now."

A Xue blinked her eyes, leaned closer to Mo Zijin and said, "You became like this just because of such a thing? What's the name of your old friend? Maybe I can ask someone to help you find out."

"No need." Mo Zijin shook his head, "Actually, it's good if you don't know, it will save you a lot of worry."

"Then you're still so depressed." Ashe frowned, looking at Mo Zijin with some complaints.

Mo Zijin just lowered his head and smiled.

"If you have a chance, tell me about your past, how uncomfortable it is to be alone." Seeing that Mo Zijin seemed unwilling to mention that old friend again, Ah Xue said.

Mo Zijin nodded, "Okay, when I want to talk, I will tell you everything."

Axue smiled faintly, "Okay, I have to change my brother's medicine, ah yes, Uncle Ren seems to have taken a fancy to another person."

"Huh?" Mo Zijin frowned, "What kind of person?"

"Go and see for yourself, he won't let me talk about it." A Xue pursed her lips and said, she turned around and left after speaking, and soon heard Qi Shuang yelling, probably A Xue was abusing his wound again.

Mo Zijin's mood was a little more relaxed at this moment, but there was still something in his heart that he couldn't let go of. In fact, he forced himself not to think about it anymore. Now that he had made up his mind to leave, he didn't want to repeat the same mistakes again, but the more he didn't want to think about it. , some things are more lingering.

It's like a crumpled piece of paper, no matter how much you touch it with time, it can't get back to its original appearance, whether it's Mo Zijin or Qin Yi, it's the same.

At this moment, Qi Shuang's yelling became louder, Mo Zijin shook his head helplessly, and came out from the back of the house, just happened to see Ling You walking into the yard, the two of them looked at each other, both were taken aback.

It was Mo Zijin who came back to his senses first, and remembered what A Xue said just now, so he walked towards Lingyou with a smile, and said, "I actually saw you here again."

"En." Ling You only responded coldly, looking down at the ground.

Mo Zijin glanced at the sword on his back, and then said, "I'm sorry about what happened last time, I didn't think about it..."

"It's nothing." Ling You interrupted Mo Zijin and said, "I haven't repaid your life-saving grace in the woods, so let's count it as an even balance."

Mo Zijin hooked one corner of his lips, and said, "I heard from A Xue that you went to see Uncle Ren?"

"Yeah." Lingyou nodded, then looked up at Mo Zijin: "But don't think that I will be like you, Uncle Ren just said that there is someone here who can teach me swordsmanship, so I stayed."

Mo Zijin smiled and rolled his eyes.

That night, Mo Zijin had nothing to do, so he opened a jug of wine and held it in his arms. However, instead of going to drink on the roof, he sat on the railing and watched Lingyou dance the broken broken sword.

Lingyou danced for a long time before stopping, bent down and took a few breaths, then wiped the sweat from his forehead with his cuff, turned to look at Mo Zijin, hesitated for a moment, and walked towards him.

Lingyou sat beside Mo Zijin, touching the broken sword on his knee. After the two of them were silent for a while, Lingyou said suddenly: "Actually, I carry this sword on my back so that I can punish evil and Yang Shan, to be a knight-errant in fresh clothes and angry horses, but now it's good, the sword is broken, the clothes are torn, and there is not even a hair on the horse."

Mo Zijin was stunned for a moment when he heard his words, and then laughed twice, but the smile gradually faded, and finally returned to calm.

"Do you know?" Mo Zijin said to Lingyou lightly: "I'm different from you. I originally just wanted to live a normal life, but the people and things I met all made me dull. come down."

Lingyou lowered his head, still touching the broken sword on his knee and remained silent.

Mo Zijin looked at him, and handed him the jug in his hand.

Lingyou stared at the jug for a while before taking it, and took a big gulp of himself involuntarily, but was choked by the spicy taste of the wine, bent down and coughed, and coughed for a long time before he recovered, holding the With a flushed face, he stuffed the jug back into Mo Zijin's arms.

Mo Zijin took the jug back with a smile, hugged it in his arms, and turned to look at the night in the courtyard.

Lingyou swallowed to make his throat feel better, and then he said to Mo Zijin, "But if one day I become a famous swordsman, I will definitely come back and let you have a look."

Mo Zijin was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Okay, but I hope that at that time, I can also live an ordinary life."

Lingyou gave a rare smile, then pursed his lips, and asked Mo Zijin with some embarrassment: "Do you still have the sword that you said you would give me?"

"Here." Mo Zijin replied with a smile, "It's specially reserved for you." After saying that, he turned to his room and gave Lingyou the sword in the cabinet.

"Take it as mine." Lingyou took the sword carefully and said, "I will visit that house in the future."

"Yeah." Mo Zijin didn't object to him either, he knew Yi Lingyou's temperament, it would be good to accept this sword now, Mo Zijin continued: "However, can I ask you to give me the broken sword as a gift?" Give me."

Lingyou froze for a moment, raised the broken sword and asked Mo Zijin, "This? What do you want this thing for?"

Mo Zijin thought for a while and said: "If you really become a knight in the future, just think of this sword as a thought left to me, thinking that I didn't save you in vain in the forest that day."

Lingyou smiled shyly, turned to look at the broken sword in his hand, and handed the sword to Mo Zijin.

In this courtyard, Lingyou is actually the most out of gregarious one, except for Mo Zijin, he hardly talks to anyone, even Ashe is no exception.

For this person, Qi Shuang was the one she hated the most.

"I still don't understand why you left that kid here." Qi Shuang said to Ren Xiuqi with an unhappy tone.

"He knows the details of our place, and if we don't keep him, I'm afraid it will cause trouble in the future." Ren Xiuqi said slowly, drinking warm tea, "Besides, that kid is not useless. Now, maybe it will be of great use.”

Qi Shuang curled her lips, and muttered in a rather disdainful tone: "Just that bitter face, what great use can it be."

"Okay." Ren Xiuqi put down the teacup, coughed twice and continued, "You came to me today to complain?"

"No, no." Ren Xiuqi then remembered the business, "I want you to help Axue choose an auspicious day, so that I can marry her off smoothly."

"En." Ren Xiuqi nodded, "Axue finally agreed?"

Qi Shuang smacked her lips, "She didn't say she agreed or disagreed, but she didn't want to talk to me anymore."

Ren Xiuqi stroked his beard and smiled, "It's hard for you as a brother, how about this, I will choose a date for you, and pay half of the dowry for you."

"No, no, no." Qi Shuang quickly waved her hand, "There is no need for dowry, just pick a date for me, I don't understand that."

Ren Xiuqi nodded, got up and took out an old almanac from the cabinet, coughed twice when he sat down again, and flipped through the almanac clattering.