Stage [Republic of China]

Ask him leisurely: "What did you use to redeem me this trip?"

Xu Jishan paused. "You want to know?"

"Ah."

Shui Jiu lowered her eyes slightly, the bridge of her nose was still covered with plaster, and there was a large bruise on the left cheekbone. This once beautiful face was now like fine porcelain that was maliciously destroyed by an urchin.

Xu Jishan sighed, and raised her hand to gently stroke the man's forehead and heart all the way to the bruise on the cheekbone.Carefully avoiding his wound, he let out a long sigh. "Don't ask. What do you want to do with those unpleasant things?"

Seeing that he avoided answering, Shui Jiu guessed that he might have brought great benefits to the police station and the Dongyang people, his heart tightened, and his voice trembled slightly from his throat. "...What did you send out?"

"Haha, it's just some money anyway." Xu Jishan said haha, and led him to continue walking.

"how much is it?"

"Why, do you want to pay me back?" Xu Jishan asked without answering, raised her thick eyebrows, laughed again, and said carelessly, "Anyway, it's a price you can't afford. From now on, just give me yourself! "

Shui Jiu pursed her lips slightly.

Xu Jishan guessed that according to this person's temper, she was going to have a petty quarrel with him. Then, just as she was preparing her words, a clear and lingering sentence came to her ear suddenly:

"Is it dead or alive?"

Xu Jishan was startled, and glanced over, Shui Jiu's red phoenix eyes seemed to be smiling but not smiling.He couldn't help but feel like a cat scratching his heart, the itchy hotness came again.

Xu Jishan let go of Shui Jiu, and gestured exaggeratedly with both hands in the void: "A peerless treasure like Boss Shui, a big treasure! Naturally..."

He intentionally dragged on the tune and murmured. The Nanyang tune was dragged on for a long time.Especially her skin is honey-wax, she looks like a marionette on stage.

Shui Jiu couldn't hold back, her water chestnut lips curled up slightly.

Xu Jishan had already thought of words. "Not only do you have to work, but you have to wipe it every day so that it doesn't get dusty."

Shui Jiu hooked her lips. "Hey, I didn't expect Mr. Xu to practice Zen?"

Xu Jishan coughed with a sullen face. "Ahem, it's easy to talk about."

The two looked at each other, and no one made an appointment, but they couldn't help laughing out loud at the same time.The previous anger at each other and all the hardships suffered in the patrol room seemed to disappear with laughter.

As soon as he arrived in front of the flower hall, Shui Jiu was stunned.The butler, together with Wu Ma, the driver and two other servants, stood at the door in unison. When they saw them coming, they bowed in unison and shouted loudly: "I wish my master can drink the northwest wind in the coming year and be happy every year." Drink the northwest wind!"

"Bah, how did you talk?!" Xu Jishan wasn't angry, but Shui Jiu got angry first, her two eyebrows were straight and raised, and the tails of her long and narrow eyes immediately hung up.

"Hey," Xu Jishan patted the back of his hand lightly, turned his face, and nodded at the butler and the others with a smile. "Today, everyone said it well. This month, everyone will double their monthly payment."

The butler and the others all showed joy and thanked in unison.

"What did you say? They cursed you, you..." Shui Jiu couldn't help muttering in a low voice, her face was pale, and she looked very angry.

Xu Jishan turned around and explained to him with a smile. "You don't know, today is Lidong, there is a rule in Jingxi Mansion, Lidong has to drink the northwest wind on this day. It's auspicious!"

"How can this be called auspicious?" Shui Jiu was puzzled.

"It's not just drinking the northwest wind. According to the custom in Jingxi today, we have to cook the mutton stove at night and order a fried chicken. Oh, by the way, you are injured and taking medicine..." Xu Jishan smiled slightly After pondering, he said, "But do as the Romans do, you still have to make sense."

Shui Jiu let go of that tone, raising her eyebrows in a half-smile. "It's so lively, why don't we still have fireworks at night?"

"Maybe."

A meal is delicious.After breakfast, Xu Jishan took a good look at his words and proposed to accompany Shui Jiu for a walk in the garden, and sat with him under the pines and cypresses for a cup of tea.In the end, he said apologetically: "Now the affairs of Jingxi Mansion have to be settled, I'm afraid I'll have to come back later today."

Shui Jiu was silent for a while. "Finished?"

"Yeah, I still want to go back to Jibei City when things in Jingxi Mansion are settled."

"Why did you go back to Jibei?" Shui Jiu shook the back of her hand resting on the stone table, her veins showed instantly, and her fingertips were tightly pinched.

Xu Jishan knew that this person was serious, and she was afraid that he would be troubled, so she patted the back of his hand reassuringly.After a while, Wen Sheng told him the whole story. "Right now, Second Young Master Qin is in Jingxi Mansion. If he doesn't die, you and I will have a bad day. It's better to get rid of everything here and go back to Jibei City directly. There is one more thing..."

Xu Jishan pondered for a while while talking. "The emperor of Jibei City has all run away. I heard that the right banner general is here now."

Shui Jiu raised her voice unconsciously. "The Right Banner general is a murderous demon king without blinking an eye. We have to go to that realm to make trouble for no reason!"

"You only know one thing, not the other." Xu Jishan answered with a smile, "Right now, Mr. Yun is very popular among the people, and there are foreigners who are willing to help him. It is said that Mr. Yun's people have gone south to besiege northern Hebei in a large scale. It will take more than a month for us to walk to Jibei Road, I am afraid that before we arrive at the gate of Jibei City, the General of the Right Banner will have been..."

Xu Jishan raised his hand, raised the knife, made a gesture with a click, and then winked at Shuijiu.

"...Can't you?"

Shui Jiu hissed and gasped, then turned around and thought about it, what Xu Jishan said was exactly the same as what Ning Jimin mentioned to him in the theater.

It seems that Mr. Yun is really determined to win Jibei City.

"Anyway, let's stop and stop. When we get to the road, if Jibei is still in chaos, let's take a break first." Xu Jishan eased the topic and smiled with the corners of her lips curled up. "This journey has beautiful scenery and magnificent rivers and mountains. I just take this opportunity to swim with you."

"Everywhere is messy, where are the magnificent rivers and mountains?" Shui Jiu disagreed.

"You don't understand!" Xu Jishan sighed deeply. "When I was a child, Grandpa taught these children in our clan that they must come back and have a look in the future. The river here is full of the sweat of the ancestors for thousands of years. The mountains here are also beautiful. Here, spring There are swallows flying, and orioles singing, if it catches up with March [-]rd, under the peach blossom tree, the little girl is swinging on a swing and laughing."

As Xu Jishan said, she couldn't help laughing out of self-consciousness. "Grandpa is a prodigal son. Anyway, he often said that his family is a prodigal son. As a child, Grandpa has always taught us that if our children and grandchildren have free time, they will always come back to step on this land and help him fulfill his past. An unfulfilled wish."

Shui Jiu lowered her eyes and said calmly: "It's a pity that you came back at a bad time."

"In this world, how can there be any good days and beautiful scenery? It's all made up in the drama to deceive people." Xu Jishan said with a smile and shook her head. "It has always been, as long as you are with people who are pleasing to the eye, you will be pleasing to the eye everywhere. And vice versa!"

Shui Jiu thought about the meaning of this sentence, but couldn't refute it for a while.

Seeing that he was in a daze, Xu Jishan took the pen with him lightly, and coaxed him: "You and I go back to Jibei City together. Even if we saw the Yellow River surging along the way, we finally saw this river and mountain together!"

Shui Jiu thought about it hesitantly. "Aren't all the crossings of the Yellow River closed?"

"That happened earlier." Xu Jishan smiled, "Now the Easterners are going to cross the river to fight the General of the Right Banner, and the Westerners are also going to cross the river to fight the General of the Right Banner, and Mr. Yun's people are coming from all directions from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River. Hurry over to the ferry. So the ferry ban has already been opened."

Shui Jiu was silent, and after a while, she suddenly raised her eyebrows and looked at Xu Jishan intently. "How long have you been thinking about this?"

"Not long, but just a few days." Xu Jishan answered vaguely.

Shui Jiu pressed again: "Are you really going back to Hebei?"

"Ah."

Both fell silent for a while.The sun at six or seven o'clock has not yet risen in this Jingxi Mansion, but the leaves are falling, but it brings some light.

Shui Jiu let go of his hand in a daze, raised his eyes and looked around. "...Is it because of me that...?"

"No." Xu Jishan cut him off decisively. "With or without you, I would have to leave Jingxi Mansion and go to Northern Hebei."

"why?"

"Because..." Xu Jishan was silent this time.After a long while, I answered him slowly: "Because the war is about to start, I have to return to Nanyang from the port of Jibei City."

Geek!

Shui Jiu felt so heavy that he couldn't breathe suddenly.

59, 59

◎"My dear lady"◎

Xu Jishan didn't tell Shui Jiu the truth.

He went to the shop in the afternoon, mainly to reconcile and clear the goods.The rice grains and noodles hidden in the shop were sold out, enough to be exchanged for coils, enough for him and Shui Jiu to go back to Jibei City with good food and drink.But if you want to talk about more money, it will be gone long ago.The gift he gave Boss Hong that night was generous.He didn't seem to care, but when he took out the five boxes, not only was the old housekeeper reluctant, but even his heart was bleeding.

What's more, he promised Boss Hong that night, and after the matter is completed, he will have to double it.This has almost wiped out all his possessions in Jingxi!It really doesn't make sense to stay here any longer.

But now when he heard that he was going back to Nanyang, Shui Jiu's lips trembled and his face turned pale for a moment. Xu Jishan couldn't bear it immediately, and clapped the backs of Jiu's hands, more or less confessing.

"Don't worry!" Xu Jishan patted the back of Shui Jiu's hand, her amber eyes stared at him motionlessly. "As long as you are willing to go with me, no matter where I go, I will take you with me."

Shui Jiu is silent