Ambush from all sides

The thin cat whined.Dead Leaf couldn't help being shocked when he heard it, his ears pricked up, and he opened the window with a "hula" in his hand.On the dry grass in the yard, a half-sized tabby cat came out of nowhere, and was walking and sniffing curiously with its small tail up.The dead leaf opened its eyes, watched it move slowly without blinking, and walked under the hibiscus tree smelling it.The little guy looked up and saw the pink flowers in the leaves.

"Mi~" The cat raised its head and shook its body, as if it was counting how many flowers there were.That appearance can't help but remind Dead Ye of Fang Qiu a few months ago. He was like this in his arms, looking up at the big leaf crape myrtle in the tree, with longing in his eyes.

At that time, he raised Fang Qiu with his hand and asked the child to touch the pink and purple flower.Now, Dead Leaf is also itching in her heart, and she wants to go out of the room a little bit, hug the kitten, and let it touch the tall flowers.

At this time, there was no one in the yard, everyone was busy outside, and the front of the ward was very clean.Dead Leaf looked around for a while, and finally made up her mind.He put on his coat, fastened his belt, picked up the mask on the table and put it on, and then, slowly and quietly... opened the door.

The cat was still whimpering and rolling in the grass, its little paws and waist limp, twisting and turning on the ground.Withered Ye cautiously held her breath, and leaned over quietly—this cat is not a little mandarin duck or a little horn, and it might scare him away.He slowly approached the cat from behind the flower tree, and through the leaves, he could see the small tail with circles of patterns flicking back and forth.The dead leaves walked into the grass, the shoes pressed against the dry grass, and the speed of the feet fell out of control for a moment, making a rustling sound.

The cat heard the noise and immediately stood up, its head tilted out from behind the flower tree.Its big brown eyes are round and round, and its expression is quite alert.Withered Ye felt a little embarrassed for a moment, and slowly stopped, before squatting down cautiously.The cat is very short, so he can only lower his body to make himself look more friendly: "Meow, meow..."

Seeing him approaching, the cat's pupils gradually narrowed, and its small body arched up: "Muh—" The little guy seemed to be scared, and took a step back.Withered Leaf pursed the corners of her mouth nervously, stretched out her hand slowly, and said, "Meow, don't move..."

The reassurance didn't work, as soon as he stretched out his hand, the little guy screamed "meow", jumped back, and ran away like flying.Withered Ye's hand froze in mid-air, and her careful breathing was instantly meaningless.He lowered his eyes, couldn't help but sat down under the flower tree in frustration, and sighed quietly.

Sure enough, small animals are still not welcome.I thought that after being infected by that litter of cats, I could at least have some smell that made animals feel close to me.Forget it, let it be like this, I'm used to it anyway.

The dead leaves closed their eyes, stood up slowly, stepped on the grass blades and went back to the room silently.After the night fell completely on the frontier, the dinner for the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion night began immediately.Listening to the lively sound from the dining room, Dead Leaf lay on her side in the quilt, unconsciously clutching the bright red bead in her hand, her eyes blinked slowly in the darkness, and then closed sadly.

Outside the window, a bird with a red head and a black body stood on the top of a tree, "chirped" twice in its beak, and then fell asleep.

Some time ago, after Zhan Hao took the dead leaves to Kaifeng Mansion to seek medical treatment, Uncle Zhong left for Suzhou.The prefect of Suzhou collapsed, and so did the Lin family. Subtle changes have taken place in the business structure of Suzhou and Hangzhou. In addition, his ex-son Zhan Hao was arrested and imprisoned...he had to go to Suzhou to secure the name of the Zhan family. Those shopkeepers, take a look at Di's actions by the way.

After being busy for more than ten days, Uncle Zhong heard from Yuan He that Zhan Hao had returned, so he drove non-stop to Changzhou Capital in a carriage.During those days when Zhan Hao was in Kaifeng Mansion, the threshold of Di Deqing's house was almost broken by the elders of the chamber of commerce.It's nothing more than for the matter of inheriting the throne, each of them is saying good things to their juniors.That eagerness seems to be afraid that one day Zhan Hao will come back and snatch this piece of fat away.

Although Zhong Yunde didn't want to have anything to do with Di Deqing, but thinking that the position of the leader fell into the hands of others, he felt uncomfortable.Who in Suzhou and Hangzhou can compare to his young master? Really, it would be really uncomfortable if someone else snatched it away.

Thinking about it, the butler of the exhibition house sat in the carriage and took a deep puff of a cigarette, then spit it out with a grin.He stretched out his hand to lift the curtain of the car, and said to Yuan He and Shumei outside: "Xiao He, hurry up, you have to arrive before this evening."

"Oh uncle, don't worry, Mr. Di is not blind. Besides, he wanted to discuss it with you before. It was you who didn't want to see him. Now you are in a hurry..." Yuan He muttered As he spoke, the whip in his hand did not move at all.Zhong Yunde reached out to knock her on the head angrily, and said cursingly: "You bastard! If you don't, you pay back, if you tell you to hurry up, hurry up, so much nonsense!"

"Okay!" Yuan He retracted his head with a smile, and did not forget to wink with Shumei beside him.With a whip in her hand, the car bumped even more instantly.Uncle Zhong was shaken to one side, almost fell to the floor of the carriage, dizzy.

At noon in the afternoon, the car rumbled to the door of Zhan's house in Changzhou.Zhong Yunde breathed a sigh of relief in the carriage, shook his head, and just about to get out of the carriage, he heard Yuan He yelling in surprise from outside: "Who is this kid? It's a little big, so cute!"

Uncle Zhong got out of the car and saw little Fang Qiu standing at the door in disappointment, looking at them with drooping eyebrows.Uncle Zhong walked over to pick him up, the child pouted and looked at him with a sad and wronged expression on his face, which made Uncle Zhong very distressed: "What's wrong Fang Qiu, who bullied you?"

"Hmm..." The child pouted and was about to cry, "Brother, brother hasn't come back yet!" Uncle Zhong was taken aback when he heard what he said, and didn't understand what he was talking about.At this moment, Ji Tang came out from the door, and seeing this posture, he couldn't help sighing quietly: "He's talking about Big Brother Cen. The young master came back a few days ago, but Big Brother Cen is still in Kaifeng to recuperate. Fang Qiu missed him, and whenever he heard a carriage passing by the door, he came out to look, hoping for his return."

"Tsk, boy Cen's injury is so serious?" Uncle Zhong hugged Fang Qiu, his gray brows furrowed deeply: "Didn't the young master stare at him all day, why did you let him... hey!"

Ji Tang glanced sadly at Yuan He and Shu Mei behind him, shook his head and sighed, and let them in sideways: "Come in first, young master, there are bigger troubles."

Uncle Zhong hurriedly walked to the middle courtyard, just as Zhan Hao came out of the door wearing a thin robe, with his hair uncombed and boots uncombed, he was wearing a pair of soft cloth shoes.Seeing his pale face and lack of strength, the worry on Uncle Zhong's face became more and more serious: "Master, why did you become like this?"

Just after saying this, behind Zhan Hao, in the room, a person who looked exactly like Zhan Hao came out with a leisurely expression.Uncle Zhong was dumbfounded all of a sudden, and he froze in place with his eyes wide open, motionless.Zhan Hao gave him a reassuring smile, stretched out his hand and waved it unhurriedly in front of his eyes, and said, "Uncle, don't be so surprised, this is my biological father, named Nie Qi."

Zhong Yunde was completely stunned at this moment, exactly the same? !This, this... a black dress, a black dress, who is the real one?Wait, what did he say?father?Nie Qi?

"Uncle, don't be dumbfounded. This is my father. He is almost 59, but he just looks young." Zhan Hao smiled with his eyes crooked, thinking that the housekeeper always looks calm and steady, with this stunned expression I really haven't seen it much.Nie Qi also smiled, his eyes were very gentle and peaceful, and he raised his hand leisurely and bowed to him: "Mr. Zhong, I have been admiring you for a long time."

"Ah, long time... Mr. Nie." Uncle Zhong felt that his tongue was about to get knotted, and he always felt weird.Behind him, the little girls and Fang Qiu who followed all the way were also taken aback.This is the first time that Nie Qi has appeared in front of their eyes. He had been hiding in the back garden before, but now that he saw it, tsk tsk, the father and son are really like twin brothers, both handsome and romantic.It's just that now Zhan Hao looks much weaker, his face is pale, and there's still a circle of black and blue under his eyes.

Nie Qi felt a little embarrassed to be stared at by so many pairs of eyes.He stretched out his hand to cover up and touched his eyebrows—even this movement was almost the same as that of Zhan Hao—then he coughed twice in a low voice and said: "Mr. Zhong, if you have something urgent, just tell him. It’s fine if it doesn’t exist.”

After speaking, he turned his face to the side very cooperatively, showing a look of looking at the scenery.The three little girls laughed behind, Zhan Hao laughed too, and even raised his eyes to wink at them.When Ji Tang saw it, he walked over with squinted eyes, reached out to hold Nie Qi's hand and walked towards the east courtyard: "Uncle Nie, I'll show you around, there are kittens in the yard over there."

After hearing this, Yuan He picked up Fang Qiu and pulled Shumei to follow happily.When Nie Qi was pulled halfway, he turned his face to Zhan Hao and shook his head helplessly, meaning to say bastard, look at the good girl you taught, and call me uncle as soon as she opens her mouth!Zhan Hao waved his hand at him calmly, and said to himself that he was already that age, and he pretended to be tender with that face, go ahead.

Uncle Zhong squinted silently on the side, speechless, unable to say what he thought, but felt a little weird.After Zhan Hao dismissed his father, he turned his face and smiled at him again: "Uncle, what do you want me to do when you come back?"

Zhong Yunde shivered because of his laughter, feeling a little dark in his heart for no reason.He shook the goosebumps on his back, curled the corners of his mouth stiffly, and said dryly: "Well, that is, I will tell you about things in Suzhou. Di Deqing wants to see you, so he probably has to push you out again. I ignored him, but this time he didn't seem to be ready to let it go, and left me a letter saying to leave it to you."

As he spoke, Uncle Zhong took out a thick envelope from his sleeve and handed it to him. Zhan Hao stretched out his pale hand to take it, and slowly tore it open to read.When Uncle Zhong saw his slow, even trembling movements, he felt anxious, thinking that the young master was fine when he left, why did he look like this when he came back?Poisoned or sick, can it be cured?Just as he was thinking wildly, Zhan Hao finished reading the letter, and handed the letter back to him, turned around and walked into the room, saying: "Boss Di is going back to Changzhou to retire, and he will hold a special banquet for me in two days. I want to go."

"Retirement?" Zhong Yunde followed him in and saw him sitting down in the chair: "Hmph, it seems that this time he is really going to force you up, and he can say such things."

Zhan Hao glanced at him with a smile, with a calm expression on his face: "Uncle, Boss Di left Suzhou and came back to Changzhou, he's just a drunkard, don't care about him, you can't solve the problem by running away. "

After being told the truth in one word, Zhong Yunde couldn't help but frown sullenly, squinting his eyes at this young master who never knew how to save face for his elders, all he wanted to do was twist his ears.Zhan Hao was laid back, the smile on his face was still unhurried, and he spread his hands leisurely after a while, making a look like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water: "Uncle, look, my body is already like this now , is it still possible to go out? Boss Di invited me to dinner the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow... Maybe my situation here will be even more difficult. I will be bedridden by then, are you going to take me out?"

"Don't talk about that with me!" Uncle Zhong interrupted him angrily, reaching out to poke his pale eyebrows: "Tell me first, what's going on with this sick look?! What is difficult, are you poisoned?!"

"Yes, I have been poisoned. It has been poisoned for many years." Zhan Hao said, pointing his finger at his temple: "Here, there is a layer of poison powder covered inside, and it will attack when I am 60 years old. I, still I wanted to live longer, so I made a mechanism to mobilize the power of the medicine while I was young..."

"Activate the power of the medicine? You don't want to die, isn't it that you are going to die now?!" Uncle Zhong exploded, and couldn't help but yelled with his eyes widened and his beard blowing.Zhan Hao pulled him to sit down with a smile on his face, and comforted him: "I can't die, I can't die, just bear with it and it will pass, it's just that the process is a little uncomfortable, it's okay."

Hearing what he said, Uncle Zhong sat down slowly, but his eyes were still staring angrily: "Are you all right?"

"Really! When did I ever make a mistake in my work!" Zhan Hao patted his chest and irresponsibly offered a cheap guarantee to Uncle Zhong. Anyway, he was wise enough before, so it's nothing to brag about now.Uncle Zhong snorted and rolled his eyes away unwillingly.After being silent for a while, he turned around abruptly, glared at him and yelled, "From now on, you stay in the room obediently, and you are not allowed to go anywhere! The day after tomorrow I pushed that damn thing away, such a big shopkeeper or the head of a chamber of commerce, No more! Let’s talk about it when you’re better, let him wait, you won’t kill him if you wait!”

"Okay, okay, push and push, listen to uncle, wait for him to die." Zhan Hao is very good at coaxing people, he just opens his mouth, coaxing the old man is like coaxing a three-year-old child, it makes people want to knock him on the head .But thinking of his current body, Uncle Zhong suppressed and struggled for a few times, and in the end he just slapped the table heavily: "What's the matter! Go lie down on the bed and don't move around! Ah, and today Isn't it Mid-Autumn Festival, why is the house so deserted! Why are they not prepared?"

Zhan Hao looked at him with wide eyes, blinked for a while, his face full of ignorance: "Today is Mid-Autumn Festival?"

"Yeah, Mid-Autumn Festival! You guys really... Forget it, I'll take them out to buy some things, and at least have a decent meal!" After speaking, Uncle Zhong rushed out cursing.Zhan Hao turned his face away, leaned back in the chair in a daze, thinking about Mid-Autumn Festival, early autumn, his dazed eyes gradually dimmed.When the poison occurred, sometimes I slept for a day and a night, and gradually forgot today and He Xi.The girls were anxious about his condition, and probably forgot about it... Unexpectedly, it was already Mid-Autumn Festival.

He had been separated from the little fox for twelve full days and nights.

In the night that separates the two places, there is a distance of thousands of miles, and there is a Yangtze River in the middle.The fireworks in Changzhou are bright, and the night market in Kaifeng is noisy.The girls from the Zhan family were chattering around Nie Qi, who was almost exactly the same as their young master. At the dinner table, you would add food to him with each chopstick.Fang Qiu was sitting in Grandpa Zhong's arms, holding a small bowl and carefully biting a piece of duck meat. Zhong Yunde looked at him with a downcast face, and from time to time reached out to wipe his greasy mouth.Zheng Dong sat at the side, eating absent-mindedly, and didn't know who he was thinking about.

At the same time in Kaifeng Mansion, the fourth son was picking up a piece of fish and putting it in Bao Zheng's bowl obediently, saying that the little bun was in good health and handled the case well.Zhao Pu just picked out the coriander in Gongsun's bowl, and added a piece of fat radish and beef brisket to his bowl, planning to fatten up his own family.Bai Yutang, who came back in the evening, sat beside Zhan Zhao and drank quietly. Zhan's guard had half a shrimp in his mouth, and a chopstick of crab roe was about to be stuffed into his mouth.The other people crowded around the table, chattering and eating, the huge dining room was packed to the brim with three tables of people.

On the other side of the backyard, Dead Leaf was sleeping alone in a dark room, listening to the noise from not far away, wrapped in a quilt, but the temperature on her body gradually cooled down.Autumn is still cold, not as warm as summer.At this time, there is no warmth in my heart, even if I want to take advantage of the season to warm up.

I don't know what the warmth of reunion is like.

The moon outside the window is white and round, shining brightly on the window sill.The dead leaf slowly got up, leaned against the window sill, and looked out through the window lattice. The clear night sky was like a piece of dark blue satin.Under the bright moonlight, there is no star river running through it.

The night wind blows over the eaves, over the red-headed birds dozing off on the treetops, and across the river leisurely.The speed of the wind is not as fast as the speed of longing. When it blows to the person who is thinking in my heart, the time has not been known by how many hours.

Zhan Hao stood in front of the window, Qingming didn't feel sleepy in his mind.The night wind was a little strong, and Uncle Zhong told him to close the window, but if he closed the window, he would not be able to see the moon.

Zhan Hao knows that at this time, his little fox must not be asleep yet.He must also be standing in front of the window, looking at the same moon as himself.

The feelings have not yet been poured out, but there is no time difference in missing.

The end of the world is at this time.