The wind

The so-called picking a place surrounded by chaotic mountains, fishing for a pool of clear green.Selling fish and selling wine is still sober when drunk, and paying attention to Hengdi.From this point of view, if you have free time, go fishing in the river, and pair fresh fish with wine, it is really a fairy day.

After the trip to the pharmacy was over, in order to verify Li Zhongnan's second conjecture, Li Xiao and Li Xiao, who were slightly relieved, then went to the fish market.

The fish market in Tianning is next to the ferry on the river bank, and the fishermen put the fish caught in the morning in buckets beside their boats.People who come and go, if they have a fancy, teach the boatman to reach into the bucket to catch the tail of the fish, lift the live fish that is still jumping upside down, drop the fish at will, and pay the money with one hand and the other hand. goods, and left.

If it is divided into pieces, it is a matter of removing fish scales with a knife in an instant. The fishermen are all veterans, and they are not procrastinating at all.

In fact, Xiao Zhouheng didn't want to step into this fresh fish market. After all, he had stayed with dead people before. He felt that the smell of rotting corpses was somewhat similar to fishy smell. When the smell was approaching, his footsteps were like stepping on cotton.

"Shu Ting, there's a lot of mud on the ground, I'll go over and say hello, you wait for me under the shade of a tree." Li Zhongnan reached out to caress the back of Xiao Zhouheng's neck, and then gently placed it on his lips With a kiss, the room entered the bustling crowd.

Xiao Zhouheng watched Li Zhongnan step into the front of the crowd, caught a fisherman and started talking.The two sometimes laughed, and sometimes talked in a low voice. Li Zhongnan ignored the crowds of women and farmers from the village, and casually rolled up his sleeves, then reached into the bucket full of fish scales and groped. This time, his appearance is less restrained in front of himself or in Li's house, but more informal.

Only Li Zhongnan like this, Xiao Zhouheng can get a glimpse of the imprint brought to him by the Jianghu on his body, so that even if he wears expensive clothes, he will not look out of place.

"What are you thinking?"

Xiao Zhouheng saw Li Zhongnan came back, holding dried fish wrapped in oiled paper.Li Zhongnan was afraid that Xiao Zhouheng would feel unwell, so he stayed away from him: "Do you know why dried fish is still sold here? The answer is obvious, customers won't buy fish that are not whole and fresh."

"The predecessor of this fish block, could it be... Could it be that it was in the pool in the front yard of Taobai Bank?"

"Of course." Li Zhongnan stared at the shriveled fish piece and said, "It is reasonable to say that carp meat is astringent and fishy, ​​hard to swallow, and inedible, but after all... alas, there are still people who are willing to buy it. According to that person The eldest brother said that these damaged carp have entered the fish market one after another since two months ago."

"Two months ago, at the beginning of July, at this time..." Xiao Zhouheng and Li Zhongnan seemed to remember one thing at the same time, the tragedy that happened on the fourteenth night of July.

But none of them said anything.

Both of them suddenly had their own thoughts, and for a while, neither of them followed up.

Just when the two of them were about to fall into the breathless atmosphere, Xiao Zhouheng suddenly changed the subject, which had nothing to do with what he had thought of before: "Zhong Nan, you...was it a little difficult before?"

"Of course you don't have much money when you leave the teacher's school. Apart from being a casual doctor, you just do some work." Li Zhongnan smiled, as if talking about other people's affairs, "Shu Ting is curious about how I know something. House and things like that? Since five years ago, I’ve been alone, so it’s natural to have a cooking event.”

"Since you left Yanyuemen*, have you been alone?"

"It's one person." Li Zhongnan looked at Xiao Zhouheng, "But now that you are more, you are not alone."

Xiao Zhouheng's heart tensed, and he immediately took Li Zhongnan's hand that touched the fish: "There will be me in the future."

"Of course, it will be us from now on." Li Zhongnan glanced down at Xiao Zhouheng and held his hand, but the smiles in his eyes could not be restrained anymore, "Why, I can bear the smell of fish now gone?"

Xiao Zhouheng blushed: "Of course...of course not!"

"Okay, okay, I'll wash my hands before I hold them for you, okay, you wash them too." Li Zhongnan pulled Xiao Zhouheng to the well, and gave the dried fish he bought just now to the nest. After the beggar on the street corner, he turned his head to hold the ladle and was about to wash the hands they held, but Xiao Zhouheng didn't seem to want to let go. He looked down at the water, not knowing why.

Li Zhongnan raised his eyebrows: "Why, Shu Ting is still reluctant to let go?"

In the sea of ​​people, in the vast world, Xiao Zhouheng just kept holding Li Zhongnan's hand, turning a deaf ear to the surprised looks of others, at this moment he isolated anyone and everything except Li Zhongnan.

Seeing that Xiao Zhouheng didn't respond, Li Zhongnan didn't force him at all, just poured water on it, and held Xiao Zhouheng's hand with his backhand, and washed him for him.

"Actually, if the fish meat has been processed and has no peculiar smell, if it is added with wine, steamed in autumn oil, then added with fiber, egg white, and fried in a pan, it is also wonderful. If you don't like greasy, you can also chop the fish into pieces. Small pieces, pickled and dried, put into distiller's grains in winter, and eaten in summer, also have a unique flavor."

"Shu Ting, do you want to try it? I'll make it for you." Li Zhongnan smiled slightly, "You can't stand the smell of fish, so I'll try something else. If there's nothing you like, if it's not some rare dish, Give me two days, and I will learn by myself."

Li Zhongnan paused, and rolled his eyes: "If Shu Ting really wants to eat something novel, then give me one more day..."

In the afterglow of the whip, what Li Zhongnan said later, Xiao Zhouheng didn't listen to it at all.

In fact, when Li Zhongnan chatted with the fish soup seller so naturally, Xiao Zhouheng wanted to ask him what he had experienced during the days when he was not in Li's residence.

What he said in one stroke made Xiao Zhouheng feel distressed, which caused a small crack in his chest in an instant, and what crawled out was sympathy that he didn't even understand—as a son of an aristocratic family If the eldest son of the dignified Li family can be so well versed in the world and human relationships, then he must have suffered a lot during the few years of traveling abroad.

After these things are over, I will choose a deserted place to live in seclusion with him, keep my own side of the world with him, laugh at the grass with him, chat with each other, hold each other for a hundred years, and share a boat , to see all the lights of God Continent.

In any case, he would never be allowed to experience that fatal loneliness again.

When Xiao Zhouheng came back to his senses, Li Zhongnan was wiping Xiao Zhouheng's fingers one by one with a handkerchief.Li Zhongnan lowered his head, the light diffused down so casually, making the shadow covered by his long eyelashes very obvious, he could only hear something in his mouth: "...after all, it is autumn, you yourself You have an old disease, but you can't let the cold air get close to your body, a bone headache is fatal..."

"En." Xiao Zhouheng responded, moved his fingers, and immediately interlocked with Li Zhongnan's ten fingers.Xiao Zhouheng raised his head slightly, looked at the light and graceful face and elegant chivalry of the person in front of him, after naturally catching the joy in Li Zhongnan's eyes, Xiao Zhouheng pulled him closer to him like this; Xiang then hastily bit his lips, loosened his hand, moved his palms behind Li Zhongnan's ears, and kissed him.

So Xiao Zhouheng, Li Zhongnan is such a good person, he must not be allowed to be alone in the sea of ​​people in the future.

He is the god of the cave who knows my feelings, and I am the most beautiful person in the world who appreciates the pity of the king.

Afterwards, the two of them used the address they wanted from the painting screen to find the two servants who broke their legs, one named Zhang Bao and the other Zhao Hu.Both of them lived in Tianzi Lane in Tianning City.

The two of them had never been to Changzhou before, so they were naturally not familiar with the place, so they finally found Tianzi Lane, so they sat down at an open-air stall at the end of the alley, ordered a few snacks, and took a rest along the way.When the stall owner brought the food, Li Zhongnan asked, "Can I ask the shopkeeper for someone?"

"To make it so, what does the young master want to ask?"

"There are two big brothers in this alley, Zhang Bao and Zhao Hu."

Before Li Zhongnan finished speaking, he heard a bang on the other end, and saw a black-faced man on crutches throw the table in front of him, although he was panting heavily, he didn't speak, just looked at Li Xiao two people.

The stall owner was taken aback for a moment, then said without hesitation: "That one is... Zhang Bao."

This time, Li Xiao and Li Xiao even suspected that he had a ghost.When Zhang Bao moved slightly, Li Zhongnan got up and went to catch him, who knew that although the man had injured his leg, he was still quite agile, so he swayed and hid, and then lay down, even with crutches. He gave up, rolled several times in a row, grabbed the dry vines on the side of the street and climbed up, and escaped over the wall just like that.

Amidst the noise from the surrounding people, Li Zhongnan didn't chase after him, because he had already seen what he wanted to see, and so did Xiao Zhouheng—the burned and rotting skin of Zhang Bao.

Xiao Zhouheng pondered for a moment, then lowered his voice a bit: "I have a guess, is the broken leg injury a cover-up?"

Hearing what he said, Li Zhongnan's eyes drooped: "What did you do in the pool in the front yard to hide the truth from Yeye for Zhu Liyou?"

"That's right, it's actually not that important for Xunfu to know about Zhu Liyou's bombing of the mountain. After all, it's a double-win for him anyway. After Zhuangshang’s calamity, King Mu witnessed the landslide, so he committed himself to him. Even if King Mu found out, there was no flaw—after all, the fish did die, the flowers also lost, and the servant’s leg was indeed broken. Including that Taoist, King Mu can certainly trust him."

When Xiao Zhouheng said those words, his palms were sweating, and he was muttering in his heart that this was another incident in the daily turmoil. In the blur, there were some monsters standing in front of himself and Li Zhongnan, and they were not allowed to taste the tripod. One leg.

"In your opinion, it is Zhu Liyou who knows that he is terminally ill and is willing to help Peizhi achieve his goal. Even if King Mu is suspicious and finds out that these are all Zhu Liyou's tricks, Peizhi can do it." He excused himself and said he didn't know about it." Li Zhongnan's face was also ugly, "So, the death of Zhu Liyou and Ms. Miaomiao, as you said before, was really a coincidence?"

"Wrong, Zhong Nan." Amidst the autumn clouds, the wind swept past his ears, and Xiao Zhouheng felt the coolness soaking into his clothes, "You and I were wrong before, but in fact, Zhu Liyou still wanted to kill him." people."

The author has something to say: Yanyuemen: the sect of Jiangshan Jade Physician Li Xiantsuki (he was sent there by Li Yanqing since he was a child, first mentioned in Chapter 4).For details, see my work "Qingqilong".

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