Inside Wanchun Building.
Yang's mother sewed red needlework in her courtyard. She didn't have to welcome guests. She only wore a close-fitting plain dress and let her hair down.
The courtyard is not big, with a small rockery and a shallow fish pond. Next to it are flowers and plants planted by Yang's mother. Flowers and plants are not expensive, they are the most common in ordinary mountains and fields.
There is a newly bought little girl serving tea in the room. Her parents died early, and she was sold here by her gambling-addicted uncle. When she first bought her, she was afraid of strangers, but now she is much bolder, stretching her neck to peek. Yang's mother sewed the needlework, but Yang's mother turned her away with a look. She squatted alone by the small red clay stove to make tea with her arms folded.
Yang's mother was also a poor person in the early years, selling fish to make a living. Later, when she got money, she changed her profession and started this business. When selling fish, he haggled for a little money and developed a sharp-tongued temperament. On the surface, he is aggressive, but on the inside he is still kind and gentle.
Wanchunlou sells his art but not his body. They are all poor girls trying to make a living in this sheltered place.
The girls had someone they liked and secretly communicated with each other, but she turned a blind eye, hoping that the girl would meet her husband, redeem herself, marry him, and live together forever.
But if the girl is wronged, she will be unforgiving and will definitely break up with the person and ask for an explanation.
In the early years of selling fish, I learned a lot from the skills of a market hawker. This harem girl was very unfamiliar. Before she had a few stitches, her hand was pricked. She frowned slightly, hurriedly put it in her mouth, and cursed in a low voice: I will kill you. If you can kill fish, why is this stitch so difficult?
Lou Wanchun poked his head in from the door, and Yang's mother relaxed her brows and said softly, "I'm back, Xiaotao, give me a cup of hot tea to moisten your mouth."
Xiao Tao stood up to pour tea, but Lou Wanchun stopped her and gave her a look to let her go out first. Then he leaned on the crack of the door and looked through the window to make sure no one was eavesdropping.
Mother Yang smiled and asked, "What's wrong today? You're just pretending to be a ghost."
Lou Wanchun walked a few steps closer to Yang's mother and held her in his arms.
Mother Yang's face was like a peach blossom, and she struggled a few times shyly, "Damn it, it's still early, wait until the night is quiet..."
Before Yang's mother could finish speaking, Lou Wanchun reached out and flicked her forehead gently, "What are you thinking about? I have something important to discuss with you."
Mother Yang blinked in her arms. They were already an old married couple, so why were they still serious? She drew circles on his chest with her fingers, but was caught by Lou Wanchun's cold hands.
"Why are your hands so cold!" Yang's mother breathed hot air into her mouth to warm Lou Wanchun's cold hands.
Lou Wanchun suddenly cried and said: "I'm afraid I won't survive." At first, he howled dryly, and slowly tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.
"Did the old lady say something again?" Yang's mother looked nervous.
Lou Wanchun's mother didn't like Yang's mother, firstly because she was involved in the business of Wanchunlou, and secondly because she failed to continue the family lineage. But Lou Wanchun liked her, so the old lady of the Lou family rarely acted like a monster.
Lou Wanchun held Mama Yang tighter, "No, I brought the host to your place."
Yang's mother hammered Lou Wanchun's chest with both fists, and she felt annoyed, pushed him away, kicked him, raised her voice a bit, pointed at her nose and cursed, "Have you had enough of this life? Fairy Ye's temper Who in the whole of Jiangnan doesn't know that you actually brought your poster to Wanchun Tower? Why, let Fairy Ye give us both a heart-broken look when the time comes. The old lady is old and we have no children. What will the old lady do in the future? You, you, you..."
Mother Yang was trembling all over, with anger in her chest. No matter how much she scolded her, it would be useless. She quickly calmed down and asked, "Where is your poster now?"
Lou Wanchun looked down at his toes and whispered back, "Outside the window on the top floor."
Yang’s mother said in surprise: “I didn’t enter the building!”
Lou Wanchun answered truthfully: "No."
Mother Yang felt comfortable all over and comforted herself: "That's good, that's good."
Lou Wanchun was extremely entangled, "But I brought him here. If Fairy Ye pursues the investigation..."
Mother Yang's expression softened, and she pointed to the tea pot on the small stove to indicate that she wanted to drink tea to calm her nerves. "It's okay. He is the landlord. When the time comes, just insist that he forced you to bring him here."
Lou Wanchun poured a cup of tea, cooled it on his lips, held it in both hands and handed it over, "Are you really okay?"
Mother Yang drank the tea in one gulp and nodded. Lou Wanchun burst into tears and laughed, and then held Yang's mother in his arms. Yang's mother discussed with him about having a child, just in case, Lou Wanchun supported his waist and begged for mercy.
Outside the top floor window.
Jun Bubai wore ink clothes and wielded his sword in the air. The night was getting darker, and pedestrians on the road did not notice his presence.
The window was wide open, and inside the house, Bai Xiaosheng, dressed in purple, was feeding pigeons in a wheelchair, and three or two gray pigeons were grabbing food from his palms. Bai Xiao was over fifty years old, with not a single gray hair on the top of her head. She had star-shaped eyebrows and sword-like eyes, and her gestures showed nobility.
Sitting in the corner was a tall and strong man, Bai Xiaosheng's mute slave who never left his side. The mute slave was mentally retarded and kept chewing the roasted suckling pig in his arms. He was the first to see Jun Bubai, hehe, he lowered his head to gnaw the pig's head, chewing the meat and bones together in two mouthfuls, and got excited about eating.
Bai Xiaosheng was an old friend of his father, the Sword King, and his master, the Sword God. Jun Bubai bowed his hands in greeting and called him uncle.
With the sound of uncle, Bai Xiaosheng clasped his hands into fists, and the gray pigeon snatching food from his hands disappeared.
Bai Xiaosheng's transformation state is to transform into a gray pigeon, and the flying pigeon carries messages and knows the world's affairs.
Bai Xiaosheng glanced at Jun Bubai, tilted his head, first smiled evilly, then sadly, then pursed his lips and snickered: "Oh, it's my nephew, why don't you come in? I've come all the way from Jinling I came all the way to Jiangnan to see you. It’s cold outside the window, so don’t stand outside the window all the time.”
If it were anyone else, Jun Bubai's fist would have been delivered to his face. At this time, he could only observe the etiquette of a junior and gritted his teeth: "You must have done it on purpose, knowing that I can't come to this kind of place."
Bai Xiaosheng's wheelchair creaked under his body and walked to the window. His own incense smelled elegant and pleasant, "Tell me about your family. Your father is the best in the world, but he likes your mother's fierce temper. But in the end, he is not the best in the world." I did it and spent the whole day chopping wood and making fire in the Five Flavors Forest. As for you, you chose Ye Fairy again, and you were suppressed by her everywhere. This life has lost so much fun."
Jun Bubai said unceremoniously: "As long as I like it."
Bai Xiaosheng sighed with emotion: "You are not as domineering as your mother in what I said." He suddenly felt hurt, punched the wheelchair, and cursed: "Those two guys who forget their friends after seeing sex, one is hiding in Wuwei Forest, One of them is hiding in Shennong Valley, so now I don’t even have a drinker.”
Hiding in Wuwei Forest is Jun Bubai's father, Jun Ruyi, and hiding in Shennong Valley is Jun Bubai's master and uncle, Su Mu.
Jun Bubai quickly comforted him, "How about I have a drink with you."
Bai Xiaosheng smiled and said, "I've been waiting for you to say this." As he spoke, he took out a jar of wine from the secret compartment under the wheelchair, removed the vase on the table in front of the window, and placed a pair of jade cups with green plum wine on it. When the jar is opened, the aroma of wine is wrapped in sour and sweet flavors, which reminds people of green plums and rainy weather.
Bai Xiaosheng took a soaked green plum and put it in the bottom of the cup, poured half of the cup with wine, and pushed the other half of the cup without the green plum to a place where Jun Bubai could reach it. Regardless of whether he was drinking or not, he picked up the wine cup. After taking a sip, he put down his wine cup, looked into the distance and softly chanted: "Under the stone bridge, I hold my umbrella and wait for people to return."
The man he was waiting for liked plum wine best.
Jun Bubai pulled the jade cup to his hand and drank slowly. The wine was slightly sweet and tasted like honey. "You came to me today not just for a drink."
Bai Xiaosheng held the plum at the bottom of the cup in his mouth and played with the jade cup with his long, bony hands. His face was heavy and he said, "There is something I want you to go to."
Jun returned the wine cup in vain and stepped back a foot, "Your Guinong Villa is hiding dragons and crouching tigers. Is there anything else you need me to do?"
Bai Xiaosheng put down the jade cup and sat upright, "I want you to go to Yangzhou to pick up someone, but it is not convenient for Gui Nong Villa to interfere in this matter."
Jun Bubai was puzzled and asked: "Who can't even interfere in Guinong Villa?"
Bai Xiaosheng frowned, poured half a cup of wine and swayed it on his lips. He raised his head and drank it all. He breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Shen Qinglan, the only daughter of Shen Wanjing, the richest man in Jiangnan, I owed the Shen family a favor back then."
Shen Qinglan, ranked fifth on the beauty list.
The only thing that Guinong Villa cannot interfere with is Chang'an. Jun Bubai lowered his voice and asked, "Did the Shen family offend someone from Chang'an?"
Bai Xiaosheng was silent for a moment, as if there was something unspeakable, and his face was gloomy, "Her fate is the same as that of the one in the palace. Someone in the palace should go to Yangzhou to take her into the palace in the next few days. It is not convenient for me to take action, so you can do it for me." I really don’t feel comfortable leaving it to anyone else, but don’t worry, Guinong Villa will help you in the dark.”
The person in the palace in Bai Xiaosheng's words is naturally the empress.
Jun Bubai had heard something about the relationship between Bai Xiaosheng and Chang'an from his parents, and knew that this was his difficulty. Since his elders spoke, he couldn't refuse, so he said: "Since you have mentioned this, I will Let me take a trip for you."
Bai Xiaosheng smiled with the gratification of an elder, "After the matter is completed, I will ask Zhu Sanhuai to give you the pigs he raised to eat meat."
Jun Bubai laughed and waved his hands to refuse, "That pig is his life, I don't dare. So many people wanted to eat his pigs, but he killed them all."
The mute slave on the side chewed the whole suckling pig and wiped it on his clothes. When he heard the meat was being eaten, his eyes lit up and he made babbling gestures.
Bai Xiaosheng knocked twice on the wheelchair, and the mute slave sat back in the corner sadly, picking his nostrils with his oily hands.
Jun Bubai suddenly remembered the jade-faced scholar he met during the day, raised his head and asked, "Do you know someone whose technique can make people fall asleep?"
Bai Xiaosheng turned his right hand, and a gray dove jumped out of his palm. The gray dove fluttered its wings and flew towards Jun Bubai. In front of his eyes, it turned into a line of small words, "The Heart of the Right Protector of the Thousand Demons Palace."
Bai Xiaosheng warned: "Granny Luo also met today. That person is Xinyu, the right protector of the Thousand Demons Palace. His state of selflessness is like a yellow beam dream, which makes people fall into dreams. Don't run into her again before you enter the state of selflessness. He must stay away."
Jun Bubai was glad that Gong Xinyu took action at the Jiang Family Silk Shop. If it had been elsewhere, it might have been difficult for him to escape.
Bai Xiaosheng added: "Be careful of Demon Lord Jiangnan. The last time I saw him, he had entered the realm of immortality and was no weaker than your father. Now that he has returned to his youth, no one knows what his strength is."
Rejuvenation! Jun Bubai couldn't help but think of the little girl in black clothes on Gong Xinyu's shoulder.
On the Qinhuai River in Jinling, there are thousands of buildings, boats and boats, and songs and laughter invade the bottom of the water. Far away from the sound of people, there is a three-story-high painting boat parked in the middle of the water, with red lights hanging high.
The little girl in black clothes sat cross-legged on the deck in front of the cabin, with her head propped up and staring at the small stove at the same height as her in front of her. The earthen pot on the stove was cooking fresh fish just fished out of the river. The corners of her mouth were smiling. My saliva is about to turn into a river.
Gong Xinyu was wearing a white dress and holding Jinling's most fashionable bun. She stood on the bow of the boat and waved gently. Several fresh fish flew out of the river and landed on the deck. The boats passing under the boat will stop for a moment for the stunning beauty standing on the bow.
Jun Bubai and Bai Xiaosheng drank all the green plum wine on the table. Bai Xiaosheng told Jun Bubai all the details of the trip to Yangzhou, and decided to set off early tomorrow morning. The night was getting darker and the cold wind was blowing. Jun Bubai shivered and said, "Uncle Shi, it's time for me to go back."
Bai Xiaosheng tightened his clothes and put the jade cup and the wine jar back into the secret compartment, "Don't worry, I'll wait for someone to go to Yangzhou with you."
Jun Bubai asked: "Is there anyone else going with me?".
"We should be there soon." Bai Xiaosheng knocked on the wheelchair twice, and the mute slave stood up, walked to the wheelchair, picked up the wheelchair with one hand, and carried it on his shoulder.
Jun Bubai was confused. He waited for others. Why did the mute slave have to carry the wheelchair? "What are you doing?"
Bai Xiaosheng smiled evilly, "I can't afford to offend those who are waiting."
As soon as he finished speaking, the mute slave jumped out of the window with his wheelchair on his back, landed on the eaves of a roof, and ran away.
A red leaf fell from the top of the head and landed on the table where Bai Xiaosheng had put the wine. Then another leaf fell, and the third and fourth leaves fell like rain.
At this moment, Jun Bubai understood why Bai Xiaosheng wanted to run away. His legs were trembling, and even his desire to escape was stifled.
When a man dressed in red threw Bai Xiaosheng and Mute Nu on the deserted street, the wheelchair shattered and the jade lamp rolled back and forth on the bluestone road. The mute slave, who was covered in ashes, lamely picked up Bai Xiaosheng and ran away again, leaving only a mess on the ground.
The cold air enveloped Jun Bubai, and Hong Yi stood quietly on the eaves. Silence was better than sound at this time.
Jun Bubai stiffened up, slowly lowered his body to be level with Hong Yi, and whispered, "Why did you get out of seclusion?"
Hongyi didn't answer, but just stretched out her right arm, a long red sword in her hand that glowed in the cold night.
Jun Bubai swallowed his saliva, his heart beating in his throat, "I just brought in a car of Xianrenzui from Zhangjia Liquor today, how about I go back and warm you up with some wine."
Hongyi still didn't speak, his eyes widened so much that Jun Bubai felt frightened.
"I met Xinyu from the Right Protector of Thousand Demons Palace today, so I came to ask Bai Xiaosheng something. I just said a few words to him outside the window."
The long red sword turned into red light and flew into Hong Yi's eyebrows, blooming into a sword flower. Hong Yi's expression softened and he said softly: "I'm tired, take me home."
Jun Bubai fell into the warm sun, and the chill around her felt warm at the moment. He reached out and took her into his arms, holding her sideways. She smelled very good, and it was close to his chest, making it difficult for him to control it.
Yu Jian was about to leave, but she called out, "Let's go back on foot."
Jun Bubai looked troubled. Wanchun Tower and Tianxia Tower were far apart. If you carried me home like this, your hands would definitely become useless. But when he lowered his head and looked at the determined look in his arms, he didn't dare to refute. He dropped his sword on the street and walked downstairs towards the sky.
In Wanchun Building, there was a window that was ajar. Lou Wanchun was half-crouching and looking out from the crack of the window with Mama Yang.
Mother Yang lowered her voice and asked, "Are you leaving?"
Lou Wanchun also lowered his voice and replied: "Let's go."
Mother Yang leaned on the bedside, hammering her slightly numb ankle, which was the root of the disease caused by selling fish in the past, and whispered: "You can take sick leave tomorrow."
Lou Wanchun had a bitter look on his face, "Why don't you follow me back to the countryside to hide, and then say that my mother is sick and needs to be taken care of."
Mother Yang lowered her eyelids, folded her legs and sat down. Lou Wanchun realized that he had said the wrong thing, closed the window, warmed his hands by the stove, and rubbed the soles of her feet.
There were few people walking on the street. Jun Bubai held Ye Xianzi in his arms. He had not held her like this for a long time, and the soft and sweet breath disturbed his pace.
The person in his arms kept staring at him, but he no longer had the anger as before, "Why don't you come to Jinling."
Jun Bubai said with a smile: "You are in seclusion, I don't want to distract you. Besides, that girl Su Wan is so afraid of you that she won't go to Jinling even if I beat her to death. If I force her to take her to Jinling, she will give me Mom filed a complaint, my mother’s fire stick is merciless.”
Fairy Ye said abruptly: "Are you more afraid of your mother, or more afraid of me?"
This tricky topic will offend both parties if you are not careful. Jun Bubai smiled and said: "Of course I am more afraid of my mother. I like you, not afraid."
Fairy Ye raised the corner of her mouth, stretched out her arm to hook Jun Bubai's neck, and smiled sinisterly, "I'm not going downstairs anymore. I'm going to pick up Su Wan from Shennong Medical Center."
Jun Bubai almost stumbled and begged for mercy: "Spare me, my mother's fire stick is really deadly."
Su Wan had complained several times, and Jun Bubai was already afraid to the core of his bones about burning fire sticks.
"Aren't you afraid of me?" Fairy Ye grabbed Jun Bubai's ear with one hand. The fairy in the sky who was cold just now was now showing the playfulness of a mortal woman.
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts..." Jun Bubai cried out in pain.
Ye Xianzi took advantage of the situation and said, "If you go to Shennong Medical Center, you won't have to carry me back to Tianxiastairs."
"That's what you said. Once a word is spoken, it's hard to follow."
"I said it, or we'll pull the hook." Ye Xianzi stretched out her little finger and playfully scratched the tip of Jun Bubai's nose as a hook.
Jun Bubai shook his arms happily, and the two of them changed their route to Shennong Medical Center as if they were flirting.
Everyone knew that Ye Xianzi was aloof and cold-tempered when she fell into the mortal world, but they had never seen how happy and joyful she was when she was with Jun Bubai in private.
