Next to an alley on the east city wall, there is the pastry shop of the family. Today, the pastry shop in the east of the city has its door ajar, perhaps because it is raining lightly and it is not open. There is heat from time to time in the doors and windows of the main house behind the shop. Shen Teng overflowed from the inside of the house.
There were whispers coming from inside the house.
"Aunt Lin, try it and see how it tastes!"
"Well...it's much better than the ones I made. Girl Eleven is so ingenious. How lucky must Ye Shaoxia have been to be able to meet Girl Eleven."
"Why did Aunt Lin mention him? This is just a pastry I made for myself."
"Okay, okay, I don't know when my six-year-old child will come back. It's almost summer now, and there won't be anything ready for him when he leaves."
The two people in the house were the master who took care of Lin Manliu's family, and Lin Manliu's mother. Not long after Lin Manliu left, Eleven re-introduced his identity to Lin's father and Lin's mother. When it came to who Ye Dangting was, Lin Manliu's parents did not complain about the previous concealment, and their attitude towards Eleven remained the same as before.
"Don't worry, Aunt Lin. I didn't receive a reply from Jiangnan a few days ago. Now Xiao Manliu is doing great."
When Mother Lin heard this, she wiped her hands with a rag and said with a smile in her eyes: "Miss Eleven is right! Now that my child has grown up, he has gone out to have his own adventure. As a parent, I am too worried. ".
"Since we are our own children, it is inevitable to worry about them. I often miss my elders at home. When I traveled abroad in the early years, I would also wonder if my elders at home were living well." Eleven also wiped his hands with a rag. of flour, reached out to hold Mother Lin's hands, and spoke words of comfort.
"Well... I just hope that Man Liu's child will be well fed and clothed while traveling far away, so that he can come home as soon as possible." Mother Lin said and looked out the window, and Eleven followed Mother Lin's gaze.
There were raindrops covering the window edge, sliding down and splashing on the window frame. The raindrops fell drop by drop, but the scenery outside the house remained the same, without any change, as if it was just the same as the previous days with today's light rain, and there would be no more. Any more people or things.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, but there was no shouting.
Mother Lin heard the knock on the door and turned to look at Eleven. Eleven also looked at Mother Lin. The moment their eyes met, Eleven held Mother Lin's hand harder. Just a moment later. Calmness returned.
"Don't be afraid, Aunt Lin. If the Taoist priests from the Star Temple dare to come here to cause trouble again, I won't give them a lesson." Eleven said with a smile, and then walked to the door of the main room.
There is a strange long black bar leaning against the back of the door. If you look closely, you can find that it is the "sword box" that Eleven used to deal with the guests of the Star Watcher earlier. Just by mentioning it casually, the sword box will appear. It was easily taken away by Eleven. She opened the door and walked towards the shop in front. At this time, the knocking on the door had stopped for some unknown reason.
On the street outside the door
"Is there no one at your house today? Why is there no response no matter how hard you knock on the door? I think the door is ajar, so why don't you just go in?" The person who knocked on the door just now was Ye Dangting. Seeing no response, he turned around and asked Lin Manliu behind him.
Lin Manliu was a little confused at this time, because usually no matter how bad the weather was, because her mother wanted to sell more pastries, she would start preparing to open the door before dawn in the morning, and there would be no candles on the streets until night. Only then will the door be closed to rest, and the door will never be left ajar.
With more and more thoughts in his mind, the young man began to think about the worst. None of the neighbors who met him along the way gave him a good look or talked to him. Some even looked resentful towards him. At home, I'm afraid something happened!
Lin Manliu thought about this and was getting ready. He stepped forward to open the door to see what was going on. At this moment, a cold voice came from the shop. The person who heard the voice was in the shop.
"You Taoist priests who visit the stars are finished. Do you need Ye to go up the mountain and talk to the leader of your temple?"
Hearing this familiar voice, Lin Manliu and Ye Dangting felt warm in their hearts no matter who it was, it was his master and the girl he had not seen for a long time.
Lin Manliu was about to call out his master when he saw Ye Dangting suddenly raised his left hand and interrupted his preparation.
The people in the house seemed to feel that there had been no movement outside, and seemed a little impatient. They scolded him again: "If nothing happens, why don't you get out of here? Do you have to take a sword to stop?".
I saw Ye Dangting outside the house actually imitating the Taoist priest from the Star Viewing Temple and giving him a Taoist priest, and then said: "My disciples in the temple have long known about Master Ye's reputation. Today I just found some gifts to give to Master Ye." The old liar actually imitated the accent of those Taoist priests, and there was a slight smile in his words.
This time, it was the turn of the people in the room to stop answering. The two parties fell into a long silence, and the surrounding environment began to become quiet. The sound of rain hitting the ground could be heard carefully.
Lin Manliu was a little puzzled. This old liar didn't know how to learn. The master didn't know what he was thinking, so why he stopped talking.
"The opening of the village went smoothly?" After a long time, a sound came from the house, and there was some disbelief in the words.
"Everything goes well." Ye Dang lost the tone he had used before, and also lost the arrogance he usually showed when talking to Lin Manliu.
"Then why are you still here...".
"Mr. Mo asked me to come and check out the ginseng stars here..." Ye Dang laughed out loud.
"Then you can go back, I can do it by myself." But before Ye Dang heard this, there was another sound from the house, followed by the sound of the back door opening.
"I want to come to see you!" Ye Dang shouted hurriedly when he heard that he was almost losing his temper.
After not hearing the sound of the door closing in the house for a long time, Lin Manliu saw that the two people were speechless in their conversation. If there was something that they couldn't talk openly about, he reached for the ajar door of the shop.
With just a casual pull from the young man, the shop door opened, followed by the sound of something falling to the ground. The sword box that Eleven was holding tightly in her hand fell to the ground. She looked at the sloppy man outside the house.
Along the way, Lin Manliu and Ye Dangting's clothes were all dirty and messy. They only changed them when they were in Xujiacun. They had been wearing coir raincoats and hats all day because of the rain in the past few days, and they didn't notice at all. What do the sleeves of my clothes look like?
Especially Ye Dangting, he already had a beard that had not been trimmed on the road, and now he looked like a man in his thirties at least, not half like the young man in yellow shirt and carrying a sword.
"Pfft... Are you taking advantage of me to get a few years older?" Eleven said with a smile while standing in the room.
Ye Dangting just looked at her and shook his head with a smile, without any answer.
Mother Lin who was in the courtyard naturally heard the movement in the store. At this time, she was already standing beside Eleven and saw the two people standing outside the door.
"Manliu! My son, you are back!" Mother Lin hurriedly walked out of the door, grabbing Lin Manliu's shoulders with both hands, and shouted loudly, with more joy in her slightly crying voice.
"Mother... Manliu is back, back intact!" Lin Manliu's heart was also full of joy, and his mother hugging him had a smile on her face as if she was a wanderer returning home.
"Did you encounter anything during your long journey... During these days when you are not here, mother sometimes dreams about Man Liu and you being bullied when you were a child, so I started to worry about whether you encountered something on the road." Mother Lin's eyes were filled with tears. There were already some tears shining.
"Don't worry, mother, everything is safe and sound! Look at your big son Manliu, isn't he standing in front of you now?" Lin Manliu stood up with a smile, turned around in front of Mother Lin, and told her in this way My mother is really fine.
Ye Dangting and Shiyi, who were watching this scene, also looked at each other, smiled at him and walked into the courtyard first.
