Aston Martin stopped in front of a little-known alley. This alley is no different from hundreds of old alleys in Bei'an. White bricks and red walls are intertwined. A large stone has been planted on the right side of the alley. The sycamore tree is tall and graceful in shape, with straight trunks and broad leaves. Because it is late summer and close to autumn, the leaves are mixed with golden and green. If you touch it in a month, it may be golden.
Lin Nian sat in the passenger seat and looked out through the glass. There were many chess tables under the old sycamore tree. A group of elderly men sat under the sycamore tree with a cattail leaf fan in their left hand and a teacup in their right hand, focusing on the chessboard. From time to time, elderly people help each other and walk towards the alley, which looks a bit interesting against the background of falling sycamore leaves.
When he originally talked about drinking tea at "Dragon Phoenix Garden", Lin Nian probably thought that he would either enter the Forbidden City or the Prince's Mansion today, but in the end he ended up in such a common alleyway in Bei'an. The courtyards and houses in these small alleys are not luxurious. , even somewhat dilapidated and in disrepair.
Although the location of this kind of courtyard residence is so good that it is either adjacent to Chang'an Street or adjacent to Wangfujing, the actual housing area is very limited and even overcrowded.
Usually the entrance to this kind of courtyard is a small red door in an alley. If you open the red door and look in, you will see a long and narrow ancient path. Usually the left and right sides of the path are filled with daily clutter, and chalk can be seen on the walls. The red bricks under the film, with a door and window randomly opened on the left and right sides, are the residence.
The really older generation all live in this kind of place called "daizayuan".
This kind of large courtyards is very common in Beigen. There are ten or twenty small ones, and even forty or fifty large ones. It is not unusual for a courtyard to have a hundred or ten people. Although there are many people, they are not mixed. They will basically occur naturally in every courtyard. A "highly respected" person came to lead the courtyard.
These "leaders" are mainly elderly men and have high prestige. If there is any dispute in the courtyard, the old man is usually invited to take a look and give him fair words. If the dispute continues, then Just "report to the official". But basically no one would deliberately damage the old man's face. If the old man decides what is right or wrong, most people are still willing to deal with big issues and minimize them. Such "leaders" are always more reliable than the government in handling disputes. many.
The conditions in a large courtyard like this may appear to be poor, but in fact it is full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. If you go back to the last century and take a walk through the old courtyard, you may not see anyone sitting on the edge of the alley with their teeth twitching on the steps at the door. Dry tobacco, the old man who is so old that he can no longer see his eyes and has only a crack left is the former county magistrate, and the old lady who stitches and washes clothes was once a princess in the palace of the former Qing Dynasty.
If Lin Nian understands the culture and origin of the courtyard, he may be able to learn some secrets about the "orthodox" talkers. For example, the "leaders" of some courtyards are not fixed, but are replaced by year and seniority. Another example is that there has always been a saying of "Lian Lizhi" in large courtyards, but unfortunately he is not a native of Bei'an, so he cannot really taste some metaphors of "orthodox" rule from it. His only feeling about this kind of alleys and courtyards is that they are quite strange. Breath of life and sense of traditional culture.
He opened the door of the Aston Martin and got out of the car. He walked around the front of the car and took two steps forward. He noticed that many of the chess players under the sycamore tree were turning their heads to look this way. He just thought it was Li Hueyue who was driving next to him. The car that came was too eye-catching, so I didn't pay much attention to it, but when I looked back at the car, I found that the driver's seat had not been opened for a long time, and I couldn't help but feel a little confused.
"Bang bang"
The driver's window was lightly tapped with his bent knuckles. Due to the privacy film, Lin Nian in front of the car door could not see the people inside. He could only see his own reflection in the dark window.
After knocking twice, he found that there was no response inside the car. He frowned and was about to knock a few more times when the frameless car window was finally lowered, revealing Li Hueyue's face that could be described as stunning even if a little color was applied. A misunderstanding at first sight leads to a life-long misunderstanding. At a glance, I can think of which house is better for my children to buy in the BJ school district. It is not an exaggeration to say that beauty is a disaster.
However, this makeup was painted by Lin Nian himself. A sculptor is never satisfied with the works produced by his own hands. Michelangelo always carried pain to create works that he was not satisfied with. This made him not because of the other party. The heart-stopping color was so moving that he could so clearly notice this beautiful face and the slowly lowering car window, both of which had a vague feeling of hesitation and discomfort.
She didn't want to leave the car, this was Lin Nian's first judgment.
"What are you doing? Are you shameful?"
"." He didn't say anything, just sullen.
Lin Nian didn't know what was wrong with this girl. In his impression, Li Hueyue had always been the one who said, "Let's go and kill people." Then she would put down the half-eaten noodles, take out the watermelon knife from under the table and walk out the door. Sun Erniang's style, the sun really came out from the west today, and Sun Erniang can still act like a little woman.
"Turn around." Lin Nian said calmly.
Li Huoyue slowly turned her head to look at the boy outside the car window. The boy staggered his body to let in some light, which hit her face and made her unconsciously lower her eyes slightly and raise her hands to cover her brows.
Seeing Li Huoyue sitting firmly in the driver's seat, Lin Nian felt for a moment that the other person was questioning his makeup skills, so he used the natural dim light coming in from the lowered window to look at Li Hueyue's shadowy figure. The three-dimensional and slightly sculptural face has no shortcomings. This is his evaluation. Even if there are a few irregular hair hanging down the side of the face, it can be said to be messy and beautiful.
——If there is any room for improvement in this makeup, then Lin Nian has to consider going to the trunk to take out the Dragon Sword box, and pull out a suitable knife to remove the girl's left hand again, and maybe become a god. Woolen cloth? (Lin Nian was secretly slandering that Li Huoyue and Venus both had a broken arm in common, and the latter became a god because of her broken arm)
"There are no flaws, she looks great. Get out of the car." Lin Nian patiently encouraged the girl.
"I don't." Li Huanyue said.
?
Lin Nian wanted to lean back to express his incomprehension. He stared at Li Huanyue, who was looking at him expressionlessly in the driver's seat. He was also expressionless, mainly because he didn't know what expression to use to deal with this. situation.
"It's less than fifteen minutes before the agreed time. Including the journey through the alleys, we probably don't have much time. You should know the importance of this meeting, right?" He asked quietly and quietly.
He wasn't quite sure why he, the guest, had to remind the other party of the importance of this meeting. The patriarch of the Sima family was considered a member of the orthodox high table, and his status was only higher than that of the school board of directors in the secret party. If Lin Nian was late for such a meeting, nothing would happen to him, but Li Hueyue, who was leading the way, might have to be held accountable.
So in the end, are you worried that the other party will be criticized and are you trying to persuade the other party to be more generous? This make-up is worse than no make-up at all. Even if Li Hueyue is bare-faced and wears a big white T-shirt that covers the denim shorts, he can reach the top three on the list that is hidden deep in his heart. , now there is a vague tendency to win second place after putting on makeup, so what is this person hesitating about, thinking he is too beautiful? Or did she finally feel that makeup is not suitable for a cold-faced female murderer like her who licks blood from her knife edge?
Lin Nian didn't understand. He thought that Li Hueyue was a rare, simple and pure woman, but in the end he found that he was wrong. It seemed that women were all wave-particle duality. If you observe them from another angle, they would always be the same. Give you an incredible feeling.
"You can go first, I'll be right behind you." Li Huanyue held the steering wheel with both hands and finally said this in a muffled voice. Her tone was very indifferent, but Lin Nian could find that she was not indifferent at all, as if she was deliberately Avoid something.
Lin Nian looked back at the plane trees and the old people playing chess not far away. After a moment of silence, he said, "I don't know the way."
"I can tell you how to get there."
Lin Nian began to feel that this girl was hiding something from him. Maybe this afternoon tea was actually a Hongmen Banquet. As soon as he entered the door, Zhengtong opened the prepared blue witchcraft killing array and stopped him. Li Hueyue It's strange that he didn't go with him because he was afraid of being accidentally injured.
Lin Nian stretched out his hand to press the door of the Aston Martin with a calm expression. When he did this, Li Huanyue quietly raised her hand to dial the lock in the car, but unfortunately she forgot to compare hand speed. In terms of performance, she had already lost to Lin Nian once. The last time she lost, she ended up very miserably. She flew from the Monyach to the lifeboat and almost couldn't get out of it. This time, Lin Nian would lose her from the seat. Pull it out.
The Aston Martin's hidden door handle was gently pressed and tilted up. Lin Nian pulled the door with a slight force and it opened. Now unless Li Hueyue had the courage to use "Sword Control" to re-weld the door, then this door He would pull her away no matter what. It would be too embarrassing for her to hold the car door and wrestle with him in public.
The door of the Aston Martin opened diagonally upwards. Lin Nian did not forget to hold down the door with one hand to prevent the guy in the car from actually pulling the door back. He turned sideways to give a certain amount of space and signaled Li Huanyue to take a step - There are already people looking at this place under the sycamore tree not far away. From their point of view, it is probably the boy in the passenger seat who is quite a gentleman and went around to the driver's seat to open the door for his girlfriend in the car?
Now Li Huanyue had to admit this. If she was welded to death on the seat, she would not only lose Lin Nian's face, but also lose her own face. She never cared about losing her own face, but in Bei'an, her whole life Her words and deeds did not only represent herself, so she consciously and decisively gave up those unspeakable entanglements, and stepped out of the car sill with her legs again with a cold face, turned around and bent down to get out of the car.
Lin Nian acted like a gentleman and raised his hand to cover the top of the car door for her to prevent her from knocking her head. After Li Hueyue got out of the car and stood in the sun, it was obvious that there was some commotion in the crowd not far away, probably discussing Whose girl should be so beautiful and whose young boy is so handsome?
Li Huoyue stood next to Lin Nian and glanced at him, and the other party glanced back. It was a mutual incomprehension. Li Huoyue didn't understand why Lin Nian was so stubborn. Lin Nian didn't understand what Li Huoyue had done today. .
The car door was closed, and Li Huanyue finally led Lin Nian towards the alley next to the sycamore tree. Lin Nian followed her not too far nor too close, while observing the surrounding environment for anything worthy of his attention. Special place, and also pay attention to how to plan the retreat route if something unexpected happens.
Normally, if there is no accident, there will be an accident soon.
But the accident at hand was not the kind of life-and-death accident that Lin Nian expected. What if social life and death could be considered life and death?
They just approached the sycamore tree. Under the tree, an old man wearing a black short coat and playing chess stared at Li Huoyue for a while. After seeming to confirm something, he suddenly pointed at Li Huoyue with the cattail leaf fan in his hand, "Hey! Isn’t this a little moon?”
Lin Nian obviously noticed that Li Hueyue's steps beside him had stopped. He looked at the girl next to him with a strange expression, and double-checked her reaction and the old man in front of the chess stall pointed at Little Moon? Are you calling Li Hueyue? When did she get the nickname Little Moon? Is it a nickname or a nickname? Who are these people from Li Hueyue?
Before Lin Nian could think about it, the elders and aunties in the stall under the tree were all excited. They stopped doing what they were doing and started giving advice to Lin Nian and Li Hueyue who were not far away.
"It's really a little moon. The little girl who came out of the courtyard has become beautiful!"
"Lao Li, is that Little Moon? Don't get the wrong person."
"It's impossible to admit my mistake. It's just that I dressed differently today, and I brought my boyfriend with me!"
"Oh, if you didn't tell me, I almost missed it. What a handsome young man!"
Li Huanyue lowered her head and quietly adjusted her expression. After getting close, she looked up at the lively group of old people under the tree. She pretended to be calm and nodded to the old man in a black mantle who first spoke, "Mr. Li, it's me. Long time no see." , I came back this time to talk to an elder in the yard about something important."
"Look, it is indeed the little moon!" The man in the black mantle pointed at Li Huanyue with a cattail leaf fan and said with a smile to the old people around him, "I said I won't admit my mistake. Although I haven't seen her much in recent years, I have always seen her. Is there any girl who walked out in our yard who I admitted was wrong?"
Lin Nian caught some key words in the man's mantle, but still asked in a low voice: "Are you familiar?"
"Don't talk." Li Huoyue also whispered.
"Is your mother okay? I haven't seen your mother back in the yard for a long time. Are you getting used to living in a new house in the city?" The old man looked at Li Huanyue and said with a smile.
"Thank you, Mr. Li, for your concern. My mother is fine, but she rarely goes out. If I have a chance, I will bring her back to see you all." Li Chengyue answered very politely and calmly, like the simplest daily greetings, But Lin Nian on the side slightly raised his head and glanced at the old people under the sycamore tree, and then at Li Hueyue, thinking about many things in his heart.
"But this time, Little Moon has brought her boyfriend back? What's strange? The few times I saw you before, you were alone with the elders in the yard, but this time you actually went back to take someone with you!" The old man in a black mantle shook his cattail leaf fan. The conversation instantly fell on Lin Nian, who was next to Li Hueyue, "You are finally willing to listen to our advice and find a boyfriend. Has your mother finally started urging you to hold the child?"
"Hey, what are you talking about? The husband has taken him to the yard, maybe he has children, and maybe he is back in the yard to have a full-moon banquet or a hundred-day banquet!" Immediately, another sarcastic old man on the side joked.
Lin Nian noticed that Li Hueyue next to him felt uncomfortable all over his body. He kept adjusting his breathing rate with an expressionless face... that is, taking deep breaths quietly.
Although there was no blushing or shy reaction that was completely inconsistent with her personality, the feeling of discomfort and wanting to escape could not be concealed at all.
Li Huoyue suddenly noticed that Lin Nian was glancing at her out of the corner of his eye, and realized that his emotional changes were seen by the other party, so his expression became even more indifferent.
But in Lin Nian's eyes, this was nothing more than a cover-up and embarrassment.
What does this mean? No matter how powerful 'Yue' is, she still has to break her defenses under the pressure of neighbors, uncles and aunts to get married?
"Young boy, turn around and let me see what you look like!"
A group of elderly people started to laugh and make noise. Lin Nian didn't know whether to stand up and point out the other party's misunderstanding, or to remain silent.
"Mr. Li, you have misunderstood. He is not my boyfriend. We are just colleagues at work." Li Huanyue finally spoke and explained slowly.
"Nonsense, where can I bring a colleague back to the courtyard? If you can bring him back, your relationship must have reached a certain level. Besides, all of us have seen him open the door for you and pick you up. He is so concerned and distressed. Or are you saying that this guy is just shamelessly pursuing you?" The old man in a black mantle didn't accept this at all, and exposed the excuse of the thin-skinned girl with an experienced tone.
There was an old lady with a kind and kind face beside the tree who seemed to be an acquaintance of Li Hueyue. She folded her hands on her knees and raised her fingers gently, laughing and teasing, "Hey, boy, you want to pick the little moon in our courtyard, how can you do it?" You have to work hard! The little moon is hanging high in the sky. If you want to take it off, you have to hang it from the sky rope!"
"Old lady, don't tell me, these two young people are a perfect match when they stand together!" Another old man sighed, looking at the young man and woman who had just fallen under the shadow of the sycamore tree, his eyes full of satisfaction.
"Young man, come here, come here, let's have a chat." The old man in the black mandarin jacket waved the cattail leaf fan towards Lin Nian, his wrinkled face full of the simplest enthusiasm.
Lin Nian said nothing and looked at Li Hueyue beside him. He felt that she should make things clear at this time.
Then he found that Li Hueyue beside him was suffocated again and was looking at him indifferently from the corner of his eye. The meaning was self-evident.
Solve the troubles you make yourself.
No wonder Li Huoyue didn't want to get out of the car just now, probably because he had foreseen that such a happy thing would happen.
Just when Li Huoyue felt that Lin Nian would helplessly explain their relationship, Lin Nian, who was standing aside, glanced around and thought for a moment, then suddenly turned around and walked past her, heading straight towards He walked towards the sycamore tree and greeted the people under the tree very peacefully, "Here you come, uncle."
——Come on, you big-headed ghost
Li Huanyue raised her head and looked at the back of Lin Nian, who looked like a good son-in-law, walking away calmly. She was stunned. Or it would not be an exaggeration to say that she was dumbfounded.
Is there something wrong with him?
