Uncle Nine, where are you running to?

When Liang Zan finished swimming and emerged from the water, he found his brother Di and Jingzhi sitting at the bow and stern of the boat respectively.

His brother Di still had his back to her, wearing a coat, supporting his head with one hand, and resting with his eyes closed.

Jingzhi hugged her legs and looked at a book that she had found out of nowhere, as if she wanted to dive into it.

He couldn't help but let out a sigh.

This sound was heard by Jingzhi.

She turned around and glanced at him leisurely and said:

"Did you enjoy the swim? Come on up, it's time to head to the dock."

Liang Zan chuckled and pointed at the book in her hand:

"What are you looking at?"

Jingzhi buried her head in the book again:

"Medical book."

Liang Zan was stunned for a moment, then secretly glanced at the people at the bow of the boat.

Sure enough, his brother Di straightened his back and pretended to straighten his coat on his shoulders.

...Tsk, be awkward, brother.

Liang Zan gently tugged at Jingzhi's sleeve, with a hint of mischief in his eyes.

Jingzhi slowly pulled her head out of the book and her eyes fell on Liang Zan.

Seeing this, Liang Zan immediately smiled silently, winked, and pointed his finger at Erdi beside him, then at the empty seat in the middle of the boat, and said in a low voice:

"You should sit in the middle. I'm about to get on the boat. It would be terrible if I accidentally splash water on you!"

Hearing this, Jingzhi nodded gently, glanced at Erdi again, and then responded: "...Oh."

After saying that, she carefully held on to both sides of the boat with both hands, trying to lower her body as much as possible, while slowly and cautiously moving forward, trying to reduce the shaking of the boat caused by her movements.

However, despite her caution, the slight left-right sway could not escape the keen senses of the person in front.

At this moment, the person in front seemed to be suddenly cast under a spell, and his whole body became extremely stiff in an instant.

The two hands he had originally used to hold the coat tightly together unconsciously increased their strength, squeezing the fabric at the edge of the coat flat as if he wanted to crush it.

When Jingzhi finally moved to the middle of the boat, before he even had time to sit down, the man suddenly sat forward like a frightened rabbit.

Now his entire butt was almost hanging outside the horizontal wooden board.

When she saw him wanting to dive into the water like Liang Zan, she became angry, as if she were some kind of monster.

She rolled her eyes at the back of his round head and said through gritted teeth:

"I'll keep my promise. I won't come near you again until you're better... If you move any closer, be careful not to fall into the water."

"........."

After hearing this, Erdi didn't know how to respond for a moment.

He just lowered his eyes silently, staring at the ripples stirred up by the rocking boat.

Because of what Jingzhi just said, an indescribable feeling involuntarily surged in my heart.

That feeling seemed to be a bit embarrassing, mixed with a little imperceptible loss.

At this time, Jingzhi saw that Erdi was silent again, and his eyes couldn't help but dim.

However, in less than a second, she quickly regained her spirits.

She picked up the medical book in her hand again and began to read it carefully in the bright moonlight.

"Wow!"

Liang Zan supported the stern with both hands and suddenly jumped up. This sudden action startled Erdi, who was distracted at the bow, and Jingzhi, who was concentrating on reading a book. They both hurriedly held onto the sides of the boat, trying to stabilize the boat to prevent it from capsizing.

"Liang Zan!!" Jingzhi roared.

"Hey, let's go!"

Liang Zan twisted the water in the river, then picked up the oar leaning against the side, inserted it into the water and gently swung it left and right.

In this way, the boat that had been stagnant for a long time finally began to move forward slowly again.

While sliding, Liang Zan kept asking:

"Where are we going? There's a fork in the road ahead."

Before Jingzhi could say anything, Erdi said calmly, like a navigator:

"Go right, to the dock."

How did he know to go to the dock?

Could it be that when she was chatting with the class owner...he was not asleep?

So he knew everything about her covering him with a blanket, standing at the head of his bed for so long, and even secretly touching his badge?

The more Jingzhi thought about it, the more she felt a heat rushing towards her face.

"okay."

Liang Zan didn't care what she was thinking. He picked up the oar and changed the direction. With a light row, the boat turned and went to the right.

While scribing, he also did not forget to chat with Jingzhi, who was almost sticking her face in the book:

"Hey, where did you get this book?"

Jingzhi hid her flushed face in the book and pointed at Erdi's big package at her feet.

Liang Zan curled his lips. Since it was his brother-in-law's book, his brother-in-law must have read it. He couldn't find a treatment method, so how could she find one?

Just as he was thinking, Jingzhi suddenly put the book on his knees:

"Oh no, where is your family's wealth?"

Liang Zan slapped his forehead:

"Oh, I forgot!"

He sighed, looked at the water, and his mood suddenly became depressed:

"There are pursuers behind him, so going back is unrealistic. I can only pray to God to protect him."

Jingzhi: "Oh."

Seeing that he looked unhappy, Jingzhi didn't ask any more questions.

Just after burying his head in the book for two seconds, he suddenly put the book down with a snap:

"broken!"

"What's wrong again?" Liang Zan glared at her unhappily.

Startled, like a cat.

He suddenly realized, oh, she is a cat.

Jingzhi looked at Erdi's back in front of her, feeling a little hesitant. She picked at the corner of her clothes and stammered:

"Erdi, I'm sorry I didn't bring out the little treasury under your bed."

"What's a small treasury?" Liang Zan asked.

"It's just a box, quite delicate in appearance, and locked. It must be used to store silver. If not a small treasury, what else could it be?"

Jingzhi was a little depressed. When she thought about the money in the box that was sung by Erdi and then burned in a fire, she felt heartbroken.

"what?"

“…………It’s not a vault.”

Under the moonlight, Erdi's lips were still pale, but her face was surprisingly red.

He had deposited all his money in a bank, and lived and ate at the opera troupe, leaving him with almost no money. As for what was in the box... it was his secret.

When he thought about the food he was reluctant to eat and it was burned in the fire, he began to feel lost.

"Is there something important in it?" Jingzhi was worried.

"...Nothing." He lowered his head.

Jingzhi felt even more guilty, it must be about money!

She decided that she would make a lot of money to pay him back in the future.

The three of them walked in silence, each with their own thoughts.

……

We were almost at the pier when daybreak came.

Erdi, who was sitting at the bow of the boat, had heavy eyelids and felt a little drowsy as she supported her head.

At this moment, a loud noise came into his ears, and he was instantly awakened from his drowsiness.

He rubbed his eyes and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a group of people running frantically at the dock.

At the same time, a boat was slowly sailing away from the shore, getting farther and farther away.

A trace of doubt arose in Erdi's heart. He squinted his eyes, trying hard to see what was going on with the crowd on the dock.

As his vision gradually became clear, his face suddenly turned pale.

He turned around and lowered his voice to Liang Zan behind him and shouted:

"Quick! Turn around and run!"

Liang Zan was startled by the sudden shout and asked quickly:

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Erdi took a deep breath, calmed herself down a bit, and then quickly said:

"The dock is full of pursuers, hurry up!"

Hearing this, Liang Zan's face suddenly changed. He did not dare to delay for a moment. He quickly bent down, held the edge of the boat tightly with both hands, and moved forward.

Soon, he came to the bow and exchanged positions with Erdi, who was half-squatting and moving over.

"Brother Di, what should we do now? Where should we go? And where are the other people in the troupe?"

Liang Zan was completely panicked at this moment. He frantically controlled the boat to move quickly away from the shore, while anxiously asking Erdi at the stern.

Erdi frowned, staring at the port that was gradually moving away, and fell into deep thought.

After a long while, he seemed to have finally made up his mind and said:

"I just saw the owner of the boat. They've already left, so I think nothing serious is happening. As for us... let's follow the current south and head to my hometown in the countryside to hide out for a while."

"……it is good."

Erdi frowned, and Jingzhi pinched her thigh.

She was not good at reading. She was so sleepy when reading a medical book that her eyelids kept drooping.

The panic just now did not affect her sleepiness.

At this moment, she twisted her thigh hard again. The sudden pain woke her up for a moment, and then her body began to stagger again.

As she watched the medical book fall to the ground and she closed her eyes, about to fall into the river, a figure flashed over and placed her tilted head on his shoulder.

Jingzhi: “zzzzzzzzzzzzzz”

Maybe it was because she felt a familiar breath, or maybe it was because she was drunk last night, crying, vomiting, fighting, and making a fuss all night, and now she fell asleep in a second.

She didn't even realize that the person she was leaning on was Erdi.

Liang Zan said with a teasing look: "Hey, Di Ge, you said you don't like it——"

Erdi was so angry that she glared at him: "Shh!"

Liang Zan shrugged helplessly, then slowly turned his head, gripped the oars tightly with both hands, and began to row the boat with full concentration.

However, the moment he turned around, he secretly shook his head and muttered to himself:

"My brother Di is so unpredictable and his personality is so weird!"

On the other side, Erdi tried hard to calm down her emotions for a long time before she mustered up the courage to slowly lower her head and look at her.

When his eyes touched the faint dark blue under her eyes, his heart couldn't help but tighten, and an indescribable pain surged...

Just like that, he stared at the person blankly for a long time.

Suddenly, as if she had made up her mind, Erdi furtively kissed the air above her hair.

Then, as if afraid of being discovered, he quickly and gently spread out the wide robe on his back and carefully wrapped the two bodies around it.

After doing this, he let out a long sigh.

At this moment, Erdi no longer dared to have any more unrealistic demands.

He just hoped that time could go slower, or even better, stop.

This way, he would have more time to feel her closeness and savor this rare warmth and tranquility.