Qizhou

For almost half a month, He Qizhou didn't mention that day again.

Ci Nian knew that he wanted to ask, but he didn't ask because of his own feelings.From that day on, Zhu Fuxue became curious about the situation of Ci Nian.She used to live in the bookstore in Zhuxi Village, and was taught by her father to study and grow up. However, there is no resident doctor in the village. If she is sick, most of them will go down the mountain and go to the town to seek medical advice.Naturally, Zhu Fuxue did not have the opportunity to come into contact with medical books, let alone study Qihuang with her own understanding.

But after the past years, she actually developed a strong curiosity to find out the situation no matter what.

She flipped through the medical books at home, and she came to the yard less often. Most of the time, she was stuck in the house, looking for the causes and treatments of hydrophobia in the vast volumes.

She came less often, and the two of them spent more time together, but He Qizhou still didn't intend to bring up that matter again, he just practiced in the morning and practiced sword in the afternoon as usual, and if there were no trivial matters at night, he would One deck chair per person, drink tea and watch the stars in the yard.

Ci Nian looked at the stars above his head, and was suddenly blindfolded by the falling bamboo leaves. He gently patted the bamboo leaves away and said, "Master Dao, why didn't you ask me."

He Qizhou replied without turning his eyes: "What are you asking?"

Resigned: "Ask me about water."

He Qizhou slowly picked up his teacup, took a sip, and replied, "Then I told you that, so I won't ask."

Ci Nian thought about it carefully, but he didn't remember what he said. He turned his head suspiciously and met He Qizhou's eyes. The man smiled slightly: "You said you don't remember, then I will ask again, except What's the point of adding to your troubles?"

"In case you ask twice, I can remember..."

"You've been thinking about this matter for more than half a month." He Qizhou poured tea for him, "Do you remember?"

He was stopped by his question about the year of resignation, and after a long silence, he could only resentfully say: "No..."

He Qizhou handed the teacup to him, and said in a relaxed tone: "No, I don't think about it. Most things in the world are like this. If you can't remember it, it's because God doesn't let you remember it. When the opportunity comes, you may remember it. Why bother I have to worry about the opportunity that has not yet come."

People half-understood these words, and Ci Nian was taken aback when he heard them, but he still took the teacup and downed the tea in one gulp.He doesn't really like drinking tea, it's bland and bitter, it's really not interesting, but after drinking with He Qizhou for a long time, he's used to it.The little fox put the cup back on the table, and sighed slowly: "You want to help me, but I'm so unsatisfactory, I'm so uneasy."

He Qizhou grinned when he heard this, and he was puzzled. After he finished laughing, he explained: "I will help you. If you can succeed, this is your good fortune, and it is also my merit. If you can't, I will help you." I haven’t lost anything yet, so why do you say you’re not up to snuff?”

He paused, and then said: "The fate of destiny cannot be achieved by your efforts. I just ask..."

He didn't say the second half of the sentence, his thin lips moved a few times, and he hesitated to speak, but the young man couldn't guess what he meant even though he stared at him.Ci Nianyi sat up straight and said, "I didn't hear what you said!"

He Qizhou laughed loudly: "You're right if you didn't hear it, it's destiny."

Resigning his lips, he fell back on the reclining chair: "You are always talking about gods and gods, you stinky Taoist priest."

"Hey hey... I heard this sentence, don't forget that the chicken you ate at noon today was bought for you by a stinky Taoist priest, made it for you, and brought it to you. If you have a bad memory, you can't remember to eat or not. "

Just as Xi Nian was about to retort, a figure suddenly jumped out of the bamboo forest beside the fence. The two of them quickly straightened up and took a closer look, only to realize that it was the bamboo snow that jumped over the fence with a lantern in their hands. A big book, I was so excited that I couldn't close my mouth.The two had no choice but to suspend the quarrel that had not yet started, moved a stool for her, and greeted her with tea.

There were still a few bamboo leaves sticking to the head of Zhufuxue, which were obviously hanging from the bamboo grove just now, and she didn't have time to tidy it up, so she excitedly raised the book in her hand and said, "I know! I know! I found it!" The disease that the young master suffers from!"

Ci Nian just wanted to ask her why she climbed over the wall and didn't go through the main entrance, but when she heard this, she didn't even have time to ask, so she immediately pricked up her ears and waited quietly for her next words.Zhu Fuxue picked up the cup, drank the tea in one gulp, flipped her fingers skillfully, turned to the pages of the book that she had thoroughly flipped, and pointed to the two of them: "This! This!"

The two of them leaned over at the same time, and by the candlelight at the side, they still couldn't see the blurred words clearly, and begged for mercy: "I can't see clearly, Miss Zhu, just tell me... What's wrong with me?"

Zhufuxue said loudly: "I checked, and the medical books say that there is a disease that makes people afraid of water and light after suffering from it!" She looked at He Qizhou, her eyes were full of excitement after satisfying her thirst for knowledge, "Then Ri Daochang also said, the young master is afraid of thunder, isn’t the thunder and lightning flashes light! So—”

Ci Nian followed her and said, "So..."

Zhu Fuxue smiled: "So the young master has rabies! It's hopeless!"

Resignation year: "..."

He Qizhou couldn't hold back for a moment, and choked his face with a sip of tea.

Zhu Fuxue continued: "Young master, please recall whether you have ever been bitten by a dog!"

Ci Nian expressionless: "No."

"Really? It's okay if a cat that has been bitten by a dog bites you!"

"nor."

The excitement on Zhu Fuxue's face gradually turned to confusion, she hesitated for a while, and then said: "The person who was bitten by a dog bit you..."

"Who in this Zhuxi village dares to bite me? Who can bite me? It's He Qizhou..." Ci Nian said halfway, then suddenly held back, coughing hard, "...don't even try to bite me."

He Qizhou was out of breath laughing, and quickly raised his hand to prove himself: "I certify that I didn't bite him... Hahahaha!"

"Then...then..." Seeing that the illness she had worked so hard to find could not be confirmed, Zhu Fuxue became depressed. She silently flipped through the book in her hand over and over again, finally let out a long sigh, and rubbed her face vigorously, " I found the wrong one again..."

Ci Nian: "Why do I feel that you are dissatisfied with the fact that I can still be saved..."

He Qizhou's party managed to stop laughing, filled up the tea one by one, and then asked: "Miss Zhu is coming, why don't you go through the main entrance and go through the fence? The hairpins on her head are crooked."

After Zhufuxue heard the words, she hurriedly sorted it out, showing the shyness that a girl of this age should have: "I'm too anxious... I finally found something new, and I want to come here quickly to let you have a look. Who knows... I'm not hoping for something to happen to the young master! I just... just encountered new knowledge, and I can't control it..."

Ci Nian said: "No matter how happy you are, you can't climb over the fence. If you fall, the head of Zhu Village will come to us and ask us about the crime."

When mentioning her father, Zhu Fuxue's eyes suddenly flickered for a while, and her tone was not as energetic as before. She said slowly: "Actually, my absence for a while... also has something to do with my father."

He Qizhou asked: "How do you say?"

Zhu Fuxue looked displeased and said: "There are some bad words in the village, which have reached my father's ears. My father didn't say anything about me, only that I am not a child anymore, I have my own sense of propriety, so I don't need to be so strict, but the village Those who talk nonsense, insist on talking endlessly every day, what to say... I am a girl who does not stay at home all day long. If I don't learn female red embroidery, I only know how to read idle books, and I hang out with you every day, it is not decent .”

He Qizhou smiled: "Major Zhu shouldn't care about gossip."

Zhu Fuxue responded: "That's right! My father doesn't care about these things, he just tells me to do whatever I want, but if I talk too much, Zhu Sheng's father will get impatient!"

Thinking about it, it was also the same reason. Zhusheng's father was an elder in the village. He was not at home for some reason. He came back during this time, and he hadn't lived in peace for a few days. Hearing these ugly words from the village was naturally unpleasant.Although Zhu Fuxue and Zhu Sheng had a marriage contract, they hadn't gotten married yet. He couldn't go beyond the rules and accuse something, so he could only run in front of the village head Zhu, persuading him to restrain this unusual daughter.

After coming and going, even if the village head Zhu didn't say anything, Zhu Fuxue would have to avoid people's eyes and ears so that her father would not be disturbed anymore, so she didn't take the main road and went through the bamboo forest and over the fence to enter the house.

Hearing this, Ci Nian was unhappy, and said: "What's the matter with Elder Zhu! We have nothing shady and evil with you, and we are not planning any tricks! An upright person is forced to sneak around by the villain's broken mouth. , What kind of reason is this!"

Zhu Fuxue also said: "That's right! But...my father asked me, but I didn't tell the secret. I just said that Zhuqing hadn't caught up with the matter in the back mountain. I read a lot of books. Think of a way. Apart from these, I didn't say a word. I didn't say anything about the young master."

He Qizhou nodded: "That's good. It's not that I can't trust the villagers, it's just... I'm afraid of doing bad things with good intentions."

"It's getting late..." Zhu Fuxue looked up at the moon, took another sip from her teacup, put the pearl hairpin on indiscriminately, raised her legs, turned over, and jumped over the half-human-high bamboo fence. "I'll go back first! If there's anything going on in the future, I'll send a pigeon to contact you. In short... I will definitely help the young master and the Taoist chief!"

Ci Nian waved at her: "I know, I know, go back and light the lantern."

The girl responded, her smile reflected in the halo of the lantern, more beautiful than the hazy moonlight.The sound of footsteps gradually faded away, and Ci Nian looked at her back for a long time before turning his head and said: "She is really a unique girl, she is not at all different from other girls."

He Qizhou joked: "How many girls have you met? You know she is different from others?"

The resignation protracted the tone, and deliberately said: "I have seen more than that! Didn't you hear the people in Zhuxi Village say that I do all kinds of evil, steal clothes from girls to wear! I won't return them after wearing them!"

He Qizhou was amused by his deliberately angry words, and after laughing, he said slowly: "It's only good that all the girls in this world are as unique as her."

For some reason, Ci Nian felt that there was something in the words, but he couldn't say what the words were in, so the two talked for a while, then packed up their things and went to the house.When moving the bamboo table, Ci Nian realized that the teacup was covered with medical books brought by Zhu Fuxue.This careless girl came and went in such a hurry that she forgot to bring her book back.

"It's convenient for her another day, take it back and return it to her." He Qizhou moved the stool and raised his chin at Ci Nian.

Ci Nian pointed to the book, then pointed to himself: "I'll return it...?"

He Qizhou said: "Yes, you go."

"But..." Ci Nian hesitated, "People in the village, are you really willing to watch me walk around the village?"

He Qizhou said with a smile: "Walk a few more times, of course I'd be happy. Don't forget, you are their lifesaver."

The words are short and the tone is very light, but such a short sentence blows away the last uneasiness of the year of resignation.That's right, he saved Zhuxi Village.After so many years of tossing, with such a kindness, it should be evened out.Thinking of this, he put the book in his arms, and said, "Then I'll return it sometime, and I'll go by myself! Go on the road! Go swaggeringly!"

He Qizhou responded with a smile: "Yes, go swaggeringly."