In front of the North Gate

On this day, Lou Huaiyu's small courtyard was more lively than usual. After he had talked with Shi Jichang for a while, the day dawned, and the visitors began to flow continuously.

First is the dumb old man who routinely delivers carbon.

Then there was Xiaodong who came to deliver breakfast. As soon as the lunch box was put down, Lou Huaiyu was about to have a word with him, when several other "aunts" in the yard were already laughing and shouting at the door: "Is Xiaoyu there?"

Lou Huaiyu and Xiaodong looked at each other and sent him out first.

"Hey, you haven't had breakfast yet~" Xu Cui'e's voice was loud and piercing, Lou Huaiyu felt that it was a waste for her not to learn opera the first time she saw her.

Xu Cui'e came in as she spoke, followed by three young-looking girls.

Thanks to Xu Cuie'e, Lou Huaiyu has already known two of them, and the one with his head bowed is a face-to-face stranger.

Xu Cui'e didn't see outside at all, and when she came in, she ordered them to sit down one by one, while Lou Huaiyu, the master, was allowed to stand.

"How is it? Xiaoyu, were you scared yesterday?" Xu Cui'e said.

Lou Huaiyu really wanted to ignore her and say nothing at all, but Xu Cuie quickly continued: "I'm so scared!"

It was as if she was the most courageous person in the world, if she was scared, Lou Huaiyu would be scared to death.

Xu Cui'e began to describe the situation of being knocked on the door yesterday in an exaggerated manner.

When it comes to emotion, he clutched his chest and said that his heart was beating, and received unanimous echoes from the two little girls around him.

Lou Huaiyu doesn't know how to divide official positions in Japan, but in this courtyard, Yamaguchi's official position should be relatively large, because other little girls generally belong to different Japanese, and some even live with them day and night Yes, and Shankou has Xu Cuie, and Lou Huaiyu is also brought in.

Seeing that Lou Huaiyu didn't agree with her, her face was a bit ugly: "What? Xiaoyu is frightened, but she still doesn't feel well. I heard that you didn't open the door for a long time yesterday. Don't..."

Lou Huaiyu said no.

Xu Cuie laughed.

"I thought you were scared dumb." She said, and looked at Lou Huaiyu again, "Why don't you comb your hair well?"

Xu Cui'e looked very concerned, she stretched her hand halfway, and suddenly withdrew it, "I forgot, Xiaoyu doesn't have a dedicated waiter here."

She smiled falsely: "We also have someone tidying up our house. It's messy and messy, thinking about your cleanliness, I came here to chat with you."

A few people were sitting in the middle of Lou Huaiyu's untidy messy house.

They wore high-quality warm clothes and fashion headgear worn by so-called Shanghai wives, smiling sweetly as if this was really a bustling compound, and once they flew up to the branches to become a phoenix with some good looks, they would also start to compete with the high-class wives life is interesting.

Lou Huaiyu sometimes felt that Xu Cuie's mentality of taking a Japanese as her husband was a bit ridiculous.

He smiled indistinctly, and finally replied: "Then I have to borrow the people in my sister's house to tidy up for me."

Xu Cui'e glanced at Lou Huaiyu as if she didn't know her.

Lou Huaiyu stood obediently, smiled at her quietly, and asked, "Who is this new sister?"

Xu Cui'e dragged her voice out as if she had just remembered her.

Judging from Lou Huaiyu's understanding of Xu Cuie, she probably doesn't like this little girl very much.Because in the past, when she brought the other two little girls here, she was as happy as if she had acquired some new treasure, and she came to show off to Lou Huaiyu that she had new sisters so that she could privately scold him for being a man or a woman.

Sure enough, Xu Cui'e finished and said: "Her name is Lan'er, she is really our real sister."

The girl named finally raised her head for the first time today.

She looked very young, with fair skin and beautiful appearance. When she looked up at Lou Huaiyu, her brows and eyes were covered by her bangs. She was very delicate, and she seemed to be more than delicate.And he has shoulder-length hair, not to mention compared with girls, not even a quarter of Lou Huaiyu's length.

The girl's mouth moved, and Lou Huaiyu felt that she might not know how to address herself, so in the end she just said, "Hello."

It sounds a little polite and alienated, but it is much better than Xu Cui'e's intimacy.

Lou Huaiyu also said that my sister is good.

He was angry with Xu Cui'e: "Sister Lan'er is really pretty, I don't know where Mr. Yamaguchi found her."

Xu Cui'e snorted: "It's a teahouse, don't look at Sister Lan'er like this, I heard she writes well."

She looked at Lou Huaiyu: "Doesn't he just like talented people like you?"

Lou Huaiyu said, "Then I can't compare."

The room was silent for a few seconds.

Lan'er still didn't speak, but Xu Cui'e stood up instead.

Shankou has recruited a new person, she was already angry, and she thought she would also be angry with Lou Huaiyu, but who would have thought that today Lou Huaiyu was in a daze, and would not be angry at anything, and would not reply back, so that she would not be angry at all. Interested, and even more angry.

"It's true." Xu Cui'e stopped pretending, "One is a scholar, and the other is a low-level opera singer, so Shankou is considered a treasure."

The two girls who had been friends with Xu Cuie quickly stood up.

When walking out, Xu Cui'e turned her head to look at Lan'er who didn't follow her, then looked at Lou Huaiyu, and gave a chuckle.

The room finally fell silent.

But Lan'er didn't follow her, which Lou Huaiyu didn't expect.

He thought that the girl felt that Xu Cui'e was difficult to get along with and wanted to "make an alliance" with him, so he wanted to remind him of his uselessness.

Lan'er had already stood up before she could leave.

You can't tell when you're sitting, but Lan'er is quite tall, and when you stand up, you can look at Lou Huaiyu at the same level.

She stared at Lou Huaiyu for a while, and when Lou Huaiyu finally couldn't bear to ask "what's the matter", she left only a nonsense and left.

Lan'er's weird personality made Lou Huaiyu a little puzzled, but he didn't have doubts for too long, because soon, the tasteless Mr. Yamaguchi that Xu Cui'e was talking about came.

As expected, he and Xu Cui'e have been together for many years, but they have the same focus. As soon as they came in, they asked, "Have you had breakfast yet?"

Shankou has been in China for many years. Except for a few words, his Chinese is basically the same as that of the locals.

He was not as vicious as the military officer last night, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his face. If he took off his military uniform, outsiders would think he was just a kind and ordinary middle-aged scholar.

Lou Huaiyu didn't want to sue, so he just said he wasn't hungry.

He sat where Xu Cui'e was sitting just now, but unlike her pretentious concern, Yamaguchi's outstretched hand still held Lou Huaiyu's.

"I heard that you fell when you opened the door yesterday?" Yamaguchi asked concerned, "Where did you fall?"

Lou Huaiyu's eyes drooped and he didn't answer for a while.

When Yamaguchi asked again, he said, "You don't need to worry about it."

There was already a strong cry in the words.

"What's the matter?" Yamaguchi stood up and looked at Lou Huaiyu's face.

The appearance of Lou Huaiyu's crying fits very well with the description of Chuchu in the dictionary. The tip of the nose and the corners of the eyes will turn pinkish red, and the eyes will slowly overflow with liquid.

Lou Huaiyu went to pull Shankou's hand, but didn't use much effort, and said pitifully, "Didn't you find some Laner? Why do you care about me?"

Yamaguchi seemed to be taken aback for a moment, then smiled: "Who told you?"

"Who else?" Lou Huaiyu blinked, tears streaming down his eyes.

Yamaguchi coaxed a child, and wiped his tears: "Are you jealous?"

"No." Lou Huaiyu said so, but he didn't let Yamaguchi touch his face.

The two flirted back and forth, until Shankou grabbed Lou Huaiyu and sat on his lap, then Lou Huaiyu calmed down, sniffing pitifully while showing him the wound.

In fact, Lou Huaiyu was so busy yesterday that he didn't have time to look at it. Now that he took off his jacket and rolled it up in front of Yamaguchi, he realized that the wound looked really scary. Although it was not deep, it stretched across the entire forearm.

Yamaguchi held his slender wrist, regretfully saying, "This won't leave a scar, right? Our Xiaoyu's hands are notoriously tender."

Lou Huaiyu judged the situation, and was about to cry again as soon as he curled his mouth: "Then what should I do, what if I can't dance your favorite water sleeve in the future."

Shankou was made even more distressed by Lou Huaiyu's thoughtfulness: "Don't cry, don't cry, we will find the best doctor, no scars, no fear."

"That's a good deal, I want the best." Lou Huaiyu shrank into his arms, "If it's not the best, my hand will be useless."

With tears in his eyes all the time, Lou Huaiyu made an agreement with Yamaguchi to find the most famous doctor Hu in Pingcheng.

Before leaving, Yamaguchi said that he was busy with military affairs recently, so he couldn't accompany him for dinner, and Lou Huaiyu coyly accused him of going to eat with Laner, which made Yamaguchi laugh and vowed to love him well in the future.

Lou Huaiyu sent people to the gate of the courtyard all the way, with a sad face on his face, but when he turned around, his face changed and he wiped away his tears.

He ran back to the room to find Shi Jichang who had been standing there for half a day.

"I don't know what's going on today, there are so many people." Lou Huaiyu complained to him, and couldn't help but look at his thighs, "Let's find a place where we can sit and hide next time."

Shi Jichang glanced at him with his head down, said no, and walked out without him.

In case someone came in suddenly, neither of them went out of the room, Shi Jichang was dragged by Lou Huaiyu to sit on his bed, and he himself sat on the small stool in front of the dressing table.

Lou Huaiyu handed the half-cold breakfast to Shi Jichang.

A charcoal fire was lit in the room, and it was no longer so cold. He had just taken off half of the jacket and didn't put it back on. The sleeves that he rolled up fell down, failing to completely cover the blood scab.

Shi Jichang took the steamed bun, his eyes fell on it.

Lou Huaiyu took a bite of the steamed bun, noticed it, and showed it to him flauntingly: "It can't compare with yours."

"It still hurt a lot last night, but it's okay now," he smiled, "but fortunately, I have it."

Lou Huaiyu spoke like the kind of child Shi Jichang had memorized in his private school when he was a child and was waiting for the teacher to praise him.

"If it didn't really know what to do with your wound." He leaned closer to Shi Jichang, "You just saw it, Shankou and I have asked for the best doctor, and when the time comes, we will treat you according to the prescription he prescribed. You grab the medicine and you'll get better soon."

Lou Huaiyu looked at Ji Chang while talking, "Am I smart?" and "Thank you" in his eyes.

It's a pity that he himself may not know that the tears just now were not wiped clean, and the corners of his eyes and the tip of his nose are still powdery.

Shi Jichang and him looked at each other without speaking.

He thought of the hastily concluded conversation this morning.

"You want to go?" Shi Jichang asked him aloud, thinking of the short tunnel where he lay down last night, he glanced subconsciously.

Lou Huaiyu sat on a stool and explained: "I didn't dig it, it was there when I came."

He added, "I want to go."

Lou Huaiyu has thin skin and tender flesh, big and round eyes, and looks like a minor. When she speaks, she touches her mouth thinly, and it looks like she is saying stupid things without thinking.

So Shi Jichang asked him: "Why do you want to leave? Do you know what's going on outside now?"

Lou Huaiyu answered "I don't know" very naturally.

They sat in the cold house in Pingcheng, the north wind was cold, and the wooden door slammed, making the sound seem to transmit warmth, making people feel cold.

Lou Huaiyu tightened his clothes, because with his head down, Shi Jichang could no longer see his expression clearly.

Shi Jichang heard his soft and willful voice: "I just want to leave."

The appearance is very different from the familiar and courteous appearance that Shi Jichang saw through the gaps in the carvings and talked with the Japanese officer just now.

Lou Huaiyu waited for a while, seeing that Shi Jichang didn't mean to boast about himself, and felt a bit self-defeating, so he backed away a bit, lowered his head to grab some food, and heard Shi Jichang say slowly, "I'll take you away."

Lou Huaiyu didn't understand for a moment, so he let out a cry.

"Didn't you say you wanted to leave this morning?" Shi Jichang said, "I will take you away when my legs recover."