In front of the North Gate

It took Xiaodong a week to finally buy the newspaper Shi Jichang wanted.

He is illiterate, and it is not easy to find a bookstall in Pingcheng now. Xiaodong had a hard time finding it, so he bought all the newspapers for several days, along with a few miscellaneous books, and handed them along with his breakfast. Lou Huaiyu.

Lou Huaiyu didn't know how to read, only Shi Jichang looked at it seriously, and he didn't eat the steamed buns in his mouth, frowning.

Lou Huaiyu sat face to face with him, and after waiting for a while, she couldn't help being a little curious, so she leaned over and wanted to have a look.

Shi Jichang grabbed the edge of the newspaper with his free hand.

His hand was a whole circle bigger than Lou Huaiyu's, with long fingers and protruding joints, giving people a feeling that if he was held by such a hand, he would be very reliable.

I don't know whether Shi Jichang is in good health or because of Dr. Hu's excellent medical skills, he recovered very quickly, even though it was winter, after a week, the small wound on his hand has healed up to a good extent.

Lou Huaiyu saw him frowning and quickly browsed the current page, put the steamed bun aside, and opened another page.

Following the appearance of the pattern on the newspaper, both of them paused at the same time.

Lou Huaiyu finally had something he could understand. It was a photo of Shi Jichang.On the top of the photo are three words in big bold, and below are three words in general bold, which stand out from the densely packed small words.

"What do you mean?" Lou Huaiyu asked.

Shi Jichang turned his head and glanced at him.

Lou Huaiyu seemed to know what he was going to say, so she smiled: "I don't know how to read."

Shi Jichang didn't say anything, and pointed to Lou Huaiyu and read: "Wanted order."

"Catch you?" Lou Huaiyu said, he got closer and pointed down, "Then these three words are your name?"

Shi Jichang admitted: "Yes."

Lou Huaiyu looked very interested, and traced lightly along the font with his hand: "So it was written like this."

"That day you said that your name was a long string, and it felt like a very powerful name." He said.

Shi Jichang said no: "Not great."

After thinking about it, he said again: "It's useless to be powerful."

My father said that Shi Jichang's name has the best meaning among the four brothers, and it can be translated as prosperity in every season of the era.

It's a pity that an era doesn't really prosper just because of Shi Jichang's name.

The two stayed on this page for a while, and Shi Jichang turned over again.

In the next few pages, there were no more pictures in the newspaper, and they were all densely packed with small characters. Lou Huaiyu was bored reading it, but when Ji Chang flipped through it so quickly, he had nothing to say: "You read so fast. "

Shi Jichang paused his hands: "There's nothing to see."

Lou Huaiyu put down the things in his hand.

He also went to grab the newspaper, his fingers were a circle thinner than Shi Jichang's, and asked him: "What are you talking about?"

The newspaper was published by the Japanese army in Pingcheng, and it was nothing more than nonsense about building a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Shi Jichang didn't want to read these, he wanted to read reports about where was occupied and where it was lost.Although the active and passive sides have been switched, the current battle situation can generally be confirmed.

It's just that there are no relevant reports in the newspapers for so many days.

Lou Huaiyu and Shi Jichang stayed in the same room for a few days, and when they got to know each other better, they became less obedient and less afraid of him. Seeing that Shi Jichang didn't speak, he asked him again.

She said coquettishly, "You read it to me, I can't even understand it."

Lou Huaiyu was already sitting close to Shi Jichang, and when he was talking, his body twisted and his elbows and knuckles touched Shi Jichang's.

Shi Jichang turned his head to look at him, and happened to meet Lou Huaiyu's eyes.

It may be that Lou Huaiyu really seemed to want to hear it too much. After looking at each other for a few seconds, Shi Jichang really read some nonsense from the newspaper.

He didn't agree with it in his heart, and he read it without emotion.

Lou Huaiyu grabbed him when he read the fifth sentence that people live and work in peace and contentment under the rule of the Japanese emperor.

"What does it mean to live and work in peace and contentment?" Lou Huaiyu said.

Shi Jichang thought for a while, and said as plainly as possible: "It means that everyone can do what they want, and earn money to live a good life."

Lou Huaiyu stopped looking at him, let go of his hands, and lowered his eyes. After a while, his brows frowned, as if confused.

"Really?" Lou Huaiyu asked.

Shi Jichang replied quickly: "Fake."

Lou Huaiyu stopped asking, Shi Jichang separated the newspapers one by one and put them in the burning charcoal basin.

The paper ignited when it came into contact with the heat source, and the smell of ink wafted out. Soon, the thin paper curled up, and there were no "living and working in peace" and "wanted warrants".

On this day, the sky has been very cloudy, the temperature is low, and the wind is stronger than usual.

When Du Juan came in the morning, he had a stinky face and yelled that he was cold, saying that he was afraid it was going to snow, so he wouldn't let them work as servants who didn't have money to buy clothes.

After Lou Huaiyu had people in the house, he didn't bother to scold them, so he didn't pay much attention.

Unexpectedly, after lunch, the sky was really full of snow.

The snow in the north is different from that in the south. It is light and fluttering, and it always falls heavily, and soon accumulates to the height of the feet.

He looked at it for a while, thinking that there was someone hiding in the room, and he also felt cold, so he wanted to close the door.

Unexpectedly, taking a small step back, his back bumped into a hard chest.

Lou Huaiyu didn't expect that Shi Jichang would walk out of the door so boldly, and immediately looked left and right for a while, then turned around and asked anxiously: "Why did you come out?"

The top of Lou Huaiyu's head only reached Shi Jichang's lips, so close, it was very difficult to see people.

All he could see was the other party's blue stubble, sharp jawline, and obvious lip peaks, these things moved with Shi Jichang's words.

Shi Jichang said simply: "Look at the snow."

Fortunately, there were not many people coming at this time, so Lou Huaiyu stared vigilantly in the direction of the courtyard gate, buying time for Shi Jichang to watch the snow.

The snow fell more and more, the white snow was like cotton wool, and it kept flowing, as if a thick cotton cloth was spread in front of the eyes, and even the trees in the yard could not be seen clearly.

Outside the courtyard, there were occasional calls from girls and the cook's reprimands to the novice. Even the voices seemed to be interrupted by snow, with a slight sense of distance, which made this courtyard show some loneliness that was not usually there.

Lou Huaiyu remembered the last time he stood here watching the snow, and the person behind him was Shankou.

His chest was neither so hard nor so hot. He told Lou Huaiyu that the snow reminded him of his hometown.

Lou Huaiyu is not interested in how the snow in Japan is like, but he is quite interested in the snow in Shi Jichang's hometown, and asked him: "Does it snow in your hometown?"

When Lou Huaiyu was a child, he lived in the south, where it didn't snow much.

The figure behind him suddenly paused.Immediately afterwards, Lou Huaiyu felt something flash across his left cheek, and his vision on one side went dark.

Shi Jichang's arm passed through him, catching a snowflake.

"I don't have a hometown anymore." Shi Jichang said.

Lou Huaiyu was stunned for a moment, but soon, he laughed and told Shi Jichang: "It's okay, I'm fine too."