In front of the North Gate

On the third day of living in the hospital, Lou Huaiyu met an unexpected person.

Although Shi Jichang and his entourage moved into the Fan family compound, their basic necessities of life were still the same as in the Niutou cottage. They slept in Datong bunk, ate big pots of rice, and the sound of daily practice and fighting was loud.

The kitchen in the backyard couldn't be arranged, so the dining hall for big pot meals was set up in the front yard.

There is a huge garden at the entrance of the kitchen, with wooden tables and chairs spread out in two rows, and there are no more servant girls. They go to the kitchen with their bowls and chopsticks to scoop up rice and share the dishes. When the king of heaven comes, he has to go to eat by himself.

Lou Huaiyu got used to this new way of life as early as those few days in Niutoushan.

But he didn't participate in the training, and he had nothing to do on weekdays, so he slept until noon before slowly getting dressed.When I was walking to the front yard to eat, I passed a certain place in the back yard, and suddenly heard deafening yelling: "You just give me this?!"

For a moment, Lou Huaiyu felt that the voice was familiar, before he thought about it, he took another step forward and met Xu Cuie who showed up face to face.

Xu Cui'e was still dressed gorgeously, but her hair was wildly disheveled. At this time, she had one hand on her waist and the other pointing to the ground. Two buttons were undone at her neckline, her chest was almost exposed, she looked like a crazy woman.

... The buttons were probably just opened, because Shi Jichang saw the young man in front of Xu Cuie blushing and turned his head to the side where he couldn't see.

Xu Cui'e dropped a large bowl containing food at the place where Xu Cui'e pointed.

"If you don't eat it, don't eat it...what to throw away..." The young man muttered while squatting down to pick it up.

Lou Huaiyu frowned, before deciding whether to leave or to scold, Xu Cuie had already spoken.

"Yo," Xu Cui'e laughed sarcastically, "Who is this? The master has changed, and the attire has also changed. He is indeed an actor, but he is different from others."

Lou Huaiyu then changed direction and took a few steps towards her.

"Yeah, I can't compare to you. It's not hot yet, so I wish I had to wear it."

He stared at the white flesh on Xu Cui'e's chest without hesitation, and finally let Xu Cui'e stretch out his hands to gather up the clothes.

The young man picked up the bowl and stood up, seeing Lou Huaiyu startled, and looking at Xu Cuie again, with a complicated expression on his face.

"You...don't worry about her," said the young man.

Before Lou Huaiyu said anything, Xu Cuie let out another big yell: "This is the wife of the rightful lord."

She looked Lou Huaiyu up and down for a while, and clicked her tongue a few times: "It's really amazing——"

"Say a few words less!" The young man interrupted Lou Huaiyu in front of her, probably because he had been bullied for many days, and his words were full of resentment, "You should have left a long time ago, if you insist on delaying until today, and tomorrow, you won't Someone paid attention to you!"

Young Mistress Xu Cuie was used to it, as if she couldn't accept being yelled at so blatantly for a while, she blushed for a while, and became irritable, and shouted: "Tell me to go? Why are you telling me to go?!"

She went crazy, pushed away the person standing in front of her, and grabbed Lou Huaiyu's lapel.

"You told me to go, why doesn't he have to go?!"

Lou Huaiyu was startled by the big face that suddenly appeared in front of him, and was dragged forward a few steps.

The corners of Xu Cui'e's eyes were already slightly wrinkled, and probably because of being tortured in the past few days, her complexion was very bad, her eyes were all blue, and the breath that almost sprayed on Lou Huaiyu's face was not very pleasant.

Lou Huaiyu subconsciously resisted, and grabbed Xu Cui'e by the hand, trying to tear her away.

The young man was also taken aback, and rushed up to help.

"I'm not leaving! Don't catch me!" Xu Cui'e shouted.

She tightly grasped the front of Lou Huaiyu's chest, and stared at him with tears in her eyes: "I won't leave! What can I do if I leave? This is my home! Why do you ask me to go out!"

Xu Cui'e must have been forced into a hurry, she didn't know where the strength came from, and she was pulling her so hard that neither of them could separate her for a while.

"You are bandits, you are bandits, bandits!!" Xu Cui'e shouted hoarsely.

Lou Huaiyu saw Xu Cuier's ferocious and panicked face closely and emotionally, as well as the real fear and despair in his eyes.

Lou Huaiyu was tightly strangled. At such an uncomfortable moment, he should have resisted with all his strength, but for some reason, he suddenly thought of the scene when Xu Cui'e came to visit her one day, and he couldn't help but loosen his grip.

On that day, Xu Cui'e taunted him as usual, Lou Huaiyu was concerned about Shi Jichang he picked up, and didn't bother to quarrel with her, but angered her. .

Lou Huaiyu thought that at that time, Xu Cuie probably thought that she could rely on Shankou for the rest of her life, be a master who didn't care about world affairs, and have a stable and prosperous life.

Just like... When Lin Shuyi was the young master, he never imagined that one day he would become a bandit, and then he would become a revolutionary later on.

Xu Cui'e was still shouting, with a trembling voice faintly because of too much resistance: "I won't go! I won't go! This is my home, why do you tell me to go!"

Lou Huaiyu suddenly felt that she was a little pitiful.

Shouting quickly attracted the young people nearby, no matter how hard Xu Cui'e tried, she couldn't withstand the crowd's tugging, and the moment she let go of Lou Huaiyu, she fell heavily to the ground.

Lou Huaiyu also fell backwards, was protected, and coughed physiologically.

His eyes were also covered with physical tears, and he vaguely saw Xu Cuie crying.

"Why?" Xu Cui'e said.

Everyone pulled her up and took her out.

Halfway through, Xu Cui'e resisted again. She struggled to look back, only staring at Lou Huaiyu, at a loss to find an entity and an object to vent her hatred.

She yelled: "Why can he stay?!"

"You can stay by selling your ass? Then I can do it too, I can do it too..."

"... I can do it too, I can do it too... Let me go! Why can he stay..."

The hustle and bustle gradually faded away, and the sound of drills in the front yard sounded again.

Lou Huaiyu lost interest in eating and stood there listening blankly.

Lou Huaiyu didn't know how Shi Jichang and the others "cleaned up the battlefield" during the few days he stayed in Niutoushan.

It's just that after he came back, there was no servant girl in the whole yard, except for Xu Cuie, who went crazy today, Lou Huaiyu never saw any other familiar faces.

He never thought about whether anyone died in this struggle, nor did he have a great interest in finding out where the rest of the people went, and he never faced Xu Cuie's question squarely—why should he stay?

...When we were at Niutoushan, everyone was whispering, probably questioning his appearance, right?

Lou Huaiyu thought a lot in his mind.

He thought: In a war, it turns out that whoever wins will have new unfortunate people.

Think again: what can I do?

Lou Huaiyu thought about it for a long time, and found that he could never do anything. When Shankou was around, he was a toy for people to enjoy. He felt unhappy and didn’t want to do it, but he really didn’t want to do it. Nothing can be done.

"...Is that why you let me go?" Lou Huaiyu murmured.

Shi Jichang's panting voice suddenly appeared behind him: "What did you say?"

Lou Huaiyu turned around in surprise, saw Shi Jichang put his hands on his knees, looked at him, and then stood up straight again.

"I didn't see you going to eat today." Shi Jichang said.

Lou Huaiyu had something on his mind, so he didn't think this was strange for a while, so he nodded.

Shi Jichang walked a few steps towards him and asked again: "How are you doing? Did you see them grabbing someone and choking you on the road?"

When Shi Jichang said that, he naturally put his hand on Lou Huaiyu's chin and lifted it up to check the skin on his neck.

Perhaps because of running, the back of Shi Jichang's hand was very cold, but his fingertips were very hot, making Lou Huaiyu shiver involuntarily.

"It's red," Shi Jichang said, his brows furrowed at his reaction, "It hurts?"

"No," Lou Huaiyu took a step back, covered his neck and accused him in a low voice, "It's cold."

Shi Jichang stopped moving.

The two walked back towards the cafeteria.

When passing through a side door leading to the outside, Lou Huaiyu could still hear Xu Cuie's scolding.

Lou Huaiyu felt that what Xu Cuie said was not wrong, even the servants who worked in the compound had left, so there was no reason for him, an idler, to stay, because his name was wrong and his words were not right.

The distance between Shi Jichang and him was neither far nor near, about an arm's length apart.

When the two walked and waved their hands together, Lou Huaiyu's right hand would be very close to Shi Jichang's left hand for a moment.

Lou Huaiyu slowly seemed to be unable to feel other things, only felt that the back of the hand that was close to the other party was covered with itching, as if there were transparent tentacles, and when it was close to Shi Jichang, it would produce a throbbing tactile sensation .

This touch will also lure him, let him get closer, get closer, touch and hold.

But Lou Huaiyu didn't have the courage to follow this temptation until he reached the entrance of the cafeteria, just like he didn't have the courage to ask Shi Jichang if he didn't think he deserved to keep him, so he told him to find a suitable job and leave .

Because Lou Huaiyu is actually a very timid person, saving Shi Jichang has already used up all the guts he can use in his life, no matter how much he has, he will not dare to take a step.