sick man

What Duan Mingyou held in his hand was a jade pendant, a carp jade pendant with an extremely ordinary color and rough carving.There are some impurities mixed with the oil-green background, which is not a rare item.

Su Wanzhi stretched out his hand to snatch it flusteredly, as if what Duan Mingyou was holding was his wealth and life.

How could Duan Mingyou let him get what he wished for? With a few dexterous hand shuttles between his sleeves, the jade pendant disappeared like a magic trick.

"Second Master Duan, if you don't ask, it's stealing. It's not a gentleman. Please respect yourself and return the jade pendant to me."

Facing Duan Mingyou's leisurely attitude that you can do nothing to me, Su Wanzhi is angry and anxious. The carp jade pendant is the only relic left by his mother. If he didn't take it out, he didn't expect it to fall into Duan Mingyou's hands now.

"Su Yi, courtesy name Wanzhi, his father died early when he was young, and he and his mother moved from their hometown Li County to Zhuoyang City, and then settled here with the support of fellow villagers. Because of his talent, he went to school at the age of five and wrote poems at the age of seven. He was good at painting at the age of eight, and passed the examination as a scholar at the age of 14, which can be described as a rare talent."

Duan Mingyou turned a deaf ear to it, but slowly replayed Su Wanzhi's past in front of him.

After hearing this, Su Wanzhi laughed at himself, bowed his head and said, "You are a scholar who is useless, Second Master Duan praised you absurdly."

Duan Mingyou gave him a complicated look, and then said, "When you were 17, you were supposed to take the scientific examination, why did you suddenly disappear, not even going to school?"

Su Wanzhi's eyes dimmed. He had read poetry and books since he was a child. Of course, he was not lacking in ambition. He also thought about being elected as an official, pleading for the people, and being clean for a lifetime, so that he could live up to his master's teachings.

but……

"Because your mother was seriously ill that year, and you waited on her clothes, and studied hard to prepare for the exam. Who would have thought that your mother's last words told you that you would not be an official for the rest of your life, and gave you a carp jade pendant, so that you could use it to find The long-lost brother."

Pull it, hold it... Promise mother, never get close to the imperial court in this life, find your brother, far away... far away from here!

He remembered his mother's last instructions in his ears, and those eyes, which were no longer bright due to the torture of illness, looked at him earnestly, until he nodded and clasped his own, his bony hands slowly dropped off the edge of the bed.

Since then, Su Yi, who was rumored to be a genius by the academy, has disappeared.He built a grave for his mother in the mountains, and built a simple bamboo house next to him to live in, and kept filial piety for his mother.This guard is three years.At the end of the three-year period, when he came back from the mountain, his former classmates had already become officials, inherited the family business, and even the old man who had full expectations of him returned to his hometown to retire. He was alone, Su Yi, with nothing .

Fortunately, there is still that piece of jade.

And only that piece of jade.

"You live by setting up a stall and selling paintings and calligraphy, and your daily income is just enough to make ends meet. What ability do you have to find the one that is identical to this one among so many jade pendants in the world?"

Duan Mingyou didn't underestimate Su Wanzhi, he was just stating the facts.The jade pendant in his hand is too ordinary, if it is a beautiful jade that is hard to find in the world, it has its own unique provenance, and it doesn't take much effort to find it.But this jade pendant, to put it bluntly, throwing it on the ground may not be picked up by anyone. Trying to trace its past is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

After being slightly startled, Su Wanzhi slowly raised her thin lips, smiling sadly,

"Er. A certain one naturally knows how to weigh, and I still hope that Second Master Duan... don't forget the promise you made today."

After speaking, he bowed solemnly.

"I said, from now on, you can just call me little daddy."

Duan Mingyou frowned, suddenly felt very bad, as if he had done something bad, left Su Wanzhi behind and left in a hurry.

Su Wanzhi stood at the same spot, let the breeze surround him, and remained motionless.

The petals blown down by the wind rolled up and fell on his head and body, and the light clothes on his body were also blown up by the wind, flying up and down, and the hair that hadn't been tied up was raised back, strands and lingering.

Shen Wuyu, who came to look for someone, was intimidated by the demeanor of the person in front of him, so he didn't dare to approach him, so he hid behind a tree and peeked.

The diffuse sunlight fell from the densely covered branches, hitting Su Wan's body mottled and sparsely, and between flickering and flickering, he seemed to fly away.

Shen Wuyu couldn't help but rushed forward and hugged Su Wanzhi into his arms.The cold body was wrapped by the warm heat source, Su Wanzhi turned around and smiled, then closed his eyes, sank down, and fell into the mud covered with residual flowers together with Shen Wuyu who was caught off guard.

Shen Wuyu hugged him, and didn't get up in a hurry, instead, he combed Su Wanzhi's hair that was draped behind him.

"Nerd, you... are so pretty."

He blushed and muttered to himself, his embarrassing voice in the period of voice change was carried far away by the breeze.