Autumn water is long

The car was parked outside the slum.

When he saw the lights of Chaoshou shop next to No. 27 Younan Road, Lu Ting suddenly remembered that he went to Qiu Yibei to bring him here for a bowl of Chaoshou.

This chaoshou restaurant is the only restaurant in the entire slum, and the price is many times lower than those outside the slum.Many people here celebrate their birthdays and come here to celebrate festivals, and order a bowl of chaoshou for less than five yuan as the only reward for themselves this year.

Lu Ting followed Qiu Yibei into the store, and the two sat down.

There are only three small tables in the store, and a long table against the right wall.After deliberating, the two sat side by side at the long table against the wall.

Qiu Yibei pointed to the menu on the wall blackened by oily smoke and said, "You order, I haven't been here before."

Lu Ting took off the overcoat that Qiu Yibei draped over him, and put it on a stool beside him: "Miss Boss, here are two bowls of red oil to make your hands. I don't want green onions for this bowl."

Lu Ting and Qiu Yibei came in for a while, but they didn't see the proprietress, but when Lu Ting shouted, a middle-aged woman's voice came from the back kitchen: "Okay——"

After a while, two bowls of fresh meat filled with red oil were placed in front of the two of them.

"Hey, you're here again." The proprietress wiped her hands on her apron, and greeted Lu Ting with a smile on her dark and honest face.

Lu Ting: "Well, I brought you business for the proprietress."

As he spoke, Lu Ting raised his chin to signal the proprietress to visit Qiu Yibei.

"Oh, what a handsome guy." The proprietress burst into a smile, and she was not stingy with her words, but she praised them from the bottom of her heart.

After hearing this, Lu Ting nodded several times, and said to the landlady mysteriously: "I——fiance, how are you, isn't he handsome?"

Lu Ting imitated Qiu Yibei and introduced his vocabulary to Yan Yan—wei, fiancé, and introduced Qiu Yibei to the proprietress.

"Handsome! Handsome!"

The proud look on Lu Ting's face at the moment, in Qiu Yibei's eyes, made him, the central figure in the conversation between the two, quite embarrassed.

The proprietress: "You guys are delicious, if you don't have enough, just tell me, the second bowl will be discounted!"

After finishing speaking, the proprietress continued to work in the back kitchen.

Qiu Yibei moved the seasoning bottle of chili oil and vinegar to Lu Ting's side, and asked, "Do you come here often?"

"The proprietress here is very nice, and the Chao Shou tastes good, so I will come here if I have nothing to do."

Lu Ting pushed aside the chili jar, picked up the vinegar bottle, and poured it several times in his own bowl.The red oil was almost turning black, so he stopped.

A rush of sour taste neutralized the pungentness of the red chili pepper, but the sour taste drifted to Qiuyibei, which was a bit choking.

Qiu Yibei took a look at the movements of Lu Ting's hands and the satisfied look on his face, she didn't speak, and imitated Lu Ting's way to be jealous, but he stopped when he clicked.

After mixing the seasoning in the mixing bowl, although the taste is not amazing, it is indeed delicious.

Qiu Yibei swallowed one with her mouth open, and asked seemingly casually while chewing: "The second young master who is pampered by the dignified Lu family, unexpectedly knows that there is such a gourmet restaurant in the slums."

The chopsticks in Lu Ting's hands stopped, and the Chaoshou that had been caught fell back into the bowl.

Seeing this, Qiu Yibei picked it up for Lu Ting with her own chopsticks, brought it to Lu Ting's mouth, and continued to pretend to be unintentional and asked: "What's wrong? Are you tired after staying in the interrogation room for too long?"

Lu Ting regained his composure, smiled, opened his mouth wide to cover Chaoshou with Qiu Yibei's chopsticks.Qiu Yibei was about to withdraw her hand, but found that Lu Ting bit the chopsticks and looked at him with a smirk.

Qiu Yibei also put on a smiley expression: "Do you still want your fiancé to feed you?"

Lu Ting let go of his teeth, quickly chewed the chaste in his mouth, swallowed it, and sat up straight: "Okay."

Qiu Yi turned to the north side, picked up Lu Ting's bowl, and was about to pick up a handcuff, when suddenly he heard Lu Ting's voice turned 180 degrees: "You know, there used to be a..."

Lu Ting paused: "It's beautiful, is it a hopeful name?"

Qiu Yibei's chopsticks also stopped for a while, subconsciously asked: "What?"

Lu Ting looked outside. At night, the sycamore trees in the slums rustled with the wind. The moonlight was dim tonight, and the sycamore leaves had long been integrated into the night.

"In the phoenix tree."

Lu Ting's voice was soft, and when Qiu Yibei heard these three words from Lu Ting's mouth, she was almost immersed in the unknown emotion together.

"Except for the two rows of sycamore trees outside, there is not a single place that matches the word 'Sycamore'. Over time, everyone replaced the name of this place with slums." Lu Ting took a deep breath, and when he turned his head, his face returned to the previous one. With a smile, "Want to go for a walk under the phoenix leaves?"

Qiu Yibei came back to her senses, picked up the chaoshou in the bowl again, and said, "Finish it first."

From No. 27 Younan Road to the outside of the slum, there are two rows of tall and luxuriant plane trees, but every outsider who comes here will have a preconceived notion of the slum, no matter how conspicuous these two rows of plane trees are, they will not Recognized that it turned out to be a sycamore.

Lu Ting and Qiu Yibei walked side by side on the road, and they raised their heads from time to time to see the moonlight above them which was obscured by sycamore leaves.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the two abandoned their car and walked all the way from the slums to Wutong Avenue.

Below Wutong Avenue is the only river in Pingyu City, and it is also the largest water supply source. The power generation dam in Pingyu City is just downstream of the Yanjiang River.

Lu Ting ran down the hidden path next to Wutong Avenue, and came to the bank of the Yanjiang River where the rocks were piled up.Qiu Yibei followed closely behind, holding a black coat in his hand.

The name of the Yanjiang River is just like its name, the smog on the river is misty, the moisture spreads from the center of the river to the shore, and a faint fishy smell fills the nostrils.

Lu Ting took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, stepped on flat stones, and walked into the shallow river on the bank.He looked around, found a dry stone, and sat down on it.

Qiu Yibei followed Lu Ting, and when he saw Lu Ting's actions, he did not join him, but stood not far away and looked at Lu Ting quietly.

The mottled scar on Lu Ting's left calf once again attracted Qiu Yibei's full attention.But Lu Ting doesn't seem to care who sees the ugliness of a certain part of his body, and there is no hesitation or pause in his movements when he pulls up his left trouser leg.

Qiu Yibei squeezed the coat in her hand, and walked forward: "Every time you celebrate your birthday, you will come here to play in the water?"

Lu Ting rolled up his sleeves and rested his forearms on his knees, shaking his head: "Not every time, I would come when I was a child."

"Before six years old?" Qiu Yibei sat down on a rock behind Lu Ting and said casually.

"...Yes, before the age of six." Lu Ting's tone was empty, his pupils were blackened by the river water.

Qiu Yibei paused, put down the coat in her hand, took out something from the inner pocket of the clothes, walked to Lu Ting's left side, squatted down and stretched out her hands.

However, just when Qiu Yibei's hand was about to touch Lu Ting's scarred left ankle, she stopped suddenly.

Lu Ting looked at Qiu Yibei puzzled.

Qiu Yibei stood up again, walked to Lu Ting's right side, and tied the thing in her hand to Lu Ting's right ankle.

Lu Ting looked sideways, and saw a red string half as thick as a little finger.

Just as he was about to raise his head to ask Qiu Yibei, he heard Qiu Yibei's voice coming from above his head: "I heard that there is a tradition in Wutong. Every time a child grows up one year old, the mother will tie a knot on the child's ankle. The red rope weaved by hand, this red rope will bless this child in the new year, safe and healthy."

Qiu Yibei's voice is deep and deep, which makes people feel a kind of indescribable peace of mind.

It also made Lu Ting feel as if he had returned to more than ten years ago, and heard the familiar but never heard voice full of love: "The red string is ready, I hope our baby will be happy in the new year." No disease, no disasters, grow tall!"

"You—" Lu Ting stared at the red string on his ankle, and the corner of his mouth curled up bitterly, "You know Wutongli so well."

"I'm a businessman who believes that money can turn ghosts around. The land is in my hands. For the benefit of the future, I will do my homework. Except for the name of Wutongli, I know everything else. neat."

Qiu Yibei slowly raised her eyes, staring closely at Lu Ting's back.

The river may be more turbulent than usual in summer, and the wind-blown river water hits the bank one after another, wetting Lu Ting's rolled-up trouser legs.The unknown birds on the riverside were also circled away by the waves. Apart from the sound of the river flowing and the birds' screams, the only thing that can be heard at this moment is the sound of each other's breathing.

At this moment, Lu Ting's cell phone rang.

Just as Lu Ting picked up the phone, Qiu Yibei's cell phone also started to vibrate.

Qiu Yibei: "Hello."

Both of them were talking non-stop on the other end of the phone.

After a while, they hung up the phone at the same time, looked at each other and smiled: "I found it."