Rogue with a knife on the right

Everyone says that Jiangnan is good, and tourists are only old in Jiangnan.The spring water is blue in the sky, drawing the boat and listening to the rain.

People in Lubian are like the moon, and their arms are frosty and snowy.If you are not old, you must be heartbroken when you return home.

The train goes south.

It will take three days to reach Jinling.

Just as Hua Dao came out of the small smoking room, the carriage shook, and when she turned her head, she saw another accident happened to Han Jingye.

Three men jumped out from nowhere and insisted on snatching their beds, still playing the same trick as bandits.Don't be surprised, in this chaotic world, there is no one to control the order on the train, and many civilians who have not bought a sleeper ticket are crowded into the first-class carriage, playing wild and playing tricks.The smell of smoke in the train was choking, mixed with feces and urine, and the crying of the baby was even more disturbing.

Han Jingye showed his bronze medal: "Congratulations, Qingdengwei."

"I'll take care of your blue lantern guards and red lantern guards. The emperor is going to be gone. What a fart you are." The man rudely pushed him away and threw the big bag to the ground.

"Get out." Han Jingye ordered sullenly.But how can the rioters be obedient?

Huashima snorted, put his hands in his pockets, and walked in loosely.He is an expert in dealing with these people.

"Big brothers, I'll give you three seconds to get out."

"Heh, the tone is not small." The man smiled and lit a cigarette.Huashima kicked him on the forearm mercilessly, and the cigarette dropped from his hand.

"Looking for a fight?"

Before the words finished, Huashima's fist had already swung up.One punch at a time, sending the troublemaker out of the door with a bruised nose and a swollen face.

Clapping his hands in satisfaction, he squatted down to clean the melon rinds, cores, and sugarcane shavings, and sighed: "Captain, don't be unreasonable when you meet such a person in the future, just hit him directly. I have been in the rivers and lakes for a few years. This happened a lot..." He finished packing and made the bed again: "Captain, you can sleep here."

The bed was cold and hard, coupled with the constant clanging of iron sheets, it was difficult to sleep.The lights had been out for a long time, but none of them fell asleep.

Hua Dao quietly touched Han Jingye's bed, got into the bed, and hugged him from behind.

"Stop making trouble." The man moved in his arms.

"Can't sleep." Huashima rubbed his black hair: "Aren't you the same?"

"Close your eyes and rest for a while."

"Well... I heard there is a way to help people fall asleep."

"what?"

"Sing for you."

Han Jingye didn't really want to talk to him.Huadao hummed an ancient folk song in a low voice under the quilt, singing about the light of spring, the grass and fields in summer, the full moon in autumn and the light and shadow of winter.This is the song Master taught him, with the taste of the waves.

Gradually, the rattling of the train and the hoarse voice of the Northwest man became far away. Han Jingye could only feel the warm breath against his ears. There is only the tenderness within reach and the real heartbeat of a person.

Finally, he fell asleep.

In the dream, he saw the rogue Huadao instead of Kaifeng for the first time, and he came from the morning light, which gave the dream an uplifting meaning.

......

Wuzhou border, sentry post.

The railway further south was blocked across the board. Wuzhou was now engulfed in flames of war. Shanghai and Suzhou fell one after another. The Dahe army retreated to Wuxi, fighting desperately with the Republican Party.

The guards checked the entrants one by one. This time, Han Jingye did not show the bronze medal of the Green Lantern Guard, but took out a jade pendant with a dark green tassel.Seeing this, the guard's expression immediately changed, and he bowed and said, "The boat is ready, Mr. Han, please come with me."

Not far from the railway, there is a reed marsh with a criss-cross river. A boat with a black awning is moored on the shore, and the oil lamp is glowing orange.The boy in the gray jacket came out to meet them, and called loudly, "The third young master is back!"

Han Jingye smiled rarely, patted his little head, then sat in the cabin and opened the curtains on both sides.The boy lit a fire to make tea, and stared at Huashima curiously.

"Who is this brother?"

"Oh, I'm Captain Han's subordinate." He answered quickly.

"Haha, I'm also his subordinate, just call me Ah Chun."

As the dusk falls, the reeds sway with the wind, setting off waves.It was very quiet, so quiet that only the sound of wood pulp sliding across the river could be heard.

At this time, gunshots suddenly pierced the sky, and birds flew by not far from the east.

"What's going on?" Han Jingye asked.

"Oh, it's nothing." Ah Chun was extraordinarily relaxed: "Recently there have been a lot of 'water monkeys' in the reeds, and they specialize in robbing the property of the people in the city."

Hua Dao hurriedly protected the package.

"Don't worry, they don't dare to do anything to us." Ah Chun pointed to the flag on the boat with Zhongshanhou's family emblem painted on it.

Han Jingye glanced at the sinking sun: "How long will it take us to reach Jinling?"

"Noon tomorrow."

"Thanks a lot."

"I'm not tired, Third Young Master just rest well."

During the journey from Hezenan to Jinling, he met all kinds of people along the way.

Without exception, their eyes are full of desire for survival.On the river less than 100 meters to the east, a straw boat full of men and women fleeing was cut off by a bamboo raft, and several men in black with bamboo hats on their heads stood on the raft like crows.

"People pass through the world of mortals, but money will eventually be empty." The clear voice of the man in black slid across the water, just like their light footsteps, stepping on the grass boat with the waves.

He shot three times into the sky.

Afterwards, jade stones, gold nuggets and gravel were thrown away, and the robbers snatched the things they knew would be "empty" and hid in the depths of the reeds.The fleeing boat shook, and then continued on its way.

In a blink of an eye, the sky is full of moonset, crows and frost.

Hanashima sat at the stern, with his hands pressed against the lampshade.Ah Chun saw that his young master had already closed his eyes with a blanket wrapped around him, so he chatted with him without saying a word.

"Brother, you look like the former Crown Prince."

"Really?" In fact, Huadao was not surprised, he could already make out the general idea of ​​Han Jingye's past.

"His Royal Highness and the third young master have known each other since childhood. I met him many times when he came to Jinling to play. It's a pity—" Ah Chun sighed, and the words stopped abruptly.

"Your young master hasn't come home for seven or eight years, is it also related to the prince?" Huashima looked at the dancing candlelight and asked.

"How do you know?"

"Guess it as soon as you guess it." He peeled off a rock candy in a timely manner and handed it to the boy's palm.

"Well... er... I don't know the details, but it seems to be like this," he put down his oars and let the boat drift with the current: "When His Royal Highness was about to be executed, the third young master knelt down and begged Lord Hou, that is his father, please ask him for help. Lord Hou promised to send [-] people to the north at the command of the Third Young Master. The Third Young Master planned to rob the execution ground. On the day of the Winter Moon Festival, each of them brought a red oil-paper umbrella as a signal. "

Huashima was surprised: "Really? He did such a lifeless thing!?"

"Shh, keep your voice down." Ah Chun pressed his palm: "Third Young Master planned this way, but in fact the people sent by Master Hou were not to help him at all, but to prevent him from doing stupid things. So, I I heard that the young master was knocked unconscious just as he was about to make a move, and the prince was no longer alive when he woke up, because of this, he will never be able to forgive Lord Hou."

In the cabin, Han Jingye coughed suddenly, and slowly opened his eyes.

"Hey, don't mention this when you come to the Hou Mansion tomorrow." Ah Chun hurriedly told Huadao, and then ran in to take care of his young master.

"...I seemed to have fallen asleep just now." Han Jingye pinched his brows.

"You can rest easy, I will watch over the water."

"No, you're too young." He pushed the boy down, unloaded the blanket, and went to the bow to stand guard.

"Hey, captain!" Huashima Yaoyao called him.

The white hem of the clothes rolled over, and he turned his head.

"That, lamp." He held up the oil lamp: "I don't sleep either, can you light the lamp for me?"

Han Jingye acquiesced, Huadao came to his side, the two looked at the reed flowers and the moon, silent for a long time.

It wasn't until the boy fell into a deep sleep and the sound of his breathing drifted away smoothly that Huashima embraced him.Han Jingye was stunned, raised his eyes, then slowly leaned on his shoulder, and relaxed his body.

He said, "I'm taking you back to Jinling this time, actually..."

"Let's save it for tomorrow." Huashima sighed softly.

Han Jingye also smiled slightly, and held his hand instead.

Spring, sunny and sunny, Jinling City.There is nothing more beautiful than this view.

The pale pink petals are blown by the wind through the streets and alleys, and I don't know which bluestone brick it falls on, or under the hoof of a young man.Merchant ships sailed on the rippling water, women with their hair tied loosely in a bun were washing their clothes by the river, shouts were heard in the streets and alleys, steamers were opened in bun shops, and a sweet white mist rose up; tea houses and wine shops Signboards were hung up outside one after another, and the melodious singing of Bai Ju's Mian Ren continued.

I have imagined the grandeur of the Houhou Mansion in Zhongshan many times, but when I actually came to its gate, I was still shocked.

Three vermilion arched gates are covered with emerald green glazed tiles, and blue paintings are applied between beams and bucket arches.The towering courtyard wall blocks the building behind the door, and you can see layers of green tiles and flying scorpions, and the cedar trees standing in between add to the solemn and solemn atmosphere.

"This is your home?" Huashima's eyes were rounder than Han's two white jade lions.

"go in."

Han Jingye felt unfamiliar with this "home" that he had not returned to for many years, but after passing through the doorway, the memories of the past resurfaced one after another.

——He remembered that he was born here, grew up here, remembered the smell of rainy days here, and thought of the plum blossoms in the courtyard.

Everything here has long been imprinted in his life, condensing into the background color of the eyes.

"Wow, it's so quiet." Huashima shivered, "And it's so cold."

The Hou Mansion is a world of its own, and the hustle and bustle of the market can't be heard at all.The straight branches of cedar look like warriors, and they are all green as far as the eye can see.

"Would you really not be afraid at night if you live in such a big place?"

"So no one comes out at night." Ah Chun replied, "Just stay in the house honestly."

After walking for a while, there was no one at all, and only a few birdsong broke the silence.A small hexagonal pavilion appeared on the right, and Han Jingye said to Huadao: "You wait here for a while, Ah Chun and I will go find Lord Hou."

"Oh." He nodded solemnly, but he never stopped.No, as soon as he walked away, he circled around, looked left and right, and stumbled into a two-story building called "Queyuexuan".

meow~meow~

There seemed to be a cat meowing not far away, Huashima pricked up his ears, he likes teasing cats the most.

Following the sound, you will find the courtyard behind Que Yuexuan. There is an ancient pagoda tree in the center of the courtyard. A black cat is chasing birds on the slender branches. Its fur is as smooth as satin and its eyes are emerald green.

"Sisi, be good, be obedient, come down quickly."

At the bottom of the tree, an old man in coarse clothes stretched out his hands tremblingly, following the black cat around in circles helplessly.

"I'll help you." Seeing this, Huadao, an enthusiastic crowd, immediately rolled up his sleeves, climbed up the branch of the tree without saying a word, and caught it with skillful techniques.He carefully put the black cat into his arms, and then jumped off the branch lightly.

The black cat's paws danced wildly in the air, Huashima smoothed its fur twice, and then it became quiet.

The old man hugged the cat back like a treasure, and didn't even say thank you, he just coaxed: "Oh, Sisi, be good~ Don't run around next time, you will worry me to death!"

Huashima shrugged, thinking "the Zhongshan Hou's mansion only produces strange people", so he turned and left.

However, at this moment, Han Jingye and Ah Chun walked towards each other, both of them looked unhappy.He was just about to explain, but who would have expected Han Jingye to speak first, and shouted in a straight voice:

"father."

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Jinling.