The 17th day of winter, the hour of the year.

Xiaoxiao and Xizi have successfully boarded the hired carriage and are heading towards the north bank of Xingwen River.

Xizi cooperated with Xiaoxiao to perform all the time, and the girl was so proud that she was so proud. The two of them cooperated and tried their best to escape. At this moment, there were finally no one around her. Xizi asked immediately: "Yingyuan, why did it take so long to advance?"

It was clearly agreed before, but in order not to arouse suspicion from family members, Xiaoxiao would arrive at the Wen family around Si hour. This was repeatedly finalized when we met on the 10th day of the lunar month, and Xizi had already prepared for this.

Unexpectedly, before dawn this morning, Xiaoxiao arrived, the reason was: It is said that it will snow today. I want to observe the snowy morning with Xizi, and then make a painting together.

Xizi knew it was the reason for the current editing. Xiaoxiao must have new arrangements, but the Wen family did not doubt that he was there, and he also ordered to bring more hot snacks and silver charcoal.

From the second hour of Mao to the second hour of Si, there is an hour and a half difference.

Xiaoxiao didn't say anything for a long time, and she turned her head and looked at Xizi. Her eyes turned red: "I just want to stay with you for a while. I don't know when I will see you again this time. Maybe it will be a lifetime..."

Yes, maybe this time is the eternal decree.

Xiaoxiao wiped his eyes with a veil: "When I think about it, it's still too short to get together for more than an hour."

Xizi had already been crying as she was laughing and said: "Silly, aren't you happy yet? Will I come back to see you in the future? We can agree on a place to meet, just in Jiushan? Every year today, we will meet at the top of Lingling Mountain!"

Xiaoxiao sniffed and smiled bitterly: "I don't know where you were at that time. It's so easy to meet. In addition... you were already his person at that time. Will he allow you to meet me?"

Yes, what does this kind of meeting mean? Doesn’t Xiaoxiao, a former friend, represent Xizi’s past? Does this kind of meeting mean that he cannot give up the past, or does it mean that he has infinite nostalgia for the past?

Perhaps for ordinary people, gathering with friends is nothing, and people who recall the past are more humane.

But Shi Zuimo is not an ordinary person. He is a highly sensitive person. When he saw Xizi getting engaged in Xingwen Lake, he could hold his resentment on the disparity in his identity and suspected that Xizi regretted his relationship with him. What's more, Xizi after elopement. In Shi Zuimo's eyes, wouldn't he feel even more regretful?

Xizi closed her eyes and held Xiaoxiao's hand tightly: "I will always find a way to meet you."

He smiled and sighed, looked at the winter scene outside the car window, and stopped talking.

The carriage finally stopped by the Xingwen River and said to the coachman with a smile: "You are just waiting here. Since you have hired you for a day, there will inevitably be a lot of roads to run in the future. After about an hour, I will tell you which direction to go."

The coachman nodded and was very satisfied with the money paid by Xiaoxiao.

Xiaoxiao and Xizi got out of the car. Both of them carried more than one big bag. The north wind was very strong and blew over the snow cap on their heads. They shaved across their faces like a knife, and their entire head and face were almost frozen.

The two of them quickly ran towards the bark house by the river and opened the simple bark door. The room was sheltered from the wind, but it was as cold as an ice cave.

"Have you been here before?" Xiaoxiao rubbed his hands coldly, found a small fire stove with a broken corner in the corner, filled the silver charcoal she brought with him, and prepared to make a fire to keep warm.

Xizi was almost frozen and stuck his hand into the fox skin warm cover, feeling that it was cold inside without any temperature.

The furnishings in the house are simple, with only a bamboo bed, a crooked table, a few small wooden stools, and a very old bamboo cabinet in the corner.

Even if there are strange passers-by here to settle down, I'm afraid I'm too lazy to steal these things.

The small stove was quickly lit and made a crackling sound. Perhaps it had never encountered such high-end fuel as silver charcoal in its entire life, and it wanted to surround it and burn it together for generations.

Xiaoxiao guarded the door: "When the fire is on the rise, change your clothes quickly. You have to take a carriage away later. You must meet passers-by. Try not to arouse suspicion when you wear it."

Xizi had already taken off her big cloak, took off her woolen shoulder inside, untied her pleated skirt embroidered with silk, and opened the bag of Xiaoxiao's belt. The inside was made of muslin cotton jackets and cotton pants prepared in advance.

Xizi was about to put on a cotton jacket, but smiled and said, "I have prepared a small floral jacket for you in the bag, so you can wear it in the big cotton jacket first."

Nishi looked at the Ayako jacket I was wearing: "I changed this jacket specifically, it was only Ayako's..."

Xiaoxiao shook her head: "This is Jin Ling. Besides, even ordinary Ayazi is not suitable. We cannot predict where you will rest. If you wear too conspicuously, it will be a bad thing to be taken care of by the bandits."

Although Xizi was puzzled, she still heard Xiaoxiao's words and replaced the Arianzi jacket, shrank and put on the local floral jacket - the third-class girls in the family were wearing Arianzi...

All the clothes were worn, and the big cotton jacket was covered with new cotton, which was particularly warm. Xizi packed up all his clothes and suddenly remembered what Xiaoxiao said: "Go away in the carriage? You just said you went away in the carriage?"

Xiaoxiao sighed, laughing and crying: "Although you don't leave your home, you can at least see the lake in the garden. It was frozen a few days ago, and Xingwen River will naturally freeze."

Xizi suddenly realized that Xingwen River had frozen and could not sail at all! Xizi hurriedly opened the door to see. Xingwen River seemed to be the ice river that was still motionless.

"What should I do? I took a boat as planned!"

Xiaoxiao closed the door and isolated the air conditioner outside: "This is not something you should worry about, it is his obligation to arrange these."

Xizi was a little uneasy and suddenly said, "No wonder you ordered the coachman like that just now. Did you leave a backup plan for us?"

"Who else will care about you except me?" Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes in anger. "It would be fine to count on him? It would be fine if she didn't have money, but she didn't even have the ability to survive. I guess he could only read, draw, and burn firewood, and definitely not even know how to do it."

Shi Zuimo is probably a typical example of a poor family and a wealthy family.

Xizi didn't speak, as if escaping his imagination of the future: "Fortunately... I brought enough money to save some money, enough to spend hundreds of years."

Xiaoxiao sighed: "Let me see what you have brought? Some things may not be spent."

Upon hearing this, Xizi hurriedly opened his baggage and took advantage of the fact that he was smiling and checking himself.

When Xiaoxiao saw the things in the bag, she was amazed ten thousand times: there were more than a dozen chestnut-sized diamond ruby ​​sapphires, five or six pairs of jade bracelets, and there were also Hetian jade blue fields and Dushan jade jade, Xiuyu jade, and dozens of pure round pearls. The rest were all red gold ingots...

Xiaoxiao's hands trembled and opened another box: there was a thick stack of paper inside, and the first one on it was a silver note worth ten thousand taels.

Xiaoxiao simply suspected that Xizi had emptied the Wen family. This stack of ten thousand taels of silver bills cost 300,000 taels. Then he checked it. Now only the three above are ten thousand taels, and there are a few thousand taels. The rest are - the breeding method of black jade-inlaid gold roses, the breeding method of the goddess of the sea... The secret recipe for the preparation of the Si Yaoren Xianglu, the secret recipe for the preparation of the goddess of the sea...

"I didn't steal these!" Seeing Xiaoxiao's face changed, Xizi hurriedly defended, "I asked for the third and fourth brothers."

Xiaoxiao asked, "Why do you want this?"

"I just asked, what do they will give me in the future... It's better to give it now, I'm very curious." Xizi's voice gradually lowered.

Xiaoxiao: If you have these scrupulous things, why don’t you keep trying Shi Zuimo?

"Yingyuan, can you see what I have prepared?" Xizi asked timidly.

Yes, it's enough to hold dozens of painting sessions! Plus a large amusement park! Taking advantage of you, a charming person, is simply giving him all his life.

Xiaoxiao took a deep breath: "Gems and jade are too scattered, and you two don't know how to do it. Maybe you stay in the inn for a night and the things will be stolen by someone! Besides, you are all prepared with gold. Where can you spend it on these remote roads? It is more important to prepare some scattered silver!"

Xizi nodded repeatedly, and saw Xiaoxiao opening the small bag he carried with him. It contained broken silver and small silver notes, as well as some storable steamed buns and Qianli sauce.

Xizi's tears came down again. It was very rare for Xiaoxiao to help him escape. He was still thinking about himself everywhere. In the midst of tears, he suddenly felt Xiaoxiao grab his wrist tightly: "Xizi, I don't want to worry about you, and I don't want to worry about him. Before you leave, I want to test him once, the last time."

Xizi nodded with tears in his mouth, wiped away the tears with the back of his hand, looked at Xiaoxiao and opened the bamboo cabinet beside the wall, stuffed all the big and small bags into the cabinet, and then walked up to him: "The place under the cabinet is very big, you hide in."

"Why?" Xizi hesitated a little.

"If you are in front of you, it's not easy to test him." Xiaoxiao pulled Xizi to the cabinet. There was indeed a large space in the lower half of the cabinet. There was no problem with Xizi going in, and it was okay to sit and lie down.

"How do you plan to test him?" Xizi was still worried.

"I'll ask him a few questions and see how he will answer me." Xiaoxiao looked at Xizi solemnly, "I'm asking for you. You have to listen carefully in the cabinet."

Xizi felt nervous for no reason, but knew that Xiaoxiao was all for his own good, so he squatted down and hid in the cabinet. Xiaoxiao also took out a soft bag and let her cushion under her.

"How is it? Isn't it very uncomfortable, right? Don't worry, I won't ask him for too long."

Xizi nodded, a little nervous for no reason, as if he knew that Shi Zuimo could not pass the level of Xiaoxiao.

Xiaoxiao helped Xizi out first: "Remember, I'm asking for you, and you will decide everything. If you can't listen halfway, you can make a noise at any time. I'll send him away and arrange for you to come out of the cabinet quietly, so he won't be noticed."

Xizi nodded and chose to believe Xiaoxiao again.
Chapter completed!