The clay dolls in the distance were still fighting, and Yang Guanxian walked into the inn, shaking his head.
Although it is a country inn, and it is at the foot of the steep peak of Luxiang Mountain, it is the junction of Hengping and Jinzhou, and there is a long mountain road in the northwest that connects with Tangzhou, so people come and go here.
Business is also very good.
Yang Guanxian entered and looked towards the window. There was a huge hall with many windows open, but the windows were full of people and there was not a single empty seat.
Yang Guanxian turned around and left, preparing to find another one nearby.
"Hey! Your guest, your guest!" A waiter came out of the store and said, "Your guest!!"
Yang Guanxian turned around and saw that this guy was so big, he frowned: "What's the matter?"
"Since the guest officer came, why did he leave again?"
Yang Guanxian said: "If I want to leave, I can leave. If I want to stay, I can stay."
After saying that, he walked away.
"Wait a minute, sir!" The waiter came after him, "You dropped your wallet!"
Yang Guanxian lowered his head and looked at the ground, but heard the man who was catching up to him lowered his voice: "Mr. Yang, my second lady has invited me!"
Yang Guanxian was shocked and ran away.
But the waiter's hand was very strong: "Mr. Yang, my second lady's surname is Xia, from the Dingguo Duke's mansion."
Yang Guanxian was stunned for a moment, but quickly said vigilantly: "You said yes? How can I trust you? If you don't let go, I will yell!"
"It's not appropriate for the second lady to show up, but Mr. Yang didn't believe it, so he missed the opportunity," the waiter said, letting go of his hand, "the second lady will go to Shishu Pavilion and only wait for you for half an hour."
Xia Zhaoyi's door was ajar when there was a sudden knock.
"Come in." Xia Zhaoyi said.
Xia Yuda pushed away gently and said, "Second Miss, he is really vigilant."
Xia Zhaoyi stood in front of the desk and sorted the books, and smiled when he heard the words: "When you are away from home, people's hearts are unpredictable, so you should be vigilant."
"Well...Second Miss, please forgive me for making my own decision. I saw that he didn't look like he would be persuaded by me, so I said that you would go to Shishu Pavilion to wait for him."
"Shishu Pavilion?" Xia Zhaoyi turned around, "Where is it?"
"It's less than three miles away from here, in a pavilion that few people go to, but it's not difficult for him to inquire."
Xia Zhaoyi nodded: "Okay, let's go there."
Yang Guanxian left the inn and ran to an open-air teahouse that was far away from here and had more people.
The ground was covered with muddy water, and the shoes of hikers were filled with mud. After sitting down, many people took off their shoes on the spot and poured out the dirt inside. If they couldn't be poured out, they dug them out.
Their hands were dirty and smelly after digging, but they reached out to grab the steamed buns and vegetables that were served.
Yang Guanxian sighed softly, holding up his chopsticks to face the plate of wild vegetables and steamed buns that was served, but couldn't put his mouth down.
Finally, he put down his chopsticks, stood up, put down two coins, and left.
Unconsciously, when he returned to the village road where he came from, Yang Guanxian looked at the inn in the distance. After hesitating for a long time, he went to the roadside to ask: "Sister-in-law, let me ask, is there a place called Shishu Pavilion nearby?"
The woman was very enthusiastic and immediately gave him directions.
Yang Guanxian thanked me.
Shishu Pavilion is not far away, but it takes a while to walk for two to three miles.
Yang Guanxian's every step felt heavy.
Although he had inquired with the woman clearly and confirmed that the Shishu Pavilion was in an open area, if he saw anything wrong from a distance, he could leave immediately.
But the complex emotions that followed made Yang Guanxian full of melancholy.
First, his life has not been very good in recent years, and his money has become very tight. Just now in the tea shed, he suddenly realized that he had become a common man in the village. This feeling was really uncomfortable, so he couldn't eat.
pharynx.
It's so embarrassing to see an old friend now.
The second is her identity...
His surname is Xia, and he is the Xia of Dingguo Gongfu.
Duke Dingguo's Mansion...
summer……
Yang Guanxian was indescribably embarrassed and uncomfortable.
She, her surname cannot be Xia!
Yang Guanxian recalled the rich woman's voice: "She is a liar!"
"There's no way her surname is Xia!"
"She is my niece! She has sisters from the same compatriots. Their maiden names were given by me, one is Axue and the other is Ali."
"Her surname is Qiao, it's Qiao!"
…
Joe.
summer.
Dingguo Gongfu.
Yang Guanxian suddenly felt a sudden pain in his head, as if it was going to explode.
Approaching Shishu Pavilion, Yang Guanxian stopped and looked, hoping it wasn't, but also hoping it was true.
As far as the eye could see, under the stone hexagonal flying pavilion, a thin girl stood facing the river, holding a few pages of paper in her hands and reading slowly.
There were two tall men standing under the stone pavilion, one of them was the guy who pulled him today.
Yang Guanxian's eyes returned to the girl's back.
She had black hair tied into a ponytail and wore only a neat and simple cloud-blue summer shirt with a waist. After the heavy rain, the dress looked somewhat thin.
But she didn't tremble, her back was straight and graceful, her neck and waist were slender, and her posture and manners were first-rate.
Yang Guanxian frowned, how could such a demeanor come from a run-down Qiao family?
Not to mention the rich woman who told him so much, even if we look at the prosperous days of Daqian twenty years ago, in Kyoto where there were many celebrities, there were few who had such outstanding temperament.
At this moment, the girl seemed to feel something. She turned around and looked towards where he was.
Yang Guanxian was startled and wanted to turn around and run away, but this was really embarrassing.
That's all, it's here.
Yang Guanxian cleared his throat in a low voice and walked away.
Xia Zhaoyi put away the paper in his hand and pressed it under a square stone on the stone table in the pavilion.
The square stone is on the edge of the stone table, and the protagonist of the stone table is a set of tea and cakes served on fine moon-white porcelain with ice plum pattern.
From the angle just now, Yang Guanxian could not see these clearly. When he looked closer, he saw the fine food on the stone table. He paused slightly and then raised his eyes to look at the girl in the pavilion.
After five years of separation, her long and beautiful eyebrows have not only not lost half of her childhood aura, but have become more lively, charming and refined.
Yang Guanxian said awkwardly: "Ah, Miss Ali."
Xia Zhaoyi said: "I met your third brother at the bank of Bajiang Lake last year."
Yang Guanxian's eyes widened: "Have you met him? How is he doing?"
"Huh?" Xia Zhaoyi looked at him, "From your tone, you have lost contact with him?"
The girl's eyes were so bright and intelligent that Yang Guanxian didn't dare to look directly at her and sighed: "Yeah."
Xia Zhaoyi raised her eyebrows, turned slightly sideways, and said, "Please take a seat first."
The two sat down in the pavilion, Yang Guanxian's posture was still reserved.
Xia Zhaoyi looked at his old coarse clothes and said, "He said at that time that you were at Zhuang Mengyao's place in the Jiangnan Barracks. When I heard that, I thought you were doing well."
"There's nothing good about it," Yang Guanxian said with a sad face, "The Jiangnan barracks were filled with complicated forces, and there were secret and overt struggles, which made people breathless. Just because I refused to speak for others, I was murdered and retaliated. On March 6 last year,
Without any warning, after their verbal battle, I and eight other people were taken away in court. Six days after being imprisoned, they deported me in the early morning of March 13th. What was a shame was that I was taken away from the Imperial Capital.
I have half a lifetime worth of money, but it was all confiscated and turned over. I didn’t have a future, and I had to pay for everything, so I have nothing.”
"How did you get here after more than a year?" Xia Zhaoyi asked.
Yang Guanxian was about to drink tea when he heard this and his fingers trembled.
