In front of the North Gate

Chapter 15

Lou Huaiyu didn't think right, because at about the same time the next day, his door was knocked again.

Lou Huaiyu didn't bother at first, but the knocking on the door became more and more intense. Afraid of attracting someone, Lou Huaiyu walked quickly to open the door.

Seeing Shi Jichang who punched the air, he retracted his fist angrily.

His other hand was behind his back, and after a while, he took it out, and it was a bright red wintersweet.

"Lan'er said, I need to bring a present for my apology, I—"

Before Shi Jichang finished speaking, Lou Huaiyu had already closed the door silently.

However, on the third day, he still came, this time with a candied haws.

Lou Huaiyu couldn't help frowning, and Shi Jichang asked him, "Don't you like it?"

The day after that, it was a sugar blowing figure, the day after that it was a little clay figurine, and the day after that it was a small enamel object...

Lou Huaiyu would open the door for him at first, but gradually he would not open it at all, and Shi Jichang put the things at the door.

I don't know when Lou Huaiyu learned the trick of stealing the door lock outside. Every day when Lou Huaiyu wakes up, he can always see something left on the dressing table.

After more than half a month like this, Lou Huaiyu collected a lot of things, and there was almost no room to hide them in the wardrobe.

That night, Lou Huaiyu deliberately stayed awake and waited until very late.

Around midnight, there were some rustling noises outside the door, and after a while, the door was gently pushed open.

Shi Jichang's footsteps were very light, Lou Huaiyu listened intently, and only slightly heard him approaching slowly.

The bedside table was knocked lightly by something, making a tiny ding.

"I don't want it." Lou Huaiyu said in time.

Shi Jichang's footsteps stopped.

"I don't want these." Lou Huaiyu said again, and he sat up, thinking that Shi Jichang's coming every day was not an option, so he re-lighted the night light on the bedside, and saw clearly that the things on the cabinet were the same ones he had taken before. It's a headgear of the same style that I went out to be.

Shi Jichang stood obediently in front of the bed, also looking at the headdress, and then at Lou Huaiyu, as if expecting him to take back the words of refusal just because he likes it.

Lou Huaiyu failed to fulfill his wish, so he still said, "I don't want it."

The flames blazed up, and the sight gradually brightened, Lou Huaiyu could clearly see the bewildered expression that Shi Jichang rarely showed.

"You don't even like it?" Shi Jichang paused and asked him, "Then what do you like? I'll..."

"Don't come tomorrow." Lou Huaiyu interrupted him.

Lou Huaiyu actually didn't understand. He didn't know whether Shi Jichang really couldn't grasp the crux of the problem, or he was just pretending to be stupid, and wasted a lot of trouble here just because he said he needed Lou Huaiyu's help.

Lou Huaiyu explained to him helplessly: "I didn't save you because of these things. These mountain passes can also be given to me, which is more and better than what you gave."

The two looked at each other.

Shi Jichang may be quite busy outside, he has grown some stubble, his eyes are slightly blue, he has become sloppy and tired.It was as if a person who had been in Lou Huaiyu's halo for too long had finally stepped down from the altar.

Only then did Lou Huaiyu realize that he is not that good either. From the outside to the inside, there are many shortcomings of ordinary people, and sometimes he is very annoying, so he wants to tell him to go away.

But even so, Lou Huaiyu found that it was still difficult for him to say serious things to him.

Time is really tedious, because even if the gift is useless, Lou Huaiyu can no longer find the anger that made people roll.

"Watanabe Yukawa will come, at the end of the month." Lou Huaiyu lowered his head, and finally said, "This is the only thing I know. Yamaguchi asked me to sing for him, and I don't know anything else."

"I've told you everything I know, and I don't know the specific time," Lou Huaiyu said, "You can go."

The air was even quiet.

Lou Huaiyu heard the familiar wind outside. They have been blowing all winter. No matter how the world changes, whether anyone is sad or happy, they are meticulous and unchanged.

Then he heard Shi Jichang say: "I see."

In the next few days, Shi Jichang did not come again.

Yamaguchi is also very busy and hasn't shown up for a long time.

Lou Huaiyu practiced the play quietly for a few days, and slowly felt what Shi Jichang meant by "the situation is critical".

Because the gunshots rang out in the backyard suddenly for several days, and they became more and more intense, and the begging for mercy of the men and women in the backyard and the shouting and cursing of the Japanese became more and more harsh.

Everyone became insecure, and even when Du Juan came to serve Lou Huaiyu hot water again, he lowered his eyebrows and stopped talking.

This afternoon, Lou Huaiyu was still practicing her voice in the yard.

He picks and chooses, and returns to the stage after two years. He still wants to sing his favorite song, Romance of the West Chamber, so he has been practicing carefully for the past few days.

But today, he had just sung the first scene when he was interrupted by the noise from outside.

I only heard a rough voice yelling and cursing in words Lou Huaiyu couldn't understand, a girl's voice was crying and begging for mercy, and then almost without a pause, there was a bang, and sharp gunshots came through the air.

Lou Huaiyu trembled rationally, because this time the gunfire was very close to the ground, and some tinnitus inevitably occurred.

The coldest winter in Pingcheng has passed, and the snow has not yet melted, but some sparrows have already appeared outside.

Perhaps disturbed by the gunshots, they waved their wings one after another, flapping away from the right and wrong.

Lou Huaiyu looked up, and suddenly thought, if the sparrow had wings for the girl just now, she might have survived, but people don't have wings, so they can't escape.

The Japanese officer was still cursing, even if Lou Huaiyu couldn't see the peacekeeping team opposite him, he still wanted him nodding and bowing.

A member of the peacekeeping team said: "Taijun Taijun, the small one, it's in Japanese, I don't understand it."

The Japanese officer paused, uttered a Japanese swear word, and then loudly said in very poor Chinese: "Big Japanese, high-ranking officials, those who are coming, and those who are dangerous, don't stay!"

The people from the peacekeeping team immediately cheered up twice.

The sparrows have landed far away, with only tiny black spots.

Lou Huaiyu withdrew his gaze and reached out to massage the soreness at the back of his neck.

When he fell asleep that night, Lou Huaiyu had a dream that he often had just now in this compound, but now he seldom dreams.

He dreamed that he had turned into a little sparrow, flying in the air chirping, flying around the huge courtyard, flying higher and higher.

But for some reason, there was a sudden bang on the ground, and immediately afterwards, the sparrow flying beside him suddenly deviated from the course and ran straight towards him.

Lou Huaiyu was knocked into the air and lost his direction. He spun around several times, and finally stabilized again, only to see his companion from just now falling with bright red blood all over his body.

Lou Huaiyu woke up suddenly from the dream, opened his eyes, and realized that the shaking feeling just now came from a big hand clasped behind his quilt.

Shi Jichang hissed softly at him: "Don't talk, come with me."