In early summer, Suzhou has not reached the hottest time.

But the humidity here is high, and the temperature rises slightly like entering a small steamer. Even in the morning, it is a little hot.

Li Ruoshui was afraid of heat, and Lu Zhiyao happened to have a low body temperature, so on the first night in Suzhou, it was no longer Lu Zhiyao who was pestering her, but she was pestering Lu Zhiyao.

He couldn't help but reach into his loose clothes, warmed one place and then changed to another, so he went back and forth for the first night without knowing it.

Lu Zhiyao sat on the edge of the bed, Li Ruoshui rested on his lap, the nightdress was rolled up somewhere, and there were fine beads of sweat on his forehead.

He wiped the sweat off her forehead with a handkerchief, then continued to fan and looked out the window.

He has been sitting here all night.

All that was surging in his mind, and it was not until Chaoyang peeked out the first ray of light from behind the black tiles that he could calm down.

Lu Zhiyao looked down at Li Ruoshui, and while fanning, he reached out and touched her eyes.

Li Ruoshui didn't rest well last night and slept very late, so he still hasn't woken up yet.

she……

There were two knocks, the wooden door was knocked, and the voice of Xiao Er came from outside the door.

"Guest officer, your yard has been taken care of, and now you can live in it."

Lu Zhiyao was suddenly startled, and with trembling eyelashes, he retracted his hand, and after a moment of pause, he firmly pulled her wrist again.

"Um."

He responded lightly, then reached out and untied her ties, helping her put on a new top and bottom skirt slightly rusty.

After all, Li Ruoshui couldn't wake up for a while, so she couldn't come by herself.

When she was asleep, she seemed so helpless, she even asked him to help her lift her up when she raised her hand.

The corners of Lu Zhiyao's lips curled into a smile, and his face was slightly red, but not only because of shyness, but also because of the secret obsession in his heart.

He was happy for her whole-hearted dependence, happy that she could not be separated from him now.

Although this time is very short, when she wakes up, there will be no such opportunity again.

After putting on her dress, Lu Zhiyao gently placed her on the edge of the bed, then knelt on one knee on the pedal, held her ankle, and after carefully scanning her eyes, she slowly put on her shoes. .

"Guest officer, are you ready?"

The voice of Xiao Er came from outside the door again. Lu Zhiyao looked at her sleeping face and rolled his eyes, then pulled up her wrist. When the bell rang, she was already asleep on his back.

The moment he was lying on his back, Li Ruoshui had wrapped his hands around his neck very politely, buried his head in it, and it was cold there.

Li Ruoshui once carried him from the mountains to the city when he was in Cangzhou. Later, he always complained that he had not carried her back, but in fact, she did not know that.

It looks like she will miss it this time.

"All right."

Lu Zhiyao pulled her closer, raised the corners of his lips higher, pushed open the door and walked into the corridor.

He looked back at Xiao Er who was standing beside him, his eyebrows raised, soft as a spring breeze.

"Aren't you going?"

Even in Suzhou, there are few people as gentle as him, Xiao Er nodded blankly and then returned to him.

"Of course, let's go!"

This young man was helping him find someone to do things, so he naturally went to the scene to see how it worked.

But he was still curious on the way there, and his eyes swept to Li Ruoshui frequently.

Most of the girl's face was covered by her hair, and she could only see one of the exposed eyes, but she could see that she was sleeping soundly.

"Master, are you here to settle in Suzhou?"

Lu Zhiyao nodded, then turned to ask him, "Is there any ice shop in Suzhou?"

He speaks Suzhou dialect, and when he hears that he is a local, Xiao Er's expression relaxes a lot, and he speaks a lot more casually.

"Yes, there is an ice-cream shop on the street in front of you. They sell a lot of food. Do you want to eat it now?"

"Buy some."

Xiao Er nodded and walked a little forward to show him the way, but he couldn't help but glance back.

He felt that the girl didn't seem to be sleeping, but she occasionally muttered a few inaudible words in her sleep, and she was indeed sleeping.

It was really eye-opening. It was the first time he saw someone sleeping so soundly. The street wasn't clean, so he wouldn't wake up like that?

With a chill down his back, Xiao Er's eyes turned to the side, just in line with Lu Zhiyao's soft and quiet eyes, which seemed gentle and harmless, but it did frighten him to stumble.

"Don't watch it if you shouldn't, this time it's over."

Xiao Er looked straight ahead and didn't turn his head again: "Yes, yes, it's really abrupt, sorry."

He couldn't help speeding up his pace, and led the way to the ice drink shop.

There are several wooden barrels at the door of the store. The bottom of the barrel is crushed ice, and the crushed ice is sold for food, and the air-conditioning can be seen from a distance.

It was almost noon, but there were not many customers in the store, and they came just in time.

"Son, what do you want?"

Lu Zhiyao stood under the awning in front of the store with Li Ruoshui on his back, with a smile on his face, but his heart was at a loss.

He did not know what these were, nor did he recognize the words on the cards.

If Li Ruoshui was awake now, he would definitely laugh at him when he saw that he was silent.

Lu Zhiyao suddenly let out a chuckle, and the smile on Zhanyan's face was like a flower branch breaking through ice, with a softness in the clear, which made people feel that the heat was completely dissipated when they saw it.

"I don't know these, can you introduce me?"

If you don't know it, you don't know it, and it's not ashamed. It takes time to cover up what you do. This is what Li Ruoshui often said.

The store owner and Xiao Er glanced at the sour plum soup and mung bean soup, and were a little surprised that he didn't even know this.

But the boss still introduced it dutifully.

"We Suzhou people eat cakes in spring and summer in summer. These cakes have been placed on ice for a long time, and they are guaranteed to be cold to eat, as well as our sour plum soup..."

The boss thought he was a foreigner, so he introduced him the same way.

What Leng Yuanzi, jelly, bean curd, sorbet, sour plum, mung bean soup, although some are not local snacks, but they look very delicious.

"Besides the sour plum soup, all the rest are here."

When he got off the boat, Li Ruoshui said that he didn't want to eat sour plums anymore, so this sour plum soup probably didn't need it.

"Good Le!"

Not far from the street suddenly many people came, bustling, so lively.

This movement attracted many people to turn their heads to look, except that the road was far away.

"Boss, can you send some ice to my house every day in the future?"

The boss slowed down the action of making mung bean soup, and agreed absentmindedly, but his attention was clearly on the street.

There, a woman was being chased by a group of people dressed as domestic servants, but she was exhausted and gradually stopped near the ice-cream shop.

"I said it was sold to my house, how come I regret it!"

The domestic servants shouted loudly, lest the people in the world would not know their own reasoning, but whether this reasoning is a crooked reason or not is another question.

The girl looked at the people around her calling for help, and said in tears that she did not want to be sold to his house.

Some people are purely watching the fun, some people are moved by compassion, but they dare not step forward to help.

"I was deceived!"

The woman screamed, but she had already lost her strength, and it was difficult to escape, standing on the spot crying.

It was so lively not far away, but standing on the road under the awning seemed like he didn't hear him. He turned Li Ruoshui upside down, and then took a step forward to make sure the sun didn't shine on her.

"Boss, can you pack the food first?"

The owner of the ice-cream shop returned to his senses, nodded his head, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"We rarely have this kind of thing happen here. I was curious for a while and made the young master laugh."

Lu Zhiyao looked up at him, a little curious and a little puzzled.

Suzhou is rich and rich. In the past, he received a lot of bounties for murder here, and earned a lot of money, but he actually said that such things were rare.

Don't they live in the same place?

His lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to ask something, but then he realized that Li Ruoshui was still sleeping, and she couldn't answer him now.

"...No." He casually agreed: "Remember to send ice to my house later."

"I won't forget."

The boss forced his attention back and began to put the prepared mung bean soup and sorbet into the food box covered with crushed ice.

There was still noise over there, and a man rushed out from the crowd to stand up for the woman, and the conflict was gradually escalating.

The noise got louder and louder, Lu Zhiyao turned his head slightly and listened to Li Ruoshui's breath.

"Why do you arrest people!"

With the sound of a man in her early years, he protected the person behind him, and the provoked servant got angry, pulled out the knife that was only used to bluff people, and slashed his back at once.

The surrounding people shouted loudly and dispersed, for fear that the eyeless knife would slash them.

The injured man just fell down at the door of the ice drink shop, and the blood on the tip of the servant's knife also spilled over, and the street suddenly fell into silence.

The river murmured through the surroundings, the cicadas on the banyan tree kept chirping, and the breeze blew away the robes of the two people in front of the ice-cream shop.

They stood in the shadows under the awning, and the corners of the raised white clothes were stained with blood, which was very conspicuous.

Everyone looked at that place without blinking, only to see the man turned his head, all his black hair was pulled to the left by him, and his raised eyelashes were as beautiful as butterfly wings.

I saw him looking down, not at the man and woman lying down, nor at the corner of his robe, but at the right leg of the man on his back.

The goose-yellow gauze skirt was lit with dazzling red, and there were also a few drops of blood hanging on the snow-white calf, wanting to fall.

Lu Zhizhi looked up at the servants with a gentle smile, which reminded people of the spring breeze blowing willows on the embankment.

"The one who took out the knife, is it you who came here, or is it me?"

When the wicked meet the wicked, there is no need to fight, just a look, and the weaker party will disarm itself and surrender.

The servant threw the knife subconsciously and took a few steps back.

But he glanced at Lu Zhiyao, and after confirming that he was a foreigner, he called the other servants to go with him.

But before he uttered a ruthless word, or reported his home, he was stepped on the ground by Lu Zhizhi's foot. His foot seemed to be light, but it was severely crushed on his wrist bone.

This domestic servant will not know that if he is not killed today, just standing in the sun like this, he may be able to return home intact.

Lu Zhiyao always stood in the shadows to ensure that Li Ruoshui would not be exposed to the sun. He leaned over slightly to look at the man's painful expression, then raised his eyebrows and curved his lips slightly.

"It doesn't matter, as long as I only need your wrist, the pain will soon be gone."

It was really fast, and after smashing his wrist bones, he raised his feet and turned to look at the owner of the ice drink shop.

"Sorry, can you be faster?"

The boss looked at him blankly, the wooden spoon in his hand trembled and hit the wooden barrel, making a thump, thump, thump.

The domestic servants dragged their miserable brother away, and did not dare to stay any longer. They put down the classic cruel words of "you wait" and left.

The two who were lying in front of the ice drink shop stood up with support, and the woman came forward to thank him.

She told what happened with tears in her eyes, and the man who helped him couldn't bear it, but Lu Zhiyao just looked down at the boss pretending to drink ice, wondering if he heard it.

"...They actually want to deceive me into the house, how is this possible, for my parents, even if the fish die and the net breaks, I will fight to the end!"

The people who had scattered before gathered again, and after listening to her words, they all complained bitterly about the wicked people.

"These beasts have forced others into the house, and they really think that they can replace their family members when they get married!"

"Girl, since you're not a local, go home quickly. If you stay here, maybe something like this will happen again."

...

Unexpectedly, Lu Zhiyao turned his head to look at them, as if he was very interested in the topic they were talking about.

He listened to his words, his words, everyone said their own opinions, but without exception, they were persuading her to go back.

go back...go back...don't stay here again...

Lu Zhizhi's eyes turned to the woman, he remembered that her original expression was very painful, but now she has a smile on her face, as if relieved.

The smile on Lu Zhiyao's lips softened a little, he looked at the woman quietly, and her black eyes were full of her grateful smile.

But that smile kept expanding and pulling in Lu Zhi's eyes, and finally took on a distorted shape.

That wasn't what he wanted to see, so he turned his head away.

The arm around her neck tightened a bit, and her babble came from behind her ears, and Lu Zhiyao laughed again, reminding the boss.

"Ice cubes must be brought."

All the food has been packed, the boss handed the food box to Xiao Er and nodded to him.

"Don't worry, son, you should be going to expel the heat. There are not many people like you here, so I can't forget it."

Although ice is not a rarity, it takes some effort to make it, so the big households in Suzhou will buy ice to fight the heat.

Lu Zhiyao paid the money, ignored the people over there, turned around and left with Li Ruoshui behind his back.

"Young Master! Thank you, I don't know what to call you, tomorrow..."

"No need." Lu Zuo turned his head to look at her, his brows and eyes were gentle, but it didn't make her feel the slightest warmth, and there was some slight resistance.

"I'm for her, not for you."

The woman was stunned for a moment, then stopped, the smile at the corner of her mouth froze at the corner of her mouth, not knowing what to say.

The wind was still blowing, she looked down, and the woman in yellow had already had her legs as clean as ever, with only a string of silver bells dangling on it.

The morning sun was hanging in the sky, and the weeds outside the window were cleaned up. It looked bare and a little desolate.

Compared with the outside, the inside of the house is much more lively.

Li Ruoshui looked at the bells around him and sighed. Is this the little black house he understood?

The bed she was lying on was not a bed tent, but a net drawn out with silver wires, with copper bells hanging on the net, and she was "sealed" in it.

Lu Zhiyao walked in, holding a large plate in his hand with a lot of food on it.

Li Ruoshui didn't have any anxiety about being locked up. Instead, he sat in the "net cage" waiting for him to be fed, waiting for him to sit down.

"Today's morning sun looks unusually red."

Li Ruoshui looked out the window and flicked the silver wire, but he didn't know how to wrap it. He only touched one of them, and the whole "net cage" rang.

It's done in a similar fashion.

"This is very beneficial, be careful to cut yourself." Lu Zhizhi put down the plate and looked at her with a smile.

"And it's sunset, you've slept for a long time."

"Really..." Li Ruoshui turned his head to look out the window, then tapped the silver thread, and the ding ding rang again.

"How about withdrawing this, I'll wrap it around myself after eating."

Lu Zhiyao lowered his eyes and didn't speak, just brought a bowl of ice powder to her.

"Eat this, with rose sauce in it, it's very fragrant."

"Then I'll have to eat in bed."

Li Ruoshui sighed, and was about to reach out to take the bowl of ice powder, and Lu Zhiyao also raised his hand and handed it to her, but before reaching her hand, he paused and took it back.

Li Ruoshui: ?

"You can't say what is what."

The smile on Lu Zhiyao's lips narrowed a little, as if explaining to her, but he seemed to be muttering to himself.

"...Then I won't eat it?"

Li Ruoshui retracted his hand and asked tentatively.

"no."

Li Ruoshui understood that it was probably the rebellion that Lu Zhiyao had been missing when he was a teenager has returned.

She didn't care about it at first, but until night, Lu Zhiyao slept in another bed, no matter what she said, she couldn't let this person come over.

At this moment, she suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem.