today.

Wei Lai stayed in the Dragon King Temple for a long time.

So much so that when he set out on the way home, it was already completely dark.

Of course he remembered Lu Yan'er's advice before leaving, and she asked him to go back soon.

Wei Lai was very obedient, especially Lu Yan'er's words. He was the kind of person who would bring a ladder to try even if Lu Yan'er wanted the stars in the sky. But today, Wei Lai did not listen to Lu Yan'er's words.

He left Wupan Dragon King Temple very late, and he also deliberately walked very slowly on the way home.

It was light raining all over the world. The rain had been falling for half a month. The sky seemed to have been poked by someone, but it only occasionally fell or stopped. Most of the time it was difficult to see the heavy rain ahead.

Most of the people of Lao Wupan will remember that the last time they experienced such rain was already six years ago. In such rain six years ago, Wei Lai's most important thing was taken away. It seemed that he was destined. When such rain fell again, new things would be taken away.

Lu Yan'er said that Wei Lai always lived at the age of 11 or 12 and was always a child who never grew up. Lu Yan'er was right, Wei Lai really didn't want to grow up.

Because for him, growing up means losing, but he has to compromise on this loss.

...

The road from Dragon King Temple to Lufu is very long.

But no matter how long the road is, there will be a day to come.

Wei Lai stopped his steps and looked up at the mansion in front of him. The lights were still on in the mansion, and laughter could be heard from the mansion from time to time. The bustling and hustle and bustle in the mansion and the cold alley outside the mansion looked like two worlds.

Wei Lai frowned. Even though he had deliberately slowed down, he still came back a little earlier.

Squeak.

At this time, the mansion gate not far away was pushed open, and a series of dense footsteps and endless conversations came. Wei Lai, who was standing outside the mansion gate, was like a frightened elk at that moment, and his body was trembling. He hid in the darkness of the street corner almost without thinking. He hid there for a while. It was not until he was sure that no one discovered his existence that he carefully poked his head out and looked towards the mansion gate.

There, a dense crowd was walking out of the mansion. They had smiles on their faces, either sincere or fake, and they were talking from the heart or just compliments. Wei Lai, who was hiding in the distance, could not hear what they were talking about, but he could clearly know what they were talking about.

This is not a secret. Most of the Wupan City today are talking about such a thing.

The Zhao family in Wupan City proposed marriage to the Lu family.

Zhao Gongbai of the Zhao family and Lu Guanshan of the Lu family are both big names in Wupan City. Zhao Tianyan and Lu Yan'er are childhood sweethearts and golden boys and jade girls. Such a marriage is something that no one can find fault with, and this proposal should naturally come naturally. At least Wei Lai could not think of a reason to refuse this matter...

Except for the things that are placed in his arms at this moment.

He squatted on the corner of the street and watched the guests coming to congratulate him one by one. It was not until the father and daughter sent away the father and son that the grand event belonging to Wupan City but leaving Wei Lai was finally over.

But Wei Lai still did not recover.

Wei Lai is a very self-aware person. He knows that this is the best choice for him and Lu Yaner.

So when Wei in the distance saw the reluctance in the girl's eyes when she bid farewell to the boy, he finally made up his mind and took out something like that from his arms - a piece of letter paper with handwriting.

It was a marriage made by two scholars with similar intentions, a marriage made by a beautiful and smart girl and a silly boy in a late night.

This morning, Lu Guanshan handed over the decision of the marriage to Wei Lai, and now Wei Lai has made his decision.

Wei Lai tore the letter paper apart, and he tore it slowly and meticulously, until there was no complete piece of handwriting on the paper scraps, and he was a little sad, with tears in his eyes, but he couldn't cry.

A gust of night wind blew, and the paper scraps in his hand were raised high, floating in the night wind and drizzle, like a snow.

Lu Guanshan, who had sent the guest away from a distance, glanced at the corner of his eyes and saw the "snowflakes" rising in the shadow. He was slightly stunned, but soon he seemed to realize something, and his body stood still, his eyes a little fluctuating.

"Dad, do you agree to Mr. Zhao?" The girl next to her obviously did not have the sight of Lu Guanshan, or she had no intention of watching the other person at this moment. She pulled the man's arm, shook it, and asked as if she was acting coquettishly.

The man came to his senses, turned to look at the uncoverable anxiousness in his daughter's eyes, and then smiled slightly, and after reaching out and touching his daughter's head, he said, "Tomorrow, I will go to the Zhao family."

The girl's cheeks suddenly showed a blush of joy and shame. She stopped talking, but just turned around and ran back to the mansion like she ran away.

In Yan State, there was such a custom that a man proposed marriage to the woman, and the woman's elders would not respond on the same day, but if they agreed, they would come to the door to thank him in person the next day.

Lu Guanshan could not empathize with the joy in Lu Yaner's heart at this moment, just as Lu Yaner could not understand the guilt in Lu Guanshan's heart at this moment. The man looked at the direction where the paper scraps were floating out just now and sighed deeply. At that time, he seemed to have been aged for dozens of years. He turned around and slowly walked into the mansion with a slightly heavy step.

Wei looked at the paper confetti in his hand dissipated in the night wind.

He stretched out his hand to wipe away the water droplets of tears or rain from his face, then took a deep breath, and pressed down the strange color on his face with difficulty. After confirming that he had concealed enough to capture the traces, he turned around, took a step, and was about to walk towards the direction of the Lufu.

But his steps had not yet fallen, and a hand suddenly stretched out from the dark corner and patted him on the shoulder.

Wei Lai was stunned and subconsciously looked back. He saw an old man with a yellow dog standing at his feet showing his yellow front teeth in the dark and said, "Let me take a walk."

...

Drizzle, long street.

One old and one young, two and one dog walked side by side.

Wei Lai did not refuse the old man's invitation, but it was not because he really wanted to communicate with the old man. It was just that he was more willing to walk with the old man than when he returned to the Lu Mansion, that's all.

The two of them and one dog walked for half a quarter of an hour, and both sides were still silent.

Finally, the old man couldn't help but interrupted the silence of this not beautiful.

He sighed and said, "Sometimes, I really don't understand what you scholars are thinking about?"

When Wei Lai heard this, his face lost his usual silly look. Instead, he looked at the old man with a look of looking at a fool, and then said, "I'm not a scholar." The muscles on the old man's face twitched slightly, but he still tried his best to suppress the anger that aroused by Wei Lai's contempt. He said with a smile: "I mean your temperament is very similar to your father."

Wei Lai asked in surprise: "Do you know my father?"

A trace of lust flashed in the old man's eyes, but his tone said in a sigh: "In a few more than twenty years, the reputation of Yanting's two beauties is much greater than you think."

After saying this, the old man secretly rejoiced in his heart. He knew the child's thoughts very well. At this time, Wei Lai must have been full of curiosity. He guessed that he would pester him to ask about his father the next moment. At that time...

"Oh." Wei Lai's uneven response broke the old man's plan that he thought was perfect.

"..." The speechless old man made the conversation between the two end in failure.

The yellow dog with a wine gourd on the side looked up curiously at the old and the young, with a little confusion mixed in his eyes.

After dozens of breaths of silence, the old man gritted his teeth and suppressed the anger in his heart. Then he broke the silence patiently: "Boy, you don't have to fight with me anymore. I don't care about you after you are an old friend. If you are willing, you can still turn back and worship me as your teacher."

The old man only thought that taking the initiative to invite again gave Wei Lai a lot of face, but what he never expected was that Wei Lai, who heard this, looked at the old man again with a strange look of looking at the fool, and said, "Didn't I say that, I won't go to Tiangang Mountain with you."

The clay Buddha also has three points of anger, let alone the old man.

According to his nature, after being rejected by Wei Lai this morning, he would leave. If it weren't for the sake of that person, how could he come to find him again? His rare kindness was regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs, and he could no longer suppress his anger. He pointed to Wei Lai's face and scolded: "Stupid brat, don't be ungrateful. Go out to find someone to inquire about what kind of place Tiangang Mountain is, and what kind of person I, Cao Tunyun, are! Don't say that you are the sick and sick person with a half-closed or six palaces, even if you are a peerless genius on the Dragon and Tiger List of the Great Yan Dynasty, it is not easy to enter my Tiangang Mountain! If you don't take it today, if you regret it in time in the future, don't say that I have never reminded you!"

The old man's scolding hit him, but Wei Lai, who was standing there, did not feel any frustration or anger because of the old man's scolding. Instead, a smile gradually appeared on his face. He just looked at the old man, like an elder watching his unreasonable child.

Until the old man's curses gradually stopped, Wei Lai put away his previous angry look. He said sincerely: "Grandpa is my father's old friend and my friend. Of course, Alai knows that Grandpa is for Alai's good. But Alai really can't go to Tiangang Mountain with you."

At this time, Cao Dunyun also smelled the unusual smell of Wei Lai's words. He was slightly stunned and couldn't help asking: "Do you know what that boy Lu Guanshan is going to do?"

Wei Lai nodded: "Of course I know."

Cao Dunyun's face became more and more strange. He asked again with a calm brow: "Then why are you still staying in Wupan City? Are you still not sure about your parents' fate back then?"

Wei Lai's face was calm, which contrasted with the raging anger in the eyes of the old man in front of him: "It is precisely because of my clarity that I want to stay even more."

"What should I do if I stay?"

Wei Lai raised his lips, grinned at the old man, and then spit out two light but heavy words from his mouth.
Chapter completed!