Harue Kagetsu

After walking on the water for a few days, Jiankang City looked ahead.

Gao Huan was at Dutou early, waiting to pick up Xiao Yongjia and Luoshen.

From the day she got married to the day she came back today, it was actually just a month or so.

But in Luoshen's sense, it seems to be far apart.

Entering the city by car, looking out through the window, she was familiar with the street scene, and she couldn't help but sigh.

A few days ago, that kind of detachment that was pulled out gradually faded away.

In my heart, I still look forward to it.

After all, she finally returned to the home she was most familiar with, and was able to live with her parents who loved her the most.

Previously, on the night of Luoshen's marriage, Xiao Yongjia returned to Bailuzhou. He brought his daughter back from Jingkou today, Gao Qiao knew it, and passed a message that he would come back earlier, and asked the eldest princess to go back to the house, and have a meal with her daughter.

Gao Qiao really came back early today, the father and daughter were very happy to see each other, and at the family banquet, there was an inexhaustible family relationship.

After the meal was over, it was only just Xu hour, but the sky was completely dark, because it was already November, and it was chilly outside, but Xiao Yongjia asked someone to prepare a car and went back to Bailuzhou overnight.

Luoshen tried to persuade him, but Gao Qiao also spoke to hold him back. Xiao Yongjia managed to stay overnight. Early the next morning, he had to leave the city and ask where Luoshen lived.

With the father on one side and the mother on the other, Luoshen couldn't give up on both sides, and his mood was suddenly depressed.

The joy of returning home last night was gone at this moment.

She stood there, silent.

Aju looked at her with a sad expression.

Gao Qiao hesitated, then went up to Xiao Yongjia and said, "Aling, you come with me."

Xiao Yongjia looked at her husband's back, and finally followed up, and the two entered the room back and forth.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Yongjia asked coldly.

"I know you hate me so much, and I wouldn't force you to confront me. But Ami got married and just returned home, can you stay?"

In Gao Qiao's tone, there was a faint plea, and a bit of helplessness.

Xiao Yongjia and him looked at each other for a while, and his face finally calmed down.

"Well, I'm here for my daughter."

Gao Qiao's expression softened, and he smiled and said, "Thank you. If there is something I dissatisfied with you, you can say it. I can change it, and I will change it. Ami is now older than before, and I don't want it because of you and me. And, make it difficult for her to be caught in the middle."

Xiao Yongjia looked at her husband across from him, the corners of Dan's lips pursed tightly, and a stubborn line appeared. Suddenly, a sadness flashed across his eyes, but it was fleeting.

"You don't need to say that," she smiled lightly. "I understand what you mean. I'll just stay here."

She turned to go, but was stopped by Gao Qiao again.

"Ami is married, so it's not convenient for me to ask her about the relationship between her husband and wife. She is close to you, did you mention how Li Mu treats her?

Xiao Yongjia remembered what Aju told some of his daughters and Li Mu's room, and frowned.

"He married my daughter, which is a blessing he cultivated in his previous life. How dare he treat her badly?"

Gao Qiao sighed and nodded.

"Have you said how long you will stay when you come back?"

"Naturally I won't come back!" Xiao Yongjia said coldly.

"If you want to make my daughter into the Li family, it depends on the person surnamed Li, whether he has this fate!"

Gao Qiao looked complicated, was silent for a moment, then slowly turned around and walked out.

…

The mother finally stayed, and at night, the father did not go to sleep in the study.

Luo Shen did not know what happened to them behind closed doors, but at least during the day, on the surface, the relationship between the two was much more relaxed than before.

This made Luo Shen feel a little gratified.

But deep down in her heart, she didn't really get the kind of happiness that was released.

But in those days in the Li family, apart from making her feel uncomfortable at Li Mu, as long as Li Mu was not around, Luoshen felt that he was the most relaxed when he was with Lu Shi Ahting.

The aftermath of Gao's marriage has not dissipated, and it is still a topic of discussion behind the scenes of Jiankang's noble ladies.

Xiao Yongjia knew very well, so she did not deliberately spread the news that her daughter had been picked up by her from Jingkou. Luoshen will not take the initiative to go out to socialize, and only live at home every day, living a peaceful life in the boudoir.

After a few days like this, Emperor Xingping probably still knew that she had returned to Jiankang, and sent the palace staff to bring her two baskets of fresh fruits from the south and a piece of Huayang tea.

Huayang produces good tribute tea, but the tea cakes made need to be drunk fresh, and they will lose their taste after being stored for a long time.

Just last night, Jiankang had the first snow of this winter.

The snow is the fine snow of Jinling, with a light rustling, rushing towards the gaps of the curtains, not like the northern "Zengbing'e, flying snow thousands of miles" that Luoshen once read and fascinated about when he was young, but the plum branches are still the same. A layer of first snow.

She collected some, left it for a night, and got half a can of snow water. In the afternoon of the same day, she invited Xiao Yongjia to Xue Xuan to cook tea with her own hands, and the mother and daughter drank it together.

Outside is white snow velvet, and the heater inside is like spring. Xiao Yongjia was lying on the couch, leisurely leaning against a hidden sac, with blue eyebrows and red lips, watching his daughter make tea.

Luoshen cleansed his hands, rolled up his sleeves, showing his wrists, took a silver knife and cut out a small piece of tea cake, put it in a jade cup, and slowly crushed it with a mortar. When the snow gradually boiled, a fish eye appeared. After making a fine brew, put the tea into it, gradually add the balm, bring it to a boil, add a few drops of nectar, and finally put it in a tea cup. He held it in front of Xiao Yongjia with his own hands, and said with a smile, "Auntie, please use it."

Xiao Yongjia took it with a smile, closed his eyes and smelled it, took a sip, and praised: "It's very well cooked. It's not inferior to the tea master's cooking that I drank in the palace before I got married."

Luoshen picked up his cup, took a sip, and said with a smile, "Aniang, can you tell me how you married Aye back then?"

Xiao Yongjia paused and glanced at his daughter, with the same smile on his face, but said, "What can I say. It's been so many years, I've forgotten all about it."

Luoshen slowly put down the tea cup and stared at his mother.

"Auntie, I've wanted to know for a long time, why did you and Aye get along like this? I've asked Aju many times, but she just doesn't know. I know she knows, but don't tell me. ."

"Xu Situ and Mrs. Situ's bad relationship is for Xu Situ's concubine, and the wife doesn't like it. Aye is a good person. For many years, there are no other women around, and I am very distressed."

"Auntie, why don't you like Aye?"

Luo Shen turned to his mother and finally asked the question that had been buried in his heart for a long time.

The smile on Xiao Yongjia's face gradually disappeared, he sat up straight and put down the tea cup.

"Ami, you invited me to drink tea today because of this."

She smiled.

"You, Aye, are a good person. But A-Niang tells you that the only thing A-Niang has never regretted after being with him for so many years is giving birth to you. As long as you can live well in the future, A-Niang is willing to do anything. Do."

She lifted the tea cup again, raised her eyebrows, and gently blew a strand of green leaves floating in it, smiling at her daughter.

"If you ask this again, I will leave."

…

A topic lingering in my heart for a long time was cut off by my mother just after I started.

Luoshen had to accept the words.

After the afternoon, the snow stopped.

Last night, and today's day, a thin layer of white had also accumulated on the ground of the courtyard.

In the evening, Luoshen sat in front of the half-open Nanxuan window, facing a stele.

Cherry and a few younger maids ran into the courtyard and built a little snowman. The giggling laughter kept coming.

The cold air penetrated through the window, and after sitting for a long time, the fingertips holding the pen felt a little cold.

She put down the pen, sighed, and rubbed her hands.

Qiongshu sent a hand warmer with a white fox fur.

Luoshen put his hands inside, told Qiongshu not to close the window, and still sat there, looking at the playful figures of the maids running around under the snowy branches outside, gradually becoming fascinated.

In the afternoon, her mother's words "As long as you can live well in the future, A-Niang will do anything" made her think of Li Mu.

When I think of Li Mu, I inevitably think of the scene when the two got along the night before his departure.

And what he said to himself.

Of course she wouldn't expect him to lose the battle.

Moreover, in her consciousness, she always felt that a person like him must be able to win the battle.

It's an intuition, without reason.

I don't know what the situation of the battle is now that he has led the troops there.

While Luoshen was wandering, he suddenly heard a voice from the outside: "Lord Liulang is here."

Luoshen turned his head and saw Gao Huan stomping his feet a few times outside the threshold. Except for the slush on his boots, he called out "Sister", stepped over the threshold, smiled, and got up to meet him.

Gao Huan waved his hand and told her to sit there. He walked over and sat opposite her, leaned over and glanced at her post, and praised her for her well-written writing, even a man couldn't compare.

Luoshen smiled and asked Qiongshu to bring refreshments, and the two chatted for a while.

Gao Huan was a person who had something written on his face since he was a child. Luo Shen saw that he was uneasy and had something on his mind.

I've been feeling this way for the past few days. He couldn't help but think of Lu Xiurong.

After returning, she learned of Lu Xiurong's news.

Not long after she married to Jingkou, she also married another noble family according to Lu Guang's arrangement. The other party and the Gao Clan have grievances.

Although Gao Huan is still ignorant about the love between men and women, he has known Lu Xiurong since childhood and has always had a good relationship.

In this lifetime, the two of them are no longer possible.

When Luoshen heard the news, he was sad at the time.

Whether it is himself or Lu Xiurong, in marriage, they are involuntarily in control.

This may be the fate destined for their noble, well-dressed, and bright-looking gentry women.

In Gao Huan's heart, perhaps it was precisely because of this that he was unhappy.

Luoshen hesitated for a while, and was about to speak to comfort him, but Gao Huan ordered the maid to go out and said, "Sister, I want to go to Jiangbei, can you help me?"

Luo Shen was taken aback and looked at him.

"Li Mu used 6,000 miscellaneous soldiers to fight Yuan Jie's 100,000 troops. The 3,000 were the officers of the Suwei Camp, and the other 3,000 were the troops of the second uncle. They may not obey him, and this battle will definitely be defeated. Although I hate him Forced to marry you, only he is a hero, I don't want to see him die in vain."

He glanced behind him and leaned over.

"I stole my second uncle's tiger talisman, and I can mobilize the 20,000 horses stationed outside Guangling to come to help. I desperately need to cross the river! It's just that my uncle takes me very seriously. As soon as I go out, Gao Qi stares at me, and I dump Don't let him go!"

"Sister, you help me cross the river! If you can help him, when he comes back, I will ask him to divorce you. In this way, since I have repaid his kindness to me, sister, you can also find another good match. Sister, help me!"

Luo Shen was stunned. Suddenly, the scene of Li Mulin getting along with himself on the eve of his departure flashed again quickly in his mind.

What he looked like at the time and the words he said made it hard for her to imagine that what he was about to face would be such a war.

"Sister, if I don't leave, I'm afraid I'll be found out, and I won't have a chance..."

Gao Huan grabbed her arm, his face scorched, and he kept shaking.

Suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside the door.

Luoshen turned back again and saw Gao Yin appeared outside the threshold.

With his hands folded, he looked at Gao Huan and frowned, "Sixth brother, return your things! Uncle's words, you will be locked up and not allowed to go out for half a step until you repent!"