snowstorm

The night is getting darker and darker, the sky is getting darker, and the full moon is gradually moving westward.

Xie Qiao bought three large jars of wine, but they were empty at this time.Lu Jue was holding a jade wine glass in his white jade hand, the candle light was reflected in the glass - this was the last wine.This time he drank a lot, he was a little drunk, and his face was rarely rouge-like.

He looked at Xie Qiao, who was already lying on the table, seemed to be unconscious, smiled and raised his head, and drank the last glass of wine.

Now that the wine has been drunk, it is time to rest.Although Xie Qiao didn't drink as much as he did today, he still drank a lot. He might have a headache when he woke up, and he had to order the small kitchen to make some hangover soup for him the next day.

Thinking of this, he stood up. He carefully looked at Xie Qiao's eyebrows and eyes under the candlelight. He was stunned when he was about to move—if Xie Qiao was a child, he would naturally hug him when he encountered such a situation. , but now, Xie Qiao has obviously grown up, he is no longer that thin nine-year-old child, and it seems inappropriate to hug him again.

He felt a little amused by his hesitation, and let out a chuckle on his face.He bent down, put Xie Qiao's arm on his shoulder, and stood up supporting the other's body.With such a movement, Xie Qiao's face just snuggled up to the side of his neck, and the other party's hot and slightly moist breath from drinking was on his neck, as if it was about to reach the tip of his nose.

He stopped walking, and the tip of his heart felt hot and numb for no reason, as if he had been pricked by a burnt silver needle.

He frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about some unsolvable problem, and there was a rare teenage annoyance on his white face.As if feeling something, Xie Qiao, who was nestled in Lu Jue's arms, closed her eyes, but a rippling smile emerged from the corner of her mouth.

There was a gust of cold wind outside the house, and with the crisp plum fragrance, Lu Jue's face became clearer, and he temporarily cleared those confused thoughts from his mind, and helped Xie Qiao to walk towards the bed in the inner room.

There was no light in the room, and the moonlight and plum shadows leaked in through the windows and spread all over the floor, so the room was not dark at all.

When he reached the edge of the bed, Lu Jue put his hands on the back of Xie Qiao's head, and gently placed Xie Qiao on the bed.Xie Qiao seemed to be very well-behaved when he was drunk, and he didn't make trouble, and seemed to let him play around.He placed Xie Qiao on the couch, and went to bring hot water to wipe Xie Qiao's hands and face - he has always been a clean freak, but at this time he only did this to make him sleep more comfortably.

In fact, he has a lot of strange problems, strangers are generally not allowed to enter the room, and maids and servants are not allowed to move things, even cleaning, let alone the bed.But it seemed natural for him to accept Xie Qiao. Xie Qiao kept invading his time and space, and he didn't feel any discomfort.

He didn't even think about "rejecting" Xie Qiao.But he never thought about why—no one would think about "instinctive" reasons.

After Lu Jue cleaned Xie Qiao, he went to undress Xie Qiao - it was always uncomfortable to sleep with clothes like this, not to mention that Xie Qiao was still drunk.

He bent down, and as soon as he put his hand on the opponent's clothes, a strong hand suddenly covered the back of his hand. Lu Jue was taken aback, and Xie Qiao's eyes suddenly opened, and they met his eyes straight.

The moonlight shone into the eyes of the other party, and Lu Jue seemed to see a boundless and bottomless Milky Way in Xie Qiao's eyes.

"bang bang"

I don't know whose heartbeat it was.

"Brother Huaiyu."

Xie Qiao's voice was lower than usual, his breath smelled of wine, his eyes looked at his face so intently, the calm Milky Way reflected in his eyes seemed to be surrounded by huge waves, and his dark The pupils rolled together into a bottomless vortex, as if trying to pull someone into it completely.

He seemed both terribly sober and thoroughly drunk.

Lu Jue seemed to be burned by such eyes, his pupils shrank, and he was about to get up, but Xie Qiao was holding his hand at this moment, and with such a movement, Xie Qiao was also pulled up.

"Brother Huaiyu."

Xie Qiao pulled the other's wrist, and slowly leaned towards him in the swaying shadow of the moonlight. Looking at Xie Qiao like this, Lu Jue felt fresh and strange.The hand holding his wrist was so strong—he never knew that Xie Qiao had such great strength now. He said that Xie Qiao had grown up, but he still unconsciously regarded him as a child in his heart.Now, the matter of "Xie Qiao has grown up" is placed in front of him so intuitively that he has to admit that he has grown up, and actually no longer needs to take care of himself.

Lu Jue was full of thoughts, and when he came to Qingming, he saw that Xie Qiao's face had been pressed in front of him.The other party squeezed his wrist, leaned close to his ear, and blew a breath of hot air, and his body moved involuntarily as if electrified.This feeling is so strange...

Xie Qiao leaned against Lu Jue's neck, seeing that the other party seemed to be shocked and motionless, he smiled lightly, then stretched out his hand to pinch the other's white jade-like earlobe, and moved closer, as if admiring some treasure: "Brother Huaiyu, you have a red mole on the back of your ear... The red plums reflect the white snow, so beautiful. It's a pity that you can't see it yourself..."

Xie Qiao's frivolous words and fiery breath poured into his ears together, Lu Jue opened his eyes wide, and tried his best to get rid of the other party - Xie Qiao was strong, but he didn't struggle just because he was afraid of hurting the other party, it wasn't true Be restrained by the opponent.

"Brother Huaiyu..."

Xie Qiao's pitiful look once again appeared on his face when he was young. Lu Jue was startled when he saw him like that, and the movements of his hands stopped.

A triumphant smile emerged from the corner of Xie Qiao's mouth. He pressed one hand on the back of the opponent's neck. With a force, the opponent's face couldn't get any closer, so close that with one more finger, he could...

"Brother Huaiyu, why are you so soft-hearted... You will suffer a lot..."

After finishing speaking, Xie Qiao covered the other's lips...

Lu Jue opened his eyes wide, as if he was in a treacherous dream and hallucination.Xie Qiao's lips covered his, the touch was terrifyingly clear, and so hot, even the aroma of the wine was hot... His eyes were so close to his own, the dark pupils completely swallowed the silvery white moonlight, Lu Jue could clearly see the bottomless desire in those eyes, and thought...

Lu Jue has lived for 25 years, and his heart has always been firm and clear. He has always known what he wants to do and what he wants to do.But at this moment, he felt strange and fresh at a loss...

"bang bang bang"

I don't know whose heart beats faster...

Suddenly, he felt something pry his teeth open, it was...

It was as if thunder had exploded in Lu Jue's mind. At this moment, he couldn't care about anything else, so he pushed the person away with all his strength, and punched him in the right eye socket.

"boom--"

Xie Qiao was hit and fell to the ground with a blunt sound.Lu Jue took a few breaths, stretched out his sleeves and wiped his lips that were even more rosy under the moonlight, then turned and left.

When Xu Lai heard the voice next door, his heart froze and he got up quickly.The door connecting the two rooms was locked, and Xu Lai couldn't find the key for a while, so he hurried out the main door to Lu Jue's room.

As soon as he reached the door, he bumped into Lu Jue, and Xu Lai subconsciously said, "Lord Lu, Your Highness..." What's wrong...

As soon as he saw Lu Jue's face turning blue and white and his abnormally red lips, he immediately swallowed the following words.

"Huh," Lu Jue said to the other party angrily: "Your Highness? Your Highness is going crazy inside, why don't you go!"

After speaking, he hurried away.

Xu Lai was stunned for a while after hearing this, and then saw Lu Jue's figure enter the study, even a little embarrassed.

'My ancestors, what's wrong with this...'

With that in mind, I hurried into the house.

As soon as he entered the inner room, Xu Lai took advantage of the moonlight to see his highness sitting on the ground leaning on the bed, with one hand on his knee, looking like a murderous coquette.

"Your Highness...Your Highness?" Xu Lai came closer and found that Xie Qiao's right eye socket was completely blue. He was terrified and hurried forward to touch him, and said with some distress, "Oh my Highness, this...this..."

Xie Qiao let out two low laughs, avoided Xu Lai's hand, looked at him with clear eyes, and said, "What are you making such a fuss about? This injury is nothing."

Xu Lai didn't dare to answer any more, thinking in his heart how could His Highness go out to meet people with his blue eyes...

"Your Highness, I'm going to boil an egg to relieve your swelling?"

"No need." Xie Qiao stood up, walked to the window and leaned forward with his hands behind his back, to sniff the winter plum sticking out to the window.He looked up at the full moon that had reached the west again, and said, "I'm fine, you go down. But if Brother Huaiyu asks you in the future, you just say that I fell asleep drunk as soon as you came in, and the personnel affairs are not good." Province."

"I know." Xie Qiao said so, and Xu Lai could only follow orders.He went out of the room, closed the door for Xie Qiao intimately, looked at the direction of the study and at the door behind him, shook his head helplessly, and went to the next door.

……

The second day was a fine day with a bright sun.Xie Qiao didn't see Lu Jue at the dinner table of Lu's house - without asking, he could guess that the man must have left for the barracks early in the morning.Mrs. Lu was startled when she saw Xie Qiao's right eye was black and blue, and asked, "Qiaoer, you, what's wrong with you?"

After Mrs. Lu asked, even Mr. Lu looked over with concern and curiosity.

Xie Qiao smiled and said: "Uncle and aunt don't worry, I ate wine yesterday and accidentally bumped into the door frame. It will be fine in a few days."

Mrs. Lu couldn't help laughing "puchi", and said: "It's true, Jue'er, you don't even look at you after drinking, you bumped into this, he is an older brother, but he left so early today," she said. He stepped forward and touched the corner of Xie Qiao's eyes: "This is really distressing."

After finishing speaking, she ordered a servant girl to say, "Xiao Cui, go and boil an egg for His Highness."

"Thank you, Auntie." Xie Qiao had real warmth in his eyes.

……

Xie Qiao went back to his house in the afternoon, and ordered Xu Lai to pack his luggage as soon as he arrived at the house.

Xu Lai frowned, and said, "This...Your Highness, are you going to the barracks to find Mr. Lu? But...but there is no need to..." Pack up your bags.

He twitched the corner of his mouth: Is it possible that His Royal Highness wants to live in the military camp?This is also against the rules...

"Who told you that I'm going to the military camp?" Xie Qiao slapped the opponent's head with a fan, and he wanted to go to the military camp, not to mention that the man might want to beat him up now that he saw him, and he could see him after being beaten up He also recognized people, but he couldn't see them at all.What's more, now that Ling Daoyuan is also in the barracks, it's embarrassing for him to see him like this.

Xu Lai was taken aback, and said, "Where is Your Highness going?"

Xie Qiao narrowed his eyes and said, "Moss County."

Xu Lai didn't react at all, his eyes were wide open, Xie Qiao took out the two letters he had prepared a long time ago from his arms, put them in Xu Lai's hand, pointed to one and said: "After I leave, you Then go to the palace and give this letter to my elder brother, and in another day—or on that day, brother Huaiyu will come to the mansion to ask, and you will give him the remaining one, and he will naturally know what to ask. How to do it."

Seeing that Xie Qiao didn't seem to be joking at all, Xu Lai became anxious and said, "My lord, you, what are you going to do? Why are you going to Tai County all of a sudden? Even if you are going, you have to take your slave with you." , you can’t go by yourself, otherwise what will you do if something happens?”

"No," Xie Qiao put the fan on Xu Lai's head, and said seriously, "I have to go by myself. Hurry up and pack things, just keep it simple."

Xu Lai really couldn't hold back Xie Qiao, so he turned around and prepared to salute him.Xie Qiao looked at the blue sky outside the house, his eyes were full of secrets.

He also didn't want to leave Jinling, he just made Lu Jue angry, so he should coax him well now.But he had to go to Tai County to stop a plague.In the previous life, the plague started from Tai County and spread to Jinling. At that time, corpses were scattered all over the field, and the whole Jinling was like a purgatory on earth.

In this life, he must stop it.Since it is a man-made disaster, it can and should be stopped.