snowstorm

In the early winter of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, the vegetation in Jinling City was still green, but Jizhou in the north was desolate and cold. The sky was covered with low and dark clouds, and the ground was full of weeds and dead trees.It looks like it's about to snow.

The winter in the north was cold and dry, Xie Qiao wrapped himself in thin clothes, his little face and hands were all red from the cold, and even a layer of dry skin appeared.The child was weak, and when a gust of cold wind blew by, he couldn't help but sneezed.

This is a farmyard in a small village in Jizhou. It was almost noon, and several households in the village were already emitting smoke.

A woman in cotton clothes stood on the threshold of a room. She pointed at Xie Qiao with her hands on her hips, and said loudly and sharply, "What time is it? You haven't split the firewood yet? This makes me feel so angry." How do I cook?"

The child had a small body and thin clothes, standing in the middle of the courtyard, with a pair of dark eyes, staring straight at her without saying a word.The child's thin cheeks make the eyes appear larger.Looking at those eyes, the woman suddenly felt a little hairy. She always felt that there was something different about the child, but she couldn't tell.

But no matter how different it is, this is just a nine-year-old child.The woman walked quickly into the yard, lifted the child's thin arm, threw the child on the ground, pointed at the child and said, "You still dare to stare at me?! Our family should raise you so big for nothing." Do you still want to eat free food at my house?!"

Feeling still puzzled, she picked up the whole child and threw it beside the firewood pile, saying: "I tell you, if you want to eat for free, there is no way! Hurry up! If you don't do it, you don't want to eat today! If you don't obey me, wait for the master to come back." ,Kill you!"

After the woman finished speaking, she entered the house. At this time, the wooden door was pushed open from the outside with a "snap", and a fat and strong boy ran in calling "Mom, is the meal ready?" holding a child in his hand. Common hoops.After entering the yard, he rolled the iron ring on the ground casually, and saw Xie Qiao lying beside the woodpile.

"Chop firewood quickly, I'm hungry!"

The boy approached Xie Qiao. He was one year younger than Xie Qiao, with a round and thick face, and his body was almost twice the size of Xie Qiao. He was wearing a thick cotton coat.Seeing that the child was silent and motionless, he stepped forward and kicked the child's leg: "Split quickly! By the way, you are going out with me this afternoon. Xiao Yan'er will only play with me when she sees you. But you are not allowed to get too close to Xiao Yan'er! Otherwise, I will beat you!"

Xie Qiao seemed to have lost consciousness, not moving or speaking.

A transparent ice crystal fell from the sky at the corner of Xie Qiao's eyes, and when he felt the fleeting coldness of the ice, he opened his eyes wide.

It's snowing, finally, it's snowing.

The sourness rose from the bottom of his heart to the tip of his nose, and the corners of Xie Qiao's eyes turned red all of a sudden, his throat rolled, and he let out a light and broken laugh, like a little animal whimpering in despair and hope.

Seeing that he was still disobedient, the boy was furious and wanted to beat Xie Qiao again to quench his anger.At this time, I saw the thin child lying on the ground clenched his small fist and tried to get up.

Xie Qiao stood in front of the two boys pushing him, patted the dirt on his body, and looked at each other expressionlessly.

"Go away."

Hearing the other party's deep and hoarse voice, the fat boy became even more angry, and was about to beat him up when he met Xie Qiao's eyes.Those eyes were dark, big and beautiful, but at this moment, it seemed that something was rolling in those dark eyes, as if it could pierce people.

The boy looked into those eyes and lowered his fist unconsciously. He took a few steps back with a look of fear on his face.

"You... you wait, I will let my mother beat you!"

The boy ran into the house, but Xie Qiao didn't care.He just patted the soil on his body carefully, walked through the bare courtyard, opened the gate, and walked out.

There is a thin jujube tree outside the door with a jagged trunk and a few dead leaves hanging on it. There is a big bluestone under the tree.He brushed the dirt on it, regardless of the biting coldness of the stone, and sat directly on it.

"Don't come back if you have the ability! Wait for the master to come back and see if he doesn't beat you to death!"

A woman's vulgar scolding came from the yard, Xie Qiao sat still as if she didn't hear it.

He is waiting.

Wait for someone.

That person will come to him like an omnipotent god when the first snow falls this winter.

……

This is what Lu Jue saw when he rode a tall white horse and led a group of people to turn a corner according to the road he inquired about.

It was snowing all over the sky, and a child was sitting huddled alone on the bluestone under a jagged withered tree. He was dressed thinly, was pitifully small, with a thin layer of snow on his shoulders, and his figure was as stubborn as that jujube tree. rugged.Suddenly, as if he heard something, he suddenly raised his head and looked at him.

Lu Jue was riding on the horse, and through the thin and dense snow, he was caught off guard to see that child's face that he would never forget.Shallow eyebrows, disheveled hair, red nose and ears from the cold, dry and thin cheeks, stubborn mouth curled downwards, and those pair of round, red-rimmed, dark eyes that seemed to contain With eyes of hope, despair and obsession for a lifetime, Lu Jue didn't understand what the child had gone through to have such eyes.

He got off the horse almost immediately, took off his cloak while striding, approached, but as if he was afraid of scaring the other party, he squatted down halfway, gently brushing the snow on the child's body with white jade-like hands, and then , wrapped the child from head to foot in that thick and delicate cloak.

The tip of Xie Qiao's nose, which was about to lose consciousness, was filled with the clear and warm fragrance of that person. He moved forward with trembling hands, and grabbed the warm skirt of the other person. At that moment, it finally proved that all this was not an illusion, and the hot tears finally It rolled down like pearls from Xie Qiao's eyes.

Xie Qiao was held in the arms of the young man, and the cloak the young man put on him cut off the wind and snow, as if it was a world that belonged only to the two of them.

"You...you are finally here." Xie Qiao's childish and hoarse voice also contained hot obsession, hope and despair.

Just now, when he heard the sound of "stomping" horseshoes in the wind and snow, when he raised his eyes, he saw the young man who had entrusted his lifelong obsession.There was fine snow falling between them, which made him fear that this was just a dream.

Just like in the last life, the young man was riding on a tall white horse, dressed in elegance, like a tall jade tree.His black hair was tied high with a golden crown, his face was as white as a jade, and his eyes were like stars.She was wearing a luxurious red brocade robe, with wintersweet embroidered on the corner of the robe, exquisite black wristbands around the cuffs, and a black cloak embroidered with gorgeous cloud patterns was slightly turned up in the wind and snow.

He got off the horse, and his brocade boots stepped on the freshly covered snow, making a soft "squeak" sound, and the white jade with red tassels hanging from his waist lightly touched the sword worn beside him, making a certain sound. Light and blunt sound.He walked in front of him and squatted down, Xie Qiao could see clearly that this man's clear and clean eyebrows contained the unique heroism and spirit of a young man, as well as the warmth soaked from poetry and books.

Besides these, Xie Qiao was also in the boy's eyes.

Be it this life or the previous life, this young man is too beautiful to be like a human being.

He hasn't seen Lu Jue for seven years, and he hasn't seen Lu Jue for a lifetime.

This is Lu Jue who was 16 years old when he was a teenager.

Xie Qiao's small body couldn't help trembling slightly. Feeling the slight frown of these teenagers, she hugged the child tighter, and patted the child's back to comfort him through the cloak.At this time, Lu Jue suddenly saw that the child's shoes were dilapidated and almost nothing, so he simply hugged Xie Qiao.

"Go and find a carriage. It should be warmer and thicker. Then go buy something for the children. We'll go back to Jinling later." The young man hugged Xie Qiao and told the people behind him.The voice is clear and pleasant, like jade jade colliding.

"This... my lord, is this sure, is this child His Highness?" The attendant hesitated.

"It can't be wrong." Lu Jue said: "This child's eyes seem to be carved out of the same mold as His Majesty's." These are the unique eyes of the Xie family, and he will never admit that they are wrong.

"As for the certificate?" Lu Jue looked at the door behind him, his eyes were a little cold: "I'll go get it now."

"Yes." The leading guard finished his salute and went to do things according to Lu Jue's orders.

Lu Jue lowered his head and covered the hood of the child in his arms. After making sure that the child was wrapped in the cloak, he took a step forward, kicked the door open with a "snap", and walked in. Armor's guards filed in.

The woman was having dinner in the house when she was startled when she heard the sound outside, she hurried out of the house to have a look, and when she saw the golden armored soldiers standing in the courtyard, she was so frightened that she almost fainted.The fat boy hid behind the woman and dared not speak.

"Dare... Dare to ask this lord, what's the matter with coming to the small house?" The woman recognized from the clothes that the young man who seemed to be made of jade was the leader, and went to make friends.

Xie Qiao was wrapped in a cloak, and the woman didn't recognize it for a while.Lu Jue put one hand on Xie Qiao's back through the black cloak, and patted Xie Qiao's back with a jade-like hand to reassure the child.

He looked at the woman in front of him, squinted his eyes, showed a somewhat cold smile, and said: "Nine years ago, a woman came from the south with a baby in swaddle and passed by your house. That woman Seriously injured and dying, and you happened to have nothing to do, so you tricked the woman into leaving the child for you, didn’t you?”

After listening to Lu Jue's words, the woman's eyes widened. She never expected that what happened nine years ago could be revealed. At that time, she felt that there was something wrong with the child's origin, but they were too obsessed with the child. In addition, when the woman heard that they could raise the child, she gratefully gave them the child and 200 taels of gold, and begged them to raise the child well, before she died.

At the beginning, they wanted to raise this child well. At first, Yuxue was cute and likable, but this child was like a bird of good news. In the second year, they had their own child.It's not that my own children are not pleasing to the eye. Once you have your own children, you will naturally be partial. When you see that your own children are not as cute as the ones you picked up, you will naturally be jealous and angry...

Later, she felt more and more that the child would cause big troubles for the family, and what happened today proved that she was right, that child was indeed a loser!

"My... my lord, there is such a thing... But what's the problem with the child's identity?" The woman trembled and said, "The little funeral star is at the door, I don't know if you saw it... How did you catch him?" He can do anything! He has nothing to do with us!"

Lu Jue's face suddenly turned cold. He looked at the woman coldly, and then gave an order to the golden armored soldier behind him: "Search."

The soldiers then filed into each room, the woman was so anxious that she was about to break out in a cold sweat, and the son was also trembling with fright.

"My lord... what are you doing?"

Lu Jue looked at her blankly, and said word by word: "That child is the younger brother of the current emperor, the son of the former emperor. Are his things worthy of keeping privately?"

The woman's eyes and mouth were wide open, and she was completely paralyzed on the ground.

A soldier came out of the house, saluted and held a bundle in front of Lu Jue. Lu Jue stretched out a hand to open the bundle. Inside were a few pieces of gold and a jade token. The jade token was fine in quality and warm to the touch. Engraved a "Joe".

Lu Jue asked the soldiers to put away the burden, and said to the woman: "It seems that that man paid you back then, and your family has probably depended on those golds to live well all these years. In this way, the relationship between you and His Highness will be settled. .In the future, don’t talk about the kindness you gave His Highness in nurturing.”

The last sentence contained a strong warning.After hearing Xie Qiao's identity, the woman wanted to have the courage to make another fuss, but the young man's words seemed to have a knife in them, which made her stop thinking, but fell on the ground and dared not speak.

Lu Jue hugged Xie Qiao, turned around and went out the door. The woman and her son lay paralyzed in the upturned yard, unable to make a sound for a long time.Their family has been relying on the gold for all these years, and they have no preparations for their livelihood. The husband gambles all day long, and they always think that it will not be too late to use the gold until the end.Now that the gold has been taken away, after a while, they won't even be able to afford food...

What made her scratch her head even more was that if they had treated that child well back then, they would have been...wealthy and rich, but now they have nothing...

……

The guards quickly prepared the carriage, which was covered with cushions and several hand stoves, making it very warm and comfortable.Lu Jue carried Xie Qiao into the carriage. He placed Xie Qiao on the couch and wrapped him in a soft and warm blanket. Just as he was about to leave, he saw the child grabbing his skirt.

He looked at the child, and the child stared straight into his eyes, but said nothing.

So Lu Jue frowned, sat down on the couch, and ordered the guards outside to hurry.

The snow was falling even harder outside, and the sound of rustling snow could be heard through the curtain.The carriage moved forward in a steady manner.Xie Qiao had eaten and drank hot water, and had been holding on to the corner of the boy's clothes all the way. Lu Jue saw him sitting on the side staring at her, his upper and lower eyelids started to fight, but he still couldn't bear to close his eyes, so he reluctantly closed his eyes. He couldn't help laughing heartily a few times, and said, "Am I that good-looking?"

"You look good."

Lu Jue smiled even more heartily, and directly took Xie Qiao's clothes by the back collar and brought him over, letting him rest on his lap. Just as Xie Qiao was about to say something, he saw the other party's white jade-like palm pressing down on him, gently covering him. In Xie Qiao's eyes, his palm was warm and moist, and there was a warm and reassuring darkness under his palm.

"It's never too late to watch after waking up."

The young man's clear and clear voice was so gentle that it seemed to be able to reassure the soul.

So Xie Qiao really fell into sleep.

"Sleep, Joe, when you wake up, you will be able to see the vegetation of Jinling. That is your home. Your relatives are waiting for you there."

In the chaos, these voices came from nowhere. Xie Qiao couldn't tell which life it was. He just wanted to ask "Are you there" very uneasy, but he couldn't open his mouth anyway.

Someone seemed to know his uneasiness, and a ray of light penetrated into the darkness of sleep.

"I'll be there too." Said the voice that reassured him.

Thus, Xie Qiao's frowning brows finally unfolded completely.He finally fell asleep with peace of mind.

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In fact, in my setting, Mr. Lu was proud, heroic, free and easy, and noble in his youth, and later became a general and a Confucian general.This will be the last chapter in a short time, and those two articles will be updated at the same time, and this one will be after the update.

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