Sudden Snow Sealing Poison

"Suzaku!"

Bailong hurried out from the back door of the courtyard wall, and caught up with Suzaku in a few steps, "It's been a month, why is there still no news from the young master?"

Suzaku stood still, "I don't know, the young master didn't contact me either."

"Have you looked for it?"

"I went back to Jiangbei once, and nothing in the house was touched, and there was a layer of dust."

Bai Long became anxious, "Could something be wrong?"

It was still daytime, and the two of them were not used to talking standing in the blue sky, so they hid in the shade of a tree and lowered their voices.

Suzaku: "What could happen to the young master? It must be his plan."

"But what's going on with this Qu guy?" Bai Long frowned, "Why did the young master suddenly find an outsider to take his place? Besides, this Qu guy is from the evil faction."

"Why do you have so many questions? The young master called him here. Besides, I personally handed over the young master's letter to him. Naturally, there will be no problem. It doesn't matter if you are upright or evil."

"I'm just worried about what the young master wants to do. He suddenly disappeared and found someone to replace him. What does this mean—"

"The young master is gone?"

Suddenly this sound came from behind the two, which startled the two masters who were listening to the sound.

Suzaku and Bailong turned their heads and saw Xuanwu came behind them at some point, holding a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup in his hand.She was not tall, looked up at the two of them with a small face, and asked, "Where did the young master go?"

Suzaku replied, "I don't know yet."

Bai Long: "Qu Hechen knew about it but he refused to tell us. He only said that the young master was out on errands and would be back in a few months."

His tone was a little annoyed, but Xuan Wu nodded calmly: "In that case, it's better to wait for the young master to come back."

Bai Long said: "But I'm worried about the young master..."

Xuanwu glanced at him strangely: "Master, still need you to worry?"

Bai Long choked, Suzaku chuckled, and said to Xuan Wu: "Duck blood vermicelli soup for the young master, right? Send it in quickly, or it will get cold later."

Xuanwu walked around them, and after a few steps, he turned around and said, "No matter what the young master decides, I will trust him. Bailong, you should also trust the young master."

After speaking, he turned and left.

Bai Long was silent for a while, then muttered, "You little stupid girl, you're even teaching me."

"You doubt the young master in front of her, of course she will be angry." Suzaku said, "It's not like you don't know that the young master is the one she admires the most."

Bai Long: "I'm not suspicious of the young master, I just... hey, let's not talk about it." He didn't want to explain anything, so he left alone.

Suzaku looked at his back as he left aggrieved, and sighed softly.

Thousands of miles away from Jiangbei, the mountains outside the pass stretch and are shrouded in clouds and mist.The entire Xianbei Mountains traverse the land from south to north, and most of the local people have multiple surnames or foreign surnames. For most people, the Nie family, who only heard of their names, was originally a Han. They never made friends with any local families. Located alone in the depths of the cedar forest in the high mountains, it has become a mysterious and frightening local rumor.

Unlike the early autumn in Jiangbei, the temperature in Xianbei Mountain dropped to the same level as winter.It is especially cold in the mountains.

When Shen Zhan returned to Nie's house from the foot of the mountain, he was stopped by a shout as soon as he stepped through the gate.

"Good nephew, you're back." Nie Dongwen stood in the porch with his sleeves in his hands, looking at him coldly, "What good things did you buy at the foot of the mountain?"

Shen Zhan was holding a red and black lacquered box in his hand, and his boots were covered with slush.When he saw his third uncle, he smiled, "It's just some food. The third uncle is waiting for me on purpose?"

Nie Dongwen sneered, "I bought it for that canary in your house?"

Shen Zhan still smiled, "I can't help it, he doesn't like it after changing a few cooks, so I have to go down the mountain to see if there is anything that suits his taste."

The corners of Nie Dongwen's eyes twitched strangely.He stood in front of Shen Zhan without moving half a step, and Shen Zhan was not in a hurry, and stood in front of him kindly, waiting for him to speak.

"Aren't you addicted to playing house? Do you really think that you brought him back to support you?" Nie Dong laughed angrily when he heard that, "You put an enemy under our noses to demonstrate against the Nie family. ?!"

Shen Zhan said gently, "Don't dare."

"Then kill him! Kill that Zheng now!" Nie Dongwen said angrily, "Don't think that your father is silent, you will become more presumptuous! Or do you think you are the future head of the Nie family? Is it possible to sit firmly in the seat? Let me tell you, just because of your father's unpredictable temperament, you'd better not get complacent too early. If you don't get rid of this Zheng, the elders in the family will treat you as a A thorn in my side!"

"Thank you, Uncle San, for your kind reminder."

"If you are still interested, don't blame your third uncle for doing this for you—"

"Third Uncle." Shen Zhan interrupted him, and only said, "My father is not in a hurry, what are you in a hurry for?"

"I heard that Third Uncle's shoulder bones hurt badly when it's cold. Third Uncle seldom goes out when it's freezing cold. After all, he's getting older, so he still needs to take care of himself." Shen Zhan paced When he came to Nie Dongwen's side, he watched his face turn blue and white with great interest, "I'm standing on the right side talking, I don't know if third uncle can hear me clearly?"

"You bastard—"

Shen Zhan said slowly: "You know, I'm crazy now, and I don't recognize anyone. If anyone touches him, I will go crazy. If the third uncle wants to do it, why don't you think about my little nephew who just turned two years old before doing it? He's still so young, Third Uncle has to hide him well."

"... Otherwise, let me find that little guy, it will not be as simple as playing hide-and-seek."

The main house of the Nie family is located deep in the clouds and mist of the high mountain, and its branches occupy most of the mountain top, like an astrolabe hidden in the continuous forest.Shen Zhan's residence is even more secluded, it is not located in the main house complex, but alone on a cliff, surrounded by no one, only clouds and trees for company.

When Shen Zhan opened the door and entered the room, he saw Zheng Tingxue sitting on the bed with the quilt on his legs, his elbows on the window sill, and his chin resting on the scenery outside the window.

Hearing the movement, he turned his head to look over, glanced at the lacquer box in Shen Zhan's hand, and knew what he had brought back, and said, "They said it doesn't need to be so troublesome."

Shen Zhan put the food box on the table, "You don't like the food cooked at home, and you don't want to move your chopsticks every time you don't eat a few bites. After coming here for a few days, your face is thin and sharp."

Zheng Tingxue didn't deny it either, she just quietly looked at the slowly flowing clouds in the sky, and said for a while, "The scenery here is not bad."

His posture and expression can be called leisurely. It doesn't look like he was stabbed through the leg by a sword and robbed to this wilderness with high mountains and long roads. Instead, he looks like he and Shen Zhan went back to his hometown with high clouds and deep forests to visit relatives .When he was leaning against the window and looking at the clouds and clouds outside, the perennially cold lines on his face softened for some reason, as if he had become really relaxed after coming to Nie's house.

Shen Zhan put out all the food boxes and said with a smile, "If Xiaoxue likes it, I will stay here from now on."

After a while, Zheng Tingxue said in a low voice, "That's fine."

Shen Zhan pinched his hand on the edge of the lacquer box.There was a strange expression on his face for a moment, but it quickly disappeared, and it turned into the usual soft smile.He put a wooden table on the bed, and put the food bought from down the mountain on the table one by one, "Xiaoxue, see which one you like to eat."

It takes at least [-] li to walk from the populated plain below the mountain to the deserted mountain, and [-] li to go back and forth, not counting the ruggedness and steepness of the road.It has been snowing in the mountains for the past few days, and the road conditions are covered by snow, making it even more difficult to walk.Shen Zhan walked the sixty miles alone, only to bring up a full food box for Zheng Tingxue.

The table was full of food, Shen Zhan took out his chopsticks, picked up a piece of sweet mutton and handed it to Zheng Tingxue's mouth, "Come, have a taste."

These days, Shen Zhan has been feeding Zheng Tingxue himself.Zheng Tingxue's right palm was covered with gauze, and he couldn't hold things. Although he could use his left hand, Shen Zhan didn't bother him, and directly used himself as Zheng Tingxue's right hand.Zheng Tingxue didn't refuse, and felt at ease to let him serve her.

"Try that corn meal." Zheng Tingxue said.

Shen Zhan scooped up a spoonful of corn rice and fed it to him, and Zheng Tingxue ate it.Now he didn't look like he had a bad appetite like a few days ago, Shen Zhan saw him burying his head in his meal, with a smile on his face.He raised his hand to stroke the strands of hair falling from Zheng Tingxue's cheeks, and put them behind his ears, "It turns out that Xiaoxue likes to eat these snacks at the market, so let the cook do it next time."

"Hmm." Zheng Tingxue swallowed the food, "You eat too."

"I'm not hungry."

Shen Zhan sat across the table and fed Zheng Tingxue bite by bite. He didn't take the chopsticks that Zheng Tingxue had used until Zheng Tingxue said he was full, and took a few bites of the leftovers. Cleaned up and put it aside, began to change his dressing.

The wound on Zheng Tingxue's hand healed quickly, but the wound on her leg healed slowly.Because Shen Zhan often changed the medicine for his hands, but he hardly cared about his legs, as if he let them go bad, like breaking a free bird's wings and putting it in a cage, not letting it go anywhere.

Zheng Tingxue leaned on the bed, saw Shen Zhan lowered his head and gently removed the gauze from his hands, applied the medicine to him carefully, and suddenly asked, "Is this where you used to live?"

"Yeah, isn't it a little small?" Shen Zhan kept moving his hands, and answered him, "It's the room I lived in when I was a child. I was not big at that time, so it's just right for me to live here."

Zheng Tingxue glanced around the room, the light was dim, moldy spots appeared on the corners, there was almost no furniture, only beds, tables and chairs, not even a decent wardrobe.

Zheng Tingxue looked away, "You live here alone?"

"Ah."

"Why don't you live with your family?"

Shen Zhan slowly changed his medicine and rewrapped the gauze before looking at him.

"The relationship with them is not close." Shen Zhan held his warm fingers, lowered his head and kissed them gently, pressed his cold lips against his knuckles, dawdled softly for a while, and then said, "I live here alone. gone."

Zheng Tingxue looked at him, "What about your real name?"

Shen Zhan and him looked at each other quietly, smiled for a while, "Forgot."

He approached Zheng Tingxue, stretched out his arms and hugged her into his arms, leaned his head against his neck, and said in a low voice, "It's been too long since I was a child, and I can't even remember it."

Zheng Tingxue stopped asking.

He clenched his left hand under the quilt, and in the palm lay an old jade pendant that had lost its luster and was full of old blood.

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