Suifang

Jinque City is arrogant and extravagant, princes and nobles spend a lot of money, singing and dancing gracefully, dreaming and dying.

Xia Suijin felt sad, and Emperor Xia still didn't want to see him. Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, there were lanterns and festoons everywhere, but he was the only one missing.

……

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, sky lanterns are released, fire dragon dances, and laughter is endless.Xia Suijin stood outside the deserted General's Mansion in front of the door, looking out into frost, the cold wind was bleak and solemn.

At this moment, the door of the mansion opened slowly, and a ray of dim candlelight fell in front of him. He followed the elongated figure and saw Emperor Xia in white clothes at the threshold holding a lantern and looking at him with a smile. .

"Big...brother emperor!"

He went up to meet him in surprise, and said, "Why are you here?"

Emperor Xia was thin and thin, with vicissitudes on his cheeks.He held a brocade box in his arms, with a joyful expression, he said: "I'm here to pay homage to my friend. Tonight we will have a Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, and I was thinking of going to King Ren's Mansion to find you. This year, the emperor and the emperor are not here, only you and me as companions. "

As he spoke, he pushed the brocade box in his arms to Xia Suijin, nodded with a smile, and signaled him to open it.

The brocade box is engraved with patterns of osmanthus trees in full bloom and jade rabbit pounding medicine, which is complicated and exquisite.He thought it was moon cakes, opened the box, but smelled sweet-scented osmanthus.

"This is……?!"

Xia Suijin looked up abruptly, with an unbelievably panicked expression on his face.

Xia Di laughed and said: "This is osmanthus cake. Father is not here, so I made it for him. Speaking of which, you have been traveling around the martial arts for several months, but have you ever met Father?... I haven't seen Father for a long time, and I miss you very much. "

"Father, he..."

The scene of the dagger sinking into Yan Xi's heart involuntarily appeared in his mind, his throat choked up, and he said carefully, "Meet you, father and uncle are together."

"Then did he mention me?"

"I mentioned it, I praise you for being calm and fearless in the face of danger, which is quite like him back then."

"Really?" Emperor Xia said with a satisfied smile on his face, "This is clearly boasting."

"That's not true. The father and the emperor's uncle are two old men who are not good at cultivation. They flirt and show off in front of me all day long. It's really annoying."

He rubbed his eyes. That day when the emperor's uncle carried his father's coffin, the figure receding away in the green mountains was lonely and desolate. He thought, he would never dare to see the emperor's uncle again in this life.

"Brother Huang, it's very windy here, and my eyes hurt from the blowing. Let's go to another place."

"Call me 'Big Brother'."

Xia Suijin replied grumpily, "Okay."

The two walked into the bustling night market one after the other, and the fragrance of chestnuts wafted in the air.

Emperor Xia turned back and asked Xia Suijin: "This fried chestnut smells good, do you want to eat it?"

Xia Suijin swallowed the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in one gulp, shaking her head again and again: "I don't like chestnuts. I will never eat chestnuts again."

Walking to a tea shed for a rest, Emperor Xia picked up a cup of thick tea and asked seemingly unintentionally:

"Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, have you seen your mother?"

"...No. Why did the elder brother ask her?"

"I know you have a grudge against Concubine Mu, but... she is your biological mother after all."

Emperor Xia seemed to sigh softly, his eyes soft as water, and said: "I can't keep you this time, do you understand?"

Xia Suijin's heart turned a thousand times, and suddenly became clear, and said: "Brother, you don't need to protect me."

How could Emperor Xia fail to think of the method that Huangfu Qi thought of?It will be delayed for a while, and when the limelight passes and the princes return, make another plan.

"Brother, the Order of Nine Dragons... I lied to you."

He took a sip of herbal tea, his eyes were sore, he thought of the pure and innocent Yu Fang, who had no fate in this life, if there was an afterlife...

"Chai Longjin, the lord of Dayue Kingdom, has something wrong in his heart, and I didn't tell you, and..."

At this time, Emperor Xia sighed softly, and cut off his words: "You don't need to say anything, the matter has come to this point, what's the use of talking about it?"

"...Then, then I won't talk about it."

Xia Suijin lay on the table, propped her chin, and asked again: "When will Big Brother kill me?"

Unexpectedly, Emperor Xia gave him a strange look, and said: "There is no rush, there is still one thing you need to do."

"Am I still useful?"

This cheered him up a bit, and he stared at Emperor Xia with piercing eyes.

Emperor Xia looked indifferent, and said: "The queen has recently suffered from phoenix health, and wants to go back to the snow country to raise a baby, please escort her there."

"Why 'back'?"

In fact, he just asked casually, but Emperor Xia's eyes dodged for a moment.

"Brother, are you hiding something from me?"

Emperor Xia nodded and lowered his eyebrows, his eyes were deep and long, with a faint smile on his lips, he said: "You will know when you come back."

still didn't say anything

"Axue is with you. He grew up in Snow Country and went back to visit relatives."

Huanchao is in troubled times, and Shang Junxue is leaving too?

"I won't see you off tomorrow. Snow Country is far away, so be careful."

After Emperor Xia ordered, he drank the tea instead of wine in one gulp.

He picked up the herbal tea in a panic, and drank it in one gulp. When he looked up, he saw Xiadi Shi Shiran leaving.At this time, Emperor Xia's soft and hoarse voice reached his ears far away:

"Lighting lanterns miss you for thousands of miles, and the tung flowers have no fragrance and heartbreak; reunion festivals, strangers to the end of the world."

Xia Suijin bought a pack of fried chestnuts and stepped into the Buddhist hall with a box of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes in his arms.

Pushing open the door, a gust of cold wind penetrated into the bone marrow, he couldn't help shivering, and shouted: "Mother Concubine!"

The black-clothed woman on the futon turned her head in response, her face could not be seen clearly against the light.

Xia Suijin stepped into the Buddhist hall on his own, and said, "I'll come to see you during the reunion festival. Here are fried chestnuts and sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, all for you."

Then leave in a hurry.

Yu Qianxue suddenly asked, "What about him?"

Xia Suijin stopped and said, "Who are you asking?"

"Yu Fang"

"...Why did you ask him?"

He turned his head slowly and said: "The child has been living a hard life these days, why didn't the concubine mother ask me?"

There was a moment of stagnation in the night wind before Yu Qianxue's cold and distant voice came: "You are fine, I have never worried about you."

"Can……"

I've never been better.

"There are too many chestnuts, I can't eat them, so share some."

After Yu Qianxue finished speaking, she still looked at Xia Suijin at the door.

Xia Suijin had a strange illusion, as if the mother concubine didn't ask him to share the chestnuts, saying "too many chestnuts", it was more like...

"Does the concubine want the baby to stay?"

he guessed so

Before she finished speaking, Yu Qianxue slowly got up and walked towards Xia Suijin without saying a word.

Xia Suijin was stunned for a moment, unable to guess what she was thinking, only at this moment, she heard her say:

"Yes"

He panicked and stammered: "Okay, okay! I won't go, I'll talk to my concubine for a while."

Then he blew the dust off the steps, wiped it off with his sleeve, and said, "Mother Concubine sit here."

Yu Qianxue sat down as promised

Xia Suijin sat aside cautiously, feeling very uncomfortable with his hands tied.

"What does the concubine want to say?"

"Have you ever seen his mother?"

He bowed his head sadly: "No. If my concubine wants to mention that aunt, I... don't want to hear it."

Yu Qianxue really didn't say anything

Both of them were silent, the crickets in the grass and the partridges in the trees kept making noises, and the rising lights in the distance were dotted like twinkling stars.

He asked again: "Mother and concubine, do you want to make a wish by lighting the sky lantern?"

Yu Qianxue said: "There is no wish to pray for."

"Then, tell me about what happened before the concubine mother entered the palace?"

"It's old, don't need to mention it again."

"How did the concubine mother and the emperor get to know each other?"

"... evil fate"

After all, he half-closed his eyes, looking tired and powerless.

After a while, Xia Suijin felt like sitting on pins and needles, and had nothing to say: "The child went out of the palace this time, and met the father, uncle and the others—"

"—I don't want to know about them."

Yu Qianxue lightly interrupted

Immediately, he couldn't sit still any longer, stood up "swish", and said, "My child is going on a long trip tomorrow, so I'll go back and clean up first. Take care, concubine mother."

He has nothing to say to his mother

Yu Qianxue didn't stop this time, but took out a roasted chestnut, held it in her palm with great care and looked at it carefully.

Her clear and snowy face was bathed in the bright moonlight at this time, as if it had been infected with a layer of frosty halo, which looked very unreal; the eyes watching the fried chestnuts were as soft as water, as sad as they were satisfied.

Xia Suijin has gone far

Xia Suijin was hungry, so she ate half a mooncake on the way, and returned to King Ren's Mansion, where she lay down in her clothes for a few hours, and the sky gradually shone bright and white.

Not long after, I heard a knock on the door in my sleep.He opened his eyes in a daze, and saw a woman in beautiful clothes standing in front of the bed with a big belly.

"Emperor—Emperor's wife?!!——"

Shocked, he "thumped" head down and fell down.

The woman's eyes were slightly red, her chin was raised very high, and she put her hips on her hips and said loudly: "Your elder brother asked you to send me back to the snow country, what time is it, are you still asleep?! - Please trouble me to invite you in person, yo yo, brother-in-law , You are such a big shelf!"

"Don't dare, sister-in-law, sit down quickly. I'll pack up and go."

In a panic, he dug out some clothes and a small bag of broken silver, tilted his head and thought for a while, then took off the clothes, replaced them with bottles of pills, wrapped them up and tied them on his shoulders.

"Okay! Sister-in-law, let's go!"

The queen supported her waist, and strode forward boldly. Xia Suijin, who was following behind, was terrified, fearing that her little nephew would be lost due to an oversight.

The carriage had already been prepared outside the mansion, and Shang Junxue acted as the driver. She was no longer dressed in a heroic red military uniform, but changed into a very unremarkable coarse cloth gown and a bamboo hat. She looked no different from ordinary people.

Xia Suijin noticed that the guards who followed were all equipped with long knives, their eyes were piercing and imposing, presumably they were carefully selected generals.Among them was a young man in a navy blue blouse with a tall and straight figure and a handsome appearance, but his face was expressionless, and his pupils were as light and transparent as a mountain stream.

With a thought in his mind, he couldn't help asking: "You look familiar, have you seen it somewhere?"

The young man stared ahead without making a sound.

"Could it be a mute?"

At this time, Shang Junxue drove the carriage forward slowly, and said, "That's He Chang'an."

"I remember that."

He couldn't help but take a second look and said, "You have nice eyes."

...... very much like Yu Fang

After all, get on the horse, the mountains are high and the rivers are long, and the Iraqis are far away.

……

On the city wall, the man in the simple and elegant long gown looked up and down. The carriage gradually drifted away until it sank into the green hills. Then he turned his back desolately, his knees softened, and he slumped on the stone brick, saying:

"treasure!"