Rebirth: Thousand Miles of Smoke

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"What's the matter, sir?" Xiao Lu asked Hua Lian beside him. Lin Ziyao had been practicing archery for almost a morning, but he still kept drawing and lowering the bow tirelessly, repeating the same action.

It has been like this for the past few days, it is strange, it seems that there is nothing strange about it, but it makes people feel a little awkward.

The big butthead had already set off with Si Chenglie, so Lin Ziyao's promise to his master to visit his house was delayed again and again. Now that the master is not here, he naturally can't slack off any longer.

"Practice archery as usual, it's no different." Xiao Wu was sweeping the snow on the ground, and glanced over there, "But the young master stayed in the study room until late last night and didn't know what he was doing. Waking up so early again."

Hua Lian sighed, turned and left, leaving the two people looking at each other, they didn't know, but Hua Lian did.

Lin Ziyao exhaled, shook his sore wrist, Xiao Lu immediately stuck it up and handed the cloth towel and asked, "Hualian has already prepared lunch, should we take a bath first, or go to lunch directly? "

"Let's take a bath first." Lin Ziyao walked back to her room, but saw Hua Lian pouring water into the bathtub, trying to test the water temperature, Lin Ziyao smiled, "You still understand me."

"I'm the young master's personal girl, if I don't care more, can I count on the two horses outside?" Hua Lian got up to change his clothes, seeing that the marks on Lin Ziyao's body had not faded, but were getting deeper and deeper, Hua Lian bit her lower lip , pretending to turn a blind eye and put the clothes on the screen.

Since that day, Lin Ziyao has been a little weird, more diligent than ever, and even his eyes have become different. Hua Lian is a little worried, but he doesn't do anything else, so let's not talk about it for now, and as for Lin Ziyao kept silent about who did this to the young master that day, and Hua Lian didn't bother to ask too much.

"It's almost New Year's Eve." Lin Ziyao lay on the basin, enjoying with her eyes closed, Hualien paused, and hummed, unexpectedly, she had already been here for half a year in a flash, she saw the changes in Lin Ziyao In such a short period of time, Lin Ziyao has grown from a young man who always followed King Rong to a book servant in the palace.

"Young master, I want to go back to my hometown to have a look that day."

"Where is Hualien's hometown?" Lin Ziyao finally opened his eyes, Hualien wiped his back for him, his face was soft, as if thinking of his hometown, he said with some pride in his heart:

"My hometown is in the south, not very far from here, and it only takes a few days to go back and forth."

Lin Ziyao tilted his head and smiled and said, "You haven't been back for so long, you should go home to visit your relatives, anyway, I should spend the Chinese New Year in Lin's mansion, so you don't have to worry about it."

Hua Lian snorted, and said, "I'm worried because you're going to live in the Lin Mansion. Your second sister, who looks arrogant and domineering, can tell you're not a good stubble, and Mrs. Lin, who looks kind, I I always feel that she has a bad stomach, the most terrifying thing in the world is women and villains, son, you have to be careful."

Seeing Hualien's indignant expression, Lin Ziyao burst out laughing: "It seems that you are not a woman, oh yes, you are not a woman now."

"Young Master! I'm telling you the truth!" Hua Lian raised her eyebrows, and the hand that was wiping his back suddenly exerted force, causing Lin Ziyao to hide inside.

The New Year's Eve is coming soon, and everyone in Nongben's small courtyard has already gone home to have a reunion dinner, but Lin Ziyao has not left until the night of the New Year's Eve, when he changed his face Clothes take some clothes to Lin's mansion, and back to Lin's mansion, at least the eighth day of the lunar new year can be passed before leaving.

It has been several months since he stepped into Lin's mansion again, and the newly added servants basically don't know him, and they can only know about Lin Ziyao from those who know him well.

"Third Young Master." The butler bowed to welcome him into the room. The banquet hadn't started yet, so the hall was a bit deserted, but it wasn't as crowded as the family banquet on the Mid-Autumn Festival last time. The New Year's Eve was basically spent at home. So there is only one table.

But Mrs. Lin did it herself, took the plate and put it on the table, she was dissatisfied, and then adjusted it. When she stopped, she noticed Lin Ziyao standing at the door.

"It's Ziyao." Mrs. Lin smiled and walked over, "I haven't seen you for a while, I've grown a lot, are you used to living outside?"

"Yeah." Lin Ziyao didn't want to talk to him, looked around and didn't see his elder brother Lin Feng, so he asked, "Where's elder brother?"

Mrs. Lin smiled and said: "I'm in my room. Although your brothers are working in the palace, but you are in the Library Pavilion and he is in the court hall. You should have not seen each other for a long time."

If outsiders look at this Mrs. Lin, they will think that she is a well-educated, dignified, and amiable woman, but Lin Ziyao knows that this woman never waits to see herself and her mother, and she can often hear this woman when she was a child. Sneering and sarcastic, no matter how young he is, he can still tell that she is targeting his mother in everything.

So Mrs. Lin, in Lin Ziyao's eyes, was not a good person. Even though this woman hadn't been too harsh on herself, he remembered the humiliation his mother had suffered on her.

"Then I'll go find my brother first."

"By the way, call your father over here." Mrs. Lin watched Lin Ziyao leave with a smile. The moment she turned around, her face darkened, and she groaned coldly in her heart. Busy with arranging the hall, she didn't notice the old lady's every move.

Coming to his elder brother's house in a familiar way, Lin Ziyao knocked on the door, then pushed his hand in and shouted: "Brother, I..."

Lin Feng suddenly panicked and put away the picture scroll spread out on the table. When he saw Lin Ziyao, he immediately smiled and said, "It's really late for you to come."

"It's not too late, haven't you eaten yet?" Lin Ziyao glanced at the picture scroll in his hand, just now, he only saw a portrait of a woman, Lin Ziyao pulled his lips and asked with a smile, "Then The one in the painting is Big Brother’s sweetheart, so mysterious.”

"You kid, you're going to push your feet." Lin Feng tapped his head with a painting scroll, "Hurry up and say hello to Dad, brat."

Lin Ziyao touched his head with a smile and said yes, then backed out, Lin Feng held the painting tightly in his hand, and murmured: "It really looks like..."

This New Year's Eve dinner seemed ordinary, everyone had a smile on their faces, but everyone had other things in their minds, Lin Ziyao sat on Lin Feng's left, Lin Feng kept picking up vegetables for him, and the second lady was a little upset and acted like a baby He said that the eldest brother loved the third brother, but not her.

This Second Miss Lin has been spoiled by her family since she was a child, and she is also good at acting like a baby. Even though she knows that this younger sister is spoiled and willful, as the eldest brother, he always spoils her unconsciously. Same.

So when the second lady saw that her elder brother had been taking care of Lin Ziyao, she felt jealous. Madam Lin didn't say anything, but General Lin just laughed at her naughty daughter.

Lin Ziyao also just smiled lightly and didn't say anything. It took a long time for this dinner to end, and he drank some wine during it, but Lin Feng didn't let him drink too much, so he just had a few drinks. After all, he didn't need to go before. Lin Ziyao didn't refuse either.

While waiting for the table to be dispersed, Master Lin stopped him and followed him to the study. Lin Ziyao stood at the door, Master Lin looked at him and waved.

Lin Ziyao walked over suspiciously, Master Lin asked: "You have found a job in the palace, what do you think now?"

Unexpectedly, Master Lin would ask him this. Lin Ziyao has always had no interest in this kind of success and fame. Everyone in the Lin family knows that, and his incompetence cannot make him have such unreasonable thoughts. So when Master Lin asked, Lin Ziyao Haru had already made his decision.

"I want to go up, in order to protect myself, but I will try to climb up by myself." Lin Ziyao said very bluntly, the Lin family is destined to fight against King Rong, it is destined to be that kind of ending, but Lin Ziyao still decided that, in the remaining few years, instead of being bullied like this, it is better to try to go up, at least he will not be bullied again.

Master Lin was very satisfied with the look in Lin Ziyao's eyes, and said with some relief: "Your mother must be pleased to know that you are promising."

Lin Ziyao didn't speak, but he was thinking in his heart that although he wanted to protect himself, he absolutely couldn't rely on the rotten tree of the Lin family to protect himself wisely. He couldn't get involved with the Lin family any more, and he wouldn't forget his mother. How could he be bullied by Mrs. Lin back then, so even if he was unwilling to accept the status quo, he couldn't take refuge in this family.

Back in the courtyard where he used to live, Lin Ziyao looked at the place where the furnishings were still there, feeling a little sad in his heart.

On the first day of the new year, it was time to visit relatives and friends, but Lin Ziyao didn't want to walk around. After paying New Year's greetings in the morning, he walked to the street by himself after eating rice cakes and dates.

From the crowing of the rooster, he could hear the sound of firecrackers in the house. When he walked to the street, he saw that the ground was covered with red confetti, which looked very festive. Although it was the first day of the new year, there were many vendors with their doors open. , It is estimated that it will be closed later at night.

Lin Ziyao was a little surprised to meet Ling Chentian unexpectedly. The other party was wearing a fox fur hat and Ling country costumes. Accompanied by his tall body and eye-catching face, the bustling crowd on the street immediately moved away. one way.

Lin Ziyao, on the other hand, was the one who didn't know how to look. He was holding two red knots in his hand. He bought the red knot thinking that his yard should also be a little more festive, but just after paying the money, he ran into this friend. Lin Ziyao Yao stood in front of him and looked around, only to realize that everyone was standing aside, only Lin Ziyao was standing in the middle of the street.

"Red knot?" Ling Chentian snatched the red knot from his hand, narrowed his eyes and asked, "Would you like to give it to me?"