I see the snow

Yunyan is located in a deep forest, the southernmost place in Central China.

Because of poverty and customs, they seldom use oil lamps.

As Mu Ziling's bloodline, although he can get a few, but to him, the whole Yunyan is like a long night that is so thick that it can't be melted.

"Why are you still alive?"

In the courtyard of Wulian Palace, several boys who were about the same height as Mu Ziling surrounded him, and the leader among them was throwing stones up and down.

These are some of Mu Ziling's cousins.

They were playing pot throwing just now, when Mu Ziling passed by, they found out, and immediately surrounded them as if they had discovered something strange.

"Young Master Yin, the plague broke out in more than a dozen villages in the north, and many of Uncle Gu's slaves died, do you know?"

Mu Jian frowned and looked at him: "You really killed Uncle Gu."

Mu Ziling stood in the middle indifferently, with his eyes lowered slightly, not knowing where he was looking.

He is small in stature, wearing only the simplest and plain white clothes, his long hair hangs down, slightly covering the side of his face, he is surrounded by this group of teenagers who are older and taller than him, almost drowned.

"Why don't you speak?"

Mu Jian said: "You should go and apologize to Uncle Gu. Since Uncle Gu met you last time, such unlucky things have happened in his territory. Don't you realize your crime?...Speak!"

Mu Ziling turned a deaf ear to them and just kept trying to bypass them and break out of the encirclement.

——It is for this reason that he rarely leaves his bedroom.

The royal family members all live in one place, and children with a little bit of blood can come and go in and out of Wulian Palace at will.

And this group of teenagers who are older than Mu Ziling and obviously don't like him, once they meet Mu Ziling, they will quickly express their malice towards Mu Ziling.

"Your mother really shouldn't have left you."

Mu Jian said, "Ever since you survived, Yunyan hasn't encountered a single good thing. The whole day is either poisonous miasma hurting people here, or plague is rampant there. Your father and king are really benevolent for a while, and they have harmed Yunyan a lot! "

Mu Ziling had heard these words countless times.They said it quietly when they were young, but when he grew up, he saw that no one was punished for saying so. On the contrary, there were more and more plagues, and the voice of discussion became louder.

Sometimes, fearing that Mu Ziling might not hear, she ran up to him and said it kindly.

Mu Ziling was almost numb to hearing.

"You will die tomorrow."

Mu Ziling was blocked and had nowhere to go. No matter which direction he went, he would be stopped back, so he had to raise his head.

His eyes are dark and deep, and his eyelashes are black and green, curled up, reflecting his pale skin, he looks like a beautiful little porcelain figure, but when Mu Ziling looks up at him like this, those teenagers always have a kind of heart Feeling dizzy.

"Uncle Gu met me once, and there was such a big plague in the territory."

Mu Ziling said softly: "If you stand and talk to me like this, aren't you afraid that the whole family will die tomorrow?"

"..."

The teenagers were all stunned for a moment.

Not for anything else, but in a country like Yunyan, which is extremely pedantic and superstitious, it would be considered inauspicious to say the word "death" face to face, not to mention that a sentence like Mu Ziling's would directly affect noble teenagers. The "whole family" of...!

"you……"

The teenagers blushed immediately, and Mu Jian was about to jump in anger, and said repeatedly: "What are you talking about?! You are cursing us, son Yin, you are so brave, I want Elder Mu Meng to cut you off!" Drop your tongue!"

As he spoke, he grabbed Mu Ziling's neckline: "Go, come with us!"

Mu Ziling staggered from being pulled, but then stubbornly stopped, standing still on the spot, trying to break free from the hands of his taller cousin.

"Let go, don't touch me...!"

However, how could the teenagers let go, several people pushed and shoved to join in, insisting on dragging Mu Ziling to the death room.

During the collision of bodies, Mu Jian suddenly yelled, jumped out of the crowd with her hands covered, and cursed: "You uneducated brat, how dare you stab me!"

I saw Mu Ziling holding a thin long needle between his fingers. I don't know where it was hidden before, and it was shining faintly in the sun at this moment.

Mu Ziling gasped a little hastily, and stared hostilely at the group of so-called cousins ​​who were "connected by blood" with him.

"Get the needle!"

Mu Jian gave an order: "Teach him!"

I don't know what was applied to the needle. After being pricked, the whole body gradually became itchy. When Mu Jian rolled up his sleeves, a red rash appeared on his forearm in the blink of an eye.

"What poisonous flowers and plants did you use..."

Mu Jian scratched and scolded, Mu Ziling was pulled by several people and pressed to the ground, but suddenly smiled at him viciously: "It's evil dust scattered!... You are going to die tomorrow, your seven orifices are bleeding, and your fingers are all numb. rot!"

Mu Jian went up and spat on Mu Ziling's face.

"Then I'll kill you first!"

He squeezed Mu Ziling's fingers vigorously, trying to pull out the silver needle in his palm.

However, during the dispute, a young man pressing Mu Ziling suddenly shouted: "Oops! Your Royal Highness!"

Everyone looked in the direction he was looking at, and they saw a handsome young man with a high crown and wide sleeves, dressed in a gorgeous robe, walking towards him, surrounded by his attendants.

Mu Huai'an has a gentle appearance. Although he and Mu Ziling are siblings, he looks like a completely different boy from Mu Ziling.

One is the well-behaved Prince Yunyan, and the other is a pale and gloomy flower growing in a damp corner.

"Will His Royal Highness take us to the Hall of Mirrors?"

A child of the royal family was a little scared: "If the king finds out that we are messing around like this, we will suffer!"

"He doesn't know so many things... Maybe he didn't even see it."

"Anyway, this kid is also a brother of His Highness the Crown Prince, so he won't sit idly by anyway?"

The teenagers flinched and let go of Mu Ziling involuntarily. Even Mu Jian put down his sleeves angrily, and stood in front of Mu Ziling in an attempt to cover him and cover up everything that happened just now.

"If you dare to talk nonsense in front of His Royal Highness, I will definitely not let you go!"

Before turning around, Mu Jian gritted her teeth and said to Mu Ziling in a low voice.

Panting slightly, Mu Ziling got up from the ground without saying a word, his plain white clothes and clean cheeks were stained with dust.

Mu Jian's worry was unnecessary, because Mu Ziling was not the kind of character who liked to rely on others and beg for protection.Never complained at all.

What's more, he is not familiar with Mu Huai'an at all.

Although they are brothers, he and Mu Huai'an have hardly met each other since they were young.

One lives in the spacious and bright Tai's womb, and the other lives in the most inconspicuous small side hall in the Wulian Palace. To Mu Ziling, all he knows is that he has a brother who looks exactly like himself. information.

As for what kind of life he lived, what kind of personality he had, and how he was regarded as a god by Yunyan's subjects, they were all pieced together from the gossip of the palace people.

It was precisely because of unfamiliarity that Mu Ziling always harbored a certain kind of secret curiosity and anticipation in his heart, wanting to know what this brother he had never seen before was like.

Although he never mentions it.

"His Royal Highness."

Seeing Mu Huai'an getting closer, Mu Jian took the initiative to lean forward, and smiled flatteringly: "Why did you come to the South Court today, we are playing pot throwing, do you want to play together?"

The teenagers gathered around one after another, and Mu Ziling was slightly behind, standing in a place not too far and not too close, with his eyes lowered, silently patting the dust on his clothes.

He stood there alone, although he didn't speak, but Mu Huai'an must be able to see him.

They are exactly the same two children, just like looking in a mirror. If they are ordinary children, they must be curious about this child who is connected with their own blood, and can't help but look at each other.But since Mu Huai'an approached, he didn't even take a look at Mu Ziling.

Is he my brother?

Mu Ziling glanced at Mu Huai'an from the corner of his eyes, pursed his lips, and couldn't help touching his left eye: there was also a tear mole under his eye.

But Mu Huai'an enjoys completely different treatment from him: Just now the cousins ​​surrounded Mu Ziling, trying to tease him and play tricks on him; now they are surrounding Mu Huai'an again, but they are all smiling and full of smiles , it seems that it is a great honor to have a word with him.

"His Royal Highness still has to go to Xiyanzhai to learn how to read and write, so you can't throw pots with all the little princes."

The servant beside Mu Huai'an said: "Please invite the Crown Prince to come to the South Court another day."

He separated the teenagers in front of Mu Huai'an, keeping them at a certain distance from Mu Huai'an, as if getting too close would be a kind of blasphemy to Mu Huai'an.

And Mu Huai'an was guarded by the servants around him from the beginning to the end, standing quietly, frowning slightly, without saying a word.

"……you."

The entourage pushed aside the teenagers, trying to lure Mu Huai'an away, but suddenly saw Mu Ziling standing behind him all the time.

"... Yin," he called out indistinctly, as if he was reluctant to say those words, and said in a very low voice: "Please make room for me."

Mu Ziling's body was dusty, and the slender silver needle was still pinched in his hand just after the fight.

He made way without saying a word, and stood aside, but Mu Jian was afraid that he would say something that shouldn't be said, so he rushed to say: "Just now we saw Young Master Yin passing by the South Court, so we asked him to play pot throwing together!"

The servant responded in a low voice, but seemed very absent-minded. Seeing Mu Huai'an approaching, he suddenly made a very unexpected move——

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, he took off his clothes and laid them flat on the ground where Mu Ziling was standing just now, so that Mu Huai'an could walk over on his clothes.

"..."

Mu Ziling stood on the side in a daze, and almost immediately understood what the intention was without a teacher.

——They despised him, even the place where he stood was considered inauspicious, for fear of staining Mu Huaian's soles and staining him!

Mu Ziling clenched his fists, his beautiful eyes turned red, and he stood there silently trembling slightly.

This is his brother.

The elder brother who has the same appearance and voice as him, but never sees him, and never says a word when he sees him being bullied by others!

Since he thought he was unlucky, why did he have to go to that area, Yunyan is so big, he could have surrounded it, hollowed out all the land, and people are not allowed to pass through it for 100 years!

He is so lofty, can't he do such a little thing by ordering him! ?

Mu Huai'an stepped on the servant's robe, and there were a few dusty boot marks on the water-blue coat.

The entourage looked at the robe on the ground, frowned, and didn't say anything unnecessary, but the meaning couldn't be clearer and he ordered: "Take it and burn it."

Mu Ziling watched helplessly as the two slaves came up, pulled up their outer robes, took them aside and burned them, his tightly clenched palms were pinched by nails, almost breaking the skin, but he didn't feel any pain at all.

Mu Huai'an had already gone far away, but just as Mu Jian breathed a sigh of relief and was about to order the other teenagers to leave together and let Mu Ziling go, Mu Ziling suddenly rushed up without warning and took Mu Jian He fell to the ground and pinched his neck frantically:

"You are so annoying, I hate you!!"