I see the snow

"..."

Mu Ziling suddenly opened his eyes from the dream, and suddenly became sober as if he had been touched by the scales, and the little beast exploded with vigilant thorns all over his body again.

The last thing he wants to talk about so far is when someone asks about his identity.

When he was young, Mu Ziling didn't know what the words "Gongziyin" meant, and he didn't know why Mu Huaian had a name, and his cousins ​​also had names, but he only had the nickname "Fenghuang'er".

Later, gradually, he pieced it together from the gossiping chatter of his servants and slaves, and then he realized that the title "Gongziyin" had never been blessed; I don't want him to exist.

"……Why do you ask about this?"

Mu Ziling opened his eyes, turned around and looked at Qin Yi: "...my mother called me Fenghuang'er."

Qin Yi stared at the boy's eyes and felt that his eyes were clear and bright, like broken stars scattered from the sky.

He embraced the body like a ball of cotton in his arms, and said with a light smile: "Okay, Fenghuang'er. I will remember, and I will look for you."

"Really?"

Hearing what he said, Mu Ziling suddenly seemed refreshed. He looked up at Qin Yi: "When are you coming?... I'm in Yunyan, do you want to take me to Liangcheng?"

Qin Yi smiled: "Would you like to go to Liang Cheng with me?"

"think."

Mu Ziling said almost without hesitation: "You make lotus leaves and lotus seeds steamed for me to eat. I also want to see your Liang Cheng's white camellia... I will go to Liang Cheng with you now, I don't want to go back to Yunyan gone."

Qin Yi laughed, thinking that he was really like a child, thinking of where he was when he spoke and acted.

"...You are not the young master of ordinary people, are you?"

Qin Yi rubbed the top of Mu Ziling's hair, remembering the natural and distinctive temperament in his gestures, and sighed softly: "It's not good for me to take you back so hastily... and my family is very sad now. Luan, it's dangerous for you to go back with me. I'll find you after I drive out those annoying people, okay?"

Mu Ziling was a little disappointed, he thought, he didn't want to go back.Mu Huai'an's longevity lock has not been found yet, he might die if he goes back.

But Qin Yi refused to take him to Liangcheng now, not to mention he had saved him.

"I live in Wulian Palace."

Mu Ziling could only whisper: "You have to come quickly... You saved me, my life is yours. I will wait for you until I die."

Qin Yi smiled, wondering why this child's mind was always filled with the concepts of life and death.

It seemed as if he would die at any moment in the next moment.

He said: "Okay, I will drive out those who should not stay in my house, and then go to you immediately, okay?"

Mu Ziling nodded, and then asked, "What does Liang Cheng look like?"

"Liang Cheng is very big. It is located in the southwest of Zhonglu. To the east is Chifeng Pass with yellow sand and sunset. To the south is your Yunyan border."

Qin Yi said softly: "The Huanhu River is to the west, and there are tides every summer. Liangcheng doesn't snow, but it's still very cold in winter. When you wake up in the morning, there will be hoarfrost on the windows."

"Hoarfrost?"

"Ah."

Qin Yi said: "Because it's cold outside, there is a charcoal fire in the house, and when the frost is heavy, the window paper will get wet."

"Oh."

Mu Ziling thought, he had never seen Baishuang, in fact, before coming to Jiangzhou, he had never even seen lotus pods and sugar balls. "...Then what if you can't get the charcoal fire?"

Qin Yi laughed, thinking how there would be no charcoal fire in his majestic Liangcheng Palace.Said: "No. If you go, someone will bring charcoal fire to your bedroom every day, and lotus seed steaming."

Mu Ziling lowered his eyes, but thought in his heart, it doesn't matter if there is no lotus seed steaming and charcoal fire, he just wants someone to hug him to sleep every night.

"Okay...then you have to come quickly."

In the end, Mu Ziling asked some miscellaneous questions, his eyes gradually became sleepy, and he was so heavy that he couldn't open them, and he murmured: "I will wait for you."

Qin Yi looked at the villain in his arms, with a slight smile on his handsome eyebrows.

"Won't keep you waiting long."

He said: "In the late spring of the coming year, I will go to Yunyan to pick you up."

——In the late spring of the coming year, I will go to Yunyan to pick you up.

Mu Ziling listened vaguely. This sentence fell into his memory like a feather, but he never forgot it.

... As long as he can live until the late spring of next year, he can leave Yunyan.

This has almost become the obsession that supports his struggle to survive.

Later, Mu Ziling returned to Yunyan with repulsion and helplessness. Sure enough, as soon as he entered Wulian Palace, he was locked in a small dark room and deprived of his status as a "prince".

He was curled up in a cold and hard iron cage, with heavy chains around his neck and ankles—

The shackles had left him with blisters on his ankles and throat, and he slept with pain every night.

But it doesn't matter, Mu Ziling thought, as long as next March, the boy who saved him will come and take him away.

Although he didn't tell Mu Ziling his name, his hometown, where his father did business.But Mu Ziling believed that he would come.

After all, his arms are so warm.

But what Mu Ziling also didn't know was that after he left, Qin Yi inquired all over the West Lake in Jiangzhou, and finally found the peddler who had sold him candied haws, and redeemed the jade pendant he gave to the peddler at a high price.

And the jade pendant he stole from his elder brother, which symbolizes the status of the prince, has two characters written on the back——

Huaian.

……

"His Majesty the King of Liang came from afar, and Xiao Wang is very honored."

Half a year later, King Liang Cheng passed away, and the heir apparent succeeded to the throne. In the first month after taking the throne, the new king of Liang Cheng visited Yunyan in person.

Qin Yi dismounted from the tall and beautiful horse, his gaze casually swept across the many unfamiliar faces in front of him.

At that time, he had passed the most bloody time, reached the pinnacle of power, and held the entire Liangcheng in his hands.

He has been able to come and fulfill his promise.

Qin Yi clenched the jade in his hand, thinking.

He looked at the smiles in front of him, and he could easily see the flattering royal nobles. He calmed down a little, smiled, and walked towards them to chat and greet.At the same time, silently mutter in my heart:

Huaian, Yunyan.

At the same time, Mu Ziling was locked in a cage, and no one cared about him day after day.

He couldn't tell the difference between day and night, the room was dark and damp, and Mu Ziling's hands and feet were always cold.

He was originally an amazingly beautiful woman, but in this day-to-day training, he gradually became paler and thinner than before, and his personality became more and more gloomy and withdrawn.

"what sound?"

When delivering meals at noon, Mu Ziling suddenly asked, "What's the sound from outside?"

At this moment, Mu Ziling was already so thin that even the butterfly bones protruded extremely badly, wearing the dusty white clothes on him, he looked unusually empty.

He knelt before the bars of the iron cage, stretched out a very thin and lonely wrist, and barely reached today's food through the gap in the cage.

A layer of blood scab formed on his collarbone and ankle, and after the initial blisters burst, a shallow scar was left.It's just that it was repeatedly scratched and scabbed.

"It is a celebration to welcome Liang Cheng's new emperor to visit."

The servant replied: "He is very fond of His Highness Huai'an, the king is very happy, and will welcome him with singing and dancing for three days and three nights."

"Liang Cheng."

Mu Ziling murmured: "... Liang Cheng's king has come?"

"yes"

The servant said: "Different from Yunyan, it is a very large and powerful country. If we can form a friendly state with Liang Cheng, it will be of great help to Yunyan."

"Oh."

Mu Ziling lowered his eyes, obviously not interested in what the servant said.He hugged his knees, thinking about it, he knew that Liang Cheng was in the southwest of Zhonglu, on the east was Chifeng Pass with yellow sand and sunset, on the south was bordered by Yunyan, and on the west was the Huanhu River. There will be hoarfrost on the windows...

In this dark and humid dark room, he recalled over and over again the Jiangzhou where the lotus leaves were green and pointed to the sky.

I miss the boy who rescued him from the bottom of the cold lake, I miss him hugging my chest warmly and tightly, and I miss him saying to him, "I will go to Yunyan to find you in the late spring of next year."

At that time, he was wearing the dry and warm clothes of the young man in black, sitting by the campfire, watching the jumping flames flickering on his face.

"What time is it now?"

Mu Ziling asked the servant who was about to step out, "Is it spring?"

In the darkened room, Mu Ziling could hardly perceive the passage of time, nor could he distinguish the seasons.

But he waited persistently because the young man said that "when the spring flowers are all in bloom in the coming year", he would come to Yunyan to pick him up.

"spring?"

The servant paused, squinting at the phoenix tree in the yard, and the sound of drums and drums welcoming the new Lord Liang Cheng was playing in the distance.

The servant smirked and said with a smile: "Young master, the spring flowers are almost gone."

At that time, Mu Ziling was sitting in a hard and cold iron cage, and was left alone in a dark and cold darkroom.

The whole Yunyan was celebrating the arrival of the new Lord Liang Cheng, and was even more excited by his inexplicable and veiled affection for Mu Huai'an, and was delighted to have such a powerful ally of a big country.

Mu Ziling was forgotten by everyone, he was depressed and sad all by himself, wondering why the boy he had promised didn't come, isn't it "the next year"?Did he hear wrong?

But in fact, Qin Yi never missed the appointment.

After he ascended the throne, he left everything and came to Yunyan non-stop, before the last spring flower withered, he was going to meet his sweetheart.