I see the snow

In the next few days, Yinzhichuan went to see Zhaoyue.

Zhaoyue was imprisoned in a dungeon, and Yin Zhichuan used money and borrowed Chu Yuan's thin noodles to temporarily transfer her to a wing of Guanxing Pavilion.Guarded by the people of Qin Tianjian.

"Seventh Young Master, don't worry."

The singer described her as embarrassed and unkempt, and she couldn't see half of the elegance she used to have when she was in Qiushui Pavilion.

She straightened her messy hair and said in a low voice, "Everyone has their own destiny, it's no big deal."

"Has Zhu Shifeng looked for you recently?"

Yin Zhichuan asked.

"He said that I followed him, so he crossed me off the list."

Answer according to the month.

"Sure enough, it's the bastard's fault."

Yinzhichuan sneered: "No one else thinks it's too long...but the sacrificial ceremony will be held on the [-]th of next month. Before that, the Qin Tianjian can't touch you. You...you don't have to be afraid. I will Find a way to rescue you."

Zhaoyue shook her head: "I don't want to trouble the seventh son."

When the woman went to the window and was taken away by Qin Tianjian, she was singing in Qiushui Pavilion.There is no time to change clothes.After staying in the dungeon for a while, it was already filthy.

The singer looked at the window coffin, lowered her eyes and said, "After all... I have nothing to do with your fourth brother."

"It's hard for me to trouble you to worry about me like this."

"What's wrong with you?"

Yin Zhichuan looked at her quietly, was silent for a moment, and said with a smile: "...I don't think my fourth brother wants you to accompany him so early."

However, the more indifferent he is, the more uncomfortable Zhaoyue feels.

She clasped the window coffin tightly with her fingers, looked at the back of her hand, and didn't say anything for a long time.

"You have a good rest."

After a while, Yin Zhichuan sighed and walked out the door.Before leaving the room, he said to Zhaoyue: "... If there is anything, please send me a letter. I... I am a bit more of a jerk than the fourth brother, but I am also reliable."

The feelings in this world are probably so indescribable.

Yinzhichuan thought, if he asked his fourth brother to rank the king, Zhaoyue, and himself in his heart, his fourth brother would probably say that the king was first, Zhaoyue second, and himself last.

But even so, he still lost Zhaoyue.

Because Zhaoyue didn't want a husband who would kill her for the sake of the king.That will make her heart die forever, even if she is alive, she still feels that this love is fragile.

So you can't follow the old path of the fourth brother.

Yinzhichuan warned himself in his heart, and made a silent calculation: In this world, he would rank Xihuai first, then himself, and finally his mother's shit Zhongjun.

Walking slowly back to Zhen Guogong's mansion, Yin Zhichuan was quite silent all the way.

The lips that were always flirtatious and frivolous in the past didn't smile anymore, just faintly.

When I entered the gate of the mansion, I met the servant who was cleaning the gate, and suddenly asked:

"Do you know where Mr. Xihuai is?"

The servant was taken aback: "Master Xihuai?"

"...Stay in Zhanyuan." He said hesitantly, as if he was not sure: "I didn't see you go out this morning."

"Oh--"

Yin Zhichuan said, and then lowered his head again, as if he was preoccupied.

——In fact, from the moment he stepped over the threshold, General Yin couldn't help thinking, should he go to Xi Huai?

They have not seen each other since they separated last night.

It's been five hours, it's strange to think of him.

But go find him, Major General Yin is a little embarrassed because they had a quarrel yesterday.

The reason is this: when he was in bed yesterday, Xi Huai was always indifferent, and he didn't respond to Yin Zhichuan at all.Yin Zhichuan wanted to call him "brother" or "good husband" or something, but Xi Huai gave him a glare.

Although the beauty had tears in her eyes, and she stared at people very coquettishly, but Yin Zhichuan was not happy.

He thought, obviously you did that yourself in the end, and you didn't praise me or anything.Let me go when you're done.

As if he came to prostitute him.

No time to talk for a while.

Did he think he couldn't do without him?

... What a joke, Major General Yin thought with a sneer, he could still bear it for a few hours.

However, Yin Zhichuan struggled mentally for a long time, but his legs seemed to have eyes, and somehow he walked to the gate of Zhanyuan.

Looking at the stone tablet at the entrance of the Xiangyuan, Yin Zhichuan stared at it silently for a while, sighed, and walked in following his heart.

"Xi Huai, Xi Huai?"

In the garden, Yin Zhichuan called Xi Huai's name while walking.

Zhanyuan is very beautiful and quiet. Yinzhichuan used to escape the summer heat here every year when he was young.

Every time he made a sound, he could hear his own footsteps, and then the chirping of insects in the grass.

Bamboo forests can be seen everywhere, and after turning around, there are often winding paths leading to secluded places, and you will encounter a trickling stream.

The stream water hits the round reef, washing up white foam.Surrounded by layers of flowers and trees, there are apricots, yellows and bright reds.Against the lush green leaves, it is really indescribably deep and quiet.

"what are you doing here?"

After walking to a relatively deep place in the garden, Yinzhichuan saw Xihuai's figure beside the bamboo fence by the wall.He couldn't help but smiled and walked over, looking at such a slender and white shadow: "It's almost noon, isn't it hot?"

No matter how hesitant and awkward just now, when he saw Xi Huai's figure, he immediately disappeared.

Xi Huai is picking up fallen flowers on the ground.

He shook his head and said, "Not hot."

"Oh--"

Yinzhichuan tilted his head and said, "Why are you picking this up. Yuqiangwei blooms a lot every summer, so it's not very precious."

With his elbows on his knees, he squatted beside Xi Huai.At first Yin Zhichuan looked at Xi Huai, seeing his porcelain-white graceful profile, but Xi Huai ignored him.

So Yin Zhichuan looked away, and also picked up a rose flower from the ground.But he watched it for a moment, then threw it back to the ground.

For some reason, when Xi Huai was alone, Yin Zhichuan always felt that he was a little unhappy.

"What are you thinking?"

After a moment of silence, he couldn't help asking: "Why do you always seem to be preoccupied....Is what happened to me yesterday making you unhappy?"

"Ok?"

Xi Huai was originally concentrating on picking up Yu Qiangwei, but was slightly taken aback when he heard this.

But then he came back to his senses, shook his head, and said softly, "No."

"—I'm not happy, just because the weather is bad today."

"The weather is bad?"

Now it was Yin Zhichuan's turn to be startled.

He looked up at the clear blue sky.The dazzling sunlight is falling wantonly from the sky, and the ears are full of noisy cicadas.

It is the hottest time of summer, how can the weather be bad?

Probably because he noticed Yinzhichuan's dazed expression, Xihuai smiled and said indifferently:

"The sun is too harsh. I don't like it."

"...the weather."

Yin Zhichuan tried his best to understand Xi Huai's meaning, and reluctantly replied: "The weather is indeed too sunny, which is not good. I don't like it either."

Xi Huai couldn't help laughing, as if he heard Yin Zhichuan tell a joke.

"I don't like the weather because I'm separated from my family and it's a sunny day like this."

The man in white said leisurely: "I don't know why Young General Yin doesn't like the weather?"

Yinzhichuan: "..."

Oh, I almost forgot, this person said that he went to Yunlou because he was abducted and sold by the matchmaker after he separated from his family.

With the sound of cicadas, the heat is higher and higher than the waves.

Xi Huai squatted under the white wall and bamboo fence, carefully picking up flowers.

Looking at it from Yin Zhichuan's perspective, one could see tiny beads of sweat on his delicate porcelain-white cheeks.Beads of sweat rolled from time to time, flowing down the beautiful side neck and dripping into the collar.

Yin Zhichuan is not a man of few words, but for some reason, whenever he is with Xi Huai, he feels as if he is bored.

I don't know what to say.

Xi Huai packed up all the skirts that were used to carry flowers, he stood up, walked to a bamboo basket not far away, and shook Yu Qiangwei into it.

"Xi Huai."

Yin Zhichuan said.

Xi Huai looked at him from afar.

Yinzhichuan picked up a flower, twirling it around on his fingertips.

How can you like me a little bit.

He looked at the flowers and murmured softly.

Xi Huai stood in the distance and waited for a while, but did not get a response.Can't help but frowned:

"What did you say?"

"……nothing."

Yin Xingchuan said, "I'm talking nonsense to myself."

He braced his knees and stood up.It's as if nothing happened, and he still looks like a fool and a dandy.

"Let me tell you a story—"

Yin Zhichuan said: "Tell me a story that makes you happy. It's about a colorful bird that flew over our house before."

When he was in military school, Yin Zhichuan saw that kid Zhao Yunsheng courting a little princess.

The little princess is also like Xi Huai, she doesn't like to talk to people, so Zhao Yunsheng often racks his brains to come up with some interesting stories for her.

Before speaking, he was afraid that he might not perform well, so he took Yin Zhichuan, Qin Ge, Wang Wu and other bad friends to be his audience first, and practiced.

At that time, Yin Zhichuan thought it was really stupid, he stayed with you, could it be that he wanted to hear your stories?

If you want to hear a story, why don't you go to a teahouse? The storyteller's book is much better than yours.

But until today, he gradually understood that if you like someone, you want to stay with him.

Staying together, he ignores you, but you want to talk to him.After this, you are the only one left to tell the story, isn't it just telling the story?

The crappy and clumsy way of changing words and sentences, I want to amuse him, make him happy, see him smile, and you will be very happy in your heart.

But as everyone knows, a person will only be teased by the person he likes. If he doesn't like you at all, no matter how much you tease him, he won't talk to you.

"When the five-colored divine bird came, what was planted here was not a bamboo forest, but a purple lily of the valley."

Yinzhichuan gestured and said slowly.

In fact, the story Yin Zhichuan wants to tell is simple and complex.

When Yinzhichuan was about ten years old, a luan bird with gorgeous feathers suddenly inhabited their house and laid an egg in the place where the bamboo forest is now planted.

The song of this bird is tactful and extremely pleasant.A Feng Shui master said that this is a "manman", a bird that belongs to Wujian.It is the little bird under the seat of the Infernal Lord.

When the Infernal Lord was writing his life notation, he often felt bored, so he ordered it to sing to relieve boredom.

Therefore, whenever this kind of bird crows, it means that an extremely important event will happen in the fate of the head of the house, which will become a turning point in this life.

Although the Zhen Guogong Mansion was peaceful and quiet that year, no major incidents happened.But Yin Zhichuan's father felt that the colorful luan sparrow was considered a divine bird after all, and was extremely rare in normal times, not to mention that he even laid an egg in his own home, so he reported it to the late emperor, asking him to come and reward him.

The first emperor was also overjoyed, and immediately ordered Hongluqing to take advantage of the auspicious time, and planned to set up a ride to enjoy the birds half a month later.

However, the development of the matter was quite unexpected. On the third day after the Zhenguo Gazette was delivered to the late emperor, this precious and rare colorful luan bird died.

"……died?"

Xi Huai was taken aback, a little unbelievable, and asked, "How did you die?"

"That's how he died."

Yinzhichuan said: "I don't know who broke the egg of this luan bird. It was so sad that it cried for two days, and lost all its feathers. It died on the third day."

"..."

"This……"

Xi Huai was speechless.

"My father is angry."

Yin Zhichuan said, with a wry smile: "He ordered a search of the whole house to find the person who broke the bird's eggs. In the end, there were no clues, so the suspicion fell on me."

Xi Huai looked at him, frowned, and asked:

"...is that you?"

"Of course not!"

Yin Zhichuan suddenly raised his voice.

After about so long, he still felt aggrieved, and said, "How could it be me? That day I was honest and went to fight on the street as usual. I went there as soon as the school practice was over, and I didn't return home. How could it be possible to climb over the wall?" Climb a tree trunk and accidentally break that bird's egg? I'm wronged!"

Xi Huai: "..."

"But I'm usually the one who causes the most trouble at home."

Yinzhichuan sighed, and said, "When something goes wrong, my father always suspects me. If I had known, I wouldn't have climbed over the wall so many times."

"Have you ever climbed over walls before?"

Xi Huai asked.

"It's not a lot."

Yin Zhichuan recalled it for a while, and reckoned, "It's probably a few hundred times more than the number of times he walked through the main entrance."

"..."

"Hey, anyway, my father was very angry that time. Because it has been reported to the first emperor, it is very unlucky for the colorful luan bird to die at this time.... He tied me and knelt at the gate of Jinghua Palace, and beat me two hundred soldiers A stick....A military stick is different from a cane. The cane is painful at most, but it will be fine after ten days. The military stick is different. That time, the military stick really almost beat me for the rest of my life. I can't even stand up."

Xi Huai looked at Yinzhichuan.

The noon sun fell, and through the bamboo forest and tall trees, it was mottled.

But the young general had an indifferent smile on his face, his eyes narrowed slightly, and the look on his face didn't look sad or aggrieved, but rather relaxed and indifferent.

If you look carefully... you will find some indescribable softness and nostalgia.

"I was beaten down in the rain by him. It was my fifth brother who dragged me back to the house like a dead dog..."

Yin Zhichuan said: "Actually, I'm a little skeptical. The person who really accidentally broke the bird's egg may be my fifth brother. He goes out every Thursday to listen to the book of the scholar's speech."

"... Later, when he took care of me, he said that if my leg was not healed, he would give me back his leg. Later... every time we went out, he would always stand in front of me on the battlefield and replace me. He was injured several times. Every time he said, he wanted me to follow him."

Yin Zhichuan laughed, thinking that those days were really good, every one of the brothers was there, and the mansion was beating wildly, not as silent as it is now.

Even with all the lights on, it looks desolate.

Xi Huai stared at Yinzhichuan, Yinzhichuan thought for a while and said, "Actually, I have forgiven him a long time ago."

"Without him, I might have died on the battlefield long ago. He has protected me several times, and he has paid off long ago."

"Is that a good day?"

After a long time, Xihuai asked softly.

"It was a good day."

Yinzhichuan answered seriously: "We play with guns, drink, and play together every day. Occasionally, when the old man is away, we go to the tallest Misty Building in the Capital of Stars and Fields to look down and see famous prostitutes and beauties coming and going."

"My sixth brother and I like to eat wine, the fifth brother is obedient to the book, the fourth brother likes to go to Qiushui Pavilion, and the third brother occasionally wanders silently in front of Miss Qingqing's mansion, but never dares to knock on the door... The second brother has raised a child." Just a cricket, my eldest brother loves to study cooking. I really miss the days when we ate wine and played dice together, and played horses freely..."

Xi Huai slightly bent the corners of his lips, and said after a long time:

"...everyone has a good time."

Then he stood up, walked to the bamboo basket where the rain rose was collected, got up and left.

Yinzhichuan: "..."

"Hey."

He said, "Why are you going?"

"Wine."

Xi Huai didn't even look back.

"..."

Yinzhichuan was silent, watching his back from where he was.

This guy just walks away.

he thought to himself.

A lot of accumulated leaves fell on the tree-lined path that Xihuai walked, and the shuttle-shaped bamboo leaves were like boats, lying there quietly.

They are all blown down by the wind, spreading a thin layer on the ground and rustling when you walk on it.

The light and shadow of the day were also chopped up, shining on the ground, dangling, dangling.

Yinzhichuan stayed where he was for a while, then he stood up after a while, and chased after him:

"Wait a minute! I'm with you."

——He left as soon as he said, and it’s fine if you go after him.

Yin Zhichuan finally figured it out.

……

In the afternoon, Xihuai brewed a jar of flower wine with Yu Qiangwei.

It is buried in the ground and taken out after [-] days.

Put in white wine, rock sugar, and rose petals, seal it well, and wrap it carefully with hemp rope.

Yinzhichuan has been helping Xihuai all the time, from finding airtight jars, to shoveling soil, and digging small pits, all of which are done by him.Xi Huai didn't let Xi Huai do anything at all.

Even Xi Huai's white clothes were clean, not stained with any dirt.

Finally, when Xi Huai was sitting on the steps looking at the moon, he originally wanted to lean over immediately, but after thinking about it for a long time, he decided to take a bath first.

"What are you thinking about?"

Yin Zhichuan changed into clean clothes, and sat down next to Xi Huai in a refreshing manner.

He really deserves to be the dandy who has won the most ladies' hearts among the sons and daughters of the capital of the stars. He just put on a casual robe so casually, and even the collar button on the top of the collar was not fastened.

It showed a kind of neat and dry youthful spirit.

Yin Zhichuan pretended to be casual and sat beside Xi Huai.

"If you have anything on your mind, you can tell me."

Yin Zhichuan said: "If you are bored in your heart, you will get bored."

"No."

However, Xi Huai said lightly: "I'm not thinking about anything. I'm just looking at the moon."

The moon is bright and cold, it will always be there, but it will never be touched by people.

With his hands behind his back, Yin Zhichuan looked up at the moon like Xi Huai.

But he felt that his moon was not in the sky, but beside him.

"Why are you always unhappy..."

For the second time, Yin Zhichuan brought up this topic and said softly: "I want to make you laugh, but you always seem unhappy."

"Why don't you tell me what's wrong with you? Maybe I can help you solve it... It's not peaceful outside, and Shengyang is getting more and more chaotic. But you are with me, and this Suzaku Avenue will always be safe Yes, without any wind or rain."

These were the words that Yin Zhichuan had been brewing in his heart for a long time when he was taking a bath just now, and he finally said them out.

stable.

This is indeed a very moving word, especially in the current Shengyang.

If you go to a dark alley a few streets away and tell the people there to follow you, you can live a stable life.With clothes to wear and food to eat, you don’t have to worry about getting sick, and you don’t need to sleep with a knife under your pillow. It is estimated that a lot of people will rush to come.

However, when Xi Huai heard this, he only smiled lightly and asked:

"Does Major General Yin say such sweet words to everyone he has slept with?"

"..."

"I don't—" Yu Xidu's house

Yin Zhichuan said immediately, feeling that he had to refute his innocence.Where did he say this to everyone he slept with?

Where can he even use the rhetoric of "everyone" to describe people who have slept?

There is clearly only one!

However, Xi Huai had already interrupted him, saying: "I don't want to live like that."

"I don't want to..."

He paused, looked at the dazed Yin Zhichuan, and said, "Stable life. Thank you."

"...I have something I have to do."

Xi Huai really has a pale and desolate appearance, which makes people feel weak and needs to be protected.Free from wind and rain.

When Yin Zhichuan saw him say "I don't want to live a stable life" to himself now, he couldn't help being slightly stunned for a moment.

"A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, don't you know?"

Xi Huai said: "A stable and ordinary life...is not suitable for me either."

"Could it be that you want to worry about the country and the people and devote yourself to it?"

Yin Zhichuan asked suspiciously.He frowned slightly and looked at Xi Huai, thinking about what the person in front of him had said to him.

Xi Huai is a scholar, but he is completely different from Lin Kun.

Yin Zhichuan had no doubts about this.

"No."

Xi Huai smiled slightly, and said, "Let me tell you a story too. It's a story about the best days outside the capital of stars and fields, which are completely different from what you said."