Hot as China, cold as snow

The first heavy snow in early winter covered the whole world.Beautiful and transparent ice crystals were left on the bare branches and under the dark yellow dead grass.

A six or seven-year-old child dressed in a brocade robe, wearing leather boots, and wearing two small buns on his head was playing with footprints on the snow.Snowflakes fell and whitened the eyebrows, and even the long eyelashes were stained with a little snowflakes.The snowflakes fell on his head and melted and condensed quickly, sticking the neat bangs on his forehead into wet strands that swayed slightly with his movements.He was playing vigorously but suddenly raised his head, instead of looking at the ground, he was staring at the side of the big tree not far away.A noise came from somewhere, breaking the rare tranquility in the heavy snow.

The little boy hid curiously behind the tree. It was the emperor's brother Liu Chengyin, and other brothers and sisters in the palace were surrounding a strange little boy, punching and kicking him, and none of the maids and father-in-laws stopped him.

"You spy, who told you to come here." A slightly older boy dressed in bright yellow was obviously the leader of this group of children, and his identity was distinguished by his clothes.This person is Liu Chengyin.

"Kill him, kill him, he is a thief stealing things." A group of children started to boo.

The oldest child among the children reached out and roughly grabbed the half of the cake that was tightly held in the hand of the bruised and swollen little boy, threw the half of the cake on the ground and crushed it with his feet: "I call you Eat, tell you to steal, you bastard, go back to your country!" After speaking, he raised his fist and wanted to hit him again.

The delicate-looking kid hiding behind the tree couldn't stand it anymore, so he rushed up rashly, tightly protecting the boy who was huddled under him: "Stop, Brother Huang, please spare him! Let's fight again Killed."

"Get out of the way, do you know who you are protecting? It's a spy, get out of the way." The boy in the bright yellow clothes pinched his waist with both hands, and angrily yelled at the child.

The child opened his arms to protect the person below him. He is slender and short, and he can only look up at the elder brother Liu Chengyin in front of him, but he still looks straight at him with unyielding eyes: "Don't let me!"

The crown prince Liu Chengyin was very domineering, pointing at the child with his finger: "Okay, okay! Don't think that father and uncle are protecting you and you are amazing. I am the prince."

The father-in-law at the side saw that things were not good, so he quickly grabbed the child in bright yellow clothes: "His Royal Highness, sir is still waiting for you! You are late, but you have to endorse and be punished again." His Royal Highness glanced at the young father-in-law , and glanced at the stubborn child in front of him again: "Liu Moran, you'll be lucky if you wait for me this time. Let's go!"

A group of people left with a bang, but the originally flat and white ground was broken and messy.Liu Moran turned around and lowered his head to observe the children huddled up in the snow at close range.The little boy was wearing thin clothes and it was difficult to resist the cold. Some parts of his hands were frostbitten, and his face was also red from the cold. Although his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and there were bloodshot corners of his mouth, he still had delicate features.

"Does it hurt? You are not allowed to walk around here. This time you met me, otherwise you will be beaten even worse."

Liu Moran took out a handkerchief to wipe off the blood from the corner of his mouth, but the little boy waved it open and pushed him to the ground: "You don't need to pretend to be kind."

"Why are you talking like that!" Liu Moran sat awkwardly on the snow and looked a little sad. The little boy ignored him, slowly stood up from the ground, wiped his face with his hands casually, and limped forward go.

"Hey, hey, you're seriously injured!" Liu Moran felt that if he didn't care about him, he would really freeze to death with such thin clothes.He also got up from the snow and followed him all the way.

The road was long and far away, and the two of them walked to the most remote corner of the palace one after the other.It's not the cold palace, but it's colder than the cold palace. This is a place Liu Moran has never been to before. In front of him is the old house in the palace that has been abandoned for many years.

"Whose family are you a child? Why do you live here? Why haven't I seen you in the palace!" Liu Moran frowned and thought: "Live here! You can't be, are you Shunhui? The empire sent our country as a hostage"

"Are you annoying?" The boy turned his head and gave Liu Moran a hard look.

"Sure enough, it's broken down like this." Liu Moran's voice became smaller and smaller, as if he was talking to himself, he thought for a while and said, "You wait for me, I'll be back later." After finishing speaking, after a while Just ran away without a trace.The little boy looked at his back with a sneering expression that didn't match his age, turned around and walked into this precarious house with a look of disdain.People who run away in fright when they hear that he is a hostage sent by the enemy country are not qualified to be seen by him.

Yes, he is the ridiculous prince of the Shunhui Empire. His father died of a serious illness, and the whole country has no leader.Uncle Leng Ce assisting the country, he said clearly that he sent himself, the so-called prince, to the enemy country as a hostage in order to avoid the war, but in fact, didn't he want to use the enemy country's hand to get rid of himself, the person who hindered him from ascending to the throne of God?After all the calculations, I didn't figure out that I have a back hand, but now is not the time.The queen mother is a girl-like generation, and she has no backing. She is bullied by Leng Ce every day. I don't know what is going on in the harem of the Shunhui Empire?

Now everything can only depend on himself, he kicked the stove for heating, and the iron and iron collided with each other and made a 'jingling' sound.The iron stove was also full of ice cold. No one in the Chengtian Empire would care about him as a so-called 'spies'. There was no fire or food today.

Sighing, there are branches I have accumulated for a few days under the bed, which I picked up every day before dawn when there was no one around, and I can't use it now, the winter is so long, how can I survive the cold weather?He couldn't hold on any longer, but he couldn't, sooner or later, he would take revenge and make those who hurt him all prostrate at his feet.

He walked to the snow outside, picked up the snow on the ground and wiped it on his face fiercely, he had to cheer up.

"Here you are." A familiar voice came, and he didn't even need to look up to know it was the noisy little girl just now. He looked up and saw a calico bundle, and he knocked that bundle down to the ground with too much force, together with the Liu Moran was also dragged to the ground: "It's not that easy to harm me."

The things in the baggage were scattered all over the floor, and when he saw the things inside, his words got stuck.That's clothes, wound medicine, and food.He was embarrassed, he misunderstood Liu Moran's kindness.

Liu Moran didn't get up, but quietly fell down on the snow and looked at the thing in his hand, it was a jade pendant that was broken in two.That was the only thing his mother left him, and he always cherished it and never left him.Just when he fell to the ground, he accidentally fell to the ground.He silently looked at the jade pendant that was broken into two in his hand, tears fell silently: "This is my birthday present from my mother, the only thing he left me." His tone was lonely.

He didn't want to care about people and things that had nothing to do with him, but he still couldn't hold back when he heard the word 'mother': "I hate it the most, the little girl is crying, and she still doesn't come in." With a blunt tone, he turned around and took the lead. out of the house.

Liu Moran quickly wiped away her tears, put away the jade pendant, stood up, randomly picked up the scattered things on the ground, followed into the house, and argued: "I'm not a girl, I'm a boy."

The inside of the house is very simple, with a dilapidated wooden board as a bed, a cold stove, a stone hearth, and no water and rice in the pot.There is not even a stool, and there is an old mahogany cabinet with peeling paint and mottled.

"Looking at your clothes and hair accessories, you are obviously a girl, how can you say that you are a boy?" The boy cast a cold glance and asked casually.

"No, a fortune teller told my fate when I was born, saying that my fate was destined to be fatal. My parents were afraid that they would not be able to support me, so they raised me as a girl since I was a child." Liu Moran withdrew his eyes from looking at the room.

"What are you doing back here?" He asked indifferently.

"This is for you." Liu Moran smiled and lifted up the messy package in his arms, this smile was reflected in his eyes, it was as bright as stars.

"You came back just for this?" He asked in disbelief.

"Yes! Because I saw your clothes, wounds, and half of the pancake that was trampled by Brother Huang, I brought these over."

"Blade. Cold Black Blade"

"What?" Liu Moran didn't know why.

"My name." He already recognized him as his friend, so he was willing to tell him his name.

"You are willing to tell me your name, you can call me Ran, Liu Moran." Liu Moran is very happy, they are friends!In this palace, the prince was the most alienated by other children because the emperor and his father treated him very well.Only some eunuchs and maids pretended to please themselves.Now he's the first friend of his own!

He was thinking about it, but heard another question from Ren: "Is that jade pendant left to you by your mother?"

"Yes."

"Bring it." Leng Xuanyan stretched out his hand to Liu Moran.

"Why?" Liu Moran grasped the jade pendant tightly but did not give Leng Xuan the blade.

Leng Xuanyan said awkwardly, "I'll return it to you when I fix it."

"Actually, you're pretty good." Liu Moran handed the jade pendant to Ren.

He wore the clothes he sent to warm his body and heart, he ate the meals he brought, watched Liu Moran carefully apply the medicine for himself with the wound medicine and handkerchief, thinking that it would be nice to have friends.Why not do things that can benefit you?

"Fake girl."

"What are you doing? Brat, I have a name." Liu Moran didn't raise his head, and was still doing the work in hand carefully.

"It's okay." He turned his head awkwardly, and wanted to say thank you, but he didn't say it.

"How did you come here all this time? I'll accompany you in the future." Liu Moran felt that these were ordinary words, but when he heard them in Jian's ears, there was a ripple in his heart.

"What?" No one had ever said anything like that to him.

"I said I'll be with you, and I won't let others bully you again."

Leng Xuanyan turned his head bluntly, and said coldly: "No need." But in his heart, he felt that the feeling of being protected was so good.

This winter, Leng Xuanren was neither cold nor hungry.He lived through the winter on the food and coals he smuggled daily.

That year Leng Xuanyan was eight years old and Liu Moran was seven years old.