lord and beauty

In the twenty-fourth year of the year, a heavy snow swept Sifang City.

The sky is gray, like a layer of gray veil, snowflakes are falling from the sky one after another, covering all the colors between the sky and the earth, only a piece of heavy snow is left, occasionally showing a few touches of gray brown and dark red, which are the exposed roof and red. lantern.

The corridor was wet, and the wind blew snowflakes into the house, which collided with the warmth of the charcoal brazier in the house, and fell on the edge of the window and turned into a puddle of water stains, soaking it all up.

Standing by the window, Tan Qiu stretched out his hand with the palm facing up, and then the snowflakes were blown by the wind, his cheeks were covered with a thin layer of red by the cold wind, and his delicate and gorgeous face was hidden under a ball of rabbit down In the middle, the thick and slender eyelashes flickered, and he watched the falling snow with some excitement, "It has been snowing for two days, and I have never seen such a heavy snowfall in the south of the Yangtze River! Wait for the snow to lighten." , let’s go out and make snow to play!”

Jiang Beimu was wearing a large black gown, the cuffs were embroidered with auspicious cloud patterns with gold thread patterns, and a bright green jade bead was inlaid on the collar buckle at the neck, which was particularly eye-catching. The fox fur coat came slowly, He just glanced at the flying snow casually, then turned his gaze back to Tan Qiu's hairline.

"Where's the hairpin I gave you? Why don't you wear it?"

Tan Qiu blinked, and said innocently: "I'm afraid that if I wear it all day and it breaks, I'll put it in the cabinet. After all, it's something you gave me, so I don't want to take care of it." .”

"I gave it to you to wear it for you." Jiang Beimu could only shake his head helplessly when he saw Tan Qiu's righteousness, and turned around to the table and reached out to take out a red brocade box from the cabinet. Inside the brocade box was a Slender silver hairpin.

The silver hairpin was carved into a pine shape, with a slender body and four or five green jade beads embedded in the head of the hairpin. The smoothness was very similar to the one on Jiang Beimu's clothes.

Jiang Beimu took the silver hairpin, walked back to the window again, and put it on for Tan Qiu, half-forcedly saying: "Put on what is given to you, do you have to let me see it?"

Tan Qiu responded with a smile, and stretched out his wet and cool hands stained by snow particles to touch Jiang Beimu's cheek, "It's so cold—!"

Jiang Beimu shook his head helplessly, and held Tan Qiu's hand behind his back, covering it with his own body temperature.

Tan Qiu got his wish, and then settled down.

I don't know if it's because of martial arts or what, even in winter, Jiang Beimu's body is as hot as a stove, which is cheaper than Tan Qiu, who always stretches out his hand for Jiang Beimu to cover him from time to time.

Feeling the warm touch from his hands, Tan Qiu took a step forward and hugged Jiang Beimu very naturally. The two of them hugged each other without saying a word, and watched the heavy snow outside the window so quietly. It seems that there is only this small world left in the huge world.

"I don't know if this snow will fall until New Year's Eve."

The snow in front of him showed no signs of stopping, looking at the gray sky, Tan Qiu couldn't help but speak.

Jiang Beimu didn't take it seriously, "Let's go down now, the shop is closed now, so I won't go out when it snows."

Not going out?That's not going to happen, just now I borrowed Samu's favor, if this snow spoils this good deed, Tan Qiu will regret it for a whole year.

Desire to prolong

"No, you have to go out!"

Jiang Beimu didn't think much when he heard the words, but thought that Tan Qiu was afraid of boredom, so he responded casually, "Okay, go out." After saying that, he reached out and wanted to close the window, "It's snowing heavily, or Close the windows so the wind doesn't come in."

Looking at the snowflakes falling like goose feathers, Tan Qiu felt a bit reluctant to part with such a scenery, and bargained with Jiang Beimu: "Just close one door, and open the other one, I want to see the snow."

"Forget it, it's up to you." Seeing this, Jiang Beimu no longer insisted, and just reached out to close the window next to Tan Qiu. Seeing Tan Qiu supporting the window frame with his hands, he looked at the snow scene outside the window with joy. , I don't know why I also feel light in my heart, but I can also arouse a little appreciation of the snow, and look out the window with Tan Qiu.

"Has the master ever encountered such a heavy snow before?" Tan Qiu looked at a field of white snow.

Feeling a bit of coldness belatedly, he couldn't help but drill in Jiang Beimu's direction.

"It often snows in the capital city in winter, but there are people from the palace to sweep it early in the morning, and it is rarely piled up." Jiang Beimu stretched out his hand to tighten the cloak for Tan Qiu, and then took him into his arms, with rough palms Holding Tan Qiu's cold hand, gently rubbing his fingertips to keep him warm.

The sky and the earth are vast, only the humming wind sweeps across the courtyard, Tan Qiu relaxes and leans back into Jiang Beimu's arms, relying on such a big heater, Tan Qiu just feels that there is no better season than winter... …

"Master hasn't been home for a long time."

Jiang Beimu paused for a moment. Needless to say, the home mentioned by Tan Qiu should be the border town where he was born. This is not a difficult question to answer. It was only when Tan Qiu asked this question that Jiang Beimu suddenly responded. Come here, it has been almost a year since I left that place.

"After the new year is over." Jiang Beimu sighed inexplicably, and muttered to himself, not knowing if he was telling Tan Qiu or himself, "I didn't expect it to be almost a year."

Tan Qiu let out a "huh", there was something that had been in his heart for a long time, he used to not be able to ask, but now that he got the "jade bracelet", Tan Qiu seemed to have won some kind of gold medal for avoiding death, and his confidence was also full, so that's it Hesitantly opened the mouth through the words:

"There is one thing... I have been thinking about it for a long time. I used to think it was not easy for me to ask, but now I think that since the master also recognizes me, I still have to figure it out."

Tan Qiu was always outspoken, and he said what he had to say, but Jiang Beimu was a little surprised at this moment when he was hesitating and considering his words, and his heart sank, and he said, "Say it."

"It's about the baby." Tan Qiu was worried that Jiang Beimu thought he had other plans, so he spoke first, and then slowly said: "The baby is still so young, and the master has not been here for a long time, this is another matter." The shop is also a family business, so you have been busy for so long, but you still haven't seen the baby's biological mother?"

After Tan Qiuyan quietly looked sideways at Jiang Beimu, seeing his brows slightly frowned, his thin lips tightly pursed, and his face showing a look of unpredictability, Tan Qiu's heart tightened slightly when he saw this, if it was before, he would definitely apologize immediately and take it back It's over, but at this moment, even if Tan Qiu risks angering Jiang Beimu, he still wants to clarify this matter.

But soon, the anxiety on Jiang Beimu's face disappeared without a trace, and he returned to his usual indifference, but those eyes were as deep as water, as if he had made up his mind.

"Since you asked, let me say more." Jiang Beimu let out a breath, which was soon blown away in the cold wind.

Tan Qiu was a little nervous, thinking that Jiang Beimu's situation seemed to be dragging him down.

"I told you before that my mother was seriously ill after my father passed away, barely able to maintain the life of our mother and child. Later, she couldn't afford it. Before I left her, I saw her many times. People secretly wiped tears under the lamplight, obviously she is still very young, but her head is full of white hair."

Jiang Beimu looked out the window while talking, the cold wind carried snowflakes into the window, fell on the back of Jiang Beimu's hand, and was instantly melted by his body temperature, turning into a crystal drop of water, Tan Qiu watched That drop of water just felt like tears.

"I saw her writing a letter under the lamp, and asked me to send it to the post station the next day. I asked her who it was for, but she didn't answer, but she kept crying. Since then, I dare not ask her again. I'm afraid She's sad."

"From then on, I secretly ran out to work and earn money, but I was too young at the time, no one wanted me, only the owner of a sesame seed shop saw me pitifully, and asked me to help cook the fire every morning, and he gave me Two coins and two pieces of cake." Jiang Beimu seemed a little funny when he said this, and couldn't help but shook his head, and continued: "I was so happy that day, I couldn't wait to go back with the cake and money, and wanted to tell Mom, I can support the family."

"It's just that when I got home, someone was already waiting for me inside."

Tan Qiu blinked, turned sideways and hugged Jiang Beimu's waist with both hands, looked at Jiang Beimu from bottom to top, and whispered: "Are you from the capital?"

"To be precise, they are from my grandfather's family."

Tan Qiu said "Oh" and nodded.

"My mother asked me to leave with them. I refused, so they said they would take good care of my mother. To this day, I am still very grateful to the elder brother who took me away. He did fulfill his promise to me. When I left All those years at home, he had trustees to look after my mother."

"I followed them, and only then did I realize that the world is so big, not just a small town and endless grasslands, but also small bridges and flowing water, towering mountains, vast deserts like the sea, and lush green forests .”

"It was also from that day that I realized that my maternal ancestor's home was the Zhen Guogong's mansion in the capital."

Tan Qiu responded first, then widened his eyes suddenly, raised his head in disbelief and exclaimed, "Zhen Guo Gongfu?!"

Looking at his expression admiringly, Jiang Bei couldn't help being startled, "You know?"

Tan Qiu blinked and said honestly: "I don't know, I just think that someone with this name should be very powerful, is he a relative of the emperor?"

Jiang Beimu laughed, and couldn't help reaching out and pinching Tan Qiu's cheek.

"Yes, I won't go into details about them. In short, they took me in and let me do some chores with a martial arts leader in the Duke's mansion. It's just that the martial arts leader saw that I was good at martial arts, so he mentioned more on weekdays. After a few months of living in peace with me, I met my master while I was out shopping. He promoted me and sent me to the military camp to work under his command. This lasted four years. .”

"I won't say much about what happened later. In short, it was so unsurprising. I went to the front line, step by step from a small soldier to a corporal commander, and then to the final general. It was also during those years that I met Zhou Zhang and Han. Wei."

Tan Qiu has long known from Xiao Ye that Zhou Zhang is Jiang Beimu's good brother who has been through life and death, but he has never heard of the other person's name.

"Han Wei is...?"

Jiang Beimu's eyes darkened, he sighed and said, "He and Zhou Zhang were my left and right lieutenants, and Han Wei is also Zheng'er's uncle."

"Ah!" Tan Qiu really understood this time, and couldn't help but let out an exclamation.