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The snow lasted for half a month, and it finally cleared up one afternoon, the temperature gradually rose, and the heavy snow began to melt slowly.

Because of its magnificent scenery, the Wusong Mountain in the south of the city attracts many people to go up the mountain every winter.Due to the heavy snowfall recently, the snow is thick and the mountain road is difficult to walk. No one has gone up the mountain for many days.

Bai Lian also likes to go to Wusong Mountain, not because he is greedy for the beautiful scenery, but because his master lives in the mountain.

The pear blossoms in the courtyard hadn't bloomed yet, and the thyme went around the backyard, and decided to pick a few cyclamen to send to his master, so as to decorate the small house that looked like no one lived there.

There is a secluded path behind the mansion to go up the mountain, but few people know about it.

The mountain road was slippery and difficult to walk, and Baili’s legs were good. This time it took a little longer to go up the mountain than before. It was already noon when we reached the mountain, and we could see wisps of cooking smoke wafting from the bamboo hut.

Baili Eucalyptus was standing outside the door and smelled it, "Master has stewed chicken soup today, and roasted taro."

"Master, I'm coming..." Before he had time to fully push the door open, the door was pulled open from the inside.

Holding a bouquet of flowers and hugging a cat, Bai Lian directly crashed into the arms of the man behind the door, and Crescent Moon was knocked and jumped away.

"Be careful!" Jiang Weiyan supported Bai Lian to look him up and down, and asked anxiously, "Did you bump into something?"

"It's okay, let me go first." Bai Lian took a step back, "Why are you here?"

Jiang Weiyan pulled the man in, closed the door, and said, "Looking for my uncle, what's the matter?"

"Uncle?" Bai Lian almost crushed the flower branch in his hand, "Who do you say is your uncle?!"

Doctor Yuan Yu happened to come out from the kitchen in the distance, with a cup of soup in his hand, he smiled at Bai Lian, "Xiaobai, here you come, come and eat."

"Okay, come right away." Bai Lian responded, and then asked in a low voice, "Don't tell me that he is your uncle."

"What should we do?" Jiang Weiyan pushed him forward, couldn't help laughing, "He really is."

"..."

The thyme really crushed the flowering branches.

A square table, Yuanyu genius doctor sitting in the main seat, Baili Eucalyptus on the left, Jiang Weiyan on the right, and the bender sitting on the chair who didn't know what happened, but felt that the atmosphere was not right. moon.

"Before I eat, can I get an explanation?" Bai Lian pointed at Jiang Weiyan, looked at Yuan Yu's genius doctor, and forced a smile, "Am I confused to be his senior or junior?"

Yuan Yu coughed and said, "Junior brother."

Bai Lian: "...But I am obviously two years older than him."

"But his master is his father. If you want to count the apprenticeship time, I'm afraid..."

Bai Lian waved his hand helplessly, "Okay, I see."

Jiang Weiyan smiled and poured a bowl of chicken soup for Baili Eucalyptus, "Please take care of me, Junior Brother Xiaobai."

"..." Xiao Bai got goose bumps from being shouted.

Bai Lian accepted his fate: "So you sent a letter from Feiyan a few days ago to let me come here today, just to talk to me about this?"

"Master wanted to let you two senior brothers meet, and it just so happened that Ah Yan also came back. I never thought you knew each other..." Yuan Yu's eyes flicked back and forth between the two of them, "The relationship doesn't seem to be very good."

Jiang Weiyan immediately replied: "We have a very good relationship, uncle Shi is too worried."

"That's good. Brothers in the same sect should love each other and help each other."

Thyme raised his head from the soup bowl, "Huh???"

"By the way, Xiaobai, have you finished taking the medicine that Master gave you earlier?"

Jiang Weiyan ate quietly, seemingly not paying attention to their conversation.Feng Zhi probably told Feng Yi about his leg illness, so Jiang Weiyan must have known about it too.

This made Bai Lian feel a little more relaxed.

"There should be one or two postings, but the weather has gradually warmed up recently, and my legs don't hurt anymore, so I don't need to take medicine regularly, right?"

Yuan Yu frowned, "No, master will get you some medicine later, your body needs long-term recuperation."

Eucalyptus Baili inexplicably felt a bitter taste in his mouth, "...can you prescribe a non-bitter medicine?"

"Master is not a cook. Naturally, the medicine must be selected to be effective. So why not be a little bit bitter? Even a little bit of bitterness..."

"You can't bear this little bit of suffering, what will you do if there are more hardships in your life in the future?" Baili Eucalyptus said lazily, "I will recite them all."

Yuan Yu: "..."

Yuan Yu lives on the east side of the Wusong Mountain. Because of its remote location, it is a rare place to relax.

Yuan Yu checked Baili's legs, gave him a few injections, and forced him to drink up the medicine before letting him go.

There is still a thin layer of snow hanging on the cedar in front of the door. Thin eucalyptus was idle and bored, bent over to fish a few stones from the ground, leaned against the door and threw stones at the cedar in the distance, the snow fell rustlingly, very beautiful up.

"When did you master it?" Jiang Weiyan appeared behind him at some unknown time, sticking a little close.He reached out and took a stone from Thyme's hand, but he couldn't throw Thyme's strength like autumn wind sweeping leaves.

"Huh?" Bai Lian looked at his hands, threw a few stones out at once, and said casually, "What do you mean, I've been idle in the mansion for the past few years, and I've learned a bit."

In the large expanse of falling snow, he laughed at himself: "After all, I have bad legs, so I can only practice my hands."

Jiang Weiyan looked at his legs, and said distressedly: "Why didn't you tell me about the leg disease? Are you still uncomfortable?"

Bai Lian stomped his feet back and forth, expressing that there was no serious problem, "It's okay now, I've survived the pain even worse than now, and it's nothing anymore."

"You always like to hide your thoughts, you used to be, and you still are now. I always guess your thoughts, but I can't figure it out." Jiang Weiyan pointed to Baili's heart with his fingers, and looked straight into his eyes , "You are here, can someone walk in?"

"Jiang Weiyan, don't test me. I should have answered similar questions before. If you don't remember, I can say it again." Bai Lian clenched his palms and looked back at him without flinching. Although he was smiling, The tone was firm, "I won't like anyone."

No one spoke for a long time, only the sound of birds landing on the cedar and flying away, followed by the sound of fine snow falling from the cedar hitting the ground.

Very light, but people can hear clearly.

"I haven't forgotten." Jiang Weiyan said hoarsely, "But I'm willing to wait."

Bai Lian was stunned when he heard the words, and after a while, he murmured softly: "I can't wait for a few years."

"what?"

"It's nothing." Baili An squatted down, beckoned Wanyue to come over, and picked up the cat with a big hand, "Please tell Master, I'm going down the mountain first."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left without stopping.

Bai Lian didn't let go of the hand he had been holding tightly until he was almost at the foot of the mountain and made sure that no one could see it.Because it was hidden under the robe, no one knew that the palm of that hand had been worn away by rough gravel, and the smell of blood was faintly permeating.

Drops of blood slid to the ground, mottled.

Jiang Weiyan returned to the main hall distractedly, and couldn't help sighing while sitting on the chair.

"A good relationship?" Yuan Yu teased.

"It was not good just now." Jiang Weiyan forcefully saved face, scratched his head and said, "It was good before."

"No wonder Xiaobai didn't interrupt when I said this just now, so I can't answer."

Jiang Weiyan looked at Yuan Yu, wondering, "Speaking of which, why does my uncle call him Xiaobai? This is the first time I've heard someone call him that."

"The former Crown Prince of the East Palace, now His Royal Highness King Jing, how many people in the world dare to call him by his first name, let alone such a nickname."

"……"makes sense.

"Five years ago when he approached me as an apprentice, he told me that his surname was Bai. I saw that the boy was as white as Fu Yuanzi, so I called him Xiaobai." Yuan Yu was cooking tea, remembering What?" said with a smile, "Fengzhi found me three years ago and said that his little master was seriously ill and begged me to go down the mountain. As soon as I saw him holding Xiaobai's jade pendant, he packed the medicine box without stopping The ground went down."

"Do you know how I felt when I saw the big words 'Jing Wang's Mansion' written on the plaque outside the mansion?" Yuan Yu threw a handful of tea into the pot, and lightly knocked on the lid, "Lie The person with no blood on the bed was respectfully called 'His Royal Highness King Jing' by the servants, that face really deserved the name 'Xiao Bai', it was so white that it could surpass the snow outside."

Jiang Weiyan frowned, "What happened at that time?"

"No one can tell you about the royal family. Xiaobai was in a coma for five whole days. In the next two or three months, he was awake for only four hours a day. He had intermittent fever and had no feeling in his legs. Your Majesty The news is blocked, no one knows what happened that day. Even if I am anxious, I can only wait for Xiaobai to wake up, I can't just rush into the palace and grab the emperor by the collar and ask what happened, right?"

"...Then what happens when he wakes up?"

"It should be three months later that he was able to stay awake for a long time, but he was only conscious, and his body was still unable to move. The worst plan I made at the time was that he would be lying in bed or sitting in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. "Yuan Yu took a sip of tea and breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, God still loves him. After half a year, he has almost recovered, and he can already be transferred from the bed to a wheelchair and go out to bask in the sun."

"It was late autumn at that time, and the sun wasn't too fierce, but it was suitable for someone who hasn't seen the sun for a long time. The sun won't be too strong and dazzling, and it will be much more comfortable."

Yuan Yu turned the teacup, looked at the cyclamen in the vase with Thyme Eucalyptus, and recalled the past.

"Speaking of it, I was surprised that his emotions were hidden very well. Except for the first few months, he looked a little dull, with a calm face every day, and occasionally frowned for a long time when thinking about things. But after half a year, he All the bad emotions are gone, at least they were cleaned up in front of people. He became the same as before, as if those things had never happened, as if he just slept for a long, long sleep, After waking up, it was still the same Thyme."

"I asked him insincerely, why he was injured so badly? Maybe it's because my master still has some face, but he answered, but the answer was very casual." Yuan Yu tapped the celadon teacup with his fingers, and talked with him. He acted the same way when he asked Bai Lian back then, "I just said that I made a mistake and was fined to kneel in the snow for a while."

Jiang Weiyan asked suspiciously, "Just for a while?"

"He said it lightly, but those legs have been unable to walk on the ground for more than half a year. How could he be kneeling for a while? Not to mention that he still had an old injury that hadn't healed at that time." Yuan Yu was angry and distressed, and sighed. , "In the world of ice and snow, at least you have to kneel for several hours. The cold air enters the body to keep running a fever, and the legs are still suffering from the root cause of the disease, and even cannot be cured."

"Can't be cured?" Jiang Weiyan's pupils shrank slightly, and he unconsciously clenched his teacup, muttering to himself, "Is there really no way?"

Yuan Yu sighed, shook his head and said, "That's all I have. I've changed the prescriptions back and forth, and I wish I could give him all the best medicinal materials. It's a gift from God to be able to raise him to this point, uncle. Do your best."

"He didn't mention anything about what happened back then?"

"Yeah, his mouth is tight, and he likes to act coquettishly to fool him. I can't force him. If he doesn't want to say it, he can just say it. As long as the uncle lives in peace, that's enough."

Yuan Yu gave Jiang Weiyan some medicines on the table, and said helplessly, "The brat left the medicine again, you can bring it to him later, and make sure he drinks it every day."

"Yes, uncle, I made a note."

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You squatted in the corner and secretly saw:

When Jiang Weiyan was going to deliver the medicine, he happened to bump into Bai Lian, who thought the bandages were a little uncomfortable for his hands, and was taking off the bandages round and round.

Jiang Weiyan pushed the man back onto the chair, took his hand and wrapped the bandage, "Just be mad at me."

Seeing him wrapping his fingers with bandages, Bai Lian couldn't help but said, "Or you'll be angry with me, don't wrap my hands completely..."

Jiang Weiyan: "..."