Cold and warm depend on each other

Maybe it's because in the countryside, even though the years are getting colder, there are still occasional insects.The moonlight was like water waves, rippling on the coarse curtains, Su Zhe couldn't see Xue Wanxiang's expression clearly, but felt that she had shrunk down under the quilt, and her whole body was almost in her arms.

Su Zhe smiled lightly, put his arms around her shoulders, and said softly: "Go to sleep. You are exhausted after walking for half a day."

Xue Wanxiang snorted nasally, hiding in her soft embrace, yearning for this tenderness.

She closed her eyes, with a little bit of self-deception, thinking it was just a coincidence, just a coincidence.

Dongfang showed a faint smile, and the two of them packed up, said goodbye to the farmhouse, and left the small village to go north.Along the way, there are late-maturing ten-mile rice flowers falling on the tips of the buds to form a sea of ​​spikes. Xue Wanxiang sighed: "The winter season is getting darker, and I can still see such a scenery. If it is in the suburbs of Linhuai City, I am afraid that there will be bare wheat stalks left at this time." .”

Su Zhe raised his eyebrows and said, "We have traveled these roads. Although we are in the south, have you ever been through such a sea of ​​rice flowers since the beginning of winter?"

Xue Wanxiang turned her head to think about it: "I don't think it's happened before."

"Because Yanzhou City is the hinterland of the country, it is blessed with natural blessings and warm seasons. The grains of other states and counties only grow ears twice a year, but Yanzhou can grow ears three times a year. When we cross Yanzhou, we will truly enter the northern border."

In the distance is an endless wheat field, beyond the wheat field there is a distant mountain, and the bright sunshine jumps between the mountains.Su Zhe stood by the edge of the field, his eyes fell on Xue Wanxiang.

It was dusk when we entered Yanzhou City. On the high city towers, there were windproof lanterns hanging on the tall towers, guiding the direction in the flickering night.A few soldiers stood in front of the city gate and questioned the passers-by, Su Zhe and Xue Wanxiang didn't have anything, so no one made things difficult for them.

For some unknown reason, Yanzhou City seemed to be extremely lively at this time of year, and the two of them asked three or four inns before they found a place to stay.After tidying up, saluting and settling down, there was a gust of evening wind in the courtyard, and the stars in the night sky were burning faintly in the clouds.

The waiter lit the lamp and sent them to the house. Su Zhe asked him to give some silver coins, and asked him what unusual things happened in Yanzhou City, which is so prosperous.

The second elder brother happily accepted the reward, and smiled blindly: "My lord, you are asking the right person. You have asked all the way to our inn, right? Our city of Yanzhou is densely populated and well connected, but It can't be so lively, it's just because in the spring of the coming year, there will be major events in the capital and the accompanying capital, and every time they go back and forth, they always have to pass through Yanzhou, so since the beginning of winter, people have been coming and going, more and more every day. Most of the inns and restaurants are full. You are lucky, the house was vacated only an hour ago."

Su Zhe nodded when he heard this, Xue Wanxiang asked curiously: "The coming year is the year of the imperial court competition. It's not unusual for many students to go to the capital from all over the country to take the exam. So what's the matter with the capital?"

The waiter looked at Su Zhe, and Su Zhe said with a smile: "That's something in the martial arts. In Xuanwu Mountain, the accompanying capital, every five years, a grand meeting to make friends with martial arts is held, for the purpose of letting young people from all schools and sects in the rivers and lakes There is an opportunity to learn from each other. Because the grand event will be held in Xuanwu Mountain to fight wine to worship the sky, it is also called Xuanwu Festival. It is a first-class event in the martial arts.”

Xue Wanxiang was ignorant of what she heard, but the waiter in the shop kept nodding her head: "Young master is a good-looking talent, and he is a dragon and phoenix among others. I don't know if you are going to the capital for a literary competition or to accompany you in martial arts in the capital?"

"Do you think I am going to the imperial examination or to fight?" Su Zhe asked with a smile, in a teasing tone.

The waiter in the shop looked around, and his eyes rolled around Xue Wanxiang and Su Zhe: "How can you take your wife with you in a fight. You must be a talented person who went to Beijing to catch the exam, and you are also a beautiful lady with red sleeves."

Su Zhe smiled and didn't answer, and asked him to bring some hot water up later.

The shop waiter agreed to go, walked to the door and remembered the reward Su Zhe had given just now, and said one more sentence: "Since the young master is going to Beijing to catch up with the exam, if there is nothing to do in the near future, it is better not to go to remote places." Su Zhe asked why there was such a thing. Said, the shop waiter said: "The city is very lively, but there are also many thieves who come out and guard the frail scholars in remote places. You know, those who rush for the exam for thousands of miles are all wrapped up on their bodies, and the thieves are watching. A few days ago, there were two consecutive murders in the west of the city, and the government couldn't catch them in every possible way, so they issued notices offering rewards."

Waiting for the shop waiter to go out chattering, Xue Wanxiang closed the door, turned around and saw Su Zhe sitting on a square chair with his slender legs crossed, his eyes were far away under the shadow of the lamp, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After a while, the mother-in-law in the backyard brought hot water, Xue Wanxiang put the clothes of the two of them into the cabinet as a salute, and went to wash up behind the screen.When I came out, I saw her still sitting deeply with frowning eyebrows, so she stepped forward: "What are you thinking, so preoccupied?"

Su Zhe blinked his eyes and said, "I'm thinking about the bounty that the waiter said in the announcement, it must be worth a lot of money."

Xue Wanxiang's eyebrows twitched, and she immediately reprimanded: "Don't go! That's someone who was involved in a murder case, how many heads do you dare to go there!"

Su Zhe turned his head to look at her, turned hard for a moment, twisted his neck, and pressed her back neck with her teeth bared: "Hey...it hurts..."

Xue Wanxiang glanced at her and didn't want to talk to her.

Su Zhe reasoned with her with his head tilted: "It's not all for money. Those thieves took advantage of the chaos to commit crimes. Even if there were no rewards, we should go and eliminate harm for the people. It is my life to be a hero. The master asked me to go out." , isn’t it just for practice.”

Her tone was righteous, but her neck was probably hurting badly, her face was crying, Xue Wanxiang gave her a stare, she couldn't see it.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Su Zhe ran to twist a hot towel by himself, wrapped it around his neck and twirled it around, and after a little improvement, he washed up behind the screen.

Xue Wanxiang was sitting under the lamp, when she heard the sound of water, she suddenly came back to her senses, and said falteringly: "You, what are you doing?"

The tub was quite deep, but the water was a little cold. Su Zhe sat in it and splashed the water on his chest, and replied, "Take a bath. Didn't you take a bath just now?"

And she spoke with such seriousness!Xue Wanxiang blushed and said: "Why don't you ask your mother-in-law to bring hot water again, that bucket of water... I used that bucket of water!" The more she spoke, the softer her voice was, thanks to Su Zhe's sharp ears, it was hard work heard it.

"What if I used it? When you washed my hands and feet in the fishing village, didn't you also use the used water." There was a smile in the voice, and it came from behind the screen.

Xue Wanxiang bit her lip and said in a soft voice: "How can it be the same?"

While speaking, Su Zhe had already tidied himself up. He came out in a middle coat, with his long hair tied in a scribe's bun with a jasper and green bamboo hairpin. From a glance, he looked like a handsome young man.

"Why is it different? Between you and me, what are you doing with such a difference?" The corners of his hair were wet, and a few droplets of water fell, Su Zhe stretched his waist, frowned suddenly, and rested his hands on the back of his neck Go up, "tsk".She tilted her head and looked at Xue Wanxiang, without saying a word, only her big eyes said "Do you care about me? I'm dying of pain".

Xue Wanxiang had no choice but to step forward and slap her hand away, and stretched out her slender hand to her neck, rubbing it softly.

Su Zhe smiled, sat obediently on the chair, and let her decide.

It's been a while, the window drawer is still open, the evening breeze is passing by, and the light blue candle wick in the light shakes a ripple of light and shadow.The fragrant fragrance diffused from Xue Wanxiang's wrist and fingertips, Su Zhe half closed his eyes, and suddenly remembered the fragrance of the red sleeves mentioned by the waiter in the shop just now.

"What are you laughing at?" Xue Wanxiang rubbed her neck, thinking that she was going to reveal the notice, couldn't help pinching her slender neck.

She turned around slightly with a smile, raised her eyebrows and looked up.

The person who has just come out of the bath, his hair is still wet, and the corners of his eyes and brows are full of words that are still waiting to be said.Suddenly Xue Wanxiang didn't want to ask anymore, she poked her face and asked her to turn back.However, Su Zhe held her soft hand, his pretty face pressed against the back of her hand, and his voice was as clear as a long sigh: "It's nothing. I just suddenly thought that the journey from Yeling City to Linhuai City has already passed halfway. I never thought that I would encounter so many things this time down the mountain. Although we both suffered a lot after going down the mountain several times, I still feel that..."

"What do you think?" Xue Wanxiang flipped her wrist, supporting her pointed chin with oval cheeks.

Su Zhe raised his head slightly in her hand, and fell on her palm with every breath, with a gentle smile on his lips: "I still think that if this road can be walked for a longer time, that would be great."

The moonlight fell on the window sill, and the breeze carried an unknown fragrance of flowers.In such a cold day, there is still the fragrance of flowers.Xue Wanxiang was thinking in a trance, under the lights, Su Zhe's brows and eyes looked joyful and serious, as if it was a great thing to be able to walk with her.Her fingertips were still condensing the temperature of that person, and her mood fluctuated slightly with the light. Su Zhe smiled again, opened his arms, and hugged her waist.She didn't know where she was thinking, but she felt attracted step by step by the flames in her eyes, and her breath drew closer. When she recovered, she realized that her lips were already attached to Su Zhe's smooth forehead.

In the early morning of the next day, Su Zhe really went to the government office. There were two mighty stone lions outside the vermilion gate, and several office servants stood inside the gate.There was a small circle of people in front of the bulletin board. Su Zhe was tall and stood outside the crowd with arms folded.

The thieves who committed the crime were in a group of three or four people. The notice didn't make it clear, it only said that they were skilled in martial arts, and they were ruthless. In addition to the two murders in the west of the city, there were other criminals. To capture someone is to catch someone, but they even injured two people in a row, so the reward is really not low according to the announcement.

Su Zhe was concentrating on contemplation, when more than ten riders galloped over from the other side of the long street, the cars were crowded with people and the horses and sedan chairs piled up, the group didn't care, they just galloped along, screaming again and again for a while.Su Zhe frowned, but saw a dozen retainers guarding a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy running all the way to the front of the mansion. The boy was dressed in a green brocade robe with a triumphant face, waiting for the servant to lead the horse to dismount Beside the stone, he turned over and jumped off the horse, and went straight to the government office.