Luo Yuan three years, winter.

Light snow, cold weather.

The lights in the governor's mansion are flickering, and the adults are staggered.

Nine-year-old Xu Yue pushed his wooden wheelchair slowly to the eaves of the State Pastoral Mansion, frowning and looking at the snowflakes falling outside the house.

"Alas, the rabbit is dead and the dog is cooked, and the bird is hidden. Back then, we should have stopped Chu Lantian to recover Mangzhou. As soon as Mangzhou returned, Chu Lantian was full of beheadings, leaving only the widow to survive, and our life in Ningzhou was not easy, without the threat of the Mangzhou Ghost Rong army, the holy decree of the imperial court to cut off military salaries was one after another. I'm almost out of the pot with the Zixiao Army. “

"Although it's not the same? Lao Xiao, don't be miserable here, you ask Lao Xu, which of our Ning family's Qingxiao Army or his family's Chixiao Army is not worse than you......?

"In the past, there were ghosts in the south, Qi in the north, and Ningzhou was the gateway to Dayan, so it was naturally guarded by a large army. The military salaries spent in the hands of the three armies of Ning Xiao every year accounted for nearly 30% of the silver taels in the national treasury, and now that Manzhou has been restored, it is natural to reduce the military system and enrich the national treasury. “

"Hmph. Brother Wei is right! It's just that if we continue to cut like this, will we be the next Chu Lantian?"

"The minister is still the king, and the king is suspicious of the minister, which is why my Dayan has been weak for a hundred years!"

......

The toasts of the adults in the door gradually turned into a quarrel after the drunkenness.

Xu Yue frowned and shouted into the house: "Dad, I want to go home!"

"Hmph! Brother Wei said lightly, father and son are still suspicious, not to mention the monarch and minister, this matter has been the same since ancient times, only mutual balance, how can there be ......"

But the people in the room were very noisy, and naturally there was no reason to put the girl's words in their ears.

Xu Yue's brows furrowed even deeper.

She pursed her lips, and simply pushed the wooden wheel under the wheelchair and walked down the street outside the governor's mansion in the direction of home.

The snow was falling a little heavier.

Xu Yue hurried away, her wheelchair dragging two narrow marks on the snow on the street, but they were soon submerged by the heavy snow.

Xu Yue's head was lowered even deeper at that time, and she rarely went out on the street alone since she could remember, and once she did, she had to endure the strange stares handed by the pedestrians on the street - everyone knew that the commander of the Chixiao Army gave birth to a lame daughter, such an identity, such a disability, Xu Yue was destined to suffer some criticism that had nothing to do with her, but was indeed caused by her.

Of course, Xu Yue didn't like the gazes from everyone, so she sped up the speed of pushing the wooden wheel, she wanted to escape from this place as soon as possible.

"Brother Xiao. Isn't this your little daughter-in-law who hasn't passed through the door?"

Suddenly, there was a teasing voice not far ahead.

Xu Yue raised her head vigilantly, but saw a group of young men wearing brocade and velvet robes on the street, who looked like they were either rich or noble, walking towards her.

Among them, the boy surrounded by many boys looks exquisite, although he is not very old and childish, but he has a vague outline of a young man.

"I ...... I don't know her. Don't talk nonsense!" the boy glanced at the girl in the wheelchair, and it took a while for him to hold back such a sentence.

Xu Yue also dislikes the group of "princelings" who are not much older than her, but have learned to call them brothers, and have done a lot of bullying men and women in Ningxiao City. She just glanced at it, then withdrew her gaze and pushed her wheelchair to leave.

"Xiao Shao, your daughter-in-law is leaving! Why don't you stop her!?" The girl's silence did not stop the boys, and someone immediately coaxed again.

"I said she's not my daughter-in-law!"

"What is Brother Xiao shy about, my father was present when your father and Commander Xu signed the marriage contract, this is what he told me personally, can there be a fake?"

"Who's going to marry this cripple! I'll get my dad to take it back sooner or later!"

"Hey, you said that Commander Xu and Mrs. Xu are both able-bodied people and cultivators, how could they give birth to such a lame person. ”

"Hmph, it's her mother who is outside......"

The girl's hand on the wooden wheel suddenly stopped, and the wheelchair stopped at that time, she turned around and looked at the group of whispering boys behind her, and her eyes fell coldly on the boy in charge.

"Xiao Meng. Do you really think anyone would want to marry a guy who wet the bed half a month ago?"

As soon as Xu Yue said this, the boy who was the leader suddenly turned pale, and the eyes of his companions around him immediately became strange.

Xiao Meng's face was flushed, he stomped his feet heavily, pointed at the woman and said, "You!

"Nonsense?" Xu Yue raised his eyebrows: "This is what your brother Xiao Mu came to my Xu Mansion to talk to my father about a few days ago. ”

"I ...... I ......" Xiao Meng was obviously flustered, and he couldn't say a reason for a while.

"Also, if you slander my mother again, I will definitely let the Chixiao Army step on your Xiao Mansion!" The girl let out a bad breath, she was in a good mood, and she put down such a cruel sentence again, then raised her snow-white neck, pushed her wooden wheel, and was about to turn away.

But before she could turn the wooden wheel of her wheelchair again, she suddenly felt the sky spin, and then she and her wheelchair fell on their sides on the snow.

Xu Yue's breathing was heavy, she propped her hands on the snow, the biting chill spread to her whole body through her hands, she struggled to get up and climb into her wheelchair, but her unconscious lower body was like a boulder tied around her waist, making her every step difficult.

Just as she struggled to straighten her wheelchair and hold it with both hands, she was about to climb into the wheelchair when one foot stretched out and overturned the wheelchair again.

"Aren't you very powerful, little cripple!" Xu Yue raised her head, and Xiao Meng was looking at her condescendingly.

"Chixiao Army, could it be that my Xiao family's Zixiao Realm will be afraid of you!"

"You'd better convince your father to cancel this marriage, otherwise I'll beat you every day when you get married!"

As he spoke, the young boy waved his fist proudly, with a slightly hideous smile on his face.

Xu Yue clenched her hands and grabbed the snow on the ground in her hands, she gritted her teeth and stared at the boy silently.

"Cripple Xu! I'm afraid—"

Before Xiao Meng's mouth could spit out the word "bar", a snowball flew out from the side and smashed on the side of his face with great precision.

His body almost fell to the ground, but a childish voice sounded in his ears: "My mother said that only useless men will beat women." ”

Xiao Meng turned his head angrily and looked in the direction where the voice came from, but saw a thin boy who looked like he was only seven or eight years old standing not far away, holding a snowball in his hand and staring at them fiercely.

"Why are you as annoying as your father?" Xiao Meng whispered as he wiped the snow stains from the side of his face and looked at the boy.

"My daddy......" The thin boy obviously didn't like to be spoken ill of his father, and opened his mouth to refute something.

But before the words came out, Xiao Meng shouted: "Beat him for me!"

So a group of fox friends swarmed up and submerged the boy's body......

......

"I said, why are you so nosy. Looking at the boy with a blue nose and swollen face and pushing a wheelchair behind him, Xu Yue pursed his lips angrily.

My dad said...... "The boy is going to say something serious."

"Alright, alright. And only you can stand your chattering daddy. Xu Yue heard the boy mention his father, and he felt a big head for a while.

Every year at the end of the year, the state pastor has to let their group of children get together and listen to Uncle Wei's lecture, to be honest, Uncle Wei's big reason is that Xu Yue also listens to the ears calloused, and he doesn't like it.

"Oh. The boy was also considerate, and when he heard this, he stopped his voice, and silently pushed the girl forward on the snowy street.

The girl looked back at a boy with a scarred face, and after thinking about it for a while, she tried to find the topic: "When will you go back?" ”

"In a few days, see what my mother means. The boy replied in a muffled voice.

"Your family, your mother has the final say?" Xu Yue was a little strange.

"Hmm...... Isn't everyone in the world like this?" The boy heard the strangeness in Xu Yue's tone, and he was even more strange.

A "black line" appeared on Xu Yue's forehead, and she asked, "Is this what your mother said?"

"That's right. The boy replied truthfully.

Xu Yue was dumbfounded, and after a long time, he could only sigh from the bottom of his heart: "Then your mother is awesome." ”

My dad said the same. The boy did not doubt him, and accepted the girl's praise with a smile.

Xu Yue held her forehead, and at this time, the boy had already sent her to the door of Xu's mansion.

"Sister Xu, I'm home. In the future, you don't want to run around alone, your father can't find you, but it's in a hurry. The boy said in a serious and old-fashioned manner.

"He's not in a hurry!" Xu Yue didn't care.

"Sister, don't always go against Uncle Xu, Uncle Xu ...... him"

"If he really cares about me, how could he marry me to that bastard Xiao Meng?" Compared to the boy's annoying words to nag his father, Xu Yue was obviously more disgusted with her own father, her voice suddenly became a little louder at that time, and she turned her head to glare at the boy angrily, as if she was inexplicably spreading the anger accumulated in her heart to the boy.

The boy who was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face was stunned, as if he was frightened by Xu Yue's actions.

"In his eyes, I am a burden to the Xu family, after all, a cripple like me, who would really care?" Xu Yue vented her anger and realized that she seemed to have chosen the wrong target, she lowered her head and felt a little guilty, but she was unwilling to announce her apology. just whispered, with a lonely expression on his face.

"Sister, don't talk nonsense, I've always regarded my sister as a friend!" The boy's heart is simple, and he doesn't take the girl's catharsis to heart at all. He smiled at that time, and said very sincerely.

Xu Yue was stunned for a moment, looking at the boy in front of her, who was clearly embarrassed, but still laughed so sincerely, her heart was inexplicably warm, and she suddenly had a strange thought.

"Otherwise, let your father propose to my father and let me marry you!" the girl was resolute, and said bluntly when she thought of something.

"Huh?" the boy blinked, apparently not expecting the girl to say this.

"You don't want to?" Xu Yuefang's mood was a little better, and the boy's hesitation fell again.

"No, no, but what do you have to do to get married......" The boy waved his hand again and again, and said anxiously.

"It's just ......" Xu Yue also didn't understand, but in order to maintain his momentum, he could only say stubbornly: "It's just two people together...... Eating together, sleeping together, getting up together, chatting together, everything is done together, and we have to take care of each other. Would you like to?"

"Yes, yes. It's just ......" The boy stopped and nodded, but his expression was still a little hesitant.

"It's just that you dislike me for being a cripple, right?" The girl straightened her face and snorted coldly: "Hmph, my mother is right, you men, all the same, you say it nicely, but you don't dare to do it!"

"No!" The boy couldn't resist Xu Yue's repeated attacks, and he hurriedly said, "It's just that my father said that I have a marriage contract with another girl......

"Who? I told the Red Sky Army to kill her. Xu Yue said with cold eyes.

The boy was stunned and said, "This ...... Not so good. ”

"Then you marry me, don't marry her!" Xu Yue said in a cold voice, and that momentum was quite like the posture of the commander of the Chixiao Army.

"I ...... Go back and ask my father?" the boy cautiously suggested.

"No! you're going to have to promise me now. Xu Yue recognized this matter and did not give the boy any room to maneuver.

"But my father said that a gentleman is true to his word, and the eldest husband is difficult to chase after him. If I repented of my promise now, and other girls threatened me like this in the future, wouldn't I be able to promise others?, so what use would my sister have asked for this promise?" said the boy in a serious manner.

"This ......" Xu Yue frowned, speechless for a while, for the first time in her life, she found that Uncle Wei's big truths that she was tired of hearing seemed to have some truth sometimes.

"That'...... Have you seen that girl?" Xu Yue thought for a while and asked again.

"Nope. The boy shook his head.

"Then is she lame??," Xu Yue's series of questions hit the boy's mind like a series of cannonballs.

The boy was a little confused, and after thinking for a while, he responded, "My father doesn't seem to have mentioned any of this." ”

Xu Yue, who got this answer, immediately smiled: "Look, that's right." If she is gone, you can still find someone else to marry, but if I don't marry you, I can only marry Xiao Meng, that bastard, can you bear to see me being beaten by him every day?"

The boy shook his head decisively, and then he lowered his head and frowned for a long time, as if he were seriously considering the matter.

After a long while, he raised his head and looked at Xu Yue: "Then sister, will you wait for me to be sixteen years old?"

"Why are you sixteen?" Xu Yue frowned.

"My father said that I was born with a serious disease, and it is very likely that I will not live to be sixteen years old, and I have promised my sister now, in case ...... Isn't it still a broken promise? ”

"When I live past the age of sixteen, when I come to Ningxiao City again, I will ask my father to propose to Uncle Xu, and my sister said that this is good?"

When the boy said this, his eyes looked directly at Xu Yue, and his serious look made it difficult to suspect the falsehood of his words.

Xu Yue was also stunned by this, and then she nodded heavily under the boy's nervous gaze.

She smiled like a flower and said, "Okay! There are still nine years, I will wait for you in Ningxiao City!"

It was rare for the boy to see Xu Yue smiling so happily, and he couldn't help but be a little daze.

But before he could finish tasting the beautiful scenery in front of him, the girl's face suddenly turned cold, and the smile on her face was all restrained by her, only to hear her cold voice: "But if you are still alive in nine years, but you don't come to look for me, or find another girl, I ......"

"I'll tell the Chixiao Army to kill that girl!

The boy shuddered, and in order to ensure his own safety, the boy cautiously asked, "Then if others don't agree with my marriage...... Can I marry two?"

The girl's eyes narrowed, and the cold light in her eyes was colder than the wind and snow in the sky.

"What do you say?"