When he left Lufu, it was late at night on October 11. In Mo Yan's eyes, he will always be a child. As the most outstanding guy in the north of Frost Sword City. The mission this guy goes on never requires anyone to clean up the aftermath.

Perhaps because of the particularity of his identity and mission, not many people knew his real name since he entered the Frost Sword. Normally, Mo Yan would call him "Little Er".

Occasionally, someone asks Mo Yan why he gave Xiao Er such a nickname, and Mo Yan will always say casually that because Xiao Er is the second oldest in the family, it is convenient and not easy to forget.

The northern part of Frost Sword City is led by Mo Yan, which is similar in nature to the Qifeng Pavilion Jinyi Division in the imperial capital. The northern part of the city is responsible for espionage, undercover, assassination and other mission activities. During the special period, it will take on the entire Frost Sword's interrogation and punishment arrangements for prisoners.

The wind blows, and the snow flies.

When everyone was falling asleep, Xiao Er was sneaking in the deep night against the wind and snow. There are no lights, no moon and no stars. The biting cold wind, the icy frost and snow came to his face, and every step he took was very difficult.

Maybe it was because he had inhaled too much cold air, Xiao Er's nose was red from the cold, and the whistling sound of the wind made his ears hurt to death. But, even so, Xiao Er didn't have any reason to stop. Even if the snow in Bright Moon City is knee-high.

From the east of the city to the north of the city.

If his feet are fast enough and there are no accidents on the way, before dawn, Xiao Er can return to Lufu and continue the undercover mission that Mo Yan gave him earlier. In fact, the task that Xiao Er is performing now is the last task given to him by Mo Yan.

After completing this task, Mo Yan will straighten Xiao Er, and it is very likely that Xiao Er will take over Mo Yan's affairs in the north of the city in the future. At that time, Mo Yan will announce the real name of Xiao Er. Where Mo Yan will go and what he will do after that, it depends on the arrangement of the country lord Yun Ji.

Now there is only one person who knows Xiao Er's current undercover mission, Mo Yan. However, since Frost Sword caught the suspicious person who had contact with Lu You on the streets of White Tiger not long ago, Mo Yan suddenly disappeared, and there has been no news until now.

And Xiao Er didn't know about this.

This snow will not stop for a while.

The accident that happened in Lufu tonight can be said to be the biggest gain of Xiao Er's undercover Lufu for so long. Although he hadn't figured out what the relationship between Lu You and that woman was, it was imperative to notify Mo Yan as soon as possible and let Frost Sword get ready.

Previously, Mo Yan and Xiao Er basically passed on the news through flying pigeons or secret letters, but the recent Jibei blizzard, coupled with Mo Yan's sudden disappearance, caused those messages sent by Xiao Er to sink into the sea, and there was no longer any response.

Xiao Er didn't know what was going on outside Lufu during this time, but the fact that Mo Yan didn't reply to his messages made him feel very distressed and irritable. Just when he was about to find a chance to go back to the north of the city to ask, Mo Yan, who had no news, suddenly replied to Xiao Er's message, and told Xiao Er an address, asking him to go there directly to find him if he had any important information, and it was best late at night. Because, only late at night he would be there. During this period, he hoped that Xiao Er would not send any more messages back to the north of the city. Because, Mo Yan found that there was an undercover agent in the north of the city, and until he found out who the undercover agent was, Mo Yan would not appear.

And now, Xiao Erquan rushed to the address left by Mo Yan. Xiao Er didn't know how long he had been gone, and he wasn't sure if Mo Yan was there or not at this time, but because of the urgency, he couldn't care about it so much.

Old houses, mottled walls, bricks and tiles have been eroded by wind and frost all year round and no one has repaired them. In the dark night, a pair of eyes looked through the broken window, watching the young man outside the house approach step by step, and there was no sense of vigilance.

This old house is located in a slum in the north of Mingyue City. Much of the house was covered in a thick layer of dust, and cobwebs could be seen everywhere. Inside or outside the house, it doesn't look like it's being inhabited.

On the token at the waist, there is a carved pattern of a sharp sword piercing through the frost. At the moment, the man's clothes did not match the furnishings of the old house.

When the squeaky wooden door was pushed open in the cold wind, Xiao Er stepped through the snow and appeared in this old house. After seeing Xiao Er coming, the man slowly closed the wooden door. Xiao Er shook the frost and snow on his body during this period, and asked the man, "Do you live here these days?"

The man replied in a hoarse voice, "Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not." ”

After hearing this, Xiao Er frowned: "Boss, I haven't seen you for a while, what's wrong with your voice?"

Man: "Recently, the situation in Mingyue City has changed suddenly, and I didn't react for a while, and I accidentally got contaminated with the wind and cold, and it will be fine after a while." ”

Xiao Er looked around and said, "Why don't you light the lamp?"

Man: "Are you going to spend the night here?"

Xiao Er: "After talking about important things, I will leave." ”

Man: "Then there's no need to order it. I don't want people to find out that there's anyone in this room. ”

Xiao Er: "Who else is there besides us at such a late hour?"

Man: "I'm afraid of meeting someone with a heart." ”

Xiao Er sighed and said, "Okay, you are the leader, you have the final say." ”

The man did not face Xiao Er head-on, but stood in front of the window and set his eyes on the wind and snow outside the window. Under the deep eyes, the meaning of slaughter looms. Out of instinctive vigilance, Xiao Er wanted to determine the man's identity and then tell him about it, but the man seemed to sense that Xiao Er was suspicious of his identity, so he untied the token on his waist and threw it to Xiao Er.

Xiao Er: "Boss, what are you doing here?"

Man: "Listen to your tone, it looks like you're suspicious of me." ”

Xiao Er touched the veins on the token, confirmed the man's identity, and threw the token back to the man. The concerns that had been lingering in Xiao Er's heart were temporarily dispelled by the man's move, and he smiled and said, "In our business, there is no harm in being more vigilant." ”

Man: "Do you still have doubts?"

Xiao Er: "No." ”

The hoarse voice whispered in Xiao Er's ear through the coldness of the night: "Then tell me why you came here to find me so late." ”

Xiao Er pondered for a moment before he spoke: "Tonight, a special guest came to Luyou's mansion. However, because I went late, I couldn't see the guest clearly. ”

Man: "Special guest?" ”

Xiao Er: "When I went, the son of the Lu You family was knocked to the ground by the guest's servant, and Lu You didn't seem to see this scene after seeing it, and escorted the guest and her servant away like a servant. ”

Man: "Can Lu You even ignore his own son, it seems that the identity of that guest is very noble." ”

Xiao Er: "It is said that when this guest came, Lu You brought his cronies to greet him in person against the wind and snow." ”

Man: "Where did you greet you?"

Xiao Er: "The forbidden land of Lufu." ”

After hearing this, the man fell into deep thought: "The guest who can make Lu You respectful is a man or a woman." ”

Xiao Er: "Female." ”

Man: "You saw her when you went, right?" I didn't see what she looked like, but I had an impression of her clothing features?"

Xiao Er thought for a while and said to the man: "Although he is dressed in brocade clothes and mink fur, it doesn't look like the craftsmanship of our long-cherished people. ”

Man: "What do you mean, she's from afar?"

Xiao Er: "I didn't hear what that woman said, including her voice, but I heard the accent of the servant who followed her, and if I guessed correctly, that servant may be from the vassal country "Guangchen" around the Luo country. In other words, this woman is also very likely to be from the country of Luo. ”

Xiao Er's words made the man fall into a long contemplation: "Could it be that she is back?" The man's hoarse voice echoed in this decaying room, making people shudder.

Xiao Er: "By the way, if I'm not mistaken, there is a pattern similar to a red pine pattern on the placket of that woman's clothes, but because the distance is too far, I'm not sure if it's true, and I don't know if this feature is helpful to the leader?"

"Could it really be her?" the man pondered for a moment and asked, "Is this matter only known to you except for the people of Lufu?"

"Now you're the only one who knows about it but me. Xiao Er: "What, for that woman's identity, the head already has eyebrows?"

"Don't ask questions that shouldn't be asked," the man didn't answer Xiao Er's doubts, but just asked coldly: "Is there anything else?"

The man's attitude changed in an instant, which made the doubts in Xiao Er's heart suddenly rekindle. Xiao Er hesitated for a moment and said, "That's all, no." ”

Man: "This is your last task, isn't it, Little Er?" ”

Xiao Er was stunned: "Yes, what's wrong?"

Man: "It's been a lot of hard work. ”

Xiao Er was stunned: "This is how it should be." ”

The man's tone was unhurried, but it invisibly gave Xiao Er a sense of coercion, which made him a little breathless: "Now, your task is complete." ”

Xiao Er looked at the man by the window suspiciously, and instantly had an ominous premonition in his heart: "Boss, what do you mean by this?"

"Good all the way. As he said this, the man slowly drew the sword from his scabbard. He no longer disguised himself with his hoarse voice, and slowly approached Xiao Er here.

"Is it you?" At this time, Xiao Er finally heard who the man's voice was, "Impossible, how do you know ......"

When the sword was returned to the sheath, Xiao Er covered his throat and made a gurgling sound. There were some things he couldn't say in the end. Heavy dust rose as his body fell, falling on the cobwebs around him. In the old house, the smell of blood spreads with the passage of time.

Looking at Xiao Er's fallen body, there was not a trace of emotional ripples in the man's deep gaze. He wanted to light a fire and destroy the corpse. But thinking of the heavy snow outside the house at the moment, if this fire failed to burn Xiao Er's body and this forgotten house, then the trouble left behind would only be greater.

Fortunately, in winter, the rate of decay of corpses is not as fast as in other seasons, especially in the winter of Jibei. The man stood alone in the darkness like a stone statue, closing his eyes and listening.

Listen to the blood in Xiao Er's body gushing out of the wound in his throat, and then feel the temperature around him gradually cool from the scorching heat, and finally condense into ice, along with the smell of blood rushing here.

The snow outside the house was getting heavier and heavier, and before I knew it, it was knee-high. No one cares what happens in an old house in the slum on such a snowy night. This also gave the man enough time to dispose of Xiao Er's body.

Wait for a clear snowy night.

......

On the afternoon of October 14, in the Yao Pavilion of the Guang Closed Courtyard, Gu Yina gave Lian Mu a slap. As a result, the story of this beautiful Northern Desert beauty and the Great Commander of the Frost Sword soon spread throughout Bright Moon City in different versions that day.

After learning of this, the family of the country of Shu all laughed at Lian Mu's absurdity and became interested in Gu Yina; Yun Ji, who learned of this, sent someone to urge Bu Weilan to complete the matter at hand as soon as possible, and then went to the Guang Yuan to see Lian Mu, so as not to cause trouble again; in Lufu, the elegant woman from the Luo country also learned about this rumor at the same time, but she did not hear it like the family of the Shu country, and she did not feel as worried and headache as Yun Ji.

Qianyu Fenghua's attitude towards this matter was only silence. During this period, while listening to Lu You's stories about Gu Yina and others, she was looking through the ancient books and classics that she hadn't had time to read before.

In the early morning of October 15, the blizzard that swept across Jibei stopped. Many people who had taken refuge in their homes began to take to the streets. Adults shovel snow or go about business, while children build snowmen along the road. The originally lonely Bright Moon City became extremely lively because of this short sunny day.

Lu You, who has always been respectful to the Qianyu clan, according to his usual habits, ran to Qianyu Fenghua early in the morning to ask for his courtesy, but what he didn't expect was that Qianyu Fenghua would carry Duan Nian together without saying goodbye when the sky was just hazy.

Before leaving, Qianyu Fenghua left a sentence and asked the people of Lufu to tell Lu You when the time came: "The snow has stopped, some things should be arranged, if Lord Lu waits any longer, everything will be weak." ”

The prosperous Bright Moon City is the appearance in the memory of Qianyu Fenghua. When she was a child, she often followed behind her older siblings and shuttled through the crowds here. The child's play can keep the accompanying Qianyu family servants busy, but fortunately, no one was injured in the end.

Compared to Mirror Moon City, Thousand Feather Fenghua prefers Bright Moon City. Because here, she can see the most beautiful and largest moon in the world, even if it is a foregone conclusion many years later, she is often haunted by it.

It is precisely because of her constant chatter that Duan Nian has also heard and seen it here, and has a different kind of longing and curiosity for the bright moon of the bright moon city of the dream country. However, these emotions were temporarily forgotten by Duan Nian after Duan Nian comprehended the cold of Jibei.

When Qianyu Fenghua left Lufu, there were already many people on the road who contributed and worked to clear the snow in front of their homes. The scene was like a carnival and a convention.

Everyone's face was filled with a different kind of happiness. Some of the children who get up early in the morning follow the example of the elders in the family to shovel snow, shovel and shovel, or build snowmen, or have snowball fights. So the children laughed happily, and so did the adults.

They should have been worried about the heavy snowfall for many days, but they became like a family because of this snow. This is the appearance of Bright Moon City in Qianyu Fenghua's memory, but unfortunately, Qianyu Fenghua at this time is very clear and calm. Compared with the Bright Moon City in her memory, the smiles of these people actually hide the sadness behind the haze of war.

Although some families don't even have a man shoveling snow, they still get help from their neighbors, but this help does not hide the fact that it has happened.

Some people can't come back.

They may be the husband of a woman, the child of an old man, the father of some child, or someone's brother.

No war deserves to be celebrated, and where there is war, there will be bloodshed. What blood and fire forges is never an epic, but an elegy for the living. Although, these are not something that Thousand Feather Fenghua can control. However, the essence of this world is exploitation, where there is exploitation there is resistance, and where there is resistance there must be war, so who stands at the top of this chain of relations?

Emperors and princes, nobles.

Qianyu Fenghua is not only a nobleman of the family, but also a side branch of the imperial family. The reason why she will appear in Mingyue City in the Kingdom of Shu now is precisely because she wants to protect the interests and reputation of her family.

Therefore, for the child who was squatting outside the door of the "Heartfelt Restaurant" and shivering in the cold wind, Qianyu Fenghua had no other way than to moisten his eyes to show sympathy.

For the "shopkeeper He" of the Heartfelt Restaurant, Qianyu Fenghua is his first guest today, and he is also a distinguished guest. In the eyes of Shopkeeper He, this distinguished guest is not only sweet, but also generous.

In just three words, Qianyu Fenghua was very happy to pay the accommodation fee of 300 gold to Shopkeeper He. These three hundred gold are enough for Qianyu Fenghua to live in the heartfelt restaurant in Mingyue City until the spring of the next year.

This made Shopkeeper He happy, and before Shopkeeper He flattered him, Qianyu Fenghua paid Shopkeeper He another hundred gold, which made Shopkeeper He a little confused for a moment: "Girl, what are you ......?"

This money was left for Shopkeeper He to buy some steamed buns and feed them to the two children at the door. If the two children have other friends, they will be counted together. Qianyu Fenghua said lightly, "One hundred gold, enough for these children to eat for a long time." ”

After listening to her words, Shopkeeper He was stunned at first, and then hurriedly flattered: "This objectivity, you are really a god descended from heaven, a beautiful person with a good heart!

After listening to this, Qianyu Fenghua added: "Shopkeeper He doesn't need to arrange three meals a day for them, once a day, if these children want to get more, please ask Shopkeeper He to give them something to do, money is not a problem." ”

After listening to Qianyu Fenghua's words, Shopkeeper He was suddenly startled and stood in place. What shocked Shopkeeper He was not that Qianyu Fenghua downplayed the matter of spending money, but the deep meaning of her move, just like "it is better to teach people to fish, it is better to teach people to fish". Before the shopkeeper could express his admiration to Qianyu Fenghua, Qianyu Fenghua went upstairs to check in under the escort of Duan Nian.

"I haven't asked the girl's name yet!" Downstairs, the shopkeeper He who suddenly came back to his senses asked loudly, but it startled Duan Nian, Qianyu Fenghua smiled slightly: "Xuexi." ”

......

Around noon, a man dressed in brocade clothes with a dark face appeared in the hall of the Heartfelt Restaurant. The man has a very conspicuous fleshy mole on his left eyebrow, which makes it easy to identify him from a distance.

At this time, Duan Nian was sitting at the staircase on the second floor munching melon seeds, and it seemed that he was waiting for someone, and he had been waiting for a long time. Until Duan Nian saw the man in brocade clothes and slowly stepped into the Heartfelt Restaurant.

Duan Nian's face didn't have any obvious features, and when he looked at the man that day, he found that the man was also looking at him. So, through a brief eye contact, the two quickly determined that each other was the person they were looking for.

Duan Nian didn't go down to greet him, but just stood silently in front of Qianyu Fenghua's door. The man understood, walked upstairs slowly, and closed the door where Qianyu Fenghua was staying. After a while, Duan Nian continued to eat melon seeds as if he hadn't seen anything, and by the way, he stayed outside the door, as if nothing had happened.

At this time, there was a table of delicacies in the house, and there was no wine.

Qianyu Fenghua has been waiting for men for a long time.

Before she could speak first, the man knelt on one knee and said respectfully: "The sinner is late, I hope the master will forgive the sin." ”

The slender hand gently supported the man's elbows, and the faint fragrance lingered in the man's nose, making him feel a little bloody for a while. Before the man could recover from the familiar scent, Qianyu Fenghua held up his chin with his index finger and middle finger, and his smart eyes met his gaze here: "You are the chilling cicada?"

This is the first time that a man has been in such close contact with the daughter of the Qianyu clan, and he has always been accustomed to watching the "chilling cicada" of life and death, but for a while he was provoked by Qianyu Fenghua's move and his face was flushed, and after a long time, he stammered and replied to her: "It is the ...... of the sinners."

Qianyu Fenghua sneered, and before the cicada could react, she took his hand, led him into the seat, and personally put the vegetables in the bowl for the "cold cicada": "Over the years, you have worked hard." ”

Received Qianyu Fenghua's sympathy, and the chilling cicada was flattered: "If there was no Qianyu clan to rescue him back then, the criminal minister would have died in the Chiyan Rebellion, the master should not be polite, these things within his ability, the criminal minister should spare no effort." ”

Qianyu Fenghua smiled slightly: "Don't always confess guilty, if it weren't for you notifying Lu You in time and telling him that he had been targeted by the frost sword, maybe the Yun clan of the Shu Kingdom would have known about some old things that should not be known about our Qianyu clan and their Yun clan in those years." ”

Chilling cicada: "As long as there is a chilling cicada, this day will never come, please rest assured!"