Under the quiet moonlight, the Weiguo Mansion put away the majestic momentum of the day, accompanied by a deep layer of snow in front of the door, and fell asleep silently.

After a hundred years of wind and rain, the plaque of "Weibei Hou Mansion" has been replaced by a brand new "Weiguo Mansion" plaque, but under the white miserable lantern under the gatehouse, it looks desolate and infinite.

"My mother is still very sad......"

Bai Chenghuan stood quietly in the distance, looking at the white lantern fluttering in the wind, not daring to approach, and whispering with the same sadness as the night.

"Once upon a time, here, there was a bright red gauze lamp, and the snow outside the door would not accumulate at all......"

The capital is prosperous, and the lanterns of the ten-mile long street are endless, and the appreciation is endless.

But she still misses this place, and her steps can't help her at all.

Xiao Shaotang wrapped her tightly with a big coat, hugged her in his arms, and also looked up at the extraordinary Zhumen of the Weiguo Mansion.

"Sanxi, come forward and knock."

Xiao Shaotang suddenly spoke with a calm face.

What kind of family is the Xu family?

was so good to Cheng Huan at the beginning, he saw it in his eyes and never doubted it, but now, what is this?

He, a person who is willing to hold it in the palm of his hand as an emperor, why should he stand outside their gate in the dead of night and be sad!

"Don't!"

Sanxi had already stopped taking steps, and looked back at the queen mother who stopped him with a voice, and the emperor with a gloomy face.

Who the hell does he listen to?

Xiao Shaotang's low tone carried an unquestionable sharpness:

"Why not? Either we go in or we go back, and I don't allow my own queen to stand here and grieve for someone who doesn't care about her anymore! ”

"It's not that they don't care about my ......"

Bai Cheng happily defended, but he didn't know how to continue.

It's not that I don't care, but I care more about the innocent dead child.

"Let's go back."

She suddenly compromised and turned to leave.

She knows all the sadness and resentment in her father's and mother's hearts, her brother's embarrassment, and the estrangement between Xu Chengru and Xu Chengle.

So she also knows that this place will no longer be her home.

What else could she do but linger outside the door in the dead of night?

This kind of concern may one day make Xiao Shaotang angry with them.

"Huanhuan, tell me, what do you have to do so that you can be happy?"

Xiao Shaotang grabbed her, with deep sorrow in his eyes.

He had vowed to let her live happily ever after he was by his side, but he felt powerless at this time—

There are some things, no matter how good he is, he can't give them, right?

Bai Chenghuan raised his head and glanced at the street corner in the distance, quickly took Xiao Shaotang's hand, hurried through the wide street, and hid in the corner of a house in the alley opposite.

"My brother is back!"

She heard Xu Chenglin's voice.

Xiao Shaotang was led by him and hid in the corner, and suddenly felt sad.

used to be so unpopular to see her close to Xu Chenglin, but now seeing her panic and evasion, she is full of resentment.

It's just that her soft hand held him tightly, and the thin callus left in the palm of his hand because of the sword he had held for the past year was gently rubbing against his palm, making him suppress his anger and silently hug her tightly with his other hand.

It doesn't matter, even if everyone in this world treats her badly, he will never treat her badly.

The voices of the voices are getting closer and closer, and the figures of Sanxi and them have long been hidden.

“…… Let's have someone sweep the snow outside the door tomorrow. ”

Xu Chenglin was instructing the little guy who followed him out.

"Yes, the little one has been noted."

The little man took the reins of his horse in his hand and respectfully complied.

Then he pointed to the white lantern hanging above the gate with some embarrassment:

"Lord Shizi, what about our lantern? Today, the little one heard from the person who sent the Zhongyi Bofu to deliver the post at the door, and someone asked...... Say, do we have any funerals in our house......"

Otherwise, why are there such white and miserable lanterns hanging in the New Year's month? The last time a white lantern was hung was when Empress Xiaoyuan died.

Xu Chenglin looked up at the miserable white lantern, but sighed.

"That's it, no matter what others say, just hang it like this for now."

After his mother returned from Beishan Temple, she had to bury his younger brother who had never seen the light of day according to the official funeral rites.

Although he didn't want outsiders to speculate, his mother insisted on doing so, otherwise she would become a monk, and he and his father would have to give in.

The little guy had to shut up and didn't dare to say anything more.

After taking a few steps forward, Xu Chenglin suddenly caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye, strode a few steps across the street, squatted down, and saw a few series of footprints of different shades on the pure white and flawless snow under the faint light.

He looked at it carefully, then reached out and made a comparison on the smallest footprint.

Xu Chenglin suddenly raised his head and looked at the series of footprints, only to see a vast night.

The little guy behind him followed:

"Lord Shizi, what's wrong?"

Xu Chenglin didn't answer, he just stared at the vast night in a daze, and the hand measuring the footprints slowly drooped down, holding the snow in the palm of his hand along with the footprints, until it turned into ice water and passed through his fingers.

When Cheng Huan returned to this home, her mother was so happy that she personally watched people make new clothes and shoes for her, and he had seen the size of her shoes at that time.

These are her footprints.

He didn't seem to feel the cold to the bones after the snow melted, and his throat was more like a choked ball of cotton, unable to spit it out or swallow.

Just like Cheng Huanchu's death, all the heartbreak torture he experienced in the Northwest.

Now, it's all about going through it all over again.

Cheng Huan came, but he didn't get close.

She must have been sad.

The person in the dark also held Xiao Shaotang's hand tightly and held his breath.

She didn't dare let her brother find her, they didn't want to see her.

Xiao Shaotang's hand bones were clutched, but he didn't say a word.

I don't know how long this silent confrontation lasted until the sound of a horse-drawn carriage in the distance broke the silence of the night.

"Xu Chenglin!"

The carriage stopped outside the main gate of the Weiguo Mansion, and a woman hurriedly got out of the carriage and was about to order someone to step forward and knock on the door, but found a dark shadow squatting in the snow.

The eyebrows and eyes of the woman running towards Xu Chenglin under the lamp were blurred, but Bai Chenghuan could see at a glance that it was Sixian.

Xu Chenglin woke up like a dream, stood up from the ground, and turned around.

"Why did you run out again?"

Because of the New Year's faux pas, Xu Chenglin felt very guilty, and after his mother's mood improved, he went to the Liang Guogong Mansion with a gift to apologize in person.

After that, he asked Liang Sixian to go out on the street tonight.

He didn't come back until tonight after he sent her back to the Liang Guogong Mansion.

Liang Sixian panted and stood in front of Xu Chenglin:

"Just now you left, I remembered that there was a sentence that I forgot to ask you!"

"Slow down, don't rush."

Seeing that she seemed to be in a hurry, she didn't even put on her cloak when she got out of the carriage, Xu Chenglin untied her big hat and draped it on her shoulders.

Da Yu covered her shoulders with the unique warmth of a man's body, Liang Sixian smiled, and looked at Xu Chenglin's eyes with a little more tenderness, but the words asked made Xu Chenglin's face condense:

"Brother Xu, why didn't you see your uncle and aunt at this year's palace banquet, and you didn't go either? Don't you all miss Chenghuan? Do you know that at today's Shangyuan Palace banquet, Cheng Huan was unwell and went back to rest early! ”

"Moreover, I always feel that Cheng Huan has been depressed and unhappy in recent days, she is pregnant, it is not good to be like this, why doesn't my aunt go into the palace to see her, it is good to be able to unravel her......"

Even Sixian, who is so straightforward that he has a little sparse branches, can see that Cheng Huan is depressed and depressed-

Xu Chenglin clenched his wet palms and interrupted Liang Sixian's words:

"Sixian, don't mention Cheng Huan in front of the Xu family in the future, especially in front of her mother. You don't want to see Cheng Huan from time to time, let alone mention the Xu family, including me, in front of her. ”

Liang Sixian's mouth was half-open in shock, and it took several breaths to find his voice again:

"Brother Xu, why? Okay, why do you say such things? Do you mean that the Xu family is going to break off contact with Cheng Huan? ”

Xu Chenglin lowered his head silently.

Is this the default?

Liang Sixian's heart sank, reached out and grabbed Xu Chenglin's clothes, and blurted out angrily:

"Xu Chenglin, do you know what you're talking about?! That's Cheng Huan! That's your own sister! How can you do that?! Do you mean that not only are you going to cut ties with her, but I'm going to have to cut ties with her? Why? ”

Xu Chenglin was shaken by her and couldn't stand a little, but he didn't reach out to brush her away.

"Sixian, there are some things that I will tell you when I should tell you, but this matter, don't ask, just remember my words."

He pressed his hands on her shoulders, trying to make himself as usual:

"It's late, I'll send you back."

"Xu Chenglin! I don't want to cut off contact with Cheng Huan, and I can't do what you want! How can your family be like this, that's your own sister! ”

"It's not!"

Xu Chenglin condensed his face and roared, almost telling the truth.

But what did he say?

He suddenly reached out and hugged the angry woman in front of him in his arms, preventing her from seeing his reddened eyes.

"Sixian, don't make trouble, she is not the daughter of the Xu family...... She is the daughter of the Bai family, but she is the daughter of the Bai family, and she has nothing to do with the Xu family. ”

"No, she is the daughter of your Xu family...... If you didn't think it was at the beginning, then why did you recognize her, why did you hurt her when she was pregnant...... Even if you don't recognize her, I do......"

Liang Sixian crouched on Xu Chenglin's chest and whimpered and cried, unwilling to accept this fact.

Bai Chenghuan heard the cry of his close friend, quietly turned around, and walked towards the other end of the alley, like a lonely crow, through the cold night.

Sixian has this heart, she is content, and she understands it completely.

I don't know how long she walked before she stopped and looked back at Xiao Shaotang, who was not leaving an inch behind her.

"Xiao Shaotang, for the time being, I won't come here again."

"Well, I'm not going to anger them anymore."

Xiao Shaotang understood what she meant.

The full courtyard of Huaqing Palace is waiting for the emperor and queen to return at night.

When Bai Chenghuan walked in, he looked at this dazzling gaze, and felt as if he had walked out of a dark hell and finally regained the light, and the despair and pain in his heart were a little far away.

After entering the dormitory, she heard Xiao Shaotang whisper softly.

She turned around, and when the little chamberlain beside Xiao Shaotang took the big hat he took off, she touched his hand.

The little chamberlain was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, but Xiao Shaotang just waved his hand to show that he didn't care.

The little chamberlain felt that he had picked up a life and came back, and thanked him and crawled down with him.

Bai Chenghuan had already discovered Xiao Shaotang's abnormality, took his somewhat dodging left hand, and found that it was already swollen high.

She understood in an instant.

She had held his hand when she was most sad, and she knew how strong she was.

Under the lamp, Bai Chenghuan personally held a cotton cloth to rub medicine for Xiao Shaotang.

But he was a little dodgy:

"Just let the Imperial Doctor come, you can't smell this!"

"It's okay...... Why don't you say it when your hands hurt? ”

Bai Chenghuan looked at his originally bony hands swollen like steamed buns, carefully rubbed medicine for him, wrapped him in cotton cloth, and was so distressed that he burst into tears.

"Don't cry, cry something, it doesn't hurt."

Xiao Shaotang stretched out his other hand to wipe her tears.

The imperial doctor on the side packed up his things as quickly as he could, and fled.

The emperor and queen are in deep love, it's really not a lie, is this just a swollen hand, why did you cry?

In the dormitory where only the husband and wife were left, although Xiao Shaotang's hands were wrapped like a zongzi, he still couldn't stop smiling in his eyes.

"Don't cry...... I think it's good that I can be by your side like this when you're sad. ”

"Then you can't just take your hands seriously! If your hands are so wasted, do you think the subjects of Daqi will eat me? ”

"No—whoever dares to eat you, eat me first! Do you say, baby? ”

Xiao Shaotang declared domineeringly, and then took advantage of her distress for him and leaned on her, his cheek against their child in her womb.

Bai Chenghuan couldn't cry or laugh:

"You're talking to him?"

At this time, can the child hear?

"Yes, this is our child! For the child's sake, don't be sad, or he will be sad. I love to see you nervous about me, but I don't want to see you shed tears. ”

Xiao Shaotang leaned over and kissed her belly:

"Huanhuan, I know that you have enough sad things, it's not worth shedding tears for such a trivial matter as me!"

"Is this a trifle? It's your hand! If I push harder, it's really useless! ”

Bai Chenghuan saw that he was so inappropriate, he was angry, and wanted to talk to him seriously, but he couldn't bear to push him away.

"Okay, okay, I was wrong, but don't worry, I know in my heart, and I am willing to be used as a pillar by you to that extent."

Xiao Shaotang obediently admitted his mistake and was silent for a moment before continuing:

"Huanhuan, the last time I stopped you from going to Beishan Temple, I felt sorry. I shouldn't not accompany you and let you go to Beishan Temple alone to blow the cold wind and get angry, are you very angry? So this time, it's kind of compensating you, okay? ”

Last time...... Bai Chenghuan lowered his eyes, just in time to see the warmth in his good-looking phoenix eyes.

She lowered her head, her petal-soft lips lightly imprinted between his eyebrows:

"No, I know your hard work. You are for me, and for our children. I thank you so much for always being there for me when I'm sad. ”

She was unwilling to be abandoned by her father and brother, and repeatedly wanted to beg them to look at her again.

But she really shouldn't have ignored the child in her womb.

Xu Chenghuan in her previous life lived in the shadow of her heirs all her life, and in this life, she must not make the same mistakes as in her previous life.

"Xiao Shaotang, from today onwards, I will stay in the palace well, and I won't let you worry anymore."