Guo Jia, who was wrapped in a ball, moved towards Shen Xian with difficulty, Shen Xian stood still and did not move, until Guo Jiashen walked up to him with a shallow foot, and then stretched out his hand to help him.

"My lord." Guo Jia first smiled at Shen Xian and nodded, and then he suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Lu Ji's face: "Little villain, what bad things did you say about me while I was away?" ”

"Wronged!" Lu Ji's face was torn out of shape, he frowned and struggled to wave Guo Jia's hand away: "What I said is the truth, why are you so bad." ”

"Don't bully my godson." Shen Xian picked up Lu Ji and hugged him in her arms, she looked at Guo Jia with a smile: "What do you want to say to me?" ”

"Why don't we go for a walk together?" Guo Jia covered his mouth and coughed twice, pointed to Shen Xian in the streets and alleys covered in silver, and suddenly issued a seemingly casual invitation.

Shen Xian looked at the snow that had accumulated on the ground to almost half a foot thick, and then at Guo Jia's impaired appearance, and shook her head decisively.

There was a faint disappointment on Guo Jia's face, but then Shen Xian's words made him stunned. Shen Xian said: "Look at this day, it's going to snow again, why don't you go back to the house first, if you want to see the snow scene, the lotus pond in the house should also have a different flavor at this time." ”

Knowing that this was Shen Xian's fear that she would be infected with wind chill after walking around outside, Guo Jiawaner: "Okay." ”

Shen Xian carried Lu Ji and Guo Jia side by side, and the two of them walked back to the Prefecture Governor's Mansion with difficulty in the snow, leaving two series of wrong footprints along the way, one row a little deeper, one a little shallower.

Zhao Yun listened to his subordinates' report on the affairs of the city, and then wanted to find Shen Xian to tell her, but found that this person didn't know when he left. The subordinate general leaned over and said to Zhao Yun: "My lord just hugged Xiao Gongzi and a man with a pale face and didn't look very well. ”

This general's language expression ability is really good, and when an adjective is spoken, Zhao Yun knew that it was Guo Jia, and he couldn't laugh or cry: "These two people are free...... That's it, it's not a big deal anyway, you continue to patrol, keep an eye on the movements in the city at any time, and report back immediately if you have any problems. ”

After a pause, Zhao Yun took off a money bag from his waist and threw it to the general, and explained: "You change shifts, it's cold today, I'll treat you, let's get more wine to warm up the brothers." ”

"Thank you, sir!" The general was stunned for a moment, and then his eyebrows were overjoyed.

In order to prevent drinking and mishapting, alcohol has always been banned in the army. But everything can be accommodated, now is not a tense wartime state, there are not so many taboos, and on such a cold day, it is very comfortable to warm up with a quilt in the house and drink some wine. pushed himself and others, and Zhao Yun opened his mouth to sell this favor.

Although Lu Kang's Taishou Mansion is a little poorer, except for the small gardens on both sides of the cloister, there is only a lotus pond and pavilion with little decoration in the backyard, but after a heavy snowfall, this lotus pond that is usually not distinctive has turned into a good scenery. The bones of the dead lotus branches stood bare and erect in the middle of the lotus pond, and a small wooden boat half fell on the shore and half probed into the water, and the pond was frozen with the water and filled with thick snow. The world is covered in silver, and the eaves of the pavilion are lined with strings of crystal ice flowers, and from a distance, it looks like a white eagle that is about to fly, and there is a sense of pride.

The most active person in appreciating the snow turned out to be Lu Ji, who personally took a broom to sweep away the snow falling on the small wooden boat, and wiped it fine with a coarse cloth, and finally took out a few strange cloth beasts that Shen Xian asked the maids to sew on the wooden plank, and decorated the broken boat into a rather warm place to sit. Shen Xian hugged her arms with great interest and watched Lu Ji busy with her little short legs, and after watching for a while, she commanded the maids to clean up the pavilion, hung a circle of brocade outside the pavilion to block the wind, and then picked up a few soft big cloth beasts and walked into it.

Shen Xian padded a few layers of cushions to Guo Jia, making sure that she wouldn't catch a cold because it was too cold, pressed Guo Jia's shoulder and let him lean in the pavilion, she clapped her hands with a satisfied face and took a few steps back: "You sit here." ”

"What about you?" Guo Jia asked.

"The public discipline is all cleaned up." Shen Xian pointed to Lu Ji, who was almost overwhelmed by the cloth beast, and said with a smile: "It's good here." ”

Guo Jia seemed to want to say something, but the next second he suddenly twitched his nose.

With his eyes wide open, Guo Jia looked at Shen Xian with disbelief, and then he fell on the two servants who came from afar. One servant carried a small stove in his hand, and the other carried a jar of wine and a set of wine utensils.

Guo Jia watched as the servant put down the stove and lit it and left, while Shen Xian poured the wine into the pot and warmed it on the stove.

Blinking his eyes, Guo Jia's tone implied a hint of expectation: "Lord? ”

Shen Xian smiled slightly, shook the wine cup in her hand, and said to Guo Jia: "If you want snow in the evening, can you drink a glass?" ”

The sky is as dark and confused as if it is wrapped in layers of veils, and the red sunset is hidden behind it and only reveals a thin, unclear shimmer, the sky is getting late, the light snow rises again, Shen Xian walked into the pavilion with the sleepy Lu Ji in her arms, and sat down beside Guo Jia.

Guo Jia half-raised his eyes and glanced at Lu Ji, who was sleeping very comfortably in Shen Xian's arms: "Asleep?" ”

"Asleep." Shen Xian patted Lu Ji's back with a smile, watching the child unconsciously burp a little wine from time to time, and then a faint taste of fresh wine wafted away.

There was still half a jar of wine left, Shen Xian drank three glasses, Guo Jia drank five glasses, Lu Ji took advantage of the two adults not paying attention, and even secretly drank two glasses, and when Shen Xian found out, the child was already red and began to talk nonsense.

"Dad, Bo Yan robbed me of the sugar gourd again!"

"I dreamed of my mother last night......"

"You said you were going to take me to the outing, but you don't count if you talk again! Hum! ”

“……”

The drunk Lu Ji looked more like a child than his usual serious appearance, he sat on the boat, flattened the face of a fox cloth beast, raised his hands and pulled Shen Xian's skirt down, and sprinkled while pulling: "Mother, I want to eat osmanthus cake, osmanthus cake, osmanthus cake!" ”

Shen Xian was sitting in front of the stove to help Guo Jia pour a glass of wine that had just been warmed, and she was caught by a child who suddenly attacked her, and was caught, almost planted on her back and smashed with Lu Ji, but fortunately she reacted quickly, so she sat firmly after stumbling, but the belt was pulled away by Lu Ji.

"Little villain, did you do it on purpose?" Shen Xian stuffed the warm wine to Guo Jia, she held her belt with one hand, and helplessly turned around to try to free her skirt from Lu Ji's hands, but the drunken Lu Ji's strength was simply extraordinarily great, and Shen Xian didn't dare to make any effort for fear of hurting him, so in the end she failed.

Shen Xian looked at Guo Jia like a distress plead, but Guo Jia sat firmly in the pavilion with a smile, he took a sip of wine, looked at Shen Xian through the curtain slowly raised by the wind, and said slowly: "Lord, you and your son's family affairs, how can I, an outsider, me, me?" ”

There was a trace of sour gas floating in the air, and Shen Xian thought to herself: Whose vinegar jar is this overturned?

"Do you drink wine or vinegar?" Shen Xian glanced at Guo Jia meaningfully, then she sighed, and simply hugged Lu Ji directly into her arms, and coaxed her for a long time, and then the deceived person let go of her skirt and grabbed a very small bird puppet placed on the side of the boat.

"Mother, I want to eat osmanthus cake!" After pulling the cloth beast for a long time, Lu Ji pulled the little bird to the point that his eyes were crooked, but he was still unable to satisfy, he stared straight at Shen Xian with a pair of big hazy eyes.

Usually like a little angel, who would have thought that he would be a little devil after getting drunk, that cloth beast is really pitiful. Shen Xian shook her head and wanted to say that I am not your mother, but looking at Lu Ji's eyes full of longing, she couldn't open her mouth, so she had to coax and coax: "You have already eaten five osmanthus cakes today, and if you eat it again, it will be broken, and you will eat it tomorrow." ”

Lu Ji thought about it seriously, and then he nodded obediently: "Okay." ”

Shen Xian didn't expect this child to be so easy to deceive, she was stunned, and then felt a sinking on her shoulders, only to see Lu Ji leaning on her shoulders to find a comfortable position for herself, and just got up and fell asleep.

"It's really hard to raise children." Shen Xian sighed: "This is not my own birth, it feels like a debt collector." ”

"You can leave him alone." Guo Jia watched Lu Ji stretch his arms in his sleep, his eyes gradually became darker, and he said lightly: "There are too many children like him in the world, can you take care of them?" ”

"Forget what I didn't meet." Shen Xian smoothed Lu Ji's frowning brows: "How can I let him fend for himself?" Besides, I promised Lord Lu that I would raise them to become talents, and it is not good to lose their trust to others. ”

Guo Jia was quiet for a while before he said slowly: "Lord, your heart is too soft-hearted. ”

"It depends on whom." Shen Xian glanced at Guo Jia: "I am as cruel as winter to the enemy, and I must be as warm as spring when I treat my own people...... Or do you give me the wine first? ”

Guo Jia quickly hid the wine glass behind him: "I suddenly feel that it's good for you to be soft-hearted, and I am my own person." ”

"The Chinese New Year is just a few days away." Shen Xian pondered for a moment and then said, "I wrote a letter to Zhao Ji, saying that we won't go back this year, and then send Zilong to send the letter back in two days, and then ask Weiyou to return him after the New Year." ”

Guo Jia looked at Shen Xian with a smile: "You haven't given up on making Zilong and Miss Qian together?" ”

Shen Xian said solemnly: "The two of them are obviously in love with each other, and I don't know why no one speaks, if I don't push it again, what life can we be together?" It looks like he's going to die. ”

"That's right." Guo Jia seems to have pointed out: "Some people just don't open their minds, and they can't always think of other people's minds if they don't knock on them." ”

Shen Xian inexplicably felt as if she had been hit by an arrow in her knee, but she was a little unsure of Guo Jia's meaning, so she had to tentatively say: "Maybe it's because the strength of the knock is not enough?" Not all of them have the kind of mind you have to turn around a thousand times...... For example, my eldest brother, I really don't know when he will open his mind and like a girl. ”

Guo Jia thought for a moment and smiled: "Bo Fu has already scared away many girls...... I heard that after he captured Huiji, a family went to the door to propose marriage, but Bo Fu and Taishi Ziyi either drank in the tavern and competed in the school field every day, or ran to the study to listen to Gong Jin play the piano until he fell asleep, and was finally beaten out by Gong Jin waving the piano, but those matchmakers didn't even block others. ”

Shen Xian laughed when she heard this.

"If the grain harvest is good in the spring of next year, you can prepare to fight Jingzhou." Guo Jia picked up the wine jug and poured himself a full glass of wine: "Presumably Bo Fu has been waiting for a long time." ”

"Jingzhou has a grudge against him for killing his father, how can he let it go?" Shen Xian sighed: "But he is not so impulsive and wants to kill him directly." ”

"If Gongjin is not here, no one can suppress him." Guo Jia didn't know what he remembered, and a smile appeared between his eyebrows: "Lord, you sent Taishi Ziyi to Gongjin's side, but it caused him a lot of trouble." ”

"Oh? Could something else be going on? Shen Xian asked with great interest.

Guo Jia told Shen Xian a few things about Tai Shici. It turned out that since coming to Sun Ce's camp, Tai Shici had learned from Sun Ce a few times like Zhao Yun, and the two became good friends; Then after avoiding Zhou Yu's roar together and getting drunk for a few times, the two became good brothers. In the past, Zhou Yu only needed to deal with one Sun Ce, but now there is one more Tai Shi Ci, which is simply a troublesome quadratic, and he has been used to following Sun Ce to help him clean up the mess after so many years, so he can't change his heart of being an old mother.

"Forget about hiding from the matchmaker, it is said that Bo Fu and Tai Shi Ziyi are still smashing a lot of people's shops, of course, they didn't mean it, just to chase bandits or fight for the people, but this also caused a lot of trouble." Guo Jia said slowly: "Later, Gongjin was annoyed, so he separated Bo Fu from Taishi Ziyi and sent Bo Fu to Yuzhang County to help me. ”

"He's alone?" Shen Xian was suspicious: "Is it really okay?" ”

"Bo Fu is still reliable when he is alone." Guo Jia rarely praised Sun Ce once: "Before I left, his relationship with Huaziyu was normal, and he didn't annoy others...... Somewhat rare. ”

Sun Ce sometimes gives people the feeling that he can withstand the sky falling, and sometimes he becomes a naughty child, which is rare for this person to be divided like this, and there is no pressure to switch back and forth between maturity and naivety.

"Are you going back?" Shen Xian suddenly asked: "With the eldest brother and the second brother here, it shouldn't be a problem to take Jiangxia County, I want to guard the Lujiang River, so I won't go with me." ”

Guo Jia lowered his eyelids: "Wen He and Gong Jin are enough, I'm here just in case." ”

"Don't believe me?" Shen Xian was obviously a little happy, but she still asked more.

Guo Jia shook his head: "Once the war starts, Lujiang is the most dangerous place on the front line, there are no soldiers and no generals here, and if there is no strategist, can an empty city resist the temptations of all parties?" ”

"What's the use of keeping a strategist?" Shen Xian looked at Guo Jia playfully: "Are you able to scatter beans on the battlefield and become a soldier?" Or blow the enemy home? ”

Guo Jia shook the wine cup in his hand, and said incomprehensibly: "Blow a breath and let the enemy retreat...... Maybe I can do it. ”

The pavilion was quiet for a while, except for the grunt of the apricot blossom wine on the stove, only Lu Ji let out a series of loud small snores from time to time. But the strange thing is that Shen Xian doesn't think that the current atmosphere is awkward or boring, but sitting so quietly, she feels that she can spend a whole afternoon.

Guo Jia drank the last drop of wine in the cup, and this time he didn't take the initiative to refill himself, but put the wine cup aside and moved it to Shen Xian's side.

Shen Xian was pondering, and she didn't notice Guo Jia's small movements for a while, and when she found out...... Guo Jia was already leaning on her shoulder.

Shen Xian's heart moved, and she said expressionlessly: "Mr. Guo, what are you doing." ”

"Lord, I'm drunk." Guo Jia said half-truthfully: "Let me lean on for a while." ”

"You-"

"Shh Guo Jia suddenly raised his finger and pointed it on Shen Xian's lips, and he said with a smile: "Don't talk, listen." ”

What to listen to? Is the north wind whistling? Is the apricot blossom wine warm grunt? Lu Ji's snoring? Or the sound of snowflakes falling?

"Lord, do you hear my heartbeat?" Guo Jia said softly.

Shen Xian was silent for a moment, then reached out and pressed on Guo Jia's pulse: "I heard it." ”

The speed of beating is much faster than that of ordinary people, and I don't know if it is because Guo Jia drank too much, or if he is not in good health, or because he is ...... This man is nervous.

The two of them kept a posture of holding the baby in one arms and one leaning on the other for a long time, until-

"Lord, are you quite good at playing...... What are you doing? ”

The corners of Jia Xu's mouth twitched as he looked at Guo Jia and Shen Xian, and he felt that his brain was a little overloaded.

What kind of trouble is this special family of three?!

Guo Jia beckoned to Jia Xu indifferently: "Wenhe, are you also here to drink?" ”

Shen Xian stuffed Lu Ji into Jia Xu's arms.

"No, Guo Fengxiao." Jia Xu hugged Lu Ji stiffly, and he took a deep breath: "I think we need to talk about ......"

"What's the matter?" Shen Xian interrupted Jia Xu's words, and she asked softly, "Gongji is asleep, Wen and you can talk quietly." ”

Jia Xu was stunned for a while, he looked at Lu Ji who turned over in his arms and continued to sleep, and then looked at Guo Jia, who was leaning softly on Shen Xian's shoulder as if all the bones were being pumped, and suddenly regained his usual calm look.

"No, it's nothing, I'm just here to call you to dinner." Jia Xu said lightly: "By the way...... Gongjin has a letter. ”

Zhou Yu said in the letter that the affairs of Huiji and Yuzhang County have been almost handled, and now that the New Year is approaching, the battle is impossible to fight, and it is too far to go to Yizhou for the New Year, so he discussed it with Sun Ce and decided to go to Danyang to pick up Mrs. Zhou, Mrs. Wu and Sun Shangxiang, and everyone will spend the New Year together in Shucheng, Lujiang. The Zhou family still has a house in Shucheng, where the place is big and can fit many people, and asked Shen Xian if she wanted to go back to Yizhou.

Shen Xian raised her hands in approval of Zhou Yu's suggestion, and immediately she sent a letter back to Zhou Yu, and by the way, she asked Zhou Yu to bring some special products of Yuzhang and Huiji when she came over, and she herself began to prepare for the New Year in Lujiang.

After sending Zhao Yun to the ship back to Yizhou, Shen Xian personally took over the military power of Lujiang, and the daily military report was to be sent to the study for her to review that day before sending it out. The whole territory of Lujiang is still carrying out the "total blockade" order issued by Shen Xian before, and all those who try to enter Lujiang to find out are all blocked from the border - of course, since the news of the outbreak of the plague in Lujiang has spread, no one dares to come here, but a lie is a lie after all, there will always be a day when it will be punctured, before that, everyone must be vigilant, no one can relax, there are not many soldiers and horses in Lujiang, once they are unguarded and exposed to the enemy's sight, it is a matter of minutes to be eliminated.

As for the few soldiers in Shucheng, they were divided into two parts by Shen Xian, one part was three teams, responsible for patrolling and policing in the city, and implemented three shifts; The remaining two teams guarded the safety outside the city, strictly checking passers-by, and at the same time prepared to support at any time if there was a situation.

Even in a somewhat tense situation, Shu Cheng gradually became infected with the atmosphere of the New Year. At first, because the city was still under lockdown, in order to let the people have a good year, Shen Xian sent people to buy hundreds of beautiful red lanterns in the workshops of old craftsmen, and hung them all the way from the north of Shucheng to the south of the city. The lanterns are like a beginning, and in the following days, vendors have sprung up in the streets and alleys to sell all kinds of New Year's goods, window flowers, peach charms, melons, fruits and vegetables, meat, satin cloth, and beautifully wrapped gifts...... Under the supervision of the patrol, the vendors each occupied a stall and lined up neatly along the street, shouting and selling. The people who came and went carefully chose their favorite things, and occasionally there were quarrels, which were also stopped in time by the patrol, and the overall atmosphere was harmonious and beautiful.

Lu Ji and Lu Xun were arguing about playing on the street, Shen Xian was annoyed, and finally packed the two children and threw them to Guo Jia, asking him to take the children to be responsible for purchasing the New Year's goods in the house.

Guo Jia, who was thrown out with the bear children, shook his head helplessly, since Jia Xu saw that the two of them leaning together and behaving quite intimately that day, Shen Xian's attitude has become very subtle.

Guo Jia understood that Shen Xian didn't mean to escape, but she seemed to be a little ...... Unscrupulous?

Anyway, in front of other people, Shen Xian was not afraid to become intimate with Guo Jia at all. After staying up late last time to approve the official document, Shen Xian fell asleep on Guo Jia's lap, and later Jia Xu came in to get the document, but he didn't express any dissatisfaction with Shen Xian, but glared at Guo Jia coldly, which made Guo Jia inexplicable.

This is obviously a matter of two people, why do you all condemn me but don't talk to the lord! Guo Jia's always smart head melon is stuck in this matter.

Looking at Guo Jia's somewhat gloomy face, Lu Ji poked his leg: "Why are you annoyed?" My sister must like you very much now. ”

Lu Xun was shocked: "What? She's going to marry me! Why do you like others again! This woman in the twilight! ”

Guo Jia almost didn't fall down, he stabilized his body and pressed Lu Xun's head and rubbed it vigorously: "If you want to marry her, you want to marry her, and I want to marry her, are two things that do not conflict at all." ”

"Although something is not quite right, I think what you said makes sense......" Lu Xun blinked blankly.

Lu Ji looked at Lu Xun's back and shook his head: "Poor." ”