Guo Jia felt that he should be too worried, why should he be a big man like a child?

However, looking at Lu Ji, who seems to be pure but is actually black-hearted, Guo Jia suddenly enlightened: This is not right! Children will always grow up one day! All potential opponents should be nippled in the bud!

Thereupon...... Guo Jia pressed Lu Ji's shoulder, and he said in a serious tone: "Let's go back to Lujiang, don't you want to be a boy?" ”

"Why should you think of him?" Lu Ji said dumbfoundedly: "Anyway, he has someone to take care of, I, I just miss my father......"

The child's face changed when he said it, Lu Ji was still pit Lu Xun just now, and when he turned his head, he didn't know how to think of his father, and suddenly he was aggrieved.

Guo Jia watched Lu Ji's hands stir together and twist around, letting the bean-sized tears roll down his cheeks and fall to the ground without raising his hand to wipe them, and suddenly let out a long sigh.

"Let's go back!" Lu Ji grabbed Guo Jia's clothes and threw himself into his arms and sobbed: "I miss my father......"

Sun Ce and Hua Xin walked towards each other, the two were looking around and talking about something, and suddenly saw Guo Jia standing in the middle of the road with Lu Ji in his arms and crying, Sun Ce raised his eyebrows: "Yo, Fengxiao, what's wrong?" ”

Guo Jia didn't speak, he just shook his head at Sun Ce.

"If I don't go back, I won't see my father if I don't go back, right?" Lu Ji cried breathlessly: "Actually, I can't see it anymore, right...... He said a lot to me the day we left...... I've been ......"

"If you want to go back, then go back." Guo Jia patted Lu Ji on the back and said in a low voice.

So Sun Ce and Tai Shici continued to stay in Yuzhang County to deal with the rest of the affairs, and Guo Jia took Lu Ji back to Lujiang, and at the same time replaced Jia Xu to save the scene.

Shucheng had its first snow of the year in early December.

When Shen Xian got up early, she was dazzled by the bright light through the paper window, and when she rubbed her eyes and pushed the window open, the whole person was stunned.

Overnight, the whole place was plain white, and everything as far as the eye could see was covered with snowflakes, and there were still pieces of snow foam as fine as a light rain fluttering down from the air, Shen Xian reached out to pick it up, and was shivering with the coldness that fell on her palm, she closed the window, put on a thick cloak, pushed the door and walked out of the house.

The little maids were already playing crazy in the snow, the broom and dustpan were thrown aside, and no one cared about the housekeeper shouting at the top of his voice, and Shen Xian couldn't help but smile when she saw that everyone was having a good time when she passed by.

"Your Excellency." The housekeeper gave Shen Xian a look, and a look of embarrassment flashed on his face: "It's me who neglected to discipline ......."

Shen Xian waved her hand: "It's rare to get snow, and it's nothing to play for a while." ”

As Shen Xian spoke, she wiped a handful of snow balls from the corridor and rubbed them in her palm, and rubbed them into a round snowball with great interest.

Lu Xun, who was dressed as a ball, bent down laboriously to point at Jia Xu and laughed, Jia Xu was stunned for a long time before he brushed the snow off his face with tears and laughter: "Lord, this is not fun at all......"

Shen Xian laughed with Lu Xun, but before she could laugh a few times, she heard a strong wind behind her, and she was about to flash to the side dexterously, but she accidentally stepped on a frozen puddle, and slipped and sat directly on the ground.

The snowball flew over Shen Xian's head and slapped on Jia Xu's face again.

Jia Xu: "......"

Lu Xunxiao's stomach hurt, while Zhao Yun waved his hand in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, Wenhe, I want to help you take revenge." ”

Shen Xian unceremoniously pointed at Zhao Yun and said, "Pig teammate is you!" ”

"Lord, don't be complacent." Zhao Yun slowly showed a snow ball again, and smiled at Shen Xian, who was sitting on the ground and couldn't get up: "My hometown is in Changshan, Jizhou, where it is almost snowing in winter, and when it comes to snowball fights, no one can compare to me......"

Zhao Yun said as he threw a snowball at Shen Xian.

Shen Xian simply rolled on the spot and fell into the garden to avoid a catastrophe, she grabbed a few handfuls of snow balls and threw them towards Zhao Yun, and the two had a fierce fight. Lu Xun saw that his blood was boiling, and regardless of the fact that he was unable to move, he slowly moved to the closest place to Shen Xian to pick up the snow and attack her.

Then Shen Xian hid...... Jia Xu was hit for the third time.

This is no longer unlucky, it is simply cursed. Staring at the broken snow falling all over his clothes, Jia Xu took a deep breath, and he couldn't bear it anymore and rolled up his sleeves to join the battle: "My lord, our Wuwei also often snows!" ”

When the general took Guo Jia and Lu Ji to move into the Taishou Mansion slowly, he saw a scene like a violent wind transiting: Shen Xian took Lu Xun to fight Jia Xu and Zhao Yun, and other bold little maids mixed in to stir up the water, and the housekeeper stood under the cloister with a cloak with an expressionless face.

"What the hell is this ......"

Guo Jia couldn't help coughing twice, and Lu Ji stood on tiptoe to help him wrap his cloak tightly. Guo Jia's body is weak and can't stand the cold of winter, if it's just the cold of the north wind howling in the north, it doesn't matter, but the cold in the south is damp and cold, soaked into the bones, no matter how much cloak and thick clothes are wrapped, it may not be warm, and when I reach out and touch it, I always feel that it is all damp...... This made Guo Jia unbearable.

Before he arrived in Lujiang, Guo Jia had a little fever, Lu Ji couldn't take care of people as a child, and he was afraid of infecting him when he was close, so he dragged it around, and finally returned to Taishou Mansion with his strength, Guo Jia couldn't bear it anymore, his legs were weak and he was planted back, and he was supported by the quick-eyed housekeeper: "Mr. Guo!" ”

Shen Xian hit Zhao Yun three times in a row, just when the morale was high, she suddenly heard a familiar voice, she looked back, and happened to see the scene of the housekeeper holding Guo Jia, she was startled, and immediately threw her hands full of snow and walked towards the corridor.

Jia Xu took off his hand and slapped it softly on the back of Shen Xian's head.

"Jia Wenhe! I'll settle accounts with you later! Shen Xian said without looking back.

"Lord, how many have you photographed me!" Jia Xu's hair and eyebrows were covered with snow foam, and he looked like he had just been cut out of the snowdrift, and he said angrily: "At least ten of them were smashed in the face!" Ten! ”

"One hit is good." Zhao Yun smiled and patted Jia Xu's shoulder: "The lord's body is agile, and the snowballs that followed her have all failed...... Why did Bonghyo come back now? Did something go wrong? ”

"It's fine." Jia Xu shook off the snow that covered his cloak, and he said angrily: "He sent Gongji back, and the child is homesick...... But then, I'm busy again. ”

Shen Xian burned two braziers in the house and added three quilts to Guo Jia, this person still felt cold, but for the medicine brought by Jia Xu, Guo Jia put it aside with a disgusted face.

"Guo Fengxiao, I told you that you can't do this," Shen Xian stood in front of Guo Jia expressionlessly holding a silver needle: "It's not right to avoid medical treatment, either take medicine or prick a needle, you choose one." ”

Guo Jia looked at the black medicine bowl in Jia Xu's hand that exuded a strange smell, and then looked at the silver needle that flashed with dazzling light on Shen Xian's fingertips, and he said slowly: "Come on, I'll choose to prick the needle." ”

"Drink it after you finish pricking." Jia Xu put the medicine on the table very calmly, took the cover to keep warm, and left Shi Shiran under Guo Jia's resentful gaze.

"I think he has a point." Shen Xian nodded, and then she lifted Guo Jia's cup and pressed him on the bed: "Don't move, it's cold, my hands are shaking." ”

"I'm back so early, Yu Zhang and Huiji are okay?" Shen Xian asked as she packed up the needles.

Guo Jia lay on the bed with a helpless face: "Your godson has to come back, saying that he wants to see his father, crying and making trouble on the street, I am treated as a human tooth, and Bo Fu is still standing aside to watch the lively ......"

Shen Xian couldn't help but burst out laughing, she patted Guo Jia's shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work hahaha......"

Smiling and smiling, Shen Xian's face sank, she let out a long sigh, and said in a low voice: "Lord Lu died on the day you left, and I wanted someone to call you back." ”

"He already knew." Guo Jia said lightly: "But after all, he is still a child, and after so many days, he still couldn't hold back in the end." ”

There were a lot of pillows and cloth beasts that Shen Xian was bored with on the bed and asked the little girls to sew, she reached out and took one in her arms, and rested her chin between the two long ears of the rabbit cloth beast: "It's so sad...... He's only eight years old. ”

The room was quiet for a while, Guo Jia stared at the rabbit in Shen Xian's arms with a strange expression, he thought for a while and said, "Lord, what is this?" ”

"Hold and play." Shen Xian poked the rabbit's big face, and she was very wealthy and filled it with a lot of silk satin, so the rabbit was very comfortable to hold: "You can also lean on, and you can warm your hands, do you want it?" That's one for you. ”

Shen Xian said as she pulled out a fox-faced cloth beast from the innermost part and threw it on Guo Jia's chest.

Guo Jia picked up the cloth beast and looked at it for a while, he said slowly: "It seems that I haven't seen anything like this before?" ”

"Of course." Shen Xian blinked: "This is the pattern I drew, isn't it cute?" ”

Guo Jia smiled slightly: "Yes." ”

After chatting, the two talked about what had happened these days.

"How did you convince Hua Ziyu to surrender?" Shen Xian asked with great interest.

In Shen Xian's view, it is simply impossible to say that people give up resistance completely with just three inches of incorruptible tongue.

"It's Toucheng." Guo Jia lazily corrected: "Wang Jingxing resisted hard, and in only seven days, Gongjin and Bo Fu broke through the city gate. Yuzhang County is the same as Huiji County, there are soldiers in the city but there is no general, and it is bound to be unable to resist the rolling iron horses, and it is impossible to bargain for any cheapness if you fight hard. Hua Ziyu is an honest official, and he thinks about the people, and he definitely doesn't want to see the flames of war ignite and the lives of people are ruined, plus Gong Jin has always said that even after the city is broken, no people will be harassed, and under many considerations, Hua Ziyu will choose the most advantageous option. ”

"That is, they were forced to surrender by the eldest brother." Shen Xian nodded.

"It's Toucheng." Guo Jia took the trouble to correct it again, and he was a little dissatisfied: "Even if there is no Gong Jin and Bo Fu in Huiji County, I am about to convince Hua Ziyu." ”

"Good, good, you're the best." Shen Xian, she picked up Shang Wen's medicine bowl and smiled at Guo Jia: "Drink the medicine." ”

Guo Jia's face fell.

Lu Kang's mourning hall Shen Xian has been staying in the mansion, and she also puts three incense sticks every day, begging Lord Lu to bless Lujiang in the sky and not be targeted by others.

Lu Xun led Lu Ji, and the two children wrapped in balls stumbled into the mourning hall.

Lu Ji, who had been sobbing all the way in Guo Jia's arms, stopped crying at this time, he blinked his big eyes that swollen into walnuts and stared up at the tablet in the center. After a long time, Lu Ji walked to the table, stood on tiptoe, held three sticks of incense and lit it, and respectfully bowed to Lu Kang's tablet.

Father, don't worry, I'll live well.

The howling north wind passed through the hall, and after circling around Lu Ji, he rushed out of the courtyard, freezing Lu Xun who was standing on the side.

"Where is my father?" Lu Ji turned around and asked Lu Xun: "You helped Ling back to Wu County?" ”

"Nope." Lu Xun shook his head: "How can I go back if the city is locked down all the time?" My sister buried my grandfather on the shore of Chaohu Lake outside the city. ”

"Oh." Lu Ji nodded dumbly: "Good place." ”

The two were silent for a long time, and Lu Xun hesitated and asked, "We, what should we do next?" ”

"Do you want to go back to Wu County?" Lu Ji looked at Lu Xun seriously: "If you want, I can send you back." ”

Lu Xun shook his head, he was a little embarrassed: "I'm learning from my sister...... She said I'll take care of it here in the future. ”

"Then you stay." Lu Ji said thoughtfully: "I am also learning from Mr. Fengxiao, but he sometimes ......."

As he spoke, Lu Ji frowned, and an incomprehensible look appeared on his little face: "Anyway, Mr. Fengxiao is different from other gentlemen. ”

"Are we under the fence then?" Lu Xun's voice revealed a hint of frustration: "It's like this again......"

Lu Ji nodded, he stepped forward and shook Lu Xun's cold hand, and gave him a very shallow smile: "It's okay, we are still together, and the Lu family will come back one day." ”

"So we're finally going to fight Jingzhou next, right!" Shen Xian said excitedly at the large map hanging on the screen in the study: "I've been waiting for this day for a long time! Go home for the New Year after playing! ”

"Not really." Jia Xu once again launched the skill of pouring cold water, and he said slowly against Shen Xian's resentful gaze: "Lord, no one will fight in the winter, it is difficult for food to keep up with the supply, and besides, after a year of struggle outside, the soldiers are also thinking about going home for the New Year, and their minds are not here, and they can't fight." ”

Guo Jia agreed with Jia Xu's idea: "This year's harvest in Yizhou is good, the seeds have just been planted for a few months, and when the grain is harvested in the spring of next year, the rest will be distributed to see how long we can send troops." Fighting a war costs everything, time, money, food, people...... Even if we take the three counties of Lujiang, Yuzhang and Huiji, it has not been able to alleviate the problem of consumption, the plague that Lujiang has experienced, and the two counties of Yuzhang and Huiji also suffered a drought earlier this year, and these three counties are not able to be self-sufficient, on the contrary, they have to be upside down. ”

Shen Xian couldn't cry or laugh: "I took up three ancestors to come back?" ”

"For the time being, it will be the ancestor, and in the future it will be the grandson." Guo Jia Zhengse said: "Lujiang alone has thousands of hectares of fertile land, Yuzhang County is also very suitable for farming, there are Chaohu and Peng Lize here, the lord you can train the navy." ”

Shen Xian thought about it, and felt that what Guo Jia and Jia Xu said also made sense, Jingzhou is not so easy to fight, the two cities of Jiangling and Xiling are famous for their high walls, and it will be difficult to take them down for a while and a half.

There is another point, the three counties of Lujiang, Huiji and Yuzhang are newly occupied territories, and a large part of them surrendered in fear after hearing the prestige of Sun Ce's little overlord, most of these areas belong to the wall grass type, you can surrender Shen Xian today, and you can surrender Yuan Shu tomorrow, if you don't completely subdue these forces that are ready to move, maybe in the future, there will be an embarrassing situation where Boss Cao fights in front of him and his subordinates who stay behind him stab him.

"So I have to spend the New Year here this year?" Shen Xian covered her face and wailed: "I haven't spent the New Year in Yizhou for four years!" ”

"I haven't been back to Wuwei for many years." Jia Xu said calmly: "Why don't you let me go home and have a look?" ”

Guo Jia added with a smile: "I also want to go back to my hometown in Yingchuan again." ”

Shen Xian suddenly changed her words: "No, forget it, let's celebrate the New Year in Lujiang." ”

Jia Xu wants to go home, forget it, Wuwei is now Ma Teng's territory, Shen Xian and him are still allies, and Jia Xu will not be in any danger if he wants to go home to visit relatives. But Guo Jia is different, Yingchuan is now the place where Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and Lu Bu are fighting in a tripartite scuffle, in case Guo Jia's little arms and thin legs are taken away, Shen Xian can't cry.

"Okay, okay, let's be in Lujiang." Shen Xian said irritably: "Write a letter to the second brother and ask them if they can come back for the New Year, or we can go to find them." ”

"I miss Sister Akihime so much, ......"

In addition to the problem of fighting wars and celebrating the New Year, there is another thing that must be paid attention to, although there is a saying that the snow is a mega year, but if the snow is too big, it is necessary to prevent the arrival of snow disasters before it is a mega year.

The snow fell intermittently for three days.

On the first day, Shen Xian and her subordinates were going crazy; The next day, Shen Xian nested in the room in the morning to treat Guo Jia's illness, and at the same time called Jia Xu to discuss the war, and in the afternoon corrected all the official documents that had been backlogged for several days; On the third day, the snow was still falling, so Shen Xian couldn't sit still, after she put a needle on Guo Jia, she casually pulled a thick cloak and wrapped it, picked up Lu Ji, who happened to be passing by, and went to inspect the street together.

The snow fell almost half a foot thick, and Yan zhòng affected people's travel, Zhao Yunzheng led the patrolling soldiers to shovel the snow together, and some people spontaneously organized to help.

Shen Xian didn't move for a few days, and no one informed her, thinking that there was no major accident in the city, but she really didn't expect that this intermittent snow could fall so heavily.

"How?" Shen Xian walked up to Zhao Yun and asked, "Is there any loss in the city?" But are there people who are hurt? ”

"Nope." Zhao Yun wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead: "As soon as the snow fell, Mr. Wenhe ordered to go down and let him pay attention to the movements in and outside the city at any time, and also opened sheds for soup porridge and clothing in the city to relieve the homeless, and large households also came forward to donate money, food and clothing. Last night, only one uninhabited dilapidated house in the west of the city collapsed its roof due to snow, and I have already sent someone to inspect and strengthen the rest of the important building facilities. ”

Shen Xian breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time began to reflect that she was only interested in playing.

Zhao Yun found that some people were secretly observing Shen Xian, so he smiled at her: "Lord, do you want to be together?" ”

"Okay." Shen Xian put Lu Ji aside, rolled up her sleeves, took the tools handed over by Zhao Yun, and worked feverishly with the others.

Shen Xian chatted with Zhao Yun while working: "Zilong, I will send you back to Yizhou in two days, let Weiyou come to take care of you, I have been out for almost half a year, I have to go back to see." ”

Zhao Yun was slightly stunned: "If it's convenient, thank you for it." ”

Shen Xian thought to herself, what if you don't go back to see Gan Qian get married? She smiled slightly: "Hey, what's so thankful for this, let's change it...... It's a pity that no one changed with me. ”

Lu Ji took a dustpan to help Shen Xian Sheng Xue, and after hearing this, he raised his neck and asked, "I also want to go back to Wu County to have a look, there are only me and Bo Yan left here in our family, and there are still some distant relatives in my hometown." ”

"Don't be sad, everyone depends on each other." Shen Xian gently rubbed the top of Lu Ji's head with a warm palm: "I'm the only one left in my family...... If only my fourth brother were still alive. ”

"Why did he die?" Lu Ji blinked his eyes wide, staring at Shen Xian with puzzled eyes.

The smile on Shen Xian's face froze slightly, and she asked in a low voice for a long time, "Do you want to hear a lie or do you want to hear the truth?" ”

Lu Ji thought for a while and asked, "What is a lie?" And what is the truth? ”

Shen Xian casually handed the tool to a handsome little soldier next to her, she picked up Lu Ji and walked to the side of the road where there were few people, and said as she walked: "The lie is that he has been keeping my father's spirit all the year round, and the place where he lives is not very good, he may have fallen into some disease, or he has thought too much, in short, he has died." ”

"As for the truth...... Looking at Lu Ji's pure and clear eyes, Shen Xian smiled: "He concealed the news of my father's death, seized the rights that should belong to me, and colluded with the subordinates I have always trusted to frame me for killing the eldest brother and second brother, and he wanted to hunt me down, so I led the troops to fight back." I won, and if he loses, he has to die. ”

Lu Ji didn't have fear or disgust, he just nodded thoughtfully.

Shen Xian suddenly felt bored, and she said helplessly: "Okay, this is also a lie, the truth is that both of us want the position of Yizhou Mu, and we both want the rights, status, and soldiers left by my father...... But there is only one person who can inherit these things, and in the end I won, so you see now I am the Yizhou Mu, the Marquis of Guanghan, and the general of the Che Cavalry, and my brother is nothing, and even life or death depends on my mood......"

Lu Ji suddenly asked, "Why is he still alive?" Aren't you afraid that he will turn the tables one day? ”

Shen Xian was slightly stunned, she looked at Lu Ji carefully as if she didn't know her, Lu Ji looked at Shen Xian very calmly, and after a while, Shen Xian said blankly: "I don't know...... Maybe it's because he's the only one I have left in this world? If he dies, I feel like I'm alone. ”

"How could it be alone?" Lu Ji asked strangely.

Lu Ji pulled Shen Xian's skirt and made Shen Xian lean down, and then he stood on tiptoe and held Shen Xian's cold cheeks with a pair of immature little hands: "You still have me." ”

"Hmm...... Boyan is yours too. After thinking about it, Lu Ji nodded and added seriously: "There are also Mr. Fengxiao, Mr. Wenhe and Brother Zilong." ”

Shen Xian remembered the words Lu Xun said to her a few days ago, "Let's raise public discipline", and couldn't help laughing, saying in her heart that you two really deserve to be a family.

"Why aren't they mine?" Shen Xian pretended to be puzzled and asked, she deliberately teased Lu Ji.

Lu Ji explained: "Because neither of them likes you, but all three of us like you." ”

"It's true." Afraid that Shen Xian would not believe it, Lu Ji swore and said: "When I was in Yuzhang with my husband, he often ......"

"Don't ...... Said. Shen Xian suddenly covered Lu Ji's mouth.

"Don't, my lord, let him speak." Guo Jia walked from behind Lu Ji with a smile, he moved his gaze to Shen Xian, and narrowed his eyes slightly: "I also want to hear it." ”

"Do you really want to hear it?" Shen Xian raised her eyebrows: "Okay, then you come to me." ”