The cicadas outside the window are getting grander and grander, and the summer is getting thicker and thicker, and Qin Nanxi in the room has a layer of fine sweat on his hand holding the pen.

"Miss, miss." Xue Rui came in from outside, jumped to Qin Nanxi's side, and said in a loud voice: "Miss, you forgot something important!" ”

"What's the matter?" Qin Nanxi turned around and didn't feel that he had missed anything, so he put down the pen in his hand and asked unhurriedly.

"Miss, you forgot? After the Dragon Boat Festival is the birthday of Young Master Chong, at this time in previous years, Miss prepared a birthday gift early, but a few days ago we were grounded and delayed. It's the Dragon Boat Festival, Miss, haven't you forgotten? The birthday gifts we give to Young Master Chong are different every year, and they all make Young Master Chong love it, but this year I haven't prepared yet, isn't it important? Xue Rui looked up with a small face, and Baba had to look at Qin Nanxi waiting for praise.

Qin Nanxi smiled helplessly: "What's the matter, it's worth your hurried shouting?" It's just a birthday gift, even if he doesn't give it, Situ Chong won't mind. Qin Nanxi is clear about the friendship between himself and Situ Chong, don't say that he missed a birthday gift, even if he never takes his birthday to heart, he won't mind at all. Over the years, Situ Chong seems to have been obedient to herself, and she seems to hope that there will be more mistakes and omissions between them due to intimacy, which is better than the leakage of her courtesy exchanges.

"Miss, Young Master Chong is usually the only one who respects your heart, people only have one birthday a year, and there is only one weak crown gift in their life! Besides, the most beloved objects in your room in the past were not given to you by Young Master Chong, how come it is someone's birthday, you can't even give up a gift. "Xue Rui is uneven for Situ Chong.

"How can I be reluctant? Isn't it a birthday gift? It's good to find one he likes. Qin Nanxi suddenly remembered her sister-in-law's words a few days ago, and a chill passed through her heart, and her smile became a little colder. I turned around and picked up the pen again, and carefully copied the "Nanhua Sutra" spread out on the case.

"That young lady just doesn't take Young Master Chong to heart! What else do you say that he is your best friend, and the weak crown ceremony is right in front of you, but you don't even want to prepare a gift, in vain Young Master Chong was so good to you in the past! "Xuerui's unevenness is even more surging.

Qin Nanxi smiled bitterly in his heart, and secretly persuaded himself: "He is also innocent, but like me, he is just a poor chess piece." He has treated me well over the years, although he can't be a husband and wife in this life, in the end, he should thank him for his many years of kindness before leaving, even if he can't say it explicitly, choosing a meaningful gift can be regarded as some of my Qin Nanxi's thoughts. ”

As soon as he thought of this, Qin Nanxi's heart suddenly brightened, and he dropped his pen and got up and pulled Xue Rui and said, "Since you are so concerned about Situ Chong's birthday, why don't you go with me to find a birthday gift for him now." With that, he dragged her out.

"Miss, the young master and the young lady have instructed you not to go out of the house to play without permission, if you want to go out of the house, you will drag me out of the house without returning to the young lady, and you will not be reprimanded by the young master and the young lady again!"

"Don't worry, I'm going to leave the house, I promise that my brother and sister-in-law won't discipline you." Qin Nanxi perfunctory Xue Rui, frowning and thinking about what is a unique gift. The search for encouragement behind the bustling crowd.

Situ Chong is the third son of the Yasukuni Mansion, the youngest son of the Duchess of the Kingdom, and he was raised by the lady herself. Since he was a child, he has been in a gentle and wealthy township, and the treasures are treasured, and the splendid Zhuyu is really not new to him.

In the past few years, Qin Nanxi has won by skill, but he has written down one or two favorite gadgets that Situ Chong occasionally mentions in their daily relationship, and he will find a better one as a birthday gift and send it as a birthday gift.

But this is not an ordinary birthday, after all, it is a gift of a weak crown, and being solemn can also show the deep friendship between the two buddies on weekdays, Qin Nanxi carefully recalled the intentions revealed by Situ Chong in the usual conversation between the two, and his heart suddenly brightened, and said with a smile: "Yes, I know what to give him!" As he spoke, he picked up Xuerui and walked to the weapon shop at the end of the market.

"Miss, all the swords and halberds are sold here, what are you doing here?" Xue Rui looked at the old gray banner at the door of the armory shop and wondered.

"Buy a knife." Qin Nanxi turned around, full of confidence.

"Knives? What knife? Do you want to buy a knife for Young Master Chong? What does he want a knife for? Xue Rui couldn't understand what the gentle, white, thin and elegant Third Young Master of the Guogong Mansion wanted to do with the knife.

"He definitely likes me to give him a treasure knife," Qin Nanxi was confident.

"How can you be so sure that Young Master Chong will like knives? He's such a person, I'm afraid he hasn't even held heavier chopsticks, and he likes objects with swords and swords? Sherry wrinkled her nose in disdain.

"You don't know him, he's just trapped by her mother. Do you know who he admires the most? ”

"Who could it be? It must be his young and promising brother Situ Kunbei, who once broke the shocking unsolved case, inherited the title of duke of the country at a young age, and is in a high position, and now it is in full swing, who doesn't admire it? Xue Rui said eloquently, the various events of the princely mansion in Chang'an City have never been secrets.

"Wrong" Qin Nanxi flattened his mouth and said disdainfully: "The hereditary title, what is the credit of Zu Yin worthy of admiration?" ”

"Huh? Who's that? ”

In fact, the person he admires the most in his heart is no different from his second brother! It's just that one shades the official, and the other shades the military merits. Qin Nanxi stared at the cold door of the weapons shop and replied absentmindedly.

"Who the hell is that?" Xue Rui followed Qin Nanxi into the weapons shop, still not forgetting to ask.

"You guess it's his brother, that's right. It's just not the second brother, it's the eldest brother. Qin Nanxi lowered his head and picked up a small waist knife from a dusty brocade box on the table.

Huo De drew the knife out of its sheath, and the blade flashed into a cold light, causing her eyes to burn.

"His eldest brother? Eldest brother? How come we haven't met? Young Master Chong's eldest brother is ......" Xue Rui only muttered, not paying attention to the horror, disgust and sadness and fear in Qin Nanxi's eyes.

"His eldest brother, isn't it General Zhenyuan who only returned to Beijing a few days ago!" Finally guessed the answer, Xue Rui was very excited.

"Yes, yes, it's the same general of the hell." Qin Nanxi, who was in a hurry, was suddenly dragged back to her eyes by Xue Rui, she was busy not turning her head, and pretended to carefully look at the waist knife in her hand.

The waist knife weighed heavily on her snow-white palm. This knife is not a straight-handled knife common in the Central Plains, the jet-black stainless steel handle is surrounded by several hideous and strange beasts, and the handle of the beast has a dazzling red ruby embedded in the mouth. The half-unsheathed blade was flickering with a cold light, and suddenly formed a curved blue-gray mark in front of his eyes, as if a cruel smile, mocking Qin Nanxi's futile efforts for ten years. In the past ten years, she has been deliberately willful, deliberately hearty, trying to forget the sadness and horror of that night, the fire in the Xiuyun Valley of Cuiwei Mountain, the heart-rending cry of Brother Xu, and the vigorous resentment in Mr. Su's eyes until death.

Holding the delicate little waist knife, he didn't feel a sharp pain in his heart, Qin Nanxi hurriedly pushed the knife into the scabbard, and said hatefully: "How can this kind of thing be openly sold in Chang'an?" ”

"This is a rare waist knife, why does the girl hate it so much?" A quiet voice came from behind itself.

Qin Nanxi was stunned, twisted his eyebrows and turned away, staring at the person who spoke with hostility, but saw that the person in front of him was just a traveler who was coming in from outside the door.

I saw that he was dressed in a scarlet brocade robe, and he was carrying the noon sun that poured into the store from the door, which made people unable to distinguish his face for a while.

"Since the girl doesn't like this waist knife, can you borrow it and take a look at it?" The person who came took a step closer, and regardless of Qin Nanxi's reaction, he reached out and took the waist knife from her hand.

He was dressed in a vermilion palace brocade suit, his tight arrow sleeves were very neat and capable, and the golden silk clouds on the cuffs quietly publicized his wealth. A pair of beautiful hands poking out from under the cuffs with thin edges of gold thread were repeatedly studying the waist knife.

Against the dazzling golden light at noon, the hands, suspended in the air, fainted in the cold blue light of the waist knife, turned over and over, and the outline was extremely clear.

It was supposed to be the hand of Shuangfuqin holding the pen, with ten slender fingers, and the full nails on the slightly upturned fingertips flashed, but the hand was not as white and soft as it should be, but deep wheat. The abrupt green tendons on the back of the hand outline deep and shallow ravines, and even the joints are disproportionately thick, and thick cocoon scabs are faintly visible in the palms. A terrifying scar on the tiger's mouth on his right hand, twisted and twisted tightly on the flesh, all the way hideous, and poked into his vermilion splendid arrow sleeve.

Qin Nanxi was stunned, and Fang Cai's anger quietly turned into an accident, and he unconsciously raised his head and raised his eyebrows to examine the owner of his hands.

"It turned out to be him, it turned out to be him, how could it be him again!" Inexplicably, I was surprised to see the azure figure and the meaningful smile in the mountain tower in front of me, and the azure figure that was as elegant as the breeze and bamboo that day and the bright vermilion figure in front of me were exquisitely stacked together, which was clear and clear.

That was a few days ago, but Qin Nanxi actually remembered the handsome eyebrows and the fleeting smile that were only a quick glance so clearly. How so?