After a long snowfall, the sun poured down from the center of the sky, and the sky was like a wash. In the middle of November, there was such a good day, but it was extremely incommensurate with the panic that flowed around the city of Chang'an.

If there are more and more displaced people in the water hermitage, the front of the mountain gate is densely packed with ragged muscles, old and young, sick and weak. Mrs. Dening devoted herself to the rescue and help, and everyone in the nunnery, regardless of age or age, was outside the mountain gate to eat and apply medicine on credit.

Qin Nanxi and Huijing are together, carrying a porridge bucket every day to make porridge. The victims were hungry and cold, and when they saw that there was hot porridge to keep them out of the cold, they rushed up desperately, usually only for a moment, and the bucket in their hands was so low that they couldn't even scrape a grain of rice.

Qin Nanxi had experienced the war when he was a child and knew its suffering, so even if he was in trouble, he never retreated. Although Huijing is in the empty gate, because he grew up in the royal nunnery since he was a child, he is in it, and he has never seen such a pickled crowd, so he pouts his mouth every day for half a day, and the boss is reluctant.

Seeing that she was embarrassed, Qin Nanxi simply took the porridge bucket and was busy alone in the homeless group all day long. On this day, she finished the porridge alone and was about to leave, but when she looked up, she was greeted by an unkempt and ragged woman. She stood far away, holding a hollow stoneware bowl in her left hand, and holding an object curled up in her arms tightly with her right hand, looking helplessly at the empty bucket in Qin Nanxi's hand. She is a lonely and weak woman, unable to squeeze into the surging crowd, unable to share today's porridge, perhaps waiting for her to freeze to death or starve to death.

The woman looked at it for a long time, then lowered the bowl in her hand, tightened the ball in her arms, and curled up in the snow pit under the tree.

I couldn't bear it, and I didn't feel at ease, Qin Nanxi slowly approached her and saw that she was in tatters, and in her arms was a yellow and quiet little baby. The baby was already hungry and had no strength, and at this time, she was obediently sticking her little head to her mother's heart, clenching her eyes, innocently bearing the suffering of hunger.

Qin Nanxi's nose was sour, and she hurriedly leaned over to the woman's side and handed over the steamed cake in her sleeve that she had not yet had time to eat.

The woman was stunned for a moment, then quickly snatched the bread from her hand, stuffed it into her mouth like crazy, chewed it vigorously, and after a while, she leaned down and remained motionless......

Qin Nan was stunned, until she looked up again, the little baby in her arms squirmed little mouth, and it suddenly turned out that she had left the food for her child first.

Looking at her filthy and thin appearance, Qin Nanxi's tears were like springs. On the line between life and death, only the mother will leave the opportunity of life to her children. Just like back then, when the threat of death approached her and Su Xu, Yun Zhen resolutely chose to sacrifice herself......

Suddenly, a shadow swept behind him and flashed. Before Qin Nanxi could see it clearly, she heard the woman's sharp cry.

In the open space outside the zhangyu, an equally filthy half-grown child stood in horror, holding his hands to his mouth, his mouth stuffed to the fullest, and he was desperately agitating his cheeks, chewing with all his might. His big frightened eyes included fear of death, as well as determination to desperately protect food.

Qin Nanxi stood up, in a dilemma, with a dying mother and son on one side and a hungry child on the other......

"Nanxi~" Behind him, a familiar voice came.

Qin Nanxi turned around in response, but the moment he saw the oncoming Situ Chong, he couldn't escape from the ground.

"Why are you hiding from me?" Situ Chong shouted behind her who ran two steps away.

Qin Nan bit her lip and was speechless. It's not that we are evading, but we don't know how to meet. She resisted in public and refused to marry him, so she was punished to Ruoshui Nunnery. Now, he is dressed in a military uniform, and she is in a green cloth Zen robe, how can he meet outside Ruoshui Nunnery?

"Don't be afraid, I've been ordered to dismiss the outcasts here. I just saw you by chance, and I didn't look for it on purpose. Situ Chong stood still from afar and said thoughtfully. He had always understood her thoughts, and naturally knew that she could not bear to see him or hurt him.

Qin Nanxi glanced sideways at the desperate mother in the tree pit, and stopped hesitantly,

He whispered, "Why did you dismiss them?" They are just disaster victims, can't they find a glimmer of life in front of the Buddha's door? ”

"I, well, I'm just doing what I'm told. Yesterday, there was a battle report that the Beidi soldiers had pressed outside Tongguan, and they were afraid of ...... Hey, this Ruoshui Nunnery is not an ordinary temple, Jinghe Zen Master, and you, you can't have a missing pool, that's why my brother sent me to guard it! Situ Chong's bright eyes looked at Qin Nanxi's silhouette, sincere and simple.

"Tongguan?!" Qin Nanxi was shocked, as soon as Tongguan was broken, Chang'an would die. It has only been a short month since Wuda caused the war disaster, and it has been driven straight to Tongguan?

"Since my eldest brother he ...... Beidi was no longer afraid. The guards everywhere have no experience in fighting Beidi. Some even, even before the battle report arrived, the city pass was broken! If my eldest brother were still here, they wouldn't have to suffer the scourge of war! Situ Chong's voice was also a little choked, and his crystalline gaze fell on the displaced people who were being driven away in the distance, glowing with infinite pity. He was thin and thin, shrouded in silver armor, which was really disproportionate.

"Situ Chong, can I ask you for one thing?" Qin Nanxi swallowed the sadness in his heart and was silent for a long time before he mustered up the courage to turn around and say to him. In the midst of the war, life is like a mustard seed, and she is just a soft woman, however, she can save one by one, and she can save it for a while, she can't persuade herself to sit idly by, and finally open her mouth to beg him.

However, his eyes never dared to look at him. His heart for her, she knew; She also knew the purity of his nature. However, she could not marry him. Because of his father, brother, and Situ Yi. However, the sadness and sadness of not marrying him are the only ones who can bear it. Qin Nanxi didn't have the courage or ruthlessness, and looked directly into Situ Chong's eyes.

"You say, if I can do it, I can do eight out of ten." Situ Chong cautiously leaned forward, stopped five steps away, and answered softly.

"Can you, can you give that mother and son a way to live?" Qin Nanxi stretched out his hand and pointed to the root of the tree, and his cold fingertips couldn't stop trembling because of the choked voice.

Situ Chong looked in the direction she pointed and said lightly: "Don't worry, I will definitely arrange their mother and son." ”

The woman in the snow pit listened to the words of the two, jumped up, knelt on the hand, and kowtowed in the direction of the two, and muttered words of thanks in her mouth. Qin Nanxi glanced at her, stopped his steps towards her, turned around and bowed to Situ Chong, and said in a low voice: "Thank you!" "After saluting, when you turn around, you will flee to Wakasui Temple.

"Nanxi~" Situ Chong's unwillingness almost involuntarily rushed out of his lips.

Qin Nanxi had to stop, his hands in the blue gray sleeves were clasped together, and he prayed secretly, he didn't ask, don't say.

However, this time, Situ Chong is no longer considerate and thoughtful. He asked softly, "You'd rather come here to stay with the ancient Buddha and green lantern than marry me." Actually, it's just because of my big brother, right? "After all, he is the friend who knows her best in the world. He really understands that in her heart, Situ Yi is the reason why she refuses to marry him, and those so-called filial piety and family luck are just excuses for her to be true or false, and even she herself has been deceived.

Qin Nanxi was speechless, and wept silently.

"Even if, even if the eldest brother is him, he will never come back, you will not be willing to retreat, will you not be willing to retreat to the next best, right?" The intermittent words are filled with endless sadness. Situ Chong has always known that he is far from being as good as his eldest brother. The eldest brother is a god of war and a hero, and as long as the eldest brother is willing, he can easily get everything he wants, and it is all by virtue of his own talent and strength. Even Nanxi's heart, which he has worked hard for ten years and is still unattainable, is so easy to be completely taken away by the eldest brother......

Choked and shaking his head, Qin Nanxi hurriedly ran towards the deep gate of Ruoshui Nunnery. Situ Chong, who was left in the residual snow, supported a heavy armor on his weak shoulders, and looked sadly in the direction where she had gone......