- "Brother Lin, the letter has been found." After Chen Jiu finished saying this, when she saw Lin Shan looking up slightly stunned, she suddenly squinted and smiled: "Sure enough, I was ingenious, and I only found a few books, which saved you a lot of work." You see, do you owe me one more time? ”

Lin Shan was stunned for a moment, as if he had retracted his thoughts from his contemplation a little late.

"I owe you one more time." His tone was a little stiff, and the fingers holding the letter were slightly stiff. Just pinched the corner of the envelope, he suddenly let go of his hand again, and said in a deep voice: "I know the content of this letter, but now I suddenly feel that I can show you." ”

"No ......" Chen Jiu subconsciously immediately refused. Even with Lin Shan's consent, she always felt that reading other people's letters was an extremely awkward thing. But soon, what the old pharmacist Liao Shi said came to mind again, she looked stunned, and muttered, "Is this really okay?" ”

"After many years, the content of this letter has become a record of one thing, and no longer involves anyone's state of mind." Lin Shan spoke calmly, speaking slowly, "I was so distracted just now, you could have burned this letter with your hands, but you didn't do so, so there are some past things that you don't have to hide, and I shouldn't hide it from you anymore." ”

Chen Jiu didn't say anything more, she put down the book, opened the envelope with trembling fingers, pulled out the letterhead, and slowly unfolded it.

On this thin piece of paper, it was as if the time it was carrying suddenly had a weight, and it was the weight of thirteen years.

……

I have already thought of the name of the child, if it is a woman, it will be called Mo Ye, which means that Mo Forget Ye's family.

Although I have done things that corrupt the family rules, I still hope that the child can be included in the Ye family tree. Don't ask me why I don't call Wang Ye, first of all, if the surname Wang is the name, it won't sound good, in addition, I really hope that my daughter can grow up happily, without the title of princess, in fact, there will be more choices, not to mention which of our Ye family is not more comfortable than the palace?

If it is born to a man. Then turn it upside down, call it Ye Mo, and it will be an indifferent indifferent word, which is definitely not the ink word of the crepe.

If you are a man, you may not be able to avoid entering the ancestral hall of the royal family. The name I gave him can only be regarded as a common name, which he used when he visited the people or went back to his grandfather's house. But there are also some other meanings, born in the emperor's family, you can't be as enthusiastic as me, it's better to ignore more.

What do you think? Is the name I giving my child meaningful? Senior brother, make a decision, although you have always refused to admit that you are my senior brother, it is enough for me to admit that you have this power.

……

When Chen Jiu read the letter, Lin Shan was holding a tongs to poke the ashes of the smoke deposited in the stove, and he didn't look at this side at all, he really didn't seem to mind letting her read the letter that the woman wrote to him.

And when Chen Jiu finished reading the letter. Her face was full of surprise.

"It turns out that ......" Chen Jiu couldn't help but murmur when he finished reading the last word on the spread out letter in his hand, "...... Ye'er's name is not a pseudonym? ”

Lin Shan turned his head when he heard this, but said lightly: "After you read this letter, do you have any other doubts?" ”

Chenjiu pondered. Since Lin Shan took the initiative to open the door to her inquiry, she would inevitably cherish and seize this opportunity, and after a while, she asked seriously: "Will Ye'er still be surnamed Wang in the future?" ”

It's a simple question, but it's a lot more complicated to answer.

Lin Shan said slowly: "If you follow Ye Erniang's choice, of course you will enter the Ye family tree, but in order to give the royal family some face." Nor can it be directly surnamed Ye. ”

Chen Jiu stared and asked, "Then why did you leave her in Kyoto and completely cut off her thoughts of coming to you?" ”

"The Ye family no longer exists now, and she can't go back." Lin Shan paused slightly, "...... After thinking about it, let her return to the royal family. It's better to be by her father's side and have her brother to take care of her than to be by my side, who is just an outsider to her. Although her eldest sister Wang Qing and second brother Wang Hong in the palace were not born to the same mother as her, they were both kind-hearted and gentle-hearted, and they would not reject her. ”

"You're not wrong about that. The Ye family can't go back, and recognizing her father and returning to the sect is the best arrangement for her, but ......" Chen Jiu's words hesitated slightly, "...... You can't say you're just an outsider to her, and I can tell from the child's face how much you mean to her. Even now that I think about it, I feel a little scared, when the news of your fake death reaches Dongfeng Tower, the child seems to have become an empty shell, and he can't even cry. ”

"I didn't do it properly because I didn't take into account that she's just a girl and has limited capacity." Lin Shan sighed softly, and then said: "But if you want her to accept royal life, you must weaken my influence on her, and in the situation I was in three years ago, if you are not careful, you may really go, so it is better to let her be mentally prepared as soon as possible." As for me now, although I have survived this catastrophe, I don't have the energy to take care of her as much as I did more than ten years ago, and she has grown up, and my departure is a good thing for her anyway. ”

Chen Jiu moved his lips, and he still had something to say in his heart but didn't say it.

After being silent for a long time, she couldn't help but ask again: "You will always meet again, have you ever thought about what to say to her?" ”

"Nope." Lin Shan shook his head slightly, "If she can forget me, maybe she can live happily." I can't stay with her all the time, and parting is inevitable. ”

"Sometimes I really wonder, do you really care, or don't you understand?" Chen Jiu was relatively calm on the outside when he spoke, but he actually felt a little sorry in his heart, "No one can always be by anyone's side, but despite this, there are still so many people who choose to be together, why can't you think the same way?" ”

Lin Shan looked at the old wine, as if he had something to say, but at this moment, the water in the iron pot on the stove boiled, and the hot steam lifted the lid on one side, and Lin Shan's attention was distracted. After a while, he just asked casually: "Are you going to fish for rice?" ”

Seeing this, Chen Jiu had already put down the letter, got up and walked to the stove, lifted the lid of the pot with one hand, and smashed it into the pot with a large iron spoon for rice in the other, and then she said helplessly: "It should be that the fire is too slow, although the water is only boiling, the rice under the water is cooked thoroughly, and I can only drink porridge tonight." ”

"Drink a bowl of porridge in the evening, light and moisturizing. There's nothing wrong with that. Lin Shan nodded, there was no objection, he was not a particularly picky person about eating and drinking.

But his next move really surprised Chen Jiu.

Lin Shan leaned sideways and pinched the letter that had been resting on the box after reading the old wine just now. Without looking at it carefully, he threw his hand into the stove.

The fire in the hearth engulfed the thin letter in an instant, and not even a sound came out.

"Letter ......" Chen Jiu rushed over and bowed down at the mouth of the stove, it seemed that she was going to put out the fire with her bare hands and pick up the letter back, but she was only stunned in the end, and did not really do so. It wasn't because she was afraid of the fire, but when she rushed over, she saw that the letter had been consumed by the flames and could not be taken back.

"Why?" Chen Jiu looked back in amazement. Looking at Lin Shan, he said puzzledly, "You went to great lengths to find it, didn't you just keep it?" Why burn it again? ”

"Because...... Admittedly, the letter is full of unpleasant memories. Lin Shan's words paused at this point, and after a moment he continued: "I am no longer a young man. Speaking of which, I didn't think about learning to forget until now, which really makes me think it's ridiculous. ”

Aged sake doesn't feel ridiculous at all.

She could understand how heavy the self-blame Lin Shan felt for the outcome of Ye Ziqing's life. Although she was still a little puzzled, she always felt that the reason for her guilt was not as simple as a word of rejection.

Although Ye Ziqing finally changed his choice to marry the emperor because of his refusal. But judging from the content and tone of the letter, she didn't mean to blame him, and still trusted and relied on him.

Maybe there are some other reasons for Lin Shan's self-blame, although Chen Jiu can't know in detail now, she believes that she is from another angle's intuition. Of course, she also hopes that Lin Shan can choose a relationship as much as possible, but she also knows it. It is not so easy for him to forget the shadow that has been lingering in his heart for more than ten years, and it is by no means as simple as forgetting one thing.

What one person can remember for another person is so small and cumbersome, more complicated than the rings carved on the trunk of a tree.

However, the old wine was surprised at the same time. There was a hint of relief in his heart, no matter what, Lin Shan really had the action of trying to forget the bad memories of the past from today, starting from burning this letter.

If it were not for the letter as a physical carrier, and the support point between the illusory image in the mind and the distant past was removed, it would be easier to forget something.

"Brother Lin, I hope you have a happy life, even when you talk about Sister Ye, you can calm down, instead of stabbing your heart like just now." Chen Jiu took half a step back, squatted down beside Lin Shan again, looked at him at a very close distance, and said word by word: "If it was before, I often thought that it would be nice if you could forget her." But now my mind has changed, if I can't forget, I will remember, but I should remember it calmly, like remembering an old friend. ”

"Hmm......" Lin Shan pondered for a moment, then smiled slightly, and said: "What I talked to you about today was an old thing that I didn't want to talk about at first, but I didn't expect to say so much, and a lot of sudden meanings were actually all gained from you. You're really ingenious, and it seems that I'll have to talk to you often in the future. ”

The thin letter in the hearth, which had been lost in the flames, was finally burned through, and somehow, a piece of ash, still in the shape of a letter stump, flew out of the hearth, swirled up the roof of the kitchen, and hovered for a moment before falling gently.

It happened to fall on a strand of hair in front of the old wine's forehead.

Lin Shan didn't have time to think about it, reached out and picked up the thin piece of ash, and bounced his fingers away at will.

After bounced off the ash stain, his hand paused in mid-air for a moment, and then did not withdraw it, but returned to the corner of Chenjiu's forehead.

Chen Jiu was slightly stunned, and then she soon found that the look in the eyes of the man she admired seemed to have changed, some like a windless lake, calm enough to reflect her own shadow, and some like melted grease, she was deeply trapped in it but didn't want to extricate herself.

Lin Shan caressed the long silky hair of the woman in front of him, and his mind was also extremely supple at this moment, he read a kind of expectation and a little apprehension in the woman's eyes, and his heart suddenly throbbed, bowed his head slightly, and gently knocked down his lips.

The warm touch, like a little spark, ignited the heart.

When he gently kissed the smooth piece of her forehead, he could clearly see her eyes flickering, and her eyelashes seemed to have a trace of aura, which was quite moving. And when he let go of the hand that covered her long satin hair. I don't know when there were two more rouges on her face...... It was as if for the first time his heart was beating faster for her beauty.

At this time, the heart of the aged wine beats faster.

Obviously, she was just squatting beside him, but it seemed that she had just come back from running dozens of miles outside, except for her heart beating faster and her breathing was slightly short. She also felt like her face was on fire.

"Is it red?" Chen Jiu covered his face, revealing only a pair of eyes shining between his split fingers, looking at Lin Shan.

Lin Shan said without thinking: "It's red." ”

"I ...... I'm going to be laughed to death by others......" Chen Jiu covered his face tighter, "Who has ever seen a thirty-year-old woman blush?" ”

Lin Shan stretched out his finger and pointed at himself, and said with a smile: "I've seen it." ”

Chen Jiu didn't say anything more, but ran out with his face covered, and before he could stand up straight, he ran out, looking like a rabbit whose tail had been pulled.

Lin Shan didn't have time to think about it, he stood up and called out the door.

He didn't hear an echo, thinking that she had run away, but he didn't expect that it wouldn't be long after. And she ran back again.

Chen Jiu stared at Lin Shan and asked, "What do you call me for?" ”

She finally let go of the hand that was covering her face, but her face was still a touching red.

Lin Shan shook his head slightly, and after being stunned for a moment, he stretched out his hand and pointed to a large pot of porridge churning hot on the stove, and said with some embarrassment: "This...... How do you boil water after it is boiling? ”

"Just keep cooking." Chen Jiu couldn't help but smile. Walking to the stove, she picked up the big iron spoon for scooping rice, stirred it a few times into the pot with bubbling white rice soup, and then covered the pot, leaving a narrow slit to prevent the soup from boiling, and then she turned her face, looked at Lin Shan, and said: "Cooking porridge is one of the easiest skills to learn in cooking." It's just that the stove keeps burning, pay attention to stirring in the pot, just learn this trick is enough to starve people. ”

"I see." Lin Shan sat back in front of the stove and continued to light the fire, then said with a smile: "Then you are responsible for stirring it above, and I will be responsible for burning it below." ”

Chen Jiu walked over slowly, squatted beside Lin Shan, looked at him and said, "Why aren't you stirring up on it." I'm burning below? ”

As soon as she said this, her cheeks, which had only slightly "cooled down", "burned" again. Unconsciously talking about the question of who goes up and who is down, although on the surface it is talking about cooking on the fire, but in this kitchen room where a certain subtle atmosphere has not yet dissipated, in front of the red and shining fire of the stove. It is easy to say such things as a new round of cautery.

Lin Shan turned his face back and looked at Chen Jiu's somewhat strange eyes, and after a moment, a hint of brilliance rose in his eyes.

"Brother Lin......"

Just when the two people, whose eyes were a little glued together, were about to spark with each other, Chen Jiu suddenly opened his mouth to call, but his tone was not very tender.

"Huh?" Lin Shan's eyes moved slightly.

"Look...... Chen Jiu pointed a little to the ground, "...... Your seal has fallen out. ”

Lin Shan subconsciously looked down.

There was nothing left on the ground.

However, before he could react, he might have been subjected to some kind of calculation, and then he felt his lips touch a soft, slightly damp, faint smell of wine that almost swept him into the deep pool, but his body suddenly became as light as a leaf riding the wind, spinning in the clouds.

At the moment when Lin Shan bowed his head slightly, Chen Jiu, who was squatting beside him, suddenly raised his face, she just wanted to peck it lightly and pick a piece gently, but she didn't expect that when she touched it, she couldn't help but immerse herself in it, and she tossed and grinded it unwillingly.

It wasn't until she felt a little suffocated and realized that she had plundered enough that she let go of him. Before he could come to his senses, she had risen and fled like a thief woman who had just been killed, and fled into the half-dark evening night outside the kitchen.

She was a little worried about whether Lin Shan would blame her for being too proactive.

She was also a little happy afraid, afraid that Lin Shan would catch her back and plunder her again. She wondered if if she would not only blush as rouge, but also burn and bleed.

If a woman has a nosebleed because she is infatuated with a man, if this appearance spreads, her face will be really lost.

-- Even if you lose face in this way, you will be happy.

Lin Shan stood at the door, looking a little stunned in the direction of Chen Jiu's escape, and it wasn't until a moment later that he came back to his senses.

was actually used by a woman?

Lin Shan raised his hand and touched his lips, which seemed to be warm and soft with her.

Although I lost my grace a little just now, it felt ...... Actually, it's quite intoxicating......

Lin Shanwu smiled to himself, not knowing that at this time, a trace of blood red had also appeared on his face, although it was extremely faint, but it was quite conspicuous on his originally slightly pale face.

This is the first time that Chen Jiu has used strong against Lin Shan, and it is also the first time that Lin Shan has been used by a woman.

Even Ye Ziqing, many years ago, dared to throw himself into his arms and climbed on his back, but he would not use this throbbing way to rob away his tenderness.

I don't know how long he stood like this before Lin Shan came back to his senses and realized that there was still a task in the kitchen. He was about to follow the example of Chen Jiu just now, and stirred the porridge pot twice with the iron spoon that was used to scoop rice, but as soon as he turned around, he found that the fire in the stove had been extinguished again.

Using paper as firewood, although there is a reason for it, there is no need to pity the price of paper, but after all, it can't compare to the heat of firewood. Although the paper catches fire quickly, it has no stamina, and it burns out quickly and extinguishes quickly.

Lin Shan didn't know so much, he only knew that cooking was not only troublesome, but he didn't seem to have the talent to learn, and he had failed many times over the years, so he didn't hesitate to call someone to help