- Although in recent years, due to the weakening of his physical strength, Lin Shan's ability to withstand the harsh climate has deteriorated greatly, but he will suddenly wake up when he lies on the desk and squint for a short time, not because of the cool breeze rushing in through the ventilation window, but a fragment of a dream that his nerves.

It turned out that what I had just encountered was just a dream.

After waking up, Lin Shan looked at the things on the table as before, and then suddenly came back to his senses, the scene he was in just now was a phantom, he was able to breathe a long sigh of relief, but he took a deep breath of cold air into his lungs, and immediately coughed uncontrollably.

Subconsciously stretched out his hand to the tea cup resting on the corner of the table, and his tentacles were warm, only to find that half of the residual tea had long since lost a trace of heat. And when he looked a little farther away, he saw that in the cast iron basin in the corner of the room, the charcoal fire had been burning for an unknown amount of time, and it was much weaker at this time.

Slightly concentrating, Lin Shan called: Jiang Chao.

His voice was a little obscure because he forcibly suppressed his cough, but the guard who had been guarding the door had become sensitive when he heard a sudden cough from inside the house, and when he heard the man in the house call his name, he immediately strode in.

Jiang Chao was the first and only guard sent to him by Li Gai at the beginning of Lin Shan's entry into Beijing three years ago, and after the accident in the Lin family's old mansion three years ago, he was supposed to stay in Beijing to recuperate from his injuries, but then he quietly followed Lin Shan's team to the north, and was not discovered until he was about to reach his destination.

At that time, Lin Shan saw that his injuries were already showing signs of deterioration due to the bumps in the road, so he did not ruthlessly send him back. The same road took him with him. Because the injuries of the two are relatively close, leaving him with them is also to facilitate the treatment of Liao Shi in the team - I am afraid that Liao Shi is the only one who can find someone around in this world who can treat that terrible injury.

Now both of them have healed from their injuries. But even Jiang Chao, an outsider, could vaguely notice that Lin Shan's physical condition was different, but this was the sequelae of the injury that even Liao Shi couldn't tell the reason, and Jiang Chao didn't know the reason.

All in all, with the instructions given by the Lord Commander back then, Jiang Chao, who stayed by Lin Shan's side, felt that what he could do now was not only to protect Lord Lin's personal safety, but also to take care of his needs at any time.

Eldest brother......

Secluded in the small town of Northland, not only Jiang Chao, but also the rest of the soldiers who came and went with Lin Shan were all under his advice. No official titles are used. Someone who knows the hermitage of the forest cedar. It's all his old ministry. That's what I shouted in the early years, and now it's natural to call it like that, Jiang Chao is in such an environment. I've gotten used to it for three years.

It's just that Jiang Chao, who had just walked into the house, found that there was sweat on his forehead at the first glance of Lin Shan, and his always calm voice suddenly became hesitant.

-- Although the inside of the house is much warmer than the outside of the house, it is not so hot that it does not make people feel like this.

Tell you to stay outside, and you're really at the door. It's just a private house, and you always treat it as an official office, and you can't change your habits at all. Lin Shan gossiped, and when he said this, he suppressed his cough. After a sigh of relief, I got back to business: change a cup of hot tea for me.

Jiang Chao hurriedly approached the desk, picked up the tea cup that was no longer hot, and when he was about to go out, he glanced sideways at the charcoal brazier in the corner of the house, and probably had a plan in his heart.

Even if there was no charcoal fire in this house to keep warm, Lin Shan might not care, but as the closest guard to him, Jiang Chao felt that even if he didn't tell him, he had to do something.

Not long after Jiang Chao left, Lin Shan coughed intermittently again, but he still looked at him steadily, unaffected by the cold air in his lungs, opened an untitled booklet in his hand, turned to the page he had just seen, and continued to study carefully.

After a while, Jiang Chao's steady footsteps did not sound at the door, the footsteps of the person who came were slight, and even his breathing was light, and Lin Shan didn't need to look up to know who this person was, and the corners of his mouth had faded into a smile.

In the study, which is mixed with paper and ink and the smell of bamboo charcoal, the faint aroma of wine carried by the person who came here is particularly obvious, as well as the bowl of peanut and bean kernel porridge held between her delicate fingers, and the natural aroma of food is also particularly attractive.

Wine. Lin Shan closed the book and moved aside, looked up at the woman with light makeup standing in front of the desk, and said with a smile: Why are you here?

Jiu'er was Jiu Niang, the chief steward of Dongfeng Building three years ago, and when she followed Lin Shan to this small town in the north three years ago to live in seclusion, she reverted to her original boudoir name, surnamed Chen Dan and a wine character. After no longer living in Dongfeng Tower, no longer wearing heavy makeup every day, the fat powder fragrance of the old wine has gradually faded and almost disappeared.

A year ago, when Lin Shan's trauma was completely healed, her tense heart relaxed, and she suddenly felt that life was quite boring, so she returned to her old business, but not to those businesses in Dongfeng Building, but to make wine. Before being forced by life to sell herself into Dongfeng Building, Chen Jiu was the daughter of the owner of Chen Go, who was quite famous in Kyoto. Because Chen Lao Wu was only one daughter, when she was only five or six years old, he began to teach her winemaking techniques.

If there is no war, there is no decay of the current situation of the previous dynasty, and the life of Chen Jiu should at least be rich and peaceful. However, turbulent times are like earthquakes, which can destroy a qiē, especially small businesses, which will be the first to collapse and disintegrate because of this turmoil.

The war has made a shortage of living materials, what else to make wine? How can people who can't even afford to eat have the heart to buy wine to eat? The winery went bankrupt in a very short period of time, and as the owner of the winery, Chen Jiu's father couldn't stand the blow and became seriously ill, and the Chen family even the head of the family collapsed, and the tension of the situation can be imagined.

In order to raise money for his father's treatment, Chen Jiu left home to find a living. She has done laundry for large families, serving dishes in restaurants, and even going up the mountain to chop wood. But because she is a woman, she is not less discriminated against, and she obviously does the same amount of work as men, but she often has to spend a lot of time to get the same wage.

Just because she's a woman...... Just because she is a good-looking girl who is only a teenager, even if she just wants to work to earn money to treat her father's illness, she inevitably receives discrimination and harassment from the male patron and the cold words of the female patron.

If there is not enough power to protect it, a woman's beauty is likely to be a mistake and will bring herself more trouble than ugliness.

Although Chen Jiu also knew that a woman like her would encounter more troubles and threats if she wanted to make a living in troubled times, she was always on guard, but in the end she did not escape the persecution of reality, in order to get urgent money to save her life, she finally sold herself to Qinglou at a price of ten taels of silver-

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