"Master, it's not too early, it's time to go to bed." Fan Cheng's attendant came to remind.

"Wait until I'm done with this book." Fan Cheng replied lightly, ignoring the urging of the attendant. After a quarter of an hour or so, a hand suddenly snatched away his scroll, and he thought it was his aunt who was serving him, but he turned his head in displeasure, not realizing that it was his mother who was standing behind him.

"Mother! What are you doing here? Fan Cheng immediately stood up and saluted his mother.

"Cheng'er." Second Madam Fan sighed, her face was not very good-looking, and the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were full of sadness and tiredness.

"Mother, what's wrong with you, sit down quickly." Fan Cheng hurriedly pressed his mother on the chair and hurriedly tried to pour a cup of hot water for his mother, but the water in the teapot was cold.

"Cheng'er, you don't have to be busy, my mother is not an outsider, you don't have to entertain me." Second Mrs. Fan took Fan Cheng's hand and asked him to sit beside her. Fan Cheng could feel that his mother's hands were cold, and he blamed himself even more in his heart, if he could be more careful and prepare hot water in advance, he could also let his mother warm her hands now.

Thinking so, he sighed into his hands, rubbed his palms vigorously, and then covered the back of Mrs. Fan's hand, raised his eyes and asked, "Mother, is this a little warmer?"

Second Mrs. Fan's heart was originally broken, but at this time, her son's behavior full of admiration and care made her heart turn into water again, and her eyes couldn't help but turn red, and she nodded with a smile with tears and said, "It's warm, it's warm, it's all warm to my mother's heart." ”

Fan Cheng laughed at this time, showing a row of snow-white teeth, and asked, "Why did my mother come over suddenly?" It's good here, but recently my schoolwork has increased, so I read more books every day, and I don't get tired of reading, and I don't worry. ”

Second Mrs. Fan touched Fan Cheng's hair, her eyes drooped, and she let out a long sigh, not knowing how to say to her son. After thinking about it, I sent everyone else out of the house first.

Although Fan Cheng is a man, he has a delicate mind, and he soon noticed his mother's strange look, and he also frowned, and asked with concern: "Does my mother have anything to say to me?" He remembered his father's illness again, and couldn't help but ask anxiously, "But is my father's illness serious again?" ”

"No, not this." Second Madam Fan hurriedly shook her head, she hesitated, rubbed her handkerchief, and sighed for a third time before she spoke: "Cheng'er, your father and I want to send you to the Qin Kingdom. ”

"What?" Fan Cheng was a little skeptical that he had misheard: "Where to go?" ”

"You heard it right, it's Qin Guo, this is also what your father meant, we will find a suitable time to send your brothers and sisters to Qin State, Zhixuan and Hui'er I didn't say it, you are a big brother and a sensible child, so I'll tell you first." Second Mrs. Fan pulled Fan Cheng and said softly.

Fan Cheng didn't react for a while, and he was a little incredulous, he asked in a daze, "Why?" What about you and your father? ”

Second Lady Fan shook her head and said, "I'm going to stay and take care of your father, I won't go, you can go and meet your grandfather then." She said and sighed: "I came today to tell you first, so that you have a preparation, and I don't have to leave immediately, at least when the snow melts after the New Year, the road is better, and then I will find a chance to send you there." ”

Fan Cheng was confused and wanted to ask why, but was stopped by the sigh of Second Mrs. Fan, and his mother touched his hand with concern, and he even saw tears in the corners of his mother's eyes.

Second Mrs. Fan said: "Don't ask more about some things, it's not appropriate to tell you now, I'll tell you when it's right, you can Wen Shu now, let's talk about everything after the year." ”

Fan Cheng's heart beat a little faster, he knew that if something big didn't happen, his mother wouldn't come to say anything to him, but his mother had already said that, and he couldn't ask any more questions.

"You just know about it yourself, and you don't need to tell the other brothers and sisters in the clan, your mother knows that you are a well-numbered child, right?" Before leaving, Mrs. Fan once again instructed.

Fan Cheng nodded solemnly and said, "Mother, don't worry, I won't say anything to anyone, and I won't say anything about Zhixuan and Hui'er, mother, you can trust your son, and your son knows it." ”

Second Mrs. Fan couldn't help but hug Fan Cheng and cried lowly, this is her sensible son, but it is precisely because of his sensibility that she feels more heartache.

The royal capital, the mansion of Fan Miao

The night was windy, and Chen Guang took advantage of the night to secretly go to the small side compartment in the backyard.

The doors to the side compartments were locked throughout, and the two windows were nailed with wooden planks. Only under the door is a sliding door the size of a dog's hole, which is used to deliver daily meals.

There are servants and maids on duty outside the side compartment every day, but the person on duty today is Suicao. Since Suicao got along with Botai, he no longer cares about being on duty. She often sneaks to the Botai house to linger with her when she is on duty at night. Botai is used to coaxing people, full of rhetoric, often wandering outside, and has already coaxed several little maids and poor girls before Suicao. Botai has a dissolute temperament, and the word romance is almost written on the door of his head, but Suicao just can't see through it.

Chen Guang came to the door, squatted down, and gently knocked on the small sliding door under the bottom of the door with his knuckles.

There was a knock, and there was no response from inside, but if you listened closely, you could hear the sound of straw sandals rubbing against the ground. The people in the room walked slowly and sat down on the other side of the door.

Chen Guang knocked again and said in a low voice, "It's me." ”

This time, there was movement inside, and the small sliding door was opened by the people inside.

Chen Guang took out a small cloth bag from his sleeve pocket, and opened it to contain a large piece of red bean sweet cake, thick and the size of a child's palm. He quickly stuffed the sweet cake under the small door and whispered, "Eat it." ”

After Tatsuhiro's hand reached in, a cold little hand touched it and snatched the sweet cake away. He was about to withdraw his hand, but his hand was caught by the little hand.

"Hurry up and eat, don't make a fuss." Chen Guangdao, he used a little force to break free of the cold little hand.

"Eat with me." From inside came the girl's soft voice. Locked in the house was a little girl named Yan Lan, who had been captured with Xianyu Girl. At that time, they were crowded in the same carriage, and the younger one called the older sister, thinking that she should be sisters.

Chen Guang wanted to leave directly after giving the cake as usual, but when he heard the girl's low and weak voice, he couldn't help but feel a trace of pity in his heart. He looked around, it was dark and quiet, and it seemed that no one would pass by for a while, so he said: "Okay, I'll accompany you, but you have to eat quickly, you and I don't have good fruit to eat when we are discovered." ”

The girl let out a soft "um", grabbed the sweet cake with both hands, and began to bite into it in a big gulp.

After a while, the girl had only the last bite of cake in her hand, and after filling it all into her mouth, she knocked lightly on the door and asked, "I have finished eating, are you still there?" ”

Chen Guang squatted in the cold wind, rubbing his hands and replied, "Yes." ”

Then he saw the girl's face behind the small sliding door, and she was lying on the ground, trying to look out from the small sliding door. The girl's hair was scattered, the black hair was born with some curls, not as straight as the Central Plains, her hair was very long, scattered and grew to the knees, and at this time, the inky curls were all spread on the ground. Under the background of black hair, the girl's skin is almost white to transparent, her appearance is a typical Xianyu appearance, thick eyebrows, big eyes, the bridge of the nose is erect, very delicate and beautiful, and she already has three innocent charms at a young age.

Chen Guang had looked at Yan Lan carefully, and she felt that Yan Lan and Xian Yu Nu were not alike, although both of them were equally beautiful. If it is about appearance, Chen Guang feels that if he waits for Yan Lan to grow, he is afraid that he will be even more gorgeous than the Xianyu girl Hua Zhen.

Yan Lan raised her eyes and looked at Chen Guang and said, "You are good to me, I will remember it." ”

Chen Guang paused when he heard this, a little uncomfortable. The reason why he often secretly takes care of Yan Lan is purely because he has agreed to Xian Yunu's request. He looked at the girl whose eyes were still clear and said, "It's not without purpose that I'm good to you, don't remember my goodness, there are no good people here." ”

Yan Lan frowned slightly and said, "You are." ”

Chen Guang shook his head and said, "I'm not." ”

The girl stubbornly said, "You are!" ”

Chen Guang smiled and said, "Do you know that my kindness to you can only be temporary. I might be able to be nice to you for now, but if I get an order in the future, even if there is a fire pit in front of me, I will not hesitate to push you down. If I were such a person, would you still think I was good? ”

Yan Lan stared at Chen Guang, her lips moved, she pursed again, and finally said, "I know." You, like me, are involuntarily self-conscious. Although you are outside and can move around, you are no different from me, you are all locked people. ”

Chen Guang was a little surprised, he didn't expect a child to say such a thing, and he couldn't refute it.

Yan Lan showed a little smile, and said in a young and childish voice: "You don't have to be surprised, only people who have been living in good times deserve to enjoy innocence, if you have experienced the destruction of the city and the family like me, how can you deserve it?" ”

Chen Guang was silent for a while.

Yan Lan said again: "If you have a favor to me, then I will repay you." ”

Chen Guang asked, "Repay?" You have been trapped here, how can you repay me? ”

Yan Lan laughed and said, "I know you hate Suicao, so I'll tell you a secret!" ”

"Catch the secret."

"Get rid of her!"

Under the cool moonlight, the girl's smiling eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and Chen Guang's heart couldn't help jumping.

The cold wind was cold, and Chen Guang walked briskly on the porch. The porch in Fan's Mansion is never lit at night, and is lit by moonlight. Today, the moonlight was light and hazy, Chen Guang was restless, he didn't pay attention to the front, and he didn't pay attention, and he bumped into someone.

"Oops! It's not long-eyed! "It's the voice of the ear grass.

That's a coincidence.