This year's Lin'an City has fallen one snow after another.

On the eve of Chinese New Year's Eve, Lu Jinghuai booked a seat in the Tongque Tower of the old courtyard, and invited Shen Changfeng and Xie Jinci to go there for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve.

When it was about to leave at dusk, Xie Jinci sat in front of the makeup mirror table and carefully took a look at the makeup.

She wanted to keep filial piety for Shen Teng and do her filial piety, so she wore a relatively plain skirt, and only the cuffs and neckline were embroidered with red peonies, adding some joy to the New Year.

Shen Changfeng leaned outside the door, hugged his arms and laughed at her: "Old acquaintances have a meal, why are you dressed so exquisitely?" is old, Lu Jinghuai can't look down on you. ”

Xie Jin's words were sullen.

She picked up the mahogany comb and slammed it into the dog man who couldn't speak.

Shen Changfeng caught it with a smile, strode in, and put the wooden comb back into the makeup.

He took Xie Jinci's hand, "If you don't leave, the wind and snow will be big." ”

Xie Jinci stepped out of the threshold with him, holding the skirt with one hand, and looking up at his side face.

She is always maintained, so that she can look like a girl in her twenties.

But Shen Changfeng didn't even wear powder, but he still looked handsome.

She thought that he had just said that she was "a handful of age", and she felt very uncomfortable in her heart.

She whispered, "There will always be a day when I will grow old and ugly...... Doesn't my brother care? ”

"You won't be ugly when you're old, but you're a little ugly when you cry. So don't cry anymore. The man's tone was casual.

Xie Jinci listened, feeling a little angry and inexplicably sweet.

She pursed her lips and leaned leaning on the man's arm.

Shen Changfeng lowered his eyes and glanced at her, and he had more scheming in his heart.

Perhaps, he shouldn't continue to eat those peach blossoms with Gu poison.

His appearance has to grow old with her.

When the two arrived at the old courtyard in a carriage, it was already completely dark.

The whole old courtyard is brilliantly lit and laughing, and the Begonia Pavilion is even more splendid.

They ascended to the fourth floor, where the large round table was spread out, and there was even a card table in the corner.

Lu Jinghuai had just arrived, and he was warming up with a cup of hot tea.

Xie Jinci was curious: "There are only three of us, what are we doing with such a big round table?" ”

Lu Jinghuai smiled, "You'll know later." ”

As he spoke, there was a knock on the carved door.

Xie Jinci opened the door himself, and the middle-aged man with the medicine box on his back squeezed in with a smile.

He took off his hat full of fine snow, "The wind and snow have been too strong these days, and the official road is very difficult to walk, almost delaying the Chinese New Year's Eve." ”

It's Rong Qing.

Xie Jinci raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Didn't you judge in Shangjing?" ”

Rong Qing took the hot ginger soup handed over by Lu Jinghuai, "It's expensive to go to Beijing, where can you stay comfortable in Jiangnan?" I just want to open a hospital in Lin'an City, treat diseases and save people, and live a relaxed life. ”

There was another knock on the door outside.

Xie Jinci opened the door, and Xiao Yiyan and Mo Qianyu squeezed in.

Mo Qianyu complained with a dark face: "I said that the carriage is small, the carriage is small, you have to bring so many things back, and the two of us big men are crowded all the way, I am really angry!" ”

Xiao Yiyan was aggrieved: "Didn't I think that I would return to Lin'an, maybe I would miss Lin'an's specialties, so I brought some back?" Besides, that car stuff you got takes up a lot of space! ”

"What a wheel, that's my invention! The two wheels are spliced back and forth, and then interspersed with iron chains, people sit on them, and they can step forward, I call it a bicycle! ”

"Come on, return the bike, I see you look like a bike!"

As soon as the two men met, it was like dry wood meeting fire, and they quarreled fiercely.

But they are really reluctant to separate.

Brothers for decades, even quarrels are affection.

Xie Jinci smiled.

She never thought that these people would actually come back from Shangjing.

Shen Changfeng took the lead in sitting down and instructed the maid to serve the food.

The round table was soon filled with delicious food and wine.

Anyway, Lu Jinghuai was treated, and Shen Changfeng chose all the expensive points.

When they were staggering, they remembered the knock on the door outside the seat.

Xie Jinci walked over to open the door, and the man standing outside in a hat smiled innocently: "Don't you know me?" ”

"Zhang Qiming?!" Xiao Yiyan lost his voice.

Zhang Qiming got rid of the bucket clothes full of snow, "I heard that you were going to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, so I rushed over." Over the years, I have been doing chores in the White Deer Cave Academy, thinking that you will come back sooner or later, and someone must guard our academy and our Lin'an City. ”

Xie Jinci looked at his vicissitudes of life and couldn't help but tear up.

No wonder Wei Sikuo and Qian Jiaren didn't even have weeds around their graves, it must be Zhang Qiming cleaning up.

The maid added dishes and chopsticks.

After ten years, classmates reunited.

The hot wine is thick, and every word you say to me at the table seems to be more lively than back then.

Midnight came quietly, and the moment the New Year arrived, the whole old courtyard and the Xunjiang River were jubilant.

Outside the window, fireworks are like buckets, constantly blooming on the dark sky, illuminating the Xunjiang River and most of Lin'an City.

Shen Changfeng raised his glass domineeringly: "Respect for the old people, twenty years of heart-to-heart care." ”

Xie Jinci was gentle: "Respect the wind and snow of the old year, and respect the new year of the coming year." ”

Lu Jinghuai laughed: "Respect the years and years, the original intention is still the same!" ”

The liquor enters the throat, spicy and bitter.

On the round table, there are several pairs of empty dishes and chopsticks, and no one drinks wine.

Outside the window, there was the soft and ethereal chanting of the Xunjiang singers:

"When is the bright moon? Ask the sky for wine. I don't know what year it is in the heavenly palace.

"I want to go back by the wind, but I am afraid of Qionglou Yuyu, and the high place is unbearable. Dance to figure out how the shadow seems to be in the world.

"Turn to Zhu Pavilion, low Qihu, shine sleeplessly. There should be no hatred, what is the long time to say goodbye?

"People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is cloudy and sunny, and this matter is difficult to complete.

"I hope that people will last a long time, and they will be together for thousands of miles......"

……

Nineteen years of Yong'an.

Xie Jinci knew that he was about to die.

The spring sun was warm, and she curled up on the rocking chair under the eaves to watch the peach blossoms in Ling Heng's courtyard.

The sun jumps on the flower branches, the red and pink are delicate, and the snow is flying.

"Xie Jinci, how many times have I told you, don't sit here and blow the wind. If you have a cold, I won't be happy to take care of you. ”

A lazy voice rang out.

Shen Changfeng came over with a velvet blanket, squatted down on the side of the rocking chair, and covered her with disgust.

Xie Jinci tilted his head to look at him.

An old man in his sixties, with white hair and hair, is still ruffian and bad when he laughs, revealing endless romance.

usually goes to the street with her, I don't know how many girls quietly squeeze their eyebrows at him, throw handkerchiefs and throw flowers.

He was brilliant when he was young, and now he is old, but he is still very attractive to the girl's family.

When she was young, she was also attracted and seduced by his smile, right?

She thought and couldn't help but laugh.

The spring breeze blows off the peach blossoms and falls all over the body.

She pursed her lips and smiled, "When I was seven years old, I met my brother in the old courtyard...... The peach blossoms bloomed so well back then, and my brother walked lazily on the long street, smiling and smiling, and I still dare not forget it. ”

Shen Changfeng picked up a peach blossom and gently pinned it on her sideburns.

Although her hair is as long as snow, she wears delicate peach blossoms, and she is also beautiful and gentle, and she is not lost to young girls in the slightest.

Xie Jinci's cheeks were flushed, his eyelashes were lowered, and he said softly: "Is it good-looking?" ”

"My sister is naturally good-looking......" Shen Changfeng stretched out his hand and stroked her eyebrows, "I love my sister's country and city when she was young, and I love my sister's quiet years now." ”

The sun is warm.

Xie Jinci yawned sleepily.

She whispered, "I'm a little sleepy......"

Shen Changfeng silently held her hand and interlocked his fingers with her.

His little girl curled up in a rocking chair, looking thin and small because of her slender skeleton.

Her sleeping face is quiet and well-behaved, just like her whole life.

He leaned over, kissed her on the lips, and whispered, "I'm guarding you." ”

The wind is getting stronger.

The spring snow is fluttering, and the peach petals are floating together.

They swept out of Chang'an Lane lightly and gradually floated over the entire Lin'an City, turning the story here into a legend and passing it on in the hearts of every generation of Daqi people.

Under the eaves of Ling Heng Courtyard, the man with a pale face, holding his beloved girl, finally burst into tears.

She's gone.

Like a peach blossom that blooms, there will never be a day when it blooms again.

She left him alone in the world, leaving him alone to guard the ancestral home.

He hugged her gradually cold body and cried like a child.

……

It is the early spring, and the lake outside Lin'an City is bright and bright.

Peach blossom mountain is full of peach blossoms, like pale pink clouds that do not see the sky.

Shen Changfeng sat cross-legged in front of a tomb.

The tombstone was carved by his own hand, and the five words "My Wife Xie Jinci" are strong and affectionate.

He held a jar of plum wine and poured himself a drink.

The wine was crisp and mellow, and he buried it in Ling Heng Courtyard with his own hands when he was a child.

Now that the crane is pale, he tastes the wine the same, but the little green plum who cooked wine for him is no longer there.

"Good wine!"

He drank the jar of wine and lay drunk on the tombstone.

The inscription was outlined by his fingertips, and he looked lonely, "My wife should be like Xie Jinci...... Xie Jinci ......"

The sudden spring breeze blows down the peach blossoms all over the mountain.

Countless peach petals fell on the man, gradually burying him and the grave into a sea of flowers.

A peach blossom tree grows quietly and gradually flourishes.

The lush root system gradually swallowed up the lonely grave and the man in front of it.

……

The winds of change.

Lin'an City has become a well-known international metropolis with high-rise buildings and modern buildings one after another.

It is the twilight spring season when the grass grows and the warbler flies, and the students of Bailudong Academy come to Peach Blossom Mountain to go on a youth tour, and there are laughter all over the mountain.

"Xie Jinci, do you think Lao Tzu is cool or not?"

The girl in the blue and white school uniform and carrying the schoolbag looked up, and the sports committee member of their class was standing on the peach blossom tree, posing triumphantly, shaking off the petals of the tree by the way.

Before Xie Jinci could speak, a boy with beer bottle eyes ran over in shock: "Ahhhh How pitiful and delicate the trees are, how can you hurt them?! ”

"Class leader, if you don't shut up, don't think about taking the sponsorship quota for poor students from my eldest brother's company group this year!"

Wei Sikuo silently made a movement to zip up his mouth.

Lu Jinghuai jumped off the peach blossom tree and followed Xie Jinci to the mountain, "Xiao Ci'er, what's wrong with you today, you didn't play with Shen Siling and Xiao Youen, did they bully you?" ”

Xie Jinci didn't speak.

The spring sun gently shrouded her in light through the gap between the peach blossoms.

Her skin is white and transparent, and her fawn eyes are crystal clear, but she is enveloped in sadness that she usually does not have.

She didn't know why, as soon as she came to this Peach Blossom Mountain, she felt very uncomfortable in her heart, and the whole person seemed to have fallen into the deep sea, and she couldn't see the light or the way back.

On the top of Peach Blossom Mountain, the surrounding voices gradually became scarce.

"What a big peach blossom tree......"

Xie Jinci stretched out his hand in surprise and gently stroked the old tree.

Lu Jinghuai put his hands behind his head and disagreed: "I heard that it has a history of 1,000 years, if you like it, I will ask my eldest brother to buy it and plant it in your house!" ”

Xie Jinci ignored him.

The roots of the ancient peach blossom tree are luxuriant, and the trunk is very thick, so thick that there are seven or eight people hugging each other.

The root system at the bottom is intertwined, like a small house.

She stared at the peach blossom tree in a daze, and Lu Jinghuai grabbed her, "Look at it again, you'll be stunned!" Let's go, go down the mountain and have lunch with Xiao Yiyan and Xiao Youen! ”

She turned back three times and was dragged down the mountain by Lu Jinghuai.

As their figures disappeared on the bluestone steps, a leisurely sigh came from the roots of the ancient tree.

"A big dream, a thousand years."

……

Bailudong Academy is the best high school in Lin'an City, and the second class is the top class where geniuses gather.

A few days after the spring outing, the head teacher suddenly announced that there would be transfer students entering the class.

This class is a history lesson.

The history teacher stood on the podium and gushed: "...... After Shen Changfeng annexed the Liang State, he changed the name of the country to Daqi, and later successively pacified the Yin State, the Xichan Women's Kingdom, the Netherworld, etc., and finally established the unification status of the Great Qi. After his death, he was posthumously named Emperor Wu of Qi. In Ye Shizai, he favored the queen all his life and was a man with deep affection. ”

A girl in a school uniform sits by the window with her cheeks back.

She turned the fountain pen and subconsciously sketched the appearance of Emperor Qi Wu in her imagination in the history book.

Peach blossom eyes, cinnabar moles, smile should be a little ruffian, and temperament should be a little overbearing......

After sketching, she looked at the portrait on the paper and fell into deep thought.

Suddenly the wind rose outside the window, and countless petals floated in and landed on the table.

She wanted to close the window, but she saw a young man with a beautiful complexion, lazily carrying a crossbody bag and putting one hand in his pocket, passing down the corridor.

The young man has peach blossom eyes, cinnabar moles, and a small tugs on his head.

The eyes are facing each other.

He raised his eyebrows, his thin lips hooked lightly, ruffian and bad, "Xie Jinci, long time no see." ”