The snow melts and the ice melts, and the cold river in February gradually merges into a mighty river, fish leap out of the water, and birds fly across the sky. After the spring of purple and red, warblers and willows have passed, time has entered a summer that is sometimes violent and sometimes dreary. Occasionally, the rain falls on the ground, the rain beats the banana leaves, flooding the places that have been raging in previous years, occasionally the morning full of life, the hot afternoon, the cool night, the fan slapping the mosquito net, the mosquito coil rippling the thin sand smoke.

Jing Han, thirteen years, summer.

When the wind and snow blew, it was no longer cold, she stood there, wanting to see her father and mother on the other side of the snow, wanting to see her sister and brother in the snow, she walked towards that side, and the outline of the figure gradually became clear.

When the night was at its deepest, something seemed to come out of the deepest part of her heart, she didn't know what kind of love it was, and when she opened her eyes, the mosquito net was swaying slightly by the pleasant cool breeze of midnight, and the blanket was kicked away by her, and the man was not around.

Yuan Jin'er lay on the bed for a while, the bright moonlight shone in from the window, she was only wearing a pink belly pocket on the bed, revealing her smooth back and arms, her slender legs and slender feet seemed to be covered with a layer of crystal moonlight, which was slightly shiny like ivory, and she wore a red string on the ankle of her right leg.

Love was still spinning in her dreams, so even though she opened her eyes, she still lay there on her side and didn't move, but after a while, her fingers gently grabbed the blanket next to her, remembering her time with him last night. Thinking of those things that were not shy and impatient and the obsession with which she was attached, no matter what happened at the time. As soon as Qiē settled, it only made her feel warm.

She already has a home.

Therefore, even if I see the wind and snow that I haven't seen for a long time, I won't feel cold anymore, but want to see what they look like.

After all, the girl in the snow has grown up.

She got up from the bed, put on silk trousers and clothes, and then got out of bed and put on embroidered shoes, and went out the door. On the recliner in the courtyard, Ning Yi was sitting there. Thinking about something. She looked at it for a moment before she walked over. In the moonlight, the woman in the thin satin dress and trousers approached like a light fairy. He shook the man's hand. Sit on the side of the recliner. Look at his face.

"I'm sorry, I didn't wake you up when I got the news just now."

The man was thinking about things with his eyes closed. She opened her eyes and smiled at him. Jin'er shook her head, but what she remembered in her heart was when she just knew Ning Yi's name a few years ago. Four or five years have passed in a blink of an eye, think about it, it was four or five years from being sold to living in the Qinglou, four or five years after becoming an Oiran, and then another four or five years, and now, it has been thirteen years since Jinghan. Thinking like this, after a while, he also took off his embroidered shoes, climbed into the chaise longue, and lay down with him. Although the chair was spacious, it was still a bit narrow to accommodate two people after all, and Ning Yi put his arm around her and let her lie on her chest with her body close together.

"Is something wrong?" Jin'er asked softly.

"Nothing." Ning Yi shook his head, and his voice was soft, "It's just that a piece of information from the north has come, since Wanyan Agu was killed last year, because of the influence of Zhao'anzhao, the security in the north has improved a lot. ”

Ning Yi's words seemed to be saying to Jin'er, but in fact, it was not necessarily the case, he was just sorting out clues in his head. A pleasant cool breeze blows at night.

"Actually, it's not a bad thing, after the law and order improved, a large number of traders went there, and now the prosperous Cheng dù north of Bianliang has increased by at least 30% compared with before. In half a year, everyone said that Tan Shumi's Zhao'an Zhao was a Buddha of ten thousand families...... Well, there is a part of it in the north, after all, there is also the shadow of our bamboo mark. ”

"Is Liheng still worried about the war?" Jin'er Road.

"Sort of." Ning Yi smiled, he hugged Jin'er with his left hand, but his right hand was stretched out in her clothes, feeling the delicacy of the woman's skin and the softness of her chest. However, for the two who have been husband and wife for so long, this kind of intimacy between Cheng dù's body is not so strange like Cheng dù when a kitten rubs his neck.

"I don't understand this, but I always feel that fighting a war is a long way off. If Chengping is like today, the world is so good, I always feel ...... How can there be a war. Still, Xianggong still knows that there will be a war, right? ”

In Jin'er's whisper, Ning Yi shook his head with a smile: "Not really, sometimes I also think that maybe fighting a war is a far away thing, is it wrong for me to think about it, especially when there are many trivial things, I think even more so." ”

"If there is no war, Liheng will take us to the south, right?"

"Well, go back to Jiangning, or find a small place and live to old age together."

"If I'm old, won't the Xiang Guild want me anymore?"

"Huh?"

"Because I only look a little better now, in a few years, people will be old and yellow, won't Liheng drive me into the dark room?"

“……”

Whispered words rang in small pieces in the night. After a while, the man got up from the chaise longue and carried his wife back to the bedroom, and the moment he stepped over the threshold, the silence of the night was broken by a violent noise.

"Who-"

"Night Attack!"

"Which way do you ...... friends?"

"Jingnan Seven Killing Guns and ...... Green Forest Friends...... Kill the demons ......"

"You're tired of living—"

"Set fire to ......"

The sound of fighting came from outside, and Ning Yi stood there listening to these words, and Jin'er in his arms grabbed his clothes. When he entered the room, lifted the mosquito net and put her on the bed, Jin'er still grabbed his clothes and refused to let go.

"A bunch of small characters, who can't set off the wind and waves, are very safe here. I'll go and see, you sleep first, and wait for me to come back. ”

"You also said it was a small role, so don't go......"

Jin'er lay there looking at him, her eyes like a wounded baby.

"After you catch them, you have to think about what to do with them, these guys are endless, and you can't make them feel better."

Ning Yi leaned down and hugged Jin'er on the bed, and Jin'er also wrapped her hands around his neck and hugged him for a while before letting go.

"You stay safe and come back early...... Every time you go. I'm worried...... The family was worried about ......"

"I know......" Ning Yi kissed her on the forehead, then got up and took a breath. Jin'er watched the man muttering the words "kill them" and went out all the way, and she smiled.

After Ning Yi left, the chaotic sound of fighting and fighting was still coming, and then someone set fire to it, and someone put out the fire. Jin'er lay on the bed for a while, unable to sleep, sat up and tried to get out of bed, only to find that her shoes had been left in the courtyard. She stepped barefoot on the ground. Walk to the door. Looking at the chaos outside, listening to the voices coming in, then sat down by the threshold.

After a while, the woman clasped her hands. Curled up with his legs. I fell asleep on the ground by the door.

Wee hours of the morning when the sky is at its darkest. It was quiet outside, and Ning Yi came back from outside and picked up the woman sleeping by the door. The two went back to bed, hugged each other and continued to sleep for a while.

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In the morning, Jin'er came out of the courtyard and went to the restaurant facing the street to prepare breakfast. This is the Zhuji branch in a town south of Bianliang, although last night's riot was not small, and even caused a small fire, but at this time, the street is still pedestrians coming and going, and it seems quite lively.

Many merchants and literati settled in the restaurant of Zhuji and ate some special snacks known as the specialties of the capital. After Jin'er and her accompanying guards sat down at the table covered by a screen on the inside of the restaurant, they noticed that someone was outside and secretly looked at this side.

Since she doesn't want a box, Jin'er's appearance and figure are extremely outstanding, and it is not surprising that she will sometimes be looked at a few times. At this time, she was already dressed as a woman, and she was followed by an entourage and guards, and there were basically no people who dared to come forward and mess around. But this time, Jin'er glanced outside, but she was also stunned.

At the table at the other end of the field of vision, it should be some outsiders who also settled in Zhuji last night, several men with their wives and concubines, and their families, it seems that the family should be quite solid, and the appearance of one of the women made De Jin'er's eyelids jump.

It was the woman who was still well-dressed, who occasionally turned around and looked at Jin'er through the gap by the screen. Jin'er glanced at it, opened her mouth, and then turned her gaze back calmly, she pressed her hands on her knees together, and after a moment, she glanced over again.

Beside the woman was an equally well-dressed, but old countryman—from the clothes he could tell, he was talking with some of his companions, and Jin'er glanced at it a few times, trying to reconcile the figure with an image in her memory.

The old man and the young woman were probably also the relationship between the husband and the concubine, and when he noticed that something was wrong with the woman around him, he also looked over a few times. Jin'er didn't want to look at him, and sat quietly with her hands clasped together, not looking over there. After the old man looked here a few times, he seemed to stretch his neck to see more clearly, and between the gaps in the screen, a man named Qi Xinyong frowned and looked out, seeing the tower-like man, the old man hurriedly turned around, and patted the concubine beside him by the way, asking her not to look over there, so as not to cause anything.

After a while, I got together early, and the table outside had already checked out and left. Ning Yi came up from below, and when he saw Ning Yi's figure, Jin'er clenched his fists with both hands, and was very excited: "Xianggong, Xianggong, I'm so powerful, I'm so powerful, I'm about to have supernatural powers!" ”

"Huh? What's going on? Ning Yi smiled and was stunned, "You conjured up these things on the table?" ”

"No, no, no." Jin'er lowered her voice and looked excited, "Xianggong, did I tell you that I had a dream last night and dreamed of my sister." ”

"Uh...... It doesn't seem to have been said. ”

"I just dreamed of my sister, father, mother, brother, and sister, and then, the table that just went down, did you pay attention?" Jin'er took Ning Yi's hand and ran out, looking down from the platform on the second floor, but she couldn't see the group of people anymore, she pulled Ning Yi back to the screen, and looked out of the window to look at the street outside, only then did she see those figures from the crowd, and there were several big cars following them.

Jin'er hid behind Ning Yi and pointed down sneakily and happily: "Look at you, the one wearing the green floral skirt seems to be my sister, and the outsider, the chubby one, is her father-in-law, my brother-in-law...... I haven't seen them in a long time, but they should be them. ”

The woman in the crowd was still looking upstairs, and Jin'er held Ning Yi's hand and hid. Ning Yi glanced at it a few times: "Are you sure that is not your father?" ”

"No, no, it's my brother-in-law." Jin'er hugged Ning Yi's arm. Hiding beside him and laughing happily, it also made Ning Yi's arm press tightly on her chest, and then found something, "And my friend, you see, the skinny-looking leprosy ghost in the back of the car is the son of my brother-in-law, sure enough, it's them, Xianggong, I told you, I went home that time." It was the old man who looked at me with squinting eyes. And then the leprosy looked at me with squinting eyes......"

Although it seemed like a bad memory, Jin'er's love was obviously very cheerful, and Ning Yi pouted: "You saw your sister, and your sister seems to have seen you too." Do you want to go down and recognize her? Say hello? As for what brother-in-law with his son. Do you want me to scare them? ”

"Don't." Jin'er smiled and retracted, "My sister doesn't recognize me." I can't recognize her anymore, so I really ran down and confessed, what should I say? I used to think of my sister and them, and I felt very disappointed in my heart, but now I am not disappointed, and I may still miss her a little, but ...... There's no need to meet to say it's okay now. ”

Ning Yi looked out the window and touched her head.

"But, Xianggong, I'm so good, right, I dreamed last night, and I saw her today. Also, when I went that time, my sister kept telling me that what I was saying was how to compete for favor around this brother-in-law, how to have a bad time, and how to be bullied. My sister she ...... I should be doing well, I think about it this way, and I'm actually a little happy in my heart...... Hey, strange fate......"

She rubbed Ning Yi happily like a kitten.

After a while, my sister and brother-in-law's family went to the front and disappeared into the crowd.

The world is big, and life is small. Trivial parting, there are also trivial encounters, trivial fate...... Among the many trivial things, sometimes even Ning Yi wonders, maybe the war really happened far, far away from the sky. At this time, it was the sixth lunar month of the thirteenth year of Jinghan, and north of Bianliang City, Zhuji's tentacles were far away. In a town west of Taiyuan, as the sun sets in the west, large trees sprinkle trees on the streets, and crowds gather here to listen with great interest to the storytellers who come with the Zhuji cart to tell martial arts stories. On the side of the storytelling stall, a stall was also set up next to a large car, providing a variety of cheap snacks or practical daily necessities for sale, which made this side of the town very lively for a while.

A group of people who looked quite charlatan looked at this qiē coldly on the side of the street.

The fame of Bamboo Kee has already been made in this vicinity, and every storytelling, as well as juggling and magic performances interspersed with it, are very weighty, so that the excitement of the town will not end until late at night, and this day is no different. When the sun came down and the moon rose, and it was almost in the middle of the sky, the people of Zhuji were ready to close their stalls, and the townspeople who had come over finally dispersed and went home to rest.

When the people on the street finally dispersed, several green forest people who had been guarding the road all night finally came, led by a tall man with a long eyebrow stick on his back, he was athletic, handsome, and his eyes also had the vicissitudes and calmness of the wind and dust, and he seemed to be quite murderous.

"Tell me something." The man walked over, frowned, and said, "Forget it today, from now on, here, you people from Zhuji are not allowed to come, otherwise I will kill you." ”

His tone was as ordinary as if he was talking about a very small matter, and the people who were packing up their things stopped and looked at each other a few times. Not far away, a Bamboo Guard in charge of security had also walked over, and he looked at the man with a complicated look in his eyes.

"Leader Shi, it's been a long time." The Zhuji guard arched his hand, "What you said is impossible. ”

"You know me." The man surnamed Shi looked at him, his arm just moved, and in a blink of an eye, the Qi Mei stick behind his back had already appeared in his hand, and this action led to a sudden roar in the air, and the murderous aura was permeated. For some reason, he is obviously taboo about revealing his identity.

"Nine-patterned dragon Shi Jin, the leader of history." The guard arched his hand, "I was also from Liangshan in Xia, so I naturally know the leader of history." ”

Because of these words, the atmosphere fell to cold in an instant, Shi Jin's head was tilted, and the corners of his mouth outlined a terrifying arc.

"Eat inside and out!"

Not many people saw that moment of fighting, but after the sudden roar, the Zhuji guards who were still walking towards the front had already spilled blood in the air, flying out towards the rear, and the coercion of the stick shadow was like a howling gust of wind, blowing across the entire field, and then the pillar was on the ground, and in the firelight of the summer night, the floating dust dispersed, and cracks appeared on the ground.

After more than two years, the face in the firelight burst out with great anger, and it forced towards the people of Zhuji...... (To be continued......)