When the day was about to dawn, the sound of firecrackers came from the direction of Chang'an City, and Chang'an at this moment was joyful and peaceful.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Shen Leng glanced at Xiao Zhang Zhenren, who was asleep on his lap, thinking about how to knock her unconscious and send her back, Shen Leng could probably guess that Xiao Zhang Zhenren's martial arts should be commonplace, otherwise, she would not be so embarrassed in Fengningguan in Weiyang Palace, she has ambitions, ambitions and responsibilities, but Shen Leng doesn't want her to die.

"Don't send me back."

Just when Shen Leng thought of this, he suddenly heard Xiao Zhang Zhenren's voice, Shen Leng looked down, and Xiao Zhang Zhenren had already opened his eyes.

"I can probably guess what you're thinking."

Xiao Zhang Zhenren sat up, straightened his hair, and glanced at Shen Leng gratefully: "Thank you." ”

Shen Leng shook his head.

She said thank you because Shen Leng stayed all night.

For Shen Leng, even if he didn't sleep for two days and two nights, it was nothing, the southern expedition and the northern war, two days and two nights without sleep was not only once or twice, but three days and three nights were not uncommon, and in Shen Leng's opinion, guarding Xiao Zhang Zhenren for one night was nothing, not Xiao Zhang Zhenren, as long as he was a Ning person, Shen Leng didn't think it was a big deal.

The cold in the early morning seems to be more excessive than the night, this night Xiao Zhang Zhenren slept for a while in a daze, Shen Leng didn't sleep all night, she combed her hair and pinned it with a hairpin, put on a crown, she was really a young Taoist with clear eyebrows.

"I know that some ideas are not right, and I shouldn't think about them."

Xiao Zhang Zhenren sat up straight and looked at Shen Leng's eyes and said: "I also know that the general should be able to feel my heart, accompany me on this trip, I want to give myself an explanation, it's very selfish and unreasonable, I just want to let myself experience it...... The general can not agree to me, or he can knock me out and send me back to Chang'an, so this is just my request. ”

At this moment, Shen Leng saw a kind of hope in Xiao Zhang Zhenren's eyes, which was not the hope for feelings, but the hope for freedom.

"Okay."

Shen Leng got up: "But you have to listen to me along the way, and you can't do anything after catching up with those Qiang people." ”

"Hmm!"

Xiao Zhang Zhenren immediately laughed, and his face was full of joy that was difficult to suppress.

"I should give you a New Year's greeting."

Shen Leng straightened up and tidied up his clothes, then clenched his fists: "Happy New Year, I wish you all the best." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren also hurriedly stood up and returned the salute seriously: "Happy New Year, I wish the general Kang Ning Antai." ”

The two of them looked at each other, and suddenly they both laughed, and they laughed like two fools in the ice and snow.

Riding on a horse to the northwest direction, the next journey is the most difficult is to be hungry, all the way, nearly two hours to a town, but the town in the restaurant where there is still a door, helpless, two people had to go to the people's house to ask for a meal, want to leave the silver, but the family said that they refused to accept it, and prepared a lot of food for them to eat on the road.

The two men thanked and left, and hit the road again.

"General."

"Huh?"

"Last night I wanted to ask, why did the general work so hard?"

"There are so many whys, how can there be the effort you think."

Shen sneered: "Probably, when you are worthy of this world, everything in the world is good, and you can get it with hard work, it is fair." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren froze for a moment when he heard this, and repeated it like muttering: "Everything good in the world can be achieved by hard work, which is fair." ”

She couldn't hold back after all, and asked Shen Leng: "What if you work hard but can't?" ”

Shen Leng thought for a moment and replied, "Try again." ”

"What if you try again and you can't get it?"

"Another."

Shen Leng replied quickly and very simply.

"Change another ......"

Xiao Zhang Zhenren smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking that it would be so simple and easy to change one, I care about you, I can't ask for it, can I just change it? But of course she won't say these words, and if she can say my heart in the morning, the general should understand that she has mustered up enough courage to say this, that is the limit of her courage, how can a girl like her say more direct and passionate words, and she doesn't feel that she should say it, if Shen Leng has never known Shen Chayan in her life, she should have blurted out what she should say without hesitation, that is just if, there are not so many ifs in this world.

In this world, it seems to be common for a successful man to have three wives and four concubines, but that is a common thing in other people's families, the entire Chang'an, and even the entire Daning, anyone who knows Shen Leng and Shen Chayan will feel that there is no room for another person between the two of them, so it is not common for Shen Leng to have three wives and four concubines.

Even Xiao Zhang Zhenren felt that the relationship between Shen Leng and Shen Chayan was the most beautiful relationship between men and women in this world, what she didn't know was that there was an excellent woman before her who also felt so emotional, her name was Lin Luoyu.

"General."

"Huh?"

"How long have you known Miss Chayan?"

Shen Leng calculated, this year is the twenty-eighth year of Daning Tiancheng, and he is already twenty-eight years old.

"Twenty years."

Twelve-year-old Shen Leng followed Mr. Shen and Tea Master out of Fish Scale Town, Anyang County, but before that, Shen Leng had known Mr. Shen for several years, and every time Mr. Shen came, he brought Tea Master with him, so it was counted as twenty years.

He looked at Xiao Zhang Zhenren: "What's wrong?" ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren was curious: "Everyone in the world says that two people who like each other are chaotic for three years, disgusted for five years, and evil for seven years...... You've known each other for twenty years, but I don't see each other hating each other in your eyes. ”

Shen sneered: "The one I see every day is better looking than the day before, so naturally there will be no thing you said." ”

Shen Leng replied as a matter of course, in his opinion, today's tea master is more beautiful than yesterday's, and tomorrow's tea master must be more beautiful than today's.

"Why is she so attracted to you?"

"She's good-looking."

"Huh? Just good-looking? ”

"It's just pretty."

Xiao Zhang Zhenren was even more curious: "Does the general think that good-looking girls are worth liking?" ”

"Of course, good-looking girls are worth liking, but who is better looking than her."

If this was said by someone else, Xiao Zhang Zhenren might feel a little more distracted, but when Shen Leng said it, she only felt that Shen Leng was not pretentious.

"Is it like a flower on the side of the road?"

Xiao Zhang Zhenren asked: "I think it's beautiful when I see one, so I look at it a few more times, and I see another one is also very beautiful, so I will look at it a few more times, but no matter how many eyes I look at, I still feel that the flowers I raise at home are the best." ”

"yes."

Shen Leng replied, and when Xiao Zhang Zhenren was about to think about these seriously, Shen Leng added as a matter of course: "The flowers she raised herself, do you still dislike them?" ”

"Huh?"

Xiao Zhang Zhenren was stunned: "What...... What do you mean? ”

Shen Leng: "Didn't you say that the flowers you raise are more beautiful?" ”

He was actually a little embarrassed: "She raised me well, so I'm beautiful, my name is Shen Meimei." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren looked at Shen Leng with wide eyes: "You mean...... Are you a flower raised by a tea girl? ”

Shen Leng asked very righteously: "Isn't it?" ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren smiled wryly, feeling that his heart was a little twitching.

Two people rode horses and walked for most of the day, the horses also had to stop to rest, this way came to not even an inn opened, it seems that it is difficult to find an inn to live in the next city, Chang'an to the northwest to the next city is not far away, but calculate the time before dark I am afraid that I will not be able to arrive, the city gate will be closed before dark, most of them have to sleep in the wilderness.

The two of them took shelter in a forest, lit a fire and roasted dry food to eat, after Shen Leng ate, he went to pick up some hay and came back to feed the horses, looked at the sky, got up and went to cut a lot of branches back, spread the branches on the ground and spread a thick layer of hay, took the big straw off his shoulder and handed it to Xiao Zhang Zhenren: "Sleep, I can buy some supplies when I go into the city tomorrow, and then find a big car." ”

"You go to sleep first."

Xiao Zhang Zhenren took off the Dao sword and held it in his arms: "You didn't sleep all night last night, today you sleep first, and I will guard it." ”

Shen sneered and shook his head: "You sleep with yours, I will sleep in the carriage tomorrow when I buy a carriage, just come and catch the car." ”

"No."

Xiao Zhang Zhenren became stubborn: "Can you not think that I am so weak?" ”

Shen Leng thought for a while and lay down on the bed of branches: "Then you guard." ”

The corners of Xiao Zhang's mouth lifted, and he was a little happy.

Soon Shen Leng fell asleep, Xiao Zhang Zhenren sat beside Shen Leng with a sword, the wind in his ears was very loud, and he looked sideways at Shen Leng from time to time, no matter how strong the wind was, she was not afraid, when she was in Longhu Mountain before, she didn't dare to go out alone every night, she felt that the wind blew through the woods and the branches shook like demons and monsters, Master always said that demons and monsters are not in the world but in people's hearts, she knows that Master is right, but she is afraid.

However, this night, Shen Leng slept soundly on the side, she was also steady, and she didn't feel so scary when the wind blew through the branches and swayed.

When he arrived, Shen Leng woke up as if there was an alarm clock in his body, stretched his waist, got up and moved for a while and sat on the edge of the fire to add firewood, Xiao Zhang Zhenren looked at him curiously: "Why don't you sleep?" ”

"For you."

Shen Leng handed Da Yu to Xiao Zhang Zhenren: "Don't think that if you don't sleep tonight, I won't need you to catch the car tomorrow." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren snorted and laughed, but he didn't answer Shen Leng's big talk: "The night wind is cold, you just woke up, you will catch a cold if you give it to me, don't think that I will take care of you if you are sick." ”

Shen Leng also smiled.

Xiao Zhang Zhenren lay down in the place where Shen Leng had just slept, there was still residual warmth, she shrunk into her big box, a little cold, but her heart was warm, she knew why Shen Leng woke up at this time, how could she really not be afraid at all.

Shen Leng took off the flask and took a sip, the cold wine entered his throat and quickly burned into his stomach.

"Does drinking work?"

Xiao Zhang Zhenren, who was lying there, asked.

Shen Leng nodded: "It works." ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren asked in a whisper: "I heard people say that getting drunk can relieve a thousand sorrows, can wine also relieve sorrows?" ”

"I can't."

Shen Leng glanced back at Xiao Zhang Zhenren: "Wine is for celebration, not for relieving sorrows." ”

"General, what are you celebrating by drinking?"

"Another day has passed."

Shen Leng raised his head and looked at the night sky: "People are alive, and every day is worth celebrating. ”

Xiao Zhang Zhenren's heart hurt, she didn't know what she had experienced before anyone felt that every day was worth celebrating, but she didn't want to say something sad, she didn't want to say a word, so she snorted vigorously, and then let out a long breath.

"Phew, this is the most shameless reason I've ever seen to justify drinking every day."

Shen Leng laughed.

Xiao Zhang Zhenren looked at the night sky.

"Give me a drink."

"What do you want to celebrate?"

"The next day."

She laughed, "Congratulations, next day." ”

Bright smile.