Shuque looked up at the sky like a burning color, put on his thickest cotton clothes, stepped into the deep snow without boots, and moved forward with great difficulty step by step. It wasn't until he felt that his feet were frozen and unconscious, that he finally saw a figure in the depths of the alley in the dim light.

He rubbed his palms, ran to the man with all his might, and draped him in a heavy green velvet cotton coat.

Shu Que saw that Qing Ziting's face was pale, and he hurriedly handed him the hand stove in his sleeve, but the heat in the furnace collided with the cold air outside, and Qing Ziting shivered several times in a row.

Seeing this, Shuque hurriedly said: "Childe, I'll carry you back." ”

Qing Ziting shook her head weakly, "No need, it's already very laborious to walk alone in such thick snow, you carry me, and we don't know when we will be able to walk home." Just hold me up, I'm going to go to the main courtyard and see Xi'er. ”

Shuque hurriedly said: "If it's late today, and the snow is still falling so heavily, what's the matter, it's not too late for you to see the eldest lady tomorrow......"

Qing Ziting shook his head firmly, "No, I have an urgent matter with Xi'er." ”

Shuque had no choice but to help Qing Ziting hobbled towards the inner courtyard of the main courtyard.

Yu Huan saw the two of them from a distance and hurriedly stepped forward. Because Lu Xi and Qing Ziting have always been intimate, she is also very familiar with Shuque, "This ice and snow, why did you come out with the second young master at this time?" What should I do if he has a cold attack? ”

Qing Ziting's pale face had a hint of a smile, "It's none of his business, I have something to come to Xi'er, you can go in and help me report it." ”

Yu Huan wanted to say that the eldest lady was about to go to bed, but when she saw Qing Ziting's face, she thought that he had never been such a person who didn't know how to measure, and it must have been urgent to come here at night in the snowy wind, so she replied: "Yes, the slave will go to Tongyu." ”

After a while, Yu Huan invited Qing Ziting in, Lu Xi wore his hair, a white bedgown inside, and a golden cloak on the outside, and asked suspiciously, "What is the second brother looking for me?" ”

Qing Ziting smiled and said to Shuque and Yu Huan: "You guys go down first." ”

After the two left, Qing Ziting didn't care whether she was rude or not, and asked directly: "Xi'er, do you really like that Bai Qiaoxuan?" ”

Lu Xi's face turned red instantly, and he whispered, "Second brother......"

Qing Ziting didn't wait for her to answer, and said: "Second brother came to tell you that whether you like him or not, it will end here, and you are not suitable at all." ”

Lu Xi's face turned from red to white, "Why did the second brother say that?" ”

Qing Ziting replied without thinking about it: "He doesn't really love you, he has ulterior motives for approaching you, you and him are not all the way at all, he ......"

Lu Xi interrupted him, "Is the second brother familiar with him?" ”

Qing Ziting was choked, and Lu Xi asked again: "If you don't know him well, how do you know that he has ulterior motives?" ”

Qing Ziting hurriedly said: "You don't know, he just wants to use you......"

When the words came to his lips, Qing Ziting realized that this reason could not be known at all.

Lu Xi followed his words and asked, "What are you using me for?" Didn't the second brother Mo also want to talk about the worldly opinion, saying that he wanted to use me to climb the big tree of his father? ”

Qing Ziting heard a very harsh word in her sister's words, "Also?" Who told you that? Who else knows about you and Bai Qiaoxuan except me? Is it father and wife? ”

Lu Xi said coldly: "It doesn't matter who it is, do you think the same way that is important?" ”

"It's not...... I didn't think so...... I ......" Qing Ziting didn't know how to explain to her, if Bai Qiaoxuan used Xi'er just to be known by his father about Ruo'an's affairs, then he was only afraid that he would be in trouble, if something happened to him at this time, Qing Ziting really didn't dare to imagine what would happen to Ruo Jiao......

Lu Xi said calmly: "Since the second brother didn't think like this, and I already know what the second brother meant, then please go back." ”

Qing Ziting hurriedly said: "Xi'er, the second brother does have unspeakable hardships, but you must listen to the second brother's words, how far away is it from that Bai Qiaoxuan." ”

Lu Xi's eyes are full of Bai Qiaoxuan now, and she doesn't want to hear anyone say that he is not, Qing Ziting's desire to speak again and again has exhausted her little patience, and she shouted impatiently: "Yu Huan, send off!" ”

"Xi'er......" Qing Ziting eagerly grabbed her sister's clothes, and before she could say anything, it was already dark in front of her......

After Lu Tiansheng got the news of Qing Ziting's relapse of cold disease, he rushed back to the mansion in the starry night, and asked with a gloomy face, "What's the matter?" ”

Shuque knelt on the ground and said tremblingly: "Childe should be frozen by the wind and snow......"

"Nonsense! Didn't I know he had a cold? Today's wind and snow are so big, ordinary people don't dare to stay outside for too long, what's the big deal about him, it's worth running around regardless of his body?! ”

Shuque replied tremblingly: "Childe...... Childe didn't let me follow when he went out today, I asked him what was the matter, and he didn't say anything......"

Lu Tiansheng was so angry that he kicked him away and scolded: "Waste! If he doesn't let him follow, won't you secretly follow? It's all over the snow, you can let him go out alone, what's the use of me asking you to be by his side?! ”

Shuque kowtowed again and again, "The old man forgives the sin, the little one will never dare anymore." ”

"Come on, drag it out!"

Shuque was shocked in his heart and begged: "The master spares his life, the master spares his life......"

Seeing that he was innocent, Lu Xi hurriedly said: "Father, spare his life, he has been with the second brother since he was a child, and the second brother treats him as a younger brother, if the second brother wakes up and sees that he is not there, he will be sad." Even if his father doesn't care about him, he has to take care of his second brother's feelings. ”

Lu Tiansheng heard that his daughter was reasonable, and said, "Forget it." ”

Shuque escaped with his life, and kept kowtowing, "Thank you for your kindness, thank you, Miss." ”

"Roll on......" Lu Tiansheng waved his hand impatiently, and asked Lu Xi instead, "What is your second brother doing here?" ”

Luch hesitated and said, "...... It's nothing, the second brother just chats with me......"

Lu Tiansheng obviously didn't believe it, "Small talk? He has always been afraid of cold, this day the wind blows through the bones, he came to you to chat? Xi'er, are you hiding something from your father? ”

Lu Xi was restless and didn't know how to answer, when a clear voice came from outside the room, "What does he have to do with Xi'er?" What do you interrogate her for? ”

Lu Tiansheng's eyes were unconcealed disgust, "What are you doing here?" ”

Zhong Shunhua asked rhetorically: "This is my daughter's room, can't I come?" On the contrary, there are some people who shouldn't be here, right? ”

Lu Tiansheng saw her eyes swept towards Jingzhi, and said angrily: "Zhi'er is Xi'er's second brother, why can't he come to his sister?" ”

Zhong Shunhua snorted coldly: "Second brother? You don't polish your eyes to see, such a frail and sickly wild species is also worthy of being Xi'er's brother?! ”

Lu Tiansheng lifted the medicine bowl on the table on the side of the bed and smashed it at Zhong Shunhua, "Get out!" ”

Zhong Shunhua was enraged by him and forced him forward, "Lu Tiansheng! Don't think that I'm afraid of you because I agree to your wild seed marriage, I'm giving Yiqian face, otherwise even if your wild seed rots and dies on the island, you won't want to marry Tong Yuqing and enter the door! Also, this is my home, and if you want to roll, you will take your wild seeds to roll, get out! ”

Lu Tiansheng's waving palm was about to hit Zhong Shunhua's face, but his arm was clamped by one hand and thrown back.

Xi Yiqian said angrily: "What are you arguing about? Can't there be a moment of silence? It's not enough to quarrel for more than 30 years, and I have to quarrel in front of two children! What kind of system?! ”

Saying that, Xi Yiqian walked over and hugged Lu Xi, who was crying silently, and said softly: "Xi'er, don't cry, you go to your uncle's east wing to rest first, and your uncle will go back to accompany you later, tonight, your second brother is only afraid that he will be here with you and can't move." ”

After settling Lu Xi, Xi Yiqian asked Zhong Shunhua with a cold face, "You don't sleep well in the room on a snowy night, what are you doing here?" ”

Zhong Shunhua stubbornly asked, "Can't I come to see my daughter?" ”

Unexpectedly, Xi Yiqian touched a soft nail for her, "Daughter, you have also seen it, go back." ”

Zhong Shunhua was still angry and refused to move, Xi Yiqian said directly outside: "Rong Hui, take your master back." ”

After Zhong Shunhua left, Xi Yiqian walked to the bed, put her hand on Qing Ziting's head, tested his body temperature, and after checking his body temperature, she put a hot towel on him, and added two more futons to him after applying the hot towel, as if there was no Lu Tiansheng in the room at all.

"Yiqian ......"

She casually walked past him, sweeping the pieces of the medicine bowl from the floor.

Lu Tiansheng hurriedly grabbed her, "Just let the next person do these things." Can you talk to me? ”

Seeing that Xi Yiqian didn't react at all, Lu Tiansheng asked, "Do you really plan to ignore me for the rest of your life?" As you can see, I didn't provoke her at all, she had to come and quarrel with me. She humiliates her beloved son like this, can I, as a father, ignore it? She ......" Lu Tiansheng saw that her face was cold, and after a long sigh, he said, "You don't want me to say that she's not, so I won't say it anymore." No matter what, I want to thank you for running around for my beloved marriage. For so many years, Zhi'er has been safe and sound in Ningtai, and thank you for taking care of her. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid Zhi'er wouldn't live today. Thank you......" As he spoke, Lu Tiansheng bent down and bowed to Xi Yiqian, this was the first time he had bent down to someone else since he was appointed as the overseer of Puxi.

Xi Yiqian turned sideways and avoided it, and said coldly: "No need, I feel sorry for Qingchen, for her sake, I helped take care of Zhi'er, and it has nothing to do with you." If it were for your sake, if he died in front of my house, I wouldn't have paid a blind eye to him. Lu Tiansheng, if your gratitude is sincere, although I shouldn't expect people like you to still have a heart, please don't have to appear in front of me again in the future, my eyes don't like to see such dirty things. ”

If these words came from someone else's mouth, Lu Tiansheng would definitely have dismantled him a long time ago, but he couldn't move the woman in front of him, and he couldn't even say it.

Lu Tiansheng could only say stupidly: "I'll just keep Zhi'er, you can go back and rest early." ”

After Xi Yiqian made sure that Qing Ziting was fine, she didn't look at Lu Tiansheng and returned to her room.

In the early morning of the next day, Qing Ziting woke up slowly, feeling that he was sore and thirsty, but he didn't have the strength to get up and find water to drink, and when he struggled, he touched a solid and powerful arm, and the man suddenly woke up and said happily: "Zhi'er, you are awake!" ”

Qing Ziting's voice seemed to have been polished by coarse sand, "Father......"

Lu Tiansheng hurriedly supported him, "You lie down and don't move, if you want, I'll help you get it." ”

"Water ......"

Lu Tiansheng immediately poured him a glass of warm water, "Drink it slowly, how are you feeling now, does your head still hurt?" Does it still hurt in your body? ”

Qing Ziting's face was pale, and he subconsciously stroked his belly.

Lu Tiansheng looked at his hand and asked, "Does your stomach hurt?" I'll fill you with a water bladder......"

Qing Ziting grabbed him, "Father doesn't have to be busy, I have something to discuss with you, don't force Ruo Jie to marry me anymore, okay?" ”

Lu Tiansheng sat down slowly and asked lightly, "Are you just caused by this incident to cause the recurrence of your old disease?" ”

Qing Ziting's heart was anxious, and sweat beaded on her forehead, "Father, I don't need you to force her to marry me." Am I so unbearable in your heart that I can't even get a woman's heart, and I need you to use your power to help me tie it down? Ruo Wan is the woman I love the most in this world, I want her to marry me willingly, I don't want our marriage to be unwilling. ”

Lu Tiansheng carefully wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead for him, and sighed: "Silly child, it is precisely because you love her that my father will let her marry you." Besides, how can there be such an absolute thing in this world? After you get married, you can still find a way to make her fall in love with you willingly. Father is just worried that you are too soft-hearted, afraid that you will only make wedding clothes for others in the end, and the bamboo basket will be empty. ”

Qing Ziting wanted to ask again, but Lu Tiansheng smiled: "Okay...... The way you are now, your father can't force you to get up and get married, and you can recuperate for some time. Father can promise you that you will first wave Pu Dong and avenge her family, and then officiate the marriage for you. But remember, this is the father's last bottom line. After the class teacher returns to the court, whether she crosses the river and demolishes the bridge and does not marry you, or you regret not wanting to marry her again, I will kill her. I don't have no useless people around me. ”

Qing Ziting was so shocked that she bounced up directly from the bed, "Father! ”

Lu Tiansheng helped him lie down and said, "Even if Tong Yuqing is here, this battle may not be easy. If it is fast, it will be a month, and if it is slow, it will be half a year. You have enough time to think about it......" he said as he held his son's cold hand, "her life and death are in your hands." ”

Qing Ziting looked at his father steadily, but he didn't seem to be looking at him, a month, half a year...... Even if it takes a month to prepare for the marriage, then this marriage will not be as late as June of the next year, or even June, Bai Qiaoxuan will attack Xi'er...... This is not the most terrible, what he is most afraid of is that Ruo Wan will not marry him after taking revenge, and he will die to make his will, if he really goes to that point, where should he go......

A heavy knock on the door broke the silence of dawn, and the napping gatekeeper was frightened into a cold sweat by this sound, and muttered in a low voice, "It's not yet dawn, who?" ”

But the person who knocked on the door did not give him time to think at all, and kept knocking, and he shouted impatiently: "Here it is, here it is!" ”

As soon as he took off the deadbolt, a man in a dark coat broke down the door and went on a rampage, and he was so shocked that he stopped the man, "Who are you?" Who are you looking for? You can't just go in. ”

He didn't stop, and shouted loudly: "I'm looking for Lu Jingzhi!" ”

Seeing that someone was about to enter the inner courtyard, he desperately hugged his waist and pressed him outside the courtyard, "You wait, you stop!" I'm going to say goodbye. ”

Before he could let go, he heard a shocked voice coming from behind, "Bai Qiaoxuan? You're crazy, you're alone in my Overseer's Mansion, what kind of place are you supposed to be?! ”

The gatekeeper hurriedly turned around and saluted, "Second Young Master." ”

Qing Ziting waved his hand, "You go down, lock the courtyard gate, and no one is allowed to enter." ”

After the man left, Bai Qiaoxuan said, "I want to see Yuqing." ”

Qing Ziting asked helplessly: "She is going to go out with the army at the beginning, and there will be a heavenly army to pick her up soon, what are you doing when you come to her at this time, aren't you afraid of being discovered by my father's people?" Don't you care about your own life or Ruojia's life?! ”

Bai Qiaoxuan said in a deep voice: "I came here for this matter, she can't go out with the army." ”

"Why can't I go with the army?" A crisp voice rang out from the east wing.

Tong Yuqing had already put on the dark cyan military uniform of the Heavenly Army, and the two black thin bars on the epaulettes and a round emblem told Bai Qiaoxuan that she was holding the rank of major.

Bai Qiaoxuan's face was pale, but his voice was sonorous and powerful, "Anyone can attack Pu Dong and attack the Qiu family, but you can't, the Tong family can never betray the Qiu family, you must not forget the oath made by your ancestors!" ”

Tong Yuqing's smile was also pale, "The expedition is imminent, I don't want to argue with you anymore, you can go." ”

Bai Qiaoxuan stepped forward and grabbed Tong Yuqing's shoulder, "Yuqing, you think clearly, all this is just a trap for Tong Baiyi to want you to fight in the same room, it's still too late for you to jump out now, can you wake up?" ”

Tong Yuqing pushed his hand away and said lightly: "I am very sober, I have never been so sober as I am now." ”

At this time, Shuque walked up to Qing Ziting's side, "Childe, the person sent by the master to pick up the young lady has arrived." Shuque's voice was not loud or small, just enough for the three people in the courtyard to hear.

Tong Yuqing no longer paid attention to Bai Qiaoxuan, and walked straight out of the courtyard, Bai Qiaoxuan ran over to block her, Tong Yuqing's voice was as cold as three feet of ice, "Get out of the way!" ”

"Unless I die!"

Before Bai Qiaoxuan's words fell, he was pushed to the ground by a force, and he looked at Tong Yuqing in shock, why is her strength so great now? She wasn't like this a month ago, what has she been through this month?

Tong Yuxuan was woken up by the noise outside, and happened to see Bai Qiaoxuan being pushed down by Tong Yuqing, so he hurriedly ran over to help Bai Qiaoxuan up.

"Sister, what are you pushing him for?"

Tong Yuqing didn't answer her younger brother, just looked at Bai Qiaoxuan and said, "Now I want you to get out of the way, why do I want you to die?" ”

After speaking, Tong Yuqing walked away, Bai Qiaoxuan turned to look at Qing Ziting, and said: "Since you have shown sincerity, I will also take a step back, my business in Puxi has been completed, and I will go back to Baijiawan today, I just hope that the next time I come, it will not be for private matters, let alone for any happy event, otherwise it will ......."

Bai Qiaoxuan turned to leave, Qing Ziting thought about what he hadn't finished speaking, and his heart was cold......

Overseer's Order:

Far from practicing Zuo with cool virtue, sixteen years in the future. Discipline and law, employment and administration, can not rely on the law ancestor Mo Lie, follow the leisurely, Gou An present, so that the national governance is not perfect, the people's livelihood is not successful, is a far away crime.

The only son of the distant first examination should have inherited the responsibility of the heir, but it was far away for his own desires, and so far there has been no heir to inherit the ancestry, which is a crime in the distance.

The two ancestors of the former Qiu Tong clan met in Weishi, and they worked together to create a foundation. Taizu ring in later generations, Tong in Qiu's words, first friends and then ministers. Taizong, Shizong, Xianzong, and Wuzong all follow the teachings of Taizu, and protect the children's family for many generations.

Today, it is not to be angry and resentful, and the borders of various places are not affordable. If you are struck, open the door.

November 14, 16th year of Longyuan.

When such a thing called the General Order, which was actually a criminal edict, was sent to Huo Fan, the general who had not been smiling all the year round, a smile appeared on his face, which made his deputy general Cao Zhan ask curiously: "General, what does this general order say?" ”

Huo Fan handed him the order, but after a while, Cao Zhan's eyes widened and he said incoherently: "This...... Don't ...... The Overseer is going to give away the country. ”

Huo Fan snorted coldly, "He also knows that he can't hold his country...... A person like him, who risked his brother's life for a woman, deserves to pay for this great river and mountain! ”

Cao Zhan subconsciously glanced outside the door, and Huo Fan sneered: "What are you doing so nervous?" With the relationship between my Huo family and the He family, who would believe that we are on Qiu Zeyuan's side? He already had the suspicions he should have. ”

Cao Zhan narrowed his eyelids slightly and said with a smile: "Yes, he also understands that there are five north-south defense lines, one in the hands of our Huo family and one in the hands of the Guo family, even if this battle starts, it will be extremely difficult." ”

Huo Fan waved his hand and said, "Now we don't have to worry about what he thinks, it's time to think about the situation in the future." My sister is He's daughter-in-law, it's understandable for us to help the Tong family avenge it, but if we change the world in the future, I don't know if my Huo family can enjoy the honor of the past......"

Cao Zhan said with a smile: "Miss Tong will soon become the daughter-in-law of the Lu family, and if we help her like this time, she will not treat us badly." ”

Huo Fan was still worried, "But the water in Puxi will only be more mixed than Pudong's." She wants to marry Lu Tiansheng, the son of a concubine who never cares about political affairs, but I am afraid that it will not be enough to protect my Huo family. And I heard that the relationship between this concubine and Lu Tiansheng's wife and son-in-law is not good......"

Cao Zhan said with relief: "General, everything is lost, there must be gains, he has a bad relationship with the main house, but he is Lu Tiansheng's most beloved son...... Although Lu Tiansheng was restrained by the Zhong family a lot at the beginning of his ascension, in the past ten years, we can no longer just pay attention to the fact that Lu Tiansheng started by relying on the Zhong family. ”

Huo Fan sighed: "Yes...... The Lu family is not the Lu family of the past, and the Zhong family is not the Zhong family of the past. Let's watch the fire from the other side of the strait before making a choice. ”

Cao Zhan nodded in agreement, and Huo Fan said again: "You go and prepare, the Heavenly Army should be about to reach our Zhenjiang Pass......