The last day of the fifth year of Jian'an. The wind and snow quietly stopped the night before, the streets and alleys in the city of Fuyang presented a festive atmosphere, the people who bought New Year's goods picked fat and thin in the meat stalls, these years the north gradually became rich, meat came from the grassland, it is no longer a rare commodity, in the sound of bargaining, from time to time I turned back and told the children who were brought out with me not to run around.

People weaving cross-current, with a big waist and a round figure, walking on the long street with several family guards, and a woman with a big belly by her side, occasionally seeing a roadside stall with a favorite, she stopped to choose, Pan Feng was draped in a big hat, or like a wild bear, and waved his hand: "Buy, buy, buy, buy!" ”

"You don't need to buy it, you fool." Xianglian straightened up with her back and gave him a blank look, "..... this is for Madame, it's no longer expensive, but it's exquisite, you don't understand." ”

Pan Feng nodded again and again: "Madame can do whatever she says." From time to time, his eyes stared at the belly that was pregnant with life, and the wrinkles on his smiling face were piled up.

Then the two of them walked around for a while, then got into the carriage, and came to the Gongsun Mansion according to the hour, after the carriage slowed down and stopped, Pan Feng hurriedly got off the carriage and went to lead Xianglian down, at this time the courtyard gate of the mansion was already full of people, the officials in the city, the local big families gathered to eat the New Year's dinner according to the habits of previous years, and the foreign generals such as Wuhuan and the Huns also came from outside the city, and went in before the two of them.

At the door, Li Ke took the guards to pick up guests outside, only when he saw the important people in the city and the army, he squeezed out a little smile on his face, and when Pan Feng and his wife came over, he glanced at each other lazily, straightened up and greeted him.

"Hahaha..... Li Ke, weren't you welcoming guests in the house in the past? How did you get sent out! Pan Feng was about to become a father, his expression was quite serious, and he stretched out his arms and strode forward to meet him, but Li Ke, who came over on the other side, didn't look at him, and came directly to Xianglian, staring at her stomach: "How long do you have to eat happy wine?" You're an old man in the house, so you have to invite me first. ”

Xianglian glanced at her husband who was embarrassed to stretch out her hand next to her, covered her mouth and chuckled, and stretched out her hand to hold Pan Feng, "General Li is really funny..... but if you want to eat wedding wine, you have to wait until two months later, and you have to be full moon." ”

"Li Ke, wait for the meeting to start, see if I don't clean you up!" Pan Feng glared at him head, and then was pulled into the mansion by Xianglian.

Li Ke looked at his back and shouted: "Then you can play a set of drunken boxing first." ”

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The maids and servants up and down the mansion are busy shuttling, the snow on the ground and the corners of the eaves are cleaned, the window lattices and doors are also pasted with festive patterns, Gongsun is pulling Dongfang Yu to shuttle in the backyard, after all, they are all children's hearts, from time to time shake the snowflakes on the treetops down, pinch the snow and throw it at each other, splashing under the eaves, Jian Shuo stepped on the snow and walked over quickly, and kept telling his little steward, after all, every year in the northern part of the Guanbei Army, the government officials will come over, and every table of dishes can not make a little mistake, You have to keep an eye on everything.

It was almost noon before everything stopped.

In the backyard, the noisy and lively voices faintly came here, Gongsun Zhi sat in the room and helped Cai Yan to step up, looked at his wife in the bronze mirror and smiled, and went to the shelf over there to take off the big gun and drape it on his body. Since that night, these days, although Cai Yan's attitude towards him has not changed, it is not salty after all, and only today has it improved slightly.

The winter sun was shining in through the window, Cai Yan sat in front of the bronze mirror and sketched his thin eyebrows, and when the sound of dressing came from behind him, he put his hand down lightly and said, "Husband." Between the words, the sideways face was a little gentle.

Gongsun Zhi looked at her, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down to hold his wife's hand, "Finally willing to talk to her husband?" ”

Over there, the sheep's pen was put down on the table, and after Cai Yan waved his hand to let the shaker bottle out, he turned to look at him and said softly: "The concubine body will also be angry, but she will not be angry." used to say that he didn't mind his husband taking a concubine, but when he really saw a strange woman appear in his house, he was ...... I still care about it. ”

Although the husband and wife have been married for many years and have given birth to children, in the end they are still women in their twenties, even if they were strong in the past, when it comes to the bottom line in their hearts, it is still unbearable after all.

Gongsun Zhi rubbed the back of her hand and said with a smile: "Look, what are you crying about, but the husband actually didn't think about taking a concubine." ”

When these words came out, Cai Yan just shook his head, and his voice was a little choked: "What she said to her husband outside the house, the concubine also heard it, a woman has suffered so much grievance and done so many things, in fact, the husband is still very touched in his heart, these ..... the concubine body is also thinking about it these days, the husband is now gradually becoming a foundation, only Zheng'er is such an heir, and the courtiers outside will also talk about whether the concubine will be jealous, and disagree with the husband to take the concubine, rather than accepting the woman outside, it is better to include that Miss Ren in the house." ”

Gongsun Zhi hugged her, wiped away the tears that fell, and patted it gently: "...... I'll talk about this later, didn't Mrs. also say before that she came out of the palace, and she pretended to be very good?" Let's put this off a little bit, as for the things she did, I did have some feelings in my heart, but it was not the same thing as liking......"

"As long as her heart is towards her husband, other things, the concubine doesn't care, one more person, as long as she gets used to it, not to mention the status of the husband, if there are no one or two concubines, what will others think, only Zheng'er has an heir, and the people below don't say it, and they will bear it in their hearts."

The more she spoke, the more serious her choking became, and her fingers kept wiping away her tears, but in the end, she had experienced a lot of things, sobbed for a while, regained her senses, and said with a choked sob: "The concubine is angry with herself, why is there only one heir...... Why can't you add a few more children to your husband? ”

"When it comes to giving birth to children..... husbands are also responsible....."

After a while, Cai Yan got up from her arms, snatched the words, and she held Gongsun Zhi's hand, "Since Miss Ren likes her husband, let her pass the door." ”

"Let's look at it later, it's more pitiful than like."

Gongsun Zhi touched his wife's forehead, then got up and led her, took a towel and wiped the tears on his face, "However, today is the New Year's Pass, crying and crying, I thought that my Gongsun Zhi was beating his mother-in-law with the door closed, let's go, it's time for a banquet, come and laugh." ”

The woman laughed out loud at his last sentence, snatched the towel that had been touched on her face, wiped it lightly a few times, and then walked outside the door with Gongsun Zhi, and when the couple came to the front yard, it was open, and the whole courtyard was boiling.

As the lively and festive noise reached its peak, in a room in the side courtyard, the door was gently opened, and Ren Hongchang, who was still dressed in a shabby dress earlier, walked out, looking at the boiling direction, and the female guard with five finger prints on her face next to her followed out, pursing her lips: "Today is the end of the year, they are so lively......

Hearing the word 'Nianguan', Ren Hongchang stood in place and looked over there for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking, for a long time, he whispered out an 'oh' word in his lips, and the lively noise in the distance made her ears buzz, and after a while, her footsteps moved slightly, and she turned back to the cold room in a daze.

Since Wang Yun's death, she has no home, and she took her sisters to hide in the cold palace, carefully hiding herself, although she was born in the palace, but she only felt cold and death inside.

Stiff figure, lonely walked to a dark corner, sat down against the wall with his arms crossed, and for a moment, tears fell, crying silently.

………

It's come to the end of the year, all the busyness in the world has stopped at this moment, Jiangdong, Sun Ce stood in the attic and looked at the direction of Xuzhou, he once again returned in the hands of a person named Chen Deng, but he was not discouraged, turned around heroically, and raised his cup towards the Jiangdong civil and military forces.

"Next year, let's continue!"

Turning over this year will be a new beginning, and the mid-year assassination will be a thing of the past, but the search continues.

Lujiang, someone hurriedly ran through the cold wind, and there was an arrow nailed to his back with a whizz, and when the blood was sprinkled on the ground, someone stopped his horse and pressed the blade on the twitching body, and the dying man muttered a name: "... Qin ..... Luo Shi ......"

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In Runan, Yuzhou, there is still blood on the white snow, and this is just the end of a skirmish.

The army that returned to the city with the corpse was warmly entertained, Liu Bei held high the figure handed to the dismount, Guan Yu took the wine and walked towards the generals who walked around, Zhang Fei, Chen Dao, Zhou Cang, Guan Ping..... as well as Sun Qian, Jian Yong and a number of civil officials saluted.

"Lay the foundation for my brother, and drink to victory—"

"Drink to win!"

…….

Sporadic snowflakes drifted across the sky of the Central Plains, Xu Du, Cao Chun, Zhang Xiu led the search cavalry along other states and counties to the north, and in the city of Xu Capital, Cao Cao recruited strategists to discuss the next year's affairs, talked about the captured Jia Xu, and finally decided to send people to the north to negotiate the ransom.

A person named Wang Lang was recommended by Liu Ye and walked into everyone's sight.

Hanoi, Zhu Gongdao took off his fur hat and threw a pot of wine to the old man in the car, he stood on the car, looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky, and raised his hand: "Let's drink wine and eat meat, let's make do with a New Year." ”

Jia Xu lifted the curtain, with a slight bruise on his face, he looked ahead, the outline of the city was faintly visible in the falling snow, however, it was already far from Xu Du ......

Across the Yellow River, Jizhou Yecheng, since the death of his father, Yuan Shang decided to inherit the will to reorganize the Yuan family, ready to turn over today, after the spring of next year, show his strength, and then - Qingzhou's brother, with soldiers and horses stationed at the junction of Hebei and Qingdao, sent messengers, and it was the beginning of the struggle.

Yuan Xi, who lost his fighting spirit, stayed in the mansion all day long drinking and having fun with 'Zhen Mi', and sometimes treated the other party as a real wife, "No matter what..... you are now my wife after all." ”

"Actually, before being called Zhen Mi, the concubine also has a name." The girl touched Yuan Xi, who was asleep on her lap, and looked at the candle flame on the desk.

"..... concubine's surname is Guo ...... When my parents were still there, they all called me the nickname Queen's ......" she said with a smile, tears falling from her eyes, and she slowly poured the wine in her hand on the ground, "...... this wine sacrifice to the second elder."

……..

The sky was snowing, and it was only slightly stopped farther to the north.

In the deserted side courtyard, someone took wine and food and came to this side, and in the cold room, the woman buried in her lap raised her head, the door creaked open, the wind blew the snowflakes outside, squeezed in, the lights flickered, and the wine and steaming food were placed on the table according to the tall figure.

Then, he sat down across from her, "Today's New Year, you can't be left alone." ”

Ren Hongchang bit his lip, looked at the other party for a moment without blinking, reached out and took the chopsticks handed by Gongsun Zhi, quickly wiped the corners of his eyes again, and laughed.

In this cold world, on the last day of the old year, there are always some things to let go, drive away the cold, bring warmth to the surroundings, turn over the old year, that is, a new day will come, and what will be faced is another situation......

The time of contention has arrived-