The words she said when her upper and lower lips touched were so cold, Bai Chuxi was unwilling: "Don't you ask me if I'm hurt?" ”

"Didn't the general already send someone to inform me that night?"

Seeing that she didn't care much about herself, Bai Chuxi didn't look bored anymore, looked at the sky and sighed: "It's been cold recently, and my grandmother asked me to tell you to add more clothes." ”

"Thank you for your concern."

"Grandmother heard that I was going to Yucheng with you, but she was so happy."

"Will the general pull away?"

Bai Chuxi leaned towards Rong Changning's side and whispered to her, "I have almost done everything I can do." The rest of the saints have been handed over to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Master Chang Yu to handle. I'm free. ”

Rong Changning nodded, and he didn't know if the saint had listened to what he said in the Zichen Hall in his heart, so he let Bai Chuxi relax.

"For so many years, you have survived the wind and rain, and the Holy One has compassion for you."

As soon as the words fell, snowflakes drifted in the originally gloomy sky.

The snow didn't fall much, but it was a little chaotic and blinding. The two were separated by a wide distance, and when they looked at each other again, there was a little more hazy.

He laughed, and she laughed too.

The two of them invariably remembered the scene after the heavy snowfall last year, looking at each other from a distance through a door.

Bai Chuxi said with his hand: "Remember, last year was also the winter moon, and as soon as I returned to the imperial city, I saw you standing at the back door of the Hou Mansion and looking out. And then a year has passed. ”

"No, the general will return to the city, but it will cause a lot of gusts of wind. The girls, sons, maids, and maids of all the families in the imperial city all crowded outside to take a look, all wanting to see if the god of war who came back from Beisai was three-headed, six-armed, and eight-eyed, or vicious, with a terrifying face. Now we all know that the general is a dignified and talented person, and those official ladies, those in the palace, and the Hou Mansion should hate me to death. ”

"I only remember that your eyes look like they have just cried, they are Princess Yongroku......"

Seeing that Bai Chuxi didn't say any more, Rong Changning lowered his eyes and chuckled: "The general doesn't have to be so careful, the days have passed." It's like the general who didn't want to marry me and regarded me as a trouble, but now he is also walking with me on the stone road of the Hou Mansion? ”

Bai Chuxi heard loud laughter: "Are you laughing at me? ”

Rong Changning also quipped politely: "How dare you?" ”

Along the way, the fine snow looked like a thin light veil spread on the road they walked, leaving only the footprints of two people as decorations. In the distance, the plum blossom branches are dotted with bright red, and when the time comes, they will bloom and compete with the snow.

originally thought that Rong Changning was making fun of Yue Chu'er's affairs, and Bai Chuxi would feel embarrassed. But he didn't have such a state of mind at the moment, he only remembered the unexpected encounter at the back door of the Hou Mansion in the winter of last year.

The study room of the Wanqing Courtyard was baked by the stove like a spring day, and as soon as the curtain was opened, Xiao Dong quickly took off Rong Changning's robe and shook off the broken snow on it.

Rong Changning raised his eyes and glanced at some account books on the desk, and he didn't bother to change his shoes, and hurriedly went over to close the account books and stacked them into a stack: "Xiaodong, I have stamped these, you quickly ask someone to send them to Steward Yang." And these ......"

Saying that, Rong Changning raised his hand and sorted out the pile of papers next to him: "I have also read these prescriptions, you have to send them to Aunt Lin." ”

Bai Chuxi looked at the mountains and seas on the desk, and he didn't know the trivial things in the backyard, so he hadn't seen such a battle: "No wonder Master Hou said that you have been busy lately." ”

"I was stupid, so I did things slower. Xiaoqiu, look at the tea. ”

"You're not letting me sit down?"

He reminded Rong Changning in one sentence before he realized that he hadn't asked Bai Chuxi to sit down: "Sit." ”

Bai Chuxi sat down and looked everywhere, there were no extra ornaments in the room, at most a few incense burners, and there were flower arrangements on the desk, and there were a few budding plums in them: "Didn't you die in this courtyard?" How dare you still live here? ”

Rong Changning raised his eyes and looked at Bai Chuxi: "The soil under his feet is all old soil, and the vicissitudes of life have passed, who knows if the land under his feet has been buried by his ancestors?" How much more is it that the dead are as terrible as the living? By the way, what did you come to find your father? ”

"It's not about King Mu's mansion?"

It happened that Xiaoqiu handed over two teas, and Bai Chuxi received the temperature in his hand: "I just came back from the palace, thinking that there are some words to ventilate with Hou Ye in advance, and everything is easy to prepare." ”

"Coincidentally, just now my father told me about you going to King Mu's mansion to get people. I'm afraid that this time it will be another vain scene, and King Mu's mansion will hold a grudge against you. ”

The person in front of him shook his head, took a sip of tea, and put the white porcelain cup aside: "Not to say that it is a foregone conclusion, it is also nine times out of ten." ”

"Are you so sure?"

"I might as well tell you first......" As he spoke, Bai Chuxi looked at the room and saw that there was no one in the room, pressed one hand on the desk, leaned forward slightly, leaned forward as much as possible in front of Rong Changning, and whispered: "Xiao Zhengyu has already confessed to the matter of the eldest lady of the Li family." The evidence that King Mu's mansion raised the dead is also sufficient. The remaining crimes that are not big or small can only make Mu Wangfu worse. ”

Rong Changning looked at Bai Chuxi's serious appearance, and couldn't help asking: "Raising the dead, that's a capital crime!" Prince Mu raised the dead...... What is he going to do? ”

"Then the emperor was determined to take King Mu's mansion."

"This is a matter of the court, and the general told me so?"

"Don't worry." Bai Chuxi straightened his clothes and sat back in his place: "I know who you are." ”

"Xiao Zhengyu confessed like that?"

"He is arrogant on weekdays, and he is also a tough bone when he arrives in prison, and he can't spit no matter how he fights. He was still waiting for his father to save him. "Reading the book

"And then?"

"Later, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince provoked him with words, and even deceived his father about raising the dead."

"Fraud?"

"Hmm." Bai Chuxi nodded: "Most of those kind of people are not worthy of preaching morality with him, if the evidence is really difficult to obtain, it is not impossible to deceive with words." ”

Evidence is hard to obtain, and it is a fraud......

Rong Changning's heart was suddenly cleared up by this sentence. My mother has been sick for so many years, and she has been there for a year. Not to mention the evidence, if it weren't for his mother's deathbed reminder, Rong Changning might not have associated his mother's illness with Xu Yunqiao.

Seeing Xu Yunqiao attack himself these few times, he really doesn't look like a person with such a strategy. When he was even quieter, Rong Changning doubted more than once, could it be that his mother hated Xu Yunqiao too much and would say such a thing before she died?

Why don't you force and deceive like the Holy Lord and His Royal Highness the Prince?

"Huh!" Bai Chuyi saw that Rong Changning was stunned, and couldn't help but call softly.

Rong Changning raised his eyes and looked at Bai Chuxi: "Ah, I'm thinking that we have to get to Yucheng before nineteen, and we have to leave before thirteen." ”

"Okay, I'll come to the Hou Mansion to pick you up early."

Xiao Dong and Xiao Qiu wore leather jackets made by their masters with their own money, sat on a small stool at the door and held a small basket of freshly roasted chestnuts to eat, and the two talked and laughed. Not far away, Lu Zhu, who had just married from the small kitchen to eat, saw it, and looked down at his thin and old clothes......

Not to mention sitting in front of the door in a leather jacket to eat something and gossip, as long as it is not beaten by the fourth lady, Luzhu is already thankful.

Such a day is really endless, thinking of Luzhu, he sighed lightly, and walked back with the food box.

In the west wing, Rong Xin was looking at the bronze mirror and drawing his eyebrows, and when he heard the voice, he knew that it was Luzhu coming back, so he didn't look at it and asked, "Who is here, can you find out about Chu?" ”

"Miss Hui, I've made it clear, it's General Bai who came."

"Sure enough...... Before he passed the door, he was like growing up in the Hou Mansion. Rong Xin squinted at himself in the bronze mirror, and his gestures were full of Xu Yunqiao's demeanor: "I look down on Rong Changning like this in my heart?" ”

Lu Zhu pursed his lips tightly and didn't dare to make a sound, carefully opened the food box, and put the food inside on the table one by one, not even daring to look at Rong Xin's back.

"Except for Yan Shu, where do you say I can't catch up with Rong Changning? Is it appearance or talent? is also the daughter of the Hou Mansion, I am considered to have the wrong birth......"

“……”

"Talk?" Rong Xin suddenly turned around and glanced at the green bamboo who was bored: "Aren't you dumb?" Can't say a word? ”

As soon as he touched Rong Xin's gaze, he couldn't help but tremble in his hands, and replied carefully: "Miss, among the young ladies, you are the most favored by Master Hou." ”

"Me? Which eye did you see that my father spoiled me? What kind of family are the daughters of the grandmother? I'm the only one hanging at home. Spoil me? You've got a lot of paste, right? ”

"......" Luzhu pursed his lips in fright, and didn't dare to speak again.

Rong Xin didn't have the heart to eat, so he just sat in front of the dressing table and looked in the direction of Rong Changning's study, and later he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to see it when Bai Chuxi left, so he wiped his grease and put on his cloak and stood under the wall and waited.

Luzhu held an umbrella and followed his master to wait in the snow, but he felt that his master would be busy in vain after all.

Finally waited for Bai Chuxi to come out of the study, Xiao Dong held an umbrella and sent Bai Chuxi to the gate of the courtyard: "Miss ordered, ask the general to get an umbrella and send it to the main courtyard and then come back." ”

"Don't bother, borrow an umbrella from your young lady, and I'll go over by myself."

After saying that, Bai Chuxi took the umbrella in Xiao Dong's hand, turned around and was just about to leave, when he saw that Liren and Rong Ruo were walking towards this side, as if they had come to find Rong Changning.

It's really unfortunate that these two people bumped into each other face to face again, Rong Ruo saw Bai Chuxi from afar and thought of the tense posture he had with Li's grievances last time, and he couldn't help but feel that his head was swollen and wanted to turn his head away.

But they had already arrived at the door, and Bai Chuxi had already seen them coming this way, so he had to greet him stubbornly: "General Bai is also here?" ”

"The son, the son."

Li Yan raised his eyes and looked at Bai Chuxi, who bowed his hand: "General." ”

"I came to talk to Hou Ye on business, and I heard that Hou Ye stopped and came to the second lady to ask for a cup of tea."

"Good!" Rong Ruo didn't know what to say, scratched his head and said, "It's good to eat tea, the tea in the second sister's courtyard is the best." Is this going to the general to find his father? ”

"Yes."

"Then it's inconvenient for me to stay any longer, how to go to the main courtyard, the general knows, right? I saw that the second sister asked Xiaodong to send you over. Rong Ruo's eyes motioned for Xiao Dong to hurry up and take Bai Chuxi away, so as not to quarrel again when the two of them talked.

Xiao Dong immediately understood: "Yes, the slave is about to send the general to the main courtyard." ”

Bai Chuxi looked down at Xiao Dong, and saw that no one was looking forward to staying, so he had to raise his eyebrows: "Say goodbye first." ”

Rong Ruo hurriedly bowed to Bai Chuxi, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The creaking sound of the snow under his feet, the more Bai Chuxi thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt, and suddenly stopped and turned around to look at the door of the study, frowning and pondering.