After breakfast, An Huajin did not go to Xu's house immediately, but wrote a letter to Gu Qingyan.

When she set off for Fenggupo, she only hurriedly replied, "Day and night, I checked the fine works of Nanqi and Nanliang buried in Nanyang Palace, and I didn't spare time to reply to the letter, be fine, don't worry." ”

Now this letter is as brief as ever, "It was found that there was a grievance related to Zhang Zaifu's old days, and Lao Huaian got Zhang Zaifu out of the prison and sent someone to Nanyang City." ”

When this letter was put into writing, An Huajin thought about it for a long time, and when he put it down, he also paused for a long time, and in the end, he still wrote it so briefly and directly, even if there were thousands of words next to him, he did not write a word or a word.

An Huajin put down his pen, stuffed the letterhead into the envelope, carefully sealed it with wax, called Smolder Flame, and handed him the letter, "Send it to the capital immediately." ”

"Yes!"

Smolderflame clutched the thin letter.

Although the old slave added a new charcoal fire to the house, but for a while the ice flowers on the window did not melt, An Huajin stood in front of the window, drawing the ice flowers on the window with his fingers, circle after circle, stroke after stroke, and painted for a while, until the ice flowers on the place where she was scratched dissolved, and then stopped.

The fingers were dipped in ice flowers, which were cold to the bones and cold to the heart and lungs.

The old slave brought a delicate and small hand stove and handed it to An Huajin, "Little county lord, it's cold on the road, bring a hand stove to warm up." ”

An Huajin nodded, took the hand stove, held it in her hand, the coolness on her fingertips gradually warmed because of the heat emanating from the hand stove, she put on her cloak and walked out of the courtyard where her mother lived.

Shen Yuanzhi had been waiting for An Huajin in the study for a morning, he hadn't slept all night last night, thinking about a lot of things about Xu Jing, the more he thought about it, the more he looked into it, and found that he could find out a lot of clues from it, he didn't understand it when he was young, and he didn't know the truth, but now once someone unveils this veil, it seems to be cleared all of a sudden.

Zhang Chengze's words are almost confirmed.

Originally, he couldn't wait to go to Xu's house and ask Xu Jing, did he really do it? Uncle Xu, whom they had respected since childhood, actually did such a thing, but after gradually delving into the truth of Shizhi Jiǔ, he was not so impatient.

What if you kill him? Uncle An and his two elder brothers can't come back to life anymore, and everyone in the Battle of Yuxueling back then can't come back to life anymore.

An Huajin pushed open the door of the study, glanced at Shen Yuanzhi, who had not slept all night and looked obviously depressed, and said, "Let's go." ”

Shen Yuanzhi nodded, picked up the cloak, quickly draped it on his body, and walked out of the study.

The two of them walked all the way to the door.

Shen Yuanzhi looked at An Huajin's face and found that she had an extremely good complexion, compared to his appearance that he hadn't slept all night, she didn't have the slightest expression on her face, he immediately stopped and grabbed her, "You wait for me for a while." ”

An Huajin tilted his head, "Huh? ”

"You go back to the study, just wait a while, I'll be here soon." Shen Yuanzhi dropped a sentence and ran away.

An Huajin: "......"

If you don't do anything in the morning, you just have to go out to do it.

An Huajin could only turn around and go back to the study to wait for him.

An Huajin sat in the study for a while, about two teas, Shen Yuanzhi came back soon as he said, he pushed open the door, and said refreshedly, "You can go." ”

An Huajin glanced at him, saw that he washed his face well, changed into clean and fitting clothes, and swept away the tiredness and depression on his face that had not slept all night, and looked refreshed, nodding, and leaving the study.

The two rode out of An's old house, out of Nanyang City, and went all the way to Xu's house.

The Xu family is in Qingzhou, not close to Nanyang City, and it takes half a day to ride a horse and walk.

After the heavy snowfall, the weather is very cold, the cold wind is more violent than when it snows, blowing on people's bodies like knives, through the cold bones, An Huajin held the reins of the horse in one hand, and held the hand stove, but he didn't feel cold.

"No, take a break, freeze to death." When he walked halfway through, Shen Yuanzhi shouted.

An Huajin grabbed the reins of the horse and gave him a blank look, "Who made you love beauty and wear so little, who will you freeze to death if you don't freeze to death?" ”

"Little girl with no conscience, isn't this just to not lose face, and not to lose the battle? You can't always look sloppy and ask him questions. Shen Yuanzhi muttered with his teeth, "Who knows why it's so cold." ”

An Huajin threw the hand stove to him, "Hold it!" It works somewhat. ”

Shen Yuanzhi took the stove, held it in his hand, looked at the tightly wrapped cloak she was wrapping and said, "Why don't you put your cloak on for me?" ”

"You're beautiful."

Shen Yuanzhi: "......"

He is indeed beautiful.

He held the hand stove, played on the spot for a while, felt not too cold, and threw the hand stove back to An Huajin, "Let's go!" ”

An Huajin took back the hand stove and continued to fight forward.

When the two came to Qingzhou, the sun had set.

After entering Qingzhou City, the two went straight to Xu's house.

The Xu family is a big family in Qingzhou City, the children of the family have martial arts practitioners, and there are also scholars and progressives, although the two families such as Gu Cui are far apart, but they are also very many children and grandchildren, distributed in various places, Xu Jing, the youngest son of the Xu family, was in the Nanyang Army when he was young, and later because of the changes in the Xu family, he retired from the Nanyang Army and returned to Qingzhou City, and became the governor of Qingzhou City.

Half a year ago, he was deeply hit and tortured by illness, and stepped down from his post as the governor of Qingzhou to recuperate at home, which was half a year.

The old house of the Xu family is also quite old, and some vicissitudes can be seen from the plaque on the door and the two stone lions at the door.

Shen Yuanzhi turned over and dismounted, and went to knock on the door.

The doorman quickly opened the side door, and when he saw that it was Shen Yuanzhi and An Huajin, he immediately said enthusiastically, "Lord An Xiaojun, General Shen Xiao, why are you two here?" ”

Shen Yuanzhi had already packed up his mood when he changed his clean clothes and left the house, and said with a smile, "I went out to run errands with the little county lord, and I happened to pass by Qingzhou City and came to visit Uncle Xu. ”

Naturally, he wouldn't say that he came to Xu Jing to question and settle accounts.

The doorman hurriedly opened the door, "You two hurry inside, please, the little one will go and tell the third master." ”

Xu Jing, the youngest son, is the third oldest in the previous generation of the Xu family, so the subordinates call the third master.

Shen Yuanzhi nodded, handed over the horse to the doorman with An Huajin, and walked into the threshold to go inside.

The two of them have to come to the Xu family once or twice a year, and when they were young, they came more, and they couldn't be more familiar with the Xu family, Xu Jing's first wife gave birth to a daughter and a son for him, the eldest son Xu Qingyan, and the eldest daughter Xu Qingling.

Eight years ago, An Huajin was able to successfully escape from the Xu family by stealing beams and changing pillars, and Xu Qingling hid in Xiuling Mountain, thanks to the help of Xu Qingling's eldest brother Xu Qingyan.

Xu Qingyan is also a special among the children of the Xu family, he does not like martial arts, does not like literature, prefers business, and is not recognized by the Xu family.

Over the years, Xu Qingyan has traveled south and north, and he has returned to Qingzhou City once a year, and he has stayed in Qingzhou City for one night every time, and it is not as good as going to Nanyang Wangfu many times, and sometimes he can live in Nanyang Wangfu for two or three nights.

The housekeeper got the news and greeted them, greeted the two with a smile, and said to An Huajin and Shen Yuanzhi, "The little county lord and the little general have heard that Yan Gongzi is back?" Just in time for this day? ”

An Huajin paused in his footsteps.

Shen Yuanzhi's footsteps also paused.

It turned out that he was just in time for Xu Qingyan to come back?

Xu Qingyan and An Qichen are about the same age, their parents are good friends, and their children are naturally familiar with each other since childhood, and they are very good friends. When he was young, An Qichen and Xu Qingyan also had a few children of the same age who often took An Huajin, Shen Yuanzhi and other younger brothers and sisters who were a few years younger to play together, whether it was An Huajin or Shen Yuanzhi, they all liked Xu Qingyan very much.

Unexpectedly, just in time, he returned to Xu's house today.

The two looked at each other, they hadn't seen Xu Qingyan for a year, and it stands to reason that they should be happy to hear him come back, but on such a day, the two of them came with a purpose, even if they learned that he was back, they couldn't be happy.

In the end, it was An Huajin who smiled first and said, "Really? Brother Qingyan is back? We really don't know. I just stopped by to visit Uncle Xu. ”

The housekeeper said with a smile, "That's a coincidence, Yan Gongzi just entered the door not long ago, and it was only half an hour." I haven't seen the third master yet. ”

The housekeeper mentioned Xu Jing, put away the smile on his face, and sighed, "It's also because the third master has not been doing well since the autumn, so Yan Gongzi found a doctor from outside, it is said that it can cure old diseases, I hope the third master can get better." ”

An Huajin smiled, "Since it's a coincidence, Brother Qingyan hasn't gone to visit Uncle Xu yet, let's go visit Uncle Xu with Brother Qingyan." ”

The housekeeper immediately said, "The old slave will let people go to tell the prince of Qingyan, you two go to the main hall to rest first, this year's winter is really cold, it reminds the old slave of more than ten years ago, it also snowed so early, the snow of that winter, it rained, the eaves are so high, I don't know if this year is the same." ”

What he said was that when An Huajin was still in her mother's womb, it was a rare heavy snow that year, and her mother went north to Mobei to borrow troops while pregnant with her, and injured her body.

An Huajin answered, "This year's snow will not be small. ”

Since Smover said that Gu Qingyan mentioned the heavy snow this winter, it must be that the snow this winter is really small.