Chapter 18: Snow
Heavy snow is rare in Qizhou City, and it is even more rare to see snow falling for two or three days in a row like this. As soon as I opened the door, it was white outside, and the icicles on the eaves of the trees were dripping with water.
Cang Xuelan looked at the crumbling beams and sighed: "This eaves have to be reinforced, and if you leave it alone, it may collapse." ”
He turned around and smiled at the Nine Emperor Princes.
The Nine Emperors shuddered, and hurriedly said, "Then it's bothering General Cang, I'm here to help you...... Help you keep an eye on the stove and don't let the fire go out. ”
Cang Xuelan shook his head, he carried the collar of the Nine Emperor Princes and dragged him all the way to the door, "Do you see that pillar?" ”
"Hmm."
"Gotta catch it."
"Huh?" Before the Nine Emperors could react, they were thrown onto the roof by Cang Xuelan. The roof was covered with ice and snow, and the Nine Emperors slipped under his feet, almost falling off the eaves, and at the last moment, he grabbed the wooden pillar, which stabilized his body, "Cang Xuelan!! ”
"Your Highness be quiet," Cang Xuelan landed on the side of the Nine Emperor Princes in the blink of an eye, and covered his mouth, "And I am now Da Lang, your eldest brother." ”
"You're my uncle!" The Nine Emperor Princes grabbed the wooden pillar and stood up, "Didn't you plant your own people around here?" Let them do it! ”
"These people are all going to stand guard, one post at a time, with strict shift times, and they are not specially here to serve us." Cang Xuelan stuffed a broom into the hand of the Nine Emperor Princes, "Hurry up, finish sweeping early, and go into the house early to roast the fire." ”
"You can say it's easy! You think everyone is as strong as you, but it's hard for me to just stand! ”
Cang Xuelan shook her head slightly towards the Nine Emperor Princes, this Royal Highness really doesn't have a long memory, just he doesn't know how to work lightly, it has been exposed eight hundred years ago. Seeing him pretending to be struggling to maintain his balance, Cang Xuelan couldn't help but sigh, "Why bother, Your Highness." ”
The two worked together to sweep away the snow from the roof, and after breaking a few icicles, Cang Xuelan brought some dry planks and began to strengthen the eaves. The Nine Emperors held a hammer and were lazy in the open.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, but after a while, Cang Xuelan's hair and shoulders were covered with snow, he bent over for a long time, then straightened up and stretched his shoulders, the white mist on his mouth appeared from time to time, and the falling snow on his eyelashes turned into water, and he was a little more soft and wet.
"I remember you had a twin sister."
Cang Xuelan looked up, a little surprised, "Yes." ”
The Nine Emperor Princes sighed: "It's a pity, I think it should be a great beauty." ”
Cang Xuelan lowered her head and pretended to work, but her heart turned over the river and the sea. He remembered the bra wrap hidden under the mattress, and he was sure that it had been touched.
But whether the person who moved was the Nine Emperor Princes or someone else, he was not sure, after all, Lu Boyan's side was full of masters, what if someone took advantage of Cang Xuelan to leave, and the Nine Emperor Princes had not yet come to sneak in?
But now, the Nine Emperors suddenly mentioned the matter of their twin sisters without a clue...... The more I think about it, the more suspicious it becomes.
Seeing that Cang Xuelan didn't speak, and the Nine Emperors didn't force him, he looked quietly for a while and asked, "What kind of girl is your sister?" ”
"It's just a ...... Wild girl. Cang Xuelan looked at the Nine Emperor Princes, smiled, bright and stunning, and the long scar on her face was particularly shocking.
The Nine Emperor Princes frowned slightly, "This wound should be very uncomfortable when it is scratched." ”
"It's just a small injury."
The Nine Emperor Princes shook their heads and said seriously: "Injuries are trivial matters, but scarring is a major matter, such a good face is simply a tyrannical thing!" ”
Cang Xuelan was speechless, "...... I will be Your Highness when I say this, I am praising me. ”
"Naturally, I'm praising you."
Cang Xuelan lowered his head and continued the work on his hands, the snow fell heavier and heavier, and it didn't take long for his body to fall with a thick layer of snow, and occasionally when he got up, the snow fell from his head.
No wonder Cang Xuelan has a reputation for killing, and she raised a concubine in the house early, but there are still many princes and nobles rushing to marry their daughters to him.
"When I was leaving, my father dragged his chamberlain to give me a word, do you know what he said?"
Cang Xuelan raised her eyebrows at him.
"He said that kid from the Cang family is so wickedly tight, let me be careful."
Incredible?
Cang Xuelan smiled, he didn't expect his image in His Majesty the Emperor's heart to be so bad.
"In order to know what kind of person you are, on the way here, I also asked people to buy two statues of the door gods."
"Door Statue?" Cang Xuelan asked, "What does this have to do with me?" ”
"The man who sells the paintings, the person who claims to be in the painting is you, the general," the Nine Emperor Princes remembered the portrait with a big waist and a round waist, a face full of stubble, and a green face and fangs, and was overjoyed, "If I were you, I would have to find that person after digging three feet into the ground, and then bury him alive." ”
Cang Xuelan chuckled.
The two of them were in the snow, one was silent, the other was silent.
After Cang Xuelan finished her work, she clapped her hands and said, "Okay, even if it snows for three more days, I'm not afraid." ”
"You don't seem to be worried about Lord Qi's life or death at all."
Cang Xuelan smiled slightly, he patted the falling snow on his shoulder, grabbed the shoulder of the Nine Emperor Princes, jumped over, and landed in the courtyard. He has been working, and with his deep internal strength, he doesn't feel cold. It was the Nine Emperor Princes, who stood for a long time, his feet were frozen, and he suddenly fell to the ground, almost not standing firmly.
Cang Xuelan raised her hand and pulled the Nine Emperor Princes back.
The Nine Emperor Prince steadied himself, smiled at him, quietly withdrew his hand, and then stroked the fine hair on Cang Xuelan's forehead. There were a few snowflakes standing on this strand of hair, and when the snowflakes touched the fingers of the Nine Emperor Princes, they instantly turned into water droplets and disappeared without a trace, "Hurry up and enter the house, you see that your hair is covered with snow, be careful of catching a cold." ”
After seeing the Nine Emperor Princes enter the house, Cang Xuelan shook the snow on her body, just now, Cang Xuelan inadvertently buckled the veins of the Nine Emperor Princes, but before he could react, he was quietly dodged by the Nine Emperor Princes.
It's really vigilant.
When the sun was about to set, the snow could not stop, and Cang Xuelan pushed the door to see that the courtyard was white. The Nine Emperors stretched and said with a smile: "This snow has finally stopped." He walked out of the house, and before he could stand and watch, he was half-legged into the snow.
Cang Xuelan clenched her fists with both hands, "This kind of weather is rare in Qizhou in a hundred years." ”
Governor Chen frowned and said, "In the past few days, I don't know how many people have frozen to death. ”
"Don't worry, my lord, I have already instructed Wang Han to ensure the safety of the people in the city, that kid is clever and will not let the people suffer."
"Can't you drag me out first?"
Cang Xuelan looked at it, it turned out that the Nine Emperors wanted to get out by themselves, but unexpectedly, this university was like a quagmire, and the more you struggled, the deeper you sank.
Cang Xuelan first invited Governor Chen into the house, and stepped on the soft snow herself, but she did not fall into it like the Nine Emperor Princes, but was as stable as walking on flat ground.
"The general is so light."
"You've won a prize."
"Then hurry," the Nine Emperor Princes held out a hand towards him, "hurry up and pull me out." ”
Although the three-story building of Chaoyang Pavilion is not very high, he has practiced martial arts for many years, judging by the posture of the Nine Emperor Princes who turned over the building and landed, this person's light skills must at least be first-class.
Obviously, the matter of light work has been exposed, but she still pretends to be like this seriously, which makes Cang Xuelan can't help but play with it.
"Your Highness, you really don't come up by yourself?" Cang Xuelan raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Now the doors and windows are closed, no one is around, you come up by yourself, no one sees it." ”
"If I come up on my own, will I use you?"
Cang Xuelan picked up a ball of snow, pinched a small snowball, and smashed it on the head of the Nine Emperor Princes, "You really can't come out?" ”
"If you commit the following crimes, you should be ......" Before he finished speaking, a snow ball smashed on his forehead, "Cang Xuelan, you ......" Another snow ball smashed his head full of snow.
"How many times have I said it, here, I'm your brother, call Brother Sheng."
The Nine Emperor Princes gritted their teeth and looked at him, then turned around and tried to climb out of the snow in a swimming position, but he didn't know what pit he stepped into, and his body immediately sank halfway down.
Finally, the Nine Emperor Princes exhausted all their methods and strength, so they had to make a bitter face and squeeze out the word "brother" from between their teeth.
Only then did Cang Xuelan, who was satisfied, take the collar of the Nine Emperor Princes, drag him out of the snow, and drag him all the way to the steps in front of the house.
The Nine Emperor Princes were about to wrap their arms around Cang Xuelan's waist, but they stopped when they were about to put it on, and he hesitated for a moment to let his hand hang in the air in an extremely unnatural posture.
"Your Highness, it was just a little joke, I hope you don't be surprised."
The Nine Emperors straightened their collars and hummed, "I'm not surprised...... That's weird! ”
After the Nine Emperor Princes entered the house, Cang Xuelan turned into the kitchen, lit a fire, and cooked a pot of rice porridge. Although the rice porridge is cold, but now that I drink it, it can just warm my stomach, and Wei Rong also brought a few pieces of pork yesterday, and I may have to bother Wen Ying to make meat dishes and plug the mouth of the Nine Emperors later.
Cang Xuelan held the iron spoon, and the porridge in the pot was bubbling.
In the past few days, he has to wait until the other three people fall asleep before he can breathe a sigh of relief, change clothes and the like, and can only take advantage of the dark wind and high wind to solve the problem hastily, if it is not for the clothes wrapped around his body are thick enough, he can smell the smell of sweat on his body.
After the meal was served, Cang Xuelan was already ready to listen to the sneer of the Nine Emperor Princes, but unexpectedly, His Royal Highness just looked around, then sat next to Cang Xuelan, picked up the chopsticks with ease, and prepared to pick up the dishes.
"It's a good dish today." The Nine Emperors smashed it, smashed it, and commented.
As soon as these words came out, even Governor Chen couldn't help but glance at him.
Cang Xuelan looked at the only plate of big-headed pickles on the table and said, "Well, it's really good." ”
After a few people finished eating, Governor Chen went to the latrine, Cang Xuelan went to the courtyard, and now it was time for Wang Han to report the situation. Only Wen Ying and the Nine Emperor Princes were left in the house.
Wen Ying has always been silent in front of the living, and when he saw that everyone was gone, he bowed to the Nine Emperor Princes and planned to go back to the house.
"Miss Wen, how did you find this token?" The Nine Emperor Princes suddenly spoke.
Wen Ying frowned and shook her head, "I have already turned over the relics left by my father countless times......"
"What's left?"
"A booklet, a jade pendant, a few silver tickets."
"Pamphlets?"
"My father likes to read and paint, so he often carries a palm-sized booklet with him, and when he is bored, he takes it out to write and draw. I wondered if my father had left a clue in this, but I tried everything, but it didn't work. ”
The Nine Emperors nodded, "Why don't you take it out and show it to everyone, there are so many of us that we may be able to guess something." ”
"It's fine."
Wen Ying went back to the room and took out the booklet.
Governor Chen and Cang Xuelan hadn't come back yet, so Wen Ying rummaged for clues first. The Nine Emperor Princes casually moved the candle flame closer, and when he turned to a page of drawings, he was suddenly stunned, and then his brows furrowed slightly, and his thin lips pursed lightly, sweeping away his habits.
Maybe it's because His Royal Highness is too immodest on weekdays, so when he becomes serious, it makes people feel even more chilled in their hearts, and it also makes Cang Xuelan, who has just stepped into the house, slightly stunned.