Chapter 32: Tender Times
In Yu Yiguan ushered in a wave of sun and snow, the beauty of people intoxicated, all said that Rui Xue Zhaofeng year, after the sun snow, it snowed for two days in a row, blocking the march of the first march, just in time for the Spring Festival, Li Shimin simply ordered the New Year in Yu Yiguan, and then marched into the Turkic royal city after the year, giving his ** a chance to recuperate and recuperate.
Two days of heavy snow made a thick layer of snow on the ground, and today ushered in Chinese New Year's Eve, in a blink of an eye this is the new year, everything seems to be full of hope again, this line of five people rarely have such an opportunity to relax happily, and coincided with the Spring Festival, double happiness, naturally will not miss, so they met to go to a snowball fight.
As long as the five of them are together, they are always laughing and laughing, and today there is snow white all over the ground, which makes these five people who have not played so presumptuous for a long time even happier. The five of them walked towards an open place, and Chu Chu took advantage of Zhao Nan's inattention to pinch a snowball and stuffed it straight into the back of Zhao Nan's neck. It was cold behind him, Zhao Nan shivered coldly, turned around and saw Chu Chu hiding behind Liuning snickering, grabbed a handful of snow from the ground, and shouted: "Hey you stinky girl, you dare to sneak attack me!" As he spoke, he ran in the direction of Chu Chu and threw the snowball hard, but the snowball fell heavily on Liuning impartially.
Liuning was innocently beaten, Zhao Nan felt colder behind his back, he knew that there must be an eye-marking knife thrown by Tang Changyu behind him, and then a snowball was thrown over, one, Tang Changyu's, two, Liubin's, and then, it proved that he was hit hard in the chest by Liuning's throw, and then Chu Chu's falling stone, a snowball hit his face impartially, Zhao Nan was powerless to fight one against four, knelt on the ground, and shouted to the sky: "Why is it unlucky!" Be! I! β
Everyone was amused by Zhao Nan and laughed, not waiting to find a good place before, the snowball fight was already on the verge of breaking out, and in the chaos, they no longer knew who was on the same team with whom, only saw snowballs flying all over the sky, and screams with laughter were endless, and the five people chased all the way and played all the way.
"Ah, I can't run." Chu Chu sighed to the sky, but Zhao Nan threw a snowball at Chu Chu again, which happened to hit, but Chu Chu didn't have the strength to continue fighting with Zhao Nan, but he still said unforgivingly: "Stinky boy, I won't let you go." β
When Zhao Nan heard Chu Chu's cruel words, he wanted to escape, but when he saw that Chu Chu did not attack him, he got carried away, walked to Chu Chu's side, grabbed Chu Chu's shoulder like a buddy, patted Chu Chu's shoulder vigorously and said: "Hahaha, stinky girl, you finally obediently don't go against me, God has eyes, I, Zhao Nan, finally live a quiet life." β
Chu Chu glanced at Zhao Nan to express his disdain, and the other three people were also amused by Zhao Nan's unpromising appearance.
The five of them finally had no strength to continue chasing and fighting, but the laughter continued, all the way to the open space that they had originally found, found a stone chair without snow and sat down together, and continued to talk, Zhao Nan told jokes one after another to amuse everyone, but heard a crisp and beautiful laugh from behind the tree not far away.
Everyone was shocked, but they didn't expect that there were other people here, and they all looked towards the place where the laughter came from, but they saw Wanyan walking out embarrassed.
It turned out that Wanyan was bored just now and came out to enjoy the snow scene, and she also sat on the stone chair, and couldn't help but recall when she was a child, the Turkic winter, when she was still the pearl of her parents, the eldest princess of the Turks, at that time she had Jingli and Liubin's two elder brothers, and Liuning had a deep sisterhood, Chu Chu would come to the four of them to have a snowball fight and build a snowman, how innocent and carefree they were at that time, but unfortunately everything couldn't go back.
Wanyan, who was immersed in happy memories, heard the laughter from afar, this laughter sounded as good as in the past, but she didn't have her own share, things are not people, in order to avoid the embarrassment of meeting, Wanyan hid before the five people came, and wanted to leave quietly when everyone was not paying attention, but she was infected by the pleasant and relaxed atmosphere here, and she was reluctant to leave, but she still didn't hold back, this long-lost heartfelt laughter.
Wanyan was wearing the luxurious clothes of the concubine, standing in the snow, the hem of her clothes was already wet, and after everyone finished saluting, Wanyan turned around and wanted to walk away, but heard Chu Chu say: "Sister Yan, don't go, stay and play with us." β
Everyone was a little surprised for a while, they didn't expect Chu Chu to keep Wanyan in this situation in such a tone, Zhao Nan looked at Chu Chu in surprise, Chu Chu seemed to have guessed Zhao Nan's reaction, hurriedly turned his head and smiled at Zhao Nan, then ignored her anymore, and looked at Wanyan waiting for her answer.
Wanyan didn't think that this situation hadn't happened, but looking at Chu Chu's expectant eyes, it seemed that she had the illusion of thinking that she could go back to those simple days. Wanyan cast her eyes on Liuning and Liubin, as if asking for their opinions, Liuning felt that this was a good time to release the misunderstanding between the previous suspicions, and she didn't want to be embarrassed with Wanyan all the time, so she smiled and nodded at Wanyan, saying that she wanted her to come, Liubin didn't move, it seemed to be a tacit, Wanyan also smiled when she saw Liuning's smile, walked towards everyone, and also sat on the stone chair, chatting with everyone, there was no barrier between the princess and the courtiers, as if she was returning to the past time.
The six of them chatted together for a long time, often talking about the past, talking about the years before they set foot in Chang'an, as if the resentment of the past had been dissolved.
Talking about the experience of building a snowman together when he was a child, Chu Chu suddenly excitedly proposed: "Let's build a snowman again." β
This proposal was quickly agreed by everyone, Tang Changyu and Liuning Liubin brothers and sisters rolled a big snowball as the body of the snowman, Chu Chu and Wanyan rolled a small snowball together to make the snowman's head, Zhao Nan looked around for wooden branches and stones to make the snowman's arms and eyes, Zhao Nan did not forget to sneak attack Chu Chu and throw the snowball at her while looking for it, so the two of them fought and had a snowball fight, this scene fell in the eyes of everyone a little naΓ―ve but more happy, Wanyan also smiled and looked at the two, But there are some indescribable emotions surging in my heart.
The snowman was built, and the six people stood in front of the snowman without saying anything for a while, Ryunin stepped forward and crossed an arc with his finger on the snowman's face, and the snowman smiled at the six people, and the six people laughed in unison.
The afterglow of the setting sun has been sprinkled, and the warmth seems to melt the ice in everyone's hearts, the six of them returned hand in hand, and the Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve meal Li Shimin has prepared, and the atmosphere at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table is exceptionally harmonious, as if the seven people are really brothers and sisters, rather than the insurmountable relationship between monarchs and ministers.
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner ended early, Li Shimin was happy to pull Wanyan to continue drinking, and everyone was ready to disperse early, because the military discipline was strict, and Liubin specially asked Li Shimin for leave, hoping to leave Yuyiguan temporarily and go to Liyun City. Although Li Shimin didn't know why, he drank happily, and Li Shimin agreed without thinking about it, but the other four people understood why, and watched Liubin gallop out and ride away with a wicked smile, and then each returned to his room.
Tang Changyu and Liuning returned hand in hand, looking at a crescent moon and a little star, accompanied by the moonlight, the two walked very slowly, and a string of footprints were imprinted on the snow. Tang Changyu looked down at Liu Ning and asked, "I can't sleep tonight, what do you want to do?" β
Liuning didn't look at Tang Changyu, and said seemingly casually: "I miss you." β
Tang Changyu smiled indulgently, the two had already entered the house while speaking, there was still an hour before the next day, Liu Ning complained a little about why this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner ended so early, Tang Changyu smiled and said: "Don't you usually say that you hate these staggered banquets the most, why don't you think it's not long enough today?" β
While browsing the original bookshelves in the room, Liuning answered Tang Changyu's question: "I just think that the atmosphere tonight is different from the past, there is a feeling of going home, and Wanyan, you shouldn't know, you and I met for the first time in Chang'an, because my father wanted to dedicate me to the emperor, but I didn't want to escape so I didn't expect my father to send Wanyan into the palace, although I saw that she was relieved to be favored by the saint later, but I feel that there is still a gap between us, I think she hates me, So I'm really happy to be back together with her today. β
Tang Changyu didn't expect that Liuning had already noticed Wanyan's hostility, but he felt that it was impossible to completely eliminate the misunderstanding between the two because of this afternoon's incident, but he didn't want to ask Liuning if it was too simple to think at such a happy time, so he didn't pick up the topic again, and instead focused on the bookshelf that Liuning was searching, Tang Changyu asked triumphantly: "What, little Turkic princess, which one do you want to learn?" Brother, I have my hands on it, and I will teach the Baohui. β
Liuning looked at Tang Changyu and smiled a little like Zhao Nan's narcissism and childishness, picked up a copy of the "Book of Songs" and pointed to it, Tang Changyu and Liuning sat next to the bright red candle, the two sat side by side, and flipped through the "Book of Songs" together, Liuning will excerpt the poems he likes when he encounters them, and he will ask Tang Changyu when he doesn't understand something, Tang Changyu will answer patiently one by one, and Liuning is more sure that his specialty is not only in martial arts.
When reading the article "Drumming", Liuning was silent, and Tang Changyu asked with concern, "What's wrong?" β
Liu Ning picked up the pen and began to transcribe, saying as he wrote: "I like this article very much. Beat the drum and use the soldiers. The city of the earth is Cao, and I travel south alone. From Sun Tzu Zhong, Ping Chen and Song. I don't want to go, I'm worried. They live in the war, and they lose their horses. In order to seek, under the forest. Death and life are broad, and Zicheng said. Hold the hand of the son, and grow old with the son. Yu is broad, not I live. Yu Xun Xi, I don't believe it. β
After writing it, Liu Ning tore it up and said: "This is not good, I want to rewrite it again, I don't like the last two sentences, I don't want you to be unable to meet you, I don't want you to keep your promises, I just need to die and live, say with Zicheng, hold the hand of the son, and grow old with the son." β
After Liu Ning finished writing, Tang Changyu hugged Liu Ning from behind, put his head on Liu Ning's shoulder, and gently leaned into Liu Ning's ear and said, "I will always be." The hot breath of breath exhaled on the side of Liuning's face, Liuning's face was slightly red and shy, just as the red candle in front of him burst into the light, Liuning broke free from Tang Changyu's embrace.
Liuning picked up the scissors and wanted to cut the candles, Liuning was just about to reach out to cut them, Tang Changyu's hand held Liuning's hand, and the two of them cut the candles together under the moon before the flower, the time was gentle, and the years were quiet.