Su Heting smiled and held her hand, pulled the person into his arms with a slight pull, and said with a grin: "Isn't it the best gift?" ”

"Phew!" Yuan Ning's face flushed, but he took a sip, "Less poor mouth!" Hey, why didn't I know you had such a side before? ”

"I'm also an ordinary man," Su Heting had a little grievance on his face, "Why can't I have the heart of an ordinary man?" ”

"That's not what it means...... Yuan Ning blinked, "but the contrast between you and the front and back is too great!" ”

He was the one who was cold and ruthless in the hall before, he was the one who used to be wary of her, he was the one who exterminated the bandits with thunder in Tianqing County, and he was the one who enjoyed the reputation of loving the people like a son, being fair and strict.

But no matter which side it is, it shouldn't be like this coquettish and dead face in front of her.

Su Heting hugged her and shook her gently, "Only in front of you, I don't have any disguise." You can do everything spontaneously. ”

The only regret is that she is still too young.

After a pause, he asked, "How did you spend this year's birthday?" ”

The first day of May is Yuan Ning's fourteenth birthday.

Yuan Ning tilted his head and thought about it, "I didn't think much about it, now that I am the wife of the magistrate, I am even more unassuming, and I still sit together as a family and have a meal." It's just a formality, and I don't really care about it. ”

Speaking of this, she suddenly remembered that she had never given Su Heting a birthday. She had inquired with Fang Yan before, Su Heting's birthday was the twentieth day of the first month, and she happened to be edicted to enter Beijing this year, so she missed it.

After thinking about it, she said, "Do you remember when we first met?" ”

Su Heting said with a smile: "Remember, it was April 20th, and it was the leap April of that year, and it was the second April. ”

Yuan Ning said: "I haven't given you a birthday yet, it's better like this, let's count the day we met as your second birthday, and I'll give you a birthday." ”

"Although it is very exciting," Su Heting's heart was warm, and his hands tightened, "However, the possibility is not too big, I have a lot of things to do non-stop when I come back, and this day and a half of rest is considered a luxury."

"On your birthday, I try to take time as much as possible, but it may only be half a day at most......"

Speaking of this, my heart is full of apologies.

Yuan Ning was not disappointed, but he was in his position, which was also something he could not do, so he had to say: "Then I can only wait for time to make up for it." ”

"People say that they are full of water," Su Heting smiled nonchalantly, "As long as we are happy every day, if we don't have a birthday, it's nothing." ”

Yuan Ning doesn't fight with him, although there is a saying that "as long as you are with your beloved, every day can be Valentine's Day", but in the end it is different.

However, this issue is left for discussion at this time, and it is not very meaningful, and Yuan Ning will just say it.

Su Heting finally took back the gift he had prepared, it was a wooden box, long-shaped, the eight corners were wrapped with brass, and there were ancient patterns, which looked like it was old.

"What is this?" Yuan Ning didn't dare to guess, and he couldn't guess.

Su Heting pulled her to sit down together, held the wooden box in both hands, stroked it very preciously, and said softly: "This was originally boxwood, and it has been more than three hundred years since it was made. ”

The wooden box is dark yellow-brown, and the grain of the log is still very clear when you look closely.

There was no lock on the wooden box, and Su Heting gently pushed it in front of Yuan Ning.

Yuan Ning was infected by her emotions, felt that his hand was a little heavy, took a deep breath, and then raised his hand and put it on the wooden box.

Gently open the wooden box, inside is a book tied with red ribbon, the paper is made of special materials, slightly dark, but very textured.

She raised her eyes, looked at Su Heting suspiciously, and asked with her eyes: What is this?

Su Heting raised his chin, "Open it and see." ”

Yuan Ning carefully took out the book inside, and found that it was much larger than an ordinary book, and the specifications were a bit like a modern gift book, but it was very thick and heavy in his hand.

She untied the ribbon, unfolded the book, and found that the four big characters "Su Family Tree" were written on it in simple seal characters.

Su Heting explained: "Originally, after such a major event happened to the Su family, the ancestral hall of the Su family was also overturned, and this was saved by a loyal servant who risked his life. Later, I moved to my mother...... That is, in the hands of my own aunt.

"My aunt was depressed and had nowhere to solve it, and then she believed in Buddhism, and this genealogy has been enshrined in the Buddhist hall, and we didn't have time to take out the genealogy when we got married, and this time I went back and invited the genealogy by the way."

He sat down beside Yuan Ning and took her to look through the pages, from the ancestors of the Su family to Su Gan's generation.

The Su family is not very prosperous, and there are not many branches, but on the whole, it is still worthy of the title of "big family".

In Su Gan's generation, there were nine cousins, but except for one who died of illness, the rest all died on the battlefield. There are several people in the side branches, except for those who follow the text, who also died on the battlefield.

to Su Heting's generation......

Yuan Ning's eyelashes trembled, and he looked up at Su Heting, "How can this be?" ”

"So that's the cruelty of the emperor." Su Heting closed his eyes.

Because in Su Heting's generation, except for a very few "whereabouts unknown", the rest of the years of death are all the same, all of which were the year when Su Qianmeng was unjustly killed.

The ancient sin of Zhulian is really too cruel!

Yuan Ning stretched out his hand and held Su Heting's hand, although he felt that his comfort was very weak, he still said: "These missing people will definitely be found." ”

Su Heting took a deep breath and tried to smile: "Then I'll borrow your auspicious words!" In fact, it doesn't make much sense to find it or not. Although the unjust case can be cleared after all, this incident also tells us that being born in a big family is not necessarily a good thing. ”

They are all innocent people, and they can't escape death even if they are still young.

Yuan Ning nodded, maybe people are incognito, and life is good.

Su Heting rubbed his eyebrows, "I didn't bring this to you to make you feel heavy. Come, let's add your name. ”

He went to get pen and ink, and carefully wrote after his name: wife, Zhu's Yuanning, Tianqing County, Qingzhou Prefecture.

After writing, when he waited for the ink to dry, he put down the pen and held Yuan Ning's hands, "A-Ning, this kind of thing should have opened an ancestral hall and asked the elders of the clan to preside over and add it." But our family is in a special situation, and there are no elders anymore.

"Although my father is still alive, after all, he is nominally connected to the clan, but he is not the same clan in the real sense. So I have to wronged you. ”

"What kind of grievance is this?" Yuan Ning smiled slightly, "I'm afraid there is no woman like me who can look at her name and write her husband's family tree so closely, right?" What's more, it was my husband who wrote my name himself. ”