That night, Pei Yao ordered his guards to forcibly break open the gate of the dusty capital, held Xiao Yun's hand, and took him out of Jinghua step by step.

Since then, nearly seven years have passed, and this is the first time Xiao Yun has returned.

In front of me, a red plum suddenly fell, and it fell into a small pile of snow under the roots of the tree.

He stood on his feet slightly, and his ungathered thoughts were suddenly scattered by this familiar scene.

- Yes, there was endless snow in the sky that night, and the ground should have been full of white, but not only was the snow in the Qi Wangfu dyed red, but the snow under Pei Yao's feet, I don't know when, was also silently red.

"Sister," when he walked outside the dust capital, he pulled Pei Yao's hand, tilted his head and asked her, "Are you hurt?" ”

Pei Yao looked around, not knowing what he was searching for, and when he heard the words, he asked casually: "...... What the? ”

Xiao Yun had a bitter face and a worried look: "Your footprints are red." As he spoke, he pointed to the ground, looked up and asked again, "Sister, are you injured?" ”

At this moment, Pei Yaowei completely stopped.

On the side, Xiangying looked down, and his expression changed suddenly, "Niangniang......"

She stood there for a while, no matter how Xiao Yun pulled her hand and asked her over and over again if she was injured, she didn't seem to hear it, and she didn't react at all.

"Mother, you can't go any further! You have to go back to Beijing immediately to pass on the Imperial Doctor! ”

Xiangying pulled Xiao Yun to his side, his voice was calm, as if he was suppressing something, and said to her word by word: "Give the little prince to the minister, the minister will protect each other with his life, you go back to Beijing, go back now!" ”

Xiao Yun saw Pei Yao come back to his senses and smiled.

At that time, he was only nine years old, and he couldn't understand why anyone could smile so easily and so sadly.

He heard Pei Yaowei say to Xiangying: "It's a last resort to ask you to come with me today. Changchu, you can't tell me to be sorry for Xiang's. ”

After saying this, Xiang Ying's face became much more ugly - he looked at her stubbornly, unwilling to let her go forward, nor could he say anything to contradict her.

Pei Yaowei took a deep breath, her hand unconsciously stroked her lower abdomen, and then, she clenched into a fist and hung down at her side.

She patted the top of Xiao Yun's head and asked him with a smile: "Yun'er, do you remember Brother Chu Wang?" ”

Xiao Yun thought for a moment, tilted his head and asked, "Brother Prince?" ”

Pei Yaowei looked stunned.

“…… Right. She nodded, and then said, "But he is now the king of Chu." You have to remember. ”

"I remember." A clever smile appeared on his round little face, "Brother likes Brother Prince the most, and I like Brother Prince the most!" ”

Pei Yaowei seemed a little helpless, opened his mouth, but did not correct his title again after all.

But Xiao Yun suddenly remembered something, and the smile on his face gradually dissipated.

He said, "The steward said that if I could escape, he told me to go to the north to find the prince's brother." ”

He opened his eyes wide and asked her innocently, "Sister Pei, did I escape?" ”

Her lips trembled a little, and it took a long time before she said with difficulty, "Yun'er will be safe and sound in the future, and there will be no disasters." ”

Xiao Yun nodded thoughtfully, like a little adult, not knowing what he was thinking.

At this time, as the sound of horses' hooves approached, a crisp male voice also came: "Master! ”

Pei Yaowei was instantly relieved when she saw someone coming.

In the night, a black horse stopped not far from her, and the man on the horse turned over and jumped down, came quickly, came to her, knelt on the ground with fists clenched, and called again: "Master! ”

Pei Yao told him to get up, and then pulled Xiao Yun forward.

"I gave him to you."

She said: "Along the way, you have to take him as my Pei son's allegiance and protection." ”

"Bu Fei, be safe, send him to Linyuan City and Xiao Di to me."

Bu Fei didn't say a word, and said: "The subordinates receive the order, the master can rest assured!" ”

Pei Yaowei nodded. Her gaze stayed on Bu Fei for a moment before she said again: "After finishing this errand, you don't want to come back." ”

At this moment, Bu Fei's expression changed.

"Master......"

Pei Yaowei only asked: "This is my last order, do you want to disobey?" ”

Bu Fei looked at her, his eyes were full of 'disobedience', but he couldn't say a word of disobedience in his mouth.

He is the retainer of the Pei family, and the head of the dead soldiers who have been loyal to the Pei family for generations, and he has known since he can remember that he will obey the orders of the Pei family in his life.

And he's been doing it for years.

Pei's lineage, now only Pei Yaowei is left. She is his only master, but now, the master has ordered him to never return.

He didn't want to go back forever, but after a long time, he could only say: "Subordinate, don't dare." ”

Pei Yaowei showed some satisfaction at this time.

"That's it, you're free. The world is big, let's live a good life. With that, she looked at Xiao Yun again, pointed at Bu Fei and said to him: "Yun'er, this is Brother Bu Fei, you follow him, he will take you to the prince-"

"He will take you to the King of Chu."

Pei Yaowei didn't lie to him.

Bu Fei took him out of the dust capital and walked north for more than three months, losing countless lives of chasing assassins along the way, and finally sent him to Linyuan City in late spring and early summer.

He still remembered that when he arrived at Linyuan, he deliberately counted it, and he had a total of thirteen scars from head to toe, large and small, but he was still so jade, and he didn't have any pain.

"Little boy, go knock. The king of Chu is inside, go in, and you will be safe. ”

Outside the stage, Bu Fei pushed him forward and said.

Xiao Yun nodded, ran out without two steps, but turned back.

"The steps are too high, Brother Bufei, you can carry me up!"

The little boy of Qiwangfu has been a bouncing and idle character since he can walk. Although the stone steps in front of the platform were long, he was not unwilling to walk.

He just wanted to let Bu Fei go in together and be safe with him.

Ke Bufei pondered for a moment, but he clenched the sword at his waist.

He shook his head and said, "I can't go in." ”

Xiao Yun asked him why.

He exhaled a long breath and tried his best to suppress the murderous aura in his eyes, "Because the master asked me to send you to the King of Chu so that he could protect you."

Instead of asking me to kill him. ”

At this moment, Xiao Yun was frightened: "You want to kill my prince brother?!" ”

Bu Fei didn't answer, but said, "If you go in, I'm afraid I won't be able to control my sword." ”

Xiao Yun said again and again: "Then you better not go in!" ”

Bu Fei looked at him and laughed.

However, after a while, Xiao Yun became distressed again.

He stared at Bu Fei's left wrist - there he had been slashed only a few days ago, and he had seen his wound oozing blood while resting in the inn last night.

"But...... Brother Bu Fei, you protect me, I haven't thanked you yet, you still have these injuries on your body, if you don't go in, who will treat you? ”

Bu Fei's eyes rarely showed a trace of gentleness.

"The little boy knows how to repay his kindness, and he is a little gentleman." He casually told him: "A gentleman repays his kindness, ten years is not too late." Childe doesn't have to rush for a while. ”

Xiao Yun thought about it for a while, and felt that he had indeed heard this in the past, so it should be a truth, so he nodded, and stepped on the stone steps in front of the platform step by step.

After that day, he never saw Bu Fei again, and later he learned that ten years is not too late, not En, but Hatred.

"Yun'er......?"

A tentative call behind him pulled Xiao Yun back to the present world.

Turning around, the woman who only existed in his memories was really standing in front of him at this moment.

He thought for a moment, and blurted out a question: "Brother Bufei...... Are you alright? ”

The woman opposite was stunned.

"Are you ......" Pei Yao asked tremblingly, "Who are you talking about?" ”

Was he asking Bu Fei?

He still remembers Bu Fei......

But why did he ask himself about him?

Is it looking at his appearance, in a trance for a while, or is it ......

What did he know?

These questions flashed in his mind one by one, Pei Yao tried his best to calm down, and suddenly found that since Han Dan came back, he had become a frightened bird these days, and if he had a little something, he had to be suspicious of it, which was really annoying!

Xiao Yun thought about Xiao Di's instructions, and saw the reaction of the person in front of him, and regretted his words in his heart.

"You're the royal sister-in-law, right?" He put on a flattering smile, took a step back, shook his arms deeply, and bowed: "Little brother Xiao Yun meets sister-in-law!" ”

Pei Yao calmed down and said softly, "No need to be polite. ”

He straightened up and confessed: "The younger brother is in a trance, and he recognizes the wrong person, and I hope that my sister-in-law will not be surprised." ”

Pei Yaowei shook her head and only said that it was okay.

The two stood across from each other, and for a moment and a half, they did not speak.

She was looking at Xiao Yun, and Xiao Yun was also looking at her.

Pei Yaowei went to the back kitchen early in the morning, and on the way back, he saw such a strange boy standing under the red plum tree from a distance, and guessed his identity by looking at his clothes.

When she couldn't help the excitement in her heart and tentatively called out his name, she was also silently looking forward to it in her heart - she hoped that the person who turned around would be better like Xiao.

It's like Xiao again.

However, her hopes were dashed.

Xiao Yun is not like Xiao Huan.

They don't look like each other, and they don't look like them.

Surprisingly, she wasn't disappointed.

After a while, Xiao Yun spoke.

He asked, "Sister-in-law, where did this come from?" The little brother is about to go to the Hebi Hall to meet him, but I don't want to meet you here first, but it's really fate! ”

Yes, of course, there is.

"I've had breakfast too, and I'm going out for a walk, and I'm going back now." She said, "If the uncle is fine, why don't you go back and drink tea with me?" I have some stale tea there, but the entrance is fragrant, maybe my uncle will like it. ”

Xiao Yun smiled, "Sister-in-law is gracious, but Xiao Yun is disrespectful." ”