If Xu Jin saw Changying, the horse didn't want to go, trotted all the way over Ling Yuan, and rushed directly to her: "Sister Changying!" ”

Changying saw her suddenly relieved expression, a little apologetic in her heart, and was about to ask her a few words, Xu Lan had already asked, "What about yours?" What are you hunting? ”

Before Xu Jin could answer, Ling Yuan had already picked up the dagger and stabbed the rabbit to death: "It's not easy, the bow and arrow dagger is on the way, but I just didn't pinch it directly." ”

A few of the undersized men laughed.

Xu Jinruo's face was as red as blood, snatched the rabbit, and wanted to go back to the back of the horse.

Changying grabbed her and glanced at the men with a smile: "You are so capable, why don't you be more popular than her?" ”

Immediately, no one said anything more.

Changying turned to Xu Jinruo: "Ten fingers are still long, you may not be able to others, force is what men are good at, you don't rely on this to eat, isn't it normal that you can't hunt?" Ignore them, we're good. ”

Xu Jinruo burst into tears and laughed, if she hadn't been holding the rabbit in her hand, she would have hugged the long tassel.

……

After a short rest, I prepared to go home. A group of more than a dozen horsemen rode tall horses, plus their respective retinues, galloping in the snowy wilderness, becoming a wonder in a radius of several miles.

It was a night around the fireplace to talk, and a big copper pot was set up in the hall to cook meat.

Song Jun was taken by the eunuchs and guards to play crazy in the snow for a while, and it was only at night that he remembered that Song Xiao had not done the homework he had explained, and Yang Su slowed down when he saw him eating, and he couldn't help but ask.

The fat man bit his ear with him, and Yang Su listened to Liang Liang and squinted at him for a long time before he called Tong Qi to give a few more instructions.

When the eating stopped, everyone dispersed satisfied.

Changying was about to go back to the room with Xu Jinruo, but Song Jun suddenly followed: "Sister Xu, I'm tired of eating, can you accompany me for a while?" ”

Xu Jin had no reason not to, so he led her to the vestibule, and as soon as she turned the corner, she saw Yang Su standing under the corridor.

Yang Suzhi instructed her not to make a sound, and then led her out.

The countryside was quiet in the middle of the night, and a few dogs barked in the distance, even the sound of the wind was subtle.

Yang Su took her out of half a mile, and then whistled, and the lights suddenly lit up at the foot of the mountain in front of her, and when you looked closely, it was still a tent that had been erected.

Yang Su quickened his pace and pulled the long tassel to the tent, Tong Qi was already waiting here, and then the guards on all sides disappeared into the surrounding night like phantoms.

"What are you bringing me here for?" Changying was puzzled, but her face also glowed.

"It's been a day of arguing, come and sit and talk."

Yang Su dragged her into the tent, and it turned out that there was a long couch and a thick brocade mattress inside.

It's not big, but it's no problem for two people to sit down.

The bonfire burned not far from the door, and the chill was kept out.

"How did you come up with the idea of coming here?" Changying sat down and looked at the bright snowfields under the mountain and the several large mansions that were still lit up with many lights, and there was a different feeling.

"I've thought about taking you to a hill to sit quietly for a while." Tong Qi and the others didn't know when they went down, and Yang Su, who was wearing a mink fur, took a copper chopstick and put red charcoal in the small xun cage in front of him. "We were in the ruined temple in Tongzhou that year, and I remember everything clearly, but it's a pity that I can't see it with my eyes, and I always feel that it's a pity."

Changying looked at him making tea with charcoal, and said, "Then why don't you just find a broken temple?" ”

"Didn't you find it?"

Changying laughed, propped her hands back relaxedly, propped up the couch, and looked up at the sky in the distance.

There are one or two cold stars in the floating clouds, which are particularly dazzling because of this cold night. And the shadows of the mountains in the distance are abundant, ethereal like a dream.

It's a little cold, but it's been a long, long time since I've felt so comfortable.

"Actually, I didn't see the snow outside in the middle of the night, and when I was a kid, I was surrounded by a lot of people everywhere I went.

"Until I went to Nankangwei, that year in order to compete for the position of centurion, I was also clothed in snow and Huang Ji They were ambushed in the mountain col waiting to suppress the bandits, I remember that when the bandits appeared, the snow on their bodies could be used as a quilt."

Yang Su turned his head to look at her and said, "Other things that everyone can't meet in their lives, when they come to you, they always make it seem like a common thing." ”

Changying smiled.

Yang Su asked, "Have you told others about these things before?" ”

"Of course not." Changying glanced at him.

Yang Su was satisfied, and took her hand and stuffed it into his arms: "I was much naughty when I was a child, the Huo family is also a big family, and because of business, many brothers and sisters of the side branch live nearby, and they often come and go.

"My parents doted on me, and I became the head of the children, and I did all kinds of mischievous things, including secretly replacing the corn whiskers in my husband's teacup with grass roots.

"Of course, there is no shortage of punishments."

The first time Changying heard him mention his youth, he couldn't help but ask him: "Did you know that you were a prince since you were a child?" ”

Yang Su didn't respond immediately, until he stuffed the bottom of the kettle with red charcoal, and then said, "I knew it when I was ten years old." Before the age of ten, I only knew that I had been cultivated more rigorously and comprehensively than everyone around me.

"There were a lot of people in the house that year, but I don't know where they came from. My father and mother were very nervous, and my mother held my hand and didn't let go for the whole half day.

"Later, I was taken to my father's study, and I found out about my background."

Changying nodded. With such a confidential identity, it is unreasonable to let him know too soon.

"The person who came was the emperor. He stayed overnight and left, and talked to me a lot that night.

"I can't accept that I have another background, but my parents keep emphasizing to me the importance of the situation of my family and country, telling me that among all the princes, I am the only one who has hope of changing the status quo, telling me about loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and telling me about the palace dispute that my mother faced during her lifetime.

"I can not be a rare prince, but I can't ignore the overall situation in their mouths. So later, I went down this road with my head bored. ”

Changying didn't intend to ask again, but he went on to talk about it himself.

"Speaking of which, I envy you," he said, looking at the fire, "you are freer than most of us. If you want to enter this court, you will definitely be able to enter, and if you want to put it, you will definitely be able to put it.

"But I'm different—maybe it's not just me, including Ling Yuan and Xu Lan, they are all the same, they are responsible for the family, and I am pinned on the hope of changing the situation, they are all the same constraints."

Changying imagined his experience in the past years for a while, and said with a smile: "But the reason why I am free is because I am alone. If I had parents and a husband and children, I would not be free either. Why envy me? ”

But when it came to the Huo family, she remembered again: "In this way, your parents knew your identity from the beginning and raised you for the emperor, I don't know what the emperor had in mind to send you out back then?" ”

It's not like he's still in his infancy to be pinned on high hopes.