In the dim light, Huo Jiang's expression was gloomy.

He didn't speak, he didn't move, and let Huo Qingzhou's bright eyes stare at him.

This is Huo Jiang's inner study, in addition to the people who serve around him, only Huo Qingzhou has been up and down the Huaishu Hutong.

But only this time, Huo Qingzhou took a closer look at the room.

Compared to the outer study in the outer courtyard, this study is much simpler. As far as the eye can see, there are all books, and even the Treasure Pavilion is full of books.

Suddenly, Huo Qingzhou's eyes were attracted by a painting on the wall.

The painting is a piece of white mountains and black soil, and a bright red figure stands in it, just a back, and you can't see the face.

In Huo Qingzhou's view, this painting is only a mediocre work, except for the red shadow sketched by a few brushstrokes, it has no other strengths.

There is no payment on the painting, but it is hanging here, obviously painted by Huo Jiang himself. The painting is new ink, apparently painted in the last year or two.

Huo Qingzhou is a little strange, he is very familiar with his father's painting style, Huo University scholar Bingnan Tang Xu Xi, the flowers, trees, birds, birds, bones are light and beautiful, light colors, chic and wild.

This painting is a typical northern landscape, but the pen is less strong and tough, if it weren't for the red shadow, this painting would not be mentioned in Huo Qingzhou's eyes.

Seeing his gaze move from himself to the wall, Huo Jiang let out a long sigh.

Good lord, he said, "Do you want to make this painting worthless?" ”

Huo Qingzhou raised his eyebrows, Scholar Huo was still self-aware, he said: "This kind of splashed ink landscape is not what you are good at, it has surpassed many people to be able to paint like this, especially that figure, how did you think of it, a touch of bright red in the heroic desolation, just right, adding a lot of color." ”

Huo Jiang snorted, this son, he has raised it for more than ten years, Huo Qingzhou opened his mouth, he could guess what this kid was going to say, fortunately, this time he saved a little face.

"Do you know what this place is?" Huo Jiang asked.

"Outside the gates." Huo Qingzhou rushed out, but as soon as these two words came out, his heart snorted.

But anyone who paints landscapes will never imagine it out of thin air, and in his memory, his father has never been outside the customs.

"You're out of the border?" Huo Qingzhou asked.

Huo Jiang was silent again, his gaze stopped on the painting, but it seemed to drift far away.

"I'm not good at painting landscapes, and the reason why I want to paint them is because I'm worried that when I'm old, one day, I'll forget something, so I want to paint it, so I don't forget it later."

Huo Qingzhou came to his senses, he stared at Huo Jiang like just now, and asked, "Does this have anything to do with whether I am your own child?" ”

Huo Jiang sighed again and said, "Are you having a bad time in the Huo family?" ”

Huo Qingzhou was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Huo Jiang to ask him rhetorically.

Are you having a bad time? From childhood to adulthood, if he wanted to study, he could follow the most famous gentlemen and enter the best colleges; He wants to practice martial arts, although the Huo family is a scholarly family, they can also find him a master with superb martial arts; He wants to learn guqin today, ivory carving tomorrow, and then he wants to make pots, and every time his father will satisfy him and ask for a master for him, even if he learns anything is three days of fishing and two days of drying nets.

But if he said that he was doing well, he felt that the entire Huo family, except for his mother's side, was all cold. His father rarely cared about him, didn't even look at him, ignored him, he learned martial arts, so he quietly picked up dark flowers outside and took a bounty, until he caused a big disaster and had to leave the capital, his father didn't question him, he didn't believe that his father would not know.

Huo Qingzhou said slowly: "I just want to know if I am your own child. ”

Huo Jiang's gaze finally took back from the painting, he looked at Huo Qingzhou, for a long time, he pointed to the painting, and finally said, "Do you see that white mountain and black water?" You were born there, and your mother never went outside the gates. ”

The needles in the room could be heard, so quiet that even the breathing of the two people could not be heard. Suddenly, with a snap, a light burst out, and Huo Qingzhou came to his senses.

He tugged at the corners of his mouth and smiled helplessly.

Father, this person, can clearly explain things in two words, but he just goes around and around.

Huo Qingzhou turned around and walked to the painting, he stared at the white snow and the inky black mountains on the painting for a long time, and the red shadow once again reflected his eyelids, and then, the red shadow gradually expanded, covering the black mountain and white snow.

"This woman in red is the heroine who used the red tassel spear that my mother told me, it turns out that my mother told me a long time ago, but unfortunately I didn't understand until today, is she my biological mother?" Huo Qingzhou didn't look back, he was still looking at the painting, and his eyes were all red.

Huo Jiang smiled bitterly, it turned out that his wife had already told Huo Yan, but when his wife died, Huo Yan was only a few years old, even if he was extremely smart, he didn't know why.

He nodded: "Your biological mother's surname is Xie, the mountain ** on the osmanthus at the beginning, Wang Xie Feng is full of Jin books, this is the Chen Jun Xie family." More than 100 years ago, the Shaanxi Xie family was born from the Xie family of Chen County, and your biological mother's surname was Xie Honglin, and she was the only bloodline of the Xie family in Shaanxi. ”

Huo Qingzhou was slightly stunned, every word Huo Jiang said was like a hammer smashing on his heart, it didn't hurt, but it was deafening, he took a deep breath before he could speak.

"Taizu Gao's Empress Xie is from the Xie family in Shaanxi, is this family only passed down to my biological mother's generation?"

Huo Jiang smiled bitterly again, he shook his head, and said: "No, the Xie family is different from other families, the women of the Xie family can pass on the family and establish a household, so there are two descendants of the Xie family's descendants, that is, you and Xiaofeng." ”

When Huo Qingzhou heard that the Xie family's woman could inherit the family and set up a household, he was already shocked, and when he heard that there were two descendants of the Xie family, his mouth opened wide.

"Little wind? Which little wind are you talking about? He asked, dazed.

Huo Jiang glanced at Huo Qingzhou, who was very clever on weekdays, and couldn't help laughing, and said: "It's Xiao Feng, the thin pipe chanting the court, and the maple character of Fang Mash falling on the night maple." When your mother was young, she once said that choosing a name is what the five elements lack, your name is Yan, and your sister is named Feng, which is what I think came from. ”

"Cell...... Sister? I still have a sister ......."

As soon as these words came out, Huo Qingzhou himself froze, he opened his mouth, but he only exhaled, and he couldn't say a word of the words behind him.

His mind was blank, as if there were thousands of horses galloping by, but there was no trace for a moment, he subconsciously wanted to grasp a wisp of thought, but he couldn't grasp anything, he was confused, even he didn't know where he was, in the clouds, as if he was in the painting, running wildly on the snow.