In the north in early winter, snow is already dominant. Crystal snowflakes fluttered down, and for several days, they had already piled up a thick layer. The city, the wilderness, and the jungle were covered in silver, and the silvery color seemed to be glittering.

For the people of the north, snow is a gift from heaven and earth, and winter brings not severe cold, but hope for the new year. Their most important festival of the year, the Winter Snow Festival is a festival of reunion, the beginning of winter, and often the days when the first snow comes. The people of the North firmly believe that the more snow falls on the day of the Winter Snow Festival, the more abundant the days to come.

The snow fell exceptionally heavily during this year's Winter Snow Festival. As a result, there was an atmosphere of joy throughout Shuozhou, and there were no people on the streets, and most people were huddled around their homes drinking and chatting. It doesn't matter what you talk about, it's just that in the rising wine, you roar in your throat, but it makes people feel cordial and warm.

The people of the North have always been fond of drinking, and even a seemingly weak woman can easily drink a southerner. Therefore, today's Shuozhou seems to be filled with a smell of wine. Even Liu Yuelei, who was far away from the city, seemed to be able to smell the smell of alcohol spreading from below.

Liu Yuelei is on the city wall in the north of Shuofang City, and you can see the flat, crescent-like tooth bay. Due to the Winter Snow Festival, only half of the soldiers guarding the city walls were on weekdays, and the rest were allowed to return home to reunite. Liu Yuelei came to the north city wall on this day of reunion, which surprised the soldiers.

The head of the Liu family can be said to cover the sky in the entire Shuofang City, Shuofang City is the core of the Liu family's power, even if the Liu family is not a prince, but the Shuofang City from the government officials to the city guards are all from the Liu family, and Liu Yuelei is also well known to the people in the city.

"With Liu here, you can go down and rest for a while, drink wine, and roast the fire, and you don't have to be frozen here. Liu Yuelei turned his back to the people on the city wall, stood by the wall and looked at Yawan in the distance, and said in a low voice.

The soldiers guarding were stunned for a moment, but they didn't object, and bowed their hands to Liu Yuelei and retreated. Even if they can't go home from work, it's better to be able to drink wine to warm up than to blow a cold wind here, not to mention the order of the head of the Liu family, they are naturally happy to accept it.

On the entire city wall, only Liu Yuelei was left alone. All the while, his gaze fell into the distance, but he didn't focus, as if he was losing his mind.

On the day of reunion, he had no one to gather with. His wife died of illness, his eldest daughter ran away from home with him, and his son and his own brother ran thousands of miles away for the errand they had arranged. He didn't know where to go for a while, but before he knew it, he climbed the city wall and looked into the distance, thinking a lot.

has worked hard for the affairs of the Liu family for more than ten years, and today he doesn't even have a person to spend the festival with. He was in a trance, holding the huge power of the northern realm, but he didn't know the joy and sorrow at the moment.

The cold wind was howling, even if it was still early winter, the chill in the wind could already penetrate the big coat he was wearing, cutting his skin like a knife. Liu Yuelei sighed softly, turned around to walk down the city wall, and suddenly caught a glimpse of something emerging from the Northern Wasteland on the opposite side of Tooth Bay.

Liu Yuelei squinted his eyes and looked at the opposite side of Yawan, trying to see what was quickly jumping over Yawan. Immediately after that, his face changed drastically, and he shouted, "Someone!"

However, he was the only one on the city wall. He was stunned for a moment, then reacted and strode down the city wall.

Along the way, he gathered the soldiers and sergeants he met, and while taking them to the city gate, he was still not at ease, and ordered people to go to the barracks to transfer troops, and let people carry crossbow arrows up to the city tower. The soldiers couldn't help but wonder, outside the north city was Yawan and the uninhabited Northern Wasteland, and the head of the family hurriedly gathered soldiers and horses to rush to the north gate, who was he going to deal with?

Today is the Winter Snow Festival, half of the soldiers on duty have been on vacation, and many have quietly slipped away to celebrate the festival, and now there are only more than a hundred people gathered behind Liu Yuelei, and at this moment he is already standing at the gate of the North City.

The soldiers suddenly realized that the ground under the snow was actually trembling slightly!

Liu Yuelei took a deep breath: "Open the door!"

With his deep voice, the big sword he was wearing fluttered in the wind, and the sword light flashed out of it, splitting it in half. The big one separated, revealing Liu Yuelei standing with a sword inside. He was dressed only in a thin cloth garment, and the wind slapped against him, imprinting the shape of his strong muscles.

But the soldiers behind him didn't have time to appreciate the majesty of the head of the Liu family, and they were already frightened by the scene outside the city gate.

In front of him was a group of brute apes, but it was completely different from the brute ape named Gray Hairy that Liu Binyuan rescued, the eyes of the brute apes in front of him were full of anger, and even fear, as if they were frightened by something, and fled frantically. They landed on all fours, kicked up flakes in the snow, and rushed towards them with terrifying speed and force.

Liu Yuelei knew very well that he couldn't let these red-eyed animals rush into the city, it would be a tragedy, and the head of the Liu family couldn't let this kind of thing happen.

"Hold on here. If one person survives, this road will not be passed!" Liu Yue's thunderous sword rushed out first, facing the attacking brute ape.

......

Di Yunhao sat at the table playing with a set of tea sets, and his eyes fell on the porch, waiting for a figure to appear.

Liu Binyuan arrived as scheduled, Di Yunhao put down the tea set in his hand, stood up with a smile, and stepped forward to ask, "How is it?"

"The prince and uncle actually promised. I didn't expect that. Liu Binyuan frowned, a little confused.

Di Yunhao didn't show the slightest surprise, but there was a little murderous in his eyes, and said: "As the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is the friend, and the prince should know that I can't go back to that place in Shajiang City." If I want revenge, then King Chengji is naturally a good backer. ”

"From now on, Di Yunhao is the knife in the hands of King Chengji!" Di Yunhao looked into the distance and smiled again, "The knife that kills the wolf!"

Liu Binyuan glanced at him suspiciously, and then continued: "Can you use this knife, let's talk about it, I want to save it, the prince wants to see you." ”

Di Yunhao happily went out, but when he turned around, he found that Liu Binyuan was staying in the room.

"Isn't Brother Liu together?"

"I still have some things that someone will take you to. Liu Binyuan waved his hand and walked forward.

He walked all the way through a house, carefully bypassed the location of Feng Jianbei and Xiao Mu, and walked to the garden behind the Weiguo Mansion, where a familiar shadow fell into his eyes.

Xiao Ying'er seemed to have been waiting here for a while, and Liu Binyuan, who saw Xiao Ying'er, suddenly showed a silly smile and walked over with a quickened pace.

More than a month has passed since Xiao Yizhan's death, with the information from Shajiang City, Xiao Mu and the Liu family successfully repelled the allied forces in Yunzhou and Shajiang City, and the two sides retreated separately, and peace in Yunzhong City was finally restored, and everyone's hearts could finally relax for a few days. The smile on Xiao Ying'er's face gradually increased, and she began to think about pulling Liu Binyuan to play and play.

Liu Binyuan sent people under the fence, as always, there was a feeling of stealing cabbage, and he didn't dare to get close to Xiao Ying'er in a grand manner, and only had a good time playing in private, but he felt that Xiao Mu and Li Xianru knew their small actions well, but they never broke it, especially Li Xianru these days, looking at himself like a pig looking at the arch cabbage.

"How long have you been waiting?" Liu Binyuan approached with a smile.

Xiao Ying'er raised her eyebrows, deliberately widened her eyes and said, "I've been waiting for an hour or two!"

Liu Binyuan has long been accustomed to Xiao Ying'er's naughty nonsense, and quipped: "So Ying'er is skipping school again, and I will tell the prince and Mrs. next time we meet." ”

However, Xiao Ying'er did not show the depressed expression that Liu Binyuan expected, but proudly straightened her chest and snorted: "Ha! You can't scare me this time, I finally dealt with that gentleman yesterday, and that gentleman promised to give me a holiday, what kind of gentleman's word, you can't break your word!"

Liu Binyuan actually felt a little disillusioned: Xiao Ying'er was actually able to pass the exam in the academy? This was almost unimaginable more than half a year ago. He looked at Xiao Ying'er in front of him again. These days, the girl has grown a lot taller, and she is more and more slim, and she still has a bright smile on her face that belongs only to this age.

Xiao Ying'er noticed Liu Binyuan's gaze, her face was dyed with a faint flush, and she waved her fist in front of him: "Is this girl so good-looking that you look stupid?"

"Good looking. Liu Binyuan said with a smile.

Xiao Ying'er seemed to snort with disdain, but there was a smile on her face that couldn't be hidden.

"Where did you get out today?" Liu Binyuan looked up, discerning the direction, trying to find a few familiar locations. Xiao Ying'er's eyes lit up when she heard this. The Patriotic Mansion is not as good as the Chengji Mansion in Benhai City, located in the center of the city, and the terrain is flat. When it was designed and built, it should not have been thought of preventing the naughty boy from climbing over, so there were several low walls around, and Liu Binyuan could easily climb over them, so Xiao Ying'er was able to sneak out of here.

However, Xiao Ying'er thought of something, raised her head and asked, "By the way, don't you need to learn swords today?"

Liu Binyuan was stunned for a moment, patted his head, and said: "Oh! I received your letter today, I went to see the prince first, and then disturbed Di Yunhao, and I forgot about it!" He then widened his eyes and muttered, "It's over......

Looking at the embarrassed look on Liu Binyuan's face, Xiao Ying'er smiled happily: "Oh, you have been expecting to see me skip class all day long, but it turned out that you were absent from school today!"

Liu Binyuan shook his head, and hurriedly whispered, "You haven't seen me today!" With that, he trotted all the way to leave, and Xiao Ying'er looked at him inexplicably.

However, he had only run a few steps, and suddenly stopped, and the whole person froze in place, with a wry smile on his face. Xiao Ying'er leaned over curiously and looked forward.

Feng Jianbei carried his sword and walked over in a hurry. Xiao Ying'er expected that Old Man Feng was here to arrest Liu Binyuan, so she smiled and waved: "Old man, here!"

Liu Binyuan couldn't wait to turn around and glared at Xiao Ying'er viciously, but Feng Jianbei had already come closer, and before he could speak, Liu Binyuan hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Binyuan knows that he is wrong! I won't dare to do it again in the future, please trouble the master to be lighter!"