April 211 BC

On the third day after Xiao Xu officially married into Xianyang Palace, I decided to leave Afang Palace and go to the banks of the Wei River.

Today is the Winter Food Festival, and I am going to visit the Great Dancer and my mother, who died young.

In April, the fruit trees bloom just right, and as far as the eye can see, they are crowded together one by one, covering the mountains and fields like quilts, which is very lively. I got out of the carriage by the Wei River, and then walked slowly along the riverbank with food boxes and incense.

Some of the children were playing by the river, and when spring came, they were finally able to take off their fussy winter coats, so they had a great time. Perhaps he was too happy to pay attention to his feet, when a little boy accidentally tripped and fell on the wet mud by the river, and his clean and new cloth clothes were soon stained.

"Mother......" He looked at the dirty mud stain on his body, and sobbed with his mouth: "Mother...... New Clothes...... Stained ......"

"Yuanbao! it's you again!" The other children seemed to be accustomed to the clumsiness of children, and shouted in unison: "You're always dragging your feet! I won't play with you today!"

After that, he really hung the child and ran away in groups.

I couldn't stand it, so I couldn't help but walk up to the kid, put the food box on the ground, and carefully helped him up.

"Are you okay?" I pulled out a handkerchief to help him wipe the tears and mud from his face, and couldn't help laughing: "I didn't know that I had mud on my hands, and I painted myself like a little flower cat." ”

Seeing that I was smiling kindly, the child also put away his tears, looked at me with a pair of big bright eyes, and said, "Sister, you are so good, you look good, and your heart is also good." ”

"Aren't you afraid that I'm a wolf grandmother and will kidnap you back and sell you to bad guys?" I laughed: "Although some people are good-looking, their hearts are bad." ”

"Sister, are you a wolf grandmother?" the child was shocked.

Seeing that he was serious, I also took the idea of joking, helped him tidy up the crooked clothes, and then pulled him to the river, squatted down and helped him wipe his clothes with a water-soaked handkerchief, and said while wiping: "My sister is joking with you, I am not a wolf grandmother." ”

The vigilance on the child's face disappeared in an instant, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief.

I couldn't help but shake my head and chuckle, what a cute child.

"Are you really going back?" came a soft conversation behind me, and I gave the child a quick time to wipe his hand, and then carefully turned around.

Two elegantly elongated men were pacing by the river, their clothes low-key and their voices quiet. Originally, that voice was not easy for others to hear, but I grew up in the music shop and was very sensitive to sounds, so I recognized him as soon as I heard the voice.

He wore a dull pale blue shirt today, and his hair simply hung down behind him, and he wore a white gauze hat as if to hide his alluring face. He and another man passed behind me, but they didn't see me hidden by the flowers.

It must be because the flower is blooming too much.

"It's almost ready, I'll have to go back and see it first. The other man spoke suddenly, paused, and said, "If I didn't rush you, you should have almost come back." ”

I have also seen this other person, it is the pianist I met with Xiao Xu at the inn that day: Gao Xiran.

"I know. Changxi's voice was low, "Let's go a few days." ”

"You always say that. Gao Xiran sighed, "Don't think I don't know, they sent a message to let you go back last month, and you said that you would come back in a few days, but what happened? ”

"I still have some things to work out. ”

"What's the matter? It's not because of the Snow Maiden. ”

seemed to be broken by Gao Xiran's words, and Changxi fell silent.

My heart trembled, and I couldn't help but stop wiping my clothes.

"If you can't let go of the Snow Maiden, take her back with you. She is a good girl, His Royal Highness Shu Yan will not be difficult for her. Gao Xiran persuaded: "Although you and Liu Wu have a marriage contract, I see that the Snow Maiden is kind-hearted and broad-minded, and she will not mind being a side room." ”

"I didn't think about taking her with me. Changxi's voice carried a hint of bitterness: "However, what I want to take is a road of no return, how can I bear to let her suffer with me." Besides......," he paused, "besides, Cher is a very assertive woman, and if she had known that I had a marriage contract with Liu Wu, she would not have wanted to be with me." ”

"Why? Could it be that the Snow Maiden is so jealous?"

"It's not jealousy. Changxi was silent for a long time before he said, "Why should she be jealous? What kind of good husband can't find such a beautiful girl like her?" Xiran, you don't know her at all. ”

"It doesn't matter if I know it or not, what matters is your great cause of restoration, my Royal Highness. Gao Xiran sighed: "We have been born and died for so many years, isn't it just to overthrow the Qin Dynasty that trapped all the people in fire and water? Let you stay in Afang to facilitate the collection of intelligence, but you hesitate for a dancing girl, if this is heard by the soldiers, how chilling will they be? If His Royal Highness Yan Dan knows about it, he will also ...... it."

"Xiran," Changxi's voice became cold, and there was a hint of majesty in Yan Sù, and he said, "You have overstepped." ”

Gao Xiran also seemed to realize his gaffe, he bent down and said in a low voice: "The minister has offended, Your Highness forgives you." ”

"That's it, that's it. With a long sigh, he quickened his pace and left. The wind lifted the corner of the white veil, and I heard him say, "I will leave in three days." ”

The handkerchief in the hand of the "Three Day ......" fell to the ground, and I looked at the back of Changxi in a daze, and muttered: "Only ...... Three days......"

"Sister?" the child didn't know why I stopped suddenly, he picked up the handkerchief and handed it to me, blinking his big eyes and innocently asking, "What's wrong with you?"

"Finally...... Are you even leaving...... "I sat on the ground a little depressed, and I couldn't help but think of the scene three days ago in front of me, when Xiao Xu's back in a wedding dress was so resolute, and the back just now overlapped.

"Sister, why are you crying?" the child looked around, then raised his hand and brushed the tears from my face with his warm, soft hand.

"Thank you. I took the child into my arms, tears dripping down my jaw and seeping into his thinning hair.

Changxi, Changxi, I knew that your identity was not ordinary, and I knew that you would leave one day, I knew so much, but I didn't know that this day would come so quickly.

"Sister, is your beloved going on an expedition?" the child's eyes were full of worry, he sniffed, and said in his own childish voice: "When my father went out on the expedition, my mother also cried like this. ”

I smiled self-deprecatingly and muttered, "He's not someone I can fall in love with." He's so good, I don't deserve him. ”