The winter in the north is excellent, and even Emperor Taizu once described the snowy north as follows:

"The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow. Looking inside and outside the Great Wall, only reckless; Up and down the river, suddenly lost and surging. Mountain dance silver snake, the original Chi wax elephant, want to be higher than the heavenly public test. ”

It's just that Qin Zi'an at this time doesn't think the weather is good.

The heavy snow on his face blurred his vision, his ears were already red by the biting cold wind, and his frozen hands kept rubbing together, wanting to bring a trace of warmth.

Another cold wind blew, and he couldn't help but shrink back and cursed in a low voice:

"What the hell weather."

After a short time he stopped in front of an old bookstore, shook the snow off his body, and walked in.

In the bookstore, an old man with white hair is taking a sip of tea, a set of tea sets of unknown ages are placed in front of him, and next to him is a white kitten, who is lazily crossed, his eyes slightly narrowed, snuggled at the old man's feet.

After Qin Zi'an entered, he poured himself a cup of tea very skillfully, and complained to the old man:

"Old man Li, there is such a big snow outside, what a big deal are you, let me come here in such a hurry."

As soon as the words fell, he stared straight at the old man with resentful eyes, and Old Man Li got goosebumps when he saw him, and hurriedly pointed to the table next to him.

Looking in the direction of Old Man Li's finger, a palm-sized small tripod was placed on the table.

"Isn't it just an imitation bronze tripod." Qin Zi'an pursed his lips and turned his head to look at Old Man Li suspiciously.

"Hehe... Imitation? Old man Li smiled, didn't answer, reached out and stroked the kitten, the cat opened its eyes, looked at Old Man Li with disgust, and moved to the side.

Looking at Old Man Li's expression, Qin Zi moved slightly with peace of mind, knowing that he should have looked away this time.

Seeing that Old Man Li ignored him, Qin Zi'an focused his attention on Xiao Ding again.

Xiaoding has three legs and two ears, and there is no difference from ordinary Xiaoding, but its color is not blue-gray like the unearthed bronzes, but the whole is yellow, and the tripod is engraved with a lot of words and a few paintings.

He took Xiao Ding in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, and after about half an hour, Qin Zi'an turned his head and asked in an uncertain tone, "Old man Li, what is written on this is Da Su?"

Old man Li nodded after taking a sip of tea, and said casually: "This should be an object from before Great Qin, it ......"

Seeing Old Man Li nodding, Qin Zi'an didn't listen to him anymore, because as far as he knew about Old Man Li, after Old Man Li's hands, this thing would basically not be fake.

I saw that he didn't know where to take a magnifying glass, dragged Xiaoding with one hand, held the magnifying glass with the other, and looked at it carefully.

Although he knew that the words carved on Xiaoding were big seals, most of them he still didn't know, and he only read out a few words intermittently from memory, what Spring and Autumn, big thief, Sanqing.

Most of the words were no longer visible, and the painting was not very clear, Qin Zi'an shook his head, and was just about to put down Xiao Ding, when a painting suddenly caught his eye.

A man with a human head and a snake body sat in the middle of the gossip-like terrain, and there were three people surrounding the man, whose shape was like five bodies falling to the ground, as if he was worshipping the man.

He gently put down Xiao Ding and walked towards Old Man Li.

"Old man Li, where did you find this thing?"

Qin Zi'an walked over and sat next to Old Man Li and asked casually.

"I bought it for fifty dollars at the stall at the door."

"What!" Qin Zi'an suddenly jumped off the chair and looked at Old Man Li in amazement.

"Fifty, fifty! Old Li Tou, you, you ......" Qin Zi'an didn't know what to say for a while, and suddenly ran towards the door, and just arrived at the door, he remembered that there was such a thick snow outside, and there were no stalls now.

Qin Zi'an sat back in his chair stupidly, muttering in his mouth:

"Such a good thing, why do you say that I have never encountered it, in the end, it is a child who is not hurt by his father."

Old man Li didn't answer when he saw him like this, smiled, and turned his head to look out the window.

The heavy snowfall, which lasted for seven or eight hours, finally stopped, and the sparse figures on the streets began to appear.

Seeing that the heavy snow outside had stopped, Qin Zi'an stood up, carefully hugged Xiao Ding on the table into his arms, and then muttered to Old Man Li:

"Old man Li, thank you, I'll take this thing back first and look at it for a few days, and I'll give it to you in two days."

"Thank you for not needing, I knew that you kid was stinky, so I asked you to come over early."

Old man Li took a sip of tea, waved his hand, and looked indifferent.

Looking at the heavy layer of snow on the side of the road, Qin Zi'an quickened his pace back to the house, the house he lived in was not very far from Old Man Li, if you copy the path, pass through two small alleys, and walk another seven or eight hundred meters.

As soon as he arrived at the house, Qin Zi'an gently put down the unknown Xiaoding in his arms, and then took out the washbasin to receive water to wash his face.

After washing his face, he didn't care about studying Xiaoding and hurriedly cleaned up, ran to the small supermarket next to him to buy some snacks and toys, and stood at the bus stop waiting for the bus with a big bag and a small bag.

A heavy snowfall made the road surface a layer of ice, and the driver drove cautiously, and the original half-hour drive took more than 50 minutes.

Soon after getting out of the car, an orphanage appeared in front of him, and Qin Zi'an quickened his pace and walked towards the orphanage.

"Zi'an, why did you come back so early today?"

As soon as he entered the orphanage, he was slapped on the shoulder, Qin Zi'an raised his head, and saw Zhang Xin greeting him with a smile on his face.

"I see that the snow is so thick outside, it's not that I want to hurry over and help sweep it, after all, the dean is old, so he can't let him do everything." After Qin Zi'an finished speaking, he was kicked in the ass.

"Are you two talking bad about me again, tell me about you, such an adult, why don't you find a girlfriend quickly. Xin'er doesn't need to worry about a girl, but you're in your twenties, and you haven't even talked about a girlfriend. ”

The old man put down his raised foot and muttered dissatisfiedly, but he couldn't help but smile.

Watching the dean kick Qin Zi'an, Zhang Xin on the side couldn't help laughing, she had a pair of deep dimples, which were unconsciously exposed when she smiled, which was particularly charming, Qin Zi'an liked to poke her dimples with her hands when she was a child.

"Zi'an, dean, how old are you both, why are you still so naughty, and you're not afraid of being seen and laughed at by the children."

Zhang Xin pursed her lips and giggled, and walked over to help Qin Zi'an carry things, Qin Zi'an didn't say anything polite to her, and gave her the small bag in his hand.

The dean looked at his two children with a smile and took the lead in walking inside.

The orphanage was not large, and in the early days, due to lack of funds, the director only adopted more than a dozen children.

Qin Zi'an and Zhang Xin were the first batch of them, and among the children in the first batch, except for the two of them, the others were adopted.

After putting the things down, Qin Zi'an stood alone at the door, looking at the children playing snowballs in the yard, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up.

When the children in the yard saw him, they hurriedly threw away the snowball in their hands and ran over.

"Brother Zi'an is good"

A group of slugs greeted him sweetly, and their voices were glutinous and very good.

"Hello, my brother brought you something delicious, go to Sister Zhang Xin to get it." Qin Zi'an looked at them with a smile on his face.

The children ran over one after another, and only a little girl timidly pinched the hem of her clothes, looking at Qin Zi'an and stopping.

Looking at the little girl, Qin Zi'an patted his head and said with an innocent face: "Su Su, I'm sorry, my brother came too quickly today and forgot to bring it."

"It's okay, Brother Zi'an." The little girl's depressed expression revealed her true thoughts.

Seeing her cute expression, Qin Zi'an couldn't help pinching the little girl's nose and taking out a Santa Claus like a trick. The little girl who was still crying and sad just now instantly smiled.

Su Su, nicknamed Su Su, moved here more than 10 years ago, two years ago when her parents were in a car accident and both died.

The driver who hit the accident escaped, and there was no monitoring on the remote road, resulting in the case has not been solved so far.

When her parents died and there was no one to take care of her, the government helped to bury her parents and then took her to an orphanage and entrusted her to the director.

When I returned to the dean's room, I saw the dean sitting alone on a chair, looking at the children outside.

He stood quietly behind him, did not speak, and looked at the dean quietly, Qin Zi'an suddenly found that the dean was actually old!

"Time flies so fast, more than 20 years have passed in a blink of an eye, you are so much taller than me, and Xin'er has grown up."

The dean muttered to himself, turned his head to him and asked, "Have you found anyone you know in those words?"

He shook his head and didn't speak.

When he was in junior high school, the dean mentioned his background and gave him a beast tooth.

It was an autumn more than 20 years ago, when the dean left the university where he had worked for a long time and took a break in Shennongjia, a small child by the grass caught his attention.

He jumped out of the car, saw that the child was naked, and hurriedly took off his coat and draped it over the child.

Just as he was wrapping the child tightly with his clothes, an unknown animal's animal tooth next to the child caught his attention, and it was not a very large beast tooth, densely engraved with dozens of words.

The dean didn't care about studying the beast's teeth, so he picked up the child, and the child didn't cry, just looked at him with wide eyes and babbling.

After waiting for a long time and seeing no one, the dean gritted his teeth and carried the child back.

After returning home, the dean carefully studied the characters on the beast's teeth and found that these fonts were all large compilations. It's just that even though he is one of the most proficient people in the study of ancient texts in China, he still can't recognize a few of the words on the beast's teeth.

The dean looked at Qin Zi'an and fell into deep thought.

Qin Zi'an's name was chosen by him based on the few words that could be distinguished. It's also strange to say that when he named the child Qin Zi'an, the child who had never cried from the beginning in his swaddling clothes suddenly burst into tears.

Qin Zi'an walked over and closed the window:

"Although I would like to know who my biological parents are, I also want to ask why they abandoned me. But Dean, don't worry too much about me, I'm so old that I can take care of myself, but it's you, I haven't had time to repay you yet, I can't exhaust my body. ”

"Good boy, what do you say that you can't repay, I've delayed you all these years and made you suffer." Speaking of this, the dean's expression was a little downcast.

In these years, every weekend and weekend, Qin Zi'an would come to help him clean up and manage the orphanage, and the money Qin Zi'an earned over the years was basically used in the orphanage.

As a result, even if the consumption in this town is not high, and Qin Zi'an's monthly salary is not low, he has only rented a small room so far, and he has not even talked about his girlfriend.

"Don't think about it, if it weren't for you, where would I be?" Qin Zi'an looked at the dean and stopped talking.

"If you have something to say, you pout your ass and I'll know what shit you're going to shit." The dean looked at him and said angrily.

"If you don't wait for this group of children to be settled, you will hand over this welfare home to the government for management, after all, you are old, and I will take care of you in the future."

He finally said what he wanted to say a long time ago, and as soon as the words fell, the atmosphere became a little subtle, Qin Zi'an opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

"Wait a few more years." When Qin Zi'an turned around, the dean's words came from behind.

"Okay, then you pay more attention to rest."

Without saying anything more, he bowed to the dean and left.