Fengyi six years, winter.

This year, the snow fell very heavily, like goose feathers, falling piece by piece, covering the entire imperial city, covered in silver, and the heaven and earth were pure.

Su Chen sat alone in front of the fire, roasting the fire and drinking at the same time, the chessboard in front of him was black and white, he hadn't played chess by himself for a long time.

It's also fun to take it out once in a while to practice your hands.

It was as if everything was going back to that winter more than a decade ago.

It's just that the old chessboard has been renewed, and those who have gone will never come back.

I don't know when it started, Su Chen has gradually become accustomed to the life of such a person, although it is lonely, but it is also very stable.

It's just that for a moment in a while, I still feel lonely and lonely, and I can't help but be a little sentimental.

By the end of this winter, he would have been thirty-two years old.

This is also an old man for the palace eunuchs who generally do not have a long lifespan, and the Department of Internal Affairs mentioned several times that he could be transferred to a better department, with a lot of oil and water, but Su Chen refused.

After so many years in Kwai Yuan, he has become accustomed to it.

He flipped through and cleaned every book in the library; Every sunflower in the yard, he planted and harvested it with his own hands; Those institutions in the yard, memories in every corner......

These are traces of him in this world.

In a sense, this is Su Chen's home in this world, and of course he will not leave easily.

Unless one day, the state of Chu no longer exists, and he must leave the world and go to the magnificent world he yearns for.

"With such a big snowfall, Hai Dongqing doesn't know where it flew. May you be well, old man......"

Su Chen raised his head and glanced at the roof in the distance.

Some miss the afterimage that pierced the sky.

The falcon, one of his few friends, shouldn't have just disappeared without a trace.

While thinking about it, he raised his hand and flicked the bronze mirror next to him, and a ray of brilliant sunlight bloomed from the mirror, turning into golden light, enveloping his figure.

Bathed in the sun, the pure yang gong automatically operated, and the daily practice did not stop.

Because the glaucoma mirror can store the sun's brilliance, even on such a snowy day, Su Chen can bathe and absorb sunlight, and the improvement progress of pure yang power will not slow down in the slightest.

"Speaking of glaucoma, that little girl from the Great Sun God Sect doesn't know what's going on. Maybe she shouldn't be called a little girl, she is almost thirty when she counts her age, right? ”

"I accepted the glaucoma mirror and promised her that she would go to Lingnan, but I haven't broken through the innate yet. In these years, I have never heard any rumors of the Great Sun God Sect in the rivers and lakes, and it may still be closed to the world, or maybe this sect has died out......"

Su Chen shook his head.

This matter is not a breach of his appointment, after all, he has thought about it from the beginning, at least until he really breaks through the innate before he will consider going to Lingnan.

In this process, whether the Great Sun God Sect can hold up or not has nothing to do with him.

Of course, Su Chen still hopes that the Great Sun God Sect can hold on, at the very least, Xingqiu will not die.

After all, now only she knows the location of that cave, and if Xingqiu is not there, it will be very troublesome to rely on the dragon search talisman alone to explore and search at that time.

I'm thinking about it.

In the street outside the door, there was the sound of horses' hooves, accompanied by the sound of wheels rolling over the snow.

Today's Su Chen's cultivation is already profound, and his five senses are keen, so even if the sound is hundreds of feet away, he can really hear it.

He looked up and looked out the window.

I saw that on the snowy street, a team of guards surrounded the carriage and was slowly driving towards Kwai Yuan.

The carriage looked like it had been some years old, and the newly painted gold paint could not hide the mottled marks on the wheels, only the phoenix totem on the roof of the carriage was still bright.

Su Chen vaguely recognized the car.

Her Royal Highness the eldest princess of the year walked out of the Kwai Garden in this car, defeated the princes, became Dazai in charge, and then became the unprecedented, Xiaozhuang Emperor.

Unexpectedly, this carriage is still in use.

Who will be the person sitting in the car?

Su Chen was a little surprised, for more than ten years, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has not returned to Kwai Yuan once, what is going on today?

Although he was surprised in his heart, Su Chen quickly got up, waved his sleeves, put away some things that could not be regarded as people, and at the same time closed the mechanism hub in the courtyard to prevent accidents.

After doing this, the carriage also stopped at the gate of Aoi Yuan.

When the bead curtain swayed, a figure wearing a fox fur stepped into the wind and snow.

It is the current king of Great Chu, Emperor Xiaozhuang.

I haven't seen her for ten years, and this once prosperous empress has now become more graceful and noble, although it is well maintained, the years still leave some traces on her face.

A little less youthful and beautiful, and more calm and wise.

She is wearing a pale yellow gown today, not wearing a dragon robe, just traveling in casual clothes on weekdays, but it still gives people a sense of majesty.

Perhaps this is the majesty and momentum of being the king of a country.

"Kwai Yuan, I haven't been back for more than ten years. It doesn't look like much has changed in this place......"

Emperor Xiaozhuang stood in front of the door with some emotion.

"Su Chen, the director of Kwai Yuan, greets His Majesty the Emperor, long live Your Majesty......"

Seeing that Emperor Xiaozhuang got out of the car, Su Chen had to follow the rules and come forward to pay respects.

"It's you, I haven't seen you for more than ten years, and you're still in Kwai Yuan?"

When Emperor Xiaozhuang heard this, he turned his head and looked at it, although he said so, there was actually no surprise in his eyes.

Obviously, she has everything in this palace.

Since you are going to Aoi Yuan, there must have been an investigation beforehand, and at least the personnel changes are still clear.

On the contrary, Su Chen was a little surprised when he heard this, ten years had passed, and he thought that the emperor would not remember such a small person as himself for a long time.

Hurriedly pretending to be flattered, he replied: "The villain's small body can still be remembered by the saint, and he is not careful." After His Majesty left, Gonggong Li handed over this Kwai Garden to me to take care of, and the villain did not dare to slack off, and stayed here all the time......"

Hearing this, Emperor Xiaozhuang seemed to be reminded of some memories.

He nodded and said, "Gonggong Li has been loyal and brave all his life, and I remember him." It's just that when he died, the country was in ruins, and I had no time to visit, which was a pity. You, the little eunuch, are indeed affectionate and righteous, in order to send Gonggong Li to the end, he took the initiative to stay in Kwai Yuan, and he didn't want to keep this for ten years, there are few people like you in this palace......"

"Your Majesty praises falsely, the villain doesn't dare to be a ......"

Su Chen coped with it.

In my heart, I was thinking, Emperor Xiaozhuang is now the king of a country, and he has every opportunity, and he came to Kwai Yuan so low-key today, it is impossible to just revisit the old place and catch up with his little eunuch, right?

But he is the emperor, and Su Chen can't ask directly about this kind of thing.

At this time, I heard Emperor Xiaozhuang speak: "It's rare to have free today, revisit the old place, you can take me to the library to have a look." ”