Xue Yuxiao knew that she had to ask this when she opened her mouth, glanced at her, and deliberately said in a critical tone: "Vulgar things, they are all vulgar things." ”

She handed over a glance and asked Pei Yuxue to get into the car first, so as not to be too cold outside. Then leaned in front of the car and talked to Cui Mingzhu: "If you like it, why don't you ask the emperor to give it to you?" ”

Cui Mingzhu smiled: "How can you speak?" I relied on Enyin to seal an idle official, if it weren't for the ancestors to accumulate virtue, I wouldn't even be able to enter the Qianqiu Palace, where can I compare to you? Now my aunt has gone back to see me, and she always says let me study hard with you—can I learn the same ability as your immortal enlightenment? Don't talk about you, even the Li family's sisters can endure too much. ”

She was referring to Li Qingchou and Li Furong.

“…… Others don't say it, we have also seen Li Furong's previous appearance. It's just a mediocre talent who is jealous of the virtuous and has a small belly. How dare she be a pioneer in suppressing bandits? It's really weird. ”

Xue Yuxiao smiled slightly and said, "If people's hearts are obsessed, changes can turn the world upside down. ”

"Don't talk about this, I'll be angry when I mention it." Cui Mingzhu waved his hand and asked instead, "What did my seventh brother write on your handkerchief?" ”

Xue Yuxiao was surprised: "You didn't actually watch it?" ”

Cui Mingzhu said: "I want to peek at it, and I'm afraid that Jinzhang will lose my temper with me, thinking that if he writes something secret, if I secretly read it...... Eh. ”

She was pinched and clutched her lower back in pain. Cui Jinzhang poked his head out from behind her, his face was ruddy, his eyes were bright, and he didn't look too disappointed with today's banquet.

Cui Mingzhu brought a few attendants with him, and Cui Jinzhang didn't move much, so Xue Yuxiao actually saw him.

Cui Qi took half a step, pinched the meridian in his hand and saluted Xue Yuxiao: "Third sister." ”

Xue Yuxiao pulled out his handkerchief and said, "Qilang didn't write any secret words, don't tease him." He wrote a guide to court feasts. ”

Cui Jinzhang said: "I remember that you are a picky eater, and I am afraid that you will not be able to eat delicious food, and you will go back hungry." ”

Without waiting for Xue Yuxiao to answer, Cui Mingzhu said first: "Why haven't I seen you so considerate to me, oh?" The own sister is not as good as the third sister. Fortunately, you only returned to Beijing this year, and it happened that Sanniang changed sex, if you met her before, Xue Chanjuan would have spent more time drinking than me! ”

Cui Jinzhang couldn't imagine that she was spending all day drinking, after all, Xue Yuxiao almost turned his face with Xie Fu on the spot in order to refuse the emperor's reward. He was a little unconvinced: "Really? ”

Xue Yuxiao said: "It's really true." But I've changed it, thank you Shichiro...... You can think about me in your busy schedule under the lure of food. ”

Cui Jinzhang nodded: "If you starve to death, what will happen to my hospital?" By the way, it's not all about eating. I really don't want to be jealous today, I used easy counting. ”

As soon as he said this, Xue Yuxiao remembered that he was Ge Hong's disciple, and that was Ge Xianweng who Du Fu wrote "Ge Hong is ashamed of Dansha". It's normal for him to know divination.

"It's really strange, hexagram can still calculate this?" Xue Yuxiao didn't know much about divination.

Cui Jinzhang said: "It's just the number of heavenly machines, and it can never be exhausted." If you can't keep a sense of proportion, you will be susceptible to heaven's damnation. Sister Xue, Yuxiao is the depths of the heavenly dome and the location of the Immortal Heavenly Emperor, and your name is quite - hmm! ”

Cui Mingzhu quickly covered his mouth, afraid that he would say something rebellious without heart and lungs, and he had just come out of the palace ban. She said, "What did Mother tell you?" Do not show people what you do, your words will kill others! ”

Cui Jinzhang was stunned when he heard this, as if he remembered something from the past, and silently turned his head and quieted down.

Cui Mingzhu let go of his hand and helplessly explained to Xue Yuxiao: "Don't listen to him." Cui Qi's skills are not refined, and the hexagram is not accurate. Once upon a time, he also divined for others, and there was not one out of ten of them. You don't have to take it personally. ”

Xue Yuxiao said: "It's okay, I don't believe in fate. ”

"Then I'll take Shichiro back." Cui Mingzhu teased, "You are getting busier and busier, and it is really difficult to talk to you." I don't know when our sisters will be able to listen to music and watch the opera together, and the red clothes are about to cross Kyoto. ”

"Wait for the recovery day of Yanjing." Xue Yuxiao said, "I asked Mingzhu Niang to see the scenery of Saibei." ”

"Good!" Cui Mingzhu perked up, "I'm tired of being with me for a long time." If there is a day when the old capital is returned, I will definitely accompany you to see it. ”

The Cui family sisters and brothers said goodbye and left.

Xue Yuxiao boarded the carriage. After saying this for a while, her body was already covered with snowflakes, and the flying snow stained her clothes, moistening the gold-embroidered cloak with shallow wet marks.

Pei Yinxue helped her whisk off the snowflakes, and there was a small stove in the car to maintain the temperature, and the charcoal fire was covered with a hollow gold cover, and a little incense was added to it, giving off a trace of a long fragrance.

Neither spoke.

Pei Yuxue quietly glanced at her a few times, clasped her hands, and slowly reached over to take her. But Xue Yuxiao immediately dodged it, she lowered her head to arrange her skirt, and said in a low voice: "Aren't you afraid of death?" ”

Pei Yuxue's memory was suddenly pulled back to the night when the two got married, Xue Yuxiao was drunk and did not wear auspicious clothes. And he sat quietly on the bed, clutching a sword that was as sharp as clay—his fate was tied to the blade, and he had the fierceness and determination to die as if he had been forced.

But she's not what she says.

Even if he put the golden knife against her neck, Xue Yuxiao could still calm down and smile in his words. She killed traitors, cleared up rebels, saved the people, and now has pacified Ningzhou. His wife has a compassionate heart for all living beings and for the sake of all living beings in the world, but because she has too much in her heart and her love is too broad and broad, it makes her private love squeezed out of place.

And ordinary people fall into the mundane, live for love, and die for love, how can Xuanyi Bodhisattva understand?

Pei Yuxue sighed in a low voice, and then smiled softly: "Death, naturally everyone is afraid." ”

The carriage drove up, and Xue Yuxiao turned his head to look at him: "Since you are afraid, why would you say such a thing as asking for death?" Don't tell me that you think Xie Fu will never do it, whether she will do it or not, you must not say it! ”

Pei Yuxue looked at him with a gentle attitude: "Then how are you going to refuse?" ”

Xue Yuxiao said: "Mother and Prime Minister Wang are both seated, the palace is full of relatives and nobles, I insist on not accepting servants, who can force me to fail?" ”

Pei Yuxue said: "Isn't the emperor just persecuting you?" She's testing your bottom line. ”

Xue Yuxiao's words paused slightly, she stopped and exhaled, "Even so...... You don't care about yourself too much. ”

"Not really." Pei Yuxue said, "It's just that I cherish it too much...... I cherish you too much. I don't want to see you embarrassed, I don't want to see you frowning. ”

Xue Yuxiao was slightly stunned, and suddenly speechless, her hand was holding the hollow gold cover of the stove for a while, because she was uncertain, she didn't notice when the charcoal fire inside burst slightly, and the ground was splashed on her fingertips by the red-hot silver charcoal sparks.

She was scalded and jerked her fingers back. Pei Yuxue kept looking at her, and naturally found that she reached out and pulled her hand over, lowered her head and blew lightly a few times, and said, "It's okay to be angry with me, or to blame me for being impulsive, don't be so careless." ”

He treats himself so well, even if Xue Yuxiao complains in his heart that he fights with life and death, he can't blame him for a while, he just shrinks his fingers.

Pei Yuxue held it steadily, his slightly cold breath was on his fingertips, and a small red spot was burned on it, and the wound was very shallow. He lowered his head, suddenly took Xue Yuxiao's finger between his lips, and licked it gently.

Xue Yuxiao was immediately stunned, and in an instant, a fiery meaning floated up from the root of his ear, and even his neck turned red all of a sudden. She felt like she was being licked by a clingy kitten, restrained and barbed, and she withdrew her hand, not knowing what to say now—her mouth was dry and her words were fragmented.

It took a long time for her to say, "...... It's fine, it doesn't hurt. ”

This little injury should be healed if you don't pay attention.

Walking to the return garden, the atmosphere is particularly stagnant all the way. Pei Yuxue thought it was her fault that she was too offended, and the world said that men should be reserved and polite, and he did that out of affection, and there was nowhere to restrain him, which may be suspected of being too upside down......

After the two of them washed and changed their clothes, Xue Yuxiao took the cloth towel brought by the servant and wiped his hands, which subsided the heat at the root of his ears a little. She raised her eyes to look at Pei Yuxue's figure, and saw that he used a pair of gold wire scissors to cut the blackened wick in front of the candlestick, and the figure swayed slightly under the candle flame, and the beauty under the lamp revealed a lingering charm.

He turned around, and Xue Yuxiao immediately retracted her gaze and kept her expressionless, in case that inexplicable enthusiasm surged up again and affected her rational judgment.

Pei Yuxue took out the embroidery gift given by Feng Jun, put her hands on the small case, and said, "This is given to me by the eldest brother." ”

Xue Yuxiao got closer, carefully examined the embroidery, she stretched out her hand to open it and saw that it was indeed just some jade hairpins, decorative needles and threads used by men, and the like. She flipped the small wooden box over and saw the inscription on the bottom.

"This is not the eldest brother's dowry, it is the dowry that His Majesty asked to marry in the past." Xue Yuxiao rubbed the inscription, "There should be many embroidered gifts like this, there should be many eldest brothers, why did he just give this to you." ”

Pei Yuxue pondered for a moment, and suddenly said: "In the past, in order to seek the help of the scholars, Your Majesty used a secret scroll containing the treasures of the previous dynasty as a dowry to show sincerity, and the two parties jointly took the treasure, so that there are today's Sixteen Guards, the Shanhaidu Canal, and the funds for building roads and the Great Bodhi Temple...... and the support of the ministers. ”

"I don't know." Xue Yuxiao thought for a moment, "How do you know everything?" ”

Pei Yingxue glanced at her: "This is just a rumor, just like the origin of the Fourth Highness, it is a rumor that the scholar clan and the royal family cannot confirm the authenticity." The teacher used to be an official eunuch of the previous dynasty, and I heard the teacher mention it in the school. ”

Xue Yuxiao used to behave dissolutely, in order to protect her, Xue Sikong once didn't want his daughter to know too much, but instead attracted targeted and unhappy life.

"If it's what Gu Shi said, then it's eighty percent accurate."

Xue Yuxiao turned the embroidery face up, and knocked on the bottom of the box with his fingers, and an overlapping sound echoed inside. She stared, reached out and touched the corners of the bottom, and found a gap at both ends that only allowed her nails to embed.

"It seems to have a mezzanine." Xue Yuxiao raised her hand, without prompting, Pei Yuxue untied the hairpin and handed it to her, she stuck the tip of the hosta into the gap, poked in, and then pushed it in her direction, and the bottom of the entire embroidery was removed.

A piece of letter paper and a picture scroll rolled down.

"What a craftsman." Pei Yuxue muttered in a low voice, "Mother is the head of the Ministry of Industry, and her protégés are all over the world, and even the Palace Weaving Bureau has her former officials...... But even so, if Feng Jun wants to transform such an object, I'm afraid it won't be easy. ”

Xue Yuxiao said: "He is taking a risk, if he is intercepted and discovered, he will be charged with conspiracy and bullying." ”

She untied the red thread on the scroll and unfolded it, revealing a dense scroll that had previously been marked with the location. Xue Yuxiao glanced at it, picked up the letterhead, it was empty, and she paused: "Secret writing, written by alum." ”

The copper basin that had just been washed next to him had not been removed, Xue Yuxiao put the letter paper into the water, and the handwriting on it was revealed, only one line:

This is the second place where the relics of the previous dynasty hid the treasure, because it is now in the water, it is difficult to take lightly, so it remains to this day. It is advisable to obtain it secretly and strictly prevent leakage. ”

The two of them looked at each other and looked back at the scroll, where the location marked on it was indeed the current underwater. After so many years, spring and autumn have come, and the terrain has also undergone some changes, not to mention "light taking", even if Xie Fu wants to move the people to take it, I am afraid that he will have to find people who are good at water and are not afraid of death.

"No wonder it wasn't taken." Pei Yuxue said in a low voice, "The Sima clan usurped Cao Wei as the emperor, and now the Xie clan usurped the throne of the Sima clan. The so-called treasure of the former dynasty is probably also the treasure of the Han family...... I didn't expect that there were not only secret scrolls, but also two. ”

"This is Ruben." Xue Yuxiao said, "The original scroll is still with the emperor. The eldest brother has been in the deep palace for so many years, and it is not that he has gained nothing, but the two of them are still affectionate, and he is in a dilemma between us and the wife of the wife. However, the mandarin couple are close to each other, and now that Xie Fu is controlled by the imperial power, it is no longer the day, and the eldest brother has decided to break off his relationship with her. ”

Xue Yuxiao raised his hand to scoop up the letter paper from the water, tore it and crumpled it into a ball. The two of them sat in the lamp for a moment and spoke in unison.

"Zhou Shaolan and Guan Haichao ......"

"The ...... you regained in the water village"

Pei Yuxue paused for a moment and said, "It seems that you have thought of it." ”

Xue Yuxiao said: "But they are from bandits and have a history of unruliness. I ......" she raised her hand to her eyebrows and pinched it a few times, "I'll think about it first, I'll go to Taiping Garden tomorrow to talk to my mother, and I'm not in a hurry." ”

Pei Yuxue nodded: "Okay." ”

He watched Xue Yuxiao put away the secret scroll and placed it in a secret and safe place. Her mind seemed to be completely entangled in this secret scroll, and she was obviously a little immersed in thinking.

Until the lights and candles are extinguished, and the moonlight shines on the window lattice. Xue Yuxiao slowly took off her middle coat and went to the couch, she covered the quilt in the dark, and was thinking about what to say in the Taiping Garden tomorrow, when a soft body suddenly fell beside her.

The two had already changed into a thick, wide quilt.

Before Xue Yuxiao could speak, he felt strands of slightly cold hair fall to his ears. His hand was against her shoulder, and his cold breath fell like thin snow about to melt: "Today's matter is that I didn't think about it carefully, are you angry with me?" ”

Angry? Xue Yuxiao has been giving birth for a long time. She is not the kind of person who will be bored in her heart and go away for a long time, besides, Pei Lang thinks about her everywhere, even if she is reckless, she can't blame her.

"I'm ......," she paused, and simply said, "No." ”

He was silent for a long time, not knowing whether he believed it or not. Xue Yuxiao was tired of thinking, and her mind was in a trance for a moment, and in this gap of distraction, a soft lip like ice and snow suddenly covered her lips-

A very soft, soft breath that blended with the warm aroma of her body.

Xue Yuxiao was stunned for a moment.

Pei Yuxue's hand hooked the tips of her hair, and in the darkness, Xue Yuxiao's long black and thick hair was wrapped around his knuckles, and there were thousands of strands of love. His lips came over and kissed her gently, rubbing her flatteringly...... Who would have thought that Pei Yuxue would have such an intimate action similar to that of a small animal?

A little bit of the tip of the tongue with the cold fragrance of plum blossoms quietly poked out, touched it very shallowly, and then it seemed that it couldn't stand it and had to pull away such a sneering distance. Pei Yuxue got up and wanted to escape, but Xue Yuxiao grabbed her wrist violently, grabbed her waist and pressed her back.

"You want to run?" She asked in a low voice.

Pei Yuxue's breathing was out of order for a moment, and then she said, "...... Are you still mad at me? Don't just say those words, you have to answer me well...... The wife of the master. ”

He took Xue Yuxiao's hand and let her hand go down from her neck and touch her heart with a sound like a drum. The lights were out, and neither could see each other's eyes. If it weren't for that, it wouldn't be able to grind like this.

"Tell me a few more words." He said softly, "Xue Chanjuan, you also have mine in your heart, although only a little...... I know you're thinking about me. But a little bit is also very good, and I have nothing to lack in being able to occupy such a little affection in your eyes. ”

Pei Yuxue pressed against her cheek and rubbed it lightly: "Don't be angry with me, okay?" I'm most afraid that you'll be angry with me, and I promise I won't be impulsive again...... It's just that I also think about you, I care about you being under pressure, as long as I can share it for you, Pei Yuxue will never give up. ”

Xue Yuxiao hugged him, her arms around his waist, she was engulfed by too strong heartfelt feelings, and it was a little difficult to react for a while, only to feel a cold tear fall on her face.

She couldn't bear Pei Lang's tears, turned over and hugged him tightly, and said, "I'm not angry, I'm not angry anymore, really." ”

Pei Yuxue buried herself in her arms, and hummed low and vaguely, as light as melting snow water.

Xue Yuxiao hugged him, and heard the wind outside the window knocking on the doors and windows, and the pine wind was blowing. In the light snow of the night, mixed with the rain from autumn and winter, the wind blew it, and the chill drifted everywhere.