The thorn had returned to his house. She took a dry towel and sat in front of the mirror, disassembling her hair and wiping it slowly.

The mirror looks especially shiny today – the whole room looks more and more dusty. She looked back—the unfinished mass of letters that had been left in the basket last night had been cleared, and the window that had left a gap in the morning had been shut, and she thought that the servant had come to sweep and wipe it down.

She lit the brazier and waited for the room to be a little warmer before she took out her clothes and changed them, and pushed the window to look out. From here you can see the patio below, a cleaned-up patio. Well, anyway - there's a guest coming tonight. But my father and mother are not here, and Yiheng should come back soon, he never cares about these, why is it suddenly - on a cold day, so diligent?

She moved the brazier closer to the coffee table and spread out her wet suit slightly. For some reason, she always felt that the smell of the house today was a little strange, vaguely like a bit of blood. She thought it must be an illusion—because there was always such a special smell on a snowy day, especially when the snow came so suddenly and so violently, it must have trapped the whole winter of decay and rebirth. But as she sat at the coffee table, she suddenly felt that the bloody breath had become extremely real, so real that her heart ached inexplicably, as if she was going to drown in it and lose her breath if she sat here again.

She got up and opened the door and shouted, "Yiheng!"

Shan Heng answered downstairs.

"Has anyone been here in the house today?" called out to him as he leaned over the railing.

Shan Heng's heart shook slightly. "No!" he blurted out, "no one has been here!"

"Really...... stinger squirmed, "hasn't anyone been here?"

"No, no......" Shan Heng said, "We're not at home, who is coming to us." ”

"That's right. Thorn stupefied, turned back to the house, subconsciously, swept his gaze around the room little by little. Suddenly glancing at the bamboo frame, her heart trembled, she leaned over, took the medicine bottles one by one, and lined them up on a few lines.

It's like - one less.

There was a moment of stagnation in the mind, and some shadows of the past flickered back and forth. These bottles of medicine have been on the shelves since they came back, and they have not been touched. In fact, when he was outside, he rarely used it, only the cyan one, which she used to drug him.

- If it weren't for that one, she probably wouldn't be so easy to notice.

She touched the bottles and remembered the day he stumbled back to the inn with the wound on his back and hugged her. Yiheng said that no one had been here today - it was most likely that the servant had taken it by mistake or mistakenly hit it when cleaning - but it may not have been lost today - maybe it had been lost for a long time, but she didn't pay attention.

I can't tell if it's unease or loss. She sat alone on the edge of the bed, waiting to sort things out in her heart, when suddenly she flew from the next floor and let out a low cry, she hurriedly got up and went out: "What's wrong, Yifei?"

But seeing that Shan Heng was moving faster than her, he was about to go upstairs, so he arrived at the room a few steps first, pushed the door and said, "What's wrong?" I don't know what he saw when he entered the door, and the thorn was about to follow up, but Shan Heng closed the door steeply, only blocking her out.

"Yiheng ......?" Thorn pushed, but the door was leaned against by him. "What are you doing in your way, open the door. ”

Shan Heng was just nervous: "Sister, it's okay to fly......"

"It's okay to lock my sister out?" "Yifei, you speak!"

Only then did Shan Fei say: "Sister, don't worry, I'm ...... I haven't put on my pants yet, I've just ...... I accidentally tripped over it, and it's fine. ”

The stab said "oh": "Scared me." Why haven't you changed it yet, be careful, don't catch a cold. ”

"I know, my sister will go back first, and I'll be fine in a while. ”

The stab had to be stopped. Shan Heng waited for a while, and only then did he turn around when he heard that she should be gone, and the two brothers looked at each other.

Shan Fei was neatly dressed, where was "no pants", but he was holding a shirt in his hand, dizzy, and a little bloody.

"This is Daddy's clothes, right? I saw him wearing them early in the morning. He looked at Shan Heng. Shicai Yiheng made many gestures and glances at him, and he was willing to hide the stab first, but now, of course, he wanted to ask clearly.

Shan Heng couldn't deny it, so he could only say: "Hmm." ”

"What's going on?" "Where's Dad?" Yifei said hurriedly, "Nothing happened to Dad, right? Why is there so much blood?"

Shan Heng pinched his fingers, a little nervous. "One Fly...... Don't ask...... "Shan Jiquan attacked Xia Yan successfully, and there were some blood stains on his body, and when Xia Yan escaped with Suzaku on his back, he didn't chase after him, on the one hand, he asked Shan Heng to stay and supervise and clean the inside and outside of the single house, and on the other hand, he asked him to take a similar new shirt to change into with himself, and he was also worried that if he came back late for a while, the thorn was already at home, and he would show his flaws. Shan Heng took the new shirt for him, but if he thought that if the old clothes were placed in Shan Jiquan's room, his mother would inevitably see it, so he wrapped it in a piece of cloth and stuffed it in the basin with the soft armor and torn coat he had changed, and hid it under the bed as a pile of dirty clothes to be washed. Although he and Yifei have lived in the same room since they were children, they didn't expect that when they flew up to change their clothes, they would turn over by mistake, and they knew that this was the case, so they should have thrown it away like Suzaku's robe.

"You're going to kill me. If you don't say it, I'll call my sister to ask you. "If you fly alone, you have to get up.

"One fly!" Shan Heng hurriedly grabbed him. "Dad said, I can't let my sister know about this. Thou hast promised me not to tell my sister about this, I ...... I'll just tell you. ”

Although Shan Fei was puzzled, he still nodded. "If it was really my father's words, I wouldn't tell them. ”

Shan Hengfang said: "Do you remember that--that Xia Junli who was going to take his sister away last time? Daddy did it with him. ”

Shan Fei looked at the shirt in his hand and was stunned: "Xia Junli, did he hurt his father?"

"He ......" Shan Heng didn't sort out the ins and outs in his heart, and he didn't know where to start, so he could only shake his head: "He may ...... Dead. ”

Shan Fei stood up in shock, "Xia Junli is dead, Dad beat him to death?"

"Be quiet!" Shan Heng said busily, "No...... It wasn't my dad who killed him. But in short...... In short, he has shed so much blood, he must not survive......"

"What should I do then?" Shan Fei looked at his shirt in disbelief, "If my sister knows......

"That's why you don't tell your sister!" Shan Heng looked restless. "You don't care about the others, anyway-that's what Dad told you anyway, he always has a way......"

"What can be done?" Shan Fei muttered, "If he dies, won't the word spread outside, how can he hide it? Why did he come suddenly? Why did he get into a fight with Daddy? Did he run away now? Daddy went after him or ......?"

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, "Did he come with Brother Ping? Isn't Brother Ping coming at night? When I talk about it during dinner, doesn't my sister know that he has been here?"

Shan Heng couldn't help but ask so many questions in one breath, and said dizzily: "I don't know, you just listen to Dad! If Brother Ping can say it, then Dad's must have thought of it, and he must have a countermeasure a long time ago." ”

Of course, this is true - what Shan Fei's head can think of, how could his father not think of it? Yi Fei is young, and when he thinks about it, he can only think of a lot of flaws and troubles, and only his father can solve all these flaws and troubles.

But he really couldn't help it. "How so. He muttered again and again, muttering that Shan Heng became more and more upset, and couldn't help but be angry: "It's useless for you to think about it." Anyway, Xia Junli is not a good person, he and his sister are not successful! If he doesn't come, forget it, who let him come!"

Shan Fei raised his head. "I saw - there were a lot of floats in the valley today, and it was him...... He's coming to see his sister, isn't he?"

"You just see those, do you see how many officers and soldiers are ambushed outside the valley!" Shan Heng was angry, "He just used his sister as an excuse, he just wanted to take the opportunity to deal with us, otherwise what would he do with so many people? And with his extremely vicious master, if his father didn't stop him, he didn't know what would happen!"

"Yifei, are you all okay?" The stabbing voice was already downstairs, "It's getting dark, I'll go to my cousin's house to see if he's okay first!"

Shan Heng hurriedly silenced. “...... It's coming!" Yifei hurriedly responded, and Yiheng hurriedly stuffed the bloody clothes again, didn't say more, and went out and downstairs.

Shan Heng volunteered to go to the Gu family's old mansion - it was nonsense to say that Shan Jiquan and Gu Xiaomeng accompanied Gu Ru to fly home, and at this time, he couldn't let the thorn break the lie. His temperament is very similar to that of his eldest brother Unintentional, most of the time he doesn't want to think too much, but he can only circle his lies.

It's dusk, and the snow is stopping. The back kitchen was speeding up the preparation of more dishes, and the side hall was set up for a banquet, and Shan Jiquan finally returned home with Gu Xiaomeng, followed by Gu Rufei and Shan Heng. Thorn hurriedly greeted him: "Dad, mother, you are so late-you know, right? Brother Ping is back today, and he is going to come over for dinner in the evening!"

Shan Jiquan's face was very tired, and Fang Luo's stabbing voice had already sensed that something was wrong—not only Shan Jiquan, but even Gu Xiaomeng's face seemed to be a little strange.

She opened her mouth to ask, and Shan Jiquan had already said first: "I saw Ping'er - he just let people talk, I'm afraid I won't be able to come tonight." ”

Thorn was surprised: "Why can't you come?" Grandpa Guan said he was coming......

"He has an urgent matter and has returned to Beijing. Shan Jiquan said, "But if you fly, tonight will be lively." ”

"Went back to Beijing?" Thorn couldn't help but exclaim, "Didn't he just arrive in the afternoon, he—he didn't even meet with us—went back to Beijing?"

"He is not as old as he was now, and many things are involuntary. Shan Jiquan patted her on the shoulder, "He didn't come back alone this time, and he didn't just bring two ladies back - he was accompanied by the guards of King Yi's Mansion." said that he was a guard, but in fact, he was just sent to monitor him in the forbidden city, and Zhang Ting, who was the leader - you also know this person, the official rank is not low - on the surface, he listened to the orders of King Yi, but in fact, he had to have a holy oracle secretly, but the camera asked King Yi to return to Beijing at any time. I just met Zhang Ting, and I also wanted to keep it, but according to him, Rong Ping'er in the capital was already very kind to come this time, he had already met his family, and he was afraid of long nights and dreams in Qinglong Valley, so he ...... You have to go. ”

"How can this be true!" cried the thorn, "so much snow, so dark...... He hasn't rested yet, but he's going to rush back to Beijing? No, he's here, I'm going to meet him...... I'm going to see him!"

"Sister!" Shan Heng saw the thorn and walked to the side of the stable, expecting that she was going to chase after her, but she was worried that something outside had not been covered up properly, so she hurriedly waited to stop it. Shan Jiquan raised his hand to stop him: "Let her go." It's been a long time since I've seen each other, so it's good to see each other. ”

The thorn had already got on the horse, turned back to Gu Rufei and said, "Cousin, I'll catch up with my brother and come back to catch up with you later." Without waiting for him to answer, he patted his horse and left.

Shan Heng saw that she was going far away, but he was in a hurry, but when he looked at Shan Jiquan, he only said, "Let's go to the hall." In any case, today is still to wash the dust of Rufei. ”

Gu Rufei raised his head and said, "Uncle Xie." Gu Xiaomeng kept her head down and didn't say a word.