The king of Huai'an is worthy of being the king of Huai'an, and this war came and went quickly. In October of the twenty-first year of Kangqi, King Huai'an returned to the dynasty in triumph.

Two days after returning to Beijing, scattered snowflakes began to fall in Kyoto.

Butler Yao Wan looked up at the sky with his hands behind his back and muttered, "It's snowing so early this year!"

"yes, more than a month earlier. The snowflakes fell on Yu Li'an's palms and quickly turned into snow.

The snow has been falling for a month without stopping, and the sky and the earth are vast.

In the backyard of the palace, a red plum tree is planted, which blooms warm and cold in the snow.

Zhao Ning happily stepped into the gate of the Huai'an Palace, and after asking where Yu Li'an was, he went directly to the backyard.

In the hexagonal pavilion in the backyard, Yu Li'an was looking at the rockery in the distance alone, and a pot of wine was warm on the stove at his feet, and the aroma of wine was overflowing.

Zhao Ning placed the wine jar firmly on the stone table, stretched out his hand and waved it in front of her eyes: "What do you think, so engrossed?"

"It's nothing. Yu Li'an came back to his senses, "I was thinking about when the snow would stop." ”

"Isn't this pretty? Why stop?" Zhao Ning replaced the wine on the stove and said in disgust, "Why is it a rice wine carving? ”

Zhaoning is Emperor Zhengxuan's favorite daughter, flamboyant, pampered, a princess disease, and the relationship with anyone inside and outside the palace is not very good, and only Yu Li'an can stand her.

Yu Li'an poured a bowl of wine, but he didn't drink it, so he used it to warm his hands, glanced at Zhaoning, and said, "If the snow doesn't stop, how can you survive the winter." ”

"Is winter without snow still winter? Why stop?" Zhao Ning obviously couldn't understand Yu Li'an's worries, just as she didn't understand why she always drank rice wine Huadiao.

In fact, what Yu Li'an was worried about was the snow disaster. Perhaps, the disaster brought about by the snow disaster - the disaster of the Huai'an Palace.

But the innocent and carefree Zhaoning doesn't understand.

In the picture, Zhao Ning stretched his waist and sat in front of Yu Li'an, perhaps feeling a little bored, and began to play the wine jar without a match.

"Zhaoning, go back. Yu Li'an picked up the bowl and drank the rice wine.

"Ahh ”

Yu Li'an didn't speak, I didn't know what she was thinking, but I could see that she was very worried, she needed to be alone and quiet.

But Zhao Ning couldn't see it, and was still lying on the table playing the wine jar, making a sound that was not pleasant, which was particularly noisy in this silence.

Yu Li'an sighed slightly and didn't say anything.

Zhao Ning poured her a bowl of wine and suddenly asked, "That Mr. Shen has no news yet?"

Yu Li'an's hand paused, then picked up the wine, and said lightly: "No." ”

Shen Lan suddenly disappeared six months ago, like evaporating from the world, without a trace.

This incident is a knot in Yu Li'an's heart, which has been bothering her.

Zhao Ning sighed: "How can you say that such a big living person will disappear if he can't see it? ”

"Well, it's weird. Yu Li'an said lightly.

Zhao Ning stayed with her for a long time before jumping back to the palace.

She stood quietly in front of the palace gate until the snow covered the rut marks outside the door.

A few days later, Emperor Zhengxuan ordered King Huai'an and Yu Li'an to enter the palace.

He saw Yu Li'an first.

I thought it was to hang the king of Huai'an and let him blow the cold wind of the cold winter wax moon, so he let him wait outside the palace. It was a terrible overcast, and the clouds seemed to be about to fall.

Emperor Zhengxuan bathed in incense, ordered people to prepare chess sets early, and sat in front of the chess table for a long time, with a serious and solemn expression, as if he was waiting for some very important person, so important that even the preparation had to be like a ceremony.

Yu Li'an was introduced by Xiaofuzi, and through a long screen of decoration, material, and carving, you can see that it is very extravagant to the arrogant, and when you look up, you can see that the saint who is sitting upright is waiting for him.

Emperor Zhengxuan and King Huai'an are the same age, and the two have seven or eight points of similarity on their faces, both have a pair of good-looking peach blossom eyes, the same nose bridge is high, and the same lip color is cold. But the temperament of the two is completely different, one is gentle, the other is cold, and no one will ever mistake them.

Yu Li'an respectfully saluted the emperor, who was seven or eight points similar to his father.

"Excuse me, sit down. ”

She looked up and saw that the emperor pointed to the opposite position of the chess table, with gentle and moist eyebrows and smiles.

Taking a seat, Emperor Zhengxuan picked up the white son, and his clear and moist voice sounded: "The sunspot goes first." ”

Yu Li'an was not humble, didn't say anything, and really took the sunspot first.

The copper beast incense burner emitted a faint fragrance, refreshing people's hearts, Xiaofuzi stood respectfully beside Emperor Zhengxuan, and the atmosphere did not dare to come out. There was silence in the study, and only the sound of falling chess pieces could be heard.

When he was in the middle of his life, Emperor Zhengxuan made a mistake and was eaten a large piece of white seed.

Yu Li'an glanced up at him, then lifted the wide sleeves and put away the chess.

Emperor Zhengxuan frowned and glanced at her, looking quite struggling in his heart. Finally, when Yu Li'an's fingertips were about to touch Bai Zi, he brushed her hand away and destroyed the chess game in a grand manner.

Yu Li'an raised his eyes and saw a certain emperor making an innocent expression.

"I just let you have a son, and it's not too much to get it back now!" said a bold voice, a serious appearance, and a wicked smile......

The king of a country is really speechless when he plays a scoundrel......

Yu Li paused, retracted his gaze, ignored him, and continued to think about the next step in the chess game. It seems that in the months with Shen Lan, he has obviously developed a good chess style.

About half an hour later, the endgame was finally over.

From the beginning of the middle of the day, Yu Li'an never won much, and in the end he naturally lost.

Emperor Zhengxuan smiled and was in a good mood, so he got up and cleaned up the chess game himself. He separated the black and white pieces one by one and put them into the chess box seriously, and motioned to Xiao Fuzi, who had been standing next to him for an hour, to bring the chess set down, and a smile overflowed in his eyes: "Jinghe is good at chess." ”

Yu Li'an looked at him unhappily, his eyes were slightly cold.

Such a gaze was customary in her eyes, and I thought about it carefully, and although it seemed to be a little disrespectful to others, there was actually no malice. But people who don't scrutinize her gaze like I tend to think it's a dislike and too fastidious.

Emperor Zhengxuan chuckled, obviously not caring how disrespectful she was, raised his eyes to look out of the study, probably thinking that he had been hanging for a long time, so he said to Yu Li'an: "You and Zhaoning haven't seen each other for a long time, she misses you very much." ”

Yu Li'an nodded, not making any expression.

Emperor Zhengxuan propped his hand on the table, supported himself with one hand, tilted his head and said, "You go and accompany her, I want to talk to your father." ”

Yu Li'an got up and saluted, said "yes", and was led by Xiao Fuzi to the door around the arrogant screen, and Xiao Fuzi opened the door for her.

Outside the door, King Huai'an and Zhaoning, who came at an unknown time, looked at her together. She looked at them too, and barely smiled.

I looked at Yu Li'an's stiff smile and thought about it, if I were to be repented one after another, I was afraid that my smile would be even more stiff.

But the good thing is that I don't know how to play chess.

Xiaofuzi saluted the King of Huai'an and Zhaoning, and respectfully made a gesture of "please" to the King of Huai'an:

"Lord Wang, please. ”

King Huai'an didn't look at him and didn't say anything, and strode into the imperial study, looking quite arrogant and rude.

Before the door closed, Yu Li'an suddenly turned around, the door was slowly closing, and the figure of King Huai'an was getting smaller and smaller.

I was stunned, and suddenly a strange feeling crossed in my heart, and I seemed to see in a trance that in front of the chess case, Emperor Zhengxuan, who was seven or eight points similar to Yu Li'an's father, was sitting upright, with a smile on his eyebrows.

This is...... How Yu Li'an felt? My heart suddenly became uncomfortable. It was then that I suddenly realized that the record of life and death seemed to be able to convey the emotions of the people it recorded to me.

I touched the position of my heart and laughed, thinking that it would be convenient to see into people's hearts here. Yu Li'an sat next to me and asked me what I was laughing at, I shook my head and continued to look at the picture.

In the picture, At that moment, I saw Yu Li'an being so ignorant and unconscious for a long time, and it was Zhaoning who pulled her before she reacted.

Zhao Ning's eyebrows and eyes were curved, the corners of his mouth were raised, and his eyes revealed two deeply round dimples.

The sky was overcast, a gust of wind blew, the wind stopped, and the snow fell again.