The twelfth day of the lunar month is an ordinary day for ordinary people, and it is nothing more than one day closer to the New Year than the eleventh day of the lunar month.

The twelfth day of the lunar month is the birthday of Yun Tianzhi, and after today, the girl will reach the double decade. In the Mid-Autumn Festival next year, he will marry his childhood sweetheart Song Jichen.

It's just that the girl has never liked to be noisy, and her previous birthdays were also with her father, younger brother and Song Jichen and other family members. The girl will cook a few men's favorite side dishes in her own plantain building. To be more precise, it is to cook a few dishes that his younger brother Yun Xuelan likes to eat.

The girl didn't hurt her brother in vain, Yun Xuelan and her sister learned to cook noodles since the director. In previous years, Yun Xuelan, who had changed from a boy to a teenager, would personally serve a bowl of noodles for her sister, with only a few green vegetable leaves and a poached egg in it. The boy didn't know if the noodles he cooked were the taste of his mother, which his sister often mentioned to him. But the girl knows that the taste of her mother is the taste of family and home that her brother gives her.

Although there are rumors inside and outside the villa and even the entire Great Xia court and rivers and lakes, Song Jichen will be the real owner of Yunyin Villa in the future. On the contrary, the world has a disdainful attitude towards the real young owner of Yunyin Villa. There are even better people who will take out the children of the Yun family to judge them one by one, and they are afraid that the world will not set a ranking. Song Jichen is undoubtedly at the top of the list. And Yun Xuelan is only one place higher than his cousin Yun Xueyuan in Luoshi City who can only study to death and is firmly at the bottom of the list. Although the outside world always compares Yun Xuelan with his father's righteous son with ulterior motives, and there are some "retainers rebelling and seeking power and usurping the throne". But the outside of Yunyin Mountain Villa seemed to be covered with a formation that filtered out all the noise, and these words that provoked the two brothers did not reach the ears of Yun Song and the others at all. Whether it is a righteous brother or a brother-in-law and brother-in-law, the relationship between the two has always been harmonious. At first, Song Jichen, who was a little older, would deliberately talk about these things in front of Yun Xuelan, for fear of hurting the young man's self-esteem. But in the face of the secretive brother-in-law, Yun Xuelan is a lot more free and easy, and often tells her brother-in-law some of the occasional comments and comparisons about the two as jokes.

At first, Song Jichen and Yun Tianzhi would feel a little embarrassed when they heard their younger brother talking about these topics, but there was not the slightest cynicism or yin and yang weirdness in the young man's tone, but he really said it to everyone like a joke, and when he saw the innocent sincerity in the young man's eyes, his sister Yun Tianzhi was relieved. Then the girl will feel that she is extremely lucky, the three men in her life take such care and love to her, and she does not have to fall into the dilemma of husband and brother.

It's just that today's Basho Xiaozhu is missing two men who are the most important to Yun Tianzhi. Perhaps it is because the villa has been shrouded in the haze of the attack on the Yunjin River recently, and the spies sent to Nanliang to track down in the past three months have still made no progress. Although the daily operation of the villa is still stable and old, those who are careful will still perceive a kind of depression that is about to rain and full of buildings, and is always suppressed among the high-rise buildings of the villa. In addition, Yun Xuelan has left the villa for more than three months and has not been heard from since. Out of concern for his father and younger brother, Yun Tianzhi was absent-minded tonight, and did not cook in person as usual, but arranged for the maid Angelica to go to the kitchen of the villa to order an ordinary dinner as usual.

The girl sat at the table in the courtyard in a daze, dressed in a lake-blue robe. On the table are six delicate side dishes and a jug of wine. The girl didn't move her chopsticks, but just held her cheeks with her left hand in a daze. The fog obscured the moonlight at night, and only a few dragon lanterns hanging in the courtyard corridor accompanied the woman alone, and the lights were as worried as the girl.

Yun Tianzhi sat for a long time, and the stone table and the stone bench opposite were all covered with moisture. The sound of hurried footsteps at the gate of the courtyard brought the girl back to reality from her contemplation, and she looked up in the direction from which the voice had come. Seeing that the person who came was as she expected, the short-lived sadness on her face finally dissipated, and the woman smiled so amazed that the golden carp in the pond in the yard forgot to swim and sank to the bottom of the pond.

A young man with a silver forehead on his head walked briskly into the courtyard. The man was not wearing the black robe he was used to wearing today, but a rare set of purple and gold thread embroidered with moire. Seeing the woman's somewhat obsessed and surprised gaze at her, the young man who walked to the table smiled softly and said, "On your birthday, it would be unlucky to wear black again, so I changed this outfit." ”

As he spoke, the young man sat down opposite the woman, picked up the flask on the table, and poured a glass of wine for the girl and himself. The young man picked up the cup and did not speak, the tacit understanding between the two made it so that they did not need to say anything when no outsiders were present. The woman and the young man clinked glasses gently, but the wine did not enter her throat, and the girl's cheeks were already drunk with two reds.

The young man took out a white jade box from his arms and put it on the table, nudged it in front of the woman and said, "Open it and take a look, do you still like the gift you chose?"

In the jade box was a round jade plate the size of a palm. Yun Tianzhi carefully held the jade plate in his hand, and his hand was a little cold. The jade plate is made of a single piece of dark blue jade, and a red bead the size of a pigeon's egg in the center will emit a faint heat from the red bead when it is approached, but it will dispel the coolness of the cold night in early winter.

The jade plate is engraved with seven circular lines around the red beads. Seven spherical gems of different sizes and colors are inlaid in the pattern, and at this moment the seven gems are rotating around the red bead in the center along the openwork pattern, and if you look closely, you will find that the seven stones are also rotating at the same time.

Yun Tianzhi could feel that although the seven gems were all rare treasures in the world, they were not magic weapons, so the energy that could rotate did not come from the gems themselves. Curiously, the girl turned over and over the jade plate in her hand like a child, wanting to find out.

Seeing the girl's reaction, Song Jichen smiled with satisfaction, and he also showed off like a child: "This is the masterpiece of the Nanliang Chen family, called Qiongjian." It is said that only three pieces have been produced in the world, and it is said that the monks of the Yin and Yang family comprehended the heavenly opportunities when they observed the stars and celestial phenomena. And the Chen family used their own secret method to make a special bracket according to the description of this Yin-Yang family martial artist, so that the gems in the jade plate did not hesitate to operate. According to the person who made it, if you can understand the mysteries in the jade plate, you will have eternal life. Song Jichen gushed about the origin and mystery of this thing.

The Chen family is a well-known family of refiners in the Southern Liang and even in the whole world, and is especially known for making all kinds of small and delicate machines. Today's Nanliang Chen is even more famous because of a woman, that is the queen Chen of today's Nanliang.

But this woman is not known because of her alluring appearance or wisdom and blue heart, let alone because of her scheming methods. The king of a country in today's Southern Liang is a man of unique taste. He only loves plump and even somewhat burly women, and the more fat and bloated a woman is in the eyes of ordinary people, the more favored by this king of a country.

He once ignored the opposition of the Southern Liang court and abolished the original queen chosen for him by the first emperor and married when he was the crown prince. Instead, he insisted on canonizing a concubine of the Chen family as the queen. Although the Chen family is one of the few famous families in Southern Liang, if a concubine is married into the palace, it will naturally not cause criticism from the court, but after a concubine becomes a country, even the head of the Chen family who is the head of the military department has written to ask His Majesty to retract his will.

The most important thing is that the woman who was made the queen by the monarch was a dark-skinned man with a burly figure who was not inferior to a man. This woman, who weighs about 300 pounds, will be mistaken for a man who prefers women's clothes at first glance. Loyal ministers can't screw the emperor's strength, and the woman became the mother of a country in the world because of her good skills in the room, but also fascinated this unique taste of the Southern Liang monarch, and the Chen family has become a family that can be called equal to the royal family in today's Southern Liang.

The emperor gave the title of "Charming Pig" to the woman, and then successively accepted nine women who were extremely similar to the woman's body and body into the harem. and gave their respective titles as "charming dog, charming donkey" and so on. In the past ten years, "Stunning Beauty" has become a taboo that is never mentioned in the rivers and lakes of Nanliang and the court, but it has been talked about by the people of Daxia.

Because of the superb refining skills of the Chen family, the various magic weapons cast by him have become highly regarded by the Southern Liang and Great Xia. Now, because of this "charming pig" queen, it is even more difficult to find the things cast by the Chen family. In Yun Tianzhi's hand, there are only three pieces of dome, and its value can be seen from Chengdu in the Western Han Dynasty, so you can imagine how much effort Song Jichen spent in order to make a beauty smile.

Seeing Yun Tianzhi playing with the jade plate lovingly, Song Jichen continued: "Zhi'er, you haven't laughed for a few months. ”

Hearing this, the woman put the jade plate back into the jade box, raised her head and looked at the young man apologetically, and said, "Brother Chen, I've worried you these days. The whereabouts of my father are unknown, and the people outside are eyeing the villa. Lan'er is alone, and he doesn't know if his identity is exposed, if someone knows his identity, it will be a fatal disaster. Two days ago, there was news that Yun Xuelu and they were calculated by the Yuwen family in the tomb again, and it was a trivial matter to lose to Yuwen Xing, but the children of many power sects were slaughtered, and these forces were ostensibly shocked by the Yun family and could only break their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs. But this revenge is on the head of our Yun family. After saying that, the woman sighed deeply.

The young man lovingly held the woman's hands, gently wrapped the somewhat cold white and tender jade palm in his warm and generous palm, and gently stroked it. Although there were a lot of calluses on the palms of her hands because of the practice of martial arts, they were a little rough to the touch, but the girl only felt a sense of solidity coming from these hands. It seems that as long as these hands are held in time, there is no fear of the sky falling.

The man said softly: "Father-in-law and Lan Erji have their own natural appearances, and they will be fine. It's that you've lost too much weight these days, and if Lan'er comes back, you'll have to blame me, my righteous brother. As he spoke, he let go of the hand holding the woman, picked up a bowl of soup, first took a spoon and then frowned, and raised his voice a little angrily: "Come on! The food is cold and you still want to give it to your young lady? ”

The maid Angelica came quickly. Her eyes lit up when she saw the young man's dress today. The obsession in her eyes flashed, she gave a blessing, and her eyes still unconsciously looked at Song Jichen secretly when she saluted. The latter didn't seem to notice the maid's admiring eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "Angelica, how do you serve your young lady? ”

Before Angelica could reply, Yun Tianzhi hurriedly grabbed Song Jichen's hand and said, "Brother Chen, I told them not to stay and serve, I have been thinking about things just now and forgot to eat, don't blame her." As she spoke, she turned to Angelica and said, "Call someone to bring the food hot." You go and put this thing away. ”

Seeing the jade plate in the jade box, Angelica's eyes were burning for a long time. As if aware of her gaffe, she hurriedly explained: "This is a gift from my uncle to Miss, it looks so delicate and interesting." Just now I checked the mountain villa, and the gift list sent by the city and Tiger Leaping Pass are all cheesy routines. It's still the uncle who prepares the most for the miss, and the uncle is really good to the miss. ”

The young man glared at the chattering maid and said, "You girl has more and more mouths, and it is Zhi'er who spoils you no big or small." ”

Angelica stuck out his tongue a little mischievously, then winked at his own young lady, and carefully put away the jade box and retreated. Then several maids came up and brought the food away.

There are only two affectionate people left. The two stared at each other affectionately for a long time. I don't get tired of seeing each other, only Lang and concubine.

Yun Tianzhi opened his mouth to break the charm in the courtyard, "Brother Chen, this girl Angelica seems to have admired you for a long time, she has been with me for a long time, and I have always treated her as my own sister." Why don't you take her as a concubine when we get married? Maybe this wronged her, but once she has affection for you, she can be regarded as marrying the person she likes. Second, you and I will not treat her badly, and she will really have no worries about food and clothing in the future in the villa. With that, the woman cast an inquiring look at the young man.

The young man replied without thinking: "Zhi'er, you know, in my heart in this life, apart from you, the only woman who can tolerate it is our daughter in the future." Angelica is a good girl, and she shouldn't be wronged by me. ”

Angelica, who put away the jade box, walked out of the room and heard the discussion between the two. The girl bit her lower lip lightly and clenched her fists tightly. It seems that clenching your hands like this can restrain the grievances in your heart from slipping from the corners of your eyes. When she saw the maids returning to the courtyard with their reheated meals, she calmed down and walked to the match made in heaven at the table.

Yun Tianzhi tasted a few bites of food, but he still felt that there was something missing, but he couldn't say what was missing for a while. At this time, a villa guard came to the outside of the courtyard, saying that there was a secret letter to be handed over to Song Jichen. The latter took it, opened the fire seal, and took out a blank piece of paper inside. There was not a word on the paper. Yun Tianzhi picked up the flask and poured the contents of the wine onto the paper. Seeing the words slowly emerging, Yun Song and the two glanced at each other, and they both saw a hint of relief in each other's eyes.

The few numbers mentioned in the letter mean that there is Yun Xuelan's whereabouts in Los Angeles City. And in the Li Mansion and Yuwenxing, the outcome is unknown, and on the same day, Yun Xuelan went out of the city with a young man of unknown origin, and there was no trace of more than 30 miles out of the city.

Yun Tianzhi held the paper, and seemed to be holding a peace of mind, a peace of mind to know the whereabouts of his younger brother who had been worried about it for many days. The woman looked back to the table, as if the letter had whetted her appetite. She suddenly realized that the taste she had been missing was a bowl of longevity noodles that her brother had cooked for her.

The dragon's beard is a traveler, and the jade eggs return to the dust. Qingye floating rivers and lakes, when will you knock on the door of the village?