In January of the second year of Zhenyuan, the Son of Heaven issued an edict prohibiting witchcraft. Everyone in the world is in danger, those who were originally regarded as guests of honor by the powerful family disappeared overnight, and there were no less than ten wizard families in Tianjing City that were led by Hu Ben Zhonglang to personally lead Bai Zhengtang to steal the knife and destroy the door, involving no less than 1,000 people, nearly half of them were beheaded in the market groove to show the public, and the rest were exiled to the border.

This move was as good as the previous emperor's forbidden road and shocked the world.

In winter, the snow in Jiang'an, Wuzhou, is like a winter jacket, and the sky and the earth are the same color, all snow-white.

From time to time, the laughter of children like silver bells can be heard throughout the house. Approaching Chinese New Year's Eve, it is cold and winter in Wuzhou at this time of year, and the maids in the Qin King's Mansion cannot go back for the New Year, so they will take the families in the city and countryside to the outer courtyard of the royal mansion, anyway, there are 300 empty rooms in the outer courtyard of the royal mansion, and it is harmless to live dozens of people. The crowd is lively and lively, but it adds a bit of fireworks to the palace, which has always seemed to the outside world as a forbidden place on earth. King Qin stood on the top floor of Wang'an Pavilion at this time every year and heard the noise of the outer courtyard, watching the lights of each household, busy and busy, dressing up the outer courtyard of the palace with a very grand scene, he would always be able to grin like a fool, although in this harsh winter, he was also a little comfortable.

The inner courtyard of the palace is not something that ordinary people can enter and leave casually. Compared with the joy of the outer courtyard, the inner courtyard seems to be much deserted, except for a plum tree in front of the Wang'an Pavilion is also blooming blood red, and the scenery is black and white, the more monotonous and lonely.

At present, there is no one in the inner courtyard at a glance, and even His Royal Highness King Qin, who likes to squat in front of Zhengxian Lake in winter and stare at the frozen lake in a daze, is nowhere to be seen. A man dressed as a subordinate came in from the outer courtyard, holding two bowls of freshly made soup in his hands, looking around, but no one could be found, and he was puzzled for a while, standing in place and scratching his head, at a loss.

The man caught a glimpse of a snowdrift abruptly arching on the fishing platform in front of Zhengxian Lake, and for a moment he was suspicious, so he stepped forward and walked around the snowdrift for half a circle, reaching his neck to find that a fishing rod was stretched out of the snowdrift halfway, and the fishing line stretched straight to the bottom of the water, and the surrounding water surface had frozen again, and the line was frozen in that place.

The man suddenly had a bold guess, stretched out his hand and gently patted the tall snowdrift, and asked tentatively, "His Royal Highness King Qin?"

Seeing that there was no movement in this snowdrift, the man's face was bitter, and he was muttering that this could not be a trick specially played by His Royal Highness King Qin, right?

I saw a spirit in the snowdrift, and patches of snow fell, and the frightened man hurriedly walked away with the soup. Immediately, the snowdrift began to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it did not stop until it was the height of a person, revealing the human form inside.

The man with the soup stood in place dumbfounded, and after a while, seeing that the figure that had shaken off the snow was standing still in such a position, and still tilting his head, the man suddenly raised his heart to his throat, and asked, "Your Highness, ......"

But before the words fell, the figure in the snow suddenly lifted his breath and sneezed violently, shaking the snow accumulated on the branches of the snow plum in front of Wang'an Pavilion.

"Oops, hey, hey......" The man who was about to become a snowman reached out and wiped his nose, sat down in place, and grinned, "Hey, I'm old, why are you still asleep catching a fish......"

His Royal Highness the King of Qin, who can be said to be above 10,000 people in the eyes of outsiders, appeared in front of his subordinates with such a funny appearance. The man timidly stepped forward and served the soup.

But His Royal Highness King Qin obviously hadn't come back to his senses yet, and the first thing he did when he reached out was to pull the fishing rod that had been frozen a long time ago. His Royal Highness King Qin pulled hard a few times, found that something was wrong, poked his head out, and then patted his head: "Why is it all frozen." ”

"His Royal Highness King Qin. "The man doesn't know how many times he has called King Qin today," Xin'er and her mother just made a pot of white fungus soup, and everyone thought it was very delicious after tasting it, so I thought about serving a bowl to His Royal Highness and Mr. Wen, or His Royal Highness would taste it first. ”

Only then did King Qin set his eyes on the man holding the soup, and said with a smile: "Drink, drink, it's rare for the old man to be so attentive, I'll try it." ”

Saying that, King Qin took a bowl of white fungus soup, opened the lid and took a sip, the sweetness was moderate, refreshing and not greasy, King Qin nodded and said, "It's delicious." It's just a little bland, Mr. Wen must like it, I'll leave my bowl to him. ”

After hearing this, the man turned around and was about to leave: "Your Highness, this soup is a little warm, I'll go back and let the room warm up and bring it to Mr." ”

"Good. ”

With that, the man returned to the outer courtyard. King Qin put his hands in his sleeves, looked at the frozen lake, his eyes were dull, and he inhaled his frozen red nose from time to time.

The man came back soon, holding a bowl of soup in both hands and a warm robe on his shoulders, came to King Qin's side and said, "Your Highness's soup is hot, I brought a warm coat here, Your Highness can put it on first." ”

King Qin glanced at the man, smiled, took off the wet coat on his body, put on the clean coat again, and then took the soup from the man's hand, but he didn't rush to ask him to leave, but asked: "Sixth son, why haven't you seen a bumper harvest this year, and her mother hasn't come back yet?"

The man named Liuzi said, "They should still be in Yangzhou." Your Royal Highness, you also know that Yangzhou is 1,800 miles away, the border of Liangzhou has been unstable this year, the King of Jin was assassinated, and the boundary of Suzhou is even more chaotic. The sixth son pondered that he would wait for the situation in Suzhou to be more stable next year, so he asked His Royal Highness for a month and a half off to go to Yangzhou to pick up the two mothers, and by the way, he brought the old uncle with him, so that his old man would have to worry about his daughter and grandson in Wuzhou for a day. ”

"Yes, yes. King Qin said with a smile, "How good it is to take it over, although Wuzhou is desolate, it is always more stable than the territory under the feet of today." When you think about it, you can go to the housekeeper and talk to it yourself, and you don't have to report it to me again. Remember to get some entanglement with the account room before leaving, don't be bitter on the way, little girl. ”

"Thank you, Your Highness. ”

King Qin waved his hand and said, "I really miss the days when Xiao Nizi was in the palace, I remember that she was so tall three years ago, right? Or is she so tall?" When she first came to the palace, this Nizi was very angry, who dared to say the spots on her face to her face, she could fight with you on the spot. It's also naughty in the house for a few days, I heard Steward Li say that this guy went to the room to steal several times, and once I was caught red-handed, who knew that this Nizi's cheeks were bulging into a hemp ball and didn't admit it, what a little Laipi. ”

"Let Your Highness bother. A smile unconsciously appeared on the face of the sixth son, after hearing the triviality of his daughter in King Qin's mouth, he could always make him feel that this palace was like a home compared to any other place in the world.