In the early morning, snowflakes are still like catkins, like cotton, and like goose feathers fluttering from the sky. A twelve-year-old boy dressed in relatively thin clothes to face the heavy snow, slowly walking in a vast mansion, from time to time on the road can also see a few maids and handymen, see the young man saluted, and whispered after the young man went away.

"Sister Hua, who is that little boy, don't you feel cold when you wear so little?" a maid asked the maid beside her quietly after watching the young man walk away.

The maid named Sister Hua pulled her forward for a while before saying: "That is the eldest young master Xia Mingfeng, you are new, don't say that Sister Hua doesn't take care of you, it was spread all over the house seven or eight years ago, the eldest young master is a waste who can't cultivate, what do you care about him cold and warm, although they respect him on the surface, they don't know what to do behind their backs." ”

"Sister Hua, won't the eldest young master inherit the head of the family in the future?"

"It's also your blessing to be able to enter the Xia family as a maid, and I am giving you an entry point, so as not to say that I won't take care of you in the future. I heard that after a few years of the Xia family's big competition, it will be possible to decide whether this waste can be the head of the house, and it has been a few years that even I, a maid, are not as good as me, and I can't even enter the spitting period. Young Master Ming Yuan was 7 years old when he was 7 years old, and he was the real heir to the head of the family. ”

"What is it?"

"You'll know this later"

Xia Mingfeng could still vaguely hear the discussion of his subordinates in the distance, and smiled helplessly, in recent years, where Xia Mingfeng has passed, although the maids and servants are respectful on the surface, they still talk behind their backs, when Xia Mingyuan was seven years old, he directly cultivated to the time of vomiting, and the voice of discussion became louder, which also made Xia Mingfeng's heart gradually mature.

After walking a short distance, I came to a huge courtyard, with a five-story platform erected in the middle, and wind chimes hanging in the corners, and a snow-capped and empty place. In the middle is a stone-paved path leading to the front of the pavilion, and there is not even a trace of snow on the path, just like the road surface on a sunny day.

Xia Mingfeng stepped on the path strangely, went straight to the pavilion, approached and saw three big characters written on the plaque, "Library Building", a different light appeared in his eyes, and it was fleeting.

Stepping into the pavilion, an old man in the building sat cross-legged on the stone couch on the right side of the door, closing his eyes and resting. After walking in, Xia Mingfeng saluted the old man, looked at the familiar bookshelves and walked around to a row of bookshelves, picked up a book and looked at it attentively.

In the living room of the main courtyard of another house in Xia Mansion, two men and a woman sat around a round table, which was full of various delicacies, and a fire was placed on it, and a few pots of wine were hot in the fire. The three of them sipped a glass of wine while tasting the delicacies.

The three of them are Xia Mingfeng's parents and sixth uncle, Xia Haihao was thirsty and said to Xia Haitao after taking a sip of wine: "Sixth, you have to find a companion quickly, you see how happy your eldest brother and my sister-in-law are together every day." ”

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"Hiss" Xia Haihao suddenly took a breath of cool air, turned his head to look at Ye Rou beside him, and grinned with a pleading look in his eyes.

Ye Rou continued to taste the delicacies as if she hadn't seen anything, and the sixth noticed Xia Haihao's appearance just now, and drank a glass of wine with Xia Haihao with a smile.

"Big brother, where is the wind?" Xia Haitao just asked, and the scene instantly quieted down.

"Feng'er should be studying in the library. ”

"Haven't finished reading it in 6 years?"

After reading it, Feng'er stayed at home and had nothing to do, so he ran away again today. ”

Ye Rou's expression darkened, and then she glared at Xia Haihao: "What do you still say, Feng'er is going to leave home to go to the Mixed Yuan Sect at such a young age, what if something goes wrong? And a good day has not passed, woo" said and his tone became choked and sobbed.

"Okay, don't cry, I don't want to do this, but I can't help it if I don't do it. Xia Haihao comforted Ye Rou helplessly, but it didn't work at all.

Xia Haitao felt embarrassed for a while, and finally Xia Haihao's tone became sharp: "Okay, okay, the sixth child is still here, what are you crying and crying, go back to the house." Ye Rou glared at Xia Haihao fiercely, then turned around and entered the house.

"Come on, let you see the smile, the sixth continues to drink. ”

The two chatted while drinking, and gradually it was getting close to noon.

Xia Mingfeng also returned to the courtyard from the library building, heard the sound of the heat in the house, lifted the curtain and walked into the house.

After seeing Xia Haihao and Xia Haitao, he stood beside the table obediently and saluted: "My nephew has seen the sixth uncle." ”

"Feng'er is back, come and have a drink with Uncle Six. ”

"Sixth Uncle, I don't know how to drink. ”

"How can you not drink some wine and have a few drinks with Uncle Six. ”

Xia Haihao also echoed: "Your sixth uncle is happy to see you, so Feng'er will accompany your sixth uncle to have a few drinks." ”

Hearing this, Xia Mingfeng nodded, sat down at the round table, and after tasting a few mouthfuls of delicacies, he raised his full wine glass and said, "Sixth uncle and nephew toast you." ”

"Haha, okay, come on. ”

Xia Mingfeng clinked the glass as an adult, drank the wine in the cup in one sip, a hot feeling came from his throat, and he hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of food before he lost that feeling, and his little face instantly became rosy. provoked Xia Haihao and Xia Haitao to laugh, and after eating a few bites of food, they drank another glass, their faces became more ruddy, and their heads felt dizzy.

"Father, it's so hot in the house, I'll go outside and cool off for a while. Xia Mingfeng fanned the wind with his little hand as he spoke.

"Haha, go ahead, don't go too far. ”

Walking outside, the cold wind hit, Xia Mingfeng felt the slightest coolness, took out a jade pendant from his arms, and put it on the stone table in the courtyard.

"It's really cold to take off this jade pendant, hmm" muttered to himself, and quickly grabbed the jade pendant and put it on his body, only to eliminate the chill just now.

Dizzy and aimlessly wandering around the house, as soon as he arrived at the door of a courtyard, he heard the cheers inside, and walked in. I saw that the courtyard was square in size, without a trace of snow, and there were big martial arts characters written on the wall.

Xia Mingfeng walked to the circle surrounded by everyone, and found that Xia Mingyuan and the family guards were competing in the circle. I saw Xia Mingyuan suddenly punch in the middle, the guard hurriedly turned sideways and grabbed his arm with both hands, and when he was about to pick up Xia Mingyuan and fall to the ground in an instant, Xia Mingyuan grabbed his belt with one hand when he was being picked up, and his feet also kicked hard and turned over.

Then one turned over and stood on the ground, and both hands grabbed the guard's belt and threw the guard to the ground directly by way of back falling, and then raised his fist and rushed straight to the door, the guard just reacted and saw a fist ushered in, and he didn't have time to dodge the cold sweat and shed a few drops, only to stop at the place where the distance was almost to the nose.

"Are you okay?" Xia Mingyuan put away his fists and pulled the guards up, and the cheers of the crowd in a circle became even more lively.

"The second young master is awesome"

"That's not it"

"Tsk, it's like this at a young age, and I'll pay it back in the future. ”

Everyone was discussing enthusiastically, and Xia Mingfeng retreated from the crowd, turned around and walked out of the martial arts arena, his expression was a little envious and gloomy.

"Brother Mingyuan, do you think that's Brother Feng?" said a clan brother pointing to Xia Mingfeng's back.

Looking in the direction of his fingers, the corners of his mouth slightly picked up, and there was some flirtation in his tone: "It should be, no matter if he continues to practice." ”

Xia Mingfeng walked in the Xia Mansion in a daze, looked at the goose feather snow falling from the sky, sighed lightly, lowered his head and walked back to the courtyard where he lived. The sound in the house was still stopped, and Xia Mingfeng did not step into the main hall, but walked towards a wing room on the left, walked to the house, lay on the bed, and fell asleep groggy.

In the living room, the glass change is still in progress, the two of you touch the wine glass back and forth until the evening, the food on the table has already been eaten, and the sixth Xia Haitao staggered away after saying goodbye.

Xia Haihao smirked happily after sending the sixth child out of the house and said to himself: "Hehe, sixth child, if you want to get me drunk, you can't kill you." "I saw a column of water dripping from one hand

turned around and walked into the house, saw Ye Rou sitting on the bed, and said softly: "Daughter-in-law, are you still angry?"

"Hmph" Ye Rou snorted coldly, and had no meaning to speak.

"Well, don't be angry, isn't this the sixth child here today? I'm also the head of the family, so it's normal to give me some face. Xia Haihao spoke, his eyes still looking at Ye Rou's expression from time to time.

I saw Ye Rou turn her head and look at him with a smile, and her heart couldn't help but tighten: "Oh, the head of the family, what a great majesty." The tone was still smiling, which made Xia Haihao even more entangled.

"Daughter-in-law, I was wrong, I shouldn't have yelled at you today. ”

"How could you be the head of the family?"

"Daughter-in-law, don't say that, you are the head of the family, I was wrong. ”

"Oh, wrong, let's sleep in the living room tonight. ”

"The next person will laugh when he sees it" Xia Haihao just opened his mouth to say, only to see Ye Rou staring at him hatefully with a pair of phoenix eyes, and he couldn't say the next words anymore, so he could only show a bitter face.

Ye Rou glared angrily and said, "Don't come to this set, which time is not like this, let me go out today"

Time flies, and more than ten days are like flowing water. On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, in the banquet hall in the Xia Mansion, Qi Qi was full of forty or fifty people, including clan uncles who had not returned all year round, and there were clan members, all gathered around the banquet hall to have a reunion dinner.

When night fell, the children's eyes were not attracted by the dishes, and they occasionally looked at the fireworks outside the house. The eleven, twelve, and thirteen-year-old children all sat in their seats and listened to the teachings of their elders, while Xia Mingfeng sat there quietly, sometimes moving chopsticks to his usual dishes, and couldn't see what he was thinking.

Although her mother Ye Rou sat with her younger brothers and sisters in the clan, her eyes still looked at Xia Mingfeng from time to time, for fear that she would not see him