A trace of sand

The wine shop's business gradually improved, and Qingyang went to visit Lie Lie more and more smoothly.In the past, he couldn't enter the gate of Qiao's mansion, but now every time the gatekeeper saw him, he would open the door specially and let him go to the corridor or the rockery.

Although it is still impossible to face Lie Lie face to face, it is better than peeking at the wall.

If it wasn't for Qiao Xuanbing's kindness, I'm afraid he wouldn't have such luck.

Qiao Xuanbing didn't like to drink too much spirits, so he specially sent two altars of "Thousand Day Drunk" to Qiao's residence to express his gratitude.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and because wine is often used outside the Great Wall to keep out the cold, the wine shop is often too busy for him to attend to, but he still closes the door every day to see Lie Lie.

It was snowing every day, and it was dusk again.

Qingyang covered the red-burning charcoal fire in the stove with ashes, so that he could warm up his body when he came back. He put his hands on the little padded jacket he made for Lie Lie, hesitating for a moment.

The maids would accept the clothes he sent every time, but he had never seen Lie Lie wearing the clothes he sewed.Those fabrics were the best he could buy, but they couldn't compare to the great business of Qiao's family, even a servant's clothes might be better than his.

"Is Boss Xue going to close?"

The thick cloth curtain was lifted, and the cold wind brought large snowflakes into the door. Qingyang felt a biting chill and shivered.

"Qiao... Master, what's your business if you don't know about your visit?" He watched the snowflakes falling on the ground melt into water in an instant, and there was no trace in the blink of an eye.

"Why? Don't you welcome me?" Qiao Xuanbing took off his cloak as if no one was there, shook off the snowflakes on it casually, hung it on the hanger, turned around and sat down slowly, and suddenly raised his head to look at him with a faint smile on his face, "I I came here specially to thank you for the two jars of wine you gave me."

"You're welcome, if Master Qiao likes it, there's still a small one here." Qingyang lowered his eyes.

"Then what's the point?" Qiao Xuanbing didn't seem to feel that he was blocking other people's itinerary, and smiled at him.

"Master Qiao, I'm going out soon." Qingyang looked at his shoe uppers.

"Can't you talk to me?" Qiao Xuanbing said softly.

Qingyang barely restrained the surprise in his heart, and said lightly: "The little one still has urgent matters."

Qiao Xuanbing's face changed slightly, and then he returned to normal: "Aren't you going to see the dog? You have two drinks with me, and I will let the two of you meet right away."

"You...are you telling the truth?"

"When did I lie to you?" Qiao Xuanbing said with a smile.

Have you lied to me less?

Qingyang raised his head and glanced at him, but this glance was very calm. "In this case, I can only agree to Master Qiao. I wonder if Master Qiao wants to drink tea or drink?"

"I want Yunshuichun, which has been steamed seven times and brewed seven times. Do you have any more?"

"Teacher Qiao mainly drinks, of course there are." After he resigned, he went to the backyard to drink. Although he lowered his head, he saw Qiao Xuanbing's smile in the corner of his eyes. After saying the word "return", I felt a little uneasy.

It is not easy to brew Yunshuichun, but he once brewed a pot when he was in Qiao's mansion.Could it be that Qiao Xuanbing saw the suspicion, so he tested himself?

When he got the wine and put it on the table, he saw that Qiao Xuanbing was adding charcoal to the stove, and the reddish light of the fire made his handsome face warm, and he couldn't help feeling a little dizzy.

Qiao Xuanbing wiped his hands with a sweat towel, filled two glasses with wine, picked up one of them, took a sip slowly, and said with a smile, "Yunshuichun is the best to drink carefully. Although the taste is a little bland, it has a long stamina and is unique. It is a pity that it has been lost for a long time. Many years ago, an elder in my class brewed it. Unfortunately, he has passed away for many years. Unexpectedly, I tasted it again at Boss Xue. Lucky to be born."

"Joe leader wants to say something, but it doesn't matter."

Qiao Xuanbing raised her slender eyebrows slightly, and said with a smile, "How do you know I have something to say?"

"If Hierarch Qiao wants to drink, let the people in the church tell me, and the villain will let people choose wine to go to Qiao's mansion, so why should Hierarch Qiao go this trip himself?"

"You're so thoughtful." Qiao Xuanbing laughed, and drank the wine in one gulp. The empty glass turned slightly to the other full glass on the table, "Drink this glass."

Qingyang had no choice but to drink a cup as promised, and still stood with his hands down.

Qiao Xuanbing paused for a while, and said: "I brought you to Qiao's mansion that day and asked about your child's mother. Do you know what it means?"

Hearing his words, he was a little dazed: "You are the father of the child, and it is normal to care about the mother of the child."

"Wrong!" Qiao Xuanbing stood up abruptly, and said coldly, "It is impossible for me to have a child, but this child is indeed mine, isn't it strange?"

Qingyang only felt his body covered in cold sweat, but after drinking, although he was still awake, his body gradually became uncontrollable, and his head began to feel dizzy: "You...what did you say?"

Qiao Xuanbing took his limp body, gradually showing an imperceptible smile on his stern face, and said softly to him: "I am very careful when I am in love with all women, how could they have my children? Except for one person, I was defenseless..."

The wine must have been tampered with by Xuan Bing, but when he did it, he couldn't figure it out, maybe it wasn't that he couldn't figure it out, but he was just numb to the point of losing his mind, unable to think, but felt that his body was A slight tremor.

Qiao Xuanbing carried him into the bedroom and put him on the bed.Although this is a man's residence, it is extremely clean, and even the sheets are washed every day, so they are spotless.The exquisite snacks on the table have not been touched, and there are small wooden knives played by children hanging on the wall.

But the room was a bit cramped after all.He only took a glance, his eyes fell on Qingyang's face, the corners of his lips moved slightly, like an inexplicable smile, his fingers landed on his mediocre face, slowly moving, the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

The most exquisite disguise technique is just to use a human skin mask, no matter how exquisite the human skin mask is, it will always have a fatal weakness, that is, the clues can be seen below the neck.Although Qiao Xuanbing knew that there are men in this world who can give birth, he never expected that there would be someone with supernatural medical skills in this world. With such a sword technique, he naturally thought that this was just an exquisite disguise technique.However, after stroking for a long time, there is no abnormality. This person's appearance is actually like this.

Qiao Xuanbing lost his mind for a moment.

He stood up abruptly, and was about to walk away, but he saw that although this person's eyes were closed tightly, apparently in a semi-conscious state, tears were slightly seeping from the corners of his eyes.

He stopped suddenly, sighed, stared at him for a while, and finally couldn't help wiping away the tears on his face with his fingertips.

"If that's the case, then you'll be offended." Qiao Xuanbing bent down and untied Qingyang's clothes.

The seam of the human skin mask may not be on the neck, but it may also be on the chest. As long as he unbuttons his clothes, he can definitely see it.Although ordinary human skin masks are called human skin, they are not entirely made of raw human skin. Most of them are soft membranes made of disguise drugs.No matter how careful a person is, it is impossible to smear the whole body with drugs.

At this time, the severe cold and flying snow were really freezing to the bone. Qiao Xuanbing unbuttoned Qingyang's clothes, and saw that although the figure of the man was somewhat similar to the man in his memory, he was much thinner and thinner. There was no trace of disguise on his whole body.

"So you really aren't."

Qiao Xuanbing's expression was as calm as water. Seeing him trembling, he really didn't know whether he was afraid or cold. He covered his body with a quilt, but he was not interested in helping him put on his clothes again. He paused and said, "I just agreed For you, let you see Lie Lie, Lie Lie is playing nearby, I let someone carry you in and let you have a look, it can be regarded as fulfilling my promise just now."

He clapped his hands three times, and after a while, someone came in from the outside, holding a chubby pink doll in his arms, who was about three or four years old, and when he saw Qingyang, he opened his arms Want him to hug.

"Daddy...Daddy..."

Qiao Xuanbing nodded slightly, and signaled the attendant to put Lie Lie down, and Lie Lie ran to the bed, pushing Qingyang's body: "Daddy...are you sleeping? Playing with Lie Lie..." The four-year-old The child didn't understand why, but felt that Daddy must have fallen asleep because he was lying still.

"Daddy... Lie Lie misses Daddy so much..."

Qingyang couldn't even move a single finger, and tears flowed down his ears involuntarily when he heard a strong call. He naturally knew what Qiao Xuanbing had done to him, but he couldn't figure out what Qiao Xuanbing meant.

He has such a deep impression on himself, so it is impossible for him to love him, I'm afraid he still loathes him so much that he can't forget it.If Qiao Xuanbing recognized him now, he might not know how he would torture himself.

And his current body was so ugly that he didn't even want to take a look at it.

"Boss Xue, you have seen Lie Lie. What I promised you has been done now, and there will be a later date."

He heard Xuan Bing's clear and cold voice, the attendants seemed to pick up the child, and the cry of the child gradually faded away. All of these, together with the rustling wind outside, seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him.

His vision went dark, and he fell into a coma completely.

***

After returning to Qiao's mansion, Qiao Xuanbing was a little uneasy. What she thought was a sure thing, turned out to be empty.The man from back then seemed to be really gone.

A year ago in the Central Plains, Qiao Xuanbing saw a few pieces of embroidery that looked like they belonged to his men. Later, he saw a portrait of Lie Lie. When he found Li Shuwen in Luoyang, he found a silk bag on the body of Li Shuwen who had taken Lie Lie away. The work is also from the hands of that person. If the person is dead, even if the embroidery is left behind, there is no need to leave personal things such as silk sacs.Even if this "Boss Xue" is not Yan Qingyang, he has a great connection with Yan Qingyang.

If it was an enemy, this Boss Xue would naturally not have an almost sincere liking for Yan Qingyang's child.This so-called "Boss Xue" and Yan Qingyang must have known each other, and it was even very possible that it was Yan Qingyang himself.

Although Qiao Xuanbing hadn't been confirmed, he had the instinct and intuition of a beast. He was almost sure that if the only one who slipped through the net and allowed him to have a child, it must be Yan Qingyang who gave birth to him.

When Yan Qingyang lived in his own home, he really hated him. Later, Qiao Shichao shot Yan Qingyang deliberately under the snow-capped mountains. No one is left alive.

It was windy and snowy at that time, and even the body could not be found.

He knew that Qiao Shichao was a spy of Wan Jianzong, but because he wanted to learn about Wan Jianzong's remnants from him, he did not execute him for a long time. Who knew that Yan Qingyang would be killed later.

According to Qiao Shichao's confession later, when they were plotting, they happened to see Yan Qingyang wandering around Qiao's mansion in a daze, staying up in the middle of the night, and then rode out of Qiao's mansion late at night to go to Wuyinlongcheng. Thinking that he had heard about Wan Jianzong's plot, he went down the mountain to find reinforcements.

Qiao Xuanbing hated this husband and wife deeply. Everyone in Qiao's residence knew that Qiao Shichao had made a decision at that time to "kill" Yan Qingyang by mistake. In this way, Qiao Xuanbing just catered to Qiao Xuanbing's wishes, and Wan Jianzong's plan also followed suit. will not be exposed.

Yan Qingyang's death did not cause a ripple in Qiao Xuanbing's heart at that time.But after eradicating the remnants of Wan Jianzong, when his mother was thinking about finding a new marriage for him, he suddenly discovered that he could never find someone who loved him like that person.

Although he is distinguished, handsome and unparalleled, he is favored by many women, but there is no one who can make his heart feel a little tired, and because of long-term scruples, he is suspicious of any woman.Born in this world, he didn't have anyone he could truly deliver to.

The person who would breathe on him like that, the person who would wait for him no matter how long it took, might never be found again.

Qiao Xuanbing sighed softly, put the silk sac in his hand into his bosom, and only heard a chuckle, "Is Master Qiao missing the old man again?"

Qiao Xuanbing didn't even turn her head: "Unexpectedly, the owner of Fuyao Palace likes to sneak around and spy on people's privacy."

The owner of the Fuyao Palace, Fang, was 21 years old, dressed in white, and walked with his hands behind his back. He was unrestrained and graceful, and he was indistinguishable from Qiao Xuanbing's appearance.Seeing Qiao Xuanbing's stern expression, he raised his slender eyebrows lightly, and said with a smile, "Master Qiao, have you found my savior? I'm not young anymore, so it's time to find someone to show you off." Yes."

"Even if we are close friends, don't joke too much!" Qiao Xuanbing sternly shouted.

Shan Miaozhi smiled slightly, and said: "A friend's wife is not good, it's my younger brother. But didn't you want him back then, why is it such a pity."

Qiao Xuanbing snorted coldly, but remained silent.

"I heard that he regarded me as your little love back then, tsk tsk, unexpectedly, he was willing to heal my wounds with all his heart, wasting most of his energy. Could it be that he fell in love with me when he saw my appearance at that time?" Shan Miao Zhi touched his chin and smiled.

"Palace Master Shan." Qiao Xuanbing turned around slowly and looked at him coldly, "Please be careful in your words and deeds."

"You are really boring." Shan Miaozhi raised his eyebrows, "By the way, did you find out, the owner of the winery under the mountain is not him."

"You're right, it really isn't." Qiao Xuanbing said softly.

"Your wife's appearance is upright and handsome. If you and I were evildoers, he would be like a fairy. There is no flaw in his appearance, but his behavior is a bit like a woman. Although he lacks aura, he has a rare charming attitude. You can't beat Boss Xue, how could you think it was him."

"Although it's not him, but..." Qiao Xuanbing took two steps and was meditating, when a servant hurried into the garden: "I want to report to the leader, the villain has something important to say."

"Say!"

"Boss Xue from the wine shop at the foot of the mountain has been ill for three days and has not gone out. When his subordinates and others broke in, they found him vomiting blood, unconscious, and his pulse was weak. The doctor went to see him and said that he was depressed and sick, and his heart and lungs were injured. It is very likely... Maybe I won't survive these two days." The servant looked at Qiao Xuanbing hesitantly.

Being drugged for no reason, stripped naked and groped all over his body was indeed an extraordinary humiliation for a man.

But would it make him so sad?

Qiao Xuanbing was a little displeased. He condescended to touch the body of a wine shop owner. Would the wine shop owner be so painful that he would die?

The servant said again: "I heard that when he was unconscious, he kept calling the young master's name..."

Shan Miaozhi said with a smile: "Qiao Leader's far-reaching charm seems to have met his opponent!" Seeing Qiao Xuanbing's face turned livid, he didn't take it seriously, "In any case, he still really loves your son, you He should be allowed to see his son before he dies."

"Maybe it's just a way for him to see Lie Lie." Qiao Xuan said coldly, then turned and walked away.

A playful smile appeared on Shan Miaozhi's face.

It's been more than four months since Qiao Xuanbing recognized his son, yet he still hasn't changed the name of the child, and still follows the name of the child's adoptive father, which is really interesting.

***

Qiao Xuanbing paused outside the closed door of the winery, raised his hand to stop the subordinates following behind him, opened the door and walked in.Maybe it was because he accepted Shan Miaozhi's words, or maybe it was a coincidence that he came to the winery again.

For a person who has nothing to do with Tianyi Sect, he has spent too much thought that he could not imagine.Unexpectedly, I will come to visit a wine shop owner again today.

It's only been four days since we last met, but it seems that we just parted ways.Qiao Xuanbing didn't know why he suddenly had such an idea, but when he smelled the fragrance floating in the winery, he suddenly felt quiet in his heart.

Pass through the inner hall and come to the bedroom at the back. It was already dark, and there was a slight coughing sound in the room, but there was no lamp.

Qiao Xuanbing lit the lamp on the table with a torch, and the soft light shone on the pale-skinned man on the bed. In just a few days of seeing him, his eyes were sunken and he was haggard.

"Master Qiao, you came to see me...are you dead? I'm dead...cough cough, Lie Lie will be yours forever, right?" Although the man's voice was deep and weak, the hatred in his words was strong. It was so sharp that it made people feel a cold chill.

Qiao Xuanbing didn't feel unhappy at all.A man who desperately wants to protect his own child is always respectable.

This "Boss Xue" seemed to have no strength at all, with one hand still sticking out of the quilt.Although he had done a lot of rough work, this hand was slender and fair, and one couldn't help but want to hold it in his palm and knead it gently.

"No... don't touch me..." Qingyang protested weakly, trying to break free from Qiao Xuanbing's hand, but he had no strength in his hand, and Qiao Xuanbing held it lightly, and he couldn't break free.

"I heard that you are seriously ill, let me take a look." Qiao Xuanbing said warmly, resting two fingers on his wrist, frowning slightly, "Why are you so seriously ill?"

"What does it have to do with you... What does it have to do with you?" Qingyang's voice was hoarse, it seemed that the struggle had taken too much effort, he kept panting, and a sickly crimson appeared on his pale cheeks.

Only then did Xuan Bing realize that although the hand he was holding was no longer as cold as before, it still did not have the body temperature of a normal person.

He lifted the quilt, and was about to put his hands under the quilt, when he suddenly saw that his body was naked under the quilt, and he was still the same as he left four days ago.

It turned out that since that day, he had been so sick that he couldn't even put on his coat.

Although Qiao Xuanbing found it unbelievable, seeing him so ill, he was not in the mood to make fun of it, and frowned: "How long have you not eaten?"

Qingyang closed his eyes, and slowly turned his face away. Although he didn't speak, his eyelashes trembled slightly, as if he was forcibly restraining the violent inner shock.

Qiao Xuanbing suddenly had a strange desire, he just wanted to lift the quilt and press this man on the bed to love him, but unfortunately he was so ill that he might not be able to bear even a single love.

"Boss Xue, follow me back to Qiao's mansion. There is someone in my teaching who can cure your illness. I wonder if you have heard of the wedding dress magic skill? This is a magical skill from my teaching, no matter how serious the injury is. , can be healed by a person who has achieved supernatural powers." Qiao Xuanbing looked at the expression on his face and said slowly.

Qingyang's eyes were closed tightly, as if in a daze. When he heard the words "marriage dress magic skill", his heart throbbed. Dazedly said: "You let me die... Xuan Bing..."

I thought I would never meet him again in this life, but after only three or four years, he first took away the child who was pregnant in October, and then he was forced to a desperate situation, now aroused his suspicion, and he followed him like a shadow, the reason for this heart He jumped and jumped, and naturally there would be no peace after that, it would be better to die.

He suddenly felt a burst of fishy sweetness welling up in his throat, and he passed out in an instant.

When drowsy, it seems that there are many people coming and going around me, and I can even vaguely hear Lie Lie's coquettish crying.He wanted to call Lie Lie's name, but he couldn't make a sound no matter what, as if something was pressing heavily on his heart, making him unable to breathe.