The north wind howls outside the window, the tent lights inside the curtains are dim, and there is the sound of quilts being rubbed against sleepless pillows in the quiet night.

"Bi Yan," the person in the tent coughed lightly twice, and called in a low voice, "Bring tea..."

"Here we come," the big maid who slept in the outer room put on her clothes and hurriedly took the teapot out of the stove. She yawned and poured half a cup. Suddenly, she felt that something was wrong. She reached out her hand to touch the teacup, which was so cold that her hands were frozen, and looked carefully. The fire in the stove had already been extinguished, and none of the servants from last night noticed, "This group of people is going to turn the world upside down!" She furrowed her eyebrows and cursed, holding the teacup and hanging it over the charcoal basin, Warm the wall of the cup with both hands.

"I copied the Buddhist scriptures in the middle of the night, and I just fell asleep for less than an hour, why did I wake up thirsty?" Bi Yan turned into the bedroom, gently lifted half of the bed curtain and hung it on the small silver hook, and handed over the teacup.The half-bright and half-dark lights shrouded the person's face, and the person leaning on the layered embroidered pillows on the bed was a young man with a red pregnancy mole in the middle of his brow, but his face was pale and the mole was also dim, and his half-closed pair of hanging phoenix The eyelashes drooped down, revealing a three-point sickness.

He lowered his head and took a sip. The tea was so cold that his throat was hairless, and he coughed violently again, breaking the teacup in his hand.Bi Yan didn't care to tidy up, so she hurriedly patted him on the back, gritted her teeth angrily, and said bitterly: "Now this place is becoming more and more outrageous! The wife is really, she is the son's aunt after all, how considerate and thoughtful she was to us back then, It's good now, the weather makes you stand on the porch and set the rules, but what's wrong with you? Our Jiangling Marquis Mansion is so honorable, it's not the time for her to do everything possible to get married!"

"What are you talking about in the Jiangling Marquis Mansion? As soon as my father and mother left, they would have gone away...Fortunately, I still have a sister who is a princess." Jiang Mengzhen leaned back with her eyes closed, and said wearily: " Don't blame your aunt either. She and her mother were not born of the same mother. She was kind and thoughtful at the time, but she wanted the young master to marry the Hou Fu. But just as the marriage was about to happen, the young master died of a sudden illness. I killed the first young master, but Aunt Zhou begged for this marriage for the second young master. The concubine died, and the concubine took advantage of it. My aunt and us have long since cut off the shallow family relationship. I don’t know how to hate me in my heart.”

"How can you blame the young master for what happened back then?" Bi Yan wanted to say something, but in the end she just sighed softly: "It would be great if the young master was still here..."

Jiang Mengzhen twitched her brows, and her complexion became worse, "You are really going crazy, what nonsense are you talking about!"

"Young Master Xiangshi cares so much about you. I wish I could ask him about everything I eat and drink. It's not like I can't even have a sip of hot tea now!" Bi Yan became more and more angry, and she simply said, "You and the Second Young Master have passed. In the past few years, when will he be happy again? He has been gloomy and cold since he was a child. The Qi family entered the official position through the imperial examination, and the eldest and young master speak well, but he only knows how to wield a knife and stick. Now he is going to join the army, okay, just like that It’s like a meat bun that beats a dog, and it’s gone forever! There’s been no news for more than half a year, and I don’t know how to send a letter back from home. Thankfully, you still copy the scriptures and pray for him every day, can he read it?”

"You...you are becoming more and more unscrupulous!" Jiang Mengzhen's blood surged up, and he coughed for a while, Bi Yan was so frightened that she shed tears, and knelt on his bedside to apologize.After tossing and tossing for a while, Jiang Mengzhen fell on the pillow, panting and said very slowly: "I don't want him to think about my good...as long as you think about the friendship we grew up together, don't, don't No more self-indulgent nonsense."

"I'm just really distressed, so I won't talk about it in the future..." Bi Yan helped him press the corner of the quilt, and the sky outside the window had already turned pale. She wiped the sweat coughed on Jiang Mengzhen's forehead with a handkerchief, and said softly : "Go back to sleep, it's really my fault, talking all about what's there and what's not there like a bewilderment, let the young master waste a lot of energy this night."

"You must know that misfortune comes from the mouth, and people's words are terrible." Jiang Mengzhen's voice was like a wisp of smoke that was about to disperse in the incense cage, and Bi Yan's tears fell uncontrollably. If the behavior is wrong, why not reveal the true feelings?Back then, she followed Jiang Mengzhen to see off the eldest lady, and came to the capital from Jiangling. A 14-year-old young man walked out of the sedan chair. In the light of the cage, some of the servants of the Qi family knelt down on the spot, called "Guanyin" and kowtowed repeatedly, making a lot of jokes.

They came to the Qi Mansion in such a grand way that day, how could they have thought of today?Seeing the discord between the young master and the second young master, she was really anxious and angry. She hated the second young master who took advantage of the cheap and acted like a good boy. Instead, it added to his sorrow.

When will such an empty and unhappy day be the end?

"Did you hear, there was a lot of trouble in the yard yesterday!" The old mother pouted at Wan Yunxuan, who was sleeping on Jiang Meng's pillow, and gossiped strangely: "In such a cold weather, the stove is blown by the wind. It’s okay to kill yourself, since you are the master, you should be sympathetic, but you are whispering to his big maid who is always strong, and who will show it to you if you smash the glass? Anyway, everyone is ashamed!"

"That is to say," another woman hurriedly said, "To tell you the truth, my in-laws old sister is in charge of cleaning and washing in the room. When I went to clean it, I found that a jade porcelain tea cup was missing. After one mouthful, I was robbed by that Biyan girl! I thought that a brother from the Marquis Mansion is so precious, but it is so boring to compare with the servants!"

"Life is precious, and he killed the eldest young master before he entered the house, and killed his parents not long after. Now he gave it to the second young master, and forced the second young master to leave him and go to the army. Even his wife, his aunt, doesn't want to see him. Auntie has been thinking about taking a concubine for the second young master all day long, and he hasn't given birth to a son and a half daughter in the past few years, so he looks so sick and dejected!"

"No, if he is really so rich and rich, why don't you take an extra piece of money to reward everyone and make him respectable, so that he is more noble than others!"

"Are you all talking human words?!" A little girl was running towards Wan Yunxuan with her skirt in her hand. She stomped her feet angrily after hearing a few words, pointed at the woman's nose and scolded: "Young master is not wide enough!" Are you benevolent? I am a slave in this mansion, and I was assigned to Wan Yunxuan after the second young master got married. I have never heard the young master beat or scold a servant in these years! Why should he reward you if he has money? How do you take care of me? My wife hasn't been in charge of things these past few years, even though you are so crazy, you whisper about the master behind your back!"

The old nanny was about to retort, when she saw Biyan in Tsing Yi walk out of the Wanyun Pavilion and waved to the little girl, she was sharp-tongued and jealous, women were always a little jealous, so they hurried away.

"Jiangxiang, did you find out? Is there really a large army returning to Beijing?"

"That's what the concierge said, but I don't know if the second young master is among them." Jiang Xiang frowned and said, "This kind of news has been spread several times before, but it was never true..."

"But speaking of it, I was so tired that you waited outside the gate for several times." Bi Yan led Jiang Xiang into the house, and said in a low voice, "I didn't sleep well yesterday, so let's not go back, and then I will go back to sleep." Wait for the news."

In the inner room, Jiang Mengzhen seemed to have had many random dreams in a drowsy state, but he couldn't remember any of them. After waking up, everything was empty.He stared blankly at the top of the tent, not wanting to get up lazily, just in time to hear Bi Yan and Jiang Xiang talking, so he propped himself up and said loudly: "Bring me water to freshen up quickly, don't delay the matter."

Bi Yan sighed, pushed aside the bed curtain and hung him up, and helped him out of bed, "Why bother? Who will accept your favor?"

"In the past, when my father came back, my mother was always waiting for him at the door. I was just doing my duty, not for anyone to see."

"That's the love between Lord Hou and his wife. One is in a hurry to come back and the other is in a hurry to see each other. This is love and intention. Otherwise, what's the fun in it?"

Jiang Mengzhen took a fixed look at her from the mirror, Biyan shut her mouth tactfully, and helped him clean his face and change his clothes quickly, Jiang Mengzhen didn't bother to eat something, and wrapped him in indigo blue with white fox fur The cloak went to the gate.

The sky was cloudy, and it seemed that it was going to snow. When the cold wind blew, no matter how much I wore, I was frozen through.Jiang Mengzhen coughed a few more times, stood in a sheltered place and looked out the door. After waiting for an unknown amount of time, a group of armored soldiers finally appeared at the end of the street. One of them was riding a tall horse, and there seemed to be a car behind him.

Bi Yan rubbed her hands together and said excitedly, "We really made us wait!"

I saw Qi Heju in black light armor riding straight on his horse, his red cloak billowing in the wind, making him tall and leggy, majestic and unrestrained. Unlike his gentle and elegant brother, he has a kind of man Heroic spirit, honed in the army, is now more like a sharp sword out of its sheath, which makes people dare not look at it directly.

Jiang Mengzhen looked at her husband whom she hadn't seen for half a year, and felt a little strange in a daze. He didn't go forward, but quietly watched Qi Heju gradually approaching.After getting married, Jiang Mengzhen didn't have the idea of ​​getting along with him well, but Qi Heju's personality was eccentric, maybe he disliked that Jiang Mengzhen had some stories with his elder brother, and he was always awkward and dissatisfied when getting along.Jiang Mengzhen thought that even if he and her husband could not be as loving as their parents, they could at least respect each other as guests, but he was greatly disappointed.Jiang Mengzhen was not a troublesome and noisy person, but he bumped into Qi Heju many times, and the two had a quarrel half a year ago. Qi Heju, who had always been cold, had a big fight with him and left home.

How many young couples got married, but they turned upside down. After Qi Heju left, Jiang Mengzhen often thought that they were still young, and if they continued like this for the rest of their lives, they might not be married, but would become resentful spouses instead.He was really unwilling to spend the rest of his life like this, and made up his mind to wait for Qi Heju to return home, and try to get along with him again.When Jiang Mengzhen can't sleep, she often thinks in her heart, writes down every detail of the love between her parents when they got along with her in the past, thinking that she must live a good life with her husband, and put aside useless face-to-face disputes, the only way to be peaceful and prosperous Home.

At this moment, seeing Qi Heju who turned over and got off his horse in front of the gate, Jiang Mengzhen suddenly realized that he actually missed him very much, and when he saw him, he felt happy and at ease.Qi Heju didn't even look at him. After getting off his horse, he walked straight to the carriage behind, opened the thick fur curtain with his deep hands, whispered a few words to the people inside, and then a soft smile appeared on the corner of his mouth .

Jiang Mengzhen saw a pair of white hands stretched out in the car, and her husband who didn't smile often held those hands tightly, and carefully helped the people in the car down—it was a beautiful young man, describing his body The amount is still small, the mole of pregnancy is born in the corner of the eye, and the bright red one reveals a little style in the pure and innocent.

It seemed that there was a gust of wind on the ground, and Jiang Mengzhen was blocked by a breath of cold air. He really wanted to cough, and coughed all the cold heart, liver, spleen and lungs out of his cavity, but he had to hold back forcibly. In such an embarrassing scene Save some face for yourself.

Qi Heju took off his cloak and wrapped it around the young man, leading him towards the threshold. The young man saw someone standing beside him, paused, and tugged at Qi Heju's sleeve with his hand, but Qi Heju didn't seem to see Jiang Passing by him like a dream pillow, leading the young man away amidst the cheers of "Second Young Master is back", without looking back.

"One is in a hurry to come back, and the other is in a hurry to meet. This is the only way to be affectionate. Otherwise, what's the fun?" Biyan's words just now rang in his ears, yes, today's appearance is really true. No fun.

Que'er, who was jumping in his heart, fell to the ground, and Jiang Mengzhen was stunned for a long time with cold hands and feet, before turning around and walking back in silence.After walking a few steps, he felt his face was cool, and he stretched out his hand to touch it, only then did he know that it was snowing.

No wonder it's so cold.

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