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It's just that after Prince Jing said some usual scene words, he inadvertently mentioned: "The gifted scholar from Xijiang and Brother Ling have a deep love for each other, which is really enviable."

Although Ji Zhan was a little surprised, he quickly replied with a smile: "It is a blessing in life for Zhan to meet Xiaorong and be his brother and friend."

After hearing this answer, King Jing took a deep look at Ji Zhan and Yun Rong, and frowned slightly again.Immediately, he picked up a glass of wine and made a toast to the two people holding hands.

The plum blossom viewing party is no different from other flower viewing parties held for literati. It is just that some people gather together to drink a few glasses of water and wine, and write a poem when poetry comes. A poem that is made to see who can get a lot of applause.Today is also the same routine, Ji Zhan's literary name is too great, and everyone has the ambition to choose him as a referee, and judge the poems of these people together with Prince Jing.When Ji Zhan read each article, Yun Rong was not idle, and was splashing ink and drawing a white plum.

Although King Jing is also very talented, he still can't catch up with Ji Zhan. People value self-knowledge, and King Jing is also a person with self-knowledge. He simply transferred all the judgment to Ji Zhan, and didn't care about his so-called face.This is a group of people who have worked hard to write poetry. Who doesn't know that although Ji Zhan is usually kind and face-saving, but only in terms of commenting on poetry, his words are sharp, and the new words are well-founded and reasonable. Can't say anything.But fortunately, they were just in time for Ji Zhan to "start a family and start a business", and the talented Xijiang scholar who was mixing with Yun Rong commented on their poems very leniently, and even gave a comment on the two poems he despised the most. "Zhongping" and "Fair"!

However, when Ji Zhan inscribed a sentence on the snow plum painted by his beloved brother-in-law, "the plum must be three points less white than the snow, but the snow is less fragrant than the plum", they still silently realized in their hearts: Who is he? I didn't like any of my poems.

I don't know when, the sky fluttered and snowed again, and the sky became dark. Everyone didn't pay attention at first, and they thought that the sky wanted to add some fun to the plum appreciation today, but it hadn't been an hour. The snow fell more and more tightly, and it was impossible to stay in Meiyuan.

This palace was built at the foot of the mountain with hot springs, so it was naturally not that close to Xunzhou City, the snow was strong and the wind was strong, King Jing obeyed God's will, and left many scholars to stay here.Everyone naturally agreed that a good night's sleep in such a beautiful place would be nothing more pleasant.

The housekeeper of the palace arranged Ji Zhan and Yun Rong as two side rooms next to each other, and he always had to be more particular about going out, so Ji Zhan agreed to live in separate rooms.After dinner, Ji Zhan held Yun Rong's hand and leaned against the vermilion pillars in the corridor outside the wing room, sticky and unwilling to leave.

"Could Xiaorong be so willing to separate from elder brother? Xiaorong's hands and feet are always cold at night. Can Xiaorong sleep peacefully without elder brother?" Ji Zhan felt more and more serious, and finally became really distressed. A man who looks like a child, almost thought that the mature and stable elder brother in the past few months was someone else pretending to be.

"Brother, I'm so sleepy, you and I should go to bed quickly." Yun Rong was so nagging, he pushed Ji Zhan's shoulders and pushed him into his room, "We can wake up early tomorrow morning." Going home earlier, it’s because the elder brother is not in good spirits, let’s go to bed earlier.”

"Brother, I want Xiao Rong to kiss me." Ji Zhan moved his handsome face towards him shamelessly, and Yun Rong pecked with a little shyness.

"Hurry up and go to sleep!" Yun Rong ran into his room with a blushing face, and poked his head out to take a look before closing the door. Ji Zhan leaned against the door panel, looking at Yun Rong's bright eyes and deep dimples, Smile at him warmly.

But no one knew that this was almost Ji Zhan's last look at Yun Rong.

Ji Zhan rested his hands on the back of his head, with a sly smile on his lips, thinking that if the mountain doesn’t come, I’ll be there, so I’ll go to the mountain; Xiaorong is shy and refuses to share a room with him outside, so he’ll run over and talk to Xiaorong It's good to sleep together in the same bed.Now just wait for Xiao Rong to fall asleep, and then...

I don't know what kind of incense is lit in the wing room. It smells sweet and confusing. After smelling it for a long time, I feel like I don't know what night it is.At the beginning, Ji Zhan was excitedly thinking about how to avoid waking up Xiao Rong, and then...

Then he fell into a dream completely, and fell into a drowsy sleep.

In the dream, he saw things from his childhood.

He seemed to have seen the turmoil of his birth that he had learned from his father, and even the near-miss fire that burned the pot room; He ordered to put a large pottery bowl of clear water on his bedside; he could even vaguely see the crazy Taoist talking excitedly with others with wide eyes, looking at this mouth shape...

Destiny is hard to change, died in... the disaster of Zhu Rong?

In the dream, Ji Zhan remembered the few small fires that almost caused big mistakes that happened around him when he was young. He always regarded them as accidental accidents, but in this dream, he seemed to smell the fire again. The special scorched smell of the flames raging on the carved wooden beams was so clear that Ji Zhan almost thought it was a real fire.

Really, it's on fire!

Suddenly sitting up from the bed, Ji Zhan was about to wipe the cold sweat off his forehead with the sleeve of his jacket, when he suddenly felt something was wrong.He had only slept for a few hours, and it was impossible for the sky to light up so early, combined with the abnormal heat felt around him and the noise outside the room, it was not difficult to draw a conclusion.

Xiao Rong, how is Xiao Rong? !

Ji Zhan stood up in a hurry, before he had time to put on his clothes, he walked to the door in two or three steps and kicked open the crumbling mahogany door, but was forced back by the oncoming fireworks. Ji Zhan coughed violently, his forehead The few strands of crow hair on the bed had been burnt to black, exuding an unspeakable foul smell.

He didn't care about those, he didn't have the time to care about these.He faced the flames rushing towards him with teeth and claws outside the door again, covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, and rushed out.

The panicked screams outside the door, the loud yelling of rough men, and even the crackling of flames in this panic environment were all so clear to Ji Zhan's ears, yet so silent.The rafters on the top of the corridor were burned to the point that they could no longer support the thick eaves. Ji Zhan knew that he could not waste a moment. His little Rong must have not escaped from the room—if he escaped, the first reaction would be It must be the same as Ji Zhan at this time, rushing to the adjacent room to find each other.

Ji Zhan looked at the half-burned door, raised his leg again, and broke in.

He was right, Yun Rong was still sleeping deeply on the bed, the smoke and dust raised by the flames made him cough stifledly from time to time, but he still couldn't wake up.

The flames had already spread into the house, and the high stool next to the door where the vase was placed was the first to be damaged, and the vase shattered on the floor with a clatter.

"Xiao Rong, wake up, Xiao Rong." Ji Zhan shook Yun Rong's shoulder violently, seeing that he still hadn't woken up, he had no choice but to pinch him. But he was still confused and didn't know what was going on around him.

"Xiao Rong, it's flooded, we have to get out quickly." The flame approached the two of them step by step, and Ji Zhan was the first to cover his mouth unbearably with the smoke and dust.

Yun Rong shook his head vigorously, and then bit his lower lip hard to wake himself up. Seeing the situation around him clearly, he also began to panic, but when he held Ji Zhan's broad and warm hand, he was suddenly not afraid of anything.

"Xiao Rong is not afraid," Ji Zhan hurriedly put on Yun Rong's shoes, took his hand and walked out, "Big Brother is here, and Big Brother will protect you."

Although, Yunrong's most reliable elder brother also faintly felt something was wrong, probably because of inhaling too much smoke and dust, Ji Zhan was so weak that he even stumbled when he walked, even so, he still had to pull Yunrong Through the flames, escape from birth.

"I'm not afraid." Yun Rong's voice lost its usual crispness due to the smoke, and he felt Ji Zhan's temperature in his hand, "I'm not afraid."

I don’t know if there were no people in the side rooms or if people fled in all directions after the flood. There was no sound at the moment, and Ji Zhan didn’t care that there might be other people.Now he couldn't even take care of his little Rong and himself, the dizziness in his head was so severe, he coughed while holding Yun Rong's hand, tightly clenched.

However, the distance of one zhang was so long in the raging fire.In the end, Ji Zhan almost relied on his thoughts to support his body, sweeping away the flames that rushed to his face for Yun Rong, and pulling him to avoid the falling wooden blocks. The two of them were in a panic, but the moon gate at the exit was It was close at hand, the fire outside was not so bright, and they could almost hear the sound of water splashing from the next door.

At this moment, one of the vermilion pillars in the corridor was broken by the flames, and together with the fragile cornice on the top, it fell down with a bang. Ji Zhan himself had no strength to escape, but he didn't know where the strength came from , pulling Yun Rong's hand and flung it out vigorously.

Yun Rong was caught off guard and fell to the ground, got up in embarrassment, and turned around, but saw his elder brother Ji Zhan under a pile of burning wood.

"Big Brother, Big Brother." Yun Rong finally panicked. Before that, he followed Ji Zhan to escape calmly, but now, his big brother pushed him out of danger, but his big brother was caught in the flames. He was stunned and didn't know. What should I do.After being stunned for a moment, Yun Rong couldn't feel the heat, and wanted to use his hands to remove the heavy pile of wood.

Ji Zhan's hands were still outside, seeing Yun Rong's actions, he was very surprised.