Sole decision

When Pei Zhaoxue arrived at the hotel, it was not as lively as usual, and there was only one waiter waiting for him at the door.This hotel is older than all of them combined. The interior decoration is retro and gorgeous, full of palace atmosphere. This is also the most expensive hotel in Lucheng, and the guests are either rich or expensive.Pei Zhaoxue knew that Zhou Ce had ordered to cancel all the reservations some time ago, and the compensation alone was overwhelming the people below. Even Zhou Ang couldn't help complaining, not understanding why Zhou Ce went crazy.

This is not something that is within Pei Zhaoxue's jurisdiction, but something I have heard about.He is also busy with other business negotiations. Today, he will be invited here directly after the next day. I don't know what kind of medicine Zhou Ce sells in the gourd.

No one in the ancient building seemed very deserted. Pei Zhaoxue felt that it might be due to psychological reasons, as if the indoor temperature was much lower than usual.

When he opened the gate to the back garden, he knew it wasn't his mental reaction.

In a vast white world, it is actually snowing in Lucheng.

A gust of cold wind blew towards him, and Pei Zhaoxue shivered coldly. He patted his cheek to make sure that the scene in front of him was not a dream.Suddenly there was a little warm wrap on her shoulders, Pei Zhaoxue subconsciously turned around and saw Zhou Ce.

"Happy birthday." Zhou Ce adjusted Pei Zhaoxue's coat, "It's cold here."

"This..." Pei Zhaoxue looked at Zhou Ce in puzzlement.Zhou Ce was dressed formally and decently, with a dark overcoat similar to his own. The two of them stood like this for a while, and the snow had already covered their shoulders.

"Today is your birthday, and it was snowing on your birthday," Zhou Ce explained.

"I forgot." Only then did Pei Zhaoxue remember, he looked at the heavy snow all over the sky, and couldn't help sighing, "It turns out that the snow is really as beautiful as in the movies."

Zhou Ce asked, "So?"

"I..." Pei Zhaoxue thought for a moment and replied, "I don't think I've ever seen snow before."

"Haven't you ever left Lucheng?"

"I've been away, and I've been on business trips, so I might not catch up with the snow." Pei Zhaoxue said, "But it's not a very important thing."

He answered Zhou Ce's question casually, keeping his eyes on the snow, and even involuntarily opened his palm to catch the falling snowflakes.The original open-air garden was completely sealed up, the ceiling was covered with screens to create the effect of the night sky, and many snow machines and refrigerators were skillfully hidden. Green plants, some decoration, like a fairyland in the snow.

Seeing snow for the first time in his life, even Pei Zhaoxue, who has always been calm, couldn't help being a little excited. He walked into the snow and made the unique sound of "creaking" when he stepped on the snow. the cold.

Although he didn't understand why Zhou Ce wanted to show him the snow, it cost a lot more to create such a scene in the warm Lucheng. He turned his head and said "thank you" to Zhou Ce who was still standing on the steps. A temperature that he didn't even notice.

Zhou Ce stood on a high place away from Pei Zhaoxue, Pei Zhaoxue was the only one in the snow.Snow hung on his long hair and shoulders, and his cheeks and ear tips were a little red from the cold, which gave him a fresh and human breath.He even smiled a little when he said "thank you."

Zhou Ce rummaged through his memory for a long time, but he couldn't find the last time he saw Pei Zhaoxue smiling was a certain year and a certain month.Pei Zhaoxue didn't have so many emotions, nor did she have so much need to express them.He had seen a tear of Pei Zhaoxue at his father's funeral, and because of this, he hated Pei Zhaoxue even more.

But Pei Zhaoxue's shallow smile now suddenly made him feel that the world was clear.It seemed that he didn't really care about Pei Zhaoxue's deceiving himself, nor did he care about Pei Zhaoxue's duplicity, but whether Pei Zhaoxue regarded himself as the only one.It seems that when he was young, he also had this kind of thought in his heart. He didn't want Pei Zhaoxue to believe in a high and illusory god, he wanted Pei Zhaoxue to look at him.

only myself.

It turns out that everything is fate, even if he struggles, repeats, doubts and denies.Many people say that the order in which people appear is very important, but here, Pei Zhaoxue seems to have such an ending no matter where she appears.

Zhou Ce has been to so many places in the world, has seen so many wonders of the four seasons, seen light snow at the beginning of the day, and seen heavy snow all over the sky. It was only at this moment that he really understood what is meant by "the moon is shining in the snow, the snow is sparkling." ".

It used to be slightly inferior.

The beauty is indeed not snow.

"Then do you like it?" Zhou Ce stepped forward and blurted out, "I like it..."

"Snow?" Pei Zhaoxue asked back, then nodded solemnly.

Zhou Ce was stunned for a moment, then walked up to Pei Zhaoxue and said to him, "Then I can take you to another place to see the snow in the future. You were born in the north, have you ever been there?"

Pei Zhaoxue shook her head: "No, I don't know where it is, and I don't have any impression of my mother. In fact, I don't have any in this world..."

"I'm still your relative." Zhou Ce interrupted Pei Zhaoxue.

"Yes." Pei Zhaoxue nodded, "Whether it's you, your brothers, or Uncle Yun... they all treat me like my own father and brother." He won't talk about the subsequent changes. With a strange unity.Even if in the end everyone came to the tragic situation of life and death, it would not hinder the warmth that really existed before.

To whom is good and who is not, this kind of sensibility is more like a kind of skin modification, peeling off the outer layer, and all that is left is the "desire" that has no place to rest.And the two have nothing to do with each other, each doing its own thing.

That's why Zhou Ce was able to execute every cruel and inhuman decision he made so calmly.

"Then I'm no different from them?" Zhou Ce continued to ask.

Pei Zhaoxue asked back, "What difference do you want?"

"I..." Zhou Ce was stopped by Pei Zhaoxue, what difference could he want?There is no doubt about Pei Zhaoxue's loyalty to him, as long as he gives a password, Pei Zhaoxue can do anything.Others were dead, he was alive, and that was enough. "It's nothing." Zhou Ce waved his hand, walked forward, bent down and kneaded a snowball on the ground, threw it on Pei Zhaoxue's body abruptly, and asked with a smile, "Axue, have you ever had a snowball fight? It was fun."

Pei Zhaoxue stood there in a daze. His body had been cut by a knife and pierced by bullets. He could handle it freely.But facing a cloud of soft snow, he didn't know what to do, and he didn't know this kind of happy game in his childhood.Zhou Ce was amused by his appearance, he suddenly became a little nasty, and wanted to stuff a handful of snow into Pei Zhaoxue's clothes to see him shivering from the cold and his skin flushed.

Before his idea could be realized, a snowball flew towards him. He had no time to dodge and was hit. After stroking the snow in front of him, he saw that Pei Zhaoxue was still holding a ball of snow in his hands.

In this world of ice and snow, the two of them played happily and swept away the previous haze, as if they had returned to their childhood—the simplest and most beautiful era.

Zhou Ce lay down on the ground covered in snow, Pei Zhaoxue also came over, Zhou Ce waved to him, and Pei Zhaoxue sat beside him.Pei Zhaoxue gasped for breath, and clouds of white mist came out of her mouth.Zhou Ce got up, grabbed a handful of snow on the ground and rubbed Pei Zhaoxue's hands. "That way it won't be cold," he said. "Are you happy today?"

"happy."

"Me too." Zhou Ce said, "Today is the happiest day since I returned to Lucheng." He lowered his head and rubbed Pei Zhaoxue's hands carefully. The snow was melted into water by the temperature, and Pei Zhaoxue's hands were wet. Yes, glowing red, already hot.When the snow falls on the skin again, it melts into one in an instant.

Pei Zhaoxue opened her palms and sighed, "But it disappeared soon."

"If you like, I can keep it here forever." Zhou Ce said, "Or we can go to see the real snow together, as long as you like, you can go anywhere."

"These are temporary, and people should not indulge in temporary illusions." Pei Zhaoxue said, "The snow will always melt, just like life."

"No, you will live a long time." Zhou Ce said, "You will live as long as I live."

Pei Zhaoxue didn't answer Zhou Ce's words, he just shifted his eyes to look at his private parts, but Zhou Ce kept looking at him, because he happened to meet Zhou Ce's gaze when he turned his head, but Zhou Ce immediately lowered his eyes head.

"Zhou Ce, thank you." Pei Zhaoxue said suddenly.

Zhou Ce said casually: "You said it many times today, I know."

"No one would treat me like this before." Pei Zhaoxue said in a low voice, "Uncle Yun never did it, and neither did your brother."

Zhou Ce raised his head slowly, he wanted to see Pei Zhaoxue's eyes to confirm what Pei Zhaoxue had just said.Pei Zhaoxue lowered his eyes, small snowflakes hung on his eyelashes and hair, Zhou Ce couldn't help but reach out to wipe it off for him, and couldn't help touching Pei Zhaoxue's cheek.

Then stare, without saying a word.

Pei Zhaoxue felt a little weird, Zhou Ce, whom he had never seen before, appeared again.At this moment, it was supposed to be tender, but he felt a strange and dark aura of danger.He pushed Zhou Ce's hand away without any trace, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"..." Zhou Ce seemed to be pulled away from somewhere all of a sudden, and his soul returned to his body. He took a deep breath and said, "It's nothing." He stood up and shook the snow on his body, "I'm hungry, let's go, I prepared a birthday cake for you, let's cut the cake."

The dining table is near the window in the garden, and they can eat while enjoying the snow. This is the atmosphere that winter should have.Zhou Ce asked Pei Zhaoxue to make a wish on the lighted candle. Pei Zhaoxue thought for a long time and said that he had no wish.Zhou Ce felt that Pei Zhaoxue's point was really boring, so he said, "Then you can make a wish and wish me all my wishes come true."

Unexpectedly, Pei Zhaoxue really agreed to him and asked him what wish he had.Zhou Ce said casually, "You can help me pick up a batch of goods from Jin's wharf on Wednesday."

"Is this a wish?" Pei Zhaoxue said, "Okay, I promise you."

"But this time it might be a bit dangerous." Zhou Ce said, "I got inside information that the supplier company seems to have encountered some problems, and the other party is a vicious person. hands and feet."

"It doesn't matter." Pei Zhaoxue thought to himself that since this matter is so confidential, it really cannot pass through other people's hands.But after reacting vigorously, he felt a little bit bitter, as if Zhou Ce had laid the groundwork for so long just to tell him about this matter.If this is the case, there is really no need for Zhou Ce to spend so much money and make so many detours to please him.Just say what you have to say, anyway, he will not refuse, and even said in a business-like manner: "Go to heaven and earth, do my best."

"I don't want you to go to heaven and earth, I want you to come back safely every time." Zhou Ce pressed Pei Zhaoxue's hand, "Forget it, let's not talk about it now, and have a good meal."