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The New Year's Eve came when everyone was full of subtle anticipation, and that morning Huoting prepared a table full of breakfast.Wen Renhuang didn't know when Huo Ting came, he remembered that the old butler sent him off with a sad face when he was in the capital, and in a blink of an eye he also returned to Ning'an, bringing back a large number of servants.

Huo Xiao sat down as usual, and specially opened a seat for Wen Renhuang. Wen Renhuang looked awkward and didn't look at him, and sat down stiffly.

The old butler turned a blind eye and served porridge for the two of them.

"When will Shen Chen come back?"

Huo Xiao took a sip of the hot porridge and asked, Huo Ting stood aside and said: "The guard Shen wrote a letter a few days ago saying that the people waiting in the General's Mansion have been arrested, and he will be back in the next few days."

Wen Renhuang moved his ears: "Who was arrested?"

Huo Ting said: "The imperial concubine Xuan in the palace."

Wen Renhuang spat out a mouthful of porridge: "Are you arresting the empress?"

This kind of thinking is still subtle, since knowing that Emperor Longbao is his father, these queens and ladies have indirectly become his stepmothers and so on.

Huo Xiao also thought of this, and said with a smile, "It's that noble concubine Xuan, Kong Ningshuang, also known as Crow."

Even though he didn't have much emotion, it can be seen that Renhuang felt a little nervous when he realized now: "Have you found out why she entered the palace as a concubine?"

Huo Xiao was silent, but the answer was probably obvious.

Wen Renhuang took a deep breath and stood up regardless of his physical discomfort.

Huo Xiao turned around and said, "What are you going to do?"

Wen Renhuang didn't turn his head back: "Chest tightness, sleep."

Huo Ting murmured: "Young Master Wenren just got up...Today is New Year's Eve."

Huo Xiao frowned, not knowing what to think.

The weather is getting cold very fast. Wen Renhuang feels that the weather here is really unpredictable since he went down the mountain for half a year. It should be getting colder slowly, but it gets hot again halfway. He thought it would be warmer for a few more days. When it gets up and is cold, it is as elusive as the human heart.

After returning to Ning'an for the past few days, he was in a daze, not knowing what was going on, if Huo Xiao was still by his side, as usual, he really thought he had fallen into another world.

But Huo Xiao is not the same as before.

I can't say what's wrong, but I really feel flustered.

The poison in his body has never taken effect, and it is not known whether Huo Xiao is looking for a cure for him.He tightened his neckline and looked up at the dark sky.

Dumb and speechless.

"What's the matter with you recently?"

Huo Xiao appeared behind him, wearing a black cloak, and Wen Renhuang put a white one on.

Wen Renhuang murmured: "The weather is getting really slow."

Huo Xiao looked up, he didn't like the weather, and said, "Isn't the sky on Qihuang Mountain like this?"

Wen Renhuang shook his head: "There are nine months of summer and three months of winter, so it's probably very cold now."

Huo Xiao said: "But you can't just stay in Qihuang Mountain for the rest of your life, even if you are not Prince Daqi who will inherit the throne in the future, you still have to go down the mountain."

Wen Renhuang nodded: "My lord, did you ever think about killing me when you saw me for the first time?"

Huo Xiao narrowed his eyes: "You said that was the first time when Qu Ning took off your clothes and pushed you to the ground?"

Wen Renhuang blushed.

Huo Xiao smiled and said: "Only that one time, I felt that this person must be extraordinary."

If someone stripped naked in front of me, I would think that person is extraordinary, Wen Renhuang thought silently.But Huo Xiao didn't mean that, he gently hugged Wen Renhuang and said: "At that time I was still eliminating Heiluan for the second prince, when I heard that you were kidnapped by Heiluan, I immediately set out to rescue you, how could I kill you."

"Why did the second prince save me?" Wen Renhuang asked.

Huo Xiao said in a low voice: "You know that Peacock belongs to the second prince, right?"

Wen Renhuang said: "I thought you didn't know."

Huo Xiao shook his head: "I only found out recently that Peacock was the second prince who had been placed next to Fengtian many years ago. He only served as a spy, but he never took any action. I first learned that you were killed by Hei Luan. It was only a day before and after the captivity that the peacock reported to me."

Wen Renhuang asked in surprise: "Why do I think the second prince is interested in Fengtian?"

When Huo Xiao said this, he suddenly remembered a series of things that happened these days: "This..."

Wen Renhuang stretched his neck, unable to believe it.

If the second prince is interested in Fengtian, it is not difficult to explain his abnormal behavior before and after. In the East Palace, he also asked Wenren Huang Fengtian about his state when he was in Qihuang Mountain. Now it seems that he is interested in Fengtian. Not impossible.

Huo Xiao thought for a while, then laughed out loud: "No wonder the front guarded Qihuang Mountain, and then tried to attack it ruthlessly, that's how it is."

Wen Renhuang glanced at him: "The second prince wants you to attack Qihuang Mountain?"

Huo Xiao looked at him: "So I went back to Ning'an."

Ning'an is the closest place in Daqi to Qihuang Mountain.

Wen Renhuang frowned: "What do you want to do?"

Huo Xiao raised his eyebrows: "You really think I'm going to do something?"

"Don't you listen to him?"

Huo Xiao didn't know what to say, he rubbed his hair helplessly: "Let's go, I'll take you to a place."

Wen Renhuang, who was originally lazy, didn't want to move, but was picked up by Huo Xiao directly, and was taken out of the door with a cry of surprise.

The sky was gloomy and there were a few pieces of light snow falling. The two rode the same horse. No matter how weak Wen Renhuang was, he could be hugged firmly by Huo Xiao. Now he looked so warm that he was about to fall asleep with his eyes squinted comfortably.

But his heart was not as it appeared on the surface, and he was even a little scared.

Why did Huo Xiao agree to help the second prince? The reason for this is that he himself has a guilty conscience. If he didn't want to inform Fengtian, he would not be caught by Peacock and sent to the second prince of the East Palace. He would not have given the second prince a chance to tell himself Drugs.

He was slightly drunk on horseback, and Huo Xiao's strong heartbeat could be heard in his ears. Will this man save himself?

The person whom all the women in Daqi admired almost held three-quarters of the military power in Daqi, the son of heaven, such a duanwang who had only known him for more than half a year, would he really be sent by others for himself?

When facing Fengtian, Huo Xiao personally said the words of being together for a lifetime. He was dazzled by the sudden happiness and forgot how much of it was true. After being poisoned, he didn't do anything.

Wen Renhuang slightly changed his posture, Huo Xiao worried that he would not sit comfortably, so he deliberately put a layer of brocade on the saddle.He didn't move, he didn't want to find a solution for his antidote or something, but if he really followed the second prince's request... then he must kill Fengtian in the end.

Wen Renhuang himself was confused as to what to do right.

As everyone knows, the two are riding the same white horse, and they look peaceful and happy in the barren wilderness outside Ning'an City. Those who don't know will look at the backs of the two and think that this is a handsome young man who brought his beloved woman out. Appreciating the scenery, looking at them will feel that it is a pleasing picture.

The sky began to snow gradually, as if there should be a snow on New Year's Eve, no matter sooner or later it will fall.

Wen Renhuang looked up at the snow falling on Huo Xiao's long hair, the other's face was even more gorgeous under the dark sky.

Huo Xiao was silent for a long time, and finally said: "We are here."

After dismounting from the horse, Huo Xiao shook off the snowflakes that had accumulated on the cloak, but Wen Renhuang who was sitting in front was neat and tidy. He looked at the place where Huo Xiao brought him, and frowned.

"This room...I don't know why the prince brought me here?"

The house in front of me is located on a small hill slightly higher than the surrounding flat land. It is very simple, and it may not even be able to provide shelter when it is windy and rainy. I really can't guess Huo Xiao's intention.

Huo Xiao said: "I don't even call you my king anymore, do you still call me prince?"

Wen Renhuang recalled that the arrogant Huo Xiao started to treat him as "I" at some point, and he had mixed feelings in his heart. Anyway, he always called Huo Xiao casual, sometimes the prince and sometimes yours, it doesn't make much difference. Then he whispered: "Understood."

Seeing that he was so obedient, Huo Xiao said softly: "Since you are not happy recently, I will take you out of the house and show you the place where I used to live."

Wen Renhuang was dumbfounded: "Do you live here?"

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it!

Huo Xiao, a nobleman who wears gold and silver and even has patterns embroidered on his shoes, would live here?

Seeing Renhuang's big eyes of disbelief, Huo Xiao walked over and said, "My father was attacked when I was seventeen, and he took my elder brother with him that day to help escort the newly found children in Qihuang Mountain. .”

Wen Renhuang thought about it, felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he didn't interrupt, and continued listening.

"They never took me with them when they went out, and there were many times, but that time I followed them secretly and hid in the casual servant team." Huo Xiao stood in front of the dilapidated hut, and gently opened the door .

Wen Renhuang followed him in, and found that the inside of the room was not as dilapidated as it looked on the outside, it was clean and tidy, and the beds were well made as if someone slept every day.

"I once ordered my servants to clean it well even if I'm not here." Seeing Wen Renhuang's doubts, Huo Xiao said.

Wen Renhuang understood, it really wasn't him who cleaned it up himself.

"That time, I followed around here." Huo Xiao opened the window, and a cold wind came in. He looked into the distance and said, "Standing here, you can see the place where my father and the others were attacked."

Wen Renhuang looked over and saw that the cold wind was blowing snowflakes in an empty land: "The old general spent his whole life as a soldier, and he was actually here..."

Huo Xiaodao: "The people here claim to be robbers, and the hidden master guards in the convoy can't beat them, so how could they be ordinary robbers?" Thinking with a wry smile, "If it wasn't for my elder brother who found out later and held me down, Probably the same as them."

Seeing how sad his relatives died in front of him, although Wen Renhuang had never experienced it, the break with Fengtian also made him seem to be able to empathize with the sadness of never being able to see each other again.He took Huo Xiao's hand, silently looking at the field he looked at before.

"But, look there," Huo Xiao motioned him to look in another direction, "Did you recognize it?"

Wen Renhuang took a closer look: "Mizong Forest!"

It was the Lost Trace Forest, the outermost barrier of Qihuang Mountain!

"Not far from here is Longxiao Camp, do you have an impression?" Huo Xiao asked in a low voice.

Wen Renhuang opened his mouth wide in surprise: "You are not afraid of danger, and you are active here?"

Huo Xiao smiled slightly, looked at him and said, "If it's not close to Deqihuang Mountain, how can we be closer to you."

Wen Renhuang's heart skipped a beat: "What did you say?"

Huo Xiao said: "I was rescued by you, I wanted to take you down the mountain together, but at that time I couldn't save myself, so I had to take your dagger to hope to find you in the future. After I went down the mountain, I was rescued by Qu Chengluan who passed by." I can really live on. I owe Qu Chengluan a favor, and naturally I owe you more."

He clenched Wen Renhuang's hand and said: "After returning to Beijing...the emperor seized the military power of my Huo family. No matter how difficult it is for the Huo family to protect themselves in Beijing, I will automatically ask Ying to transfer to Ning'an and build this small town here." House, I hope that one day I can see you come down from Qihuang Mountain with my own eyes, even if I am not here, I will arrange people to guard here."

Wen Renhuang couldn't believe it: "You...have you waited for me for seven years?"

Huo Xiao smiled: "If it passes tonight, it will be eight years."

Wen Renhuang took a deep breath, but hadn't fully digested what Huo Xiao said.

"In these years, sometimes there are no phoenixes down the mountain for several years, and sometimes there will be several in a year. Originally, there was only my Longxiao Camp here. Later, people from Heiluan came here. I allowed them to come here in order to give the Lord Luan a face. Establishing a sub-helm, but also more eyes to help me pay attention, as expected, I finally let me wait."

Wen Renhuang immediately understood what happened to Qu Ning's timid and fearful attitude towards him at that time, and said awkwardly: "Then I just look different from when I was a child, and you didn't recognize me at a glance."

Huo Xiao frowned: "No...you look too different from when you were a child."

Wen Renhuang frowned: "Did you think you were good-looking at that time, I almost cried because of you!"

Huo Xiao laughed, how could he not know how he was in such a mess at the time, the muddy and bloodstained body might really scare the child into tears: "Then how are you satisfied now?"

Wen Renhuang raised his eyes and saw that his face was unparalleled and his eyes were full of affection, his heart softened and his nose felt sore: "Not satisfied!"

Huo Xiao raised his eyebrows.

Wen Renhuang hugged him tightly: "You are so good-looking, Daqi has so many girls coveting you, how can I rest assured."

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