Before the winter solstice, there were several heavy snowfalls in Fengjing.

Thick snowdrifts piled up on the streets, and icicles hung from the eaves.

The temperature is very low, and the sun finally came out. It is also a cold white, and it feels that there is no temperature.So everyone didn't want to go out.

But Chi Mansion is very lively today.

Xie Niannian wrapped himself into a fluffy ball and directed Bai Yan to knock down the ice to prevent it from being caught on anyone.

Among the remaining people, Shijiu was cleaning the snow in the yard and clearing the open space.

Die Ying squatted under the stairs to build snow rabbits, and made a whole row of snow rabbits persistently, each one was white and fat.

The most leisurely person was still in the corridor, Chi Qing and Zhao Zhuoqu set up a square table and played chess with each other.The referee was Xia Qingzhi holding warm brown sugar ginger tea.

"You lost." Chi Qing casually dropped the last piece, and on the chessboard, the black pieces killed the white pieces without leaving any.

"I know, I know, come again."

And Zhao Zhuoqu calmly cleaned up the chessboard again, looking very tolerant, but actually wanted to throw the chess piece in Chi Qing's face, why is this person so merciless?

Xie Niannian's eyes moved to this side, just in time to bump into Xia Qingzhi, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

She is well aware of the way these two people get along, they are very difficult to deal with in front of them, always bickering with each other, but they actually cooperate with each other tacitly.

A few days ago, they teamed up to rummage through the affairs of the previous generation, from the Imperial Palace Academy to the Tianshu Secretary's Library, and forcibly found out the secret that Chi's father had brought into the coffin.

Xie Niannian was also there at the time, sitting and reading among the bookshelves lined up, she raised her hand and yawned, because of the late night, she was extremely sleepy.

Suddenly, she heard Zhao Zhuozhen coughing. She just opened an old book with notes, and was choked by the dust in the pages.

Seeing this, Xia Qingzhi, who was also helping to find information, handed her a cup of hot tea and told her to take it easy.

"Look here." After Zhao Zhuohe drank his tea, he hurriedly pointed it out to Chi Qing: "There were many families in Fengjing that were liquidated back then, but only the Chen family had a daughter who was as old as Gu Chen."

"Corrupting disaster relief funds and deceiving superiors and subordinates, adult men were all beheaded, women served as official servants, and the rest were distributed to northern Xinjiang." Chi Qing read according to the pages of the book, and then took another book at hand.

"My father was responsible for the investigation and handling of this matter. According to the documents, the daughter of the Chen family died on the way to northern Xinjiang."

Zhao Zhuoqu quickly answered: "But the nurse in charge of cleaning in Biwu Palace said that Gu Chen looks familiar, like the young lady of her former master's house."

She looked at Chi Qing with a serious look, but her voice was very soft, as if she was afraid of disturbing the dust in the air.

"And you and I both know that wasn't the case back then.

The Chen family is just a scapegoat for those aristocratic families, and the emperor dared not touch them, so he had to use the Chen family as a knife. "

Chi Qing didn't speak any more, she leaned on the bookshelf with downcast eyes, wondering what she was thinking.

Tianshusi's library was eerily quiet for a moment.Xie Nian sighed, Gu Chen was pitiful and hateful, the royal family loyally protected was the chief culprit for the family's demise, and the adoptive father played a role in the tiger's side, indirectly killing his own father and brother.

If it is said that Zhao Zhuoqu and Chi Qing are innocent, how is her family not innocent? They were inexplicably implicated and died for no apparent reason.

Therefore, it is not incomprehensible that she tried to overthrow the Dayue Dynasty and Tianshu Division for revenge.

"My lord Chi, the emperor's order must not be violated, your lord has done his best." Xia Qingzhi comforted in a soft voice, and even tugged Zhao Zhuoqu's sleeve calmly.

So Zhao Zhuoqu began to lower his head and turn his own jade bracelet, looking left and right but refused to look at Chi Qing any more.

"that"

Chi Qing tilted his head slightly, waiting for the second half of her sentence.

"That's you"

Chi Qing didn't move, still staring at Zhao Zhuoqu, but his eyes seemed to say: If you have something to say, hurry up, don't waste my time.

A few steps away, Xie Niannian, who was pretending to be asleep with his head propped up, pricked up his ears, secretly anxious, pretending to care about polite words, Zhao Zhuoyu can usually write ten sentences without repetition.Why do you start to stutter when it's your true friend's turn?

The scene was extremely anxious, when Xia Qingzhi shook Zhao Zhuoqu's sleeve for the second time, she finally took a deep breath.

"Don't take everything on yourself. There are so many people who can help you."

The speed of speech is extremely fast, and there is no pause after a sentence, as if afraid of being interrupted.

Xu Shi spoke so fast that Zhao Zhuoqu could even see obvious doubts on Chi Qing's face—whether he had heard it wrong.

After all kinds of annoying trivia, it was rare for her to look at her friend without worrying.

They practiced martial arts and studied together since they were young, went out to play secretly, complained about the master of the academy, rode horses in the suburbs of Beijing, and flew kites in the school grounds.

Arguing for a long time because of disagreement, I let go of harsh words, and entrusted life and death, walked side by side through ups and downs, and finally saw a smooth road.

Zhao Zhuoqu's heart suddenly calmed down, just like the afternoon when he finished his homework when he was a child, he had nothing to worry about, he just wanted to lie under the tree and bask in the sun.

She slowed down her speech, and what she wanted to say flowed out naturally like flowing water.

"I know you are strong, but you still have to take care of yourself?"

She was half joking, with a smile in her phoenix eyes: "It's really not good, don't you still have me. After so many years, I have made some progress."

Chi Qing stared at her for a while, as if to confirm whether Zhao Zhuoqu was himself.

"Well, I see."

She turned her head and her eyes wandered to Xie Niannian.

And Xie Niannian seemed to be asleep while lying on the table, the candlelight shone on her quiet face, and the slightly raised corners of her mouth were very obvious.

"So how are you going to deal with this matter?" She said as she walked towards Xie Niannian, leaving Zhao Zhuoqu who was speechless behind her.

How could this person be so incomprehensible, shouldn't he be extremely moved at this moment, and then continue to confide in himself?

"Chi Qing, I really want to beat you up."

Chi Qing pretended she didn't hear it, and called Xie Nian Nian in a soft voice: "Nian Nian, go back to sleep, it's easy to catch cold here."

This tone, this attitude, is completely different from when he was facing Zhao Zhuozhi just now.Seeing this, Zhao Zhuoqu became even angrier, and Tonton drank several sips of tea to reduce his anger.

Xie Niannian blinked, her eyes were clear, she got up and hooked Chiqing's neck with a smile, and then spoke to Zhao Zhuoqu.

"During the winter solstice, do you want your Majesty to come to Chi's mansion to eat roasted lamb? My cooking skills are very good, not inferior to that of the royal chef in the palace."

She thought that we were all friends, and eating together would be more lively.It's so nice to talk, eat and drink around the fire at night in the middle of winter.

"There's no need to be so polite in private, you can call me by my name. Besides, Chi Qing is so stingy, can you let me eat?"

Zhao Zhuoyu spoke ill of Chi Qing openly and aboveboard, anyway, Xie Nian Nian was around and it was not easy to do anything to Chi Qing.

"If she doesn't speak, she agrees."

Xie Niannian poked Chi Qing's face, then went back to sleep with his arms around her intimately.

So there is today's family banquet.

The clean fresh lamb is carefully marinated.

A large open space has been cleared in the courtyard and a grill has been set up.Light the bonfire and put the sheep directly on the rack for roasting.

Xie Niannian asked Bai Yan to keep an eye on it, so as not to burn it, he turned his head and saw that the overlapping snow rabbits were already filling up the steps.

This kid really has a special liking for rabbits, and last time he pinched steamed buns, he pinched several rows seriously.

"Double Shadow, move your rabbit towards the wall, it won't be good if someone steps on it."

So the child stopped digging the snow, then picked up the rabbit and walked to the side.

He put one away, but was caught by Xie Niannian when he went back.

"What happened to your hand?"

Folded Shadow shuddered, and subconsciously hid her hands behind her back.Then he was pulled out mercilessly and spread out to watch.

Both hands were wrapped in gauze, so new that they must have been injured recently.

Xie Niannian frowned, there was nothing dangerous for Duoying to do recently.How did this come about?

Hearing the movement, Bai Yan raised his eyelids and looked this way, walked over and folded his arms to look at it for a while.

"Have you been injured by the butterfly blade? It's very difficult to practice, and it's easy to hurt yourself if you don't play well.

It has advantages that other hidden weapons also have. The advantage that other hidden weapons do not have is that it looks better to play. "

"Little Douying, let's learn another hidden weapon, don't be late! She likes this kind of beautiful but difficult one!"

Hearing what Bai Yan said, Xie Niannian remembered what Duoying was practicing some time ago. At first it was turning chopsticks, and later it was replaced with a beautiful and delicate silver blade.

As Bai Yan said, he took out a small and thin butterfly blade from nowhere, the blade turned into a silver light in his hand, and spun around his fingers several times, fluttering like a butterfly, really beautiful.

"You also think it looks good?" Touching Die Ying's head, Xie Niannian made a sudden noise, successfully making Bai Yan stop.

Bai Yan withdrew his hands with a grin, and returned to the roast lamb as if nothing had happened: "Oh, you can eat it."

"It's still early." Xie Niannian replied casually, then squatted down and looked at the shadow seriously: "Is it difficult to practice? Why don't you change it, or ask Chi Qing?"

Die Ying's face was wrinkled, her thin eyebrows were furrowed, and her eyes were full of tangles.

"But Master has already told me the essentials. If I still ask, don't I look stupid? And this is a hidden weapon used by Master. If I don't know how to use it, I will embarrass her."

Xie Niannian gave a "tsk" in his heart, it was because Chi Qing didn't teach well!What a well-behaved child has become!

She seriously taught with a straight face: "Do you think Chi Qing is very powerful? In fact, she is not as capable as you except for fighting. She is just a young lady who doesn't touch the spring water with her ten fingers! The kind who can only be raised by me! "

Shijiu, who happened to pass by with a small table, almost sprained his ankle after hearing this.

He staggered a few steps, and then quickly left this place of right and wrong after standing still, fearing that he would hear something he shouldn't have heard again.

"So you don't have to learn everything from her. She finds it boring to eat sugar, troublesome to eat melon seeds, and dirty hands to eat potato chips. It's very hard to take care of her. If you learn it, how much less happiness will you have in life?"

"Your hand is hurt like this, if you really like the Butterfly Blade, that's fine, but if it's just for Chi Qing, then there's no need for it."

Die Ying pursed her lips, and carefully moved her eyes from Xie Niannian's face to behind her.

Seeing her reaction, Xie Niannian knew who was coming.How can I be heard every time I say bad things about her?This person walks silently, and he is really at a disadvantage.

She stood up generously without turning around, and asked directly: "Tell me, why do you want to practice the butterfly blade."

A heart-stopping chuckle came from behind, Chi Qing walked up, and also looked at the hand of Duoying: "Because it looks good."

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