late snow

Wanlai City is many times more prosperous than ten years ago.

Ji Huai led the horse and stopped at the gate of Ji Mansion.

After the Yizhuang Rebellion in Shiyuan City, Ji Yu disappeared. Later, Zhao Qi used Ji Huai's name to designate him as Duankang King from Ji's family. The two twins, Ji Juan and Ji Lian, have become imperial merchants. Although they don't need the one in the capital now, they don't have to give up too much.

Everyone knows that the Ji family is supported by King Duankang, and behind King Duankang is the emperor.

But for more than ten years, Ji Huai has never returned to Ji's mansion.

According to Zhao Qi's original intention, he originally wanted to clean up Ji's family for him, but he grew up here since he was a child, and this should have been Zhan Hua's original home.

Even if Zhan Hua doesn't care, he still cares.

The person he has called his mother for more than 20 years is Zhan Hua's biological mother, and the person he has called his elder brother for more than 20 years is Zhan Hua's biological brother.

They may be the only people in this world who can let Ji Huai find traces of Zhan Hua.

Ji Huai hesitated for a while, then took out a name card from his pocket and handed it to the concierge.

The concierge was still the same person for more than ten years, but he didn't seem to recognize him. He probably thought he was some down-and-out relative who came to play Qiufeng, and his attitude was very cold.

Ji Huai didn't care either, and sat on the steps watching the pedestrians coming and going on the street.

"Seventh Young Master!?" The porter suddenly turned back and looked at him in surprise.

Ji Huai smiled sheepishly and did not deny it.

"Seventh Young Master! It's really you!" The porter burst into tears, wanting to come forward to recognize him but dare not.

Ji Huai suddenly felt that he was a bit presumptuous. He was still wearing that old gray robe and hadn't shaved for more than ten days.

"Hey, forget it." Ji Huai said with a smile: "I'll come back another day, don't pass it on."

"Seventh Young Master!" The concierge tugged at him and refused to let go, and said with red eyes, "You don't need to communicate when you get home, come in quickly!"

The concierge was tall and big, Ji Huai didn't break away from him for a while, and lost the opportunity in a daze.

"Seventh Young Master is back! Go and tell Grandma and Fourth Young Master and Fifth Young Master!" the porter shouted at the top of his voice, his voice trembling with excitement.

Ji Huai suddenly wanted to turn around and run.

But he went to the front hall anyway.

This place is both familiar and unfamiliar to him. In his memory, he saw Zhan Hua for the first time here, and he can even recall the gorgeous scenery outside the window at that time.

Grandma Ji has aged so much that Ji Huai hardly dared to recognize her, but it was the same for Ji Huai to her, and the astonished look on her face did not fade away for a long time.

On the contrary, Ji Juan and Ji Lian were more polite to him, and respectfully called the prince to salute him, and Ji Huai helped Grandma Ji when she was about to kneel.

After so many years, the resentment and resentment in Ji Huai's heart had long since disappeared. After knowing the inside story, he felt a lot of guilt instead.

Put yourself in the shoes of Zhan Hua, he claimed Zhan Hua's identity and took Zhan Hua's life, how could Grandma Ji get along with such a child calmly.

Now that the imperial power is at the top, she has to bow her head for the sake of Ji's family and others. Ji Huai naturally understands, so she never appears in front of them again.

Goodbye now, unfamiliar and sad.

"I..." Sitting on pins and needles, Ji Huai took out a jade token from his hand and put it on the table, "This is the jade token of Ji's family. I was in a hurry to leave back then, and today I happen to be free—"

Ji Huai was annoyed while talking, feeling that the reason he made up was simply horrible.

Grandma Ji took the jade card into her hand, looked carefully for a while before saying: "This jade card was engraved by Ji Yu himself for Ah Huai back then, and it has been kept close to his body since he was born."

For a moment, Ji Huai even wanted to snatch the plaque back immediately - he didn't know that it was the jade plaque that Zhan Hua wore when he was a child.

But Grandma Ji kept crying while holding the jade card, and he couldn't bear it.

Ji Huai couldn't sit still, and was about to get up to say goodbye, but Grandma Ji murmured: "...Why did you lose so much weight? Is it difficult for the prince?"

Ji Huai was stunned for a while, then raised his head to look at her in astonishment.

"My lord, forgive me. Mother, she has been a little confused in the past two years, and she can't remember many things from the past." Ji Juan hurriedly explained, for fear that Ji Huai would blame her.

Ji Huai had mixed feelings in his heart, but he said with a smile on his face: "The prince is very easy to do, just eat, drink and have fun."

Grandma Ji held the jade tablet and nodded slowly, "Okay, okay, that's good."

Ji Huai got up, and left Ji's mansion almost in a panic.

He didn't dare to expect that the other party would really treat him as his own child, and even more hoped that it would be Zhan Hua who came today, but he still couldn't help but think that for Grandma Ji, she also regarded him as her own son.

In late spring, willow catkins were flying all over the city, and he accidentally inhaled it and almost choked him to tears.

Ji Huai bought a small house in the south of Wanlai City. There was only a small yard, and there was a well in the yard. He set up a grape trellis next to the well, and placed a stone table and two stone benches under the trellis. When he is free, he plays chess with himself.

He was idle most of the time, and sometimes a big orange cat would come over the wall and look into his fish tank. It always reminded Ji Huai of the little raccoon, although the two cats were completely different.

Often, one person and one cat would look at each other for a while, and he would scare the kitten away.

Ji Huai planned to come to take a rest in the evening.

He waters the vines on time every day, hoping to eat sweet grapes in autumn.

When he was about to fire, he realized that there was no rice at home, so he had to go to the rice shop.

It was evening, the sky was full of burning clouds, and the people on the street were bustling and noisy. He rolled up his sleeves and slowly looked for the rice shop. When he came across a stall selling straw hats, he knelt down and asked the price.

Finally, he picked a clean and beautiful one to wear on his head, handed over the copper coins, and he stood up unhurriedly.

The snow-white sleeves brushed his dusty robe and passed by in the corner of his vision, and he could see the little ball rolled up on it.

Ji Huai took a few steps forward, stopped suddenly, and turned his head suddenly to look.

The blurry white figure flashed past the crowd, Ji Huai pushed aside the crowd and chased after him.

He felt that half of his heart was beating violently, and his whole body seemed to be on fire, but the other half was calm and restrained with terrifying restraint, and he already knew that he might have admitted the wrong person again.

I have long forgotten who said the words, but now they sounded in his ears:

'...When will this person meet and when will they separate? It is all arranged by God. If the fate is over, even if you pass by shoulder to shoulder, you may not see it...'

But Ji Huai still stretched out his hand and grabbed the man's thin and cold wrist.

The other party turned around.