Lights were lit in the house, and when night fell, it was still bright everywhere.

Xu Yuanqing went back to the yard, looked up and saw the ugly lantern dangling under the eaves, and then remembered that he forgot to bring the couplet Xiang Changyuan wrote to him.

He slowly approached the pineapple tree, and an idea popped up in his mind that he thought was unbelievable.

"Xu Shizi? What are you sad about?"

He shook his head, suspecting that he was being fooled by the wind, and he was actually hallucinating.

"Xu Yuanqing?"

The clear and clear voice unique to teenagers sounded, not an auditory hallucination.

Xu Yuanqing looked up at the sound in disbelief, there was a person lying on the wall, looking at him with a smile on his face, those black and white eyes were shining brightly illuminated by the lantern under the eaves, perhaps his smile was too bright,Even Xu Yuanqing, who was in a low mood, couldn't help being infected a little bit.

"What did you call me?"

"Xu Shizi." Xiang Changyuan called him again with a guilty conscience, leaned on the wall and turned over and got off the wall, and came to him in a few steps, "Calling you Xu Shizi."

Xu Yuanqing didn't bother with him, seeing his dusty appearance, not even wearing a cloak, he might be in a hurry, "What are you here for?"

"You forgot something." As he said, Xiang Changyuan carefully took a piece of cloth from his pocket, and opened the four corners of the cloth, revealing the red paper, which was the couplet he had just written as a gift.

Xu Yuanqing lowered her eyes slightly and hid her smile.

Xiang Changyuan smiled embarrassingly, seeing that he didn't dislike him, so he asked, "Shall I post it now?"

"Ayue." Xu Yuanqing turned around and shouted into the room, Zuo Yue leaned on the door and exposed his head, was slightly startled when he saw Xiang Changyuan, before he jumped over, Xu Yuanqing told him to find paste to paste couplets on.

It was cold outside, Xu Yuanqing led him into the house first, took the couplet in his hand, accidentally touched his hand and found it was surprisingly cold, and pushed him to the stove to warm up.

Xu Yuanqing said: "You don't need to bring it here, I'll just ask someone to pick it up tomorrow."

Xiang Changyuan put his hands on top of the charcoal fire to warm them up. The red fire reflected his knuckles clearly and made him look even better, but his eyes were always on Xu Yuanqing, and he said with a smile, "Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I'll send you thePost it early to please people."

"My lord, here we come."

Zuo Yue was quick to do things, and in a short while brought a pot of paste, put it on the edge of the threshold, rolled up his sleeves and asked, "Should I post it now?"

Xiang Changyuan also rolled up his sleeves, took the couplets on the table and walked out, patted his head, then handed the couplets to him, and took the initiative to ask for work, "I'll do it."

This is a one-stop service, including writing, delivery, and posting.

Xu Yuanqing stood at the door, leaning on the door frame to watch them paste. Xiang Changyuan was tall, and easily pasted the couplets neatly. After pasting both sides, the banner was missing. Xiang Changyuan was about to post something, and suddenly remembered something, and looked back.The people who watched the excitement from the sidelines smiled brightly.

Xu Yuanqing understood, and immediately hid in the house, but she was still a step too late, and was stopped by her at the door. The people who were close at hand were covered with air-conditioning, but their breath was warm.

"My son, let's post."

As he spoke, he stepped back a little, opened up a distance, and the air-conditioning and heat faded away.

Only then did Xu Yuanqing look up at him, and resolutely refused, "Post it yourself."

Xiang Changyuan didn't follow him this time, he stuffed the banner into his hand, then pulled him to turn around, and faced directly, "Please make me happy."

"..."

Xiang Changyuan took the brush for Zuo Yue, brushed it on the top a few times, and happily urged, "Shizi post."

Xu Yuanqing was speechless, rolled his eyes, raised his hand and slapped it up perfunctorily, regardless of whether the stickers were neat or not, he stopped his hands and walked into the room, adjusted the banner to Changyuan, looked back and saw that there was nothing wrong, and then slappedClap your hands, stretch your neck and tell him, "Your Majesty is fine."

Xu Yuanqing stood by the stove and ignored him.

Zuo Yue went to fetch water to wash Xiang Changyuan's hands, and then he came into the room, saw Xu Yuanqing's face was stern, and he tilted his head and asked, "Your Majesty was unhappy just now, what's wrong?"

Xu Yuanqing looked up and saw his smiling face. As the saying goes, it is quite reasonable to reach out and not hit a smiling face, especially with a pair of sincere and fiery eyes, not only can't let go of your hand, but you can't open your mouth.

He was bored for a while, and then said, "Don't inquire about matters on the road."

"Pfft."

Xiang Changyuan couldn't help laughing, and quickly covered his mouth.

Xu Yuanqing was not angry when she saw him just now, but just now he insisted on putting up the banner and got too close, so she panicked for no reason, so she came in in a hurry.

Seeing him smile now, he was a little annoyed, "You have a lot of free time?"

Xiang Changyuan restrained his smile and nodded, "Yeah."

Xu Yuanqing thought for a while, but still asked seriously, "Are you going back to the capital to dawdle?"

Xiang Changyuan didn't expect that he would care about him, so he answered him seriously, "I will go to the Ministry of War in the next year and serve as Lingshi."

He is now the only idler in the Xiang family, and the others are in high positions. didn't expect that what he did was just to make history. From this point of view, Shen Yuze's official worship of the fourth rank is really impossible without a person with good hands and eyes.

Xiang Changyuan stayed and drank a cup of tea before leaving. He thought that Xu Yuanqing had been exhausted for a day, and if he was not in good health, he would not disturb his rest.

After the person left, Xu Yuanqing did lie down and rest, but he felt a little uneasy, especially when he thought of Xuan Pinghou, he was tossing and turning, so he just sat up and went to the desk to resume the game as before.

Every time he lights a lamp and boils oil to think, think about the clues in the book and think about the things he has personally experienced, it will always consume his mind and cause physical discomfort, and this time is no exception.

He leaned on the chair in a collapsed state, hugging Mrs. Tang who was cooling down, in a daze.

In the middle of the night, Zuo Yue came to see him, and was startled when he saw him sitting, so he hurriedly covered him with a blanket, tested his temperature, and after confirming that he didn't have a fever, he was relieved, and asked him in a low voice if he was all right.

Xu Yuanqing shook his head vigorously, and asked Zuo Yue to burn all his random writing.

Zuo Yue tidied up his things obediently. The rice paper on the table looked like ghosts and talismans. There were scattered words such as "Yang", "Xun", "Xiang", "Ming", etc. He couldn't understand them at all, so he asked the princeI didn't tell him what it meant, and even taught his children not to ask.

The charcoal fire devoured the rice paper like a tiger and wolf, and smoke rose in the room. Xu Yuanqing sat up with the table propped up, coughed for a while, and stood up unsteadily to open the window.

When the window opened, a gust of cold wind hit his face, his face felt cool, and flying catkins floated in front of his eyes.

He looked up at the pitch-black sky, his eyes were lightly hit by something white, he lowered his head, borrowed the scattered light in the yard, and came back to see clearly that it was not flying catkins, but snow.

Snowing.

This year's snow came very late, and it was late on New Year's Eve.

But after a while, the fine snow drifted all over the sky, falling like goose feathers, and dyed the yard white.

The ugly lanterns under the eaves dangled, and half of the body was covered with snow quilts.

In the dense white snow, Xu Yuanqing saw a familiar figure in a trance. He blinked his eyes to make sure that he was not confused. Someone really came on snow, blue robe and simple clothes, with a touch of red in his arms, like a dream.

"In the long run?"

Xu Yuanqing couldn't believe it, why did he come again under such heavy snow.

Xiang Changyuan heard him calling himself, and stepped forward to him in a few steps.

Crushed snow fell on his head, and he passed the plum blossom in his arms to him through the window, "I thought you fell asleep."

Xu Yuanqing didn't pick up his flowers, and stared at him blankly, just now he was convinced that he didn't have dizziness, it wasn't a dream, but he really stood in front of him, with the air-conditioning on his body lingering around him, he gradually became unbelievable again, as if becauseThe room was too warm, and he dreamed of falling asleep.

Is it because he wants to see the snow too much?

Xiang Changyuan stared blankly at his beautiful eyes, gently raised his hand and shook it in front of his eyes, and called him in a low voice, "Your Majesty?"

Xu Yuanqing pinched his hand and blurted out, "You call me by my name."

Hearing this, Xiang Changyuan was startled, swallowed nervously, opened his mouth tentatively, and called him word by word, "Xu, Yuan, Qing."

The slightly hoarse voice of the young man was cold, and Xu Yuanqing let go of his hand, frowned, and lowered his head.

Xiang Changyuan saw that he was not in the right mood, and asked cautiously, "I disturbed you?"

The two of them had different thoughts across the window.

The air-conditioning blows the snow, sending a lot into the house, and Xiang Changyuan moves a little in front of Xu Yuanqing, trying to shield him from the wind and snow as much as possible.

After a long time, Xu Yuanqing raised his head to look at him, his expression was still as cold as usual, his eyes fell on the flowers in his hands, the red plum blossoms were so beautiful, and there were still a few flowers that had not yet bloomed, he asked aloud, "Plum blossoms?"

Xiang Changyuan nodded and replied, "The ones in my elder sister's courtyard were blooming when I went back. I remember you saw a corner of the plum blossom in Dasheng's road record. I think you should like it."

When he was sick, Xiang Changyuan would borrow his books to read.

Xu Yuanqing had read that book, and after reading it, he looked at his sickly body and forgot about it, and he didn't even remember breaking a corner.

Looking at those bright black and white eyes, he raised his hand to take the flower, not knowing what to say for a moment.

When Xiang Changyuan saw him take it, the smile in his eyes became brighter, "It's cold, go to sleep, and see the snow tomorrow." As he spoke, he pushed Xu Yuanqing in, and was about to close the window for him, when the window was slammedPressing down with his long hand, he raised his head and fell into a pair of peach blossom eyes with complex expressions. His eyelashes were moist from melting snow, and the red mole under his eyes became redder because of his pale face, making his entire face appear more colorful.

"Wait a minute." Xu Yuanqing said in a muffled voice, turned around and put plum blossoms on the table, went to the bedroom hanger to get a cloak, found an umbrella in the cabinet, took it with him, went straight out to the window and handed it to him.

Xiang Changyuan hurriedly continued, pushed him into the room without saying a word, closed the door again, and ran back to the window to talk to him, "Thank you, son, I will return it to you after I wash it."

Xu Yuanqing saw that the snow outside was falling more and more heavily, and the road would be submerged within a short walk, so he waved his hands and urged him, "Let's go quickly."

"Okay." Xiang Changyuan responded happily, and closed the window for him.

After a while, the surroundings returned to silence, only the shallow breathing of Zuoyue who fell asleep at some point, and the faint sound of charcoal fire.

Xu Yuanqing narrowed his eyes, walked slowly to the window, raised his hand to push the window but suddenly stopped in the air, he frowned slightly and looked at his hand hanging in the air, the thought in his heart startled him, heHe hurriedly withdrew his hand, and when he turned around, his eyes were bright red.

Only then did he realize that he was a little caught in the sugar-coated cannonball.

———

The next day, Zuo Yue woke up and saw the red plums in a jade bottle on the desk.Accidentally ran into an uninvited guest.

After a long time no see, Tang Jiao was still ruthless. After helping Zuo Yue to stand firmly, he asked him aggressively, "Where is the dog raised by your family?"

Zuo Yue tremblingly pointed to the white dog peeing in the corner.

Tang Jiao was furious, resisted the urge to beat him, pushed him away aggressively and went into the yard, Zuo Yue hurried to catch up, but unfortunately he was not as strong as Tang Jiao, so he couldn't stop him.

"Little Lord, my eldest son is still sleeping, so it's inconvenient to see guests."

"Bang!" With a soft sound, the door was kicked open by Tang Jiao. Inside the door was Xu Yuanqing, who was wrapping up his robe, looking up at them sleepily. Seeing that it was Tang Jiao, his expression remained unchanged, and he kicked the door indifferently.close.

Tang Jiao slammed the door open and barged in, unreasonably blocking Xu Yuanqing, "Where is he?"

Xu Yuanqing found out that Tang Jiao was looking for him now because of Liu Qian. If he hadn't known what he was doing before, but now he knew a thing or two, and he was speechless for a while, and said angrily, "I don't know."

"You!" Tang Jiao had nothing to do with him, calmed down and lowered his voice, "I'll trade you the news."

Xu Yuanqing drank hot water to moisten his throat, with an expression of disbelief, "What news do you have?"

"Zuoyue, close the door." Tang Jiao commanded confidently. After Zuoyue closed the door, he approached Zuoyue in a deceptive manner and lowered his voice, "I know you and the prince are not getting along. This news must be useful to you."

Nonsense, the whole capital knew that he didn't like the crown prince, especially the blood fennel time, not only knew that he didn't like it, but also knew that he was against the crown prince everywhere, so there's nothing to say about it.

Xu Yuanqing wanted to look at him like a fool, and didn't want to cooperate with him at all, and was about to leave when Tang Jiao grabbed him anxiously and forced him to finish listening.

"My people saw Shen Zhengyuan and Lu Qiuling having a private meeting, and it was at Daxiangguo Temple!"

"What?"

Xu Yuanqing didn't respond, Zuo Yue was surprised, and repeated in a low voice, "Lu Qiuling and Xin Zhengyuan!"

Tang Jiao hurriedly covered his mouth, looked at Xu Yuanqing and nodded, his eyes appraised, indicating that the matter was absolutely true.

Lu Qiuling is now the candidate for the crown princess. Although she has not been officially canonized, the imperial decree has been issued. She is already the crown prince's person. The rules in the palace are the strictest, and it is taboo to have private meetings with outsiders.

Seeing his calm expression, Tang Jiao said triumphantly, "How about it, can you tell me where your dog is?"

"I didn't promise you to change it." Xu Yuanqing rolled his eyes and continued to drink hot water. It's better to drink more hot water when it's cold. Tang Jiao saw that he turned his face and refused, and stared angrily at him.Just rushed over, Xu Yuanqing dexterously dodged to the side, picked up the jade vase, and protected the hard-won plum blossoms.

Tang Jiao fell on the desk, furious, and wanted to show his temper, Xu Yuanqing frowned slightly, and looked at him with a little contempt, "You keep calling him a dog, it's no wonder he can take care of you."

Hearing this, Tang Jiao didn't mess with him any more, and yelled aggrievedly, "He didn't say his name, he bit me the first time I saw him!"

"Ah! Brother Liu Qian bullies you so much." Zuo Yue puffed up his cheeks and looked at him sympathetically.

Tang Jiao grasped the point immediately, "His name is Liu Qian?"

Zuo Yue realized that he had slipped his tongue, so he quickly covered his mouth and avoided it, letting Tang Jiao stare fiercely without making a sound. Tang Jiao had no choice but to focus on Xu Yuanqing. Xu Yuanqing didn't think he was fierce, but innocentHe felt that it would be bad if he made a fuss about the New Year's Eve and alarmed the elders, so he resolutely sold out those who were not present, and nodded to him to express his affirmation.

"Hmph!" Tang Jiao sniffled, and the ferocious expression on his face subsided a little, "Tell him to look down on me, next time I meet him, I'll beat him to death!"

Xu Yuanqing warned him, "Tang Jiao, he is my secret guard, you just know his name, if he messes around, he will die."

"Cut." Tang Jiao shook his head and left.

Zuo Yue hurriedly came in front of Xu Yuanqing, with a worried expression on his face, "My lord, I thought they came and went so many times, he knew brother Liu Qian's name."

Xu Yuanqing patted him on the head to make him feel at ease. Tang Jiao came from a noble family, and there were no more hidden guards around him. No matter how powerful Liu Qian was, he could easily get close to him.modest.

Besides, if he really wanted to do something to Liu Qian, he wouldn't come to him every time in a panic to find someone, and it would be faster to go directly to the guards or hidden guards in the house.

The two of them, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, cat and mouse are just playing.

Thinking of this, he looked at the plum blossom still in his arms and fell into deep thought.