Before He Yan could speak, Xiao Jue glanced at her, turned and left.
The lamp in front of him hadn't been taken off, and He Yan couldn't care less, so he quickly pushed aside the crowd and followed. The craftsman behind him was stunned and called her: "Girl, you forgot to take your lamp!"
But no response.
He Xinying also heard the craftsman's shout, and subconsciously followed the craftsman's gaze, and saw a familiar back hurriedly leaving.
She was stunned for a moment. This back looked exactly like the Marquis of Wu'an, Heyan, whom she met in Yuhua Temple before.
For some reason, she and He Yan only met once, but they were particularly impressed. Xu Zhiheng, who was beside him, asked her, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." He Xinying came back to her senses, "Let's look at the lights." She felt a little apprehensive.
Since marrying Xu Zhiheng, whenever there is time, Xu Zhiheng will accompany her to the night market. These days, Xu Zhiheng was busy with official business, but he did not come over for two months. Yesterday, when she returned to Xu's house, Xu Zhiheng offered to accompany her for a while. If it were changed to the past, He Xinying would be very happy, but now walking by Xu Zhiheng's side, she was no longer excited, and even a little nervous.
The mother's illness, the assassin that night, the military book hidden in the bedpost by the dead eldest sister, each of which is enough to make people suspicious. And she couldn't do anything, she had to pretend she didn't know anything.
She stared at the colorful lanterns in front of her, but the back of the hurriedly left just now appeared in her mind, and her mind was very heavy.
…
The crowd was crowded, and He Yan managed to grab Xiao Jue's sleeve and said, "You walk slowly, there are so many people here, it takes a long time to find you when you are separated. I was trampled several times just now."
He just walked forward and didn't look back, but he finally slowed down a bit.
In the crowd of people coming and going, He Yan used the strength of throwing stone locks to tighten his sleeves, almost not tearing Xiao Jue's sleeves, and finally walked outside the crowd, along the river.
"Xiao Jue," He Yan stared at him and asked, "Are you angry?"
Xiao Jue did not speak.
He turned his head sideways, He Yan couldn't see his expression clearly, so he stood on tiptoe and approached him to see clearly. He was blocked by Xiao Jue's arm and pushed He Yan away from him.
"Are you really angry?" He Yan said, "I just..."
"He Yan," Xiao Jue interrupted her, looking straight at her with a low voice, "Are you..."
He Yan looked at him.
"Is there any remaining love for Xu Zhiheng?"
"Cough cough cough—" She was choked up and coughed.
"Don't be joking!" He Yan denied, "It's not like you don't know what he did, how could I have no more affection for him?"
"Oh?" He raised his eyebrows, his eyes sharp, "That means, there was 'love' in the past?"
He Yan almost didn't come up in one breath, and was stunned by Xiao Jue's question. What kind of question, she doesn't seem to answer it right. After babbling for a while, He Yan whispered, "Never in the past."
Xiao Jue looked down at her with an expressionless face, He Yan felt guilty, and carefully considered the words and lied: "You know, the words of my parents' matchmaker, I have no right to choose in my last life, I exchanged it with He Rufei. After returning to my identity, naturally what the family says is what the family says... The He family arranged for me to marry Xu Zhiheng, and I got married, I have no... no affection."
He Yan had an inexplicable feeling of guilty conscience that her adultery was discovered by her husband, and she also had a headache in her heart. She just glanced at Xu Zhiheng under the lantern, who knew it would cause such a big trouble. But in this way, it seems that she is more at a loss. After all, Xiao Jue had never had another girl before her.
"But I heard that you were very happy when you married Xu Zhiheng." He looked at the river under the fence with calm eyes.
He Yan was agitated: "Who said that? It's heartbreaking to spread rumors behind me like this!"
Xiao Jue glanced at her lightly, He Yan froze for a moment, then lowered her head, "Well, when I didn't know he was this kind of person before, there was... a little bit." She compared her little finger with her thumb, "It's just a little bit, the ants are so big that they'll die with one foot."
Xiao Jue laughed angrily and said lazily, "Then tell me, why do you like him? Even if you don't know who he is, your vision," he looked at He Yan, "is much lower than ordinary people."
Is he scolding Xu Zhiheng or scolding himself? He Yan said in his heart that he didn't think in the past days that the young master was really angry, it was really hard to coax. Why to ask such an embarrassing question is tantamount to holding someone down with a knife. The eyes of the person in front of her have been staring at her, and her beautiful eyes are full of scrutiny.
He Yan sighed: "At that time, I just thought this person was very good."
Xiao Jue smiled mockingly.
"Do you remember the time when Dongshan was hunting and you secretly sent me a rabbit?" He Yan asked.
"Um."
"In order to make the emperor look happy, the gentlemen in the Xianchang Pavilion put their hearts and souls to the test and set the rules. If they don't catch prey, they won't be able to eat, and they will starve for a whole day."
Thinking of it now, He Yan was still filled with righteous indignation, "The person who established this rule is simply sick. The prisoners on death row were given a full meal, but they made such a cruel punishment when they didn't find any prey... I got my rabbit, but I let it go, and I didn't catch any prey."
If it is good in summer, it is really uncomfortable to be hungry on a snowy day. When the hunting was over, He Yan looked at the teenagers beside him who had returned home full of achievements, and felt extremely uncomfortable.
It was at that time that she met Xu Zhiheng.
At that time, Xu Zhiheng was only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. He was dressed in Tsing Yi and looked handsome and gentle. He Yan was hungry and walked to the place where he put his bags. The ground was covered with deep snow. It was getting dark before I came out, and I was really weak. I didn't watch out for a stone buried in the snow. I accidentally kicked it up and stumbled. Half of my body plunged into the snow and didn't get up for a long time.
Just as she was fluttering in the snow, suddenly, she heard a voice in front of her: "Are you alright?"
He Yan looked up and saw a young man in green clothes.
This young man looks raw, and should not be a student of Xianchang Hall. However, when we went hunting in the mountains today, students from other academies also participated. It was presumed to be a student from another school.
He Yan was still in a daze, but the young man smiled, reached out and grabbed her hand and said, "I'll help you." He pulled her up from the snow.
She was still wearing a mask on her face, and the mask was cold, but the boy's hands were warm.
"My name is Xu Zhiheng, but Xiongtai is from Xianchang Pavilion?"
He Yan nodded randomly.
"I heard that the rules of the Xianchang Pavilion are very strict. If you haven't hunted any prey today, you will be hungry." Xu Zhiheng looked at her empty hands, "It's a pity I didn't go hunting, otherwise I'd be able to divide the prey among you. already."
In the Xianchang Pavilion, she was considered withdrawn and never had any friends. Because of her mask, others also felt that she was quite aloof, too lazy to approach, and it was the first time she had met such a warmhearted person. I didn't know what to say for a while.
"Are you going over there to get your baggage?" Xu Zhiheng asked, "Can I help you? You can't even walk anymore."
He Yan was about to say no, but as soon as he lifted his foot, he felt severe pain in his ankle, and it seemed that he had just twisted it. Thinking of this, he nodded slightly to the young man, and said suddenly, "Thank you." Then he pointed to the red bag, "That's mine."
Xu Zhiheng turned around and went to the high platform to help He Yan pick up the burden. When the burden was retrieved, it was delivered to He Yan, and he helped her to the carriage where the students of Xianchang Hall were sitting before leaving.
At that time, He Yan looked at Xu Zhiheng's back and felt that this young man was really warm and considerate.
When I returned to the Xianchang Pavilion, it really was a day without food. He Yan hid in the room alone and poured himself some hot tea. The more he drank it, the more hungry he felt, and his stomach rumbled non-stop.
But what can be done, the rules of the Xianchang Pavilion are the strictest. Besides, she really wasn't hunting for anything, and if she really wanted to go, she couldn't hold her face down. After sitting for a while, He Yan reluctantly sighed, took the bag over, and prepared to put the pen and paper with him during the day. As soon as he opened the bag, two yellow loquats rolled out from the inside.
How come there are loquats in this season
He Yan was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously picked up the loquat, which was big and heavy, and could vaguely smell the aroma. This burden has been placed on the high platform. When hunting, the students only bring quivers and arrows for the sake of lightness. After thinking about it, the only person who has ever touched this burden is the young man in green named Xu Zhiheng.
She peeled off the loquat and took a small sip. The fruit was sweet. Thinking of the young man's face and smile, she felt that today's luck was not too bad.
A few years later, when He Yan returned from the battlefield and changed his identities with He Rufei, when Mrs. He told herself that she had set up a marriage for her, and that the other party's name was Xu Zhiheng, He Yan was completely astonished. , and a hint of hilarity. The marriage of the women of the He family has always paved the way for men. Compared with marrying a stranger who has never been masked, marrying Xu Zhiheng is obviously the best of all her choices.
No matter how people outside praised Uncle Xu for being young and promising, in He Yan's heart, he just felt that Xu Zhiheng, who was in his teens at the time, could be so considerate to the people he met by chance, he must be a good person. At that time, she actually had a lot of expectations for this marriage. Even if Xu Zhiheng favored He Wanru, He Wanru had always shown his strength in front of her, but with the two loquats in his youth, He Yan had always had some illusions about Xu Zhiheng.
Until the blindness, until Xu Zhiheng broke this fantasy little by little.
"So," Xiao Jue played with the taste: "You like him just for two loquats?"
"Forget it." He Yan said: "I just think that he can take care of others' moods so well and see through the embarrassment of others. At least he is a good person."
"Your liking is really random." Xiao Jue sneered, walked forward, took two steps, stopped again, and said coldly, "I gave those two loquats."
He Yan was stunned.
He had already continued walking towards the river, and He Yan was stunned for a moment. He caught up with him in a few steps and grabbed his sleeve, "How is that possible? You lied to me, right?"
Xiao Jue looked down at her with a calm gaze.
Back then, Lin Shuanghe proposed to give He Yan a rabbit, but he was so annoyed that he shot one, but He Yan released the rabbit, because he thought of his childhood experiences in the mountains, so he felt differently about this boy who didn't seem to have much advantages. Eye to eye. It is also known that students who have not hunted prey today will be hungry for a day when they return to Xianchang Hall.
Xiao Jue, who was the first in this hunt, won a lot of rewards. The people in the palace even gave royal food, and there were two loquats in it.
Loquats in this season are not available everywhere. He had no interest in this sweet fruit at all. Before leaving, he passed the high platform and caught a glimpse of the red bag placed in the corner. He vaguely remembered that the bag seemed to belong to "He Rufei".
That kid didn't hunt anything today. After he went back, he was hungry all night, and it was winter again. I'm afraid it would be difficult to endure it. He looked at the imperial food basket in his hand, and remembered that when he met "He Rufei" for the first time, he had seen this guy standing under the loquat tree in the school hall, jumping up and trying to pick the loquat, which was extremely funny. . After thinking about it, he stopped, took out the two loquats from the food basket, and stuffed them into the red bag.
He Yan stammered: "Isn't it? Is it really from you?"
Xiao Jue looked at her quietly.
He Yan thought to himself, this is over, it is like Xiao Jue did a good deed and was cut off by Xu Zhiheng. But at this juncture, how to calm his anger.
"Today is your birthday, I forgot to take the lamp just now, what gift do you want..." She awkwardly turned her head away, caught a glimpse of someone selling candied haws on the opposite street next to her, and said, "Wait. "I rushed over, bought a bunch of candied haws, ran back, and handed it to Xiao Jue: "Here you are!"
Xiao Jue turned his head to the side.
He might be really angry.
He Yan was in trouble. There is no way to undo the past. She did have a heart for Xu Zhiheng and married Xu Zhiheng, but Xiao Jue did not. She had never experienced Xiao Jue's mood at the moment, but she knew very well that it might not be a good feeling.
He Yan circled around him, "Xiao Jue, Xiao Jue?"
Xiao Jue avoided her gaze and only looked at the gurgling river under the bar.
I don't know when, there was light snow all over the world, and the snow particles fell on him one after another, away from the crowd at the night market, He Yan finally felt cold. I suddenly remembered what Ome had said to her when she was about to leave.
He Yan glanced at Xiao Jue, this person still didn't look at her, she sneezed exaggeratedly and said to herself, "It's so cold."
The next moment, warmth fell from the sky, Xiao Jue turned around, took off the cloak and put it on her, finally willing to turn around and look at her.
He Yan hurriedly hit the snake with the stick and rushed in front of him, "Aren't you angry anymore?"
Xiao Jue helped her tie the rope in front of the cloak, but still ignored her.
His cloak was so large that it almost trapped He Yan's entire body. He Yan was afraid that he would be cold, so he leaned very close to Xiao Jue, as if he was close to him when he was drunk that night. She raised her head to tease Xiao Jue, "Captain Xiao, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have recognized the wrong person, today is your birthday, don't be angry, just smile? If you don't want to smile... Eat a sugar gourd?"
She held the candied gourd to Xiao Jue's lips, and suddenly, her hand was grasped.
He Yan was stunned, then raised his head subconsciously, and met his glittering black eyes.
The facial features of the youth have faded from their youthful delicacy, like the moonlight on a snowy mountain.
He pulled He Yan forward with one hand, wrapped it in his arms, leaned over and kissed him.
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Try again and again on the edge of the shield.
Although I don't know how to continue without being blocked at the beginning of the next chapter.
I'm too hard? _