He ​​was just walking forward calmly. After taking a few steps, he realized that I was not following him, so he stopped and looked back at me.

"What's wrong?"

"..."

I stood behind and looked at him with a slightly blocked throat.

He opened his clear eyes wide and looked at me.

He is also a handsome young man, although compared to the ones I am familiar with, such as Huang Tianba, and the several outstanding-looking brothers from the Tian family, he is worse than them. Even his brother Liu Yi is better than him.

Much more refined; he is a person raised in the mountains and rivers, with a natural roughness.

But for some reason, the roughness is slowly being smoothed away now. When he stood in the white snow and looked at me, he felt like he was one and the same.

At this moment, although my heart was beating non-stop, it felt like I was touching a needle. Every time my heart beat, there was a slight pain.

I smiled: "Nothing."

He looked at me again.

I thought about it and said: "I think you are still you, but you are still different from the you before."

Hearing these words, he was startled, but he soon laughed, and continued to walk forward, saying as he walked: "My original intention has not changed, but when I get to this place, I can't change either."

As he said that, he looked at me and said, "You taught me."

"Me?" I laughed dumbly: "When did I teach you?"

He smiled and said: "When you were in Jixiang Village, although you were always worried, you didn't think much about it. When they made things difficult for you, you didn't do anything to them."

"..."

"But that day in the main hall," he said, the expression in his eyes also darkened, and he said: "I saw your face looked ugly, just like when you were embarrassed by them. I thought you were very scared, so I——.

But later I discovered that you were just nervous, and you were not afraid because you had already prepared yourself for everything."

"..."

"You taught me how to survive in this place."

"..."

"I complained to you about the constraints everywhere, but now that I think about it, it's actually because I'm not doing a good enough job and I'm not perfect enough, so I'm being constrained."

"...So, today you -"

He looked at me and smiled: "I am confident that I have done everything, and I must do it. Only in this way can I win!"

Looking at the firm light in his clear eyes, I felt familiar yet strange at the same time. In fact, he had been like this from the beginning. It was just that the environment was different, the identity was different, and the complexity of everything made me feel more and more strange.

I was in a daze for a moment, my foot slipped, and I fell down.

"Be careful!"

He hurriedly stretched out his hand, and I stumbled into his arms. My cold cheek pressed against his heaving chest. Suddenly, a burst of his scent and warmth melted around me.

My heart beat hard again.

He seemed to freeze for a moment and stood there momentarily unresponsive.

The wind and snow are getting more and more urgent.

After an unknown amount of time, a pair of kind but trembling hands reached out and held my shoulders. I raised my head as if suddenly awakened, only to see his ice-like eyes looking down at me: "Are you okay?"

"..." As soon as I moved, I frowned.

Although I didn't fall, I felt a pain in my ankle and my ankle sprained.

Seeing that I suddenly frowned in pain, he hurriedly helped me walk to a stone pier on one side, brushed away the snow on it with his sleeves, took off his coat and spread it on the ground, and then helped me sit down.

Said: "Does it hurt? Where is it hurt?"

I frowned and bit my lower lip in pain. He carefully held my foot and pinched it bit by bit: "Here? Here?" When he touched the ankle, I suddenly screamed: "

Ah——"

He quickly let go of his hand and said, "Is this here?"

"Hmm."

"It's okay, come on, let me rub it for you."

After saying that, he gently rubbed my ankle with his fingers through his shoes and socks. His fingering was neither light nor heavy, just right. I felt better, so I smiled and said, "How can you still do this?"

?"

He lowered his head and carefully pinched my feet, and said: "After the master's eye was broken, he didn't listen to others' advice. He often bumped into and fell down, and often had injuries on his body. This is how I pinched my feet. How about it?

Does it hurt?"

"Well, much better."

"Be careful later, go back and get some medicinal wine to wipe it..."

While he was instructing, he continued to rub my feet. I looked down at him and couldn't see the expression on his face clearly. I could only see the long eyelashes like black crow's wings, covering the pair of clear eyes.

Every movement of his eyes seemed to be about to flap his wings and fly away.

I looked at him like this and was speechless.

As if sensing my gaze, he raised his head, looked at me, and smiled: "Why are you looking at me all the time?"

"..." I thought for a long time, then smiled and said softly: "It's nothing, I just - remembered some things from my childhood."

"What happened?"

When I mentioned that time, my smile was somewhat forced, and I twitched the corners of my lips and said, "When I think of that time, it was already very difficult and I needed help from others to survive, but my mother always made me read, read, and learn.

Play chess, calligraphy and painting, and learn needlework."

"..."

"I was still young at that time. I almost didn't have enough to eat and couldn't play. I had to learn so many things. It was really annoying, so I lost my temper with my mother. I said, what's the use of learning so much?

No matter how wonderful your studies are, no one will appreciate them."

"Then what did your mother say?"

"..." My thoughts were in a trance, and I was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "My mother told me that I should learn regardless of whether anyone knows about it. As long as I learn well, it's enough. The rest will always be done.

God will make arrangements for me."

"..."

"I never understood what my mother meant, but seeing you now, I feel that my mother's words are right."

"Why?"

I smiled, looked down at his eyes, and said: "If you still only know how to fish, then God will certainly let you stay in the fishing village for the rest of your life; if you are literate and want to know more, God will

He will let you go to the academy; when you learn more, think more, and expect more, God will naturally arrange for you to go to a better place."

He was slightly startled when he heard that, and looked at me with wide eyes.

I smiled and said: "Qinghan, just be responsible for the wonderful things. God will arrange the rest."

He was speechless for a while, and there was a solemn look in his eyes, but he didn't say anything else. He just kept rubbing my ankle slowly. When it stopped hurting, he gently put down my ankle and stood up.

I got up and turned around and walked to the lakeside, looking at the blank snow scene in front of me.

Everything in the world is white, and there is a sense of desolation that one cannot see the way forward and does not know what the future will hold.

I sat on the stone pier behind him and stayed with him quietly.

The two people stood and sat in tandem, without speaking or making any movements. They only listened to the fine snow foam falling one after another. Time passed bit by bit in the rustling sound, but little by little.

It’s not boring, or even cold.

Looking at his back, just looking at it, it seems that you can feel his body temperature and warmth.

After an unknown amount of time, he turned around and looked at me, his eyes slightly cold, and said slowly: "What about you?"

"..."

"Where will God arrange for you to go?"

His question was profound, but also a bit silly. I smiled and said, "I don't know either."

I can't predict. Even if I know where he may go in the future, I can't see my own journey at all. The place I want to go and the place God has arranged for me have always seemed to be opposite. I have worked hard for half my life,

God, I have been fighting against the Nine Layers and Three Palaces of this Imperial City, and I still haven’t won or lost.

Because, I still refuse to admit defeat.

After a long time, I laughed loudly and said: "Maybe, I will go to a dimly lit place."

I couldn't imagine what kind of dimly lit place I would go to. But after the day's exam, Liu Qinghan was picked up by people from the Duwei Mansion, and I was picked up by people sent from the palace. As soon as I entered the palace,

When you open the door, you can see the bright lights everywhere.

Today is really a lively day.

Behind Eunuch Yu were two little eunuchs carrying lanterns, who hurried over and said as soon as they saw me: "Master Yue, you are finally back."
To be continued...