Hot as China, cold as snow

There was a lot of noise in front of the Fuzheng Palace, the janitor opened the crack of the door, but he didn't see clearly, and was about to curse: "What are you doing?" But there were nearly a hundred well-dressed ministers standing outside the Fuzheng Palace.

Seeing this situation, the gatekeeper was quite excited, and hurriedly closed the gate and went to report.

Leng Xuanren heard it and rubbed his forehead: "Let them make trouble!"

A row of four people in the first row held up a white banner and wrote four big characters in vermilion, "Human for land".

The leader is Sima Yuerong, a veteran of the three dynasties.Sima Yuerong held a book in his hand, on which all officials signed and pressed their thumbprints, and it was euphemistically called: All officials wrote a letter of loyalty and advice.

When Sima Yuerong saw that the newly opened door was closed, he seemed to be prepared, and immediately led nearly a hundred people to sit cross-legged on the ground. This was not over, he cleared his throat and took the lead in shouting slogans: "Hand over the prince of the enemy country!" , implement the system of exchanging people for land.”

"For the sake of the country and the people, take the enemy's city without bloodshed."

Such a mighty team quickly attracted people's onlookers in a place like the Fuzheng Palace.Such a huge momentum caused a very huge impact, and the matter quickly spread throughout the city, from the emperor to the merchants in the market.

Leng Xuanyan could still hear the endless slogans outside the room, the gatekeeper brought in the roster signed by all officials, he flipped through it casually, his face was gloomy, he narrowed his eyes, and held it in his hand and turned it into a Flour.But with Baiguan doing this, the common people didn't know about exchanging people for land, and Leng Xuanren suddenly felt pressure increased.

Liu Moran, who lives in the guest room inside the Fuzheng Palace, naturally heard the shouts from outside.Rong Wang Liuxu proposed to exchange the land for Liu Moran's life, but Leng Xuanren kept finding various reasons to delay.He knew that Leng Xuanyan had been suppressing this matter with his own strength.

When Liu Moran knew that such a protest was going on outside and tried to get Leng Xuanren to quickly order him to be handed over in exchange for land, he knew that he was about to leave the place where he had been under house arrest for a long time.He simply packed up some things, only taking the most important personal items.When the tentacles were warm and moist, he stretched out his hand and touched the half piece of broken jade hidden deep under his clothes. Liu Moran was stunned. The matter dragged on until two o'clock in the afternoon, and there were too many people gathered.In the end, the government sent troops to surround the entire auxiliary government palace, and the people dispersed after seeing it, but some people who were not afraid of death still watched.

Sima Yuerong led a group of officials to intercept him at the Fuzhengwang Palace, and Liu Moran's identity as the son of King Rong was widely spread.Sima Yuerong, a veteran of the three dynasties, took the lead, and the officials refused to make concessions, and kept submitting signed books, requesting that Liu Moran be exchanged for land as soon as possible.Leng Xuanren couldn't resist the pressure exerted by the officials and the common people, so he had to stand up in front of the public and promised the officials and officials to choose a good day and auspicious day to exchange people for land.

Liu Moran packed his things silently, leaving half of the broken jade behind, and left by car without looking back.

After the crowd dispersed, Leng Xuanyan was disturbed and walked around casually, but unconsciously came to the guest room where Liu Moran used to live, but everything was changed.Sitting on the couch, her eyes swept across the neat and clean bed, but unexpectedly touched the light blue tassels.He thought for a moment, then stretched out his hand to pull it. Under the quilt, there was a half piece of broken jade connected to the tassel.He calmly picked up the broken jade and looked at it carefully for a while. The texture of the broken jade was fine and oily, warm to the touch, and the color was crystal clear and green.He took out another half of the broken jade from his bosom, and combined the two pieces of broken jade into one, and the two phoenixes held the flowers.The two phoenixes spread their wings and wanted to fly, and they held a flower branch in their mouths.

Something rushed into my mind, like ten thousand steel needles inserted into my brain, stinging every time.Who in my mind is the five-colored crape myrtle flower shining on the back shoulder, slowly overlapping with the flower branch on the broken jade in front of me, the reddish and scorching skin seems to be still in front of my eyes, faintly smelling that special The crape myrtle fragrance.

The memory went back to many years ago, when he was still a proton sent by the Shunhui Empire to the Chengtian Empire, an abandoned, betrayed, humble and abolished prince.Leng Xuanren tried his best to put together the pieces of broken jade that were broken into two halves, and glued them together carefully. If it wasn't because Na Ran's sentence was the only thing my mother left me, he thought he probably wouldn't care so much about the pieces of jade. of.

Mother, what a long-standing title.He witnessed with his own eyes that his father's body weakened little by little, heading towards death, which was the withering of abnormal signs of life.The empress mother's desperate face full of tears appeared in front of her.She hugged him and sighed deeply: I only have you. 'I' is the most original title, not 'Ben Gong'.That is the last hope of a mother, and perseverance.Yet even the peaceful life that comes from such a humble prayer is ruthlessly plundered.The blood pouring from the sky and covering the sky stared at his eyes affectionately, with a happy smile that hadn't appeared for a long time.The queen mother resolutely chose to follow in the footsteps of her father and leave the world, leaving the young Leng Xuanren alone.

No one thought about how he felt after losing his father and mother at such a young age, no one thought about how he could survive in this harem without a protective barrier, no one cared about him, no one people.From then on, loneliness and despair wrapped him tightly, without a ray of light.Until that person appeared, obviously younger than himself, but firmly clenched his fists and said words to protect others.He just laughed it off, this is just Liu Moran's wishful and unilateral promise, he has already learned not to trust anyone, right?But I still feel something warm stirring in my chest bit by bit.

'blade. 'The clear and familiar voice was strange enough to bring him back from the painful memories, and he panicked and hurriedly put away the sticky broken jade, not wanting him to see it.Looking back, I saw a happy girl with crooked eyebrows, who was dressed up like this even though she was a boy.Unlike real girls, his body doesn't smell of makeup, it's very clean and delicate.

Ran seemed to have discovered the anomaly of the blade, and teased him: "Hide something good and don't show it to me."

Ren's small face blushed imperceptibly, he was a child after all, no matter how much he experienced, he would still have childish emotions, but he quickly calmed down, pretending to be cold and angrily said: "Why are you here so late today?"

However, she didn't seem to realize that his anger was just faking. When she saw that he was angry, she didn't ask him any more. She just lowered her head pitifully: "It took me a long time to come out. You are still so fierce. It's my birthday today." The last sentence said The ones are barely audible.But Leng Xuanyan still heard it, his heart softened, his tone was a bit hard, so he eased his tone: "Your birthday is today? Why didn't you say it earlier."

Hearing this, he raised his head, his eyes full of cunning: "You are not angry with me anymore." Blade sighed inwardly, being deceived by him again.

Then he paused and saw that there was no response from the blade, so he said to himself: "A lot of people came outside today, and they also received a lot of gifts."

Hearing this, Blade was a little disgusted, and interjected, "I don't have a present here." He turned around and left.

But he shouted from behind: "Although the atmosphere is lively and the gifts are expensive, it's just too noisy. Everyone's words are nothing more than auspicious words. I don't want to see that kind of face. I really want to come to you and share it with you." The joy of a birthday. But I haven’t found time to escape.” After hearing these words, Yan stopped, and then heard footsteps behind him, a sound of trotting, and after a while Liu Moran caught up with Leng Xuanyan, and He walked side by side, panting, and murmured in a low voice: "It's my birthday today, so it's fine if I don't have a gift, I've worked so hard to sneak here, and I'm angry with him." Then he asked longingly: " You celebrate your birthday on that day, and I will definitely give you a gift then."

When the two entered the room, Ren Cai turned his head and said with a very sad and lonely expression: "It's not my birthday, I don't have a birthday." Yes, his birthday is the anniversary of the death of his mother.

Ran was taken aback for a moment, then quickly narrowed his eyes and smiled: "My birthday will be your birthday in the future. Let's celebrate together." He took out a bunch of delicious food from his arms as if by magic, and the desserts were baked The chicken, wrapped in his arms, was still warm: "Look." He put the things on the only broken wooden table in the house one at a time, and showed him as if offering a treasure.

Seeing the delicious food on this table, Jian was a little moved, wanted to say thank you but couldn't say it, but tightened the broken jade hidden in his cuff.Liu Moran looked around, ran to the stove and broke three branches of similar length and thickness, and evenly touched something similar to oil on them.He collected the ashes with his hands again and made a small handful.Then he ran over and pulled Leng Xuanyan at the side, regardless of whether he agreed or not, he said: "Choose a date, it's better to touch the date, let's do it today! Let's become sworn brothers, and every year from now on, today will be your and my birthday." Kneeling herself and pulling him to kneel down, she said decently: "I don't look forward to being born on the same day in the same year, nor do I look forward to how long I will be with you, I just hope that every year today, I will think of each other, no matter where we are Where is the end of the world?" Then he lit the branch and bowed three times before handing it to Leng Xuanren.Leng Xuanyan didn't pick it up, he looked at the burning branches and said anxiously: "Take it quickly!"

Leng Xuanren stared at him steadfastly, then took the burning branch, followed his example, bowed three times without saying a word, and stuck the branch on the ashes.

After the ceremony was completed, Liu Moran laughed foolishly, but was pulled up by Leng Xuanyan, wiped his hands for him, and dragged him to the broken wooden table to finish.He tightened the broken jade hidden in his cuff, and then took it to the table: "Your, present, birthday present."

Then he took it over in surprise: "Didn't you say you didn't have a gift? I knew you were lying to me. Why didn't you prepare a gift for me for my birthday. I didn't expect you to really do it. Thank you, today It's the happiest birthday I've ever had." However, the cheerful tone gradually lowered: "I'm sorry, but unfortunately I don't have a present for you, but I still wish you a happy birthday."

"Fool." Blade sighed in a low voice: "You are the best gift God gave me." In Blade's memory are those wide open eyes full of curiosity and surprise.

The stabbing pain in the head, the reunion in the Xutu Mountain, the three days of life and death in the desert, the Chengtian Empire's search all the way, and the deliberate investigation of his identity, all of them came to mind.When they met again on the battlefield, they already knew the identity of the other party, but they were hit by a stone by accident and couldn't remember it.Leng Xuanyan clenched his fist fiercely, his nails pierced into his palm, bleeding came out, but he didn't care: "What have I done to him!" He clearly promised to protect him, and clearly promised to protect him. Find him out of harm's way.In the end, he was the one who hurt him the most.I disregarded the objections of the ministers, the emptiness of the national treasury, and the recuperation of the country. Not long after the civil war was rehabilitated, it was because of him that I sent troops to attack the Chengtian Empire.

He stood up abruptly, made up his mind, clenched the two pieces of broken jade tightly in his hand, and shouted: "Yexuan, prepare your horse and go to Yaocheng."

A black shadow flashed outside the window, Ye Xuan took the order and left.Ye Xuan shook his head slightly, who knows about the master's affairs, the two are already linked together, right?I just knew that this murderous landlord who was cold outside and hot inside had to go back to find that person in the end.