no soul

The snow in Pingyang City is harsher than that in the south of the Yangtze River, and the cold air is more choking.

The bustle and bustle of the market is not diminished by the heavy snowfall, and the sound of hawking and laughter is still lively.

It seems that luxury is the eternal melody of this city, even the snow is so luxurious.

The snow on the road was cleared to both sides in the early morning, and the newly paved snow was repeatedly run out of tracks by the hurrying carriages.

One of them came from Lin Hong's carriage.

The low-end carriage bumped all the way to the Lin Mansion, and the curtains swayed in the cold wind.The coachman was wrapped in thick clothes and was too cold. He just wanted to reach his destination quickly and drink a cup of warm wine.

Holding the hand stove in his hands, Lin Hong tightened his snow-white cloak, huddled in a corner where the wind couldn't blow, and bumped with the carriage, feeling drowsy.

When I got home, the tip of my nose was frozen red.

Lin Hong received the warmest welcome from all over the house.

"Mom, I haven't seen you for a few months, and you still look great!" Lin Hong thought it was good to be home, "Father... well, you're not bad..."

Lin Yearnian: "..."

Du Xiu pulled his youngest son whom he hadn't seen for a few months to look at and look at. He missed him so much that he exchanged pleasantries several times.

Seeing that his face and hands were icy from the cold, he immediately felt distressed.

Lin has been getting jealous every year, "He went out to play so much that no one remembers it, and you still feel sorry for him! You're used to it!"

Du Xiu glared at him, "It's not that you were pregnant and born in October, you don't know how distressed you are!"

It's cool to have someone backing you, Lin Hong said: "I obviously wrote the letter!"

Du Xiu asked Lin Yue who was in the south of the Yangtze River again, and he was very embarrassed.

"Mother, don't worry, brother is doing well, everything is going well." Lin Hong said.

Isn't it true that Lin Yue sent him off that day and scolded him angrily, saying that he had been away from home for too long.

The dinner was extremely sumptuous, with all kinds of chicken, duck and fish, and there were also many special dishes in the capital, all of which were the taste of hometown.

Lin Hong was almost exhausted, and Du Xiu was still picking food into his bowl, "Eat more, for the skinny ones."

Lin Yue Nian handed over his bowl and coughed.

Du Xiu glanced at him, and continued to bring food to Lin Hong.

Lin Yearnian: "..."

After dinner, Lin Hong sat in the house holding a hand stove and looked at the snow in the backyard.There was a small brazier by his hand, and his favorite jade leaf Maojian was on the table, and the fragrance of tea was overflowing.

The courtyard is chic, the roof is covered with snow, blurring the texture of the tiles, and the dark lacquered wood and white snow shine.

The pond is covered with thin ice, and the rockery and trees have turned white in the snow.

The plum blossoms are blooming in full bloom.

The snowflakes are still falling leisurely, covering the whole scenery with hazy beauty.

Lin Hong looked at the snow scene in a daze, and felt that he hadn't been so leisurely for a long time.

And when I am free, my mind is full of thoughts...

Du Xiu sat down beside him.

Her maid cleverly poured her a cup of tea.

"Mother." Lin Hong handed her the stove.

"What's on Quan'er's mind?" Du Xiu picked up the tea and took a sip.

"No..." Lin Hong said, "I'm just tired from the car ride."

Du Xiu didn't speak, took the embroidery handed to her by the maid and continued to make arrangements, and sat with Lin Hong.

Luoxue made no sound, and the surroundings were so quiet that only the crackling of the brazier could be heard.

"Mother," Lin Hong called her.

"Huh?" Du Xiu continued to sew the things in his hands, raised his eyebrows at him, and signaled him to continue.

Lin Hong waved away the servants around him.

Du Xiu smiled and continued to focus on her embroidery.

"After the heavy snowfall, it will be Chunwei (Note 1), and my father will definitely nag me again...I don't want to be an official."

Lin Hong looked at her, feeling uneasy, and confessed to her, "I have opened several escort agencies for more than a year, and this time I went to Jiangnan to run an escort agency."

"Yes." Du Xiu admired his embroidery.

Lin Hong was stunned, "'Huh'? Do you agree?"

"Do you agree or not?" Du Xiu looked at him, "Aren't you reporting your situation to me?"

Lin Hong was noncommittal.

"Quan'er, you've grown up too, it's time for you to make your own decision, just let your mother know when you make a decision, you don't need to ask me if I agree or not." Du Xiu said.

"But dad wants me to be an official..." Lin Hong sighed.

Du Xiu laughed, "Your mother was the one who dared to elope with your father. If you didn't have this temper, you wouldn't be my Du Xiu's son."

Lin Hong's red nose is sore, and the person who supports him the most has always been his mother.

The figure of Wan Guchuan suddenly appeared in Lin Hong's mind, and he was stunned for a moment... Is my mother really able to support him in everything... Then what if it is the addiction to broken sleeves...

"Is there anything else on Quan'er's mind?" Du Xiu saw that his complexion was not good, so he stopped the needle and thread in his hand.

"No... no."

"Hey! Lin Qingquan! You are indeed here! I heard that you are back, and I went to your house to find out if you were not there. I think you must be here. Sure enough!" Gu Yunshu's handsome face showed a smile, making him even more cynical .

He took off his cloak, handed it to the waiter beside him, rewarded him with some broken silver, and walked into Lin Hong's box.

The restaurant business in the snowy night is not very good, but it is very clean.

Lin Hong was a little drunk, his cheeks and nose were slightly red, and his eyes were blurred.

Gu Yunshu hadn't seen him for a long time, and his heart tightened when he saw him, "How are you doing in Jiangnan? I wanted to find you, but my father didn't let me go and asked me to do business here."

"Very good..." Lin Hong poured himself another glass of wine.

"It's good?" Gu Yunshu looked at the empty wine jug piled up on the table, and asked him, "Then what's wrong with you? Come here to have a drink."

"How are you doing?" Lin Hong raised his eyebrows at him while holding a glass of wine.

"I'm fine, don't change the subject with me, let me tell you!" Gu Yunshu snatched his wine, looked at his pale pink lips that were glowing with water, and couldn't help but licked his own lips, He loosened his collar.

"How did you find out that you don't like women?" Lin Hong was drunk, looked at him, and asked without any scruples.

"Why do you ask this all of a sudden?" Gu Yunshu suddenly felt guilty, his eyes moved from his lips to his eyes, "You have never been curious before."

"I'm just curious, just ask." Lin Hong fiddled with the half-drunk flagon in front of him.

"Just... suddenly found that I fell in love with someone, and he happened to be not a woman." Gu Yunshu said.

Lin Hong smiled, his eyebrows were curved, and the eyes were clear, as if there was a moonlight on a snowy night, "You? Who do you like? Then you are still drinking and drinking."

Gu Yunshu narrowed his eyes and looked at him, "If he has the ability to cut off his sleeves, can I still wander around Qingyun Building to find solace?"

His words reminded Lin Hong of Wan Guchuan, and made his heart ache.

Gu Yunshu also poured himself a glass of wine, picked it up and drank it in one gulp.

Lin Hong looked at him, "That's my wine glass."

"So what? I'll get you another one." Gu Yunshu poured himself another glass, "If you don't get drunk today, you won't go home! I'll welcome you, and I'll treat you! Xiao Er serves wine!"

After a few rounds of drinking, Lin Hong became even more drunk.

"How do you know he's not Duanxiu?" Lin Hong was curious.

"Is it hard to see?" Gu Yunshu put a clean wine glass in front of him and filled it up for him.

Lin Hong pouted, approached the full wine glass, and took a sip, "What do you think?"

"Didn't you say it all?" Gu Yunshu said, "I like women."

"What do you mean?" Lin Hong drank in a daze, "It means that if you still like women, you won't have broken sleeves?"

Gu Yunshu was also drunk, and laughed, "Everyone I know who likes both men and women ends up marrying women."

"What about you?" Lin Hong lay down on the table drunk.

"Me?" Gu Yunshu looked at him, "It's not like you haven't seen what I look like in Qunyulou—I don't even want to move my hands, let alone open my mouth..."

Lin Hong thought for a while, "Let's go to Qunyulou."

Gu Yunshu almost spit out his wine, "Now? Don't you want to go?"

"Go to my sisters for help." Lin Hong laughed drunkenly.

Gu Yunshu looked at him, his eyes widened, "What's the matter? Can I help you?"

Lin Hong looked him up and down, "Forget it..."

Gu Yunshu: "..."

"My God! It's Mr. Lin!"

"Young Master Lin!"

"Master Lin is here~"

"Long time no see~"

"Don't come here without any problems, I miss you so much~"

"..."

Lin Hong was so drunk that he staggered to and fro, coughed due to the smell of the incense powder, and smiled in a daze, "Please do me a favor, sister!"

"What exactly are you helping?" Gu Yunshu had a bad feeling...

"Mr. Lin, are you serious..." The woman was slender and slim, wearing only a thin gauze in this warm room.His eyebrows are like distant mountains, his eyes are like autumn waves, his fair face is flushed, and he looks timidly at the handsome young man in front of him, "Didn't you never..."

Lin Hong was so drunk that he was unconscious and had a headache from the scent, so he nodded indiscriminately.

The wing room is densely covered with gauze, exquisitely furnished, the candles are dimly lit, and the fragrance has a hint of confusion...

The woman smiled intoxicatingly, and her two jade hands wanted to climb Lin Hong's shoulders, but Lin Hong reflexively took a step back.

Women are best at dealing with such situations. She didn't feel that she was hit by a wall, but instead laughed, "What are you afraid of, Mr. Lin?" The voice seemed to be bewitching.

She took a step forward, her graceful figure clinging to Lin Hong like a snake, and the scent got closer.

With a smile on the woman's red lips, she slowly approached his lips.

In Lin Hong's muddy mind, a blurry scene of himself falling on the bed after drunkenness in the inn, grabbing Wan Guchuan's collar and kissing him suddenly appeared...

Is there a kiss?

Why……

Hope kissed.

Lin Hong suddenly pushed away the woman who was close to him.

The woman laughed again, her voice was like a gurgling ice spring, "My lord is really innocent."

She stared at Lin Hong with a pair of eyes with a smile, full of provocation.Two fingers kissed his lips lightly, then raised his hand to wipe Lin Hong's lips, leaving a smear of rouge on it.

Lin Hong was startled, and grabbed her hand.

He can't stay anymore, he can't stay anymore, is that really the case...

He is leaving.

Lin Hong walked towards the door, feeling that he was ridiculously drunk, the scene in front of him became blurred, and even the voice of the woman calling him from behind became distant...

Lin Hong pushed open the door, and a tall figure stood in front of him. He almost bumped into this chest. When he looked up, his eyes were so handsome that his eyes were darkened. Don't talk about thinking.

"Why are you here?!"

Rouge gouache and a strong smell of alcohol rushed towards his face.

Wan Guchuan's eyes fell on the red rouge on his lips, and his deep voice carried a dangerous tone, "Where is it?"

"En?" Lin Hong couldn't get his head around, and his eyes unconsciously dodged, "Where is what?"

A hand pinched his chin and forced him to raise his head. When Lin Hong met those deep eyes, his mind went blank.

His senses were dulled by the alcohol, and he couldn't see the suppressed anger in those eyes.

"What are you doing?" Wan Guchuan's eyes kept falling on his lips, the rouge was too obtrusive.

Lin Hong felt that his chin was pinched and hurt, "Go drink."

The thumb on his chin slid to his lips.

Lin Hong was startled.

The warm fingertips wiped it vigorously.

As soon as the strength on his jaw was loosened, Wan Guchuan turned and left.

As he walked away, Lin Hong realized that the surroundings were no longer Qunyulou, but a vast and boundless desert. The moon was as bright as frost, and he could pick it up with his hands.

His mind was muddled, is this in a dream...

Looking at Wan Guchuan's back, Lin Hong felt sad for no reason, his nose was sore, and he followed behind him.

After walking a few steps, Wan Guchuan stopped, and Lin Hong also stopped, not knowing what happened.

He heard Wan Guchuan sigh, alcohol made him dull, he couldn't understand how helpless and sad this sigh was...

Wan Guchuan turned around and walked towards him again, untiing his woolen cloak while walking.

The night wind in the desert was biting, Lin Hong didn't wear a cloak at all in the room just now, but now, he stood there thinly.

Wan Guchuan stood in front of him, wrapped his cloak around his back, draped it over his shoulders, pulled the rope around his collar, and gathered it together.

The cloak was a bit heavy, and Lin Hongben's feet were a little weak due to drunkenness, and his feet were unsteady under the pressure, and he almost fell into Wan Guchuan's arms.

Wan Guchuan lowered his eyes and said nothing, his slender fingers were tied with ropes.

The cloak still carried the warmth of Wan Guchuan's body. Lin Hong raised his eyes to look at him, and suddenly remembered that he also untied the knots on the cloak on Tiansi Snow Mountain in the same way...

Lin Hong's eyes fell on his thin lips, wanting to kiss them...

Feeling sad for a moment, I blurted out, "Don't be angry, I won't go." The voice was soft.

The movement of Wan Guchuan's hands paused, and he looked at him.

Lin Hong frowned, his cheeks were flushed with drunkenness, and the moonlight shone in his eyes.

"Why?" Wan Guchuan raised an eyebrow.

"Because you don't want me to go."

"Why?" Wan Guchuan was hopeful.

"Because you're angry."

"……why?"

"Because you don't want me to go."

"..."

"Why don't I want you to go, why are you angry?" Wan Guchuan asked him.

"Because..." Lin Hong frowned and thought over and over with his drunken head, but couldn't figure it out, and was a little annoyed, "I don't know..."

Wan Guchuan: "..."

The sand dunes in the distance sang softly in the wind, and the stars all over the sky were clear and clear in the black night.

"Because..." Wan Guchuan looked down at him, "I hope you belong to me only."

Lin Hong also stared at him, and suddenly smiled, his eyes rolled when he smiled, his pink lips and teeth were the sweetest oasis in this desolate desert in the middle of the night.

"I want you to be mine too."

Wan Guchuan was stunned.

The desert wind at night is cool and soft.

He knew that Lin Hong was drunk and didn't understand the emotion he expressed at all, but his heart was still turbulent.

He wished so much... the king's heart is the same as mine.

Wan Guchuan was helpless, his eyes were full of tenderness, he lowered his head and moved closer to Lin Hong, his hot breath intertwined, his lips almost touched, but he barely stopped in the scent of rouge.

The sandbar is endless, the night is endless, and the moon is bright.

Eternity is hidden in the distance, just around the corner.

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Note 1: Chunwei: The general examination is the central examination in the ancient Chinese imperial examination system. Because the examination is held in spring, it is also called the spring examination or Chunwei.Candidates for the examination are Juren from various provinces, those admitted are called "Gongshi", and No.1 is called "Huiyuan".Examination, one of the titles of the imperial examination.