surnamed Wang

Chapter 121

"Yingxue, why do you like plum blossoms so much?" Nie Mei asked curiously as she saw the girl tidying up the plum blossoms carefully.

"Because there is Mei in Master's name!" the girl replied without thinking, her back turned to Nie Mei.

"Do you really like Master that much?" Nie Mei continued to ask with a smile on her eyes.

"Of course! Master is the best person in the world to deal with snow."

Nie Mei didn't continue to ask questions, but observed Xiao Nizi's flower arrangement with great interest.

I saw her inserting wintersweet one by one into the only clay vase in the hut, and then tidied it up. The small vase was stuffed to the brim at this time.

Then the little girl had a hard time facing the few plum blossoms left on the table, and finally, under Nie Mei's surprised gaze, she folded and folded the plum blossoms and stuffed them into the stove as firewood.

Nie Mei's face instantly became strange, "Co-author, I like it so much..."

"I like it even if it turns into ashes." The girl turned around, showing an innocent smile, but there was a cunning in her eyes.

……

Time flies 12 years, another winter.

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"Master, I have entered the Ministry of Criminal Justice!"

The first thing the girl did when she opened the door was to tell her closest relatives the good news.

The man she calls Master is no longer the middle-aged man he was at the beginning, his hair is gradually graying now, and his back is bent a little with age.

"Okay, okay." The man still said the same thing, although his tone was calm, but there was an unconcealable smile in his eyes.

"Girl, since you have entered the Ministry of Punishment, you must be more calm in your work in the future, and you must not be reckless again."

When this person gets old, he will inevitably become long-winded.

"Yes, I know, I repeat it every time."

The girl sat down at the table with a big grin, and couldn't help swallowing when she saw the sumptuous food on the table. Obviously, Nie Mei had already got the news.

"Master, you already knew?"

The girl asked with her mouth, but her eyes kept staring at the food on the table.

After Nie Mei brought the last plate of fried chicken to the table, she said slowly, "Have you forgotten what Master does?"

"Then why didn't Master tell me in advance, it made me nervous to death."

The girl couldn't wait to get the chicken wings on the plate, but Nie Mei deftly pushed them away with her chopsticks.

"Look at you, you are always so impatient, how dare I tell you in advance when you are always like this?"

After receiving the chopsticks from Master, Nie Yingxue was not in a hurry this time. She cupped her hands at the man in front of her and said in an official tone, "Then I will trouble Master to promote him more."

"Who did you learn this from, eat quickly."

Nie Mei was obviously immune to Nie Yingxue's weirdness.

Nie Yingxue chuckled when she heard the words, picked up the chopsticks and couldn't wait to eat.Although the room is small, it is filled with the coveted warmth of a noble courtyard.

After the meal, Nie Mei went back to the back room alone. Although Nie Yingxue was strange, she still cleaned up the dishes obediently.

After a while, Nie Mei came out from the back room again, but there was an extra wooden box in her hand.

Nie Yingxue didn't ask any more questions, but she made a rough guess.

Nie Mei came to the table step by step with the wooden box in both hands, and then gently put it on the table.

"Master, is this for me?"

Nie Yingxue was brought up by Nie Mei since she was a child. Although they are called master and apprentice, they are in fact no different from father and daughter, and the tacit understanding between the two goes without saying.

Nie Mei, who was in her early fifties, sat on the stool, reached out and gently brushed the dust off the surface of the wooden box, and said:

"Open it and have a look, you are now in the Ministry of Punishment, how can you do without a weapon at your fingertips?"

Although Nie Yingxue had expected it, she was still a little excited when she heard the answer.

She has seen this sword box since she was a child, and it has been locked in a wooden box by her master.

When Nie Yingxue was a child, she sneaked into Nie Mei's room and looked for it. At that time, she took the things inside and went to Nie Mei excitedly.

Unexpectedly, Nie Mei, who was always very good-tempered, would actually get very angry at her. At that time, little Yingxue was so wronged that she put the sword on the table and ran out crying.

Nie Mei went out to search for a long time before finding it, and later paid the price of two bunches of candied haws to make the little girl laugh.

The young Nie Yingxue understood two truths at that time: the master who would laugh when he saw her would also be angry; the sword box locked in the box cannot be touched.

Ten years passed in a flash, and now the sword box was placed in front of her, she didn't know whether to open it or not.

"As I remember, there is a deep red sword inside."

Nie Yingxue recalled the scene when she was a child, when she was young, she was attracted by this blush.

The old man nodded when he heard the words, and said softly: "Open it, this is left to you by your mother."

Suddenly hearing the word "mother", Nie Yingxue's body couldn't help but tremble.

Mother, what a distant title.When she was young, she saw that other children had parents, so she came back and asked Master where her parents were. Master just told her that her parents were far away.

Later, when she grew up, she gradually realized that her parents must be dead, so she cried, and Nie Mei hugged her to comfort her.

It's just that he hasn't said anything about her parents all these years.

Nie Yingxue's eyes were slightly red, she stretched out her hands, and gently opened the wooden box in front of her. The scene inside the wooden box was the same as what she had seen when she was a child. On the inner lining sewn with red satin, there was a deep red sword. .

Nie Yingxue kept touching the sword in front of her, trying to find a trace of connection with her mother.

She gently picked up the sword, feeling much lighter than she remembered.

"Give it a name." Nie Mei reminded softly from the side.

Nie Yingxue raised her head, her reddish eyes first looked at her master who had raised her for nearly 20 years, and then at the red plum blossoms blooming on the hillside outside the door.

She lightly parted her lips and said, "Let's call it Zhemei."

Butou Nie was not surprised when he heard the words, he nodded and said: "Zhemei, very good!"

The two people who are not father and daughter, but are better than father and daughter, silently looked at the snow scene outside and the plum blossoms on the hillside together.

"Yo, are you both here?"

Just then, an untimely voice sounded.

"Hello, Uncle Zhong."

Seeing the visitor, Nie Yingxue quickly calmed down and said hello to the visitor.

"Good good!"

The person who came was called Uncle, which was obviously very useful. He has watched Nie Yingxue grow up since he was a child, and he is very satisfied with her. If it wasn't for his son's disappointment, he really wanted to match the two of them.

This "Uncle Zhong" is Zhong Manjiang, the current head of the Criminal Department.

Speaking of Zhong Manjiang, he can be regarded as a legend.

He himself is not very good-looking, but he married a flowery and beautiful official lady. If only this is the case, this official lady gave birth to him a son and a daughter. A mother, who was born in a beautiful country at a young age, was directly favored by His Majesty, and entered the palace to become a concubine.

Zhong Manjiang, who was originally unknown in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, suddenly became a hot favorite, and his official position was promoted again and again.If it weren't for his own desire to be on the front line, he could have found a leisurely position and retired with peace of mind.

And his son also followed him, worshiped under the master's family since he was a child, and practiced hard qigong that is indestructible as a diamond. Now his son has inherited his father's career, and he is also very famous in the Ministry of Punishment.

"Yingxue, you go back first, I have something to talk to your Uncle Zhong."

"Master..."

"I know you have doubts in your heart, and we will talk about everything tonight."

Nie Yingxue knew Nie Mei's temper. If he didn't want to say something, he wouldn't say it even if he was beaten to death.

So she bowed slightly to Zhong Manjiang, "Yingxue will leave first."

"Go ahead." Zhong Manjiang said with a smile on his face.

After Nie Yingxue walked away, Zhong Manjiang's face became serious in an instant: "Brother Nie, I found it!"

　At this time, Wang Gangquan was still on his way.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)