Forever, beauty bone

Chapter 40 Extra Story [-]: The Smoke in the World
"Stop, those two boys!"

Eleven was startled, and blinked at the third brother who was hugging him.

"Don't be afraid, there is a third brother." The third brother patted her on the back.

There were more than a dozen horses approaching, still snorting lightly, and the war horses that had gone through the battlefield really had their own evil spirit.

She clutched third brother's skirt tightly and looked up at the person on horseback.The man behind the two of them, holding the rein in his hand, turned his back to the daylight, watching their two half-grown children a little more carefully.

That pair of dark and clear eyes passed the four guards and silently looked into her eyes.

Eleven carefully looked back at him, the surroundings were so quiet...so quiet that only her own heartbeat was beating.

With a few sharp sounds, the swords of the four guards were unsheathed, and the four shining long swords protected Third Brother and her.Although facing the dozens of war horses, the generals who couldn't get rid of their evil spirits, and even the king Xiao Nanchen who was courteous to the current crown prince, the four of their guards had to guard their young lady.

She had never seen such a battle before, she was so frightened that she stabbed into the third brother's arms, but she still couldn't help but look at him.

Zhou Shengchen finally looked away, waved the hand holding the whip casually: "Don't embarrass the two children, let's go." After finishing speaking, he drank the horse first, and just walked away like that.Although the generals behind him still had doubts, they didn't dare to say anything. They drank their horses one by one, and followed up with King Xiao Nanchen who had already disappeared at the end of the road.

This is her master.

Eleven looked at the dust flying in the distance, and the white shadow, and her heartbeat became slower and slower.She knew that she would go to apprentice with her father in three days, and he was the person she would face in the future...

Such an unexpected first meeting has been buried in her heart for seven years.

Seven years ago, she had to rely on the third brother's arm to see Zhou Shengchen while lying on the city wall, but seven years later, she could already stand anywhere and see him whenever she wanted to.

It's just that he came and went in a hurry. During these seven years, even during the holidays, he spent most of his time in the frontier.

Even when he came back, he was often accompanied by senior brothers and sisters. It seemed that when he was out of the library, she could only look at him from afar.

A few days before New Year's Eve, Cui's mansion sent someone to pick her up, but she said that she was caught in the cold and should not travel far, so she decided to stay in the palace without authorization.The third brother was really panicked when he heard the letter, he brought the imperial doctor from the palace to check his pulse, the old imperial doctor frowned for a long while, but couldn't explain why, and made the third brother around in a panic.

"Eleventh, where are you sad? Write it to the third brother?" The third brother guessed that maybe she didn't want to tell outsiders, so he sent the imperial doctor outside the door, leaned over the bed, and asked her softly.

Her eyes sparkled, and she burst out laughing.

"Why are you laughing?" The third brother couldn't figure it out, and reached out to touch her forehead, "Could it be that you are really sick?"

She shook her head and stretched out her index finger, wanting to write something in the third brother's palm, but she didn't move for a long time.

The third brother doted on her since he was a child, willingly gave up his happy life for her, and found a job in the court, just to guard her in Chang'an.If anyone in this world can tell the truth, I'm afraid it's only the third brother.

She hesitated, and finally wrote: I want to wait for Master to come back.

"Waiting for Little Nanchen King?"

She nodded slightly.Counting it, there have always been good news in the past six months, but the master has never returned to the palace. She has been looking forward to it from early summer to late autumn, and today...it is New Year's Eve.

She thought it was time for him to come back.

The third brother was inexplicably silent for a while, his eyes full of deep meaning: "His apprentices all went home early to celebrate the New Year. If he doesn't return to the palace, don't you want to watch the night alone?"

She thought for a while, smiled, and nodded silently.

If the master is not there, she will watch the night in the palace for the master, which is considered pure.

The third brother finally fulfilled her, she was full of joy and sent the third brother out of the palace.It snowed last night, and now the red plums in the palace are all covered with snow, red and white, really beautiful.She sent people away, walked slowly along the way with two maids, and suddenly stood under a branch of red plum, snapped her fingers, and flicked towards the branch.

The twigs trembled tremblingly, and the snow fell, revealing the wet petals
Last year today, he did this once.

She smiled, closed her eyes, thinking about how he stood under the red plum.The little Nanchen King, who cares about the people of the country, stands under the plum tree and does such a boring thing. It is really frank and surprising.Last year, she followed beside him, and couldn't help laughing when she saw it, and he seemed to notice it, and looked back at her.

In those warm and dark eyes, there are only her and Hongmei.

"Miss? Are you going to have dinner?" The maid beside her interrupted her softly.

Eleven came back to his senses, as if his mind had been seen through, and his ears turned red for a moment.Shake your head, shake your head again.

Seeing her playing around so suddenly, the maid felt that the young lady's illness seemed to be getting better, so she breathed a sigh of relief.But when she saw the young lady shaking her head and refusing to eat, she became a little more worried, and when she was reading in the eleventh room, she still went to prepare a very sumptuous dinner.Although it's not a reunion dinner, you still have to pay attention to it on New Year's Eve.

After all, Eleven's status is honorable, so he can't be wronged.

Unexpectedly, the meal was ready, but on Shishi, holding a scroll of books, the house was full of lights from the bright sun.When she was extremely hungry, she got up to pick out a plate of snacks, then returned to the desk, and laid out the chess game leisurely.

It was very late at night, and there was no difficulty.

The black and white pictures in front of her had already blurred the time. She propped her chin to look at it for a long time before dropping a picture.

The figure on the window is always quiet, just like the owner of the shadow, he is extremely patient...

"Here's some warm wine," a voice broke in suddenly, she raised her head abruptly, her big black eyes were full of that man's figure... He approached and lowered his eyes to look at the chessboard.

For a while, there were greetings one after another behind him.

But he seemed to be thinking of something, and said casually: "Today is New Year's Eve, bring some peppercorns. Are you playing chess with yourself on Eleven?"

She nodded, got down from the couch, and poured a cup of hot tea herself.

The tea is hot, and she has already told her that once the tea is warm, it must be replaced with hot one immediately.Because she knew he would come back.

Seeing that the lady was willing to move, the maid was full of joy and asked someone to reheat the food and prepare dinner.Seeing the table full of food and the smiling Master sitting beside her, she suddenly felt hungry and finally had the idea of ​​eating.

Zhou Shengchen took the warm jug from his hand, poured a sip for her, and filled the glass for himself with his backhand.Shi Yi looked at him unexpectedly. After all these years, this was the first time he wanted to drink by himself?He seemed to see through her doubts, and said in a gentle voice: "On New Year's Eve, you have to drink a glass of pepper wine with your family before you start to watch the new year."

Suddenly, she remembered that Du Fu had indeed said in a poem: "Shou Sui A Rong's house, the pepper plate has eulogized flowers."

It's just that the Cui family didn't have this habit, and it seemed like it never happened in the Wangfu, but she forgot it.

While talking, he picked out some prickly ash from the glazed cup, put it in the cup for her, and added some for himself.There was only him and her at this table, so there was a pair of glasses. Eleven looked at the pair of emerald wine glasses, blinked and smiled.

Reunion dinner, New Year's Eve watch.

This is the first New Year's Eve that she and him spend together, and it's just her and him.

And this was the last New Year's Eve she spent with him.

Three years later, she left the palace and returned to Cui's house to study wedding etiquette, and he led the expedition to clear the border.

On the way home, it happened to be snowing heavily.

She actually spent a New Year's Eve in a place she had never been to before.

Now that she is about to get married according to the decree, her status will become more and more noble, and the officials along the way will all respectfully accompany her, and even let her out of the house.It was the third brother who came to pick her up. It seemed that the mother knew that only the third brother could make her feel at ease.In the huge palace, only King Nanchen could make her smile, and in the huge Cui family, only the third brother could make her cry.

That night, all she needed was paper, ink, brush and inkstone, a pot of wine, and a cup of pepper.

Even the third brother is not allowed to enter.

She has been in the palace for ten years, and she is best at chess and painting.

She likes to draw with a pen, but she dare not even draw his eyebrows when she is alone, so she can only hide him in the landscape of mountains, rivers, flowers and plants.She kept all those paintings in the palace and hung them in the room where she used to live.She thought that she was not the only one who understood these paintings, but the person hidden in her paintings would definitely understand.

When he returned triumphantly, he saw the room full of scrolls...

She stopped writing and burst into tears.The ink on the paper is dyed, and the people on the paper are also dyed.

After two glasses of wine, she was seventy percent drunk, and with a swipe of a pen, it was no longer lotus and grass, but actually filled the blank scroll behind him with mountains, rivers, people's houses, and smoke from cooking, stretching for thousands of miles.

He has the world in his chest.

It's not about the illustrious military exploits, it's not about the mountains of corpses, it's about the common people in the mountains and rivers.

The smoke in the world, the smoke in the battlefield.

He has no wife and no children all his life, and he has been exposed to gunpowder for hundreds of miles, just in exchange for the continuous smoke of cooking in this world, which stretches for thousands of miles.

And she, after studying painting for ten years, finally drew a person tonight.

Those eyebrows, that graceful gestures, are all only him.

She drew it in a single volume, and finally painted him.

Princess Xinghua, who has a deep brotherly relationship with Emperor Dongling, married far away to the south of the river.

The emperor ascended the throne for three years and died suddenly. Disputes in the world gradually arose. The princess died of depression the following year because she was worried about her homeland.

Prince brother.

To the south of the river, the climate is pleasant. The only regret is that here... there really are no snow-reflected red plums.

If there is an afterlife, I still want to be with you, watching lotus in summer and red plum in winter.

(End of this chapter)