The world's ambitions are unparalleled

Chapter 101: Hazy as a dream and broken jejunum (1)
Entering the twelfth lunar month, Qingzhou City finally had the first snow of this winter.

At this time, it has been more than a month since Zhongli sent troops to Qingyue.During this period, Zhongli's army was unstoppable, smashing seven large and small cities in Qingyue, but Qingyue's army seemed powerless to resist, and retreated repeatedly, which caused panic in the distant capital of Qingzhou City.

It snowed heavily last night, and this morning the garden was covered with a thick layer.Jinse was always afraid of the cold, but now she was standing on the porch holding a hand warmer, quietly watching the servants and maids in the garden struggling to clear the snow.

It has been more than a month, but there has been no reply to the letter she has been waiting for.In fact, she already had some kind of bad premonition in her heart, but she couldn't tell what it was.

Seeing that the snow in the garden was about to be cleared, suddenly a young fellow outside the garden hurried in, stepped forward and bowed to Jinse: "Ma'am, there is an old man outside the mansion asking to see him, saying that he is Madam's old friend."

Jinse's heart skipped a beat.The person she was hoping for failed to answer her, but the person she was waiting for turned back in time. Is it a coincidence or a connection?She was panicked, and finally said: "Please come in."

When Mei Yueheng walked in slowly, Jinse had already brewed a pot of hot tea in the living room, looked up and saw him standing at the door in good spirits, poured a cup of tea with him, and smiled softly: "Grandpa, long time no see .”

Really long time no see.In the small town of Zhongli that day, since Jinse decided to marry Lu Li, he never appeared again.

Mei Yueheng was also calm, took the hot tea from Jinse's hand, and said with a smile: "Yeah, Grandpa hasn't seen you for half a year, now seeing that you are doing well, I feel relieved."

Jinse also smiled: "Where did grandpa go in the past six months?"

"Going around for a while." Mei Yueheng replied nonchalantly, drinking tea with his head down.

Jinse filled his teacup again, and said casually, "Did you go to Bianzhou, the capital of Zhongli?"

Mei Yueheng raised his head when he heard the words, and smiled faintly, noncommittal, but it was already acquiescence.

"So, it seems that Zhongli finally made up his mind to send troops this time. Grandpa must be a part of the credit, right?" Jinse still tried to smile at him, "Has Grandpa ever met Song Heng? How is he recently? I wrote before I wrote him a letter, but I still haven't seen his reply after waiting for a long time, can you bring me a message from him when Grandpa comes back this time?"

Mei Yueheng lightly clasped the rim of the cup with his fingers, but his expression was still calm, and he said with a light smile, "What do you want to know from him?"

"You clearly know." Jinse lowered her eyes and said softly.

"You didn't ask about some things before, so why do you insist on exploring them now?" Mei Yueheng sighed softly, "You once said that there are some things that are better not to be known than to know them, but why can't you let them go now? ?”

Jinse stared, but the scene of her sister losing her child kept flashing in her mind. She had clearly never experienced those things, but now she vividly remembered them.Many times, she always thinks that she is the one who suffers the most, but now——

"Because I want to know how much my sister suffered and suffered before she died, and who brought these sufferings to her!"

"It seems that you already have the answer in your heart?" Mei Yueheng still smiled kindly and kindly, as if he was just an ordinary grandfather, chatting and joking lovingly with his grandchildren.

Do you have an answer?Jinse didn't know, but when she heard Rongyue talk about her sister's miscarriage, she remembered many things that she deliberately forgot in the past——

For example, Su Ran went all the way to Zhongli, nominally to see her, but it was more like going to the Baihua Garden to pay homage to the so-called "Peach Blossom Fairy"!
For example, when she first met Ling Luo in Zhongli Chuchu, Song Hengming had never had any contact with her sister, but looked at the woman who was very similar to her sister and blurted out the word "Jinyan"!
For example, Chi Wei once told her that in Su Mo's study, she had seen a portrait of a woman, and the background of the painting was the peach blossom forest in Zhongli Bai Garden!

There are also all kinds of unfathomable paradoxes of Su Ran, and Song Heng's repeated hesitation...

There were so many big and small things that she had deliberately forgotten, and finally when she saw those portraits, they all came in a rush——

Each painting is drawn with loving brushwork, the sister in each painting is happy, and there is a signature in seal script that she is very familiar with in the lower right corner of each painting - Song Heng.

After all, she couldn't lie to herself anymore, behind those appearances that couldn't be concealed no matter what, there was a fact that frightened her after all!
"Grandpa." Jinse finally raised her eyes to look at him again, "Sister, you must have known Grandpa a long time ago? Back then, Grandpa treated sister just like Grandpa treats me today, right?"

The smile on Mei Yueheng's face stiffened slightly, and after a long pause, he finally sighed softly: "Jin Yan...it's really a pity."

Jinse turned her back suddenly, covered her heart with difficulty, closed her eyes for a long time, finally restrained herself, and finally said in a low voice: "Okay...Grandpa doesn't need to say any more."

"Jinse." Mei Yueheng called her calmly, and said indifferently, "You are stronger than Jin Yan. If Jin Yan can't overcome the hurdle, Grandpa believes that you will be able to overcome it."

Jinse stood up abruptly, still did not turn to look at him, her eyes wandered for a long time, and finally said: "Grandpa just wants revenge? If so, I can help grandpa."

"Oh?" Mei Yueheng seemed to chuckle, "How can you help me?"

Jinse took a deep breath and turned to look at him: "I wonder if Grandpa still remembers the 'Tianxia Zhi'?"

Mei Yueheng's expression changed slightly, and he stood up immediately: "You found it?"

Jinse nodded: "Yes. During the days when I lived in Nayi Mountain, I found the 'Tianxia Zhi'."

Hearing this, Mei Yueheng's complexion changed again and again, as if thousands of emotions were intertwined, but he didn't know where the end was.

Jinse looked at him: "But I have a question in my heart, why is my grandfather, as the patriarch of the Nayi clan, not aware of the 'World Records'?"

Mei Yueheng took a deep breath, tried her best to restrain her emotions, and said, "'Tianxiazhi' is just a long-standing legend in this family, and no one knows if it really exists."

"Then, am I lucky to have a glimpse of her true face." Jinse said, seeming to recall the situation at that time, with a faint smile.

Mei Yueheng looked at her, only for a moment, and thousands of thoughts turned in her mind again, and suddenly said: "Since you are the only one who is lucky enough to see her, don't tell the second person, let this secret be buried in your heart forever. .”

"Grandpa doesn't want it?"

"What do I want that thing for?" Mei Yueheng finally laughed again, "Once I got it, it took more than ten or twenty years to get this world, and revenge for the Nayi people? Grandpa is getting old, and he can't wait that long .”

Jinse's heart was cold: "I'm afraid it's not that grandpa is getting old, but grandpa...has already had a better plan."

Mei Yueheng suddenly stepped forward and held Jinse's hand. Jinse felt a coldness in his palm, and something had been stuffed into it.Mei Yueheng said in a low voice: "Jinse, I know you just want to live a peaceful and ordinary life and help grandpa with one last thing. After that, grandpa will take you to Jinli country and never come back."

He slowly let go of his hand, and Jinse finally saw clearly that in his hand was a palm-length dagger, exquisite and small, like a child's toy, but it was a sharp weapon for killing people!
Su Mo hadn't returned home for more than a month. Recently, the battle ahead has slowed down a bit. Seeing that all the ministers were exhausted from the battle, he finally ordered everyone to return early, and he was able to spare time to go back to the mansion. .

The soft sedan stopped at the gate of the palace, he bent to walk out, but suddenly saw a person standing under the eaves in front of the door, the light yellow skirt and fiery red fox fur, against the surrounding whiteness, looked very good.But there was no expression on his face, and he looked up at the snow dripping from the eaves above his head, as if it was also an excellent scenery.

It wasn't until Su Mo walked in front of her that Jinse noticed someone. She withdrew her gaze and stayed on his face for a long time, still confused. It wasn't until Su Mo frowned slightly that her eyes finally became clearer.

"It's so cold, what are you doing standing here?" He stood next to her, looked at the snow dripping from the eaves from her perspective, and still didn't see anything special.

Jinse pursed her lips: "I just sent my grandfather away, so I just stood here for a while."

Hearing this, Su Mo's face turned cold slightly: "Mr. Mei is back?"

"Yeah." Jin Se replied and said, "Talked with me for a while, then left in a hurry, even refusing to have dinner with me."

Su Mo's eyes were dark, but he smiled and said, "Then I will accompany you."

The room was very warm, Su Mo removed the cloak as soon as he entered the room, and said: "Your room is warmer than the warm sun in spring."

Jinse picked up the tongs and fiddled with the charcoal fire at the door, saying: "Thanks to the care of the princess, this is the case."

Su Mo smiled: "Rong Yue is always the most considerate."

"But..." Jinse suddenly sighed, "You are not thorough."

Su Mo slightly raised his eyes to look at her, but Jinse said next, "It seems that the Chinese New Year is about to come, but the Spring Festival couplets haven't even been pasted up in this huge palace."

Su Mo paused, and then said: "In previous years, I had to write. This year, it was indeed delayed. Fortunately, it's not too late."

After speaking, Su Mo called someone to fetch the Spring Festival couplet paper, rolled up his sleeves, and splashed ink on the spot.Jinse stood by and watched him write more than ten copies, and suddenly said: "I don't want any of these."

"Then what do you want?" Su Mo laughed.

"Your handwriting wasn't like this before." She picked up one of the pairs, "It's so regular, it's not interesting at all!"

Su Mo's heart moved slightly: "Do you still remember what my handwriting used to be?"

Jinse glanced at him, then suddenly took the pen from his hand, picked out a small piece of paper, lowered her head, followed the picture in her memory, and wrote it with one stroke.

Su Mo lowered his head, but was slightly startled.It turned out to be his handwriting written more than ten years ago, and the word "Jinse" written by him is quite strong.

He only pondered for a moment, then remembered, and said with a slight smile, "I used to take you to write the words. In a flash, it has been more than ten years."

After finishing speaking, he took the pen from Jin Se again, weighed it for a moment, and then wrote down the word "Wu Shuang" with more than ten years of handwriting.

The corner of Jinse's mouth curled up, and she mocked: "There are tens of thousands of women like me in this world, and there are countless women who are better than me. I am used to being despised, ridiculed and abused by the world. If someone praises me, I should cover my face Let alone the word 'Wu Shuang', it's really embarrassing."

Su Mo put down his pen, smiled lightly, and said: "There are thousands of beautiful women in the world, and everyone has their own uniqueness in their hearts. There are thousands of smart women in the world, and everyone has their own uniqueness in their hearts. There are thousands of stupid women in the world, and a certain person's heart is unique. Always unique."

She raised her face to look at him: "Does Wushuang have pity?"

"Wu Shuang starts from pity, but not for pity."

He explained something lightly, and Jinse looked at him and smiled.

He never said anything like that.The days of harmony between them were really too short, he didn't have time to say a lot, and he didn't have time to express a lot of thoughts.What she never understood, today, finally seems to understand.

Su Mo raised his hand, held her smiling face, and lowered his head at the same time: "Today, you don't pretend to be deaf or dumb, don't pretend to be stupid, and you can't help mentioning others but enough is enough. Although I don't know why you suddenly communicated Toru, but I like your attitude today."

His face was pressed down, and he gently kissed her still upturned lips.

Jinse's body stiffened slightly, as if she was still not used to such intimacy, but it was only for a moment, and she relaxed after a while, and even stretched out her hand to pinch the shirt at his waist.

Su Mo held her hand and pulled her around his waist.

In the kiss that was so dense and detailed that it almost robbed each other of their breath, she finally hugged him tightly without any evasion.

After an unknown amount of time, there was a light knock on the door of the room. Jinse heard it and paused, but he still didn't notice it. She stretched out her hand and pushed him, and the two finally separated.

Su Mo still embraced her, stroked her satin-like hair, and kissed her cloud temples as if nothing.

Jinse lowered her eyes and leaned against his shoulder, breathing slightly, but her expression was calm.

The two leaned together quietly, until there was another indistinct tap at the door, and Su Mo let go of the zither, and said, "Come in."

The person who came was the housekeeper of the mansion: "My lord, my wangfei heard that my lord is going back to the mansion, so I specially ordered the kitchen to prepare wine and food, and said that I would give the New Year's Eve dinner to the group while the lord is back."

Qingyue and Zhongli are now fighting in an unpredictable situation. Once Su Mo gets busy, he doesn't know how long it will be. Rongyue's move is indeed understandable.So Su Mo nodded: "You go back to the princess, I'll be there soon."

After Jinse listened, she went to the dressing table and sat down, held the comb, and combed her hair once and for all.

The butler withdrew from the door, and Jinse looked at Su Mo walking towards him from the bronze mirror, then lowered his eyes, and said lightly: "I don't want to go."

Su Mo didn't force it, he just said: "Then let the kitchen do whatever you want to eat, and arrange it early after eating."

He turned around and was about to leave, but his cuffs suddenly tightened.

Jinse still lowered her eyes, but she did not know when she had put down the comb in her hand, and she grabbed his sleeve instead, but did not speak.

"Huh?" Su Mo sat down beside her, lowered his head to inquire what she meant.

"I don't want you to go either."

Jinse's voice was very soft, but extremely clear, and at the same time, the hand holding his sleeve tightened a bit.

Su Mo paused, then smiled: "No, what's for dinner that night?"

Jinse finally raised her head, looked at him, her eyes were clear and dull: "I know how to cook porridge, I will cook porridge for you to eat."

As a result, the porridge was messed up halfway through cooking. Jinse accidentally knocked over the casserole and burned her hands, so she had to give up.

Su Mo took Qingliang Yulu ointment and applied it on her hands, then said, "Forget it, I'll take you out to eat."

Jinse didn't have any objection, just said: "OK."

The two left from the side door of the palace. They didn't ride a horse or a sedan chair, but walked side by side with an umbrella.He put her hands in his sleeves, Jinse only felt warm and didn't struggle, letting him lead her forward.

There were few people on a snowy night, and the road was slippery. The two of them walked very slowly without talking much. After walking for about half an hour, they turned into an alley and walked a few steps forward. A small shop casts a warm and bright light on such a snowy night, and it is already a little warmer at first sight.

Jinse followed Su Mo into the store, but there was no shopkeeper in the store, but a pair of male and female customers sitting in a corner.Su Mo only saw the man's back and smiled and called out, "Chun Yu!"

Lin Chunyu turned her head abruptly, revealing the exquisite and bright face of the woman inside, but with deep brows and green eyes, she was clearly a bearded woman.

"My lord, I haven't seen you for a long time, I just thought you had forgotten such a good place!" Lin Chunyu stood up to meet Su Mo, his eyes touched Jinse behind him, and his brows suddenly furrowed.

Jinse stood behind Su Mo, easily avoiding his sight.Lin Chunyu laughed: "I said which family's peerless beauty the lord brought. It turns out...it's that little white eye from before——"

Before he could finish his sentence, Su Mo swallowed the word "wolf" back and said, "So it's Miss Song."

Jinse suddenly broke away from Su Mo's hand and said in a low voice, "I don't want to eat."

She turned around and wanted to leave, but Lin Chunyu quickly stopped her and said, "Don't, don't, don't you make me feel unrighteous like this? I can't afford to annoy the beauty, and the prince will get angry at me later." After finishing speaking, he Turning to look at the woman who was sitting with him earlier, he said, "Hu Nuer, let's go back first and make room for the prince!"

The woman really stood up, walked over and saluted Su Mo.Lin Chunyu turned around and held her, and when she walked past Su Mo, she lowered her voice and said, "That girl's eyes are shining, she must be planning some bad idea again, the prince must not be dazzled by her beauty."

Hearing this, Su Mo still just smiled lightly, patted him on the shoulder, walked over to hold Jinse again, and comforted him, "Don't be as knowledgeable as him!"

Lin Chunyu stopped looking at Jinse, laughed and pulled her Hu Nuer to the door.Jinse didn't look at him either, but glanced at each other when they passed by the bearded girl. She felt that there seemed to be a questioning expression on the bearded girl's face, so she hurriedly turned her eyes away.

Lin Chunyu took Hu Nuer out the door, and when he took the cloak and put it on her, Hu Nuer suddenly smiled and said in a blunt tone: "Why did you tell him to be careful about that girl?"

Lin Chunyu sneered, and said: "That girl is not innocent, she might do something bad!"

Hu Nuer paused, and suddenly said: "She is poisoned."

Lin Chunyu was startled: "Really?"

The woman in front of her nodded: "Moreover, it's very poisonous."

"Vicious, isn't it?" Lin Chunyu smirked twice, "Let her go, anyway, she is still alive to harm people!"

Su Mo took Jinse to another table and sat down, Fang said: "There are a lot of delicious food here, I guarantee you can eat enough."

As soon as the words fell, someone suddenly opened the curtain from the back hall and entered, accompanied by a coquettish smile, walked out a slender woman with a good face: "The prince will not come for a long time, Yu Niang just thinks that the prince has forgotten this place." Woolen cloth!"

Su Mo smiled lightly: "How can someone who has tasted your craftsmanship, Yuniang, forget it easily in this life? Just present the good things you prepared today."

"Okay." Yuniang agreed, turned around and went down, and served food after a while.

On a small square table, more than a dozen medium-sized bowls are lined up one by one. Each bowl contains different desserts, with different colors and shapes. Jinse can only recognize wine glutinous rice balls, pumpkin and taro paste, and red bean soup. , Burnt ginkgo and so on, most of them have never even seen it.

Yu Niang served the food and went back to the back hall. Su Mo scooped up the desserts one by one and put them in front of Jinse.

"Don't like to eat?" Su Mo suddenly whispered.

Jinse put down the spoon and said, "I don't want to eat."

Su Mo sighed slightly, stood up and said, "Then let's go."

The snow outside was getting heavier, and while Su Mo was holding an umbrella, Jinse reached out to catch a piece of snowflakes in her palm, feeling a chill in her palm, and quickly withdrew her hand.Su Mo suddenly handed the umbrella to her and said, "It's too dark, I'll carry you on my back."

Jinse leaned on his back and remained silent all the way until she felt the wind and snow were getting stronger, then she held him tighter and called softly: "Su Mo."

Su Mo's eyes paused slightly, but his footsteps were not unstable at all, and he only responded, "Huh?"

"I just..." She paused before finally continuing, "I don't want to have other people."

"Okay." Su Mo did not hesitate at all, and still moved forward steadily.

Not long after he stopped, Jinse came back to his senses, looked around, and immediately jumped off his back in shock—it turned out to be the small courtyard where she used to live!

Su Mo just smiled and said, "There will be no one else here."

It turned out that he had sensed her thoughts a long time ago, and walked straight here as soon as he came out of the shop.Jinse lowered her eyes, pushed the door open and entered.

Even though no one has lived in it for a long time, the windows are still bright and clean, free from dust.In the house, there are brand new bedding and quilt covers, new dresses in the closet, various rouges and gouaches on the dressing table, hairpins and jewelry - everything looks like a home.

(End of this chapter)