The world's ambitions are unparalleled

Chapter 67
On the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, another heavy snowfall fell in Lorraine.

On this day, Su Ran traveled to visit several small towns around Lorraine, accompanied by officials from Su Mo, Su Li, and Lorraine County. Everything went smoothly, but the trip was delayed because of the heavy snow. Before they could get back in time, the group stayed in an inn in Xianlin Town next door.

Su Li couldn't close his eyes even late at night because he remembered that Jinse was staying alone in the sheriff's mansion. He had to get up, but he didn't expect to open the door, only to find that Su Mo in the next room hadn't fallen asleep either. He drank two jugs of wine and sat on the porch to drink alone.

Seeing Su Li coming out, he just smiled lightly.

Su Li instinctively turned his head away and turned to leave, but suddenly a strange feeling rose in his heart.

In fact, there was never such a tense relationship between him and Su Mo before. Even before Jinse appeared, they could sit down and drink and talk together.Although Su Li has always expressed doubts about Su Mo's hidden intentions, at the beginning, there is still the most authentic brotherhood.

Maybe it was because the recent days were too difficult, or maybe this snowy night was too quiet, he suddenly remembered the previous days, so that he actually softened the hatred for Su Mo in his heart.

Su Li turned around and sat down next to Su Mo.

Su Mo was not surprised at all, and handed him the jug of wine instead.

Su Li took it over, gulped down a few gulps, the wine entered his lungs, and finally there was a hint of warmth in his heart.He let out a long sigh of relief.

"It's snowing so hard, it's almost as big as last year?" Su Li curled his lips, "But this year, I haven't heard of any house collapses. It can be seen that the Ministry of Industry really did a solid project last year. It's also thanks to the second brother's full efforts. No wonder the people of Lorraine almost regard the second brother as a god."

Hearing this, Su Mo's expression remained unchanged, he just said: "In this world, there are few rich people and many poor people. But those few people have enjoyed the blessings that the poor can't enjoy in a few lifetimes. If this is the injustice of heaven, then we can always do our best."

"I didn't expect the second brother to have such a feeling of worrying about the country and the people. In the past, I looked down on the second brother." Su Li sneered, and said, "It's just that the second brother is doing something here in Lorraine County. But he almost puts his position above the emperor's elder brother, isn't the second elder brother worried?"

Su Mo glanced at him and said, "We are all working hard for our own desires, and the road must be full of thorns and difficulties, but this road must still be taken, isn't it?"

The sparkle in Su Li's eyes froze slightly.

By saying this, is Su Mo admitting his ambition?
This was unexpected by Su Li, but it was crazy to talk about such a thing in such a place where Su Ran was so close.

He raised his head and drank another big gulp of wine, and didn't answer again, which was considered to be the end of this topic.

Su Mo also took a sip of wine, threw the empty jug on the snow in front of him, and suddenly laughed a long way: "No one is as worried as me. Tonight it is snowing, and there are plum blossoms, as worrying as me!"

Are you worried?Su Lisi and the county guard's mansion had a sneer again: "Second brother is now enjoying the spring wind, and after a while, marrying Miss Chi again, wouldn't it be a great joy? Let's leave this worry to my younger brother."

Su Mo laughed again, stood up suddenly, and when he turned around, he patted Su Li on the shoulder: "Take care of it."

At dawn the next day, the snow finally stopped, and the group set off to rush back to the Sheriff's Mansion. In the afternoon, there was another light snow in the sky, and they finally arrived.

In the garden, by the small crescent-shaped pond, a person was sitting. I don’t know how long he had been sitting. A layer of snow had fallen on his body, and the top of his head was covered in white. Looking from a distance, it seemed that someone was there. Stacked snowmen.

However, Su Ran, Su Mo, and Su Li who came along all stopped at the same moment.

After all, they are all very clear-sighted people, how can they not see that it is Jinse?

Su Li suddenly changed his face, strode forward, pulled Jinse up from where she was sitting, and called out in a low voice, "Jinse?"

Jinse's originally drooping eyelids lifted up all of a sudden, and she looked at him with black and white eyes for a long time, as if she finally recognized him, she couldn't help but smiled: "You're back."

That smile was really frighteningly stiff, Su Li raised his hand to touch her face, then squeezed her hand, it turned out to be as cold as ice and snow!Seeing that the pinch of snow was still on her head, he suddenly felt angry and stretched out his hand to brush off the snow on her head. His voice was full of anger: "Don't you know it's snowing? Are you still sitting here?" What are you doing?"

"Feed the fish." Jinse replied innocently, not knowing why he was angry.Suddenly, he saw a cloud of snow falling from his head, and then he realized something: "So it snowed? No one told me..."

All her affairs have always been taken care of by Lu He. Dressing when cold, eating when hungry, has always been done properly. Now that Lu He suddenly disappeared, she refuses to let other maids get close to her. After sitting here for a long time, there was not even a single person wearing a coat and holding an umbrella.

Su Li's anger was all buried in his heart, and he couldn't express it anymore, until his heart ached, and finally he slowly shook her hand: "Let's go back."

Jinse struggled: "I haven't finished feeding the fish yet."

After she finished speaking, she looked at the palm of her hand, only to find that there was nothing in it, and then looked into the pool, the water in the pool was actually frozen!
Jinse was stunned, and then smiled mischievously: "It's really cold here, the water in the pool freezes so quickly. In Qingzhou, although it snows in winter, the lake doesn't freeze. I fed two broccoli that winter. Carp, my father was not happy with me feeding them, and said that I would feed them to death. I just didn’t believe it, and asked Lu He to feed them on time every day. As a result, one day, when I went to feed them by myself, I accidentally put too much Naturally, my father scolded me again, but luckily Lu He blocked me, saying that she fed the fish to death. It was fine if she didn’t say anything, and then my father put us both together. I was punished. Daddy is really strict..."

"Jinse!" Su Li suddenly interrupted her rambling and disorganized words, and held her hand again, "It's too cold outside, let's go back."

Jinse was pulled all the way by him, almost staggered towards the garden where she lived, when approaching the garden, she was unable to catch up with his footsteps, and was unable to break free from his arm, and finally threw herself into the snow. , face deep into the snow on the ground.

When she fell down, she lay motionless on her stomach. Su Li moved the corner of her mouth, but she didn't speak after all. He just squatted down and stroked her head lightly.

After a long time, Jinse slowly raised her snow-covered face and looked at him, her eyes were clearly calm, but in his eyes, she only felt that her eyes were full of sadness.

"I'm fine." Jinse said softly, "I know that Daddy and Luhe are gone...I just miss them a little bit."

After saying that, her head suddenly drooped weakly, and was buried in the snow again.

At this time, Su Li hastily reached out to hug her up, and found that she really passed out.

Carrying Jinse all the way back to the room, there was neither a warm Kang nor a brazier in the room, the quilt was in a mess, the clothes were disheveled, and there was a cold breath everywhere.

Even the bowl of strangely shaped dumplings on the table was already freezing cold.

When Su Mo returned to the garden where he lived, Chi Wei had already been waiting for him on the porch.

It was really cold outside, Chi Wei couldn't bear it, so he ran back and forth and stomped his feet, just wanting to see Su Mo who had returned for the first time.

When Su Mo's figure appeared at the gate of the garden, Chi Wei's eyes suddenly brightened, and he jumped over a few steps from the corridor to him, looked up at him: "It's back! It's snowing again, I I'm afraid you won't be able to come back today!"

Su Mo looked at her and smiled, but that smile was weak, as if he was tired.

Chi Wei frowned distressedly: "Is it hard work?"

"It's okay." Su Mo replied in a low voice, and asked the people waiting in the corridor to remove the hood for him and shake off the snow on his body before he lifted the curtain and entered the room.

There was a small stove on the table in the room, and a small pot was placed on the stove, and I don't know what was warming it.

"It's dumplings!" Chi Wei answered him with a smile, and lifted the lid of the pot, revealing a plate of warm dumplings inside, and she suddenly exclaimed, "How could this be?"

"What a silly girl, how can you keep the dumplings warm all the time?" Su Mo finally smiled again, and still reached out to take out the plate of dumplings.

But there is only a plate of dumplings, but all of them are uneven, some are wrapped like ingots, some are wrapped like wontons, and some are really different, you can't tell what they are at all.

Su Mo frowned slightly, and Chi Wei blushed slightly when he saw the eyes, and explained to him lying on the table: "The ones like ingots are made by mother, and the ones like wontons are made by me. As for those... ...it was made by Miss Jinse."

Su Mo gave a faint "Oh", and said, "When did you make it?"

"I made it last night." Chi Wei said, "My mother said that I should also learn to make some food by myself, so she taught me last night. I thought that Miss Jinse would be lonely if she stayed alone in the garden, so I let people Invite her over to join me and my mother."

"Really?" Su Mo reached out to pick up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of "Four Different Images" and put it in his mouth, which surprised Chi Wei with an "oops".

He ate the dumpling before looking at Chi Wei: "What's wrong?"

Chi Wei was shocked that he actually ate the dumpling: "I cooked the dumplings made by Miss Jinse just to show you, why did you eat them? I tasted one yesterday and she rolled it herself The noodles and fillings, the skin is thick and the fillings are salty, you can't eat them at all!"

"Really?" Su Mo licked his lips, and smiled indifferently, "I'm probably starving, and I can't eat anything good or bad."

Chi Wei sat down opposite him, and suddenly propped his cheeks and sighed: "Miss Jinse is the one who can't eat well. No one else would eat the dumplings she made, and she ate a big one by herself. Bowl. I looked at her, and it was really desolate. But seeing her as if nothing had happened, I didn’t dare to persuade her, for fear of stirring up her sadness—”

As soon as the words fell, Chi Wei suddenly remembered something, screamed suddenly, hugged his head and said: "I invited her to come and learn how to make dumplings like my mother yesterday, has it touched her heart?" thing?"

Su Mo paused for a moment, but just smiled lightly: "Don't worry. She should learn to be strong by now."

Jinse had just woken up, and when her sober nerves were fragile, Su Ran came to visit her.

When Su Li left with a sullen face, Su Ran sat down beside the bed, looked at Jinse with a smile, "Is it better?"

With her face pressed against the soft pillow, Jinse stared straight at him, but asked back, "Is the injury on the emperor healed?"

"It's not a serious injury, it's almost healed." Su Ran stroked her arm and said lightly.

"That's great." Jinse said in a low voice, "If Lu He could live, today would probably be better."

Su Ran paused, and raised the corners of her lips slightly: "Are you blaming me for bringing in a killer and killing your Lu He?"

"No." Jinse sighed softly, and suddenly laughed, "Don't say you hired the killer, so what if you sent the killer? It was the killer sent by Su Mo, or the one sent by Suli, or the county here. So what if I guard the person sent by the adults? If I cut that person into pieces, can I return a living green lotus?"

Su Ran raised her eyebrows slightly: "You really don't want to know who killed her?"

"I don't want to." Jinse said bluntly, "From now on, I don't want to know anything about the government and the world. I don't want to hear any words you say. Specious, provocative, the emperor will leave it to others. Please let the emperor let me go, an orphan girl, and give me Qingning."

Su Ran's brows were raised high, for a long time, but in the end she just chuckled, turned around, and left the room straight away.

Because New Year's Eve was coming up, the group of people staying in Lorraine finally got some free time to rest, and Su Li, who had been busy with various affairs, finally put down the things at hand for the time being and accompanied By Jinse's side.

Jinse is really strong now. Although she is sad, she seldom loses her composure.

On the eve of the New Year's Eve, the two of them spent an afternoon in the house with nothing to do, and played for two or three hours with some uncommon gadgets.Su Li was surprisingly patient and let her go no matter what, so Jinse got more and more aggressive, and finally laughed, but still noticed something, and said to him with some dissatisfaction: "You let me on purpose."

"Some people have a childish temper. I won't let her, for fear that she will cry!" Su Li let it go all afternoon, and finally stretched his muscles.

Jinse was naturally unwilling to hear what he said, and the two quarreled for a while, when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Since Luhe was gone, the door of this house seldom rang again, and even if it was knocked occasionally, it was mostly for Su Li.Therefore, Jinse fell on the couch when she heard the knock on the door, and asked Su Li to answer the door by herself.

Sure enough, he got up and went out for a while, and when he came back, the smile on his face disappeared a lot, and he said to Jinse: "I have something to discuss with others, you wait for me here for a while, and go to the east to have a New Year's Eve dinner together."

Jinse tilted her head and looked at him: "How long is a moment?"

In fact, she probably knew what he was going to discuss.In the past two days, even the sheriff was free, and he and Su Mo, headed by Su Ran, naturally couldn't be busy with anything else.But now he said that if he wants to discuss matters with others, the only possibility is the things he does in private.

Su Li reached out and pinched her face, and said with a low smile, "For a moment, it's when you take a nap."

Jinse blinked her eyes when she heard this, but stopped talking.

Su Li thought she agreed, and was about to get up to leave, but the cuffs were tightened suddenly, and when he turned around, it was she who pinched his sleeves and hid them under him.

He sat back on the bed helplessly: "Stop making trouble, I'll be back in a while."

Jinse just looked at him, and when Su Li's gaze finally settled down, she suddenly said, "Have you ever thought about not fighting for the throne and the world?"

Su Li's face froze slightly, and after a while, he said flatly, "Never."

Jinse's face was still calm, and she continued: "Then, if I say, I don't want you to fight?"

She never said anything like that.It seems that from the beginning to the present, she has never asked about his affairs, as if he can do whatever he wants, and she only worries about his safety occasionally.But now, she actually told him clearly that she didn't want him to fight.

In fact, Su Li also knew what she was thinking.After all, those closest to her died more or less because of incidents in the court, and he knew that she must hate these things in her heart.But what choice does he have?

"Jinse." He held her hand and called out, "This is my lifelong ambition."

After a moment of silence, Jinse nodded slightly: "I know, you told me in your teacher's house. It's okay, I just told you that I don't want to, and you can do whatever you want."

Su Li paused for a long time, then stretched out his hand to caress her back, then put his hand on her back and kissed her, before saying: "Wait for me."

It's been a long time since he left.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, the East Wing sent people to urge him twice, Jinse finally decided not to wait for him, and found a cloud satin cloak to put on her body, and walked slowly to the East Wing.

Passing through the wall hall, you can only hear the laughter in the hall.

The New Year's Eve dinner tonight was considered simple, except for the three Su brothers and the county guard's family, she was the only outsider left.

In the living room, the magistrate's wife is busy with the final details of the New Year's Eve dinner table. Su Ran sits and chats with the frightened sheriff, while Su Mo sits with the lively and cheerful Chi Wei. Whispering something in his ear, before he finished speaking, he laughed, Su Mo frowned slightly, raised his eyes to see Jinse who came in, paused, and curled up the corners of his mouth .

Jinse only glanced at the situation in the hall, then found the seat on the farthest side and sat down. As soon as she sat down, Su Ran cast her gaze over, with the same expression as usual, and said with a joke: "I'm urging you three times and asking you four times. But it's coming. Where's the third child?"

"I don't know." Jinse didn't know what excuses to make for Su Li, she was afraid that he would be self-defeating when he came, so she simply said she didn't know.

"Forget it, don't wait for him anymore. He's such a big man, he's not sure at all." Su Ran shook her head with a smile and complained, then still looked at Jinse, "Only you can bear him."

Jinse didn't want to respond to him, so she lowered her eyes to look at the dishes on the table, and when everyone sat around, she immediately picked up the chopsticks and started eating on her own.

Su Ran didn't blame her, instead she pointed at Jin Se's appearance and said to Chi Wei: "Little girl, if you can ignore her like her, then this New Year's Eve dinner will be considered as enjoyable."

Chi Wei giggled, and the terrified sheriff and his wife finally stopped being so nervous, and after some pushback, they finally raised their chopsticks.

After everyone drank three glasses of wine, Jinse was already full. She put down her chopsticks and said, "I'm done eating. Take it easy, I'll go out to get some fresh air."

The sheriff's family knew that she was sad. Although they were shocked by her actions, they didn't take it strangely.Su Ran, on the other hand, seemed to be unable to hear or see at all, still smiling warmly.

Su Mo had another drink with Su Ran and the sheriff, and left the table with an excuse.

Out of the hall door, at the corner of the veranda, Jinse sat with her feet crossed on the railing, humming an unknown song as her feet swayed slightly.

When Su Mo passed by, he suddenly sat down at a position not far from her, but one was facing outwards and the other was facing inwards, and they couldn't see each other's appearance, only a silhouette could be seen out of the corner of his eye.

There is only the sound of falling snow around, and the twists and turns of the ditty in Jinse's mouth, but it is almost intertwined into the most moving movement.

However, after Su Mo sat down for a moment, Jin Se stopped speaking abruptly.

After a long time, Fang heard Su Mo say: "This is a ditty of the Nayi tribe."

Jinse was slightly taken aback.

This little tune appeared in her mind inexplicably two days ago, and it played repeatedly in recent days. She also learned to hum, but she always didn't know why she suddenly knew this tune.

Now hearing what Su Mo said, the question in my heart suddenly became clear as if layers of fog had been cleared—this song was originally hummed by her mother to coax her to sleep when she was very young. Now, she still has memory of this song!

"How do you know?" she asked.

(End of this chapter)