"Feng'er, why are you here?" Yu Qiuping asked with a smile.
"The women and you are not eating in the same place." Imakawa Kaede replied, "I want to come and see you, so I sneaked out from here."
Kaede Imakawa stood on tiptoe slightly, smiling at the shawl on Yu Qiuping's shoulder. Her graceful figure was already very tall in this era, but she was still much shorter than Yu Qiuping, who was nearly 1.8 meters tall.
"Are you still wearing it?" Imakawa Kaede asked.
"Of course," Yu Qiuping shrugged, and the red leaves on the shawl immediately rustled, "I promise you to wear it all your life, and it's so beautiful, how can I do it without wearing it?"
"Clever words, you foolish liar." The girl smiled and said angrily, "Okay, let me see how the wound on your arm is like."
"Is it here?" Yu Qiuping frowned with a wicked smile, and looked at the banquet hall not far away. "It's inconvenient to take off my clothes, so I can't hold the wound."
"Where should I go?" Imagawa Kaede asked in confusion.
Yu Qiuhei took Imagawa Kaede's hand without saying a word and walked quickly towards the fitting room on the side of the lobby. On the way, there were constant servants serving and cleaning passing by, and they had to stick to the corner to hide from the servant. Imagawa Kaede didn't understand where Yu Qiuhei was going, but the risk of being exposed and the fun of hiding with her lover made her immersed in this feeling, following Yu Qiuhei almost confusedly, allowing him to hold his hand, as if he was in a dream.
Until Yu Qiuping led her into a fitting room and locked the door with his backhand. He kissed her without warning, hugged her waist, caressed her spine. She could feel him sucking her lips and asking for her fragrance. Before she could react, she was swallowed by his tenderness and was dizzy, as if she was trapped in a ball of soft cotton.
There were footsteps passing by from time to time outside the door, and there were often people coming in and out of the fitting room next to it. The nervousness that might have been revealed made the already sweet kiss even more enthusiastic. Imakawa Kaede's inadvertent gasps made Yu Qiuping intoxicated.
After a long time, the two finally stopped. Imakawa Kaede shrank in Yu Qiuping's arms and gasped gently. The blush on her face was particularly adorable. Yu Qiuping hugged the delicate body in her arms and fiddled with her black show.
"Hei is a big villain who deceives one's heart." Imakawa Kaede whispered.
"Pa." Yu Qiuping smiled wickedly, poked her forehead with her index finger and middle finger, "Why does Your Highness, who is usually so arrogant and strong, feel like a little woman when she comes to my arms?" Yu Qiuping teased.
Imakawa's face turned redder, he bulged his cheeks and pushed open the door without saying a word and ran out. Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment and chased him out. Following the footsteps of Imakawa, the two of them chased each other, ran out of the Tianshou Pavilion, and ran to the courtyard where it was still snowing.
Just as Yu Qiuping was searching for Imakawa Kaede in a daze, the attack came silently. Yu Qiuping's neck suddenly felt cold and wet. When he twisted his neck slightly, he felt that his whole back was cold. Yu Qiuping turned around quickly, and the vague figure of the attacker suddenly flashed behind another rockery. At the same time, he threw a second snowball at him, which hit his cheek this time, causing him to cough - it was a laugh. The snowflakes that slid into his clothes made his chest cold, and he couldn't help but take a breath.
He leaned over without showing any weakness and pinched two or three snowballs, got up and rushed towards the rockery. Behind the rockery, Imakawa Kaede immediately threw out a few more snowballs. After Yu Qiuping turned sideways, Behind the rockery, Imakawa Kaede was hit by Yu Qiuping's head.
The battle lasted for a while until both sides were so tired that they couldn't play anymore. She ran out from behind the rockery with a smile and threw herself into his arms.
"The level is really good!" Yu Qiuping smiled, "I, a master of snowball fight, have also been embarrassed by you. When I was a child, my father could never beat me."
"That's natural. I didn't do all my strength just now." Imakawa Kaede raised his cheeks proudly, pushed Yu Qiuping away, and took off the snowflakes from his clothes.
"So, I have always had a question." Yu Qiuping asked curiously, "Why is the New Year's Eve dinner not held on New Year's Eve?"
"Because everyone is going home to spend time with their family on New Year's Eve." Imakawa Kaede was cleaning her clothes and answered casually. After a while, she found that the young man in front of her suddenly stopped talking. She raised her head and found that the latter was standing in the snow a little lonely, looking ahead blankly.
"Go back... home?" Yu Qiuping muttered these words like a dream. The snow in front of him seemed to have a picture of his childhood. A child, wearing a blue hat and a down jacket, ran in the snow. From time to time, he kneaded a snowball and threw it at his father who was chasing him. The father smiled and fought back, but rarely fought back, as if he was beaten by Yu Qiuping. Finally, the two sat in the snow and laughed.
When I was tired of playing, the child's mother also came. "I'm back home, I'm ordinary." The mother shouted with a smile. The father also patted the snow on his body and walked towards the mother. However, the child could not get up from the snow no matter what. He just stared at his parents slowly walking away side by side. The child was helpless and finally cried out.
Before I knew it, tears from the corners of my eyes were already flowing down my cheeks.
That warm and happy home, although there are quarrels from time to time, the mother is very fierce, and the father has no emotional intelligence, it is a happy family - this family can never be returned.
By the end of the year, no matter what kind of identity or busy person, people who have been busy for a year will go home for the New Year. His 200 subordinates can go home for the New Year, more than 1,000 people in the Imakawa family can go home for the New Year. Even the humble young peddler or the farmer who digs food from the soil, when they return home, they open the door and say "I'm back", and someone will come with a smile and welcome him home.
What's the use of making great contributions, winning unparalleled honors, and owning your own territory and army? What's the use of mom and dad never know that there is no house, when they open the door and say "I'm back", someone will come with a smile.
"I have nowhere to go back."
My heart was empty, and there was only the biting cold between the ice and snow, and the boy's crying.
Suddenly, he felt a figure plunging into his arms, warm.
"Ping, don't say that." A gentle female voice came, and a pair of small hands were gently patting her back. She moved up gently and helped him to sort out the red leaf shawl.
"I know... Hei must have had a particularly happy and beautiful family before, and his parents must have loved Hei very much." Imakawa Kaede said softly, "It must be a very painful thing to suddenly have to separate from them."
"Hai." The girl's voice suddenly became more gentle, "Do you know why the maple leaves are red?" she asked. Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, without responding. Imakawa Kaede continued: "I heard from my mother that if the leaves are left on the tree, they need big trees to give them nutrients. But in autumn, big trees have no nutrients themselves, so they can't give them any more."
"So, although many leaves are reluctant to leave the big trees, they all fall one after another. But the maple is different." Imakawa Kaede said, "They want to stay on the tree and accompany the big trees, so they turn their blood into nutrients, continue to persevere, and dye their whole body red." Imakawa Kaede hugged Yu Qiukai tightly, "Just like Taichi, very, very, very, want to stay with their parents."
"But there will be a day when we can't hold on. Winter is approaching and the red leaves are falling. There is nothing we can do about it," the girl whimpered softly, "My parents will always leave first, so don't be too sad."
"But, the lives of those red leaves are not over." Imakawa Kaede suddenly had a smile on her face. She raised her hand and wiped away the tears from Yu Qiuping's eyes. "They fell into the soil and turned into nutrients, nourishing the maple trees and accompanying the maple trees."
"Even if they can't stay on the tree, they can find a new home." Imakawa Kaede pressed his face against Yu Qiukai's chest and listened to the beating of his heart. "As long as there is love, the red leaves can fall back to their roots."
"So, don't be sad, Hiraki." Imakawa Kaede raised his head and comforted Yu Qiuping, but his tears came out first, "As long as there is a place of love, there will be a home. If Hiraki's previous home cannot go back, there will be a new home."
"Feng'er will always love Ping and become your destination." She said in a nagging manner, "In the future, we may have a house of our own. Feng'er will wait for Ping. When you are tired for a day and come back, Feng'er will smile and greet you. Listen to you telling the interesting news of the day, share your success, and share your pain."
"Of course! I am not the same vase as girls." Imakawa Kaede suddenly said, "I can also contribute to this family. Sometimes, when I come back later than you, you have to greet me with a smile."
"Anyway, no matter that much," Imagawa Kaede stood on tiptoe and leaned against Yu Qiukai's ear and said softly: "When you say 'I'm back', I will definitely wait for you at home and say 'Welcome back' to you."
Yu Qiuping suddenly felt that the softest part in his heart suddenly collapsed. He raised his arms and hugged the girl tightly into his arms. In the heavy snow, the young couple hugged each other for a long time.
The cold in my heart is also dispelled by the warmth of the girl.
The road of the past is unbearable, so I can only keep moving forward on this road. I have lost my original life, my parents, my relatives and friends, and everything I have lost.
However, I no longer feel emptiness, loneliness and inexplicable sadness.
Because there is love, there will be home.
Because I have you there, I still have a place to go back.
Chapter completed!