He Qizhou returned to the newly built stone circle with a water bag and food, and found that Xu Mu was not in the water. He heard the sound of panting behind the stone wall on the shore. He Qizhou walked into the south stone circle built for himself and asked: "How is it?
Feeling better?"
"I feel hot after being in the water for a long time. Not long after I got out of the water, the chill came out from the inside." Xu Mu, who was separated by a wall, replied.
"It seems to be the same for me. Now I have a chill again. This cold poison should be intermittent. Maybe the yin and cold substances in the sand poison are also working. Don't wear those wet clothes when you go ashore.
It’s windy now, it’s going to be unbearable!”
"Did you peek?" Xu Mu shouted angrily.
"No, I heard the sound of wet clothes when you moved. Take off your clothes quickly. I promise not to peek or look." He Qizhou advised.
The sound of people taking off their clothes came from the next door. In fact, the stone wall on the shore was built with large, flat stones. There really wasn't much space. He Qizhou honestly leaned against the stone wall and continued to ask: "Would you like something to eat?"
?I brought it down."
"No, but if I'm thirsty, please pass me the water bag."
He Qizhou passed the water bag over the stone wall, and Xu Mu reached out to take it. The white forearms under the moonlight formed a clear contrast with the slightly tanned hands.
When He Qizhou heard that Xu Mu had entered the water again and that his own cold poison had started to attack again, he took off his official uniform and got into the water naked. He wanted to hear Xu Mu's pulse again.
Looking across from the foot-high stone wall, the moonlight in the pool filtered through the dense heat mist and shone on Xu Mu's face like a dream. He Qizhou seemed to have seen a ghost, his jaw dropped and his mouth opened.
It was comparable to the giant python that attacked just now. His small eyes were as big as Xu Mu's. The scene in front of him seemed to instantly bring him into a dream...
"I didn't expect that!" Xiaoxue's silver bell-like voice came from the opposite side. An extremely delicate and pretty face was showing a proud and shy smile. A pair of big, translucent black eyes shone like an elf, and the smile was pretty.
The nose was lightly shrugged, and countless fine lines like water waves suddenly appeared at the root of the nose. Her shiny black hair seemed to have grown longer, and a large black mass floated behind her, on the slightly undulating water, and the snow-white shoulders under her pink neck.
It also disappears and appears with the ripples of the water...
He Qizhou slapped herself hard, it hurt so much! What she saw was real! Could it be that she had changed her face? But she didn't have any tools, so she couldn't fit it so well, right?
"Come here, let me touch you!" This was the first thing He Qizhou said to Xu Mu after waking up.
Xu Mu was so angry that his eyebrows stood up and his face turned red as he asked, "You, what did you say?"
"Don't get me wrong, I, I just want to feel if there is a mask on this face. Are you, are you really Xiaoxue?" He Qizhou asked.
"Fake!" Xu Mu turned around angrily.
…
"Then what's the matter with the birthmark on your face? Doesn't it mean that you can't see anyone with this face? Is Zhang Mufeng really your brother? Is your surname Xu or Zhang? Are you really engaged to Xiao Jihuai? No, no,
I'm so confused. If you don't tell me clearly, I will die from heat, cold, and poison." He Qizhou was already convinced that what he heard was Xiaoxue's voice.
"Okay, it's okay to know if you want to know, but I think I suffered too much today, so you have to express your feelings, right?" Xu Mu turned around slowly with a smile, and her two-foot-long hair gently twirled
On the neck, it is even more charming.
"What's wrong with you?" He Qizhou looked innocent.
"Hmph! Who told you to look around?" Xu Mu, who gradually regained his vitality, no longer felt as sad as when he was parting from life and death.
"Then what do you want?" He Qizhou asked helplessly.
"It's up to you." Xu Mu liked to see He Qizhou's anxious look.
"Okay, I understand." After saying this, He Qizhou suddenly stood up from the water that was barely above his thighs.
"Ah - you bastard!" Xu Mu covered his eyes and wanted to turn away, but he caught a glimpse of He Qizhou holding a large piece of cloth in his hand to cover his vitals. He couldn't help but feel angry and funny, but He Qizhou was white and strong.
The body is actually quite pleasing to the eye.
"I gave you my kerchief. It was a piece of cloth torn off from your robe during the day. I wanted to use it to wipe your blood. Now I'm using it to take a bath. Okay, I've seen it.
Can you tell me?" He Qizhou blinked his eyes, looking expectant after the prank.
"I didn't see it!" Xu Mu had just finished saying these three words when he saw He Qizhou holding the cloth with one hand and trying to stand up again, so he hurriedly said: "Don't look at it, don't look at it."
He Qizhou said proudly: "I'm scaring you! Come on, tell me, who are you? If you can't figure this out, the matchmaker has no place to talk about it!"
"What a beautiful idea, who wants to marry you!" Xu Mu said angrily: "My real name is Xu Muxue, morning and evening, and snow flying all over the sky. I never said I had a birthmark on my face.
You are just making random guesses!"
"Then what I saw on Suzhou Road..."
"Do you think it's not convenient for me to run around in the world like this? I think your idea of the birthmark is a good one. That face is the hard work of my mother and I all day and night. It's so dark that no one wants to take a closer look, let alone
It's easy to find the flaws in disguise!" Xu Mu became even more proud.
"That Zhang Mufeng... It doesn't matter if the characters for Mu are different, why do they have two surnames?"
"Want to hear a story?"
"think!"
"Back then, my mother broke her engagement and pursued Yang Zheng and He Qingshan, but ended up marrying a poor scholar who didn't know how to do martial arts. She made my grandfather angry..."
"Don't be half-hearted!" He Qizhou begged.
"Go, go, don't interrupt. My mother's words are not half-hearted. He Qingshan and Yang Zheng are so humble to each other. If they want me, I will be angry." Xu Mu continued:
"My mother was betrothed to Xiao Jixiong, who is Xiao Jihuai's father. Xiao Jixiong's mother is also a princess. They are still cousins. At that time, my grandfather even accepted the betrothal gift. Our Zhang and Xiao families
Instead of obstructing the marriage, the emperor actively promoted it. Do you know why?
Because our Zhang family is in charge of the battle, as long as the Northern Zhou Dynasty is driven back outside the pass, the Zhang family will not have to be in a state of fearful preparation for war. The Xiao family has been hesitant. In order to embolden the Xiao family and move north together, the Zhang family decided to
The most outstanding person of the generation - my mother married Xiao Jixiong, the successor of the Xiao family.
The dowry given to me was from forty banks located in Hebei, which meant that the Xiao family's bank became the dominant one in the Hebei area of Gyeongsang Province. Unexpectedly, my mother's escape from marriage ruined the wishful thinking of both families. Grandpa said that he was also
I was so angry that I vomited a lot of blood. But my grandma secretly told my mother that grandpa was bragging, and at most she was so angry that she spit some saliva."
"Then the dowry was already sent out?" He Qizhou knew that now the North almost only recognizes the Xiao family bank.
"It doesn't count. Grandpa shamelessly went to withdraw the betrothal gift in person. It was pearls and jade worth almost a thousand taels of gold. But after hard work, Xiao Yuanzheng, the head of the Xiao family, refused to accept it. He also said that since his son was not destined to be destined, he would give it up.
Let’s leave the money to our grandson. In fact, what I have in mind is the forty banks in my family. My grandfather had no choice but to go back and give the old lady a hard lesson, and then gave the bank to the Xiao family as a dowry for the next generation in the future.
, I didn’t expect it to fall on me, are you angry?”
"Infuriating!" He Qizhou said angrily: "Then what will be the consequences if you break off the engagement again?"
"Forty banks are far more than that. The Xiao family has already taken advantage. How can they be afraid of us breaking off the engagement?"
"Can you change your mind just by marrying someone if you want to go to war?" He Qizhou was still a little worried about this marriage that Emperor Chun and the two famous families supported.
"That's right! After breaking off the engagement, it took a lot of trouble for my father to marry my mother. Because my grandmother supported my mother, she is a princess, and my grandfather had no choice, so he thought of an idea to give himself a step down."
"What's the idea?" He Qizhou asked cooperatively.
"My grandpa asked my father to agree that the first boy they gave birth to would be named Zhang!"
"Promise! What's the big deal? I'll take my mother's surname!" He Qizhou said easily while lying on the stone wall in the middle of the pool. Most people may value surnames, but He Qizhou has never had such an idea.
"Smart! Although my dad is poor, he is not bitter at all, so he agreed on the spot." Xu Mu patted He Qizhou's head and praised, because the moonlight was hazy in the water vapor, and his eyes could not penetrate half an inch under the water.
Xu Mu in the water was not afraid of He Qizhou looking over.
Then I wanted to imitate He Qizhou and put my arms on the stone wall, but my tender lotus-like arms were raised, and my body floated up slightly. I noticed that there was something strange in He Qizhou's eyes, and I immediately realized something and hurriedly squatted down.
, hit He Qizhou hard on the head with one hand, and said angrily: "Still watching!"
He Qizhou, who had just been patted on the head, was hit hard on the head before he could be happy. He asked pitifully: "Why are you so heavy-handed? Keep talking."
"So my younger brother's surname was Zhang, and our ancestors ranked him quite high as the heir to the Zhang family. My mother said that it was evening when I was born, and there was a light snowfall in the sky, so I
Dad named me Mu Xue.
"Then the spring breeze happened to blow when your brother was born? Like a spring breeze?" He Qizhou guessed.
"You're half right. He was called Mu Feng because it was midnight when he was born. It was midsummer. A strong wind broke all the window latches in the room, and everything in the room was blown into a mess.
Originally, my mother wanted to name her Dafeng, Kuangfeng or Night Breeze, but my father firmly disagreed, so she was named Mufeng."
"Zhang Kuangfeng? I can tell, you look like your mother. By the way, the young woman I saw on Baiyun Tower that day was my aunt? She is much prettier than my mother. Our father is Mr. Xu Qinghan, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, right? Jiang
Has the embankment been repaired? Did the Chen family cause trouble again?" Although He Qizhou was beaten, he still asked with a shy face.