Chen Jinjun stopped at a place not far or near Huo Tingyu and looked at him leisurely.
Huo Tingyu looked at Chen Jinjun's face, which was as white as snowflakes, and a pair of smart eyes looking at him jokingly.
He suddenly felt a wave of heat rising from the bottom up to the top of his head, and his originally warm brown skin revealed a slightly ambiguous red color.
"How long do Marshal Huo plan to stand in the snow?"
Chen Jinjun tilted his head and asked him.
Huo Tingyu only felt that despite the ice and snow around him, his whole body was so hot that he was about to burn up.
He scratched his head at a loss and said with some embarrassment: "It's snowing so hard that I can't find my clothes."
Chen Jinjun couldn't hold it back for a moment and laughed out loud.
This made Huo Tingyu blush, and he looked like a red lantern hanging under the eaves to celebrate the New Year.
Chen Jinjun only felt that Huo Tingyu's appearance was completely different from that of the warlord commander who usually put on airs.
"The handsome man has a good figure, just like..." Chen Jinjun pointed his finger at his chin and looked at Huo Tingyu playfully, "just like a Western sculpture."
Huo Tingyu looked down at Chen Jinjun and felt that today she was different from the calm boss who controlled such a large business kingdom in the past. She was full of the vitality and vigor of a young girl.
His eyes were deep and hot. Chen Jinjun was stunned for a moment and quickly turned away: "Hurry up and find some clothes, don't freeze."
Huo Tingyu was just about to say that he wasn't cold, but he saw the red ears of Chen Jinjun, who was turning his back.
"I thought it was common for my boss to look at me for so long, but I didn't expect my boss to actually know..." He leaned forward in a bad mood, "Look no further?"
A deep voice sounded in Chen Jinjun's ears, and the strong tingling sensation made her wince.
But in an instant, Chen Jinjun stiffened his neck again, straightened his back, and tried to calm down his somewhat hot face.
When Huo Tingyu saw Chen Jinjun's quail appearance, his original embarrassment disappeared instantly.
He slowly searched for his clothes on the snow and deliberately circled around Chen Jinjun, who also kept his back facing him.
Huo Tingyu finally found his clothes in the thick snow on the ground. He shook the snow off casually and put the clothes on himself.
"alright."
Chen Jinjun, who had his back turned to him, turned around when he heard what he said.
But Huo Tingyu just put his coat loosely on his body, leaving his chest and abdomen exposed.
Chen Jinjun twitched the corner of his mouth: "It's so rude for the commander to act like this."
Huo Tingyu looked indifferent: "I'm used to it in the military camp, not to mention it's not cold."
"I am not a soldier under the commander-in-chief." Chen Jinjun looked into Huo Tingyu's eyes without shifting his gaze at all.
"Why are you doing this? Or...haven't you seen me before?"
Huo Tingyu looked at Chen Jinjun's righteous look and couldn't help but make fun of him.
Rather than Chen Jinjun using such distant eyes and tone, he actually hoped that Chen Jinjun would be as "unfashionable" as he was just now.
Chen Jinjun frowned and said without any ups and downs in his tone: "Commander, do you need me to remind you that I am the widow of your cousin Huo Pingyan?"
These words were like a basin of cold water pouring down Huo Tingyu from head to toe, far colder than the newly melted snowflakes inside his clothes.
Huo Tingyu sighed, gritted his teeth and nodded.
As he fastened the buttons on his clothes one by one, he said to Chen Jinjun in a businesslike tone: "Why is my boss looking for me?"
Chen Jinjun stared hard at Huo Tingyu's eyes, trying hard not to look at Huo Tingyu's nearly perfect muscle lines that were gradually covered under his clothes.
"I just want to ask the commander, is there any banquet in the Huo family on New Year's Eve that requires my presence?"
Huo Tingyu tugged at the hem of his clothes and asked her curiously: "Why do you ask?"
"If there is no important banquet in Huo's house, I would still prefer to stay up late with the Chen family's shopkeepers."
Hearing what she said, Huo Tingyu frowned impatiently.
"The Huo family has never had the habit of having a New Year's Eve dinner, so I can do whatever I want."
Huo Tingyu said that these words were true. He wanted to get closer to Chen Jinjun, but there was another voice in his heart telling him that he was Chen Jinjun's late husband's brother, so he had to stay away.
Chen Jinjun asked him: "What plans do you have, Marshal?"
"I'm going to the military camp. It's the New Year's Eve. It's unreasonable not to show up for the New Year's Eve dinner." Huo Tingyu looked at Chen Jinjun's pretty face nestled in the fur collar, his eyes a little dazed.
"What about the second lady?" Chen Jinjun frowned and asked him.
Huo Tingyu shook his head: "Since my father and second uncle died in the battle on the morning of New Year's Eve, she has never looked back on the New Year again."
Chen Jinjun lowered his eyelashes. This was the first time he heard from Huo Tingyu the reasons for the Huo family's decline in the court.
"Then I'll come back on New Year's Day."
After saying that, she turned around and left.
Huo Tingyu reached out to stop her, opened his mouth, but then waved his hand and let her go.
Looking at Chen Jinjun's back, a trace of loneliness flashed in his eyes.
How great would it be if...if the person who was engaged to her was herself?
Huo Tingyu was shocked by his idea.
No, the little thoughts I have are basically invisible to the light.
What's more, he doesn't have the courage to break the worldly gossip, so it is better to stay away from him, lest this feeling takes root in his heart and cannot be pulled out over time.
Huo Tingyu, you coward.
He clasped his hands feebly, lowered his head and smiled to himself.
The snow this winter has been falling endlessly, and everything as far as the eye can see is completely white.
On New Year's Eve, Shen Xiaoxiao specially found a red cloak and put it on Chen Jinjun. From a distance, he looked smart and lively.
"My boss is really happy." Shen laughed and teased Chen Jinjun, smiling slightly and winking at her fox eyes.
Chen Jinjun was still not used to these brightly colored clothes, so he pulled up the black inner shirt with some embarrassment.
"Let's go, boss." Shen Xiaoxiao saw what Chen Jinjun wanted to say, and took the lead to interrupt what Chen Jinjun wanted to say, and pulled Chen Jinjun out.
Chen Jinjun wore a pair of high riding boots and stepped on the snow. The crunching sound of the snow made her let out a long sigh of relief.
"I haven't walked for a long time."
There were only a few pedestrians on the road, so Chen Jinjun suddenly felt relaxed and planned to drag Shen Xiaoxiao over.
On the white road in front of the Huo Mansion, the fiery red figure gradually faded away, burning into the eyes of Huo Tingyu on the watchtower of the Huo Mansion.
He stared intently at Chen Jinjun's retreating figure, inexplicably feeling that he looked familiar.
It seems like four months ago, the same flash of red stopped in front of the Huo Mansion.
Huo Tingyu looked at Chen Jinjun's back blankly, feeling an indescribable strange feeling in his heart.
It was as if he had clearly met the person he loved, but his insistence made him unable to look directly at this relationship.
This may be the ethical code he hates the most in his life.