"How did you come?"
A hand reached out from behind and grabbed her wrist.
There was a hint of imperceptible dryness in that voice, as well as a slight sullenness.
The hand that clamped her wrist was a little cold, as if it had been wasted in the night wind for a long time. It touched her pulse and stirred her up. A ray of thought that was originally in a trance also drifted with the coolness. drift.
But for a moment, the skin between the two people gradually became warm, and the blood flowing under the thin skin also became warm.
"The governor asked me to come. He said it was a family banquet and he wanted to eat the tofu pudding I made."
She gently pulled out her hand and subconsciously held the lacquered wooden box in her hand tighter.
"Family banquet?" Wei Cheng raised his brows slightly. Under the wind lamp, the handsome eyebrows of the man in bright armor fell into the shadows. He moved slightly, and the scales on the armor rubbed against each other, making a cold and terrifying sound.
He didn't remember that the family was preparing for a family dinner before leaving.
The cold light reflected by the mirror armor flashed past, and the box in her hand suddenly felt a little hot. For a moment, she didn't know whether to hide it or let him see it like this. After hesitating, a hand stretched out and neatly lifted her hand. The box on the top was pulled out.
"What's this?"
The iron smell of the armor hit her face. It was already cold at night, so she wrapped her cloak tightly around her body. The smell of Canaan incense entangled her tighter and tighter.
"It was a reward from the governor," she said dryly.
The meaning of the governor just now is self-evident. If Wei Zheng hadn't been there to smooth things over, I might not have walked out so quickly today. I thought of that hand with long nails, resting on my shoulder, and the sticky heat seeping down through the layers of clothing. , she lowered her eyebrows and suppressed all the displeasure in her eyes.
"Reward?" Wei Cheng repeated her answer just now, feeling suddenly impatient in his heart.
No matter how he heard these words, he felt a little awkward. He wouldn't give Shen Yinxiao what he wanted, so it was someone else's turn to "reward" him?
But these words came out of Shen Yinxiao's own mouth. He glanced at the woman with a low eyebrow, who nodded and said "Yeah".
He sneered, pushed with his fingertips, and opened the buckle on the box with a "click", and a hosta engraved with orchids came into view.
In an instant, the veins on his forehead jumped again and again, blood rushed to his head, and he almost wanted to pull out the sword from his waist and chop the hairpin with one sword.
"You accept everything others give you?" Even though he suppressed the anger in his voice, his voice was still one degree higher than before, three points colder, his teeth were clenched tightly, and his eyes were slightly narrowed. , like a hunting leopard, staring closely at the prey in front of it.
Shen Yinxiao glared at the hairpin he held in his hand. Even her knuckles were slightly white from the exertion. She frowned. She didn't know where he got such a temper. She didn't even think about it because he took Wang Yuanjun to Bei. When he got angry in the suburbs, he got angry first.
"Shaojun's father gave it to me. I declined it too much. Isn't it because I don't know how to appreciate it?" She straightened her back and opened her eyes. Her original peach blossom eyes were like a pair of clear almonds, serious and serious.
Seeing Wei Cheng's frown getting tighter, she pursed her lips and continued: "I'm not a girl from the Wang family. How dare I say no to everyone in the Wei family."
He choked.
"You're capable, right? You're choking on me."
Wei Cheng's face suddenly turned white and blue, and his teeth were so tense that he could still vaguely hear the sound of grinding his teeth. After a while, he took off his tense shoulders and threw the hosta that was broken into two parts into the box. .
The broken jade made a crisp "ding" sound in the box, and he closed the lid with a "snap".
"Let's go, I'll take you back." He seemed to have given up questioning her, his voice a little helpless and tired.
All the cold and expanding spikes were restrained. When he got on the carriage, he looked completely different from the tense look he had when he and Wei Zheng faced each other just now.
Looking at the slightly green wind and frost under his eyes, Shen Yinxiao bit his lip and sat down.
"You just came back from the northern suburbs?" She tilted her head and looked at his appearance in military uniform.
This was the first time she saw Wei Cheng like this.
In the past, she had heard from others that Youzhou Shaojun, the newly awarded Qiang Protector Colonel by the imperial court, was young and promising, brave and handsome, and his bright light armor was more powerful than the god king in the temple.
She had seen him naked, she had also seen him in cloth, and she had also seen him in a python robe and jade crown, looking aloof, but this was the first time she saw him like this, sitting there calmly, giving Infinite sense of security.
It seems that as long as he is here, all evil spirits and conspiracies will disappear.
It's just that this kind of man doesn't belong to her alone.
If you have used it, you can count it as owning it.
Shen Yinxiao couldn't help but reached out curiously and touched the mirror armor on his chest.
"Yeah." He nodded lightly.
The military parade ground in the northern suburbs was more than a hundred miles away from Wei's house. When he got the news, he didn't stay at all. Wei Ning was extremely anxious behind him, saying that he could just come back to pick them up.
Tomorrow's military parade is of great importance. Dozens of Qiang tribes, large and small, including the Beinan Qiang, the largest among them, are also present. If anything goes wrong, it will undoubtedly undo all the previous bloody battles.
He knows, he just doesn't feel reassured.
Before leaving, he told Wei Ning that he would be back before dawn.
Those things in Wei's house made him worried about leaving her to others.
Maybe it was the man's possessiveness towards the woman that was hiding behind him, or maybe it was the emotion that grew up over time, that made him rush back without even realizing it despite the hundreds of miles of frost.
We must rush back before tomorrow's mao time.
He didn't say anything about the entanglement.
He lowered his eyes and looked at Shen Yinxiao lying in front of him with an ignorant look, stroking her nails with his little hands.
Wei Cheng frowned in disgust.
Then he couldn't help but laugh.
Muffled laughter came from above her head. She blushed, took back her hand, and sat upright, straightening her back.
Wei Cheng put away his smile and glanced at the lacquered wooden box placed on the crooked table, with a hint of coldness in his eyes.
He took out the sweat towel that was lying close to his body from his armor. There was an orchid embroidered on the corner of the aqua sweat towel. The long and graceful leaves of the orchid were embroidered with dark golden silk thread with the five small words "Want in the Blue Sky" .
Those five little characters were extremely small and hidden among the blue-gray flowers and leaves. I don’t know if Wei Cheng had ever noticed them.
Shen Yinxiao pursed his lips and took a sip of tea.
This sweat towel was embroidered by her a few years ago. Now the sweat towel is a bit white from use.
He probably didn't find it, otherwise he probably wouldn't use it. Shen Yinxiao used to be young and had a little girlish attitude. She liked to embroider her name on the underwear, handkerchiefs and purses she made for Wei Cheng. It was like a lover. The meaning of the code.
Once, he embroidered the character "xiao" on his purse. Wei Cheng saw it and frowned, but didn't say anything. However, he never saw him using that purse again.
Since then, Shen Yinxiao has never made him any personal items such as purses and handkerchiefs. Even if he did, Shen Yinxiao would never embroider the words as carefully as before.
Wei Cheng took out the handkerchief, dipped it in tea, took Shen Yinxiao's hand, and wiped the half-wet handkerchief back and forth on her hand, as if her hand had been stained by something dirty.
After wiping it, he stuffed the veil into his arms as if nothing had happened.
"My father would give a hosta engraved with orchids to someone he admired."
There was a "buzzing" sound in Shen Yinxiao's head, as if something was tightening, and then she understood why he suddenly wiped her hands.
She shook her head: "I have no intention of clinging to the governor."
