I don’t know when the cold wind swept the whole world.
The thin snow on the ground in the south, the ice in the dead forest after the fallen leaves have fallen, the frost flowers on the yellow grass stems, and the floating ice in the winter water fields, all these outline the chapter of winter.
Coming across the night sky from the north, in less than two hours, the cloud scenery crossed thousands of rivers and mountains and returned to the sky above Xinlin County.
It was in Xinlin County that he went on a "travel far away" for the first time, took part in the imperial examination for the first time, left the small world where he was born for the first time, and met Su Xiaoye for the first time.
Even in winter, the night here is exceptionally beautiful. There are no clouds or moon in the sky, only the bright stars are embedded in the night sky like broken diamonds.
It's late at night, and the whole world is silent in a beautiful dreamland.
In the darkness, little lights are like beans, sometimes they light up in a corner of the earth, sometimes they go out...
Standing in the sky, Yunjing looked at the direction of his home, then turned around and headed towards Dagou Forest.
Home is there, it has always been there, no matter how far we go or how long we leave, it is always there, selflessly waiting for the wanderer to return.
After I was a child, I finally felt that my hometown was old and shabby, but my hometown never disdained my youth and ignorance. As I grew up, I always felt that every step I took when I walked out of the house was too far away from home, but my hometown never complained about my delay in returning. In fact, when I turned around, my hometown
Just after my death, I left the things I took for granted in the past to my hometown, but I also gave my courtesy and humility to the distance. The distance did not treat me gently, but my hometown has never left me...
"When I was a child, I always complained that the time every day was too long and wanted to grow up urgently, but now I feel that time flies too fast and I can't catch it slipping through my fingers. There is not enough time tonight. Let's go and see the little leaves first, and then go again before spring.
In fact, I don’t have to wait for spring to go home. I can go back anytime I want. In fact, I study in the north during the day and go home to eat the food cooked by my mother in the evening. Why not? Now the distance does not restrict my pace.”
Thinking like this, Yunjing had a clear idea and headed in the direction of Dagoulin with a happy mood.
Su Xiaoye's home is in Dagou Forest. The two have been bonded with each other since they were toddlers, but for more than ten years, Yunjing has never been to Dagou Forest.
Dagoulin is dozens of miles away from the county seat of Xinlin County. As its name suggests, it is a remote place with crisscrossed ravines. There are many mountains and little land, and only a dozen or twenty families live here sparsely.
In fact, most of the people here make a living by hunting and gathering mountain products. Although it is not a remote place, farming cannot support a family at all.
Although I have never been to Dagou Forest, it is very easy to find the cloud scenery. The coverage of telekinesis with a radius of ten kilometers is really amazing.
Arriving quietly above Dagou Forest, Yunjing 'saw' Su Xiaoye's home and her at a glance.
Looking at Su Xiaoye's home at night, Yun Jing said: "..."
I'm afraid I came at the wrong time.
But, it’s so fun!
After catching up, Yun Jing was watching the show in the sky with great interest, and even opened a pack of candied fruits he brought and slowly ate them like a melon-eater.
Su Xiaoye's home is halfway up a mountain in the innermost part of Dagoulin Village, a few hundred meters away from the nearest home.
It's not that her family is unsocial, Yunjing's father-in-law said at the beginning that he was once a soldier, and because of something that offended his superior, he had to run away and go into seclusion. If you have enemies, you should naturally have as little contact with others as possible. Over time,
Although her original enemies have long since disappeared, her family still remains far away from others.
It was a small wooden house. The wooden house was very grandly built. It was made of thick logs. Yunjing guessed that this was definitely the work of his father-in-law, and it actually had a bit of an old man's style.
In front of the wooden house is a flat piece of dirt, surrounded by a fence made of thick wood. It is a standard farmhouse yard, simple and safe.
Yes, it feels very safe. Yunjing estimates that even a wild boar wouldn’t be able to break into her house easily. Doesn’t this make her feel safe?
On the outer wall of her house, under the eaves, there were pieces of animal skins being dried in the shade. She had almost no farm tools. After all, she was a professional hunter and had no need for those things. Weapons were enough.
There were horses in the barn and a carriage in the yard.
He didn't know why there were enough roads for horse-drawn carriages to travel here, but there were none in Xiaoxi Village where Yunjing lived. He guessed it was because the people here built the roads themselves to facilitate transportation of mountain goods.
There is a peach tree in the yard of Su Xiaoye's home, which is as thick as two people hugging each other. Its branches cover half of the yard, but it is bare in winter.
At night, on a peach tree dozens of meters high, on a branch that was only a few arms thick, Su Xiaoye stood there as the branches swayed gently, looking down in the dark with a cowardly look on her face, refusing to go down.
After not seeing each other for several months, she has not changed much. She has a delicate face, a neat ponytail, and a slender and graceful figure.
In the winter, she only wore a thin white shirt and knee-length trousers, with half of her arms, legs and feet exposed, and she would scratch her instep with one little foot from time to time.
With her advanced cultivation, she is not afraid of the cold in winter.
Under the peach tree stood a woman who looked to be in her thirties. She was wearing coarse clothes and her face was very similar to Su Xiaoye. She was obviously Su Xiaoye's mother. Her appearance was not bad, otherwise she would not have given birth to Su Xiaoye.
Xiaoye is such a beautiful daughter.
But at this moment, Su Xiaoye's mother had an angry expression on her face. She raised her head and glared at Su Xiaoye, with one hand on her hips and a rolling pin in the other, pointing diagonally at her.
The dim lights in the house came out through the window, and the silhouettes of mother and daughter could be vaguely seen in the dark yard.
"Damn girl, get out of here!" Mother Su yelled loudly, and the sound could be heard far away in the quiet night.
Su's mother's surname is Li and her given name is Cui'e. There are eight million people with this name in the world, but there is no way. Her elder, who was born in a farmer's family, naturally cannot choose such an elegant name.
On the tree, Su Xiaoye rubbed her neck and whispered: "If I don't go down, I won't go down."
"Get down here and I promise not to beat you to death," Su's mother pointed at her and glared.
Su Xiaoye was so entangled that she picked at the instep of her feet and said weakly: "No, mother, I am your daughter, your own daughter, how can you beat me at every turn? I even doubt whether you picked it up."
"You don't have to doubt it, I picked it up. Huh, am I willing to beat my own child like this?" Su's mother sneered.
Su Xiaoye wanted to cry but had no tears. What a big deal.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Su's mother said in a deep voice: "If you can, please stay up there for me for a night. Let's see how stubborn you and I can be!"
"Just wait. If I had known earlier, I would have gone hunting in the mountains with my father. None of the tigers in the mountains are as fierce as you," Su Xiaoye said with a smile on her face.
Mother Su was so angry that I would become a tigress if I were with her. I can’t have this girl anymore. Where is the little cotton-padded jacket that I promised?
She pointed the rolling pin at Su Xiaoye and said little by little: "You wild girl, don't think that I can't cure you if your father is not at home. Just wait for me. I will chop down the tree with an ax right now. It depends on you."
Where else can you run?”
"You chop it down. This peach tree was planted by my great-grandpa. I will never stop you from chopping it down. So what if you chop it down? I can still go to the roof. It only takes one step and it's over in a snap. If you have the ability, you can chop it down."
"Tear down the house too." Su Xiaoye got into a fight with her mother.
I watched the cloud scene in the sky with great interest. I never thought that I would see such fun things right away. You Su Xiaoye, you are so well-behaved in front of me. I didn’t expect you to be like this Su Xiaoye. Is this your true face?
Mother Su became angry and sneered: "See if I dare." Then she turned around and went back to the house. When she came out, she actually had a bow and arrow in her hand!
"Mom, I don't like this." Su Xiaoye suddenly became anxious when she saw the bow and arrow in her mother's hand. This was the rhythm of "killing relatives for justice".
Holding the bow and arrow, Mother Su did not make any serious move, but threatened: "Although your mother and I have never practiced martial arts, I still have a lot of strength. Don't think that I can't cure you. Can't you come down now?"
"Okay, okay, I'm scared of you. Mom, don't be impulsive. I'm going down here. Whether or not you hurt me is one thing. Don't make yourself angry." Su Xiaoye surrendered speechlessly.
Hum, little girl, fight with me, Mother Su looked proud.
When Su Xiaoye was grinding down, she scolded: "Su Xiaoye, Su Xiaoye, look at you, you look like a girl, jumping up and down like a monkey, I asked you to learn female beauty from me, you're better off
, pick up the needle and thread as if it’s killing you, and if you can’t do it well, you’ll tear the fabric into pieces in a fit of anger, why do you think you’re so good at it?”
"Then can you blame me? My father taught me martial arts since I was a child. Flying over roofs and walls is like growing on my body. You blame my father. I didn't mean to tear the piece of cloth. Who made it so fragile? I used it a little bit.
It breaks down after just a few throws away, I'm already very careful." Su Xiaoye, who was slowly getting off the tree, called Chong Tianqu.
Normally she could jump down in one step, but now after talking so much, she only came down a meter or two and was still hanging on the tree.
Mother Su frowned and said: "Hurry up, why are you delaying? You are afraid of trampling the ants to death. I have to scold my daughter in the middle of the night. What evil have I done? Besides, I have taught you since childhood.
Nühong, tell me, when was it possible for you to calm down for half an hour to learn? It’s even more life-threatening for you. Now you can’t even make a decent dress. Isn’t it a shame?”
"Mom, I'm a martial arts practitioner, and I'm very good at it. If you ask me to get an embroidery needle, I'm not using my talent for a good purpose," Su Xiaoye retorted in an unreasonable and arrogant way.
Mother Su pointed an arrow at her and scolded her: "You are still reasonable. You are a girl. No matter how good you are in martial arts, you will have to teach your husband and raise your children in the future. How can you be a good wife in the future? Just like you.
, you are not allowed to punch through the roof every three days!”
"No way, Brother Jing is so good, I won't fight with him," Su Xiaoye said with a smile.
"You still have the nerve to say, didn't Xiaojing agree with you to marry you when you are eighteen years old? As for you, you haven't even started to prepare your wedding dress. When the time comes, I will see what you wear when you get married." Mother Su said more and more
gas.
Su Xiaoye stopped no matter how hard she worked, and whispered: "There are still a few years left, what are you busy with?"
"Whatever you are busy with, I will teach you what to do now..." As soon as Su's mother raised her hand, she grabbed Su Xiaoye's ear and held on to it. She raised her hand and started to spank her hard.
My daughter has been naughty since she was a child. Although Su's mother has never practiced martial arts, she has mastered the unique skill of pulling ears with her hands.
"It hurts, it hurts. Mom, please stop spanking me. If you spank me again, your butt will become swollen, and your ears will fall off. It's so ugly." Su Xiaoye walked around Su's mother on her toes, shouting and listening.
She looked like she was going to be beaten to death, but actually she had a smile on her face.
Just kidding, after all, Su Xiaoye has acquired some advanced skills, and even with her mother's attack power, it's not enough to tickle her. However, she still needs to cooperate if she needs to, so as not to prevent her mother from getting in trouble.
"Do you know it hurts? Pa..., why did you go there earlier? Pa..., you get up the tree for me, pa..., you can't come down, pa..., you go over the wall for me, pa..., you go
I demolish the house, bang, you practice martial arts for me, bang..., you don't do sewing for me, bang... bang bang bang..."
Su's mother scolded and slapped Su Xiaoye at the same time. The mother and daughter made a lot of noise in the yard.
Yun Jing ate the candied fruit in the sky and looked at it with gusto. He thought to himself, "My mother-in-law beats me as hard as I can. It's best to teach me to behave."
Su's mother beat Su Xiaoye for a long time, and she was so tired that her forehead was sweating. On the contrary, Su Xiaoye's face turned red and her heart stopped beating, so she was so angry that she pinched Su Xiaoye's butt hard.
"Yeah~!" Su Xiaoye jumped away and rubbed her butt with her hands. It really hurt. She wasn't afraid of being slapped, but was afraid of twisting the little flesh with her fingertips.
"You know it hurts now? Why did you go there earlier? Are you ready to run?"
"I won't run away anymore," Su Xiaoye admitted her mistake while rubbing her butt.
"Can't you climb the tree yet?"
“Nothing can happen”
"Will you be obedient from now on?"
"Be obedient, I will listen to my mother"
"Do you want to learn from me about female beauty?"
"If you want to..."
No matter what my mother says now, I agree that if my butt is pinched a few more times, I will not dare to sit down anymore.
Seeing her daughter's obvious way of going in from one ear and out from the other, Su's mother was speechless. She nodded her eyebrows and said, "You, you, you really don't know what to do. My daughter, I'm a mother."
Can I still harm you? Your brother Jing is a scholar and has a good reputation. In the future, all the friends he will make are high-ranking officials. Look at you like this. How can you be worthy of him in the future? It’s a joke if you make a fool of yourself in the future.
Your brother Jing has been embarrassed, how will you let him deal with himself then? Do you want to see anyone anymore?"
"I will not embarrass Brother Jing," Su Xiaoye said weakly, obviously lacking confidence.
Su's mother continued: "Now you know you are afraid? As women, we marry and follow the other's side. The face of our men is more important than their lives. Maybe if we make a joke once or twice, our husbands will not love us."
I care, but if you do this often, you will be left out and disliked. Think about it for yourself, your brother Jing is a scholar, and you don’t even know some etiquette, how will you help him welcome and treat guests in the future? You can’t avoid seeing people, right?
, you can’t even get involved in his life, think about the consequences for yourself?”
"Mom, you're so understanding. I can't do it. At worst, I can find a few concubines for Brother Jing who are well-educated and sensible," Su Xiaoye said with a playful smile.
Staring at Su Xiaoye angrily, Su's mother said: "I'll forget it if you're so angry. If I ask my concubine to help you, can I meet guests? Bah, you've made me confused. Don't give it to me.
You're so good, I get angry just looking at you, hey, why did I end up giving birth to such a crazy girl like you?"
"Oh, mother, what should I do?" Su Xiaoye suddenly changed her face and said pitifully.
Su's mother hated the iron and said: "What should I do? If you listen to your mother now, you can still be saved."
"I listen, I listen, mother teaches me," Su Xiaoye said coquettishly, blinking her eyes.
Mother Su has finally seen through her daughter. Normally nothing you say to her will work, but when Dao Yunjing is involved, she becomes extremely well-behaved. Does this mean she has caught her daughter's weakness?
It’s true that one thing is suppressed and another is suppressed, and no one is left behind...
She was a little jealous of the son-in-law she had never met before, but Su's mother said seriously: "Next, while you still have a few years to get married, you should take some of your time to practice martial arts and learn from your mother to be a female celebrity.
Then ask your father to help you find a way to hire a female teacher to teach you how to treat others. It didn’t matter to you when you were young, but now you are growing up, it’s time to change your temperament.”
"Mom, I get so irritated when I think about picking up embroidery needles and learning those soft and weak things," Su Xiaoye said tangledly.
Su's mother immediately took out her magic weapon and threatened: "You must learn even if you are bothered, you don't want to be disliked by your brother Jing in the future, do you?"
"Then I won't be bothered anymore, I'll just learn." Su Xiaoye was immediately frightened.
"That's right, let's go. Come back to the house with me now and start learning from the most basic way of putting soles on your shoes. Now you can't even put on the soles of your shoes. I'm getting angry just thinking about it."
"Now? It's so late."
"You still know it's late? Why were you jumping up and down so early? If you don't obey me, I will send a message to your mother-in-law tomorrow saying that you are a very wild girl, and ask her to give you little shoes to wear and treat you.
I can’t stand you anymore!”
"Mom, you are going too far. I can't learn enough. The worst I can do is not sleep anymore."
"That's pretty much it. Go and put your clothes on for me. Let's see what you look like!"
"oh……"
It finally stopped, I still haven’t seen enough of the cloud scenery.
But then again, Zhi Zi Mo Ruo Mu, even though Su Xiaoye is very capable, is still controlled by Su Mu.
Also, Su Xiaoye really dared to say anything. Well, her home was remote, and it was just mother and daughter, so they were not afraid of being laughed at by outsiders.
Then Yunjing thought that he should go down and say hello, as he would have to rush back to Xieyang City soon.
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This chapter has been completed!