"Feng'er, why are you here?" Yu Qiuping asked with a smile.
"The female family members don't eat in the same place as you." Imagawa Kaede replied, "I wanted to come and see you, so I sneaked out from here."
Imagawa Kaede stood up slightly on tiptoes, smiling and looking at the shawl on Yu Qiuping's shoulders. Her slim figure was already considered very tall in this era, but she was still much shorter than Yu Qiuping, who was nearly 1.8 meters.
"Still wearing it?" Imagawa Kaede asked.
"Of course," Yu Qiuping shrugged, and the red leaves on the shawl immediately rustled, "I promise you to wear it for the rest of your life, and it's so beautiful. How can you not wear it to look cool?"
"Funny words, you deceitful liar." The girl smiled and said, "Okay, show me how the wound on your arm is doing."
"Are you here?" Yu Qiuping smirked and frowned, looking at the banquet hall not far away. "It's not convenient for me to take off my clothes. I can't hold the wound."
"Where to go?" Imagawa Kaede asked puzzledly.
Yu Qiuping couldn't help but take Imagawa Kaede's hand and walked quickly towards the fitting room on the side of the lobby. On the way, servants serving food and cleaning kept passing by, and they had to stick to the corner to avoid the servants. Imagawa Kaede didn't understand what Yu Qiuping wanted to do
Where to go, but the risk of being discovered and the fun of hiding with her sweetheart made her immersed in this feeling. She followed Yu Qiuping almost in confusion, letting him hold her hand, as if she was in a dream.
Until Yu Qiuping led her into a fitting room and locked the door behind his back. He kissed her without warning, held her waist, and caressed her back. She could feel him sucking her breasts.
His lips were asking for her fragrance. Before she had time to react, she was engulfed by his tenderness, and her whole body felt dizzy, as if she had been sunk into a ball of soft cotton.
There were footsteps passing by from time to time outside the door, and people often came in and out of the fitting room next to it. The nervousness that might have been discovered made the already sweet kiss even more passionate, and Imagawa Kaede's inadvertent cooing made Yu Qiuping intoxicated.
.
After a long time, the two finally stopped. Imagawa Kaede huddled in Yu Qiuping's arms, panting gently, the blush on her face was particularly endearing. Yu Qiuping held the delicate body in his arms and played with her dark hair.
hair.
"Ping is a deceitful villain." Imagawa Kaede said in a low voice.
"Pah." Yu Qiuping smiled evilly and poked her forehead with his index and middle fingers, "Your Highness, the princess who is usually so arrogant and strong, acted like a little woman when she was in my arms." Yu.
Qiuping teased.
Imagawa Kaede's face turned redder, puffed up her cheeks, opened the door and ran out without saying a word. Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, and also chased out. Following Imagawa Kaede's footsteps, the two of them chased each other and ran out.
From the castle tower, I ran into the courtyard where it was still snowing.
Just as Yu Qiuping was searching blankly for Imagawa Kaede's figure in the white snow, the attack came silently. Yu Qiuping suddenly received a blow on the back of his neck. He only felt cold and wet. When he twisted his neck a little, his whole body felt...
His back felt cold. Yu Qiuping turned around quickly and saw the vague figure of the attacker suddenly ducking behind another rockery. At the same time, he threw a second snowball at him. This time it hit his cheek and caused
It made him cough - he was laughing. The snowflakes that slipped into his clothes made his chest feel cold, and he couldn't help but take a breath.
Without showing any signs of weakness, he leaned down and pinched two or three snowballs, stood up quickly, and rushed towards the rockery. Behind the rockery, Imagawa Kaede immediately threw a few more snowballs. After being dodged by Yu Qiuping, Imagawa Kaede...
Yu Qiuping hit him in the hair with a backhand.
The fight lasted for a while, until both parties were too tired to play anymore. She ran out from behind the rockery with a smile and threw herself into his arms.
"Your level is really good!" Yu Qiuping said with a smile, "You have made me, a master of snowball fights, miserable. My father could never beat me when I was little."
"That's natural. I didn't try my best just now." Imagawa Kaede raised her cheeks proudly, pushed Yu Qiuping away, and went to brush off the snowflakes on her 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 has to go home to spend time with their families on New Year's Eve." Imagawa Kaede was cleaning her clothes and replied casually. After a while, she realized that the boy in front of her suddenly stopped talking. She raised her head and found that the latter was a little lonely.
He stood in the snow, staring blankly ahead.
"Go home?" Yu Qiuping muttered these words like a dream, and the snow in front of him seemed to project an image of his childhood. A child, wearing a blue hat and a down jacket, was walking in the snow.
Running. From time to time, he kneaded up a snowball and threw it towards his father who was chasing behind him. The father smiled and resisted the next blow, but rarely fought back, as if he had been beaten to pieces by Yu Qiuping. Finally, the two of them sat in the snow,
Laughing loudly.
Tired of playing, the child's mother also came. "Go home, Ping Ping." The mother shouted with a smile, and the father patted the snow on his body and walked towards his mother. But the child could not get out of the way no matter what.
He stood up in the snow and just stared blankly at his parents walking away side by side. The child was helpless and finally cried out.
Unknowingly, the tears in the corners of my eyes were already flowing down my cheeks.
That warm home, a happy home, although there were quarrels from time to time, the mother was fierce, and the father had no emotional intelligence, it was a happy family - this home can never go back.
When the New Year comes at the end of the year, no matter what status, people who have been busy all year will go home to celebrate the New Year. His two hundred subordinates can go home to celebrate the New Year, and more than a thousand people can go home to celebrate the New Year. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Imagawa family can go home to celebrate the New Year.
You can go home to celebrate the New Year. Even the humblest shopkeeper or farmer digging in the soil will open the door and say "I'm back" after returning home, and someone will come up to him with a smile and welcome him home.
.
You have made great achievements, gained unparalleled honors, and have your own territory and army. What's the use? Mom and dad will never know that there is no house where you open the door and say "I'm back."
, someone will come up to you with a smile.
"I have no place to go back to."
My heart was empty, leaving only the biting cold in the ice and snow, and the boy's cry.
Suddenly, he felt a figure rushing into his arms, feeling warm.
"Ping, don't say that." A soft female voice came, and a pair of small hands were gently patting his back. They moved up gently and helped him straighten the red leaf shawl.
"I know... Ping must have had a particularly happy and beautiful family before, and Ping's parents must have loved Ping very much." Imagawa Kaede said softly, "It must be a very painful thing to suddenly have to be separated from them.
"
"Ping." The girl's voice suddenly became gentler, "Do you know why maple leaves are red?" she asked. Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment and did not respond. Imagawa Kaede continued: "I heard my mother say
, if the leaves want to stay on the tree, they need the big tree to give them nutrients. But in autumn, the big tree itself has no nutrients, so there is no way to give them nutrients."
"So, many leaves fell down one after another even though they were reluctant to leave the big tree. But the maples were different." Imagawa Kaede said, "They wanted to stay on the tree and accompany the big tree, so they turned their blood into nutrients and continued to grow.
I persisted so hard that my whole body was dyed red." Imagawa Feng hugged Yu Qiuping tightly, "Just like you, very, very much, I want to stay with my parents."
"But there will come a day when we can't hold on any longer. Winter is coming, and the red leaves are falling one after another. There's nothing we can do about it," the girl sobbed softly, "Our parents will always leave before us, so don't be too cautious.
So sad."
"However, the lives of those red leaves are not over." A smile suddenly appeared on Imagawa Feng's face. She raised her hand and wiped away the tears from the corners of Yu Qiuping's eyes. "They fell into the soil and turned into nutrients, nourishing them.
Maple trees, accompanying maple trees.”
"Even if they can't stay in the tree, they can still find a new destination." Imagawa Kaede pressed her face against Yu Qiuping's chest, listening to the beating of her heart. "As long as there is love, the red leaves can return to their roots."
.”
"So, Ping, don't be sad." Imagawa Feng raised his head and comforted Yu Qiuping, but his own tears burst out first, "As long as there is love, there will be a home. If Ping can't go back to his previous home,
There will be a new home.”
"Feng'er will always love Ping and become your destination." She babbled, "In the future, we may have a house of our own. Feng'er will wait for Ping inside. When you are tired for a day,
When you come back, Feng'er will greet you with a smile. He will listen to you tell anecdotes about the day, share your successes, and share your pains."
"Of course! I am not a vase like those girls." Kaede Imakawa suddenly said, "I can also contribute to this family. Sometimes, if I come back later than you, you have to greet me with a smile."
"Anyway, it doesn't matter so much," Imagawa Kaede stood on tiptoes and leaned against Yu Qiuping's ear, whispering: "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 place 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 coldness in my heart was also dispelled by the girl's warmth.
The road to the past is too painful to look back on, so I can only keep moving forward on this road. I lost my original life, my parents, my relatives and friends, and everything I once had.
However, I no longer feel empty, lonely and inexplicably sad.
Because where there is love, there is home.
Because you are here, I still have a place to go back to.