Lamp Flower Smile

The golden wind is gentle, and the leaves of the sycamore trees fall.

When autumn arrives in Shengjing, there is a sudden rain at night. After one night, the leaves of the sycamore trees in the palace are all over the ground.

Duan Xiaoyan got up early to feed Gardenia. He just swept away the fallen leaves with his front foot, and a gust of wind came with his back foot, and half of the sycamore trees fell.

Xiao Zhufeng had just arrived at the palace, and before he entered the door, a fallen leaf fluttered down from above his head and landed on his shoulder.

He stopped and reached out to take the fallen leaf from his shoulder.

It was a complete sycamore leaf, and the green color had turned into a beautiful golden yellow, showing a bit of bright warmth in the autumn morning.

He entered the door with the fallen leaf.

In the palace, several guards were gathered together to chat and eat breakfast. When they saw him coming, they quickly kept silent and stepped aside, and their expressions became serious.

Unlike Pei Yunying, no matter what he does in private, Pei Yunying always loves to laugh and joke, and is likable everywhere. The guards of the Palace Marshal's Mansion love to talk to Pei Yunying. But he is different. He has always been cold and taciturn. The guards look at him and are somewhat afraid.

He is used to it.

When he returns to the house, it is rare that there is no pile of official documents on the table. "Autumn Hunting" is approaching, and Pei Yunying is busy in the martial arts field all day long, but he has some free time - the half year when Pei Yunying went to Southern Jiangsu, he handled all the affairs of the Palace Front Department.

He rarely has free time, and he will not find things to do for himself. After all, Pei Yunying has just got married, and too much free time will always make people who are alone in the sea of ​​love jealous.

Xiao Zhufeng sat down in front of the window, picked up a collection of poems on the corner of the table, and put the golden fallen leaves he had just picked up into the book.

There were already many fallen leaves stuck in the pages of the book, and the already thick collection of poems became even more dull and heavy, as if it contained many autumn secrets.

Duan Xiaoyan had accidentally flipped through this collection of poems and was shocked to see the dead leaves stuck in it. He couldn't help asking him, "Brother, what is your hobby, putting so many leaves in the book?"

The literati and scholars in Shengjing might have such elegant behavior, but he was just a warrior, not a guest, so this behavior was somewhat inappropriate.

Xiao Zhufeng turned his head and looked out the window.

There was no one in the deep courtyard, the sycamore trees withered early, and the rustling west wind blew the empty branches outside.

He liked to collect fallen leaves.

Because he had received a fallen leaf.

A fallen leaf full of girlish thoughts and beautiful words.

...

Xiao Zhufeng was an orphan.

A woman found him by the river while washing clothes. When she found him, he was only wrapped in rags and had no tokens left. The woman sent him to the Charity Bureau, where he grew up since he was a child.

The Charity Bureau adopts all the abandoned orphans in Shengjing. When these children reach a certain age, they will leave the Charity Bureau to make a living on their own, or they will be adopted by others if they are lucky. He grew up in the Charity Bureau until he was five years old, and he didn't even have a name.

One day, a man came to the Charity Bureau to pick people. The man had a hideous scar on the corner of his eye, and his eyes were sharp and sinister like a hawk. When his eyes swept over the orphans in the Charity Bureau, the children were frightened by the fierce light, but he did not avoid or hide, and looked back silently.

The man was a little surprised, and then he pointed with his big hand, gave the Charity Bureau ten taels of silver, and took him away.

After returning, the man asked him his name, and he shook his head.

The orphans in the Charity Bureau were called by their names if they remembered their names, but he didn't know his parents since he was born, so he didn't know his name.

The other party looked at him for a long time, and said coldly: "Xiao Xiao's tears fell alone, and the fallen leaves were light in the wind. Since you don't have a name, you will be called Xiao Zhufeng from now on."

Xiao Zhufeng

He liked this name, which gave him a feeling of dying with the autumn grass and leaving with sorrow.

The man who took him away was called Yan Xu, who later became his teacher.

Yan Xu taught him to read and write, and also taught him martial arts. Yan Xu was an official in the Privy Council, but he was secretly investigating old cases. He adopted a group of orphans. These orphans worked for Yan Xu and had no worries. Even if they died, no one cared, just like withered autumn grass.

Xiao Zhufeng was the most outstanding one among the orphans under Yan Xu.

He didn't like to talk, and always stayed silent on the side. When he got ruthless, he was more reckless than anyone else. Such a person was most suitable to be a dead soldier. When he was twelve years old, he could go on a mission alone, and Yan Xu cultivated him as a confidant.

When Xiao Zhufeng was sixteen years old, he received a mission.

This mission was different from the past. It didn't require killing or taking risks. It was to go to Zhaoning Mansion to protect someone.

That person was called Pei Yunshu.

Later, Xiao Zhufeng learned that his teacher Yan Xu had a sweetheart when he was young, but the sweetheart married someone else and died young. Only a pair of children were left. The son left Shengjing for a distant place not long ago. Yan Xu asked him to disguise himself and enter the Zhaoning Mansion to secretly protect the daughter of the lady, Miss Pei Yunshu of the Pei Mansion.

Xiao Zhufeng then entered the Pei Mansion.

He disguised himself and changed his face to an ordinary face that people would never remember after seeing it once. He spent a lot of effort and finally became the guard in Pei Yunshu's yard.

He met Pei Yunshu.

The eighteen-year-old Pei Yunshu was raised in the boudoir. She looked like all the daughters of wealthy families, boring, dull, and gentle. If there was anything special, it was that she had a good temper and never treated servants harshly. Even when she was bullied, she would not talk back.

Pei Yunshu's life in the Zhaoning Mansion was not good.

Even though she was the legitimate daughter of the Pei family, Pei Di married a new wife a year after the death of Lady Zhaoning. The mistress Jiang Wan was kind and hardworking, and the concubine Mei was not an easy person to deal with. Pei Di was even colder and more heartless. Although Pei Yunshu had enough food and clothing in the Pei Mansion, her situation was very difficult.

Xiao Zhufeng grew up in the Charity Bureau and later followed Yan Xu. He was much better at reading people's expressions than others. Seeing Pei Yunshu living such a life in Pei's mansion, he felt sad.

I thought that the daughter of a rich family didn't have to rely on others, but it turned out that difficulties would always exist no matter when and where.

However, Pei Yunshu herself was very insightful.

Except for worrying about her brother's affairs, most of the time, she was calm and calm. She pretended not to hear Jiang Wan's hidden needles, and she used a few ounces to resolve the concubine's instigation. She even saw her biological father's indifference and didn't take it to heart.

She lived very seriously and hard, as if she was waiting for someone to come back and not to hold him back, so she tried her best to do the best within her ability.

Once, Aunt Mei and the nanny in the new mistress's courtyard quarreled for some unknown reason. Pei Yunshu passed by. During the argument, the hot sweet soup in the food basket was about to splash on Pei Yunshu's face. Xiao Zhufeng flew forward to block the hot soup for Pei Yunshu.

His purpose of coming to Pei's house was to secretly protect Pei Yunshu.

Later, Pei Di's people came and resolved the matter. Xiao Zhufeng returned to the yard and continued to guard the gate. Unexpectedly, someone came to find him in the evening.

"I have been looking for you for a long time." Pei Yunshu said, "Finally found you."

Xiao Zhufeng was startled and almost touched his face subconsciously, thinking that the human skin mask was exposed.

"Aren't you injured?" The woman reached out and stuffed a bottle of medicine into his hand, "I saw it just now. The soup is very hot. I am afraid your arm is injured. It should be very painful and may leave a scar. This medicine is very useful. Remember to apply it."

"Just now, thank you very much."

She smiled and nodded to thank him, lifted her skirt and left.

Xiao Zhufeng looked at the medicine bottle in his hand and pursed his lips.

He had been injured many times, and that little burn was nothing. In the past, no one would come to ask about the pain after being injured, let alone care whether it hurts or not. The teacher always told them to be strong, and those who are afraid of pain cannot move forward.

Only girls raised in the boudoir would care whether there is a scar or not.

He sneered in his heart, but perhaps this was the first time someone gave him medicine for his wounds, so he kept it.

Pei Yunshu was eighteen years old, and some young ladies of Shengjing at this age had already started to discuss marriage.

I heard that Pei Di also started to choose a suitable family for Pei Yunshu.

The leaves of the sycamore tree in the yard turned yellow, and Pei Yunshu asked the maid to pick up many of them, and wrote on them like literati, and after writing, she leaned against the small building and sprinkled them down, and then she picked them up by her skirt.

One day, a leaf was missing and she couldn't find it no matter how hard she looked. Later, she thought that there was no signature on it, so she gave up.

Later, when Xiao Zhufeng was walking through the courtyard at night, he found the leaf high on the courtyard wall. It must be that Pei Yunshu accidentally floated onto the courtyard wall when she scattered it, and it happened to be blocked.

He looked down and saw lines of beautiful small characters written on the sycamore leaf:

Wipe the green and hide the eyebrows, for the depressed heart. Take the pen and go down to the courtyard, write the word of lovesickness...

This word is not written on stone, this word is not written on paper. Write on the autumn leaf, I wish it will rise with the autumn wind...

The caring people in the world understand the death of lovesickness. The unfaithful people in the world do not know the meaning of lovesickness...

The caring and the unfaithful, I don’t know where they fall...

He didn’t know poetry, so he looked through the classics, and only then did he know that this story came from a Shangshu in the previous dynasty. When he was leaning in the temple, a tung leaf suddenly fell into his arms. He picked it up and saw that this poem was written on it. The Shangshu kept this leaf, and later married many years later. It turned out that his wife was the one who wrote the poem.

Perhaps Pei Yunshu deliberately wrote on this tung leaf because of marriage and thinking about the future.

He should have thrown the leaf away, but for some reason, he picked it up and put it in the book.

The Privy Council had a new mission, and he had to go on a long trip. The Pei family's mission was given to another person. He left at night and left in a hurry, without even having time to look at the other person. When he returned to Shengjing, Pei Yunshu had already married.

She married into the Wenjun Prince's Mansion.

Xiao Zhufeng, who had always been taciturn about everything, asked Yan Xu a question that was not related to the mission for the first time. He asked: "Why didn't the teacher stop it?"

Everyone in Shengjing knew what kind of person Wenjun Prince Mu Sheng was. Pei Yunshu would not have a good ending if she married that kind of person.

"How do you know I didn't stop it?" Yan Xu replied coldly, with a scar on the corner of his eye that was dazzling under the firelight.

It turned out that Pei Di wanted Pei Yunshu to enter the palace at the beginning.

Pei Yunying also knew about this, so he tried his best to find the evidence left by the mother's family of Zhaoning Gongfu to try to make a deal with Pei Di.

But I don't know what Pei Di said to Pei Yunshu. In fact, if you think about it, you know that the only one who can threaten Pei Yunshu is Pei Yunying. In short, Pei Yunshu accepted the arrangement and did not enter the palace. Perhaps Pei Di also considered that the angry Pei Yunying might do something that would hurt both sides. In the end, he had to settle for the second best and married Pei Yunshu to the Wenjunwang Mansion.

She got married just like that.

The woman who wrote on the tung leaf "The world's caring people, all understand the love of death. The world's unfaithful people, do not know the meaning of love, the caring and the unfaithful, I don't know where to fall" and had expectations for love, just married a not-so-good county prince.

When Xiao Zhufeng opened the poetry collection and saw the tung leaf between them, he felt suffocated.

Pei Yunying returned to Shengjing. The two of them went from disliking each other to reluctantly cooperating in the end, and then became partners who relied on each other. He always asked Pei Yunying indirectly about Pei Yunshu's recent situation, such as whether she had lost weight, was sick, or whether she had suffered any injustice in Prince Wen's Mansion.

Pei Yunying is a shrewd person, and he is quite experienced in the ways of the world. He can easily find out the traces from the clues, not to mention that he is not very good at hiding.

"Do you like my sister?"

"No."

"Didn't you go so far to buy lychees for her?"

"On the way."

"Xiao Er, why didn't you take action earlier?"

He was silent.

He didn't actually like Pei Yunshu during the days in Zhaoning Mansion. Even though he saw her every day at that time, he only regarded her as the object of his mission to protect.

On the contrary, after she got married, he was always worried and worried. The deeper he fell, he realized that this was the meaning of being moved.

The person he liked was already married, and he could only protect and watch her secretly, just like when he was in Zhaoning Mansion.

Pei Yunying always asked him why he didn't express his feelings to Pei Yunshu since she had divorced. He was silent every time and avoided talking about this issue.

The proud son of heaven who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth did not know what the Charity Bureau was. He has no parents or relatives. Following Yan Xu, he might die under the enemy's hidden arrows one day. How can a person who is not sure of his future give others a future?

Don't indulge in selfish desires for your own selfishness.

The autumn wind outside the window blew and made the window rustle slightly. A guard came in from outside and said, "Deputy Envoy, the new soldiers' register has been delivered. The master asked you to go to the martial arts field."

He put down the poetry collection and put it back in the desk drawer, got up and left the house.

It was autumn, and the streets of Shengjing were crowded. He didn't ride a horse, but walked along the street. When he reached an alley, he suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"Mu Sheng, don't go too far!"

Xiao Zhufeng stopped and looked into the alley.