Chapter 49 "Thank you for saving me that year."
Just as Xiaofu said, the meat filling is generous in quantity and fragrant, and one bite will greatly satisfy your taste buds.
Jing Xuan's eyes lit up immediately and she gave the proprietress a thumbs up: "Sister! It's delicious!"
"Come often, sister, and I will cook for you!" The proprietress smiled from ear to ear.
"Okay~" Jing Yu responded.
Eating wontons made her already warm hands even warmer. She smiled at Chu Mo with curved almond eyes. Her smile was pure and innocent, without any bad intentions.
Chu Mo became alert: "What's wrong?"
"Chu Xiaomo, my hands are cold." Jing Yu grumbled aggrievedly, "You have to hold my hand."
Chu Mo: “…”
"It's so cold, I can't even eat wontons."
Chu Mo looked dimly at his empty bowl of rice.
Jing Xuan didn't feel embarrassed for a long time and continued to smile openly.
Chu Mo was silent, and thought belatedly, what had prompted him to hold the little princess's hand just now?
—Ah, because her hands are cold.
My hands are cold now, so logically, he should hold their hands.
But...his ears turned slightly red. This was not what he should do.
After thinking calmly, he seemed to have overstepped his boundaries recently. He didn't know when, but the defenses in his heart had been crumbling bit by bit.
Without either of them realizing it, Jing Xuan was boiling a frog in warm water, and the frog was Chu Mo.
That's what love is. It opens the fence in your heart again and again, allowing the other person to enter deep into your heart layer by layer, until one day you wake up. At that time, love will be overwhelming and overwhelming, and it will break down the other party's solid defense with its mighty force. In the blink of an eye, the other party will be defeated and it will be impossible to reverse the situation.
At this moment, Chu Mo realized it.
He lowered his eyes and met Jing Xuan's.
"What, what's wrong?" He didn't say anything, which made Jing Xuan a little nervous. She stammered, "No, just don't hold my hand, and don't look at me like that."
She looked away, feeling an inexplicable sense of loss and frustration in her heart.
The next moment, a warm and slightly moist touch came from the palm of her hand. Jing Yu suddenly raised her eyes, but only saw the man's smooth and clear jawline.
Chu Mo didn't look at her, but stared straight into the distance, with an unknown secret hidden deep in his eyes.
The general had a calm face and a reserved and solemn temperament, as if he was thinking about national affairs. However, outsiders did not know that under the small table, he was holding the hand of a girl who was a size smaller than him.
The little princess's hands were soft and delicate, with a cool feeling, like a piece of cold jade, making people want to cherish them.
His palms were covered with thick calluses and looked rough, but they were still slightly moist from eating the hot wontons.
A trace of annoyance flashed across Chu Mo's eyes, and he thought his hands were really ugly.
However, the next moment, the little princess whispered: "Chu Xiaomo, your hands are so beautiful."
Chu Mo was stunned.
Jing Xuan spread out his hands and carefully traced the thick calluses with a serious look.
Lightly, tenderly, slowly, it was clearly a touch of the hand, but it felt like touching the softest part of his heart.
Chu Mo was ticklish and couldn't help but close his palms and wrap the slender and cool fingertips into his palms.
"Stop touching me." His voice was low and magnetic, and it made my ears feel numb.
Jing Xuan rubbed her ears subconsciously and said obediently: "Oh."
Chu Mo lowered his eyes to look at her, his expression normal and a smile on his face, but only he knew that something was different.
What is different is his hesitation and defensiveness.
The little princess is so pampered, how could he let her suffer any injustice?
The little princess's enthusiasm may be a spur of the moment or just a brief attempt.
Before spring comes, he wants the spring breeze to blow over the hills, blow away his hesitation and arrive faster than winter. From then on, dead trees will come back to life in spring, and grass will grow and orioles will fly.
Perhaps because they didn't want to disturb Chu Mo and the other person, the people didn't sit around them, and the two of them sat in the corner.
Because of the angle, no one knew that the general was holding the little girl's hand and concentrating on providing heating.
"Chu Xiaomo, do you know?" Jing Yu's voice was very soft, but the look in her eyes was full of meaning: "I have been caught and put in jail before."
Chu Mo frowned at first, then suddenly a light bulb went off in his head and he reacted.
She was talking about what happened when she was six years old.
"The prison was really dark and smelly." Jing Yu frowned in disdain, looking somewhat cute. Chu Mo's eyes were gentle, but there was no smile at all.
"The cats around here are all worried that they will die tomorrow, and so am I." She replaced the human with a cat without revealing any flaws.
"Before that, all I saw was beauty and prosperity. I foolishly thought that the whole world was like that." He sneered, mocking himself and the world.
Chu Mo's heart twitched and he tightened his grip slightly.
"The other side of the world is dark and cold. That year, I learned this fact." Perhaps sensing Chu Mo's discomfort, Jing Yu smiled and her voice became cheerful: "However, light always coexists with darkness."
"The elder cats in the prison all took good care of me and protected me. I am very grateful to them."
Chu Mo knew that it was because of this that many people received the emperor’s grace that year and changed the fate of their family.
"Besides that, I remember one more person." Jing Yu carefully made up a story: "Maybe the noble lady's pet was captured, so she sent someone to rescue him."
Chu Mo smiled and nodded seriously.
Seeing that he had no doubts, Jing Yu continued, "The man sent here is a teenager, about thirteen years old, not very old."
Chu Mo's expression remained unchanged, but his heart paused as he realized that person was himself.
"I still haven't forgotten what the boy said to me." Jing Yu smiled and looked up at him. Her expression was casual and relaxed, but her eyes were serious.
Chu Mo's throat tightened slightly as he thought carefully about what he had said.
Thirteen years old is the age when he is despised and abandoned by everyone. He wouldn't say anything that would make others hate him, right? ?
He thought carefully, but had no impression.
Jing Yu didn't want to tell him, after all, that sentence would expose her identity. What she wanted to say was: "Chu Xiaomo."
"Young men are full of vigor and unrestrained spirit, like a tiger with wings spread out to fly in the daytime."
Chu Mo was slightly stunned.
"This is my first impression of him." Jing Yu chuckled, lowered her eyes to look at Chu Mo's hand, and said slowly: "The cell that year was really cold and dark, but he appeared with light and warmth."
"I feel really sorry. I was young and frightened that year, so I seldom recollected the past. As a result, I never thought of looking for that person and never expressed my gratitude to him."
"If I could meet him again, I would like to tell him..." Jing Yu raised her eyes and met Chu Mo's eyes, smiling pure and clean: "Long time no see, thank you for saving me that year."
Chu Mo was stunned, his heart beating wildly for a long time.
The little princess was very serious, so serious that he was stunned and filled with regret.
What happened that year meant nothing to him.
He didn't take it seriously, and after saving the little princess, he didn't even think of asking about her condition. Even when he saw her at the age of ten in the palace many years later, he had no recollection of ever having had any contact with the little princess.
After so many years, the little princess still remembered him, but he had forgotten how he saved her.
I only vaguely remember that when he was thirteen years old, he played very wildly in the capital, climbing up roofs and tearing off tiles, doing all kinds of things.
Finally he got into trouble and was severely beaten by his father, and then he was assigned a task.
At that time, the capital was in an uproar because of the disappearance of the little princess. Chu Mo received the task and went out without stopping.
The urgency was not because of the little princess, but because he was afraid that his father would beat him again.
He forgot how he found the princess. He only remembered that when he pushed open the door of the cell, a pair of watery eyes looked straight at him, staring at him timidly with anxiety and pleading.
At this point, he had no memory, and he had forgotten what happened or what he said afterwards.
However...the little princess remembered.
I remember "The young man is strong-willed and unrestrained, he flies in the daytime with wings spread out from a tiger", I remember the first sentence he said.
Chu Mo lowered his eyes, stared at her deeply, and remained silent.
"What's wrong?" Jing Yu tilted her head in confusion, not knowing why Chu Mo was in a daze.
Chu Mo: "I think if he heard what you said, he would tell you - it's been a long time since we last met. I'm glad that I saved you that year, and I'm honored that you still remember me."
Jing Xuan was startled and smiled with her lips pursed.
Having stayed in the store for quite a while, they said goodbye to the proprietress and left.
Jing Yu wanted to watch a circus, so Chu Mo took her there.
Although outsiders would come here to perform from time to time, there were only two specialized jugglery troupes in the city, one in the north and one in the east.
The so-called competition is like a battlefield, where competitors fight each other to the death.
But these two families are different. The leaders of the two families learned from the same master and are close brothers.
The two have the same goal - to carry forward their master's skills, and there is no fighting to the death.
Their skills are very good, and Chu Mo would come to watch occasionally and know their fixed locations.
When we arrived at the destination, we found that no one was opening the show.
Jing Yu was puzzled: "It should be very busy at this time."
Chu Mo nodded. No wonder it felt too quiet when he arrived just now.
People passing by saw Chu Mo and greeted him with a smile: "General, are you looking for Lao Li?"
Lao Li is the leader of this family.
Chu Mo responded: "They didn't come today?"
"Yes." Another man said, "Old Li went to Huizhou to visit his relatives."
Chu Mo glanced at Jing Yu and said, "Then let's go to the east of the city."
The man continued, "General, you don't know, but Old Zheng broke his leg yesterday and the show didn't start."
Chu Mo: "Broken your leg?"
"I heard he fell from an upper building. It was very dangerous."
Jing Yu took a breath and said, "Is it serious?"
"It will take a few days to recover." The man sighed, "There are no outsiders opening the show today, and there is no one in the city to perform."
Jing Xuan was disappointed: "Ah, what a pity."
She looked at Chu Mo, only to see that he was frowning, not knowing what he was thinking.
Since there were outsiders present, Jing Yu asked, "Cousin, what's wrong?"
"Nothing." Chu Mo came back to his senses and thanked the man: "Thank you for letting me know."
"You're too polite, General."
After the man walked away, Chu Mo said to Jing Yu, "There's nothing I can do. I can't watch it today."
Jing Yu was helpless: "Well, I hope someone from outside will come tomorrow."
"I'll go out with you tomorrow."
Jing Yu's eyes widened: "Not going to the military camp?"
Chu Mo nodded and chuckled, "There's no rush for matters in the military camp."
"Very good!"
After strolling around the street, Jing Yun picked up a few storybooks and returned home with Chu Mo.
Chu Mo originally planned to stay with the little princess for a while longer, but who would have thought that the latter happily returned to the courtyard holding the storybook. Her back looked quite chic, as if to say, "Go wherever it's cool and don't disturb me."
Chu Mo's eyes were dim, and he felt as if a gust of wind was blowing on his heart, making him feel very cold.
Just at this moment, a familiar sneer was heard.
Chu Mo looked away, looking at someone who was gloating over someone else's misfortune. The latter raised the jugs of wine he was holding and said, "Together?"
Chu Mo glanced at the receding figure, then looked at Tuoba Xun, and said reluctantly, "Let's go."
Tuoba Xun was not annoyed and followed Chu Mo to his courtyard.
The weather was cold, so they didn't sit in the yard but stayed inside the house.
Tuoba Xun pushed a pot of wine to Chu Mo, who took it and drank it in big gulps.
Tuoba Xun raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong? Are you worried about something?"
Chu Mo stared at the wine jug, and remembered what the little princess said again - "I still haven't forgotten what the boy said to me."
He should be thankful that he did not say anything unpleasant at that time, otherwise the little princess would never have such a good first impression of him.
But he was also quite upset. The little princess remembered him, but he had forgotten the little princess. This shouldn't be like this.
Tuoba Xun: "Because of my little cousin?"
Chu Mo still said nothing.
"Tell me, I'm an expert in love affairs, and I can help you analyze it." Tuoba Xun clinked the wine pot with him and took a sip.
Chu Mo: “No need.”
He didn't want to tell anyone about what happened with the little princess.
Tuoba Xun understood, but couldn't help but stab him: "Then you can be annoyed, it would be best if you die of annoyance."
Chu Mo glanced at him and kicked him under the table.
"Oh? You want to fight?" Tuoba Xun kicked back again.
Chu Mo raised his eyebrows, got angry, and clenched his fists.
"Wait a minute!" Tuoba Xun was speechless: "I'm not going to fight with you, I'm here to talk to you."
This is the real business. Chu Mo looked at him seriously: "What's wrong?"
"I will leave the day after tomorrow."
Chu Mo: "So early?"
Although she told him to leave early, she actually wanted her friend whom she hadn't seen for a long time to stay a little longer.
Tuoba Xun knew this, but he remained firm: "I'm not staying here anymore. I want to go somewhere else. What's the point of this Yunan Pass?"
Chu Mo didn't believe him: "Tell me the truth, why do you want to leave?"
Tuoba Xun was silent for a moment, then he tutted his tongue irritably: "You have changed a lot over the years, but there is one thing that has not changed - you are so tactless."
The ignorant person didn't listen to his nonsense and said in a bland tone: "Speak."
"My people sent a letter saying that Ah Xiao has made some moves." Tuoba Xun casually played with his braid in front of him, and suddenly lifted it behind him, saying slowly: "He sent some people to kill me."
Chu Mo's face suddenly darkened: "Looking for death!"
Tuoba Xun shrugged nonchalantly: "There are many people in Yunan Pass, and my brother is not sensible. I am worried that he will make things worse."
Chu Mo shouted angrily: "Why do you care about him?!"
"I can't just ignore it." Tuoba Xun touched his wine pot, signaling him not to get angry, and said calmly, even with a hint of smile: "I only have this one brother, and only one mother."
Chu Mo's face was horribly ugly. He stared at Tuoba Xun and said angrily, "You will die in their hands one day!"
Tuoba Xun shrugged: "No, they are not qualified."
This was true. Tuoba Xiao and Nan You were indeed not good enough. The methods they thought were secret were clearly displayed to Tuoba Xun and the other two. Otherwise, Chu Mo and Jing Ce would have dealt with them long ago.
Tuoba Xun couldn't bear it, but they wouldn't. If they threatened their friends' lives, not only the two of them, but everyone behind them would have to pay the price.
Tuoba Xun smiled and said, "Anyway, I'll leave early to avoid causing trouble."
"Going to the capital after leaving?" Chu Mo asked.
Tuoba Xun nodded and smiled charmingly: "I haven't been to Zuihualou in Beijing for a long time, I miss it very much."
Chu Mo: "...Aren't you going to see the prince?"
Tuoba Xun rolled his eyes at him and said, "What's so interesting about him? Just catch up with us, but I don't think I'd sleep with him for a night."
Chu Mo was silent: "..."
Didn't hear it, didn't hear it, didn't hear it...
"The second thing I want to talk to you about..." Tuoba Xun said in a long tone, looked at him mysteriously, and snorted.
"It concerns the Seventh Princess of Dasui."
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