At this time, Yu Jinshu was carrying a pot of hot tea and was stunned when he saw Huo Qi.
After Huo Qi let go of Yu Zhongming, he walked towards Yu Jinshu.
Yu Zhongming couldn't see clearly, so he looked at his son.
Yu Yufan walked up to his father and said, "Father, the King of Mobei has taken a fancy to my sister and wants to marry her as his princess."
After hearing this, Yu Zhongming was not happy. Instead, his face darkened: "No, this will harm the Mobei Palace."
Having spent half a year in jail, he understood too well the severity of the situation.
Huo Qi walked up to Yu Jinshu and looked at her hair messed up by the cold wind. Her delicate and pretty face was set off by the snow. Under the light of the snow, she looked like a fairy from heaven who had fallen to earth.
He raised his hand and pushed the hair in front of her cheek behind her ear. His movements were extremely gentle. When his fingertips touched her skin, he felt her body tremble slightly, just like the night when they were intimate for the first time.
Behind, Yu Yufan asked a young man to run over.
The young man took the steaming teapot and cups from Yu Jinshu's hands, and then left quickly, as if he was afraid of disturbing them.
Huo Qi took Yu Jinshu's hand and pulled her aside.
Arriving at the nearby poplar forest covered with hoarfrost, away from the crowd, Huo Qi held Yu Jinshu tightly in his arms.
"Jinshu, wait for me, I will definitely marry you as my princess."
After saying that, he held her face, bent down, and the moment his lips touched hers, his heart melted.
Yu Jinshu felt his passion, and felt more and more that her emotions were without any benefit.
Even if it wasn't for the mission of having children, she still loved him, just as he loved her.
After the kiss, Huo Qi turned and left.
He said he would come to see her when he was free.
But Huo Qi had been gone for more than a month.
Rumor has it that the Hu people gathered tens of thousands of troops to attack the city, but were defeated by Huo Qi. The Hu people retreated hundreds of miles and dared not attack again.
When Xiyue City heard the news, the whole city celebrated.
Yujia Village in the suburbs.
"Mother, I'll go to the cellar and get that piece of mutton to stew."
"No, that's the only piece of mutton left. We have to save it for the New Year."
Yu Jinshu said with a smile: "Huo Qi repelled the Hu people. This is more worth celebrating than the New Year."
However, Mrs. Hua felt sorry for the piece of mutton and was looking forward to her son's return so that the family could be reunited and have some meat to eat.
When Yu Zhongming distributed the meat that was sent from the Mobei Palace, he basically gave it to the tribesmen with children and pregnant women so that they could eat better.
Families without children or pregnant women received less than three pounds of meat.
Hua had taken out half to cook and eat, and planned to eat the remaining half during the New Year.
"Today is indeed worth celebrating, but if we eat meat today, what will we eat during the New Year?"
Yu Jinshu earned more than 100,000 taels of silver in the Mobei Palace and was not short of money, but the problem was that the winter in Mobei was too long and the land was barren. Even if he went into the city, he could not buy meat.
Fortunately, in the past few years, the people of Xiyue City have lived and worked in peace and contentment under Huo Qi's governance. There is always some corn stored in the granary in winter, so people don't starve to death.
"Forget it then, keep the meat!"
Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves was heard.
Yu Jinshu's heart started beating wildly when he heard the voice, and he quickly got up to open the door.
There were two people riding large horses galloping towards them. After a while, they could see clearly when they got closer. They were Huo Qi and Yu Yufan.
Yu Jinshu ran outside without even wearing a sheepskin coat.
Hua hurriedly ran out with a sheepskin coat and put it on her daughter.
Seeing that his mother was wearing thin clothes, Yu Jinshu urged her to go into the house.
Hua was still thinking about paying her respects to the King of Mobei, but her daughter urged her to come in, and since she was indeed freezing, she went back inside.
Huo Qi tightened the reins in front of Yu Jinshu.
The horse raised its front hooves, raised its head, neighed, and stopped.
Huo Qi jumped off the horse, threw away the reins in his hand, and hugged Yu Jinshu tightly.
Yu Yufan got off his horse nearby, not daring to disturb them. He tied up his own horse, then took the mutton from the back of Huo Qi's horse, settled the horse, and then carried the mutton into the house.
Huo Qi missed her terribly after not seeing her for over a month.
He still could not forget the great battle ten days ago. He led thousands of soldiers to hunt down the Hu leader, but was accidentally ambushed.
He was thinking that his letter was still waiting for him inside the pass.
It was this belief that supported him to lead his soldiers to break out of the encirclement, capture the head of the Hu leader in one fell swoop, and drive the Hu people away for hundreds of miles, so that they dared not invade again.
Huo Qi held her for a long time before letting her go. Seeing that the sheepskin coat on her was casually draped over her shoulders, he hurriedly pulled the coat tighter on her, wrapped her up tightly, and then put his arm around her waist and walked towards the small house of her home.
It was freezing outside, but the little house was warm and cozy.
Hua was putting the mutton her son had brought in into the pot and cooking it.
The pot is steaming, and it feels warm just by looking at it.
Hua wanted to pay her respects to Huo Qi.
Huo Qi hurriedly helped her up: "Madam, from now on, you should treat me as Abai and don't bow when you see me."
Hua laughed and said, "How can this be possible?"
She said nothing more and went to tend to the mutton in the pot. She added, "Just now, Jinshu said that she wanted to eat the mutton for the New Year. She said that Your Highness had driven away the Hu people, which was more worth celebrating than the New Year. I was reluctant to give up that piece of meat! But I didn't expect Your Highness to bring meat."
Yu Yufan laughed and said, "Mother, you don't know that when the prince came back from the military camp, he was thinking about what gift to bring to Jinshu, but after thinking about it, he found nothing there. So he went to the kitchen and found this piece of mutton."
Yu Jinshu found it funny when he heard it, and when he looked at Huo Qi, he felt deeply moved.
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