FID – Chapter 303

With the warm light reflected from the brazier on her face, Fu Yuzheng unknowingly revealed the longing in her eyes.

Liu Yusheng captured it.

Her eyes flickered. “I will go home in the middle of the month. If you have nothing to do, why don’t you come with me to my house as a guest?”

“Be a guest?” Fu Yuzheng was again stunned, and her heart trembled imperceptibly.

“Anyway, you can’t go back to the Fu’s mansion, and there’s no one to accompany you in the king’s residence for the New Year. So, why don’t you come back with me. My house is very lively, you’ll definitely like it when you come.” The young girl winked at her.

“…” Heat slowly crept up Fu Yuzheng’s quite cold face.

That wink at her seemed like she knew some inside information that she herself did not know.

It messed up her heart.

“I don’t know if my elder brother has a holiday in the New Year. If he can’t go back home, he won’t join the reunion in the New Year. I’m afraid that my grandparents and parents will be disappointed.”

“…The Imperial Academy has a New Year’s vacation, but it isn’t that long. Soon after is the imperial spring exams, so this won’t delay their studies.”

Indeed, the spring exams would be at most three months later.

The capital was a long way from Xinghua Village, and a round trip would take at least two months. There would be too much delay.

Liu Yusheng’s heart surged with a small disappointment.

In the past, every New Year’s Eve, the family was all together except for Feng Qingbai’s absence.

When you grow up, you need to go your own way for your future and gradually have no command over yourself.

As for Feng Qingbai, he shouldn’t be able to return with her this year.

As the regent, he has to deal with more things at the end of the year. Recently, he has become increasingly busy and often could only come back to accompany her for lunch every day.

When Feng Qingbai returned, there was only one young girl left in the house, hugging the hand warmer and curled up on a bench with a thick blanket. She looked lost in thought.

He stood in the doorway for a while, and when the cold chill he carried from the outside had dissipated, he walked forward and took the young girl, who still hadn’t noticed he had returned, into his arms.

“A penny for your thoughts?”

Liu Yusheng almost screamed.

She was still in a daze, and suddenly got picked up. If not for the familiar scent of his body, she would have drugged him.

Her physical reaction was faster than her brain, and she subconsciously snuggled into the man’s arms.

“I was wondering if you are not free on the New Year.”

“New Year?” Feng Qingbai paused, the color of his eyes deepened a bit, looking at the young girl.

“In another month or so will be the New Year. I’m getting ready to depart home in the middle of the month. I have not seen my parents and grandparents for several months. I miss them.” They must have missed her too.

After they left, she only sent a few messages home through the shadow guard information channel. This was the first time she had left home for so long, so she was afraid her family was worried about her.

Feng Qingbai tightened his arms.

He was so busy recently that he overlooked that the New Year was approaching.

Shengsheng was filial and would certainly rush back to Xinghua Village.

But he couldn’t return. He couldn’t abandon the political affairs in hand.

On New Year, all the ministers in the court had annual leave, but he alone didn’t.

Instead, he was the busiest at this time of the year.

He has to arrange the coming year’s political work in advance and check the people’s sentiments again in time throughout the year to avoid chaos during the holidays, and also to comfort the soldiers at the border.

“Why don’t you speak?” Liu Yusheng was quite unused to his unexpected silence.

Feng Qingbai sighed, “I’m thinking of you.”

“…”

“Shengsheng.” He found it hard to tell her his set matters. He was afraid to see the disappointment on her face. “… I may not be able to go back with you.”

“I know.” The girl tilted her head and blinked at him.

Without a tiny bit of reluctance at all!

“…” He buried his head and nibbled on her fragrant, warm neck to vent the bit of indignation in his heart.

“Ah!” The girl whimpered, covering her neck and glaring at him. “Why are you biting?!”

“You’re acting spoiled. Maybe I’ll go back with you.” He was also quite aggrieved.

Didn’t she know that he could promise her anything as long as she frowned?

The young girl wrinkled up her nose. “I don’t want it. You’re busy for the New Year. If you come back with me for the New Year, you’d be tired as a dog on your return.”

“…”

She always was capable of strangling the light sorrow that has just spread out, making someone feel melancholic even when facing the upcoming separation.

Feng Qingbai closed his eyes weakly and chuckled softly against the girl’s shoulder.

How could he have such a treasure? She was so beautiful that he held it carefully in fear of hurting her. 

“Don’t be sad, although I won’t be in the capital, my big brother is still here. You two make up for it and get by together.” The young woman patted his shoulder comfortingly. “How about also leaving Xue Qinglian behind to make up for three?”

“…”

“Do not underestimate Xue Qinglian. He has the skill, and he can stay to watch over the house. Best use.”

Still cooped up in Liuyun Pavilion on retreat, an unkempt and humanoid man sneezed severely. He rubbed his nose and gritted his teeth at a semi-finished product in the furnace.

“I don’t believe that I can’t develop a medicine that can break a Hundred Poison Pill!”

The moment he refined it, he would immediately take it and serve it to that abnormal Feng Qingbai!

You have your martial arts skills, I have my poison good!

The man’s soaring resentment here was unknown to the two in the Shengxiao Courtyard.

The whispering continued.

“Are you sure you want to go back?”

“Of course, I have to go back!”

“What about bringing your parents and grandparents to the capital?” That way, she didn’t have to leave.

“They won’t come. How can spending the New Year in the capital be as comfortable and lively as in their own home? There are no uncles, aunts and uncles from Xinghua Village, and a bunch of kids coming and going.”

Feng Qingbai sighed again and forced himself to accept the fact that the two were about to separate.

On this trip back, it was impossible for her to return to the capital immediately after the New Year. She also needed to make arrangements for the wine shop in Xinghua Village before she could rush to the capital.

They probably couldn’t see each other for another few months.

“The spring exam is in April.” There was no other way to think about it, and he could only use this event to remind her.

“I’ll keep it in mind. I will rush back to accompany my elder brother for the exam.” The girl nodded.

This made Feng Qingbai regret for the first time why the spring exam was scheduled in April.

It should be set in March or February.

Or even earlier.

Feeling the man’s despondency, she deliberately livened the atmosphere, but also could not brush away her share of reluctance. She turned around and stretched her arms around the man’s neck. “Feng Qingbai, I will miss you.”

She began to feel what he would feel once she left.

“I miss you already now,” the man sighed.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and then they laughed out loud in unison.

The last time they parted, he was the one who left. It was her turn this time. 

In this kind of separation, both of them experienced firsthand what the other side’s mood was at that time.

Fortunately, she has a return date this time.

It was far from that kind of uncertainty and sadness the last time they parted.