Chapter 382 – How Long Do You Want To Hide? (1/2)

Chapter 382: How long do you want to hide?

When Li Muyang's carriage had caught up, Cui Xiaoxin already stepped onto the footstool and jumped down the carriage.

She was dressed in a light-coloured white robe and draped a black coat that was made from some unknown animal fur. She lifted off her hood, revealing her black silk-like hair and pretty face.

She raised her head up 45 degrees to look at the sky, listening to the cold wind whistling like a blade and watching the countless granular snow spinning endlessly above.

Before waiting for Li Muyang to help her down, Li s.h.i.+nian jumped down the carriage, exclaiming, “Sister Xiaoxin, why did you get off? Is there something you can't say in the carriage? Get in, get in, your body is weak, and if you catch a cold, it's not going to be good.”

“I want to walk around.” Cui Xiaoxin looked at Li s.h.i.+nian and smiled. “Suddenly I want to take a walk. It will be boring by myself. Will you accompany me?”

Li s.h.i.+nian scanned around. Although they had arrived in the city, but the wind and snow were as heavy as before. There were no people around, and even the city soldiers responsible for patrolling the city were not seen anywhere.

“Nothing will happen.” Cui Xiaoxin added. She understood what was on Li s.h.i.+nian's mind. “With Uncle Ning here, nothing will happen. Moreover, we are in the city, there will be a brigade of troops to the rescue if anything happens——”

“Then okay.” Li s.h.i.+nian had to nod and agree. “I will accompany Sister Xiaoxin for a walk. Snow have filled the sky of Tiandu, we will tour the capital at night, even the thought of it is an elegant matter.”

Cui Xiaoxin nodded, the two girls plodded over the pure white snow.

Crunch—— —

The snow glittered, and it seemed like the whole world was made of gla.s.s.

There was no moon, not a speck of star, but the night Tiandu still emitted a soft glow.

The snow was beautiful, but the girls in the snow were more beautiful.

Cui Xiaoxin did not say a word; Li s.h.i.+nian also didn't talk.

The two people silently walked in the snow like that, but it did not seem boring and they occasionally looked into each other's eyes, revealing a trace of joy.

They came to a stop at someone's courtyard, where a branch of winter plum blossom extended out of the corner wall, sticking out its head to look at this snow-white world.

Cui Xiaoxin suddenly giggled, pointing to the wall, “It must be interested in the outside world? So it's trying to stick out its head to see.”

“If the people that do not understand flowers or love flowers sees this, they most likely will snap it off, then it cannot see any world.”

Cui Xiaoxin nodded. “In the end it can only take a glance. Those flowers in the courtyard are not in danger of being snapped off, but are stuck in the little garden for a lifetime. Flowers bloom, flowers die. What can be remembered in this short life?”

“Sister Xiaoxin——”

“I also went to the wall to look outside, I saw a different scenery.” The smile on Cui Xiaoxin's face disappeared, softly sighing. “Those years in Jiangnan were my happiest days. I can read as I like, say what I want, I don't need to hold back my words or actions, both my body and mind felt free back then. Now that I have returned to Tiandu, I feel like a plum blossom locked in the back courtyard. I have to be careful with my every word and action, and my each and every move are being watched. My heart is shacked and I have no command over myself.”

“Sister Xiaoxin, don't worry too much. In fact, your life is already very good——Girls that are brought up in families like yours, you are much more blessed than them.”

“Yes.” Cui Xiaoxin nodded. “There are things that I can comfort myself with. After all, this should be the fate of girls like us. I am much more fortunate than they are, I should be satisfied, right?”

“Sister Xiaoxin, I don't mean that.” Li s.h.i.+nian hastily tried to explain.

“s.h.i.+nian, I understand.” Cui Xiaoxin grasped Li s.h.i.+nian's hand, saying emotionally, “I am most grateful for that, in my happiest time I met you and Li Muyang, my two best friends. I will always treat you as a friend.”

“Sister Xiaoxin, me too. I will also always treat you as a friend. We will always be friends, right?”

Cui Xiaoxin was silent.

“Sister Xiaoxin, you don't want to?” ”

“s.h.i.+nian, of course I want to.” Cui Xiaoxin knitted her brows in a frown, hesitating on how to explain her worries to Li s.h.i.+nian the naive girl. “But the future is beyond our control. For example, our fate, also the fate of the Cui family, the fate of the Lu family, and the fate of the city we are in, and the fate of the Kingdom we are living in——these are not in our control.”

Li s.h.i.+nian chuckled. “Sister Xiaoxin, why do you worry so much? Look at me, I only worry about my family's safety, whether they have food to eat and drink, have clothes to wear, and whether I have a carriage to sit on when I go out, even if there is no carriage, I am fine with that——I never think of other things. It's useless to think about it anyway.”

Cui Xiaoxin looked taken aback, then smiled quietly, stroking the tip of Li s.h.i.+nian's brow, and removed the piece of snowflake fallen on her fan-like eyelashes. “That is pretty good.”

Li s.h.i.+nian giggled, “Sister Xiaoxin, if you think like I do, you won't have any worries.”。”

“Okay. I'll give it a try.” Cui Xiaoxin smiled. “

She was thinking to herself that steel knives, blood and fire may not come, but it also may arrive in an instant.

But, these were all matters of the future, the matters after tonight. No matter how the battle between the Lu and Cui family unfolds, or either one or the other dies, at least at this moment she and Li s.h.i.+nian were close friends.

Now, all she had to do was relax herself and enjoy the endless snow.

The two women were in high spirits. The two carriages were following behind them.

When they arrived at the Vermillion bird bridge, the two girls stood on the bridge to admire the scenery before preparing to part with each other.

Cui Xiaoxin tightly grasped Li s.h.i.+nian's hand, saying, “You said you would send me Li Mu's 'Winter plum blossoms bloom proudly in snow' painting, Please don't forget.”

“Don't worry, Sister Xiaoxin, tomorrow early morning I'll tell Li Mu to personally bring it to the Cui family's residence.”

“Given the standard that he showed tonight, that painting must be pretty good.”

“Of course.” Li s.h.i.+nian said with a proud face.