More than 20 years ago, a deep winter, the New Year Festival is approaching, the whole Shenjing City fell into a strong New Year's atmosphere, the lanterns are on, the red lanterns hung in front of every household illuminate the whole prosperous and majestic first male city, a peaceful and prosperous scene.

This year, the summer wind and rain are smooth, not only the grain has obtained a great harvest, at the same time, even the frontier of the Yulong Pass in the west has also achieved great victories, and tonight, His Royal Highness Zhao Jing, who has achieved outstanding results in governance, will set up a private banquet in the Mingde Hall of the White Emperor Palace to entertain the ministers.

Three hours before the banquet began, an excerpt went straight into the imperial study of the White Emperor Palace from outside the palace, and then Zhao Jing stretched out his hand to open it, a smile appeared on his face, and he whispered to a woman in palace clothes who was pouring wine with her hand raised below:

"Xiang'er, this Gyeonggi Prefecture Shao Yin Shan Wenbai has just been on the fold and said that he wants to take a leave of absence, and he can't participate in tonight's royal private banquet, because his wife is about to give birth, how can this king remember that his wife should be less than ten months pregnant, right?"

Behind the royal table, Zhao Jing's voice was as warm as jade, and the beautiful woman in palace clothes sitting below couldn't help but roll her eyes, and said softly:

"Your Highness, do you want to take care of this woman's childbirth?"

"How come, this king is thinking about whether to send a royal doctor to take a look, premature babies are extremely fragile. ”

Zhao Jing, who was dressed in a dark golden robe, showed a smile again, and then looked at his wife, who had already started drinking one cup after another, stroked his forehead, revealing a helpless expression, and his gentle voice continued to come out:

"Shang'er, this night's private banquet has only started for a while, why are you already drinking it at this time?"

"Your Highness, you personally promised yesterday, and today let the concubine let go of the drink, but you are not allowed to joke!"

After drinking a little wine below, the woman in the palace costume had a slightly red face, unbelievably beautiful, and had an infinite charm that overshadowed everything in this world, and then she burped lightly, and continued to speak with her eyes blurred:

"Your Highness, the concubine is studying, otherwise I won't be able to help you stop the wine at night. ”

As the words fell, there was a gentle burst of laughter in the entire warm imperial study, which came out from the imperial study of the White Emperor Palace, penetrating the darkness of the entire deep winter, making everything around him as warm as spring.

When night fell, the Mingde Hall was very lively, pushing the cup and changing the lamp, but a snowstorm came suddenly, this wind and snow from the north not only without warning, but also urgent and fierce, and in an instant it enveloped the whole city.

In a small courtyard in the middle of Shenjing City, under the whistling of the wind and snow, there was a woman's extremely painful shout, and outside the house, a thin middle-aged man, with his hands behind his back, silently watched the shining lights in the room in front of him.

The middle-aged man stood motionless in the snow, and if you look closely, you will find that his eyes are as deep as the starry sky, as if there are countless pictures flashing, but in the deepest part of that seclusion, there is a faint pain faintly emerging.

The screams of the woman in the room became weaker and weaker, which was a very bad sign for Linban, but the expression of the middle-aged man standing outside the room remained unchanged, and as time passed, the falling snowstorm covered his body, completely piling it up into a snowman.

"Hard, ma'am, the child will be born soon!"

With the continuous encouragement of the midwife in the house, finally, a baby's extremely loud cry pierced the entire courtyard in the air, and at the same time, the figure covered by snow outside the house opened his eyes directly, and the snowflakes on his body began to fall down in an instant.

"Sir, Madame gave birth, it's a boy, boy. ”

The door of the inner room was then opened, and the midwife walked out happily with a crying baby in her arms, and then she showed a slightly shocked expression, because instead of joy and excitement, the young man of Gyeonggi Province closed his eyes in great pain.

After an instant, Shan Wenbai opened his eyes again, and everything in the entire small courtyard, except for the crying child, stopped at this moment, and the midwife holding the child, the snowflakes flying in the sky, and the flickering lights in the house were all imprisoned in place.

The whole courtyard seemed to gradually sink into the depths of the sea, and at the same time, the void fluctuated one after another, and the next breath, the void tore, and out of it came a dark and vague shadow, and in the arms of the shadow, also holding a baby frozen in ice.

The baby's eyes were tightly closed, and there was a strange mark on his forehead, and then the shadow stretched out his right hand and lightly pointed at the mark, and then the baby's breath became stronger and stronger, and he opened his eyes and began to cry.

In the small courtyard under the wind and snow, the two baby cries that sounded at the same time indicate two completely different lives that have been changed.

The sudden wind and snow locked the people who were originally going to celebrate on the streets in the southern city of Shenjing City, and then an old female voice sounded from one of the houses:

"Listen, old man, I seem to hear a baby's cry. ”

"It must be behind your ears, the storm outside, where did the child come from. ”

The old man's voice rang out from inside the room, and after a while, the old woman's voice sounded again:

"No, I really heard the baby's cry, I want to go and see, don't stop me, this ice and snow, if it really exists, it is a human life!"

After a while, the door of the hut opened, and the two tightly wrapped figures walked out from behind the door.

"Old woman, you can hold on steadily, my old Guan family depends on you and me, I don't want to be about to go into the ground, there are no accidents. ”

"Don't worry, my wife's body is much better than that of you, a bad old man. ”

In the wind and snow, the two of them exchanged words and I communicated with each other and paced forward slowly, and then their eyes suddenly lit up, because the cry was louder and could be heard clearly.

The old couple suddenly quickened their pace and staggered in the direction from which the sound came, and then in the dim and chaotic wind and snow, a swaddling baby was quietly placed on the side of the road, and in the swaddling clothes, a baby was crying with its mouth open.

The old woman slowly squatted down, picked up the baby, and then spoke:

"Old man, what a beautiful child you see, let's take him home. ”

When the old man next to the old woman heard this, he was silent for a long time, and finally nodded solemnly.

The next day, the wind and snow dissipated, and the atmosphere of the New Year was strong in the city of Shenjing, the young man of Gyeonggi Prefecture in the city, Yin Shan Wenbai, gave birth to an heir, and it is said that even the White Emperor's Palace gave a congratulatory gift.

On the same day, the old Guan family, who had no children and no daughters in the south of the city, suddenly had an extra baby, which was still a baby boy.