"Frost Day" is the end of autumn and the prologue of winter.

For most ordinary people, "frost day" is a season of joy and reunion.

Because very few crops can grow in cold climates, and winter is very unsuitable for work, many industries will start to stagnate from "frosty days", go through three seasons of cold, cold winter, and snow return, and finally reopen the following year's "Dettol" season.

When the frost arrives, people who work hard outside often return from Tiannan and Haibei, reunite with their relatives at home, hug their wives, kiss their children, share the harvest of the year, and spend the winter quietly by the abundant grain storage and fireplace.

Ordinary people get together with friends and family, and so do nobles, but everyone gets together for different reasons.

In the early morning of the 25th of the frosty day, the cold valley was shrouded in wind and snow as always, and Lorna changed into a delicate dress early in the morning and personally greeted the guests at the post station outside the valley:

"Gui'an, Your Majesty the King, my father has been waiting for you for a long time, go find him for a drink."

"Burton! Hurry up and get on the winged beast, don't be slow like an old man, I'll help you kick the bones if your legs and feet are not good. ”

"Good morning, Prince Andrew, it's nice to see you, sit tight, this griffon flies fast."

"Solan! Woo woo, I miss you, hug you~ You see your nose is frozen red, come, let Uncle Ray Sakhar send you in. ”

"Hey! Chino! It's been hard all the way, Solan has already arrived just now, you go to her first, I'll help you find a winged beast... Yes? Can you fly yourself? That's fine. ”

...

Lona's coming-of-age ceremony begins at 12 noon, and guests arrive a few hours early to keep plenty of time.

What's more, worried about the situation on the road, I have already settled in the cold valley several days in advance.

The cold valley has always been full of people, and the bustling atmosphere is very lively.

After 8 o'clock, most of the guests have arrived, fewer and fewer people have entered the valley, and the atmosphere outside the valley has become deserted.

The cold valley was snowy, and the winged beasts who had been busy all morning had returned to their pens to rest, and the winged beast cavalry of the post station also hid in the house, roasting and napping by the fireplace.

The main road next to the post station, I got up early in the morning and was sleepy, lying on the ground and making an even breathing sound, the fiery red dragon scales were already covered with thick snow, and from time to time I shook off with my breathing, and was soon covered with new snow.

At half past eight, the last guest arrived in a hurry.

Since then, Lorna has not met any guests.

But she didn't leave, and waited here quietly until 11:30 now.

During this time, Resakhar was entrusted by Sting to come and urge him several times, but Lorna always found an excuse to prevaricate and then continued to wait.

From above, the cold valley is covered in snow, and although it is daytime, the valley is already lit up with special candles that can withstand extreme cold and low temperatures, and the lights bloom everywhere, dotted with frosty white snowflakes to mark Lorna's birthday.

In the snowstorm, Lorna sat alone on the paws of the scarlet night, holding her chin with both hands, looking at the distant sky, her eyes seemed to penetrate this sky, looking at someone far away in the world...

The cold wind was howling, and her long fiery red hair hit Lorna's face from time to time, blurring her vision with the snow, but she never left, shaking her head from time to time to shake off the snow on her head, still waiting here silently... Waiting for the person who wants to meet...

At 11:35, Ray Sakhar had come out for the fifth time, and he was called by Sting to fly around, and he was really annoyed by flying, so he couldn't help but ask Lorna: "Niece, everyone is here, who are you waiting for here?" ”

Lorna gently patted the snow off her shoulders and held her face to look at the sky: "Denisha hasn't arrived yet." ”

"Denisha?" Ray Sakhar was stunned for a moment, and said angrily, "Denisha definitely won't come, her kind of person who is lazy and afraid of trouble, she either drinks or sleeps every day, and standing guard is like killing her, she will come to the cold valley thousands of miles away?" ”

Lorna's eyes were full of determination, and she said without hesitation, "She will come." ”

"Why are you so sure?" Resakhar was puzzled.

"No why..."Lorna's eyes were a little evasive, and she lowered her head and muttered, "It's definitely coming anyway, you see, she should just oversleep, and she will be there in a while." On such an important day, she will not be absent. ”

Resakhar was quite helpless: "Let me remind you first, your coming-of-age ceremony will start in 25 minutes, and at 12 o'clock, you must be there." It's not a joke, there are so many guests waiting that you can't let them see the joke. ”

"You know, it's not going to be 25 minutes. You go back first, I'll be there on time. Lorna waved her hand perfunctorily and continued to look at the sky.

Resakhar knew Lorna's temperament, but he couldn't resist her, so he didn't say anything, and rode away on the blue dragon.

Lorna continued to wait in the wind and snow, the heat between her breaths being frozen into flakes by the cold current of the Cold Valley, turning into a part of the snow curtain.

11:50 a.m.

As if urging, as if to imply that hope was being dashed, the snow began to grow heavier, and the snowflakes scattered in the sky were as big as goose feathers, falling all over the sky, falling on the tips of Lorna's hair, on her face, on her body... As long as you don't move for a while, you will be piled up like a small snowman by the snow.

In the heavy snow, only Lorna and Scarlet Night are still here, and gradually, her eyes reveal an unspeakable loss, and for a moment she even fell into a confused state of overwhelm.

Lorna took one last look at the snowy sky, her head bowed like a child who had made a mistake but didn't know what she was wrong, and her lonely figure was accompanied only by the dragon and flakes of snowflakes beside her.

After a long silence, she rode on the back of the dragon of the scarlet night, woke up the sleeping companion, and prepared to return to the house.

Just as the scarlet night was about to take off, the cry of the winged beast could be faintly heard in the distant sky.

Suddenly, Lorna's eyes were as bright as burning hope, and she directly threw off the reins and jumped off the dragon's back, raising her head and looking at the sky eagerly.

The shadows are getting closer...

"Boom-" The winged beast broke through the cold current and landed steadily.

The winged beast carried two people on its back, one was the cavalryman in charge of controlling the winged beast, and the other...

But it's not the one you're waiting for.

When she saw the man in a thick cotton suit and wrapped like a bear, Lorna recognized it for a moment, and was stunned for a moment, it seemed that this was the servant of Dinisha's house, and she had seen it a few times when she had been to her house before.

Why didn't Denessa arrive, but her servant did?

Before the man could stand firm, Lorna couldn't wait to run over and ask, "What about Denissa?" Behind you? Is her winged beast lost? Do you want me to pick her up? ”

"Miss Lona! Something went wrong... Lady Denissa, she... She, she, she..."The servant came all the way without eating or sleeping, cold and tired, his mind was no longer clear, and the matter was complicated, he didn't know where to start for a while, and he held back a sentence for a long time, "She can't come..."

Lorna froze in place like a statue, her eyes began to become dazed, and it was even more difficult to hide the look of loss on her face, she bit her lower lip and asked in a low voice, "I can't come... What is the reason? Does she have any business to do? ”

The servant wanted to cry without tears, and told all the things about Denisha not coming home for more than ten days, drinking hundreds of barrels of wine in the tavern, getting drunk and unconscious, and finally turning into a ray of light and flying away.

Such an outrageous thing, Lorna was stupid when she heard it, she was already anxious, and at this time she was even more anxious, grabbing the servant's arm and shaking it wildly: "Is there a mistake?!" I told Amanda in a thousand ways to tell Denisha about my coming-of-age ceremony, and she still messed up?! ”

"Where's my letter? Did you deliver that letter I wrote to Denisha?! Did she watch it?! ”

The servant sighed and said, "The delivery is delivered... Amanda personally delivered the letter to Lord Denissa... But she was so drunk that she thought the letter was a snack, so she took the letter and stuffed it into her mouth..."

"She ate the letter??? Lorna was shocked.

The servant smiled bitterly and said, "Eat or not, Lord Denisha has to say that she is not drunk, that she knows that this is a letter, and that she will open it and read it to us in public." ”

Lorna's little face turned red, like a ripe red apple, she thought that what she had written was read out by Denisha in public, and her shame was directly full, her hot face kept white mist in the cold wind, and her eyes fluttered from side to side, as if she was about to drip water: "She... Did she read it to you? ”

"I didn't read it at all," said the servant, and shrunk his head, and said cautiously, "before she could read it, she fell on her own, and then believed... The letter fell into the fireplace... was burned down..."

Lorna froze in place for a full three seconds, her temper exploding like a lit powder keg: "Sick, isn't it?!" Is this man sick?! A good letter can be burned by her! Why can't you drink so much?! I drink a lot of alcohol and I like to drink, and I get drunk all day long, and I'm really sick! ”

The servants trembled, first, it was too cold, and the five sweaters couldn't stop the cold of the cold valley, and second, Lorna was furious, and when she was angry, she unconsciously exuded the dragon power of the queen's blood, although it was only a little bit, but it was also extremely oppressive for ordinary people, and she didn't dare to raise her head at all.

The servant subconsciously wiped the cold sweat that had formed ice beads on his forehead, and said tremblingly: "Amanda has already sent everyone out to look for it overnight, but seeing that Lord Denisha is drunk, I am afraid that I will not find anyone for a while, so I hurriedly sent me to deliver the news... Miss Lona, what do you think of this? ”

In fact, there was nothing wrong with Denisha from beginning to end, after all, going to the tavern to drink is part of her daily life, and she can't deprive people of the right to drink, right?

Lorna didn't greet Denisha in advance and told her about her coming-of-age ceremony, but wrote a letter very tactfully, but who knows, she just happened to bump into Denisha on the day she got drunk and went crazy, which really doesn't blame anyone.

But in Lorna's heart, a good intention was wasted, and the hope that had been stored for a long time was dashed, she was already angry, and her emotions were out of control and scolded: "If you don't come, you won't come!" It's as if whoever begs her to come, it's better not to come! I didn't want to see this nasty ghost, I really thought I wanted her to come?! ”

The huge loneliness enveloped Lorna, causing her nose to be sore, tears to her eyes, and her voice hoarse: "A person who can't even remember my birthday... I've known her for 12 years, and every time it's months after my birthday, she reacts... In 12 years, there has not been a punctual 'happy birthday'... Not a word! ”

"I don't have any place in her heart, right... Okay! If you don't care about me, forget it! I don't care about her either! No one will see anyone in the future, let her live with wine and pillows for the rest of her life! Hum!!!!!!!! ”

After Lorna finished scolding, she ran into the valley, and Scarlet Night also woke up from her deep sleep, flapped her wings and caught up with Lorna, and the blurred figures of a man and a dragon soon disappeared into the snow, leaving the servants messy in the wind.

...

Lorna ran desperately in the heavy snow, stumbling and falling several times in the middle of the journey, and then got up and continued to run, the feeling of grievance that she had never felt before lingered in her heart, her nose couldn't stop being sore, and even her eyes became warm and unbearable.

Lorna slowly stopped halfway through the run, covered her eyes tightly with her arms, and stood alone in the fluttering snowstorm, silent, only her shoulders trembling from time to time.

The night fell beside Lona, the dragon is a highly intelligent creature, more human than any other animal, not to mention that Lorna is also the master with whom he shares the dragon's blood.

At this time, I saw Scarlet Night's tail curled up like a puppy, and she looked very aggrieved hanging from the corners of her eyes, making a humming sound in her mouth, and comforting Lorna with her head rubbing.

Lorna stood in place for a long time, then wiped her sleeve on her face, and then showed an indifferent expression: "It's okay, Scarlet Night, I'm calm." If you don't come, you won't come, everyone has their own ideas, she thinks that drinking is more important than me, so let her be, I have no right to force her, and she is not me, can I be so angry. ”

Scarlet Night snorted twice briefly, and her huge head nodded up and down in agreement.

Lorna had run into the valley, surrounded by mountains, and she looked silently at one of them.

The vast white mist that surrounds the peaks that reach into the sky is the "Dragon's Tomb" in the Cold Valley, where all the dead dragon knights of the Regnome family are buried.

Lorna's eyes seemed to be stuck in memory, and she said faintly, "Scarlet Night, let's go see my mother together." ”

Scarlet Night's eyes widened, her wings spread out and shook in the direction of the provincial mansion, and she kept spitting small strands of dragon breath in her mouth, melting the snow in the wind into water droplets, allowing them to freeze into ice by the cold current, as if to attract Lorna's attention.

Lorna looked in the direction of the scarlet night's wings, and when she saw the splendid provincial mansion, she sighed heavily, and said helplessly: "Okay, I promised to go back before 12 noon, the coming-of-age ceremony is about to begin, and I can't let a bunch of guests wait for me... I'm going to be an adult soon, and I can't be as headstrong as a child anymore. ”

Scarlet kept nodding her head in agreement.

Lorna touched Scarlet Night's head, kicked on its dragon's back, locked the utensils, and took one last deep look in the direction of the Dragon's Grave.

The dragon flapped its wings and disappeared into the wind and snow with the soon-to-be-grown girl.