You have asked for permission to marry, why should I restrain myself?

Chapter 236 No Regrets

Winter always comes earlier in the border area than in other places. Lin Zhaoyue was woken up by the cold in the middle of the night.

When I opened my eyes, the outside was covered in snow, brighter than ever.

There was light snow falling from the sky.

Even in winter, the coastal areas are still as warm as spring. Lin Zhaoyue hasn't seen snow for more than two years.

Excited, she got out of bed, put on her shoes, took out a red fox fur coat from the closet and put it on.

Ding Dong heard the noise and woke up.

She rubbed her eyes, looked outside, and said in surprise:

"Girl, it's snowing outside!"

Lin Zhaoyue nodded, hummed, and handed her another white fur coat:

"Let's go out and take a look."

Ding Dong nodded, put it on, then followed Lin Zhaoyue to open the door and walk out.

It was snowing and it was much colder outside than usual. As soon as she opened the door, Lin Zhaoyue felt the cold air blowing in her face.

Even the breath he exhaled turned into a thin layer of white mist.

"Girl, you're so beautiful!"

Ding Dong sighed.

"If only my aunt were here!"

It has never snowed on Aurora Island. She has been with her aunt for so many years and has never seen her aunt leave the island. If her aunt saw this snow scene, she would definitely like it.

Ding Dong waved his hands, and suddenly rushed into the snow excitedly, spinning in circles on the ground.

The snowflakes are light and beautiful, and the whole world is white, covered with snow, quiet and hazy.

Lin Zhaoyue followed quietly behind, her exquisite embroidered shoes making a rustling sound as they stepped on the snow.

She tilted her head and for some reason suddenly thought of Xiao Yan.

In her previous life, after Xiao Yan was demoted, their relationship warmed up and she especially liked winter.

I like the silent gazes they exchanged when it snowed, I like the warmth of his palms when he held her hand, I like him holding her in his arms under the falling snow, using his fox fur to keep her warm, I like snuggling in his arms and listening to his steady heartbeat, I like him covering her lips with his hot lips in the snow when his love was deep...

The snowflakes fell on her pretty face, feeling cool.

The cold touch pulled Lin Zhaoyue away from her memories. She stretched out her slender white hand and caught a snowflake. She lowered her almond-shaped eyes and watched it slowly melt in her palm...

Suddenly, a snowball flew over and hit her fox fur. She turned her head and saw Lin Wan, who had successfully carried out the sneak attack, with a smug smile on his face.

Lin Zhaoyue had an idea, squatted on the ground, and started making snowballs with her hands.

"Sister, mother, why are you here?"

"It's snowing, I came to see you."

Many people die every winter on the border.

Most of them were sleeping too soundly and then suddenly there was heavy snow or a sharp drop in temperature, and they froze to death.

They were afraid that Lin Zhaoyue was sleeping too soundly, and they also wanted her to see the snow scene, so they came over.

Lin Zhaoyue said "oh", squatted on the ground, stood up, and threw the two snowballs in her hand at Lin Wan and Mrs. Lin.

Mrs. Lin and Lin Wan were both stunned for a moment.

"Lin Zhaoyue, you are such a jerk. You dare to hit even me? I'll show you how I'll deal with you!"

Mrs. Lin pinched her waist and said this, then bent down and started making snowballs.

Lin Zhaoyue was very agile and Madam Lin couldn't hit her at all. She pretended to be angry and said to Lin Wan:

"Wanwan, hurry up, help my mother fight back..."

Mrs. Lin and Lin Wan looked at each other and formed a tacit understanding. They made a snowball and started to greet Lin Zhaoyue.

Although the two of them joined forces, Lin Zhaoyue was more than enough to deal with them.

Lin Zhaoyue was having fun and didn't show any mercy just because they were her mother and sister, she hit them very accurately.

Mrs. Lin and Lin Wan were covered in marks of being hit by snowballs.

Lin Yanzhi and Lin Guogong heard their noises from a distance. Lin Yanzhi became playful and ran over.

As soon as Lin Yanzhi poked his head out from the corridor, a snowball hit his handsome face with perfect accuracy.

Lin Zhaoyue was stunned when she saw that she could hit someone with just a casual strike.

The snowballs scattered from Lin Yanzhi's face and fell to the ground.

He opened his eyes and saw Lin Zhaoyue's smiling face.

Her eyes are curved, her almond-shaped eyes are bright, and she smiles very innocently.

"Good for you, Lin Zhaoyue."

Lin Yanzhi reacted quickly, squatted down, made a snowball, and threw it at Lin Zhaoyue.

Ding Dong, who was standing by, saw that his young lady was outnumbered, so he quickly squatted down and started making snowballs. He made more than a dozen snowballs and handed them to Lin Zhaoyue.

With Ding Dong's assistance, Lin Zhaoyue never stopped hitting people, and every hit was accurate. Even when outnumbered three, she was not at a disadvantage.

Listening to the laughter in the yard, the picture in Duke Lin's imagination was that of his children playing snowball fights, while his wife was quietly watching them play, having fun and living a peaceful life.

As a result, as soon as he arrived in the yard, he saw a white snowball hit his wife's forehead directly. At this moment, Mrs. Lin's pearl hairpin was shaking and her hair was messy. She no longer looked as dignified and virtuous as before.

The snowball rolled down, and Mrs. Lin opened her eyes and saw Duke Lin, saying aggrievedly:

"Husband, Zhao Zhao hit me..."

Lin Zhaoyue: …

Mother, am I still your biological daughter? !

Upon hearing this, Duke Lin's eyes widened with anger:

"Lin Zhaoyue, you even dared to hit your mother. Are you itching for trouble?"

Duke Lin said this as he squatted down and also made two snowballs. However, he was afraid that his hands were too strong and the snowballs were very soft.

Duke Lin’s first move was a precise sniper attack.

He predicted Lin Zhaoyue's direction perfectly and threw the ball accurately. With four against one, Lin Zhaoyue finally fell into a disadvantage and had to be beaten.

She jumped up and down, and when she saw Lin Kaiji coming from a distance in white, she ran behind her eldest brother as she did in the past whenever she was bullied:

"Brother, they bullied me."

When Lin Kaiji saw her being beaten up, he knew she was being naughty again, and he raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said:

"You're a ball."

Lin Zhaoyue was stunned for a moment, but she quickly reacted and squatted on the ground to make a snowball.

Lin Kaiji can throw four snowballs at a time. The way he does it makes Lin Zhaoyue stunned. If you don’t know, you might think that his brother is performing acrobatics.

"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and team up."

Lin Zhaoyue said "oh" and squatted on the ground with Ding Dong to make snowballs.

With the addition of Lin Kaiji, it was three against four and they barely managed a draw.

The family played for a long time. When they were tired, they went into the room, sat around the fire, made tea and enjoyed the snow scenery.

There were two charcoal fires burning in the room, one for Duke Lin and one for Lin Kaiji. The two men sat on a low couch beside each other playing chess. On the battlefield, father and son were soldiers, and the two were enemies when they fought against each other.

The two of them fought back and forth, killing each other without leaving a single piece of armor.

In the end, Duke Lin still lost. He grumbled in dissatisfaction:

"I'm your father, and you don't even know how to let me take your place."

Lin Kaiji was helpless and said:

"I'm already giving in."

This sentence made Duke Lin furious. With a desire to win, he pushed the chess piece on the table and said:

"Come again, I don't believe I can't beat you..."

Lin Zhaoyue, Lin Wan, Madam Lin, and Lin Yanzhi were playing Pai Gow at the side. Madam Lin saw Duke Lin's expression and said with a smile:

"Our son is smart, so it's not shameful to lose to him."

"Push your Pai Gow and don't talk."

As he spoke, Duke Lin just dropped the white piece in his hand, and Lin Kaiji said:

"No regrets on this move, father, are you sure you want to take this step?"

"OK, OK, you go ahead!"

Lin Kaiji's slender long fingers grasped the black piece, and just as it fell, Duke Lin started to act rogue again:

"Wait, take it back. I haven't thought about that step yet..."

Lin Kaiji had no choice but to take back the black piece.

In fact, Zhao Zhao's personality is more like Duke Lin's, especially his occasional rogue nature, which is exactly the same as Duke Lin's.

While Duke Lin was thinking about how to play chess, Lin Kaiji still had the leisure to turn his head to guide Lin Zhaoyue.

Seeing that Lin Kaiji wasn't paying attention, Duke Lin secretly took away two of Lin Kaiji's black pieces.

Lin Kaiji caught a glimpse of Lin Guogong's dog's sneaky movements from the corner of his eye and pretended not to see it.

"Okay, I'm done, it's your turn."

Lin Kaiji retracted his gaze, looked at the chessboard, and said:

"Father, are you sure?"

"Well, it's confirmed this time."

Lin Kaiji glanced at the chessboard and saw that Duke Lin was subconsciously staring at a certain place, so he placed the piece there.

Duke Lin's eyes lit up, and he said happily:

"I win this time."

"Father is awesome."

Duke Lin snorted, and approached Madam Lin to show off:

"I won."

Mrs. Lin: ...

Almost everyone saw him stealing Lin Kaiji's chess piece just now.

Mrs. Lin looked at him and said:

"hand."

Duke Lin stretched out his hand, and Madam Lin directly took out two black pieces from his sleeve.

Lord Lin: ...

"Madam, please give me some face!"

"Fortunately they have grown up, otherwise they would have been taught badly by you. They would do anything to win against you..."

Duke Lin was not annoyed at being caught in public, and said stickyly:

"It's because Madam taught them so well that I am no match for them."

The few people who were greasy, Lin Zhaoyue: ...

Lin Wan: …

Lin Yanzhi: ...

Lin Kaiji: ...He curled the corners of his mouth and subconsciously looked at Lin Zhaoyue.

The way her mouth twitched slightly was kind of cute.

It was not until dawn that they went back to take a nap.

Maybe it was because they had played too hard last night, but Lin Wan and Mrs. Lin felt listless during the day and had no appetite. At night, they even started to have a fever and vomit.

I asked the local physician to see him, and he determined that cold air had entered my body and I had caught a cold.

I was prescribed some medicine to drive away the cold, but it didn't help at all.

At first everyone thought it was just a minor problem, but within two days, he started vomiting everything he ate, and in just three days, he lost a lot of weight.

Duke Lin was so worried that he refused to go to the military camp. He left all matters to Lin Kaiji and stayed with Madam Lin.

Doctors and physicians were invited one after another, but they could not find out what the disease was. Finally, a military doctor said:

"There are no symptoms, but the patient is very ill. It's probably because he is not used to the local climate."

Duke Lin frowned and said:

"But my wife and daughter didn't have this symptom in the previous year."

The military doctor looked at Duke Lin and explained patiently:

"This kind of acclimatization doesn't just happen when you move to a new place. Even in your hometown, it will be affected by age, diet, and mood changes."

“How should it be treated?”

The military doctor looked at the vast white snow outside and said:

"It's bitterly cold at the border. If you stay here any longer, even if you recover, you'll still get sick again and again. It's fatal. I suggest you send Madam Lin and the eldest daughter to a place where they can recuperate and avoid the cold, and come back after the winter is over."