The little daughter-in-law of the palace

Chapter 57
Snowing.

Snowflakes the size of goose feathers fell from the sky profusely, rustling to the ground, and the courtyard seemed to be covered with a white blanket.

Hanzhu has returned from Zhuangzi and lives in the Chrysanthemum Garden of Wukangbo Mansion. At this moment, she has asked someone to set up a copper charcoal stove in the main room. The three sisters are sitting around the charcoal stove in warm clothes. Ah Xun, Ningzhu sat next to her, enjoying the snow while enjoying the fire.Two puppies, Hei Hei Zhuang Zhuang, lay comfortably beside them, opening their eyes for a while, closing them for a while, and occasionally opening their mouths to yawn.

"The snow is so heavy." Ningzhu said with emotion while holding the hand stove.

Hanzhu responded softly.

As long as she can remember, Hanzhu has never seen such a heavy snowfall, and there will be one or two snowfalls in Hangzhou in winter. When the snow is small, it is like rain. When it falls to the ground, it quickly turns into water. Occasionally, it will come The heavy snow can accumulate, and even step on it can still produce water.Now that I come to the capital, I really understand the spectacular snow scene in the poem.

She and Ningzhu are southerners who haven't seen many heavy snowfalls, and Ah Xun is a two-year-old child, so the three of them can talk about snow together.

"Brother Jia!" A crimson figure ran over from the gate of the courtyard, and Ah Xun sat up straight, pointing outside excitedly.

Ningzhu stared curiously at the things in Zhou Wenjia's hands, but unfortunately the snow was too heavy to see clearly.

Seeing the figure running closer and closer through the heavy snow curtain, Hanzhu sighed in her heart, still sitting with Ah Xun in her arms, and did not get up.

Maybe it was Fang's persuasion that worked. In the past half month, Zhou Wenjia no longer went to her side all the time. When they met, he spoke and behaved more like cousins ​​with a better relationship. Only his eyes still had affection, and he often stared at her in a daze.He has reached such a point, Hanzhu really can't bear not to see him face to face, the only hope is that after getting along for a long time, Zhou Wenjia will take the initiative when she finds that she has a completely different temper from the cousin he likes. Take it easy.

"Brother Jia." Hanzhu greeted with a smile, with the same attitude as when she spoke to Zhou Wenting, and asked Ruyi to move another chair.

She smiled calmly and gently, and there was no surprise in her eyes. Zhou Wenjia felt uncomfortable, but fortunately she got used to it after so many days, she happily sat down next to Ningzhu, and asked the two little ones with her hands behind her back, "Guess what I brought?" Something is coming."

Ah Xun couldn't guess, she turned her body and looked behind her cousin.

Zhou Wenjia turned away from him, but asked Ningzhu on the other side to look straight at her, and said with a smile, "It's sweet potatoes!"

"You have sharp eyes." Zhou Wenjia lightly flicked Ningzhu's head, picked up the hook to poke the charcoal fire, and buried two long sweet potatoes the size of a teenager's fist, "It will be ripe in a while, let's share it I will eat one myself, and my cousin will share one with Ah Ning, how about it?"

Deliberately asked Sister Hanzhu in a serious manner, without looking at Ah Xun.

Ah Xun became anxious, "I want to eat sweet potatoes too!"

"I'll eat it for you, Cousin Jia is teasing you." Hanzhu patted the little guy's head and coaxed softly.

Ah Xun smiled with satisfaction.

Zhou Wenjia looked at the girl with a gentle smile in front of him, fascinated.

In the situation just now, if it was the former cousin, she would definitely stare at him and not allow him to bully her younger brother. The current cousin is as gentle as water. She doesn't paint her eyebrows or lips, but the slender bamboo-leaf eyebrows are more refreshing, with cherry lips Naturally delicate and beautiful, the red color is just right, not too heavy, and it looks like she has been dressed up, which does not match her cousin's age.

The most different thing is my cousin's eyes, like a pool of sparkling autumn water, demure yet agile.

Noticing the young man's unblinking gaze, she lowered her eyes and asked him casually, "Cousin Jia doesn't need to study today?"

She didn't say anything and kept avoiding it, which made him miss her even more. He would understand that she got along with him frankly.

Zhou Wenjia coughed, scratched his head and said, "It's snowing heavily, sir will have a few days off, and we will resume class after the snow stops."

Seeing that he was lying, Hanzhu smiled and didn't expose him.

Zhou Wenjia wasn't used to sitting like this, so he pinched Ah Xun's chubby face, "The sweet potatoes won't be cooked until later, I'm going to make a snowman, will Ah Xun go?"

Ah Xun's eyes lit up, and he looked up at his sister.

He was too young, so Hanzhu was worried about letting him go for a walk in the snow, so she said, "I'll hold A-Xun at the door to watch Cousin Jia build a snowman, and when A-Xun grows up, I will build a snowman with Cousin Jia, okay? "

Ah Xun pouted, she didn't want to reject her sister, and she didn't want to stay in the house.

Hanzhu said again: "Ah Xun listens to my sister. After a while, my sister will let Ah Xun eat more sweet potatoes."

Ah Xun smiled immediately, looked at the charcoal stove and said, "Okay!"

Ningzhu is a little girl, and she can't touch those cold things, Hanzhu is still not allowed, so Zhou Wenjia had to go to work in the yard by herself, but she was standing at the door wearing a blue fox fur cloak and watching him, against the background of snow-white fox fur With a pretty face like a pink peach blossom, Zhou Wenjia was full of energy.Mother was right, he should be content with his cousin waking up.

His snowman gradually took shape, and the main room was filled with the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes. The most common food, which the wealthy families would not bother to put on the dining table, was so delicious that it made people greedy. Seeing the charcoal stove turn, the little paw tentatively tried to touch the charcoal stove, but was driven away by Ruyi with a smile.

"Sister, I'm hungry!" Ah Xun was really drooling.

Hanzhu asked him to call Zhou Wenjia over.

Zhou Wenjia had already rolled the snowman's head, and was patting the snowman's body at the moment, when he heard Ah Xun yelling that he wanted to eat sweet potatoes, he stood up clapping his hands, and said loudly: "Okay, let's eat first, and then continue to pile up !” After saying that, he ran to the eaves, stomped his feet, and wiped the bottoms of his boots back and forth on the felt blanket at the door before entering the house, and then came in to help them dig sweet potatoes.

The outside of the two sweet potatoes were scorched black. Zhou Wenjia rolled them on the clean coarse cloth. It was not so hot, so he took a breath and picked up a sweet potato and broke it in half. Ningzhu and Hanzhu swallowed quietly.

Ruyi waited beside her with a plate. Zhou Wenjia had almost peeled the skin. When he squeezed the last bit of skin, the whole sweet potato fell into the plate.Hanzhu Ningzhu shared half of each person, and Zhou Wenjia also divided the remaining one into two halves, peeled off the half first, and handed it to Hanzhu: "Cousin and Ah Xun eat together, share more with you."

There is expectation and anxiety in the eyes, afraid that she will not want it.

Ah Xun wanted to eat, so he happily pushed the plate that his sister was holding over there, wanting to pick it up.

Hanzhu had nothing to do with him, so he accepted it.

Zhou Wenjia's eyes became more radiant, he laughed silly twice, and began to eat too.He was not as delicate as the girls, and he grabbed the sweet potato and gnawed it, the corner of his mouth touched the remaining sweet potato skin, and it became black.

(End of this chapter)