The weather seems to have cooled overnight, and the border pass is like this, there is no spring and autumn, you can wrap it in fur when you take off the silk, and half-thick spring and autumn clothes are not useful at all.

A west wind blows, a north wind blows, and when you usually wear cotton and satin clothes in Beijing, you can't go out here without a jacket and leather skirt, and the braziers and kang in the house have been fully utilized, and they are getting colder and colder day by day.

Where is it so cold when you are in Beijing? Not at all in Jiangnan.

Shen Tian asked me, do you want to go back to the capital, or go back to Jiangnan?

I shook my head, not to mention that the distance is extremely inconvenient, and people can't be too squeamish, I can't live like a migratory bird in spring and autumn, right?

But Baoyu, I'm not too relieved, several girls are delicate, not to mention, even Baoyu herself is not strong. I often send people to ask how many they have made when they make winter clothes in the house. Whether it is Baoyu Daiyu or Yingchun, they all left their homes behind, and thick clothes are naturally nothing. I sent someone to bring my clothes, and they replied that they thanked and thanked them, very politely.

The more polite the explanation, the more you will see it.

I'm in a good mood now.

It's one thing to be invested in reading a book, it's another thing to love and pity the person in the book, and it's another thing to become a person in the book. For example, if I don't become Sister Feng but become Xue Baochai, how will I think about acting? Or will I become someone else...... What will become of my position and thoughts at that time?

"What do you think?"

Shen Tian asked. In winter, he doesn't go out much, although he is a town guard, but there are a lot of large and small generals under him, and he can also stay in the mansion for a few more days.

"Cranky. I smiled and replied, "You're not going out today?"

"Well, there's a heavy snowfall today. He sat down beside me: "Steal half a day's leisure." ”

I look at the sky outside, it's true.

"By the way, your cousin, has anyone anyone in the capital made a promise?"

I turned my head: "Which one do you ask?"

He thought for a moment, "You don't like to talk much, do you?"

I thought about it, except for Tanchun, the other three were lazy to speak: "What are you asking for?"

"It's not me, it's Vice General Song, you remember, I came home the day before yesterday and left him for a meal. He told me that his original wife had been dead for two years, and when he saw his cousin, he immediately became lovesick. ”

"No, my cousins didn't come when he came the day before yesterday, when did he see him?"

"He'd been to the bookstore and had met him, but he didn't know the name. ”

Think about it, I remember that Vice Admiral Song, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, looking at his appearance, average. Look at the figure? It's quite burly. But this person is very responsible, and what impresses me the most is that his face is not natural, or it is exposed to the northwest wind and sun, and his face is black and red.

Such a person likes the delicate lady of the Jia family...... No matter how you think about it, I don't think it's a good match.

"It's useless to look at me about this. I smiled and put down the ledger in my hand: "I can't be their master." If Vice General Song really can't survive the lovesickness, let him go to the back house of the bookstore to ask for relatives. ”

"Huh, you don't care?" Shen Tian seemed a little surprised.

"Why should I care? I'm in charge, and other girls are also adults, so they may not care about me. "Being a middleman, being a guarantor, and being a matchmaker are not easy errands. Well, no one will thank you, if it's bad, others will point to your back and scold, and you can't get rid of the trouble. My relationship with the girls of the Jia family is so delicate, and I keep my balance slowly, which is more dangerous than walking a tightrope.

When I talk about it, they may think that I am taking advantage of the situation to suppress others, or to put them to good use...... In short, the possibility of thinking about the bad is far greater than the good of it.

"It's cold," I said, "if it snows after noon, let's have a hot meal of mutton and a pot of mutton, and we don't have to cook side dishes." ”

"It's okay, so that the kitchen will save effort, you will also save worry, and everyone will save trouble. Shen Tian laughed and said, "How can I find that you have been getting lazier and lazier lately? Weren't you an extremely hard-working person before?"

"Alas, people are getting old," I said with a smile, "too lazy to move, trying to be useful." ”

He laughed too.

After a long time, Shen Tian is actually a very good person, even if he is compared with the modern five good husbands, he is not much inferior. Don't pick food or clothes, don't drink and gamble, and don't love to mess with flowers. To be honest, Ping'er joked that I told me to burn incense, and I really wanted to ask the Bodhisattva to make offerings.

By the way, thinking of Ping'er, where has she been for the past half a day?

Sister Qiao was wearing an apricot yellow short jacket and a red silk skirt, and she lifted the curtain and ran in without waiting for the girl to speak, and when she saw that Shen Tian was also there, she was not restrained, and she was generous Fu Yifu: "Lord Wang." ”

"Hmm. Shen Tian nodded. Sister Qiao ran over and took a sip of my tea and asked, "Mother, do you know where Aunt Ping went?"

"She's not here with me, I still want to find her. What are you looking for her?"

"The day before yesterday, I said a trick, I want to ask her about it. ”

I thought about it for a while: "You go to Jin Mei, she is also very skillful, and the collar of your new shirt was embroidered by her before, didn't you praise the handsomeness of that orchid?"

"Oh, then I'll go. ”

Ping'er only came back before dinner, her face was puffy, her nose was red, and I looked at her: "Where are you blowing the cold wind?

She actually sighed and said, "It's cold enough today, and the ear kang against the wall in the backyard will also burn, otherwise those people won't be able to sleep at night, and they will have to freeze into ice lumps in the morning." ”

I didn't really care about it, but when she said something, I paid attention.

She dried her hands on the smoker and burned her ears, which showed that she had just come in from outside, and she had not stayed for a short time.

"Where have you been? Sister Qiao was looking for you everywhere just now. ”

She wanted to pour tea, and the little girl hurriedly poured it for her.

"I just went to the west to watch the people pack up the car. ”

Packing up the car?

"Didn't the car just pick it up at the end of last month?

"No, it's just oiled and wiped or something. ”

Such routine maintenance, you need to run to stare at it all afternoon on a cold day? But I don't think Ping'er will lie to me, it's just that the reasons in it are puzzling.

When I woke up the next day, there was a lot of snow outside. I sent Ping'er to the account office to get something, and then I called someone to go to the west to have a look.

Across the flower wall, under the shed over there is the car I usually sit in when I go out, and it looks like it is being maintained. Someone came out of the house with a chisel in his hand, and I was stunned, this person's appearance was ...... I've seen it.

It's just that I can't remember it for a while.

Someone in the house shouted: "Master Liu, you don't have to rush to ask for it, it's snowing again, you don't have to rush to clean up." ”

"Anyway, it's going to be fine, I'll try to tighten the shaft again. ”

Master Liu?

Ah, I remember, this man is the master carpenter who gave us the car that hit the road.

Ping'er almost had a fight with him at that time.

Isn't he in the capital? How could he come to this northwest border pass?

He must have something to do with the Xining Palace, I'm not surprised by this.

There was a flake of snow flying onto my eyelashes, and I blinked.

Ping'er came back from the account office with the accounting book of last year's Grange, and I looked at her without speaking, just laughing.

Ping'er made me laugh at a loss, put down the book, and asked while undoing the squirrel cloak outside, "What is this laughing at? What is a good joke?" ”

"There's a joke. I said, "The stinky carpenter who built us the car in Beijing actually let me meet him again just now, don't you think it's a coincidence?"

Ping'er bit her lip and looked at me, her eyes were like apricots, looking at people with a sloppy look, and she looked pitiful.

I sat up straight: "You don't want to make up two sentences again?"

"You know everything?"

"Well, you don't have to admit it so quickly. I shook my head: "It's boring, I thought you would have to go around a few more circles before admitting it." I said, that man doesn't look good, what do you have to say to him, you have to talk for so long yesterday afternoon? and you still avoid people and don't enter the house? That man is too careless, he is strong, how can you forbid freezing?"

"No, we were talking in the room on the right side of the aisle......" Ping'er said halfway before stopping.

I couldn't help it, lying on the table and laughing: "Don't talk about it, the more you say, the more you leak." ”

Ping'er sat down on the kang opposite me: "Laugh, laugh, what's so funny?"

"It's okay, it's okay. I said, "It's too boring for you to hide it from me." I won't hide anything from you. ”

"That's nothing...... What do I have to say to you? ”

"Ouch, what do you have to wait for to tell me again?" I stretched out my hand to shave my face: "Good girl, my skin is a lot thicker." ”

She looked up at me, her lips were red and her teeth were white, her eyes were watery, Ping'er was really a beauty.

I understand her temper, and I get annoyed when I say it.

"What's his name Liu?"

"Liu Rang. ”

"Okay, if you fall in love with him, you don't have to hide it from me. Tell me how you met him again?"

Her voice was very soft, and she said half-complainingly: "Then what is there to say, that is, the last time I thought about Miss Qiao, I wanted to change the color of the car curtain, and I asked someone to find a cloth of that color from the library, and I was afraid that the mother-in-law would not be able to speak clearly, so I went to pass on the word once, and the person ...... The man happened to be there. ”

"Isn't he in Kyori? How did he get here, when did he come?"

"Earlier than we arrived here, he said that he originally opened the shop that was idle at that time, and he was depressed when he stayed in Beijing......"

"Does he have a deed?"

Ping'er shook his head: "No, he just lives in the palace, and he is not a slave of the palace......"

"That's weird. I thought for a moment, "If you want to, I'll call the shots for you, and that's not a bad thing." ”

Ping'er's face turned red: "How can there be...... We're not there yet. ”

I said, "You and he are not small, if you have anything to say, you can just say and do it, what is there to be ashamed of." ”

She stood up: "I won't tell you, you just want to make fun of me." "I lifted the curtain and left. I shouted twice and she didn't come back.

I think she and the one surnamed Liu stand together, but it seems quite coordinated.

I have persuaded Ping'er many times, and I have already returned her to her with her deed paper, and I have told her more than once, if there is something that catches my eye, tell me that I can give a dowry. She never meant it.

I didn't expect her to be involved with that Liu Rang, I was both surprised and very happy.