Chapter 13
The back door of Chen's mansion was opened with a squeak, and then I saw a little girl in a maid's costume looking around and slipping out of the door. After last night's heavy snowfall, it was white outside, except for the occasional cry of a child next door, only the whirring wind remained. The once bustling street is now quiet, with children playing around and vendors walking the streets all huddled in their homes to keep warm.
The little girl who slipped out of the back door smiled happily when she saw that the street was so quiet. She turned around and softly closed the door behind her, the heavy wooden door creaking with a dull creaking sound.
After closing the door, the little girl walked quickly in the direction of the gate of the capital. As he walked, he looked back to see if anyone was following him, and when he was sure that no one was following him, he took brisk steps step by step on the footprints left by his predecessors on the snow, and he was about to dance on the snow with joy.
But she couldn't dance, the snow on the ground was so thick that the sheepskin boots on her feet showed signs of getting into the water. But the little girl didn't care, and still walked happily to her destination.
When I got up in the morning, I heard from the people in the house that this was the first time that it had snowed so heavily since the founding of the People's Republic of China for decades, and it was estimated that the moat had already formed a thick ice bed. She was still drowsy as she sat on the warm bed, but when she heard the next person talk about the thick ice bed, she woke up at once. Asked with great interest if the subordinate was real, and the subordinate saw that the young lady was so interested, and the things that he was not sure about immediately said that he had seen it with his own eyes. I just hope that I can make the young lady happy, and the eldest master will give some reward money when he sees it.
She once saw a travelogue in her father's study, which wrote that some wild children in remote places would wear wooden shoes and dance on the frozen river in winter, and the dance was light and beautiful. She wasn't interested in what kind of dance they were dancing, only in the frozen river and the shoes, and she had heard that walking on them could go a long way without much effort.
If a hole is broken in the frozen river, you can still see a small fish jumping out of the hole, as long as you guard the entrance of the hole, you will pick up a few fat grass carp every day, or eat it yourself, or take it to the market to sell, see the description in the book, only feel that you are in the scene, extremely yearning.
In the spring of next year, she will be married, and then she will marry. Although the people of the country are open, the Chen family is a famous family, if she is in time, she will naturally not go out as much as before, and after getting married, it is estimated that there will be no chance to go out.
Although her father and mother are very fond of her, as she gets older and older, the constraints become stricter and stricter. She wants to go out to see and walk, go out to see and walk alone, and don't bring a lot of maids and maids with her every time she goes out.
The heavy snow that has only been there for decades has turned the moat into ice beds, how beautiful and fun it should be!
When she came to the gate of the city, she saw the soldiers defending the city, and her heart thumped with a drum. She lowered her head at first, but thinking that the soldiers guarding the city were not the guards of the family, she would not recognize herself, and she walked out of the city with her head held high.
From a distance, she saw the moat in her memory, she remembered that the moat used to be sparkling, but now the moat is a bit like looking at a bronze mirror, she is more and more happy in her heart, it seems that it has really become an ice bed.
She walked briskly like a moat, and turned around halfway through, for she noticed that at the foot of the wall there was a man who seemed to be sitting on the bank of the river doing something.
Curious, she walked over and found that it was a man in a cloth suit who had carved a hole in the frozen river and was fishing for it. She was shy, and at the foot of the city wall, the lonely man and the widow were unreasonable. But she saw the shoes on the man's feet, the soles of which seemed to be made of wood, and she remembered the people who danced on the ice in the shoes made of wood, and the thought of leaving stopped.
The man who was fishing didn't seem to notice her approaching, and was still looking at his rod seriously. She found that even his fishing rod was different, shorter than her father's rod, not as delicate as his father's, and even much closer to the water.
She knew that it was most taboo for someone to speak when fishing, so she didn't bother, just squatted quietly to the side and looked at his little hole. It just so happens that she hasn't seen fishing in a frozen river yet! And maybe this hole will be the same as the one in the book, maybe there will be a fat grass carp jumping out.
She had not been squatting there for a moment when she saw the rod move, and then the man took out the hook, and a carp about 20 centimeters hung from the hook. She cried out happily when she saw it, and this fish was more fish than her father had caught every time in the garden pond.
The man calmly put the fish in the basket, put the hook on the bait and put it back down. He had already noticed this little girl when he had just approached, and wanted to see what she was going to do, but he didn't expect that she was just squatting to the side and staring at him fishing.
He turned his head to look at the little girl, the noon sun hung in the sky, not as bright as usual, but it was also quite dazzling. He squinted, the sun shone on the little girl's head, he couldn't fully see the face of the little girl opposite, but heard the little girl's silver bell-like voice sound, "Childe, can you dance on this riverbed with wooden shoes on your feet?" ”
He opened his eyes, the room was pitch black, and he turned his neck to look at the floor-to-ceiling window, only to see a white light coming in through the curtain. He pinched his eyebrows, turned on the bedside lamp, took the watch on the cabinet and looked at it to see that it was only five o'clock.
He lay on the bed, thinking about the dream he had just had, and he didn't feel sleepy. How long has it been since I had this dream? Aside from his occasional memory, this scene never seemed to appear in a dream.
He closed his eyes and recalled the silver bell-like sound in his dream, crisp and pleasant, innocent. He thought of her pleasant laughter, and only felt a heart-rending pain in his heart, and he rolled up his body in pain. It was this pain again, the pain that had tormented him in the long, endless darkness. It's so dark, so long, so quiet, so lonely, he can only live by this pain in the dark.
But now he doesn't want this pain, obviously he has already waited, obviously it is in front of him, why is he still in such pain? He recalled that the voice that sounded in his ears last night was still crisp and pleasant, but it was less innocent and more mature, just like when she grew up in his arms before. When you grow up, what will you look like when you grow up? His heart hurt again.
He got out of bed with his eyes a little red. Pulling open the floor-to-ceiling windows, the sky is still cloudy, and the whole city is shrouded in morning mist, and half of the tall buildings in the distance have disappeared into the morning mist. He looked at the city and was only now beginning to like it.
I went to the living room and made a pack of instant coffee, then took out the whole wheat bread I bought a few days ago from the kitchen, dealt with it, and breakfast passed. It is said that his quality of life is high, but whether it is high or not can only be truly understood when he sees it.
He took out the acacia bean he bought on the top of the mountain, stroked the "Fate of Sansheng" on it, and felt a little better in his heart. He looked at the file bag on the coffee table again, took out the file inside, and looked at it carefully, the original idea that had not been clearly decided was now decided.
He went to the kitchen, lit the papers and file bag, watched it burn to ashes in the sink, turned on the faucet, and flushed the gray ash away.
"Hahaha, I'll just say, you must be here." Lai Lingfeng's voice came from behind him, and Bai Zhu didn't react when he heard it, and continued to stare at his chessboard.
"Playing chess alone, tsk, that little girl yesterday didn't get it, now what do you want to do?" Lai Lingfeng walked over, sat opposite Baizhu, saw the chessboard on the table, and smiled even more happily.
"I thought you were looking at the little girl named Ruan Jiaojiao, but I didn't expect you to take away the little freshness next to you in the end. I said a lot of nonsense last night, and you don't even wake up if you guess wrong. Lai Lingfeng didn't mind looking at Baizhu who didn't react in front of him, and continued with a smile: "But then again, do you know that girl already has a boyfriend who has a good relationship yesterday?" ”
The person on the other side was still looking at his chessboard.
"I said, the female student who sat in your car yesterday is already famous, and she is still a very reliable master." Lai Lingfeng's voice was a little louder.
Baizhu finally glanced up at him now, and Lai Lingfeng looked at Baizhu with a little villain, hoping to see something from his face that had not changed for ten thousand years.
"Got it."
The plain sentence revealed from the tone that Baizhu didn't care about the news, and even had the slightest intention of sending him away. Lai Lingfeng was a little confused, he looked at Baizhu, who was playing chess with himself wholeheartedly, and the index finger of his right hand touched his knee.
According to the habit of Baizhu, if you don't really care about it, you shouldn't go to buy shoes and give them away. But since you're interested, why aren't you interested in this news from him?
"When you tried to cheat on that schoolgirl last night, that schoolgirl told you that she had a boyfriend?"
"Yes."
Lai Lingfeng listened to the fingers that had been dotted on his knees and stopped, and then laughed loudly, he really didn't expect this to be the case. Baizhu, who has not been tempted for thousands of years, finally moved his heart once, but he didn't expect to be rejected like this.
He laughed for a while and slowly stopped, wiped the tears that did not exist in the corners of his eyes, looked at Baizhu who was still playing against him, and asked in a pleasant tone, "How do you feel?" ”
"I don't feel anything."
"It doesn't feel like you're running here to play chess?"
“……”
Seeing the white term Selai Lingfeng, he laughed again, "Why, this time this one gives you the same feeling as those porcelain, if you have it, if you don't, if you don't, if you don't, you don't?" ”
Baizhu raised his head and looked at Lai Lingfeng seriously, "Can porcelain be compared to people?" "The eyes are firm and there is *, this time Lai Lingfeng is really surprised.
But without waiting for him to say anything, Baizhu dropped the white child in his hand, took a sip of tea, got up and left, "There is no need to come here in the future." ”
Lai Lingfeng didn't speak, looked at the desktop, then looked at the Baizhu in front of him, raised his eyebrows and followed.