Chapter 274: Winter Snow

This winter is really cold, often for more than ten days of heavy snow, every morning to sweep the snow hard, until one night, then the old and thick again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The people in the house are all complaining, and the most work they do every day is to clear the snow, but this thief is born without end, and there is no end to sweeping tomorrow today.

Some old men persuaded: "You are now in the palace of the capital, this is already a great blessing." In such weather, I don't know how many people will freeze to death outside, and I am afraid that the bodies will be buried in the snow, and no one will clean them up. ”

Indeed, this winter's heavy snowfall has spread all over Huajing, and there are snow disasters everywhere, and officials from all over the country have hurriedly reported to the imperial court. Although it is said that the snow is a good year, but such a heavy snow, it is really impossible to call it Rui, the crops planted in autumn have been crushed by the snow, and next year the harvest will be bleak, or even no grains.

While the DPRK and Chinese officials are worried about the future of the coming year, the lives of the common people are now over, many houses and fields have been destroyed in the snow, and they are all displaced.

In the noble family in Kyoto's Jianye Castle, such folk suffering is very far away, but after such a heavy snowfall, it adds a bit of poetry to the feast around the fireplace to enjoy the snow.

Jianye originally belongs to the southern climate, there is less rain and snow in winter, this year's weather makes the nobles who have lived in the south for a long time feel very novel, and the warm feasts are continuous.

Wang Hao, the right minister, invited an ice carver from Youzhou to the house, and built all kinds of ice sculptures in the back garden, ranging from flowers and birds to animals, to the whole palace like a crystal palace, lifelike, beautiful, so his family's ice palace banquet attracted countless guests to come, even the northern nobles who have always laughed at the southerners have not seen the snow fuss, and they are full of praise after seeing it, and they are amazed.

The winter moon is coming to an end, and there is only one month left until the end of the year, and the concubine's body has finally improved.

The recurrence of this disease this year is so ferocious, presumably it is also related to the extremely cold weather. Fortunately, now the children are all under the knee to serve the sick, and Jinyi is always by the side to regulate and heal, fortunately, the illness has not deepened, and it is gradually getting better day by day.

In the afternoon of this day, after the concubine got up from a nap, she sat and laughed with Yunhui and Jinyi in the warm pavilion.

There is a dragon in the warm pavilion, because the concubine can not stand the cold, and put the charcoal basin in the four corners of the house, the high-grade silver frost charcoal in the basin is extremely clean, and there is no trace of smoke when it is melted and burned, but there is a smell of rosin, accompanied by the soothing incense prepared by Jinyi for the concubine, so that the room is warm and fragrant, like spring.

The concubine's complexion has improved a lot, her cheeks are ruddy, her eyes have returned to their former brightness, and the sad color of her illness has been hidden again, leaning on the Luohan bed covered with a thick brocade mattress, holding a gold enamel nine-peach hand stove, smiling and listening to Yun Hui talking about the ice palace banquet in the right prime minister's mansion.

"The southerners just don't know much, I have seen a lot of those things in Beisai, but they are ice sculptures that look like houses, and the size can only live in a single finch to enter,......" Yun Hui sat on the Luohan bed next to the concubine, leaning down on the side of the kang with a small hammer to knock on the walnuts, and the walnut kernels in the white jade silk plate on the table were already piled up, she sneered and continued: "In the winter in the Beisai, there are really people who use ice to build houses to live in, and there can be a fire in it." ”

The words were full of complacency, and she had always had only the bitter cold of Beisai, desolate and boring, but it was the first time she had heard such praise.

The concubine just closed her eyes and listened with a smile, and didn't say much, Jin Yi has been following Yunhui's temper very well these days, and then took over the conversation, "Mrs. Lin only sent someone to send a post for me to go two days ago, I thought there was really a palace made of ice at the Ice Palace banquet, but it turned out that it was just like this, so I won't go." ”

The concubine opened her eyes and looked at her gently, "You have been busy taking care of me for the past two months, and now that I am in good health, you should also go out and walk around more." ”

Jin Yi replied with a smile: "Actually, I don't like those occasions very much, I'm going to the cold meeting again in a few days, I heard that the Huan family invited many lantern craftsmen to come, to hold an ice lantern festival on the lake, presumably it is also similar to the scenery of the right prime minister's mansion, I will go back then." ”

The concubine bowed her head lightly and was silent, but her heart was like a mirror.

In the past two months, I heard that the battle between Zhenguo Gonghuan Court and Wang Hao, the right minister, has become more intense, and now even the inner government has to hold a banquet to compete.

Because of Xie Yingran's relationship with the ancestral family, the attitude of the Zhenguo Mansion towards the Chuchen Mansion has gradually cooled down, and if Jinyi wants to go to the Wang family with great fanfare at this time, it will be a little too conspicuous.

The concubine didn't say a word, but she sighed in her heart, after so many years of careful handling of the snake and the snake, I don't know when it will be the end.

Fortunately, Jin Yi understands that although she has never said it explicitly, she has already seen the middle joint from the side, and she has acted appropriately. It was the last time that her girl was robbed, although the robber died and escaped, the last one who escaped was still found, although there was no clear evidence in his mouth, but the other courtyard he was referring to was owned by the Zhenguo Mansion.

Jin Yi remained silent about this, and did not intend to mention people in front of the Huan family and said, since he knew that the Huan family had bad intentions, before he had the ability to eradicate it in one fell swoop, he could just forbear and deal with it carefully, and there was really no need to make a big move.

Yunhui didn't have these calculations in her heart, but since she lost her temper with Jinyi that time, she didn't know whether she listened to the advice of her nursing mother, or saw that Jinyi had been careful about her mother in the past two months, and she was a lot more kind to her, and she seemed to be interested in watching the ice sculptures, so she said casually, "If you want to see the ice sculptures, what's the difficulty, when I go back to Beisai with Ming'er, you go with me to take a look, the scenery there is actually no worse than Jianye." ”

The concubine smiled dumbly, looking at her with a hint of pampering in her eyes, "Weiran has been back for two months, and you are also anxious to go back to Beisai." ”

"There's nothing at all, mother, don't talk nonsense, he and I are both old husbands and wives, what's there to worry about." Yun Hui blushed, put down the small hammer in her hand, ordered Rouge to clean up the walnut skin, picked up a walnut kernel from the dish and stuffed it into the concubine's mouth, and her face was as tired as a child in the concubine's arms, "Ming'er will stay in the academy for at least two years, and I'll stay here with you,...... You can't be impatient and drive me back. ”

The concubine stroked her head and chuckled, "How can I be willing to drive you away, I wish you lived here for the rest of your life." ”

Looking up and seeing Jin Yi's smiling eyes with a bit of envy, the concubine pushed Yunhui to let her sit down, and said with disgust in her mouth: "It's all mothers, and they're still like children, Sister Yi is going to laugh at you." ”

Yun Hui glanced at Jinyi, and was about to exit with playful words, the Miluo silk curtain with auspicious patterns of sandalwood embroidered spirit beasts outside the door swayed, Sima Yulou walked in, and said with a smile as soon as he entered the house: "It's still warm here, and there is a fire burning in the wind and rain building, but it is not as comfortable as you use charcoal." (To be continued.) )