Chapter 28: A New Home
Standing in the snow, Mingzhu was hiding in a long thick robe, revealing only a hairy head, and holding a copper stove wrapped in cotton cloth in her hand. But it still couldn't stop the biting bones of the cold winter, and the gusts of yin wind swished into the cracks of the bones.
Looking at his brother's capable and cool appearance, Mingzhu couldn't help but tremble.
It reminded her of how cute she was when she first saw the snow.
It's a shame for us southerners.
Southerners on a snowy day are much more fun than snow.
Strange to say, the pearl seems to have nothing to do with snow in modern times, although it has been in Beijing for seven or eight years, but it has never seen snow. Every time the weather just gets cold, the weather forecast says that heavy snowfall is coming. She would inexplicably receive an order for a business trip, and she would leave for months, and when she returned to Beijing again, the snow had melted.
has been a southern baby for most of her life, and has been a Beijinger for nearly ten years, Mingzhu is really very unproductive and has never seen snow (in reality). This made her afraid to say it, and even if she did, no one would believe it.
I thought of my own stupid appearance when I had just seen the goose-feather snow that had just begun to fall in the sky, and the neurotic eyes of my family. Mingzhu didn't dare to admit that the cheering and dancing in the small courtyard was herself. Thinking of Mingzhu, I can't help but feel ashamed.
Thoughts were flying, and when Mingzhu came back to his senses, he saw that his brother had put down the stone pier and was holding his thighs panting. Hurriedly stepped forward with a towel and a robe. watched him wipe the sweat on his head and body, and then complained and helped him put on his robe and said, "Brother, you are stupid!" You're going to catch a cold on this cold day. Don't you feel cold? ”
"It's okay, I'm used to it. Master Li said that if you exercise with qi, you won't be cold. Antey grinned widely. He returned the small stove plug in his hand to his sister's arms, took the action of his sister's hand, and continued to buckle the button. So saying, he went into the house. He didn't forget that although his sister was ecstatic when she saw the snow, she was completely afraid of the cold. When winter comes, I can't wait to stay on the kang all day.
entered my brother's house together, watched my brother take a basin of cold water and began to wash his face, Mingzhu grinned and twisted his head, the whole person was crooked on the kang, and pulled the quilt to cover it. I still can't help but shudder.
"Brother, ah, the snake is dead." After Mingzhu figured out the knot in her heart, she couldn't watch her brother continue to drill the horns. When my brother sat down on the kang, he said in a loud voice.
Antai paused as he peeled peanuts in his hand. The whole person became overwhelmed. The little eyes looked at Mingzhu pitifully. Immediately it was wet.
"Brother, do you regret it? Hit him? Mingzhu lowered her eyebrows, married her brother, and rubbed the red peanuts in her palm, rubbed off the outer coating, and threw it into her mouth.
Antai shook her head and continued to peel the peanuts, and the peanuts were placed in front of her sister one by one. Just keep your head down and stop looking at her.
"I don't regret it...... I don't regret it either. Looking at her brother's strange eyes, Mingzhu continued with a smile, "If someone dares to bully you and Eniang, I will also fight with them." Her face was firm, her eyes were shining in the candlelight, and her whole person was full of fighting spirit, as if she would run out and fight with others in the next second.
Antai hurriedly took her sister's hand, it was very cold. Even if there is a stove, it is still much cooler than his own, and he answered with a stern face, "Sister, don't fight, I'm ...... I'll go. ”
"Well, my brother will help me beat them. Brother, you just have to remember that you will do anything in the future, as long as you feel that you don't regret it, then do it. Mingzhu smiled and bent her eyebrows, and this coquettish tone made Antai grin as well. My sister hasn't been like this for a long time.
As long as you don't regret it, would it be fine? I don't regret it!
For a moment, Antai felt that the original messy thoughts instantly became simple and clear. As long as you don't regret it, don't you? That's easy to do.
My sister is so powerful, and Antai, an honest man with a backbone, once again fell into a crazy worship mode for her sister. The little eyes sparkled, and the corners of the mouth couldn't help but start to rise.
The new house was originally an old Hanlin's, who had been poor and honest all his life, and did not know how to study in officialdom. It's just that I concentrate on books and concentrate on learning. This time he returned to his hometown, so he sold the small courtyard cheaply.
But this is definitely indispensable to the handwriting of Sibeile, otherwise with the thousands of taels of silver and meager connections of the Mingzhu family, it will be difficult to buy such a suitable and beautiful yard in a short period of time.
The courtyard is really beautiful, the old Hanlin has a simple population, just him and his wife, there are no concubines and no children. So there is very little entertainment on weekdays, and the old lady spends all her heart in the yard. Lao Hanlin was born in a noble family in Suzhou, and has a lot of insight into courtyard design, and the courtyard is particularly chic and beautiful. So when Mingzhu saw the small courtyard for the first time, he was fascinated by it.
Push open the bronze beast that is polished on the pitch-black double door, enter the door is a screen door and a long corridor, the door is the inverted seat room where the people live, and then the outer courtyard is inside, which belongs to the men, followed by the second gate, the second gate is a large garden, the door is open on both sides, and the door is an independent garden when it is locked. After the garden is three gates, behind the people are the east and west wings and the main house. Behind the main house is the back cover, for the maids and grandmothers to live.
The small garden is very distinctive, different from the common rockery and flowing water, the small garden is a slope-shaped open space, with a large area, nearly three acres in size. A small lake dug at the lowest point, the lake is full of strange rocks. At this time, the lake has frozen, the white cold is pressing, but the slope is full of plum blossoms, at this time it is blooming vigorously, a piece of snow white Yin Hong, against the thick snow on the ground, it is quite interesting.
Mingzhu has seen this beautiful scenery in the yard, and there is a sense of stunned feeling like coming to a tourist resort. Originally, I thought that I would be satisfied with a rockery garden or something, but aren't all ancient gardens like this! Now seeing this small hillside of a sea of flowers, Mingzhu was so excited that she burst into tears, and she opened her mouth but couldn't say a sentence. Antai was not very interested in the scenery of the small courtyard, so he took the masters straight to the front yard.
When the yard is big, the manpower in the family is not enough, and a family of three people, even if two masters and a grandmother are added, there are only two little girls to serve. It doesn't work at all. Even this small garden alone requires three or five people to take care of it. The former master was in a hurry, and all the furniture was there, but he still saved a lot of money, so Mrs. Wuya was still free to buy some servants.
Without waiting for Mrs. Wuya to find Mrs. Ya, Su Peisheng led the men and women who were smiling into the backyard, accompanied by Antai.
"Congratulations to the old lady, congratulations to the old lady, the housewarming of the New Year, it's the right day, I can't say that the miscellaneous family still has to come to ask for a bowl of wine to drink!" Su Peisheng smiled and narrowed his eyes, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes could kill flies, and he couldn't stop following Mrs. Wu Ya to say hello, looking very familiar. It's a world away from when we first met.
"It must be, no one can forget you old ghost," Mrs. Wu Ya quipped, and then added, "It's all thanks to the blessing of the master, and our family's life is becoming more and more prosperous, Grandpa Su?" As she spoke, she looked at the long slipper behind Su Peisheng. A look of confusion.
"The master said that your old man's house moved, there must be not enough manpower, these are all people in Zhuangzi, they all know the roots, and they sent slaves and maids to call you, and even brought the deed of sale." Su Peisheng was in the same status and situation as Wuya's nurse back then, but now he has a faint sense of stuttering. He was extremely convinced in his heart, he understood that the Wuya family can have today's prosperity, it is all due to their own efforts, although there is also the east wind of the master, but compared to those slaves who are attached to it, but rely on the master for everything, this family is extremely backbone, maybe it is this backbone that is the reason why the master looks at it differently. However, none of this affected him from selling it to Lady Wuya.
"Your family is full of happy events, this has moved a big house, and Antai has also become a talent. Miss Wu Ya is almost in time, right? When the time comes, find a good uncle, and you will wait to enjoy the blessings of your children and grandchildren. "Said that he moved a big house, but this kind of yard alone has four or five in his hands, Su Peisheng is even more envious of Wuya's good children, Wuya Antai is directly the road paved by the master, and he can almost enter the house to serve after the New Year, and the little girl, Su Peisheng looked at the girl looming in the plum blossom forest, just the moment he saw the ceremony, he thought he had recognized the wrong person, the reckless girl who had not dried up half a year ago, in the blink of an eye, she was so smart, and with her appearance, she was afraid that she was going to enter the master's backyard.