This winter, the snow in Xuzhou is thicker and denser than usual.

As soon as the Spring Festival couplets were pasted on the Chen family's side, another snow fell again, and the snow fell heavier and heavier, and in less than an hour, the snow did not reach the feet and necks. Chen Xuejiao wore sheepskin boots and ran outside to play in the snow with Chen Xuewa and Chen Qiping. Last night, Li boiled a large pot of boiling water, Chen Xuejiao and Chen Xueru took a bath and washed their hair quietly, and greeted the arrival of the New Year cleanly.

The three of them were having a snowball fight, and Chen Xuejiao threw a large ball of snow at Chen Xuewa, her cheeks and fingers were red from the cold. Playing at the door of her own house was not enjoyable, Chen Xuejiao came to the Xiaohuai River to play, and the three of them took the hat to the river. There was a thick layer of ice on the Xiaohuai River, and there were already people going down to skate. In the distance, someone dug an ice hole and caught the fish and shrimp inside.

The snow was falling heavier and heavier, and the distance was white, and the bridges on the river bank were covered with heavy snow.

When she came to the Xiaohuai River, Chen Xuejiao couldn't help but think of Zhao Yiming. I still saw him in the middle of the month, he came to send Chen Xuejiao an ink engraved book, it was also such a heavy snow, he smiled at Chen Xuejiao in the heavy snow, and said that on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he would carve an ice lantern for Chen Xuejiao.

I don't know how he is doing this year's New Year, Chen Xuejiao's family gives New Year's gifts to the female workers in the embroidery workshop, and Zhao Yiming's mother is naturally the first one, thinking that they will have a solid New Year when they come to their house. But it is also the first year after the death of Zhao Yiming's father, and there must be some regrets in the abundance.

Chen Qiping made a large snowball, taking advantage of the moment when Chen Xuejiao was stunned. Thrown on her, a new jacket and pants that had been changed in the morning were covered with snow, but fortunately her neck was tightly wrapped. The snow never got into the neck.

Chen Xuejiao couldn't afford to lose money in a snowball fight, so she quickly bent down and threw a large snowball towards Qi Ping. Qi Ping laughed on the other side of the river and got into a fight with the children on the other side. Chen Xuejiao, Chen Xuewa, and other girls in the village stood on this side of the river, and the two teams had a snowball fight across the river, and they made the snow as big as a child's face. They threw themselves at the opposite bank, and some of them were so small that they fell into the river halfway through. And the momentum was so great that he threw it on the eaves of other people's houses, and the adults in the family stuck out their heads and laughed and scolded. That scolding is also a bluff, not a real scolding. Their own children are also having snowball fights.

Because of the New Year. Everyone's temper has become milder.

Suddenly, a snowball was thrown and hit Chen Xuejiao's body, and the splashed snowflakes blurred Chen Xuejiao's eyes. Chen Xuejiao was so ruthless that she didn't care about wiping the snow on her forehead and eyebrows, so she gathered a big snowball and threw it towards the riverbank.

I only heard a panicked shout over there, but it was like Chen Qiping's voice.

Chen Xuejiao's heart jumped, but she was afraid of her strength. Hit the snow ball in Chen Qiping's face. The children in the countryside are solid and not afraid of beating. Especially when you have a snowball fight, you throw a ball over, I throw a ball out, often either hit the body or the leg, but fortunately in winter, I wear thick cotton clothes, and I don't feel pain when I hit my body. But it's different when it hits the face, and if the child is hit in the face, it will hurt so much that he can't help it.

Hearing Qi Ping scream so loudly, Chen Xuejiao thought that she had hit him in the face, but just now she used such a big force, gathered such a big snow ball, and hit Qi Ping's face, but it hurt.

He hurriedly crossed the bridge and ran to the opposite bank, because the snow was falling intensively, and he didn't pay attention to the people around Qi Ping, so he pulled Qi Ping's hand and asked, "I'll see where it hit, my face is fine!" ”

Chen Qiping's face was rubbed by Chen Xuejiao, and he drilled out of Chen Xuejiao's armpit, and said with a raised face: "Second sister, you didn't hit me, you hit Brother Siyuan." ”

When Chen Xuejiao saw Gu Siyuan, she was standing behind Chen Qiping, covering her face with her hands, baring her teeth, and her handsome face was twisted into a ball.

Rao is like this, in the vast snow, he still looks long and jade. He didn't wear much today, he wore a sheepskin coat from the Lee family, and thick deerskin boots on his feet.

"I don't apologize yet, just now your snowball is as big as that, and it hit your face." Chen Qi'an stood beside Gu Siyuan with an anxious expression.

Chen Xuejiao knew that she was at a loss, and she blessed Gu Siyuan, and said embarrassedly: "I was careless." “

But his heart was quite uneven, and he couldn't see anyone in the vast snow, who knew that he bumped into it by such a coincidence, and the snowball didn't have eyes.

"When I go back to the house, let my mother boil two eggs and roll them." Sometimes Chen Xueru and Jing stayed up all night embroidering, and when they got up in the morning, their eyes were swollen, and Li's boiled eggs for them to roll.

Chen Xuejiao only thought that this smashing was the same as staying up all night and Ao had red eyes, so she said something like boiling with boiled eggs.

Gu Siyuan's mouth twitched, and he looked at Chen Xuejiao, and saw that she didn't feel guilty at all, but looked indifferent, there was a pair of silver butterflies on the silver hairpin on her head, and when she laughed, the butterfly wings trembled.

"It's okay, it's okay." Gu Siyuan rubbed his face, his face became more and more red, and he smiled and said to Chen Xuejiao, "I haven't had a snowball fight for several years, and I blame me, when I saw such a big snowball rolling, I wanted to catch it, but it hit my face." ”

I heard Zhang's voice shouting Chen Xuejiao and Chen Qiping.

"Hey." Chen Xuejiao and Chen Qiping agreed, and the four of them left the river bank, stepping on the snow all the way forward, and the snow was no longer up to their necks.

The atmosphere of the New Year in the countryside is very strong, and the twilight will be four, firecrackers have sounded everywhere, and the air is full of the rich aroma of soot.

Gu Siyuan grew up eating small gold and jade grains, and this is the first time to celebrate the New Year in the countryside.

The village was bustling and lively far away before the pot had exploded, the smoke was lit in every house, the smell of food wafted in the air, and on this cold day, some doors were open, and the charcoal fire was full of fire, and the dining table was set up, and the copper pot was lit, and the meat was shabu in front of the snow.

After a house, the man was holding a wine glass and drinking, surrounded by two children, the hostess in the middle screamed to serve dumplings, the boy with the total pigtail got up and went to the plate inside, the man smiled and took a pair of chopsticks into the wine glass and stuffed it into the little daughter's mouth, the little daughter's mouth touched and frowned and wanted to cry. The hostess heard the movement from the house, so she came out with a plate of dumplings, crossed her waist and scolded the man for not having the heart to drink the spirits for his daughter.

The man replied. The hostess put down the plate, rolled up her sleeves, and was about to carry the man's ear, and the man smiled and bowed to the hostess.

A pair of children laughed around the table for a while, making trouble for a while, and without using chopsticks, they reached out and grabbed the dumplings on the plate.

Gu Siyuan couldn't care about the pain in his face. I was stunned.

Such a vivid day is called home life, where is it like home. Looking at a cluster of brocades outside, in fact, there is a lot of fighting every day. Don't talk about the side, just talk about your own father, and the warblers and swallows in that room are enough to make people want to escape.

Chen Xuejiao saw that Gu Siyuan had a gloomy color between her eyebrows. guessed that he was pregnant with the scene. I sighed in my heart. Such a handsome young man, with something on his mind, is making a mature and indifferent appearance, but he can't hide his thoughts.

In her previous life, she had also read the books of the house fight, and she wanted to come to the wealthy family with a lot of twists and turns, where to live as simple as the countryside.

The Chen family is the most unquiet compound in Maoshan, because of Mrs. Chen's scolding and noise, but her thoughts are all in her heart. The most poisonous ploy is nothing more than to get the Li family to remarry and curse Qi An.

"Almost every household here is like this." Chen Xuejiao said softly, "But the countryside also has the trouble of the countryside." There is really no trouble, only the gods in the sky know, but how can we know that the gods are distressed or not. “

Hearing this, Gu Siyuan raised his head and looked at Chen Xuejiao. Seeing her delicately twisting around and quickly crossing the bridge from the snow, the silver butterfly on her head trembled and wanted to fly.

"Xuejiao, eat some, dumplings just out of the pot." The hostess who was on her waist just now saw Chen Xuejiao passing by in front of her house, and greeted her warmly.

"No, sister-in-law Xiulian." This daughter-in-law also works in Chen Xuejiao's house, she can't do fine work, but her hands and feet are strong and clean, Chen Xuejiao arranged for her to burn the fire, don't look at her not good-looking, five big and three thick, but she can be favored by her own man, the whole Maoshan Village, she was the first to wear a gold ring, and her fingers pulled out layers of flesh, Chen Xuejiao thought about it. smiled and said, "My mother is also making dumplings." “

As night fell, two big red lanterns were hung at the gate of the Chen family's compound, and Da Dan was climbing the ladder and lighting a fire.

This big red lantern was naturally bought by Old Man Chen, Old Man Chen pays attention to face, and the big red lantern at the gate of Chinese New Year's Eve every year is not extinguished for a long night.

Chen Xuejiao and others stepped into the courtyard gate, and a row of red lanterns were lit under the eaves of the north wing house instead of only two red lanterns in previous years.

The candles inside had been lit, and the warm red light was shining through.

Chen Xuejiao likes such festive red lanterns and thinks that this is the warm atmosphere that the New Year should have.

Gu Siyuan's heart was gloomy, he remembered the Gu family's mansion, and at this moment, he was afraid that the red lantern was also lit, but his mother's courtyard could only be bleak, and his father didn't know which aunt's room he was in recently.

The sound of firecrackers outside was even more enthusiastic.

This year, Chen Xuejiao's family bought a lot of firecrackers, and the Han family also sent a lot of fireworks.

The stone had already prepared a fire sickle, and from time to time it ran out and put a hanging. Seeing that Chen Xuejiao, Chen Qiping, and Chen Qi'an were back, they became more and more excited, and said with a smile: "I have already moved all the fireworks out, this fireworks are good, they can bloom all kinds of flowers in the air." “

Everyone was very curious when they heard it, especially Chen Qiping, who shouted why it wasn't at night.

Chen Qi'an took Gu Siyuan into the house and put a towel on his face, Gu Siyuan waved his hand again and again: "Where is it so delicate." “

There was only a loud noise outside, but it was Chen Xuejiao and Chen Qiping who were setting off the artillery battle.

"Why don't you blow it up?" Old Mrs. Chen was preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with her own hands, just passing by in the yard, the sound of the cannon battle startled her, and she couldn't help but curse at Chen Xuejiao's figure, "A little girl, crazy and crazy." “

Chen Xuejiao let go of it again, and said to Mrs. Chen: "For the New Year, milk can't say something auspicious." “

Mrs. Chen rolled her eyes, but Chen Xuejiao didn't pay attention to it, and took care of herself.

She knew that Mrs. Chen was feeling uncomfortable, the second family didn't come back for the New Year's dinner in Xuzhou Mansion, and the fourth family naturally didn't come back, and their big family had already said that they would celebrate the New Year alone. Now in the upper room, there are only the two elders of Mr. Chen and Mrs. Chen, plus the third room and one family, as well as the Quartet Zhang's, big eggs, two eggs, and three eggs.

This naturally caught Mrs. Chen, who had always liked to control the Chen family's compound, unprepared, and felt unhappy.

Mrs. Chen doesn't like to hear the sound, according to her, the people who set off the cannon battle on Chinese New Year's Eve are deaf, except for the necessary two firecrackers, she never lets her grandson play the cannon fight, sometimes Chen Qiping and the big egg secretly pick up the cannon fight to play, will be scolded by her for a dog blood spray.

This year is different, the big house has risen up, and it is no longer subject to the control of the upper house, although Mrs. Chen is dissatisfied with their behavior, but she only complains a few words behind her back, but she no longer dares to raise her voice to scold.

It was already dark, and Li took Chen Xueru and Jing Hao to make dumplings in the house.

Chen Xuejiao couldn't wait to let the stone turn on the fireworks, picked up a hanging peony pattern and dragged it into the snow, she was eager to try it and lit the fire herself.

With the sound of "Peng", the fireworks rose into the sky, exploding colorful peony flowers, which were particularly bright in the dark night.

I heard a lot of children cheering, this is the first time fireworks have been set off in the village, I have seen it in the town before.

After a while, many half-grown children in the village gathered at the gate of Chen Xuejiao's yard and looked curiously.

Seeing this, Chen Qiping also dragged out a hanging, and this time it was a large plum blossom.

Chen Xuejiao turned her head and saw Gu Siyuan standing in the snow looking around, so she beckoned to him: "You come too, it's very fun." “

Gu Siyuan's family sets off a lot of fireworks every year, but he has never seen it seriously, and there are piles of small houses at home, so naturally it is not his turn to set off fireworks.

Seeing Chen Xuejiao's smiling face reflected by the fireworks, she walked over.

"You're holding a fire sickle." Chen Xuejiao handed the fire sickle in her hand to Gu Siyuan and patiently taught him, "This line is a firework head, you light it, put it on the ground, and then stand a little farther away." “

Gu Siyuan was in the way of Chen Xuejiao's body, only to feel that there was a sweet fragrance of osmanthus floating on her head.

The fireworks lit up, rose into the air, and exploded, one by one lotus flowers in full bloom, colorful petals exploding and falling.

Chen Xuejiao raised her head to see that a pair of big pupils reflected the lotus flowers, cool and cool like the dew of the June weather.

Gu Siyuan also looked up, and a smile finally bloomed on his face.

He has never watched fireworks carefully from small to large, he just thinks it is too ordinary, he plays it at home for the New Year, and when he meets his birthday, he also puts it in the garden on weekdays, but he never thought that it would explode in the night sky to be so gorgeous. (To be continued......)