Although the snow stopped, the wind was still very strong, and the road that was swept clean was covered with a thin layer of snow when the wind blew.

"Grandma, watch your step." Chen Xuejiao screamed sweetly.

Li and Zhou were originally pacing in whispers hand in hand behind them, but when they heard Xue Jiao's words, they glanced at each other, and they only cared about being happy, but they forgot about Mrs. Han, and hurriedly stepped forward to support Xue Jiao and Jinghao, and helped Mrs. Han into the house one by one.

There were two pots of silver charcoal burned in the house early, I was afraid that it would smell of carbon after burning for a long time, and there was an iron cage on it, and there was a petal of orange peel in it, and the room was full of fragrant fragrance.

"What a handsome plum blossom." As soon as she entered the room, Mrs. Han pointed to the red plum on the table and admired.

Compared with the Han family, the house of the Chen family's big house is naturally simple, although the walls were painted in autumn and the window paper was replaced, the room space was small after all, and so many people lived, so it naturally looked crowded and old. In addition to adding a table of eight immortals and a few chairs in the house, there were no other objects added, because of Xueru's birthday, Chen Xiucai brought the vase from the south on the table, but the red plum was picked from the private school early in the morning, and the bottle was filled with water, and the red plum was raised in it as a bottle. The branches of the plum are thick and strong, and after a heavy snowfall, the buds are very energetic, and you can smell a faint fragrance from afar.

Everyone sat down, the curtain leading to the inner room moved, and Xue Ru walked out of it with a tea tray.

Today's Xue Ru is dressed up very brightly, since the last time she came back to the Zhou family, she opened the second room and wanted to give Xue Miao to Han Xingjian, Chen Xuejiao secretly found out. Chen Xueru was more and more interested day by day.

As soon as she came out, Han Xingjian's eyes lit up, in his impression. Xue Ru has always had a plain face, but now I saw that she had a layer of lipstick on her lips, and the whole person was brighter than usual, her cloud-like black hair was combed into a reverse style, and a red pearl was pressed on the top of her head, and the pearl stone flashed with red luster as she moved. Dressed in a silver-red red rhombic skirt, the snow that is more and more set off is as white as snow.

Han Xingjian sat next to Mrs. Han, just facing Chen Xueru. I haven't seen her for a few days, and I think so bitterly that I see her so hard that I don't know where to put my hands and feet.

His eyes unconsciously fell on Chen Xueru's hand. Former winter. Chen Xueru's hands were swollen and red from the cold, the skin turned over was embedded in the flesh, the chilblains as big as the child's mouth were all blood foam, the back of the hand was high and swollen, and the back of the original snow-white hand was swollen and purple. This year is different from previous years, there is no chilblain on the white and tender hands, Han Xingjian thought that Xue Ru used the frostbite cream he sent to take effect, and a stream of honey came out of his heart. didn't know that Li wouldn't let her get cold water, and sat in the warm room every day. The chilblains of the past years have not been picked up.

Chen Xueru put the tea in front of the guests one by one, the tea is the dragon well brought by Chen Xiucai before the rain, and after boiling water, the room is full of strong tea fragrance. In addition to tea, several plates of flan were served. The tart, made by Xue Ru herself, was baked in the morning, and with the aroma of fruit, the crispy filling was light and not greasy, and it was the most suitable for tea.

The first cup of tea was naturally given to Mrs. Han first, and Mrs. Han grabbed Xueru, patted her hand, looked at her grandson with slanted eyes, and then looked at Li's and said: "My in-laws raised Xueru so white and handsome, I waited for her to enter the door at home all day long." ”

As soon as he said that, everyone laughed.

Chen Xueru's face was red, knowing that Han Xingjian was sitting next to Old Lady Chen, but she was embarrassed to raise her head to look at him, and only lowered her head to look at the shoes on his feet. The shoes were made for him by Chen Xueru as soon as he entered the winter, afraid that he would walk such a long way from the town to the private school, and the snow would wet the shoes and the feet would have frostbite.

Han Xingjian was reluctant to wear these shoes, and kept pressing them on the pillow, and he couldn't wait to sleep with his shoes at night. Today's participation in Xueru's birthday is the first time to get on my feet, and I feel light and warm when I walk on the road, and my heart is warm.

Chen Xueru was still worried that it was not appropriate to make a small one, but now she saw that he was wearing it to the house, and the toes of his shoes were still stained with unmelted snow foam, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Mrs. Han only held Xue Ru's hand and stared at her hand for a while: "No frostbite this year?" But the medicine my grandson had brought him worked. ”

Chen Xueru and Han Xingjian's faces became more and more red, Xueru bit her lip, replied softly, and raised her eyes to look at Han Xingjian with a trembling eye, just this glance made Han Xingjian stunned.

"Grandma, you can try this tart, I remember that you love hawthorn filling, I made it for you." Chen Xueru flipped through the flan and deliberately put the hawthorn filling on the table next to Mrs. Han, and picked up a few pieces of jujube paste filling and stacked them on the hawthorn filling, "The hawthorn filling is sour, if grandma is tired of eating, she is eating a piece of jujube paste filling to adjust her appetite." ”

Speaking of this, he raised his eyes and looked at Han Xingjian.

Others still don't think that Zhou, who is sitting next to Li, is smiling so much that she can't see her eyes, her own son likes to eat fruit cakes filled with jujube paste, and Xue Ruming is to season Mrs. Han's mouth, but it is actually for her own son.

Before they passed the door, they knew their son's preferences, and when they passed the door, the young couple would definitely live in harmony and beauty.

Han Xingjian smirked, picked up a piece of fruit cake filled with jujube paste, and took a big bite. Take a closer look, the outer edge of the fruit cake filled with single jujube paste is wrapped in a thick layer of sesame seeds, take the newly sold flour and flour noodles, the sesame seeds are fried in the pot, the sweetness of the jujube paste is sandwiched with the fragrance of sesame seeds, Han Xingjian ate two in one go, didn't even drink tea, choked and trembled, and his eyes had to glance towards Xueru.

Chen Xuejiao glanced at it and said with a smile: "Brother Xingjian, you eat slowly, my sister makes a lot of fruit cakes, don't choke when you take a sip of tea." ”

Han Xingjian listened to Xue Jiao's joke, his face turned even redder, and he was still holding half of the uneaten fruit cake in his hand, and the sesame seeds fell down one after another.

"Xue Jiao." Li Shi glanced at Chen Xuejiao.

She was afraid that Xue Jiao would make fun of Xingjian and not be able to get off the stage, after all, in front of so many adults.

Chen Xuejiao stuck out her tongue and honestly sat on the chair and drank tea intently.

Zhou took a sip of tea and pulled Xue Ru. After taking a closer look, he asked the maid who followed to hold the birthday gift and two fine skins. Two pairs of shoes and socks, a set of heads, smiled and said: "This leather makes a thick jacket for Xueru, no matter how cold it is, I am not afraid of it, this head is your milk's mind, as for this shoes and socks are made of Bi Tao, her needlework is not good." You're going to wear it. ”

Everyone's eyes fell on the shoes and socks, although the needle and thread were very ordinary, but they were not crooked. The material is the best material, and there is silk cotton in it, which must be extremely warm.

"How can I trouble Bi Tao, it's too late for me to be happy." Chen Xueru smiled at Bi Tao.

"Sister-in-law. I worked up a few days and nights to make it. Bi Tao is quick to speak.

"I haven't passed the door yet. And they began to shout. Zhou glanced at Bi Tao and smiled at Li, "In-laws, don't worry, Bi Tao has always been open-mouthed, alas, I still want her to marry at the age of fifteen, look at her like this." Even at the age of fifteen, it is not as good as Xueru. ”

Chen Xuejiao was drinking tea, and when she heard this, she raised her head. Xingjian's eyes lit up, Xueru's face became more and more crimson, and the sadness flashed in Li's eyes, this qiē fell in Chen Xuejiao's eyes, the meaning of Zhou's words, everyone understood it, she hoped that Xueru would marry into the Han family.

"Bi Tao has a good temperament, he is a good hand at managing the house, and he is literate, and he may be more likable when he arrives at his mother-in-law's house in the future." Li pretended not to understand and answered.

Zhou was a little disappointed, but then laughed. Chen Xueru and Han Xingjian's marriage is not in a hurry, this is not something that can be discussed on this occasion, and when she looks for an opportunity to explore Li's tone in the future, she will not detain her daughter for a few years.

"Snow such as the year she was born had such a heavy snowfall, the crops were dry that year, I thought that there would be no harvest in the coming year, so I waited to escape the famine, but I didn't expect to fall with her landing and fell a lot of snow, and it seems that it is a famine year and it has become a good year." Mrs. Han was one of too many elves, so she changed the topic as soon as the conversation diverged.

Chen Xuejiao thought, this is also another reason why the Han family values Chen Xueru, and the countryside calls such a person Wangfu. The Han family was originally a family that opened a restaurant shop, and they originally paid attention to this statement, and what was even more rare was that Xue Ruxian was virtuous and outstanding, and he wanted her to enter the door early.

While talking in the house, there was another sound of carriages outside, and Qi Ping trotted all the way into the house: "Grandma, they are here." ”

Everyone came out one after another, Mrs. Li was supported by Qiao's and Qiao's eldest daughter-in-law Wang all the way into the door, Chanchan followed behind, holding Wang's little doll in her arms, and Li Danian was parking the carriage outside the door.

"It's a cold day, it's so far away, and it's not easy to walk...... Li Shi took the child in Chanchan's hand and took a look, Mingwa was wearing a new cotton jacket, wrapped in a thick sweater made of leather, and added a layer of quilt, Li probed his hands and feet to be warm before he was relieved, "Mingwa is still so young, you brought it, my heart as an aunt and grandmother is really distressed." ”

"Snow is so big, it's the first time it's a birthday, and it's fifteen years old, no matter how big the snow is, I'm going to come." Mrs. Li entered the house and sat down, and before she had time to take a sip of tea, she pulled Xue Ru and gave a bracelet as a gift.

The Li family lives in the mountains, which are colder and the snow is denser than this riverside area. Today's snow is heavy, before dawn, the whole mountain area is covered with thick snow, people go up to the calf belly, they are afraid of heavy snow to cover the mountain, the sky is not clear, then the heavy snow rushed to Maoshan Village, fortunately, half of the snow stopped, usually an hour away, walked three hours before coming.

Old Man Li originally wanted to come, but was persuaded by everyone, his illness was just right this autumn, but he only needed to eat some vegetables and vegetables, and he couldn't eat beef and mutton. His illness was not a serious illness in the first place, he was carefully raised, but he was half better, and Mrs. Li was afraid that there would be a bad guy on the road, so she forced him to press him at home, and he was not happy.

Chanchan still said: "My cousin's birthday was originally a happy event, and my grandfather followed, and everyone was only worried about my grandfather, didn't we ignore my cousin." Grandpa only needs to bring the congratulatory gift, and the aunt and cousin will not blame. ”

They walked all the way, and the car was full of fur clothes, and the snow on the mountains was thick, and in late autumn they put on thick jackets, and sat in the carriage, and as soon as the wind blew in, they went straight into it, and they had to wrap it in a big sweater.

Li felt sorry for his mother's family, and saw that his nephew Danian's eyes were red, and Danian was sitting in front of the carriage, wearing a thick felt hat, the brim of the hat was covered with snow, and his face was purple and red when the wind blew.

After entering the house, Li specially let him go to the Qi'an house, and asked the stone to bring a basin of hot water to his feet, for fear that it would be cold outside and cold in the house, and his feet would have frostbite when it was hot and cold.

Chen Xuejiao knew that her grandmother's family had gone all the way, even if the carriage was tightly sealed and there was a stove in the car, it still couldn't stop the cold and humidity brought by the wind and snow, so she took advantage of the busy time of the Li family to boil a big pot of thick ginger soup early, Mrs. Li and others were still talking about this, Chen Xuejiao brought ginger soup and brown sugar water, and Mrs. Li and Mrs. Han couldn't stop talking about being sensible.

Not much, Qingyu came in a carriage, this time she was alone, neither brought Mrs. Wang, nor did she have to let Wang Baozhu follow, only she brought Huan'er by herself. Her face was not good, her lips were pale, and Li Shi also let her drink a big bowl of ginger syrup when she was blown by the wind and snow.

Immediately afterwards, Wenying's family, Mrs. Cai, sister-in-law Jia, village daughter-in-law and other women in the village who were good friends with the Li family came.

After greeting each other for a while, everyone sat down again to chat. In this room, the Li family accompanied the female dependents, and called the Cai family, she has a good tongue and a funny speech, and she is not afraid of being cold.

In the room outside, Chen Xiucai took Chen Qilin to accompany the shopkeeper Han, Han Xingjian, Zheng Huozi and others, drinking tea and chatting, and Old Man Chen was also invited to the top.

The wind swept the snow foam onto the windowsill, and it was as fine and dense as if another snow had fallen.

The ladies gathered together to talk, eat fruits, eat melon seeds, tell jokes, and the room was lively and warm.

Seeing that it was noon, Qingfeng Zhuang sent a few tables of seats, and the north wing room could not be opened, so it was placed in the west wing, which was also discussed by the Li family and the Cai family.

As soon as the table was opened, several daughters-in-law in the village took a breath, and there was a table of dishes they didn't know, and the silver plates were opened, shining brightly, dazzling people's eyes. It was Zhou's request, and not only the table noodles were delivered, but also the tableware was delivered.

The Han family valued Xue Ru so much, and the Li family was only happy in their hearts, but they couldn't help but say to the Zhou family at the table full of Shanzhen: "Such a good banquet is too expensive." ”

Zhou's eyebrows opened and smiled: "Xue Ru is the first time to do a birthday, it deserves, it deserves." ”

The table was full, everyone sat down, Chen Xuejiao and Qi Ping took out the fruit wine that had been prepared long ago, made a temporary cameo appearance in the hall, and poured wine for everyone in turn. (To be continued......)