When it came to Xueru's birthday, Chen Xuejiao got up early in the morning.

In the past few days, it has been very cold outside, the cold wind has swept the windows with water vapor, and the two chrysanthemums in the yard seem to have withered overnight.

Yesterday the north wind howled all night, and the windows clanged. In the second half of the night, there was a sudden banging sound outside, and the startled Xue Jiao's eyes widened, but Chen Zifu's voice came, which turned out to be a braided garlic hanging under the eaves in the upper room that was hung up by the wind.

By the candlelight of grinding tofu in the third room outside, the sky was covered with snow foam, and it was as fine as catkins. It can cover the Zhulan Uwa, and it is thinly covered with a layer of white.

Chen Xuejiao turned over and continued to sleep, with a sweet smile on the corner of her mouth, it was Xueru's birthday, after so many days of hard work, she could finally be lively.

On the second day, there was another snowfall at dawn, at that time Chen Xuejiao was still in a dream, when she woke up, Chen Xuejiao saw that the sky was bright, and thought that she was late, and saw that the snow that slept with her was also getting dressed, so she opened the window drawer, tore open the curtain, and looked from the inside out, it turned out that it was not daylight, but a night of heavy snow, and it would be more than a foot thick, and the sky was still rubbing and pulling.

"Wow, it's snowing." Chen Xuejiao clapped her hands excitedly, eager to immediately lift the quilt and run out, and roll in the snow.

Chen Xueru frowned while dressing: "It's such a big snow outside, the road is not easy to walk, I don't know if grandma can still come to our house." ”

Today is Xueru's birthday, and it was snowing heavily. The sky that had been cloudy for the past few days suddenly cleared up yesterday. There was not a trace of clouds in the sky, and the sun was as bright as spring, and I never thought that the snow would be like cotton wool today.

She is the eldest sister who knows etiquette and is sensible. In the end, she is only a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl's family, the most fun-loving and noisy age, talking about her birthday every day, she seems to have no intention on her face, and Li is even more serious, but she is still thinking about it in her heart, looking forward to the arrival of her birthday every day.

This heavy snowfall. I'm afraid that my birthday will be deserted.

"Grandma hurts you like this, she will definitely come." Chen Xuejiao lay in front of the window and watched the snow outside the house.

“…… It's not good not to come, grandma and grandpa are old. Especially grandpa is not in good health", he said this, but he couldn't hide the disappointment in his eyes.

It's not that there hasn't been such a situation, most rural people have a problem with eating, where do they have spare money to celebrate their birthdays. Generally, it is the year of the war. There are relatives who are far away, and it is inconvenient to come or they are shy in their pockets, so they ask someone to send congratulatory gifts, but they do not come to participate.

The Li family is richer than ordinary country people, and Mrs. Li has always loved snow like this granddaughter, but with such a big snow outside, and she is old, it's really hard to say that she can't come.

On my birthday. Han Xingjian will definitely come.

She hadn't seen her in days, and the last time she saw him, he had come to deliver frostbite cream. She was angry in her heart, and she didn't go out, but she looked at the window, and saw him standing in the yard in a daze, and met his eyes, and somehow, she, who had always been meek, closed the window, shrank into the house, and wrenched off one of the sleeves of a cotton shirt that had been made for him.

Before she could finish exhaling the anger in her heart, the Han family came, but what the Zhou family and the Li family said was not clear.

Bi Tao spoke quickly, pulling her blindly coquettish: "Do I call you a good sister or a good sister-in-law, or a good sister-in-law." ”

Xue Ru's face turned red, and Bi Tao looked at her with empty eyes: "I don't know what happened to my brother, I stomped my feet and sighed when I came home a few days ago, and I couldn't wait to pull out the hair on a feather duster, so scared that I hurriedly went into the house and didn't dare to bother him anymore, good sister-in-law, next time you see my brother persuade me, don't freak out her sister." ”

And said: "I listened to a few words, my brother muttered, saying that except for Xueru, which one can enter my eyes, tsk, who doesn't know, he doesn't like shame, and he grinned out without being clear." I told him this morning, you really should tell my sister-in-law what you said, just say it in our house. ”

laughed while talking, and squeezed her eyebrows with Xue Jiao, making Xue Ruzhen's face red, and the fire in her heart disappeared in an instant.

Chen Xuejiao looked at the snow outside, this snow was whiter than the era she lived in before, such a thick snow, like the cream melted by ice cream.

The house was burned warm, and it was made of non-smoking silver charcoal. Chen Xuejiao was afraid of the heat, and when the brazier was close, she sweated on her body, so she only put the brazier farther away. At this time, she thought the house was stuffy, opened the window to let some wind in, disperse the smell, as soon as the window opened, the snow outside the window drifted in, Chen Xuejiao reached out to pick it up, the cold wind blew her face, and the heating in the house, extremely comfortable.

Such white snow, without a trace of impurities, after a while, a thin layer of snow fell on her hands, just like snowflakes and powdered sugar, Chen Xuejiao couldn't help but lick it with her tongue, there was no taste, it was cool and refreshing.

"What are you doing, open the window well, you will be comfortable now, you will be cold and hot, be careful of the big girl beating you." Jing Hao walked over and closed the window, and Xiang slapped her, slapping the snow off her hand and falling to the floor, melting into a puddle of water.

"It's so gluttonous, even the snow eats." Chen Xueru smiled, put on a thick cotton coat, and pulled her hair, "I'll go to the pot house to make fried sugar cakes for my sister to eat later, stuffed with red bean paste and smeared with sugar, which is the most sweet." ”

Chen Xuejiao loves to eat sweet cakes, she liked to eat rice cakes the most in her previous life, the white and glutinous rice cakes were put into the oil pot and rolled over, spread a layer of white sugar and sprinkled with a handful of osmanthus flowers, she could eat two arm-long rice cakes while it was hot. It's just that Baitu Town is mainly interviewed, and it is not happy to eat rice cakes, which is the food of the south, and I went back to Xuzhou Mansion to invite the medicine king to eat once, on the burden next to the temple, the vendor opened his throat and shouted, Chen Xuejiao bought two pieces and ate them, but it didn't taste right, and the oil soaked in it was fried old, and the sugar was very little.

Because of this, when she came back, she took the steamed bun and cut it, wrapped it in an egg and fried it in an oil pan, and sprinkled it with sugar after it came out of the pot, which tasted no worse than rice cakes. It's just that there is still a layer missing, and after thinking about it, I did it according to my memory, borrowed a tofu mill from the third room to grind the corn into powder, and added white flour to reconcile. After the expansion is completed, pat it into a thin flat circle and fry it in an oil pan until golden brown. Wrapped in white sugar red bean paste, it is soft and sweet and glutinous, which is very delicious.

This thing can't be eaten often, and after eating too much food, Chen Xuejiao only eats it once in a while. Today, Xue Ru saw her sticking out her tongue to add snow, and suddenly smiled, this sister doesn't have too many ideas. Usually like a little adult, in the end he is a child, full of foodie appearance.

"When can't you eat that sugar cake? I don't have to eat today, it's my sister's birthday. Chen Xue looked at it delicately, and her braids loosened and loosened, "I haven't wished my sister a happy birthday yet." ”

said. Then I pulled it and kept it quiet. He didn't wear any thick clothes, but only a single shirt and trousers, and bowed down with his hands folded.

It's as funny as snow haha.

While the three sisters were laughing, Li walked in, holding a plate of sugar paste in his hand, and smiled: "I ate this first and freshened up." ”

"My mother still knows my heart, I just said that I wanted to eat fried sugar cakes, and my mother brought it in." Xue Jiao held Lee's arm. The twisted candy generally sticks to Lee's smile.

Li scratched her nose: "It's sweet for you." ”

Qi An and Qi Ping also took leave from school, such a cold day. Qi An didn't delay for a moment, he got up early to study, and Qi Ping also got up, not to study, but to have a snowball fight in the yard with Big Dan.

This sugar cake is what Qi Ping proposed to eat.

Chen Xuejiao didn't use a saucer, she took one out of the bowl with her hand, put her mouth on the side of it and took a big bite, and ate two in one go.

"I have eaten too much of this thing, and on Xueru's birthday today, I will keep my stomach for a banquet." Li handed over a towel to Xue Jiao to wipe her mouth.

Looking at the snow outside, she frowned, she thought the same as Xueru, this snow is falling so much, I don't know if the invited people will not come to make Xueru's birthday because of the slippery road.

Her daughter was fifteen years old and young, and it snowed so hard once in her life, and it would be the same as when she was born.

"I saw that the snow was a little smaller than it used to be, and maybe it would stop when the sun came out."

Li patted Xueru's hand, looking at her more and more delicate cheeks, and more and more slender figure, this daughter who has been suffering with her since she was a child has grown up in the end, and the marriage will be brought up after the age of fifteen.

"My snow is like growing up, and my mother will dress you up today." As he spoke, Li pressed Xue Ru in front of the dresser.

This dresser is also the marriage of the Li family, which was a big object back then, and the countrymen generally can't afford to shine on the bronze mirror, so they dress up and comb directly to the Xiaohuai River in front of the door. It was still Mr. Chen who loved his daughter, so he asked someone to transport it all the way from the south, and on the way to transport, his right foot scraped off the paint. When Wen Yan came out of the pavilion, Mrs. Chen started the idea of this dresser, but was pressed down by Old Man Chen, so that it was saved, and now the bronze mirror is spent, reflecting the shadow of a person.

Xue Jiao and Jing Hao brought water, carried towels, and let Xue Ru wash her cheeks. Afraid that she would go out to solicit guests today, her hands would be swollen after being urged by ice and snow, so she specially applied a thick layer of frostbite cream, which was not as bad as frostbite cream in previous years, and according to the different colors of the bottles, they revealed the smell of roses and osmanthus.

Li combed Xue Ru's hair, put a turquoise makeup on her forehead, inserted the hairpin given by Zhou when she was engaged, and wore a newly made red rhombic dress, with a cloak with carved dark patterns on the outside, and the whole person was as beautiful as a flower fairy.

Chen Xueru put rouge on her mouth for the first time, and when she pursed her lips, her whole face became more and more delicate, and she looked at herself in the mirror and smiled embarrassedly.

"Sister, you look good when you dress up like this." Chen Xuejiao smiled coquettishly on the side.

I thought that the snow would keep falling, but as soon as the sun came out, the snow stopped, and the whole yard was a world of pink carvings.

After breakfast, Li and Chen Xiucai discussed today's banquet in the house, and Chen Qi'an took Xuejiao, Qi Ping, Da Dan and other children to clear the snow.

Dragonfly and Zhao Yiming came first, Dragonfly held a bouquet of plum blossoms in his hand, Zhao Yiming brought a peaceful embroidered statue, and at a glance he knew that it was his mother Xu's craftsmanship.

Chen Zifu didn't go out to sell tofu today, but also waved a broom and swept the road out of front with Qi An.

What surprised Chen Xuejiao the most was that Zhang also waved a broom, pretending to sweep the snow, not sweeping the place next to it, and sweeping the door of the north wing with a single door.

"Fourth aunt, you don't need to sweep there, we just sweep it." Chen Xuejiao knew in her heart that Zhang's was greedy for Xueru's birthday, so she pretended to be with a broom, but her behavior, if she looked at Mrs. Chen's eyes, she had another rhetoric, she didn't want Mrs. Chen to take advantage of something to give birth to a moth on Xueru's birthday.

"Snow is now on her birthday, everyone is so busy, and I will also help." Zhang grinned.

As soon as the words fell, Mrs. Chen shouted under the curtain in the upper room: "Black-hearted seeds, the snow in front of your house is so thick, go and sweep the snow for others, what is the pain in your idle eggs." ”

Mrs. Chen held her breath in her heart, the granddaughter in the second room caused her a lot of trouble, not to mention, Old Man Chen has also been separated from her these days, no matter how she cried and made trouble, she still gave Xueru a golden hairpin. What's even more annoying is the big house, for such a big event as Xueru's birthday, all of them invited her, but they didn't invite her, making it clear that there was no her in their eyes.

Because of Chen Xueru's engagement last time, Mrs. Chen was asked not to come forward, and she gave Xueru no face in public. After that, Li's heart became cold, and he discussed with Chen Xuejiao's children, and even Chen Xiucai didn't say hello, so he decided not to invite Mrs. Chen, but only Mr. Chen.

Mrs. Chen still put her mother-in-law's score, just waiting for Li to put down her body and invite her, when she came, people didn't take her to heart at all, with her without her, Xueru's birthday was photographed, she held back a mouthful of blood and couldn't spit it out in her throat, and caught Zhang and scolded her.

Chen Xuejiao also ignored Mrs. Chen, went up and pulled Zhang's broom, and glanced at the upper room: "Fourth aunt, don't make grandma angry." ”

"Whoever provokes her, makes trouble every day." Zhang muttered, didn't sweep the snow in the upper room, and turned back to his south wing.

As soon as the snow was cleared, I heard the sound of horse-drawn carriages outside.

"Oops, I said there was a snowball fight, your snow has been cleared." Bi Tao was the first to jump out of the carriage, jumped into the yard, picked up Xue Jiao and pulled it affectionately.

"It's up to you, the girl's family, there's no right line." Zhou was disgusted and reached out to help the old lady Han in the carriage, while Han Xingjian stood aside and instructed the coachman to move things out.

Chen Xuejiao and Jing Hao hurriedly walked outside to pick up Mrs. Han, Xueru saw Han Xingjian coming through the window, and she was too shy to come out.

"Grandma, auntie, you are here, quickly, sit in the house." Chen Xuejiao smiled enthusiastically, glanced at Han Xingjian again, saw that his eyes couldn't stop glancing into the courtyard, and smiled, "My sister is in the house." ”

Han Xingjian scratched his head embarrassedly.

Here, the Li family and Chen Xiucai came out of the house, and the Chen and Han families shouted to each other in tacit understanding: "In-laws." (To be continued......)