Zhao Xiu said a few words, and Zhang agreed to her request with a soft heart, but he didn't forget to instruct: "Just take some, don't take too much." Although the prince is polite, don't be too greedy, we are guests after all. ”

Zhao Xiu agreed with a smile, and was about to turn around and go out, but was stopped by Zhang: "Are you going to go out like this?" It's snowing outside! Put on thick clothes for me, change my boots, and talk about it! ”

Zhao Xiu couldn't, so he had to go back to the bedroom, put on a square-necked placket half-sleeved velvet armor in sheepskin, and then put on sheepskin boots. She was stunned for a moment, looked at Gao Zhen, who was sitting still by the big kang with a calm face, and asked Bihan in a low voice: "How did you take this out?" I just went out for a walk and came back soon, whatever cloak I wanted. ”

Bihan replied in a low voice: "I originally wanted to take the old cloak of gray squirrel skin given by the old lady, but the prince said that there were snow beads outside, and the old fabric was just ordinary brocade, not as good as the finch gold, if it was wet, and the weather was cold and difficult to dry, let me take this out." ”

Zhao Xiu actually didn't think there was any difference between these two cloaks that were also gray squirrel skin, but since Gao Zhen said so, he had his own reasons, and besides, she was in a hurry to go out now, so it was not good to ask Gao Zhen to wait for a long time, which cloak was not worn? She took the cloak and put it on. Bihan put on a warm pocket with a pine green satin rabbit fur lining for her to shelter her from the wind and snow.

Gao Zhen was in a good mood when he saw her wearing the cloak he gave him, and called her to go to Zhang's side to say goodbye. Zhang politely thanked his granddaughter: "She just learned to play with her paintings, and she has already obtained many good things from the palace." Shizi wants to give her paint again, thank you so much. ”

Gao Zhen smiled and saluted: "You're polite, those paints are also placed." It's better to give it to Sister Zhao, and make the best use of it. The younger generation will say goodbye first, if you have any instructions, just tell Aunt Mei, don't go outside. ”

Zhang smiled and nodded, he quietly pulled the edge of Zhao Xiu's cloak, and the two went out together.

None of them brought any of their entourage. Gao Zhen built a small road and crossed from Meilin, which was much shorter than the distance from Xizhuang and then to Dongzhuang. Zhao Xiu didn't object, and the two entered Merlin.

Snow was falling in the sky, but the stream in the plum forest was flowing with hot spring water, and it was foggy. Spread through the woods. The whole forest is set off like a fairyland. Zhao Xiu walked all the way, enjoying the beautiful scenery all the way, and he was in a happy mood.

Gao Zhen also subconsciously slowed down and gossiped with Zhao Xiu: "This forest is warmer than outside, I have been practicing boxing recently, and I love coming here, just in the open space in front of me." It's just that I don't dare to practice swords, for fear that the sharp weapon will hurt the plum blossoms. ”

Zhao Xiu smiled: "It turns out that you are also a layman. It's too beautiful to be boxing in such a beautiful place. If it's a sword dance. The dancing is also good-looking, and that's okay. ”

Gao Zhen glanced at her, Zhao Xiu himself laughed first, and after laughing, he confessed honestly: "When you didn't come before, I often came here during the day, running around, playing in the water by the stream, and occasionally secretly folding a few plum blossoms and going back to insert the bottle." Every time I fold flowers, I feel embarrassed in my heart, and I secretly pray that I don't run out and say that I destroy flowers and trees. ”

Gao Zhen couldn't quite understand her thoughts: "Why do you feel embarrassed? No one in Zhuangzi will run out to say such a disappointing thing. Flowers are planted here just for people to pick, aren't they? ”

Zhao Xiu laughed a few times, and couldn't explain it to him, so he could only talk about it left and right: "The weather has been much colder these days, and my grandmother wants me to stay in the house to do needlework, and I am not allowed to come out and run around, so you haven't met me in this forest, otherwise I can still appreciate the heroic posture of His Excellency Shizi's boxing." ”

Gao Zhen's chin raised slightly: "If you're really interested, I can call you now." ”

Zhao Xiu's eyes widened, but he soon smiled and waved his hand: "No, no, it's snowing, what kind of punch is there at this time?" It's cold outside, so let's go. As he spoke, he casually tugged at the cuffs of his armor and sped forward. Gao Zhen was dragged forward by her, so he no longer insisted, and changed: "In this case, then wait for the weather to be better another day, let's come to this forest again, and I'll call you?" ”

Zhao Xiu smiled and said, "Okay, I'll call you too." Ever since you taught me two sets of punches when I was a child, I've been fighting a lot over the years. Can you help me see if there is a mistake? ”

Gao Zhen nodded reservedly: "In that case, I'll point you out." ”

Look at this tsundere! Zhao Xiu vomited in his heart, but he still pulled his sleeve with a smile and continued to move forward.

The two of them soon walked through Merlin to the path in front of the bamboo hut. Zhao Xiu noticed that compared with the previous days, those bamboo huts seemed to have added some things, so he couldn't help but take a few more looks. Gao Zhen found out and explained: "When I come to practice boxing, sometimes I need to find a place to put down my coat and cloak, and when I am tired, I need to find a place to shelter from the wind to take a breath, and after practice, I will also have a basin of hot water to wipe my hands and face." This was the nearest room, and the men packed up a room and prepared it for me to use. If you come to play in the woods, you can take shelter from the wind when you are tired. There are charcoal basins in it, there are fire folds, and the windows are blocked with boards, so it will not be cold in the house. ”

Zhao Xiu suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "There are few opportunities for me to come, generally I won't be too far away from Luomei Courtyard, if you want to rest, just go back to the courtyard." ”

Gao Zhen didn't say anything, but there was a faint regret in his heart.

The two of them came to the flower garden and walked through several glass flower houses. Seeing the fresh and delicate flowers in the flower room, Zhao Xiu couldn't help but take a few more looks. Gao Zhen caught a glimpse of it, as if unintentionally, and asked, "What flower do you like the most?" Which one do you prefer for the flowers here? ”

Zhao Xiu smiled: "Any flower is beautiful." At this time...... It's so rare to have such beautiful flowers in winter. I folded a few plum blossoms that time, and my grandmother liked it so much that she put them on the kang table in front of the window and admired them every day. ”

This sounds a little strange, but Gao Zhen didn't think much about it, and only said: "Plum blossoms are noble, and it's a good thing to like plum blossoms." There was a pause. He looked at a flower room on the side of the road, which happened to be cultivating chrysanthemums: "Do you like the chrysanthemums?" Chrysanthemums also have the name of nobility. ”

"It's okay." Zhao Xiu's impression of chrysanthemums, in addition to being a variety of appreciation that is often used as an excuse for large families to invite guests to parties during the Double Ninth Festival. It was the flower that was offered to the ancestors, and her eyes were attracted by the bright moon flowers in the other flower room: "The moon season is also beautiful." ”

Gao Zhen secretly wrote down this matter.

They soon arrived at the back hall of Qifengzhai. Because Qi Fengzhai did not have a complete courtyard wall, they turned directly from the back of the house and did not pass through the front door at all.

It was the first time that Zhao Xiu came to the temporary residence of Gao Zhen in the back hall of Qifengzhai. When she entered the door, she realized that it was probably not designed for people in the first place, so the roof was particularly high, and the beams could be clearly seen. The room is also very large. It is twice as wide as the main house of Lok Mei Yuan, but it is only divided into three rooms. In the middle is the hall, and the furnishings are similar to those in the Plum Courtyard. Just because the room is more spacious, it seems that the space is empty and there is very little furniture.

The east house is where Gao Zhen lives and sits and sits, and a large kang is built against the east wall. It is wider and longer than the big kang of the Plum Temple. It's enough to sleep on a dozen or twenty people and turn over. Such a big kang, only for Gao Zhen to sleep alone, of course, is too wasteful, so there are several bookshelves and kang cabinets on the kang, and even the kang table has two, one desk and one for eating, which are distributed on both sides of the big kang. Do not interfere with each other. Gao Zhen only needs to move on this kang, eat, sleep, and read all of them.

There wasn't much else in the room. There are only two large suitcases, which seem to be a little empty. When I turned my head to look at the Westinghouse, there was a blue gauze cabinet to cover it, and I couldn't see anything. However, Zhao Xiu thought of the hot spring water that was hurriedly introduced, and guessed whether it would be a bathroom clean room over there?

Gao Zhen beckoned Zhao Xiu to take a seat on the East Kang, and asked the girl to go to tea. She casually untied her cloak and sat down, and found that the kang was hot, but the air in the room was much colder, not as warm as Furong Tower and Luomei Courtyard. She looked around and understood. This house has a high roof and a large space, even if you put a few more charcoal pots, it will not be warm, and it will cause waste, and building a fire wall is too time-consuming and troublesome.

Zhao Xiu thought that Gao Zhen had been living in such a house these days, and suddenly felt a little sorry for him.

Gao Zhen asked the girl to find the paint for painting, and he went to the kang to look for the album, found a copy, took it out and handed it to Zhao Xiu: "Do you think this one can be used?" Looking at Zhao Xiu with some pity, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Zhao Xiu hurriedly took the album, lowered his head and flipped through it randomly, but he didn't actually look at it at all: "You...... Won't you feel cold when you live in this house? ”

Gao Zhen stared at her for a long time, but did not answer. Seeing that he was silent, Zhao Xiu couldn't help but look up at him suspiciously.

Gao Zhen turned his head and said lightly: "It's nothing, it's warm on the kang." If it was too cold to stand, my father wouldn't have allowed me to live here. On the first night of his visit, his father came to inspect it. ”

In the past, my father would never have had to worry about this kind of thing, because it was his mother's business. After the mother concubine left, his father took over the motherhood, which made him very moved in his heart, and also made him understand that he was not a child who no one cared about if he lost his mother.

Now there is another Zhao Xiu who cares about him, which makes him feel better.

He raised his head, smiled and said to Zhao Xiu, "Sister Zhao is cold? Would you like to get a hand stove? As he spoke, he took a small silver hand stove from the kang cabinet, put a few pieces of charcoal into the furnace with a silver stove in the brazier by the kang, closed the lid and stuffed it into Zhao Xiu's hand.

Zhao Xiu looked down at the delicate pattern on the hand stove, and Gao Zhen took out a leather hand cage for her out of nowhere: "Add this, and you will be warmer." Why don't you put your cloak on? ”

Zhao Xiu looked up and saw that the hand cage he handed over was actually made of the same finch tweed material as on her cloak, and it was also gray squirrel skin, which could be matched with her cloak. She was surprised: "Is this also done with the cloak?" As soon as the question came out, she felt that it was not. Because the fabric of the hand cage is also embroidered with dark gold silk threads with flower patterns, it really doesn't seem like a style that Gao Zhen would like a boy.

Gao Zhen lowered his head and continued to flip through the album, as if he was a little careless: "No, this is a new one I asked someone to make recently." When I was a child, in addition to your cloak, I also made a brocade robe out of the same material, but now I am too small to wear at all, and it is a pity to put it in vain, so I simply dismantled it to make something useful. Am I not keeping filial piety? This woven gold thing naturally can't be used, so forget it for you. He pulled out a picture book and handed it over with a smile: "Take it back with the handstove, I still have it here." ”

Zhao Xiu suddenly felt a little uneasy, the cloak was worn by him, and she just didn't come out with the cloak that day, and it was nothing to accept his gift; He didn't need the paint for the time being, and it wasn't worth much silver, so it was nothing to give her; She just borrowed the album and copied it, and she would still return it later, which was also just a trivial matter. But...... The silver hand stove is very valuable, this gray squirrel hand cage is even more precious, or it is specially made for her, if she accepts it like this, is it not appropriate?

Maybe Gao Zhen didn't take these things to heart, but she knew in her heart that for no reason, she shouldn't accept expensive gifts from others......

She carefully placed the hand stove on the kang table, and placed the hand cage next to it.

Gao Zhen was stunned: "What's wrong?" Aren't you cold? ”

Zhao Xiu shook his head and picked up the two albums: "I can't accept these two gifts." ”

Gao Zhen's eyes showed a puzzled look: "Why?" ”

Zhao Xiu thought for a while: "Because it's very valuable?" Reactive power is not ......"

Gao Zhen disagreed: "What kind of value is this? It's just an ordinary object. ”

Zhao Xiu didn't want to argue with the ancient tyrants, so he could only say: "To you, it is an ordinary object, but to others, it is a very valuable thing." As you know, this is not something that ordinary people out there can afford. Even if our family is an old marquis's house, only my grandmother has a few good leather clothes, and the ones for my brother and me are old, and I use a brass hand stove in my own house......"

Gao Zhen was a little anxious: "If you really want to say that, wouldn't the cloak I gave you more valuable?" But you took it then! ”

Zhao Xiu paused, pushed the cloak towards him, Gao Zhen's eyes suddenly became terrifying, so she couldn't help but stop her movements, and thought for a while: "I accepted the cloak because you said that you couldn't wear it anymore, so I accepted your kindness in order not to waste it." But you can still use the hand stove and hand cage......"

"It can't be used!" Gao Zhen lowered his face coldly and said, "Look at their appearance, is that what I can use?!" "The silver hand stove is pumpkin-shaped, with plum blossoms and ice cracks carved on it, and it is the style that girls like; The hand cage is also embroidered with gold thread. Not to mention that he is keeping filial piety now, even if he doesn't, he won't use such a fancy thing.

His father always said that he would not make girls happy, so he tried to learn. But now that he has prepared the gift so carefully, why is Sister Zhao unwilling to accept it?

Zhao Xiu looked at him and whispered, "You can ...... without merit Leave it to your future princess ......"

Gao Zhen became even more angry, and his face was completely gloomy: "You saved my life, can't you stand a few little things?!" Zhao Xiu wanted to say something, but he knocked over the hand stove on the ground, and threw the hand cage away: "You don't want to forget it!" It was originally prepared for you, you don't want it, and no one else can make it, so just throw it away! ”

He turned his back and sat cross-legged, sulking to himself. Zhao Xiu opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say. The atmosphere in the room was at a stalemate. (To be continued......)

PS: Innocent and cold...... Why does it cool down suddenly? It was windy and rainy, and a week ago, I was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and chiffon skirt......