The snow is flying, the Jade Emperor Mountain to Jiuyao Mountain is white, the temperature accumulates quickly at the freezing point, those evergreen pines and cypresses are snow and ice hanging, the branches are often crushed, and they fall to the ground with a "bang", and even this sound is cold.

Ran Sheng's voice was loud, and Chen Caozhi asked him to shout: "Don't come up yet, the mountain road is icy, be careful of slipping, we will come down to pick you up." ”

Chen Caozhi, Laide and Ran Sheng changed into high-toothed wax sandals, Chen Caozhi ordered Laide to bring a few pieces of hemp rope, the three of them wore bamboo hats, each holding a cane, stepping on a thick layer of snow to go down to the mountain, saw two ox carts parked under the mountain, each with a plain silk lantern, sister-in-law Ding Youwei, Yinggu, Xiaochan, Qingzhi, Swift, A Xiu, Zongzhi and Run'er all came, driving Laifu, Laizhen father and son, and Jing Nu also came.

Chen Caozhi was both happy and worried, and said: "Sister-in-law, why are you all here on this snowy day, what should you do if you are freezing!" ”

Under the interplay of lanterns and snow, his cheeks were almost transparent, his lips were faintly red, his shoulders shrugged slightly, he smiled and sighed towards the tip of his hand, and said: "It's so cold, but Zongzhi and Run'er both said that they would come over to spend Chinese New Year's Eve with Uncle Ugly, so they simply came over, and the family was reunited and kept the year, and it would not be deserted." ”

Zong Zhi and Run'er were so cold that they were red and fluttered, and said, "Uncle Ugly, we are not cold, take us up the mountain quickly." ”

Chen Caozhi ordered Laide and Ran Shengzong and Run'er to go up the mountain, and the seven-year-old Run'er saw Ran Sheng squatting down to carry her, and said a little hesitantly: "Uncle Ugly, you can carry Run'er, or Run'er will go by herself." ”

Ran Sheng saw that Run'er wanted him to carry his back, and he continued to squat or stand, his face was flushed, and he was very embarrassed.

Chen Caozhi said with a smile: "Uncle Ugly wants to take care of your relatives and Aunt Ying, so let Xiao Sheng carry you." ”

Run'er then lay down on Ran Sheng's broad back with an "oh", Ran Sheng stood up with a bow, and went to the grass hut halfway up the mountain with Zongzhi on his back.

The snow was a little lighter at this point. But it still swept with the wind. Into the collar. A little wet and cool.

Ding Youwei, Yinggu, Xiaochan and Qingzhi are wearing cloth shoes. Chen Caozhi said: "Sister-in-law, how can you do this." When I went up to the straw hut, my socks were all wet. ”

Ding Youwei said: "It's okay. We all brought our own socks and changed them. ”

Chen Caozhi squatted down. Take out a few pieces of twine. He raised his head and said, "Sister-in-law's hemp rope is wrapped around the bottom of the shoes." Not afraid of slipping up the mountain. ”

Ding Youwei's left foot lifted slightly. Chen Caozhi quickly wrapped a piece of hemp rope around his sister-in-law Ding Youwei's ankle to the bottom of his shoes. Soon he wrapped his right foot around him as well—

Ding Youwei felt a little embarrassed.

Chen Caozhi went to bind Yinggu's feet again, and Yinggu said repeatedly: "Don't dare, don't dare, how dare you work Xiaolangjun." "I want to come by myself, the old waist and legs are stiff, and it is quite inconvenient to it, and it has been wrapped three times and two times.

Xiaochan, Qingzhi, Yuyan and Ah Xiu smiled and grinned and wrapped themselves together, Xiaochan looked down at the hemp rope wrapped around Ding Youwei and Yinggu's feet and said, "It's still Xiaolangjun well, it's really strange that Jun does everything well." ”

Chen Caoyi smiled: "Okay, let's go up the mountain." He handed the embroidered staff in his hand to Aunt Ying.

The Jade Emperor Mountain is not high and the shed is halfway up the mountain, less than a hundred zhang away from the foot of the mountain, Chen Caozhi carefully followed behind the old girl Huan Yinggu and sister-in-law Ding Youwei, who were nearly fifty years old, if the two of them had a mistake, they could hold it in time.

Ding Youwei walked very carefully, for fear that she would slip and fall and ask Xiaolang to help her, Xiaolang was tall, taller than her, and he would be seventeen years old after the New Year, so he couldn't be regarded as a young man, and there should be some taboos between uncles and sisters-in-law.

Although the mountain road is difficult to walk in ice and snow, fortunately, the distance is short, and it only takes a quarter of an hour to go up to the grass shed on the mountainside, Zong Zhi and Run'er stood under the eaves and waited, Run'er "Gege" smiled: "Mother, ugly uncle, Xiao Sheng just fell down-"

Ran Sheng's face turned red and said, "That's not counted, it's just that your hand is on the ground." ”

Run'er said: "Then you have to roll all over the snow to be considered a fall?" Fortunately, I held it firmly, otherwise I would have planted it, but even if I planted it, it didn't matter, the snow was thick and wouldn't hurt. ”

Ding Youwei smiled and said with a thin smile: "As long as you talk a lot, hurry up and go in, don't blow the cold wind." ”

Ding Youwei, Yinggu, Xiaochan, Qingzhi, Swift, and A Xiu's cloth shoes were soaked in snow, and their socks were not wet, so they went into the grass shed to change into clean cloth shoes, and Laifu and Laizhen came in with two big food boxes, and the food boxes were soup cakes and wheat rice, as well as some pastries.

Chen Caozhi asked Laide to follow his father and brother back to Chenjiawu, and drove to pick up his sister-in-law Ding Youwei and his party before noon tomorrow, and Jing Nu stayed here.

The one-armed Jing Nu boiled water and hot soup cakes in the grass shed on the left, and Ran Sheng started to do it, and it didn't take half an hour for the steaming soup cakes, wheat rice and pastries to be served.

There were eleven people crowded into the narrow grass shed, it was very lively, and the two braziers were burning vigorously, and Zong Zhi and Run'er felt very happy in the crowd.

Ding Youwei's eyes were moist, in the four years of Ding's villa, she wanted to return to Chenjiawu for a long time, and now she is finally back, but Qingzhi will never come back, and her aunt is also gone, there is no satisfaction in this world

Beautiful things, with this pair of lovely children, what more can you ask for!

Zong Zhi and Run'er both remembered their grandmother, and Run'er asked Chen Caozhi: "Uncle Ugly, can grandmother see us on this snowy day?" ”

Chen Caozhi said: "Yes, the stars are always in the sky, the wind and snow can't block it, grandmother is in the sky, and in our hearts, we think of grandmother, grandmother will always be with us, isn't it?" ”

The two children said in unison, "Yes." ”

On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the third year of Shengping, simple and warm, the cold wind swept over the grass hut, swept over the pine and cypress tips, whined low, snowflakes drifted in from the door gap, Zong Zhi and Run'er laughed and chased after it, saying that it was a snow butterfly.

Chen Caozhi's desk has ten volumes of Ge Shi's book "The Legend of the Immortals" borrowed from the Chu Balcony Taoist Academy, and he tells some fairy stories, Xiaochan Siwen, Zongzhi, Run'er and Ran Sheng all listened to it with relish, and in the second half of the night, the two children were really sleepy and fell asleep on their mother Ding Youwei's lap.

Ding Youwei and Xiaochan put the two children on the straw mat where Chen Caozhi usually slept and covered them with thick, and Jing Nu and Ran Sheng also went to the grass hut next door to rest or talk.

Ding Youwei knelt on the side of the pine case, looked at Chen Caozhi's "Ming Shenghu Treatise on Xuanji" written by Chen Caozhi, and said with a smile: "Xiaolang's sister-in-law is about to be unable to read the articles he writes now." ”

Chen Caozhi said: "It's all an empty theory, and it is going to be presented to those adults and gentlemen in Jiankang in the future." ”

Uncle narrated, unconsciously entered the house, the sky gradually brightened, Chen Caozhi said: "It is now the first month of spring in the fourth year of Shengping." ”

At that time, the three brothers Lai, Laizhen, and Laide drove three cars to pick up Ding Youwei and his party back to Chenjiawu, and Chen Caozhi also went back together to participate in the ancestor worship ceremony of the Qiantang Chen ancestral hall.

On the sixteenth day of the first month, Chen Shang and Sun Tai went to Jiankang together, waiting for the news of being a scholar, Chen Caozhi was still guarding the tomb of his mother in Yuhuang Mountain, the grass was sprouting, the spring flowers were blooming, and most of the pine and cypress saplings planted by Chen Caozhi survived, stretched out the branches, and swayed in the spring breeze.

On February 24th, on this day, Liu Shangzhi came to Jade Emperor Mountain to discuss with Chen Caozhi the learning experience of "Jiao's Yilin", and Ran Sheng outside the grass shed shouted: "Xiao Langjun, there are guests here, there are patriarchs and uncles, and Feng County, ah, that's Dr. Xu——"

Chen Caozhi and Liu Shangzhi came to the outside of the grass shed and looked down the mountain, the third chief and the fifth entourage were coming up the mountain, Chen Xian, the patriarch of the Chen clan, led the way, and Feng Mengxiong and Dr. Xu Zao Xu were beside him.

Chen Caozhi and Liu Shangzhi hurriedly greeted Dr. Xu Zao, and Xu Zao said solemnly: "I will talk about it after I have laid tribute to Chen's mother Li." ”

As a filial son, Chen Caozhi accompanied Xu Zao to his mother's tomb to pay respects, and then invited Dr. Xu to sit in the grass shed.

Xu Zao looked at Chen Caozhi and said: "It's been nearly a year since Wu Jun's farewell, and Cao Zhi has grown up, although his face is reduced, but his spiritual connotation is not decadent because of mourning-" He looked at a few stacks of books on the pine case, nodded and said: "The Book of Filial Piety cloud 'body skin, the parents who receive it, dare not destroy it, filial piety to the beginning; Standing on the road, making a name for yourself in future generations, in order to show your parents, and the end of filial piety. 'Don't forget to learn in the house of Cao, which can be described as the way of filial piety. ”

Speaking of Xu Miao, Xu Zao said: "Xu Miao has gone to Jingzhou with Gu Kaizhi at the beginning of the month, and I am here to propose to Brother Feng's beloved daughter for Xu Miao——"

Chen Caozhi and Liu Shangzhi were stunned.

Feng Mengxiong, the minister of Qiantang County on the side, smiled slightly, obviously agreeing to this marriage.

Chen Caozhi congratulated Dr. Xu and Uncle Feng, and said in his heart: "The immortals are cautious, knowledgeable, ambitious, and have a bright future. ”

Liu Shangwei was concerned about his future and asked Xu Zao: "Does Dr. Xu know if the 6 envoys of Wu County will be reinstated?" ”

Xu Zao said: "The imperial court edict has been issued, and the 6 envoys are the Zuo Min Shangshu, and the 6 envoys have not yet decided whether to respond to the call." ”

Liu Shangzhi asked: "Then who will take over the Taishou of Wu County?" ”

Xu Zao said: "It is still Chu Chenglang who acts as the Taishou. Xu Zao must have heard the rumors about Chen Caozhi and 6S, and said: "Chu Chenglang's behavior is criticized by the people of Wu County, he can't sit firmly in this position, I heard that Chu Chenglang wants to join forces with the Yang Zhai Chu clan, I'm afraid it's wishful thinking." ”

Qian Tang Chu clan is the last clan, and Yang Zhai Chu clan is a high-ranking scholar clan, the current Empress Dowager Chu garlic is from Yang Zhai Chu, Chu Jian wants to climb the high branch of the Empress Dowager Chu, and he is really a very thoughtful person, just like Liu Shangwei to climb the Han clan in general, the Empress Dowager Chu once hung the curtain to listen to the government, is a woman with great vision and skill, how can it make Yang Zhai Chu and the Qian Tang Chu clan with a bad reputation!

Xu Zao spent more than ten days in Qiantang and returned to Wu County on the sixth day of March.

On the day after Xu Zao left Qiantang, on the seventh day of the third month, Chen Shang came back from Jiankang, Chen Shang set off for Jiankang on the sixteenth day of the first month, and came back in less than two months, what is the big deal?

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