He slept so deeply that when he woke up, it was already dawn, and he was awakened by the sound of the kitchen chopping firewood. Hurriedly got up and rubbed his eyes, the window was already bright, but because the window was relatively small and the light came in, the room was still relatively dim.

He knelt and folded the quilt, came down the stairs, opened the door and went out to the hall, and saw that the stove in the kitchen was already bright, and his mother Liang was squatting there to chop wood, and hurriedly entered the kitchen: "Mother, let me come!" ”

"Get out of here! How can a man go into the kitchen? Unpromising! Hurry up and fetch water, then sweep the floor and open the door. Sweep the snow away from the door, and don't let the people who come to see the sick fall! ”

"Oh!" Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly came out to open the door of the pharmacy, stepped out to take a look, and saw that the street was covered with silver snow, but it had been stepped on by early risers, and it looked very messy. On the opposite side and on the eaves of his own pharmacy, there are still ice cubes hanging one by one.

Zuo Shaoyang stretched his waist for a long time, felt that the ancient air was extraordinarily sober, moved his hands and feet, and was about to turn back and enter the house to get a bucket to carry water, when he suddenly saw a few people on the street in front of him.

Zuo Shaoyang took a look with his sleeves in his sleeves, and was suddenly startled, only to see a frozen person lying on the door panel, ragged, who seemed to be a beggar, with round eyes and hands curled up in front of his chest. Motionless like an ice sculpture. But from this posture, Zuo Shaoyang could conclude that this person must be dead.

A soap at the head saw him and beckoned: "It's Xiao Langzhong, open the door so early?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang heard that this person knew himself, and he thought about it, his brother-in-law Hou Pu worked in the Yamen, although he was only an unpopular scribe, but the people in the Yamen should also know him, so he laughed and said: "Yes, - what's wrong with this person?" Dead? ”

"Yes, a beggar, frozen to death in the snow last night, in the alley in front, this is the seventh found this morning, damn, this thief will snow like this again, and the beggars on the street will not live! Alas! Let's go! ”

Zuo Shaoyang watched them blankly carry the frozen beggar away, and the happy mood just now suddenly disappeared. Freezing to death in the morning of so many beggars living on the streets, alas, the ancients really had a hard time. Looking back and thinking about yourself, if the family is swept away and lives on the streets before the Chinese New Year's Eve is handed over, will it also be such a fate? Suddenly there was a chill in my heart.

He returned to the kitchen in a depressed mood, picked up the bucket, and went out without saying a word, and went out in the direction of Fennel last night, turned right, creaked at the ankle-high snow, and looked around to see where there was a river. Fennel said, "The well is on the bank of the river."

Passing through the two streets, the view is impressive, and a quiet and quiet river winds its way, with fluffy white snow on both sides of the river, and the grass and reeds on the riverside are bent over by the snow. The bluestone slab stone steps on the side of the road lead to the river, and on the bank close to the river, there is a stone arch covered by the bluestone slab, and there are several girls and daughters-in-law standing next to them, with buckets at their feet, chattering and talking.

A round-faced young woman looked up and saw Zuo Shaoyang standing there with a bucket, and said with a smile: "Yo, it's Xiao Langzhong, what are you standing there stupidly looking at?" As he spoke, he pushed the young woman with round hips and thin waist next to her: "Are you secretly looking at our little sister?" Why don't you come down and get closer and take a closer look? Hee-hee-hee. ”

"Die, you!" The young woman's shoulder was pounded with the pink fist called Xiaomei, "Make fun of me, see if I don't throw you into the river!" ”

The two giggled and laughed.

The happy mood of these two lively girls infected him, so that Zuo Shaoyang temporarily got rid of the haze in his heart, and stood there with a bucket he smirked, thinking that this girl in the early Tang Dynasty was not as feudal as in the Song and Ming dynasties, and she was almost catching up with the modern girl, and walked slowly with the bucket.

Seeing him come down, the second daughter stopped making trouble, and the little daughter-in-law and eldest girl who carried the water in front had already made water, carried the water, and when she walked past him, she looked at him out of the corner of her eye, grinned, and left a fragrant wind up the stone steps.

Why are all girls and daughters-in-law carrying water? Zuo Shaoyang thought about it for a while, and suddenly understood, this is the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, after decades of war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, many young men died in battle, and many of those who did not die were soldiers in the army, so most of the family were women and children.

It was the little sister's turn, she was holding a gourd scoop in her hand, her cheeks were flushed, and she smiled and said to Zuo Shaoyang: "Hey! Come here, you take it first. I'll scoop it for you! ”

"Ouch, I really know how to hurt people!" The joking young woman giggled and squinted at Zuo Shaoyang, "Hey! Do you hear that? My little sister feels sorry for you and has been waiting for a long time, so I want to pick you first. Can't get it yet? This water is a love object! ”

"I really don't want to live you!" The little sister took the water scoop and hit the young woman, and the two giggled and made a mess.

Zuo Shaoyang is also a relatively wooden person in modern society, rarely joking with girls, where after this battle, his face suddenly turned red, and he said with a dry smile: "No, no, you come first, you pick first, I'm not in a hurry." ”

"Hee-hee, shame on him!"

When the second girl heard this, she couldn't stop laughing, and while laughing, she quickly scooped up the water, picked it on her shoulder, flickered and turned it upside down, twisted her waist and walked past Zuo Shaoyang, and the joking young woman said: "Hey! Xiaolangzhong, the little sister's heart hurts, and she will come to Ming'er to take a look at you, okay? ”

"Okay!" Zuo Shaoyang grinned twice with his surname, and then showed the eldest girl that her heart was hurting, and she shook her head and said, "I ......, I won't see the disease, my father won't let me see the disease." ”

Seeing that he was serious, the two girls glared at each other, burst into a burst of laughter like silver bells, and twisted their waists to go up the stone steps with their burdens.

Zuo Shaoyang was afraid that the second daughter would make fun of him again, and he didn't dare to look back, so he lowered his head and quickly scooped up the water, returned to the hall with the water, poured the water, and walked to the river with the bucket nervously, for fear that he would meet the two girls and young women who liked to joke and be played by them, but in his heart he wanted to meet them and talk.

When I arrived at the river, I didn't see the two daughters, and I was slightly disappointed. I didn't encounter a few picks of water in a row, presumably people have already filled the water, or the two journeys are different, and I missed it.

After filling the water tank, Zuo Shaoyang was really tired, but he couldn't rest, he took a long-handled broom from behind the door, swept the snow near the left of the door, and then swept the snow on the road to both sides, and casually swept the snow at the door of the neighborhood.

At this time, the door of a grocery store opposite also opened, and an old man came out with a broom, and saw that Zuo Shaoyang had swept away all the snow in front of his house, and was very surprised: "Ouch, Da Lang, why did you change your surname today?" In the past, you didn't even bother to sweep the snow in front of your house, why are you so diligent today, sweeping all ours? ”

The experience by the river just now made Zuo Shaoyang feel very good, and said with a smile while clearing the snow: "Isn't it good to be diligent?" If you always think I'm troublesome, I won't sweep it next time, and leave it to your old man to sweep and play slowly! ”

"Haha! This kid really changed his surname, and teased you Uncle Cai. Hahaha, thank you so much! ”

Zuo Shaoyang swept the snow at the door, returned to the house, changed a small broom, swept the house, and wiped the dust with a rag.