I kowtowed and said goodbye, and as soon as the bamboo door closed, I couldn't wait to open the wooden box in my arms.

In the wooden box, there was a roll of plain white silk, a roll of pale yellow fine linen, and a wormwood-colored silk cloth. I looked at the winter coat without the sandwich on my body, touched the silk linen of my slippery hands in the lacquer box, and then looked back at the warm study house behind me, and a hot current suddenly poured into my heart. This hot flow through my whole body, making my whole body warm as if soaking in warm soup, and the evening breeze with ice and snow in my ears suddenly became warm.

It only took two days for the cypress to make a new dress for me, and I wanted to find a gap to put it on to thank the general, but I didn't have a chance. The people of Yongcheng seemed to know overnight that the general was going to stay in the capital for a long time, and the prayer stickers were handed in in an endless stream, and the general's study was crowded with high-minded scholars every day.

In the past few days, Si'er has been busy and quietly taking a trip to the city for Yu An. She found the only chestnut tree in the elm grove outside the city and carved a mark on the bark with a stone. Yu An said that if his house slave did not die, he would find a way to save him from the city after seeing the mark. Si'er did things well, but after returning home, he accidentally fainted in the yard and broke his head.

If Yu An wants to continue to live in the mansion, we must solve a problem first. That's – eating.

The three children with long bodies rely on the few mouthfuls of millet soup distributed in the house to eat. So, I hit the idea on a few "noisy dead people". "Noisy Dead" is the name I gave to a fat bird with a red face with black tail feathers. In the past few days, these birds have flown from nowhere, standing on the trees every morning and dusk and clucking, and the calls are so loud that they can be heard from afar.

Yu An was very curious about my plan to catch the birds, and he didn't know why I didn't make a slingshot, didn't set a trap, and just scattered a bag of grass seeds under the tree and was done.

In the spring of the year before last, I went out to the city with my maid sisters to pick kudzu, and after running in the field for a long time, I found that there was a kind of grass seed, and the birds would spin around in place like a drunk person when they ate too much, and even if they flew, they were crooked. I tried to catch these "drunk" birds, but after all, they can fly, and it is a great luck to catch only one out of ten. Later, I thought that I could use this method in the winter, so that I didn't have to catch it, just sprinkle grass seeds under the tree, and wait another night, and the "drunk" bird would not fly into the nest and naturally freeze to death.

On the second day after the grass seeds were sown, Si'er and I went to the east yard early in the morning to look for the 'noisy dead'. Sure enough, we found one under the big tree, which seemed to have frozen to death, and it was as heavy as a chicken raised in the house.

Si'er couldn't close her mouth with a smile, I handed the bird to her, pointed to the canopy above my head and said, "There may be two more in the nest, you wait, I'll go up and see if I'm frozen to death?" This time, I guarantee that you and Yu An will have a full meal. With that, he climbed up with both hands on the trunk.

"Is there anything else up there?" Si'er stood under the tree with his head tilted and shouted loudly.

"Yes! I'll throw it down, and you take it! "I found one on a branch next to the bird's nest and threw it down.

"This one is fatter!" Si'er clapped his hands with a smile, "Is there anything else?" ”

"There's a nest up there, I'll take a look." I reached out and grabbed a thicker branch and moved it up little by little, "Ha, there's another one, that's enough for us to eat for days." I was overjoyed and bowed my head and shouted to Si'er.

I reached for the bird's neck, but the bird in the nest had not yet froze to death, so it turned around and pecked me in a daze, and I screamed in pain.

"What are you doing up there?!" Suddenly there was a loud shout in my ears.

I looked down and saw the general standing under the tree with his hands behind his back, looking at me with a serious face.

I was so shocked that I fell down on my head because I didn't step on my feet.

"Ahh I closed my eyes and waited for the pain to strike, but the expected pain did not come, and the general reached out and caught me.

When it was over, I chuckled and opened my eyes tremblingly.

The general looked at me with a frown, looking angry.

I struggled to jump out of his arms, knelt on the ground and didn't dare to get up, and Si'er also fell to my knees in fright.

"What are you doing?"

"Catch the bird......" my voice couldn't help but tremble.

"Go up to the tree and catch a live bird? Don't you still have wings? ”

"I ......," I was dejected as to explain it, when the fat bird that pecked me staggered down from the tree, staggered a few steps at the General's feet, and then crashed into his leg and fainted.

There was silence for the three of them.

After a long time, the general coughed and said to Si'er: "You go down!" Then he looked at me again, turned around and walked away without saying anything.

"Ah Shi, what do you mean by this, General?" Si'er knelt beside me and whispered.

"Still don't understand? Let me go back first, and let me kneel here. I knelt on the ground with my head down, "I can't escape today's punishment, you go back and get one to cook into soup first, and then kill the other two and take the snow bag and keep it for tomorrow." ”

"What about you?" Si'er asked anxiously with a frowning face.

I smiled and comforted her, "It's okay, the general is soft-hearted, and he will let me go back later." Go ahead, I'm waiting to get back to the broth later! ”

Si'er had no choice but to turn back one step at a time.

I knelt in the snow, and the snow under my knees quickly melted into icy water. I'm already full of problems on my body, and if I kneel for a long time, I'm afraid that even this leg will be useless. I smiled wryly and put my hands under my knees, and soon all the places that were exposed outside my clothes were unconscious.

At this moment, a dark blue robe was draped over my shoulders. I lifted my frozen neck with difficulty, and with a sigh of relief, I saw through the white mist the general standing in front of me with a worried expression.

"Master, I know it's wrong." My lips were almost frozen together.

The general sighed, grabbed me with his long hand, and picked me up. I sat in the crook of his left arm, and a small face turned red: "I'm eight years old, and my child needs to be hugged ......."

The general looked at me and sighed, "You didn't burn to death in the fire, and now you want to run to my tree to die?" ”

He knows me, and he still knows me! I was so carried away by a burst of ecstasy that I completely forgot to reply.

"The child is stubborn, and he is not allowed to climb trees in the future."

I stared at the occasional flapping of the general's eyelashes as he spoke, and nodded with a smirk.

The general carried me slowly through the snow, and I leaned against his neck and took a deep breath. It was the smell of the spring breeze in February, and although it was a little chilly, it made me feel inexplicably relieved.

The morning sun shone obliquely on the snow, dragging the two figures, one large and one small, for a long time, and I suddenly hoped that the road would never end, so that he could carry me forever......