Large snowflakes fell silently into the dust, casting a clean white color over the hustle and bustle of the city. There was no one walking on the streets, and soldiers in armor rode horses, mercilessly trampling the snow.

The soldiers on horseback went out of the west gate of the capital and galloped away on horseback.

In the houses inside the west gate, the people climbed the ladder, carefully swept the snow off the roof tiles, and looked out into the street curiously, seeing a thick white blanket on the empty street.

In the courtyard of the Fang family's house, the dog brothers jumped on the roof to clear the snow, and on the ground were the Jiang Hai brothers of the Lin family, who pushed the snow swept from the roof under the tree.

The stuffy man pulled his face and came back after Cai Kun.

"Hanlin Academy, it's okay!" Dong Xiaoying asked Cai Kun to serve tea, and asked her eldest niece and son-in-law with concern.

Cai Kun saluted Mrs. Hu and Mrs. Niu, and saluted Dong Xiaoying, just sat down and heard the fourth aunt asking, and wanted to get up to reply, but was persuaded by Mrs. Niu to sit down and roast the fire.

"Don't stand up, sit by the brazier and get warm."

Cai Kun was sitting precariously, "Yes, when I heard that the bandits had entered the capital, the Hanlin Academy closed the courtyard door." When the stuffy man came looking for me, I was about to come home. I heard that there was nothing to do at home, and the street was too chaotic to walk, so I had to wait until this time to return. ”

Mrs. Hu asked a few words about the situation of the Hanlin Academy.

A group of literati closed the door and cursed the heavens and the earth, but Cai Kun didn't say anything. Simply told Mrs. Hu that there was nothing to do in the Hanlin Courtyard, there were no bandits, and no one was sent to speak in the court, and the street was quiet, so they opened the door and returned home.

After sitting for a while, the guards of the Guogong Mansion came in to pray.

"Old lady, the city gate was closed for a while and then opened, saying that the saint did not have the will to close the four gates of the capital, so the door could only be opened. Hiss! Old lady, what are you doing in the palace here, this is the case in the capital? The adults in the DPRK and China don't care? ”

Mrs. Hu reprimanded, "Salty and don't worry about eating radishes, can we take care of it?" Then go out to investigate, if there is a chance, I want to take you back to Ningyuan. ”

When the guards heard that they could return to Ningyuan, they jumped up happily, "Eh! The old lady rested, and her subordinates went to inquire about the news. ”

Dong Xiaoying looked at the sky, it was almost noon, got up and said to go to Zhang Luo for lunch.

Cai Kun went to write a dictionary. Mrs. Hu and Mrs. Niu sat and chatted with each other, and both of them wanted to go back to the north.

In the side courtyard, Fang Yue asked Huabao Township Jun to choose a room, "I usually accompany Grandma Hu in the Guogong Mansion, and I rarely go home to live." ”

Huabao Xiangjun stood in the west wing, "What kind of cabinet is this?" ”

The west wing is Fang Yue's studio, half of the room is covered with silk threads on the walls, the chest of drawers is opened, and Fang Yue's embroidery is tiled on the shelves. Opened the cabinet of Huabao Xiangjun's curiosity, and it was full of painted embroidery samples.

"It's all my brother who takes care of it for me, and my house in the Guogong Mansion is very messy." Fang Yue smiled, pointed to a stack of furs and said, "Brother has found a lot of wolf skins recently, you see." ”

Huabao Xiangjun regretted: "The embroidery sample was not brought out." ”

"I still have a backup, oh, the backup is in the Guogong Mansion, it's okay, I'll draw it for you again." Fang Yue said very easily.

"Have you and Fang Gongzi learned to paint since childhood? I don't know who I learned? Huabao Xiangjun asked.

Fang Yue pulled her out of the east wing, and the two entered the hall, Fang Yue sat down to make tea, and said the excuse she had been talking about.

"I didn't learn to paint from a serious teacher, and my father and mother had nothing to do, so my brother and I pondered and played by ourselves."

Huabao Xiangjun praised: "It seems that your brothers and sisters are very spiritual. ”

After tasting the tea brewed by Fang Yue, Huabao Xiangjun did not comment and silently took over the sencha.

Fang Yue tasted the tea fried by Huabao Xiangjun and praised: "It's delicious!" I always can't do it well, Sister Mu said, I only learned the movements of sencha and memorized the process. ”

"Sister Mu? Miss Qi? Huabao Xiangjun asked.

Fang Yue nodded and said, "Yes!" I learned the rules in Sister Mu's classroom, and there were many people there, and it was very lively every day. ”

Huabao Xiangjun pursed his lips and smiled, "I always feel that you guys are all living a wonderful life." ”

"You can do what you like!" Fang Yue was puzzled, did everyone have nothing to do all day long, and I heard Sister Mu say that everyone was also very busy!

Huabao Xiangjun didn't explain, what could she do? The industry is taken care of, and at most they learn to look at the account books. It's okay in the capital, she can go out and walk around, but she has to accompany her mother in Jiuxi, and she can hardly go out.

"I ......," Huabao Xiangjun hesitated, not knowing what to say.

Fang Yue diverted the topic very interestingly, "Let's go take a look at the room!" ”

Huabao Xiangjun was dragged into the West House by Fang Yue, and the kang was already hot. Before she could take a closer look at the furnishings in the house, she was pulled into the clean room by Fang Yue.

"This is a Western glass mirror?" Huabao Xiangjun has a new understanding of the Fang family, and it seems that she underestimated the wealth of the Fang family.

Fang Yue secretly stuck out his tongue, forgetting that there was a mirror here.

"If my sister wants to bathe, let the maid go out through the small door here and boil water in the ear room." Fang Yue pointed to the faucet and said, "Open the pull ring, and the water will flow in." After bathing, the stopper under the tub is pulled out and the water can flow out. ”

The washroom was remodeled after the purchase of the house, completely modern in style, with marble floors and mirrors hanging on the sinks. Huabao Xiangjun's favorite is the toilet, and there is water to flush the bracelet after use, so as not to clean up the bucket every day.

Fang Yue's mirror here is the square mirror left by the scarf counter when the scarf counter was removed from the cabinet in my mother's supermarket, which is not too big. The sink is made of an ancient fish tank, and an iron pipe is used to connect the sewer below.

Huabao Xiangjun played with the faucet curiously, "How did the water come from?" ”

"Oh, and the walls here are thickened to keep them warm, and the water pipe is between the two walls." Fang Yue explained, "It's the most comfortable place to live in winter, Sister Hua should live in this house!" ”

"We live together, the kang is big, and we just happen to talk together." Huabao Xiangjun said with a smile.

After being frightened, the panicked heart calmed down at this time, rinsed the palms with warm water, and the cold heart warmed up.

Aunt Xing called them to lunch, and Fang Yue pulled Huabao Xiangjun to the main hall, "When we are in the town, the whole town eats in the canteen, which is more lively than the restaurants in the capital. ”

"Why eat together?" Huabao Xiangjun asked.

Fang Yue said with a smile: "In order to save trouble, when I first arrived in the town, there was only Anminliang, everyone had to be busy weeding, planting, baking cakes, and grandmothers went out to deliver cakes every morning."

Each family has to keep someone to cook when the fire starts, and they can't spare manpower, so they can only select the aunts who can cook, and the sisters-in-law are responsible for everyone's three meals a day. ”

Huabao Xiangjun sighed: "It turns out that your clan is like this! ”

Fang Yue said happily: "Yes! There's something for everyone to do. The children go to school early in the morning, and girls like me get together to do needlework.

If you want to put the broken leather into a cloak and a coat, you can't put it together, so you can make it into a scarf and sleeves. ”

"Do you want to make it for your clansmen?" Huabao Xiangjun asked.

Fang Yue shook his head and said, "Huh? It is to be sold for money, and most of the fur clothes sold in the Fan Ji leather store in the capital are made in our town. ”

Huabao Township Jun clasped his hands and said: "I also have a cloak of Fan Ji, which is very chic, with a white fox skin sandwiched in the middle of a plain silver satin, and a little red plum embroidered on the satin. ”

Fang Yue chuckled: "That must be done by Sister Da Niu, she likes to embroider red plums the most." Sister Erniu likes to embroider peach blossoms. Sister Jing loves to embroider begonias, but she doesn't embroider well, so she uses silk threads of the same color as the material to embroider. ”

Dong Xiaoying stood in the hall and beckoned: "Take two steps quickly, go into the house and chat, how cold it is outside!" ”

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