Happy Chinese New Year!

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and I wish you all the best for the New Year!

~~~ This is the dividing line of the New Year's greeting~~~

Lianxin stretched out her arms to hug her, the eldest lady is also quite pitiful, the old man is not at home when he goes out to run business all the year round, and there are only a handful of times when he can accompany her, and his wife is always taking medicine every day, and she can't even take care of herself, so she has no time to take care of the eldest lady.

Fortunately, the eldest lady is sensible early, and at a young age, she helps the old lady to take care of the housekeeper, take care of her sister, and coax her wife to be happy.

Does anyone know the bitterness in the eldest lady's heart.

Ruoxue didn't want to speak, she just wanted to hug Lianxin like this, saying that she was holding Lianxin, but it was better to say that she was being held by Lianxin, so she lay quietly like this.

She needs to draw a little warmth from others, a little bit.

Before dawn, Ruoxue got up, and after dressing up, she went out of the guest room, Lianxin followed behind, stepping on the creaking snow, and slowly walked towards the Sanqing Palace.

I don't know when the snow stops at night, and there is a light reflected by the snow all the way, but you don't need to carry a lamp to illuminate the road, you can see it clearly.

In the Sanqing Palace, there are only two red candles burning on the offering table, and the candle flame has been burning for a long time, and it is only less than an inch long.

In the flickering candle flame, the main hall looks both gloomy and mysterious, which makes people feel a sense of awe in their hearts for no reason.

Ruoxue reverently incensed the statue of the god, knelt on the futon, and bowed down.

Lian Xin knelt down behind and prayed in a low voice: "Immortal master, immortals from all walks of life, please bless the third lady of our family to get better as soon as possible!" Bless the third lady of our family with no disasters and diseases, and live a long life. ”

After praying, Lian Xin kowtowed three times, straightened up and begged all the gods to bless the eldest lady and the eldest lady with no illness and no disaster, and a safe life.

He bowed down again.

If the snow worships Sanqing, he kneels there, looks at the sitting statue of Sanqing, and the incense burner on the table, the red of the incense like beans is slowly burning, and the light smoke slowly rises, forming a cloud of smoke in the high place, floating.

I don't know how long it took, the Dao Gu who was doing the morning class came to the main hall one after another, and she was not surprised because the master and servant of Ruoxue knelt there, and sat cross-legged on the futon around her silently, and then the chanting sound sounded faintly.

The humming chanting sound has a calming effect, Ruoxue relaxes her body and mind, and slowly closes her eyes and listens quietly.

She thought that she could see the old Dao Gu, but she didn't see her among the Dao Gu, and it was better for her to visit in person.

When Lian Xin saw the Taoist aunts coming, she thought about getting up and going back to the guest room with the eldest lady, and knelt here for a while, her body was very cold, and she was afraid that the young lady would freeze here.

Although the guest room was not warm, there was a charcoal basin there, which was much warmer than this empty hall.

But looking at the appearance of the eldest lady, she had no intention of leaving at all, this was to wait until these Dao aunts finished their morning classes before they could go back.

In the morning, as soon as the sky showed a little white, the family got up, carried the dozens of taels of broken silver given by Weng's mother in his arms, and woke up the two guards who were not awake next to him, and called the two of them to go with him to the surrounding villages to have a look, so as to give him a boost.

He had two hundred taels of silver on him, and without two guards beside him, he felt a little unsafe in his heart.

When the two guards heard that it was an errand sent by Steward Fang, they didn't ask too much, tidied up their clothes, carried a wine bag, carried two flatbreads, followed the family out of the shack, led their horses into the forest, and galloped out on horseback with whips.

The three of them rode around the snowy world for a while, and when they saw the house hidden in the snow from a distance, the family slowed down their horses, "Found it." He let out a long breath.

"What did you find?" One of the guards leaned in on horseback and walked slowly beside the family.

"The village."

"The eldest lady wants to buy 2,000 catties of charcoal for heating in the jade void, and go into the village to ask if you can buy it." The house let go of the horse and let it run on its own.

The horses were full of spirit and jogged towards the village.

"There are trees on the mountain, so let the brothers cut down a few of them for firewood and burn them to save more money." One of the guards said.

"The eldest lady is the charcoal to be burned in the house, how can the wood be burned in the house, the smoke and fire can choke people to death." Another said.

"You and I are all burned wood......"

"That's the same, the eldest lady is not a rough person like you and me."

Approaching the house, the family turned over and dismounted, stepped on the thick snow, creaked to the door of a courtyard, and raised his hand to the sound of the mountain.

There was a burst of dog barking in the neighborhood.

"Is anyone there?" Jia Ding shouted.

"Who?" The man asked.

"Who is this early in the morning?" The woman said.

There was a crunch of stepping on the snow in the yard, and the people who spoke should be husband and wife, and the one who opened the door was a strong man, with a dogskin vest draped over his shoulders, one arm was worn, and the other arm was not yet worn.

He opened the door and looked at the three of them, and the three tall horses.

A few people look like the descendants of rich families, because the three of them are dressed in a stone blue, and they are sturdy, and the main family is not bad for money, so they can raise such a subordinate.

"What's the matter with the masters?" The big man blocked the door, alleviating the boredom of being disturbed to sleep.

Jia Ding arched his hand and asked: "Dare to ask this old brother, where is there charcoal burning around here, please tell us, we will also take less unjust roads." ”

When the Han heard that they were looking for charcoal, he wanted to say that he didn't know, they all burned wood and firewood directly, where to burn charcoal, and when the words came to his mouth, he changed his words and said: "We all burn firewood and grass directly here, and we don't burn charcoal." ”

Jiading was stunned for a moment, whether he didn't say it clearly or the other party didn't understand, looked at him for a while, and asked again: "Is there a charcoal seller around here?" ”

Dahan was stunned for a moment, he was looking for someone to sell charcoal, so he just said that he would buy charcoal.

He looked at a house in the distance, raised his hand, and said, "Go and ask Li Jiangshi's family, he often helps people drive from north to south, and he may know where to sell charcoal." ”

The family looked in the direction he pointed, and there was the courtyard wall of a family, standing here on higher ground, and beyond the courtyard wall, you could see the doors and windows of the house, and a dry old jujube tree in the yard.

"Thank you!"

The family arched his hand at the big man, turned around and walked towards the house.

The two guards followed behind with three horses, and circled the courtyard wall half a circle, and came to the door, where the patent leather was peeling off a little, revealing the yellowing planks underneath.

Above the door, there was a faded door god, which had lost its former brilliance, and the family stepped forward to knock on the door knocker.

"Is Lee at home?" Jia Ding shouted.

"Who?"

The family was alarmed by the barking of the dog just now, and when they came out to check, they were startled by the sound of the knock on the door, and the words that came out were much louder.

There was a knock on the latch, and a small old man opened the door, wearing a coarse cotton jacket, and leaned out half of his body to look outside.