Chapter 39: Winter

Bai Jin woke up early in the morning with a headache.

When I opened my eyes, I saw not a thatched roof, but a delicate mahogany bed top, with lifelike fish, shrimp and lotus flowers carved on both sides, a huge broken ice plum blossom screen, and two huge celadon vases from Jingdezhen kilns on the side.

It was just a slight movement and a sound, the door had already been pushed open, and two good-looking little maids came in with hot soup and towels to wash her, and in a trance, Bai Jin felt like she was in Hailing City.

It took a long time for her to recover a little, and it seemed that she fainted yesterday when she was waiting for Ning Tonghua at the gate of Liu's mansion, no wonder the headache was mostly contracted by the wind chill again.

Only then did she notice that the little maid behind her was still holding a bowl of turbid medicine in her hand.

"This is the Jingnan Hou Mansion?" Bai Jin asked tentatively in a low voice.

"Miss Hui, yes." The little girl was crisp and honest while twisting the towel.

Thinking about it, Bai Jin looked down at the clothes that he and the little maid were exactly the same, and the other little maid said: "Miss don't worry, the slaves and maids changed your clothes for you yesterday, and there are no other clothes in the house, so you can only wear the same clothes as the slaves." ”

"It's okay, I don't care." I touched my maid's clothes, not to mention, this material is actually very good, although it looks thin, but it is very warm.

"Shopkeeper Ning has already come, playing chess in the garden with the prince, and the prince has instructed you to go over if you are better."

After drinking the medicine sent by the maid, Bai Jin asked her to lead the way to the garden, and from a distance, she saw the two of them playing chess around a stone table.

I don't know if the two of them were too fascinated by playing chess, the maid went up twice in a row to report the two of them, and they didn't hear it until Bai Jin walked over Ning Tonghua and said, "Lord Shizi, it's the minister who lost." ”

Wei Yan's bony hands pinched the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Ning, you have already lost five games to me in one morning, obviously you are absent-minded." ”

"It's a minister who can't defeat His Highness." Ning Tonghua got up and said, "Yesterday, Bai Jin disturbed His Highness. ”

Wei Yan waved his hand and glanced at Bai Jin on the side and said, "I said that this son just happened to go to Liu's Mansion once, and you don't need to thank you, just do what you have to do." ”

The carriage had been arranged at the door, and Wei Yan seemed to have something to say to Ning Tonghua, so the two went to the study first, and asked the maid to take Bai Jin to the carriage first.

However, Bai Jin couldn't help but glance at the chessboard before leaving, she seemed to remember that Ning Tonghua's Go skills were very poor.

It's okay not to look at it, but when I saw her, I was dumbfounded, what kind of Go is this, this is the backgammon that they played together when they were children.

Dare to love Ning Tonghua just stared at these chess pieces for a long time before admitting defeat.

I don't know what the two said, anyway, he has already come out in just a stick of incense.

"I'm sorry." After Ning Tonghua got into the carriage, he spoke.

"What do you apologize for?" Bai Jin smiled at him and said, "I just took a trip to Liu's Mansion to play, I didn't do anything, and at most I was infected with the wind cold." ”

Bai Jin really didn't intend to blame Ning Tonghua for this, and besides, nothing happened to him.

And she also found out that Wei Dazhu was actually the son of the Marquis of Jingnan, and the previous journey to Pengcheng was also wonderful.

In addition, Wei Yan and Ning Tonghua have a good relationship.

Recently, there have been a lot of things, this time she came back safely with Ning Tonghua Luo's made up her mind, after this incident, the Liu family should not come to the door to find trouble for the time being, and can be quiet for a while.

Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it has entered December, and the temperature has dropped sharply, and there are many days when Bai Jin finds that the water in the stone bowl inside the chicken coop outside has frozen.

The weather didn't seem to be good, a few days later, Bai Jin ushered in the first heavy snow in Jingnan, went out early in the morning, and the whole foot fell into the snow as soon as he stepped out.

Although the winter in Hailing City is very cold, it has never snowed, and this is the first time Bai Jin has seen snow, she raised her eyebrows and pulled out her feet, and squatted down curiously at the door to hold a hand of snow.

It was cold, she shivered coldly, and hurriedly threw it out.

Fortunately, two days ago, Ning Tonghua asked someone to replace all the thatch on the roof with tiles, and all the old pillars on the beams of the house were replaced, otherwise they would have been crushed and buried in the snow the next morning.

The salt mill has not been fired in the past few days, since June, the salt produced in the salt field has accounted for the majority of the salt mill, and the salt has become a foil, and the daily fire is just a symbolic fire, this year's salt in the salt field has already exceeded Bai Jin's expectations, and now the salt stored in the warehouse plus the salt that Ning Tonghua hijacked from the Yun family has already filled the newly built salt mill a few days ago.

It was almost the New Year, and Ning Tonghua gave each long-term worker a month's monthly silver for them to have a good New Year.

In a few days, the academy in Baishan will also be on vacation, because I sent a letter some time ago saying that I was busy with my studies and I haven't come back for a month.

"You're just like a seventeen-year-old girl at this time." Ning Tonghua stood in front of the window and watched her shoot a ball of snow into a strange shape outside, "Is this a pig?" ”

It doesn't matter if embroidering a mandarin duck was said by Bai Shan to be a duck, she held the snowball in front of Ning Tonghua and said, "Is this like a rabbit?" ”

Ning Tonghua: "......" Where has he ever seen a fat rabbit like this.

Seeing that her cheeks and hands were red from the cold after she didn't stay outside for long, he hurriedly asked Fang Yuan to pull someone closer to the fire and said, "How can you be like this, as if you have never seen snow." ”

Bai Jin couldn't help but mutter: "It's not that you don't know that it won't snow in Hailing City, and it's only the first time I've seen snow." ”

After coming to Jingnan for too long, Ning Tonghua forgot that it would not snow in Hailing City.

"Your clothes are too thin, it's almost the New Year, you can make a few clothes."

Bai Jin rubbed his hands and said: "I just asked someone to go to Jingnan City two days ago to find a tailor shop, and when Bai Shan comes back, we will make a few sets of clothes together, and the shopkeeper said that it can be cheaper than a few taels of silver." ”

Thinking that Ning Tonghua seemed to be wearing just a few sets of robes, Bai Jin turned his head and asked him, "Do you want to do it?" ”

"Feel free." Ning Tonghua didn't care, he didn't pay much attention to the clothes he was wearing, these robes were all set for him by Fang Yuan before.

"Hey." Although he said so, Bai Jin still planned to ask the tailor to make him a suit when the time came.

After all, it's the New Year, and it's not good to have no new clothes to wear.

While the two were talking, someone outside knocked on the door wearing a cloak.

The door to this courtyard is still closed, how did this man get in?

"It's okay," Ning Tonghua went to open the door, "This is my person, there should be something to do here." ”

"Master, there is news from Hailing City that the county lord of Guangping is pregnant."