Chapter 59: Heavy Snow on the Winter Solstice
Zhi Ning woke up again, the inner and outer parts of the palace wall had been opened, surrounded by a white blanket, and some snowflakes flying like catkins on the gray sky couldn't stop falling down the sky. Standing on the short steps in front of the mansion, the cold wind blew on the face, and the snow since the beginning of winter was already quite chilly. The top of the short steps where Zhining stood was covered by glazed tiles, and the snow would not fall on him. She quietly watched the palace maids and eunuchs who came and went, hurriedly sending the heated brazier and charcoal stove from her side into the East Palace, or leaving rows of footprints on the snow that had accumulated and were almost exhausted, steaming from the air to the harem.
I saw that some of the eunuchs in the ranks were still men's foundations, and the pace under their feet was still steady, but some of the palace maids who were still young seemed to be full of water vapor from the steaming heat, but after a while, even the hair coiled up on their heads began to stick to the wet. Zhi Ning Zheng could see it, but a leisurely exclamation suddenly came from his ears: "The Yellow River is still stuffy, and the north wind, rain and snow are hard to cut." ”
Zhi Ning heard this rather vicissitudes of poetry and turned his head to look to the side, I don't know when there was a young man with silver long hair, who looked less than about twenty years old, with long eyebrows and willow skin but as smooth and white as snow, and his angular side face revealed a little coldness, like a young man who looked like a nobleman.
If you look at that person's angle, you can naturally see Zhi Ning's sudden turn. Zhi Ning coughed lightly in his mouth and was about to answer. Who knew that although the man's eyes glanced at Zhi Ning's face, who turned to his side, he immediately looked into the distance with the appearance of a young man and an old man, quietly watching the snow scene. Looking like that, he was not prepared to pay attention to Zhi Ning at all.
This man looks richly dressed and can come and go freely from this palace. I want to be a noble person in this palace, but his attitude is ...... Forget that he ignores me, I don't pay attention to him, I just look at my winter snow. Zhi Ning thought to himself in his heart.
She was thinking to herself in her heart, her eyes were looking ahead, and she was about to once again merge into the artistic conception of this rare snow scene in the south.
In the silence, there was a sudden exclamation of oops, but it interrupted her musings. It turned out that a little palace maid who looked about seven or eight years old and was quite thin in the silent procession in the snow seemed to be unable to bear the viscous discomfort, walked a few steps slowly, and handed the coal-fired basin held in both hands into the arms of her left hand, and her free right hand was about to stretch out to brush the green silk that was about to cover her eyes because of the sweat sticking to her face. Xu is road has been trampled by the palace people who have walked in front of the snow firmly, and this side is holding the brazier in his left hand and does not dare to push too hard for fear of burning the skin and flesh. In a trance, the little palace maid's center of gravity was unstable under her feet, and she fell out and fell on her back in the snow. I saw that the brazier in her hand also rolled out long and long, until it rolled to the top of the palace wall before stopping.
The steward eunuch was walking in front of the procession, and was burned to his heels by a piece of charcoal that rolled out, and his body suddenly ached. At that moment, he hurriedly picked up a few handfuls of snow from the ground and rubbed them on his heels to cool down, but he scolded hatefully: "Damn slut, it's really a waste thing that doesn't have long eyes, see if I don't kick you to death today." Although he cursed in his mouth, he did not stop, and in less than a moment, the crumbling snow had turned into a touch of ice water flowing out of his fingers, and the heel of the cloth shoe had been burned to a fragment. A gloomy gaze came, and then a slap slap knocked the little palace maid who had just gotten up from the ground with bared teeth and grinned back to the ground. At the same time, he kept kicking and beating his feet, venting his dissatisfaction in his heart.
"Father-in-law, spare my life, I was wrong......" The little palace maid's voice begging for mercy kept coming.
"Hmph, spare you? Your cheap life is not enough to compensate my father-in-law for my new shoes. Yan begged, and kicked a few more times, but these kicks were no longer the little girl, and they kicked her straight in the face, but two or three feet, and plum blossoms had bloomed on the snow.
"Cheap, I can't do this bit of work well, and I almost disturbed the nobles. You shit, fuck you. Hearing those words, the more he scolded, the more vicious he became, and seeing that the little palace maid was about to be kicked half to death by him, her trembling body began to shrink like a shrimp.
"This father-in-law, this little girl didn't mean it, you have kicked her so many feet to solve the resentment in your heart, so spare her." The soles stained with plum prints had already begun to deform the face of the palace maid on the ground. Suddenly, a voice rang out, kicking the vicious father-in-law's foot away.
"Oh, who are you?"
"Father-in-law, this girl was kicked to death by you when she kicked it, so let her go first." The slender figure reassured.
"Get out of the way, it's just a little palace maid, and she dares to block the way of this prison, and she doesn't want to live you." The eunuch looked back and saw that she was a little palace maid dressed in the clothes of the East Palace, and she suddenly raised her toes again.
"Eunuch, this girl has indeed made a mistake, but if she continues to fight, she will be killed." The figure explained earnestly word by word.
"Yo, I also saw a grievance today, which master's maid are you, report your name to this supervisor." The eunuch wanted to scold again, but after thinking about it in his heart, he continued to ask.
"I'm not the one who is next to the master, it's just that I can't get used to your behavior......"
"Stop, brothers, you can hear you, since someone who is not close to the master dares to stay in this palace inner garden, he must be an assassin. Grab her for me. The last of the eunuch's patience was finally exhausted, and he shouted for the crowd around him to clean up the nosy little palace maid who had dismissed his face.
"Wow." Several figures were screaming and about to pounce.
Seeing that a group of fists and kicks were about to hit the slender figure, a sound of breaking wind came from the air, and the few eunuchs who rushed over only felt a flower in front of them, but their bodies had already flown out backwards.
A cold voice came: "You damned minions, don't you know that this is His Royal Highness the Prince's distinguished guest Zhining girl?" ”
"The eunuch is a nosy man again, do you want me to call someone?" The little eunuch who was knocked out rolled up from the snow, stared at the man and asked the eunuch in charge.
What answered him was a slap in the face.
"Damn the guy who doesn't have long eyes, even the emperor ......"
"Shhh......h I'm waiting for someone here, so discipline your subordinates and don't be an eyesore to me. ”
"Yes, yes." Several eunuchs hurriedly supported each other and stepped back.
Zhi Ning just wanted to say thank you, but the man threw off his robe and didn't say a word.