Chapter 2 Encounters in the Snow

At the end of winter, the capital has the biggest snow since the beginning of winter, this snow is in time, it falls slowly, the fluttering snowflakes shake overnight, fall on the pine trees, on the roof, stand on the high place and look at it, the capital is as white as jade, like an ice city.

It's so cold that the world is slaughtered, and it's so cold that people forget the past.

The trees were full of pine needles, covered with freshly fallen snow, piled up too much, and fell again and again.

As soon as Ruoxi came out of the warm kitchen, she jumped on her feet from the cold, and her shoes were sucked in as soon as she stepped into the snow, and the knee-high snow caused her whole body to stand straight in place like a green onion, and she couldn't pull out the foot that had sunk in.

Before she could pull out her trapped foot, she heard the kitchen she had just come out of with people turning on her back, the clatter of a frying spoon falling to the ground, the snoring of boiling water in an iron pot, the crisp sound of a big shovel pounding on the edge of the basin, and finally the humming of everyone moving the big bag of potatoes together.

Hey, this place is so lively. Ruoxi thought so, she had already pulled out her legs, she had just come to the kitchen for more than a month, but she had already figured out everything here, for example, the housekeeper in the kitchen was Hongsao, this person was good-hearted like a bodhisattva, and he was polite to everyone, and it was Master Chen who was in charge of the stove, and he was old and still able to pull the biggest wind box, and the fire was just right, the only drawback was that he was a little presbyopia, and often stuffed the green onions that Ning Xiang had just peeled into the stove as firewood, which caused Ning Xiang to peel the green onions again with a red nose and red eyes. In the end, the man in charge was a calm and silent man, who cooked a good dish, although he didn't talk much, but he had a good heart, and he always left a little for everyone when he burned something delicious.

After all, Ruoxi herself likes this kind of working environment very much, and she is not happy that Mrs. Yu wants to transfer her.

However, that Mrs. Jade is also a character who is not easy to mess with, not to mention the first lady on the spot, but even gave birth to the eldest prince with a belly, maybe it won't be long before she will be the future lady. Well, you have to be careful when you talk to her in the future. But with her Ruoxi's cleverness and alertness, who else would want her life?

No, yesterday, Mrs. Yu, who is very likely to become Mrs. Tai, sent a girl over and said that she wanted to eat porridge made of tea tree mushrooms, God! Tea tree mushrooms are a common dish in this region. It's just that in such a cold and snowy season, where can I find edible mushrooms, it is difficult to survive, so she ran out bravely and took charge of the procurement matters.

Speaking of which, that unruly master has to serve her now, otherwise why would the current subordinates be smiling when they see her, busy patting a sycophant or something?

Familiar with the road around the towering green and snow-covered ancient trees, and then go back, is a tortuous quiet, on weekdays there can be a foot-wide sheep intestine path, but today is different, the snow is falling, even that point of the path can not be found. Ruoxi, who has always had a bad sense of orientation, simply closed his eyes, relying entirely on his past memories, groping forward in the snow little by little.

In the white snow, her figure turned into a small black dot, farther and farther away, smaller and smaller.

Until the sky gradually darkened, Ruoxi was still spinning around a big rockery, strange, he was obviously buried here, why didn't he have it?

Ah, no, no, twenty steps behind the rockery tree is the right place.

Ruoxi hurriedly walked there, used the instep of his foot to break away the snow, chopped the ground a few times, and when he heard the sound of emptiness, he took off the basket on his arm, took out a small shovel, and dug it carefully. Until it was dug half a meter deep, and sure enough, a small blue cloth bag was revealed, Ruoxi opened it and put it under his nose to sniff lightly, well, the tea tree mushroom did not taste at all.

Suddenly, her fingers holding the package tightened slightly, and the sound of someone's footsteps came, and she pricked up her ears to listen carefully, probably the creaking sound of a well-textured boot stepping on the snow, and the faint crisp sound of rings colliding, which spread far away in this snowfield.

This person must have an extraordinary status in the palace, at least not a humble person like her. Before he had time to think about anything, Ruoxi hurriedly flattened the land and sprinkled the snow next to it, trying to make it look the same as the surroundings, and he turned around and hid on the inside of the big rockery, silently praying that the person was just passing by.

It's just that the sky always doesn't follow people's wishes, but after this person came from far and near, instead of walking quickly, he stopped around the rockery where she lived.

As the person got closer and closer, Ruoxi heard that this person seemed to have drunk, his steps were a little unsteady, and he stumbled slightly. He stopped beside her, just a layer of rockery with seven or eight holes, and she could even see one of his cloud-toed boots when she looked down, for the night and the snow, together with the silk threads, shone a soft silver. The man seemed to be leaning on the rockery, humming a little song, humming paragraph after paragraph. Ruoxi stopped, most of them were Jiangnan singing, and he didn't have much interest......

The moon showed its cheeks, obscured to one side, and sprinkled some not-so-bright glow on the earth.

For a long time, that person didn't mean to leave, but Ruoxi, who had been holding her breath, felt that her heart was about to jump out, plopping and bumping back and forth, no, no! I'm about to suffocate. Ruoxi took a cautious breath, before she could exhale......

"Ah, Li'er, so you're here." The man suddenly changed direction and walked in the direction of another rockery, as if he had found the person he was looking for, with some coquettish meaning in his tone, "It's so clever to hide, I have been waiting for so long, saying, how do you want to compensate me?" Kindness? ”

Kindness? Well, you are big, Ruoxi's head suddenly turned into two big, God! Is this a legendary palace secret? God! Who is the woman who should be dating this guy here? Could it be some of the emperor's wives? None of this is important, what is important is what if someone finds out that her little life is worthless, inconspicuous, and worthless at this taboo moment! What to do!

In a hurry, Ruoxi can only make up his mind, cut through the chaos quickly, solve it quickly, deal with that person and then coax him to leave here, so as not to collide with the main master!

Reluctantly calming down, Ruoxi told herself that she must be calm. Determined not to speak, she just pinched the edge of the rockery with her hands, slowly moved her feet, and avoided the sound of the soles of her shoes rubbing against the snow, she moved her body, poked her head out again, and in the dark, she saw the man's exposed sleeves behind the opposite rockery and a huge sapphire ring on his finger.

There was a very amazing prince in the Qi dynasty, although he was not very old, he had the ability to turn the clouds and rain and cover the sky. Although he is a third highness, his two brothers are not as talented as him.

However, it seems that most of the princes who can be called talented are short-lived ghosts, so this third highness is very good at enjoying his youth, asking for the best rewards, sleeping with the best women, and using the rarest treasures, all of which are extremely luxurious. Legend has it that he had to change eight sets of clothes a day, twelve incense burners, and twenty-four beautiful maids awaited his arrival in the palace...... However, the most famous feature of this third highness is that he wears a royal blue ring on his hand that the former emperor of Qi State, which was given to him by his grandfather.

So when Ruoxi saw this ring, she knew what a troublesome character she had provoked.

The Third Highness - Wei Sa.

Wei Sa seemed to be immersed in the good things with the girl, whispering something, heavy gasps and the woman's moaning. Moaning, all of which make the dusk in this snow stain people's cheeks hot. Listening carefully, Ruoxi found that Wei Sa's voice was actually a kind of low magnetism, which made people not feel abrupt, and his footsteps moved, as if he was about to turn out of the rockery, Ruoxi quickly turned his body around, and slowly crawled forward like a snail around the rockery around him.

Ah, this snow is so cold, Ruoxi, who was lying on the ground and slowly grinding, felt that the ice and snow in front of her chest had melted, and she shivered with cold through her clothes. No, if this continues, not only will the tea tree mushroom become a frozen mushroom, but even she herself will become a frozen doll.

At this time, she suddenly saw the bushes on the side of the road, and a thought flashed in her mind, and she turned around and rolled into the fluffy bushes, but she didn't expect the short thorns on the bushes to completely hook her clothes, and she was hung in the bushes with a person of such a big age, and it was really a little red in the calyx.

It's just that poor Ruoxi didn't dare to shout in pain, nor did she dare to call for help, and it took a long time to free up a hand to rub the thorns of the bush and take them off little by little, this project is very huge, until the two people who were intimate over there are gone, she slowly took out one of her legs.

"Hello? Sister Ruoxi, what kind of kung fu are you practicing? Caught off guard, a thunderbolt exploded above her head, oh my god! She doesn't want to be seen when she looks like this.

"Condensation...... Incense ...... Why are you here? Ruoxi writhed her body very lamely, and Ning Xiang looked at the person on the ground with wide eyes, "Wow, sister, you have so many thorns on your body!" ”

"Your sister, I know that I have a lot of thorns on my body, don't look at it, help me get it down." Ruoxi is really speechless and helpless to this girl, in this case, she can still stand there and look at her blankly, she is really convinced.

The effect of having one more pair of hands immediately improved, and after a while, the thorns on Ruoxi's body were picked clean, he took a breath, blowing his scratched palms and knees, Ruoxi picked up the small blue cloth bag on the ground, dusted off the snow stains on it, and looked up and asked Ning Xiang, "Hey?" How did you get out? Isn't there cooking in the kitchen? Don't wait for the master to leave you something delicious? ”

"Ah, yes." Ning Xiang was asked, as if she had just remembered, slapped her head, and exclaimed loudly, "It's amazing, Sister Ruoxi, go back and take a look, Sister-in-law Hong is about to die." ”

Is even the red sister-in-law so gaffe? Ruoxi frowned, but calmly grabbed Ning Xiang's arm, "I fell to death, I can't walk for the time being, you tell me first, what's going on, I have a bottom in my heart, otherwise we can't solve any problems if we run over like this." ”

Hearing her say this, Ning Xiang's emotions also calmed down, took a breath, and then slowly began to talk about the original situation, "Sister, you just came out to pick mushrooms and don't know, not long after you left, someone came to the palace and said that His Royal Highness was going to have a banquet tonight, so let us prepare to eat, but Master Chen and the chef began to get busy, and then, someone from the palace came to spread the word, saying that the distinguished guest was not in good health today and wanted to eat something light, so Master Chen proposed to prepare millet porridge and tofu, and then." ……”

Ruoxi probably understood the cause of the incident, but according to this girl's words, she would probably talk until noon tomorrow, so she interrupted her very neatly and asked directly, "So how is it now?" "If you don't have a good appetite, eat some tofu, isn't millet porridge very light?

"Ahh Ning Xiang jumped three feet high, "Master Chen fell asleep while pulling the wind box!" The big fire boiled all the pot of millet porridge dry! And...... When everyone was busy fighting the fire, the chef poured half a jar of salt into it with a shake of his hand! ”

"Let's go, let's talk as we go." Ruoxi tried to stand up on her own, but she really fell miserably just now. The two of them walked as they talked, completely oblivious to the fact that something had fallen from Ruoxi's waist.

A pair of cloud-headed boots waited for the two of them to leave, and re-stepped into the overwhelmed bushes, leaning over to pick up an extremely delicate hairpin on the ground, and holding it in his hand. Not far away, it was the petite figure he had just glimpsed. The corners of Wei Sa's lips were slightly hooked upward, and he held the hairpin in his palm, looking at the end of the woods, thoughtfully.