Chapter Twenty-Four: New Year in a Foreign Land

On the day of the New Year, the Donghu royal family summoned the people of the clan, set up a banquet in the inner palace Fuyun Building, large and small clan nobles sat full of Fuyun Building, I heard that a princess of Donghu happened to be born on this day, the king of Donghu was overjoyed, this woman was born and got the title of princess, but it is a pity that the mother is Karasuma, and the princess can not be raised by her mother after she is born.

Boduange and Yushi Chengge also entered the palace early that morning.

It was snowing heavily in the early morning, and in the yard, Zhu Dong set up a dustpan, waiting to catch a few birds and put them in the cage to play, she said that she had a talking "peony" at home, and I thought that "peony" was about a starling. She had to train the sparrows in the yard to be talking "peonies", and I couldn't convince her not to waste her efforts. She caught a few birds and let them go, and the cycle continued.

Zhu Dong squatted on the snow, there were only me and her in the yard, His Royal Highness coughed a few times in the morning, Sister Yi went to cook Chuanbei soup for her, they have become closer and closer recently, I can't remember how they were-for-tat before, women's hearts, it is really a submarine needle.

The four were silent because of the falling snow, and the fine snow tolerated all the sounds.

My eyes hurt from the snow, and I was about to shed tears, and there was so much snow in the grassland that it could bury people, Boduange said, and some people would become blind after looking at the snow for a long time. I don't know if there will be a heavy snow in Donghu that will cover the capital of Liangzhou.

Zhu Dong squatted on the ground and shook and laughed, I thought she grabbed the bird and wanted to bring it back to show me, so I smiled proudly and approached and patted her shoulder, "How many do you catch?" ”

She turned her face back to me, tears streaming down her face.

I thought she had also been stabbed in the eye by the snow, so I took out the handkerchief in my sleeve and hurriedly wiped her tears.

"What's wrong with you? Eye pain? ”

"No, it hurts."

"Huh?" I quickly understood, "You're homesick, aren't you?" ”

She nodded, "What the hell is this place!"

I said, "Actually, if there is no one to pick us up, we will go back to the Southern Wei Dynasty on our own, and it will take several months to take the carriage, and if there is a fork on the road, no one can afford it." "Besides, I don't think there's anything wrong with staying here, I think Zhu Dong has gained weight.

"Then we'll stay in Donghu all the time?"

"It's better to stay here than to stay in the wolves." Ji Mo Yi said.

Zhu Dong sobbed and cried, I couldn't coax her here, that is, Mo Yi was good when she came, and directly dragged her up from the snow, "Wipe your tears clean!" ”

Zhu Dong's temper also came up, and he pushed Jimo Yi down in the snow nest with a skillful force, "Who is like you, hard-hearted, you won't look at it when the sky falls!" ”

"Say it again!"

"I said that your heart is harder than gold and silver, and I dare to say it a hundred times!"

Ji Mo Yi sat on the snow, the tip of her nose and cheeks were stained with snow, she looked very cute, Zhu Dong forked her waist and said brute words, I didn't expect her to be so bold and dare to quarrel with Ji Mo Yi.

They were so loud that they were about to pull their hair and start fighting, so I hurriedly jumped out to stop the fight, "Don't ......"

"Stay away!" They pointed to my nose at the same time.

In the first year in Donghu, I watched them fight for half an hour, their hairpins were scattered, and their salvae were sticky to their collars and faces.

I squatted in the snow to let them out, and if Your Highness saw us making such a fuss, he would have to teach us a few more lessons.

Jimo Yi is very good at fighting, why can't he fight with Zhu Dong? I figured it out, she was letting her, knowing that Zhu Dong had nowhere to spill her anger in her heart, and had a fight with her to let her send out the nameless fire.

When the fuss was over, they were lying on the thick snow, and I timidly squatted and walked over, "Are you still fighting?" ”

Jimo took my hand and pulled me down in the snow, and the three of us looked head to head at the sky, with the snow quilt under our bodies.

On that day, the whole sky was as blue as the sea in the depths of the Lost Grassland.

On the night of the New Year, several of us did not sleep, and the Southern Wei Dynasty had the custom of staying up for the New Year, and we did not sleep all night until dawn picked up the dim stars of the New Year's Eve, and we could fall asleep.

Princess Jinglu let people prepare fruit cakes, the four of us sat in His Royal Highness's room, the room burned incense burner and stove, His Royal Highness's slender white hands rotated back and forth in the tea sweep, she was cooking tea for us, the red clay stove only has Donghu, in the past, in the mouth of the poets of the Southern Wei Dynasty, I knew that the red clay stove for warm wine is the most appropriate, and now we use it to cook tea, I don't know if it is overkill.

Ji Mo Yi took the tea set, "I'll come." ”

Unexpectedly, His Highness gave her all the things and did not quarrel with her, and the two of them seemed to reconcile without my knowledge.

Zhu Dong and I made eye contacts, and I also bowed to her.

Outside the door there was a proclamation that the thirteenth and fifteenth kings had arrived.

His Royal Highness said, "The Donghu people really don't have the habit of staying up for the year, otherwise how could they be let out of the palace." ”

"Invite them in."

Zhu Dong and I sat inside, leaving a place outside for them.

The first incense burned out quietly, and the milky white smoke drifted out of the window and flew away.

Boduange and Yushi Chengge brought gifts, which were Chinese New Year's Eve lanterns in the palace.

Six people can't sit all night.

Jimo Yi took out the brocade card and divided it into two factions: guard and attacker.

Guess the beans in the bowl, there are two kinds of red beans and mung beans, the one who gets the red beans is the attack, and the one who draws the mung beans is the defense.

Zhu Dongbo and I drew mung beans, and the three of them drew red beans.

The brocade tiles were piled up in a stack, and the six of us began to draw the cards, and the guards could choose the last three brocade tiles to keep for themselves or each other.

Both sides have drawn their cards, and there are only three cards left.

Boduange asked us, "Do you want to stay?" ”

Zhu Dong showed him the cards in his hand, and I also showed him my own bottom fine, he shook his head and said, "We don't keep these three for you." ”

Each of the three of them drew one.

Jimo Yi handed one in his hand to His Highness, and His Highness also handed her one in his hand.

The rain master took the song to clean up the cards, "You two just abandoned me?" ”

His Highness smiled, "How can it? ”

One glance at his cards, we drew a card from his hand that we couldn't see, and gave him one of my own.

"You ......," I heard the clatter of the rain master's teeth.

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Before I knew it, the second incense burner was only ashes, and the maid on the side lifted the incense lid and filled it with new incense.

My eyelids were dry and my head was too heavy to lift.

"Sleepy?" Boduange asked me in my ear.

"Hmm." I don't know if it's from my nose or my throat.

"Don't sleep, don't sleep, it's still early!" The rain master knocked on the table with a song.

I woke up and played cards again.

I don't know when I couldn't hear the words of the people around me, the cards in my hand seemed to have been taken away by Zhu Dong, and I was so sleepy that I couldn't even yawn, so I threw myself directly on the table.

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