Chapter 17 Treading the snow to find the plum blossoms
The wind is blowing in the day, and the scenery is flowing westward. The deceased is like this, reluctant to give up day and night.
The snow has been falling intermittently for several days, and the sky and the sky of Kyoto are covered in snow, and the chill is getting stronger and stronger.
Han Yue was dressed in a smoky brocade cardigan and long robe, holding a gold-painted enamel nine-peach hand warmer standing by the window, looking out the window at the snowflakes that were falling.
"What is the princess looking at? It's fascinating to watch. Carefully, there was wind leaking in under the window, and it gave me a headache. Chunqin took the rag and walked to the small table under the window, and said to Hanyue while wiping a white-glazed amphora.
"It has been snowing heavily for several days, and now I look at it, I only feel that the sky and the earth are white and clean." Han Yue sighed, came back to her senses, and saw the amphora that Chunqin was wiping, so she said, "I don't feel anything in the summer, but now it seems that this bottle is empty there." ”
Chunqin smiled and said, "In the middle of winter, the plum blossoms in Han Xiang's garden must be blooming just right, does the princess need a slave to pick a few and come back to insert the bottle?" ”
When Han Yue heard this, her expression moved, "The white bottle with red plum is very elegant." But I'm going to pick it myself, and I've been in the house in the house in the past few days, and I'm really bored. ”
After that, he called Zi Mo and wanted to call Chunqin to go with him. Before he could open his mouth, he saw Shiso standing quietly on the side.
Han Yue thought of her neglect and indifference to her during this period of time, sighed softly in her heart, and called out, "Zisu, you can go with me." ”
Shisu was staring at the tip of her shoe in a daze, she thought that Hanyue would not call her forward, but she heard her name unexpectedly, Shisu looked at Hanyue in surprise, and then replied with a happy face, "Yes." ”
Zi Mo put on a silver-white gray crane for the cold moon, Zi Su held a paper umbrella for the cold moon, and the three masters and servants walked towards Han Xiangyuan.
Along the way, the snow on the trail has not been swept away, and a thick layer has accumulated over the past few days, and the cold moon walks on the snow in embroidered warm boots, only feeling soft as cotton.
Before arriving at Han Xiang Garden, I smelled a burst of fragrance from a distance, which seemed to be nothing. Mixed with the cold wind, the smell is faint and refreshing. There was silence all around, only the squeak of the three masters and servants walking, as if only the three of them were left in this white world.
A pool of clear water in Han Xiangyuan has long been frozen, and at a glance, it is full of snow. However, in the northeast corner of the garden, a piece of red plum blossoms is blooming arbitrarily through frost and snow, and in the endless snow white, the red is so dazzling, the red is like fire, and the red seems to be burning. At this moment, there are snowflakes as light as catkins and as thin as reeds floating in the sky, sprinkled with joy, like a fairyland on earth, a good picture of sparse shadows and slanted and dark fragrance floating ice and snow red plum maps.
Looking closer, the red petals are covered with a little unmelted snow, a little bit of crystal clear, and the plum blossoms are even more delicate. On the branches, there is snow water condensed into ice, like ice muscle and jade bones.
Seeing such beautiful and lovely flowers, Hanyue couldn't help but feel the love in her heart. She handed the stove in her hand to Zi Mo, lifted her skirt, and walked towards the plum blossoms.
"Miss, be careful, or the slave will pick it up." Zi Mo on the side said.
"It doesn't matter." Han Yue said with a smile, picked a red plum in her hand and put it in front of her nose and sniffed it lightly, her quiet and white face was a little more agile because of this smile.
It's only been a while, and I've already folded several sticks. It's been a long time since I've been playing in the snow like this, and Han Yue only feels that she is extremely happy at this moment, as if she has returned to the days when she was in Xiao Mansion before she left the pavilion.
"Sister." Suddenly, a delicate voice came from afar.
Hearing the sound, Han Yue turned around and saw Su Yuyan coming from a distance. In the vast snowflakes, Su Yuyan was wearing a light pink snow fox jacket skirt, a white cloak of silver fox skin hibiscus, and a slender waist. There is a pink crystal glass hairpin obliquely inserted in the fallen bun on the head, and the skin is like coagulation, white and flawless. Lightly sweep the moth eyebrows, lightly smear the rouge. With spring water in his eyes, he is looking forward to the clear waves, he is really more beautiful than flowers, and his smile is moving.
"I thought that I would take advantage of the snow and no one to come to this Han Xiangyuan to see the scenery, but I didn't expect my sister to be here, it seems that my sister and I really have a heart." Su Yuyan stepped forward and smiled sweetly.
"That's really fate." Hanyue Bao smiled and said, "I'm here to fold a few red plums and go back to bottle." The plum blossoms here are blooming just right, but my sister also has to pick a few back? ”
"Such an elegant thing, Apple Yan naturally wants to follow suit." Su Yuyan nodded.
The two talked and laughed, and picked a lot for a while.
"Sister, today's prince has been left in the palace for a day, and I feel very bored to stay alone, why don't my sister come to my Pingyan Pavilion for lunch, the two of us can still talk and kill time." Su Yanyan held a plum blossom in his hand and suddenly spoke.
Hanyue looked at her expectant expression, knowing that it was difficult to resist the hospitality, so she said, "Okay." ”
Han Yue handed the plum blossom in his hand to Zi Su and said, "Zi Su, you go back and insert the plum blossom first, just have Zi Mo with you here." ”
"Yes, miss." Zi Su handed the paper umbrella in his hand to Zi Mo, then reached out to take the plum blossom, and Fu Yi Fu left.
Su Yanyan glanced at Shisu, and quickly looked away, "My sister is too lenient with others, why do you still let Zisu call you Miss?" ”
Zi Moyuan walked beside Han Yue, frowned when he heard the words, thinking that this Su Yuyan was inevitably too lenient, didn't he mean that the young lady had no way to go, and the slave didn't understand the rules.
Han Yue smiled slightly when she heard this, and didn't care much, "It's just a name for the left and right, they can call it whatever they want, not to mention that I'm used to hearing it." ”
Su Yanyan thought to herself, when she Xiao Hanyue said this, it seemed that she was calculating and chicken-bellied, so she simply replied, "What my sister said is true." He stopped dwelling on it and moved on to something else.
After a stick of incense, I arrived at the Apple Smoke Pavilion. It's cold and snowy outside, and it looks warm as soon as you arrive at the Apple Smoke Pavilion. Because Su Yanyan was delicate, Nangong Jing specially instructed everyone to take good care of her, so in the Apple Smoke Pavilion, red charcoal was burned in winter, and people watched it all the time, and they didn't dare to slack off for a moment.
For such a phenomenon, Cold Moon has long been surprised. Under Zi Mo's service, Han Yue took off the heavy crane and sat down at the small table.
In a short time, a slave and maid served a cup of tea. The tea leaves in the cup sink and float in the tea, the bottom of the tea leaves is tender, the buds are fat, the yellow and green are evenly bright, the soup color is clear and clear, smell lightly, and the breath is rich and fragrant. Han Yue picked up the green glazed Yanglian teacup, took a sip, only to feel that this tea has a slight elegant floral fragrance, a few drops into the throat, such as the fragrance of orchid full of teeth and cheeks. The first drink, slightly bitter, re-drinking, sweet aftertaste.
"This tea is a Han water silver shuttle?" Hanyue asked, putting down the teacup.
Su Yanyan smiled when she heard this, "The prince said that my sister is well versed in the tea ceremony, and now it seems that it is really good." My sister actually tasted it in one bite. ”
"My sister has won the award, but my father likes to drink tea, so I just learned some fur." Han Yue replied modestly, "I was fortunate to drink this Han mercury shuttle once, and I once heard my father say that three or four days before and after the Qingming Festival, when the tea tree buds first burst, it should be picked in time." At that time, the leaf petals had just opened their eyes, resembling lotus hearts, with uniform strips and thick white mist. To make a pound of Han mercury shuttle, it is necessary to pick more than 60,000 fresh buds, on a very dense tea tree, you can't find twenty or thirty new sprouts, and one acre of tea garden can't pick three catties, so it is extremely precious, called the best product. It seems that the prince really loves his sister and loves him very much. ”
"What did my sister say, but she laughed at me again." Su Yuyan pretended to be shy.
For the Apple Smoke Pavilion, a place that is privately called the Treasure Pavilion, the appearance of such a superb tea is also expected by the cold moon, "Okay, okay, don't talk about you." Today, thanks to your sister, I invited me to come, and I am fortunate to be able to drink such a good tea. ”
"If my sister likes it, bring some back." Su Yuyan blurted out, and the words felt inappropriate, "Sister, I, I didn't mean that, presumably Han Yuxuan also has a lot of such good tea." Su Pingyan hurriedly remedied, but the more she said it, the more wrong it became, and her little face was flushed with urgency at the moment.
"I know you didn't mean that." Looking at Su Yuyan, who was so nervous, Han Yue said with relief.
"Bess, go to the kitchen to see if lunch is ready, remember to be light and tasty." Su Yanyan was in a hurry and quickly changed the topic.
Fang Cai's stubble was over, and no one mentioned it again, Su Yuyan sighed softly.
After lunch, Han Yue took Zi Mo to leave. Out of the Apple Smoke Pavilion, "Miss, Concubine Su is obviously deliberately showing off, it's too much." Zi Mo puffed out his face angrily.
Han Yue raised her eyes and looked at the still sprinkled snowflakes and said, "Apple Smoke, she may not have a heart. ”
"Miss, you can't be fooled by her delicate appearance. She will always say something and do something to hit you, intentionally or unintentionally, and then pretend to be innocent and kind. It's disgusting. Hearing Han Yue's words, Zi Mo said anxiously.
"Zi Mo, don't say such things again in the future. Just say this in front of me, if someone with a heart hears it and makes a fuss, it will really be impossible to wash it by jumping into the Yellow River. Hanyue said solemnly.
"Yes, miss, the slave knows." Zi Mo said dejectedly.
Han Yue didn't know what Zi Mo said, but she really didn't want to believe that such a delicate beauty as Su Yuyan would have a femme fatale.
"Zi Mo, I know that you are for my good, and I understand what you say. Let her go as fast as she speaks, as long as she doesn't go too far. After all, she is the person on the tip of the prince's heart. Hanyue said with a slightly melancholy tone.
When Zi Mo heard this, he was silent, and the master and servant walked silently on the snow, only the sound of creaking footsteps.