Chapter 7: In Winter

Xihe has always said that he is sick and does not see guests, not even Sisi, Sisi remembered to go to see it twice, but was blocked out by Liu's mother, saying that Sisi itself was cold and afraid of being sick.

The servants of the princess's mansion have always been diligent under Xihe's nose, Xihe is sick, except for Xihe and the courtyard and Sisi courtyard, the rest of the place, the servants are lazy and slippery, and a few eunuchs also sneak out of the house to gamble.

Xihe didn't know about these things, but she didn't want to take care of them. The people in the house have always felt that this woman who has lost her husband is cowardly and unassertive, and can be bullied and suppressed.

Sisi didn't bother to care, she didn't know how to manage it if she hadn't been a leader.

When Xi and typhoid fever gradually recovered, news came from the palace that Concubine Xiao was appointed as a concubine, and three months later she was canonized on His Majesty's birthday.

In the warm room, Xihe was leaning on the side of the bed drinking tea, and Liu's mother moved a small stool to sit next to Xihe's bed.

"This Concubine Xiao has risen quickly, according to the old slave, His Majesty loves Concubine Xiao so much, and the six princes are afraid that they will have a chance."

"Do you think Your Majesty will pass on the throne to the Sixth Prince?"

Who is Lady Lady's brother? It's Lord Xiao of the Criminal Department."

"Lord Xiao's sleeves are upright, he is His Majesty's favorite minister of the humerus, for so many years, Concubine Xiao has been favored day by day, Lord Xiao's Shangshu Mansion is like a city, how many people want to be Lord Xiao's doorman, but who do you see he has looked down on? He has been neutral for so many years, even if Concubine Xiao is her sister, he has never been partial to the gang for so many years, and he has never stepped on the pure concubine faction, in order to avoid suspicion, he has never entered the palace to visit Concubine Xiao. ”

"Princess, the old slave knows about this, the Xiao family is not flourishing because of this, but it is declining, it is not like the younger brother of the pure concubine has a bright future, the pure concubine is in the limelight, Your Majesty is promoting Concubine Xiao at this time, it seems that Your Majesty intends to promote the Xiao family."

"It seems that Your Majesty is still a little jealous of the pure concubine faction." Xi He casually played with the teacup in her hand, her long hair was spread out behind her thin shoulders, she was no longer as old as a girl, but her face was beautiful. Speaking of which, Sisi is already a beauty, but compared with Zhaoxi and Lai, it is still a few points worse. Xihe's beauty, gentle and gentle, years of life in Kyoto have made her unable to see the traces of running crazy before the age of twelve.

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Sisi is doing well now, if it weren't for the laziness in winter, maybe it would be even better.

Liu's mother really blocked the dog hole in the back door, and she slipped out to play but felt that it was very obvious to go over the wall, and it was easy to be caught red-handed.

When I have nothing to do, except stretching my arms and kicking my legs in the boudoir, I go to the small bamboo forest to practice light exercises.

When practicing, Sisi always avoided Meilan Zhuju and Wudou, I don't know why, she always felt that Xuanyuan's matter, the less people knew, the better, the dignified county lord actually learned to learn martial arts, and I was afraid that I would laugh off the big teeth of the people of Kyoto.

The last time he returned home, Xihe didn't know how to learn about Lanxiang, so he no longer let her accompany her to the academy.

Lan Xiang lay on the couch and cried for two days, and on the third day, when she came to serve with walnut eyes, Sisi asked her to go back and rest.

This grievance can't be recovered, and the decision made by Xihe can't be pulled back.

It seems that the winter solstice has passed, the weather is extremely cold, the seowon are closed, the streets are much less pedestrian, and Kyoto seems to be frozen.

It was night, and Sisi was secretly practicing light skills again.

The house is surrounded by bamboo forests, and there are several large vats in the courtyard where water lilies are planted in summer, and they are also covered with ice. The snow in the courtyard was swept up by the maids and piled up in the corner.

Sisi tiptoed to open the door, the plum branch under the porch was already sleeping and snoring, there was a charcoal basin under the porch, the fire was not extinguished at this time, the plum branch leaned on the pillar, and the little face of the sleeping was red. Sisi thought in her heart that she had been exempted from winter duty, but Liu's mother was still not at ease, so she sent someone to be on duty under the corridor for the night, so it seemed that she should still beg Liu's mother to evacuate the person. In the bitter cold of winter, sleeping under the bed is the right way.

When she walked around to the bamboo forest, the snow soaked her boots, and it was a little cold, and she shivered uncontrollably.

Xuanyuan said that the light skills of Fuyao Mountain were practiced to the top level and there was no trace of stepping on the snow, Sisi looked back at his footprints in the bamboo forest, and felt that the road was long.

She is already twelve years old, her body is similar to Zhuqing, she has no ruler, Sisi estimates that her current body should be taller than when she was twelve in her previous life.

Lifting a breath and tapping her toes, Sisi launched a light gong, and her true qi rushed from the soles of her feet to the top of her head, as if there was a force against Sisi to make her jump higher.

She used to think that this kind of thing only existed in novels, and later, she tried to comfort herself that maybe some people could climb high walls and walk on the house, and the ancients made good use of exaggeration, and it became what it is today.

But after seeing it clearly, I overturned what I thought, and suddenly yearned. But the more you want to practice, the more you can't practice well. 'Most people are like that,' Sisi thought to herself.

She is only jumping higher than ordinary people now, and if she wants to reach the height of Mr. Xuanyuan, she is afraid that she has twenty or thirty years to practice.

What is the practice for, at first it was just for curiosity, but now? Mr. Xuanyuan went to find a way to solve the mystery of his internal strength, and he couldn't tell when he would return to the West.

Thinking of this, I was a little sad, I couldn't help but want to cry, sighing at my sad fate, I want to be a big lady in this life, is this dream too extravagant? God can't look down on his own deceit, and he wants to take back this life of fine clothes and food?

After being sad for almost a pillar of incense, Sisi returned the same way.

This winter is really too cold, if you are lucky enough not to go out to practice in winter, then you must be in the house cat winter, the house has been born with a dragon, warm, but in summer clothes, thinking that such a stable is thanks to the blessing of Meilan Zhuju, I sighed that I still have a good life.

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Recently, Wudou has often gone to look for chrysanthemum, and it's not a big deal, so he wants to go to her.

Wudou does not live in the inner courtyard, Xihe did not agree to him live in the inner courtyard, although he is Sisi's guard, he lives in the front yard and lives with several eunuchs.

With four people living in one room, Goto feels like he's about to become perverted.

The remaining three people in the house are all eunuchs, and there is a little eunuch Xiangzi who seems to have something wrong with him, always looking for opportunities to get close, and even do something.

Thinking of this, Wudou shuddered.

Recently, Wudou has nothing to do, the dog hole is blocked, Sisi can't get out of the house, and he has nothing to do, so he came to find Jujiu.

Although eight times out of ten, Ju Brew ignored him.

On this day, he came to look for Ju Brew again, and Ju Brew was building a snowman in the courtyard, Sisi sat under the porch, draped in a blanket, and commanded Zhu Qing and Ju Brew to pile up the snow in the courtyard and build a snowman.

"Wudou, you're just in time, go to Wanwan's kitchen and steal a carrot for me."

"County Lord, you still need to steal your own kitchen."

"Less nonsense, if you want to steal, you will steal, it will be more exciting."

Wudou rolled his eyes and went out, and Juzhuo's hand paused and began to pile up again.

The gloves worn on the hands of chrysanthemum and bamboo green are the craftsmanship of orchid.

Sisi watched the eunuch Yahuan clearing the snow in winter, all with bare hands, and every winter there were people with frostbite on their hands. Sisi drew a picture, asked Lanxiang to sew a pattern, and filled it with the pampas sticks collected in the autumn. In this world, there is no such thing as cotton, and I heard that people freeze to death every winter.

"Well, you wait a minute." Ju Brew thought for a while and stopped Wudou who was about to turn around, Wudou didn't know why, and returned again. She stepped forward and took out a pair of gloves from her arms and handed them to Wudou, the blue gloves embroidered with a small chrysanthemum.

Wudou was a little happy, but he didn't know why, he was happy anyway.

Sisi was also happy, witnessing all this, whistling with bad intentions.

Ju Brew's face was not red, but Wudou made a big red face.

"I learned from Lan Xiang, I had more materials, and I thought about making a pair for him, and we made a copy of everyone in the yard."

"Yo Yo Yo, I know, what the county lord ordered, each person has a pair. But the county lord has sharp eyes, how can I see that there is a small yellow flower on the glove, isn't it a chrysanthemum. ”

Sisi and Mei Zhi laughed.

"The county lord is wrong, there are no chrysanthemums." Ju Brew is still breathless, as if she is the most upright in the world.

Sisi immediately stopped laughing, she always felt that Ju Brew was too boring, and it was not interesting to tease her at all, but she seemed to be obscene.

Lu Rao married the steward of Zhuangzi the year before last, and he is no longer in the house, and now the head of the yard is chrysanthemum brewing, and Lu Rao personally appointed it before leaving, saying that it is to look at Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum, and it is safer to brew chrysanthemum.

Wudou was shy enough and left, Zhuqing didn't participate in this farce at all, she concentrated on the snowball, the extra edges and corners were smoothed, and a round snow ball rolled around in her hand, Sisi looked at it from afar, it was particularly round, worthy of obsessive-compulsive Zhuqing!

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Xihe was sick all winter, but in fact, he only had typhoid fever for half a month, and the rest of the days were lazy and Sisi playing chess in the hospital. The imperial doctor came to the palace several times, but she only told her that she was weak and needed to take care of herself. The imperial doctor has been in the palace for a long time, and some masters of the way of nature love to be sick, so they honestly accepted the silver ticket and shut up.

Although Concubine Xiao Shufei has not yet been canonized, the palace has already called Concubine Shufei away, she once sent an invitation to the princess's mansion to drink tea together, Xihe refused because she was unwell.

Sisi asked her why she didn't go, and Xihe said that I am not 'sick' now, so I naturally have to do a full set of plays.

There was an episode in winter, Sisi came to Kwai Shui for the first time, rolling in pain on the bed, the painkillers of the imperial doctor did not work, she was too cold, the medicine was not effective, and finally she had to take some medicine to sleep well.

Xi He shed tears anxiously, his mind was in a trance, and he didn't know whether he was awake or asleep for a day, and he was in a daze.

It hurt so much that Sisi's consciousness was in a trance, and the cold true qi of his body couldn't be controlled, so he slowly overflowed his body, lying on the bed by himself, with several soup women resting on the couch, and the plum branches were going to be replaced with new ones every once in a while, but even so, Sisi's body seemed to have a cold ice around him, and the inside of the house was a little colder than the outside.

For so many years, the imperial doctor has also tried to alleviate the cold on Sisi's body, but to no avail.

Later, the hospital unified the caliber, saying that it was the cause of the lack in the womb, and Sisi rolled her eyes after knowing about it, anyway, it was said that it was congenital.

After a long time, Sisi felt that her mind seemed to have degenerated into a twelve-year-old girl, and she had suffered much more pain before than now, maybe it was because there were too many days of fine clothes and fine food, she felt that she couldn't endure hardships now, and it was really easy to go from simple to luxurious, and difficult to enter from luxury to simple.

Winter turns to spring, everything recovers, and the snowman in the yard finally melts away.