Chapter 1: Snow Pressing Plum Branches
The snow in winter in Cloud City is not as cold as in other places.
Now, even though the snow has fallen overnight, the roofs of every house are dyed white.
The streets are still as lively as yesterday, maybe a little more lively than yesterday.
About last night, it began to snowflake, and most of the people in Cloud City loved snow.
Brother Chun stood at the corner of the corner door of the Jiang Mansion, constantly stepping on the snowflakes on the ground. What used to be a fine snowflake is now even finer.
At this time, the vermilion corner door opened a small slit.
Jiang Yan, who was wearing a white hat, looked around cautiously.
The moment Brother Chun saw the door open, his eyes lit up a little.
He lowered his voice and said, "Miss, you must go and come back quickly." ”
Seeing that there were really no acquaintances around, Jiang Yan lowered her hat and quickly crossed the threshold with her skirt.
Phew, Miss Ben is out again.
Jiang Yan thought proudly with her hands on her waist.
Hum!
Don't think that if you punish me for grounding, I will be obedient.
The sky is high and the earth is wide for me to swim!
Brother Chun looked at Jiang Yan's back as she jumped away.
I kept praying in my heart that Jiang Yan must come back safely!
Otherwise, she will be punished again.
At this time, inside the Jiang Mansion.
Mrs. Jiang Bai Shuxian is sitting in the account room and giving lectures to everyone.
Not for anything else, just because her sister-in-law in the capital is coming to her house for a few days.
"Everything has to be done with great care, and there must be no slackness."
In order to prevent accidents, Bai Shuxian reminded again.
After all, she may not have seen her sister for a long time, and I don't know if her temperament is still as picky as she was back then.
The heads hurriedly agreed, reassuring Bai Shuxian that they would not have a trace of slackness.
She nodded slightly, and said a few more words.
Then she waved her hand and told everyone to go down and get ready.
"Yuncui, what did you say the little sister came here for?"
Bai Shuxian's slender fingers pinched her eyebrows slightly, and asked the maid beside her with a tired face.
Yun Cui stood behind Bai Shuxian, handed her a cup of tea and replied: "Miss Yu may have come here at this time to let the Jiang family clearly stand in line, after all, the emperor's body is getting worse day by day. ”
Bai Shuxian took the teacup, gently lifted the tea lid and brushed it twice.
I wanted to drink it, but I just touched it and put it down: "She just values power too much." ”
"No, it should be my mother-in-law who has cultivated her into a person who advocates power since she was a child."
"Girl." Yun Cui snorted softly.
"Miss Jade is not your half-sister, in fact, you don't need to worry about her."
"Isn't it necessary?" Bai Shuxian asked rhetorically, looking at Yun Cui.
Yun Cui knew that she had overstepped, so she hurriedly bowed her head.
About two breaths later.
Bai Shuxian sighed lightly: "That's it, Yuncui, you go down and prepare a place to play!" Ayu thought that she should arrive in Cloud City. ”
"Yes." Yun Cui replied, slowly exiting the account room.
Bai Shuxian gently picked up the ledger on her right hand and looked at it, but now she had no intention of reading the contents of the ledger.
At the age of sixteen, she met her stepmother for the first time.
At that time, she was the fourth lady of the Yan family who was famous in the capital, and she was called Yan Zhirou.
She is beautiful and moving.
The people of Kyoto also call her "the first beauty in the world."
Because she confirmed that it was beautiful.
When she first saw her, Bai Shuxian was deeply attracted by her dazzling smile.
But such a lovely person married her father Bai Shenghua to continue the string.
And at that time, her stepmother was obviously only four years older than her, so Bai Shuxian always felt that Yan Zhirou had some purpose for entering the Bai family.
So she didn't have a good impression of her stepmother, but she felt very sorry for her little sister.
Less than ten miles away from Cloud City, a convoy was slowly moving forward.
Bai Yiyu leaned against the car window, looking at the snow scene outside the window through the thin curtain paper.
Cloud City is located in the richest city in the east of the Southern Dynasty Kingdom, and I thought that the snow might make it look less lively.
But I didn't expect that this road seemed to be the opposite.
"Girl, but tired? It's better to take a nap on the warm collapse. Yun Die asked cautiously.
Although the girl in the past was introverted, she was not as gloomy as she is now, and there always seemed to be an unsolvable sorrow in her eyes.
This change is from three months ago, the girl and the Tan sisters went to attend Princess Gong's birthday, and the girl has changed since she came back.
"It's not tired, it's just a little cool."
Shirakutama has always lived in Kyoto, where spring is like spring all year round.
Experiencing the cold of winter for the first time is inevitably a little uncomfortable.
But even though the occasional cold wind from the window froze Bai Yiyu's hands, she still wanted to sit by the window and look at the snow-white world.
It's beautiful.
Yun Die heard Bai Yiyu say that it was a little cold, and immediately opened the wooden box in the warm collapse and took out a moon-white cloak tattooed with white jade flowers and draped it on Bai Yiyu.
The little ancestor must not catch a cold, otherwise the lady will definitely kill her when she returns to Kyoto.
After all, Madame has never been a good person, and she has seen Madame's ruthlessness with her own eyes.
Putting on the cloak, Bai Yiyu felt a trace of warmth after a while.
After adding a little gold charcoal to the stove, Yundie added a spoonful of lotus spices to the stove.
Suddenly, a faint lotus fragrance wafted throughout the car.
Even if you get close to the carriage, you can smell a vague scent.
"Aunt Yun, what kind of flower is that?"
A pale red flower branch suddenly broke into Bai Yiyu's eyes.
Even if she already knew what this flower was called, she had to pretend not to know it now.
Because this is the first time she has come to Cloud City in her life, and the first time she has seen this flower.
Yun Die looked at the flowers and smiled: "It should be the famous plum blossoms in Cloud City, looking at a large piece of plum blossoms is really beautiful." ”
"It must be because of the girl's arrival that it's so beautiful."
The plum blossom forest is located three miles away from Cloud City, and it is also the place where Ah Yan was killed in the previous life.
"Stop the carriage and horses, I want to see this plum blossom." Bai Yiyu tidied up the hem of her wrinkled skirt and said casually.
"Yes, girl." Yun Die immediately replied, and then lifted the curtain to tell the entire convoy to stop for a moment.
In fact, she is quite happy today, but the young lady in the past never stopped for a moment for flowers and plants.
What obsesses her is always the book collection and the endless daze.
Bai Yiyu stared at the snow on the plum branch outside the window with a faint gaze, slightly distracted.
Bai Yiyu has always felt that the flowers in the world can match the snow.
It is the plum blossom that is the most compatible, and she also loves the forbearance of plum blossoms the most.
Hidden through the spring period, endure the summer and autumn.
It is born in the winter and occupies a season.
A cold wind suddenly came towards him, and Bai Yiyu knew that it was Yun Die who was back, and his eyelashes fluttered slightly.
Continue to look at the snow outside the horse window, the snow at this time is not as heavy as yesterday.
The snow in the Cloud City area always gives her a warm feeling of cold, unlike the snow in other areas.
"Girl, warm up with a cup of tea."
Yun Die brought in a pot of hot water from another carriage and made a cup of tea for Bai Yiyu.
Bai Yiyu held the porcelain cup of water in the palm of his hand, gently blew the flirtatious tea leaves on the water surface, and sipped slightly.
The rich smell of tea and the warmth of hot water instantly swept the entire mouth, and Bai Yiyu nodded with satisfaction and returned the teacup to Yun Die.
"Aunt Yun, I want to go out and pick some snow tea from the plum branches to drink." Bai Yiyu looked at the snow on the plum branch and said with a little heartbeat.
Yundie smiled again: "Okay, I'll go and get a velvet drape for the girl, and then we will go to pick snow together." ”
Yun Die knows that the girl loves the tea ceremony alone, and has been researching how to make a more mellow tea flavor.
Bai Yiyu looked at the smile on Yun Die's face, and his eyes suddenly put away the happy flicker just now.
He moved his gaze back to the window, lightly sketching a sneering sneer.
On the other side, Yun Die, who was looking for a cloak next to the wooden box, did not see Bai Yiyu's actions, and Bai Yiyu would not let her see it.