The next day, Wanying was still in her dream, and vaguely heard the sound of shoveling snow outside the house, and turned around to see that Qiu Li was no longer in the bed. I put on my clothes and went out, only to see that the snow from last night was so thick that it had accumulated a layer, about half a foot thick.

Wanying had a strong charcoal fire in the house last night, and a row of ice cubes more than a foot long hung upside down on the eaves.

The stone path in front of the main hall has been cleaned. There were passages more than a foot wide into the rooms that led to several occupied rooms. The red walls and gold tiles were pressed with thick snow, and from time to time there were falling snow blocks on the pine branches.

only heard the sound of shoveling snow, but did not see Qi Qiuli's figure, Wanying was about to look for it, but saw Qi Qiuli holding a snow shovel and coming out of the small courtyard of the Jade Princess. Xu is sweating from work, Wanying looked at Qi Qiuli's neck and white smoke coming out.

"There is really too much snow this year, and I don't know if Taiyuan Mansion will freeze to death." Qi Qiuli leaned the shovel against the corner of the wall, picked up a basket of silver charcoal from under the felt cloth next to her, and entered the house with Wanying.

As soon as Wanying entered the door, she heard a happy female voice shouting: "Look over there, a row of ice cream strips, like crystal curtains, really look tight." ”

"What do you rejoice in the scenery under other people's roofs?"

"The scenery is meant to be seen, so who can't take a look under the eaves? I look at a lot of things, what are you yelling about? ”

“……”

"Huh...... Why don't we have ice strips under the eaves? ”

"Say you're shallow, you still don't admit it, our house is the same inside and out, it's as cold as an ice cellar, the snow that fell last night, a lot of it is still piled on the roof, where is the ice strip?"

"The snow on our roof seems to be thicker, thicker than their roof, why don't we hang ice strips under the eaves?"

"Hmph - Bingling strips are also snobs, and they only recognize Luo Yi but not people."

"Sister, I don't have a head to talk in the morning, I can't be sleepy, right?"

"Cut-I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you, a pot of paste, confused, what's the point of living!"

“……”

"I haven't eaten early in the morning, I'm holding on, the concubine is doing morning classes in the palace at this time, and I disturbed the concubine, but you ask." Aunt Bitong's voice came out of the air. Even Wanying in the room was startled.

Qi Qiuli stood and boiled a basin of water, and said respectfully: "Miss, wash your face......

Wanying heard her call herself Miss, remembering the rights and wrongs of last night, she couldn't bear it, took Qi Qiuli's hand and said, "I'm not your Miss, I don't allow you to do this to yourself." ”

"Don't worry too much, I think you are a good sister in my heart, I am in Taiyuan's family, the sister of the uncle's family, I also call her a young lady, serve her all day long, it's okay, don't think about it."

Wanying heard her say this, and she was even more unhappy, others practiced Qi Qiuli, she couldn't do anything to others, but she didn't allow Qi Qiuli to practice herself in front of herself, and said with a straight face: "What others do to you, I can't control them, but I don't want you to practice yourself, I'm not your master, you're not my maid, you call me Wanying, I call you Qiuli, let's be the same as before." ”

Wanying's tone was unquestionable, Qi Qiuli smiled lightly and muttered, "Qiuli ......"

"Oh yes, your uncle's young lady is Qiu Li, so what is your name?" Wanying still doesn't know Qi Qiuli's real name.

"Let's call me Qiuli, I'm used to it, and I don't want to hurt my uncle."

Wanying no longer insisted, and asked softly: "I heard you say Taiyuan Mansion just now, do you miss your brother?" ”

Qi Qiuli nodded, and said with a little tears: "Before I entered the palace, I made thirty padded jackets and thirty pairs of shoes for the three of them. Each person has a padded jacket and a pair of shoes a year, which can be worn until they grow up. Knowing that they have padded jackets, I don't worry about them getting cold. I'm just worried about my own brother, don't get frostbite on such a cold day. I'm so confused, I only care about making padded jackets and soles, why did I forget to make a pair of gloves for my little brother? ”

When Wanying heard this, she felt a little ashamed of herself, they were all the same age, Qi Qiuli could take care of her younger brothers and sisters so carefully and properly, but she was still willful and petty with her brother. Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a little envious of Qi Qiuli's younger brothers and sisters, who could have such a good sister to take care of them.

"Let's leave the palace in a few days, I'll let the little maid at home go to Taiyuan Mansion and send some winter clothes, don't worry."

"No, if you save me, it's already a great favor and hard to repay, don't worry about the affairs of your younger brothers and sisters, Qiu Li just thought about it casually, don't take it to heart. But thank you, Wanying. ”

"Well, that's right, you're Qiuli, I'm Wanying, we're still us, nothing has changed!"

Qi Qiuli also nodded happily for the time being. Wanying looked at the thick snow outside the curtain, pouted and said, "Today, on the eleventh day of the first lunar month, it will be four or five days before returning home. ”

Wanying has long been like an arrow, but the cold road is slippery, I don't know if it will change because of the difficulty of the snowy road. So at this moment, I pray wholeheartedly that the sky will soon clear and the snow on the ground will melt quickly.

"If the weather is good, it will only be three or five days, if the sky is not good, ten days and half a month may not be finished."

"It's so boring, it snows every day, no matter how much good the mood is, it can't withstand the snow falling at both ends for three days." Wanying complained.

If the snow falls in front of the window of the 'red mud stove', it is the anticipation of the 'late day and the snow'. But if it is in the 'miserable Chaimen snowy night', it is the despair and hatred of 'having a son at this time is better than nothing'. It's all snow, it's all night snow, different people, different artistic conceptions. Even if it is the same person, in a different snow scene, there are still thoughts that are far from the same, such as Wanying in front of her. It was the same snow last night, and when I drank and enjoyed the snow with Prince Rong, I was naturally happy. Now when I think about the difficulty of going home in the snow, I am tired and complaining.

Qi Qiuli felt sorry for her younger brother who was frozen, and Wanying was afraid that the snow road would be difficult to walk. Wanying can't fully understand Qi Qiuli's suffering, just like Qi Qiuli can't be as hypocritical as Wanying.

Each man has his own life. Qi Qiuli said to herself in her heart: "She was born with a good life, she has a father's pain, a mother's love, a pampered daughter, and a golden husband." She has been sitting in the courtyard of the deep house all her life to enjoy Qingfu, and she naturally didn't expect that when the snow was heavy, her hands would get frostbitten, because she didn't have to do those heavy work. ”

The two worried about each other's hearts, and had breakfast hastily, when Prince Rong came over, Qi Qiuli excused himself to go to Yongxiang to get his burden, leaving Prince Rong and Wanying in the house.

"The Queen Mother called a few plays in the pear garden today, and I will take you to the play in the afternoon, right?"

"The Queen Mother didn't ask me to go, okay if I went?"

"Why didn't I call you, I still said yesterday, why didn't you come to eat together on Chinese New Year's Eve."

"Really? Did the Queen Mother really say me? ”

"That's still fake, I went to the Queen Mother yesterday, and the Queen Mother specially said that I must let you go with me for this play today."

"Let me think again......"

"What do you think, I'll go with you, what are you afraid of? The ugly daughter-in-law always wants to see her in-laws. ”

Wanying blushed, thinking in her heart: It stands to reason that she should go to see her in person, but now that the gift has not been held, it is also a very embarrassing identity. If the Queen Mother has a summons in private, she will also make it. It's just that things in the palace have been cumbersome recently, and the Queen Mother has only been a little idle for a few days. On Chinese New Year's Eve, because of his embarrassing identity, he had already soothed the Queen Mother's good intentions, and this time if he still twisted and pinched, it was really a little unreasonable.

The identity is a little embarrassing, but with Prince Rong by his side, the embarrassment will be solved. "Okay then, you come and pick me up in the afternoon, let's go together."

"I thought you were shy, so I went with you." Prince Rong didn't expect Wanying to agree so happily. I was very happy.

Since she still had to watch a play in the afternoon, Wanying hurriedly pushed Prince Rong out, stood in the room by herself, and turned out all the winter clothes she brought when she entered the palace.

Pick and choose, it is nothing more than peach and willow green, or moon white. The jewelry is also bland, Wanying threw her clothes aside in disgust, and resented in her heart: "I don't even have a decent piece of clothes and jewelry, is it possible to serve tea and pour water by myself in front of the ladies of the palace?" ”

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and the person who came in was Aunt Bitong.

"Auntie." Wanying hurriedly got up and saluted.

Aunt Bitong pulled Wanying up, the two sat on the edge of the bed together, Aunt Bitong picked it up, and Aunt Lin gave Wanying the embroidered purse and said, "What a delicate job." ”

"Wanying Niang embroidered."

"It's hard for us to see each other again when we go back to the house this time, so I'm here to say goodbye to you."

"Auntie doesn't have to have such sad words, Wanying will have the opportunity to visit her in the future."

"Rongshou Palace has never had too much contact with the outside world, and Bitong doesn't want to disturb this purity."

Since Wanying and Prince Rong met, Aunt Bitong has been avoiding Wanying, she is not a person who worships red and black, and she does not want to get too involved in fame and fortune, Wanying can also understand. Hearing her say this, I knew that my heart was diluted, and I was speechless. Although Wanying has been with her for a very short time, Wanying knows that Aunt Bitong loves Wanying very much in her heart.

"Auntie......"

"My aunt has been in this palace all her life, how many times I have dreamed of going out to see, a life is really short, it passed in the blink of an eye, I remember that when I first entered the palace, I was also twelve or thirteen years old, and it was such a snowy winter. It's been almost forty years. ”

"Wanying looks at her aunt like a woman in her thirties."

Aunt Bitong heard Wanying praise her, the corners of her mouth lifted, and a comfortable smile came from her heart. "My aunt is fifty-three years old." After a slight pause, he said, "It's really a lifetime." ”

Although she was smiling and smiling, Wan Ying felt sad, such a big Ziwei Divine Palace, Aunt Bitong would never be able to get out of this life except for the day she died. The corners of my eyes are slightly wet when I think of this.

Aunt Bitong saw that Wanying was sad, and pulled Wanying and said: "Good boy, my aunt is like this in this life, you go out, and go to see and listen to everything that your aunt has never seen and heard in her life, okay?" ”

"Wanying must live up to her aunt's instructions." A hot liquid flowed down the corner of his eye.

Aunt Bitong took out her handkerchief from her sleeve, wiped away the tears from the corners of Wanying's eyes, and whispered: "Auntie came today, and she was also entrusted by others, to take a more mouth and give the girl a reminder." ”

A strong smell of sandalwood lingered on his cheeks with the veil, and fell straight into his heart with a little horror. Aunt Bitong is not involved in anything in the palace, and she is not involved in any disputes, if she doesn't treat Wanying as her own, even if someone asks her, she will never come here today to say what she wants to say to Wanying.

"Auntie, please speak, Wanying must listen to her aunt's teachings." Wanying said obediently.

"Although today's matter is entrusted by others, it is also my aunt's advice, no matter the girl, know it or not, don't worry about it, the important thing is that you and the prince are in love with each other."

"Auntie, what happened?"