Pillow Frost House is the small courtyard where Chen Shao lives alone.

This is also the doctor's order of the Tai Hospital.

Because the blood clot in the brain has not been dispersed, the doctors think that Chen Shao should not be too excited, everything should be quiet, and it is best to live alone.

The Li family would not disobey the doctor's words, so he allocated the previously vacant pillow frost house for Chen Shao to live alone. The courtyard was only separated from the main house by a wall, and there was another door outside, which was quiet and convenient for the Li family to take care of him.

When Chen Ying passed, the small corner door connecting the main room was locked, and the Li family was afraid that people would disturb the husband. So, Chen Ying turned out of the Mingfeng Pavilion again, and walked west along the blue brick wall for a while, and a delicate wooden door appeared on the wall.

Xunzhen stepped forward and knocked on the door, the door soon opened, and the person who answered the door was a small man with a hanging hair, who was more than ten years old, with delicate eyebrows and eyes, and light movements, and his name was called Qiao'er.

"Girl, please come in." After Qiao'er saluted, she led the way, and another boy stepped forward and closed the wooden door again.

Chen Ying walked in and asked, "Is my father awake?" ”

Before Qiao'er could answer, a gentle voice came from behind the curtain in the main room: "I've gotten up." ”

As he spoke, the curtain was lifted, and Chen Shao's tall figure appeared by the door.

Chen Ying hurriedly bowed down to salute, Chen Shao smiled and said goodbye, and beckoned to her again: "Ah Man come to Daddy." ”

Chen Ying stepped onto the corridor and asked, "Did my father have a good rest last night?" ”

"Sleep till dawn." Chen Shao said, raised his finger and pointed to the bamboo chair under the corridor, and the look on Junyi's face was gentle: "It just so happens that you are here, how about talking about a game with Daddy?" ”

Chen Ying looked sideways and saw a chessboard with chess pieces on the bamboo table, and a little boy standing next to him, boiling water and making tea.

Chen Shao's days of recuperation are quite leisurely.

Chen Ying is not very good at Go, so she said honestly: "My daughter is not good at chess, and I hope my father will not dislike it." ”

When Chen Shao heard this, the corners of his lips hooked slightly, and a smile appeared in an instant, like the moon falling and clearing, almost distracting.

"It's okay, Daddy let you have three sons." He seemed to be in a good mood, and he sat down as he spoke, put the wooden bowl containing the sunspot and pushed it to the opposite side, and said like a child: "Oh, Ah Man is black." ”

Looking at his smiling face, Chen Ying felt a faint warmth in his heart.

Over the past few days, there has been more contact between their father and daughter, and the two get along much more naturally than they did at the beginning. She could feel that Chen Shao cared about her and had a natural closeness.

It is a kind of closeness in blood, which is melted into the bones, and it cannot be faked.

The corners of Chen Ying's lips overflowed with a smile, and she sat down to play chess with her father.

The breeze under the corridor is light, outside the corridor is the tall ginkgo tree, the leaves and shadows are staggered, the black and white pieces on the chess table are handed over, and occasionally there is a light and crisp sound of falling children, the more lonely this courtyard appears.

Half an hour later, a game of chess was over, Chen Shao's face showed a little fatigue, pushed the chess table away, and said with a smile: "Aman lost again." ”

Seeing that he looked tired, Chen Ying said softly: "Father wants to rest?" ”

Chen Shaowen smiled and shook his head: "It's okay, I'm just thinking about saying hello to your grandmother, it's not too late." After a pause, he got up, stretched out his hand and stroked the top of Chen Ying's hair gently, and said softly: "Daddy has something to give you, Ah Man, sit here, and Daddy will go back when he goes." ”

Chen Ying nodded in response, Chen Shao straightened his clothes and hats, and left with the two children.

In the courtyard, only Chen Ying's master and servant and Qiao'er were left, Qiao'er turned around and opened her mouth into the house, and then stepped forward to ask for sin: "The girl forgives her sins, because the master told the maid to take out the clothes to dry, and the maid has to do things first, and she can't serve the girl." ”

Seeing that she was young, but she was looking old-fashioned, Chen Ying thought it was very interesting, so she smiled and said, "You go and do your work, I will sit under the porch and not enter the house." ”

Qiao'er saluted respectfully, then lifted the curtain and entered the side compartment, and after a while, she walked out with her hands full of hands, which was a heavy handful of clothes.

Seeing that she was about to be buried by the pile of clothes, Chen Ying called Zhishi for help, Qiao'er first put her clothes on the small bamboo chair, and thanked Chen Ying seriously, so she was willing to accept Zhishi's help.

Chen Ying sat on a bamboo chair and watched them dry their clothes.

The blue, dark and gray robes soon covered the railing of the verandah, and the sunlight cast in, the shadows of the trees and the eaves overlapped, and the embroidery on the clothes shone with a ghostly light, but there was also a unique beauty.

Chen Ying took a sip of tea from the teacup, and at a glance, she saw Qiao'er carefully picking up a half-worn green shirt, looking for a clean flat ground at the foot of the corridor, and first placing a large white cloth on the ground, and then spreading the clothes on it, with a very light movement.

Chen Ying couldn't help but be a little curious, so she asked, "Is this also my father's?" ”

The green shirt was made of the most common cotton cloth, it looked like it was a few years old, and the corners were all sharpened with raw edges, compared with the previous robes, it was obviously much more worn, and it was not like what a person of Chen Xun's status would wear.

When Qiao'er heard this, she put down the work in her hand, got up and bowed down and said: "Back to the girl, this is the master's clothes, the master specially asked the maid to take out this dress separately to dry, and also asked the maid to go to the kitchen for a while to get a copper kettle, pour hot water and iron it." ”

Chen Ying was surprised when he said this.

It's just an old dress, Chen Shao cares so much, but I don't know why? Could it be that this green shirt still carries a reminiscent past?

With these thoughts turning in his heart, Chen Ying didn't continue to ask, and drank tea by himself.

Qiao'er was just assigned to serve Chen Shao, and she didn't know the story of this dress.

The courtyard was silent, except for the slight sound of the maids walking, only the sound of the wind came.

Chen Ying sat peacefully on the chair, looking at the green shadows under the eaves and the flowers and branches outside the fence, and her mood was also calm.

Chen Shao soon returned.

Chen Ying only added tea once, and the wooden door was pushed away, and the sleeves of Chen Shao's robe flew and strode in.

Chen Ying stepped forward to greet him, and while observing his expression, he saw that his face was calm and his dark eyes did not fluctuate, so he guessed that the process of asking him for peace should be smooth.

However, this speculation is also likely to be inaccurate.

As an official, Chen Shao has naturally cultivated to the point where joy and anger are invisible, and it is still quite difficult to see anything from his expression.

"Aman, are you in a hurry?" Chen Shaowen said, while slowly stepping onto the platform.

Chen Ying said: "It didn't take long for me to watch them drying clothes, which was also very interesting." ”

Chen Shao stroked his sleeves and smiled, and said, "This can also be seen to be interesting, Ah Man is really young." After finishing speaking, he changed the tone of coaxing a child, and said with a pleasant face: "Ah Man comes to the house with me, Daddy has something good for you." ”