In the capital in winter, it gets dark early, and it is completely dark at dusk. The snow that had been falling for several days finally stopped, but the north wind was still howling outside, and it hurt like a knife on the face.

The lights were lit up early in Shuying Xuan, and the four pots of charcoal in the room were thriving, and Ziyan, Hongyu and two other little girls were roasting the fire around the brazier, while holding the dark fire chopsticks to pluck the sweet potatoes in the brazier, and a strong fragrance wafted in the room.

"It's cold, it's cold." As soon as the curtain outside moved, Biyun stomped his feet and ran in.

Seeing this, Hongyu hurriedly handed over a soup woman.

"Sister Biyun, you're back so soon!" A little girl dragged a small stool over and said to Biyun.

"If you don't come back, you're going to be frozen tofu, and this year is much colder than usual." Biyun sat on the small round stool while holding the soup woman who Hongyu handed to her when she saw the answer, and when she saw a few piles of sweet potato skins on the edge of the brazier, she raised her eyebrows, "Okay, I'm working outside and freezing to death, you guys are fine, you guys are hiding in the house and stealing food." ”

Ziyan's eyes blinked, and he smiled, "Sister Biyun, is this a strange lady who sent you to work?" ”

"Nonsense, I didn't say that." Biyun raised his hand and pushed Ziyan, then turned his face to look at Xiao Xi, who was doing needlework on the warm couch, and said slightly, "Miss, you see, they bullied me as much as possible." ”

Xiao Xi put down the needle and thread in his hand slightly, and smiled helplessly, "Okay, you guys don't play with her." ”

"Okay, we'll keep it for you, there are sweet potatoes and millet seeds, it's time to ripen." As he spoke, Hongyu picked up the fire tongs on the ground and turned out a few roasted sweet potatoes and millet seeds in the brazier.

When Biyun saw the sweet potato, he was so happy that he didn't care about the heat, so he directly picked up the hot sweet potato, peeled off the skin on the outside at a fast speed, and desperately ate it with his mouth while peeling it, and picked it up from time to time, obviously it was hot. The greedy look made a few little girls in the room giggle.

Seeing them make a mess, Xiao Xi smiled unconsciously.

She hadn't felt such a warm and brisk atmosphere for a long time.

Hongyu picked up a few good ones and put them in the tray and took them to Xiao Xiwei, "Miss, do you want to try it too." ”

Seeing Biyun eating sweetly, Xiao Xiwei was also aroused, and simply put down the needlework in his hand, "It's okay." ”

Hongyu hurriedly peeled the sweet potato neatly, and then handed it to Xiao Xiwei.

She hadn't eaten roasted sweet potatoes in years, and now she tasted it again, and it really felt like a world away.

"By the way, there's something you haven't heard of." Biyun ate two roasted sweet potatoes and touched his stomach with satisfaction.

"What's the matter? Sister Biyun, don't sell it, say it quickly! As soon as a few little girls heard the gossip, they immediately raised their interest and urged Biyun to speak quickly.

Biyun covered his mouth and smiled, "Okay, for the sake of a few of you, you still have a little conscience to leave me roasted sweet potatoes, I'll tell you." She cleared her throat as she spoke, "Didn't I go to the kitchen today to count the food that was delivered, and guess what I heard?" ”

"Oh, good Sister Biyun, don't sell it!"

"Do you remember that cousin from the Li Mansion?"

"You can't be talking about the niece of the lady who was divorced in our house, right?"

"Miss, you know what? Miss Li was promised to get married, and she will be married in just a few days when Master Li comes back from Suyang. Biyun turned his face to look at Xiao Xi and said with a smile.

"Really?" Xiao Xi replied faintly.

Since Qi was dragged to Dali Temple to beat the board, she hadn't heard the names of Qi and Li Lin for a long time, and even heard that she had forgotten it. After all, she and the people of the Li Mansion are just general, as long as they don't provoke her, she naturally won't do anything to them.

"Miss, do you know who Miss Li is provoking?" Biyun pursed her lips, and the smile in her eyes couldn't be hidden.

"Okay, don't sell it!" Ziyan finally couldn't help but glance at Biyun.

Biyun smiled, "Xu's Ping'an...... concubines. ”

"Won't you...... Then how can Uncle Ping An be in his fifties, if I remember correctly, Miss Li will only turn seventeen early next year, how can she give it to him? Ziyan frowned.

Xiao Xi's eyebrows twisted slightly.

The Li family was suspended, and the Qi family was rewarded in public, obviously the loyal and brave Houfu can no longer be relied on by the Li family, and Li Qingfeng is about to return to Beijing to report on his work, if there is no Xiao Mansion to introduce him, he will not be able to fill the vacancy even if he returns to Beijing, so he has to find another way. It's just that this way out is to sacrifice Li Lin. If she remembers correctly, Ping Anbo's youngest son is also a year older than Li Lin.

"It's a pity, I saw Miss Li when she came to our house a few years ago, and she looks good, alas." A little girl sighed quietly.

Biyun glanced at the girl who was talking, snorted coldly, and said, "What's the pity, maybe she is willing." ”

The little girl was snorted by Biyun, and then remembered that the Li family had planted their own young lady at the old lady's birthday banquet, and she was busy hanging her head and didn't dare to speak.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little awkward.

"You girl, you haven't been good at other things, but this mouth is getting more and more slippery, and I don't know who to learn from." Xiao Xi looked at Biyun Dao with a smile.

Biyun stuck out his tongue and said with a smile, "Isn't there a saying that is close to what is red, I follow the young lady every day, even a piece of wood is going to open up." ”

Looking at Biyun like that, Xiao Xiwei couldn't help but cover her mouth and laughed a few more times, "Okay, stop talking nonsense." It's not getting early, so you guys can clean up the ground and go back to rest. ”

When a few little girls heard this, they hurriedly put away the sweet potato skins and chestnut shells on the ground, and then withdrew.

"Miss, I'll go get a basin of hot water for you to clean your hands." Hongyu blessed Xiao Xi slightly.

Xiao Xi nodded slightly.

After Hongyu left, there were only two people left in the house, Ziyan and Biyun.

"Miss, there's one more thing I didn't say just now." The most calm of the three big girls, Hongyu, left, and Biyun hurriedly came to Xiao Xiwei, and said mysteriously.

Xiao Xi raised his eyes slightly and glanced at her, "What else can I do?" ”

"It's Li, I heard that she seems to be crazy." Biyun whispered.

"Crazy?" Xiao Xi raised his eyebrows slightly.

Biyun nodded, "No, Mrs. Li has already locked her up, and I heard the young man who delivered the food that when he entered the Li Mansion to deliver food a few days ago, he heard a woman in the side courtyard shouting crazy, but it didn't scare him to death." ”

Listening to Biyun's words, Xiao Xi pursed the corners of his lips slightly and did not snort.

From the moment Li was left from the house, she and her grievances were eliminated. Therefore, whether she is crazy or dead has nothing to do with her.

"Crazy yelling, did that person hear what she was calling?" Ziyan asked with interest.

"It seems to be scolding someone for having no conscience, I heard that the yard was full of smashing things, and the young man didn't go far before he saw Mrs. Li leading the girl out in a hurry, and her face was scratched with blood marks." Biyun Road.

At the beginning, the Qi family came to Jinxiufang to buy cloth in order to save face and was cheated by her, at that time, she had long held a grudge against the Li family in her heart, and the Li family did not save her when she saw her death at the last old lady's birthday banquet, and she and the Li family had long been on the same page. In the past, I was afraid of the identity of the Li family's loyal and brave housewife, so I had to swallow my anger, and I was low and small, but now that the Li family has been abolished, there is no value for the Li family, and Li Qingfeng is still far away in Suyang and has not returned, and the Qi family is a narrow-minded person who will repay him, so he doesn't have to think about it to know what will happen to the Li family in her hands.

"It's all been divorced and returned to her parents' house and she is still so arrogant, and Mrs. Li is not easy to get along with, this Li family is looking for death by himself!" Ziyan pouted disdainfully.

Ziyan's words made Xiao Xiwei's eyebrows slightly raised.

In the situation of the Li family, the only way to survive is to let the Qi family out of this breath, and hold on until Li Qingfeng returns home to have a glimmer of life, she is so angry and flamboyant, and she also scratches the face of the Qi family, how can the Qi family tolerate her? She couldn't be clearer about Li's thoughts and methods, she would never do such a stupid thing? Could it be......

Silver. The Li family has secretly deducted a lot of silver taels in the Houfu over the years, and she used the silver to buy a few shops in the capital, and the Qi family must have been eyeing these shops and wanted to force the Li family to take them out.

"Who do you say is dead?" A deep voice suddenly rang out. Xiao Xiyang walked in wearing a black cloak embroidered with auspicious patterns.

"Brother, why are you back?" As soon as he saw someone coming, Xiao Xi hurriedly lifted the quilt covering his feet and stood up from the warm couch, "Biyun, hurry, bring a warm woman over." ”

"No need! I'm a big man, how can I use the things of your little daughters. Xiao Xiyang said with a frown.

Xiao Xiwei just wanted to speak, Xiao Xiyang's arms suddenly moved, and then there were a few whining sounds, she frowned, and subconsciously took two steps back, "Brother, in your arms, no, you won't hide a cat!" ”

Xiao Xiyang smiled, "You guessed it!" ”

Xiao Xiwei's face turned pale, and the place where his forehead had been scratched by the cat began to ache faintly.

"However, it is not a cat in my arms, but a little apprentice of a cat." Xiao Xiyang smiled loudly, and then took out a small fluffy thing from his arms.

Xiao Xi fixed his eyes slightly, and saw that the little thing had a pair of big round eyes and a few faint patterns on its body.

"Young Master, what is this?" When Biyun saw the little thing, he was immediately overjoyed, and he couldn't wait to reach out and rub it a few times.

"It's a tiger." Xiao Xi replied with a smile.

"Tiger? What does a tiger look like this? Biyun's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe that this cute little thing was actually a tiger.

"Brother, where did you get such a little tiger?" Xiao Xi frowned slightly.

Xiao Xiyang smiled again, "I didn't get it, it's Zimu, this guy doesn't know how to come back these days and comes to Yan Yunwei every day to find me to go hunting." No, when I was hunting a tigress this day, I saw a litter of cubs, and the others were trampled to death by horses, so I saved this one. Xiao Xiyang said, and sent the little tiger in his hand into Xiao Xiwei's arms, "Hey, you hurry up and take it, my hands are almost sore, for fear that I will accidentally crush it to death." ”

Before Xiao Xiwei could react, the little tiger had been stuffed into her arms, and she frowned, "What are you doing for me, I haven't raised a tiger either!" ”

Not to mention tigers, she has never raised animals at all.

"It's the same as raising a cat and a dog, it's easy! Besides, you can't let me raise this as a big man! Xiao Xiyang shook his hand, and suddenly, his eyes fell on the white cloak on the couch that had not yet been completed, "Hey, sister, you made me a cloak again!" So saying, he reached out and picked up the cloak.

The corners of Xiao Xi's mouth moved, and he hugged the little tiger in his arms without speaking.

Xiao Xiyang took the cloak and gestured to her body, and suddenly she saw a small rose embroidered on the hem of the cloak, and she frowned, "You said you made me a white cloak, why are you still embroidering on it!" I hate these sissy stuff the most! Forget it, don't make a cape, let's make me a few pairs of shoes! ”

"Shoes? Didn't I have someone bring you shoes the other day? ”

"Don't mention it, I didn't wear those shoes for a day before they were taken away by Chu Xizhi's guy! You say we don't have the same shoe size, what's the use of him taking my shoes! Xiao Xiyang said with a frown.

The purple smoke next to 'poof' couldn't help laughing.