"It's been a terrible snow this year!"

Sun Huai has lived in Bianjing for so many years, and he has never seen such a snow and wind as this year. The long wind passed through the street and blew the flags in front of the shops, and Sun Huai's white and chubby face was stinging like a knife......

Looking at Fu Jiuqu again, his clothes were lifted by the snow wind, and he looked even thinner.

Sun Huai was afraid that his master would be blown away by the wind, so he sneezed and rubbed his nose to block the wind, but Fu Jiuqu didn't realize it, and kept standing at the door of the medicine shop with his head up, looking at the eaves that were snow-white by the snow, and the horizontal plaque with the four big characters "Xinyi Medicine Fang".

"Ahem! What time is it, why hasn't the pharmacy opened yet? ”

Sun Huai was talking to himself, but he didn't get a response, so he stepped forward and pushed the door.

The snow on the lintel fell and fell on his shoulder, Sun Huai snorted twice, just wanted to pat himself on the snow, and swept the snow on the master's body, and hurried to shoot it with a smile, but was persuaded by Fu Jiuqu to retreat with a glance.

"Knock on the door."

"Yes." Sun Huai's hand stopped in mid-air.

Fu Jiuqu just looked at him, there was no emotion in his eyes, and there was no joy, anger, sorrow and joy, but he could see that he was covered with goosebumps......

The knock on the door rang for a long time before a dissatisfied response came from inside.

"Who, isn't there a notice at the door? Shangyuan Festival is closed, and it will not be ...... until the eighteenth day of the first month"

The door creaked open, and Xiang Ling's voice stopped abruptly.

She looked at the king of Guangling County standing at the gate of the medicine shop in a daze, and the extraordinarily festive-looking face of Grandpa Sun, and she couldn't react for a while.

"Ouch, Miss Xiangling, it's snowing outside, you hurry up and welcome our master in, and it's ...... to make a bowl of hot tea and drink it."

Sun Huai's voice pulled back Xiang Ling's thoughts.

also let her tears flow uncontrollably.

Familiar people, familiar words, made her have a moment, and in a trance returned to when Xin Yi was alive......

"I didn't think of it...... Oh, please come in, please come in! ”

Xiang Ling responded helplessly, carefully moved the stool against the door panel, laughed while crying, and then raised his voice to call people.

"Lady An, beloved, come out and see, who's coming......"

On a snowy day, the light in the house was very dim, and the main hall was not lit, but there were still offerings on the sacrificial table, and the smell of incense and the smell of medicine rushed over, and in the sound of wind and snow whistling in the sky, it was like a cold knife cutting on people's hearts.

An Niangzi and her lover ran out after him, and saw the king of Guangling standing there, with a pair of dark and deep eyes, because the cheeks were thin and darker and bigger, and the cold face was as white as a piece of paper.

Compared with when he left Beijing the year before last, he seemed to have taken off his human form.

But when I see the old times, I don't see the old faces.

Sun Huai wiped away a handful of tears, "Our master came to see the lady." ”

"The king of the county......" The lover saw that Xiang Ling was crying, and he also shed tears.

"Our lady is gone...... In the past year, we have gone to the palace to find the king of the county many times...... I can't see ......."

She cried, and Xiang Ling's cry became louder.

"Can the county king tell us why my sister didn't have it?"

Fu Jiuqu turned his back to the door panel, facing the sacrificial table, his figure was a little blurred, but he looked gloomy.

Seeing that he was silent, An Niangzi looked left and right, wiped the corners of her eyes, and smiled sadly: "Look at you one or two, what are you in a hurry?" Can you ask the king of the county to go to the inner hall and sit down and talk again? ”

Fu Jiuqu nodded, as if he had exhausted his strength, and slowly walked inside.

No one knew how difficult it would be for him to enter the medicine shop again in order to remain calm in a place full of Xin Yi's shadows, instead of crying bitterly......

An Niangzi originally wanted to arrange him in the tea room in the inner hall, with the recliner he used to sit on, but Fu Jiuqu refused, and traveled all the way to the vegetable field in the backyard, to see the earthen stove well, and to see the traces of Xinyi's life.

"She'......"

Fu Jiuqu raised his hand, wanting to say something, a mouthful of snow wind flew over, and he couldn't help coughing.

Sun Huai hurriedly handed over the handkerchief.

An Niangzi turned her head to see him take it, only to find that the county king's hand was skinny, and the jade green plate fingers that were originally put on the thumb of the big finger were probably too loose, and he didn't wear it anymore.

An Niangzi's eyes immediately became hot.

"Does the king of the county want to ask the peppers, corn, and tomatoes that the lady planted?"

Fu Jiuqu's eyes were red, I don't know if he was blown by the wind or coughed, and his light face became a little paler.

He nodded at An Niangzi.

An Niangzi said: "The crops are ripe, and we didn't wait for her to come back to harvest, and we didn't know how to eat them, so we followed her instructions before leaving, and after the autumn was ripe, we kept them as seeds and stored them......"

She sighed softly, "It's all in the attic." When spring begins, plant some ...... Wait for the auspicious day of the lady, and burn some for her. Therefore, we also want to ask the king of the county, the specific time when the lady will pass......"

"She's not dead." Fu Jiuqu's coughing stopped, and his voice came faintly, like a snow wind whimpering, but it was extremely firm, "How could she die?" Alive. ”

An Niangzi was pleasantly surprised first, and then looked at the ghostly white face of the king of Guangling County, exchanged glances with her lover and Xiangling, and her heart sank.

Isn't the king of Guangling County...... Crazy?

Why does that look so scary?

They didn't believe Fu Jiuqu's words.

However, in the strange silence, there was a sudden and crisp exclamation like an angel.

"Really? My mother is not dead? "The children's excitement came unexpectedly.

Sannian pushed open the door on the second floor, looked around, and soon ran down, pounced on Fu Jiuqu like a swallow.

"Uncle Fu, take us to find our mother...... I knew that my mother was not dead, and my mother must not be dead......"

Fu Jiuqu was slightly stunned.

The hazy sky light fell softly on Sannian's smiling face, and a pair of big black eyes were full of hope.

Behind the little girl, there are one and two thoughts that come out slowly.

Under the blowing of the snow wind, the two boys did not look up, but they could see that they had grown and were much bigger...... But they are thinner than before, and the meat that Xin Yi finally raised for them seems to be gone, and it looks like two bamboo poles.

"Why are you here?" Fu Jiuqu's deep eyes kept swimming.

An Niangzi lowered her head in a panic, not daring to make a sound.

Yi Nian looked up at him, was silent for a moment, bowed down and said hello to Fu Jiuqu, and then said: "On the day of Mother's Xiaoxiang, we specially came to pay tribute to ......."

Fu Jiuqu noticed that the three children were all wearing plain white clothes, not filial piety clothes, but with hemp ropes tied around their waists, and couldn't help frowning.

After Xin Yi's death, the three children were originally to "serve three" for her according to the rules, but after Zhang Touring came, he took people away and removed filial piety clothes for them, which made it clear that he did not recognize the fact that Xin Yi was the child's stepmother.

The hemp rope on the three little ones was found out by Ann Niangzi to help them tie it after they came over last night, but the previous clothes could not be worn, so they could only settle down, but they all thought that the lady did not care about these, and the three children could think of her and come over to watch filial piety all night, which was already happy.

"Uncle Fu."

Sannian was happy, and his eyes were like stars.

Yinian was Lao Cheng, lowered his head, and asked seriously: "Is my mother really not dead?" ”

All eyes were on Fu Jiuqu's face.

Fu Jiuqu pondered for a moment and smiled silently, "Hmm." ”

Yi Nian looked up: "Then where is she?" ”

Ernian: "Yes, then why didn't she come back?" ”

Sannian: "Is my mother injured and inconvenient to come to us?" Uncle Fu, will you take us to find our mother? ”

Fu Jiuqu said quietly: "She lives in a place that we can't see or find. But she could see us and see each and every one of us......"

Everyone: "......"

Isn't that what children say?

The atmosphere is inexplicably a little weird.

Seeing that the faces of the three children were full of disappointment, Sun Huai coughed lightly, and said with a smile:

"This year's snow is really heavy. I've never seen snow this big. ”

"Yes, the ghost cries wolf, as if there is a wrong. Several green bamboos outside the courtyard were broken at the waist. An Niangzi sighed, touched Sannian's head, and said earnestly.

"You have this heart for the lady, and the lady has a spirit in the sky, and you will be gratified. Now go back...... Don't let your father know, you have to train people again......"

As she spoke, she lowered her head to untie the hemp rope on Sannian's waist.

"Go back, don't mention anything, especially your mother, you know?"

Yi Nian nodded obediently: "We understand ......"

"I don't understand." Sannian suddenly interrupted Yinian's words, "If we don't do anything, he won't pay attention to it." Hum! In his house, it was like going to prison, either by being scolded by him, or for trivial things, kneeling down to his wife to make amends......... I can't be half happy at his house, I won't go back......"

"When my mother was here, she never made us kneel, and during the Chinese New Year, because I broke my wife's blue-glazed amphora, I was asked to kneel for three hours......... How do I know how expensive that hell jar is? I have buns, and I don't know the good things of the prime minister's house......"

As he spoke, Sannian ran over and grabbed Zhen'er, looked at An Niangzi with blank eyes, and then looked at Fu Jiuqu, lowered his eyelids and said:

"I'm going to stay in the pharmacy and be with Ann Niangzi and Zhen'er."

With this run, Fu Jiuqu realized that the little girl's right foot was indeed a little lame.

His eyes darkened, "Isn't he good to you?" ”

Yi Nian avoided his gaze and shook his head.

Ernian sneered, "Okay, it's very good, there is no such good father anymore." ”

Sannian didn't say anything, silently hugged Fu Jiuqu's legs with red eyes, and called Uncle Fu over and over again, listening to An Niangzi's eyes a few times, but she couldn't wipe them clean, and the tears seemed to have burst the embankment.

Fu Jiuqu's face gradually condensed.

"Go to the back room, you and Uncle Fu have a good talk."