When Mr. Shen walked into her daughter's yard, she saw Jiuzhu under the tree, bending over to play with the snow, her head covered with white snow.
Seeing her come in, Jiuzhu raised her head and grinned at her, the snow on her head falling down: "Mother."
"It's snowing so much, what are you doing squatting outside?" She walked quickly to Jiuzhu and wiped the snow off her daughter's hair and body distressedly: "Is it cold?"
"It's not cold." Jiu Zhu sniffed, "It's fun."
"The snow is cold, what is there..." Shen shi didn't finish her words, and suddenly swallowed it back. She took out a handkerchief and wiped off her fingertips, which were red from the cold beads: "What's the point of playing alone, my mother will play with you. "
She forgot that in winter in Lingzhou, it almost never snows heavily. The snow that people in the capital have long been tired of, but for Jiuzhu, it is a different scene.
"Spring Equinox, get a thick cloak for Miss." Shen shi bent down and squatted like Jiuzhu: "When my mother was a child, the snowman was the most beautiful among all the sisters."
"Really?" Jiuzhu's eyes widened: "Mother, please pile one up for me."
"You wait." Shen shi took off the jade bracelet on his wrist and started to make a snowman for Jiuzhu.
From time to time, Jiuzhu helped Shen shovel snow and fetch stones. The snow was covered with footprints of her running around. Shen shi raised her head and looked at her daughter's jumping back, with a gentle smile between her brows and eyes.
"Mother." Jiuzhu ran to Shen shi, and spread out her palm, which was red from the cold. There were a few swarthy pebbles in it: "Use this to make eyes for the snowman."
Eight small stones, covered with snow water that has been melted by body temperature.
"Okay." Shen shi took the stone and pressed his eyes on the four snowmen.
"Mother." Jiu Zhu squatted beside Shen shi, holding her face in her hands, and asked curiously, "Does my brother look more like you, or does he look more like your father?"
"He looks like your grandfather." Shen shi thought about it: "His personality has followed your father everywhere. When he returns to Beijing to see you, he will be very happy."
"Daughter heard from my father that His Majesty has ordered my brother to return to Beijing." Jiuzhu wiped the snowflakes off Shen's shoulders with a handkerchief: "I wonder if it will be difficult for my brother to travel due to the snow on his way back?"
"It's not that fast." Shen shi smiled: "You won't be able to leave until the official sent by DPRK Zhongxin takes over your brother's position. If you count the days, even if the journey is faster, it will be after the Spring Festival, so you don't have to replace it. He's worried."
Since Jiuzhu returned to Beijing, Ming Jiyuan often sent things and letters back, and the letters were full of concern for Jiuzhu.
"I hope my brother can come back sooner." Jiuzhu picked a plum blossom and placed it on the head of the snowman representing Ming Jiyuan.
Shen shi smiled, and stuffed the hand warmer in her cold red hands: "This snow will fall for two more days, so let's have breakfast first."
Jiuzhu noticed that snow had fallen in Shen's hair, and nodded quickly: "Okay."
"Where did your mother and daughter go?" Ming Jingzhou was sitting in the dining room, looking up and seeing his wife and daughter walk in covered in snow, he quickly asked the maid to take off the cloak for the two of them: "Go to the kitchen and get two bowls of ginger soup, Let the lady and the lady drink."
"Don't make such a fuss." Shen shi took Jiuzhu and sat down, and ordered the servants to set the meal: "It's just a snowman with my daughter."
"Why don't you ask me to come with you?" Ming Jingzhou scooped up two bowls of hot soup and placed them in front of the two of them: "First warm your stomach."
"It's rare for my husband to take a rest today, so why don't you sleep a little longer?" Shen shi took a few sips of the soup and turned to Jiu Zhu, "After using up the morning meal, I'll go get the winter clothes that Xiu Niang made for you a few days ago. Change it."
"Okay." Jiuzhu agreed immediately, and it was more appropriate to wear new clothes to see His Highness: "Mother, I want to go out later."
"The snow is so heavy, where are you going?" Shen shi glanced at the snow outside the window.
"My daughter wants to go to Prince Chen's mansion." Jiuzhu was afraid that her parents would be worried, so she explained, "Just go there for a while."
When the maids brought the meal and ginger soup, Shen shi raised his hand and asked all the servants to leave the dining room, and then said, "Jiuzhu, my mother has never asked you properly, what do you think of King Chen."
"Your Highness is very good." Jiuzhu drank half of the bowl of ginger soup in one breath, the weird spicy taste made her frown slightly: "Why does mother ask that?"
"I'm just a little surprised that Jiuzhu actually likes King Chen so much." Shen shi raised her hand and gently wiped the corner of Jiuzhu's mouth with a handkerchief: "Before you got engaged to King Chen, you never saw him, how did you know that? he?"
Wiping the hand on the corner of her mouth, gentle and warm, Jiu Zhu lowered her head and looked at the bowl of ginger soup: "Daughter... I saw His Royal Highness King Chen a long time ago."
Shen shi and Ming Jingzhou looked at their daughter in shock: "What did you say?"
Seeing the shock of her parents, Jiuzhu remembered what the concubine and His Royal Highness Chen had said to her when they left.
"When someone kills even your child, it means that you have inadvertently learned a secret that you don't even know yourself."
"My son saved you is fate, for him, it's just a gesture of effort. But if you don't want to be involved in the storm in the future, you can't bring this up again. There is no airtight wall in the world, only let the person who killed you think you are Only when you die can you gain complete peace. There are many secrets, and speaking out will bring disaster."
"As a child, live well and grow up well is to repay your gratitude."
"If you have the opportunity to go to the capital in the future, you must remember that it is a place with no secrets. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, just remember this sentence firmly."
"Eight years ago, my daughter went to Lingzhou City with her master to buy things, and saw the noble concubine and His Royal Highness Chen giving money to the elderly and children who were begging." Jiuzhu lowered her head and held the bowl, whispering: "At that time, my daughter only felt that the noble concubine was a concubine. Goddess is as beautiful as a fairy descending from the earth, and His Royal Highness Chen Wang is like a fairy child in front of the Immortal Throne. Until that day when the noble concubine Goddess called her daughter into the palace, I didn’t know that the fairies and fairy children I saw a few years ago were Goddess and King Chen.”
"Eight years ago..." Ming Jingzhou recalled that eight years ago, when the saint went south, he did stay in Lingzhou for a few days, accompanied by his mother and son.
If only eight years ago, he also drove south, and met Jiuzhu in Lingzhou City. That way, he can take Jiuzhu home early and no longer suffer from separation.
"It turns out that when Jiuzhu was so young, we liked good-looking people." Shen shi smiled softly: "When you go out, remember to bring the hand warmer with you, and don't freeze it."
"Thank you mother." Jiuzhu nodded happily: "I will definitely take care of myself."
Shen shi looked at her daughter, her eyes so tender that water almost dripped.
"Ma'am." Back in the main courtyard, Ming Jingzhou poured hot tea for Shen Shi: "It's snowing so hard outside, do you rest assured that our daughter is going out?"
"As long as she's happy, she's better than anything else." Shen shi held the teacup, "I'd rather she marry into the palace with good expectations for King Chen, and I don't want her to be disappointed early."
"Life is short, and one more day of happiness is a blessing."
"Madam is right." Ming Jingzhou bowed his hands, "I listen to my wife for my husband."
The snow is white and the streets are sparsely populated, so when the two carriages meet, they stand out.
Jiuzhu lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked at Sun Caiyao who also lifted the curtain.
"Miss Sun." Jiuzhu was in a good mood, and when she saw someone she knew, she gave her a sweet smile.
"Ms. Ming, Ming." Seeing Ming Jiuzhu's first glance, Sun Caiyao's hand holding the curtain trembled slightly: "With such a heavy snow, where are you going?"
"Visit at Prince Chen's Mansion." Jiuzhu didn't hide her plans, "Where is Miss Sun going?"
"Go to the suburbs for incense."
Jiuzhu noticed that Sun Caiyao's cheeks were a little pale, whether it was frozen or because of powder. However, it is too pious to go to the suburbs to offer incense in this icy world.
It seems that not only the concubine in the palace has a sincere heart for the gods in the sky, but also the daughter of the noble family in the capital is not willing to give in too much.
"The snow road is slippery, Miss Sun, please pay attention to safety." Jiuzhu raised her hand and motioned for the groom to drive the car aside and let Sun Caiyao go first.
"No, no." Sun Caiyao hurriedly said, as if stimulated by something, "Miss Ming please go first."
Now that she saw Ming Jiuzhu, she was terrified and didn't dare to offend her.
Not expecting such a big reaction from Sun Caiyao, Jiuzhu was stunned for a while. Miss Sun's family rushed to the suburbs to offer incense. What's the problem with letting her go first
While she was stunned, the Sun family's carriage had already moved aside.
"Miss Ming, please." The cold wind slapped Sun Caiyao on the face with the snowflakes in between, she tried her best to squeeze a smile at Jiuzhu.
"Then... I went first?" Jiuzhu felt faintly that this Miss Sun seemed to be a little afraid of her.
"Thank you Miss Sun." Putting down the curtain, Jiuzhu touched her face. Could it be that she did something too extreme to Sun Caiyao to make the other party afraid of that
Forget it, many people in the capital do things a little strangely. She is a normal person and can't care about them.
Watching Ming Jiuzhu's carriage go away, Sun Caiyao realized that her hand holding the curtain of the carriage had been frozen to the point of unconsciousness.
"Sister Sun." Zheng Zhen, wearing a thick cloak, walked out of the shop next to her: "Ming Jiuzhu is supported by a noble concubine, do you even want to avoid her edge?"
Sun Caiyao touched the hand warmer in her arms: "What do you mean by Miss Zheng?"
Zheng Zhen sneered and said strangely: "Now in the capital, how many people dare to let her Ming Jiuzhu escape?"
Looking at Zheng Zhen who is so yin and yang, Sun Caiyao remembered that the Marquis of Pingyuan was reprimanded by Su Guifei not long ago.
It's no wonder that Zheng Zhen's words are so sour. There are really few people who can let the future Princess Chen avoid on the street. Not everyone is as brainless as the Pingyuan Houfu. As for Zheng Zhen's cousin, Qi Wang, she could see clearly what kind of thoughts she had.
No woman would like a woman who cares about her fiancé. Such a simple and rude means of provocation, fools will not be fooled.
"Miss Zheng really knows how to joke." Sun Caiyao smiled: "Miss Ming originally asked me to go first, but I volunteered to let Miss Ming's carriage pass first. What's the problem?"
"It's just one foot respected by others, and I'm still one foot." Sun Caiyao chuckled, "Miss Zheng, don't you think so?"
Zheng Zhen pondered for a moment: "Are you laughing at me?"
Sun Caiyao continued to smile: "Miss Zheng really thinks about it."
"I'm the cousin of His Royal Highness King Qi, how dare you laugh at me?" Zheng Zhen said angrily: "You have the ability to laugh at me, don't avoid Ming Jiuzhu's carriage if you have the ability!"
Sun Caiyao said slowly: "Ms. Ming is innocent and kind, beautiful and cute, and amiable. I only hate that she is not a biological sister. I am very happy to let her go first, why should I let her avoid it?"
See what this idiot is talking about? Which brainy person would offend Su Guifei and King Chen, who were favored by the emperor
What's more, a ruthless woman like Ming Jiuzhu must not provoke her if she has nothing to do.