A few days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was New Year's Eve. In the early morning, I held up the window and looked at the courtyard. I saw snowflakes flying outside, a thick layer of white on the ground, and the bright red winter plums showed a bit of freshness and delicacy in the silver dress.
You Qing stretched out his hand out of the window, his fingertips touched the flower stem and moved up slowly. He couldn't help but tug off a petal and grind it in the palm of his hand.
I have been dreaming every day recently, but my dreams have become clearer and clearer. Sometimes there are some inexplicable voices, sometimes some incomprehensible scenes. I used to forget when I woke up, but now I can barely remember some. Moreover, no matter what you dream of, you will always wake up in a large sea of flowers. The plum blossoms in the dream are much more crystal clear than those in this courtyard, not like everything in the world.
You Qing squeezed the petals in her hands, her brows were stern, her mind was confused, she seemed to think of something, but she didn't even hear anything about Bai Li getting dressed and getting out of bed.
Bai Li came over and lay on his shoulders, smilingly looking at the plum blossom in his hand: "Aqing, if you like it, I'll go to the courtyard and fold a few and come back, okay?"
You Qing returned to his senses, looked at him and smiled: "The flower branches you folded will wither in a few days, it's better to stay on the tree and watch from a distance, besides, this is someone else's mansion, you fold someone else's plum blossoms off. , beware of being blamed by the manager."
"Oh!" Bai Li nodded obediently, resting his chin on his shoulder, thinking that he can be so arrogantly close to him now, he smiled contentedly, "Aqing, you said you wanted to be a beggar for me!"
"Yeah." You Qing turned around and took him gently into his arms. With a move in his heart, he pressed the petals in his hand to the pale skin between his eyebrows. He only felt that it was extraordinarily beautiful. He looked at it for a while, smiling. Deeper, "After breakfast, I went to the market. Now that the winter is cold, I can buy a few more and come back, and it is not easy to spoil."
Bai Li curiously touched the petals between his eyebrows and looked at him: "Buy a few more, just spend as much money as you can, will the rest be enough?"
"You don't need to spend silver taels to live here, of course it's enough, you can buy ten." You Qing raised his hand and pressed the petals in a funny voice, and whispered, "I won't let you suffer with me all the time. , even if you don't make it to the list, you will do other things for a living."
"Yeah! Ah Qing will be a high-ranking official, don't worry!" Bai Li rubbed his shoulder with a contented coquettish look, and looked up at him, "A Qing, I'm going to the kitchen to make breakfast!"
"Okay." You Qing touched his head and took the petals away. Unexpectedly, there was a little red mark on the center of his eyebrows. He was stunned for a while, and just as he was about to wipe it off, he saw him angrily rubbing the petals away. robbed past.
"Why don't you take it off?" Bai Li said as he pressed the petals back on.
You Qing took it away from him again, smiled and said, "Don't stick it when you go to the kitchen, why don't you show it to others?"
Bai Li thought for a while, then shook his head: "Don't show me!"
You Qing put the petals on the table, wiped the center of his eyebrows, put his lips together and kissed him, then gathered his clothes tightly, and said with a smile, "Go ahead."
"Yeah!" Bai Li nodded with a smile, turned excitedly and walked over the threshold.
In the gazebo in the distance, Xue Chang stood quietly beside the stone table. Seeing Bai Li's figure appearing under the porch, he couldn't help smiling, and turned around to take the umbrella in the manager's hand.
"Master, let me hold the umbrella!" The manager looked terrified. He didn't know what he meant when he came here early in the morning, and he didn't know what medicine he was selling in the gourd after sitting here for a long time.
"No, you can do it yourself, I'll walk around at will." Xue Chang waved his hand, tucked his collar tightly, opened the umbrella and lifted his legs to walk down the steps.
Snowflakes fell silently on the top of the umbrella, Xue Chang approached the corridor, saw Bai Li smiling, raised his eyebrows, walked in and followed him with interest.
Bai Li plunged into the kitchen, thinking about going out to play and excited to get up early, but he didn't see the other book boys, so he washed some vegetables and cooked porridge by himself. Wiping his sleeves on his face, he happily filled the porridge with the side dishes into the food box, and carried it out the door.
As soon as he stepped out of the door, he was blocked by a figure. He looked up and was stunned.
Although standing under the porch, Xue Chang didn't take away his umbrella, he just looked at Bai Li with a smile. Seeing that his fair face was stained with some pot ashes, he looked so cute, he couldn't help raising the corners of his lips and said with a smile: "It's all about cooking."
Bai Li glanced at him and saw that he was wearing a fiery red fox fur today, his heart aroused, he stared at his furry neckline, gritted his teeth to suppress the evil pressure, and gave a perfunctory salute: "Prime Minister Hello, sir!" Before he finished speaking, he raised his leg and left.
Xue Chang held him back and glanced at him with a smile: "Why are you so angry?"
Bai Li didn't expect to be seen by him, stunned for a moment, glanced at him, and said angrily: "I don't know how many foxes' lives I took to keep myself warm, it's really selfish!"
Xue Chang raised his eyebrows, lowered his head and glanced at himself, and suddenly smiled: "I see! It's very reasonable." After speaking, he put the umbrella up and stood at the base of the wall, raised his hand and untied the ribbon around his neck, The fox fur took off.
Bai Li gave him a puzzled look, then lowered his head to look at the food box in his hand, and said anxiously, "I have to go and deliver breakfast to Ah Qing, it will get cold later."
"Wait." Xue Chang grabbed him again, raised his hand to wipe his face, and smiled, "The face is covered with dust."
Bai Li subconsciously avoided his hand, raised his sleeves and wiped it twice, but the more he wiped, the more he saw Xue Chang laughed softly, blinked his eyes, wiped it twice more carelessly, and quickly ran past him. Kai: "Thank you, sir! I'm leaving!"
Xue Changwei stopped him again, looking at his hurried back, smiling unabated.
In the courtyard, the general manager rushed over in the snow with a worried look on his face: "Master, it's freezing cold today, why did you take off the fox fur? You're worried about getting cold!"
"It's okay." Xue Chang handed him the clothes in his arms, and regardless of his anxious nagging, he took the umbrella by the wall and handed it to him.
The general manager hurried over to hold it open: "Master, it's thirty today, why are you here? But what are your orders?"
"Well, the people living in it are all scholars, and most of them don't ask about things outside the window. This year can't be too lonely. Prepare some firecrackers for them and make it lively."
"Yes."
Xue Chang walked out of the porch and glanced in the direction of Bai Liyuan again: "It's time to go back, take me to the door."
"Yes."
Bai Li rushed into the door with the food box in hand: "Aqing! Hurry up and have breakfast! Let's go out early after eating."
You Qing stood up and took the food box: "The water is ready, go rinse your mouth and wash your face, wait for you to eat together."
"Oh!" Just as Bai Li was about to turn around, he was grabbed by You Qing and looked back at him suspiciously, "Ah?"
You Qing looked at the black and white appearance on his face, couldn't help laughing, raised his hand to wipe him, and said with a smile, "Why did you cook breakfast to make a cat with a colorful face?"
"Didn't you wipe it clean?" Bai Li blinked, leaning back slightly in response to his movements, his face brightened, "I woke up early today, and I was alone in the kitchen. Usually they set the fire, this is the first time for me."
"Then you can make breakfast smoothly, which is really amazing." You Qing pulled him to the side of the washbasin, took out the handkerchief from the water, twisted it, and carefully wiped his face, "If you are alone in the future, Just tell me and I'll do it."
"That won't work! Others' families are all bookboys cooking for the young master. Our family can't be turned around, or I'll be laughed at by them."
"Jokes are just jokes. You haven't burned a fire at home, so come here to burn?" You Qing twisted the veil again and wiped off all the flamboyant charcoal on his face, "I don't know when the snow will stop and go out. Dress up more."
"Oh!" Bai Li nodded with a smile, glanced at the mirror, hugged him and rubbed against his neck, "It's clean!"
"Yeah." You Qing patted him on the back, "Go and rinse your mouth."
"Oh!"
After breakfast, they simply cleaned up and went out. The two shared an umbrella and were very close to each other, in a very close state.
Bai Li would put his arms around You Qing's waist when no one was around, hide under the umbrella and kiss him on the face, he was happy, but every time he had to let You Qing suppress his emotions for a long time and look at his The eyes are quite helpless, but fortunately, there are more and more descendants in the city, and they finally converge a little.
At this time, the street was very lively. You Qing thought that it would be convenient to come out next time. Without deliberately stocking up inventory, he took Bai Li to pick three sturdy tender chickens, and spent a few cents more to ask the shop owner to These young chickens were killed without plucking their hairs. They only took out the internal organs in their stomachs, washed them to remove the fishy smell, and then put them in their hands and left with Bai Li.
In fact, all kinds of ingredients are available in Xue's house, and now it's New Year's Day, especially chicken, duck, and fish, but those are public after all, so it's not easy to take them out for Bai Li to enjoy. Besides, You Qing also prefers to spend the year with Bai Li with his silver taels.
I bought chicken and some wine. I was afraid that Bai Li would get drunk again, so I bought a very light sweet wine. Then I took him out of the city to a hill not far from Xue's house, and found it in the leeward. A half-recessed shallow hole, put the umbrella aside.
Bai Li was so excited that he grabbed the thing in his hand and put it on the ground, and hugged him: "Aqing! It's so fun!"
You Qing couldn't help laughing and crying: "It hasn't even started yet, so you're just saying it's fun?"
Bai Li took his hand and stretched his hand into his sleeve. He smiled and said, "You still lied to me, I peeked and knew that you hid something good!"
You Qing looked at him with a smile: "I'm stupid, I showed it to you on purpose, how come you can't even remember which sleeve?"
Bai Li didn't take out anything for a long time, his eyes widened: "Oh..." He quickly went to take out his other sleeve, and after a while he took out a small bag, excitedly untied the bag, and saw what was inside. things, eyes light up.
There are four small orange lanterns in the bag. You Qing hollowed out the oranges and put them into small lanterns made of candles, which are exquisite, beautiful and windproof.
Bai Li took out one of them in surprise: "Aqing, let's order it now!"
"What's the hurry? It's still early before noon. It's ordered now. If it's not enough at night, can't I go back in the dark?"
Bai Li wrinkled his nose, hugged him reluctantly and rubbed: "Oh... I listen to Ah Qing!"