The winter in Yanzhou is cold and long.
If there wasn't this house equipped with a fire tunnel, Wei Yang didn't know if she would live to see the day she could return to the capital.
She lay on the warm bed and turned over carefully. Konggu was frightened by her frequent trips to the bathroom last night, so he simply sewed a mat for her so that she wouldn't have to worry about dirtying the bedding.
Wei Yang woke up late, but the maids didn't dare to wake up too late. Konggu continued to make underwear for Wei Yang in the outer room. Youlan got up, washed up, tiptoed to open the courtyard door, and prepared to go to the kitchen.
Xiaocao was a simple-minded child. When the girl asked her to come over in the morning, she packed her bag early and stood outside the gate waiting.
As soon as Youlan opened the gate, she saw Xiaocao standing outside and shivered with fear. She couldn't help but complain in a low voice: "You are standing here so early in the morning, you are going to scare people to death."
Xiao Cao just smiled innocently and followed what Li's mother taught her to say, "Hello, sister."
"Come in quickly." Youlan looked at this clumsy and honest child, and her heart softened again. She immediately forgot what Konggu said last night.
Xiaocao entered the yard, looked around, put the package on the clean ground under the eaves, then found a shovel and began to shovel the snow.
There were only two maids in Weiyang's yard, one was busy serving her three meals a day, and the other was busy cleaning and washing. In the yard, only the path in the middle was shoveled out for walking, and the rest of the snow was piled up thickly.
Hearing the sound of the shovel hitting the frozen snow, Konggu rushed out from outside. He didn't dare to yell, so he ran to Xiaocao and pulled her aside, saying, "The girl is still sleeping. You're making such a loud noise, be careful not to wake her up."
Xiaocao put down the shovel, clapped his hands, and looked at the empty valley in panic, not knowing what to do.
"Is Xiaocao here? Let her in." Weiyang's clear voice came from the room.
Before Konggu could say anything, Xiaocao had already happily pushed the door open and walked in, choking Konggu so much that he could only silently roll his eyes at the sky. This girl is much dumber than them. I don't know how the girl picked it.
Xiaocao entered the outer room first. She looked inside cautiously, not knowing whether she should go in.
"Come in."
The light in the inner room was a little dim. Xiaocao first smelled a faint fragrance, like ripe fruits in autumn, or the sweet scent of grass when flowers bloom in spring. In front of her were layers of curtains, light purple, pink purple, lotus purple, and each layer deepened. Xiaocao felt like she had entered a dreamlike world. She opened the curtains layer by layer, and finally saw the girl lying in a quilt.
This time, Xiaocao finally believed that the girl he was going to serve was a little fairy, and she should live in this dreamy world.
The sound of Konggu and Yangui talking could be heard outside the house. As expected, Konggu did not stop Yangui and let him walk all the way in from the courtyard.
"Xiaocao, go stop the general and tell him that the girl is still sleeping." Weiyang yawned lazily and burrowed deeper into the soft quilt.
If you can stop him, stop him. If you can't, just let him be. Anyway, it's not the first or second time that Yan Gui casually entered her room.
Xiaocao ran out without hesitation.
Yan Gui had just walked to the outer room and was about to go in when he saw a skinny little girl running out. She stretched out her arms and said in a rough voice, "The girl is still sleeping. General, you can't go in."