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It has been snowing for several days, and the weather is dry and cold, with a fresh smell.

In such a cold weather, it is most suitable for making candied haws.

Watching the sugar syrup in the pot gradually thicken, Zhen Shiniang dipped a piece of chopsticks in the cold water, shook it, and held it to her mouth for a bite. Qiu Ju, "...bring the hawthorn here!"

"Hey!" Qiu Ju put down the half-strung hawthorns, picked up the skewered hawthorns and walked out, "...Miss can really make candied haws?" As she asked, Qiu Ju's teeth were sore water.

"You can see it just by looking at it." Zhen Shiniang smiled and stirred the syrup in the pot, "Turn down the heat." While speaking, she reached out and picked up a bunch of hawthorns and quickly rolled them in the syrup with a loud snap. It fell on the oiled wooden board that had been prepared earlier, and then picked up another...

She lowered her head and removed a few pieces of firewood from the stove. When Qiu Ju raised her head, Zhen Shiniang had already rolled more than a dozen times, and each time she was bright red and crystal clear, Qiu Ju drooled when she saw it, "...so that's it. Well, it’s that simple?” He said again, “…Miss knows this, why don’t you do it in previous years?” Every winter, she and Jian Wu would lose their teeth watching people eat candied haws.

in previous years?

Where did you have spare money to do this in previous years?

Thanks to Xiao Yu's blessing, another cart of New Year's goods was delivered the day before yesterday, and there happened to be a bag of hawthorns. When Jian Wen and Jian Wu saw it, they shouted that the candied haws were delicious, so she frantically made them.

"You think this is really that easy?" Seeing Qiuju looking straight at her, Zhen Shiniang smiled and said, "I'll tell you. The heat of this syrup is the most difficult to control. It lightens the sticky, hard-bodied appearance of the sugar." Stone; it tastes bitter when it gets too big, and it was too late to worry about life in previous years, who has the patience to do this?" Pointing to the half pot of black and crystallized syrup by the stove, "I just boiled a pot." She put it in previous years Distressed to death, this white sugar was bought with silver.

Qiu Ju stuck out her tongue.

"...Slaves also try?" Seeing Zhen Shiniang doing it happily, Qiu Ju was eager to try.

"Hmm..." Zhen Shiniang stepped aside to open a gap, "The speed of coating the sugar should be fast, otherwise the sugar will coagulate and coat unevenly. When putting it on the wooden board, you must throw it hard, so that the sugar at the bottom of the candied haws will be connected into a large piece. , so pretty and delicious..." He reached out and grabbed a handful of sesame seeds and evenly sprinkled them on the wrapped candied haws.

Qiu Ju studied it seriously, but the syrup couldn't be wrapped evenly, "I'm so stupid!" Looking at the two skinless candied haws she wrapped, she giggled.

"Mother, mother!" Jian Wen Jian Wu's voice came. "It's not good, it's not good! There are a lot of people in the front yard, Aunt Magpie told you to hide quickly!" The changed voice carried the fear of impending disaster.

Jian Wu and Jian Wen had always been naughty and courageous, and when they got naughty, they wished they could poke a hole in the sky. This was the first time Zhen Shiniang heard their nervous voices change their tone.With a thump in my heart, I hurriedly threw a candied haws that I just wrapped in my hand onto the wooden board.Instruct Qiu Ju, "...Turn off the fire, put the pot in the snow to cool, and be careful not to burn your hands."

Wiping her hands on her apron, she turned to meet the two children who jumped at her, pulling them aside from the hot sugar pan on the stove.Asked, "...what's going on?"

"Aunt Chu is here..."

"Aunt Magpie, Miaomian..."

Jian Wen and Jian Wu spoke at the same time.At the same time, they shut their mouths and stared at each other.

Looking at Jian Wen and Jian Wu, Zhen Shiniang said, "Brother Wen first."

"A lot of people came outside. Aunt Magpie said it was Aunt Chu from the General's Mansion. She came to hurt my mother. Let me tell my mother to hide..." Jian Wen finished speaking in one breath, pulled Zhen Shiniang and walked out , "Mother, hurry up and leave through the corner door in the backyard, my brother and I will go find uncle!"

Influenced by Zhen Shiniang since she was a child, naughty is naughty. Jian Wen has always believed in the principle of running away if you can't beat it.

Save your life first, and then go to rescue soldiers.

"Who are they?" Zhen Shiniang frowned as she took off her apron. This place is far away from the General's Mansion, and she wholeheartedly lives a widowed life. Why don't these people let her go?

"... There are six in total, all of them are women!" Jian Wu added, "There are also two men watching the carriage at the door."

"Did they see you?"

"As soon as Aunt Magpie heard that they signed up, she asked my brother and I to hide first. We secretly saw them from the corner of the wall and asked Aunt Magpie to kneel down..."

"What!" Zhen Shiniang's voice changed, "They let Aunt Magpie kneel on the snow?"

"Aunt Magpie immediately knelt down." Jian Wen and Jian Wu nodded at the same time.

"...Qiu Ju come with me to have a look!" It's not a joke to let the magpie kneel on the snow in this cold weather, so he pushed Jian Wenjian Wu, "Hurry up and find Uncle Magpie! "

She had put away the stove, and was walking out with the prepared candied haws. After hearing this, Qiu Ju hurriedly put the candied haws on the shelf in the middle of the yard, turned around to help Zhen Shiniang, and left.

"Candied haws!" Jian Wu stretched out his hand to grab them, but was stopped by Zhen Shiniang, "...it's too hot, it will make your teeth sour, and it's only delicious when it's cold." Pushing the two of them out together, " Go find Uncle Magpie first, then sit in this yard and eat after you come back, you are not allowed to go to the front yard!"

"Understood!" Looking back at the bright red candied haws on the shelf reluctantly, Jian Wen and Jian Wu swallowed hard, and disappeared in a hurry.

As soon as she turned around the corner door, Zhen Shiniang gasped.

I saw a few gorgeous women pointing around the magpie kneeling in the middle of the ground, as if someone yelled, and a little maid with slender shoulders and a thin waist raised her foot and kicked the magpie's round belly.

"...Stop!" Zhen Shiniang shouted loudly, her heart jumping into her throat instantly.

If this kick is serious, it will kill two people!

Hearing the shout, the little maid hesitated, Qiu Ju had already run over like flying, past the crowd, pushed the little maid away, and dodged in front of the magpie.

Don't look at Qiu Ju's skinny and thin body, but she is used to the rough work of carrying water and firewood. It was a run-up for a long way, and I used all my strength in a hurry, I saw the little maid flew more than a foot away with a whoosh, fell to the ground on her back, and hit the hard ground like frozen iron with the back of her head. He rolled his eyelids and passed out.

"Wu'er!" Someone in the crowd exclaimed, a little maid quickly ran over to help the maid named Wu'er, and the others surrounded Qiu Ju with a whoosh.

Qiu Ju was also really impatient.

Seeing the crowd coming up, she rushed to the side of the yard, reached out and waved a shovel to meet the crowd, "... whoever dares to come up, I will fight with you!" Her eyes were full of red silk.

Those who can go out with Aunt Chu are all big maids in the general's mansion. They are as expensive as ordinary ladies. They usually speak slowly and softly, wishing to be so weak that they can run away when the wind blows. Formation?

They were so scared that they all backed away with a yell, and looked at Qiu Ju tremblingly, not daring to go forward.

What kind of person raises a bird!

That Zhen Shiniang was domineering, and the maid she raised was also as rough as a lunatic. Seeing Qiu Ju like this, Chu Xinyi groaned coldly in her heart, and stood there motionless looking at Qiu Ju.

As a master, she must have the aura she should have, and she can't retreat like a maid.

Even though her legs were twisted in front of the fierce Qiu Ju, Chu Xinyi still stood there motionless, forcing her to ask Qiu Ju calmly, "...Are you a maidservant too? What's your name?" ?" As long as this little girl dares to admit that she is Zhen Shiniang's maid, she will not be afraid.

In the general's mansion, there are always respects.

Seeing that the master was calm, the other maids didn't run away anymore, but they didn't dare to go forward, they moved up behind Chu Xinyi tremblingly, and confronted Qiu Ju from a distance.

After all, it wasn't aggressive, Qiu Ju was also pushed into a hurry just now, and now seeing that everyone dared not go forward, she also stopped, only holding the shovel and glaring fiercely at everyone.

Seeing that the magpie was fine, Zhen Shiniang let out a sigh of relief. She quickly walked around the magpies who were coming, "It's cold on the ground, get up." With a cry, "God, how did you fight like this?"

"Your servant is fine." Magpie shook his head and refused to get up, lowering his voice, "Miss, I have never seen her before. She is Aunt Chu, the real person in power in the back residence of the general's mansion, and we can't afford to offend..." Pushing Zhen Shi out vigorously Mother, "Miss, don't worry about it, just let the servant kneel down, she won't embarrass you anymore when she gets angry from the servant." Otherwise, it is not a joke to let her go back and sue Shen Zhongqing.

"...I didn't intend to take care of you!" Zhen Shiniang's voice was cold, with rare anger, "It's just that if you don't get up again, you've got gas and slipped your tires. If you're careful, you won't be able to have children anymore Already!"

In two lifetimes, she has never seen such a useless person!

Kneeling there without making a sound is so hard to beat, it's not as good as her little Qiuju, no matter who the other party is, just fuck it.

These words worked, Magpie turned pale with shock, no longer dared to kneel down, and supported Zhen Shiniang to stand up, looking past Zhen Shiniang at Chu Xinyi behind her, trembling uncontrollably. She was often beaten at that time, she was used to it, she was not afraid at all, she was only worried that her young lady would be punished by Shen Zhongqing for this, and Shen Zhongqing would find an excuse to drive her out of the ancestral house.

This Chu Xinyi is not someone else, she is Shen Zhongqing's darling, I heard that Shen Zhongqing spoiled her to the sky, and dare not give the moon to the stars.

As someone else's abandoned wives, how could they provoke them?

Seeing the magpie looking behind her in horror, Zhen Shiniang turned around slowly.

Unconsciously, he took a breath of cold air.

I saw Chu Xinyi wearing a hibiscus-colored gold silk embroidered narrow jacket, a snow-white silver fox fur cloak, and a pair of red buckskin boots with turned-out fur. Stepping on the white snow, she was extraordinarily dazzling , a crystal walker inlaid with pearls is inserted obliquely on the cloud temples, and a huge ruby ​​hangs down to the forehead.

The eyebrows are like ink painting, the eyes are like autumn water, a delicate little face is indescribably soft and delicate. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)