Homecoming on a Snowy Night
The plum blossoms bloom in the cold lunar month, and the fragrance makes people grow old.
In the north, the entire Bianliang City was buried under a thick layer of white snow. Even so, there were still merchants who were happy to make money but were not afraid of the cold, or rich young men who were keen on singing girls in order to die in a drunken and dream of death. The snow fell all night and before they could be cleaned, there were chaotic traces or deep and shallow footprints on it.
Throughout the winter, most civilians gather around the fire, drinking hot tea, and are unwilling to go out. As for poor families, they can only wrap all their clothes on their bodies, lie in bed, cover them with quilts, hoping to survive this winter early. Therefore, even the streets that are usually prosperous in business seem extremely deserted at this time.
However, the Shangshu Mansion was noisy early in the morning, with a large group of maids coming in and out, with a very hurrying expression. The reason was that Ouyang Qianxue was about to give birth.
When it was almost dawn, Lin's mother suddenly felt the child in her stomach restless, and then there was a severe pain. The pain made her limbs unable to get up. She had no choice but to keep calling the name of her close maid, Vanilla. Vanilla in the side room hurried into the room before she could get dressed.
There was a winter plum planted in the small courtyard where Ouyang Qianxue lived. The old wrinkled bark seemed to be incompatible with the flat and soft petals, but the dark color was very harmonious with the white color.
The snow in the yard was already past its ankles. It had been a long time since Bianliang had snowed so heavily. There were three or five maids waiting outside the house, wrapped in winter clothes and stomping their feet. It was both cold and anxious.
It was almost an hour, and I only heard the wife's cry, but I never heard the child's cry. I changed two basins of hot water. If this continues, the child and the adults will be in danger.
The clouds scattered and the sky opened, like a mysterious and beautiful woman finally unveiled her veil and the heavy snow stopped.
Wow~
"It's been born, it's been born." The maids outside the door looked at each other and smiled at each other, as if comforting each other.
The door of the room was opened, and only the wrinkled face of Wenma was exposed. "Come in to bring a basin of hot water to wash the young master. The lady is very weak and cannot be cold. Don't come in. It's a boy, so you can tell the good news to the old master."
"Yes." The girls responded and dispersed.
The maids walking outside the yard could vaguely hear their mouths covering their mouths and talking softly.
"Hey, a young master!"
"Mrs. I can enjoy my life now."
"Yeah yeah."
"But Young Master Sheng has also suffered a lot of injuries."
...
The quilt on the bed was covered with mandarin ducks embroidered with colorful threads. Ouyang Qianxue lay on the bed with pale color, her hair mixed with sweat and sticking to her face, and Vanilla was wiping her sweat aside.
After closing his eyes and resting for a while, Qianxue recovered from her consciousness. Her pair of black and white pupils stared at Vanilla, and she had not yet waited for her to speak.
"It's a young master, madam." Vanilla said to her with a smile, but her hands didn't stop.
"Where is the child?" When he spoke, his eyebrows and eyes stretched out, and the smile on his face could not be hidden.
"Wenma is helping the young master wash his body, madam wait." As she said that, Vanilla stood up and replaced the water.
"lady."
"Ah!" Ouyang Qianxue opened her eyes and saw Vanilla holding something wrapped in a thick white cotton cloth in her arms. She stretched out her hands and wanted to get up to pick it up, but her body was too weak and Vanilla quickly put her hands around her inside.
The newly born child was hairless and wrinkled, and he couldn't even open his eyes. Lin's mother poked his little face, "Vanilla, look how cute he is."
Vanilla covered her lips and chuckled. "Have you decided to name the young master?"
"The guild gave the name to the little guy."
As soon as he said that, the room fell silent.
When Ouyang Qianxue was about to give birth in the morning, Lin Hai was preparing to enter the court. After the maid heard the news, she just said "I know" and hurriedly entered the palace without even asking.
"Where is the lady herself? Haven't you ever thought about giving the young master a name?"
"Is it a name?" Lin's mother stroked his face sideways. "If possible, I hope the little guy will be called Lin Ye, Lin Ye..."
"Lin Ye? Madam..."
"I know," she turned her head and looked at Vanilla gently, then turned back. "Maybe it is more petty than Lin Yun's name. It's a good name, but I don't hope he can achieve much. I am a big tree, and the little guy is Ye Zi, and life and death are by my side." While speaking, Lin's mother touched his eyebrows without eyebrows with her fingers, and she was very curious. After all, he was only twenty years old.
"Vanilla, bring the jade pendant prepared in my box."
It was a piece of green jade worn with a red rope. The whole shape was a disc, and a leaf with clear knees was carved in it using carving techniques.
"Child! This is carved by your grandfather himself. I sent someone to send you to me. I wish you a peaceful life." This jade pendant was started by Ouyang Xun knew that his daughter was pregnant and he arrived two days ago.
Lin's mother adjusted the length of the red rope, stuffed it on one side through the swaddle, and then covered it.
Bang! With a heavy sound, the cold wind whistled out of the window.
"Who?" Vanilla only saw a black shadow, and was slapped away before she could react, her eyes turned black and she fainted.
Ouyang Qianxue realized something was wrong and hurriedly protected Lin Ye with her upper body. The person who broke in through the window was a man who was very strong but not tall. She was wearing a black dress, covered her face, and wrapped her hair in a headscarf, revealing only a pair of eyes that were invisible.
The man in black came to the bed in just a few steps, wanting to shoot Lin Ye, but Ouyang Qianxue covered him with her body, and the man in black couldn't even touch the corner of his clothes.
"What are you going to do? Come on! Come on..." Slap! The man in black grabbed her shoulder and slapped her face. Blood suddenly oozed out of the corner of his mouth, and half of his face also swollen. Ouyang Qianxue's eyes were filled with fear and uneasiness, and she held the child in front of her chest tightly.
The man in black grabbed the thick cotton cloth wrapped in the child, but couldn't pull it out. He didn't move at all.
"Bandit! Ah~" Qianxue had tears in her eyes and bit her hands like crazy at the back of her man in black.
There were already footsteps in the yard, and most of them were heard.
Bang! The man in black kicked Ouyang's lower abdomen and made a low sound on the quilt.
"Ah!" Ouyang felt pain, and the force in his hands immediately loosened, and his face could not stand up. The man in black hugged the child horizontally and grabbed the window and grabbed the window.
"Child...ah..." The pain in her body made her curl up into a ball, her face was already covered with tears, and she could only roar in pain like a wild beast that had lost her parent-child.
"Madam, what's wrong, Madam?" Several servants and maids rushed in.
"Child, child" Lin's mother pointed to the wide open window and fainted.
The man in black had already climbed over the wall, got on the carriage that had been prepared, and galloped outside the city.
The sky is covered with clouds, and it seems that another heavy snow is about to come.
Chapter completed!