Chapter 11: Beauty Ice Lamp

In the afternoon, each of the three neighbors sent a gift back. Zhang Dashan's house was a large piece of wild pork, and the other two families heard that they were short of beans and garlic, so they also sent some.

In the evening, all the men in the family led by Zhou Bo to the stove, set up a table, offered incense to the stove prince in the niche of the stove wall, and served sugar melons made of molasses and noodles. Offering the prince of the stove with yam sugar is to make him sweet.

Sesame straw and pine branches had long been piled up in the yard, and the stove king, which had been offered for a year, was invited out of the shrine, together with paper horses and grass, and burned. In an instant, the yard was illuminated by the fire.

Zhou Bo led the whole family of men and kowtowed around the fire and prayed: "This year is 23 again, send the stove to the west sky. There are strong horses, grass, and a safe journey. The sugar melon is sweet and sweet, please say good words to the Jade Emperor.

Xuejian took the woman at home and used open containers of different sizes and shapes to put the well water and clean snow in the courtyard and a little a little alum. It was cold. After a moment, it froze into a state of water in the heart. Then Xuejian took the lead in knocking a small hole in the upper ice layer with hard objects, and then poured out the water, the most After slightly heating the outside of the container, take out the ice, put in the straw stuffed with beeswax in the hollow to light it. The candle in the lamp flashes, and the halo comes out from the inside out.

Zhou Bo led the crowd to send the Kitchen God, and he heard the exclamation and laughter of his sisters in the outer courtyard, and the children couldn't help cheering, mixed with Zhou's mother and Du's mother's anxious and low voice calling their little aunt, and couldn't help taking everyone outside.

Pingshan Village is generally surrounded by fences, only the Zhou family is a large family, and the courtyard wall is extremely high.

At this time, there was a series of strange shiny things lined up on the wall of the courtyard, as if it were a lamp made of ice. The soft light and shadow fell into his eyes, like the bright moonlight, and there was a gentle pressure that everyone could not but stare sideways.

The snow saw that he was standing on a high wooden ladder and watering the ice lamp with a small pot in his hand, so that it was convenient to fix the ice lamp on the wall.

faintly, Zhou Bo saw that there were water drops gathered on the body of the ice lamp, which seemed to melt, but it was gentle. Like the tears of the legendary mackerel in the legend of the book, with a soft and charming luster, and Xue Jian, he leaned to the left of the lamp, with a cheerful sweet smile on his face, and under the shadow of the hazy lamp, faintly from When the moon comes down, the clothes and belts fly in the wind, which is just in line with this good scenery, which makes people suspicious in the dream and afraid that the beautiful woman will die with the wind.

It turned out that everyone was not enjoying the lamp, but the beauty of the beautiful people on the wall under the moon.

After only stunned for a moment, Zhou Bo turned black and said coldly, "Why don't you come down quickly!"

Xue was shocked when she saw her hand shaking. Fortunately, there were three or four people holding it under the ladder, otherwise she would really fall down. She slowly climbed down the ladder with a smile and ran to Zhou Bo, pretending not to see his black face and holding his hand: "Dalang, do you look beautiful?"

Her little hands were cold, and Zhou Bo was even more angry, "If you like to play strange things, why don't you stay on the wall all night?"

Xue saw pouted and muttered in a low voice: "You affect the atmosphere..." Zhou Bo stared and did not dare to say any more. Only then did he find that his hand was held by Zhou Bo's warm hand instead. He was very dog-legged and said that the lights were not as bright as the young master's wise as tonight, and he trotted all the way back to the bedroom by him.

When others saw them leave, they sighed. Some complained that other people's voices attracted the eldest brother, some were eager to try to make ice lanterns by themselves, and some Liulang and Erhu added chaos and added color. Sanlang turned back to the house. When he came back, he actually took a lot of paint, and even more Adding a lot of color to the ice lamp, the Zhou family compound was very lively for a while.

Early the next morning, Zhang Dashan came to ask Zhou Jinsheng to hunt. Dahu Erhu took Wu Niang and Liulang and sent them directly to Daqing Mountain with the ice bed. Zhang Dashan really experienced the speed and enjoyment of a luxury ice bed. He thought that Dahu Erhu was accompanying Wu Niang Liulang to play. Where I know that it is the business of the Zhou family to go out to catch ice every day.

After they left, Zhou's courtyard soon surrounded a group of children and pointed curiously to the ice lamp on the wall.

In fact, the wick made of wheat straw has been burned out at this time, but I saw those seductive lights last night. No wonder the children got up early in the morning to watch.

Although Xue was playing crazy at night, she was still frozen by the north wind on the wall, and her nose was a little breathless, and she was also tingling. She was afraid of being reprimanded by Zhou Bo again, so she had to cheer herself up.

Because the Zhou family is very unlucky this year, they pay more attention to today's elimination of Chen Buxin.

Er Niang took the lead. Everyone tried their best to clean the room, clean the utensils, dismantle and wash the bedding, hoping to sweep all the bad luck out and welcome the New Year.

At noon, Zhou's mother and Du's mother made a few dishes at random, but the children immediately pointed them out, which made Zhou's mother and Du's mother embarrassed. Usually, Xuejian rarely did it in person, but with her command, the taste seemed to be different.

After lunch, the children still had to play with Xuejian, but Zhou Bo said that he was not feeling well and asked Zhou's mother to go to burn the hot kang. Xuejian naturally had to follow him to serve the illness, which made the children disappointed.

Back to the bedroom, Xue sighed and went to the inner room to clean up the bed.

Zhou Bo pretended not to hear it and sat at the desk by the window outside, holding a book to look at.

Xuejian was waiting to change his clothes and waited. The hot bed was warm and the bedding was comfortable. She slowly leaned against the head of the bed and fell asleep. In a daze, someone picked her up to help her go to her coat, lay down in **, covered the quilt, and Xue saw that she fell asleep.

When Xue saw and woke up again, it was already in the middle of the night. She felt that her throat was dry. Some people had picked her up and brought a glass of water to her mouth. The water was still warm. After drinking, Xue looked up and saw Zhou Bo's cold face.

Xue thought, should I kneel down and thank him at this time? No, the ground is too cold, not as warm and comfortable as on the kang; should I marry each other? No, I'm a girl, as if I promised 800 years ago; then I should...

The head was knocked heavily, and Zhou Bo looked at her with a smile. Only then did she realize that she seemed to be nagging. She covered her mouth and planned to kill her but did not admit it. "I always knock on my head. Sooner or later, I will be knocked by you."

Zhou Bo sneered: "If you don't knock, you will be stupid! Hurry up and serve your young master and I'll change my clothes, dull girl without a look!"

"Yes, young master!" Xuejian half knelt on ** to help Zhou Bo undress. "Why do you grow so tall?"

Zhou Bo couldn't help but be crazy by looking at her rosy little face under the candlelight, her broken pink lips, and the snow hidden in her blasphemous clothes.