Half of Kangxi's forty-first year of Layue passed in a blink of an eye, and the fourth master specially explained that there were many frozen mountain springs, ready to be kept for next summer, and the Wulanala clan had already prepared the New Year's gifts of each prefecture and sent them one by one, as if her mood was not affected by the cold treatment of the fourth master, and the Li family sprinkled all the fire on the two golden flowers living in her yard, so that the original two delicate flowers instantly aged a lot.

Erfu led the maids in the yard to cut a lot of window flowers, pasted them all over the large and small windows and doors of the west courtyard, and even the sheepskin lanterns under the windows were also pasted with many hollow window flowers, making the whole courtyard look jubilant.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Chinese New Year's Eve, Erfu stared at the cooks early in the morning to prepare beef and mutton and fresh cabbage, ready to make dumplings together in the evening, and celebrate the New Year lively, but before Erfu tied his apron, Su Peisheng's voice came from outside, and several cooks who had already started next to him were instantly dumbfounded.

It turned out that the fourth master said yesterday that he was going to the main courtyard for the festival today, so he didn't come to accompany Erfu, but why is this one so unreliable, Erfu glanced at the somewhat chaotic Dongjijian with some grievances, and hurriedly left Yuqing to help clean up, so he hurriedly walked out of the door, ready to welcome the arrival of the fourth master.

The fourth master was wearing a royal blue pipa placket robe with frost trim, covered with a knee-length mink fur, holding the hand stove in both hands, and came to Erfu's side with a smile, and directly stuffed the hand stove into Erfu's hand, and said with some distress: "You don't wear a piece of clothing when you come out, and you are not afraid of freezing yourself!"

"It's okay, it's okay!" Erf smiled and took the stove, sighed, looked at the white mist blown away by the wind, and said softly.

In fact, what Erfu said is not a lie, to say that although the current winter is colder than the modern one, and the windows are not as insulated as the modern glass windows, but the room is burning with a dragon and a charcoal basin, it is really not cold, plus the door has been hung with cotton curtains, and the windows are also blocked with screens, but it is not cold, but the lighting is a little worse, and it is not a frozen person.

As for the outside, the courtyard is the most windproof, the warm sun is sprinkled directly on the body, there is no haze, and the temperature seems to be a lot higher, so Erfu is still very adaptable to the winter in Beijing in this era, who makes Erfu a girl from the north, you must know that in modern Shenyang, in winter, the cliff can be regarded as a place where water drips into ice.

The fourth master touched Erfu's hands and cheeks exposed outside, but he didn't feel cold, so he nodded reassuringly, pulled Erfu into the door, and directly handed over the big coat on his body to Su Peisheng, who was following behind, looking at the Dongjijian that had not yet been cleaned up, looking at Erfu who was twisting his fingers behind him, and asked softly: "What are you playing again?"

Erfu lowered her head, drew circles on the green jade floor tiles on her toes, and said a little shyly: "I don't think there's anything to do, so I want to make some dumplings to eat!"

"If you want to eat, just let them prepare, how did you get this into the main room!" The fourth master didn't forget the mess in front of him, and asked with a smile.

"It's delicious to make it yourself!" Erf definitely didn't say that she just wanted to learn how to make dumplings by herself, after all, it seems to be quite embarrassing, right?

The fourth master finally couldn't see it, pulled over Erfu, who was leaning against the pillar and pretending to be shy, and rubbed the smooth long hair on the top of Erfu's head, "Do it if you want, but don't get tired!"

After speaking, the fourth master walked directly to the inner room, leaving Erfu, who was still immersed in the care of the fourth master, and went to change his homely clothes.

"Master, are we still doing it?" asked the cook a little timidly, after all, the coercion of the fourth master in the mansion is really big.

Erfu smiled and patted her cheeks, took the apron in Yuqing's hand, and said loudly: "Of course I want to do it!"

In fact, Erfu wanted to ask why the fourth master came, but she was worried that the fourth master would think that she didn't like the fourth master coming, and she was afraid that there would be many people in the room and spread different versions of gossip, so she suppressed the doubts in her heart and deliberately diverted her attention.

The fourth master put on a padded jacket again, and went directly over the east room, walked to the study room in the west room, practiced big characters, and raised his eyes from time to time to look at Erfu, who turned into a little flower cat, and watched Erfu make dumplings of various shapes one after another, a helpless smile hung on the corner of his mouth, and he continued to practice calligraphy.

Half an hour later, Erfu still couldn't make a beautiful dumpling, and then looked at the dumplings made by a few cooks and Yuqing and others, Erfu was bored, although her hands-on ability was not too good, but it was too hard.

When Erfu was depressed and wanted to cry, the fourth master had already written ten big characters, washed his hands, walked to the table in the middle, and admired the strange dumplings made by Erfu, which caused Erfu to say with a blushing face again: "This thing is really difficult, and it is also a loss to Yuqing them, otherwise I am afraid that I will eat noodle soup!"

"Ye thinks you're too stupid!" The fourth master picked up a quadrangular dumpling casually, looked at the half-exposed dumpling filling, and said softly.

Erfu hurriedly defended: "No, this thing is easy to look at, if you don't believe it, you can try!"

"Okay!" Before Erfu could continue, the fourth master had already taken the dumpling wrapper that Yuqing had just rolled out, and said loudly.

This time, not only Erfu was surprised, but even Yuqing and the others widened their eyes, as the old saying goes, a gentleman is far away from cooking, not to mention that in this era, these natural nobles can't cook, even ordinary men won't enter the kitchen, no wonder these people are surprised to look like this!

The fourth master quickly wrapped up a dumpling that can be called a standard body, and put it between the bunch of strange-shaped dumplings, extremely dazzling, looking at Erfu with a mocking face, that is completely saying, look, people are stupid, you don't have to defend yourself, just admit it quickly!

"Ye is Ye, even the dumplings are so beautiful!" Erfu secretly scolded that the male protagonist's aura was too strong, and he said with a lot of bottom line.

But the praise is also a white boast, the fourth master just wrapped one and sat on the kang again, "You continue to wrap it, the master is still waiting to eat!"

With the fourth master's model goods, Erfu really couldn't convince himself that practice makes perfect, so he simply gave up with a broken jar, directly washed his hands and sat next to the fourth master, and waved his hand, "It's really troublesome to get this thing, but these are almost enough to eat, you clean up, and you go back to pack the rest!"

The cooks have long wanted to leave the main room, after all, the fourth master is sitting there like a big Buddha, they are really a little weak-legged, and now they have the approval of the fourth master and Erfu, and they are busy packing up their things, and they left directly from the back door with the table.

"Why don't you continue to wrap it?" the fourth master knew that Erfu was impatient, and looked at Erfu raising his eyebrows to peek at himself, and asked teasingly.

Erfu pouted, retracted his legs back on the kang, took the pine nut candy on the low table, and said a little vaguely while eating: "Someone has done it left and right, and I can't do it well, so don't waste the ingredients, then who knows that the Chinese food on the plate is hard work, and I have to respect the fruits of the farmer's uncle's labor." ”

"There's always something to say!" the fourth master glanced at him and said softly.

Erfu rolled her eyes without an image, and saw that there were no outsiders in the room, and the whole person lay on the kang table, leaned over and asked with some curiosity: "Master, didn't you say that you were going to stay in the main courtyard to rest today, why did you come over suddenly?"

"Don't like the master to come over?" the fourth master raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Of course not, I can't come over, it's too late for me to be happy, but I'm a little curious that I always do what I say, how could I suddenly come over this time!"

The fourth master saw that Erfu's eyes had become round, so he stopped teasing Erfu, and said with a smile: "Today, Fujin went to the Fifth Brother's Mansion, and her body is a little tired, and the master wants her to have a good rest!"

Erfu's eyes were full of disbelief, a pair of eyes looked the fourth master up and down, and the fourth master twisted his body a little uncomfortably, and continued: "Why are you looking at the master like this, is it possible that there are flowers on the master's face?"

"That's not it, I just think what the master said today is so strange, doesn't Fujin often go outside on weekdays, why will he be tired today!" Erfu sat back down next to the low table, and continued to bite the pine nut candy gossip, the cliff was a feeling of watching the world's strange news.

The fourth master shook his head, but he didn't answer, Erfu saw that the fourth master's face was a little bad, so he didn't ask anymore, and directly took a silver fork and forked a piece of osmanthus candy from the small kitchen and sent it to the fourth master's mouth, and said with a smile: "Master eat a piece of candy, this is a new thing!"

"......" The fourth master opened his mouth slightly, and just about to refuse, he saw that Erfu had already stuffed the candy into his mouth with a wicked smile, and he couldn't spit out the candy directly, so he had to take a piece of osmanthus candy made of honey, endure the sweetness and floral fragrance in his mouth, and said something vaguely, "You are really getting more and more bold, you dare to fool the master with the things that these children eat!"

Erfu shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and said secretly: "The dog bites Lu Dongbin, I don't know the hearts of good people, I really can't see that you like to eat sweet things, people have fed you so much for your face, and you still say that I, a bad guy!

The fourth master didn't know that Erfu was beating Xiao Jiujiu in his heart, but looking at Erfu's still drooling appearance, he took the silver fork in Erfu's hand with a smile, forked a piece of soft and fragrant pine nut candy and sent it to Erfu's mouth, which finally soothed Erfu's unhappiness and made Erfu smile sweetly again.

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In the evening supper, the staple food is the dumplings prepared by Erfu and the cook, the fourth master specially told Su Peisheng to tell the kitchen, and asked the kitchen to prepare the dumplings prepared by Erfu for him. Where he doesn't get tired of being fine, such a thing, not to mention that his brother, who is not a low adoptive mother and biological mother, doesn't eat it, even those low-ranking concubines who are not favored won't eat it, but the fourth master still pinched his nose and ate all the dumpling noodle soup in the bowl, and Erfu was stunned for a while.

At night, the sound of firecrackers caused Erfu to practice calligraphy and was not at ease, the fourth master directly waved his hand, instructed the maid to take the coat, covered the cloak for Erfu, put on the hood, took the hand stove, and led Erfu to the direction of the small garden.

The night breeze was gentle, mixed with a little clear snow, the fourth master and Erfu wore thick-soled boots under their feet, leisurely walked on the cobblestone path in the garden, admired the delicate lanterns hanging on the trees by the roadside, looked at the fireworks that exploded from time to time in the night sky, and spoke softly.

"This firework is so beautiful...... Erf said with a smile.

The fourth master straightened Erfu's hat and tightened the cloak that had been blown to the sides of Erfu's body, and then looked up at the air.

Erfu showed a very sweet smile at the angle that the fourth master didn't see, her arm straddled the crook of the fourth master's arm, and her head rested on the fourth master's shoulder, enjoying the warmth of this moment, as if she was in the plot of an idol drama.

Time passed, and the fourth master felt a little cold on his body, "Let's go back, the night is a little late!"

"Okay!" Erfu looked at the fireworks that were still flickering in the night sky with some reluctance, and answered softly, and then followed the fourth master to the west courtyard step by step.

The fourth master looked at Erfu's childish reaction angrily, and rubbed the sleeve of Lilfu's little hand, "If you like it, tomorrow's grandfather will ask Su Peisheng to get some fireworks back, and let's release them too!"

"Is it really possible?" asked Erph, with some surprise.

Erfu likes to watch fireworks since she was a child, but because she is timid, she always shrinks to the side and watches her aunt and uncle's brother put it, and then when her brothers are older, she can only lie on the balcony to watch the high-altitude fireworks everywhere, and she has never felt the joy of setting off firecrackers in person, and now with the fourth master as a bodyguard, she can completely instruct the little eunuchs to set off firecrackers, and she is responsible for appreciating it!

The ruling class, sure enough, is great!

The wind blew outside, and returned to the warm room, Erfu felt as if she was happy, and sat side by side with the fourth master on the kang near the window, stepping on a wooden barrel to soak her feet, this feeling is so wonderful.

Erfu stepped on the splashes one by one, so that the fourth master couldn't read the book in his hand, "You don't grow up a child, let the master do what to do with you!"

"Master should raise a lot of personality!" said Erph shamelessly.

To tell the truth, Erfu has been calling this era, and has seen the arrogant Princess Rongxian and the Princess Wenxian favored by Kangxi, she really wants to be a royal Gege, and she doesn't have to be a princess Gulun from the main palace, even if it is a princess Heshuo, it must feel very good, you must know that now is not those royal Geges after Qianlong, the power in your hands is still quite big, it is best to be the child of Yongzhengye who loves children and loves her life, don't live too happily that day. R1152