A heavy snow fell one after another, turning Chang'an into a snow-covered world overnight.
Today is the tenth day. Guo Song did not go to the official room. Instead, he was admiring jade and reading in his study. The fire was burning brightly in the charcoal basin. There was a small circle iron stand specially used for making tea, which was placed directly on the charcoal stove.
There is a clay pot placed on the circular iron stand. The milk tea inside is boiling and simmering, and the air is filled with a strong milky aroma.
This is a habit that Guo Song has developed over the years. He likes both sencha and making strong milk tea. Sencha is mostly served when receiving guests or when he is with his family, while milk tea often appears when he is alone.
Guo Song took out a bamboo cup, which was also his tradition. He drank milk tea from the bamboo cup. He poured a steaming cup of milk tea and walked to the window with the bamboo cup.
He could see a crystal-clear ice lake in front of him. The ice was at least two feet thick. There were many palace maids playing on the ice. Chang'an had a kind of skating shoes made of wood chips. It was like wearing a pair of wooden shoes.
The bottom of the shoe is two slightly curved long boards, which are polished extremely smooth and are similar to today's sleds.
Each of the more than a dozen palace maids wore a pair of these skates on the ice. Some were as nimble as fish, while others were as clumsy as penguins. Everyone wore thick winter coats.
At this time, Guo Song saw two women in red, stumbling and walking on the lake, supporting each other.
Guo Song recognized at a glance that they were Liu Caichun and her personal maid Xiaoluobo. They were both girls from the south of the Yangtze River. It was probably their first time skating. After looking for a moment, he saw Liu Caichun fell on his back. He could no longer hold back his laughter.
He stopped, put down the bamboo cup, took out a pair of ice boots from the cabinet and went downstairs.
This was the first time Liu Caichun had seen thick ice on the lake in her entire life. Although her hometown occasionally froze in winter, it was always thin ice and the boat would break as soon as it moved away.
Watching the palace maids skating, she couldn't lose her childlike innocence, so she borrowed two pairs of wooden skates and went to the lake with the maids.
"Girl, be careful! Be careful! Ah——"
The maid Xiao Luobo pulled Liu Caichun to stand unsteadily, and they both screamed and fell together.
"It's all your fault. What's wrong with you? I walked fine..."
Liu Caichun smiled and was about to get up when she suddenly saw a pair of thick and powerful hands appearing in front of her eyes.
When she raised her head, she saw King Jin coming to her side at some point and looking at her with a smile.
Liu Caichun blushed, but instinctively held his arm and stood up with the help of his strength. Guo Song also pulled the maid up.
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
Liu Caichun lowered his head in embarrassment and said, "This is my first time skating, and I made His Highness laugh."
"It doesn't matter. You will usually fall down. After a dozen or so falls, you will gradually start to slip."
Liu Caichun lowered his head and discovered that Guo Song's skates were different from his own. They were made of brass, very short, and sparkled like gold in the sun."
"Hey! Your Highness's skates are different from ours!"
"I drew the pictures myself and then asked craftsmen to make them. The three of them and Xiaowei also have them in Jincheng. I will make a pair for Yan'er this year. I also made a pair for you by the way. They will arrive in two days."
"Do I have one too?" Liu Caichun asked in surprise and joy.
Guo Song smiled and nodded, handed her his arm and said, "Come on! I'll teach you how to skate. Hold my arm."
There was an order in his tone that could not be refused. Liu Caichun hesitated and put her jade hand gently on his arm.
"This won't work, we must hurry up!"
Liu Caichun could only hold his arm tightly, "What then?" she asked with a blushing face.
"Then he squatted half-squat, like me, and leaned forward steadily. Guo Song made a gesture. Liu Caichun was very smart and learned it immediately.
"Hold on, follow me!"
Guo Song slid lightly on the ice. Liu Caichun's body slid on the ice. She was so nervous that she stiffened. Suddenly she screamed and fell backwards, but she did not fall this time. Guo Song held her in his arms.
Her waist stabilized her.
"Scared me!"
Liu Caichun patted his chest, rolled his eyes at Guo Song, and said coquettishly: "How can there be a master like you? You don't teach me how to move my feet."
Guo Song said apologetically: "Actually, it's just like walking. I'd better hold your hand while skating! Otherwise, you won't be able to master the trick."
Guo Song held her hand. Fortunately, Liu Caichun was wearing thin cloth gloves, so it wasn't too embarrassing. But even so, her face was still red to her ears and her heart was pounding. But no young man of the opposite sex had ever held her hand.
Hold her hand.
"Okay, I'll slow down a little, and you paddle slowly, right! That's it, don't stop, relax and don't be nervous!"
Guo Song is indeed an excellent skating coach. He held Liu Caichun's hand and controlled the balance of the two. Liu Caichun actually started skating, and she giggled with joy.
When she turned around, she saw a palace maid teaching Little Carrot how to skate. She immediately felt relieved and slowly followed Guo Song's rhythm, speeding up slightly. She experienced the joy of skating and her pretty face blossomed with excitement.
Liu Caichun didn't know that upstairs in the distance, Xue Tao and Dugu Youlan were sitting on the terrace, watching them from a distance!
"My husband is really good at seizing opportunities!" Dugu Youlan said with a little sadness when she saw the two of them holding hands on the ice.
"It's cold outside, let's go inside!" Xue Tao said with a faint smile.
"Okay! Out of sight, out of mind."
Although Dugu Youlan knew about her eldest sister's arrangement, she was not as indifferent as Xue Tao. She felt very uncomfortable when she saw her husband teaching other women to skate.
But it was impossible for her to rush over and denounce him angrily. Xue Tao had already communicated with her that if Liu Caichun didn't come in, maybe the legitimate daughters of the Pei family, Cui family, and Lu family would come in, and Dugu Youlan was even less willing to do so.
So the sadness in my heart is just sadness, as long as I can't see it, forget it.
On the ice, Liu Caichun has gradually found the feeling. She can already skate for a short distance alone, but the speed is very slow.
"Let's speed it up!"
Guo Song took her hand and sped up. The speed was so fast that Liu Caichun became a little scared, "Your Highness, slow down!"
"It's okay, I'm here!"
As soon as Guo Song finished speaking, a black shadow passed by them in front of them. Liu Caichun couldn't control her body. She screamed and felt like she was about to fall. She instinctively hugged Guo Song.
Guo Song was also out of balance. His body was still moving at high speed. He reacted very quickly and pulled Liu Caichun above his body. However, he fell heavily to the ground and his body slipped more than ten feet on the ice.
Liu Caichun lay on top of Guo Song and hugged his body tightly, his face turned pale with fear.
"Your Highness, what just happened? A black shadow flashed." She asked with lingering fear.
Guo Song gently stroked her blue hair and said with a smile: "It's a flat-haired beast I raised. I haven't seen it for a long time. It came over to say hello."
"Is it an eagle?" Liu Caichun asked again.
When Guo Song saw her pretty face, as white as porcelain, which could be broken by a blow, her beautiful eyes as bright as gems, and her plump and soft red lips, Guo Song couldn't help but feel a surge in his heart, and his eyes became fiery.
"ah--"
Liu Caichun reacted and found that she was lying on Guo Song. She was immediately shy and wanted to get up quickly, but Guo Song hugged her and kissed her hard on her red lips.
Liu Caichun was caught off guard, and her lips were sealed by the man in front of her. She wanted to push Guo Song away, but she was powerless. At this time, Guo Weiwei's shout suddenly came from the distance, "Master, where are you?"
"Let me go!"
Liu Caichun struggled to stand up, Guo Song let go of her, and then Liu Caichun realized that the man in front of her had violated her.
"How could you-" She was angry and annoyed, and wiped her lips twice with her sleeve.
Guo Song's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he said calmly: "Miss Liu, I'm sorry, I just lost my temper."
At this time, Guo Weiwei ran up panting, "Master, did you fall just now?"
"Yeah! I accidentally fell it."
"I looked for you everywhere, and Little Carrot said you were here, so I rushed over."
Only then did Guo Weiwei realize that her father had also fallen. She quickly stepped forward to help her father. Guo Song stood up and waved her hand, "You take care of Master, I'm going back!"
He suddenly felt a burning pain in his left thigh. He turned around and limped away without saying hello to Liu Caichun.
When Liu Caichun saw blood on Guo Song's leg, she remembered that Guo Song had protected her just now, and suddenly felt a little regretful in her heart. Her lips moved, but she couldn't speak, and she watched Guo Song walk away...
When Guo Song returned to the study, blood had soaked his entire trousers. He carefully took off his trousers and found that there was a foot-long cut on the outside of his thigh. The cut was very deep. There must have been something sharp on the ice, and the blood and flesh were blurred.
At this time, there was a rush of running sounds outside, and Xue Tao rushed into her husband's study. She had just heard her daughter say that her father seemed to be injured, so she was so frightened that she ran over quickly.
"Husband, how do you..."
When Xue Tao saw her husband's leg was bloody and bloody, he was so frightened that he covered his mouth and said, "I'm going to find the imperial doctor!"
She turned to leave.
"Wait a minute!"
Guo Song stopped her. His legs were cramping in pain. The top priority now was to stop the bleeding.
"Bring me the medicine box in the cabinet next to you."
Xue Tao hurriedly found a medicine box. At this time, Dugu Youlan also ran over. Xue Tao quickly said to her: "My husband is injured, go and ask for the imperial doctor!"
Dugu Youlan turned around and ran out. Guo Song took the medicine box and found the hemostatic ointment from it. This was originally the secret recipe of Cangjian Pavilion. It has miraculous effects in stopping bleeding. It is called Huilong ointment. Guo Song has promoted it in the army. Every
Every soldier is equipped with a box with a very popular and simple name called hemostatic ointment.
Guo Song opened the box, dug out a ball of ointment with his hand, and applied it evenly on the wound.
"Let me do it!"
Xue Tao took the ointment, and although her legs were weak from fear, she still mustered up the courage to apply the ointment on Guo Song's legs.
Guo Song felt a sense of coolness and comfort, the pain disappeared and the bleeding stopped.
"Husband, what's going on?" Xue Tao asked.
"I was skating on the lake, and Mengzi came. The way he greeted me was a bit reckless. I accidentally fell, and there happened to be a sharp protrusion on the ice, a gravel or a branch, and it scratched my leg."
"Is Caichun injured?" Xue Tao asked.
It turned out that his wife saw it. Guo Song sighed and said, "She's fine!"
After a pause, Guo Song added: "If she is determined to resign and go back, don't stop her."