"Put this on," he said, helping her button up her cotton-padded coat, his fingertips brushing against her earlobes, which were red from the cold. "It's windy outside, don't let it give you a headache."
The rabbit in the bamboo cage must have heard the noise, because it suddenly started scratching at the bars with its front paws. Yun Tangyin threw a carrot into the cage and said with a smile, "Good boy, we'll come back and add hay for you after we're done watching."
The screen in the center of the playground has been set up, and the white cloth is billowing in the wind, like a white bird spreading its wings.
Fu Yucheng found a clean wooden board for Yun Tangyin to sit on, while he squatted down beside her, his military boots crunching softly on the snow.
Zhou Desheng's wife squeezed over, carrying a jar of pickled vegetables. A thin layer of frost clung to her blue cotton jacket. "I saved you a piece of cured meat. We'll stew it with cabbage tomorrow. It'll be perfect with your locust flower cake."
When the movie reached the scene where the Japanese soldiers entered the village, the children suddenly shouted in unison, "Fight! Fight!" This frightened Li's child, who shrank into his mother's arms, causing the locust flower cake in his hand to fall onto the snow. The red sugar granules mixed with the white snow looked like a handful of crushed agate.
It was dark when the event ended, and the moonlight made the snow look like it was covered with a layer of silver. Fu Yucheng carried Yun Tangyin home, his military boots leaving a series of footprints of varying depths on the snow.
"Are you tired?" he asked, looking down at her, his chin resting on the top of her head, smelling the soap scent in her hair. "I should have let you rest inside; your hands and feet are freezing."
Yun Tangyin snuggled closer to his neck, her laughter carried far away on the wind: "Not tired at all, you're more beautiful than a movie."
As soon as I entered the courtyard, I heard the rabbit in the bamboo cage whimpering; it was probably starving.
Fu Yucheng placed Yun Tangyin on a small stool in front of the stove, and added some alfalfa to the cage. The rabbit immediately pounced on it, chewing the hay with its three-lobed mouth.
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