In winter, the wind is cold and biting——
There was a light snowfall outside, but the Hua family's courtyard was unusually peaceful.
"What are you tinkering with?"
The little girl's tender and clear voice came from the narrow corridor under the eaves.
Hua Shi walked out of the kitchen at a leisurely pace, holding a wooden plate with a few pieces of hawthorn cakes that she had made herself.
"Good stuff, come and try it."
She waved her hand, and Xiao Huaying, who had been staring at her eagerly for a long time, was the first to trot over.
Hua Shi took a piece and handed it to him.
After the little guy took it, he couldn't wait to put it in his mouth.
The fragrant, glutinous, sweet and soft hawthorn cake was sweet but not greasy, and had a soft and smooth texture. Xiao Huaying, who had never eaten this kind of cake before, just tasted it and stuffed a small piece of hawthorn cake into his stomach in a few seconds.
Hua Shi didn't make much, just eight pieces on the wooden plate, originally just for trying his hand at it.
After Xiao Huaying swallowed the hawthorn cake whole, she tilted her head back and stared at the few remaining pieces of cake on the wooden plate in her hand, her eyes filled with longing.
Hua Shi saw the little guy's eagerness and said, "Only one piece for each person."
She also took one piece for Hua Xiao who was behind her.
Hua Xiao blinked her eyes, curiously looking at the soft and sticky sweet cake in her hand, "What is this?"
She had never seen such a bright red color before, but just now she saw Xiaoying eating it with such relish that her mouth was watering...
Hua Shi: "Hawthorn cake, it's sweet, you can try it." She explained, her eyes fell on Hua Li who was squatting at the side entrance of the main hall, and called out, "Xiao Li?"
Hua Li had his back to her, his eyes fixed on the direction of the main hall, lost in thought. Suddenly, he heard someone calling him, and he turned around and looked over.
Hua Shi had already walked over, "What are you doing?" She looked straight in the direction where Hua Li had been in a daze.
That direction was her tightly closed door...
Hua Li seemed to be startled, with a confused expression, "I, I didn't do anything!"
When he met Hua Shi's eyes, his voice unconsciously rose a little and his eyes became a little evasive.
Hua Shi lowered her eyes, paused, took out a piece of hawthorn cake and handed it to him.
Hua Li looked at her with twinkling eyes, and took a long time to take the soft and smooth hawthorn cake.
Hua Shi looked towards the house, paused, took another piece, and put it in Hua Li's hand, "Give your second brother one too."
Hua Yu stayed in the house. In the past few days, even after the fever subsided, he still felt a little weak and listless. He kept to himself and rarely came out of the house.
Among her four siblings, Hua Yu was the one she found most difficult to understand. She could also tell that Hua Yu didn't want to get close to her and his attitude was very cold...
There is no rush when it comes to blooming.
She counted the days since Li and Hua Ciyuan had gone to Taohua Town for the imperial examination. Nearly fifteen days had passed...
Fifteen days had passed since she and Xie Mingchi encountered the poison in the mountains.
After that, she and Xie Mingchi went into the mountains several more times, and cleared out all the hawthorns in the hawthorn forest...
Three days ago, it was the last time she went into the mountains. There are still two large bags full of hawthorns in her house.
Because she and Xie Mingchi picked the hawthorns together and carried them down the mountain together, they divided them in half, half each.
However, Xie Mingchi was indeed as she had guessed. He was scratched by the poison, but there was no sign of poisoning at all.
She later checked the wound on his arm and found no signs of decay or ulceration. Instead, it began to heal within a few days.
And Xie Mingchi didn't seem to know that the wings of the poisonous insect were poisonous... Or rather, he knew, but was just pretending not to know...
Hua Shi asked him a question, but she guessed that Xie Mingchi must be hiding a secret. Everyone has secrets, just like she has secrets that are hard to express.
So after she realized that Xie Mingchi was hiding a secret, she didn't investigate further...
Hua Li took the hawthorn cake from Hua Shi's hand, lowered his head, and walked into the main room in a muffled voice.
Hua Shi watched him push open the door and enter the house before she looked away.
When I turned around, I saw a little tail following behind me...
After swallowing a piece of hawthorn cake in a hurry, Xiao Huaying was obviously not satisfied. After hearing Hua Shi say that each person was only allowed one piece, the little guy did not give up.
He noticed with his sharp eyes that there were clearly four pieces left on the wooden tray in Hua Shi's hand. Even if everyone got one piece, there would still be three pieces left...
Hua Shi met Xiao Huaying's watery eyes and saw the naked longing in his eyes. He then turned to look at the four remaining hawthorn cakes on the wooden plate.
The little guy's eyes were clearly fixed on the four hawthorn cakes...
Hua Shi shook his head and ruthlessly refused, "We agreed that each person would only get one piece, and now I don't have any."
When Xiao Huaying heard her words, her mouth pursed and her eyes began to well up with tears. Her big eyes blinked at her.
Hua Shi had become accustomed to the little guy's tricks. Whenever there was something good to eat and he hadn't eaten enough, and wanted to eat, he would always look at her with longing eyes like this.
And after she refused, he would be tearful, wanting to cry but unable to, staring at her pitifully. When he looked at people with his big watery eyes, he was invisibly forcing people to compromise with him.
At the beginning, Hua Shi couldn't bear to see his tearful look, so she would always soften her heart and compromise, but after a few times, she learned to be hard-hearted.
She couldn't just give Xiao Huaying whatever she wanted without hesitation every time she looked at her pitifully.
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