The sound of the door opening woke up Mrs. Chen. No, we can't call her Mrs. Chen now. She is Chen A'li, her husband's surname is Chen, her maiden name is Li, and she is known by her common name as the wife of Dai Sin.

The bed beside him was empty, the charcoal fire had long been extinguished, and his tentacles were cold.

Chen Ali stood up suddenly.

"Danniang." She shouted, with a hint of panic in her voice.

When she was found guilty and had her house confiscated, some women in the clan hanged themselves because they couldn't bear the change. Although Dan Niang followed her quietly, she was still afraid. She was afraid that Dan Niang would also...

She looked up at the wall.

A bow hangs on the gray earth wall.

"Mother."

A crisp sound came from outside the door.

Someone leaned out of the door, bringing a chill.

Chen Danniang, who was wearing an old coarse cloth coat, had a smile on her face.

"It's snowing."

The sound of swishing quickly woke up people in other rooms in the large courtyard.

A family came out and watched Chen Ali and Chen Danniang clearing snow in the yard.

There was a thick layer of snow, and a layer of sweat broke out on the heads of the mother and daughter.

"Sister-in-law, let me do it," a man said. Just as he was about to take a step, he was grabbed by the woman beside him.

"The firewood at home hasn't been chopped yet." The woman said with an unhappy look on her face, "Go and chop the firewood quickly."

The man looked embarrassed.

"There's no rush now," he said.

The woman stared.

"For a moment's sin, we will have to chop wood for a lifetime." She said with resentment.

The man lowered his head and stopped talking.

People in the various rooms in the big yard came out, took a look, and then went their separate ways. No one came forward to help clear the snow.

Chen Ali and his daughter didn't seem to notice it, and they continued to sweep the snow seriously, not even missing the chicken coop in front of the door, in the yard, or in the corner.

"Danniang, take a rest when you are tired." Chen Ali said.

Chen Danniang shook her head, piled the snow under the tree, looked at it for a moment and thought of something, and ran away.

"Danniang?" Chen Ali called. "Don't play with the snow with your hands, you will freeze."

"It's okay." Chen Danniang said, rolling the snow into a ball.

"Sister Nineteen."

There was a shout outside the door.

Chen Ali turned around and saw a young man walking in quickly with a shovel in his hand.

"Jiushiro." She called with a slight smile.

Chen Shiliu Lang first saluted Chen Ali and then straightened the shovel in his hand.

"Aunt and sister, you guys have a rest and I'll clear the snow," he said.

Chen Ali was not polite and stood aside.

"Has your house been cleaned?" she asked, "Is your mother's illness getting better?"

Chen Shiliu Lang answered them one by one, and skillfully swept away the remaining snow in front of the door in the courtyard.

"Brother Sixteen, help me make a pile of snow." Chen Danniang shouted from the other side.

"Don't bother your brother, it's so cold." Chen Ali said hurriedly.

Chen Shiliu Lang had already passed by with a smile. He quickly helped Chen Danniang pile up a big afu in the yard. The brother and sister also found radish roots and branches to decorate it.

"It's so beautiful." Chen Danniang said with a smile and clapped her hands.

"Okay, come in quickly." Chen Shiliulang said with pain as he looked at her face and hands, which were red from the cold.

Chen Danniang smiled and nodded.

Someone walked by the courtyard gate and curled his lips when he saw the big fus piled up in the courtyard.

"It's so heartless to harm everyone like this and yet be so happy," she said.

A trace of anger flashed across Chen Shiliu Lang's face, and he was about to step forward to argue, but Chen Danniang stopped him.

"Brother, this is frostbite ointment." She said, giving something to Chen Shiliu Lang. "It's from Yichundang in Beijing."

Yichuntang's chilblain ointment is exclusively for the northwest military camps, and the price is extremely high. It is difficult to buy it even in the capital.

Chen Shiliu Lang was slightly surprised but then relieved.

"Someone brought it to me." Chen Danniang explained to him, but she didn't say who it was.

Chen Shiliulang didn't ask any questions and stuffed it back to Chen Danniang.

"Brother is not afraid of the cold, just take it and use it," he said.

"My cousins' hands will get cold if they wash their hands every day, so you can use them for your sisters," Chen Danniang said.

Chen Shiliu Lang did not refuse and saluted Chen Ali with a smile.

"Auntie, I'm going back first," he said.

Chen Ali nodded.

"Brother Shiliu, tell your grandfather that I will go to him to practice archery after dinner." Chen Danniang said.

Chen Shiliu Lang said hello and walked out with the shovel.

Because there were not many people in Tianleng Fort, but there were still a few who huddled up and walked out.

"It's really hard to go to the fields in this damn weather." They said, and stopped when they saw Chen Shiliu Lang, "Shiliu Lang, what do you care about them?"

"It's all them who caused us to be where we are today," said the more popular one.

Chen Shiliang looked at them.

"A clan is a clan that is prosperous when it prospers and loses when it suffers. If you don't complain when you are prosperous, what's the point of complaining when you lose?" he said.

Several people suddenly looked unhappy.

"Is it okay for him to have done harm to the clan? The Chen family's glory was not achieved by him alone, but it was destroyed in his hands."

"Because of this sinful body, the future of the children in the clan has been ruined. Should we still be grateful to him?"

"If nothing else, Juliusho, your marriage has been annulled. Your hands holding pens and books are now working in the fields with shovels, and all your books have been read in vain."

Everyone said bitterly.

Chen Shiliuang lowered his eyes.

"Studying is not for the imperial examination." He said, "How can it be said that studying is in vain."

As he spoke, he raised his head again.

"What's more, what my uncle does is my uncle's business. How can I resent my aunt and Dan Niang?"

"Forget it, we can't compare to your kindness and kindness at Sixteen." Those people waved their hands and said.

Chen Shiliu Lang took a step forward, walked over and then stopped.

"What's more, if my aunt and Dan Niang weren't here, why would we be here now?"

Chen Shao committed a serious crime of treason, which affected the three clans. They should be sent to Lingnan or northwest to be exiled to die, just like Gao Lingbo's family.

Although for the sake of the Queen Mother, the Gao family did not punish the three clans. They only punished the Gao Lingbo clan, but that clan could be said to have been completely destroyed.

The Chen family members were only confiscated of their property and sent to farmland, and the place of distribution was near Quzhou. Their wives and children were all together. They just moved out of their big houses, lost their shops and fertile fields, and took off their fine clothes and jade crowns.

But I can still have enough food and clothing in this farm. Compared with the situation where half of the people died on the way to distribution, it is a world of difference.

To put it this way, it was a great blessing among misfortunes. Several people were stunned for a moment. Could it be because of Chen Shao's wife and daughter?

Chen Shiliu Lang walked away without saying anything, lowering his head.

The yard in front of Chen Shiliulang's house has been swept. Mr. Chen is boxing in the yard.

"Your father went to the mountains to look at bamboos," he said.

Chen Shiliu Lang hurriedly responded and put down his shovel.

"I'll go right away," he said.

"Let's go after dinner." Mrs. Chen Si came out and said.

Several daughters came out to serve him food.

"Mom, this is the frostbite ointment given by Dan Niang." Chen Shiliu Lang said, handing the ointment to Mrs. Chen Si, while picking up a piece of cooking cake, "I will come back to replace my father."

Mrs. Chen Si shouted several times. Chen Shiliulang had already walked out quickly and had to give up.

"Where did you get the frostbite ointment?" she said, looking at the plaster in her hand.

"Mother, she is from Yichuntang." A daughter came forward to look at her and said with a happy look on her face, "Now my hands are no longer afraid of freezing."

The lady who once kept her fingers clean of spring water now has to wash her hands to make soup, sew and take off quilts. The hands that have been carefully cared for for more than ten years have become rough in just a few months. As the weather gets colder, they become red, swollen and cracked by the cold.

The words "Yichuntang" made Mrs. Chen Si startled. She gave the frostbite ointment to her daughters and walked to Mrs. Chen.

"Father, what do you think this means?" she asked in a low voice.

Although Yichuntang is said to be the property of the Cheng family in Jiangzhou, no one knows that it once belonged to the Queen.

The plaster, which is hard to buy, was delivered in time in winter. Without the Queen's permission, it would have been absolutely impossible.

"Good intentions." Old Mrs. Chen said, "She has always treated your third sister-in-law and Dan Niang like this."
To be continued...