Chapter 152

It's snowing.

Hopland in the South ushered in a rare light snow, in this warm coastal city, snow is really a novelty.

White snowflakes are falling slowly from the sky and falling in the courtyard. The air has become colder than ever. Some children are happily playing in the snow, throwing snowballs and making snowmen in their cotton padded jackets. This is almost the first time in their lives for them to grow up by the sea, so they are very excited.

The big glass windows covered with thin frost separate the cold outdoor from the warm indoor. The fire in the fireplace burns quietly. The sound of ticking comes from the mahogany bronze pendulum clock against the wall.

Meru sat quietly on the sofa beside the fireplace. The armrest on her left side was heated by the fire. It felt very warm. She was covered with a blanket. The blanket was made of wool. It looked old, and there were small hair balls in some places.

Normally, the eldest lady of the Hollis family and the current owner of the family can't afford a good blanket, but this one has a special meaning for her.

As a child, although she was quite good, she was also fond of playing. When she was about 8 years old, Hopland also had a snowfall, which was bigger than this one. She played in the snow with fengnai and other girls of the same age, and tried to make all kinds of things with snowflakes, such as little people, kittens, dogs, etc.

But because of their inexperience, they are not as good and ugly as ever. A few boys, adley and wick, laugh at them. The wind is so angry that they pick up the snowball and smash it. This is good. The boys and girls in the snow fight with each other and throw snowballs back and forth.

While fighting and running, the small animals that had been piled up were trampled off by others. At that time, she was so angry that she cried and her heart was full of grievances. The wind was comforting her, but she still kept on. Later, fengnai went to find elder brother Fenton. At that time, Fenton was almost an adult. He was the oldest one in their generation and had great prestige.

He soon brought 9-year-old adley and wicker and asked them to apologize to him. Although adley was naughty at that time, he did not dare to listen to elder brother Fenton, so he had to apologize to her reluctantly. Then she stopped crying.

Later, brother Fenton found several shovels to shovel the snow together, which was much faster than they used their hands. Then he asked adley and other boys to help make snow. At first, they didn't want to play house games with girls. But heaped heaped also interested, wick suggested that we build a castle together, which has been approved by many children.

So more than a dozen children built a castle together in the snow. Brother Fenton watched, and sometimes went to find some tools to help flatten the snow into big squares. He also gave them some small boards to make the snow into angular shapes, which made them more interested.

All day long, they didn't even want to eat lunch. What they were thinking about was how to build a beautiful castle. More than a dozen children are running around in the snow, constantly gathering the snow in the middle. They first roughly piled up a hill, and then Fenton helped them plan the general shape, such as the wall, the main body of the castle, the tower, and so on. Then one person was responsible for a small part, and began to take action.

Adley wants to build the highest fortress in the castle, fengnai wants to build a high tower, and wick wants to build the main body of the castle. Because some of their families are the best, they are usually the leaders, and other children can't earn enough, so they have to choose first. Brother Fenton saw that she didn't choose, so he ran over and asked curiously if he was too shy to say.

In fact, she didn't know what to choose at that time, so she had to say that I would build the city wall with other children, which was relatively simple. In this way, fengnai waited for 5-6 children to build the main body of the castle in the middle, and the other 8-9 children to build the wall outside.

In the afternoon, the castle was piled up. During that time, brother Fenton watched it several times, and it was finally completed after several modifications.

The walls of the white ice castle are a little twisted and uneven. The main body of the castle in the middle is not very symmetrical. If the tower is tall, it's a little thick. It doesn't look beautiful. But on the whole, it's a castle.

Although it was not perfect, everyone was still very happy, and then began to allocate where they would live in the castle in the future.

Adley was the first to speak. He said he would live in the middle of the castle, in the fortress circle, because that was where the king lived. Then there was fengnai. She said she wanted to live in the tower and be like the princess. Wick looked at it and said that he would live in the middle of the castle. He wanted to be a general. Then other children also said what they thought, where they lived and who they wanted to be, including ministers, heroes, Queens, bishops, poets and so on.

At last, Fenton asked her where she wanted to live. She thought about it and replied that she wanted to live with her family. It would be nice for everyone to be happy together. With that, adley laughed and said that the wish was too boring. What could I think of. Seeing that she had a tendency to cry again, elder brother Fenton told adley not to judge other people's dreams, which made her feel better.

After playing in the snow all day, she was weak at that time. When she came back, she caught a cold, had a headache, had a fever, and curled up in bed all day. Her father specially asked the priest of the church to perform a healing spell for herself every day. She was a little better, but she was still a little depressed. Sleep in bed, sleep more, but some uncomfortable.

Aunt leaguer, the maid in chief, saw that she was in a bad mood all day. She was talking with her by her bed, and she was knitting a blanket.

At that time, she would lie on the bed and listen to Aunt lig tell some past things, such as the scene of LIGA's life in the mountain village when she was young, the wild boar, Warcraft and fox in the mountain, and the story of aunt lig's childhood and her brothers and sisters, what they would play with, etc. all of these made Meru listen with relish, and it was not so boring to lie on the bed.

The cold lasted for a week or two, during which fengnai also looked for it several times, but they were afraid of infecting her. The parents of both sides didn't let them meet each other. They just left some gifts, not only for fengnai, but also for other children. Even adley and wick asked fengnai to bring her a beautiful small dagger.

When the cold is over, aunt lig's knitting blanket is finished. Let Meru wear it when she is cold. Be careful not to catch cold again.

Time goes by slowly. The blanket that used to cover the whole body is only suitable to be draped on the shoulders now. The blanket weavers are no longer there, and the children who play together are also running their own ways, disappearing in life, and some will never see them again.

The fire is burning quietly. The past time seems to emerge in the fire. Meru is immersed in the memory. Her face sometimes smiles and sometimes sad. When the blanket on her shoulder falls, she wakes up, pulls on the blanket again, and then fiddles with the firewood in the fireplace to make it burn again.

Mei Lu looked at the orange red flame. There was no longer any worry and uneasiness in her eyes. A calm and peaceful light reflected in it.

Even if the past is no longer, and the familiar people are gone one by one, she will continue to move forward, just as she dreamed when she was a child, she will make the Hollis family a warm family again.