The morning of the next day, Qingyan woke up very early. After she finished freshening up, she stood alone in the courtyard.
A night of snowing dyed the entire courtyard silver, making it appear like brilliant white snow covers.
Qingdai and Chishao had the habit of doing morning exercises. Even if it was in this cold winter, they still maintained their habit of doing morning exercises just like before. But as soon as they walked out of their room, they unexpectedly saw Qingyan wearing a large mink fur coat, holding a warm hand furnace, standing all alone in the snow.
"Miss, why did you wake up so early today?" Qingdai walked over to Qingyan's side and asked in surprised, "Could it be that you didn't sleep well last night again?"
Qingyan looked to Qingdai, shaking her head, "I just woke a bit early. Last night it snowed heavily, so I still slept quite well."
Chishao looked to Qingyan's appearance and spoke with a smile, "Miss, since you've woken up early, why don't you do morning exercises together with this servant for a bit? Besides, miss has a good foundation anyways."
"Alright!" Qingyan said as she placed the hand furnace to the side. "Yesterday, it snowed for an entire night. Let's have a snowball fight."
Yaochi, Yanmei, and Anying woke from the sounds coming from the courtyard. Only they knew how many countless days and nights it has already been since they've last slept so soundly like this.
In the five years Qilian Qingyan has passed away, they would often be awoken by nightmares, especially Yaochi. In Yaochi's dreams, he would dream of Qingyan crying out to him for help, asking him why he didn't come save her. She seems to have already become Yaochi's nightmare.
But last night, he slept unexpectedly well. In his dreams, Qilian Qingyan didn't appear asking him for help. Instead, he dreamt of many years ago, that scene when they first met. It was as if everything had come to a stop when he accepted Su Qingyan yesterday.
When Yaochi and the others pushed opened the door, they saw three figures in the courtyard having a snowball fight. Qingyan's movements were still as graceful as before.
He remembered many years ago, Qilian Qingyan also liked having snowball fights with those servant girls from her courtyard. But no matter what, she never would have thought that in the end, it was actually Yizhu that betrayed her.
Feeling a slight chill come through, he heard that laughter sounding, "Yaochi's also awake. Let's have a snowball fight togethers."
Yaochi looked to them and very quickly joined into the battle. Behind him, Yanmei and Anying also joined in.
The silvery laughter sounds in the courtyard lasted for a long time. All the way until the people from the front yard came to inform Qingyan it was time for breakfast, did they finally stop they're shenanigans.
When Qingyan turned around, she slipped and fell onto the snowy ground due to a moment of carelessness. Fortunately, the snow was very thick, and she didn't get hurt anywhere important. But Qingyan felt that lying in the snow like this wasn't bad either.
She still remembered many years ago, in the past, lying in the snow like this hand in hand with Weisheng Junmo. She wondered if that guy, Murong Jingxuan, would also be willing to lie in the snow with her or not.
"Miss, why are you lying in the snow? It's really cold." Zizhu said as she stretched her hand out to Qingyan, but Qingyan looked to her outstretched hand and reluctantly shook her head.
"Miss, if you don't get up now, the breakfast in the front yard will be all gone." Baizhi looked to Qingyan lying on the snowy ground and teasingly laughed. "There's miss's favorite osmanthus cake this morning."
Qingyan looked to them and curved her lips into a smile. Afterwards, she stood up and patted the snow off of her. "Baizhi, I remember Huangcen also prepared breakfast in Yingshuang yard. This morning, you all can just have your meal in Yingshuang yard."
"Miss, don't worry, this servant certainly won't mistreat herself." Baizhi said as she pushed Qingyan away, "Miss, take care."
"Baizhi, where do you see anyone treating Miss like you do." Zizhu said rolled her eyes at Baizhi. "Miss, although treats us well, we can't forget our own status."
Baizhi stuck her tongue at Zizhu, "Where have I? I'm just really worried about miss."
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