Since Tian Xiuyun went to the town to deliver food for Tian's father that time, the Tian family started the life of a cat winter again, and Tian Xiuyun was the only one in the family who had to go up the mountain to chop wood every day when the thunder could not move.

The neighbors on the four sides sometimes go to the Tian family to talk about this matter, but the Tian family has always been in the left ear and the right ear is out, and they don't care at all how dangerous it is for a little girl to go up the mountain to chop firewood in this weather.

It wasn't until after entering the wax moon that the heavy snow in the mountain village had begun to close the road, and Grandma Tian didn't say that Tian Xiuyun needed to continue to go to the mountains to carry firewood back, and the firewood at home could basically be used until the beginning of spring.

Occasionally, when the weather outside is clear, it is also a cold north wind, and if you don't wear thick enough to go out, you may not be able to freeze in the snow. Therefore, every household in the village also prepared the materials for the winter and New Year in advance. Otherwise, once the heavy snow really blocks the road, you will have to rely on your legs to get to the town or the city.

However, at this time, the village will often organize people to clear the roads in the village, as well as the paths leading to other villages around it, to a certain extent, to ensure that their own villages are not completely isolated from the world.

For the snow clearing task organized by the village, the village requires that except for the educated youth at the educated youth point and the reformed prisoners from the cowshed, only one person from each other household needs to be dispatched. So Tian Xiuyun, who had just been liberated from the task of chopping wood, was asked to participate in snow clearing, and everyone in the Tian family just praised it, Tian Xiuyun ran outside all winter, and she must be more adapted to the outside climate than others.

Hearing the excuses made by these people, Tian Xiuyun was noncommittal, but she didn't intend to resist. Rather than staying at home and staring at her two sisters all day long, and preventing Tian Xiuru and Tian Xiufang from framing from time to time, Tian Xiuyun said that she would rather go out for activities, at least it is easier to be outside than to get along with her family.

"Xiuyun, come over here, let's go together. Tian Xiuyun was holding a shovel, and as soon as she arrived at the snow-clearing assembly point, she heard Han Yingxue from the Zhiqing Point calling her loudly.

"It's coming. Tian Xiuyun unconsciously quickened her pace and walked towards Han Yingxue.

Speaking of the acquaintance between the two, it is also quite dramatic, Han Yingxue is a female intellectual, who is 20 years old this year, and has only been in the mountain village for less than three years.

Compared with other educated youths who have been delegated for five or six years or even longer, Han Yingxue is a very new newcomer. In addition, she looks like a standard beautiful woman, so she is even more disliked by other female intellectuals, and although male intellectuals don't hate Han Yingxue, after all, there is a difference between men and women, so Han Yingxue is basically a loner in the intellectuals.

In this collective snow clearing task, Han Yingxue is still alone, and Tian Xiuyun, who is in a similar situation to Han Yingxue, has always rarely communicated with people in the village, in the eyes of the villagers, Tian Xiuyun has a somewhat eccentric personality and does not like to contact people very much, and the two of them were arranged to clean the most remote village road.

And because she is used to doing rough work, Tian Xiuyun took the initiative to pick the most difficult place, and the idea of fighting was not to have any entanglement with these educated youths.

In this way, two girls with very different personalities, but they both belong to the two girls who are alone, and they are assigned to work together, Tian Xiuyun's subconscious choice pulled Han Yingxue to her side.

Han Yingxue has become unpopular since she came to the backer village, to be precise, she should not be treated by the female intellectuals and other girls of the same age in the village, and men of the same age rarely have contact with her in order to avoid suspicion. Unexpectedly, in this year's snow-clearing task, I met a little girl who took the initiative to choose heavy work and let herself do relatively easy work.

At that moment, Han Yingxue had a very good image of Tian Xiuyun, and in the next daily snow clearing work, she gradually got to know each other, and she was even more attracted by each other's personality and temperament.

And Tian Xiuyun has never been a person who wants to refuse other people's overtures, after all, people are social animals, and she doesn't want to be a lone ranger herself, plus Han Yingxue's personality is indeed good, cheerful and generous, the two naturally became friends.

"Let's continue to clean up the west end of the village today, yesterday the captain said that we should ensure that the road is not blocked before the end of the year. Han Yingxue also held a shovel in her hand and said happily.

"Well, the road has been almost cleared, and in the future, you just need to clean it in time after the snow to ensure that it is basically unblocked. Tian Xiuyun nodded, there are several country roads in the mountain village, although the path she was assigned to is far away from the village, but the road is not long, and the two girls are not very tired to clean.

"Let's go, let's go over quickly, clean up early, and we can also go to Grandpa Hua and them while we have time." Han Yingxue dragged Tian Xiuyun's hand and ran to the west of the village, since she met Tian Xiuyun, Han Yingxue would follow Tian Xiuyun to the house to find the three old men as long as she had time, and they were more familiar with each other.

The two of them trotted away with the captain, but fortunately there was not much snow in the past few days, and the two of them came out to clean up every day, so at a glance, there was not much snow on the road west of the village.

When they arrived at the road west of the village, the two of them didn't talk much, and they just buried their heads in the work, starting to get tired a little, and they could be more relaxed later.

This time, the snow clearing task is assigned at one time, and until the day when it does not snow, the assigned team member is responsible for cleaning. Of course, in addition to snow removal from the road, there is also snow treatment on the roofs of public houses and villagers' houses.

If the snow is not cleared in time, some of them are in disrepair all year round, and the houses that are older cannot withstand the winter blizzards at all, and may collapse at any time.

The two were busy all morning before they completed the day's tasks ahead of schedule, and Han Yingxue was so tired that she was panting, "Great, so that the afternoon can be relaxed." ”

Tian Xiuyun also stopped what she was doing, roughly estimated the remaining snow, and knew that the two of them could easily handle it in the next few days, so she didn't do more. Besides, in the eyes of outsiders, doing these jobs at her current age is considered the limit, so she doesn't plan to do it, anyway, the two of them walk together every day, and they won't be bored.

"Let's go to Grandpa Hua and sit with them first. Tian Xiuyun lifted the shovel and greeted Han Yingxue, who was still bending over and panting.

"Wait for me. Han Yingxue didn't care about resting, so she hurriedly picked up the shovel and followed.

In the house here, the three old men were wearing new cotton clothes that Tian Xiuyun had not been making for a long time, and they were sitting in the room to roast the fire.

As soon as Han Yingxue entered the door, she sat on the stool without any image, "I'm tired to death." ”

"Yun Yatou and Yingxue are here. Old man Hua smiled and beckoned Tian Xiuyun to come over to roast the fire, although he was also familiar with Han Yingxue during this time, but the three old men usually only called Tian Xiuyun a little more intimately, and others would call their names directly whether they were familiar or not.

"Well, I've finished everything for today in the morning, come and rest for a while, and I'll come back in the afternoon. Tian Xiuyun followed Old Man Hua's hand and sat on the kang.

"In a few days, you will be able to complete all the texts in primary school, and after the end of the year, we will directly learn the knowledge of junior high school. Old Man Li said, he didn't expect Tian Xiuyun to learn so quickly.

Tian Xiuyun was overjoyed in her heart, and she was also very grateful to the two old men Qian and Li for teaching her attentively, and she also had the previous miscellaneous foundation, so the knowledge of five years of primary school would not be learned so quickly.