Before the cold weather, Wang Yuanshan went to Qingfeng Town to catch up with the market and sold a few prey, and also sowed some grain, a year down, also saved more than nine taels of silver, and paid off the debts of eight and a half taels, only one or two are not there, and calculated it, from Wang's sick in bed, Huzi has not had a good Spring Festival for several years, Jinwen is also the first time to celebrate the New Year at home, eat a little to save a spring anyway, and sow seeds again, before the wax moon, you can also eat a grain, so I bought two pieces of fabric, I originally thought of buying a new clothes for Huzi and Jinwen in the garment store, but a new dress is less to say four or five hundred Wen, a piece of clothing is less than 300 yuan, Wang Yuanshan had to buy two pieces of clothing, thinking that he would ask a daughter-in-law in the village to make it at that time. Take it home and show the fabric to the two children, both of them are very happy, Jinwen said that there is no need to ask others to do it, if Dad and Brother Huzi don't dislike it, let her practice it, and the Wang family father and son naturally have no objections.

Holding two pieces of new fabric, Jinwen secretly asked Osmanthus Daddy to go to the cloth shop in the town to replace his piece of pink fabric with dark blue, which was known by Wang Yuanshan, and he couldn't bear to let the child's mind be disappointed, so he gritted his teeth and bought himself a piece of cloth, and turned back and gave the two pieces of fabric to Jinwen together.

"Girl's house, it looks good in this color, I looked at Ah Tao and her mother, so I picked this color of clothing for Ah Tao."

"Dad, Ah Tao is as fat as a bucket, how can you buy clothes of the same color as her for Ah Wen?"

"You rabbit cub, what are you talking nonsense, beware of Brother Tao beating you."

"I'm not afraid of him, he can't beat me."

Jinwen listened to the words of the father and son, smiling eyebrows and eyes, although it was winter, but felt warm all over the body, she made this clothing into a skirt, with a small half-length cloak made of gray rabbit fur, on the first day, Wang Rui looked good in a row, but it was still in the filial piety period, and it was put away after wearing it once.

Jinwen hurried and hurried, and finally when it was completely cold in November, she made two cotton clothes and two wool vests, she picked two pieces of fabric, when making cotton clothes, she used the old clothes to make the lining inside, evenly wlotted cotton, and the outside of the clothes was made of newly bought fabrics. The back and placket are made of rabbit fur, although it is not good-looking, but it is better to be strong and warm, Huzi got it and put on the upper body happily, must cover an old clothes, for fear of scratching somewhere, and want to take it off when he wants to hold firewood, Jinwen is afraid that he will catch a cold, and he is not allowed to take it off.

In the winter days, the flowing water is general, and it is the wax moon in a flash, the north wind is blowing, and it has snowed for several days, and I only see a white expanse when I open the door, standing in the house, I can hear the rattling sound of the heavy snow on the mountain crushing the trees, and Jinwen was startled when I heard it for the first time at night.

After a few days of heavy snowfall, it finally cleared. Huzi happily pulled her to catch pheasants.

"It's snowy on the mountain, it's hard to walk, it's too slippery."

"You don't have to go up the mountain, just follow me, it's fun to catch pheasants, you can see it."

I couldn't hold back my curiosity, Jinwen followed Huzi to the mountain, Huzi took eggs in several pheasant nests on the mountain, and naturally knew which side of the ridge near the mountain was easy to catch, and pulled Jinwen to the foot of the mountain, there were grass seeds in the field at the foot of the mountain, so many days of heavy snow, the pheasant could not find food on the mountain, and he would go down the mountain to the field to pick up food when he was hungry.

"Arwen, do you see that? The black dot that moves in the field? ”

"Where? Where? ”

"At the foot of the mountain, there are three black dots, do you see them?" Huzi rushed forward excitedly, "Let's catch all three of them and keep one for the New Year." As he spoke, he was about to rush forward.

"Hey~~~ What should I do if I'm scared away? Let's quietly get closer. ”

"It's okay, it's the most fun to catch pheasants in winter, you slow down, let's go this way, and you'll see it later, the pheasants in winter are the stupidest, you can catch them."

"I can't catch it, it's fast."

Wang Rui didn't care, he pulled Jinwen and ran forward, originally men and women were seven years old at different tables, not to mention holding hands, but for a while, the two of them didn't care about it, they were busy staring at the chickens, which meant a pot of chicken soup.

After walking forward for a while, Wang Rui let go of Jinwen's hand, rushed forward a few steps, and let out a scolding cry in his mouth, the pheasant suddenly saw that someone rushed out, and went directly into the snowdrift at the foot of the mountain. ”

Jinwen walked over, pulled the chicken feathers, the chicken drilled into the snow a little harder, she couldn't help but pounce with both hands, actually really caught it, that is, after catching the pheasant struggled, flapping its wings, Wang Rui saw that she couldn't catch it, and quickly reached out to help, grabbed a piece of straw rope from his arms, and tied the chicken wings, the chicken was honest, and caught the other two chickens.

"Why don't they run?"

"You don't know, pheasants are like this in winter, they hide in the snow when they see people coming, just remember to hide their heads, and the chicken's tail will be exposed, and the pheasant will hide its head but not its tail."

"Haha, it's so stupid!"

Looking at the clumsy state of a few chickens, Jinwen couldn't help laughing, the two grabbed the chickens, and returned home with a deep foot and a shallow foot, after the freshness went down, he felt that his feet were frozen and cold, Jinwen hurried to the charcoal basin in the house to make a fire, the two sat on the side of the charcoal basin and roasted the fire, Huzi grabbed a ball of snow and came in, and rubbed it into a snowball for her: "Oh, wipe your hands with snowballs, and your hands will be warm after a while." ”

"It's so ice." Jin Wen cried out for cold while rubbing, and it didn't take long for the snow to melt and his hands and feet to slowly warm up.

Wang Rui directly took a few very small taro, took a wooden stick and dug a hole in the middle of the charcoal pot, put the taro in it, and covered the charcoal fire again, blew it a few times, and blew the charcoal fire red.

"Can you still bake something to eat in a charcoal basin? Can it be cooked? ”

"Don't worry, it'll be baked in a while, but it's fragrant, haven't you eaten it before?"

"I used to eat at home, and during the winter, the family would burn the earth dragon, and my brother and I would put on our boots and build a snowman. One year we used red dates as eyes, and my brother took ink and drew a big mouth directly on the snowman's face, and stole my mother's shawl bag, because it was piled up under the tree in the garden, and when the wind blew at night, the shawl was made of yarn, very soft, and the wind blew and floated up, and the mother-in-law who patrolled the night at night was startled, screaming that there were ghosts and ghosts, and I heard that the call was miserable. Later, my mother found out about the shawl and wanted to punish me, and my father pleaded directly on the side...... "I thought of that time, it seemed to be yesterday, but I didn't expect it to be only two years, but I was left alone, my father and mother were gone, my brother didn't know where he was, he was just a fourteen-year-old boy, would there be anything outside?"

"When I was naughty when I was a child, it was my mother who helped me intercede, and my father was in pain when he fought." Wang Rui also remembered the years when his mother was there, although Wang was sick in bed when Wang Rui was six or seven years old, as long as his health was slightly better, he was always busy with this and that, "During the Spring Festival of the year my mother died, she spread cakes for us to eat, and put a lot of green onions on it, which was very fragrant." Oops, it's mushy, hurry up and take it out. Wang Rui sniffed, smelled a burning smell, and shouted again and again to take a wooden stick to pull.

Jin Wen was in a hurry to watch from the side, and couldn't help but blow and blew away, wanting to blow the ashes away, but the blow all fell on Wang Rui's face.

"Oh, Arwen, what are you blowing? Stop blowing, don't blow it. ”

"Haha, Brother Huzi, you have become a big black face, haha."

Wang Yuanshan came back from outside and saw two people laughing and picking taro, Wang Rui pushed the taro from the charcoal basin to the ground, and kept fiddling with the heat, "You caught the pheasant in the yard?" ”

"Dad, you're back, that's what I took Arwen to catch."

"It's cold, Arwen, you have to wear more clothes when you go out. Huzi, go back and mix some rice bran to raise the two small ones first, and then kill them during the New Year, and I will pick up the big ones and eat them at night. ”

"Okay."

Hearing about raising chickens, Jin Wen's heart moved, there are several families in the village that raise chickens, they can sell their own eggs and eat them, and they can sell them for money when they hatch chickens, the yard at home is large, and there is still a vacant space in the west of the courtyard.

"It's okay to raise chickens, in the past, I went into the mountains with your brother Huzi to hunt and couldn't take care of the family, but now you are at home, you can raise a few."

"Why don't you raise these two pheasants?"

"Hehe, I haven't raised chickens in the end, you don't know, if this pheasant is not locked up, it will fly away, and it will be good to buy a few Luhua chickens in the spring."

Jin Wen smiled, how did she know what Luhua chicken was and what was Chai chicken.

"By the way, when the spring is busy with spring sowing, I estimate that I will be able to save some money in June and July, and then go to Yunzhou to have a look, in case I can find your brother or your uncle, you will not stay in this village for long."

"If you can really find them, Dad, you and Brother Huzi will go with me and my brother."

"Hehe, my father went outside to see it when he was young, and then the family had a large family to support, and he was not at ease when he was far away, and his mind about breaking outside was also light, and he was still at home in this life." Seeing Jinwen and saying, he shook his hand, "You must have a heart when you arrive, don't think your father is poor here, so you will come back to play from time to time." ”

"Where to play? Who's coming? Wang Rui put the two chickens in the cage and ran in cold.

"Brother Huzi, come and dry your hands."

In the evening, Jinwen cooked chicken soup, and soaked the dried vegetables he made to make a dried vegetable stew with taro, and the family was very satisfied.

The money at home is tight, and this month and year are naturally simple, but Jinwen and Huzi are both tall in winter, because they found that the sleeves of their clothes were shortened in the spring.