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It snowed for three days and three nights, and it was not until the early morning of the fourth day that half of the sun's face was revealed in the eastern sky. The mountains www.biquge.info have been completely covered by the blizzard, the wild beasts have long been hiding from the cold, and even the birds in the trees, because it is difficult to find food, have also squatted in the tree holes, and the whole forest is silent.

Because the heavy snow has blocked the communication between the village and the town, and the New Year is only a week away, the villagers lack daily necessities and New Year's goods, so they cannot go to the market to buy, only have food on hand, and if they save some food, they can only last for a month or two.

For this matter, the village chief specially summoned all the villagers to his home and held a small survival meeting. Roughly speaking, on the one hand, each household has to send a laborer to clear a road that leads to the outside of the mountain; In addition to leaving enough food for a month, the rest of the surplus food must be gathered together to provide food for the laborers who clear the snow.

The village is small, with only a dozen families and less than forty people at the foot of the mountain. The men usually grow corn and potatoes in the fields reclaimed on the hillside, and in the winter when they are not working, they all go to the town to do odd jobs, and exchange the coolie money from Weibo for rice, cloth, and oil and salt candles for the usual household.

Fortunately, it was close to the New Year, and all the men who went out to work returned to the village, and dozens of people in the village usually got along like a family, and knew that the food provided for the labor force of Qingxue was so that the whole village could be connected to the outside world as soon as possible, and there were no traitors, so they sent the best labor force in the family, took out most of the food, and prepared to work hard after the New Year.

Because Cao Haiyan's house is small, Ling Yang has already lived in Brother Li's house in the backyard. Every night, when Chu Wanyi was asleep, Ling Yang would quietly sneak into the small bedroom and use the power of his abilities to comb Chu Wanyi's body, so Chu Wanyi's injuries recovered quickly.

Under the careful care of Ling Yang and Cao Haiyan, Chu Wanyi was already able to move freely, helping the women in the village to pickle kimchi, going to the woods on the hillside to collect firewood, and doing some farm work within her ability, so as not to eat idle meals all day and have nothing to do.

This time, the village discussed the important event of snow clearing, and Ling Yang and Chu Wanyi also participated. Seeing that everyone took out the food at home, Chu Wanyi also took out the only bit of money on her body, and the jade pendant she wore around her neck, and handed them over to the village chief.

The village chief is a kind and kind old man, with a thin body, because of the hard work all year round, the hunchback is very strong, seeing the pendant donated by Chu Wanyi, it seems to be worth a lot of money, and hesitated: "You are a guest in the whole village, so you don't need to ......."

Chu Wanyi smiled and said, "For so many days, thanks to everyone's care, I and ...... He and I have a place to stay. Otherwise, the two of us might have frozen to death in this barren mountain and wilderness. The people in the village saved our two lives, what is such a small thing outside of our bodies? ”

Seeing that Chu Wanyi's attitude was very resolute, the village chief had to reluctantly accept the money and pendant, and was thanking him endlessly, Ling Yang suddenly proposed: "Since clearing the snow on the road is a long-term job, and the New Year is coming soon, there is not even fish and rice cakes in the village, why don't we organize a hunting team and go to the mountains to hunt some game, and have a good New Year by eating a lot of meat!" ”

The village chief paused for crutches: "Guest, you don't know the situation on the mountains near us. At this time of the year, the wild animals grazing in the mountains all run to the border line on the other side of the mountains, and the only things left in the mountains are black bears, lynxes and wolves. ”

Ling Yang said with a smile: "I don't think it's as good as this, our family is a famous hunting family in China, our ancestors have been hunting in the mountains for generations, and it has been passed on to my generation, and the skill of fiddling with the bow and medicine fork has also learned a seven, seven, eighty, eight." Even if you don't have a handy of the guys, you can deal with fierce beasts with a wood knife and a shovel, so leave the hunting to me, so you don't have to worry about it, just wait at home to eat meat! ”

Everyone thought that Ling Yang was joking, but they didn't take it to heart, symbolically comforted a few words, and discussed the matter of Qingxue again, and then dispersed one after another.

Before going out, the village chief suddenly stopped Ling Yang, entered the livestock shed connected to the inner house, grabbed an old hen, twisted her wings, and stuffed it into Ling Yang's hand: "There is almost no meat in the village, and your daughter-in-law's health is not very good, this old hen has been raised for two years, and she doesn't lay eggs much anyway, so just let Haiyan boil some chicken soup for your daughter-in-law, and nourish her well." ”

Ling Yang and Chu Wanyi pushed back again and again, but the old village chief had already made up his mind, so Ling Yang had no choice but to take the old hen away, and pulled Chu Wanyi, who looked apologetic, back to Cao Haiyan's house.

In the cauldron of Cao Haiyan's house, chicken soup is boiling with snow water, and the aroma lingers all over the house. Ling Yang felt uncomfortable when he saw it, and with long bamboo chopsticks, he picked out two chicken legs from the pot, put them on a plate to cool, and instructed the beans and leaves: "Wait until it's cold before eating, one per person, no one will eat more!" After speaking, he also clicked on the tips of the noses of the two little guys.

The chicken thighs were a little colder, so the beans eagerly picked one up, stuffed it in their mouths and chewed it. Ling Yang's heart was churning and uncomfortable, thinking that the life of these two children was too hard.

Ye Zi is Douzi's sister, after all, she is two years older than her younger brother, smelled the aroma of the chicken leg in her hand, and did not eat it immediately like her younger brother, but tore off a large piece of meat from the chicken leg and fed her brother to eat it bite by bite: "The remaining half should be kept for Grandma, you are not allowed to eat it secretly." ”

Beanzi kicked his black bean-like eyes, nodded desperately, stuffed his mouth with fragrant chicken, and danced with his hands. At this time, Cao Haiyan came back from the backyard of Brother Li's house to help, holding a frozen cabbage in his hand, and when he saw the chicken bone in Douzi's hand, he hurriedly scolded: "This chicken was given to Aunt Chu by the village chief's grandfather, who let you eat it, why are you so disobedient!" ”

Cao Haiyan rushed up, picked up the beans, and slapped the beans on the buttocks twice.

Douzi seems to be usually naughty, so he doesn't think about it at all, but giggles: "Grandma, the chicken is delicious, give it!" ”

It turned out that Douzi didn't eat all his chicken legs, but just bit off a large piece of meat, hid it in his dirty jacket pocket, and handed it to his mother: "Grandma, this is what I left for you, eat it!" ”

Cao Haiyan's nose was sour, and he couldn't help crying, and suddenly heard a burst of sobbing, and when he looked back, Chu Wanyi was leaning against the door at some point, and she was already in tears.