Lying on her back in Bai Anheng's arms, Xue Tuan'er closed her eyes, snorted and wagged her tail, and stopped barking, just so lazy, let its master wait for it to go back to the inner room.

In the distance, the pale yellow light fainted on the window lattice, and a gentle voice came from inside, teaching Brother Shun to learn the three-character scripture. The child's voice is a little slurred, often reciting the front and forgetting the back, and from time to time mixing two sentences, but the gentle voice will not be impatient, and still teach sentence by sentence.

Bai Anheng stood firmly by the window, the corners of his mouth curved, and after listening for a long time, he started to go in.

When Han Xiao heard the voice, he turned his head, and Brother Shun also saw Bai Anheng who walked in, and immediately shouted with open hands: "Father, hug." As he spoke, he staggered up from the kang and rushed straight at Bai Anheng's small meat legs.

Bai Anheng hurriedly took two steps forward, sent the snow ball in his hand to the kang, and took his son again.

Brother Shun giggled, and was lifted down by Bai Anheng. Han Xiao got up with a smile, and waited until Bai Anheng had hugged Brother Shun enough before taking the cloak and other things he took off.

The meals outside had been arranged, and the two of them had changed their clothes and walked out together.

"Their winter here comes earlier and colder than in Beijing, so I asked them to prepare things for the winter from now on, according to local customs."

Bai Anheng nodded: "I was busy these days, so I have to worry about you." ”

"This should have been the way it should be." Han Xiao smiled, "I heard that the Dexian side actually asked those Turks to leave abruptly with both hands this time?" ”

Bai Anheng's expression darkened, and he sighed lightly, and he didn't say anything for a long time. Seeing that he didn't say anything, Han Yu stopped asking, packed the food for him, and the two of them sat separately.

After dinner, when she returned to the inner room in the evening, when she was in one place on the bed, Bai Anheng's big hand gently touched her bulging belly, and Fang whispered to her: "Over there in Dexian...... In the autumn of this year, several adults strictly guarded it, but they were afraid that the Turks would not be able to endure it until the beginning of spring next year, and they would attack the border again. ”

Han Xiao looked up at him: "It is said that this time they will be suffocated, which makes people feel happy, but if they don't give them a grain of food, I'm afraid it will make them red-eyed, right?" ”

Bai Anheng nodded, looking at the faint candle flame outside the bed: "I'm afraid that a few adults are deliberate, only in this way, can they play a large formation......"

The eldest prince wants military merit, and the bigger the better, if according to previous years, as long as they grab enough things, they can at least stop until the beginning of spring next year, or later. But I just encountered a snow disaster in the first year, and I can't grab anything this year, and the rabbit is in a hurry and bites, let alone the wolf?

Han Yan's voice came slowly, with some worry in it: "We are so close to Dexian here, I'm just afraid of ......"

Bai Anheng nodded and patted her shoulder with his hand: "I have this matter, don't worry." "Even if they want to come in, it's not so easy to enter, if they really want to go around, it's just that they don't pay attention, but if they are careful, at least it won't cause a big disaster.

Hexian and Beijing, the things that go back and forth, seeing that it is about to reach the end of the year, the snow is flying, and the thick paving is on the ground, so that the car that sends things is often stuck on the road, and there are even more bad things in the middle of the road, and a delay is several days.

By the time the people on Zhuangzi arrived in Hexian, they had already reached the end of the year.

“…… Once you come and go so far, if you know that there is such a heavy snow on the road, you will not be asked to send things over, and you will just be converted into cash. ”

"Madame, where are these words? Without these things, it is not good to live a year, and some things have nowhere to buy them when they take the silver to the bottom of the year. It's just that I didn't expect that it snowed so hard last year and it will fall again this year. ”

"You have worked the road, this time I'm afraid that it will be delayed for many years, why don't you spend the New Year here in Hexian?"

The woman below smiled and said, "The old in the family, the little one, the lady is merciful and feels sorry for us, but we are not easy to overcome." When I came, there were a lot of things, and I walked slowly, and when I went back, I didn't have so many burdens, and I walked faster. ”

Han Xiao also laughed: "I can't delay your reunion, come here, bring the clothes and materials prepared before, and bring the rewards." ”

With a generous reward, the people who sent things from Zhuangzi hurried away again. As they said, if they don't come, I'm afraid that Lord Bai won't have a good time in the first year of Hexian. Han Yu only bought a little bit of land with Bai Anheng at the beginning, and all he planted was just chili peppers and other things, nothing else. During the Chinese New Year, chickens, ducks and fish are the same, and there is no hurry to buy them, so you can only count on the harvest in Zhuangzi.

"This year, the snow is a little too big." Xia He sent someone back, the shoes on her feet, the socks inside, and even the trouser legs were all wet, and she was still walking on the road she swept, and they were all wet like this!

"I heard that they were like this here in the first year, but we were in Beijing at that time, not as big as here, right?" Han Xiao looked out through the window, since the snow, Brother Shun always struggled to go out to play in the snow, Han Xiao was afraid that he would freeze, so he was only allowed to go out of the city to play for a quarter of an hour a day, and then he wanted to see the snow, so he only asked the maids to go out of the city to carry a bucket back to the house for him to play.

Xue Tuan'er no longer goes out of the house since the snow, and he can't go down on the kang every day, except for eating and sleeping.

It was snowing again, and it was fluttering, and it didn't take long for it to turn a person into a snowman.

"Tell them to be careful, I heard that the first year really overwhelmed a lot of houses, and many livestock froze to death, we spent the winter here in the first year, but be careful." Fortunately, when I first came, I checked the front and back of the house, and the places that should be repaired have been repaired, and the places that should be repaired have been repaired, as long as I am careful when it snows.

"Yes." The maids and ladies hurriedly responded and got busy.

Although the New Year's goods arrived a lot late, in the end, it was the first time to stand on their own for the New Year, and everyone was happy in their hearts, and the window flowers that should be posted on the yard and all the houses were also pasted. I was afraid that things would not be sent over in a hurry, so I also bought some locally in advance, and I have to say that Han Xiao has some savings, otherwise just counting on Bai Anheng's money, this year is really not very good.

The things sent were all transported to the kitchen, and those who should be cleaned up were put into the cellar, and the women were busy packing up the things for the New Year. Ahead, the men have their own things that the men are busy with.

"Three more fights over there in Dexian?"

"Isn't it? I heard that those Turks were red-eyed, only this time they were not lucky a few times, only said that they had their own casualties, especially this sudden snowfall, the defenders really suffered a little loss. ”

Bai Anheng sighed lightly: "Even if you suffer a loss, it is also good news." "Isn't it? As long as they can cut off some heads, catch some prisoners, and gather enough ten people, they can be regarded as small victories by exaggerated exaggerations.

Fang Delong smiled "hehe": "This is also the norm." ”

Bai Anheng shook his head helplessly, such a common practice...... It's the same as those in officialdom. "I'm afraid that those Turks will jump over the wall in a hurry during the Chinese New Year this year. We're close here, so be very careful. ”

Fang Delong hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "Don't worry, my lord, it's naturally so." ”

As he spoke, he said carefully: "The intersection with Dexian County has sent good personnel, this matter is not trivial, our local commander and defenders will be careful." Another one, on the other side of the snow sea and mountains - now that it has snowed, the roads in the mountains are blocked, even the Turks can't climb the mountains, and they are only afraid of the next year - I am afraid that we will have a tough battle in the spring of next year. It has nothing to do with us. ”

"I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm just afraid of what happens." Bai Anheng nodded, and asked a few other people, "The corn harvest that the emperor ordered people to plant this year is good, the emperor is very happy, and the whole county will be sown in the spring of next year, and the seeds have all been screened?" ”

Zheng Lian, who is in charge of ordinary things, said with a smile: "In this year's harvest, all the seeds that can be left have been told to be left, and the rest are sent from Beijing, which is enough, and they can be sown just by waiting for the soil to be broken next year." ”

"That's fine, but that line is too thick."

"That's better than tree bark and grass roots, isn't it?" Hao Ke said with a smile, "And there are those practices that I brought with me, after this corn is grinded, it is golden and festive, I heard that after those people take it and steam it out, they all say that it looks like gold, and it is not good to love." ”

"It's even better, Uchiko also asked people to dry these things and grind them into noodles, saying that they were added to the New Year's dinner during the New Year, which is also the harvest of our hard year, and we have to taste it."

Corn is a thing that is ground four or five times, and the face is finer, but it only has a little bit of fine face. People who are not used to eating the gluttony made like this still feel that they are slashing people's throats.

Big families take it to adjust it, and if you really eat it every day, you can't stand it. Fortunately, this is better than eating bran vegetables, this year's three towns and villages a bumper harvest, the east and west four townships scattered, tasted the taste, the villagers are willing to plant - and do not occupy the place of serious fields, planting and easy to feed, the harvest is similar to other dealers.

Hexian is mostly those useless barren land, what are you doing with it? Plant some of this, and you can get through it in case of a natural disaster!

Ice lanterns, ice flowers, ice men, ice cities.

There is crystal white snow everywhere, and the county is decorated like a glass palace.

After a family of three changed their clothes, they learned from the locals and took all the people to the streets.

Han Xiao still had a big belly, so he only looked at the street at the door and went back. But Brother Shun saw these fresh scenery for the first time, riding on Bai Anheng's neck, his eyes were wide, and the whole little person was wrapped like a ball, looking left and right along the way.

Since the autumn harvest, in addition to the preparation of New Year's goods by each family, the rest are purely waiting for the New Year. For example, a county master like Bai Anheng still has something to do, but ordinary people have a lot of free time. Seeing that the New Year was coming, they started to make ice decorations from each family. From pavilions and pavilions to small ice lanterns and beasts, they are either placed in the courtyards of each house to play with themselves, or simply put on the street.