Ma Xiaosan couldn't understand fox language, so naturally he couldn't quarrel with the little white fox.

After a moment of silence, they went to sleep.

There is a bonfire for warmth, and it is not very cold in the cave, just like the prophecy to Xiao Er, it snows heavily outside in the second half of the night, and the lonely cold wind calls to his companions.

The two people in the cave and the fox fell asleep peacefully.

Ma Xiaosan was frightened for a day, and at this time, he was full of food and drink, and under the warmth of the firelight, he naturally slept very sweetly.

Although there was nothing to show, Xiang Xiaoer's injuries were very serious, and he hadn't eaten for several days, and he was sleeping very heavily at the moment after eating nearly a black bear today.

The little fox is usually very clever, so he didn't mix up as miserable as the two, lying next to Xiang Xiaoer, smelling the good fragrance, and going to sleep quietly.

The next day, early in the morning!

The two woke up from the cave in turn, and the cold wind and snow outside continued.

The weather in Yingzhou has always been like this, and if you are in the mood, this heavy snow will even last for a week.

Ma Xiaosan walked to the entrance of the cave, looked at it for a while, and then shook his head helplessly and came back.

"It seems that this study can't be stopped in a short time."

Xiang Xiaoer added firewood to the fire.

"It's okay, this big guy is enough for us to eat for two or three days."

I silently added in my heart, I saved some food.

Ma Xiaosan nodded.

"Whew!"

At this time, the little white fox opened its mouth wide, yawned, and woke up.

"Wake up!"

Xiang Xiaoer rubbed its body.

The heavy snow outside continued, Xiang Xiaoer tore open the wild boar skin, tore three more pieces of meat, one large and two small, and then put them on the fire to start the test.

Wild boar meat tastes much better than the black bear I ate yesterday. After roasting, Xiang Xiao Er handed two pieces of small roasted meat to one person and one fox, and he took the big one and started eating.

After resting for the night, the two of them, who had regained their spirits, quickly ate all the meat.

After eating, the two of them fell into small talk again because of ignorance.

This time, Xiang Xiaoer took the initiative to speak and asked Ma Xiaosan about the situation at home.

After getting along for a day and a night, Ma Xiaosan already believed it, and Xiang Xiaoer did not hide it, and told the truth about his situation:

"My family lives in Sanjia Village, which is about a day's walk away, and the reason why it is called Sanjia Village is because there are only three families in our whole village, and my family is one of them.

My family lives in the westernmost part, and next to my house is the house of Second Brother Wang and Second Sister-in-law Wang, and next to their house is Brother Zhao's house.

Originally, there were two people in the family, my grandfather and me, but a year ago, my grandfather had a serious illness and left me because he had no money for treatment, so now I am the only one left, and I barely survive by hunting in the mountains on weekdays.

Second brother Wang and second sister-in-law Wang are also in their 30s this year, but they have never had children, and the old man in the family died a few years ago.

Brother Zhao and Brother Wang are about the same age, a few years ago into the mountains suffered some injuries and legs and feet are not very flexible, so they no longer go into the mountains to hunt, only by making some gadgets to Yingzhou City, selling Tao first life, but it is a little lazy, three days of fishing, two days of drying nets, once there is surplus food at home, it always likes to be lazy. ”

Xiang Xiaoer nodded:

"It's not good for you to stretch out your hand by yourself, and it must be not easy to make a living in this mountain, why don't you think about finding a job in the city?"

Ma Xiaosan smiled wryly:

"The second brother is from other places, so he naturally doesn't know much about our Yingzhou, the population of Yingzhou is already lacking, coupled with the bitter cold weather, there are not many shops in the entire Yingzhou City, and most of them are run by the boss himself, barely living, how can there be spare money to invite a man.

Even if you don't ask for much, the requirements are quite high, so it's better for me to barely make ends meet in this mountain.

And although the mountain is dangerous, but there are still not many beasts on the periphery, if it weren't for the heavy wind and snow this year, this is to scare all the animals into the mountain, the family has been out of food for a long time, I will not venture into the mountain. ”

Xiang Xiaoer nodded, which was a general understanding of Ma Xiaosan's personal situation.

After talking about his own situation, Ma Xiaosan asked Xiang Xiaoer and said:

"The second brother is like this, if he has the ability, it must be that the legendary god man has the divine power, I don't know where it came from, and where do you want to go?"

Xiang Xiaoer nodded and admitted his identity:

"You guessed it right, I do have some divine power, this time I came from Luoyang, and I am going to go to Yingzhou to have a look."

Ma Xiaosan looked at each other with admiration, Tianhan has gods, this is known to everyone, and there have been countless famous gods in Tianhan over the years.

Ma Xiaosan had also heard a lot of stories about them, but it was the first time he had seen them standing in front of him.

"I heard my grandfather say that Luoyang is a thousand-year-old imperial city, and there are royal relatives and dignitaries living in it, and it is said that the people in it never have to worry about food, I don't know if it's true?"

Xiang Xiaoer picked up the little white fox who was very dissatisfied because he was snubbed:

"I don't know much about this, I can't hide it, I went to Luoyang just to do something, and I left after finishing it, and I didn't stay in it for more than a day, so I haven't seen the people of Luoyang. But it's more prosperous than other places I've been. ”

Ma Xiaosan nodded, a hint of yearning flashed in his eyes, Yingzhou is bitter and cold, compared to all the regions of Tianhan, Yingzhou should be the poorest place.

Therefore, people living in Yingzhou have always longed for other places, if nothing else, just say that winter is coming, although other places are cold, but compared with Yingzhou, they are far from it.

No matter day or night, the brazier in Yingzhou can never be stopped, and even so, people freeze to death all year round.

In addition, there are wild beasts everywhere, except for the southern barbarians, there are the most wild beasts in Yingzhou, and other places are occasionally hunting and fighting tooth sacrifices.

But Yingzhou wants to guard against wild beasts, and occasionally beats people and sacrifices them.

Therefore, like Ma Xiaosan, hunters like them have entered the mountain eight times out of ten times, and they have gained nothing.

There are only two left, and I was able to fight some small prey and barely survive.

Ma Xiaosan asked again:

"That second brother is not from Luoyang, where is his hometown, who else is in the family?"

Xiang Xiaoer shook his head:

"Like you, where did you come from home without relatives and no reason? The hometown was originally in Chudi, Jiangdong, and it is estimated that it is also in ruins at this time. ”

It seemed that he saw the loneliness in Xiang Xiaoer's eyes, and the little fox gently rubbed his hand.

Although Ma Xiaosan has no culture, his emotional intelligence is not low, and he did not ask more questions on this topic, but began to change the topic.

It snowed for another day and a night.

The two people and one fox in the cave also became more and more familiar through understanding.

On the morning of the third day, when the weather finally cleared up and the remaining half of the wild boar was eaten, Xiang Xiaoer decided to set off.

Ma Xiaosan looked at a meal, Xiang Xiaoer, who had eaten half a wild boar, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"So, I only ate one piece of each meal yesterday, did I deliberately save it?"

Knowing the truth, he couldn't help but marvel at the amount of food he had eaten again.

Walking out of the cave, Xiang Xiaoer, who saw the sun again, couldn't help but cover his eyes with his hands.

It's only a day and a night, but because he hasn't seen the sun, he has a feeling of being in a different world.

Stretched a big lazy waist.

A breath of white air came out of Xiang Xiaoer's mouth.

Refreshing!

"Woohoo! (It's annoying!) ）”

The little white fox jumped out of the snow it had buried itself in, and let out a cry of distress.

Due to the relatively small body, the snow is very thick at this time, so as long as the little white fox steps on the snow, it will be buried by the snow, leaving only a small head.

Looking at the little white fox jumping around in the snow, Xiang Xiaoer couldn't help but let out a knowing smile, and then suddenly had an idea.

"Little fox."

The little white fox stopped beating and tilted his head and asked:

"Huh? (What are you calling me for?) ）”

Xiang Xiaoer had a warm smile on his face:

"Do you want to come with me?"

Xiang Xiaoer, who has always been alone and has never thought about who to bring with him, had the idea of wanting to keep the little fox by his side for the first time.

The little fox stared at Xiang Xiaoer with big watery eyes.

With its wisdom, of course, it can understand what Xiang Xiaoer means.

Looking at Xiang Xiaoer's smiling face, it was silent for a while.

It could think of the consequences of saying yes, and it hesitated.

Although this person smells very good, although this person is very handsome, ~ I took a look at the mountain where I grew up and lived:

"Woo (I do)!"

The little fox jumped up in front of Xiang Xiaoer, and then threw himself into his arms.

Xiang Xiaoer caught it with a smile.

Ma Xiaosan on the side looked at this warm side with some envy, the friendship between animals and people is so good, which made him can't help but think of ~ the black bear and wild boar.

The second brother won't use this little guy as reserve food, right?

Looking at the little white fox in Xiang Xiaoer's arms, Ma Xiaosan couldn't help but have a terrifying thought.

Then he shuddered and quickly shook his head to rule out this terrible thought, how could the second brother be this kind of person.

Xiang Xiaoer didn't know what Ma Xiaosan thought, so he hugged the little white fox and let Ma Xiaosan lead the way, and several people walked towards Sanjia Village.

While Xiang Xiaoer spoke:

"Since you are willing to go with me, you will be my pet in the future, and you can't always be called Little White Fox, so I'll give you a name."

"Woohoo! (Yes, yes!) I want a name,)"

Although he didn't know what a pet was, the little white fox happily agreed.

Xiang Xiaoer thought about it and asked Ma Xiaosan:

"Since I met you on this mountain, and you were born in this mountain, let's give it a name related to this mountain, do you have a name for this mountain?"

Ma Xiaosan thought for a while:

"No, there are many old forests in the deep mountains like Jizhou, who will be idle to name them, but yesterday we met the little white fox not far from the deception forest, but there is a famous man, called Yuzao Forest!"

Xiang Xiaoer pondered:

"Since I met you in front of the jade forest, I'll call you ~ Xiaobai!"

Ma Xiaosan: ???

"Does this have anything to do with the Tamamo Forest?"

"No, I just asked casually."

"Woo (I like it, but it doesn't sound good)!"

"Then hand over Xiaoxue."

"Woo woo (nice but not like!) ）”

"Then it's called White Snow!"

"Woo woo (this is okay, but I always feel that something is wrong)!"

"Okay, since you like it, then it's decided."

Ma Xiaosan, who led the way in front, didn't know how to complain.

can really say that the second brother's attainment in naming is better than that of the fortune teller in the city.

......

After resting, Ma Xiaosan recovered well.

Although the mountain road is not easy to walk, the speed of the two is not long at all.

It wasn't long before it got dark that he returned to his home.

Ma Xiaosan's house is very dilapidated, and there is nothing valuable, but fortunately, although the house is broken, it is still clean.

Xiang Xiaoer didn't have so many requirements.

Just don't leak wind and rain.

Anyway, he won't be able to live long.

There is a stove at home and an iron pot to boil hot water, which is already very satisfying to him.

The only thing that is lacking is food, but fortunately, when the two of them came back, because Xiang Xiaoer's qi and blood had calmed down, after the Luoyang War, all the remaining murderous aura on his body had receded, so he was lucky along the way and encountered several beasts in the mountains.

And these have all become their rations in the future.

There are knives and cooking utensils at home, Ma Xiaosan has the heart to make up for his impression in the second brother's heart, so he took the initiative to apply for cooking.

glanced at Xiao Er, and nodded in agreement.

Then he tore off a few pieces of meat and roasted them on the fire.

Although he only has this one, it is enough, and there is still some salt at home, and the barbecue becomes even more delicious after sprinkling salt.

Xiang Xiaoer had to sigh in his heart again that he was really a genius in cooking.

Knowing his second brother's appetite, Ma Xiaosan stewed a big pot full of meat, and it was the first time he had experienced such a luxurious life.

Because of the influence of strength, in the past, the prey he obtained would go to the city to exchange for some cheap ingredients, and then save money, although occasionally he would eat some meat, but not much, most of it was rice, plus some pickled pickles.

As for the green vegetables, if it is in the middle of summer, you can go to the mountains to dig some wild vegetables, but the green vegetables in Yangzhou are more difficult to get than gold in this winter.

After living alone for a year, and often helping his grandfather when he was a child, Ma Xiaofan's cooking skills are really not too bad.

The stew of a pot of meat was full of color, flavor and flavor, so that the greedy little fox couldn't help but sniff.

"Second brother, you don't think I lied to you, right? My cooking skills are still very good. ”

"You've got a roast!"

"I've been learning this cooking since I was a child."

"You've got a roast!"

"My stew skills are better than those of the cooks in the city."

"You've got a roast!"

I can't talk about it.

No matter what Ma Xiaosan said, Xiang Xiaoer always replied with the matter of barbecue.

Compare Xiang Xiaoer said, sorry. I just like to use my strengths to compare the weaknesses of others.

learned to barbecue at one time, this thing is enough for him to blow for a year, not a year is too short, at least a lifetime.

After Xiang Xiaoer's barbecue was done, Ma Xiaosan's stew was also ready.

After giving the little fox a few pieces, Xiang Xiaoer didn't see anything outside, so he took a big bite to eat, Ma Xiaosan was naturally not far behind, although he couldn't eat the second brother, but he still had to eat!

Soon a pot of meat all entered their stomachs, and after eating, Ma Xiaosan burped, while Xiang Xiaoer ate the barbecue again, and at the same time opened his mouth, stewing in a pot, not full.

In the face of such shocking remarks, Ma Xiaosan did not feel surprised at all.

If you are full of food at this point, then the second brother may not really be the second brother.

Anyway, the prey is all hunted by the second brother, and people can eat as much as they want.

Ma Xiaosan, who was born tired, brushed the pot and started to stew again.

After eating three pots in a row, Xiang Xiaoer patted his stomach and said with satisfaction:

"Eat three points full, that's it, go to the city tomorrow to sell the meat, remember to change the cauldron."

Ma Xiaosan rubbed his somewhat sore arm, it seems that the second brother still feels sorry for himself, obviously he hasn't eaten enough, and he can't bear to continue to work hard, so he can't help but speak:

"Let's stop stewing."

Xiang Xiaoer wiped his mouth and glanced at the other party:

"If you don't get tired, you can stew two more pots."

Ma Xiaosan really wants to slap himself, why does he owe this mouth so much?

Do you explain that you know that the second brother eats a lot of food, so why is it polite? Now it's okay, the second brother is serious.

However, Ma Xiaosan was naturally full of gratitude for the second brother he thought would save his life, and although his arm was sore, he still endured it and stewed two more pots.

Xiang Xiaoer is not a ruthless person, I trembled when I saw the other party, and I personally helped him cut the meat.

After eating two more pots, Xiang Xiaoer nodded with satisfaction.

At this time, it was not early, the two cleaned up together, and then, adding enough firewood to the stove, Ma Xiaosan took out his grandfather's quilt and handed it to Xiang Xiaoer, and he took out his usual quilt, and the two rested one after another.

Although the little white fox didn't feel cold, he also got into Xiang Xiaoer's bed.

Although the weather was cold, with enough food and drink and a stove, Ma Xiaosan didn't feel cold for a while, unlike Xiang Xiaoer, he was very tired after a day's journey, and soon fell asleep.

In the second half of the night, around two or three o'clock in the morning.

Ma Xiaosan was suddenly woken up.

Feeling the soreness of his hands and feet, he rubbed his eyes.

The stove was still burning, and by the light of the fire, he saw Xiang Xiaoer sitting up.

"Second brother, what's wrong?"

The little white fox was also stunned, staring at the window with big eyes.

"The movement next door, listening to the sound should be some beast attacking."

Ma Xiaosan was in good spirits immediately, the second brother Wang and the second sister-in-law next door were usually very good to her, and when her grandfather just died, she was afraid that she would not be able to take care of herself for a while, and she always sent some food, so he was naturally very concerned.

I didn't have time to think about it, so I got out of the quilt and put on my clothes and walked out.

"Second brother, I'll see if I can help."

Xiang Xiaoer looked at his back with an interested gaze, and then put on his clothes and followed out without any hurry.

"You're kind, but the beast your neighbor offended isn't something you kid can offend."

Ma Xiaosan was in a hurry to say this, but he didn't hear it, but the little fox Bai Xue heard it, tilted his head, whined twice, and asked him what kind of beast he was.

Xiang Xiaoer rubbed her body and spoke:

"This is a beast that has always been very ferocious, much more ferocious than the ones we built before, and it is estimated that there is no other one more ferocious than him in the entire deep mountains and old forests."

"Woo (is there a big cat)?"

The little fox asked again.

Xiang Xiaoer put on his shoes and picked them up, revealing a deep gaze:

"It's much more fierce than that guy."

The beast is fierce, and it is not as fierce as the demon.