The next morning, early in the morning, the snow had not stopped, and there was a light snow, fluttering.

"Squeak"

The door of the east wing opened, and a fat head came out of the crack in the door, it was the fat man Wang Dazhi.

The fat man's little eyes swept cautiously into the hall, and then he shuffled out the door.

Lin Le was dressed in full clothes, carefully pushing the fat man with his hand, and followed behind himself.

"Don't push me, the hell knows if the big cat is still there?"

The fat man complained in a low voice angrily.

"Morning, did you sleep well last night?"

At this moment, Jiang Xiaobai suddenly appeared from outside the gate, holding a large bamboo broom in his hand, with fine snow stains on the tip of the broom, looking at the snow sweeping in the morning.

The fat man was startled by Jiang Xiaobai's sudden appearance, squeezed out a slight reluctant smile on his face, and nodded stiffly: "It's okay, it's okay!"

What a fart, he was scared yesterday and almost didn't sleep all night, for fear of being knocked on the door by a big cat in the house in the middle of the night.

As he spoke, his eyes shook around Jiang Xiaobai, and he asked cautiously, "Brother Jiang, that..."

From the fat man's name for Jiang Xiaobai from a little fellow to Brother Jiang, it can be seen that his attitude towards Jiang Xiaobai has changed from a certain unequal contempt at the psychological level before to politeness, and even a little fear.

After last night's contact, he became more and more unable to see through this inconspicuous-looking little fellow!

From the fishermen in the wind and snow, to the old and young people who are friendly to others, to the first-hand medical skills of treating diseases and saving people, to the leisurely and calm company of the big cat in the mountains.

Are the people in the mountains hanging like this?

"Oh, you say Dabai, it left last night. Jiang Xiaobai listened to the fat man's temptation, was stunned at first, and then suddenly woke up, narrowed his eyebrows, and smiled.

The big white he said was the snow leopard with a body length of nearly two meters!

When the fat man heard it, he didn't understand who Dabai was, he was stunned, and then after thinking about it again, a mudslide suddenly turned up in his heart, mmp, and you dare to call a two-meter-long mountain beast called Dabai.

Of course, he was speechless, thinking that the big cat was gone, and a stone in his heart fell to the ground.

"Brother Jiang, thank you for your hospitality last night, the two of us have to rush back to the city early today, and we have to leave now. ”

The fat man pretended to be polite, but he didn't complain about Jiang Xiaobai to death in his heart, and he was frightened all night, and his face was swollen with dark circles.

"If you're in such a hurry, do you want to have breakfast?"

"No, thank you, little brother, we are really in a hurry to go back. ”

The fat man waved his hand again and again, pulled Lin Le and hurried out of the door, and he didn't look back at it.

Jiang Xiaobai watched the two leave slightly embarrassed, the corners of his mouth curled, smiled helplessly, and then continued to take the broom and sweep the snow in the yard.

.................

The early morning in the winter of the mountains is quiet and tranquil.

The snow is sprinkled, the green pine bends the waist, the plum is more colorful, and the mountains are white.

After clearing the snow, Jiang Xiaobai went to the vegetable garden behind the house.

The vegetable garden is not big, three points the size of the land, the back is a steep wall, and there are seven or eight kinds of winter vegetables planted in the garden, which is enough for daily food.

The heavy snow came suddenly, it fell for a long time, the green in the vegetable garden was paved white with cold snow, and there were several small arched sheds built inside, all of which were temporarily built by Jiang Xiaobai yesterday morning, and there were several winter vegetables that were easy to fall and suffer from the cold.

A few pockets of holly were scooped from the vegetable garden, washed and plucked the leaves, and a small knife of bacon was scraped from the wooden beam of the kitchen, and cut it into evenly sized pieces on the cutting board.

Then, Jiang Xiaobai added firewood to the stove and began to make a fire to cook.

Add water to the pot, boil the water, put a small scoop of white lard on the spoon, the lard will melt immediately in the boiling water, glowing with moist oil, and then put the white noodles into it, and then put the meat slices into the pot.

After five minutes on high heat, the noodles are cooked, put the holly in it, blanch it slightly, and the noodles are ready to come out of the pan.

"Little deer, get up and eat!"

Jiang Xiaobai wore a coarse cloth apron and a pot and spoon in his hand, walked to the front room, and called the little girl to get up.

In this winter, the little girl was covered with a quilt and slept soundly.

"Brother, it's so cold outside, Xiaolu doesn't think about it!"

Two hands stretched out from the quilt, lifted the corner, revealing a small head, Jiang Xiaolu rubbed his eyes, and wanted to lie in bed.

"I don't want to think about it, my brother won't take you when he goes down the mountain to play alone. ”

The corners of Jiang Xiaobai's lips curled, and he turned around and left.

"I'll get up, I'll get up, brother, you are not allowed to cheat, when you will go down the mountain, don't want to leave me and Rhubarb again. ”

As soon as the deer heard that he was going down the mountain to play, he immediately got out of the bed, and he didn't lie in bed anymore, and got out of bed with his clothes and chirped.

After Jiang Xiaolu got dressed and brushed her teeth, Jiang Xiaobai had already prepared hot water and put it on the stone pier at the entrance of the hall, and the little girl obediently washed her face, while Jiang Xiaobai stood behind her, holding a wooden comb in her mouth, grabbing the little girl's hair in her hand, and pulling a rubber band from her wrist to help her hoop a small ponytail.

This meeting is a compulsory course for Jiang Xiaobai every morning on weekdays!

The two depend on each other, Jiang Xiaobai is both a father and a mother, taking care of the little girl's daily life, but in terms of tying his hair, he really has no experience, only two styles, one pigtail, one ponytail, the simplest two.

So the little girl comes all year round, and two hairstyles come in turns, but Jiang Xiaolu looks lovely.

After cleaning up the little girl, Jiang Xiaobai brought out three bowls of noodles from the kitchen, the two brothers and sisters ate breakfast, and the big yellow dog lay under the table to eat happily.

There were no words at the table, and the two people and a big yellow dog lived a plain and comfortable morning just like more than a thousand days before.

Because the old man who likes to drink, and loves to talk when he drinks, has been gone for three years.

In the courtyard, the wind and snow were silent, and the crisp sound of firecrackers could be faintly heard coming from the bottom of the mountain.

After the two brothers and sisters finished breakfast, Jiang Xiaobai cleaned up, and took the little girl down the mountain, along the way, the villagers in the peach blossoms saw each other and said hello to the two brothers and sisters or sent some candy for the New Year, obviously, the two brothers and sisters are very popular in the peach blossoms.

There are still ten days before Chinese New Year's Eve, and this small mountain village in Peach Blossom is full of the most simple and lively energy, plus there are many city people who come to enjoy the snow, making this snowy day a lot more lively.

Every household is in a hurry to celebrate the New Year, rushing to catch some traditional New Year's goods, some people's yards are playing glutinous rice cakes, steaming the glutinous rice, and then putting it in the stone scoop, two strong laborers shouting in their mouths, taking turns to pick up the stone hammer to hammer the glutinous rice inside until soft and tough, and there are women next to them from time to time to sprinkle some water into it, to keep the taste.

There are also people who are ready to kill the New Year's pig, please come over to help, before killing the New Year's pig, but also put a big red whip - *** a celebration.

Among them, the most lively is the children's favorite gadget - popcorn.

This kind of thing is not seen in many rural villages now, but it is still preserved in the peach blossoms, a fire shelf, a black iron lump with a narrow mouth and a round waist is put on the fire, which is filled with rice, and then Ji Maolang heats it with fire underneath, and shakes the handle with one hand to heat the iron lump evenly. After about twenty minutes, the chicken feather man took the iron lump off, put it around a long black bag, and then took an iron hook-like thing to hook the valve, and stepped on the bottom of his foot.

Suddenly there was a "bang" explosion, and what came out was the lively exclamations of the surrounding children and people in the city, and as soon as the white gas dispersed, I saw that the bottom of the black pipe bag was a large handful of white popcorn.

When the fresh popcorn is baked, the owner will smile and divide it on the children, all in his hands and pockets, and the children will also laugh.

Jiang Xiaolu, the same is true for this little girl, she can't even fit it in Jiang Xiaobai's hand, the little girl gnaws on her mouth, and her smile is bad in his brother's arms.

Just when Jiang Xiaobai took the little girl to watch the excitement, a crane cry suddenly sounded above his head, clear and far away, high-pitched and loud.

Jiang Xiaobai looked up and smiled.