The basic ingredients were processed yesterday, and today you just need to stir-fry in the pot.

In previous years, the family was poor, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner could not make any tricks, but this year is different, the family is rich, Liu rolled up his sleeves, picked up the big spoon, and is bound to show a hand to the big guy.

A large family is all around the stove, you bring a bowl to serve me food, and the house is full of laughter.

At 10 p.m., the large round table in the hall was filled.

Lin Youcai, the head of the family, picked up his glass and said congratulations, hoping that everything would go well in the coming year, and the big guy echoed, so the meal began.

After eating, it is the link to receive the New Year's money, although Lin Meiyi already has the ability to make money independently, her family still treats her as a child.

Daddy and mother have a red envelope, grandma has a red envelope, I checked it, it was quite heavy, the copper plate in the red envelope rattled, Lin Meiyi felt that holding this money in her hand was more pleasant than taking a thousand taels of silver tickets.

After receiving the New Year's money, Lin Youcai and his wife also prepared red envelopes for Ah Da, Xiao Hei, and Zhao Xiangling, each of whom wrapped 100 yuan, thanking the three of them for their help to the family for most of the past six months.

There was a vigil on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the second girl and the dog egg followed happily, refusing to go back to sleep, and Lin Youcai went with them.

The adults sat around the hall, discussing next year's affairs while cooking the fire, while Lin Meiyi led her younger siblings to play in the snow in the backyard.

The snow fell from morning to afternoon, stopped for a while in the evening, and now began to fall again.

There was only a thin layer of snow on the ground, and Er Ya and Dog Egg swept the snow together, pinched out one snow ball after another, and then began to build the snowman they wanted.

Playing and playing, the laughter in the yard suddenly stopped, and Lin Meiyi, who was sitting under the eaves pinching the snow balls, looked puzzled, and saw two small squatting in front of the palm-sized snowman, somehow, hanging their heads, motionless, and their emotions were very wrong.

"What's wrong?" Lin Meiyi threw the snowball in her hand over and gently smashed it on her younger brother.

As a result, when this kid raised his head, his eye circles turned red, his eyelashes blinked, and he actually shed a drop of "cat urine"!

Crying?

No way?

She just smashed it lightly, it didn't hurt so much, did she?

However, what Lin Meiyi didn't expect was that the dog's cry caused a chain reaction, and the second girl next to her burst into tears.

The two cried silently, and the tears fell down, and they didn't make a sound, just crying until they had convulsions and hiccups, so panicked that Lin Meiyi hurriedly ran forward, squatted in front of the two, and asked puzzledly:

"What's wrong?"

The second girl pounced on her with a "wow", whimpering and said, "Eldest sister, I haven't seen my eldest brother for a long time, didn't you say that you won't miss him so much after twenty-one days?" Why do I still miss my big brother......"

Seeing Erya's move, the dog hesitated and wanted to pounce, but he knew that he was a big boy now, and he would be laughed at if he did it again, so he only leaned over a little, put his head against Lin Meiyi's knee, and said sullenly:

"When will Big Brother come home? This year, the New Year's money prepared for him by his grandmother was not given out. ”

Hearing the words of the two, Lin Meiyi's heart finally fell, good guy, she thought something big had happened, she was shocked!

Letting out a sigh of relaxation, Lin Meiyi said with a smile: "Weren't you quite happy when you two carved up the eldest brother's New Year's money just now?" Now you know you miss him? ”

The dog who was missing his brother was suddenly stunned, raised his red eyes and looked at Lin Meiyi, and asked with his eyes, did he really have such a conscience just now?

Lin Meiyi nodded, and the sadness condensed by the dog's egg suddenly dissipated, leaving only an embarrassed heart.

Seeing that no one was crying, Erya was embarrassed to continue to be hypocritical, because she knew that if she continued to cry, the eldest sister would not coax, not only would she not coax, but she might also get angry.

The eldest sister didn't like her crying nose the most.

sniffed violently, raised his hand and proudly wiped the snot bubbles from crying with his cuffs, and said with a pout:

"In previous years, when it snowed, it was the eldest brother who built a snowman for us, but that year the snow was heavy, and the eldest brother built a big snowman for us at the gate."

"So, you two are hurting?" Lin Meiyi asked helplessly.

The sister and brother nodded, "Well, when I see the little snowman, I miss the big brother." ”

The dog wanted to echo it, but out of the corner of his eye, he found a small pile of white snow under Lin Meiyi's feet, and he was stunned, and then stood up, pointed to the little snowman that was trampled under Lin Meiyi's feet, and exclaimed:

"My snowman!"

"What?" Er Ya looked at the place where the dog pointed in a daze, and then, the sharp scream resounded throughout the courtyard.

"Ahhh Sister, you pay me a snowman! ”

Lin Meiyi: "......"

"Woo woo, my little snowman, I haven't named it yet, how can you trample on it, big sister!"

In the face of the accusations of her younger siblings, Lin Meiyi could only raise her slap with a smile, suppress all the dissatisfaction of the two with violence, and then resigned herself to start following the two to sweep the snow everywhere and rebuild the little snowman.

......

"It's snowing."

Lin Dalang was wearing a military uniform, looked up at the sky that was gradually covered by wind and snow, and raised his hand to take a few.

The snow in the north is completely different from the snow in the south, shaped like particles, and it hits the exposed skin with a slight pain.

Patting the snow grains in his hand, Lin Dalang turned his head to look at the person behind him.

There were five people in total, and after a fierce battle, the dark red cotton clothes worn by the Great Zhou Unified were already stained with the blood of the enemy, or their own.

The rattan armor on the five people is light and sparse, and such a quality can't withstand the big knives of the Xianbei people, and many of them are damaged, and they have lost their protective effect.

But it was so cold that even if it was a piece of armor that had lost its effect, the soldiers still left it behind and tied it tightly to their bodies to resist the bitter winter cold.

The leather armor on Lin Dalang's body was better than the rattan armor, but because of the innermost vest, he didn't feel much cold.

In a big battle three days ago, Xianbei attacked fiercely, and the Great Zhou generals were defeated in battle and were forced to flee.

The Xianbei army was in hot pursuit, and the whole army was inevitably annihilated, so everyone had no choice but to divide it, led by their respective generals to run into the mountains and forests, evade pursuit, and wait for the Xianbei army to retreat, and then go down the mountain to converge.

When these three people came, there were fewer and fewer people behind Da Lang, some died at the hands of Xianbei soldiers, and some were seriously injured and died halfway. Now there are five left behind him, which he picked up halfway.

At this moment, Da Lang had only one thought in his heart, and that was to lead the last five people back alive.

Unexpectedly, it snowed.

This was the first time Da Lang had seen the snow in the north, and he had heard the veterans in the camp say that the snow in the north was an evil spirit that could take away people's lives, and if there was a heavy snowstorm, he would never be able to move on.

The little soldier behind him saw that Da Lang stopped moving, and asked breathlessly: "General, we are exhausted, can we rest in place for a while?" ”