65: Winter

Time flashed into December, the weather in December is still very cold, the cold heart doesn't want to go out, every day at home stays, unless it is really impossible to stay will run out to play.

However, for Xin'er, it is already very good to be able to stay at home for two days, and she will definitely not stay at home for more than two days, which is too uncomfortable for her.

In fact, children are like this, whether it is sunny or rainy, hot and cold winter, they all want to go out to play, and it was like this for the brothers and sisters who were very righteous in their hearts before.

It's cold, Erlin no longer runs to the mountains in three or five days, and the family has pulled back a lot of pine, sandalwood, and some stocks don't have to be so tired, anyway, they are all ordinary wood.

Erlin outside this winter polished a lot of wooden planks, he is going to make another cabinet for the family, and then make a box, which is also convenient to explain to Youyi.

Youyi still often goes out to play, he really has no interest in carpentry, and he is still too young.

Erlin doesn't force him now, if it backfires, it won't be good, so he will run outside, and he will be satisfied with listening to him at home seven or eight days a month.

Winter is also fun for children, and it rarely snows in the southern winter, and even if it doesn't snow, it doesn't fall very much.

Just like this year, there was a light snow in Wanshan Village, but except for some snow piled up on the higher mountains, the snow in the village was not piled up, and it melted almost when it fell, and at most it only melted after an extra stick of incense remained on the ground.

The wet and cold weather in the south has no effect on the children, especially the children in the mountain villages, if they are cold, they will find a place to carry some firewood to make a fire, and they will not feel cold at all when the fire is baked.

There is no shortage of firewood in the mountains, not to mention in the mountains, but a lot of dry firewood can be moved down from some big trees in the village, so firewood is not a problem.

Sometimes, those children will sneak two potatoes or sweet potatoes from home and bake them, not to mention, the roasted sweet potatoes have a unique flavor, and the children like to eat them, especially in this cold winter, they can eat one or two roasted sweet potatoes and baked potatoes, not to mention how happy.

Not only that, but the children in the village sometimes catch a few fish, or a few sparrows, and clean up outside and then go home and steal a few grains of salt and sprinkle them on them, not to mention how fragrant they are, but there are few opportunities like this, after all, sparrows and fish are not so easy to catch.

Today, Xin'er went to the village to play together, and the two of them also brought the hunting dog named Xiao Huang, and in addition, the two secretly brought a few sweet potatoes and potatoes.

The two thought that their parents didn't know, but how could they not know about the Wang family, they just didn't say it, just like other parents in the village, didn't they know what their children had done? If you don't know it once, you can't even come back?

They just don't say it, they came over like this when they were children, and they understand that feeling.

"Brother, I'm going to eat this in a while, I specially picked up such a big one."

Xin'er and Youyi were waiting in a place where they often burned fires, and Xin'er pointed to a big sweet potato on the ground and said.

Youyi looked in the direction she pointed, it was indeed not small, it was the size of his father's fist.

"Well, I'll give you this in a moment."

Youyi felt that since she took it, it was right for her to eat, and there was nothing wrong with it.

"yes, I'll be optimistic about it." My heart jumped with joy.

Just as the two were talking, others came one after another.

"Why did you come, you died of cold, did you take the fire fold?"

Youyi couldn't help but stomp his feet when he saw a few good friends who played on weekdays coming over with his younger brothers and sisters.

Who's to say it's not, it's cold at home, not to mention the wind blowing outside, and his hands are frozen.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, na, the fire fold is here."

Wang Xiaohu took out a small bamboo tube from his arms and handed it to Youyi, who took it and squatted next to the pile of wood that the two brothers and sisters had built just now.

Although it was cold on this day, I could still find some hay, but it was a little damp.

But it didn't matter, Erlin took out a small piece of pine seeds from his arms, and carefully lit the pine seeds, and as soon as the pine seeds burned, he could hear the sound of rubbing.

Youyi carefully put the burning pine seeds into the dead grass under the pyre, the grass was a little damp and burned very slowly, but it also slowly began to burn.

Slowly, the grass burned out, and the tiny branches on it began to burn, then larger, and soon, the fire began to grow.

They are not in a hurry to burn things, there are no charcoals at this time, and it is not easy to roast, and when the firewood is burned for a while, there will be charcoal, and it will be faster to roast things.

Soon, the crowd began to grow, from seven or eight at the beginning to more than ten or twenty.

A letter also came, and there were a few older children, and the fire became smaller when there were too many people, and the later people burned two more fires and went to find some firewood to bring it.

"You watch the fire here, and I'll see if I can catch two fish or two sparrows and come back."

There was already a lot of charcoal in the fire, and the sweet potatoes they had brought with them had already been buried, so now they just had to wait enough time.

The children in the village are still very safety-conscious, and the place where they light the fire is usually not far from the river, in case of fire, it is also convenient to get water.

Of course, this is also indispensable to the repeated instructions of the adults in the family.

"I'll go with you." I want to see it too.

"No, you are not allowed to go, if my mother knows, she will talk about me again."

This kind of thing has happened more than once, Youyi is a little afraid of being scolded by his mother, just a few days ago, he was just scolded once, he doesn't want to be scolded again.

Besides, the water in the river is cold in winter now, what if I go to touch the cold water again and catch a cold?

Therefore, he refused without thinking about it.

"Brother, if I want to go, you can take me there."

"No, you're looking at what's in the fire, what if we're all gone, and someone else takes all our stuff?"

"yes, but I want to see you catch fish too."

"I'm just going to see, and I don't go into the water, what's there to see."

Indeed, the water in the river was really cold this day, and Youyi would not go into the water even if he wanted to eat fish again, he wanted to see if he could catch two birds, or find two birds' nests and touch a few birds' eggs.

"Okay then, brother, you have to come back quickly."

"Well, don't worry, I'm leaving, don't run around."

"Hmm."

After seeing Youyi leave, Xin'er ran to the fire to guard, and there were several people who stayed with her to guard a fire, and there were many other fires.

There are more people, and naturally there are more topics, no, the topic is coming.