Aunt An accompanied Mi Piaoxue to eat boiled venison, drank two bowls of broth, and talked for a while, Mi Piaoxue put two packed bamboo rats in her basket, a large piece of deer leg meat, and watched Aunt An go down the mountain.

It turned out that the New Year was coming, Aunt An said that there would be half a month to celebrate the New Year, Mi Piaoxue sorted out the memory of the original owner, almost every Spring Festival Aunt An will spend time with her on the mountain, Aunt An went up the mountain to hide people's ears, everyone said that Mi Piaoxue is an ominous person, afraid that she will bring bad luck into the village, unknown? Maybe she is really an ominous person.

Wearing new clothes and new shoes, Mi Piaoxue feels much warmer, she is not the original owner, she is used to this monotonous life, she is a modern person, and has almost never been out of the room for 16 years, she yearns for the freedom between heaven and earth, and yearns to be able to float at will like snowflakes. Seven days later, when the sky was clear and snowless, Mi Piaoxue decided to go up the stream to see if there was a hot spring at the source of the stream.

Maybe there really is a flying birdman, maybe there are many wild beasts in the mountains, maybe there is a ghost or elf, every fifteenth full moon, will bring her food, the days are long, these are no longer frightening, but arouse the curiosity of Mi Piaoxue.

Mi Piaoxue will not comb the ancient complicated hairstyle, she simply braided her hair into a twist braid with a cloth belt, the original owner Mi Piaoxue because of long-term malnutrition, hair is dry and dry, although she has been eating venison and bamboo rat meat to replenish her body recently, two meals a day can be fed, but the face reflected in the basin is still thin and pale, the eyes are big, the hair is dry and yellow, Mi Piaoxue's figure is almost skinny because of dysplasia, the height is okay, it should be more than one meter six five, she has nothing to find fault with, this is much better than her body in her previous life。

Mi Piaoxue carried the only small bamboo basket in the family, put a firewood knife in the bamboo basket, and a few pieces of self-pasted cakes, two pieces of venison jerky, and set off along the creek.

This is the first time she walked out of the bamboo forest, this winter is snowing almost every day, although the snow is not big, but it has been piled up for a long time, it can be up to her knees, Mi Piaoxue is holding a stick in her hand, walking along the creek with difficulty, she raised her head and closed her eyes, feeling the warm sunshine. It's rare that today is a good day, the sun is shining warmly, there is snow everywhere, maybe the creek is the reason for the warm water, the snow is thick on the branches, in the grass, like blooming one after another white and fluffy flowers. Mi Piaoxue picked up a handful of snow with her hand and lifted it into the air, like a small white feather, and like a blown pear petal, scattered and scattered, it turned out that the snowflakes were so beautiful.

She walked all the way up the stream, drunk some water and nibbled on some dry food when she was hungry, and gradually the snow drifted again, and the sky was dark, and the stream continued to stretch upwards.

The white mist steaming on the creek is thicker, some snow has melted by the stream, Mi Piaoxue saw some tender green grass, and also saw a lot of yellow flowers, she remembered that this is called Bingling Flower, Chinese medicine calls Bingling Flower Fushou Grass, it has the functions of cardiotonic, diuretic, sedative and slowing down the heart rate.

In this icy winter, you can see clusters of ice cream flowers, which is particularly pleasing to the eye, and some of the snow is picked and put in the back basket. The hills near the creek were full of trees and fluffy, shiny silver strips, and evergreen pines and cypresses in winter and summer, piled with fluffy, heavy snowballs, a kingdom of ice and snow, covered in silver.

Plum, pothos, muscle, cedar, snapdragon, larch, spruce, oak...... As the temperature of the stream increased, Mi Piaoxue saw more hardy plants, and some wild fruits, under the shiny frost, the red ones were more attractive, Mi Piaoxue walked into the woods, picked some wild hawthorns and put them in the back basket, and suddenly two reindeer came out of the woods, with a pair of dendritic horns on their heads, the long horns were intricately branched, more than 30 forks, the hooves were wide, the tail was very short, and the body was covered with light but extremely cold-resistant white fur, they walked out of the woods with a graceful posture, and looked at the Mi Piaoxue with a proud look, and took light steps to the stream to drink water。

Two reindeer, one big and one small, Mi Piaoxue remembered that she had seen the introduction of the reindeer, the big one was the female deer, the small one was the male deer, she looked up at the stream that continued to meander upward, some did not dare to go forward, it seems that there are no wild beasts on this mountain, but there is no bamboo forest where she lives, Mi Piaoxue looked at the sky, and finally sighed and went home along the stream.

Mi Piaoxue counted the scratches on the wall, today should be the Chinese New Year's Eve, Lady An did not go up the mountain as promised, this is the first time she has spent the Spring Festival outside since she was a child, there is no Spring Festival party, no money given by her parents, no rich family banquet, no candy and melon seeds sent by her brother, it is her lonely Spring Festival.

Although she has read a lot of books about food, she has never eaten anything at home, and she has been able to cook, chop wood, do laundry, and light a fire in the past few months. Today she decided to make something delicious, she remembered that her mother said that she must be happy on the day of the Spring Festival, if this day is good, it indicates that the year will be happy, and there will be good luck.

Mi Piaoxue rarely stir-fries, because it is winter, there is really no vegetables to fry, she took out a handful of pickled cherry blossoms sent by Aunt An, finely chopped them, and chopped a piece of venison into minced meat, the seasoning is only salt and soy sauce, and the bamboo rat can only stew and eat.

Mom and Dad moved to the south from the north, so in her memory, she always had to eat dumplings during the Spring Festival, and Mi Piaoxue had no white noodles, so she could only mix the cornmeal with water, add some soy sauce and meat oil to the chopped cherry blossoms and venison to make the filling, and wrap some cornmeal dumplings according to her memory. Mi Piaoxue chopped the bamboo rat into small pieces, put some lard in the hot pot, stir-fried the meat and added water, put the cage drawer on it, put the cornmeal dumplings on it, added a few thick firewood, and waited for her Chinese New Year's Eve rice to be cooked.

The light snow outside is still falling, the Spring Festival should be kept to the New Year, Mi Piaoxue has no oil lamp, she can only eat early, the steamed dumplings of cornmeal are very fragrant, there are no pesticides and chemical fertilizers in ancient times, there is a fragrant and sweet corn flavor, pickled cherry cabbage is added to the venison to make the filling, it also tastes very good, the bamboo rat meat is stewed softly, and Mi Piaoxue washed a cup of homemade hawthorn water.

"Happy New Year!" There was no one else on the mountain, Mi Piaoxue could only bless herself, ate dinner hot, sat on the bed and looked at the snowflakes outside the window, and watched the sky slowly darken.