After An Ann Ann left, Mi Piaoxue remembered that she didn't ask a lot of questions, where did he live? Why did the beast that was given to her lose its blood every time? Did he give the hare and candy? Also, what did the birdman he saw that night have to do with him? He babbled a lot, but the key questions were not asked, and Mi Piaoxue lost sleep this night.

As the days passed, there was not much food left in the snow, and Aunt An still did not go up the mountain. No matter how good the meat is, she will get tired of eating it every day, at this moment she wants to eat a plate of fried vegetables and drink some spinach soup, especially miss the taste of rice, what happened to Aunt An?

In modern times, after the Spring Festival, it indicates that spring is coming, and the weather will gradually warm, but here, there are still snowflakes floating unhurriedly every day, and the climate is not warming at all. Mi Piaoxue carried a bamboo basket on her back and held a worn-out pickaxe standing in the corner of the wall, and walked towards the depths of the bamboo forest.

Bamboo, also known as bamboo, has a wide variety, including hairy bamboo, hemp bamboo, arrow bamboo, etc., perennial grass bamboo subfamily plants, stems are mostly woody, there are also herbs, bamboo poles are tall and slender, verdant all year round, proud snow and frost, much loved by the Chinese, and plum, orchid, chrysanthemum and called the four gentlemen, and plum, pine and called the three friends of the year.

Mi Piaoxue has lived at home for 16 years, she has never been out, all the knowledge is from books and computers, she recalled that she had read books about bamboo, bamboo is not suitable for growing in such a cold and snowy place, but there is a large bamboo forest, actually growing tenaciously, which has exceeded her cognition. According to what is written in the book, she chooses those places with dense branches and leaves to find winter bamboo shoots, digs shallow near them, and when she sees the brown and yellow bamboo whip, she continues to dig along it, and finally digs for a while when the fibrous roots on the bamboo whip are developed, and she finds the winter bamboo shoots.

I don't know if it's Mi Piaoxue's luck, or what's special about this bamboo forest, although she used a worn-out pickaxe, but also dug up the winter bamboo shoots, her small back basket can no longer fit, Mi Piaoxue is very satisfied with her body, although she is a little thinner, but she is quick to work, she doesn't have to worry about injury at all, she carries the winter bamboo shoots back to the room twice, anyway, she won't be starved to death.

Mi Piaoxue digs up the winter bamboo shoots, buries the shell in the fire and simmers, takes it out after simmering, puts it in a cool and humid place and lays it vertically, such winter bamboo shoots, remove the shell when eating, cut it into thin slices, and rinse the bitterness with water; remove the shell and wash the remaining winter bamboo shoots, then cut the large winter bamboo shoots in half, boil them in a pot of water until they are 5 mature, take them out and spread them in a bamboo basket for ventilation. These are all things that my mother had to do every year in her previous life, looking at the winter bamboo shoots she had handled, Mi Piaoxue was full of a sense of accomplishment.

On the table of Mi Piaoxue, there are more dishes of winter bamboo shoots, sometimes it is fried winter bamboo shoots, sometimes it is cold winter bamboo shoots, fried shredded venison with winter bamboo shoots, and stewed winter bamboo shoots with bamboo rats.

"Drifting Snow! Drifting Snow......" On this day, Mi Piaoxue was digging bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest again, and suddenly she heard a shout, it was Aunt An, Aunt An finally came! Mi Piaoxue put a few winter bamboo shoots dug up into the back basket, and stumbled towards the hut.

"Aunt An, Aunt An, you can come!" Mi Piaoxue saw that Aunt An had lost some weight, and her gray hair was covered with snowflakes.

"Child, you must have nothing to eat, I came up the mountain with great difficulty today, the eldest mother knows that you must be hungry, and the eldest mother brought you food. ”

"Come into the house, Auntie, you see that your head is covered with snowflakes, it must be frozen. Mi Piaoxue let Aunt An into the house, added firewood to the stove, and after a while, the house gradually warmed up.

"It's almost the Spring Festival, I took on some more embroidery work, saved some money in my hand, and went to the goddess to let her be accommodating to take you down the mountain, but I was scolded by her as soon as I entered the house, she told me not to go up the mountain in the future, not allowed to approach you again, and told the village chief about it, the people in the village are staring at me, not letting me go up the mountain to see you, they say that you are an ominous person, and you are a demon, drifting snow, you are the eldest lady picked up from the market, I know that you are a hard-working child, both parents died, since you were a child, I grew up with those beggars, in the past few years I have watched you live alone on the mountain, how can you be a demonYou Uncle An fell into the ice cave, I don't believe it's because of you, why is it so difficult for us to live together......"

"Auntie......" Mi Piaoxue suddenly felt that this goddess in the Ice and Snow Village was really powerful, she actually guessed her origin, but she didn't know how to explain to Aunt An, Mi Piaoxue finally accepted her fate.

"Auntie, in this case, don't try to take me down the mountain, I'm very good on the mountain, it's quiet here, there's a stream outside, the water is warm there, do you see I've been looking a lot better recently? I will catch bamboo rats, and I will try to catch some other prey in the future, I have stored a lot of winter bamboo shoots, this tastes very good, and when spring comes, I can also try to grow some food and vegetables, you don't have to worry about me, just take care of your body." ”

"Silly boy, are you confused? How can there be spring in our resting country? It snows in the resting country for almost half the year, and only in June and July when the ice and snow melt in just two or three months can you grow some crops, and there is ice and snow everywhere here, and I am really worried that you have no food, the mountain road is difficult to walk, and I can't bring too much food when I come up, how can you have a good face? I see that you are clearly and thin. ”

Mi Piaoxue was stunned, is it true that there are no four seasons in the country of rest? It only takes two or three months a year for the ice and snow to melt, so how do the crops grow? Is this a wonderful environment?

"Although our ice and snow village has a short time to grow crops, as long as it is irrigated with stream water, there is a good harvest every year, this stream on the mountain is called Mochizuki Creek, the water is warm all year round, and thanks to this Mochizuki Creek, the villagers of Bingxue Village will not starve, your life will not be so difficult, my mother brought you some food, salt and soy sauce also brought some, this is the meat I bought at the market, and I also brought you a piece. Aunt An took out some cornmeal, some brown rice, and a small jar of pickled vegetables from the bamboo basket, and took out another piece of meat.

"Auntie, you know that I am not short of meat, I can pick up frozen beasts, you can catch bamboo rats in the bamboo forest, you should take the meat back and eat it yourself, see you are thin. ”

"The meat you eat is a dead animal, the meat that the eldest mother gave you is fresh pork, good boy, I don't know how you spent this year, the eldest mother is ashamed......"

"I'm doing well, I used the pickles and venison you gave me to make stuffing, wrapped cornmeal dumplings, stewed bamboo rat meat, and, this is the hawthorn I picked from the mountain, after drying, soak in water to drink, you can open the spleen and strengthen the stomach, and when you leave, I will give you some, you don't have to worry about me, and try to go up the mountain as little as possible in the future, I will live well." ”

When Aunt An went down the mountain, Mi Piaoxue brought her some dried hawthorn made by herself, and packed a few packed winter bamboo shoots, a piece of venison frozen in the snowdrift, she didn't dare to take out the sugar to Aunt An, for fear that she would ask about the origin of the sugar, and kept looking at Aunt An's back and disappearing on the mountain road.

Looking at the food in the kitchen, Mi Piaoxue sighed, she was reborn in such a place, relying on Aunt An's help from time to time, I don't know how long I can last, An Ann who promised to be friends with her, actually never appeared again, yes, she is such an ordinary girl, but he is as tall as a fairy, how can Yangchun Baixue and Xia Riba people be compared?