Chapter 9: Winter

In the dead of winter, the entire Kimura was buried in a snowdrift, the cold wind swept the world wantonly, and the private school was also suspended, in fact, Mu Feng could have graduated a long time ago, but he liked the environment of the private school, and he still liked to run to the private school when he had free time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Even in winter, the villagers of Mucun still get up very early, especially in the heavy snow, in the morning, they will remove the snow and clear the snow on the road, which is a habit for many years, many villagers regard this behavior as a kind of morning exercise, which can move the muscles and bones, there is no work to do in the winter, and it is not good to do farm work next year without exercising.

Just because adults don't like winter doesn't mean children don't like it. For winter, Kimura's children can like it, and they don't have to do farm work, they don't have to go to private school, they don't have anything to do except play all day long, because of the cold weather, the old people don't have to worry about the children going far, this winter, the door on the small bridge that leads to Kimura is also closed, about whether the child is afraid of falling into the snow river, Kimura's children can swim as long as they can walk, and those who can't walk are still in the arms of adults, so the children of Kimura in winter are the best season to release their childhood innocence.

The Ling River is the mother river of Kimura, this river does not freeze all year round, and the winter makes the river cold, but it seems that the cold is the most beautiful time for this river, because when everything is withering and sleeping, it is still flowing quietly, unmoved by the world, and the other rivers next to it have long been frozen.

Early in the morning, several children of the same age in Kimura had already taken action, last night they had planned to catch birds today, in the winter, the birds were looking for something to eat, they prepared the bird cage and some food, and set off in a hurry, Yao'er and Mu Feng were among them. A few children trotted in the heavy snow, like a few moving grains of dust, but these few grains of dust and sand also brought life to a corner.

"Yamamoto is worry-free, for the snow-white head," Mu Feng said secretly

They were on a hill at the moment, and the higher place was more conspicuous, more open, and easier for the birds to see, and this was their understanding, so they chose to set a trap on a hill.

"Mu Ping, bring the birdcage, there are footprints of birds in this place, birds should come here often, let's put down traps here" Mu Feng said to a little fat man

The little fat man slowly walked towards Mu Feng with the birdcage, "Brother Feng, where are the footprints of birds?"

"Here, there is less snow here, only a small amount of snow" Mu Feng pointed to a large rock, because the stone is sloping, covering another piece of land, resulting in that land indeed only has a small amount of snow

"It's worthy of Brother Feng, really careful," Mu Ping praised

"Tsk, Mu Ping, you don't come to this set, do you want me to help you do your homework again?" Mu Feng rolled his eyes

"How can there be such a thing, Brother Feng, you have always been extremely smart, just give me some guidance," Mu Ping said

"Is it so simple? Every time you come to my house in the name of asking for advice, as soon as you come to my house, you don't listen to what I say, you know to copy and copy," Mu Feng complained

"This was an accident, wasn't I in a hurry at that time" Mu Ping retorted to him in a low voice, a little weak-hearted

"How can I be in a hurry every time," Mu Feng no longer paid attention to Mu Ping

"Okay, you Muping, it turns out that your homework is all copied from Brother Feng, I suspect that you were the same as me before, why did you do your homework all of a sudden, give me back my snacks", a little boy next to him put his hand on his waist, and said angrily, his name is Mu Qing, and in order to copy his homework, he didn't give Mu Ping snacks before.

"Uh, isn't this all eaten, I don't want you snacks in the future," the little fat man was a little embarrassed

"Hee-hee, hahaha" Yao'er and another little girl next to her kept snickering, and Mu Ping was even more embarrassed

"Okay, okay, I'll pay you back in the future" In front of the girls, for the sake of a small face, Mu Ping still gave Mu Qing an explanation

"It's not bad" Mu Qing breathed a sigh of relief, he thought that this little fat man would not pay it back

"Xuefei, bring me the food trap, just a little, let's change places after catching a few here, the birds are also a little thoughtful" Mu Feng said to the little girl beside Yao'er, the little girl's name is Mu Xuefei

"Here you go," the little girl handed over

After Mu Feng got the bait, he put it away and told a few children to leave the mountain, find a place far away from the trap and squat down, observe the bird cage, among their five children, Yao'er is the youngest, and Mu Feng is the largest, although they are only a few months to a year apart.

The child's patience is always bad, and after a while, some people complained, and Mu Ping first said, "Why haven't there been any birds yet, we've been waiting for so long."

"We've just left, and the birds must be still scared of that place," Mu Feng said

"Let's wait," Mu Xuefei replied

Finally, about a stick of incense, there was movement on the other side of the cage, and three birds flew to the cage, and the birds did not immediately come forward to eat food, and hesitated beside them.

The children were excited, and Mu Qing whispered, "Eat quickly, eat quickly."

Still can't resist the temptation of food, a little bird flew forward into the cage, just pecked the food and was about to fly away, but the cage closed the small mouth, the little bird immediately screamed loudly and crashed around, but still couldn't fly out, this situation also scared the two birds not far away, it stands to reason that these two birds are going to fly away, somehow, these two birds actually flew towards the cage, stopped next to the cage, circled around the cage, pecked at the cage from time to time, and screamed loudly, this sound is very beautiful, but in this case Mu Feng They knew that these sounds must be the desperate roar of the birds。

Mu Feng approached the birdcage, and the two birds outside the cage flew away, but they did not fly far, still flying around Mu Feng and them, unwilling to leave. There are many birds around Kimura, but this bird has the best call. "This bird is called Tian Lai, although it is small, but it has a good voice, and the gentlemen at the private school told me that it is good to take it home and raise it," Mu Feng said to the other children

Then they changed several places to catch birds, and also caught other birds, but the two natural birds just now did not leave, and still circled around them, and their cries became more and more poignant, and they seemed to be a little dumb.

Yao'er couldn't stand it anymore, so she said, "Brother Feng, are these two birds outside the parents of the caged birds, otherwise why don't they want to leave, it's very cute to look at them" The little girl is innocent after all.

"They should be, it's really cute, this bird seems to be very "human"" Mu Feng replied

"Why don't we let them go, it's really cute," Mu Xuefei also replied softly, she seemed to be touched by the two birds

"I agree", Mu Ping also said, and then Mu Qing also said that the birds are released.

Mu Feng had long wanted to release the bird, but after all, he didn't catch it alone, and they had to agree, and now everyone agreed, Mo Feng opened the birdcage and released the bird, as soon as he got out of the birdcage, the bird flew to the other two birds, they immediately "chirped" and chirped, maybe their calls at this time were the real sounds of nature, they pecked each other's feathers, and then flew away together, and several children also took their hearts and prepared to go home.

"Brother, how can you say that a little bird will have affection?" Jun Yao asked Mu Feng

"Everything has spirituality, since humans have human nature, why don't animals have it?" It's just that they are not as troublesome as humans, I'm just guessing," Mu Feng replied Yao'er

On the way home, a few children still walked happily on the heavy snow, what about the deep winter?

Yao'er likes to jump the most, but he tripped over a stone on the road and had a crutch, so Mu Feng had no choice but to carry the person who often asked him to carry himself on his back on weekdays.

The neighboring country of Lanling is a country called Tiandong, due to the fact that this year's heavy snow has lasted for too long, there has been civil strife, and several forces that are ready to move take the opportunity to subvert the power of Tiandong kingship, and a large number of refugees have fled from this country, of course, in addition to refugees, there are other people.

In a village in Qishui Town

In the depths of winter, it should have been quiet and serene, but I don't know where a group of people, about 200 of them, all on horses, they were all armed, but they were disheveled, and they had all kinds of swords in their hands. Obviously, they are bandits, people who walk on the tip of a knife all year round.

"Boss, this village has been robbed, should we change the village, those so-called hard-boned ones have been killed, the rest of these people are not to be afraid, there are a few children here, maybe they can be sold for a good price!" said a mercenary to their boss

"Eighth child, good job, this woman has rewarded you" After saying that, the old man pushed a bumpy young woman next to him to the eighth child, this woman had obviously just been robbed, and her clothes were messy

"Hahaha, thank you, boss" The so-called old eight laughed loudly, but the young woman couldn't cry

"Serve Lao Tzu well, maybe I can let you go" The old man laughed again, but in the woman's heart, this voice was more terrifying than the demon in the eighteenth layer of hell, and the weak body was constantly trembling, and the old man pulled the woman away.

"Brothers, let's live here tonight, we'll do it tomorrow, we're going to grab this place quickly, and then go back for the winter, damn it, the villagers in that place don't have any hair, and they've all fled, or the villagers in this place are rich, haha" The boss said to man number 200

"Tomorrow we will go and do a big job, and from the mouths of these villagers, there is a wooden village ten miles away, and that village is relatively rich, and we can go back and enjoy it after we have robbed it, and we will act tomorrow night," the boss continued to say to the bandits

"Boss Wise" a bunch of bandits are there to pat on the back

"Fortunately, this place didn't burn the house much, otherwise there would be no place to live at night, in the winter, damn cold to me, this damn snow" The old man scolded loudly, put away his big knife and went back to the house.

Blood shrouded this village, only some old, weak, sick and disabled, these bandits' nests were originally far away from this place, Qishui Town is on the edge of the country, there was a rebellion in the neighboring country, these bandits are from the neighbors, the country can't control it at all, and this kind of thing often happens in winter, the bandits they robbed the place by them, the people are gone, they can only go away to other places to continue to rob, they dare not rob in the town, only dare to rob the weaker rural areas.

Kimura, more than ten miles away, is unaware of this, and the villagers are still immersed in a gentle dreamland, what Kimura will look like after tomorrow, only time can tell.