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After making clothes at home for a few days, Xu Wenyan felt that she was going to get moldy.

But the snow is quite heavy, it has been falling continuously these past few days, sometimes for several hours or half a day.

It's not a good idea to go hunting in the mountains as long as the wind and snow don't stop.

Today is Xiaoxue (a solar term) and it is the day for the village to go to the big market.

After the light snow, it means the arrival of cold air, and it will be really cold after today.

Originally, Xu Wenyan was planning to go to the county to buy some things during the Xiaoxue period, but unfortunately, the four taels of silver in his family were given to Xu Dashan to redeem Xu Fu. The family still had more than three hundred coins in change, so it should be no problem for him to go shopping.

But before he went out, he saw Xiaohu, Zhou Jianjia and He Xianhua coming back from the village entrance.

"Hey, Xiaohu, isn't there a big market today? Why are you heading home?" Xu Wenyan asked puzzledly.

Xiaohu was about to speak when He Xianhua interrupted him: "Why are you still going out? It's so unlucky. The mountain is blocked by heavy snow. The only road to the county is blocked by falling snow. There's no point in going out." After saying that, He Xianhua twisted her butt and left with Zhou Jianjia.

We can't deal with the mountain being blocked by heavy snow. If it were modern times, we could use an excavator or a snowplow to dig through it in a few hours, but in this day and age we can only leave it to fate.

To think of the worst, it may not be possible to go out this year.

Xiaohu followed Xu Wenyan into the yard, and Chen Xiaohua brought them a cup of hot water.

"Thank you, Xiaohua." He felt better after taking a sip of hot water. "Brother Xu, you don't know how heavy the snow was today. I went with the main group today. The snow on the mountain blocked the road completely."

Xu Wenyan nodded and asked, "Hasn't it snowed this heavily before?"

"Brother Xu, doesn't your Xujia Village also have to take that road? How come you don't know about what happened before?" Xiaohu asked puzzledly.

Xu Wenyan panicked after being asked this question by Xiaohu. He picked up the bowl and drank some water, saying, "I was weak and stayed at home during those years. How could I know what was going on outside? Don't interrupt! Tell me now."

"Oh." Xiaohu scratched his head and continued, "The last time it snowed so heavily was five years ago. I was still young at that time, and I knew that the mountain was closed due to heavy snow. It was not opened until the Spring Festival. We had no choice."

Xu Wenyan knew that the alternation of cold and warm winters was generally regular. The last time was five years. So after this year, there would be no cold winters in the next three or four years. This was also a happy thing.

After all, Xu Wenyan is really afraid of the cold.

"Oh, I guess we can't go out this year given the situation." Xiaohu sighed and shook his head.

Xu Wenyan thought so too. If there was no human intervention, it would be impossible to get out of the mountain due to the heavy snow. "Xiaohu, take 200 coins and help me buy some radishes, potatoes and sweet potatoes from the villagers."

"Ah? You're going to buy all of these two hundred coins?" Potatoes and sweet potatoes are one coin per pound, so you have to buy more than three hundred pounds of them.

Xu Wenyan just nodded. He had a bad feeling in his heart that something big would happen this year.

After receiving the order, Xiaohu just said "oh" and went out. He had to buy so many pounds of things early.

When I returned to the house, I saw that the firewood in the yard was half piled up, and there was still a lot of firewood standing on the wall behind the house. Otherwise, it would take up too much space if it was placed in the yard.

"Brother Chen, please chop more firewood. I feel we will burn a lot this year." Xu Wenyan had a serious expression on his face and Chen Sanlin didn't ask any more questions. He just let him chop.

After entering the inner room, Xu Wenyan began to cut cotton cloth. With Wang Cuijuan's clothes as reference, Xu Wenyan probably knew how to do it. He worked for a whole day to finish a piece of clothing for Rong Xiaoliu. It was not that he favored Rong Xiaoliu.

But he plans to go up the mountain tomorrow and he has to take him with him. This may be the last hunting trip this winter.

After leaving the house, the kids were carrying radishes and potatoes to the cellar. Chen Sanlin was sitting aside, probably tired from chopping wood.

Looking at the small mountain of potatoes, radishes and sweet potatoes on the ground, Xu Wenyan felt that it would be the right thing to give this job to Xiaohu, as this kid was honest, hardworking and efficient.

Xu Wenyan was in a good mood and fried some dried rabbit and potato chips in the evening.

"Xiao Liu, take this bowl of rabbit meat to your brother Xiaohu and tell him to come to our house tomorrow morning." Xu Wenyan served half a bowl of rabbit meat. It's not that he was stingy. Although the rabbit was quite fat, it was not enough for so many people to eat.

"Okay, Brother Xu." Since Xu Wenyan gave the finished cotton-padded jacket to Rong Xiaoliu just now, he happily put it on immediately and didn't even feel the pain on the back of his hand.

The young man carried the bowl and walked carefully towards Xiaohu's house.

"Brother Xiaohu, Brother Xu asked me to bring you some meat."

It was dinner time at Xiaohu's house. He was really tired after running around for Xu Wenyan all day. "I'm so sorry." Although he said that, he immediately picked up a piece of rabbit meat.

Really fragrant!

"Ah? Brother Xiaohu, you asked me where this cotton-padded jacket came from? This was made for me by Brother Xu himself. It's so warm." The smile on Rong Xiaoliu's face became even brighter.

Xiaohu: “…”

"By the way, Brother Xu asked you to go to his house tomorrow morning. Don't forget to wear something warm. Brother Xiaohu, you see, the clothes Brother Xu made for me are very warm." Rong Xiaoliu was still showing off.

Xiaohu shook his head, put down the rabbit meat and locked Rong Xiaoliu's neck: "You kid, you are going to die if you don't show off, get out of here, get out of here."

Seeing Rong Xiaoliu being pushed away, Old Lady Zhang smiled and said worriedly, "Hey, slow down, slow down, don't fall."

"Yeah! Goodbye, Brother Xiaohu, and goodbye, Grandpa Zhang!"

In fact, according to seniority, Rong Xiaoliu should call Xiaohu and Xu Wenyan uncle, but he felt that that was not as intimate as calling them brother, so he just called them brother.

The next morning, Xu Wenyan prepared pancakes for lunch. The pancakes were filled with shredded potatoes and radishes, and they were extremely delicious.

Xu Wenyan first went to Zhou's house and took two hats from Wang Cuijuan.

Wang Cuijuan had just invented the Lei Feng hat, but she only made two. Xu Wenyan was really afraid that his condition would worsen if he went out, but now he couldn't go out and buy medicine.

Wang Deshun, the barefoot doctor in the village, probably can’t even cure a fever.

She gave the small backpack at home to Rong Xiaoliu, and she still carried the cloth bag and wore the Lei Feng hat made of rabbit skin on her head. It was really warm. Wang Cuijuan also stuffed willow catkins inside to make the hat thicker.

Xu Wenyan first put it on Xiaohu and then said, "You three can take turns wearing this hat for half an hour each."

Several people had no objection, but just thought the hat was somewhat novel.

Xu Wenyan actually had some selfish motives in making this distribution, but only a little bit. When they first went out, no one was cold, so Xu Wenyan gave it to Xiaohu. But after half an hour, he felt cold, so it would be more effective if he wore it at that time.

After the preparations were done, it was time to go up the mountain. This time, Chen Sanlin was still in the lead, and Xiaohu was at the end.