A small breakfast shop in the street market, supporting the family and making money

Not only her and Leng He, but also Leng Huai, Leng Cang and Leng Qi in the west room.

It was like the candy that Santa Claus placed next to the pillow, or more like the red envelope that the elders put under the pillow. The children were all very happy.

They put them on their ears, jumped and danced happily, and rushed into the snow in a few steps.

With the ear warmers wrapped around your ears, your ears will be as warm as if they were covered with a quilt.

Leng Yan took advantage of his happiness and rushed out of the yard in a few steps, looking at the mountains not far away.

These past two days she has been thinking about going into the mountains. As the old saying goes, live in the mountains, eat from the mountains; live by the water, eat by the water, even if you can't find anything good in the mountains.

She could also buy some rabbits and pheasants from the mall, pretending that they were caught in the mountains, and take them home to improve her diet.

Now seems to be a good time to go into the mountains.

Thinking of this, Leng Yan rushed into the kitchen.

"Mom, where is our machete?"

"Why are you looking for a machete? Children are not allowed to use this!

Zhang Cuiniang and Leng Su were in the kitchen, preparing brunch, when they saw her approaching with a menacing look on their faces. They couldn't help but look alert.

Seeing this cold feeling, I couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Mom, what are you thinking? I just want to use a machete to chop the pork bones I bought yesterday so that I can make carrot soup."

After finding a machete, Old Man Leng on the side was about to help, but Leng Yan stepped forward swiftly - with three sharp slashes of the knife, three large pig bones were broken.

Not only her family members, but Leng Yan herself was shocked by her own great strength. She felt like she had not used even 50% of her strength to break such a thick bone.

If it weren't for the many curled notches on the machete's blade, she would have doubted whether the machete could cut through iron like mud.

"Wow! Sister, your strength has grown. It feels like you are even stronger than before."

Leng He exclaimed and looked at her with admiration.

"Really?"

Leng Yan didn't know how strong he was before, so he could only explain, "Maybe I'm better now and can control the amount of strength I use on my own."

As she spoke, she handed the chopped pork bones to Zhang Cuiniang, "Mom, add more water, turn up the heat, and stew the bone soup until it's thick, then add the radish."

After explaining the general method, Leng Yan took the opportunity to say, "It's still early. I'll go up the mountain with my uncle and brother to collect firewood and come back to eat later."

Without waiting for their reaction, Leng Yan pulled his uncle and elder brother over, put on the basket, and led Da Huang up the mountain.

A small path leading up the mountain was covered with snow, which melted into water after being trampled, revealing steps that were only wide enough for one person to pass through.

The three of them lined up and walked up the mountain. They were going to a hill where they could dig wild vegetables in the spring and pick up bush branches in the winter.

Further up the hill is the outskirts of the mountain, where hunters in the village often hunt.

When the uncle and nephew climbed up the hill, many villagers were already digging up dead branches and weeds from the snow and taking them home to use as kindling.

Seeing that there were so many people around, Leng Yan went to the corner with his uncle and brother to collect firewood.

It is not easy to collect firewood in winter because of the heavy snow and strong wind.

Therefore, most people would prepare firewood for the winter early before winter comes.

The reason why the Leng family came out to collect firewood in the middle of winter was because in the autumn, Leng Xun learned through someone that a wealthy family in the city was collecting firewood.

With this livelihood, the Leng family and several other families in the same village, with whom they were on good terms, went up the mountain to collect firewood every day and then went into the city to sell it to those families.

You have to know that the wealthy families have fixed partners for their purchases, and ordinary people have no chance to make money.

At this moment, Leng Yan glanced at the villagers on the hill and found that most of them were the people who had chopped wood with his father before, except Leng Juaner's family.

Old man Leng, Leng Dagen, is the second child in the family. He has an older brother named Leng Dashu.

Leng Dashu is Leng Juaner's grandfather and Leng Yan's great-grandfather.

In my impression, this great-grandfather's family has always lived a good life, with many children and grandchildren, but they are not close to their family and don't get along with them.

I don't know where I heard it from, but it is said that my grandfather's parents favored the eldest wife.

When the family property was divided, most of it was given to my great-grandfather's family. Even before the old couple passed away, they secretly left their inheritance to my great-grandfather without my grandfather's knowledge.

Leng Dashu has been spoiled by his parents since he was young, and often looks down on his unfavored younger brother.

Especially after the old couple passed away, Leng Dashu's family relied on the inheritance left by their parents to have many children and grandchildren, and their lives became better and better.

As for Leng Dagen's family, they had no news for more than ten years because their eldest son went to the army.

Later, after his wife gave birth to twins, he suddenly heard a rumor from somewhere that his eldest son had died in the war. He was so worried after giving birth that he passed away just three or two years later.

Since then, the life of the second branch of the Leng family has become increasingly difficult. In order not to be dragged down, the first branch of the Leng family almost cut off contact with the second branch.

However, although the adults had broken off contact, the child had no scruples. As far as she could remember, Leng Juan'er had bullied her and her younger sister-in-law a lot.

The reason why Leng Yan was bullied was because she was previously considered a fool by others, so it was no pressure to bully her.

The reason why Leng Su was bullied was because Leng Juaner loved Sun Caiwen and was jealous of Leng Su who was engaged to him.

Leng Yan put away all the memories one by one. Although she didn't know why Leng Juan'er and her family went up the mountain to collect firewood in such a cold weather, she had something important to do today, so she didn't want to settle the score with her for the time being.

Thinking of this, Leng Yan walked a few steps to the side. As she walked, she pulled at the branches that were bent by the heavy snow and wind and fell on the snow.

"Uncle, please help me cut this branch into sections with an axe. I'll go check it out."

Without waiting for an answer, Leng Yan ran away in a few steps.

Since his niece was strong and there were many people here, Leng Huai did not stop her. He paid attention to Leng Yan's direction while cutting the branches neatly and putting them into the basket.

"Oh, rabbits, rabbits, so many rabbits!"

Leng Yan's exclamation attracted everyone's attention, and they all looked for the source of the sound.

Leng Yan squatted behind a big tree, picked up a stone from the snow, and threw it into the dry grass at the foot of the hill. Da Huang beside him responded and chased after it.

Taking advantage of the sound of the stone falling to the ground to attract people's attention, she quickly spent one hundred and sixty copper coins and bought two farmed pheasants in the mall.

Then she grabbed the chicken's neck with one hand and its claws with the other, and rolled a few times in the snow, creating a chaotic scene of capture.

Then she ran forward for dozens of meters, fell on the snow, pressed a pheasant under her body, and pretended that it was difficult to catch the pheasant.

After she had done all this, she shouted, "Uncle and brother, come quickly, I caught a pheasant!"

After a while, someone came over after hearing the news, "Hey, Sister Yan, what happened? Why did you fall to the ground?"

A woman quickly stepped forward and helped her up, and only then did he see the pheasant in her hands and arms.

"Hey, this is Sister Yan, did you catch her? You are so amazing!"

The woman gave her a thumbs up, and Leng Huai and Leng Cang, who followed closely, couldn't help but look happy when they saw that she was fine.

This pheasant has beautifully colored feathers and is large in size. It will surely fetch a lot of money if we take it to the city.

Seeing this, Leng Yan was looked at with envy from all around, and she pretended to be distressed.

"It's a pity that we didn't catch any rabbits. Those three or five rabbits were all fat and strong. If we had caught them, we would have been able to sell them for a lot of money."

Upon hearing this, everyone was distracted by the rabbit and hurriedly looked for the rabbit's traces. Leng Yan and his companions took the opportunity to quietly return home with a full load.