In Snowflake Town, ice and snow covered everything.

White snowflakes drifted down and landed on the streets, houses and trees. The roofs were covered with thick snow and the trees around the houses were decorated with graceful snowflakes.

There is a slum street in this town with few people living in it, not because there are few poor people in this town.

Rather, the people in the slums do not get warmth or enough food in the year-round cold weather, and their mortality rate is very high.

Whether it is warm clothes or a fire to keep warm, if you don’t have one of them, you won’t even have a chance to survive on this street.

On this slum street, a woman was wearing a tattered sweater covered with patches and repairs.

She heard crying, and she followed the direction of the crying and found a baby lying on the ground. The woman picked up the crying baby and kept comforting her.

"Be good, it's okay now, don't cry anymore."

The woman looked around and found no one else nearby. She waited for a long time but no one came to take the baby away.

Who put such a small baby here? Do they have any conscience?

If the baby is left here, she won't get enough warmth and won't live to see the next day.

The woman carefully carried the baby out of the alley and went to a store to buy bottles and milk powder.

She came to a dilapidated house, which was the woman's home.

The exterior walls of the house have peeled off badly, revealing the dirt and old bricks.

There was thick snow on the roof, icicles hung on the corners and window sills, and the window glass was almost covered with ice and snow.

The house was dark and cold, with a worn wooden chair placed aside and a stone stove lying quietly in a corner of the room, emitting some faint light.

Next to the stove, there is a pile of wood, some of which will be used as firewood and some will be made into charcoal.

In this small town, charcoal and firewood are the most important things. Without these two things, it is impossible to keep warm.

Various fabrics were also piled up in the house, some of which looked brand new and colorful, while others were worn and mottled, with tiny scuffs and holes on the surface.

Some of these fabrics she picked up from other people's discarded garbage dumps, and some were bought from tailor shops.

There are old tailoring tools next to the fabric.

The woman makes a living by selling handmade clothes. She sells the finished clothes to merchants who come to Snowflake Town, so she can get enough money to live on for several days.

The woman laid the baby on the bed, wrapped her in a warm blanket, and fed her.

Gradually, the baby's crying stopped and was replaced by a peaceful sleep.

The woman gently stroked her head, then quietly left the girl's side and walked towards the stove.

She gently picked up the firewood and put it into the stove one by one.

As the flames gradually rose, the sound of burning wood could be heard from the stove, and a warm atmosphere spread throughout the house.

She took out the measuring tape from the tailor's tools and returned to the baby's side. After measuring her size, she walked to the pile of fabrics and took out several pieces of fabric of similar colors.

The woman sat by the faint fire, holding a few pieces of cloth in her hands, threading the cloth, sewing the clothes stitch by stitch, and the faint light cast by the fire illuminated her.

In this quiet night, she was quietly sewing clothes, she wanted to make a piece of clothes for the baby.

The stone stove beside the fire emitted a faint flame, illuminating her hardworking figure.

Time passed by minute by minute, and she was only focused on the work in her hands. She didn't stop until late at night, and the firelight reflected in her tired eyes.

She paused what she was doing to add charcoal and wood to the stove.

Then she carefully lay down beside the baby, covered the baby with a blanket, and touched the girl's head with a gentle smile.

Then she wrapped herself tightly in the quilt. Under the dim light, she lay on her side, wrapped herself in the quilt, and her body gradually relaxed.

The woman closed her eyes and lay in bed, feeling the sleepiness gradually approaching.

Accompanied by the soft breathing of the baby and the faint light of the fire, the woman gradually fell asleep with a peaceful smile on her face.

The whole room was filled with a deep sense of tranquility and warmth.

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......

Six years later.

The woman named the child she picked up, Bai Yue.

The woman made another new dress for Bai Yue today. This dress is her masterpiece.

The neckline is simple and flat, made of high-quality white cotton, without too much decoration, only a few lines to outline the outline

The skirt is made of soft white cotton, and the edge of the skirt is decorated with simple lace. The cuffs of the skirt are loose and comfortable, and there are not too many decorations on the cuffs, just a simple circle of white cotton edge.

The woman designated the day she picked up the white moon as her birthday. Today is her birthday and this dress is her birthday gift.

The woman changed Bai Yue into new clothes by the fire. A bright smile spread across her face. She picked up the hem of her skirt and spun around happily.

"Thank you, mother!" She hugged the woman's waist from behind, "I love you the most."

"I like you, too. I'm going to find a merchant to sell clothes to you later. Please stay at home and be good by yourself."

The fabric of this dress is not cheap, so the woman made several dresses in the past few days and planned to sell them to merchants so that she would have enough money to buy wood and food.

"I want to go with mom too. I promise I won't run around." Bai Yue said coquettishly.

In the past, the woman would definitely take Bai Yue with her, but she had been injured and her strength was far less than when she was young.

It doesn’t matter if she encounters gangsters alone, but if Bai Yue is kidnapped, she may not be able to rescue Bai Yue in the first place.

In the past, when a woman went out, she would let Bai Yue hide in a place in the house where she could not be easily found, and would not let Bai Yue out until she came back.

"Then you must follow me closely and don't run around."

"Okay!" Bai Yue replied.

The woman took out a bell and hung it around Bai Yue's neck so that she could judge Bai Yue's distance from her based on the sound of the bell.

The woman held the clothes in her arms, and Bai Yue held her skirt tightly as they left the slum. On the way, they met two thugs, but neither of them intended to cause trouble for these people who looked like mother and daughter.

Because they were beaten by the man with the little girl ten years ago, and at that time they knew that women were warriors and stronger than ordinary people.

You are still looking for trouble with warriors. Do you deserve to be punished?

The sound of a soft bell accompanied their footsteps as they arrived at a shop.

The two businessmen greeted the woman, saying that she was a regular customer of their store and had come here every once in a while to sell some clothes since ten years ago.

When they saw the little girl holding tightly onto the woman's skirt, they all showed surprised expressions. It turned out that the woman had sold more clothes here in recent years because she wanted to support an extra little girl.

The woman placed the clothes on the table in front of them. The quality of the clothes she was selling was almost the same as usual.

The tailor used her skilled techniques to sew the fabric firmly and neatly, making it almost impossible to detect that the seams were hand-sewn.

Each thread is carefully locked, durable and without any unnecessary thread ends.

The two businessmen looked at each other, smiled bitterly and nodded. They both understood what each other meant.

The woman took the money from the merchant. In the past, she could not even get one tael of silver, but now the merchant gave her two taels of silver, which doubled the price.

"Is it true that you didn't make a mistake?" the woman asked.

"I didn't make a mistake. This is a thank you gift for providing us with clothes all the time. Please come to our place often to buy clothes in the future."

The woman noticed the other businessman's gaze, he was looking at Bai Yue.

Realizing the real reason for the money, she bowed her head deeply and thanked the merchants.

Bai Yue also lowered her head at this time and said to the two businessmen: "Thank you, uncles."

The two businessmen, perhaps out of shyness or for some other reason, asked the two of them to go back early, otherwise they might run into bad guys after dark.

The two businessmen joked after the woman and Bai Yue walked out of the store.

"I'm only in my twenties and not even married yet, why am I being called uncle?"

"You're almost thirty years old, do you still want others to call you big brother?"

"if not!"

The woman touched Bai Yue's head and asked, "Today is your birthday, what do you want to eat?"

"I want to eat chicken legs!" Bai Yue said with a smile.

"Then let's have chicken legs tonight."

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