You are unlucky and I am tough

The heavy snow turned Chengjia Village into a silver world. The mountains in the distance were looming in the snow, and the roofs and branches nearby were covered with snow. The scene was quiet and peaceful.

Several children in the village were running and playing excitedly in the snow. Wei Xinyi was among them. She was wearing a thick coat, and her hands were red from the cold, but she was still happily making a snowman, using sticks and stones to make the snowman's nose and eyes. Her laughter echoed in the cold air.

While making a snowball, Wei Xinyi suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves. She turned around and saw a black horse running towards her. After seeing the person on the horse, she was immediately surprised.

Wei Xinyi shouted excitedly, "Fourth brother, fourth brother is back!" Then she ran in the direction where the horse was running.

When Wei Nanxing saw his sister running towards him, he quickly pulled the reins and quickly got off the horse. Zhao Xiuwen behind him also got off the horse.

"Fourth brother, you're finally back." Wei Xinyi rushed over and hugged him around the waist.

"Come back for the New Year." Wei Nanxing touched her head, picked her up and put her on the horse's back.

Wei Xinyi was a little nervous when she first sat on the horse, but after realizing it was safe, she reached out and touched the horse's mane. "Wow, what a beautiful black horse!"

"Nanxing, I'm going home first. Thank you so much today." Zhao Xiuwen bowed and said goodbye, then turned and walked home.

Wei Nanxing walked slowly with the horse, letting Wei Xinyi experience the feeling of riding a horse. When they reached a few children making a snowman, they stopped for a while and let her show off in front of her friends before continuing on their way home.

The heavy snow has not stopped since last night. The snow in the yard is so thick that it is almost up to the calves. The family has been shoveling snow in the yard since the afternoon. They use a shovel to shovel the snow into a dustpan, and then pick it up and spread it outside. After clearing the yard, Wei Qinglang took a shovel and cleared the road outside the yard alone at the door.

"Brother, I'm back." Wei Nanxing shouted when he saw someone at the door from afar.

Wei Qinglang paused, and after seeing who was coming, he stuck the shovel into the snow and went to meet him.

Wei Xinyi waved from her horseback, "Third brother, Fourth brother has a horse now. Its name is Black Moonlight."

Wei Qinglang ran closer and asked, "Going home at this time, did your master let you go home for the New Year?"

"Yeah." Wei Nanxing nodded and patted the horse's neck. "This horse was given to me by my master."

"It's a good horse." Wei Qinglang took the reins and patted his brother's shoulder. "It's taller and seems to be stronger."

Wei Nanxing smiled and said, "I have become stronger after practicing every day."

Cheng Shuang was adding charcoal to the stove when she heard Wei Xinyi's voice calling that her fourth brother was back. She stood up and walked quickly to the door with Cheng Guqiu, opened it, and stuck her head out.

Cheng Guqiu was delighted to see the people in the yard and shouted, "Nanxing is back."

"Sister-in-law, aunt." Wei Nanxing greeted them politely.

Wei Xinyi had already slipped through the crack in the door to get warm. Cheng Shuang half-opened the main door and said, "Nanxing, it's cold outside. Come in and warm up."

"Okay sister-in-law, I'll bring the horse in and go in."

As he said that, Wei Nanxing went out and brought his Black Moonlight into the yard.

Cheng Shuang originally only stuck her head out, and Wei Qinglang watched as her eyes lit up when she saw the horse being led in. She moved her body out little by little, and then ran out quickly.

Looking at her thin clothes, Wei Qinglang frowned. Does she like horses so much?

Don’t you feel cold now?

"What a handsome horse." Cheng Shuang's eyes lit up. This horse was taller than usual, with long limbs and shiny black fur. Its eyes were as black as gems and showed intelligence. It was obvious that it was a good horse.

She couldn't help but reach out to touch it. When her hand touched the horse's neck, the horse turned around to look at her. It was not panicked, but just looked at her quietly, with curiosity and gentleness in its eyes.

Cheng Shuang gently touched the soft mane, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously rose.

At this moment, he suddenly felt his body warm. He looked down and saw that the furry cloak was already on his body. He turned his head and saw Wei Qinglang's face.

Wei Qinglang said calmly, "Didn't you just say it was too cold and didn't want to go out? Now you don't even remember it was cold."

"Thank you." Cheng Shuang tied the cloak on herself and continued to caress the horse.

Wei Qinglang silently withdrew his hand from adjusting his cloak, thinking why didn’t he tell him earlier that he liked horses? He could also go find a good horse.

Seeing Cheng Shuang liked it, Wei Nanxing pulled the reins and introduced it, "It's called Black Moonlight. It's a Thousand Stars Tread, a breed of horse introduced from a foreign tribe a hundred years ago. I don't know how it got into the mountains and got injured. It was rescued by a herbalist who was collecting herbs. The herbalist didn't know the breed and took it to the street to sell at a low price. Master was passing by and saw someone trying to buy it to take back for sale. He thought it was a waste of a natural gift, so he paid for it."

"It's very well-behaved and docile. If you like it, I'll give it to you. I'll just tell Master later."

"No, no, I'm just taking a look." Cheng Shuang waved her hand quickly, "It would be a waste to give it to me, I don't have much chance to ride it, and this is given to you by your master, you should keep it for yourself."

"By the way, where's your master?" Cheng Shuang changed the subject. "I heard he's working alone in the county government office. Isn't he going home for the New Year? How about asking him to come over and celebrate the New Year with us?"

Wei Nanxing said, "No need. Master is planning to resign and will probably go home."

Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang were both stunned and said in unison, "Resign? Why resign?"

Wei Nanxing said, "It's cold outside, let's go back inside and talk."

He took the horse to the firewood shed outside the kitchen and tied it up. He patted the horse's neck and told it not to act out of temper. Then he put the bundle and arrows back into the room before entering the main room.

The two charcoal stoves in the main room were burning very brightly. As soon as you walked in, you felt as comfortable as if a frozen person had soaked in hot water.

All the family members were there, and after not seeing each other for a long time, they had to exchange some greetings. After that, Wei Nanxing drank some hot tea and started talking about his master's arrangements for him and what he had learned during this period while sitting around the charcoal stove.

Cheng Shuang sat on a small stool, leaning her body naturally to the side, using the legs of Wei Qinglang who was sitting next to her as an armrest, and blowing on a cup of hot tea. She felt that this might be fate. It was such a coincidence that He Zhou's home was in the provincial capital, not far from Huanhua County, and it would not hinder Wei Nanxing from continuing to learn kung fu in the future.

Wei Qinglang was sitting on a high stool. He could see Cheng Shuang's tall and small nose bridge and her long eyelashes blinking in the hot steam of the tea. As he watched, he could no longer hear what Wei Nanxing was saying.

All I could think about was where to get a BMW for Cheng Shuang.

It gets dark quickly in winter. After it gets dark, Cheng Guqiu goes to the kitchen to prepare dinner. He catches a duck and stews it with potatoes, and then stir-fries some spicy and sour potato shreds.

The potatoes and sweet potatoes they had planted earlier had a good harvest, yielding over 500 kilograms of sweet potatoes and nearly 800 kilograms of potatoes. Ever since Cheng Shuang taught Cheng Guqiu a few potato dishes, she'd taken a liking to using potatoes in various dishes, even creating a potato stewed with beef brisket without Cheng Shuang's instruction.

Of course, these dishes were still not enough, so Cheng Guqiu asked Cheng Pan and Dongyun to take some money and go to the headman's house to see if there was any meat to buy before it got completely dark. He also asked Qiuyan to go to the vegetable garden outside to pick some lettuce.

Cheng Shuang and Wei Xinyi went to the chicken coop to get eggs. The chickens at home laid eggs very diligently. They could pick up five or six eggs every day. The family could not finish eating them all, and there were already quite a few accumulated in the cupboard.

After touching the eggs, Cheng Shuang came back from outside and saw Wei Qinglang flipping through the piles of books at the desk as soon as she entered the room.

We bought the books at a bookstore around October, because my sisters learned very quickly and had finished reading books like Three Character Classic and Thousand Character Classic and Hundred Family Surnames. So we simply went to the bookstore and bought more than 200 books, including classics, history, Analects of Confucius, medical reference books, geographical chronicles, picture books, etc.

Cheng Shuang asked, "What are you looking for?"

"Oh, nothing."

Wei Qinglang didn't find the horse genealogy he wanted, so he turned around and went out to look for it in Wei Xinyi's room. When he reached the door, he suddenly remembered that Wei Xinyi was now living with Cheng Pan, and as her brother-in-law, he couldn't enter his sister-in-law's room.

Wei Xinyi put the eggs in the kitchen and just ran out when she was caught by Wei Qinglang. He took her aside and whispered to her to go back to her room to help find a book.

Cheng Shuang saw the whole process through the crack in the door. She saw Wei Qinglang took a book from Wei Xinyi, hid it stealthily in his arms, and gave Wei Xinyi a few instructions before slowly returning to the room.

Cheng Shuang stood by the door and stretched out her hand towards the person who opened the door and came in, "What are you hiding? Let me see."

Wei Qinglang was startled by her and shook his head. "Nothing, just a copy of the Geography of Dongzhou."

"show me."

“It’s really a geography.”

"Then let me see it." Cheng Shuang stepped forward and stretched her hand directly into his arms.

Wei Qinglang grabbed her wrist and said with a smile, "Cheng Shuang, can we give each other some privacy?"

Cheng Shuang narrowed her eyes, "Okay, but I still want to see what's in your arms."

Out of curiosity, she had to take a look, and she reached her other hand into his arms to take something out. Wei Qinglang was not willing to stop her and quickly started to fight over it.

Wei Qinglang took the book out of his arms and raised it above his head with one hand. It turned out to be high enough and he was standing on tiptoe. Cheng Shuang was so angry that she jumped up and down to reach for it, and then the two of them accidentally bumped into each other.

Her nose hit Wei Qinglang's chin and she cried out in pain.

Cheng Guqiu, who happened to be passing by, paused and knocked on the door. "Shuang'er, what's wrong with you? What did you yell for?"

Cheng Shuang covered her nose. Wei Qinglang supported her and asked her to take her hand away so that he could see it. He replied, "It's okay, aunt. I just kicked my toe on the stool."

"Why are you so careless? Apply some medicine to her later."

"Got it." The two people in the room agreed at the same time.

After the people outside left, Cheng Shuang put down her hand. Wei Qinglang leaned closer to take a look. Her nose was a little red from being hit, but fortunately there was no nosebleed.

Taking advantage of the other person's distraction, she reached out to the book stealthily, trying to snatch it away, but the moment her fingers touched the book, it disappeared instantly.

After putting the book into the space, Wei Qinglang spread out his empty hands with an innocent look on his face.

Seeing how proud he was, Cheng Shuang was so angry that she stepped on him hard. Wei Qinglang hugged his leg and jumped on one leg in pain.

Later during dinner, Wei Nanxing noticed that Wei Qinglang was walking unnaturally and asked, "Brother, what's wrong with your foot?"

"He didn't look at the road when walking and kicked the stool." Cheng Shuang, who was already sitting at the table, answered quickly.

"Didn't you kick it?" Cheng Guqiu asked in confusion, "Is it you who just shouted that I heard?"

Cheng Shuang was embarrassed, and Wei Qinglang laughed, "I kicked the stool, and she was frightened and screamed."

Cheng Guqiu nodded, "So that's how it is." He thought to himself that the young couple was quite loving.