My best friend is living a famine-stricken life; you're going crazy, I'm farming.

Sweet tofu pudding on top of rice, plus a little tree tomato sauce, makes it even more appetizing than any other dish I've eaten lately.

A whole steamer of rice was scraped clean.

Yang Fenglan joked, "We can't make tofu anymore, it's too wasteful of rice."

Xiao Yuanshan glanced at her without changing his expression. "If you really don't do it, then all that stone mill I built will have been for nothing?"

This person is addicted to eating tofu.

Yang Fenglan couldn't really not do it.

With so many soybeans available, it's nice to change things up once in a while.

Besides tofu pudding, she also makes vegetable tofu and pressed white tofu for stir-frying. When she got into the mood, Yang Fenglan also made a few sheets of bean curd skin.

Soybean curd skin is the thin film that forms on the surface of soy milk after it cools down. It is picked out with chopsticks and dried.

Once she started making it, she became addicted, and Yang Fenglan casually made some more fermented tofu and fermented black beans.

As the weather grew colder, even though there was no danger outside, no one wanted to go down the mountain and instead stayed home all day researching delicious food.

The cabbages in the garden have also sprouted. When making dough for breakfast, Yang Fenglan would always blanch two cabbage leaves in each person's bowl to increase their appetite.

Since we're not going down the mountain, we're getting less exercise, and everyone's faces are much rounder than before.

Lin Cuiniang joked that during the famine years, they went up the mountain to escape man-made disasters, but unexpectedly, they ended up enjoying good fortune instead.

He said it with a smile, but afterwards, he couldn't help but feel melancholy.

They were planning ahead, and it was also thanks to the ginseng and lingzhi that Xu Yingying and Yang Fenglan dug up on the mountain and exchanged for some money, otherwise, how would they have filled their stomachs?

Xiao Yuanshan was different. He hunted all year round and had other skills to make a living. He had few family members and had saved a lot of money. He also stockpiled a lot of grain from the mountains.

Fortunately, everyone was used to hard work and had relatively robust bodies, so no one got sick.

Their location was deep in the mountains and forests, and it's likely that the villagers were too frightened by the wild animals in the mountains to come down to the bottom of the cliff where they were.

Life was quite carefree and comfortable.

That night, Yang Fenglan felt like she couldn't get warm no matter what she did.

Even when I was sleeping with my best friend, I was still shivering from the cold.

"Can't you sleep?" Xu Yingying suddenly asked, startling her.

"It's cold. I can't get warm no matter how I sleep. I'm going to get up and put on some clothes."

"Are you sick?" In the darkness, Xu Yingying touched Yang Fenglan's forehead, which wasn't hot. "You're covered with two blankets, how can you still be cold?"

Yang Fenglan put on the cotton-padded coat she had worn during the day in the dark, wrapped it tightly around herself, and then crawled back into bed.

Only then did I feel a little more at ease.

But then I thought of my child and couldn't fall asleep again.

I got up and lit the oil lamp.

"Where are you going?" Xu Yingying asked, still half asleep.

"I'm going to check on the children."

Zhou Jingwei and Xiao Ning's rooms were next door, so Yang Fenglan went straight in.

Seeing that the two little ones were sleeping soundly, wrapped tightly in their blankets, I finally felt relieved.

When I went outside again, I saw tiny shavings floating above the oil lamp.

"Snow?" Yang Fenglan reached out to catch it, but her hand was quickly chilled by the cold air.

It really snowed.

Winter is here, but spring is not far away.

Back in her room, after blowing out the oil lamp, Yang Fenglan crawled into her basket.

He deliberately placed his cold hand on Xu Yingying's neck.

"Ice." Xu Yingying was half asleep. She turned over, grabbed Yang Fenglan's hand, and warmed it in her arms.

Yang Fenglan had a wicked idea and grabbed her twice.

"Damn it! Pervert!" Xu Yingying was startled awake and kicked Yang Fenglan off the bed.

She quickly realized she had gone too far, so she threw off the warm blankets and said, "Sorry, I'm grumpy in the morning. Get in bed and let your older sister touch you too."

Yang Fenglan: ...

Why am I a little scared?

Who cares? Let him touch me, it's not like I've never touched one before.

She scrambled under the covers, saying, "It's snowing outside."

"Oh."

"..."