The wealth of rebirth is deep in the mountains

Chapter 25

"Thank you Brother Feng, I will make you a new quilt later."

"My family, don't be polite."

Feng Jian waved his hand, but what he said made Xiaomi blush.But she didn't have time to worry about anything, so she quickly assigned the work.

"Big Brother, Second Brother, go to every house in the village and ask if anyone has old quilts, old cotton jackets, or ragged leather jackets. You can borrow them temporarily to build a shed for a few days. If you ask, tell the truth."

"Okay, let's go here."

Boss Lu and Second Lu hurried out of the house, and Lu Xiaomi packed up the family's bedding and old coats.Feng Jian's master and servant helped to hug her, and they went to the vegetable field outside the wall together.

The Lu family was so lively, everyone on Old Xiongling naturally heard the news very quickly.

For the ten vegetable sheds, every household can see how much effort and money Xiaomi has put into it.Now I suddenly heard that it will snow heavily, and the vegetable seedlings that can be exchanged for money immediately may be frozen to death, and all men, women and children are anxious.

The women immediately opened the broken wooden door of the barn, and the smoke and dust from rummaging billowed, frightening the mice to move away.

Your family has an old quilt, mine has a ragged cotton jacket, and his family even took out two wolf skins.

In this way, everyone quickly gathered a bunch of things, and when they were ready to be sent to the Lu family vegetable garden, they happened to cover the remaining sheds tightly.

After a while, the straw curtains were covered on the top again, and the wooden sticks and stones were pressed down to prevent the strong wind from opening the vegetable shed. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Xiaomi wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and brought his two older brothers to salute everyone, expressing his sincere thanks.

"Thank you, uncles and aunts, for your help. The whole Lu family is very grateful."

"They're all from the village, so don't talk nonsense." The hunters are straightforward, and Xiaomi thanked them so solemnly, which made them feel uncomfortable.

Someone laughed and shouted, "That's right, when Xiaomi gets rich, just buy a few jars of wine for the uncles to drink enough."

"Okay, don't worry, uncle, after the vegetables are sold, big pieces of meat and big bowls of wine will be enough!"

Xiaomi responded readily, and finally said, "Then I have to trouble the uncles to help my second brother keep watch tonight. If the snow is too heavy, I'm afraid we need to clean it from time to time, otherwise the shed will be easily crushed."

"Okay, it's a small thing."

"I still have two jars of wine at home, get them first, light a few bonfires tonight, let's drink first!"

The hunters had been idle all winter, and they were all very excited about getting together to drink and stay up late.So, they went home one after another, put on the thickest sheepskin jackets, hugged the wolfskin mattresses, and prepared wine gourds, as if preparing to go hunting in the mountains.

The women didn't stop them, and helped to check again whether the vegetable shed was covered tightly, and then they went home together.

Sure enough, not long after, the sky became gloomy, and the air was so warm that it was unreal.Immediately afterwards, the north wind blew on the flat ground, and the clouds became thicker and thicker.

Before the sky completely darkened, the goose-feather-like snow fell profusely.

On weekdays, with such a rare snow scene, Xiaomi would definitely stand under the eaves and pick up a few pieces to play with.

But today, she didn't have such a mood. After all, the vegetable seedlings that carried most of her hopes were too fragile.If he couldn't escape the heavy snow, everything would be in vain.

In less than two hours, several bonfires had already been lit in the vegetable garden, from branches to stumbles, and the fire became more and more intense.The hunters had just swept the snow off the vegetable shed, so they were wrapped in leather jackets and sat crowded together on wolf fur mattresses, passing wine gourds from time to time, sharing the same strong wine, and soon everyone was glowing red.

If there are people who don't know, looking from a distance, I'm afraid they will be scared out of their wits, thinking when did so many "big beasts" gather in the vegetable garden?
The Lu family’s kitchen was brightly lit, and a large iron pot was boiling pork bone soup. After cooking for half a day, the soup was already a little milky white, with faint oily flakes floating on the surface. The greedy Gao Ren kept wandering around the side of the pot. .

Xiaomi poured all the shredded cabbage and frozen tofu in the big pot, waited until the pot was boiled, tasted it, and put a handful of salt.

"Gao Ren'er, quickly help me light the fire, and I'll get you frozen tofu later."

Ever since Feng Jian injured her leg and moved into the Lu family, the Lu family's bone broth has never been broken.The most common reason why Lu Wu was sent into the city was that the pig bones were used up.

So much so that the butcher in the city saved up all the bones and waited for Lu Wu to pick them up.Although there is not much money in total, they are all discarded things on weekdays. Now that they are sold for copper coins, there is nothing to be satisfied with.

Everyone in the Lu family followed Feng Jian to drink bone soup all day long. No one knew if they were really taking calcium supplements.But Lu Wu and Gao Ren jumped up and down all day, and they didn't feel tired at all.

Gao Ren was also surprised, there wasn't anything good added to the bone soup, so why couldn't he drink enough.

Just like at this moment, he obviously didn't want to be bullied by the little girl, but he had already stuffed the branch into the kitchen with a branch in his hand.

Could it be that this girl was born as a barbarian in southern Xinjiang, and she secretly gave him some kind of gu?

Lu Xiaomi didn't know that Gao Ren had assigned her such a martial arts identity in his heart, and she was busy kneading dough.

The people in the village put so much effort into helping, the Lu family can't do anything else for the time being, they should provide a bowl of hot soup and a few white steamed buns.

Originally, she made noodles during the day, and she was planning to bake pies, but suddenly there was an incident of united efforts to fight the snow disaster. In the afternoon, she added noodles, and made them into two big pots, ready to steam more steamed buns.

Aunt Liu in the backyard guessed that Xiaomi has always been generous and sensible, and she was afraid that she was going to prepare meals for everyone, so she put the grandson at home to sleep, and came to find him.

Xiaomi's tired arm was sore, and he was very happy to see a helper.

The two mothers worked much faster. In less than an hour, more than 100 white steamed buns were steamed.

Xiaomi first broke one for Aunt Liu, and the two of them were half full, and then hurriedly put the bone broth stewed cabbage and tofu into the big wooden barrel, and the steamed buns into the new wicker basket.

Just as he was about to go out, Feng Jian brought Lao Yang in. Lao Yang picked up the wooden barrel, and Feng Jian also moved the wicker basket.

Xiaomi quickly stopped her, "Brother Feng, why haven't you slept yet? If you're hungry, I've left a portion for you on the stove!"

Feng Jian smiled faintly, and insisted on moving the wicker basket, "I can't do anything else, I can still help with this kind of work."

Xiaomi didn't insist either, and followed him to the vegetable field with a smile on his face.

Aunt Liu frowned, feeling a little uncomfortable.But Xiaomi suddenly remembered, turned around and ran back, quickly picked up some steamed buns for her and put them in a small basin.

"Auntie, don't stay up late at night. Take this steamed bun back and give it to my sister-in-law Guizhi and Dazhu!"

Aunt Liu came back to her senses, and went out with them without polite excuses...

The men originally sniffed the aroma wafting from the courtyard of Lu's house, and guessed that there would be a late-night snack, but they didn't expect it to be so rich.

You know, a catty of fine noodles is worth seven or eight catties of corn noodles.Every household is not on New Year's day, and no one is willing to buy it.

But tonight, the Lu family actually steamed such big white steamed buns, and added stewed vegetables.

"Xiaomi, you are too polite. There are so many steamed buns, how many thin noodles are needed to steam them!"

Everyone swallowed, but their mouths were polite.

"The uncles help me watch the night. I am suffering from the cold. If I don't prepare some food and drink for the uncles, how can I feel bad?"

Xiaomi quickly served vegetables and steamed buns to everyone, and greeted with a smile, "Don't be too humble, uncles. I'll treat you to a good drink when the green vegetables are sold for money."

"Okay, then we won't be polite. They are all from the village. If there is work in the future, just shout."

The villagers gnawed down the steamed buns, answered vaguely, and then just buried their heads in eating.

Lu Wu skewered three big steamed buns with chopsticks, and while biting them, ran around among the vegetable sheds, and suddenly shouted, "Oh, the snow has stopped!"

Everyone looked up at the sky when they heard this, and sure enough there was no snowflakes falling on their faces, so they all shouted happily, "Isn't it, it's really great!"

"Let's light up a few more fires as soon as we finish eating. There is no shortage of firewood left and right. It's the coldest time when the snow stops. Let's keep the vegetables warm."

"Yes, that's it."

Everyone speeded up their hands, and quickly stripped away the stew and stuffed a few steamed buns into their stomachs.Finally, get busy again.

After all, Xiaomi was thinking about the vegetable seedlings. He opened the outermost vegetable shed and touched the vegetable seedlings inside. Although it was a little colder, it didn't look frozen, so he felt relieved.

No matter how dark or cold the night is, there will always be a time when it will pass, and when the sun shines faintly on Dongshan Mountain, everyone who is very sleepy stretches their waists and laughs.

"This snow is really over!"

Looking around again, the mountain forest that had already exposed half of its true colors was once again covered by heavy snow, and the roofs of every house were half a foot thick.

Only Lu's vegetable garden, there is no snowflakes on the vegetable shed, even in the open space, because many bonfires were lit, the smoked snow melted away.Just like a black pearl in a world of white ice and snow, the black is dazzling...

Xiaomi was not in the mood to go back to the backyard to sleep last night, so she boiled pots of hot water and sent them to the vegetable garden.In the end, I was so tired that I leaned on the stove and fell asleep.

Suddenly hearing movement outside the courtyard, she woke up in shock, but found that she had covered her body with a cloak at some point.And Feng Jian was stuffing dead branches into the stove, perhaps he had never done such chores before, his face was smeared with black ash, but there was no fire in the stove.

He frowned, and lowered his head to dig a hole in the branch. When he wanted to lower his head to blow, he heard a loud noise from the stove.

"Boom!"

The overcrowded kitchen hall suddenly spewed out a puff of black smoke after finally breathing, which made him cough loudly.

Xiaomi quickly threw down the cloak and stepped forward to help him, "Brother Feng, drink some water, cough out the smoke and then..."

Feng Jian coughed until tears came out. She raised her head and was about to speak, but she saw Xiaomi's expression was very strange, her cheeks were puffed up, and her lips were tightly pursed...

"what happened?"

He asked suspiciously, but in exchange for Xiaomi's loud laugh.

"No, I can't help it...too...ahem..."

Feng Jian subconsciously wiped her cheeks, but was startled by the black ash on her hands and stared.

He opened the lid of the water tank and took a look, and immediately reflected on the water was a man with black and gray face, hair standing on end, and two obvious tear stains under his eyes... It's so ugly!
(End of this chapter)