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When winter came, Qin Zunyue took out all the thick clothes in the house and discussed with others about hunting and stockpiling meat.

After all, it’s better to stay at home in winter if you can, so it’s better to make plans early while it’s not too cold yet.

So they discussed it and decided to drive to a farther place to hunt the next day.

"By the way, let me tell you one more thing." Qin Zunyue and Liu Huaizhao looked at each other, "Liu Huaizhao and I are planning to live in Changhuai Mountain for a while."

"Oh~" Zheng Shu put down the pen in his hand, "Are you coming back for the New Year?"

"Of course I'll come back." Qin Zunyue didn't bother to pay attention to her.

"Are you going by car?" Tong Le asked.

"Yes." Qin Zunyue said.

"That's great..." Tong Le held up his chin and turned to ask Yan Liao, "When can we go out for a drive?"

"I can't drive." Yan Liao looked at her seriously.

"Okay~" Tong Le lay on the table and looked at Qin Zunyue and Liu Huaizhao, "Have fun."

A week later, Qin Zunyue and Liu Huaizhao set off with a full bag of dry food.

Qin Zunyue had made a lot of biscuits and pastries in advance, and Liu Huaizhao started eating as soon as he got in the car.

"Be careful, the road is so bumpy."

So Liu Huaizhao ate very carefully, and Qin Zunyue thought his cautious look was cute.

The two of them walked and played and finally arrived at the town where they used to live a week later.

The temperature near Changhuai Mountain is low, and a thick layer of snow has already accumulated on the ground.

Qin Zunyue and Liu Huaizhao learned to use spiritual power to regulate body temperature, so they didn't feel that cold and only wore a black turtleneck sweater.

Liu Huaizhao squatted on the ground and watched him chopping wood. The tight sweater outlined Qin Zunyue's muscles, and his bulging chest muscles made his face hot.

Qin Zunyue didn't notice his gaze. After chopping the firewood, a thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead. He wiped the sweat off with the back of his hand and asked, "Have you decided what to eat tonight?"

Liu Huaizhao had never considered this, so he casually said, "Braised pork."

The supplies they brought were very complete, more than enough to make braised pork. Qin Zunyue looked at the ingredients, fried some other dishes, and made a soup.

After dinner, the two of them cleared the table. Qin Zunyue looked at the sky outside and suggested, "Let's go out for a walk?"

Liu Huaizhao naturally agreed, and the two of them walked hand in hand under the starry sky.

The fallen leaves from the last time I came were covered by snow. The snow was very deep, and Liu Huaizhao walked very carefully.

Qin Zunyue held his hand tightly, and when he saw him suddenly stop, he pulled his hand out and scooped up the snow with both hands.

“I had never seen snow before I climbed Mount Changhuai.”

He lives in the south, where it rains a lot but never snows.

"When I was a child, I was very curious about the snow scenes described in books. I asked my master what snow looked like, but he said he had never seen it either."

Qin Zunyue squatted beside him and listened to him speak.

Liu Huaizhao brought the snow in front of him and licked it with the tip of his tongue. "So cold."

Qin Zunyue smiled, rolled a snowball into a ball, and then took a bite.

“I used to eat snow like this when I was a kid.”

Liu Huaizhao rarely heard him talk about his childhood, so he asked curiously, "Your childhood? Before the turbid demon appeared?"

"Yes, I was too young at the time, so I don't remember many things clearly." Qin Zunyue's eyes were gentle, "I just remember that my parents didn't let me eat snow because they were afraid it would upset my stomach, so I ate it secretly."

Liu Huaizhao smiled and said, "Did you have a stomachache in the end?"

"It hurts, so don't eat too much."

Although his body was not that fragile, Liu Huaizhao still obediently threw away the snow, and Qin Zunyue held his cold hand.

Qin Zunyue's hands were very hot, and sometimes Liu Huaizhao would wonder why he always felt like a stove.

"It's okay, I'm not afraid of the cold." Liu Huaizhao said, but did not pull his hand back.

The two of them stood there quietly holding hands until Liu Huaizhao's hand gradually warmed up.

"Going back?" Qin Zunyue asked.

Liu Huaizhao nodded, and the two of them walked back hand in hand.

"Come out and build a snowman tomorrow?"

"Build...a snowman?" Liu Huaizhao had never heard of this.

"Yes." Qin Zunyue smiled, "I even brought carrots."

Liu Huaizhao didn't know what the connection was between carrots and making snowmen, but he nodded obediently anyway.

So the next morning, after the two finished their meal, Qin Zunyue took an iron shovel that he had found from somewhere and took Liu Huaizhao to the yard to make a snowman.

He first shoveled the snow together with a shovel, and then taught Liu Huaizhao how to pat the snow firmly.

They were not in a hurry, so they patted the snow with their hands. Liu Huaizhao imitated Qin Zunyue and patted the loose snow bit by bit with his hands. After the two of them slowly compacted the snow, Qin Zunyue pressed a hole on the top to make it easier to put the snowballs on it later.

Rolling a snowball is much more interesting than making a snowman's body. Liu Huaizhao was very careful and tried to roll the snowball as round as possible, but one side of the ball was bigger and the other side was smaller.

But he was not discouraged. He picked up snow from the ground and slowly repaired it.

Qin Zunyue did not help, but just watched him make the snowball round without any instruction.

Although he had experienced so much and had come to a strange world a thousand years later alone, with too many heavy burdens on his shoulders, he still had an inextinguishable youthfulness and childishness, as if all the pressure from the outside world were just scattered dark clouds that could not block the scorching sun.

He was watching intently, and Liu Huaizhao was also concentrating on playing and didn't notice his gaze.

When Liu Huaizhao finally shaped the snowball into a perfect circle, he suddenly turned to Qin Zunyue.

After meeting Qin Zunyue's gentle gaze, his face flushed slightly, but he still held the huge ball in front of Qin Zunyue with both hands like a treasure, "Look! Isn't it perfect?"

"Yeah, that's really amazing."

The two of them worked together to put the snowball on their bodies that had been piled up in advance, and then repaired the joints with snow.

A snowman is almost done.

Qin Zunyue took out the carrots and scarf he had prepared in advance from his luggage and handed them to Liu Huaizhao. He then went out and picked up two thin branches and put them on the snowman one by one.

Two more eyes are missing.

He actually forgot this.

For a moment, I couldn't think of anything that could serve as eyes for this snowman.

Finally, Liu Huaizhao thought for a moment and asked Qin Zunyue to cut two slices of carrot and put them in the position of the eyes.

A snowman is completed.

Qin Zunyue hadn't made a snowman for a long time. It rarely snowed in the safe city in winter, and even if it did, it was only light snow that accumulated into a thin layer.

The two people who had not seen snow for a long time were very satisfied with the snowman. Liu Huaizhao looked at it for a while and asked him if he had any more carrots, as he was going to make another one.

Qin Zunyue was well prepared and took out another carrot for him like a magic trick.

The snow in the yard was almost gone. Qin Zunyue found a woven bag in the house, so he carried a shovel outside and carried the snow in for Liu Huaizhao.

Liu Huaizhao used the snow he carried in bit by bit to build another snowman, which was right next to the first snowman.

After he finished piling it, he nodded with satisfaction and pointed at the two snowmen and said, "This one is me, and this one is you."

So the two of them took branches and wrote names on the snowman.

"What else can we do on a snowy day?" After writing his name, Liu Huaizhao turned to ask Qin Zunyue.

"Snowball fight?" Qin Zunyue asked uncertainly, "Do you want to play this?"

After understanding the rules, Liu Huaizhao nodded, stretched out his hand that had been secretly hidden behind his back, and suddenly stuffed the snow in his hand into Qin Zunyue's collar, "Is that so!"

Qin Zunyue was stunned for a moment by the cold, but Liu Huaizhao had already stood up and ran out of the yard.

When Qin Zunyue chased him for a long distance, he was hit by a snowball. He looked at Liu Huaizhao, wearing a flowing white robe, standing in the distance and smiling at him. The bright smile was like sunshine, melting the snow still hanging on his body.

"Does this count as a sneak attack?" Qin Zunyue asked loudly.

Liu Huaizhao shook his head and answered him loudly, "This is called strategy!"

Qin Zunyue stopped talking nonsense, squatted on the ground, quickly rolled up a snowball, and threw it in the direction of Liu Huaizhao.

The two of them played in the woods at the door for a long time, until Liu Huaizhao was caught by Qin Zunyue. The two of them fell into the snow together, with snow all over their bodies and hair.

Qin Zunyue lay on the ground, letting Liu Huaizhao lie on top of him. He reached out and brushed away the snowflakes on Liu Huaizhao's hair, then asked softly, "Fried yogurt, do you want some?"

"What is that?" Liu Huaizhao asked, lying on him.

"Food." Qin Zunyue didn't know how to explain, "It's cold, but it's not ice cream. I just learned this from Boss Yu before coming here."

Liu Huaizhao naturally wanted to eat it. The snacks and desserts that Qin Zunyue had learned from Boss Yu were all delicious.

"Let's go!" Qin Zunyue stood up with his arms around Liu Huaizhao, and Liu Huaizhao brushed the snow off his body.

The yogurt was made by Boss Yu himself. After Qin Zunyue arrived yesterday, he boiled a pot of water and poured it into the basin. It has now frozen.

He took out two shovels from his bag, poured the yogurt onto the ice, and took out the individually packed strawberries and put them aside.

Liu Huaizhao was amazed, "I always feel like you have everything in your bag."

Qin Zunyue smiled and chopped the strawberries into pieces. While the yogurt was still liquid, he mixed the strawberries into it. The white yogurt gradually turned pink.

After a while, the yogurt solidified. He flipped it twice and said to Liu Huaizhao, "Go get a bowl."

After Liu Huaizhao came back, he put the yogurt that had turned solid into the bowl that Liu Huaizhao was holding reverently.

"Okay."

Liu Huaizhao's spoon immediately rushed to the bowl, scooped up a piece and put it into his mouth.

It's sour, sweet, icy and cool, with a texture and taste completely different from ice cream.

Liu Huaizhao likes to eat these things very much. His eyes are slightly narrowed, and he looks like he is enjoying it very much.

Qin Zunyue rubbed his head and put the things away one by one.

"Before I left, I bought a lot of yogurt from Boss Yu. It won't go bad in such cold weather. If you like it, you can make it later."

Liu Huaizhao scooped up another piece and put it into Qin Zunyue's mouth, and leaned over to him, "You are so nice."

Qin Zunyue turned his head and kissed the top of his head.

“It would be nice if this kind of life could continue forever.”

Qin Zunyue raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said softly, "Yes."

Liu Huaizhao leaned against him, closed his eyes slightly, and enjoyed the warmth of the sunlight on his eyelids.

The two people leaned against each other quietly, and snowflakes fell from the sky.

Gently and slowly, it fell on the lover's hair.