The next day, frost and flying catkins filled the sky with fluttering snowflakes, which drifted down from the sky...

The house nestled in the mountains outside the forest was shrouded in snow. The snow kept falling, and the road was obscured by the curtain of snow. The road ahead was no longer visible.

The snow had just stopped for two days, but after just one night, it started falling again.

The air grew colder, a bone-chilling chill that felt like needles piercing every pore, scraping against my fragile skin and bones...

Two black figures quickly passed through the deserted village road.

The man walking in front was thinly dressed and had a tall and strong build.

The person following behind was wearing a black robe and was also dressed tightly. He was shivering as he walked forward, as if he was very cold.

“Dongdong——”

“Dongdongdong——”

There was an orderly knock on the door suddenly.

In the Hua family yard, the brother and sister who were squatting by the well washing quilts were both stunned.

Hua Xiao glanced at Hua Li who was sitting opposite him. Hua Li also blinked his dazed eyes and looked back at him.

Who would knock on the Hua family's gate so early in the morning...

Hua Xiao shook off his wet, cold fingers, stood up, patted the broken snow piled on his body, trotted over and opened the gate.

“Gah—”

The old courtyard gate was difficult to open because there was too much snow piled up and it had not been cleared in time.

"Who are you?"

Hua Xiao hid behind the door frame, stuck half of his head out, and looked vigilantly at the two people blocking the gate of the courtyard.

"We're looking for your sister Hua Shi."

Xie Mingchi looked at the little girl hiding behind the door frame and spoke in a hoarse voice.

Hua Xiao used some effort to raise her head and looked towards the person who spoke. She felt that he looked familiar.

"Wait a minute, I'll go call her."

Mrs. Li was still in the room, and the girl didn't dare let anyone in.

The turmoil from last night was still lingering, and she was afraid that if she wasn't careful, she'd anger Grandma again, and it would be her second brother who would suffer...

"Bang!"

The gate in front of me was suddenly closed again.

Xie Mingchi and He Shan, who were standing at the door, were turned away. He Shan rubbed his cold hands, stamped his feet, and was stunned when he heard the sound of the door being closed again.

He Shan turned his head and looked at Xie Mingchi who was standing beside him.

Xie Mingchi's face showed no emotion at all, and he looked as if he was in a daze...

In the yard, Hua Xiao trotted into the main room and knocked on the door of the room closest to the main room.

“Bang, bang—”

"Hua Shi, don't sleep anymore, get up quickly, someone is looking for you."

Hua Xiao shouted softly towards the closed door.

I deliberately lowered my voice, not daring to raise it at all...

While comforting the little white dog and feeding it spring water flowers in the house, I heard a knock on the door and walked over to open it.

"Who's looking for me?"

She asked casually.

Hua Shi took a step back, turned around and walked towards the yard, shaking his head as he walked, "I don't know, go and see for yourself."

It snowed so heavily today that she was shivering from the cold, but grandma asked them to wash the thick quilt early in the morning.

My second brother was sleeping in the room. Since last night, his forehead had been feeling a little hot, and he had been feeling groggy and couldn't wake up.

She was frightened by what Li had done yesterday and didn't dare to resist. She pulled Hua Li and stared at the falling snow. She squatted by the well, drawing buckets of water, and then, with the water that had frozen into ice, she laboriously washed the quilt...

Hua Xiao was completely exhausted now, almost losing consciousness from the cold. She had only one thought in her mind: to quickly wash the quilt...

Hua Shi didn't notice that something was wrong with Hua Xiao. When he heard someone calling him, he immediately realized who it was.

The day before yesterday, Xie Mingchi told her that He Shan would return to the village and that he would come to find her then...

Hua Shi turned around, picked up the bamboo basket on the wooden table, and walked out of the house quickly.

When she saw Hua Xiao and Hua Lishi squatting by the well in the yard covered in snow, they were scrubbing the quilt with their frozen purple hands.

Hua Shi was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but feel upset.

"Hua Xiao, are you two idiots? It's so cold and snowing so heavily, and you're so stupid as to brave the heavy snow to wash that tattered quilt!"

Hua Shi paused as he was walking towards the courtyard gate, and turned to walk towards the two people squatting by the well.

Hua Xiao still kept her head down and scrubbed the quilt with her hands.

Hua Li, who was listening to Hua Shi's voice, raised his head and looked at her stupidly.

When Hua Shi got closer, he could see that Hua Li's little face, which was a little black and red, was cracked with several cuts, and blood was oozing out of those small cuts.

These were obviously cracked wounds caused by frostbite. The little face was a little dark and yellow, with white skin peeling off in several places. The lips were also a little chapped, and the eyes were dull.

My heart tightens when I spend time with flowers.

"That's enough! Stop washing and go back to the house. Look at your hands, they're all cracked..."

Hua Shi was a little speechless. She noticed that there were several torn wounds on the two people's little hands that were frozen red and purple.

She looked a little suffocated...

In such cold weather, the skin on the hands and feet exposed to the outside is very fragile. When it is frozen stiff and numb, even if the flesh is torn and bleeding, there is no feeling at all...

These two silly kids are really stupid. They wash the quilts when they are asked to in the snowy weather, without any intention of resisting.

Hua Li blinked, his ears were ringing and it took a long time for Hua Shi's voice to come through, allowing him to hear clearly.

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