This winter, for the people of Caojia Village, was not as hard as the previous winters. They prepared enough food, which meant they didn't have to go hungry. They also bought thick clothes so they wouldn't have to freeze. For them, this winter had something more to look forward to.

The lonely elderly and families with dilapidated houses in the village were sent to live in the newly built academy. There were houses that could shelter from the wind and snow. The heated stoves were turned on at night, so they didn't feel cold in the house. They could sleep peacefully at night.

A heavy snow came quietly at night. Many people were still asleep and didn't realize it until they woke up the next day.

"Is it snowing?"

"Yes."

The people who got up met and looked at the white world outside, and then they knew it was snowing.

There are no classes in the academy in this kind of weather. Everyone saw that it was snowing and the weather was bad, which meant that there was a blizzard coming. The children who were used to going to the academy on weekdays were still clamoring to go to the academy in the morning. The mother at home coaxed the children and told them that the teacher would not give a class today and let the children stay at home.

"Hurry up and come in. It's so cold outside. Why are you out too?" Sun Bailian saw that Cao Xiangnan brought Qi Wanfeng out in this weather, and Aning and the children came with him. He quickly asked everyone to go into the house.

Cao Gang followed behind and closed the door.

"I thought of bringing a few children to your place to play, so I came together." Qi Wanfeng sat down with the help of her husband. Hearing Sun Bailian's reproachful words, he explained.

"An An, An An." Jing Bao jumped up happily when he saw his friends coming over, and rushed to An An. The two children were of similar age, and they had played together the longest, so they were the best of friends.

"Dan Kong Dan Kong" Kang Kang was much more reserved, but he was also very happy about the arrival of his friends.

Aning put the roasted chestnuts in his hand on the table, lifted the cloth covering it, and the chestnuts inside were still hot. He said, "The chestnuts that Xiangnan roasted are still hot. Let's eat them while they're hot."

Hearing Qi Wanfeng's words, Sun Bailian glared at Qi Wanfeng and didn't say anything to him.

Seeing Aning put a small basket of roasted chestnuts on the table, Sun Bailian reached out to take a chestnut, peeled the shell and put it in his mouth, saying, "You brought chestnuts? Hmm, they are delicious. Only Xiangnan can make these little things, but I can't make them."

Of course, his husband is the best. Qi Wanfeng looked at his husband with a smile in his eyes.

"Mom, Jingbao wants some too." Jingbao saw his mom eating and ran over. When he came, everyone followed him.

"Don't worry, we have them all."

Cao Xiangnan greeted Liu Baishu and sat down on the side. The two of them sat close to the ground and talked together. It snowed last night, and he asked about the mushrooms Cao Gang was growing here. It will be getting colder in the days ahead, so he mentioned some things that need attention.

"Oh... OK, I understand." Liu Baishu listened carefully and responded.

For Liu Baishu, the present day is really the most comfortable day he has ever lived. It is so comfortable that he feels that the days before were just like the last life, and the days now are the real life.

Wang Dahu was sitting on the right hand side of Liu Baishu. The relationship between the two was not openly told to the friends around them, but the people around them who trusted each other knew about their relationship.

Cao Gang took down the hanging iron kettle, Gan Weiqi helped to make tea, and Gan Weilin had already gone to help the children peel chestnuts.

"Drink water." Cao Gang knew that Qi Wanfeng was not suitable for drinking tea at this moment, so he poured tea for others and boiled water for Qi Wanfeng. This seemingly silent man is actually a very thoughtful person.

There was a fireplace in the living room, and the room was warm. Cao Gang's living room was big enough for a group of children to play in the winter. The carpet in front of the fireplace was for the children to roll on. The children's laughter was in my ears. Maybe they worked hard just to make their children laugh so carefree.

The table was filled with flour, chestnut flour, mung bean flour and other flours, ready to make snacks. Cao Xiangnan happened to come here, and the snacks at home had been eaten up. Sun Bailian put the food on the table and made snacks with Cao Xiangnan, leaving them for the children at home to eat together.

"If I were to do it myself, I really wouldn't be able to make these things." Sun Bailian was actually in charge of helping out. He had no talent for these things. Even Aning, who had been learning for a short time, did much better than him.

Since he had done it, he would do more so that Cao Xiangnan could take some home.

"Pah, pah, pah---" There was a knock on the door outside, interrupting the voices in the house. They could still hear the shouts outside from inside the house. It was someone from the village. The people in the house looked at each other, and Cao Gang stood up and said, "I'll go take a look."

"Hey, put on your coat before you go out." Sun Bailian shouted quickly.

Cao Gang put on his coat before going out. The door was opened, and there was a thick curtain hanging outside. Wang Dahu followed Cao Gang out.

The people outside the door were all from the village. Cao Wenxuan also came over. Li Zheng asked them to come over. After listening to Cao Wenxuan's words, Cao Gang said "hmm" with no expression on his face, "Wait a minute."

"I'll go with you." Cao Xiangnan was not too happy when he heard it, and stood up and said.

"Hmm." Cao Gang thought about it and nodded.

"Wei Qi and Wei Lin, please help me send Wan Feng and the others back to my place. Brother Cao Gang and I will go into the village to take a look." Wang Dahu said that he would go into the village with them, and Liu Baishu naturally followed him in. Cao Xiangnan handed the people to Gan Wei Qi and Gan Wei Lin to help him send them back.

"Okay." Gan Wei Qi replied.

"You go ahead, we can make these things." Aning was talking about the steamed buns and snacks they were making, and he would make them later.

He was quite talented in making food, and basically he could quickly learn everything Cao Xiangnan had done, even though he had never touched these things before, but now he could make them quite well.

Life can temper a person a lot, and he has learned many things that he couldn't do before.

Cao Xiangnan also didn't forget to say to Qi Wanfeng, "I'll go and take care of things and come back." Qi Wanfeng heard that her husband was going to the village, and told her husband to come back early, "Husband, you go, come back early."

Everyone was still waiting outside, so they quickly went out and followed him into the village.

It turned out that a heavy snowfall last night had collapsed many houses, and the village chiefs of several nearby villages and Li Zheng had brought people here to ask if they could also arrange for these villagers to live in the academy. They had already brought the villagers here, and brought quite a few people here. They had brought the villagers here before they had discussed it with Li Zheng, the village chief of Caojia Village. It seemed that they meant that since they had brought all the people from our village here, they should live in the academy.

This is simply a collective hooliganism!

The academy opened classes this winter. In addition to the people from their Caojia Village who went there to listen to the lectures, people from neighboring villages also came with their children because they didn't have to pay for the burial. Naturally, they knew that their village had arranged for people to live there. Moreover, there were marriage exchanges between several nearby villages, so they naturally knew about their Caojia Village. Some things in Caojia Village were not secrets.

The academy was such a small place, how could so many people live underground? Li Zheng naturally told them truthfully that the academy could not accommodate so many people, so they stayed at Li Zheng's place.

Li Zheng had no choice but to quickly ask his son Cao Wenxuan to bring people to invite Cao Gang, the village chief, to discuss how to deal with this matter.

"...they are really too much. They said that their village also gave money to build the academy, and they also have a share. People in our village have been arranged to go to the academy, and people in their village also have to live here." Cao Wenxuan was quite angry.

On the way there, Cao Xiangnan had already understood everything about this matter. These people were simply hooligans to the extreme! Do they think that the people in Caojia Village are stupid or that they are easy to bully?

They quickly went to Li Zheng's place. When they got outside the door, they could still hear Li Zheng telling the visitors earnestly that the academy could not accommodate so many people. Seeing Cao Gang and Cao Xiangnan coming together, Li Zheng's eyes lit up, and he looked like a savior had arrived.

There were quite a few people standing outside the door, old and young. Cao Xiangnan followed Cao Gang into the house. It was obvious that the people sitting in the house were the village chief Li Zheng and the elders of the clan, right?

Cao Gang came in with a cold face, and his sharp eyes swept around. The noisy house suddenly became quiet. Cao Xiangnan walked over to Li Zheng, glanced at the one who had just spoken the loudest, turned back to look at Li Zheng, and called out "Seventh Master".

Cao Gang called out "Li Zheng", and he sat down in the empty seat on the other side of Li Zheng, making it clear that he was the village chief.

"Everyone, this is the village chief of our Caojia Village, this is Cao Xiangnan, Cao Xiangnan is in charge of the academy, I have invited people here now." Li Zheng had just stated that he, the Li Zheng, had no right to decide the affairs of the academy, the place where the academy was built was out of the territory of their Caojia Village, and it did not belong to their Caojia Village. Even

if the academy was still in the territory of their Caojia Village, the academy was built from scratch by Nan Xiaozi, and even the village chief and Li Zheng of their Caojia Village had no right to manage the affairs there.

Cao Wenxuan followed in and saw that these people had quieted down, because they had come to his house early in the morning and made a fuss like a market. His mother and his wife took the children and hid in the house and did not dare to come out. He was very dissatisfied with these people in his heart.

Isn't it obvious that they want to bring people here and live in the academy? !