The sky was dark, covering the wilderness. The wind from the north blew up the dust. The grass and trees withered, everything was silent, autumn went and winter came, the four seasons changed, this is the law that never changes.

The cold winter of this year came.

"I'm afraid it will snow today." The old man looked at the sky and said.

Before winter came, the children in the academy had their winter vacation early and went home, and would come back to school in the spring of next year. The homeless children stayed in the academy. These children stayed in the academy by working for the academy in exchange for the tuition and food expenses for their study.

Zheng Xiucai and his family of three also stayed in the academy. He now served as the vice president of the academy. Cao Xiangnan did not bury his talent. They had a three-year agreement, and he could take the imperial examinations at that time.

Coming to Caojia Village this year allowed him to see many things he had not seen before, the world, the people, and the way of being an official. If he were an official, would he be a good official? Zheng Xiucai asked himself.

The workshops have been closed one after another in the past few days. The roads are difficult to travel on snowy days, and the goods cannot be transported out. Therefore, the workshops have stopped working at this time and will resume work next year.

The working boys and men received their wages and were very happy. They wished that they would not stop working in winter. They also wanted to continue working. They could earn more money for a day's work. Who would complain about having too much money?

In Caojia Village, the village chief and Li Zheng brought people to check the houses in the village early, and took the men in the village to repair the houses of the elderly in the village. The charity hall in the village was built. If someone's house was uninhabitable, they could move to the charity hall to stay and move back after the cold winter.

This year, many families in Caojia Village also built a few tiled houses, and everyone's life has improved a lot.

Li Zheng, the village chief of the neighboring village, also learned from Caojia Village and settled his villagers early. Last year, many people came to Caojia Village and sent their villagers to others, but this year, few people sent their villagers to Caojia Village. In the

past few days, the weather is about to change, and the cold winter is coming.

The first snow came quietly at night, with snowflakes as big as goose feathers falling one by one, and the whole world was covered with a layer of white. It

was snowing outside, and a bonfire was lit in the broken temple. A group of men spent the night in the broken temple, roasting by the fire, and three or five men leaned against each other to keep warm. The bearded man held the thin man in his arms, and when he saw the man wake up, he whispered, "Go to sleep, it's snowing outside, I'll hold you."

"Yeah." The man responded softly, closed his eyes again, and fell asleep in a short while.

Wang Dahu looked up outside, pulled his fur coat over the two people, and the man in his arms also closed his eyes. Even when he was sleeping, he was still alert and would not fall into deep sleep. The wind outside was howling, and he held the person in his arms tightly, listening to his breathing, feeling at ease.

The group of people were Wang Dahu and Liu Baishu, and they were rushing back to Caojia Village.

The temperature dropped sharply the next day when he woke up. When he opened the window, he saw that it was all white outside. It was snowing. No wonder it was so cold that day. Cao Xiangnan opened the fireplace and put a few wood in it to make the fire burn brighter. When he woke up, the house was still quiet, and the evening breeze and the children were not awake.

He went to two small rooms and saw that the fat boy Lele had woken up and glanced at him with his little eyes. He laughed and cursed, "Stinky boy!" Cao Xiangnan took the bad boy out of the quilt without complaint and hooked out the urine pot from under the bed.

When he took out the child's birdie, he felt the child in his arms shiver and heard the sound of water.

Hearing the wind outside, Cao Xiangnan felt it was cold outside, so he put the child back into the quilt and said, "Boy, you go to sleep first. I'll get you something to eat. When Baoer wakes up, you call daddy. Do you understand?" He was afraid that the little Baoer would wet the bed, and there was no quilt to change for him in the winter.

"Hmm." Cao Ruile looked at the still sleeping little Bao'er with this indescribable expression, obviously remembering something unpleasant.

The little fox in the quilt crawled out drowsily, without opening its eyes, standing by the bed and using a difficult move. The little bird peed in the urinal, then crawled back into the quilt.

"..." Cao Xiangnan, who witnessed the fox peeing, saw the little bird of the fox for the first time, and he learned a lot.

Is the fox in his family really not a goblin from the mountains? It came to his house and made a nest for so long and didn't plan to leave. Is this fox spirit male and not female? Why is it pestering a child? Cao Xiangnan's mind was full of messy stories about mortals and fox spirits, and he walked out of the child's house in a panic.

The fox spirit had set its sights on his youngest son, and he was afraid that he would not be able to get rid of him.

"It's snowing outside, why are you getting up so early?" Seeing that Xiangzi had also gotten up, Cao Xiangnan touched the child's head and found that the child had grown up a lot in a year. When the two brothers had just come to his house, the child was still skinny and small, but now they have grown so tall.

Xiangzi looked up at his uncle without saying a word, "Is there any need to ask? Of course I got up to help you with the work." He turned his head and looked in the direction of the door and asked, "Is it snowing?"

"Yeah." Cao Xiangnan nodded and led the child out.

The Liu family who lived in the house at the back got up early. Seeing that it was snowing outside, Liu Guizhong took the two boys to clean up the backyard. Fortunately, they were afraid that it would snow suddenly in the past few days and nights, so they had already built a shed for the livestock pen, so the livestock would not be frozen to death even if it snowed at night.

When Cao Xiangnan went out, he saw the Liu family, father and son, packing things in the back. When

Liu Guizhong saw the master coming, he rubbed his hands and walked over, "Master, why are you out? It's windy outside, you should go inside." "I'll go out and take a look." Cao Xiangnan said. He remembered that

at this time last year, the Liu family had not come, and he and Xiangzi had to do all the work. This year, with the addition of the Liu family, they helped him a lot and saved him a lot of trouble.

Seeing that he really didn't need to help outside, Cao Xiangnan went back inside after giving a few instructions.

The snow outside had not stopped, and the house was dark without the sun. The burning fireplace reflected light, and there was no need to light an oil lamp in the house. The children in the house woke up one after another, and they were very happy to see the snow outside. Qi Wanfeng didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he saw the children making noise.

But it was still snowing, and he didn't allow the little ones to run outside.

"Be good, don't go out today, it's snowing outside." Qi Wanfeng coaxed the little baby. The child, who was used to going out at this time, wanted to go out for a walk. Unfortunately, the child didn't know what snow was, and pointed outside to go out. In a hurry, he blurted out "eat... go out-eat" what? Qi Wanfeng widened his eyes, looked at the little baby who couldn't pronounce clearly, and shouted, "Xiangnan, come quickly."

"What for?" Hearing someone calling him, Cao Xiangnan walked over.

Seeing Qi Wanfeng staring at Xiao Bao, he thought something was wrong with Xiao Bao, and then he saw Xiao Bao climbing over to him to hold him. Cao Xiangnan took the child and saw the child pointing outside anxiously and saying, "Eat... out..."

"Ah, are you going out?" Cao Xiangnan finally understood what the child was saying after listening to it for a while. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He was so anxious that he even spoke, "I'm not going out today. It's snowing outside. I'll go out after the snow stops." He said.

The child looked at him, not quite understanding, pursed his lips, and said, "Eat... go..."

"Dad." An An ran over, clinging to his dad, asking him to sit down while he looked at Xiao Baoer, telling Xiao Baoer that he was the older brother, asking Xiao Baoer to call him brother, and told Xiao Baoer, "Brother, An An." "Dad, Xiao Baoer doesn't know how to call you brother yet." Cao Xiangnan was a little embarrassed, and couldn't bear to hit his little An An. This request was a little difficult for Xiao Baoer at the moment.

"Let's not rush, you teach your younger brother slowly, and your younger brother will call you brother." Cao Xiangnan smiled, stretched out his hand and pinched An An's little face, and in his heart, he liked the children at home very much.

He himself didn't expect that after traveling in this strange world, he would have a wife and children, and become a father of children. He quite enjoyed this identity.

An An reached out to hug his brother, Cao Xiangnan put Xiao Bao'er in the child's arms, and he also lent a hand, letting the child hold Xiao Bao for a while before putting Xiao Bao down. With An An doing this, Xiao Bao'er forgot about going out to play, staring at An An with round eyes, and stretched out his hand to play with An An.

Lele glanced at Xiao Bao'er and sat there without moving.

"This Bao'er can even say to go out when he is anxious." Qi Wanfeng received a big surprise. Usually, Xiao Bao'er can only shout "tada", and he can't say anything else. I didn't expect that he would say something else when he was anxious today.

Cao Xiangnan smiled, watching the little Bao climbing up things and crawling very fast, and said, "This child is smart." Although not as amazing as their family's Lele, he is definitely not stupid, and is much smarter than most children.

Breakfast was served in the living room, which was not as warm as here.

He made soup dumplings and cooked rice porridge early in the morning, and had dumplings and rice porridge for breakfast. The fire in the fireplace was burning brightly, so there was no need to worry that the children would be cold in the house. It was still snowing outside, so Cao Xiangnan asked Wanfeng to stay at home to look after the kids, and went to Cao Gang's place with an umbrella.

Seeing that her husband had gone out, Qi Wanfeng was looking forward to his return soon.

They went into the village together and found that it was snowing outside. Sun Yanmiao and Cao Gui were also leading people to walk around the village to see if anyone had any problems. After walking around, they found nothing and went home.

This snow fell for several days without stopping.