The sky in winter gets dark in an instant.

It took a while to decide whether the little girl should stay or go. The second wife tried to move in, but old Mrs. Yang didn't let them take her back. Instead, she kept her in the big house.

The second wife was very sad.

But everyone else was very happy, because this at least showed that old Mrs. Yang didn't want her to stay, so she didn't let her get close to the second wife.

Then everyone went back to their rooms, feeling satisfied.

During the day, the whole family would crowd into the big house and warm themselves by the fire, which would save some firewood and charcoal, but at night they could not save any.

My family was poor, so we couldn’t use as much charcoal as we could, but we had saved enough firewood a long time ago.

Li heated the kang, wiped Yuan's face, washed his feet, took off his outer clothes and stuffed him into the quilt.

Yuan took the remaining half egg and tried to crawl out dishonestly, with his little head stretched towards the door.

Li had to press her head and push her back:

"Go to bed! Don't move around, or you'll get cold."

A Yuan fluttered restlessly for a few seconds, then lay down under the quilt, holding up the egg in his hand and asked:

"Where's Dad? Eat the eggs!"

Li poked her forehead, not knowing whether to laugh or cry:

"What a fool! You can eat it yourself. Your father doesn't need a bite of egg from you."

The cold eggs still had a unique fragrance. Yuan swallowed and hesitated:

"I promised to give it to Dad."

Grandma said that people should keep their words!

Li smiled and tempted her:

"Mom won't tell your dad. The eggs are so delicious. Eat them yourself."

After hearing this, Yuan became even more hesitant.

At this time, the door opened and Fu Dabai's laughing voice came in:

"Little Yuan, come and see what Daddy got for you."

Yuan smelled a sweet milky scent and heaved a sigh of relief. He jumped out of the bed halfway.

"Dad! Eat eggs!"

Fu Dabai came over with a coarse porcelain bowl, took a look at the half egg, and without any hesitation, leaned over and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it twice and swallowed it.

Li said:

"Finally you're back. This kid is waiting for you with half an egg in his hand, but he won't eat it no matter what I say."

I looked at the bowl again:

“Is this… goat’s milk?”

Yuan felt a little guilty when she heard what her mother said, as she originally wanted to eat.

After a while, I thought about it again, and felt that my mother seemed very happy that I didn't eat it but gave it to my father, but it seemed that she was sincere in asking her to eat it.

The little head was totally unable to make sense of all these tangled things. Yuan obeyed his will and cleared his head, staring at the bowl of milk and listening to his parents talking with his ears perked up.

Fu Dabai sat on the kang with a proud look on his face and said:

"It's goat milk, which I just squeezed. I took tea leaves from my mother and added a piece of rock sugar to it, and made sweet milk tea.

The ewe that the fourth brother borrowed was also unlucky. It gave birth to a lamb in the middle of the night last night, and no one in Zheng the butcher's family heard any noise. When they came out this morning, they found that the lamb had been frozen to death.

The fourth brother went to borrow it from their family. They had a lot of livestock and didn’t need the milk, and they were willing to help our family.

We can keep the sheep at home, but we have to provide them with food.

When I borrowed the sheep, I prepared the fodder myself, but now the second one uses the ones from home.

Then the goat milk should be shared by the children in the family.

I just drank it all, I'll bring the rest back for you two to share."

As he said this, he took a large bowl for drinking water from the box on the kang and poured half of it into it.

Fu Dabai always believed that if there was food, the whole family should eat it together, unlike Li, who usually would give the food to Yuan and his father, but would not eat it herself.

If Yuan were to choose, she would prefer her father. When the family is together, she eats and drinks more deliciously and feels at ease.

Fu Dabai had mentioned Li's suggestion of leaving the bowl for Yuan many times, so Li did not mention leaving it for Yuan at this moment. He obediently took the bowl and started drinking.

The milk tea is sweet and flows down the throat. After drinking it, the whole body feels warm.

Yuan drank it obediently and fell asleep soon after, smacking his lips from time to time in his dream.

Until Li called her to get up, Yuan was still savoring the taste of her goat milk tea. She was half asleep and half awake, but she muttered in a daze:

"Make money! Buy sheep! And drink!"

Then she fell into a deep sleep again. In her dream, she was happily riding a sheep with her hands on her hips.

Bowls of milk tea were flying around her, and her parents were standing by, drinking and praising her for being the best child. She looked so majestic.

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