Jiang Henian raised his head and saw Chen Cuihua.
Chen Cuihua said in a hoarse voice, uncomfortably, "Eat, you've been busy all night."
Jiang Henian lowered his eyes and saw the sweet potato pieces in the porridge.
Chen Cuihua looked at her beautiful face, which was as white as white powder, and couldn't help but frown, "Why, you are so used to being spoiled by men that you look down on sweet potato porridge?"
As he said this, he was about to take his hand away.
Jiang Henian reached out to take the bowl, took a sip directly from the edge of the bowl, sighed comfortably, and then said quietly:
"Aunt Chen, if you want to say thank you, just say it. It's too cold out here, and I don't want to fight with you pulling hair in the snow."
Chen Cuihua was annoyed by the girl's sarcastic remarks, but she couldn't vent her anger. Xie couldn't bring himself to say it out loud, so she threw down a sentence "If it's not enough, add more to the pot yourself", and went back to the house to look after her husband in a sullen manner.
Jiang Henian held the hot bowl, raised the corner of his mouth, looked up at He Jinshan and shouted crisply:
"He Jinshan~ Come down and warm your stomach first!"
The man paused, turned around and smiled at her, carrying a thick piece of wood on his shoulder.
He looked like the ultimate rough guy in novels, handsome, wild and capable.
Chen Erhu put down the straw on the side, carefully held onto the beam and turned around, shouting, "Sister-in-law, please at least take care of us younger brothers and call out to us. I feel so cold inside."
Jiang Henian gave him this face and called out crisply, "Little Tiger, come down and drink some hot water."
The girl was wearing a white mink fur and squatting on the snow in the yard. She had red lips, white teeth, and bright eyes. She really looked like a delicate and innocent little fox.
This made Chen Erhu very proud. Facing He Jinshan's death stare, he responded cheerfully: "Hey, I'll be right there!"
Seeing this, the other two tough young men also shouted: "Sister-in-law! There are also us!"
Jiang Henian was amused and laughed out loud, and greeted them twice.
Several young men who were shivering with cold on the roof were so excited by the beautiful girl's calls that they climbed down the ladder. One by one, they were kicked by He Jinshan and fell into a pit in the snow.
Chen Erhu took a sip of hot water and sighed comfortably: "I'm really young and don't know what a good wife is. I'll marry a wife like my sister-in-law in the spring."
A young man rubbed his waist where he had been kicked and laughed at him: "Come on, you're still picking her. Even if someone like Wang Yuenniu is interested in you, you're lucky."
"Hey, don't mention that fat girl, she's creepy." Chen Erhu raised his foot to kick him, but missed. The two of them started to fight back and forth.
Jiang Henian sat there holding a kettle and watching the show, and handed the half-drunk bowl of porridge to He Jinshan.
The man squatted down beside her, drank his porridge, and touched her cool face with the back of his clean hand.
"Can you still bear it?"
Jiang Henian sniffed the tip of his nose, which was red from the cold. "Not bad, this is the last one. Let's go to Shuangxi's house later."
After confirming that there were no new injured people requiring treatment, the two were taken to the Lin family by Dewang.
Fortunately, the brother and sister listened to Jiang Henian and started preparing a month ago. Everything was fine at home, and there was enough firewood, filling the entire yard.
Lin Shuangxi brought two bowls of hot water and handed them to Jiang Henian and He Jinshan, then ran to the stove and picked out two of the largest hot steamed buns.
"Sister eats, brother eats."
Jiang Henian smiled and rubbed Shuangxi's head, "Shuangxi is so good."
The child's hair had grown longer and was tied into a pigtail, revealing his face. The birthmark on his left eye seemed to have faded a little.
Jiang Henian looked at Lin Shi: "Do you have any medicine left?"
Lin Shi brought a few pieces of firewood and added them to the brazier to make the fire burn more vigorously, and pushed it towards Jiang Henian.
"That's enough, sister. I can apply it ten more times."
The young boy smiled slightly as he spoke, "Shuangxi loves looking at himself in the mirror lately."
Several people looked at Lin Shuangxi who was squatting beside Jiang Henian and warming himself by the fire.
The child wiped his face a little embarrassedly and smiled shyly: "Sister, I apply it every day."
Jiang Henian smiled gently and touched the child's forehead with his fingertips. "Okay, apply it every day. Ask your sister for more when you're done. From now on, our Shuangxi will be the most beautiful girl in the village."
He Jinshan was biting a steamed bun, his eyes fixed on Jiang Henian, and there was also an infectious tenderness in the man's eyes.
The four of them ate steamed bread on the brazier and drank some hot water.
Dewang squatted in the yard and gnawed on half a leg of lamb that he had gotten from somewhere, while Meiqiu gnawed on the frozen cabbage that Lin Shuangxi had picked from the backyard.
He Jinshan stretched his long legs and looked around the roof and yard. "I'll take care of the roof later. If it snows again, make sure the snow doesn't accumulate more than 15 centimeters. It's not the worst these days yet. Let's go to the mountain to get some more firewood..."
Lin Shi listened carefully, agreed repeatedly, and repaired his own roof with He Jinshan.
Before the two left, He Jinshan carried Jiang Henian onto the wolf's back and turned to look at the two siblings.
"After that, don't open the door to anyone else until the weather improves completely."
The Lin brothers and sisters were both confused.
Jiang Henian was also stunned. His eyes swept over the firewood all over the yard, and his heart skipped a beat.
Last night, more than a dozen households had their houses collapsed by the snow, four people died, and more than a dozen were injured.
Although the snow has stopped for now, it's only December, so it might just be the beginning...
Every household stores firewood for the winter, but if the weather is extremely cold, the amount of firewood needed will increase exponentially. Now that there is snow, people can still go out to get some firewood, but in another half a month, no one may even be able to go out.
The Lin family has no adults or elders, just these two siblings. If people knew that they had so much firewood hidden at home...
In desperate situations, human nature is the most vulnerable.
Thinking of this, Jiang Henian nodded seriously and warned, "Xiao Shi, Shuang Xi, hurry up and bring back some firewood in the next few days. Be careful to avoid people and don't let anyone know that there are so many firewood and beddings in the house, okay?"
Lin Shi was a mature young man, certainly not stupid or dull. He held his sister's hand tightly and nodded heavily.
"Don't worry, sister. We'll close the door and ignore anyone who calls us. We won't have anything if you ask."
"Okay, if you have any problems, come to us at the end of the village. Do we have enough food?"
Lin Shi: "Enough, the cellar is full."
In the past two months, He Jinshan handed over more than a dozen hunting caves on the edge of Wuling Mountain to Lin Shi and Chen Erhu. The two of them were responsible for collecting prey, maintaining and covering them, and they could take the meat or each get 30% of the profit.
With the wolf king Dewang around, he would command the wolf pack to drive prey into the forest during his free time. All hunting holes could be harvested almost every two or three days.
Chen Erhu, who was unaware of the inside story, was so frightened that he would drag Lin Shi to worship each hunting cave every time, saying that these were fairy caves and money nests built by Brother Shan.
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