"Gone?"

"Okay, let's go." Jiang Shanhe nodded relaxedly and answered.

But I reacted instantly, felt a chill on my back, turned around in slow motion, and saw Xiaoguo's smiling face, who was only a fist away from me. She was still as beautiful as before, and still as scary as before.

"…I'm hungry. Let's eat."

Jiang Shanhe stood up slowly, lowered his head to brush off the dirt on his body, and walked straight into the house without even looking at Xiao Guojing.

As long as they didn't look each other in the eye, she wouldn't ask him the reason.

Looking at the way his left and right feet were entangled with each other, I couldn't help laughing. He was so silly. Without being scared, Xiao Guo shook her head, stood up and closed the door.

Then he walked over to the big basket he brought back on his back, and Xiaoguo realized what he was carrying.

Green thorny balls were placed in the basket. Xiaoguo dug them out with his hands and found white pears underneath.

Looking at the whole basket of chestnuts and white pears, Xiaoguo felt a little sad. So this is what he did...

After dinner, the three of them lay on the bed, each of them had taken a shower and squeezed together, playing with each other, especially the strongest one who was the most powerful.

Perhaps knowing that they would be separated the next day, none of the three felt sleepy. Even Zhuangzhuang, who usually fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow, stayed up until midnight.

–

The next morning, Xiaoguo got up and cooked a hot meal, and prepared everything in the house that could be made into breakfast.

The usual white porridge and vegetable porridge are cooked with the meat soup left over from last night. The side dishes include spicy and sour potato shreds and a few plates of cold vegetables. Even the boiled eggs are all duck eggs. The pasta includes steamed dumplings and roasted wheat, and Xiaoguo has made basically everything that can be made.

"Wow, Mom! Our breakfast is so rich."

After washing his hands, Zhuangzhuang couldn't wait to sit down and wait for the meal to start. His big eyes rolled around, thinking of eating all the dishes with his eyes first.

"When your father comes, we'll have dinner."

Xiaoguo rolled up his sleeves for him. At this time, Jiang Shanhe packed his bag and came to the dining table with it.

"Mmm, it smells really good."

Jiang Shanhe sat on a chair and, like Zhuangzhuang, enjoyed the food with his eyes first before picking up his chopsticks.

"Here." Xiaoguo handed the porridge to Jiang Shanhe, "I won't miss home after eating."

Xiaoguo said this while pushing all the dishes towards him.

She still remembers that she had been attending a boarding school since junior high school. She went home once every two weeks at first, then once a month. When she went to college, she came home once every two or three months because of her studies and the distance she had to travel. At that time, her mother and father would prepare a table full of delicious food from the first meal she received when she came home to the first meal she received when she left. In her mother's words, she would not miss home after eating so much.

Now Xiaoguo also cooked a table of food, with the same mood.

While eating, Xiao Guo vaguely heard the sound of footsteps and horse hooves from the door. He looked at Jiang Shanhe who continued to eat, and more or less guessed in his heart that it might be his people.

After the meal, Xiaoguo took Zhuangzhuang to reluctantly say goodbye to Jiang Shanhe. It was unknown what method he used to communicate with Zhuangzhuang, but Zhuangzhuang actually said goodbye to him very calmly.

Seeing Jiang Shanhe looking back every few steps, Xiaoguo felt even more reluctant. However, in order not to be laughed at by others and to make Jiang Shanhe worry, Xiaoguo forced herself to smile, waved at him, and said to him: Remember to think of me.

She knew that Jiang Shanhe would definitely understand.

Sure enough, as soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Shanhe tightened the rope with one hand and waved his hands vigorously at her, as if to say to her, he will.

Seeing this, Xiaoguo smiled widely. She wanted Jiang Shanhe to remember her smile.

She did it, and when Jiang Shanhe recalled that smile again in the future, he was still moved.

–

"Mom, the river in the village is frozen."

Zhuangzhuang, wearing the simple cotton coat made by Xiaoguo, ran in from outside with a red face.

As soon as I entered the house, I stomped my feet because of the cold air outside.

Xiaoguo closed the door and saw Zhuangzhuang quickly handing him the hand warmer in his hand, "Didn't I forbid you to go to the river?"

"Brother Xiaohu wanted to go ice skating, so he took us to see if there was any ice. I didn't go down. As soon as they saw that there was ice, they skated away. I watched from the shore for a while and then came back."

Zhuangzhuang explained himself that he was a good boy who listened to his mother and would definitely not do anything if his mother forbade him to do so.

"Good son!"

Xiaoguo was so happy that he rewarded Zhuangzhuang with a brain explosion.

"Ah mother?"

Zhuangzhuang covered his head and looked at her aggrievedly, not understanding why he was hit even though he had obeyed her.

"Pretending?" Xiaoguo didn't even look at him. He didn't use much strength, so how could it hurt?

"Hehe." Seeing that his little trick was exposed, Zhuangzhuang immediately hugged Xiaoguo and acted coquettishly and cutely in front of her.

Xiaoguo hugged Zhuangzhuang with amusement, looking at the barren scenery outside the window. It was already December, and Jiang Shanhe had been away for more than a month without realizing it. She wondered if the capital was the same as here.

As expected, each season has different scenery. Spring and summer are green and full of vitality. Autumn is bright yellow. In winter, everything is bare. The trees are bare, and the ground is bare. I don’t know if it’s the reflection of these two things, but Xiaoguo feels that the air is bare.

It wasn't too cold last month, but I didn't expect that as soon as December came, the temperature dropped overnight as if something had been turned on, catching Xiaoguo off guard.

For Xiaoguo, who relies on air conditioning and heating, the current situation is absolutely unacceptable to her. She never thought that she didn't freeze to death in the apocalypse, but in ancient times she was so frozen that she didn't want to get out of bed. If Zhuangzhuang was not still young, she would not be able to accept it, otherwise she would have wanted Zhuangzhuang to be responsible for three meals a day.

Thinking of this, Xiaoguo wrapped himself tightly in his extra-thick cotton coat. It was so cold in that awful weather. The last time Xiaoguo went to the county town was the second week after Jiang Shanhe left.

She was really thankful more than once that she had stockpiled food for the winter in advance. During that trip to the county, she bought a large amount of vegetables and meat. After returning, she specially emptied the donkey cart and went to the county alone again to buy a whole cart of cotton. She originally wanted to go buy some coal, but was told by Mrs. Yang that the coal was purchased in bulk by the village every year and then distributed.

Xiaoguo thought at the time, just give it out, and it would save me the trouble of pulling it out. But who could have imagined that each family would only give out this much? Although it was given out every seven days, for Xiaoguo, the seven days' supply was not enough for her to burn for three days.

There was no way, she wanted to save some money on heating, but she was really cold.

In order to keep warm, she stayed up late to sew cotton hats, cotton shirts, cotton pants, and cotton socks, from head to toe, the thickest she could make.

At Zhuangzhuang's suggestion, Xiaoguo also sewed cotton coats for the two puppies, two cows, and a donkey. Although Xiaoguo knew that they were not afraid of the cold, she still sewed coats at Zhuangzhuang's request, and even gave one to the chickens and ducks, after all, they could not be treated specially.

In addition to these, she and Zhuangzhuang also covered their nests with a thick layer of dry straw, so that their bodies and nests would be warm, and Zhuangzhuang would be happy.

There was still a lot of cotton and cloth left, all of which were waste cloth bought together with the cotton. They were very cheap. Xiaoguo bought a lot, but not to wear, but to use as curtains.

Cut the cloth into pieces slightly larger than the doors and windows, stuff the stretched cotton into the cloth and sew it up. Then use nails to hang them on all the doors and windows, including the kitchen and bathroom. In this way, the room is drafty. When you light the stove, the temperature in the room is acceptable.