After Xiaofeng's birthday, the weather became colder day by day, and winter seemed to have come overnight.
Xia Mian was sleeping soundly that day when she heard Xia Wenyue exclaim in surprise outside, "It's snowing! Wow, such heavy snow!"
Xia Mian suddenly opened his eyes and was about to lift the quilt to look at the window, but he was startled by the cold air that came in and quickly shrank back into the quilt.
As a result, when she lifted the quilt, she accidentally lifted the quilt of Xiao Feng next to her, and the little guy shivered and woke up from the cold...
"Aunt?" The child rubbed his eyes and seemed to feel the cold, so he huddled deeper into the quilt.
"Children, don't get up yet," Xia Wenyue called from outside. "I'm going to add some coal to the boiler. We can get up later when it's warmer. Don't catch a cold."
Another great thing about this yard is that heating has been installed. Although it is a very old-fashioned cast iron radiator, it is much better than heating with a stove.
Otherwise, they would have a miserable winter. In the original body's memory, the stove was not very warm, but it was very dirty. There was coal dust everywhere in the house, and the cracks between the fingernails were always black.
Thinking of that relief, Xia Mian couldn't help but shudder.
Xia Wenyue had never seen heating before, but after she started to use it, she realized its benefits. However, her generation was used to being frugal, so in order to save carbon, they were reluctant to use a lot of it. They just wanted to keep the house warm.
This morning was clearly an exception.
Xiao Feng also heard what Xia Wenyue said, and he huddled deeper into the quilt. After a while, Xia Mian felt a warm little foot reaching out and rubbing her arm.
Xia Mian grabbed it and said, "Look what I caught?"
Xiao Feng giggled and struggled. Xia Mian loosened her grip and opened the quilt. The little guy quickly rolled into her arms, "Auntie."
"Yeah." The child's body was like a small stove.
"Come on, stretch and grow taller!" Xia Mian stroked him from head to toe. The child straightened his body and stretched lazily. After finishing, he laughed out loud.
The wind was freezing outside, but they snuggled up to each other in the warm bed, feeling a sense of happiness in their hearts.
After a while, Xia Wenyue pushed the door open and came in, placing a small cotton jacket and trousers on the radiator beside their bed. "It's very cold today, change the child into thick clothes."
Xiao Feng rolled over and lay on his stomach, only sticking out his little head to look at the cotton-padded jacket and trousers on the radiator, "Mine."
"Yes, it's yours." Xia Wenyue said, "Second Aunt made it specially for you. It's very warm when you wear it."
Xiao Feng smiled.
The child rolled around in Xia Mian's arms for a while. The temperature in the room rose, and Xia Mian quickly put on his clothes, took the cotton jacket and trousers from the radiator, and was warmed by the heat.
"Wow, it's so warm, hurry up and put it on while it's hot!"
Xiao Feng quickly sat up and stretched his arms and legs to cooperate.
After putting them on, Xia Mian couldn't help laughing. The cotton-padded jacket and trousers with red background and white dots, with the blessing of "Second Aunt is afraid you will be cold", the child now looked bloated like a ball.
His little arms couldn't stick to his body and were sticking out at his sides, making him look more and more like a penguin cub.
Seeing his look, Xia Mian was very glad that Xia Wenyue was busy setting up the stall and had no time to make cotton-padded jackets for all of them. She only made one for each of the two little ones. Otherwise, she would have become as fat as a ball.
Mao Huizhu had already started cheering outside. Xia Mian opened the curtains and saw a vast expanse of white outside.
Xiao Feng also looked out the window and exclaimed.
Even though he grew up in the north, the pure world covered in snow still makes Xia Mian happy every time it snows heavily.
Moreover, during the era of summer hibernation, such heavy snow was rarely seen in Yan City. Seeing this, I realized that the metaphor of "goose feather-like" snow described in early textbooks was not an exaggeration at all.
Xiao Feng grunted and slid down from the bed, wanting to go out and play with Mao Huizhu.
Xia Mian put a hat and gloves on him, and put a coat on him. She couldn't help but smile as she watched him struggle to cross the threshold and run out staggeringly.
Outside, the joyful cries of children were heard.
When Xia Mian came out, the snow on the ground was already above the ankles, and the snow was still falling from the sky. Mao Zhishan was starting from the main house and shoveling a path for people to walk on to the door of each room.
Xiao Feng chased and played with Mao Huizhu in these small paths, and from one penguin cub, they turned into two wobbly penguin cubs.
Xiao Feng was not used to the thickness of the cotton jacket and trousers. While running, his body tilted and he fell directly into the snow beside him.
He wanted to turn over, but his cotton-padded jacket was too thick. He struggled with his limbs for a long time but couldn't turn over. Instead, he lay on his back, unable to move.
Mao Huizhu turned around and saw his appearance, clapping her hands and laughing.
Xia Mian looked at him, who was paddling his limbs like a little turtle but still couldn't turn over, and couldn't help laughing.
After hearing her laughter, Xiao Feng was no longer anxious. He turned his head to look at her, then suddenly relaxed his limbs and lay down with his arms and legs spread out, not moving at all.
Xia Mian walked over and saw the child looking at the sky with his eyes wide open. Large snowflakes fell on his body, face, and eyes. He seemed to think it was wonderful and smiled unconsciously, "So beautiful."
As if attracted by the way he was enjoying himself, Mao Huizhu ran over and rolled on the ground, lying next to him. She soon exclaimed "Wow", "It's so beautiful!"
"Really?" Xia Mian looked at the thick snow on the ground, as if tempting her to lie down...
After a while, four people were lying in a row on the snow in the middle of the yard, Xiao Feng, Mao Huizhu, Xia Mian and Mao Huilan.
When Ning Shaobai brought Chenchen in, wrapped tightly in a bundle, he screamed in fear, "Wow, uncle, they're dead!"
Ning Shaobai: ...
"Not dead." Ning Shaobai put Chenchen down, "Look, they're still moving."
This family really knows how to have fun.
Chenchen also staggered over to see what was going on.
Xia Wenyue came out after hearing the sound and saw the scene on the snow. She looked around angrily and picked up the broom next to her and threw it at Mao Huilan, "Go and sweep the snow quickly, are you also children?"
Mao Huilan and Xia Mian jumped up and ran away, leaving the two little guys lying on the ground with their legs up in the air.
Chenchen laughed out loud when he saw this.
However, when Xia Mian and Mao Huilan came back after sweeping the snow at the door, the children lying in a row had become three, and they were not lying in a row, but rolling in a row.
This is the advantage of a cotton-padded jacket. Although it is heavy, you can play with it without worry.
The snow fell for several days in a row, so the kindergarten was closed. Xia Wenyue’s skewers stall was also closed, and she now only sells sesame cakes.
Xia Wenyue’s skill in making sesame cakes is really good. After selling them together with skewers for a while, she has already gained many regular customers. She only needs to set up the stall for an hour during school hours, and the rest of the time, regular customers will come directly to her home to buy them, which is quite convenient.
When primary and secondary schools had their winter vacation, Xia Wenyue's pancake stall also closed, and then Xia Mian and Mao Huilan became more serious and stayed in the study in the east wing all day, studying hard.
When they learned that Mao Zhishan had finished filming in Yan City and was leaving for City C, and Xia Wenyue was going with him, Xia Mian and Mao Huilan almost cheered.
"We'll leave the day after tomorrow." Xia Wenyue said, looking at the eye contact between Xia Mian and Mao Huilan and sneered, "I've signed you up for winter vacation cram school. Go to class on time every day!"
Xia Mian said, "Second aunt, no need, I can do all the papers the teacher gives me." The weather is so cold, it would be so nice to stay at home. The classroom is definitely not as warm as home.
"Then go ahead and do it, otherwise I'm afraid you'll bring disaster to my family, not just ours, but other families as well."
Xia Wenyue snorted coldly, "Anyway, I don't trust you two. Go to class on time. I'll ask the teacher when I come back. If I find out you've been skipping classes or something..."
Both of them were too guilty to speak. Xia Wenyue still remembered the incident with the electric fan in Ning Shaobai's house.
When I first took the fan apart during summer hibernation, I was full of confidence. It was just a few small screws, and I didn't think it was difficult at all. But when I put it back together, I couldn't get the fan blades to fit properly...
The Mao family didn't have a fan before, so Mao Zhishan didn't know how to install one. Xia Mian was at a loss. When he was about to secretly take the bulk fans out to find someone to reinstall them, he happened to meet Uncle Li who was passing by.
When Uncle Li found out that she wanted to go out and spend money to repair it, he of course disagreed and took it away and installed it himself.
Then one time, Xia Wenyue let the secret slip, and Xia Mian and Mao Huilan were slapped on the back, promising not to do anything naughty again.
However, it turns out that Xia Ming is also a naughty child and cannot be trusted at all.
Seeing that they had temporarily calmed down, Xia Wenyue didn't let her guard down and threatened them, "After the New Year, there will be a transfer exam. If you just hold on tight, I'll give you one chance. If you don't pass, you'll have to open a stall with me."
Before going to cram school, Xia Mian bought a good quality wig. Now that the weather is cold, it is not so stuffy to wear a wig.
After being identified as a bad girl by Li Lizhen and Sun Yuexin at first sight, Xia Mian felt that her first step to start over here was still very worthy of attention.
Moreover, winter vacation cram schools are different from regular cram schools.
The final exams had just ended, and the number of students in the cram school was two or three times the usual number. More than half of them would be her future schoolmates, and maybe even classmates, so Xia Mian had to take it seriously.
The wig she bought is still a student-style wig. Firstly, it is easier to take care of when it is shorter. Secondly, when the weather gets hotter next year, her real hair will be about the same length, and the transition will be natural.
A beige woolen hat, a gray turtleneck sweater, and a down jacket on the outside.
This was something Xia Mian bought at great expense. Although it didn't have a particular style, it was much thinner than a cotton-padded jacket, and at least it didn't look so bulky. She paired it with a wide belt in the middle, which immediately gave it a sense of fashion.
Pair it with jeans and cashmere leather boots, and you'll be a fairy with a slim waist and long legs.
Xiao Feng watched her transform successfully and clapped her hands, "Auntie is beautiful."
Xia Mian pinched his face and said, "In your eyes, even if my aunt is ugly, she is still beautiful. Let's go and find Aunt Ning."
After the winter vacation, Xiao Feng would go to Zhu Yuanhai to learn painting every two days.
At the beginning, Xia Mian went with him twice. Zhu Yuanhai liked Xiao Feng very much. As his youngest disciple, Xiao Feng was also loved by several senior brothers and sisters. The key was that he was very talented, and everyone especially liked to take him to paint.
Xiao Feng felt like a fish in water there. Later, Xia Mian stopped going there. Ning Shaoyun would always take him with her when she went there, and they would come back together when they returned. Xiao Feng was also very happy.
Ning Shaoyun smiled when she saw her, "Whose little beauty is this? She's so pretty."
Xia Mian turned around proudly, "Haha, I have to go to school, I have to leave a good impression on my classmates."
"Are you sure this isn't a fake impression?" Ning Shaobai's voice came from behind. "Don't scare your classmates when you're exposed later."
Xia Mian took a deep breath and secretly warned herself that from today on, she would start to be a little fairy, and she had to control her temper and not get angry easily.
He turned around and said with a smile, "That's no need for Dr. Lao Ning to worry about it."
"Really?" Ning Shaobai raised his eyebrows.
Seeing Ning Shaobai staring at her wig, and thinking of his past record, Xia Mian covered her head cautiously and hurriedly told Xiao Feng, "Auntie is going to class, you follow Auntie Ning."
She decided to stay away from this stumbling block on her road to becoming a fairy, so as not to ruin her career.
Ning Shaoyun looked at Xia Mian's quickly disappearing figure and said to Ning Shaobai, "Why do you always tease her?"
Ning Shaobai smiled unconsciously.
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