New Year's Eve (17th)

"Second sister, mom will make more sticky bean buns tomorrow, so you can give more to Lu Xiaoxiao. She usually helps us a lot."

"good."

"Mom will heat up these vegetables now. You go to the yard and call your dad to eat."

"good."

Lu Xiaoxiao went into the space to take a shower after seeing her second sister off. She calculated the time and the day after tomorrow was New Year's Eve. Zhang Xu should come down the mountain to take her hunting tomorrow.

When Lu Xiaoxiao woke up the next morning, she heard a noise in the yard, so she immediately got off the kang, put on her clothes, and walked to the yard.

"Wake up." When Zhang Xu heard the sound of the main room door opening, he knew that the little girl must have woken up, so he turned around and said to the little girl.

"Well, when did you come?"

"It's about seven o'clock in the morning."

"have you eaten yet?"

"not yet."

"I'm going to heat up the steamed buns and they'll be ready to eat in a moment."

"Um."

After Lu Xiaoxiao returned to the house, she went into the kitchen. She burned the large earthen stove and added water to the pot. Then she put a steamer on it and put the steamed buns, eggs, and sweet potatoes into the steamer to steam them together.

Half an hour later, Lu Xiaoxiao put out the fire on the big earth stove, and then shouted to Zhang Xu in the yard: "Zhang Xu, eat."

"good."

Lu Xiaoxiao sat on the Kang, picked up an egg and peeled it while asking Zhang Xu: "When are we going hunting?"

"Go after breakfast."

"Would you like to bring some dry food?"

"No, go now and come back in the evening."

"Can you hit something in such a short time?" Lu Xiaoxiao asked after hearing Zhang Xu's words.

"You doubt my ability?"

Lu Xiaoxiao couldn't help but twitch her mouth when she heard Zhang Xu's words. She thought to herself that hunting requires luck in addition to ability. If you are unlucky and can't find prey, no matter how capable you are, you won't be able to catch it. OK.

Zhang Xu glanced at the little girl and roughly guessed what she was thinking, so he said to the little girl: "Don't worry about eating. Since I said I would come back in the evening, I will definitely catch enough prey before I come back."

"I see."

After breakfast, Lu Xiaoxiao put out all the fires at home, closed the courtyard door and walked up the mountain with Zhang Xu.

When Lu Xiaoxiao reached the halfway point of the mountain, she said to Zhang Xu: "Zhang Xu, can you catch prey if you lead me like this?"

"We haven't reached the hunting place yet. If you get tired from walking, I will carry you on my back."

"No, I'm not tired, I'm just curious where you want to take me hunting."

"You'll know when you get there."

"Oh, is there a lot of game there?"

"Well, you can fight as much as you want then."

An hour later, Lu Xiaoxiao walked through a cave under the leadership of Zhang Xu, and she was stunned by what she saw.

"Zhang Xu, pinch me quickly. I want to see if I'm dreaming."

When Zhang Xu heard what the little girl said, he stretched out his hand and pinched the little girl's face gently. Well, it felt good.

Lu Xiaoxiao felt the slight pain on her face, and she knew she was not dreaming at this moment, so she pulled Zhang Xu excitedly and said: "Zhang Xu, how did you find this place? I didn't expect that in the snowy twelfth lunar month, it could still be possible. Seeing such a place looks like spring.”

"I found this place when I was chasing a wild goat."

"You are so lucky. I have been to this mountain a hundred and eighty times and I have never found this." Lu Xiaoxiao looked at Zhang Xu with envy.