Chapter 291 Cold Winter

Wei Fuchang shook his head after listening.

"It started with being touched. But then I slowly had her in my eyes. Your sister is gentle and kind, sensible, virtuous, and a good housewife."

Good vision.

"But my sister is still with Yaya."

"I like Yaya very much. The little girl is very sensible. She has been suffering with us all the way. She has never cried and always gives food to your sister first. I see that she usually takes care of Xiaobao, and she looks like a sister."

She will also help take care of her younger brothers and sisters in the future.

She will be a good sister.

Su Qingmei looked at him and saw that he was sincere.

I believe these words come from his heart.

"We don't know about your past."

"There's nothing to hide about my past. My family is in the north. We have some wealth, a farm, hundreds of acres of fertile land, servants and tenants. My father hoarded the grain we harvested, saying that the world was in chaos and he didn't sell it. But I don't know how the news leaked out, and a bandit army came to rob the grain in the middle of the night. In the end, only my son and I escaped. My son also fell ill on the way..."

Su Qing'an saw tears in his eyes and said, "My condolences."

Wei Fuchang shook his head.

After a long while, he calmed down his thoughts.

He said, "Later, I only thought about protecting your sister to find you, and then go down to find my family. For a while, I really didn't want to live. Later, your sister hugged me and dragged me to beg people everywhere. She wanted me to live. Since she wants me to live, then I will live well. I can protect her all the way, and I can protect her for the rest of my life in the future."

Su Qing'an was moved by these words for some reason.

She believed that he was sincere in what he said at this moment. It's not the same for a lifetime, it's too long, no one knows.

But at this moment, he is willing to protect her for a lifetime, that's enough.

What can a person who once had the will to die and felt that he had no worries in the world do to you?

What bad intentions can he have?

Wei Fuchang got Su Qingmei's approval, so he started to visit and had a long talk with Su's father and mother.

When Su's father and mother heard that he would live with them in the future and would not go back to the north, they immediately agreed.

They have a big family, and Wei Fuchang is alone. With so many eyes watching, how dare he treat Su Qingliu badly?

After the agreement, Wei Fuchang began to prepare for the engagement.

Although the Su family did not ask him for anything, he still wanted to complete the six rituals for Su Qingliu before marrying her home.

Wei Fuchang worked for Su Qingmei, and Su Qingmei also paid him wages and bonuses.

But he wanted to marry Su Qingliu, and he felt that this was not enough. He didn't know how he got in touch with Ling Fenggu, and he went into the mountains with Ling Fenggu frequently to find medicinal herbs.

He wanted to find some medicinal herbs to save some money.

Ling Fenggu was also willing to take him with him, so that one more person could explore the road and hunt wild animals, and there would be less danger.

After Su Qingmei talked to him, the rest was left to Su's father and mother, and she found Xiang Shang and Guo to ask them about the wintering situation of the people in the village.

Most of the people in Xingeng Village were ordinary people who fled from the north and had never lived in the mountains.

The mountains were wet and cold in winter, and I'm afraid many people would not be able to adapt.

There were many families, but they were not complete families.

Single people lived in a big bunk bed with everyone and ate in a big pot.

But some, such as the old student Gu Hongde, a fifty-year-old man with only a seven-year-old grandson, were afraid that he could not cut much firewood.

There are also families like Tong who have a daughter. The daughter is only twelve or thirteen years old. It is easy for her to raise waxworms, but she may not be able to do much work like going up the mountain to chop firewood and carry firewood.

There are many such families in the village.

There are very few families like Ling Fenggu and Xiang Shang with three generations of grandparents and grandchildren.

Su Qingmei walked around the village and found that everyone was busy with village affairs. The firewood and winter supplies of each family were not prepared enough.

So she mobilized the whole village, asked the men to go up the mountain to collect firewood, and the women to go up the mountain to bundle and pack, and then carry them down together.

She also asked Su's father and Su Dahu to go to the other two mountains to see how everyone was spending the winter.

She also asked Yu Meng to take his father Yu Yong to the two neighboring mountains to build a kang for everyone.

This family is a bricklayer, and it should not be difficult for them to build a kang.

Especially the six households who came from other villages to seek refuge, Zheng Bo and others who found the iron mine, must be kept warm for the winter.

If they move here and still live by burning firewood like they live in a cave, it would be her dereliction of duty as the village chief.

She also ordered the carpenter Gao Yuan to take the people in the village to make some fire tables, fire barrels and fire baskets.

The extra ones can be sold in the market town. There are many scattered people from other villages who moved to the market town this year, and I am afraid they are in great need of these winter equipment.

This year, everyone sold mountain products and had some money in their hands, so the business should not be bad.

She went to Ma Xin again to check on their winter situation.

There are 50 people there, all of them are strong laborers, and the firewood has long been piled up in the backyard, enough for them to burn for a whole winter.

When the barracks were built, they also built a kang, so there should be no problem in wintering.

In Lianzhai, Su Qingmei also convened a meeting of 28 village chiefs to understand everyone's winter situation and the situation of the wheat in the field.

A group of experienced village chiefs reminded Su Qing'an: "We were well prepared for the winter last year, and this year will only be better than last year, not worse. But there is one thing I want to remind the president..."

"You guys tell me."

"We have all discovered this year that it is getting colder earlier than in previous years. We all feel that it will be a severe winter this year. You Xingengzhai are all foreigners, so you may not be able to adapt to the conditions in the mountains, so you must be prepared."

"Is it winter?" Su Qingyu was a little surprised.

Many village owners nodded: "Well, something is wrong this year. It gets cold earlier, and it's colder than in previous years. I'm afraid there will be heavy snow that closes the mountains."

Su Qingyu nodded: "Okay, I understand. You should also make more preparations. In addition, each village has stored a lot of food this year, so be sure to keep an eye on it. If someone comes to visit you, be sure to warn them."

"Yes. Don't worry. We finally grew it. I will chop off the hands of anyone who dares to snatch it! We are not like last year, passively waiting to be beaten. Now the young and strong people in each village have regular training. , all have some skills and are very accurate.”

"That's good. It's better not to be careless."

"yes."

After a while, Su Qingnao thought about what the village leaders said, so she went back and told Su's father, mother, and others, and also notified the village.

The whole village followed them up the mountain to collect firewood, and they continued to do so for half a month. The whole village was filled with firewood, and it finally stopped.

Before the snow fell, another hunting was organized in the village. Su's father and Qingyang Su Dahu Wei Fuchang followed, and Ma Xin also sent a dozen people to follow.

And the women in the village are not idle either, going to various hills to dig winter bamboo shoots.

Mrs. Guo took the women in the village to make various kinds of bamboo shoots. They were very delicious and everyone loved them.

The bamboo fungus in the bamboo forest is also very delicious. Even the elderly and children love to drink the soup.

Su Qingyu was busy with various things this year and forgot about planting bamboo fungus.

Next year I plan to think about growing bamboo fungus and mushrooms, otherwise all the large and small caves in the mountains will be in vain.

The men went into the mountains and did not return until the tenth day carrying a small mountain of prey.

Mother Su and others had never seen this kind of collective hunting and were very surprised.

It was a lively gathering around the mountain stream with the women in the village handling wild animals.

The children were also laughing and joking, there was so much meat to eat.

There is no shortage of meat in winter, and there is plenty to eat. Wow, there is so much. The children clapped their hands and happily helped the adults.

The people in the village were originally at home and could not eat meat once or twice a year, but now they were very happy to see so much meat.

Entering the mountains is the right time to enter.

In the end, each family got a lot. I happily took the meat home and smoked it.

Liang Si's side, Su Qingyu, also took the initiative to share some meat between her mother and daughter. It was enough for her mother and daughter to survive the winter. She also brought over some dried mushrooms she picked to express her gratitude.

Then Mother Su gave me a big basket of nuts.

When the first snow falls, the Su family begins the cat winter.

But what they don't know is that danger is coming quietly.