Before winter arrives, all the indoor and outdoor facilities are fully prepared. Looking at the adobe house in front of them, the two brothers are filled with emotions.

"So from now on, we are also people with a home, right?"

"Not only do we have a home, but we also have family,"

After these months of living together, the two have already regarded Dong Yao and Jiang Xue as their little sisters.

Before winter arrives, the brothers began hunting with Jiang Xue, for this, they specially went to find a blacksmith at the foot of the mountain to forge many sharp arrowheads. Through a careful selection, four bows and arrows were made, and the four siblings roamed the mountain grove daily, touring the outskirts but not daring to venture deeper, as their strength was still far from enough.

To survive better on Snow Wolf Mountain, Jiang Xue used the routines from training in Special Forces from later generations, making the three follow her for daily physical training up the mountain and down. Besides this, they also learned various grappling techniques. Because she doesn’t know Qinggong and hasn’t cultivated, she couldn’t teach them.

Physical training was their mandatory daily morning course, and in the afternoon, they practiced writing, which didn’t require ink and paper, just finding a spot on the ground to write with wooden sticks. Mainly, ink, paper, and inkstones are too expensive, and they are currently too poor, so they make do with learning underground and plan to learn when they can afford it.

Besides practicing writing, they were taught arithmetic, multiplication tables, and addition and subtraction within 100. Understanding doesn’t need to be extensive, just practical.

In the afternoon, efforts were made all over the mountain for survival, hunting, and searching for wild vegetables and fruits. As winter arrives, prey in the mountains becomes increasingly scarce. Although there are only four of them, survival is still necessary. With money in their pockets and food at home, influenced by Jiang Xue, the brothers have become more responsible after changing their previous habits of being lazy and indulging in food.

But what kind of prospects are there in the town at the foot of the mountain?

"Alright, don’t go anymore. The food and vegetables we stored are enough to last through this winter. If you can’t stay idle, then train well, improve physical fitness, as agility and jumping are excellent. After the year, we can venture deeper into the grove to hunt for better-quality prey. Relying on these animal pelts and medicinal materials I grow and dig up, our lives will be very good. As for the future, we’ll discuss later. Right now, the primary task is to improve our strength well."

Since she is only six years old this year, what can a six-year-old child do? So at this age, which is best suited for learning, she naturally leads them to do meaningful things. As for earning money, she’s never worried about it from beginning to end. With her abilities, making money is simple, but the platform to showcase them is too weak, thus they only manage to scrape by.

Thus, the daily life of the four siblings in winter turned into the two sisters making wine at home, processing medicinal materials, pickling vegetables, dried fish, bean paste, and even tanning and dressing the hunted pelts. Only these specially treated pelts can be preserved for a long time, without rotting or smelling, and not being corroded by bacteria.

Transported by the brothers to the foot of the mountain, then laboriously taken to the Prefecture City to sell at high prices, not only eliminating profit loss by small middlemen but also opening up a certain market for them with good quality. Because it tastes good and is of high quality, every time they go to the Prefecture City, there’s no need to tout, as people are eager to buy.

Later, it developed into a situation where each quarter, merchants in the Prefecture City would queue at the foot of Snow Wolf Mountain waiting to buy, without needing the brothers to laboriously transport them to the Prefecture City. Of course, when they come, they don’t come with empty cars and will bring the daily necessities such as food, seeds, cloth, and cotton for exchange, adjusting for any differences.

Year after year, with the life level of the four siblings gradually improving, they have long ceased to worry about food and clothing, and even saved money for doing business in the future.

Of course, with Jiang Xue around, the other three’s physical qualities have greatly improved, not only learning to read and do arithmetic well but also acquiring a lot of knowledge about medicine and poisons from Jiang Xue. The two brothers dug a cellar specifically for Jiang Xue to breed venomous snakes, relying on the snakes to refine poison liquid. Nowadays, the poison they have saved is more than the medicinal materials sold.

On one occasion, Jiang Xue stumbled upon the tracks of Emperor Bees deep in the mountain grove. These bees are poisonous, and toxins are subdivided into hemolysis poison and neurotoxin categories, which can cause human liver, kidney, and other organ failures, especially when stung near veins, it poses a life-threatening risk, particularly dangerous for people with allergic constitutions. Therefore, to train these Murder Bees, the four of them have endured countless stings from the poisonous bees. If it weren’t for her in-depth research into toxins, they would have probably been dead a long time ago.