Chapter 1275 ⊙﹏⊙‖∣°How Cold Is the Midwinter??

:(), the "Pumpkin Festival" on the 30th of autumn in Mineral Town is a very friendly festival for all children. Of course, it is also a lively and exciting day for Annie.

Because, on that day, she was able to 'beg' from house to house like other children?

(?′?`?)

Yes, it means 'begging for food', which means almost that...

Anyway, on that day, she was able to be like a normal child in Ore Town (although there are only three children in the entire Ore Town...), openly kicking the door from house to house and eating a lot of freshly made delicious food After snacks or unpalatable snacks, autumn passed in the blink of an eye, and then came the last season in the 120 days of the year in Ore Town-the 30-day winter.

For Anne, the arrival of winter in this world is as abrupt as other seasons. Originally, the first day was still a breezy autumn, but when it was just past 00:00 in the morning, the sky outside soon began to snow heavily. The north wind began to howl fiercely, and when she got up the next day, all she saw was the icy white world with thick snow and ice?

Then, the crops, including pastures, that had not yet been harvested in her pasture field were all covered by snow...

And the semi-automatic hot spring watering system, which was invented and designed by her and Uncle Gotts was responsible for the construction, was directly frozen into a lump of ice lumps, and the positions of the bamboo pipes that were dripping water were all covered with strips of crystal clear ice edges. , they look like ice crystal wicker, reflecting colorful rays of light under the sunlight, they look exceptionally beautiful and are admired and sought after by the people of Mineral Town who are idle in winter, as if they have already regarded them as A wonder in Mineral Town?

So, naturally, the ranch of Anne's family became a place for the residents and children of Ore Town to play and play in winter, and she was finally forced to get up early every day again, with Caroline, Lynn, Mary, Poble and others. Ellie and the others continued their daily life in the spring, that is, the kind of things like running to the hot springs early in the morning to seek refuge and frolicking shamelessly.

Just like today, this is already the tenth day after winter, and on this morning, Anne met Karen, Lynn, Mary, Ellie and Poble for the first time in the hot spring in Ore Town. This complete set of five people! So, after a burst of noise, she was just like them, soaking in the mist-filled hot spring where people's faces could not be seen clearly from a few meters away, enjoying the cold world of ice and snow A rare place of warmth.

"..."

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Soaking in a hot spring in this cold winter is a very comfortable thing. Anyway, Annie thinks that compared to her ranch where people ran to frolick, watch ice edges, build snowmen and have snowball fights, the hot spring here is more comfortable. It is much warmer and quieter, because few people are willing to brave the wind and snow to come to the back mountain to play, and not everyone is willing or free to take a hot spring in the early morning.

Although, Annie herself is not afraid of the cold, just like she is not afraid of flames, but if she can soak in the warm hot spring, she will definitely not go outside in the freezing cold, into that kind of ice and snow world bouncy.

"Hello!"

"Little guy, what are you doing these days? We haven't seen you go out in the first few days of winter... If you didn't follow us to get up early and come here to soak in the hot springs in the next few days, We don't even know how you've been doing lately!"

After soaking for a while, when the faces of all the girls started to turn red from the warm hot spring, Kallen suddenly stood up, completely ignoring the faintly exposed Miaoman body in the mist, and walked directly to the Annie sat next to the warm boulder under the spring water, let the spring water re-soak her smooth shoulders, and asked curiously next to Annie's shoulder.

They already knew that she couldn't sleep well because it was sunny recently and people went to play in Anne's ranch almost every day, and even from time to time, someone patted her door wanting to visit or drink a cup of hot tea. They had no choice but to get up early again and come to the hot spring to play with them as if they were fleeing, but apart from that, they didn't know how this little guy spent the winter at home on weekdays.

"What else can I do, just like that~!"

(ˉ▽￣~)~~

"After waking up, I stay by the fireplace every day, except to add some firewood to the fireplace from time to time, and then watch that boring TV in the warm house, drink hot chocolate, and then try to make myself something delicious. Besides, there seems to be nothing more to do..."

╮(╯▽╰)╭

Spreading her hands, Annie said that the winter in this ore town is not fun at all. She eats and sleeps every day, and then occasionally bullies Tibbers. It's the kind of happy life like a rotten house.

"Fortunately, there is still Tibbers at home to talk to and cook some food, otherwise he would be bored to death!!"

('~`●)

Yes, just play!

During this boring time, it was rare that Anne learned some simple cooking based on the incomprehensible books provided by Mary, such as rice balls, roast chicken, porridge, udon, moon-watching meatballs, curry Udon, chocolate udon, regular udon, mushroom rice, curry bread, toast, apple sauce, apple burnt, pickled radish, fruit juice, vegetable juice, curry rice and miso soup, etc. Forced to become a master chef!

So, recently she has been thinking, if there are no fun things or large-scale festivals in Mineral Town in winter, maybe she should leave this world and go to other worlds, and come back when she is free or when she thinks of it. Back to this fun, otherworldly Ore Town and her family's ranch?

Of course, when she comes back in the future, it is not certain whether there will be these acquaintances, or whether the ranch still belongs to her family.

but……

Now she hasn't made up her mind yet, so she hasn't talked to the girls who are having a good time in front of her for the time being, and she hasn't figured out when to say goodbye to them or inform them.

"??"

"It turned out to be like that, Annie, you are really happy, don't you even have to work?"

Mary asked a little strangely, she couldn't imagine that the ranch would become so easy in the hands of this little guy.

"Huh~?!"

"What does she do? Mary, you don't know that there are a group of slave-like dwarfs in her family. She is a vicious slave owner. I don't know what she did to them to make them so obedient. , and she goes to the ranch on time at six o’clock in the morning to help out regardless of the weather, and then leaves at five o’clock in the afternoon, not to mention how relaxed she is!”

‘That’s it!’”

"I have to deliver goods to the store every day. Although the seeds of winter crops are not sold, it is a little easier, but some daily groceries still have to be sold. Sometimes I have to deliver them door-to-door in the heavy snow. It's disgusting..."

"Hmph! Karen, you're doing pretty well!"

"Compared to her or you, I'm so busy! Winter is the busiest time for bars. Every day when I go back to the hot springs, I will be called by my father Dart to entertain those who spend the whole day in the bar. Guests and cleaning tables that never get clean, sometimes helping with the cooking, and by the time I get to bed at the end of the day, I’m too tired to move my fingers.”

"So miserable?"

"you do not say!"

"..."

"What about you, Ellie?"

"I?"

"I'm fine... Except for the occasional cold in winter, the hospital is quite idle. Dort is researching a new medicine. I don't seem to have anything to do except cleaning and serving tea and water every day. made."

"What about you, Mary?"

"It's the same for me. It's warm in the library when the door is closed. I read and write my own books every day. I'm currently writing a dog's adventure in the back mountain about Tibbers. I think, that's it. It will definitely be welcome."

"Tibbers? You're writing it?!"

All the girls glanced at a certain puppy who was dozing on the hot stones of the hot spring, and then they all looked at Mary with incredulous eyes.

"My God!"

"Forget it, Mary, it's not like you don't know, it's as lazy as its little master, no one will like it!"

"That's right, Mary, you might as well write about me!"

"Ha ha……"

"Hello!"

"Publy, you haven't told me yet!"

"Me? I'm almost the same as everyone else. I'm busy in winter too..."

"Every day after returning home from the hot springs, I have to feed the chickens with my brother, because you all know that my mother is in poor health and can't do any heavy work, and my father has not come back yet to find medicine for my mother, so I am really a little I'm worried, if I leave the ore town, what will my mother do, and my brother doesn't know if he's busy or not?"

"after……"

"I may only be able to come back in summer. Maybe that's why my brother doesn't like Kay a little bit? He doesn't really want me to go to the outside city. He is afraid that I will be like my father, and I will never come back after going out... ..."

In this way, several people chatted about some trivial things while soaking in the hot spring. After talking about some of their troubles, Pobley took a long breath and lowered his head, obviously struggling with some kind of trouble. She has been very distressed recently.

"!!"

"No way, Publy, have you and Kay developed to that extent? He proposed to you?!"

"ah!"

"Publy, tell us something?"

"Huh? Say it!"

Hearing what Pebble said, Karen, Ellie, Lynn and Mary looked at each other in astonishment, and then they all moved towards the woman with the big butt, chattering and asking, obviously gossip Soul is burning?

"??"

?˙?˙)?

Little Annie, who thought it was something interesting, saw a few people behaving like this, and curiously swam towards them with a dog crawling stroke.

(…)

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(And Tibbers, who was brought to the hot spring here by his little master, was still lying limply on the pebbles beside the warm hot spring, dozing off, and didn't mind those smooth female humans at all, and didn't go to see more... ...Because it knows that Uncle Xiong's self-control is not too strong, and he can't guarantee whether he will suddenly pounce on it at a certain time after watching too much, and then bite off a few pieces of white tenderness from those hateful female humans The delicious meat comes down and is eaten directly in the hot spring?)

"Yeah~?"

"Don't make trouble first! I said, can't I say it?"

"that……"

"Actually, it's nothing. It's just that I think Kay is very nice, so I'm going to write back and agree to be his girlfriend! However, he said that he wants to invite me to visit a big city outside and visit his parents. , but I haven't made a decision yet!"

"It's Karen, what about you? Last time my brother Karen took a bottle of wine from my father to meet you, and he came back very late that day. You are going to become my sister-in-law, right? "

"If you get married soon, I will be able to go and see the outside world with Kai at ease!"

Seeing that everyone seemed to want to break the casserole and ask the bottom line, in order to divert the firepower, Pobley, who was a little shy, quickly turned everyone's attention to Kallen.

"I?"

"I don't know...Anyway, Poble, your brother is too old-fashioned, and his alcohol capacity is too low. I drank him to the ground within two drinks that night, so I'm thinking...Anyway, it's still early, these two years Let's do it first~!"

After thinking about it, Karen, who was sitting in the hot spring and hugged her bulging chest with her white arms to avoid getting naked, hesitated for a while before giving Publy a good and not bad information.

Of course, it is possible that she has already recognized Rick, but because of her arrogant nature, she is still hesitating?

'Na Lin, what about you? What's going on with you and Cliff? '

'ah!'

'Where is the progress? Cliff has been wandering around, and seems to have run away from home, and he refused to talk about his own family situation, coupled with his low self-esteem, Dad has always disliked him, although he did not expressly object, but he did not Just support...'

'Why!'

'That is indeed a problem, Lin, you should have listened to me before, before Annie came to Ore Town, you should have asked Cliff to take over the ranch, if there was a farm, maybe there would not be so many troubles at this time up. '

"I tried to persuade him, but you don't know his temperament. He always said that he can't manage the ranch well, and he has been refusing to take it over. He just hides in the church..."

'never mind!'

‘Let’s not talk about him, how about you, Mary? Gray still reads every day...ah no, does he still visit you every day? '

"You guys misunderstood, Gray really likes to read books..."

'Hey! That's not necessarily true, is it? '

‘We heard him talking about it, what’s that called... Thinking about it, it seems that there is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a little Mary in the book? '

'? ? '

‘Mary, what are you doing with your head down, you just said it!’

'...'

'Oh! Lin, don't ask, Mary, I'm sorry! But Ellie, we all know that you have liked Dr. Dot for a long time, and you are so compatible, you work together every day, and you have the same hobbies, Has he not confessed to you yet? '

'No……'

'!!'

‘Then you should take the initiative!’

'I have! I really wanted to point it out, and I have hinted at him many times, but he has always regarded me as a friend. What a dull and stupid guy...'

‘Hee~?’

‘Ai Li, you should listen to me, to deal with that kind of stupid head, you should find a chance to get him drunk, and then just kill him directly!’

'!!'

‘Karen! You, what are you talking about? See if I don't tear that stinky mouth of yours!!'

'Yah~?!!'

Soon, in the hot spring next to the never-freezing waterfall pool of Lord Goddess of the Mountain at the back of Mineral Town, such a group of big girls laughed and laughed together again.

"..."

(ー`′ー)

"Really..."

(￢д￢.)

Looking at those people who were chasing each other in the hot spring pool, although Annie couldn't understand what they said, she also vaguely knew that those things were not something that a child like her should participate in, and she didn't want to participate, so...

"that……"

☆?(o?ω?)?

"Sister Carlin, Sister Ellie, Sister Lin, Sister Mary, and Sister Poble, I suddenly felt today that it's almost time to leave Mineral Town! Maybe, they will leave tomorrow~?!"

(?￣?￣?) Hey!

Speaking of which, Annie has been in this ore town for almost a year (a year here is 120 days), so basically, she has eaten all those delicious things, and some things that are too troublesome can be eaten by herself. If she is too lazy to study and fiddle with the situation, it is obviously of no use for her to stay any longer, especially when it is very boring here in winter and there are no interesting programs yet?

Although the 30th of winter, that is, the New Year's Eve gathering to watch the sunrise and New Year's Eve Qiao Mai noodles is a bit strange, but it is not worth Annie's expectation and staying until the end of the year, so, at this time, looking at these young ladies After they played and explained their messy troubles, Anne suddenly felt that it was time for her to leave.

"!!"

"What?!"

"Annie, you, you are leaving Ore Town too? Where are you going?"

"Which wild man wants to hook you up?"

"Bah! Karen, what nonsense are you talking about? How old is Anne?"

"..."

"Hey! Annie, don't you mean that you are going home?"

"!!"

"But does Anne have a home?"

"Ah! Karen why did you hit me?"

"Publi, aren't you talking nonsense, of course Anne has a family, she is not from our ore town... However, I thought Annie would always settle here with us, you have all seen, although she has some Lazy, but the ranch is still doing very well..."

"Sorry, Annie, I was actually praising you just now, really!"

During the argument, seeing a little girl soaking in the hot spring seemed to have a bad face, Karen felt that she had just said something wrong, so she quickly stood up and planned to explain a little bit.

"Okay~!"

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"To be honest, don't ask, anyway, he might really be leaving tomorrow!"

(o^~^o)

"At that time, I will write to Zach and ask him to distribute all the money that cannot be spent in his account to you. There should be a lot left? (One or two million g is still available), which ranch family Maybe you can’t take care of it anymore, Lin, you can ask that Cliff to take over!”

?(ˊ▽ˋ)?

"correct!"

!(;?o?)o

Annie suddenly remembered another important thing.

"Publy, when I was bored a few days ago, I accidentally made a strange thing, it seems to be called 'super grass' or something, anyway, it is still in the refrigerator, you can take it tomorrow Show it to Dr. Dot, that thing should be helpful for your mother's illness!"

??(??￣?￣)????

Annie is sure of that!

Because it wasn't made by her cooking at all, but she made it out of thin air according to the rules of this world and Poble's mother's condition, so it must be very useful, provided... that Doctor Dot Not a quack case?

"Anyway, I had a lot of fun playing with you guys~! Besides, this seems to be the only place where I haven't encountered that kind of fighting. I really like your place!"

(????-)?

Thinking about it, it’s true that Anne has never played a hand in this world, at most it’s just a little prank... Of course, the dwarves definitely don’t count, because Annie didn’t fight with them at all, she just accidentally detonated the flour Suspended particles, and then frightened those guys to surrender directly. How did she know that they were so timid?

'!!'

‘Annie, are you really leaving? '

'this……'

'Oh! Don't be sad, Annie has been in Mineral Town for so long, isn't it normal to go back? Maybe her parents are already worried about her!’

'makes sense……'

‘But when you think about it, it’s really sudden. It’s more depressing than Pobley leaving Ore Town to elope with wild men!’

'!!'

‘Karen, what are you talking about, where did I elope with a wild man? '

'Ah! I didn't say anything!!'

'You said it, stop! Don't run!'

'Yeah~?'

'...'

‘But Annie...you have to talk to Mayor Thomas about some things, you can’t just leave like this!’

'That's right!'

‘Hey! Why don’t we ask for leave together today, go to Anne’s house to make a big fuss all day, and then share the big bed with her at night? '

'good idea!'

‘Well! I agree! I can do it and cook a lot of delicious food for everyone, for our Annie, for this little guy!’

'I agree too!'

'I can go to Dick's and buy a whole bunch of wine, and we'll have a good drink together!'

'good!'

"I... I can contribute my family's champion chicken. I know it. Annie has long wanted to eat it, but I have to catch it secretly. If my brother sees it, I will die!"

'That…..'

'Then I'm going to ask Dr. Dott for leave now? There are no patients in the hospital today, so I think it should be fine. '

‘It’s definitely fine, don’t worry, Ellie, if Dort dares to promise me, Kallen will beat him up for you!’

'ah? please do not……'

'Okay, let's go! Come on!'

'...'

Soon, after making a fuss for a while, maybe it was because of reluctance, maybe a little sadness, or some other reason? Anyway, after discussing it for a while, Karen, Ellie, Lin and the others started making noises and joking around, while surrounding a little girl who wanted to say something but couldn't get her mouth in her mouth at all, and went to the edge of the hot spring Come on, while you get dressed, let's go to the big house on Annie's Ranch and have a big fight!

As for whether Annie really wants to leave tomorrow, they don't want to think about that kind of sad thing now, so let's wait until tomorrow?

(…)

ε=(′?`●)))

(Seeing those clean and sleek female humans quickly put on their clothes and surrounded by the wretched little master in a blue and white snow skirt rushing out of the hot spring hut, Tibbers, who was forgotten by everyone, first After sighing, he had no choice but to slowly climb up from the warm stones, and started to move his small arms and legs, and chased after the six people in the distance...)

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?. ?(ˊωˋ)??. ? Ask for everything?? ?(ˊωˋ)??.

?The relaxed ore town is over, and the forty-eighth volume will be opened tomorrow?