"Jiang Zhan, if you want to recognize her and want her to acknowledge you, never say those words you were about to say just now."

Jiang Zhi said, looking at Jiang Zhan with piercing eyes, "Do not advise others to be kind when you have not tasted their bitterness. You have not experienced what she has gone through, and you should not rashly assume that time is the best remedy and can make people forgive everything."

After all, Jiang Zhan was still young, and upon hearing such words, he didn’t quite know how to respond.

Jiang Zhi didn’t intend for him to respond, "Alright. Go back to your room, and think carefully about what I just said to you."

Hearing this, Jiang Zhan could only get up and head back to his room.

——

After Jiang Ran had been attending classes at school for three weeks, it was already November.

As November arrived, Beishi got even colder.

The clothes Jiang Ran wore during the coldest time last year were already on her now.

Qin Chuan was a local resident of Beishi, born and raised there, and naturally knew more about the weather in Beishi.

According to him, it wasn’t the coldest time in Beishi yet.

Specifically, it hadn’t snowed yet, so it hadn’t really started getting cold.

Although she had mentally prepared herself for the cold in Beishi beforehand.

But when she actually experienced it herself, Jiang Ran realized that no amount of mental preparation helped.

It’s only after experiencing it yourself that you know just how cold it really is.

At home, it was bearable.

After all, they had the heated bed, the floor heating, and the stove they had bought earlier.

It’s already burning and won’t go out all day long.

For that, they even bought a lot of coal and stored it in a room in the West Cross Courtyard.

With such a room full of coal, it should be enough to last them the winter.

The stove burned with bright red coal, it was smokeless coal, which didn’t produce any unpleasant odors.

On the contrary, it was warm and cozy in here.

Tossing a few pieces of pinewood into the coal fire, the room even filled with the fresh scent of pine.

Before, when they wanted to roast chestnuts, sweet potatoes, and peanuts or potatoes, they had already tasted them.

Outside, the cold winds howled, while inside the room, it was filled with sweet aromas, it was simply heavenly.

The temperature dropped day by day, and the sky outside was overcast, Wang Cuilan and Pei Baoshan both said it was going to snow.

The older generation, with their experience in observing the weather, could predict these things with a certain degree of accuracy.

So, it’s entirely believable.

The thought of seeing snow actually lifted Jiang Ran’s spirits a bit.

But knowing that even if it snowed, she still had to go to class made her mood suddenly less cheerful.

Regardless of whether she looked forward to it or not, the snow would fall eventually.

That day, near dusk, something drifted down from the gray sky.

It was snowing!

Pei Jing tilted his head back, staring at the snowflakes falling from the sky.

Before long, a snowflake landed on the tip of his nose.

The cold snowflake touched his warm skin and soon melted into a tiny droplet, sliding down Pei Jing’s nose.

Pei Jing was struggling to look at the tip of his own nose, almost cross-eyed.

As the droplet slid down, Pei Jing sneaked a glance at Jiang Ran beside him.

Seeing Jiang Ran also looking up at the sky without noticing him, he secretly stuck out his little tongue and licked the droplet at the edge of his lips clean.