It is not easy to traverse the wilderness

Song Lai felt that the weather was so cold that it could no longer be described in words.No wonder the people from Huoshenshan can be so awesome.Although there is snow, Song Lai sometimes has the feeling that the snow nest will be frozen in half.Although food is no longer an urgent issue, the problem now is that one fishing session is enough for four or five days, and then you have to continue fishing, and it is so cold outside that you are almost frozen when you go out.

Especially the process of breaking the surface of the lake with a stone ax is getting more and more difficult. Today, the patriarch finally decided that everyone who can move should go fishing on the lake and bring them back. In the days to come, everyone should minimize their activities and not go out. up.

Everyone was working on the ice in full swing, but the number of fish that jumped out gradually decreased, so they started fishing again. Although the fish were hooked very quickly, it was still slower than before, and the weather was very cold. The open water hole is easy to freeze, and the fishermen have to walk back and forth to maintain the heat. Finally, in the afternoon, the patriarch greeted everyone to return to the camp.

When I returned to the camp, I saw that there were more fish piled up than expected. It was probably enough for everyone to eat for a while. I picked up the harvested fish by the lake, opened the fish, washed it in the lake, and put it on the ground. Put them on the straw mats, layers of Luo Gao will be frozen in a short while, this way the fish can be well preserved, and it will save you from not being able to clean up the fish when the weather is colder. At that time, there were a few fish that hadn't been frozen to death, and they were jumping alive. Song Lai threw the fish into the lake, just in time to see if the water in this lake was drinkable.It is estimated that the problem is not big. Anyway, the water in the lake has been used by the tribe one after another, and no problem has been found.

In fact, Song Lai put the fish into the lake just thinking that if the fish survived, he would not have to travel too far to eat fish in the future.The lake was not frozen at the coldest time, probably because there are springs at the bottom of the lake.Looking at the fish thrown into the lake happily, You Yuan Song Lai has infinite expectations for the beginning of spring next year.

Song Lai collected the cleaned fish offal, and then boiled a large pot of boiling water to slowly clean it up. The fish intestines, swim bladder and even fish scales were not lost, even the small fish heart was washed by Song Lai. It was fried cleanly and brought to Oss and the patriarch to try it out.Wash the fish scales and put them in a large pot to cook continuously, then wait until the evening, chop the fish intestines and put them in the cooked pot, stir and continue to cook until the fish scales disappear, and then wait for the soup to cool slightly When it is frozen, it will solidify into fish scale jelly.A big pot full is enough for the clansmen to eat for two days.It can't be better to supplement calcium and be hungry.

When the weather is fine, the children wear thick animal skins and follow the adults to pick up branches, and a large ice wall is built around the campfire to keep out the wind. Pot of soup.There are inedible fish bones and intestines in it, and maybe some mushrooms and lotus root pieces.If anyone is hungry, come out and serve a bowl, return to the snow nest and drink a bowl warmly, and then add some water and firewood.Keep burning.Everyone has had a hard and comfortable winter this winter.Although still hungry from time to time, no one was starved to death after all.

The frozen fish were eaten up again and again, and when frostbite appeared on Song Lai's feet, Song Lai felt that the winter had passed without end, and at night, the frostbite on Song Lai's feet began to faint again. When Song Lai couldn't bear it anymore, he got up and wanted to scratch, but was stopped by An Ye again.Song Lai, who was full of irritability, finally started to get angry for no reason. "When will this damn winter end? Why don't you let me scratch it, I'm dying of itching. It's a luxury to burn some hot water to wash my feet in this shitty place. I want to go home, I want to go home, I want to go back Home!" Song Lai rushed towards An Ye like crazy, waving his hands non-stop, but An Ye heard Song Lai's choked up voice, just hugged him tightly, and patted his back lightly like before , "It will be fine, good boy, it will be over soon."

Song Lai would go crazy when he got it, but he felt much better.Finally, he was able to talk to An Ye rationally. "When will winter end, I feel like I'm going crazy." "It's over, don't you think the temperature is no longer dropping, and it hasn't snowed for a long time, the weather is improving. And it will snow in a few days It’s about to melt, but you still can’t go out at this time, and you can wait until the snow has melted. When we were in Huoshenshan before, this was the most difficult time for us. Basically, there was no food and we had to wait until When the river flood is over, you can return to the camp. We picked you up when we returned to the camp."

Hearing these words, Song Lai was stunned for a while, saying that he has been here for a year, but it is obvious that the cycle of seasons here is longer than that of his previous place, Song Lai did not bring anything that can verify the time, but just followed I feel this because of the change of seasons. I always feel that the four seasons here are not like three months, as if they are longer.But anyway, I am a year older.Song Lai subconsciously walked to the door of Xuewo, then stood straight on the top of his head and used his fingernails to make a light mark on the ice wall, then stepped back and made two heavy marks on the mark with a stone, and stood back to wait and see, now It seems to be 1.5 meters six. This height is my thirteen or fourteen-year-old height, but it has only been here for a year.

The patriarch called everyone to go fishing again.This time everyone stood on the ice carefully, and the ice was obviously easier to beat than before. They hurriedly filled all the wicker baskets, and when they returned to the camp, everyone started to pack the fish. They have been eating fish all winter. Song Lai felt that Never think about fish again.

As the weather got warmer, felling trees was not on the agenda again. Song Lai went to count more than 30 logs.The tribe consists of more than a dozen families and a few bachelors.If a house only uses one piece of wood as the beam, it should be enough, but Song Lai thought about the strong winds in winter here. It may not be realistic to build a normal rectangular house, but a circular snow nest is very difficult under the test of the hurricane. Having successfully completed his mission, Song Lai decided to build a circular house in this camp.The circular house Song Lai only saw tents there when he visited Inner Mongolia. The umbrella-shaped roof left a deep impression on Song Lai.In that case, a family would need at least eight pieces of wood.In this way, at least a hundred pieces of wood are needed to solve it.Fortunately, there is still half a year to prepare.

As the weather gets warmer, everyone has come out of the snow nest one after another.Although everyone did not enjoy a warm winter in Vulcan Mountain this winter, but fortunately there is a snow nest to keep them from freezing to death, and there is always fish soup to keep everyone from suffering too much.The only thing that everyone is thankful for is that the clansmen have survived this winter, and no one left.

One night Song Lai was sleeping in Zhengxiang, but was awakened by the rumbling sound. When he walked out of the snow nest, he saw that the snow on the surrounding mountains was sliding down, forming a small avalanche. Song Lai immediately thought of the snow nest where everyone lived. After a closer look, it turned out that there were signs of melting on the outside of the snow nest, and the temperature at night was low, so it was frozen again.The patriarch and Oss also walked out of the tall snow nest, looking at the snow that kept sliding down the mountain all around, their faces were very happy.

According to An Ye, the weather will start to get warmer from this time on.Song Lai looked at everyone's beaming faces but began to feel a little irritable.Their houses are all covered with snow. Where will they live when the snow melts?It's still cold at night.There is no way to discuss it with the patriarch and Oss. Everyone guessed that there was a bad side to the matter, especially Song Lai said that because of the rising temperature, the fish frozen in the ice would easily rot, and the snow outside looked at it. It's starting to melt, it's muddy everywhere, rivers and lakes are rising, swamps that used to be fishing are now dangerous, and food is a problem again.

After the collapse of the first snow nest, everyone had to demolish the residence they had relied on for a whole winter. Only after this demolition did Song Lai find out that these primitive people still had to learn too many things. First of all, there were hygiene issues. I don't feel that these issues need to be considered and melancholy by myself.How can someone defecate anywhere where they live? The so-called place to live is not a community, not the doorstep, twenty you sleep by the bedside, there will be no perverted and lazy people, but they will, It's just urinating next to your bed.God, I can't even imagine it.

It took more than three days to clear the ground, and cleared all the surrounding snow into the lake, and cleared the snow farther to the bottom of the platform, because the snow nest could not live, Song Lai suggested to use the felled trees first First, at least let everyone have a place to shelter from the wind and rain. After clearing the ground, they began to dig a hole. After they dug half a meter, they found that there was a hard rock layer underneath. Song Lai felt very confused and looked at the distance. If the soil layer is only half a meter, the trees would not be able to grow so tall. Song Lai grabbed An Ye and started digging at the edge of the forest, but he dug more than one meter deep and reached the permafrost layer, but still did not find it. The rock formations in the camp, Song Lai thought about it carefully, and found that except for the corner of the forest, the entire platform seems to be rock formations, because the central lake does not have the muddy ground beside the lotus lake, it is just a piece of water. pebbles.

Back at the construction site of the camp, looking at the half-meter-deep pit, Song Lai decided to let everyone hit the rock with stone axes to create a stone pit about [-] centimeters into which the wooden pillars were buried, and two spaces were dug on the left and right. A pit about [-] centimeters long, put wooden pillars, and then put the wood horizontally into the interval, and build a simple wooden wall one by one. In this way, a simple house is built for everyone to live in. , the first one to live in, is not allowed to defecate anywhere!