It is not easy to traverse the wilderness

As the food in Song Lai's warehouse became more and more abundant, the weather began to gradually become colder, and the leaves quickly turned yellow and fell, and none of them even came to show the brilliant colors given by the season. It has become bare.

Gan Zhi soaked some flax in water one after another, and began to prepare for the things to do in winter, which was unique before. In the past, when winter was approaching, everyone just stored food and prepared to go to Vulcan Mountain. There was never any work. What needs to be done in winter, as long as you quietly reduce energy consumption in winter, it will be fine.

Song Lai never stopped searching for lamp oil, and kept experimenting with many seed oils, and finally a kind of nut seed was selected.This nut tastes extremely bitter and bitter, and the oil that is ground is not edible, but it unexpectedly produces a lot of oil and there is no oily smoke after being ignited, but it has a slight bitter taste, somewhat like the taste of almond blossoms, and the oil can be kept for a long time after grinding.Song Lai took the time to pick a lot to promote in the tribe. It was the first time to spend the winter in the house. Song Lai always hoped that everyone could usher in the spring safely.

During this time, Song Lai was very busy. He walked around the houses to see how everyone was preparing firewood for heating in winter.Whether the heated kang and fire wall at home work well, how to seal the doors and windows, and the chimney must not be blocked, and they have walked through the entire tribe one after another.In the end, he took Oss back to his home from Rich, and the room prepared for Oss was covered with animal skins, and the room was also warmed up, with all kinds of furniture available.Oss entered the room, looked around, touched here and there, and finally looked up at An Ye, "What's for dinner?"

The fourth day of Oss was arranged, and the first snow of this winter began to fall.

Song Lai woke up in An Ye's arms in the morning, which is very rare, because An Ye always left to hunt or do other things before Song Lai woke up, but today he was still lying on the bed abnormally.Song Lai turned around and looked at An Ye, "Why didn't you go out today?" "It's starting to snow outside." Song Lai looked up at the transom on the wall inside the house, but he couldn't see the outside at all, and it was near the bedroom The windows of the house were all blocked by Song Lai with animal skins, and they couldn't see at all if they didn't get up.

"Did you get up and read it?" Song Lai asked An Ye with some doubts. It was really hard to imagine An Ye getting up and then coming back to lie down and sleep. "No." "Then how do you know it's snowing?" "Listen to the sound, smell the smell, and feel it." An Ye smiled and patted Song Lai's head, talking nonsense with a mysterious look on his face.Song Lai ignored him, got up and put on his clothes, went out of the bedroom and went to the door to see that it was snowing.It's just that the weather is not so cold that people can't go out. Small clusters of catkin-like snowflakes are falling silently from the sky. The surrounding scenery can only be seen in white, and nothing else can be seen.

Song Lai stared at the outside in a daze, "What's for breakfast?" Oss's old voice came from behind.Song Lai raised his eyebrows and turned to look at him, "What do you want to eat?" "Eat something warm and fresh." Oss looked indifferent, and walked into his room with Xiaofang after speaking.Song Lai looked at his thin back, shook his head and smiled.

Cucumber soup made for breakfast, sweet potato porridge, fried fresh mushrooms.A large bowl of steaming sweet potato porridge.With the light cucumber soup and crispy fried mushrooms, Oss was obviously very happy.When Song Lai was cleaning up the dishes, he suddenly remembered that he still had some ingredients that he hadn't harvested, and it happened to be time to collect them.

After breakfast, Song Lai called An Ye, and then the two of them took their tools to the bamboo forest in the back mountain. There were some bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, which were dug out by Song Lai. It wasn't too hard, and although it wasn't very easy to dig, it was still possible to dig out some winter bamboo shoots that were completely buried in the ground, which made Song Lai call it good luck.After Song Lai dug a wicker basket, he and An Ye walked back. When they entered the tribe, there were other people in the tribe digging bamboo shoots one after another.

After a busy morning, I returned home at noon, peeled fresh bamboo shoots and cut them into small diamond-shaped pieces, soaked them in clean water, and then started to clean up the scallops I took out this morning and soaked in water.Song Laibian thought while packing the scallops, the weather is not unbearably cold, as long as he wears thick clothes, he can still go out.Soaked scallops are not as good as frozen. If you go to the beach to catch some seafood at this time, you can freeze the seafood immediately and eat it fresh all winter.Although there is no shortage of fish and meat now, there is still a lot of salted fish, salted meat and dried meat. It is not that there is no fresh meat, but there is too little.

A few days ago, when it just snowed, An Ye and the patriarch went out to check the traps and traps that had been set before, and harvested some fresh meat. too much.

Pack the scallops, remove the gizzards, wash them twice with clean water, drain the water and put them aside, take out two pickled cucumbers with peppers, rinse them twice with clean water, and cut them into diamond shapes small pieces.Put the oil in the pottery pot, put some minced onion, pepper, fry the bamboo shoots soaked in water, then put the cucumber, the cucumber soaked in pepper, a spicy taste in the kitchen Spread out, and finally put the packed scallops in and stir fry together.When the umami of the seafood comes out, get out of the pot and put it on the plate.

"Hmm~~It's delicious, hiss~ My mouth hurts a bit, but it feels quite enjoyable. Is this the way you said to use the devil fruit? I didn't expect it to be really edible." Oss put it in his mouth. While serving the dishes, he was hissing and talking, and the speed of eating was not affected by the heat of the freshly cooked dishes at all. "Well, how about it? It's not bad. It's very delicious and addictive." Song Lai boasted with a look of course.

"Addicted?" Oss' tone was a little dangerous. "It's okay, it just means I like it. It's not about controlling it, don't worry." Song Lai explained hastily.

"By the way, the branch that germinated in the bamboo tube in my room is the branch of the devil fruit. You are so bold that you dare to do anything." Oss said in a cool tone. "Oh, that's a good thing. Take good care of it for me. I still hope to plant it in the field next spring." Song Lai hurriedly asked Oss to take care of it when he heard that the magical pepper tree had sprouted. alright.

Then I made a stewed pheasant with mushrooms and fried a salted fish.Steamed a few sweet potatoes.A meal is basically done.The heavy snow outside was still falling non-stop, and several people in the family gathered around the table to eat and chat together.Song Lai's vegetable oil lamp was placed in the middle of the table. Although it was not very bright, the yellow light made people feel warmer.

It snowed continuously for five or six days, until the seventh day of the first snow, the weather began to get worse, the wind whizzed past, bringing the snow that fell on the ground a few days ago, and the wind could be heard every night Howl.After dinner, Song Lai settled down with Xiaoxiao and the water birds.There are also two calves. Those waterfowls are still alive and well, because they are fed every day and they don’t exercise much. These waterfowls are obviously much fatter than normal. Feather scissors completely lost the possibility of flying.A few birds were housed in a huge bamboo cage that Song Lai asked someone to weave, and they would form a group when no one was around.Facing the heavy snow outside, Xiaoxiao couldn't get rid of it.It sits on its own mat all day, eats and sleeps, plays with the baby when it sleeps, and sleeps when it is tired.I don't know how comfortable life is.

These two calves are quite troublesome, Song Lai put a lot of thought into making them survive, and prepared two whole stacks of hay for them, each of which was taller than Gan Zhi's linen haystack.After the initial stage of panic and refusal to eat, the calf has gradually stabilized. Song Lai arranged these living creatures in the warehouse in the outer circle.Although it was unavoidable that there was some smell, it would be much better for Song Lai to clean it up every day.

The wind and snow outside did not mean to stop.Song Lai was cutting this piece of wood on the bed with an oil lamp on. The Swiss champion hadn’t used it for a long time, and kept it close to his body. Until now, he was about to start making his own bow and arrow, so he took out this handy tool and made it. Bows and arrows need to use bamboo, wood, fish float glue, and tendon.Song Lai has been preparing these things one after another for more than a year.The wood is a kind of red broad-leaved wood with excellent toughness, and the annual rings are tight and dense. Song Lai cut the dried wood into the shape he needed, and then broke the dried bamboo into suitable sizes. The flaky, carefully cut.

After all these were done, Song Lai took out the beef tendon that had been dried in the shade for several months, and beat it with stones little by little to make the whole beef tendon into a string of fibers, and spread the boiled fish float glue on the bamboo Between the wood and the wood, and then use beef tendon dipped in fish float glue to tightly entangle the two together.Wind out the typical bow and set aside to dry in the shade.The bow of such a bow and arrow is initially completed.

After finishing a bow and arrow, Song Lai was so tired that he just wanted to lie down and sleep, so he just lay on the bed, not wanting to move, and clung to the bed full of materials.When An Ye entered the room, he saw Song Lai sleeping soundly among a pile of bamboo, wood, fish floats and glue.Packed up Song Lai's things, put them aside, then spread out the animal skin, took off Song Lai's clothes, and gently carried him into the bed.Smiling and shaking his head, he patted Song Lai's head. This child still doesn't know how to take care of himself.

Thinking of Song Lai's cleanliness, he went to the kitchen to fetch some hot water, moistened it with the skin of a giant mouse, and helped him wipe his face, hands and neck little by little.After everything was done, An Ye climbed into bed and began to sleep.

The next morning, Song Lai woke up refreshed. Song Lai had begun to get used to everything An Ye did for him yesterday. Anyway, as long as he was so tired that he fell asleep at any time, he would definitely wake up in the Under the quilt.For An Ye's careful and thoughtful care of himself, Song Lai believed and was very moved.

Song Lai froze several basins of water in bamboo basins outside the room. These bamboo basins were prepared before winter. They were small and rectangular. After a night of freezing, the water in the basins was completely frozen. After bringing the bamboo basin into the room for a while, the side of the bamboo basin began to show some signs of melting. He poured out the ice in the basin, and then began to block the windows with the ice at the outer windows, layer by layer. Ice is used as bricks to build upwards.

A few days later, the animal skins on all the windows were replaced by these ice bricks. The transparent ice bricks can not only play the role of heat insulation and wind protection, but also allow the sunlight to shine in slightly during the day.