through the ancient times

The strong cold wind made people's faces ache, and the soil under their feet was already frozen with ice particles. Yang Jun held on to the fur coat on his body and breathed into his hands. "It's so cold." He breathed into his hands and asked Adi: "What was Adi doing at this time in previous years?"

Adi, who was forced to put on a fur coat by Yang Jun before going out, was not used to it. The fur coat tied tightly to the belt was very warm, but it was also very inconvenient, as his hands and feet were bound. "...hunting and moving to a cave." In previous years, this was the busiest time in the tribe. They had to hurry up to hunt and store food for the winter, and they had to move to the cave to survive the four-month freezing period.

Hunting at this time is extremely hard, not to mention that it is difficult to catch prey, but this is the last hunting period of the entire freezing period. If they do not hunt more, their freezing period will be even more difficult.A child was starved to death. In order to save that morsel of food for the more hopeful adults, children, and women who could continue the tribe's bloodline, the old man made an appointment to go up the mountain and abandoned himself until there was no bones left.

The expression on Adi's face made Yang Jun swallow the rest of the words, but fortunately he had reached his destination.The lake they circled has dried up, and the water level has receded to four meters behind the stake.Ruoda's lake is only two-thirds full of water, and the river on the other side of the lake has also lost more than half of its water.

The once green aquatic plants on the dry river bed were all dead, and there were traces of small clawed animals and stone screw shells that had been eaten among the withered yellow aquatic plants.It was a pity to see these Yang Jun. Originally they could harvest more things, but they were only two of them and they were in a hurry. As a result, many of them were lost to these small animals.Fortunately, there are some things that those little animals really can't help.

For example, clam shells that hide in deep silt and loach eels that are used to drilling holes.

The silt is fertile, so if you can grow so many stone snails, you can certainly grow fat mussel shells and delicious loach and eel.Sure enough, within a few steps, Yang Jun found a flat crack in the gap between the dry aquatic plants.Take a sharp wooden stick and poke it into the flat seam until you get to the hard clam shell, and use the wooden stick to pry it out without digging.

The black threaded clam shells are big and big, and the clam shells are tightly closed, stained with mud, black and ugly.Yang Jun poked it with a stick, and the dull sound showed how hard the black shell was.

Adi has seen this thing before, the shell is very hard, and it takes a lot of effort to break it open, and after breaking it, the inside is very fishy, ​​more fishy than a stone screw. "...Is this edible?"

"Of course." Yang Jun nodded as a matter of course. "Ours is called clam shell. Many people like to eat it and it is a bit expensive. It has a similar brother called 'Abalone', which is expensive. Of course, it is also very delicious, but unfortunately, it is not available here." Sea, naturally there is no such delicious seafood as abalone.

Adi silently memorized the word 'abalone', turned around and picked up the wooden stick to search for flat cracks all over the ground, and after searching for a few times, he dug out the boss' clam shell. The speed and neat posture made Yang Jun even more competitive. I lost my mind.Fortunately, Yang Jun was also open-minded, so he stopped digging and concentrated on finding cracks. He even found a few for Adi to dig, and he followed behind and picked them up and piled them to the shore.

The clam shells on the bank were piled up like a mountain, and the two of them had dug up the entire dry riverbed, and the holes in this one and the other ones were very unpleasant to look at.This is not over yet, after destroying the clam shells, Yang Jun asked Adina to use a stone hoe to find the kind of mud hole the size of a pinky finger, and began to harm loaches and eels.

Eels and loaches are used to digging holes, but no matter how deep the hole is, there must always be an air hole.Dig down along the stomata, and you can always find eels and loaches huddled still.

It's a pity that the inhabitants of the deep mud such as clam shells, loach and eels relied on their innate talents to continue to stay in the mud without fear when the water level receded. Counting the number of years, their ancestors They all came here and passed through the freezing period and finally died, but they didn't expect that it was their turn to meet such a evil star as Yang Jun.Not to mention the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, their descendants and grandchildren will be brought together in the same way for many years to come.

The fun of digging loaches and eels is probably something that urbanites rarely experience. The temptation of harvesting and treasure hunting plus delicious food makes rural children never tire of it.Once upon a time, Yang Jun was also a member of those kid kings. He went down the river to catch fish, touch rocks and snails, dig loach, eel, roast sweet potatoes and play in mud. Feelings and emotions are childish and ridiculous when I think about it now.But when you think about it deeply, the childishness and ridiculousness at that time were pure and pure, unlike when my grandparents passed away and were taken to the city by Dad Yang. Although the material life has been improved several levels, I can no longer find the same Pure joy and joy.

"Ah Yang?" Adi dug a hoe and quickly pinched the eel's head three inches below its head.

Yang Jun hurriedly handed over the wooden barrel in his hand.There are already more than half of the bucket of mudscale eels in the bucket, and the big and small ones are crowded together. It looks like a bumper harvest. "It's done, and the rest will be dug tomorrow."

Adi immediately put away the stone hoe, and subconsciously wanted to take the barrel from Yang Jun's hand.

Yang Jun stopped him: "It's okay, it's not heavy." Although the wooden barrel in his hand was a bit heavy, he was a man and he couldn't really be used to be a woman. "Put the stone hoe here. I'll use it tomorrow anyway. I have to pick the clam shells back." Since moving here, Yang Jun hasn't seen anyone else, so he doesn't worry about the stone hoe being picked up, but the clam shells can't.Anyway, it was meat, and if it was taken away by thieves, he would have nowhere to get it back.

There were so many clam shells and they took up a lot of space, the two big baskets could only hold half of them, and Adi had to go back and forth twice to pick them out.

Back in the yard, Yang Jun picked out eight big yellow-bellied eels and a dozen loaches and raised them in clean water, intending to let them spit out the sand and then slaughter them for food.Eels and loaches are easy to feed. They can live for a long time if they are separated by sprinkling a little water every day to keep the humidity. Clam shells can live even more. As long as the shells are not damaged, it is not a problem to feed them throughout the freezing period.Adding these three fresh living things to eat in exchange for various bacon, I believe their freezing period will not be too difficult.

The next day was even colder, and the two of them spent half a day digging a bucket full of eels and loaches, which Yang Jun covered with mud from the bottom of the lake and raised in wooden barrels in the corner of the courtyard.

Adidas hunted fewer and fewer prey for several days until he came back empty-handed one day.Yang Jun breathed a sigh of relief, and kept Adi at home on the grounds that he had no prey, and was not allowed to go hunting again.

The four-month freezing period came lightly in the heavy snow that afternoon.