Farming Animals

25

The room was dark, morning and night could not be distinguished. When Wu Jiu woke up, she found that there were a few more companions in the confined space. The firepit in the middle of the room was lit at some point, and a few gray chicks were flapping. Wings, around the weak flames to keep warm, looking extremely chilly.

Wu Jiu stared at the flickering fire, and the first doubt that popped up in his mind was, why didn't he feel the cold in such a cold day?

Speaking of it, it seems that frostbite patients will no longer feel cold in their final days, Wu Jiu's heart shuddered, and she hurriedly stood up and moved her body, shaking her wings.

Wu Jiu flew into the air, only felt that her body was still flexible, and there was no discomfort when she moved, so she felt relieved.

Flapping his wings, Wu Jiu slowly felt the gentle and real warmth brought by the down feathers all over his body. After thinking about it for a while, he finally attributed it to the effect of the Lingquan. It made him more tolerant to the cold.

After hovering over the fire pond, Wu Jiu looked at the chicks below and silently counted them. Of the seventeen gray feathers, only eleven survived the test flight!Needless to say, the gray feather disappeared, but they didn't know where the other two white feathers were sent. Presumably, according to the division of this tribe, their living conditions must be much better than this closed hut.

No longer thinking about the whereabouts of those two white feathers, Wu Jiu refocused her eyes on the dozen or so gray feathers in the house. Their physiques were obviously much worse than her own. Not too high.

Wu Jiu looked down from a position close to the roof, and its behavior attracted other chicks, and immediately some wanted to imitate his behavior, flapping their wings, and wanted to fly to Wu Jiu, but when he shook off Wings, only to realize that this is something it can't do, no matter how hard it tries, it can't fly to the height that Wu Jiu has reached.

Surprised, Wu Jiu couldn't help but ponder whether this was due to an occasional congenital deficiency of a certain one, or whether all the gray feathers could only fly at low altitudes, because he knew very well that the white feather did not have this problem, and the little white feather that transformed itself was re-emerging. After turning into a bird shape, he can easily fly to a very high position, and his flying lessons are very good.

Wu Jiu observed for a while with questions, and he quickly determined that among the eleven gray feathers in the house, only he could fly to the roof!

After a moment of astonishment, Wu Jiu understood Bai Yi's bewilderment at first, and there was no other reason. At the beginning of the flight, he flew too high, and he didn't behave like a gray feather at all!

Hovering high in the sky, Wu Jiu looked at the group of companions in various senses below, thinking silently, why were they brought here?How will they be treated?

You must know that changes in the living environment are always accompanied by corresponding reasons. What's more, according to Wu Zhu Baiyi's implication, they seem to stay in this place for a long time.

However, for the flying feather clan, whether it is for safety or unified management, the towering bird's nest is indeed not suitable for survival. Put it away for now, anyway, as time goes by, their disposition will become clear.

Spreading her wings, Wu Jiu used the light of the fire to look at this small closed environment again. The four walls inside the house are all made of fluffy tall grass, which is thick and warm. The door is sealed inward and can be opened from the outside. The seemingly airtight and cramped environment still has a chill spreading out. Thinking about it, this is not a real airtight environment. There must be other vents that bring in the chill from the outside world.

Sweeping his gaze around, Wu Jiu fixed his eyes on the rising smoke, controlled the wings, and slowly rose again. Finally, he found two circular vents on the sloping roof. The air is exhausted from these two vents.

Come to think of it, in order to prevent the ignorant chicks from escaping, there were no windows in the house, only two air vents were made, and they were specially set at a height that the little gray feathers could not reach. Of course, this height could not cause obstacles to Wu Jiu, no Hesitating, Wu Jiu got out from the vent.

When he came outside the house, the sky was bright, and the bright light pierced into his eyes, making Wu Jiu squint his eyes uncomfortably. It was already noon, and the sun was high in the sky, announcing that half of the new day had passed, and he unexpectedly Have you slept that long?Wu Jiu was a little surprised by his sudden lethargy. Thinking about it, the airtight and dark environment made his sense of time dull.

The whole body was exposed outside the house, and the raging cold wind hit from all directions, Wu Jiu finally felt a real chill, the sky was getting colder and colder.

Lying on the furry roof felt, Wu Jiu lowered her head and could just see the entrance of the house, but there were two adult gray feathers guarding the door, standing lazily at the door, perhaps because the weather was too cold, and the time of waiting was too long. It was too boring, the two adult Huiyu rubbed their hands and stomped their feet while talking, Wu Jiu silently listened to their conversations.

"This year's litter of gray feathers is pretty good. There are already a lot of them, and there are eleven of them that have passed the test of flying!" But Gray Feather Jia said excitedly.

"After living so much, it is really God's blessing, but don't be too happy so early, they survived this first level, and it is not easy to survive the transformation level." Hui Yuyi Seeing that his companion was overly excited, he couldn't help but utter cold water. Wu Jiu recognized him, but he was the one who dealt with Bai Yi yesterday with a flattering face.

"There are as many as eleven, even if it is half, there are still five or six." Gray Feather Armor was hit, and said somewhat dissatisfied.

"Hmph, just wait and see, we'll see in a few days." Hui Yuyi snorted twice, mercilessly continuing to pour cold water on it.

Hui Yujia didn't want to argue with him either, so he changed the subject and said, "I heard that there was a gray feather sent by Lord Wu Zhu himself yesterday?"

"But it is so. It was brought here by the adults. I heard that it made a mistake a few days ago and was taken care of by the adults. It just took advantage of this time to bring it here. I don't think it made a sound overnight. The punishment is harsh." Hui Yuyi said while laughing, with a sense of gloating in his words.

"Hey, what kind of big mistake did you seem to have made? You let Lord Wu Zhu take care of it yourself!" Gray Feather Armor was startled when he heard this, and said with a surprised expression on his face.

"How do I know, I've offended my lord anyway, why are you asking so little?" Hui Yuyi didn't know it himself, but he didn't want to be discovered by his companions, and immediately feigned anger.

"Hey, don't be annoyed." The gray feather armor quickly took care of it: "I won't ask about this matter."

"Hmph." Hui Yuyi put on an air of knowing you, and simply ended the topic.

The gray feather armor shut up resentfully, thought for a while and restarted the conversation: "Speaking of which, the beauty brought back by the patriarch yesterday is really beautiful."

"If it is not beautiful, how can the patriarch bring it all the way back from the county. I heard that it is a group of rare jade feathers. They are all in the three incense cars. Although the faces cannot be seen clearly, the fragrance alone is enough to attract people. Man, with this beauty, the patriarch may not be able to see other people anymore, but he doesn't know how Master Wu Zhu will deal with himself." Hui Yuyi seemed to have some opinions of his own, and there was something in his words, but that Gray Feather Armor obviously didn't have this kind of topic-sensitivity-sensitivity, and didn't react much when he heard the voice. Then Gray Feather B looked at him, couldn't help curling his lips in an uninteresting way, and said straight from the bottom of his heart that this elm head is not a gossip Good object, I changed the subject without interest.

After that, the two started chatting without nutrition. Wu Jiu got what she wanted, so she didn't stay any longer, got up and prepared to go back to the house along the vent.

As soon as she raised her head, wheezing, a little whiteness fell on her cheeks, with a coolness that could not be mistaken, Wu Jiu was stunned, staring blankly at the whiteness on the tip of her nose, the two gray feathers under the eaves had already screamed. stand up.

It's snowing, the first snow is coming!

This is snow? ?Wu Jiu regained her senses from their screams. When she looked up, she saw more white and light snow flakes falling down one after another. The sun in the sky was completely covered by dark clouds, and the sky that had just brightened had also turned gray.

Wu Jiu didn't dare to stay longer, and returned to Sifang's shed as quickly as possible.

Wrapped in a gust of cold air and entered the house, Wu Jiu flew directly to the firepit, baking the feathers soaked in snow water, most of the other chicks looked at him curiously, let him move, Wu Jiu observed them closely , I just feel that they seem to be a little smarter and smarter than those in the bird's nest, not as ignorant as that one, but the progress is not too much, but it is the degree of evolution from fetus to baby, and it is still a bit difficult to think about it. Difficulty, come to think of it, when they are completely transformed, this ignorance and dullness will completely dissipate.

Thinking of the upcoming transformation, Wu Jiu was excited and excited, secretly guessing what the process of transformation would be like. However, this matter will be resolved in a few days, and Wu Jiu, who is confident that she will be able to transform, Temporarily suppressing the excitement in his heart, he still has one important thing to do.

After drying the feathers all over her body, Wu Jiu shrank back into the corner and hid in the shadows. No one noticed him anymore, and Wu Jiu entered the black space.

Silently monitoring in his mind every day, Wu Jiu has already understood the situation in the space. He only glanced at the increasingly lush plants growing around him, and then flew to a separate area beside the Lingquan. , No plants are planted here, it is open and flat, and it is close to the luminous spiritual spring, and the lighting is also guaranteed. Those waste paper rolls that Wu Jiu transported from Baiyi House are all placed here.

Wu Jiu paced over and found one of them, but saw that the writing part on the front of the scroll had not written a few words, leaving a large blank space, Wu Jiu stared at the blank part, closed her eyes and thought for a moment , Then, based on his memory, he wrote on the scroll, but it was the content of the "Volume [-] of Powerful Body Tempering Technique" that he saw by chance!

What is boldness? Wu Jiu vaguely guessed that Bai Yi trapped him in mid-air at first, including the magical energy that invaded his body and dried his feathers. It should be boldness. The self-protection ability of the new plane should be doubled, which made Wu Jiu shocked when he saw the tome.

However, after the initial surprise and shock, Wu Jiu has come to his senses. He can't read all the content in the scroll, even the words alone. It may take a long time to fully master this power!

Even so, Wu Jiu was not discouraged in the slightest. He had a tenacious mind and a fuller understanding that learning does not happen overnight. It was a surprise to be lucky enough to get an introductory manual. I understand, but Wu Jiu still put in a lot of effort to memorize the entire article on the animal skin scroll.

And this kind of hard memory obviously can't last long. Seeing the bonfire in the house today, Wu Jiu took a few fully burned carbon strips from the fire and brought them into the space. These precious contents are silently written on the scrolls.

Relying on memory, Wu Jiu moved her paws clumsily. After spending half a day, she managed to copy all the content of that text on this animal skin scroll. With the paper preserved, Wu Jiu immediately relaxed and began to read carefully. Yesterday, I only cared about memorizing those paragraphs of text, and I just read the whole text. Looking at it now, there is a word every three or five words that I don’t know. Thinking about it, his study time is too short, but only two words. After many months of intensive study, I have only mastered more than a hundred commonly used characters. If I want to fully understand the content of this text, I am afraid that it will take some time to master more new words.

Thinking of this, Wu Jiu temporarily put the animal skin scroll aside, opened the other scrolls, and checked them one by one.

The contents of these scrapped scrolls are various, some are excerpts from a certain Juanyu book, and some seem to be personal interpretations of certain textual content, because they are scrapped contents, most of them are incomplete, fortunately, Wu Jiu The ones selected were all with a lot of words. Relying on the commonly used words I learned in the crash course, after struggling to read for a while, I saw some slightly useful content.

On one of the scrolls, there is a rough introduction to the solar terms of this continent. Wu Jiu unfolded the entire scroll and looked at it carefully. On this continent named Arakawa Ze, there are also four solar terms, which are the dry season. , rainy season, high season, and cold season, each season has ninety to one hundred days, and there are nearly four hundred days in a whole year.

The dry season is the hottest season of the year. The days are the longest, but the heat is unbearable. The tribal farming and planting time is generally in the second half of the season. They rest during the day and work in the middle of the night.

After the dry season is the rainy season, with frequent showers and wild grass growth, it is a good time of the year to go out and graze. Every time this time comes, there will usually be strong men in the tribe leading the tribe to go out in the daytime, and live in the whole wilderness. Grazing, by the way, picking edible fruit plants in the wild, enriching the family's table, because during this period of time the rain is particularly abundant, and it is also the time when the crops grow the fastest, and in the second half of the season, most of the crops are mature, and it is the shortest time. the harvest season.

Harvest season, as the name suggests, is the harvest season. This season is the shortest, only less than three months, but it is the most important month in the whole year. In this season, the crops sown in the dry season have finally arrived. At the stage when the ears are mature, the livestock that have been domesticated for a whole season are at their fattest. In this season, the patriarch will bring the warriors of the clan with a large number of plump livestock and the rare birds and animals carefully raised by the clan. Going to the county capital, one is to pay tribute to the county guard and perform the duties of servants, and the other is to sell the excess fresh livestock, buy seeds, medicines and other daily necessities, and prepare for the winter .

After making sufficient preparations, the whole family began to prepare for the long cold season, which is also called "winter". As the longest season in the whole year, everything is withered and snowy It is windy and extremely cold. At the coldest time, the entire Muyun County is covered with snow. Not to mention finding food, even heating is a problem. If there is no accumulation of miscellaneous parts, most of them will disappear after a season. It's snowing, and only the powerful and wealthy tribe can survive this harsh season.

Seeing this, Wu Jiu couldn't help but think of the black-skinned monster that appeared a few months ago. Putting aside the shock and shock of encountering an unknown creature at first, Wu Jiu, who had completely recovered, also wanted to understand what happened to him. That is not a monster, but a strong foreigner with the ability to change form, and he came to snatch the purpose of the Yu clan, and after contacting the fire, according to Wu Jiu's speculation, I am afraid that it is not for the purpose of reproduction, but to create chaos , so as to plunder some overwintering supplies from this powerful and wealthy tribe. It has to be said that Wu Jiu guessed at random, but most of her guesses were correct.

After intuitively understanding the solar terms in this continent, Wu Jiu couldn't help but think of an interesting thing. The cold season is also called winter in this continent. Although the fonts are different, the pronunciation is the same. What caused this coincidence.

And his doubts were quickly answered. After he briefly read all the text and turned out of the black space, he heard a muffled sound from the roof. He raised his head curiously, and was looking at the Seeing a round and crystal-clear ice bead rolling in along the vent, Wu Jiufu understood why the cold season is called winter. Winter is an onomatopoeic word, which should be a homonym of dong.

The weather was even colder than expected. Just after snowflakes fell, hailstones fell again at this moment. The snow quickly blocked the vents, and the guards outside the door also rubbed their hands and turned in from outside. For ventilation, The closed door was opened a small crack, and the temperature in the room dropped immediately. Wu Jiu hurried to the campfire, buried her whole body in down feathers, preserving the little heat in her body.For a moment, Wu Jiu could only pray in her heart, that the snow would never last a day and a night.