The north wind was howling, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and looking up, everything was gray and gloomy.

The bare and lifeless mountains and land, coupled with such weather phenomena, make people feel very cold even without the wind blowing into their necks.

After this kind of weather continued for a while, amid the cheers of minors, snowflakes mixed in the wind fell from the sky and bounced around on the ground.

After the snow fell for a while, it turned into snowflakes flying in the wind.

The heavy snowfall announced that the winter of the Year of the Bluebird had arrived. As the year was drawing to an end, it also announced that many things could no longer be done. Regardless of whether the tribe was prepared for the coming of winter or not, they all had to greet the strong winter with different mentalities.

The newly built earth wall outside the Qingque tribe looks very majestic and spectacular.

After a year of hard work by all the tribesmen, the outer wall has basically been completed.

The eldest brother and others stood in the wind and snow, looking at the gap of about 20 meters on the eastern side with regret in their hearts.

With another seven or eight days, we would be able to complete the final repairs, but it happened to snow at this time.

Once heavy snow falls, we will have to wait until next spring to repair this gap.

Looking at the not-so-long gap, many people in the tribe felt more and more upset.

If people didn't know that the wall built in such weather would not be very strong, someone would have braved the snow to build it and fill this last gap.

This is really something that can drive people with obsessive-compulsive disorder to death.

Fortunately, Han Cheng himself does not have this excellent quality, so he can look at his senior brother and others who were scratching their heads and tormented by this gap with a relatively relaxed mood.

It's snowing, and the people in the tribe can finally relax completely.

Han Cheng decided to give the people in the tribe a longer vacation, so that everyone could have a good rest and then start doing some work that could be done in winter.

For example, mining stones and transporting them to the tribe, or burning previously cut and dried branches into charcoal.

It is necessary to mine and transport stones because the wall is almost built. After the spring plowing next year, the gap will be repaired and the construction of the house can begin.

Now is the time to take advantage of the free time and mine more stones, which will make the work much easier next year. Moreover, after the snow falls, it will be more convenient to transport the stones with the sleds.

This was Little Pea's second time experiencing winter. He had spent the last winter entirely in swaddling clothes, so strictly speaking, this was his first time seeing ice and snow.

The little guy was particularly excited to see the snowflakes. After looking up for a while, he took unsteady steps, clapped his hands randomly, and jumped around in the yard happily.

Sometimes snowflakes would get into his neck, making him so cold that he would shrink his neck and squint his eyes, but this did not stop the little guy from scattering snowflakes.

It's a bit like the excitement that southerners feel when they come to the north and see ice and snow for the first time.

In addition to Little Pea, there were many other children having fun in the yard. Many children were laughing, jumping, and shouting, turning the Greenbird Tribe in winter into a Toad Pit after a summer rain, with all the cackling and clattering going on.

The witch, wrapped in thick tiger-skin clothes and looking very stylish, looked at the scene in the yard with a smile that showed his teeth but not his eyes.

When people get old, what they like most is to see scenes like this.

With children and grandchildren surrounding him, all of them are plump and well-fed, it makes people happy no matter how they look at him.

In the Tongshan residential area west of the Qingque tribe, although the heavy snow fell a little late, it was also covered in falling snow.

On the stone wall, Junior Brother Sha, covered in fur that had been nitrated to make it very soft, looked at the surrounding scenery with pride and regret.

His pride comes from the houses and walls that they built with their own hands.

There was nothing here before, but they built so many things here in more than half a year.

What made him regretful was that because of the defector Meng, there was a period of delay, so that not much land had been reclaimed here so far.

Thinking of the person who defected from the tribe here, Junior Brother Sha turned his gaze to the Copper Mountain not too far from the courtyard. The defector was still there.

After several rounds of excavation, two mines have now appeared on the copper mountain.

One mine is very shallow, only about two meters, while the other is deeper, about seven or eight meters.

At this time, a tinkling sound came from the mine.

It was snowing heavily outside and the light was dim, and the light inside the mine was even dimmer.

At this moment, a figure was waving a hammer in the mine, hitting the chisel in his hand again and again.

The figure was covered in dirty fur, with disheveled hair and a scraggly beard, and his face was covered in dust and dirt, making it almost impossible to see the skin on his face.

This person was Meng, a defector who was sentenced to mine copper in Tongshan forever.

The mine was extremely dark, but for Meng, who had lived in the mine for a long time, such darkness did not cause him too much trouble, because his eyes had already adapted to this dim light.

After chiseling for a while and chiseling out some ore, he put the ore into the basket and finally stopped.

He walked towards the cave entrance, and some snowflakes came in from the entrance, fell on his palm, whose color he could not tell, and then melted away.

Before, there were people outside watching him, but now there is no one outside.

However, Meng had no intention of escaping at all.

Because he didn't have any food, there was no way he could survive if he ran out in such weather.

Meng regrets it very much now, especially when she thinks back to this time last year when she was living in a warm room with a kang, she regrets it so much that her intestines turn green.

Such regrets began when he was digging copper in Tongshan.

It turns out that this kind of work that doesn't look that hard can be so torturous when you do it!

This is much heavier than the previous work of carrying stones.

He needed to fill ten large baskets with copper ore every day before he could rest.

These ten baskets of ore must be filled. This was a realization he developed after going hungry twice.

Today he had filled ten large baskets with ore, but after pausing here for a while, he picked up his hammer and chisel and started to chisel the ore.

It wasn't because he wasn't tired, or because he wanted to contribute more to the tribe, but it would be too cold if he stopped...