After getting rid of the snake's tail, Song Xu went to add firewood to the bonfire.
In order to create a good hibernation environment for the snake, the bonfire must not be extinguished. Although the possibility of Wumu being frozen to death because of the cold winter is close to infinitesimal, snake breeders cannot be careless!
After adding firewood, she cleaned up the small fish she caught and cooked a pot of fish soup to satisfy her hunger. After eating and drinking, it was already dark outside.
The wind blew in from the gap in the wooden door she made. Song Xu was lying in a grass nest near the bonfire wrapped in a wolfskin. Suddenly, he felt it was too quiet and turned his head to look at the big snake hibernating in the corner. Usually,
the snake is also very quiet. Except for when he is angry and can hold out a few more words, he usually doesn't like to make a sound and likes to express his emotions with his tail.
They also slept without talking, but the cave felt much quieter today than usual.
Maybe it was because she knew in her heart that the snake would have to wait until spring to wake up, which was a long time.
The squirrel, who had just escaped from the snake's tail with great effort not long ago, couldn't sleep because he didn't hear the snake's routine hissing before going to bed at night. Finally, he returned to the pile of snake tails in a dejected manner, wearing a wolf skin, and covered himself and the snake tail beside him under the wolf skin. He tossed and turned and couldn't
sleep well. He got up with a greedy mouth and chewed nuts. The crunching sound lasted for a long time, but no snake was awakened to share the midnight snack with her.
Lying down again, she couldn't sleep and touched the scales beside her. The diamond-shaped snake scales were attached to the body, and the area near the belly scales became warm when she leaned against it.
In the past, when Sheshe was awake, Song Xu's little movements would disturb him. If he was unhappy, the tip of his tail would hang out and slap the ground, making a soft popping sound. When he was particularly unhappy, his tail would twist as a whole, which was very scary.
But now he didn't react at all.
Since he didn't react, didn't that mean she could do whatever she wanted?
Song Xu giggled and climbed out from under the wolfskin blanket. Wumu was lying in the form of a half-orc. Song Xu took his head and placed it on her knees, and used fish bones to comb his hair that was tangled into a ball of thread.
This fish bone comb was taken out of a big fish that Sheshe caught for her last time, and it replaced the coarse benzene comb she made herself.
Her hair was combed smoothly and placed neatly on one side, and her hands were placed on her abdomen and overlapped. Song Xu took a closer look at his appearance, picked up a piece of charcoal that he usually used to scribble, and pressed it against Wumu's eyebrows, giving him two big thick eyebrows.
"Hahahahahaha!" Song Xu amused himself for a while, ran to the cabinet where he kept his food, and found a kind of fruit that would ooze out red juice after peeling. He peeled half of the skin, carefully dripped the red juice on Wumu's mouth, and then dyed his bloody mouth.
The bloody mouth exuded a sweet fruity fragrance. Song Xu looked at him and ate the remaining half of the fruit, biting out the same big red lips. Soon, there were two big red spots on Wumu's cheeks, and a red dot between his eyebrows.
After a while, the snake didn't respond, and Song Xu began to feel bored. He yawned, covered himself with the wolf skin and went to sleep. Lying on Wumu's chest, the squirrel's plush tail just covered his neck, and occasionally swept across his face unconsciously.
Winter was really boring. The snake was always sleeping, and Song Xu even found it boring to go out and play. She used to be able to amuse herself by herself, but now without the snake by her side, she couldn't get used to anything.
The forest in early winter was very quiet. Compared with the autumn when you can see all kinds of busy figures, it was as deserted as a classroom after the holidays. She wore simple shoes made of rabbit fur, and deliberately stepped on the fallen leaves on the ground. The only sound around her was the crunching of the leaves.
The fresh flowers and leaves that could be picked at hand were gone, but there were still various plant fruits and seeds left over from the autumn on the ground, which were the food for the small animals that came out to forage in winter.
She picked up a dark gray fruit core from the ground, knocked off the last leaf on the branch, and used a small branch she broke off to whip the tree trunk beside her. The
small stream dried up, and the colorful stones in the water became gray and inconspicuous without the water. Song Xu no longer had the interest to pick up small stones to play with.
She was so bored that she squatted on the ground and watched the insects crawling on the leaves, from one leaf to another, and finally climbed onto a tree trunk. Song Xu seemed to have witnessed a challenge, and praised: "You succeeded, you climbed so far!"
The frightened insect flapped its wings and flew away instantly.
Song Xu: "...Since you can fly, what did you just climb?!" I'm afraid it's as boring as her.
After searching in the woods that lacked a lot of vitality, she found a mouse that was busy carrying seeds. It has big ears and a short tail, so it may not be a mouse.
But Song Xu didn't know many species of animals. She called all the gray-black ones with tails and squeaks mice, just like she called those with horns cows, those with long ears and jumping rabbits, and those with patterns on their bodies and four hooves deer. It's up to her.
This mouse may have been lazy in the fall, causing other mice to store food and hide for the winter, but it was still busy here.
Song Xu was so bored that she helped this unfamiliar little animal pick fruits for a long time. A small mountain of fruits piled up at the entrance of its hole, and she stuffed several fruits into its hole.
"I'm giving it to you, no need to thank me."
She walked back and forth outside for several times, but didn't see even a big animal, let alone the danger that Wu Mu had mentioned before. There was no trace of the beastmen from the beast tribe or the primitive beasts.
Back in the cave, Song Xu lifted up Wu Mu's snake tail, wrapped it around herself, and lay down beside him: "I'm so bored!"
Wu Mu slept for a few days, and Song Xu cried out that she was bored for a few days. Finally, she set her eyes on the tree outside the cave, climbed up and down a little bit, broke off the branches, and placed them against the cave. She whittled the trunk and made a pile of sawdust to kill a few days. She sorted firewood during
the day and sharpened horns at night. The horns Wu Mu gave her were not sure if they were cow horns or something else. Some were big, some were small, and they were black and hard. She didn't want to make anything, so she just sharpened them for fun.
The boring days passed slowly. Song Xu thought a long time had passed, but when she ran to the stone wall that recorded time, she found that only half a month had passed.
She rolled around beside Wu Mu, with her legs on the snake's tail. She had already tried it during this period of time, and this kind of small movement could not wake Sheshe up at all. He was now just a sealed stone snake, not much different from her bedside.
Suddenly, when she was muttering to herself for a while, her bedside suddenly moved.
Song Xu: "!"
An arm stretched out and rested on her.
Song Xu sat up suddenly and saw Sheshe's open dark red eyes. He was awake! Don't Sheshe usually not wake up in the middle of hibernation? Or are snake beastmen different from ordinary snakes and will wake up in the middle of hibernation?
In any case, it was definitely not woken up by her little movement.
Song Xu screamed and grabbed Wumu's big hand, kicking her legs wildly with joy: "You're awake, you're awake, you're awake!"
Wumu was indeed not woken up by her. The hibernation environment this year was very good, better than any other year. Song Xu's care for him was more meticulous than he had ever felt when he was a cub.
But in such a comfortable environment, he could never fall into a deep sleep.
When he fell asleep, his body functions were reduced to the lowest level, but he could still vaguely perceive the outside world. He could hear all kinds of small movements made by Song Xu, and knew that she was crawling on his body. Whenever she left the cave to go out, he tended to wake up from his sleep.
Maybe it was because he was worried that she would be in danger.
"Baby, you've slept for so long, I missed you so much!" Song Xu was still excited, and sweet words came out of his mouth without thinking.
She said it casually, but Wumu was stunned for a while after hearing her words. His head, which was a little slow because he just woke up, shook.
Song Xu: "Since you are awake, play with me!"
Wumu suddenly repeated what she had just said: "I miss you."
Song Xu: "..."
Wumu finished describing his feelings. He has not learned to use sweet words to confuse people to achieve his own goals. He has learned to speak like Song Xu more than once or twice, so he is particularly straightforward.
Song Xu was inadvertently rebounded by what he said, and his eyes were a little straight: "Ah, let's... let's play with a spinning top?"
Before, Song Xu made a spinning top for Sheshe as a toy, but Sheshe didn't like toys very much, so she played with it more by herself.
It's just that her interest in having fun comes and goes quickly. She threw the spinning top into a corner after playing with it a few times. She took it out again this time.
Sheshe, who had just woken up, was still in the sleepy period of hibernation. He was lazy and didn't like to move. He was more sluggish than usual. Song Xu put the spinning top next to his tail, and he just patted it for the sake of courtesy. Sheshe would not do something he didn't like to do. This perfunctory gesture was considered to be giving Song Xu extra face.
"Okay, if you don't want to play, then I'll play it for you."
Maybe there was really nothing fun in winter, Song Xu was a little interested in playing with the spinning top this time. It was just that there was an extra spectator, so she felt more excited when she played.
However, the temperature for the snake to hibernate, it was not a big deal for Wumu to stay awake all the time. He woke up all day, neither saying a word nor moving, just staring at her and occasionally spitting out his tongue, making people worry that he would be frozen silly.
Song Xu threw away the spinning top that he had been playing with for the whole afternoon and patted Wu Mu's snake tail: "You'd better go to bed quickly, you look so sleepy." "
Good night, Macabaka!"
Wu Mu, with his eyes covered, rolled up her legs and fell asleep again. When he fell asleep, Song Xu skillfully got out of the snake tail.
The bored and depressed mood only lasted until the first snow fell.
As the temperature dropped, snow fell in the forest. Song Xu seemed to have returned to his happy hometown and turned into a happy squirrel again, wearing a wolfskin coat, homemade gloves and shoes, and playing crazy when he jumped into the snowy world outside.
The city where she had lived for eighteen years had a warm climate and never snowed. Such a heavy snow in the forest simply mobilized every excited cell in her body. Even the impact of the cold temperature on the body could not hinder her determination to play in the snow.
Instinct told her: Little squirrel, you should go back to the cave to rest. And her heart answered: Why sleep? Let’s continue playing music and playing!
First, a layer of fine sand-like snow particles covered the open spaces and treetops in the forest, followed by large flakes of light snowflakes, falling day and night.
How could a southern child have seen such a scene? Song Xu held up her eyelids and did not sleep in the middle of the night. She would open the wooden door and sit by the stone cave to watch the heavy snow outside by the bonfire.
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