The arrival of spring in the forest is as fast as the melting of snow. As soon as there is still a thin layer of snow on the ground, new shoots emerge from the snow.
Song Xu has been eating nuts all winter. Finally, he sees some new shoots and can't wait to start eating grass. The crisp grass leaves are wrapped in the juice of melted snow. It is fresh, sweet and crisp. One bite will tell that the season has changed.
Compared with squirrels, which enjoy eating everything, the eating situation of snakes is not so optimistic. After waking up from hibernation, he has not fallen asleep since he woke up, and he has always maintained his beast form. Song Xu tried to find various foods for him, but the snake did not start eating.
Seeing that spring is coming soon and the temperature is starting to rise, if it is normal, the snake should come out of hibernation. Generally speaking, hibernating snakes will also shed their skin, but this snake in her family is not normal in any way.
Seeing that Wumu could not become a half-orc within the deadline, Song Xu decided to take him away from here in advance to avoid being cleaned up by the beastmen of the beast tribe.
She has been busy with travel recently. Although she doesn't have much belongings, they are all saved up by her bit by bit. She can't take the little clay figures she made and the strange rattan spinning top toys made of small stones, etc., but they must be kept properly.
Song Xu dug a hole in the cave to bury her and Wumu's "treasures" to prevent them from being damaged by wild animals after being left outside for a long time. What
she had to take was flint, big salt blocks, animal tooth daggers, ox horn knives she sharpened herself, ropes she twisted, etc. All of these were stuffed into her homemade animal skin bag, making the bag bulge.
After packing up their things, there were only two things left. One was how to make Sheshe understand that they were leaving home and follow her. The other was to choose a good day for the trip. For
the first question, she explained to Wumu why they were leaving four times a day, like a repeater. She also stood on a big rock in front of Sheshe and gave him a summary of the past year, an analysis of the current situation, and a vision for the future.
For the second question, Song Xu felt that family members should participate in making decisions together on family issues, so she handed the decision on the travel time to Wumu.
Five stones of different shapes and colors were placed in front of Sheshe. Song Xu pointed at the stones and said, "Choose this stone, and we will set off tomorrow. Choose the second stone, and we will set off the next day..."
And so on. The departure date represented by each stone was explained.
According to Uncle Wumu's meaning, Wumu may not understand what she meant now, but Song Xu will still explain everything he did to Wumu clearly, even more clearly than when he was in the half-orc form and could communicate and talk.
Sheshe stared at her moving hands, and after her head followed her back and forth for a few circles, Song Xu suddenly raised five fingers and jumped on the five stones as if he was playing a music game. The fingers that were almost a shadow successfully made Sheshe dizzy, and Sheshe put down her head and lay down.
Song Xu: "No, don't lie down, get up and choose one."
Sheshe stayed in this position, and Xinzi accidentally touched the middle stone while swallowing. Song Xu picked up the red stone and placed it on Sheshe's flat head, clapped his hands and announced: "Okay, we'll set off in two days!"
She got up and continued to prepare things. Sheshe swam forward and rested his head on the edge of the mattress looking at her. At this time, no one could understand what a big snake was thinking.
Early in the morning of the third day, Song Xu packed up everything else in the cave, leaving only the bed under Wumu.
After sleeping on it for a winter, the mattress was no longer as soft as it was at the beginning, and the fragrance of sawdust and dry moss had long since dissipated, leaving only a not-so-pleasant smell.
Song Xu took out the tiger tooth necklace from under Sheshe's chin and said to him, "Your neck is as thick as your body, so you can't wear this necklace. I'll put it away for you first."
She put Sheshe's precious necklace into her animal skin bag, grabbed the bear skin mat with both hands and pulled it off. The big snake still lying on the bear skin mat was dragged to the ground along with the mat.
Song Xu deliberately said: "Hahaha!"
The big snake looked up at her, and swam out of the mat, allowing Song Xu to roll up the mat and hide it in the small cave where he used to hide.
"Okay, let's go." Song Xu walked in front and opened the small door of the stone cave. The weather outside was not good. It was drizzling, and the raindrops drifted on his face and felt cool.
But since the day had been chosen, they had to leave today, even if it rained. Song Xu bent down and called Sheshe: "Wumu, come out quickly!"
She decided that if Sheshe refused to come out, she would drag him out. Unexpectedly, without using her strength, Sheshe quickly swam out at her call.
He swam around the stone cave where he had lived for several years, then identified the direction and swam in one direction.
Song Xu felt that his behavior just now was like saying goodbye, and even now, looking back at her actions, they were all humane. She followed him: "Wumu, do you understand me or not?"
"Do you know where we are going now?"
"Do you remember my name and our relationship?"
"Do you remember what happened before, the primitive beast and your uncle?"
"Your uncle said your mother went to the west to look for the moon. We don't have a destination, so why don't we go west? Maybe we can meet her."
"By the way, do you know what your uncle means? Let me tell you..."
Snake spit out his tongue to collect information around him, making a slight hissing sound. In Song Xu's endless words, he seemed to swim faster.
The two walked in the forest. The treetops above blocked the dense raindrops. The rain could not fall on them, and they felt quite leisurely.
Song Xu is a person who cannot rush on the road with one heart. Everything around her can easily attract her attention.
They passed by a big tree and saw a bunch of white flowers growing under the dead leaves at the roots of the tree. Song Xu, who was originally walking beside the snake's head, stopped and looked at the flower carefully.
The long snake's body passed by the squatting Song Xu in the middle, and the back also passed by Song Xu, and the tail was about to pass by her. Song Xu hadn't finished looking, she reached out and grabbed the tip of the snake's tail, stopping him from moving forward, her eyes still fixed on the flower.
Song Xu: "This is a flower I haven't seen before, can I eat it?"
The snake, whose tail was held tightly: "...hiss."
After getting back on the road, she held half a bunch of flowers in her hand and tasted them carefully.
They passed by another big tree, the trunk of which was covered with red moss. Coincidentally, the outline looked like a bird with its wings spread.
Song Xu stopped and turned the snake's head over, holding it to look at the moss: "Look, does it look like a bird?"
After walking for a while, they saw a hole next to it. Song Xu went over to take a look and asked Wu Mu: "What do you think is in the hole?"
There are so many holes like this in the forest. But Song Xu remembered that she said mysteriously: "There lives a lazy mouse in there. It hasn't prepared food for winter, so I picked up a lot of food for it!"
Passing by an open space under a tree, the leaves piled up into a small hill. I don't know what animal made it.
"Wow!" Song Xu immediately left the snake and ran over to watch, wondering what was hidden in such a large pile of fallen leaves. She turned around to look at the big snake who was looking at her hesitantly, and suddenly took a run and dived into the pile of fallen leaves.
After a while, she heard her shouting in the pile of fallen leaves.
The snake swam over and also dived into the pile of fallen leaves. There was a rustling noise in the pile of fallen leaves, and only Song Xu's giggling could be heard. After a while, the hill of fallen leaves collapsed, and the squirrel with leaves and grass all over its head crawled out from the other side.
Snake followed closely behind her and crawled out. Because he was too long, his head crawled out, and his tail was still on the other side, not entering the pile of fallen leaves.
Song Xu: "Hahahaha, you are so funny!"
But soon, she pinched her arm in confusion and said to herself: "Why is it a little itchy?"
Two ants were found in the itchy place.
Song Xu: "…………" Ah, so is there an ant nest in there?
After drilling into an ant nest, the snake just rolled on the ground twice and was fine, while the furry squirrel screamed, jumped up and down, and struggled for a long time before shaking off all the ants on its body.
The naughty child got her lesson and never dared to crawl in the leaf pile again. She held her arm a little aggrieved and said to Snake: "I have never seen such an ant nest. Who can see it hidden in the leaf pile? How can these ants bite people? Wuwuwu."
She kept howling all the way. Snake raised its snout and bumped her waist. Song Xu swayed unsteadily and found that her legs were entangled. Then her whole body was entangled. The snake's tail tightened and twisted. Song Xu, who was wrapped into a ball, experienced the feeling of being Snake's prey and was almost suffocated by Snake's strangulation technique.
After being let go with great difficulty, she gasped for breath and waved her hands in surrender: "Okay, okay! Stop, stop! I won't whine anymore, and I won't feel uncomfortable anymore!"
Sheshe's way of caring and comforting really put too much pressure on people. Just like that, who would dare to whine again next time.
They walked for a day, and Song Xu's energy was exhausted. He stopped under a dead tree.
The other trees began to grow leaves, but this tree was still bare without any green. The branches and trunk were cold and gray with death. It was estimated that it would fall down completely in a strong wind soon.
Song Xu climbed up the tree, grabbed a trunk, stomped hard, broke another trunk, and quickly jumped to the next trunk and continued stomping. There were continuous crackling sounds of branches breaking and the sound of dry branches falling to the ground. When
she felt that there were enough branches on the ground, Song Xu climbed down the tree and tidied up the trunks. Apart from anything else, after a winter, she is now an expert in organizing firewood and is the best at adding firewood to a bonfire.
Sheshe was still waiting beside her for her to finish playing and continue to move forward, but she had already started a fire and sat beside her, looking like she was not going to leave. Sheshe had no choice but to swim back and circle around the fire.
Song Xu was surrounded by the snake as usual, and she used its body as a chair to lean on.
"We have walked a lot today, we should rest." Song Xu said confidently, "The true meaning of travel is to waste time! If you rush too much, you won't feel like traveling!"
She had forgotten that the reason they came out was to seek refuge, not to travel.
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