Chapter 66

Ranch

Fang Xin was also digging hard in another snow cave.

When digging to the bottom layer, he reached out and moved the two bricks in front of him, revealing a pair of large-sized men's shoes.

Fang Xin didn't care and continued digging. After clearing away the snow and bricks nearby, a small section of frozen and hard calf was exposed.

Fang Xin was stunned for a moment. Even though he had seen too many dead people in the apocalypse, he was still frightened by the sudden appearance of the corpse.

It's not that I'm afraid, but I don't have any psychological expectations.

Fang Xin scraped the snow around him again, and found that one of the legs of the iron bed was bent and stuck in the bricks and rubble.

Fang Xin was sure that this was not a pen or something, so he turned around, grunted and crawled out of the cave, and sat down on the snow to rest for a while. He looked at the gloves on his hands and felt uncomfortable, so he took them off and threw them into the snow cave. He rummaged around in the space and found a pair of new thick gloves and put them on, and then he felt better.

He turned around and shouted at another snow cave, "Come out, stop looking for it."

"Ah!" Grandpa Li didn't hear clearly what Fang Xin said in the cave. He shouted and crawled out.

"Ah, I didn't hear what you just said."

"Don't look for it. This isn't a livestock pen. It should be a house where people live."

Grandpa Li wiped the frost off his mask and said, "Oh, well, I said we dug so deep and didn't see anything."

"It's okay, let's go to another snowdrift to dig." Fang Xin stood up and walked towards a nearby large snowdrift.

Grandpa Li called Xiao Kai out and walked straight to the big snow pile next to him. "Let's go there. We can't both look for one. If there's nothing, it will be a waste of time."

"OK."

The three of them could only use the clumsy method to look for it bit by bit. They were not sure where it was or whether it existed. They could only look for it with hope, just in case it was there.

Fang Xin walked around the snowpack, but could not find any trace of animals. Everything was completely covered by snow.

Forget it, let’s dig deeper.

He swung a large iron shovel to dig a hole and crawled most of his body into it. With the shelter, Fang Xin began to cheat and collected the snow little by little into the space. Soon he reached the bottom of the building.

The collapsed bricks, debris and other garbage are collected into the space, and the amount collected must be controlled, otherwise it will be bad if the entire snowpack is collected at once.

Fang Xin picked up a small oval black object.

Yes, it’s sheep dung eggs. Great! The presence of sheep dung indicates that this might be a sheep pen.

He threw away the sheep dung eggs in his hand, continued to clean the bricks and tiles and started searching.

After about ten minutes, a sheep came out.

Finally I found it, but I don't know if it was just one or a group. Anyway, it was a harvest.

Use both hands to pull little by little.

The frozen, hard dead object was actually very heavy, and there was no room for maneuver in the narrow cave, so the only way was to bend over and drag the sheep out little by little.

Fang Xin sat on the snow and wiped the snow off his goggles with his hands. He stretched his neck and started shouting, "Did you guys get anything?"

Hearing the sound, Xiao Kai was as smart as a monkey and crawled out of the cave on all fours.

"What's wrong, sister?" She turned her eyes and saw the sheep on the ground, "Wow, sister, you are so amazing, it really exists."

Xiao Kai immediately lay down and stuck his head into the hole and shouted, "Grandpa Li, come out quickly, my sister dug up a sheep."

"Here we come, here we come." Grandpa Li climbed out of the cave swiftly, and the two of them trotted over happily.

"This one is quite big, it's an adult sheep." Grandpa Li was excited. In the current period of scarcity, not eating meat for a long time will cause malnutrition and the body will not be able to bear it.

Eating some meat in winter can also ward off the cold.

He squatted down and carefully observed the sheep. He found something wrong with its front hoof. He pointed his finger at the hoof and said, "Why is there a wound here? Could it be caused by a rat?"

Fang Xin looked in the direction where Grandpa Li pointed, and indeed, it was there. She hadn't noticed it just now. She looked carefully again. If it was bitten by a rat, then it would be uncertain whether the sheep could be eaten. Rats usually carry a large number of viruses and bacteria.

It would be okay if there was plague.

Even in the end times when supplies are scarce, you can't stuff everything into your mouth.

Once people eat problematic food, their bodies can easily develop problems. In this era of lack of medical care and medicine, physical problems can be fatal.

"It's okay, it's not a rat," Fang Xin pointed at the wound, "It should be a wound caused by bumping around when the temperature dropped. You can see it's a little swollen here, it's not a bite."

Grandpa Li breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good, that's good."

Fang Xin stood up and shook off the snow on his body. "Then let's dig this first."

The two nodded and took action immediately.

Xiao Kai was extremely excited. He dug even harder with his butt sticking out, and his hands moved very quickly.

Not sure where the supplies were, so three people started digging from three locations.

There's no way there's just one bird in such a big circle. It's most likely a group. If there's a group, they'll probably huddle together for warmth.

We still have to go back to that cave and search outwards.

Fang Xin threw away the shovel in his hand and crawled back into the cave.

I put the snow, bricks, tiles and other things in front of me into the space little by little. After struggling for about ten minutes, I finally found a few sheep huddled together. This should be the corner of the wall.

Fang Xin put all the miscellaneous items that he had put into the space back to their original places.

He turned around and crawled out of the cave again.

Walk to one of the holes, stretch your neck and shout, "Have you found anything?"

"No, only sheep dung." Grandpa Li's voice came from the cave.

"Come out, I found it."

Fang Xin pulled Xiao Kai out of the hole again. The little guy was covered in snow. Xiao Kai patted himself and asked happily, "What's up, sister? Did you get something again?"

Fang Xin also nodded happily, "Yes."

Fang Xin led the two people to point out the approximate location, "It should be here. Dig down from here. The hole I just dug is a little far from here, and there are too many bricks on it. It's not easy to pull the things out. It's better to dig directly from here."

Grandpa Li and Xiao Kai nodded repeatedly and started working efficiently.

The snow layer on top was easy to dig, and it was soon dug away. The three of them then began to move away bricks, wood and other debris bit by bit.

"Found it, found it." Xiao Kai's surprised voice came.

They both looked over and saw half a sheep's head covered in dust and dirt.

"That's great. Finally, all the effort was paid off." Grandpa Li walked forward happily and started cleaning from that point.

A smaller sheep was pulled out, and through the gaps between bricks and other debris, there was still something inside.

The old and the young were extremely happy and full of energy. Fang Xin was also infected by their emotions and was also very happy.

Soon the sheep were pulled out one by one, and there were actually 9 of them.

These nine sheep would be enough to last for a long time even if divided among three families.

They searched carefully for a while and made sure nothing was missed before they climbed out of the pit.

The three of them sat on the snow, happily chatting and taking a break, and even their voices were filled with joy.