Chapter 23 Winter is Coming
Winter is here. The light snowflakes floating in the air like feathers gently brush across your cheeks and kiss the hair of the crooked pine tree on the watchtower. The trees in the forest are blinded by the graceful snowflakes, and everything in front of you is white. Snow Girl walked gracefully into the forest little by little. The whole Longshan Mountain seemed to be plunged into a silent world. Every tall and straight tree was covered with white gauze, occasionally shyly revealing a little green, dazzling like a jade pendant. The ground seemed to be covered with large pieces of cotton, layer upon layer covering the old and withered face of the earth. The cold north wind whistled past, shouting: "Sleep! Sleep! When the earth wakes up next spring, you will be young again."
Throughout the winter, Yike almost stayed at her home in Dongtianfudi, and only occasionally went out to look out from the watchtower. She was afraid that seeing everything white would make her feel even more desolate. It has been a year since she traveled to this world, living alone in the mountains with animals and plants. I talk to myself all day long. It would be a lie to say I’m not lonely. Although she was busy collecting herbs, digging wild vegetables, hunting, digging traps, exploring, or making bows and arrows every day, and even explored several caves and underground rivers of various sizes carefully several times to confirm that the cave was really safe, but no matter how busy she was, her heart was still uneasy.
Before winter came, Yike moved all the chickens, sheep and wild boars in the bamboo forest into hidden caves. In order to prevent the animals from starving and becoming thin, Yi Ke prepared a lot of food, such as sweet potatoes, sweet potato vines, sweet potato leaves and sweet potato roots, all of which were carried back by Yi Ke. More than a thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes were dug up, and a lot of kudzu leaves were picked and dried and stored to supplement the animals' food when it was insufficient. At the same time, she also prepared some wild vegetables to dry in case of unexpected needs in winter.
Although every day is spent in busyness, the physical fatigue cannot resist the loneliness of the soul. Moreover, no one has communicated with her for a long time, and she is afraid that she will become a robot that can only move but not speak. In order to avoid that, she would talk to the chickens that were trying to grab food when she was feeding them in the cave every day: "Hey, stop grabbing. It's not like there's nothing to eat. I'm talking to you, the black-haired guy. You're the one who grabs the most food. Stop grabbing. If you continue to grab food, I'll kill you first and eat your meat."
When she feeds the pigs, she feels inexplicably happy. "Hahahaha! You guys have pig brains, really do have pig brains! Hahaha, if you weren't pig brains, why would you jump into the pit when you saw there was a big hole in front of you? Ouch! I want to laugh when I see you, really your pig dad is here to make people laugh, hahaha!"
Dead Pig Daddy: "Can I protest? At that time, I only had eyes for you. How could I see any pit?"
She talks to anyone she meets, like a complete chatterbox. It's because she is afraid of losing her ability to speak. She was a doctor in her previous life and knew that not speaking for a long time would lead to the gradual degeneration of language function, a certain decline in intelligence, IQ, etc., and a decline in social aspects. She was still thinking about going out into society in a few years and making a lot of money, but her social skills were declining, so how could she make money? So she had a lot to talk about with everyone, and the chickens, rabbits and sheep at home were harassed by her evil voice every day. When feeding the lamb, she said to it, "Xiyangyang, how come you haven't grown up even though you've eaten so much grass? Is it because your bad mood affects your growth? How about I sing a song for you?" So she sang the song of Xiyangyang from her previous life.
Pleasant Goat, Beautiful Goat, Lazy Goat, Boiling Goat
Slow Sheep Soft Red Wolf Gray Wolf
Don't look at me, I'm just a sheep
The green grass becomes more fragrant because of me
The sky becomes bluer because of me
The white clouds become soft because of me
Don't look at me, I'm just a sheep
Sheep are incredibly smart
No matter how high the sky is, my mood will still be unrestrained
Chasing the sun every day
No matter what problems come to hold me back, I won't be hurt.
No matter what danger is in front of me, I will not panic.
Even if a wolf pack hunts me, I'll just treat it as a game.
Love happiness at any time, smile will fly
Even if you fall, you can stand up and never be depressed.
The power to make people laugh in all weathers
Even though I'm just a sheep
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In winter, the two tunnel exits of the paradise are blocked by doors made of wooden sticks, and wind cannot blow in from the cave. There were white bars of ice hanging around the gap in the cave roof. The cold wind blew in through the gap, making it unbearable. She now sleeps, rests and eats in the hidden cave. We went directly to Water Cave No. 2 to get water. The water in Water Cave No. 2 was not cold at all in the ice and snow, and it was even a little warm. The water used for washing vegetables, dishes, and face is the same water. Only the water used for eating and drinking is spring water.
Yike was busy intensifying her training in the winter, and she wanted to practice her previous kung fu from scratch. After all, it’s not the same body as before, and some of the movements feel uncoordinated. To make what you think in your mind and what you do consistent, you must practice!
Eighty percent of the vegetables in Baicao Garden have also passed the winter. The garden is empty, with only some cold-resistant vegetables. For example, wild shepherd's purse, purslane, wild garlic, wild onion and radish, if she is outside, she will definitely find some green vegetables that are not afraid of the cold and plant one. I had thought that Baicao Garden was worthy of its name, but now it has returned to the time before liberation, which made me feel uncomfortable.
Well, I'd better go and see the emerald green in the cave to refresh my eyes and make my heart happier. There was mud she moved into the cave, and she piled a small piece of it near the medicine drying ground, where she built a thatched hut and planted some wild garlic, wild onions, coriander, white radish, etc. The temperature in the cave is a little warmer than outside, so these vegetables are growing well and are bright green. Although she has stockpiled a lot of dried wild vegetables, mushrooms and fungus, she still likes to have a small dish of fresh green vegetables on the table.
Yi Ke had a stubborn idea about food - she couldn't bear to see an empty food bag. If there was a basket for storing wild vegetables missing, she would quickly go find food to fill it up. Yike felt that he did not have this problem in his previous life. In this life, it might be that the original owner, Xiaocao'er, was afraid of hunger. It was a psychological problem. Fortunately, this problem was not a big problem, otherwise Yike would cry to death, and the time-travel god would be cursed to death. hehe! So when the vegetable garden was empty, she felt sad. Seeing the small patch of green vegetables in the cave, he smiled again.
Yike is much stronger now. Although he is still short, his face and hands are no longer bruised and have some flesh on them. Now there is meat on her table almost every meal. Two dishes and one soup is the basic meal, and three dishes and one soup is also common. Life is so good, except for the lack of human smell, she really wants to live here forever.
As long as you don't go out to gather and hunt in winter, you can carefully prepare a place for bathing. In fact, they just moved some large stones next to the entrance of Tunnel No. 2, raised the terrain, filled the gaps with a mixture of mud and sand, smoothed the surface, laid banana leaves on the ground for bathing and tilted them towards the entrance of the tunnel, so that the bath water would flow out of the cave along the tunnel.
She practiced Kung Fu day after day in the cave, eating well and living warmly. Hanjiagou Village outside the mountain has indeed suffered a disaster. The grain harvest in the village was poor this year, and the food rations allocated to each household are barely enough to eat, especially for Han Dajun's family. This year, without Xiaocao'er working hard to earn work points, the work points were few and the food was also little. Before the winter was over, they had to tighten their belts to make a living. Without Xiaocao'er, Han Guihua, whom Yang Huaihua used to love like a treasure, was no longer so precious when compared with her male brother Han Jiabao. There was not enough food at home, so two meals a day was changed to one meal a day, and the meal was still made of rice bran, wheat straw, and bean stalk cakes, mixed with wild vegetable soup to barely fill the stomach.
Early in the morning, Han Guihua was driven out by Yang Huaihua to dig wild vegetables. Han Guihua, wearing an old cotton-padded clothes, felt cold and hungry on the mountain. Looking at the snowy mountains from afar, I thought about how my sister was also forced to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables and collect firewood in such cold weather. She was wearing tattered clothes and it must have been so cold! At least I still have an old cotton-padded jacket, but I still can't stand the cold. In the past, when my sister was at home, I stayed at home and never went out. I didn't know how hard it was. Now that I have experienced it myself, I know how difficult it is for my sister. Han Guihua cried silently, for her sister and for herself.
Of course, Yi Ke in the cave had no idea about the miserable situation of her sister Han Guihua. She was training herself desperately, thinking that after the winter was over, even if her boxing skills were limited by her small size and tender bones, with the addition of fighting skills, she would be able to protect herself when she went out hunting next year. She would no longer have to rely on the prey to fall into the trap to get meat to eat, but could take the initiative to look for prey.
Yike's life was very fulfilling throughout the winter.
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