happy apocalypse

Chapter 184 Entering the Mountains in Winter
After this theft, Tashan Village has been quiet for a while.

The snow kept falling, and the outside temperature was about minus 40 degrees during the day, and it was even colder in the dark.

The villagers in Tashan Village are not afraid of the severe cold. They are busy shoveling snow and freezing ice on the roof every day. Even the martial arts training class has not been suspended in such cold weather. The villagers are still insisting on participating in training every day.

Our family is also very busy. Hanhan and the others had a whim, seeing his grandma and grandma freezing ice cubes, and was inspired to say that since ice cubes can be frozen, popsicles can also be frozen.He did it when he thought of it. He came to me to ask for moulds, milk powder, fruit juice, and sugar. He said that they wanted to make a few more flavors and freeze them in the ice cellar. Next summer should not be this summer. You can eat popsicles. .

I think they are playing monsters, adults are so busy now, how can they have the time in the United States to make popsicles for them.

Jiang's mother, Qu's mother, was used to the child, and seeing that I was still struggling to give Hanhan what she wanted, she yelled: "What are you mother's ink, you don't support the child's desire to cook something by himself, you don't care." How are they doing, let’s just treat it as a game.” Winter is not like summer, children can run wildly all over the village and mountains, but now it’s too cold in winter, children can only be confined at home every day.Qu's mother saw that the child was here every day, either training or studying, and she felt distressed for a long time. Finally, the child thought of playing, and my mother disagreed, and she became angry.

"Hanhan, come here, we won't ask your mother anymore, grandma will give it to you." Qu's mother called the children over, got up and went to the house to get things for the children.

I rubbed my nose and thought bitterly, it's good that Mama Qu took something out of the storage bag and remembered to avoid these little bastards, so she wasn't confused.

"Mom, stop giving him powdered milk and let him go to the backyard to milk the cows by himself."

Afterwards, these children have something to do. When they have nothing to do, they carry a small bucket to look for the cleanest snow. Use a charcoal basin to melt snow by yourself, boil it, let it cool, then add milk or something, pour it into a mold, put a small wooden stick on it, and send it outside to freeze.

Their frozen popsicles inspired all the children in the village to follow suit, but they didn't have the materials, so they generously provided milk for everyone. Anyway, it was produced by their own cows, and it would be a waste if they didn't squeeze it out for use.

However, there are still a few children who ate fried pork with bamboo shoots. Not every family has grandma and grandma who are used to children.
Just like that, busy and busy every day, it seems that the Chinese New Year is coming.

I told Jiang Zhi that I want to go to the mountain again to see the red ears. The snow this year is heavier than last year. I am a little worried that the little thing will not find something to eat.

So on the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, Jiang Zhi and I packed our bags again and went into the mountain again.

The mountains and forests in winter look a bit depressed, and they are all white. I feel that the temperature in the forest seems to be lower than that in the village, and the snow on the ground is much thicker. It has reached the base of my thighs, and it takes a lot of effort to walk. After walking in the snow for a while, I feel that my hands and feet are going to be frozen, as if wearing thick clothes, no matter how thick they are, they can't resist the cold.Later, I had to practice exercises to keep my body warm.

Jiang Zhi and I used the light body talisman to finally reduce the resistance of the snow. Although the clothes on our bodies were very bloated, our bodies did not sink and we were able to walk through the snow very lightly.

When heading to the deep mountain, Jiang Zhi saw a bump on the snow, which should not be there, so Jiang Zhi went to explore it, and found a frozen roe deer underneath.

It lay frozen and stiff in the snowdrift. We put it away politely, but we also began to worry in our hearts. Now the temperature can freeze some animals to death. If there is a few snowfalls, the temperature will be even lower, isn’t it? Will more animals freeze to death, or starve to death without food.

Although we are very worried that the animals in this forest will become extinct if things go on like this, we have no solution. It is impossible to put all the animals in the space in winter and return them to the forest in summer. That is too unrealistic. And my space can't accommodate so many animals.

We continued on our way and went to have a look when we found such snowdrifts. On the first day, we picked up two roe deer, three wild boars, a black bear, and many rabbits and pheasants.When I first saw a black bear, I thought it was hibernating and didn't want to disturb it, but Jiang Zhi observed more carefully than me. He said that black bears don't hibernate in the snow, and then he went forward to make sure that the black bear was dead. up.Based on the principle that waste is a crime, I was very sad that so many animals were frozen to death, but I put them all in front of the ring without mercy.Now that their lives have come to an end, let them play their last remaining heat for human beings.

Don't come to think that this time it will be faster than the last time I entered the mountain in summer, and it will be winter, and I will not be able to cut firewood or dig trees.Who knows, it’s not what we thought. Our speed of entering the mountain this time is slower than the last time. In addition to looking for animals that were frozen to death or starved to death like a treasure hunt, we also found that many branches on the tree were destroyed. The heavy snow folded and fell on the snow. You said whether to pick up the ready-made firewood in front of you or not, of course we picked it up, so our speed was slowed down.However, fortunately, we are not in a hurry, nor because of the cold, so we searched for treasures in the mountains and forests to our heart's content.

We rested in the space at night, and in the afternoon of the second day, we came to the red pine forest that impressed me again.

The trees are still huge, but the saw-toothed grass in the woods is covered by heavy snow, probably frozen to death, and when the flowers bloom next spring, the roots deep in the soil will burst into life again.

There are a lot of branches folded by the heavy snow, lying on the snow in all directions. I looked up at the canopy of the red pine that can cover the sky and the sun. I guess it is because the area of ​​the canopy is too large and the gap is too small. The snow fell from the gaps less, and it was accumulated on the crown of the tree. After several months of heavy snow, the weight of the snow accumulated on the crown of the tree was quite heavy, which made the branches unable to withstand it and were crushed by the snow. fell down.

With the previous experience, I know that Red Ear has a strong sense of territory. In its territory, even a piece of grass cannot be taken without its permission. go inside.

This piece of red pine forest is so big that you can't see the edge at a glance. Last time we walked for a few hours before we met Honger, but I just had a feeling that we were still at the edge of the red pine forest and didn't go deep. To the red pine forest.

This time, Jiang Zhi and I didn't look at anything, we didn't take anything, we just walked into the depths of the red pine forest. I didn't stand still until noon on the third day. It wasn't that I didn't want to leave, but that I I don’t have so much time, because I still have to go home to celebrate the new year with my family. If I can’t go home in time, my family will be reunited, and my mother can whisper in my ear for a year.

Standing under the huge red pine, I looked up and observed the trunk of the red pine. After looking at it for a long time, I couldn't see where the squirrels lived.

"Tell me, it's not something wrong with the red ear. Why have we been here for so long this time, and we haven't seen a single squirrel?" I said a little puzzled.

The last time we had just entered for a few hours, Hong Er led a large army and appeared in front of us. This time it was much deeper than last time, and there was still no sign of the squirrel.

"At this time, the squirrels are always hiding in the hole to reduce the consumption of energy. How can they be as lively as they are in summer?"

Jiang Zhi looked around at the surrounding pine trees while speaking.After finishing speaking, his gaze stopped, and I followed his gaze to see a very inconspicuous small tree hole on the trunk of a pine tree more than 20 meters above the ground.

"Could that be a squirrel's home?" I asked curiously, but I've never seen a wild squirrel's home.

"You'll know if you don't see it." After Jiang Zhi finished speaking, he took a few steps back, ran forward fiercely, then grabbed the tree trunk with both hands, kicked his feet alternately, and climbed up on the squirrel. After a while, he It was close to the tree hole.

I looked down and reminded: "Be careful."

When Jiang Zhi arrived at the entrance of the cave, he first looked in carefully, and then tapped the tree trunk with his hand, seeing that there was no movement, he stretched his hand inside.I saw it clearly from below, seeing him reaching in, I couldn't help feeling worried again.

Jiang Zhi groped in the hole, and then took out a fluffy thing from inside, my heart tightened again, this time I was not worried about Jiang Zhi's safety, but worried about the thing in Jiang Zhi's hand , I have a feeling it's a squirrel.

After Jiang Zhi grabbed the little thing out, he didn't stay on it anymore, and just slipped down from the tree.I hurried up to meet him, grabbed his hand to see what it was.

Sure enough, as I guessed, it was really a squirrel, only a little bigger than Jiang Zhi's palm, and it had already been frozen stiff.

"This is a squirrel, did it freeze to death or starve to death?" I looked at the already stiff little squirrel and analyzed the cause of its death.

"It should have died of freezing. If it died of starvation, its fur wouldn't be preserved so well." Jiang Zhi looked at the squirrel in his hand and said.

Although the little squirrel in his hand is dead, its fur is still very smooth, unlike those sick, weak, and old animals that have alopecia areata when they cannot keep up with nutrition, so Should have frozen to death.

I looked at the squirrel in his hand and became more worried about Red Ears.

(End of this chapter)