Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Hope of Living

"Why are you looking at me like that?" asked my brother without looking up.

"You didn't even look up to know I was looking at you?" asked the brother with a smile.

"I can feel it!"

"It turns out that you do things by feeling!"

My sister looked up and smiled at him, then lowered her head and tugged at the soles of her shoes.

"Meiga," said Függer with a cursive smile, "your feelings are unrealistic. My brother knows that you like him, but have you thought about it, he will return to Dahan after all. ”

"Then I'll go back with him!"

"I'm afraid it's not that easy! People have wives and children at home!"

"Then I'll follow him too! I don't care!"

Frustrated Quger saw that his sister's heart had been decided, and he had nothing to say. In fact, he also admired Su Wu's personality and integrity. If his sister could be with him, he would be relieved. He also wants to find a Han husband for his sister, which is the mind of the deceased second elder. He didn't say anything more, got up and walked out the door.

Although Su Wu ate one meal a day and chewed some leaves of hay for the sheep when he was very hungry, so as to save food, after more than two months, the food was still cut off. Welu hasn't sent food yet. He got up early in the morning, looked at the empty sheepskin bag, and walked out of the house with his belt tightened.

Outside the door, the sky was overcast, the cold wind was howling, and it seemed that the sky was about to change again. The old snow can't be eliminated by two feet thick, and new snow has to be added. If it snows again and you can't go out to find something to eat, your life and that of your five sheep will be gone.

Lately, he walked around the surrounding snowfields and the nearby groves, and did not see the herdsman, but only found some hay for the sheep, and more importantly, found the sheep that had fled when he first arrived, and was already frozen with the snow.

That day, he changed to skis for the last time and practiced skateboarding, but when he skated a little farther, he tripped over it. When he saw the wool outside, he lifted away the snow, and when he saw that the sheep and the snow were frozen together, he went home and got a shovel to get it back. Solved the problem of eating for multiple days.

It's not okay to have nothing to eat...... He remembered that people often said: "A talker must not suffocate urine!" Yes, he must find a way to find something to eat, and he must live! He looked at the faintly layered snowfield in the distance, and he must go over to have a look.

There may be someone there who can get something to eat. If you can find the woods, you won't be afraid of running out of food. Su Wu has been walking on the snow for more than two months, and the method summed up: if you want to walk fast in the snow, you must slide forward.

So he cut down trees, made two skateboards and tied them to his shoes, and slid forward with two sticks in both hands, so that people could move forward as quickly as possible. But in the experiment, he fell again and again, and improved the tool again and again, little by little.

After countless practical improvements, it finally succeeded. He also used his skills in the imperial court to manage the production of saddle horse utensils, and made himself leather gloves and felt shoes and ropes to protect himself from the cold from sheepskin.

Su Wu didn't have a machete at his waist, carried a leather rope on his shoulder, and after he was armed, he tied a skateboard to his feet, made a cane as a cane, held a stick in one hand, and set off with a leather bag on his back.

This looks not far away, but it takes more than three hours to reach the destination. Oh, this is a forest! The branches of the trees are all covered in snow, and some of them are crushed. He took off his skateboard, put it outside, and walked into the woods.

The woods were eerily silent, and the further you went, the denser the woods became, and the branches were covered in a thick layer of snow and snow, as if they were rooftops. The snow on the ground is not thick, but you can see that under the ice and snow layer, there is a very thick layer of leaves, and no one cares about it, and it is very scary to walk on it.

He was so dizzy with hunger that he did not dare to go forward, so he sat down under a thick birch tree and closed his eyes. Suddenly, there was movement under the buttocks. He jumped up in surprise, and it turned out that he was sitting on a rotting leaf under the roots of a tree.

He used his machete to peel open the frozen leaves, and a mouse crawled out of the ground and ran through the snow. His eyes lit up, and he chased and pounced with his skin...... Finally caught, quite fat, he carried the rat tail and fell to his death on the trunk of the tree, and put it in the skin.

He thought about returning to the tree where he had sit, and continued to peel off the rotten leaves, and saw a rat hole under the tree, and where there was a hole, there was food. He dug it up with a machete, and sure enough, there were many tree seeds and grass seeds in the hole, and he shouted happily, "I can't die of hunger!"

He took out all the contents of the cave and held them in his hands, but found a way to find food. Then, chewing on the seeds of the tree in his mouth, he searched and dug under the big trees around him......

Although it was nine times out of ten, this harvest inspired him, and it was the hope of living! He was digging under the tree, and when he found hay, he could feed the sheep and firewood, and go home

Can be fired.

The days are very short in winter. He counted the time it would be dark, and when it was time to go home, he carried a large bundle of hay and twigs on his back, and easily walked out of the woods. The result was a hillside. He didn't find the hillside when he came......

Which direction should he go now? Su Wu lost his way. He stood still and looked at the sky, which was covered with clouds. Coming to face the ...... of the forest That is, you come in the opposite direction, or left and right......

He put down the firewood and grass, and walked along the left side of the hillside to observe, the whole forest was dense. He went back to the right and observed...... Finally, on the right, there is a sparsely planted area. He walked over and saw that the trees had been sparse and leading in the opposite direction of the hillside.

He came back and picked up the firewood and grass and walked along the sparsely wooded area. It would be nice to make a mark when you enter the woods...... It was a waste of nearly two hours, going out to find the skateboard, and coming home in the middle of the night.

Finally out of the forest, finally found the skateboard, it was already dark. He put on his skateboard, filled his mouth with grass seeds, and slid in the direction he came.

Although the sky was dark, the snow on the ground was reflected, and the light in front of me was hazy, and the marks of gliding were faintly visible. He pushed his arms forward with all his might, and slid up to speed in the direction of home.

According to the time of walking, there was home in front of him, and he felt a little relieved and slowed down. Suddenly, there was a howling cry in the silent snow. The voice sounded close. His first reaction was that it was the cry of a wolf.

Yes, the wolf is neighing in front of the sheepfold, and it doesn't sound like a single one yet. In the past, I once heard Coach Hu Ren say that the wolves in the grassland have nothing to eat in winter, and it is very frightening to meet hungry wolves.

Especially the wolves, no matter how good you are, it's hard to escape!

Su Wu was stunned for a moment, and his mind was blank. Suddenly, a dark shadow in the snow in front of him rushed towards him like a sword.

He shuddered, instinctively raised his stick and hit the object, and the stick missed, but he fell into the snow with a skateboard on his feet, and the bundle of firewood and straw behind his back smashed on his body. When he remembered it, he couldn't help but have too much firewood and grass, and he couldn't get up for a while because of hunger.

The wolf, staring at the green bale with green eyes, waited for the opportunity. He was under the bundle of firewood and straw, his eyes were staring at the wolf, and he did not dare to move. His mind was spinning, thinking of how to deal with it......