26. Chapter XXVI
Winter mornings are already late, and for the rare days of rest of the year, the villagers are much lazy on weekdays. On the morning of Laba, it was rare for everyone to get up early on such a cold day. Dressed thick and solid, many old men in the village are still wearing long green military coats, which are the favorite winter coats of the elderly. Wearing light and fluttering down jackets on their bodies, they feel unsteady and unwarm.
A group of children were even wrapped in a large mobile cotton ball, wearing hats on their heads, scarves covering half of their faces, and the whole person did not show anything except a pair of eyes. Children who are difficult to go out in winter will also run away, and groups of bunches will be seen running around on the white snow.
Sometimes several children fall into the snow, lie down and start rolling. There are no people in this snow, and children are happy to play, and parents generally don't care. These children are all solid, whether they fall or even step on the ice, slide far away, get up and continue to jump.
Today's sun is also very face-saving, showing his face early, the wind is not strong, and it is warm to walk outside. Even some elderly people are especially willing to go out and bask in the sun. Although the snow is still thick outside, it is not very cold as long as you are in the sun. However, adults still don't dare to take children there, what if the child falls into the ice hole?
The first person to go to the side of the pond to get ice came to the pond and saw Li Kaize standing on the edge of the pool with a hurricane in his arms, so he greeted: "Mr. Xiao Li also came to get ice, so early?" ”
"I don't eat ice in Laba at home, so I came to see how you got this ice, but I didn't expect it to be early. Dongdong is also clamoring to come to join in the fun, Uncle Feng and Aunt Zhang are busy, so I'll take him over to take a look, you are so early. Li Kaize also replied with a smile.
Every time he saw Li Kaize change his face to different people, Feng Junhui wanted to roll his eyes. This person can talk about any kind of person, and what kind of expression is used in any situation, which is just right. Obviously you can be as cold as a terminator, or you can be as enthusiastic as an aunt in the neighborhood committee. Feng Junhui has complained about Li Kaize's face-changing kung fu more than once.
In fact, Li Kaize can't help it, he will meet all kinds of people when he goes on a mission, sometimes in order to fit in, sometimes in order to find out the news, he has met more people, there are more situations, and he has also learned the kung fu of changing his face. Sometimes it's hard to think about doing things against your own personality, but when you are forced to do it, you find that it's not that difficult.
At about five o'clock in the morning, he diluted the Nirvana Dan paste with water and splashed it on the ice, and it soon froze. But even faster than that, some animals that had hidden in the cave for the winter gathered one after another. He even saw a couple of snakes! Okay, what about hibernation, is it really good for you to get up halfway through and take a walk?
As he tried to keep the little things away, he didn't dare to stain the ice. Just when he had a headache, he found that the snakes, insects, rats, ants and small animals all quickly retreated and ran away. Then he saw Feng Junhui coming with a hurricane. Although he thought it was strange, he didn't ask why, and he still guessed that the reason for letting these little animals retreat was the hurricane. In the past, when Feng Junhui and he went up the mountain, they also encountered those snakes, insects, rats and ants.
In fact, it was the hurricane himself who felt that there was a lot of animal commotion in the vicinity, so he wanted to come and see it. At present, the appearance of the hurricane, Feng Junhui must not be able to let it out alone, and it is not easy to explain it when it is seen by the villagers, so he simply hugged it over. Knowing that Feng Junhui has practiced the Nirvana Pill, although it is mushy, the hurricane is also too happy, this is very good for him!
Originally, the hurricane was making a fuss and immediately went back to eat Nirvana Dan, but Feng Junhui was afraid that he would leave, and he didn't know what would come to Bingtan, so he promised to give him food when he went back. The three of them stayed there until they heard the movement of someone coming. Then Feng Junhui went back to get the tools and prepared to take the ice home.
"Then you take care of the child, don't fall into the ice hole." The old man who took the ice reminded.
"Got it, thank you, uncle." Li Kaize smiled and helped the old man smash the ice.
There is no pollution in the waterhole in this mountain, and there is not much food in the first place, so everyone will not pay too much attention to it, so they will start from the top. However, there are many people who want to take ice today, so they will not stand on the ice, but stand next to the waterhole, and take the nearest ice, and have to leave a way on the ice.
After this old man, the people in the village came to fetch ice one after another. After Feng Junhui came over with tools to fetch the ice, Li Kaize was still playing here with the hurricane, but he was afraid of the scene of small animals gathering again. Idle, Li Kaize took a simple iron tong and hammer and began to carve some small things on the side for the hurricane to play.
Li Kaize's carving technique is not bad, and some small animals are quickly formed in his hands. In addition, it was ice, and the place that needed to be smoothed and polished, he only needed to touch it with his hands, but it seemed that these small animals were vivid and cute. Hurricane probably hasn't played with these toys either, and he likes them very much, although he still has disdain on his little face, but as soon as Li Kaize carved it, he put it next to him, and his little eyes were full of joy.
Occasionally, I saw acquaintances, some with children, and Li Kaize also carved a gadget for those people. Every now and then, Hurricane's eyes have been following the gadgets that have been sent, pouting, and his face is full of disgrace. This made Feng Junhui look funny, and reached out to pinch his bulging cheeks. Li Kaize didn't dare to pinch the hurricane, and Li Kaize vaguely felt about the strength of the hurricane, but he was much stronger than him.
At ten o'clock, everyone who should have taken the ice was almost finished. Feng Junhui didn't care about them, and went back with the hurricane. Li Kaize decided to stand far away, and if someone came, try not to let him see anything unusual.
After the hurricane left, a group of small animals quickly gathered, mainly living in the surrounding mountains, fortunately, there were no large animals. Even starlings and finchlings came over in groups. It is rare that this time the starlings also joined the camp of the Sparrow and held the best position.
When these little animals arrived on the ice, they were all fast, trying all kinds of ways to eat the ice crazily. Even completely ignoring the predators around them, and the predators did not attack their food at this time. Li Kaize was also surprised when he looked at this scene.
The starlings and the flock of birds did not come to grab the land because they got together. Until a big snake came out of nowhere, opened its mouth to eat a small bird under the big bird, to drive away these birds that dared to compete with it for ice. Bird Da was so angry that he was furious, yes, he was angry, not frightened.
"Twitter......" the bird cried angrily, commanding his birds to fly around the big snake, and then swooping down on the big snake one by one, pecking at the big snake's body. The finch was even more ferocious, and went directly to the seven inches of the snake. Starlings were even more daring, pecking directly at the snake's eyes, completely ignoring the snake's mouth.
The big snake, which was still standing and spitting snake letters, was pecked everywhere by these chickadees, and the attacks of starlings and sparrows forced it to crawl on the ground, and soon retreated and escaped from the ice. It is estimated that when he never encountered such a wolf, the big snake escaped all the way, and he was still slipping on the ice, and even rolled into a ball.
They did not chase after them, and after driving the snake away, they began to peck at the ice again and eat it. Eventually, when the animals had eaten about the same, some of them began to slowly retreat, especially some insects and ants, who soon retreated into their burrows. Fortunately, it was winter, and most of the insects and ants were dead, otherwise Li Kaize's dense phobia would have to be forced out.
Watching those wild things slowly leave, Li Kaize was relieved. When the group of sparrows and starlings left, Li Kaize planned to leave. Unexpectedly, before he turned around, the vegetables were delivered by himself. A wild boar suddenly rushed over from the mountain road on the side, and the speed was extremely fast, and the unprepared Li Kaize subconsciously gave way.
"Bang!" The stupid boar rushed directly into the ice hole, but the wild boar was not busy struggling, but swallowed ice water and nibbled on the ice cubes that could be eaten. Then he was very dissatisfied, his head turned around and gnawed, but unfortunately his body was a little bigger, and the ice hole was smaller, which looked a little clumsy.
This is too persistent! Li Kaize's eyes widened, but the dishes delivered to the door should not be in vain. Pick up a large rock and throw it on the boar's head. The wild boar was attacked, and it was supposed to get up and fight back, but unfortunately the ice hole was so big that it was stuck. There was water under its feet, and it had no strength to borrow, so it could only struggle to turn around in the water. In the end, he was knocked out by Li Kaize.
Dragging the wild boar, which was a little thin from hunger in the winter, Li Kaize went home. Starling drilled directly into his arms and began to squint and fall asleep. Compared with the starling, who has nothing to do, the bird is more witty. It actually took a flock of chickadees, each of which grabbed a small piece of crushed ice on its paws and flew towards the greenhouse. It wants to store the ice and eat it slowly!
The piece of broken ice under the paws of some greedy chickadees was too big, and the guides were a little low and high when they flew, and they flew crookedly, and they were not willing to let go of the broken ice.
"It's good to walk behind...... "Li Kaize made sure that he had killed the boar, and dragged it away. Along the way, I actually encountered some sleeping hares, pheasants, and even a pair of snow geese sleeping in the grass! I don't know why this pair of snow geese didn't move away in the winter.
The snow geese are monogamous, and the pairs of snow geese have a very good relationship, and they will comb each other's feathers on weekdays, and show their affection on the branches, and they look a little like the big white geese raised at home, and the big ones weigh four or five pounds. But on the tips of the wings, the big feathers are black. On their necks and backs, some are a bit rust-colored. It's also cute to walk and swing. Li Kaize thought it was funny, so he tied them to the hare and pheasant and brought them back to play with.
Seeing some of the little birds still sleeping around, Li Kaize sighed, simply looked around, and hid all the sleeping little animals in the dead grass, so as not to freeze to death. Seeing that the surroundings were almost cleaned up, Li Kaize took out the phone and called Feng Junhui and asked him to come over with the backpack to load things. And he had a very bad premonition......
"So much!" Feng Junhui looked at the pile of pheasants and hares, and was simply stunned.
"I'm still picking fat ones, and they're all alive. There were also some birds, I picked them up and hid them in the grass. This wild boar also rushed out of the ice on its own, fell into the ice hole, and was stoned to death by me. And this pair of big birds......" Li Kaize explained the pile of prey one by one. Then he said, "Do you say that the person who eats the ice will also fall asleep?" ”
"It shouldn't be, after all, the effect of the medicine is not too great......" Feng Junhui was not sure. Thinking about the whole village sleeping at home, the picture was so beautiful that he didn't dare to imagine it.
"But there is also your laba porridge......" Li Kaize looked at the sky, this time he didn't dare to imagine it.
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