Chapter 113: Walking in the Snow
The next morning, after Zhang Taiping woke up, he rarely went to practice, only wearing a pair of pants and opening the window bare-chested, lying on the window and looking out.
Cai Yazhi hid in the quilt and looked at Zhang Taiping's back, her eyes were in a trance, Zhang Taiping's broad and tall back had several scars on it, seeing this, you can imagine what kind of life he has been mixing outside all these years, and the blood on the knife edge is said, right? Cai Yazhi couldn't guess what it was, in short, it wouldn't be easy, in short, it was dangerous.
In fact, since Zhang Taiping discovered the space, the scars on his body can be repaired, but Zhang Taiping doesn't know what kind of reason it is, maybe it is to be proud of his past deeds, maybe it is to show off his man's temperament, in short, these scars have not been repaired.
A cold wind blew in from the window, Cai Yazhi unconsciously tightened the quilt, and only then did she realize that Zhang Taiping was still standing at the window bare-chested, and she didn't care about herself, so she wanted to get up and get a dress to put on him. Zhang Taiping didn't need to turn around to understand what was going on when he heard the movement behind him, and he didn't turn his head back, but just waved his hand behind him. Cai Yazhi hesitated for a moment, then put down her clothes and got into the quilt, tilting her head sideways and looking at Zhang Taiping's back intently.
Zhang Taiping stood in front of the window shirtless, the biting cold for ordinary people was just a little cold to him, and the cold wind stimulated his brain to be more sober.
The snow has stopped, and there is no other color in the silver-covered world, although the sky has been shining, it has not yet been clear, and in the distance there is still the same color of heaven and earth, and it is impossible to distinguish whether it is snow or white sky. Judging from the snow on the trunks, the ground is a foot thick, and it is a rare heavy snow in recent years.
Some birds began to come out to feed, and the snow chips that flew over the treetops and rubbed down were cool and silky on Zhang Taiping's body. The snow in the mountains is purer than in the city, and there are very few residues of that kind, and the fine snow chips are cool to the nose.
Zhang Taiping stood in front of the window and thought about how to deal with the fruits in the space, if they were taken out and sold, they would not be able to sell for a few dollars, and they would not be able to sell for a few dollars, and they would have to explain a lot of the source of the fruits, it seems that they can only occasionally take out some, and the others will simply be made into wine, which is a good thing!
Zhang Taiping was still thinking, when he saw Wang Peng running over, he was stunned when he saw Zhang Taiping standing naked behind the window, and asked in surprise: "Aren't you cold, big brother?" ”
He shook his head and said, "It's not cold." ”
Wang Peng took a breath and said incredulously: "Big brother is so powerful, I feel cold and panicked when I wear such a thick one." ”
Zhang Taiping looked at Wang Peng's dress, he did wear a lot, inside was a hand-knitted sweater, and a coarse cotton jacket was put on the outside, a pair of cotton gloves were worn on his hands, and woolen earmuffs were worn on his ears to go around his chin and protect his chin.
Zhang Taiping didn't dwell on this topic anymore and asked, "What's the matter with coming early in the morning?" ”
Wang Peng then remembered that there was something else to do, and hurriedly said: "Big brother, catch the rabbit and go, the old man Qian is also there, let me come and call you, will the eldest brother go?" ”
Zhang Taiping was not in a hurry when he thought about brewing wine, so he said: "You wait for a while, I'll clean up." After closing the window, he returned to the kang and put on his clothes, and said to Cai Yazhi, "I'm going to catch rabbits with Wang Pengqian, old man and others, the time is uncertain, you don't have to wait when it's time to eat, you can eat when you're so hungry." ”
After cleaning up a little, he was just about to leave, the door of the wing room creaked open, and Fan Ming, who was neatly dressed, saw Zhang Taiping holding a fork and was about to go out, so he asked anxiously, "Where is Brother Zhang going?" ”
"After the heavy snowfall, it's a good time to catch rabbits and pheasants."
"Ah, hunting, wait for me." As he spoke, he ran in and changed into a pair of shoes and came out, washed up several times faster than the storyteller, put on a mink hat, and put his little hands in a pair of plush and warm gloves, and a rope was attached to the two gloves and hung around his neck.
When she went out, Fan Ming went into the bedroom again and said to Cai Yazhi, who was dressing, "Sister Cai, I went out hunting with Brother Zhang. ”
Under the leadership of Wang Peng, there were still a lot of people, Old Man Qian, Wang Gui, Wang Laogun, and a young man, plus Wang Peng and Zhang Taiping, a total of six men, as well as Fan Ming and the inseparable Xing Rushui.
"Haha, I said, Dashuai will definitely come." Old man Qian saw Zhang Taiping's figure and smiled heartily.
Several people didn't have a shotgun in their hands, and they just wanted Zhang Taiping to hold a steel fork like this. When the snow first clears, the main purpose of going out is not pure hunting, but to walk around the snow and feel the scenery after the snow.
Zhang Taiping brought out Ah Huang and the lion. Ah Huang is okay, in the end, he is a dog who has experienced big storms, he is much more mature and stable, and he continues to leave his mark along the way. Relatively speaking, the lion is a little excited and lively, jumping around the left and right of the crowd and spreading joy. After the death of Old Man Qian's sunspot, he picked a big dog again, but it was only a little over a month and he was just a puppy baby, so he didn't take a dog today. However, Wang Lao Gun brought a thin dog to hunt dog breeds with a hand. Wang Gui also brought out his little black dog. The two dogs didn't dare to approach Ah Huang anymore, and now they can still play with the lion, as for what will happen when the lion grows up, I don't know.
The snow was more than a foot thick, and no one's knees could be buried in uneven places. Everyone walked slowly in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and Old Man Qian stepped on the thick snow and couldn't help but say happily: "Ruixue Zhaofeng year, it seems that next year's city will not be wrong." ”
In the year of Ruixue Zhaofeng, the experience and conclusions summed up by farmers over the years still have some truth. This winter, the snow is thick, which can not only freeze most of the pests and diseases, but also have the effect of heat preservation. After the snow melts, it is water, and this water will not evaporate all at once or be waterlogged in the ground all at once, but will keep the land moist for a long time with a freeze and disappear without excessively. It will not evaporate until the next year's thaw, and the moisture is sufficient, enough for the wheat to survive the period when it needs the most water, so there is no absolute guarantee that there will be no more drought in the harvest year, which is called Ruixue.
After so many years of reform and opening up, the people in the village are not open enough to let go of the grain they have received recently. Although it is no longer the idea of two acres of land, a cow, and a hot kang head for wives and children, but after all, you must have food in your hands to feel at ease.
It was the old man who said that it was the year of Ruixue Zhaofeng first, rather than considering what impact such heavy snow would have on fruit trees, and whether it would affect the flowering and fruiting of the following year. The others nodded, and the dreams of most of the peasants in the village were buried under the thick white snow, not on the branches that could not sit on the snow.
Zhang Taiping does not agree with this kind of focus on how to harvest grain, but he did not speak at this time, some things can not be said to change people's concepts, and it is necessary to come up with really powerful achievements and proofs, so what is needed is to do, relying on hands rather than just moving the mouth plums.
After walking for a while, Fan Ming asked, "Uncle Qian, don't you want to enter the mountain today?" ”
Old man Qian said with a smile: "I don't go into the mountains today, I just come out and go around, and catch a few rabbits and pheasants by the way, I don't need to go to the mountains, just on a slightly higher dirt slope." A few steps further to get there. ”
Snow-ridden mountains, especially those with heavy snowfall, are the most difficult to walk. The snow is heavy, and when the wind blows down to the low-lying places, it is possible to fill in the pit or steps that are meters deep, and it looks flat and flat with a thick snow-white snow cover that you can't see anything.
There was an experienced old man Qian in front of him, and there were no major problems in everyone, but small problems continued. Fan Ming once followed Zhang Taiping, because she didn't step on Zhang Taiping's footprints, she stepped into a shallow pit, and the gap between the estimated and the actual one scared her and threw herself on the snow, not injured, but startled. Next, I walked step by step on Zhang Taiping's footprints, and I didn't dare to walk indiscriminately, it looked like a flat needle was no different, who knew whether it was flat or pitted below.
On a small dirt slope and in front of a forest, Old Man Qian waved his hand and said, "Here it is." ”
Everyone stopped, but Fan Ming asked, "Uncle Qian, is there a rabbit here?" ”
"Of course, you look at the ground." Old man Qian said with a little smugness.
Fan Ming looked down at the surrounding snow, in addition to the plum blossom footprints left by everyone and the four dogs, there were many deep pit and three-pronged footprints thick as bamboo, so she shouted in surprise: "Are these the footprints of rabbits and pheasants?" ”
"Yes, you see the footprints here are messy, and they are converging here in all directions, so there must be quite a few rabbits and pheasants here."
Fan Ming saw that it was indeed the case.
Old man Qian said, "Let's catch a few wild ones first." Then signaled to everyone to silence, Fan Ming quickly covered the mouth she just wanted to speak.
I saw the old man Qian go to the forest alone, take out a handful of wheat from his pocket and sprinkle it on a snow with the most chicken paw prints and messy mouths, which should be the place where pheasants are most active. It seems that Old Man Qian was still a little prepared when he came, but there was no medicine or threading on the wheat, and it was not soaked in wine, it was just simple wheat grains.
After the old man Qian finished scattering the wheat grains, he retreated back along the same road, Fan Ming didn't understand how to catch pheasants like this, and just wanted to ask, Old Man Qian signaled to wait patiently for a while, so he couldn't help but didn't ask, and waited patiently how to catch pheasants without any props.