Chapter 693: The Southerner Who Saw Snow for the First Time
The north wind was howling, the clouds were thick, and when you looked up, the surroundings were gray and gloomy.
The bare and lifeless mountains and earth, coupled with such celestial phenomena, do not need the wind to pour into the neck, it already makes people feel very cold.
After this weather lasted for a while, the snow mixed with the wind had already fallen from the sky and jumped around on the ground amid the cheers of the minors.
After a while, the snow turns into snowflakes that flutter in the wind.
The heavy snow falls, announcing that the winter of the Year of the Blue Sparrow has arrived, and the year is coming to an end, but also announcing that many things can not be done, whether it is a tribe that is ready for the arrival of winter or not, must meet the strong winter with a variety of different attitudes.
A newly raised earthen wall on the periphery of the Qingque tribe looks majestic.
After a year's hard work by the tribesmen, the outer wall was basically completed.
Senior Brother and the others, standing in the wind and snow, looked at the gap of about 20 meters in the easternmost part with regret.
In another seven or eight days, the last of these repairs will be completed, and it will be snowing at this time.
Once the snow falls, it will be necessary to wait until next spring to build the gap.
Looking at the not-so-long gap, many people in the tribe felt uncomfortable the more they looked at it.
If it weren't for the fact that the wall that had been built in such weather was not very strong, someone would have braved the snow to build it and plug this last gap.
This is really an existence that can force OCD to death.
Fortunately, Han Cheng himself did not have this excellent quality, so he was able to look at some people such as the elder brother who was scratching his ears and cheeks who were tormented by this gap in a relatively relaxed mood.
It was snowing, and these people in the tribe were finally able to relax completely.
Han Cheng decided to give the tribesmen a longer vacation, so that everyone could have a good rest, and then start doing some work that could be done in the winter.
For example, mining stones to transport to the tribe, such as burning previously cut and dried branches into charcoal.
Mining and transporting the stones had to be carried out, because the wall was almost finished, and the next year, when the gap was completed after the spring ploughing, the houses could be built.
At this time, it is easier to mine more stones while you are more idle, and it will be easier to transport the stones in the coming year, and there are plows after the snowfall.
This is the second time that Little Pea has experienced winter, and the last time he spent it completely in swaddling clothes, so strictly speaking, this is the first time he has seen ice and snow.
The little guy who saw the snowflakes was particularly excited, and after looking up for a while, he took a step that was not too steady, slapped his palms indiscriminately, and jumped in the yard like joy.
Sometimes the snowflakes get into his neck and make him ice shrink his neck and squeeze his eyes, but that doesn't stop the little guy from scattering the flowers.
There is a little bit of the excitement that southerners have when they first see ice and snow after coming to the north.
In addition to the little peas in the courtyard, there are not a few other children who are happy, and many children laugh, jump, shout, and force the green finch tribe in winter to become a toad pit after the summer rain, and they are screaming in a hurry.
Wrapped in thick tiger skin clothes, he looked like a fantastic witch, looking at this scene in the yard, smiling and smiling.
When people are old, what they like most is to see such a scene.
The children and grandchildren are around their knees, and they are all fat and fat, no matter how you look at them, it makes people happy.
Although the heavy snow fell a little later, the Tongshan residential area to the west of the Qingque tribe was also caught in the snowflakes at this time.
On the stone wall, Senior Brother Sha, who was wrapped in a very soft fur made of nitrate, looked at the surrounding scenery with pride and regret.
His pride comes from the houses and walls they built with their own hands.
There used to be nothing here, but they built so many things here in more than half a year.
What he regrets is that because of the appearance of Meng, a defector, it has been delayed for a while, so that there is not much land reclaimed here now.
Thinking of the people who had defected to the tribe here, Senior Brother Sha's gaze turned to the top of the copper mountain, which was not too far from the courtyard, and the defector was still on it.
After several excavations, there are now two caves on the copper mountain.
One cave is very shallow, only about two meters, and the other is deeper, about seven or eight meters.
At this moment, a clanging sound came from the mine.
It was snowing heavily outside, and the light inside the mine was even darker.
A figure was now wielding the hammer in his hand in the mine, tapping the chisel in his hand again and again.
The figure was covered in filthy fur, its loose hair joined together by its haphazard beard, and the dust and dirt on its face made it almost impossible to see the skin on its face.
This man is the man who was punished as a defector who would forever mine copper in the copper mountains.
The inside of the mine is extremely dark, but for Lemon, who has lived in the mine for a long time, such darkness does not disturb him too much. Because his eyes had already adapted to this dim light.
After a while, he chiseled some ore, and after putting it in a basket, the unrecognizable lemon stopped.
He walked towards the entrance of the cave, and some snowflakes came in from the hole, landed on his palm, which was of no discernible color, and melted again.
Before, there would be people watching him outside, but now there is no one outside.
But Meng didn't have the slightest idea of escaping.
Because he didn't have any food, there was no way to survive in such weather.
Meng regrets it very much now, especially when she thinks of her life in the warm room with the fire kang at this time last year, her intestines are even more regretful.
This regret has been going on since he was digging for copper in Copper Mountain.
It turns out that after doing this kind of work that doesn't seem very heavy, it will be so torturous!
That's a lot heavier than the previous work of carrying rocks.
He needed to fill ten baskets of copper ore every day before he could rest.
These ten baskets of ore had to be filled, and this was the realization that came from him after he had been hungry twice.
Today he had filled ten baskets of ore, but after a pause here, he began to chisel ore again with a hammer and a chisel.
It's not that he's not tired, or that he wants to contribute more to the tribe, but if he stops, it's too cold......