Ding Qi arranged Ben, Moo, Zhuang and himself to take turns to keep vigil, in order to deliberately exercise Strong and Moo, so that they could gradually adapt to the special habit of keeping vigil at night, he specially arranged for the two of them to be in the first half of the night, and he and Ben in the second half of the night.

After a night without incident, the people who had rested mentally and physically got up early the next morning, cleaned up and continued to set off.

Halfway through, when he encountered a birch-like tree, Ding Qi asked everyone to scrape some white powder from the tree and apply it around their eyes to prevent their eyes from being burned by the light reflected from the snow and causing snow blindness. Ding Qi also deliberately collected some more and hid them in his backpack for later use. After several previous use tests, the effect of this powder against snow blindness is quite good.

The powder is a slippery and feels like fossil powder, but when evenly applied around the eyes, it can reflect back a portion of the light that hits the eyes, reducing or avoiding the damage caused by the reflected light from the snow.

Fortunately, due to the large amount of smoke in the sky blocking the sun, it was quite cloudy or cloudy, which reduced a large amount of the sun's rays from being reflected into the human eye, and no one in the team suffered from snow blindness for the time being. If it was a sunny day, Ding Qi did not dare to guarantee that after a long period of direct staring at the snow, no one would get snow blindness.

However, on the third night after departure, while resting, Moo reported bad news to Tinch, and one person was blind.

Ding Qi hurriedly went over to check, this was a young man, about sixteen or seventeen years old, Ding Qi was there with his eyes closed and kept shouting that his eyes hurt, he couldn't see anything, he looked very flustered, he rubbed his two eyes with his hands from time to time, and one eye still shed tears from time to time.

"Don't move! I'm Ding Qi, I'm here to help you see what the situation is, don't resist. ”

After Ding Qi finished speaking, the other party really relaxed and let him reach out to check.

Ding Qi used his thumb and forefinger to break open the other party's eyes, and saw that his eyes shrank suddenly, as if he was a little afraid of light. Ding Qi forcibly stretched him open, and saw that his eyelids were red and swollen, and the conjunctiva was congested and edema, which was particularly red.

Ding Qi asked two more questions, and the other party said that there seemed to be sand in his eyes, and he couldn't rub it out, and it was very painful, so he didn't dare to open his eyes.

After asking, Ding Qi judged that the other party had snow blindness. However, he had some doubts, and everyone had no problem, but he had snow blindness, which really shouldn't have been.

"I ask you, you have to tell the truth. Didn't you apply the kind of powder I asked you to apply? ”

After asking this sentence, I found that this person had a movement of lowering his head to dodge, as if he was a little embarrassed. Then he drooped his head and said:

"It's... Yes, Chief, I was so troublesome that I secretly wiped it off after applying it. ”

The more he talked, the lower his head became, and he almost found a crack in the snow to get into.

Knowing that this was the case, Tinch severely criticized him and asked Moo and Ben to check it again and tell everyone to apply the powder.

Knowing that it was snow blindness, Ding Qi also had a sense of powerlessness in his heart, it was not the twenty-first century, he didn't have any special medicine, he could only use some stupid methods to carry out some adjuvant treatment.

Ding Qi used a thoroughly cooled clay pot to melt snow, if it was not cool, the hot and cold would be excited, and the pot would be fried directly. After boiling half a pot of boiling water, scoop out two bowls of boiling water and put them aside to cool for later use, and put two pieces of hairless animal skins in the clay pot and continue to boil for about ten minutes for sterilization. After washing the man's eyes with two bowls of cold boiled water, he applied the disinfected animal skin to the person's eyes and tied it behind his head with a belt to prevent him from seeing the light. Tell him to rest as much as possible, avoid using his eyes until his eyes are back to normal, and if he can't walk, go and sit on the snow plow. Ding Qi didn't dare to guarantee that the other party would be fine, and whether he could return to normal could only be left to fate, depending on his creation.

Of course, there is also a treatment method without medicine under natural conditions, that is, using fresh human milk or cow's milk eye drops, the milk needs to be boiled and cooled, five or six drops each time, every five minutes, and it can recover in about a day. But there are no cows in front of them, let alone milk, and even less lactating women.

When he set off the next day, Tinch again warned everyone to rub the powder scraped off the bark.

Zhuang is very strong among the crowd, and the two deputies who pulled the cart selected for him are also tall and relatively strong people from the Yu tribe. The three of them drove the snow road in front, and the people behind them walked more easily, at least they wouldn't fall behind. The snowwalking shoes that Ding Qi taught everyone to make were very useful, and the animal skin clothes were also very warm, so everyone would stop at intervals to rest so as not to sweat too much.

Four days had passed since the time of departure, and everyone came to the place where Ding Qi and Ben met Moo, and saw the traces of the three of them camping, and Moo told everyone the story of his encounter with the leader. After hearing this story, all the people of the Yuan Yu tribe knelt down on the snow and expressed their high gratitude to Ding Qi, and everyone's loyalty to him increased again. They knew that if they hadn't met the leader here, the people of their Yuanyu tribe would disappear into this world, leaving no trace.

Subsequently, at Moo's suggestion, everyone named this hillside Hope Slope to forever commemorate the people and things that happened here.

After a brief break, the group continued on, following the signposts left by Tinch. When encountering those dangerous places, the team slows down and passes with the help of ropes. When they come to a safer open space, everyone will speed up and move forward quickly.

At noon on the fifth day, Ding Qi, who was patrolling around the team, heard some strange noises, which were made by some kind of animal, humming and chirping, and from time to time there would be a familiar long howl, like the cry of killing a pig.

Pigs, that's the sound of wild boars, including the cries of some small pigs.

Ding Qi hurriedly let the team not far away rest in place, and called Shangben, Moo, and Zhuang to lurk towards the place where the wild boar was. Recently, everyone has been eating fish, and Ding Qi feels that his mouth is about to fade out of the bird, and he really needs to supplement other meats to add some flavors.

The four of them lay on the top of the slope, slowly poking out their eyes and looking down.

Below is a relatively large forest, located in a valley where the trees are not particularly dense, so you can see what is going on at a glance.

In the woods, a total of seven or eight wild boars are in the snow below, turning over the thick snow with their long mouths and fangs on their mouths, looking for delicious food under the snow. This herd is a family consisting of a boar, a sow, and six piglets. In order to fill their stomachs, they have to go to this place buried deep in the snow with their whole family to find food.

For wild boars, finding food is not a task at all, only clearing the snow from the food. Fortunately, Daddy Pig was very strong, and he used his curved fangs to open his bow left and right, pushing the snow aside, revealing the dead grass and wild vegetables, edible vines, and plant tubers under the snow. Until you're done eating, then rummage through other places.

Seeing these little wild boars, Ding Qi had some different thoughts in his heart, he wanted to catch these little pigs back and raise them, and expand the scale of the tribe's captive animals.

To deal with these big guys with rough skin and thick flesh, ordinary arrows can no longer play a role, and maybe the side skin may not be able to be broken.

There are still four heavy arrows made by the Greystone tribe in the quiver, but these are far from iron arrows or bronze arrows, so Ding Qi wants to make metal arrows as soon as possible to increase their lethality. Ding Qi and Ben quickly assembled the bow, mounted the heavy arrow, and aimed at one of them, preparing to seriously injure the two big pigs first.

On the top of the slope, Ben and Ding Qi slowly straightened up, knelt on one leg, and aimed the arrow at the two big pigs that were shaking their heads, looking for the opportunity to launch.

Suddenly, the direction of the wind in the valley suddenly changed from a headwind to a tailwind, and the boar, who was grazing, suddenly raised his head and looked at Ding Qi. The moment it looked at it, the arrow in Tinch's hand came out of the string and went straight to the boar's neck.

Burst~

The stone arrow pierced into it, spraying a stream of blood and splattering it on the snow.

Rise~

The boar let out an angry scream, turned around and wanted to rush to the Ding Qi people at the top of the slope. But before he could take two steps, a larger stream of blood spurted out, and perhaps the arrow pierced its arteries, and the blood spurted out of its body one by one as it ran, and after two more steps, it fell to the bottom of the snow slope with four hooves and one weakness.

As for Ben's arrow, it missed, and the moment the boar was attacked, the whole herd was in chaos. Ben didn't grasp the timing like Ding Qi, and the arrow he thought was going to hit missed, scaring the already panicked sow into jumping up from the spot and running away along the way it came.

As for the little pigs, they didn't know what to do, so they only rushed to the snow nest in one direction, and they didn't run long before they were planted in the snow, and they couldn't move a single step.

Ding Qi let out a whistle and pointed at the boar, and Xiao Jin, who had been flying in the air, quickly landed next to the wild boar, and drank a few more sips of the pig's blood to replenish the water in his body. Ding Qi felt sorry for it and never let it drink cold water, especially in winter.

Mo and Zhuang next to him saw the bow and arrow for the first time, and they were all stunned, unable to describe their shocked mood at this moment in their poor words.

Artifact! Another artifact, the power is sharper and more powerful than the mountain opening knife and axe used before. Before the prey could react, it was killed by such a weapon in the distance, what a frightening and crazy thing.

It seems that following the leader was a wise decision, and the life of the tribe would be richer and more colorful in the future.

As soon as Ding Qi saw it, he hurriedly beckoned Ben to rush down the snow slope on his skis, tied the hooves of the pigs who couldn't run with ropes, and handed them over to the few clansmen who heard the news, so that they could take good care of them.

As for the boar, Zhuang had already taken the dagger that Ben had dropped to disembowel and peel it, and Moo gave him a hand, and kept discussing how to cut the knife more appropriately and not cut the skin.

Everyone was busy, and Ding Qi went to the snow nest that the boar had dug out, picked up a plant tuber and looked at it.

It doesn't matter if Ding Qi doesn't look at it, he was startled when he saw it. The tuber was white, smooth and a little thick, with many white fibers in the cross-section, and a little green leaf attached to one side.

Such a small thing made Ding Qi startled, isn't it just a piece of cabbage?

That's right, the thing in front of me that was gnawed by a wild boar is a piece of cabbage. Those delicious stems and leaves were eaten by wild boars, and this was all that was left, but it was enough for Ding Qi to recognize it.

It's a lifesaver!

In the 70s and 90s of the twentieth century, Chinese cabbage is a life-saving dish in winter, known for its high yield, rich nutrition, easy storage, and good taste, and has become a must-have dish for every household in winter.