Chapter 79: Dark River Turtle
After the snow stops, the price of grain will rise sharply, and the family can't sit back and eat nothing, so Yingle plans to go out to the mountain to buy some grain and come back, whether it is to sow seeds or keep them for their own home.
Crescent Moon Peak is located in the depths of Baihu Mountain, if you return along the same road every time, it is very inconvenient to go out of the mountain to buy goods, and if you go out by sea, it will be much more convenient. From the first day she lived in the canyon cave, Yingle had been planning this in her heart, but she had been entangled in all kinds of trivial matters and failed to put it into action. Entering the cave today and seeing this underground river, Yingle had the same idea in his heart again.
The man who spoils his little sister as his own sister, after hearing this, naturally he will not object. To tell the truth, what is at the end of the dark river, his curiosity is no less than that of Le'er. Yun Chuche, who had obtained the 10,000-year-old chalcedony liquid, was in a good mood and swelled, and sat back on the back of the white tiger at the moment, ready to set off immediately.
Huang Hu glanced at the man sitting on the big white back, and roared at the river flowing into the distance, "Roar!" ”
Obviously, Rhubarb didn't say anything, but Yun Chuche felt that he had just been disgusted, and suddenly there was a sound of rushing water, and the man looked into the river, only to see an old turtle with a grinding plate floating out of the water and swimming towards them.
"Senior sister, the Divine Turtle, there is actually a Divine Turtle here." Without waiting for Yun Chuche to finish expressing his excitement, he saw the yellow tiger's front paws stretched out and beckoned to the old turtle swimming in the river, as if an old friend was reunited and greeting him cordially.
With a slight touch of his toes, Yingle floated on the turtle's back, "Senior brother, let's go!" ”
Before the girl's words fell, Yun Chuche flew to the back of the turtle and touched his nose embarrassedly, is he too tendonous, and even wants the tiger to swim out of the dark river.
After the two of them stood up, the turtle swam to the far side of the dark river, all over the banks of various forms of stalactites, and Rhubarb and Dabai climbed over the rock wall and walked forward, always following closely by their master's side.
The long hair of Yingle blown by the sea breeze flew, the veil covering the face floated with the wind, revealing a large area of blue and black birthmarks on the face, the salty smell of the sea water at the end of the nose became stronger and stronger, and the light in front of him gradually became brighter, the turtle continued to speed up, and a piece of blue water suddenly appeared in the field of vision, and finally they came out of the cave.
The blue sky, the endless sea, the warm golden sun, there is no snow here, it is completely the appearance of the subtropical climate, Yingle is deeply jealous.
There was not a single piece of land as far as the eye could see, not even a small island in her sight, and there were blue waters everywhere, as if they were in a water world.
"Senior sister, this place should belong to the southern Luopingzhou sea, if there is a boat, we can go to that city and go around." The tiger carried them all the way to the south, and did not change direction halfway, so Yun Chuche had a rough guess.
There is nothing wrong with living in the mountains, but it is too far away from the crowd, and after a long time, it is inevitable that you will feel bored and want to go to a crowded place.
Estimating that his little sister is not very old, it is normal for him to be unable to bear the loneliness of the mountain dwelling, Yun Chuche was thinking in his heart, how to get a boat to come back, and take the junior sister's family to the outside world occasionally.
"Senior brother, let's go back." There is not even a small beach except water or water, and even if there are boats passing by, they will not choose to dock in such a place, and their brains are running at high speed, thinking about their own thoughts, and the more Yingle thinks about it, the happier he becomes.
The way back was faster than when they came, and in an hour or so, Yingle and Yun Chuche were already standing in the Crescent Peak Canyon, looking at the ice that had been dug out by the stream, Yingle was back to business.
"Senior sister, do you want to continue digging the ice?" Seeing the neatly stacked ice cubes before, Yun Chuche thought about the ice cellar again, and planned to find a ready-made cave near the Crescent Moon Peak to store ice, but who knew that the two tigers actually led them to open the door to the new world.
"Senior brother, Le'er has thought about it, if the ice cellar is built too far, it is extremely inconvenient to use ice cubes in summer."
In the end, the two brothers and sisters discussed, and decided to dig an ice cellar in the Crescent Peak Canyon, the cave where they live now is several football fields the size, the place is enough for a family to live, and it is not a problem to build an ice cellar at all.
Bao Tai and Ying Xiao, who woke up from a nap in the cave, heard the sound of talking outside, and ran out, and Yinwen chased after them to wrap the two little ones in cotton clothes.
"Sister, sister," the two laughed and threw themselves into Yingle's arms, leaving a few clear footprints on the snow behind them, "Let's go outside to catch birds and sparrows, okay?" ”
Ai Lian rubbed the foreheads of the two little guys, Yingle instructed Yinwen to take people to the cave where he warmed up, and ran out of the snow as soon as he woke up, what should he do if he caught the wind and cold.
In this way, day and night alternated, and before I knew it, another three days had passed, and the cellar where the ice was stored in the cave was dug. Because the temperature is as low as possible to store ice, the innermost part of the cave was deliberately selected as the location for digging the ice cellar.
This place is adjacent to the bluestone slabs dripping from the mountain spring, near the labyrinth fork, and is far away from the area where the Yingle family lives.
It's cool and damp, and when you get closer, you feel cool immediately, the spring water flowing down the rock wall merges into a small stream, and the fork through the maze is another exit from the cave, just standing here, Yingle can already feel how cold the cold wind is blowing outside.
Fortunately, the cave was tortuous, with a large hole inside and a small hole, and another cave next to the entrance of the cave, no matter how cold the wind was, it could not blow the area where the family lived now.
In order to preserve the ice to a greater extent, Yingle deliberately shoveled snow to make snow bricks, and built a small snow house in the ice cellar, while Yun Chuche chiseled ice into the ice cellar every day.
Seeing that the senior brother was working hard to transport the ice, Yingle began to ponder the matter of artificial ice making in his heart, but that kind of ancient ice making technique required saltpeter, so he couldn't come in a hurry.
On this day, he took his younger brothers and sisters to make a lot of snow bricks, and the eldest brother who finished transporting the ice cubes helped send the snow bricks into the ice cellar.
Unfold the letter and read it at a glance, the girl's eyebrows were tightened, the letter was still written by Uncle Kui Tuo Jinxi, the imperial army actually defeated the Red Turban Army, and drove all the rebel troops out of Qingchengzhou, Luhe Village returned to calm again, and many of the villagers who had taken refuge in Cuiyan Mountain left the simple wooden houses they lived in and moved back to the village to live.
Most of the villagers are crammed into a dilapidated wooden hut with their whole family, which is not enough to withstand the cold brought by the heavy snow.