"Are you all here?" Wei Changhe's house was crowded with people. Early this morning, Changhe Niang woke up Xiao Changhe, wrapped him in a thick cotton jacket, put on a big felt hat, and covered most of Xiao Changhe's face. Changhe Niang and Changhe Daddy's eyes were red, obviously staying up all night.

Changhe's father beckoned people in the house to call names, "Look around you, are all the people here?" ”

"Changhe Dad, everyone is here, there are 37 people in this village, big and small, all here." The third uncle took a small notebook and said, "This is the population list of the whole village, thirty-seven people, one and a lot of them are all on top, and this will be handed over to you for safekeeping." ”

"Okay." Changhe's father didn't shirk and took it and put it in his arms, "Let's go, while the snow is relatively small now, let's set off quickly." After going out, Changhe Dad arranged for a few young and strong young men to walk in front to explore the way, the old people, women, and children were all arranged on the horses in the middle, and old hunters were arranged around them, holding shotguns and leading hounds to protect everyone.

"Let's go!" With the roar of Changhe Daddy, he pierced this covered world, and this roar passed through the mountains, through the sky, and resounded in this ruthless land of Shenzhou, this roar stinged all those who still had a conscience and woke up the sleeping people. It was this roar that made the will not to yield to the heavens stand straight in the middle of the heavens and the earth.

The old and young masters of the thirty-seven family braved the wind and snow, walked one step and looked at three steps blindly, and did not (mo four sounds) the snow on their calves, so that people couldn't even take a step.

"Zhihe." Sitting on the horse and swaying is Wei Changhe's fifth aunt, her husband died early, she has no children and no daughters, Wei Zhihe, who took care of Wei Changhe's father when she was a child, is now old, and Wei Zhihe takes care of her.

"Hey, fifth aunt." Wei Zhihe walked a few quick steps in the snow with difficulty, and caught up with the horse, "Is there something wrong?" ”

"How long will it take?" The fifth aunt asked Wei Zhihe dozens of times along the way, and every time she saw the old man swaying by the wind on the horse, Wei Zhihe was also distressed......

"Soon, soon, Aunt Five, you are waiting patiently." Wei Zhihe persuaded the fifth aunt like this, in fact, he also knew in his heart that if the heavy snow closed the mountain to find a safe way down the mountain, there was still a long, long way to go, and he might never be able to get out.

The day was hard to spend in the erosion of wind and snow.

"Zhihe, this snow is too thick, there is no place for our tent." The third uncle unloaded the tent from his horse, but the wind was heavy and the snow was thick, and there was no way to nail it to the ground.

"Dig!"

"Digging?"

"Yes, clear all the snow out of this place, so that we can get out of our tents and the horses can rest well."

"This ......"

"There's no time, wait a little while and it'll get dark, we'll be even more dangerous." Wei Zhihe's worries are not unreasonable, the snow has been falling for more than a week, and the beasts in the mountains have not eaten for more than a week, if they don't defend early, all the people here will die.

This group of thirty-seven people, except for the old man and those who really couldn't move, were all busy, for their first camp on the way out of the mountain.

In the wind and snow, they worked hard to dig their lives with their frozen hands, and kept moving their numb bodies to find their glimmers of life.

Under the continuous erosion of the wind and snow, their humble camp was finally set up, with the elderly, women and children living in one large tent, and the men living in three tents, guarding their relatives who had to be guarded for the rest of their lives. A bonfire was lit outside the tent to expel the beasts.

"Zhihe, are the horses arranged?" On duty tonight are the third uncle of Changhe, Uncle Li and Wei Zhihe.

"It's all done, it's all tied up outside the tent." Wei Zhihe took a piece of dry food handed over by Uncle Li, "I'll go see them." ”

Wei Zhihe walked into the tent in the middle, and they were all eating dry food.

"Tired or not?" Wei Zhihe touched his son's head, and these children suffered a lot along the way.

"I'm not tired, Dad." Xiao Changhe was still biting dry food in his mouth, and his eyes were staring at Wei Zhihe's hand from time to time, obviously his own things were not enough. Zhihe gave Changhe a few pieces of dry food powder, but was stopped by the child's mother.

"It's all given to him, what do you eat?" Wei Zhihe also gave some to his daughter-in-law.

"It's okay, I'm not hungry. Did the fifth aunt sleep? ”

"I just fell asleep and didn't eat a bite. The old lady is indeed tired today. The child stuffed the dry food into Wei Zhihe's hand again, "You eat, you have to keep vigil tonight." ”

"Let you two suffer with me." Wei Zhihe sighed.

"We are husband and wife, where you go, we have to follow." Marrying such a reasonable daughter-in-law, what are the requirements in this life.

"Take care of the fifth aunt, if something calls me, I'll be outside."

"Hey, be careful yourself." Changhe Niang didn't say anything, and silently ate her dry food. Wei Changhe agreed, and went out.

"They're all asleep?" The third uncle asked.

"Hmm." Wei Zhihe sat by the fire and nibbled on dry food, and the firelight reflected Wei Zhihe's swarthy face red. A man as strong as a man, his eyes were tired.

"How many miles have you walked today?"

"It's more than forty miles." Wei Zhihe estimated in his heart, "It will take more than 200 miles to reach the village with people at the bottom of the mountain, and at this rate, it will be about the same in five days." ”

"It's slower." The third uncle said.

"No way. We brought so many things, as well as old people and children, and besides, the weather was so thick, and we could walk more than 40 miles a day, which was already very good. ”

"As long as it's safe, it's okay to slow down."

"I hope so." None of the three of them spoke, just there, nibbling on dry food with boiling water.

"Come, let's have two sips to warm up." The third uncle took out a gourd from his backpack, "This is what I bought last month when I went to the bottom of the mountain to sell mountain goods, and there is only so much left, I was going to go there in the past two days, but I didn't expect this to happen." ”

"It's still the third brother who is thoughtful." Uncle Li sniffed the cork, "The wine is good." ”

"It's better to drink less, there's still a long way to go." Although Wei Zhihe said this, he also took a sip of the wine gourd.

"Zhihe, do you think we can get out of the city?" The third uncle asked.

"Yes, surely." Wei Zhihe stuffed the stopper into the gourd again, and looked into the distance, but he couldn't see anything, only the snowflakes in the sky with the wind raging in the mountains.

(I'm coding words today, and suddenly my paws cramped, and I want to die of pain, and I almost hurt the cat's claws, and it took me half a day to recover my strength.) Codeword: It's a lot of work. Let's collect it for the sake of the kitten's paw cramps)