Chapter 98: Winter
The sun is shining.
In the yard of Willy's house, next to Wally's bear den, there is an additional wooden nest, and two layers of barbed wire are hung outside the nest.
This is the new home of the medicine rat, and Willy orders Arden to set up a nest for the two little ones.
Fearing that the two medicine rats would dig a hole in the hut and escape, Arden hung two more layers of barbed wire from the outside. It's just that the craftsmanship is too poor, and it seems that the new nest of the earth medicine rat looks like a tattered steel wool ball.
"These two little things are too ugly too. ”
Through the window of the nest, Vilia saw two medicine rats scurrying in it restlessly, and the female medicine rat was better, because she was pregnant, she only scurried around the corner twice, and then barked twice. As for the male, the earth rat kept jumping and tried to jump out of the window of the wooden hole, but because the hole was too small, every time it stuck its head, it had to push the plank with its short forelimbs to fall back into the nest.
"It's ugly, but it's useful. ”
Willy crouched aside, also looking at the two little ones.
After looking at it for a while, he turned to Wally, who was napping in the courtyard, and shouted, "Wally, bring the basket with the herbs." ”
Willy gestured to the basket in the corner of the room.
These were all collected by Willy after entering the forest, and because they were not of much value, they were dried and kept at home.
Although these herbs are not a good thing, the medicinal properties and nutrients contained in them can fully meet the food consumption of local medicine rats. After eating these things, the soil medicine rat will quickly decompose and catalyze and pull out the best fertilizer.
Wally heard Willy's order, and with a sharp ear in his drooping ears, he quickly carried the basket to Willy's feet.
"Vilia, see how I feed them, and you can feed them like I do. ”
Willy said to Velia as he reached into the nest of the earth medicine rat.
"No! I don't want to feed these two ugly things!"
Velia looked disgusted, and then expressed strong protest.
Willy ignored Velia's protests: "I'll pay you a salary, one copper ram a day." ”
"It's just a tonler?"
Vilia is no longer the little girl in the difficult family before, and now with the improvement of the family environment, her threshold for shock about money has also been raised unconsciously.
"At least five Tongram!"
Vilia raised the price five times, although she didn't want to raise these two ugly things, but for the sake of money, she could still think about it. After all, his father and mother always used their age as an excuse and never gave themselves pocket money.
"A tonram. ”
Willy continued to feed the herbs, his face unchanged.
Vilia furrowed her brows and gritted her teeth: "Three copper rums." ”
"One. ”
Vailli was unmoved.
Vilia clenched her little fists, her little brows twisted together, and she seemed to have made a lot of determination, before she gritted her teeth and said: "Two, at least two Tongram, otherwise don't want me to be a coolie." ”
"Deal!"
As soon as Velia finished speaking, she saw Willy looking at her with a smile on her face.
Velia suddenly felt angry, and as soon as she saw Willy smile and show her teeth, she knew that she was being tricked.
However, although she was a little depressed, thinking of the income of two tongrams a day, Vilia also admitted it.
"Two tongrams a day, that's sixty tongrams a month......"
Thinking of this, Vilia suddenly grinned, the little friends in the tunzi have never seen such a huge amount of money.
After teaching Vilia how to feed the medicine rats and the amount of food, Willy became the shopkeeper.
He didn't have that much time to waste on trivial matters, and more time should be spent practicing the Frost Knight Breathing Method.
Just as he was about to go around to the backyard, Willy suddenly watched Lake hurry back from the outside, looking helpless.
According to Lake's diligence, at this point in time, he should be patrolling around Fandoutun, why did he come back so early.
"What's wrong, father?"
Willy asked casually.
Lake sighed, then shook his head, "I'm going to go to Diamond Town and buy some farming tools back." ”
"The big guys are working harder, but the quality of the farm tools I bought before is too poor, and it has only been more than a month, and it has been damaged and not easy to use. I really miss the time when I was in Xiangguo Village, and Ubi alone could solve the needs of the entire village's farm tools. ”
Lake muttered to Willy, "It would be nice to get Whoopi to Fandoutun, but that guy wouldn't agree." ”
Lake's face was full of regret.
Willy sniffled, "Good work, father." ”
This kind of thing is a small problem in his eyes, but for Lake, who is full of Fandoutun, as long as he encounters even the slightest problem in the construction of Fandoutun, it cannot be tolerated.
After a brief exchange, Willy went to the backyard and continued to practice the Frost Knight Breathing Method.
At present, his progress is still maintained at about 70 percent, and the further he goes, the more difficult it is to practice.
However, because there is nothing urgent, Valey's mentality is relatively peaceful.
He deliberately controlled his breathing and began to combine it with combos.
......
The days in Fandoutun passed quickly, and nearly half a month passed in a blink of an eye.
This winter is getting colder and colder, the early winter has just passed, and it has not yet entered the deep winter, even so, the people have been wrapped in thick cotton clothes, especially the children, who have passed several layers on their bodies, and they look like a ball from a distance.
These clothes are very tattered, and most of them are cut and re-sewn from the torn clothes worn by the adults in the family.
In this kind of weather, even Willy will feel cold in a single coat, and he must add a coat to it.
"This winter, it's even more difficult than I imagined......"
Willy glanced up at the horizon in the distance, it was dark and the clouds were heavy, and it should be snowing soon.
Although the started snow root and carrot beans planted in Pandoutun are crops that are not afraid of cold, there is a limit to this. If it reaches -15 degrees or even lower, the star-spotted snow root and the carrot will stop growing.
"Looks like we're going to have to figure something out......"
While walking around Fandoutun, Willy thought about countermeasures.
As he first arrived at the Tunkou, Willy suddenly heard the voices of the people driving away and a man's pleading.
He was about to go ahead to see what was going on, when he saw Arden trotting all the way over.
"What's going on?"
Willy asked Arden.
At this time, Arden was wrapped in cotton clothes that had been mended many times, his face was red from the cold, and he even had chilblains, and he explained tremblingly: "A homeless person with a child wants Fandoutun to take him in......"
Take in?
Willy raised an eyebrow.