The snow fell all afternoon, and in the evening there was no sign of stopping. At this time, even Yan Xiding, who was young and playful, also realized that something was wrong. The snow outside the house was more than two feet deep, and in some low-lying places, it was even three or four feet deep. Some of the dead trees were crushed to pieces because they could not withstand the pressure of the snow. Even some of the old houses in the village have collapsed the wooden beams of the roof.

The backyard of Lu Yu's house was snow-white and flat, and the pool was also covered by thick snow, and people who didn't know would not know that there was a pond there.

Lu Yu stood at the door, watching the dense snowflakes fall one after another, and he was very worried. Heavy snow covers the mountains, hunting is definitely not possible, and as for chopping wood, it will definitely be very inconvenient.

When he went to bed at night, Lu Yu surrounded a small fire pit in the two rooms where the Yan family lived for four, lit charcoal in it, and told them to open the windows a little before going to bed. Lu Yu sleeps by himself, so he doesn't need to make a fire.

By the next morning, the snow had stopped, but it was still overcast, and there was a fear that it would fall again.

I don't know how deep and thick the snow outside the house is, and Yan Xi'an's sister and brother have lost their interest in playing in the snow. In other families in the village, few people go out.

Despite the snow being so thick, Lu Yu still had to go up the mountain to chop firewood, and he was worried that Lu Ming's family would run off firewood.

The snow was too thick, and it was almost impossible for ordinary people to walk an inch when they went out, and when they were chopping wood, Yan Xi'an and his sister and brother didn't want to follow anymore. Lu Yu took the flat rope and brought the kitchen knife into Yangshan. Because of the heavy snow, he didn't care whether the trees were dead or alive, he cut them down when he saw them, and in this way, he cut them a little faster than usual.

In the morning, Lu Yu cut five loads of firewood that was not very dry, had lunch, and planned to send two loads of firewood to the town in the afternoon. Lu Yu can pick up two loads of firewood, but it is really difficult to walk on these seven or eight miles of deep snow road. Lu Yu came up with an idea, removed the two door panels in the house, put firewood on the door panel, and stepped on a skateboard and dragged the door panel forward.

Before going out, Lu Yu fished out a few more sauerkraut and a few radishes taken out of the snow and put them on the pyre.

When he arrived in the town, Lu Yu found that there were still people on the street. It's just that these people are lying on their backs, walking on both sides of the street in the snow, looking half-dead.

When these people saw Lu Yu, they all gathered around.

They came to "ask" for firewood and vegetables on Lu Yu's door panel, these are poor people living in the town, the weather is too cold, and the town is some distance from Yangshan, these people may have come out to find something to keep warm. Lu Yu had already discovered that the door panels of many shops were missing.

These people surrounded Lu Yu and pleaded in a low voice to let Lu Yu give them the things.

Lu Yu was a little embarrassed, because the other party was not a robber, and he had no way to drive them away.

One man said, "Okay, everything I can burn in my house is burned, I'm so cold." Lu Yu didn't believe his words, it had only been snowing for two days, could it be that there were no tables and chairs in their house?

"My son is sick, it's a frozen disease, you can help me." Lu Yu thought to himself, your son is sick, am I going to give you something? There is no such reason.

Almost all the people surrounding Lu Yu were men, the only middle-aged woman, her lips moved and said, "Big brother, you are kind, I don't want firewood, it's okay to divide a few radishes, my family is hungry." ”

If there were only one or two people surrounding Lu Yu, he would be soft-hearted for a while, and he might give them a part of the things. But the problem is that there are too many people, and the little thing they bring is completely insufficient. So Lu Yu decided not to give them a single stick.

Lu Yu asked them to get out of the way, but no one got out of the way, but instead took a few steps closer to Lu Yu.

In desperation, Lu Yu let out a loud roar, and the roar was mixed with some cultivated mana, so the sound was very loud, and it spread far away, and even shook down a lot of snow on the rooftops and treetops. And the group of ordinary people in front of them couldn't resist the little coercion released by Lu Yu, and they fell to the ground one after another.

Lu Yu took the opportunity to rush over quickly.

When he arrived at Lu Ming's house, he unloaded the firewood and sauerkraut radish, and Lu Yu went back, it was still early, he wanted to chop a few more loads of firewood, and start burning charcoal tonight.

When he went back and passed through the streets of the town, Lu Yu found that the few people who were shocked by him had already gotten up, and Lu Yu had no intention of hurting them. And when these people saw Lu Yu again, there was a lot more fear in their eyes.

When he got home, Lu Yu carried a kitchen knife again, went up the mountain with a kitchen knife rope, and chopped back five loads of firewood before dark. Of course, it is better to use dry firewood for charcoal burning, but if it is not dry, wet firewood can also be improvised, just simmer for a longer time.

At night, Lu Yu piled the firewood tightly into the charcoal cellar, lit a fire, sealed the cellar mouth with adobe mud, and then left it alone.

There are many disadvantages to snow, but there are also some advantages, Lu Yu believes that no robber is so stupid as to brave the snow to enter the village to rob. As for the wild beasts in the mountains, it is possible that they could not find food because of the heavy snowfall.

This snow has made the weather even colder, even colder than the same period last year. The snow didn't fall again, but it didn't melt either, but it was frozen like a mirror, shiny and slippery, hard. Yan Xiding slipped on the ice a few times, but fortunately, he was wearing thick clothes, and he was not injured when he fell heavily on the ground.

At dinner that day, Yan Xiding suddenly said that he wanted to eat mutton hot pot. Lu Yu rarely eats hot pot, it seems that he has eaten it once or twice in the past, he used to burn a small copper pot with a charcoal stove, and fresh fish and radishes were cooked in the pot, as for mutton, Lu Yu had never eaten it.

Lu Yu said that next spring, he can buy some lambs and come back to put them. Cattle and sheep are good things, and they only need to eat grass to provide meat and milk for humans.

Yan Xi agreed with Lu Yu's decision, saying that he could help herd the sheep.

Lu Yu smiled, thinking to himself that if the year turned good next year, the four members of the Yan family would definitely not stay in Yangshan Village for a long time. Of course, no matter what, Lu Yu hopes that next year will be normal, and there will be no more continuous natural disasters.

In December, the last heavy snowfall has not yet melted, and black and dirty snow can be seen everywhere in Yangshan Village, and Yangshan Mountain is covered with snow.

Because of this cold wave, many people do not have enough firewood at home to keep warm, so after the heavy snowfall, people go up the mountain every day to cut firewood, and this piece of mountain forest near Yangshan Village is about to be cut bald.

It's been a long time since anyone found any trace of the dragon crocodile, and everyone was much more relieved, feeling that the weather was too cold, and the dragon crocodile should not come out of the mountain again.

In fact, it is also possible to hunt in winter, and in the far north, some tribes of hunters will rest in spring and summer, and only go into the mountains to hunt in autumn and winter. Spring and summer are the seasons when everything grows, and the animals in the mountains will also reproduce and grow during these two seasons, and autumn and winter are the time when they are at their strongest.

But Yangshan Village is not the north, and the hunters here have no equipment to hunt in the mountains in winter, no fur, no sled snow dogs, and more importantly, no experience.

But Lu Yu is different, he doesn't need leather clothes and fur, he doesn't need sleds, he can come and go freely in the mountains and forests. Early this morning, Lu Yu put on the crocodile leather boots made by Mrs. Yan, put on a fur hat, and then carried a kitchen knife and cloth bag, and went into the mountains and forests alone. Lu Yu hopes to hunt muntjac or wild goats today, these beasts are better used for hot pot. If not, Lu Yu will go to the mountain stream to catch a few fish, and the fish can also be used for hot pot. The most unsuitable meat for cooking hot pot is pork, pork is easy to rot into a paste after cooking for a long time, and it can't be eaten if it is not cooked for enough time, and it will have diarrhea after eating.

There were many people chopping firewood on the edge of Yangshan, but a little further inside, it became quiet.

Because of the trees, although the snow has passed for more than half a month, the forest floor is still covered with snow, and occasionally you can see the footprints left by a few animals when they pass by on the snow.

After hunting for a long time, Lu Yu can already recognize the footprints of many animals. The footprints of muntjac deer and goats are somewhat similar, like crescent moons; The pheasant footprints are the most recognizable, like bamboo leaves; As for the footprints of the wild boar, there is a semicircle on the left and right, which together resembles the shape of a pair of scissors.

Lu Yu followed a crescent-shaped footprint, walked for a long time, and came to a place he had never been before. As mentioned earlier, Yangshan Mountain is very large, stretching for thousands and hundreds of miles, although Lu Yu is deeper than the people in the village, but the farthest is only more than 100 miles deep. For this entire mountain range, more than 100 li can only be regarded as the epidermis of the mountain range at most, and there are muscles under the epidermis, and there are internal organs in the muscles......

In short, Yangshan is very large and wide, and the more places you go, the more you feel that this mountain forest is vast. Lu Yu didn't know how far he had walked that day, he walked through the woods and walked to the bottom of a small hill. There was no snow on the hillside, and a few goats and elk were gnawing on the dead grass on the slope.

Lu Yu has always felt that grass-eating animals are stupider than meat-eating animals, and these animals are not afraid when they see Lu Yu, and they don't know how to escape.

Lu Yu went up the hillside and found that the slope was warmer than other places, probably because of the geothermal heat below the soil layer of the hillside.

Choosing the fattest wild goat, Lu Yu walked over and slapped it on the sheep's head, and the unlucky goat didn't have time to bleat, so he fell to the ground with a bang. The rest of the goats and muntjac deer all glanced up at Lu Yu, and then lowered their heads to graze.

"I didn't think it would be so easy to hunt today." Lu Yu was very happy, and ran back with the goat on his shoulder.

At this time, it was not early, and Lu Yu no longer had to follow the footprints of the animals, so he simply jumped onto the tree and jumped in the direction of Yangshan Village. In this way, the speed of going back is much faster, and Lu Yu will not get lost, so when it is almost dark, he finally arrives home.

Eat mutton hot pot in the evening.