Chapter 18: The Cold Season
In 2012, the Birdman and the old glans got their wish, not only inventing ordinary paper, but also inventing books, and the birdman copied his own story and the story of the selected old glans in the book. And let all the children copy it on paper. In order to make them proficient in all the symbols. With the popularization of symbols and the invention of books, more and more people began to like to read the stories of birdmen.
Cauliflower's son, Madara, is also a disciple of Birdman. After Cauliflower died, Uncle Cow Dung appeared like a hermit. Fortunately, Erdanzi cares about Madara. I often visit the children in the teaching house. Erdanzi is now a super piglet, and he has the most pigs in the world. The second place is the old glans, and the pigs he raises are not only obese, but also full of charm. The dwarf worked hard to support his two children, but fortunately the snail gave him a house that could move.
In the long cold season, the villagers began to eat sparingly, and when there was not enough food, they had to catch rats or pick the sour fruits of the jungle. In the cold season of this world, edible fruits are scarce. But the snail issued an order that no one should eat the seeds and fruits that had just been harvested. We will have to wait until next year, when spring comes, to plant them.
Because too many children have already been born, the world's food resources are far from enough. The men began to starve, eating only one meal a day, and the rest of the time they lay down in the hut to sleep, their stomachs rumbling and unable to sleep, and they were so hungry that they came out of the hut in search of food.
During the cold season, a lot of snow often falls on the cliffs, and sometimes the snow mounds often cover a hut. Under the heavy snow, there was a bare scene, and people lived in a hungry world all day and all night, their eyes were green with hunger, and they ate the bark and weeds of trees, and even animals. The only trace of greenery in the world where you eat is to look at the human belly, through the thin belly that lacks nutrients, you can faintly see the weed roots and green leaves in the stomach and intestines.
Nowadays, people's lives are all about living, and they use shovels to dig up shovels of dry frozen soil everywhere, and this search takes a long time, and sometimes, it is nothing. Sometimes, a small piece of sweet potato surprises. In a hurry, the discoverer will put the little white potato in his arms. Otherwise, a lean man will come running from behind and snatch the sweet potato from your hand, and then rush to your mouth as you run.
Most of the plants that survived were poisonous, the fruit of the poisonous weed poisoned three men, and the piece of grass itself was the kind of sharp plant that could easily cut through a person's skin. A man swallowed a piece of grass into his stomach and died of stomach bleeding.
The snail's death inspired eyewitnesses. People learned to go out into the field on days when the fog was thick and boiled a stone pot of boiling water. Many fish swim in the air on foggy days. When you find a pot with hot water boiling, you will jump into the pot at once.
But the number of fish was far from enough to fill the stomachs of the large population, and then an avalanche in which people crawled out of the snow-covered grass huts and found dozens of wild boars, which fell to the bottom of the valley at the same time as the avalanche, because the ground had soft snow mounds, and most of the wild boars were unharmed. Uncle Cow Dung made a fair ruling, these wild boars belong to the village, to the collective villagers.
The villagers had hope, and they thought, "They can eat the dead pigs first and raise the wild boars alive." In the future, pork will be eaten every day. "They put a big fence around it, and the wild boars that survived were kept in it. The hungry people had already eaten everything they could and had no extra food to feed the pigs. The wild boar with a large stomach was even hungrier, and soon after, a bloody corpse of a child was found. It was a wild boar that was gnawed at a carcass when it was spotted by a hungry man, and then it alarmed everyone. The men smashed the fence and decided to kill all the wild boars.
The process of killing pigs is quite tortuous. Several wild boars are full of energy. Men are often knocked down by wild boars, and their heads are severely bleeding. Several men dragged mud and water to intercept a pig. The pig jumped, slammed, tore and finally was exhausted by the exhausted men holding down four pigs' trotters, and a knife was stuck in the pig's neck. The pig struggled bloodily, howled, and died.
In short, people dig up everything they can eat at the bottom of the valley and go hungry through the long cold season.