Chapter 53: The First Snow
Liang Jian lit a bonfire in the yard, and by the light of the blazing fire, he peeled the skin and extracted the menstrual meridians familiarly, and the whole bison was drenched in blood.
If it was before, Qin Yue would definitely not dare to take a closer look, if she stayed here for a long time, this kind of bloody picture was very common, and she would be indifferent. He even handed the stone knife to the side with great interest, and helped a little from time to time.
Now that the hall is full of air-dried animal meat, if there is no place to put the leftover meat from hunting, Qin Yue pondered digging a cellar. Store ice cubes in the winter and enjoy refreshing chilled fruits in the middle of summer.
She told Liang Jian one by one, "When the cellar is dug, the fresh meat can be stored for a few more days, and you don't have to go out hunting every day." ”
In fact, it is not a problem for the two of them to store food for the whole winter, and there are fish in the big lake in front of them, so it is better to take the time to catch fish every few days, which is enough for the two of them to fill their stomachs.
And she was also worried that Liang Jian would meet someone from the Black Wolf Tribe, and if there was a conflict, she wouldn't know what would happen.
After thinking about it for a while, Liang Jian nodded in agreement.
Liang Jian divided the cow tendon into two, and attached one to a bow and arrow, Qin Yue flicked it, it was really elastic, and the bowstring made of bark rope could not be compared.
The next day, Liang Jian went out early, and Qin Yue was absent-minded at the end of the day, for fear that he would do something when he went out.
But she was still busy like a spinning top, marinating jerky, chopping wood, and drying dried fish...... I'm afraid that I'll be idle and think nonsense.
When it was dark at night, Qin Yue lit a bonfire and sat by the fire and waited, until in the middle of the night she heard a few sheep cries, and Fang hurriedly rushed out.
Vaguely seeing him carrying a bleating white sheep, Qin Yue hurriedly greeted him, and laughed at him for being stupid, because she liked it, so she worked all day regardless of the danger.
"Is this alive?" she seemed to have just heard a sheep.
"Well, alive. Liang Jian walked to the courtyard and put the white sheep down, "It has a leg injury." ”
Qin Yue saw that the right hind leg of the white sheep was really stained with blood, so she went back to the house and took the hemostatic medicine and sprinkled it on it, and touched the leg bone a little broken, she hurriedly asked Liang Jian to fix the white sheep, and twisted her hand to correct it.
The white sheep bleated miserably, Qin Yue took a rope and tied it to the grass hut, and then pulled Liang Jian back to the house.
"You're not allowed to go hunting in the future?" she snorted.
Liang Jian smiled absently and pinched her nose, "Unhappy?"
"The stored food is enough for the two of us to eat, even if it snows heavily and we can't go out, don't be afraid, in short, you don't want to go out again. Qin Yue was very persistent, she didn't want Liang Jian to be in danger, this time was the period when various tribes were crazy hunting and stockpiling food for the winter, and it was hard to guarantee that she would not face the black wolf tribe, she was always a little uneasy in her heart.
Sensing the worry in her eyes, Liang Jian sighed in her heart, but she had to rely on her, so she said, "Okay, I won't go out for a while." ”
When it came to how to catch the white sheep, he raised his eyebrows and said, "There should be more than one?"
"More than one?" Qin Yue recalled, "Is there still one in the stomach?"
After thinking about it, the white sheep had a swollen belly, and it did look like it was pregnant, and maybe it would soon be able to give birth to a lamb. It's just that winter has arrived, and I don't know if the lamb can survive it.
Thinking that he had come back in the dust, he must not have eaten anything. Qin Yue cooked mushroom broth for him, and the smell of fragrant meat wafted all over the room, and Liang Jian smelled it, and he was indeed a little hungry.
Taking advantage of his eating, the two discussed and decided to dig a cellar in front of the straw hut tomorrow, and wanted to build a thatched toilet on the other side of the wooden house, otherwise it would be inconvenient to wait for the cold winter to go to the toilet far away.
After digging the cellar for a few days, Liang Jian took over the work of digging the pit single-handedly, Qin Yue couldn't bear that he was too tired, so he thought of a way to stew fish soup to replenish his body, the mushrooms in the forest were almost exhausted by her, and a new stubble had not yet emerged.
Wild ginger is abundant and she has no stress to stew fish soup every day.
She also kept a small half of the half-basket of ginger she brought back for seeding, and deliberately circled a piece of land outside the yard to burn the weeds there, just waiting for the wild ginger to be planted in the spring of the next year.
Casting fishing nets into the lake in the early morning and pulling them up to the shore at sunset, dozens of fish can always be pulled up without being watched. So every three days she cast a fishing net, and when she couldn't eat enough fish, she threw them into a small fish pond and raised them.
The days flew by, and when the cellar was almost finished, Qin Yue walked down the layers of steps dug out, and saw that the cellar was deep, and there was another small one connected to the cellar when he went inside.
The cellar is covered with planks and thick thatch, and the inside is so warm that the fresh meat will not spoil for a while. She just put forward an idea, Liang Jian was able to complete it meticulously, she couldn't help but admire a little more, looking at him with eyes full of little stars.
Liang Jian hooked her lips happily, felt uncomfortable again, caught a glimpse of the dirty mud on her body, her face stiffened, and she ran to the river to take a bath without saying a word.
It didn't take long for him to come back with wet black hair, and water was dripping on his cold face, Qin Yue hurriedly took a towel made of animal skins to dry him, and said in a wordy voice: "Don't wash it with cold water next time, what should I do if I get frostbitten?"
said goodbye to the days of leaving early and returning late, and the two lived a very leisurely and comfortable life. Of course, the most important thing is that the food that can allow them to survive the winter safely, the two of them have stocked up early. Qin Yue made up more than a dozen round-framed baskets for several days, and moved all the jerky piled up in the hall to the cellar, and suddenly there was a lot of empty in the hall, which was also pleasing to the eye.
The one in the cellar was left for the time being, and the ice cubes were hidden in it when it was winter.
The stone stove that was built before often smoked from the cracks in the stone, and Liang Jian saw that she was choked with tears several times, so he took the initiative to dismantle the stone stove.
He built an earthen stove in imitation of the western fireplace, and connected the chimney to the window, so that the fire pit in the house was useless, and it was simply dismantled.
He built an earthen stove next to him, with a stone pot on it, which Qin Yue could occasionally use to stir-fry.
Unconsciously, the first heavy snow in winter came quietly, Qin Yue woke up in Liang Jian's arms, her bare arms were already frozen, but one night she felt that the temperature had plummeted by dozens of degrees.
She propped herself up and prepared to get up, but was stopped by Liang Jian, who didn't know when she opened her eyes, "You lie down for a while, I'll go out and have a look." ”
"Put this on. Qin Yue shrank in the animal skin quilt and handed him the prepared animal skin coat.
Liang Jian put his clothes on the outside, lifted the animal skin curtain and went out of the house, only to hear the sound of the door opening, and a gust of wind rushed in.
After a while, Liang Jian walked in with a solemn expression, took the animal skin coat and wrapped it for her, "It's snowing, knee-deep." ”