The weather is getting warmer and warmer, although the thick snow in Liaodong has not yet melted and has become much thinner, and the ice officials in various parts of the Xia Kingdom have strictly forbidden people and animals to trample on it.

Even some county governments with large populations are already planning to break some ice surfaces to prevent some bear children from falling into the icy water while playing on the ice.

In the Xia Kingdom, where underage children account for more than half of the population, a large part of the work of local governments revolves around these children.

This kind of work began as early as the years when Wang Ze just occupied Jeju Island, although the newborn babies are hitting a new high every year, but now Xia Guo has been able to initially enjoy the convenience brought by the demographic dividend after more than 40 years.

Therefore, the local government is really good to take care of the children, but the very young children and teenagers over fifteen or sixteen are easy to say, and the most headache for the local government and parents is those bear children between the ages of seven and eight to eleven or twelve.

Whether it is the government, the school or the parents of these bear children, they are all very sad about these mischievous bear children, especially before the beginning of spring, they are even more nervous, every year at this time of year, many bear children in the summer country fall into the water because of playing on the ice and even die.

The most important task of the county guards who returned after the end of the war, in addition to forest fire prevention, was to closely inspect the places along the rivers and lakes to see if there were any playful bear children playing on the ice.

The vast plain is surrounded by dense forests and meadows, and the flat fields and pastures are still covered with thick snow, and a small village can be seen in the distance.

This is a very common rural scene in various parts of the Xia country today, and now the indigenous tribes of the Xia country have almost disappeared, so even if the village is smaller, there is no longer the danger of the past, although the people in the village cannot cut down those forests privately, but they can collect a large number of mountain goods in the forest.

At the same time, the people have this right and also have the responsibility to help prevent forest fires, and the open space in the middle of the forest is the pasture and farmland that the people have been allotted, and a wide road extends from the distance, sticking to the edge of the village and extending into the distance.

In the icy wilderness, there were bursts of cheerful laughter, and a huge ice car, the climbing plow of later generations, was speeding on the snow, and a group of bear children between the ages of eight and nine to eleven or twelve were huddled on it and shouted excitedly.

The bear children did not care about the cold wind at all, and the loud voice showed that the children's bodies were very healthy, and the round faces were also blown red because of the cold wind, but the bear children were not afraid of the cold at all with their thick leather clothes, stuffy hands, and dog skin hats.

Ice cars are not uncommon in Xia Kingdom, basically every household will have one or two ice cars of different sizes like this, after all, there are also a large number of items to be transported in the winter for half a year, but what is surprising is that the livestock pulling this huge ice car in front of you is not a common horse in Xia Kingdom, but a huge reindeer with a sturdy body.

The majestic antlers on the reindeer's head and the thick limbs all show the strong physique of the reindeer.

A reindeer is generally about 400 catties, if it is well raised, it can even grow to more than 600 catties, although ordinary horses can generally grow to seven or eight hundred catties, but therefore the reindeer is more suitable for action on the ice and snow ground, and the pulling ability of the reindeer on the ice and snow even exceeds that of horses.

In addition, these reindeer originally lived in colder areas of the North Sea and even further north, so they were stronger than horses in terms of cold tolerance.

In this way, after the people of Xia Kingdom saw the outstanding performance of those reindeer in the war against the Sui Empire, a considerable part of the people began to buy some reindeer in large quantities from the pastures around Beihai, which could not only be used as excellent animals, but also as high-quality meat livestock.

The ice car in front of me is full of bear children, there is no adult driving this ice car, this group of bear children obviously secretly took out the reindeer used as animal power at home as a tool for their own play, there is such a reindeer pulling the ice car forward than their own stupid rowing on the ice is much better.

As the reindeer made a sharp turn in front of the ice, the ice car was thrown out without steady, and seven or eight bear children screamed and fell into the snow nest on the side of the road nearby, and suddenly there was no shadow.

Fortunately, there was still a large amount of snow piled up as a buffer at this time, so the bear children did not fall in pain, and the bear children who were thrown out were just trying to climb out of the snowdrift, but there were still two or three younger bear children who were actually covered under the ice car.

Although these bear children are wearing thick clothes and will not be injured, but if they can't be rescued quickly, it is very likely to be frozen.

At this time, a group of Xia cavalry came on horseback not far away, and when they saw this situation on the gallop road, they quickly dismounted and walked over, and then turned over the ice cart while laughing, and lifted up all the bear children who were covered inside, and then rode away again leaving only a burst of hearty laughter.

There are a lot of children in the family of these Xia army cavalrymen, of course, they have been harassed by these bear children on weekdays, and they are not surprised to see all kinds of tricks of the bear children, and the behavior of these bear children in front of them makes them think of their own troublemakers.

It's just that these distant cavalrymen don't know that the group of bear children behind them look at these Xia army cavalry with envy one by one, and today's experience makes them have a capital to brag about in the mouth of the bear children in the same village, and they have dealt with the Xia army cavalry.

"Big crooked! You're messing around with Erkiko again! ”

Just as these bear children sent the group of cavalry away with envious eyes, suddenly a loud scolding sounded, and a middle-aged man with a big beard appeared in front of the children with a menacing attitude.

There was no doubt that this was the official owner of the reindeer, and the most fearful twelve-year-old boy was his son, Da Crooked, who had thought that his father would go into the mountains to collect medicines, especially ginseng that had been hot for decades.

Therefore, he thought that his father must have to come back in ten days, and while his father was not at home, his mother couldn't control his big crooked son, so he had the courage to pull out his reindeer and play with his friends, but he didn't want his father to come back after only two days.

The middle-aged man looked at the panting reindeer distressedly, even if the reindeer's endurance is good, there must be a lot of food supplements, and in addition, it is necessary to combine work and rest, which is like the bear child in front of him only knows how to let the reindeer pull the ice car, but does not know to add some warm water and salt to the reindeer, and the sweat does not know to wipe it off in time.

"Get out of here for me, if you don't write down the last night assigned by your school gentleman twenty times, you will be playing all day this winter vacation, otherwise how can you be admitted to Zhenhai Imperial University in the future?" The middle-aged man led the reindeer home, and did not forget to reprimand his son.

After speaking, he didn't forget to say to the other ten bear children: "You all hurry home, play crazy all day long, be careful that your parents beat your butts in two!" ”

"Uncle Wu, our butts have long been two-petaled!" A seven or eight-year-old bear child replied with a grin, and then the bear children rushed to the village.

"Dad, I don't want to study hard, I want to practice martial arts and learn the art of war!"

Looking at the relieved friends with envy, the big crooked man suddenly mustered up the courage to say this, and even the middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, in the impression that although his son has the strength to be a son, he has always been afraid of himself to death, and he has always been submissive.

At this time, he suddenly heard his son refute himself, and the middle-aged man surnamed Wu didn't know what to say, but because his father's authority was opposed, he still habitually reprimanded: "What kind of martial arts to learn, you are still crazy if you don't learn martial arts now, and you haven't made trouble everywhere after learning martial arts!" ”

"Dad, don't underestimate people!" The big crooked man's face turned red, and he said unconvinced, "When the war was fought last year, the White Wolf Camp in the county and the Lion Cub Camp in the county were not all students who were not much older than me, and there were still a few students in our school who made meritorious contributions at that time!" ”

"If I say no, I can't, now that the country has no great enemy, where will there be too many battles to fight in the future? If you study literature and read well, you will definitely be better than learning martial arts! ”

"I just want to learn martial arts! Who says it's useless to learn martial arts? The big crooked man retorted, "Didn't His Majesty the Emperor just divide nearly a hundred princes last month?" Except for a few of them who are scholars, the others are generals who lead troops to fight! ”

was refuted by his son, the middle-aged man was a little hesitant, for most of China's thousands of years, he regarded scholars very highly, even in the Sui and Tang dynasties before the peak of literati politics and the Song Dynasty, the status of scholars who monopolized culture was also respected.

"Then if you want to practice martial arts, Dad will teach you, but you have to learn it for me, if you fish for three days and dry nets for two days, see if I don't knock you over, and tomorrow I will get up and practice martial arts with me!!"

The middle-aged man set a standard for his son after he made up his mind, in fact, he didn't blame him for this, originally many people in the Xia Kingdom would participate in the lion cub camp after his son was eight years old, and when he reached the age of fifteen, he could pass the assessment and enter the white wolf camp.

These children who have been training and studying in the lion cub camp for six or seven years have been proficient in a lot of battle array techniques, and their martial arts have also been exercised to a great extent, while although their sons have some talent, they have been delayed for various reasons in the past few years and have not trained well.

Originally, he started much later than others, and if he didn't make up for it at this time, it would be difficult to get ahead in the White Wolf Camp in the future, so that even if he learned the art of martial arts, he wouldn't be able to make much difference.

Thinking of this, the middle-aged man was relieved, he patted his son's shoulder hard and laughed: "Let's go, the kid still dares to contradict me today, but it's still a bit responsible, your mother is killing sheep at home this time, and there will be guests at home in a while to make her mouth sweeter!" ”

The father and son led the reindeer all the way home.