The next day, the snow stopped, and the sky was still overcast, with no sign of a clear day.

Mu Feng said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Xiaoqing, there is a thick layer of ice on the pond, and you can see fish swimming underwater when you stand on it. ”

Yao Xiaoqing thought of the northerners, who would chisel ice net fish in winter, and her eyes lit up when she thought of those big fish, "Brother, let's go to the river to catch fish." ”

Mu Feng shook his head and said, "The ice is thick, how can you use it to chisel it?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing smiled: "My shovel! The pickaxe above is used to chisel hard things. ”

"Good! It's been a long time since I've eaten fresh fish, so I'm going to call Biao, and let's go together. After saying that, he hurried away.

Yao Xiaoqing shouted at him, "I'll take a shovel and wait for you in the cafeteria." ”

Mu Feng waved his hand.

Yao Xiaoqing took Yaya and Ah Sen, followed Mu Feng, Bi and a few bulls, carried wooden barrels, and went to the river with sapper shovels and nets.

Mu Feng wielded a sapper shovel, and several people took turns to use pickaxes to dig the surface of the river for more than half an hour before digging out an ice hole the size of a basin.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the ice and felt that it was at least a few tens of centimeters thick.

As soon as the ice cave was opened, fish jumped out of the water and landed on the ice with a crackle.

Ah Sen and Yaya jumped up, "Qinggu, hurry up, the fish is jumping." ”

"You two stand out of the way and be careful of falling into the ice cave." Yao Xiaoqing beckoned to the two little guys, threw away the net and went to catch the fish.

Mu Feng pulled her away, "Xiaoqing, don't move, it's troublesome if you fall into the river." ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him angrily, "Brother, you're too much!" I came up with an idea, and you won't let me catch it. ”

He smiled and said, "We're afraid you'll fall, look at Yaya and Assen!" ”

The bull mended his knife on the side, "Yes! Xiaoqing, you fell, who will cook fish for us to eat! ”

Yao Xiaoqing snorted coldly, "If you don't catch fish for me, I won't cook fish for you." ”

Chasing a big fish, he slipped under his feet, slipped with a sound, and slipped out of the distance. Seeing him grinning and holding the big fish and refusing to let go, everyone laughed happily.

"Qinggu, look, golden retriever, golden retriever!" The girl pointed to the golden crowd that ran towards the river, and shouted.

Yao Xiaoqing turned his head to see that it was indeed a golden retriever, and waved at it with a smile, "Golden retriever, we are here!" ”

The golden retriever quickly ran to Yao Xiaoqing, jumped up and grabbed her hand, and looked at her with a grin.

Asen pointed at the golden retriever in amazement, "Look, it's still laughing!" ”

Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, looked at the hair on its head and neck, and rubbed its head, "Little thing, why haven't you been here for so long, have you been tethered?" ”

The golden retriever looked at Yao Xiaoqing and squeaked twice.

"Hungry! I'm going back to get you something to eat, there aren't many eggs, you can't be picky. ”

As if he understood, the golden retriever squeaked twice.

In a short time, the barrel was filled with fish, and even the nets were full.

The bull said to Mu Feng: "You guys send the fish back, I'll dig another ice hole, call a few more people, let's get more fish back." ”

Mu Feng nodded and carried the fish back to the tribe with Yao Xiaoqing.

Seeing that they could get fish in the snow and ice, more than a dozen people carried wooden barrels to the river.

Yao Xiaoqing fried a duck egg chestnut cake for the golden retriever, and when he saw it gobbling up, he knew that it was hungry.

Mu Feng and the others took turns catching fish by the river for two days, and Yao Xiaoqing estimated that at least a few hundred catties of fish were buried in the snowdrift at the entrance of the canteen.

The stone mill had been chiseled, and after pushing the grinding rod for a while, the wooden shaft embedded in the grinding disc was always loose.

Yao Xiaoqing thought of the fish maw, took out the dried fish maw, soaked it in warm water, cut it into small pieces with scissors, and poured it into a jar to soak for a day.

Seeing that the swim bladder had turned white and soft, he scooped it up and drained it, poured it into a basin and steamed it for half an hour. I took it out and pulled it, and found that it was sticky.

Pour the swim bladder into the mortar and pound it, Yao Xiaoqing and Hua took turns pounding it for a long time before pounding the swim bladder into a paste, pouring it into gauze and wrapping it, putting it in a bowl while heating it, and squeezing out the glue.

Yao Xiaoqing smeared the glue in the bowl on the wooden shaft and found that the fish maw glue dried quickly. She grabbed the wooden shaft with her hand and shook it vigorously a few times, but found that the shaft was no longer shaking.

After the grinding disc is put back on, push the grinding rod and the wooden shaft will not fall off.

When Yaohu saw this, he took the glue to stick arrowheads and arrow feathers, and found that it was better than the gum, so he asked people to collect all the swim bladders.

As the days passed, the loss of firewood was also quite serious. Single people crowded together to save firewood.

Yao Xiaoqing took out a notepad and found that the days had passed for another month. The weather still shows no signs of warming, and if it gets colder, the cattle and sheep will run out of grass to eat.

When the time comes, the collapsed thatch can only be removed and dried to feed the livestock.

The kudzu root powder and poria powder have been eaten, and there is not much pumpkin left. Yao Xiaoqing took them to peel out the green bar fruit and chestnut, fry it and grind it into powder, and the powder from the green bar fruit was bitter and astringent.

Yao Xiaoqing thought about it for a while, and used the method of making kudzu root powder, soaked the powder in water, filtered the water after stirring, and found that the bitterness and astringency were not so heavy. After soaking and filtering several times, it is spread out and hung on the kang.

After drying, the cake is steamed with chestnut flour, and it tastes good.

Thinking of rice jelly and rice tofu, Yao Xiaoqing tried to use green bar fruit powder and stirred the jelly twice, and after tasting it, he felt that it tasted good.

Green bar fruit tofu, green bar fruit and chestnut flour pancakes, eat them every day, and everyone thinks it is also good. Yao Xiaoqing was glad to have saved so much food, otherwise he would have started eating those seeds a long time ago.

Several of the paired women are already pregnant, and everyone is happy, hoping in their hearts that the sky will turn sunny and warm as soon as possible.

After more than half a month, the sun finally came out on this day.

Yao Xiaoqing took everyone to carry the wild garlic and leeks to the outside of the canteen to bask in the sun.

*****

Outside the wall, Ray led a group of people to the bottom of the mountain, and when he came down the mountain, he saw the high ice wall.

Mu Kui looked up, "Chief, you can't get in here." ”

Ray looked at the ice wall and shook his head, "Let's go, go down the path and have a look." ”

A group of people cautiously walked down the hill and saw a tall and long wall of ice.

Ray led the men down the ice wall.

Ah Worm and Ah Lin guarded the door, and the two were in the house, when they suddenly heard a sound of banging on the door, and hurriedly picked up the stone knife and walked to the door.

Worm asked loudly, "Who?"

A man's voice rang out, "We belong to another tribe, the snow is too big, it has collapsed the grass hut, let us in to warm up!" ”

"It hasn't snowed in the past two days! Where did the snow come from to crush the hut? ”

Ah Worm leaned into the crack of the door and saw a group of tightly wrapped people standing outside in the black press, standing at the door with weapons in their hands. He hurriedly glanced at Alin, who hurried to call the patrolmen.