Most of the older people in the capital still remember the heavy snowfall seventeen years ago.

According to the centenarian at the time, "I have lived for a hundred years, and I have never seen such a big snow." ”

It can be seen that the snow that year was indeed extremely rare.

At the end of October of that year, the weather became exceptionally cold, and it began to snow at the beginning of the next month. This is a full three months, and the capital is covered with snow for hundreds of miles.

The snow on the outskirts of the city was more than half a foot thick, and I don't know how many houses collapsed, let alone how many people froze to death. It's just that after the snow melts, there are almost no beggars in Mandu City.

On November 11, two children's cries could be heard from inside a wooden house that had been almost buried in snow.

"Daddy, come with a lamp, I'll see if it's a boy or a girl. In the darkness, a woman said weakly.

The snow had been falling for decades, and she didn't know when it would stop, and the family's food stock was running out, and although she was about to give birth, she had never eaten a full meal these days.

At this time, I had just finished giving birth, and I was so prostrated that I could barely stand up.

A man's chattering voice came one after another: "At this time, what is the difference between giving birth to a boy and a girl? Is it possible that he still points to the male baby to support the old age? Hehe, the thief doesn't have such a good mind, I wish we died earlier." ”

The woman persuaded softly: "Daddy, don't talk such nonsense, beware that God hears it." I've been suffering to you these days, tomorrow morning, I can get out of bed, let's go to the mountains to get some food, don't be so depressed. ”

The man sighed heavily and slowly got up.

"Smack", the flint phase stirred up sparks, but failed to light the oil lamp.

"Smack!", "Smack!", "Smack!"...

After trying dozens of times in succession, the oil lamp still didn't light up, and the man sighed helplessly: "I think the flint is damp and can't catch fire." ”

After saying this, he climbed into bed and said softly: "Baby, I cut the umbilical cord for you?"

Before the twins, the couple had already given birth to four children, and two men and two girls were crowded in the next room, and he knew the secrets of these births very well.

"It's two girls. The man touched the crotches of the two babies and sighed softly, "Do you have milk? Alas, those who are born like us, and at such a season, must have been two iniquity workers in the previous life. ”

... ...

At dawn, the woman got up.

After drinking a little milk last night, the twin sisters kept urinating and filthy her.

After washing and changing clothes, I saw that my husband had wrapped the two baby babies in swaddling clothes.

"What two babies with aura!" The man looked at the two daughters on the bed and sighed with tears, "If you were born in a better year, how good it would be!"

The family has only forty or fifty catties of grain, which is all relied on by a family of eight for the winter.

was born to be difficult to raise, which made this simple man's heart feel like being pierced by a knife.

"The eldest baby, the second baby, you two have to watch the third baby and the fourth baby, don't run around. The woman gently touched the faces of her children and explained softly, "Daddy and mother went out to find food for you, you have to be obedient at home, okay?"

"Well, mother, you have to come back early, I'm hungry!" a girl of eight or nine years old replied in a low voice.

"Mother, I'm hungry too. The second baby followed to call for hunger.

The man standing in the doorway held his head high, trying not to let the tears flow.

"God, I was a last night, if you want to blame me, blame me. Please bless my wife and children with a safe winter!"

The newborn twins, the woman is not very worried, they are still young, and at most they are hungry and crying when they are put on the bed, so that they will not run around and cause trouble.

"Baby, go out as soon as possible, and come back early. The man urged in a deep voice.

... ...

The man walked in front, and the woman walked behind, slowly walking towards the deep mountains in the distance.

At this time, the food at the bottom of the mountain has been exhausted, and the two can only go to the mountains to try their luck.

If you're lucky, you might catch a roe deer or an elk or something, and the family will be fed for seven or eight days.

It's just that there are still thirty miles to go into the mountain. This is usually two hours of effort, but now the snow is waist-high, it is really difficult to move an inch, and I don't know when it will arrive.

The couple also went out hungry, and by noon they were exhausted, and they were still a few miles away from the mountain.

"Daddy, look! look!" The woman suddenly lowered her body, pointed two hundred feet away, and whispered to the man, "Look there, is there a group of roe deer?"

Following the direction of the woman's finger, Han Zinu looked at it and vaguely saw something moving in the mountain recess, but he couldn't tell what it was.

"Let's go, let's take a closer look!" the man took the woman's hand and opened the way step by step.

One hundred and fifty zhang...

A hundred zhang...

"It's a roe deer, it's a roe deer!" Although the man tried his best to keep his voice down, he still heard his joy of "living in a desperate place".

By this time, he had removed the axe from his back, and the woman had already grasped the wood knife in her hand.

Being able to see a group of roe deer here is already a great gift from God, and whether they can accept it depends on how they grasp it.

They had to hit the roe deer, and only by hitting the roe deer could the family survive this long, cold winter.

Thinking of this, the man and the woman both clenched the iron tools in their hands.

Fifty zhang...

Twenty zhang...

"Ang~~~" Suddenly, there were a few low noises from the side of the notch.

It's a wolf! Both husband and wife recognized the voice, and it was indeed a wolf.

The man looked back at the woman and saw that she shook his head at himself, "Daddy, wait a minute." ”

Sure enough, the wolves were dispatched, and the man counted them, and there were five of them, outflanking them from five directions, and one of them was not even a few feet away from the two of them.

The wolf's fur is white, and he does not deliberately hide his body, and it is extremely difficult to find dozens of feet away.

It was a wolf, and it stopped in front of the man, and looked at him for a few breaths, as if to warn the two of them not to take food.

The wolf was tall, but skinny. Sure enough, in the year of the disaster, not only the people suffered, but even the animals in the mountains also suffered from the seedlings.

The head wolf walked slowly past the man, suddenly accelerated, and ran towards the group of roe deer in the lower place. Seeing that the leader had moved, the remaining four wolves also rushed down in time.

At this time, the roe deer group reacted, wanted to run away, but could not go fast, in the blink of an eye, three or four roe deer had been bitten to death, and finally escaped to the middle of the slope, but the four wolves that rushed down were cleaned up one by one.

"Baby, let's go, now!" the man licked his chapped mouth and said in a deep voice.

The woman also knew that this was the best time. The opportunity must not be lost, and if it is lost, it will not dare to hesitate. Although she was scared to death, she also held the firewood knife tightly and followed her husband towards the wolves.

"Ang~~~", "Ang~~~"

The wolves noticed that they were slowly approaching, and let out a wolf howl, apparently warning them both.

The woman only felt that her heart was beating wildly.

"Hey!" the man roared at the wolf, "You can't eat so much, those who see it have a share, we only need three roe deer, and the rest is yours!"

The five wolves formed a circle and surrounded the two of them in the center, each grinning and ready to attack.

One of the wolves, short of his body, slowly leaned up, and suddenly pounced on the man's lap.

He picked up the axe and slashed it at its stomach, and made a big opening in the waist and abdomen, and the internal organs also flowed out, and it seemed that it would not survive.

"Ang~~~", "Ang~~~"

When the four wolves saw this, they all raised their heads to the sky and howled, whining like weeping.

The first wolf turned around, picked up the roe deer and ran, and the other three wolves followed it with a roe deer in their mouths. The figures of the four wolves quickly disappeared from the sight of the two.

"Baby, hurry, tie it with a rope and drag it back!" the man let out a long breath and said loudly to the woman.

Although they came back and pulled four roe deer, they were faster than when they came, and they hurried back before it was dark.

Bloodstain......

Two miles from home, the woman found blood stains in the snow.

After walking more than 100 zhang, I saw a few more strips of rags...

The woman instantly felt that her legs were weak, and she felt cold from her heart to her feet—those strips of rags were the same as the clothes worn by the second baby.

"Ah~~~"

The woman left the roe deer and her husband behind her and ran home like crazy.

Along the way, there was hair, there were strips of rags, there were... When she returned home, the door was open, but there were no more big babies, second babies, third babies, and fourth babies.

It's the wolves, it's the wolves!

In previous years, wolves only came into the village to pick up chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, pigs, and other animals, but they had never heard of children in their mouths.

The wolf is very smart, and if it hurts an animal without hurting a person, a man will not hurt it.

However, they ate people today, and there were six of them, which was obviously a kind of revenge, and the wolves were taking revenge on both of them.

The footprints of the two of them were connected from the mountains all the way home, and after the wolves laid down the roe deer, they quickly found this place after following the footprints.

When they heard the movement at the door, the four babies thought that their father and mother had brought food back, but they didn't expect that a group of terrifying wolves entered the house...

"My poor baby... My poor baby..."

When the man dragged the roe deer home, he saw the woman sitting on the ground crying, and he already had a premonition in his heart, and he almost fainted in pain

No, there were a few cries of wah-wah from the house.

When the four wolves entered the house, the two swaddling babies were weeping and falling asleep, and they escaped without making a sound.

But after that day, the woman went crazy, stupid and stupid, and couldn't do anything but breastfeed.

The man's health deteriorated, and after the spring, he felt that he could not do it. took advantage of the day to catch the market and carried the two babies into the city.

On that day, he personally delivered his two daughters to two passers-by.

The two, one is a middle-aged man in black, and the other is a lady in a white robe.