Chapter 186: The Disaster Begins
Jerodan was ordered to live in his parents' bag again, for the simple reason that the stove was burning there, and the snow had not stopped all night, and the snow was already a foot deep, and the father and son braved the snow to feed the cattle grass and water, because it was snowing, and it was not cold, and if the snow turned into snow, they would freeze to death. When he got home, he lay down on the bunk and rested for a long time before he began to eat, only to find that his hands were worn out again, and after bandaging, he went back to talking and laughing, "Dad, did you dig the road like this before?", "No, it's all in the snow", "Oh, it seems that my road is still a new invention".
At dawn, the snow has not stopped, but it is not so heavy, Yeluduan has eaten breakfast and shoveled out the snow in the passage, this time the speed is very fast, an hour, he has just finished, Yelugao has also finished feeding the livestock, the two of them went home together, Mrs. Yelu is still rushing to make wolf skin clothes, and the snow outside has also stopped, a total of more than two feet deep, once the eyes of the sky, it will be very cold and cold, and the bag door can not be out.
When dinner was served, Mrs. Yelu was also done, "Today I will eat and drink more to make up for the grievances of the past two days", after speaking, she washed her hands and served on the table to eat. "Dad, if it's very cold, the water will freeze, how can the livestock drink?", "Heat, and the animals are also very smart, as soon as the weather is cold, as soon as the hot water is poured in, they will immediately grab the drink, and before it freezes, they will drink it."
Today's Yelu family, the three of them are very pleased, there are three times more pasture, twice as much winter materials, and the wolf skin clothes are all a complete set, even if it is not sunny for a year, they can't freeze or starve, including livestock, so they are more happy to drink.
The northwest wind blew all night, very strong, six or seventh, but the family did not cry out, because his family had wolf skin clothes, otherwise it would be a crime to feed the animals. After breakfast, the two men began to change, from socks, pants, tops, hats, to gloves, all of them were wolf skins, only two eyes were exposed, and they were all worn close to the body, and put on a set of ordinary winter clothes outside, and went to the pasture, because the road was open, so it arrived quickly, but it took two hours to boil water.
"Now you know that so many people and livestock will freeze to death in winter?", while eating, Yelu asked his son, "When you boil water, the amount is small, and when the amount is large, you will freeze to death, but why don't you add a yurt and boil water in it?", "Disaster years, it doesn't happen once in ten, twenty, or even a hundred years, so the people who think this way are very small, but there are also a small number of families." "Dad, when will this snow melt?", "It's hard to say, it depends on the sky".
The north-westerly wind blew for three nights in a row, so despite the good weather, there was no snow. Ten days later, some began to die, a month later, there were very small animals like the Yelu family, by the time of the New Year, basically half or more of the animals in each family died, not all of them were frozen to death, but the grass was gone, in desperation, the herdsmen could only decide to keep those animals according to the existing grass, and the rest, taking advantage of the fact that they had not yet died of emaciation, all killed,,,。