Time flies so fast, two months have passed since the first cold wind blew down from the mountain. The weather is getting colder day by day, and it seems that it has skipped autumn and directly entered the cold winter. It is really too cold, even if
It hasn't snowed yet, but it has already started to freeze.
The half-filled basin of water that Changsheng poured out after washing his face in the morning had already condensed into ice by the time he had breakfast. Changsheng ran over and saw that even the sink where the old scalper drank water was covered with a thin layer of ice.
, no wonder the old scalper was mooing just now, it turned out that he couldn't drink water.
"Grandpa, grandpa, the sink is frozen!"
"I got it. Don't run around, be careful of falling..."
"ah!"
Chang Sheng had already fallen down and squatted down before she finished speaking. However, her skin became much stronger and she quickly got up from the ground. She also happily brought an iron pick to Lao Gutou. Lao Gutou shook his head helplessly.
Then he used an iron pick to cut a part of the ice, and then brought over a bucket of warm water and told the silent old ox to drink it to his heart's content.
Watching the old scalper drinking water, Lao Gutou was slightly worried. It got cold too early this year, and it looked like it would be a very long winter. He was not afraid of anything else, but the old people in the village were the most experienced.
Don’t freeze. Winter is the season when the elderly are most likely to die, not to mention those elderly people who are already in poor health. This winter may be even more difficult...
"grandfather?"
"... Let's not go hunting today and go pick up some dry firewood to avoid getting wet from the snow and not starting a fire."
Although the weather is not very cold yet, Lao Gutou has already lit the fire bed. After all, the immortal body cannot withstand the torment. If frostbite occurs again in the twelfth month of winter, it will be even more difficult to cure. Anyway, they are close to the mountains, and nothing else.
This is quite a lot of dry firewood.
Changsheng had no objection. The old man and the young man walked slowly up the mountain. The creek on the road was also covered with a thin layer of ice, but you could still hear the sound of flowing water inside. Occasionally, you could see one or two.
A small fish swam quickly in it.
Seeing this, Changsheng picked up a stone and smashed a small hole in the ice. The small fish immediately swarmed near the hole as if they had found a treasure, and their heads were shaking.
Lao Gutou ignored this childish behavior. In his opinion, those small fishes couldn't even fit between his teeth, so it didn't matter whether he caught them or not. It's just that his small body had a headache. Now he was carrying a pheasant or something like prey.
The immortal can still be carried, but the pile of dry firewood still cannot be carried much.
So I asked Changsheng to come with me just because I was worried that something might happen to her alone at home, so being serious was of no use.
But Changsheng still worked hard to drag a tree trunk as thick as a baby's arm down the mountain.
"How long will it take you to get enough firewood for a meal by dragging it one by one like this?"
Lao Gu carried a large bundle of firewood on his head and looked helplessly at Xiao Changsheng. This child looked really sad. Without him, he might not be able to survive this winter.
"It's okay, Grandpa, although it's slow, I've been working, one piece at a time, just take your time."
"Well, you are quite reasonable."
"Hey hey hey..."
The two people who depended on each other were talking when they suddenly heard a noise coming from down the mountain. And the sound was getting closer and closer. The two looked at each other, and for some reason, Lao Gutou suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.
"Go down and have a look."
Before they had even reached the bottom of the mountain, someone had already seen the old man and the young man. They looked as anxious as anything, and their faces were particularly ugly.
"Where have you two gone? Forget it, the village chief has fallen! I want to see you now!"
Boss Gu, who came over shortly after, took a look at Lao Gutou, who had a cold expression on his face. His eyes were red and bloodshot. In the past six months, although the relationship between Boss Gu and Lao Gutou could not be described as friendly, at least it was
The hostility was no longer the same as before. However, the two of them had always had nothing to say, but today, because Village Chief Gu was critically ill, Boss Gu was actually willing to lean down and talk to Old Gu.
"My dad wants to see you."
"..."
Lao Gutou said nothing, and the surroundings were quiet. Even the person who came to deliver the message noticed something strange, and held his breath and suppressed his voice, not daring to speak.
Seeing that Lao Gutou didn't speak for a long time, Boss Gu frowned. He thought that Lao Gutou still held grudges decades ago, and couldn't help but feel a little impatient. But because his eagerly awaited father was still looking forward to it.
, there is no other way, Boss Gu can only repeat what he said.
"If you have nothing to do now, go and see my dad. He wants to see you very much."
Changsheng stared nervously at Boss Gu and Lao Gutou. She felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere, but she couldn't tell what was wrong specifically. She just felt that grandpa was not in a good mood at the moment.
The two sides were in a stalemate for a long time. Lao Gu glanced at the middle of the village along with the cold wind blowing down, as if he saw the sickly man.
He finally threw down the firewood on his shoulders and strode out.
Changsheng immediately threw down his firewood, followed closely, and used his small hands to grab Lao Gu's rough hands that were tightly curled into a ball. Because Changsheng clearly discovered that Grandpa was desperately trying to endure at this moment, and even
My fists are going to bleed!
When he walked to the spacious house of Village Chief Gu's house, Chang Sheng was surprised to find that most of the people in the village were here, especially the elderly. Old Gu's eyes turned around in the yard, and Boss Gu immediately stepped forward, defensively.
He used his body to block Lao Gutou's sight, and then led him to the main room.
Lao Gutou sneered, not paying attention, and just strode in in a blink of an eye.
There are many people in this room, most of them are old people. Changsheng is close to Lao Gutou and legs. Some people want to speak, but after looking at Lao Gutou, they feel that this old man has never been easy to mess with, so they all
He closed his mouth in time.
Lao Gutou stood far away, looking at the old man lying on the bed unable to move. He had not seen Gu Quan for about two months, right? Why did he age so fast?
Dry and dry, he looked like no one.
"Cough cough cough cough cough -"
Village Chief Gu coughed uncontrollably. It took him a while to stop the maddening itching, and looked at Old Gu, who was standing far away from the bed.
"Second brother, you are here."
"Didn't you ask me to come?"
Old Gutou could not bear to retort to Village Chief Gu, so he simply stopped.
Boss Gu glared at him, but he couldn't stop him. After all, he had his own mouth, so he couldn't just say whatever he wanted.
Fortunately, Village Chief Gu didn't care. He sat up straight with the support of his descendants, then looked at Lao Gu's head and let out a wry smile.
"Yes. I asked you to come. Brother, I'm going to die."
"I can tell."
"...You have nothing to say to me?"
"..."
Lao Gutou held his head for a while and finally spoke.