When he opened the fence gate and let Chen Xiuqing in, Lu Lu said angrily: "You come when the wooden horse is ready. When it is not ready, not even a shadow can be seen. Did you do it on purpose?"
"No, it's not like I saw that the weather was about to change. I was busy going into the mountains to make crows for a few days. I also spent a day chopping in the yard today!"
Chen Xiuqing's tone was full of exhaustion.
It takes a lot of effort to provide firewood every winter.
Lu Lu didn't mean to blame him, he was just joking. Seeing that Chen Xiuqing looked very tired, he couldn't help but suggested: "Why don't you buy some coal like me?"
"I can't bear to part with it! The money spent to buy this coal can cover three months' salary of a forest farm worker... I have to save this money!" Chen Xiuqing shook her head repeatedly: "There is so much wood on the mountain that I can't use it when driving a carriage.
How long does it take to cut down a car, and how long does it take to burn a car for several days? There is no need!"
"Hey, you know how to live a good life!"
Lu Lu said with a smile: "Have you ever thought that if you spend your time on hunting, you might earn more than buying coal? For example, if you are lucky and go up the mountain to get a sable
, aren’t many of them back?”
Chen Xiuqing was stunned for a moment, took off her dog-skin hat, and scratched her steaming head: "That's right! I'll go find Meng Zhaohua right now..." With that, he turned and left.
Lu Lu hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Why are you in such a hurry? Go back another day when you can't do anything else! It's impossible to run to the mountains every day during this whole winter, no one can bear it, right?"
Chen Xiuqing nodded, and suddenly looked back at Lu Lu: "It's snowing so hard that you can't do much, but you can also play with crowbars during your break!"
Now it was Lu Lu's turn to be stunned.
He now has 10,000 reasons to believe that he was indeed deceived by Chen Xiuqing's naive appearance. This is too calculating.
"You have a point!"
For the first time, Lu Lu felt that the reason why he chose to buy coal instead of chopping wood was because he was lazy, not because coal lasted longer.
The two of them entered the house together. The temperature inside the house was like two completely different worlds from the temperature outside. The house was warm, more like late spring. As soon as the door closed, Lu Lu took off Su En's clothes.
Come down and put it on the kangqin at the end of the kang.
Not long after, Chen Xiuqing also felt warm and took off her thick cotton clothes.
Now he envied Lu Lu's woodcuts even more.
Under normal circumstances, in order to better keep warm, the temperature of a house in Dahuang rises faster when using a kang, so the area of the room is usually not very large. Like Lu Lu's wood-carving room, there are obviously so many rooms, but there is still not enough space.
It's quite big, but it doesn't seem to be a problem. It's much warmer than his own home.
On the one hand, the heat preservation effect of the wood carving is really good, and on the other hand, it is the kang stove set outside.
Coal is not only more resistant to burning than wood, but its calorific value is also on a different level.
In these days, in order to save firewood and better keep warm, many families, including the whole family, sleep on the same kang.
Usually, those with better conditions and their children are given their own rooms and kangs when they are older.
But in the mountains, the conditions are particularly poor. There is only a big kang in the house. When the son grows up and gets married, there is only a curtain to separate them. The young couple makes some strange noises at night. They are all aware of it and are used to it.
thing.
At Chen Xiuqing's house, thanks to his father, when the house was built, the conditions were not bad, and there were three kangs in the house, so they could be separated.
When he came here today, he also saw red clouds rising in the sky, seeing that a heavy snowfall was coming, and the wooden pole had been beating for a while, so he came here specifically to see if the wooden horse was ready.
Chen Xiuyu was already busy in the kitchen. Lu Lu went into the kitchen to help prepare the meal and invited Chen Xiuqing to eat together. Then, Lu Lu took the collar, selected a roe deer leather belt, and called Chen Xiuqing to go to Zhao Yongke's house.
When we arrived at Zhao Yongke's house, the whole family was eating meat on the kang.
Zhao Tuanqing went to the mountains to hunt a roe deer again today, and it was a test to see if the two Oroqen hunting dogs worked well.
Seeing Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing come in, Zhao Yongke hurriedly asked Unakan to add more roe deer meat to the pot where the roe deer meat was cooking on the brazier, poured wine for Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing, and insisted on eating some more.
The two of them couldn't refuse, so they had no choice but to get on the kang.
Roe deer skins had been used as mats on the kang, and the big kang was heated up, so we ate lively for more than half an hour.
After finishing the drink, Zhao Tuanqing and Zhao Yongke's eyes fell on the six collars that Lu Lu had brought. They picked them up, looked at them in their hands, and kept saying hello.
"Dogs are partners. They help us find prey, help us hunt wild animals, and protect us when we are in danger. Of course we should also protect them!"
Zhao Tuanqing has raised many dogs in his life, but none of them had a good death. They all died in fighting with prey. He has experienced too many life and death partings with dogs, and he has the deepest feeling in his heart: "If only I had died earlier.
Xiao Lu thinks, many of my good dogs don’t have to die and can stay with me for a long time. I’ve been hunting all my life, why haven’t I thought about this?
Maybe, with a vest like that, the wild boars will not tear open their stomachs. With a collar like this, those lynxes, wolves or leopards will not have their throats and necks bitten off... ugh!"
Zhao Tuanqing sighed deeply, his tone full of regret.
Perhaps because he drank a little too much, he sighed a lot tonight.
"They say that dogs should die on the mountain and die in a fight with prey. That's bullshit! If it dies, it will be of no use to the dog. What it earns is not the false reputation of the dog owner. At most, it can say who has ever
I have raised a lot of good dogs, how could they be so good, and they died while doing something... What is the use of this nonsense?
For a hunter, his dog is no different from his family. Is it worth exchanging such a life for such a false reputation? In the final analysis, it is still his fault that he does not have the ability to protect his dog!"
Lu Lu did not interrupt, but listened silently.
In the past, from the bottom of his heart, he just believed that hunting dogs were just tools to assist hunters in hunting. No matter how intelligent they were, they were still dogs. If they were gone, they would be replaced.
But now when he met Yuanbao, his mood was completely different. That was all because this was a dog that built a nest next to its owner's grave and guarded it for more than two years after his death.
When he learned about this situation, in his heart, he no longer just regarded the hunting dog as an auxiliary tool for hunting, but more like a living person, even stronger than many people in terms of loyalty and friendship.
From that moment on, Lu Lu wanted to protect this dog that he regarded as his master, hoping that it could safely live in his hands for the rest of his life.
This is a deeper emotion than your own hunting dog dying, your eyes turning red, shedding a few tears, and howling a few times.
Therefore, he thought of protecting the dogs that followed him through life and death. He thought of protective vests and collars, and tried to protect the dogs as much as possible.
The hunter and the hunting dog should protect each other instead of watching it die in a fight with wild animals and regard this as the so-called final destination. Even if it is a dog, it should not have such a tragic ending.
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As Zhao Tuanqing said, if your life is gone, those false reputations are useless.
Just like the military dogs of later generations, unless they die unexpectedly, these dogs will be too old to serve. There will be special retirement bases. Those who are unwilling to leave will stay in the original army for the rest of their lives, and then they can be adopted, and this way
For adoption, those who do not meet the conditions are not eligible.
This is the final destination it should have.
The relationship between military dogs and dog-training soldiers, and the relationship between hunting dogs and hunters, in Lu Lu's current view, are the same.
Wu Nakan knew the purpose of Lu Lu bringing these collars. While several grown men were talking, he cut out long strips of the roe deer skin that Lu Lu brought as needed, and nailed some along the edges with nails.
Come out the small hole, protect it on the inside of the collar, and sew it up with ribs under an oil lamp.
With six collars, it took her almost two hours to complete.
It was already dark. Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing each took their own skis and left Zhao Tuanqing's house. When they returned to Caodianzi, the oil lamp was still on in the wooden bedroom.
Chen Xiuqing did not stop, but took the two ski poles from Lu Lu and rode his horse back to Xiushantun. Lu Lu also put his two wooden horses and ski poles into the warehouse.
Chen Xiuyu, who had already fallen asleep, was awakened by the noise outside. She quickly put on her cotton-padded clothes and lit a flashlight to welcome her out of the house.
She went to Yanwo Island Farm once and saw how easy it was for Raymond and the others to use flashlights. When she returned to Xiushantun, when she went to the district, she went to the state-owned store and bought two of them. She also bought several pairs of batteries for storage.
Lu Lu simply asked her to use a flashlight to illuminate it, and got some coal to add to the kang stove. Then he returned to the house, washed his feet with the hot water that Chen Xiuyu had kept in the iron pot, and poured out the dirty water while wearing his sandals.
, closed the door, and lay down on the warm kang.
When I slept in the latter half of the night, the north wind became stronger, blowing through the treetops and making a whining sound. Scattered crackling sounds on the roof could be heard.
Is it snowing?
Lu Lu helped Chen Xiuyu cover herself with the quilt, got up and put on her cotton coat, went to the living room and opened the door. Snow particles were flying outside, making rustling noises everywhere.
This is the first snow of the year.
From this moment on, in the next few months, the entire wilderness will be covered in silver.
"Well... I should be able to practice skiing tomorrow. I don't know if Qingzi's skiing skills are really what he boasts about! Don't lie to me!"
Lu Lu then closed the door and went back to lie down on the kang, still thinking about skiing. Having a capable person to guide him would save a lot of detours than trying to figure it out on his own.
However, Lu Lu finally managed to wait until dawn. What Lu Lu didn't expect was that when he ran outside and took a look, he suddenly felt disappointed. The sky was still hazy, and except for the whistling cold wind, there was no snow falling.
In the middle of the night last night, a layer about two to three centimeters thick fell. You could see the white, but it couldn't even be covered by the weeds and gravel on the ground.
I just wanted to practice skiing, but ended up not being able to ski at all.
The edge of the creek on the meadow in front of the door was covered with about two centimeters of ice, and the water was still flowing gurglingly.
The surface of the water bubbles in Caodianzi is sealed, but it is not thick.
It's already the end of October and it's almost November. In some years, it starts to snow before the corn is put away at the end of September. This year, it feels like it's been delayed a lot.
Yes...it's better to go into the mountains and continue hunting small animals, depending on the terrain and environment!
Lu Lu returned to the house, and Chen Xiuyu was already making breakfast. He was about to say that he would go hunting in the mountains, but Chen Xiuyu said, "Brother Lu, after dinner, let's store the vegetables from the vegetable field in the cellar!"
Lu Lu was stunned for a moment, and thought to himself: I have forgotten this incident!
The green onions, cabbages and cabbages in the fields must be stored in the cellar in time, otherwise even the most cold-tolerant Chinese cabbage will not be able to withstand the cold for a few days.
The cellar requires a ladder to go up and down. It is troublesome for just one person to stack vegetables in it. It requires the cooperation of two people.
It's long past time to stock the cellar with vegetables.
Lu Lu immediately nodded and agreed: "Okay, let's put those vegetables into the cellar today. If it's still early, let's borrow a car and go to the district to buy some radishes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, noodles and other things.
When the vegetables come back, there are also red beans, kidney beans and the like. We will do our best to handle this matter today."
Chen Xiuyu had wanted to talk about stocking up on vegetables several times in the past two days, but seeing that Lu Lu was either busy going into the mountains or unpacking his hunting gear every day, she kept holding back.
If she hadn't been pregnant with the child, she would have done all these things by herself.
But Lu Lu emphasized to him more than once that during pregnancy, the first three months and the last three months were very important, and nothing could be done about it. Looking at Lu Lu's serious look, she didn't dare to do anything wrong. She could only find herself on weekdays.
Do whatever light work you can do.
I saw falling snow today and looked at the hazy sky. It was very likely that a heavy snow would follow. When it was covered with heavy snow, things would be even more troublesome. Moreover, frozen vegetables were not easy to preserve, so she had to speak.
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Seeing Lu Lu's full agreement, Chen Xiuyu finally breathed a sigh of relief and had a bright smile on her face.