Chapter 693 The Southerner Who Sees Snow for the First Time
The north wind was howling and the clouds were thick. Looking up, the surroundings were filled with gray.
The bare mountains and land, which lacked life, coupled with such a celestial phenomenon, made people feel very cold without the wind blowing into their necks.
After this kind of weather lasted for a while, amidst the cheers of minors, the snow mixed with the wind began to fall from the sky, falling to the ground and jumping around.
After the snow fell for a while, it turned into snowflakes flying in the wind.
The heavy snow has fallen, announcing that the winter of the Year of the Blue Bird has arrived. This year is coming to an end, and it also announces that many things cannot be done. Whether tribes are prepared to welcome the arrival of winter or not, they must prepare for the coming of winter.
Various mentalities to welcome the strong winter.
The newly built earthen wall outside the Qingque tribe looks very majestic.
After a year of hard work by everyone in the tribe, the wall outside is basically completed.
Senior Brother and others stood in the wind and snow, looking at the gap of about twenty meters to the east with regret in their hearts.
It would take another seven or eight days to complete the final repairs, but God happened to start snowing at this time.
Once the heavy snow falls, if you want to build this gap, you will have to wait until the next spring.
Looking at the short gap, many people in the tribe felt more and more uncomfortable.
If they hadn't known that the wall built in such weather was not very strong, no one would have braved the snow to build it and plug the final gap.
This is really an existence that can drive obsessive-compulsive disorder to death.
Fortunately, Han Cheng himself did not have this excellent quality, so he could look at the scratching senior brother and others who were tortured by this gap in a relatively relaxed mood.
It's snowing, and these people in the tribe can finally relax completely.
Han Cheng decided to give the people of the tribe a longer holiday so that everyone could have a good rest before starting to do some work that could be done in the winter.
For example, mining stones and transporting them to tribes, or burning previously cut and dried branches into charcoal.
Excavation and transportation of stones are necessary because the wall is almost completed. After the busy spring plowing is completed next year, the gap will be repaired and the construction of houses can begin.
At this time, you can take advantage of the free time to quarry more stones, which will make it much easier next year. Moreover, after it snows, there will be a sledge, so it will be easier to transport the stones.
This is the second time Little Wandou has experienced winter. He spent the last winter completely in swaddling clothes, so strictly speaking, this is the first time he has seen ice and snow.
The little guy was extremely excited when he saw Snowflake. After looking up for a while, he took steps that were not too steady, clapped his hands randomly, and skipped around the yard like he was having fun.
Sometimes the snowflakes get into his neck, causing him to shrink his neck and squeeze his eyes, but this does not stop the little guy from scattering flowers.
It’s a bit like the excitement that southerners feel when they see ice and snow for the first time after coming to the north.
In addition to Little Pea, there are also many other children having fun in the courtyard. Many children are laughing, jumping, and shouting, turning the green bird tribe in winter into a toad pit after the summer rain.
screamed angrily.
Wrapped in thick tiger skin clothes, the shaman looked very classy. Looking at the scene in the yard, he laughed so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes.
When people get old, what they like most is to see this kind of scene.
There are children and grandchildren around the knees, and all of them are eating fat. No matter how you look at it, you feel happy.
Although the heavy snow fell a little later in the Tongshan residential area to the west of the Qingque Tribe, it was also caught in the swirling snowflakes at this time.
On the stone wall, Junior Brother Sha, who was wrapped in very soft tanned fur, looked at the surrounding scenery with pride and regret.
His pride comes from the houses and walls built by their own hands.
There used to be nothing here, but they have built so many things here in more than half a year.
What he regrets is that due to the defector Meng, it was delayed for a while, so that not much land has been reclaimed here.
Thinking of the people here who defected from the tribe, Junior Brother Sha turned his attention to the Tongshan Mountain not too far away from the courtyard, where the defector was still there.
After several successive excavations, two mines have now appeared on Tongshan.
One mine is very shallow, only about two meters, and the other is deeper, about seven or eight meters.
At this time, a clanking sound came from the mine.
It was snowing heavily outside and the light was dim, and the light inside the mine was even darker.
A figure was currently inside the mine, waving a hammer in his hand and tapping the chisel in his hand.
This figure is wrapped in dirty fur, with disheveled hair connected to a wildly grown beard. Coupled with the dust and dirt on its face, it is almost impossible to see the skin on its face.
This man was the defector Meng who was punished to mine copper in Tongshan forever.
It was extremely dark inside the mine, but for Meng, who had lived in this mine for a long time, such darkness would not cause much interference to him because his eyes had already adapted to this dim light.
After digging for a while, some ore was cut out, and after putting the ore into a basket, Meng, who was beyond recognition, stopped.
He walked toward the entrance of the cave, and some snowflakes came in from the entrance, fell on his palms that could not distinguish any color, and immediately melted again.
Before, there would be people outside looking at him, but now there is no one outside.
However, Meng didn't have the slightest thought of escaping.
Because he didn't have any food, there was no way he could survive if he ran out in such weather.
Meng regrets it very much now, especially when she thinks of her life in a warm room with a fire bed at this time last year, she feels so regretful that her intestines turn blue.
This kind of regret has already started since he was digging copper in Tongshan.
It turns out that this kind of work, which doesn’t seem to be very heavy, will be so tortured after doing it!
This is much heavier than the work of moving rocks before.
He needs ten baskets full of copper ore every day before he can rest.
These ten baskets of ore must be filled. This was the consciousness he had after being hungry twice.
Today he has filled ten baskets of ore, but after pausing here for a while, he started to cut out the ore again with a hammer and chisel.
It wasn't because he wasn't tired, or because he wanted to contribute more to the tribe, but it was just too cold to stop...
