Chen Qi hung the dyed red cloth back to his room to dry. In order to prevent the dyed fruit liquid from staining the underground stone slabs, he also spread a layer of shriveled cattail leaves underneath. The picked ones are not bad after being put for so long, but they lose moisture and become extremely dry, and they are easy to break if they are stronger.
Today, after moving all day with snow, Chen Qi was already exhausted. After drying the cloth, he hurriedly washed and climbed back onto the kang. The kang was warm, and Chen Qi let out a comfortable sigh as soon as he got into the bed. "I really want to hibernate in bed all the time in winter." Chen Qi said with emotion.
Aze helped him tuck the quilt, and said with a smile, "You can stay under the quilt all the time, and I can support you."
Chen Qi looked at him and smiled, stretched his cold hands into A Ze's bed, touched the other's waist, A Ze's body stiffened quickly, and felt his face was hot, as if he was about to burn .
With great difficulty, Chen Qi groped for the other's wide palm, which was covered with rough calluses, and felt a little distressed, "Ah Ze, I really want to be with you."
Feeling Chen Qi gently rubbing his fingers, A Ze responded softly, "En."
Aze returned to the heated kang earlier than Chen Qi, and his hands were much warmer than his. Chen Qi inserted his fingers into the other's and clasped them tightly. , Not long after, he fell into a deep sleep.
Hearing Chen Qi's steady breathing, the temperature on Aze's face also slowly dropped, he turned his head sideways to stare at the other's sleeping face, leaned over to lightly touch the corner of Chen Qi's lips, and smiled softly, "Good night."
Early the next morning, Azhang and Aze went to the forest to cut trees. The heavy snow did not affect the speed of the females, and soon they disappeared into the vast snowfield.
The fence that was added yesterday was not completely frozen, and Chen Qi didn't plan to continue to increase it now. The yard is very big. After discussing with several people, Chen Qi decided to expand the fence by about one meter in the yard.
After Ah Jing fed the little wolf cub, he carried it back to its den, and told it not to move around. The little wolf cub wagged its tail in the den and whined twice at Ah Jing. I do not understand.
Regardless of A Jing's young age, his strength is much stronger than Chen Qi's. The wooden barrel is too big for him to hold with his hands too short, so he took a pottery plate to help melt the snow. Yesterday A Ze cleared the house to the fence Aside from being trampled on a bit muddy, Ah Jing walked very smoothly holding the pottery plate filled with water. If he was not afraid of the water spilling out, he could have run directly.
Seeing that Ah Jing insisted on helping, Chen Qi had no choice but to agree, and told him to stop and rest when he was tired.
Azhang and Azhang didn't come back until night. He and Aze each carried a dozen tall trees more than seven or eight meters long. From a distance, it felt like two large bundles of firewood were moving fast, and they were completely invisible. silhouette.
"What's the matter? Is there any abnormality in the forest?" Chen Qi served a bowl of ginger syrup for the two of them. Ginger soup can help dispel the cold. Soups are served with a little sugar. Chen Qi had already made all the shuiruo into candy, but now there is no shortage of candy.
"Nothing unusual." Azhang shook his head, took the ginger syrup and took a big gulp. The warm liquid poured into his throat, instantly warming his cold body.
"It shouldn't be something wrong with the forest that caused the locust dragons to run to the plain." Chen Qi rubbed his chin and thought for a while and replied.
"If you're worried, I can follow the locust dragon swarm to see where their destination is." Aze put down the empty pottery bowl.
"No need." Chen Qi shook his head, "The locust dragons didn't take the initiative to attack us, it would be bad if they were caught rashly following them, and we don't know how far or how long they will go."
Since they couldn't find the reason why the locust dragon suddenly appeared on the plain, the few people no longer struggled. The real threat in winter was the hyena dragon, and they could feel more at ease if the defensive wall was built as soon as possible.
A few people cut the newly cut firewood into sections and cut them into sharp stakes. After finishing all the work, it was already dark, so they planned to continue working on the outer wall tomorrow.
In the evening, Chen Qi first went to check the two pieces of cloth dyed yesterday. After drying for a day, the color was a little light. Chen Qi melted the fruit dye solution in the fire for a while and dyed it again.
After drying the two red cloths again, Chen Qi used another pottery plate to open a black dyed fruit. The black dyed fruit does not need to be adjusted in color. After Chen Qi opened it, he put the prepared cloth into the pottery plate This time the cloth was not as big as the red cloth, but four cloths were dyed.
"Chen Qi, why are you dyeing so much cloth?"
"Make clothes." Chen Qi took the dyed cloth back to the room to dry. He asked Aze to help him make several wooden shelves, and now they are all filled with wet dyed cloth. Chen Qi looked at it with satisfaction. Looking at his results, he washed up under A Ze's suspicious eyes, then got back into the warm bed on the kang, and fell asleep after finding A Ze's warm hand to hold.
Nothing to say all night.
The next day, he went to the outside of the wall and buried the pickets in the wall to raise the wall. The weather was not good today, and Azhang and Aze didn’t go to the forest again. Chen Qi asked Azhang to go to the small bamboo forest not far away to cut some When the bamboo came back, the bamboo grew very thick, and when it was broken, it was sharpened and it could play a defensive role like a picket and a porpoise dragon bone staggered and buried in the wall.
When the expanded fence was all level, it snowed again, but this time it was no longer a blizzard. Chen Qi found that as soon as it snowed, the temperature would drop by several degrees. Now the fence is almost two meters high, and the rest only needs to wait for it to freeze slowly, and then slowly increase it.
On days when there was no need to build walls and the weather was bad, the orcs began to gather at Chen Qi’s house to continue their studies. Chen Qi opened two pottery dyeing liquids to dye cloth, and he put the black one on the On the desk, he generously took out a large bag of gum leaves, and said to several people: "You guys try to write a diary from today."
"journal?"
"That's right." Chen Qi patted the fruit dye that still had more than half of the pottery plate and said to the others: "It is to write down what happened to you every day. There is a large plate of fruit dye here, enough for you to write."
"Why did you prescribe so many fruit dyes?" Carlo asked.
Chen Qi smiled, and patted Carlo on the shoulder, "I'll leave this plate of fruit dye to you. After you finish writing the diary, you can show it to me. If I find any typos, I will copy the words." After copying it a hundred times, there are still two big bags of gum tree leaves, and if the fruit dye is not enough, there is still a plate of red ones."
Carlo looked at Chen Qi in disbelief, "Are you planning to let us finish writing these two large plates of fruit dye?" They had practiced for more than a week before and used up half of the pottery.
"Diligence can make up for one's weakness." Chen Qi shook his head at Carlo, "Look, your brother has already learned the thousand-character prose, and you are still learning the mermaid story. Use up these two plates of fruit dye and you will be able to catch up with your brother progress."
Carlo choked. The one that said it was a thousand-character script actually didn't have thirty characters, and he could learn it in a day at the speed of Aze. And judging from Chen Qi's appearance, it was clear that he just wanted them to consume the two pottery fruit dyes, so why did they prescribe so many fruit dyes
After Chen Qi explained to a few people, he ran to the side and continued to fiddle with things. Aze watched Chen Qi scratch a small bone with a sword corner knife for a while, pick up a pen to draw something on the gum tree leaf, occasionally frowned as if thinking of some problem, and sometimes frowned. He suddenly grinned silently. A Ze asked Chen Qi what he was busy with recently, but Chen Qi always smiled and did not answer. This feeling of being concealed made A Ze a little uneasy.
Half a month has passed such a day, and after a few snowfalls, the yard has been cleared of snow, and the fence has grown a lot higher. Now it is more than three meters high. Chen Qi made many wooden ladders and placed them along the inside of the fence. In a circle, no matter where you want to climb up the fence, you don't need to move the ladder around.
The locust dragon swarm came back a month later, almost knocking down all the trees blocking the way, leaving behind an unusually obvious road. They seem much more excited than a month ago. Some juvenile locust dragons occasionally stay away from the team and the female locust dragons no longer hold them. Give a loud cry, and the little locust dragons will obediently return to the team when they hear the call.
The route taken by the locust dragons on the return journey this time is a bit different from when they went, and it is much farther away from Chen Qi and his family. Even if there are small locust dragons who leave the team to play, they will be called by the mother locust dragon if they can't walk here. Going back, after the locust dragon swarm passed through completely, Azhang followed them secretly, and did not come back until he saw that the locust dragon swarm had all returned to the forest.
Although the incident with the locust dragons frightened the orcs a lot this time, fortunately, there was no danger. Even if the locust dragons came to attack, the solid ice wall more than three meters thick was enough to stop the locust dragons in their tracks. Enough time for them to evacuate.
A Ze discovered that Chen Qi began to come and go to Ali's house frequently, and the few pieces of dyed black cloth were given to Ali directly after they were dry. When the weather was good, A Ze and A Zhang would go into the forest to cut wood. Everyone can see Chen Qi tinkering with all kinds of things at home, and cook all kinds of delicious food for him, but now when he returns home, he will find that the fire at home has long since cooled down. It was not until A Ze found Ali's house that Chen Qi panicked. In a panic, he packed up his things and followed him back.
Looking at Chen Qi and A Li who were sticking together every day, Aze felt more and more sad. He wanted to ask Uncle A Li what he and Chen Qi were doing several times, but he was afraid that he would not be able to accept the answer. The words turned around a few times before swallowing silently.
The time Aze went out became shorter and shorter, and he came back sooner and earlier. Azhang felt a little helpless when he saw him hurrying home every day.
Seeing that A Ze didn't want to go out anymore, Chen Qi only said that the other party was because the weather was getting colder and colder. Chen Qi now needs to wear three or four thick animal fur clothes when he goes out, and wraps himself up like a rice dumpling every day. Stay by the fire all the time.
A Ze didn't go out and Chen Qi didn't go to look for A Li again. Looking at Chen Qi wandering around at home, the uneasiness in his heart finally subsided a little.