The temperature in late winter is more than twice as cold as that in early winter. Now, like Carlo, Chen Qi hides in a warm room every day and refuses to go out. Aze is also worried that he will be cold. He and Aze have to clean up the snow every day. Ke and Azhang could do it together, Ali couldn't be turned into a beast, and Azhang wouldn't let him out.
Because the temperature changes are too big, A Yao is still young, and Carlo no longer runs to Chen Qi's house every day. The first thing he does when he wakes up every day is to teach A Yao how to walk. The little girl who is only a few months old, Now he is able to crawl fast on all fours, and that speed is already comparable to that of a wolf cub.
A Li still reported to Chen Qi's house every day. Chen Qi still had a lot of root hairs and thread, and now let A Li use them all to weave into cloth. The tenacity of the root hair thread is much stronger than that of a cocoon, so it is not easy. Abrasion is the best material for making field clothes, and the cloth woven from the root fibers is more breathable than cocoons. In addition to feeling a little rough on the body, it should be just right to wear in the hot summer, better than beasts It is much better for people to wear animal fur clothes in hot weather.
After the cloth was woven, Chen Qi did not finish the clothes before drawing patterns on it as before, but put the whole piece of cloth into the dyed fruit solution of the adjusted color. Now that winter is coming to an end, the use of dyed fruit Chen Qi didn't worry anymore.
Chen Qi dyed the whole piece of cloth green and spread it on the floor of the washroom. The floor was covered with some wooden planks and cattail leaves, so as not to stain the floor with the fruit dye.
The dry mud prepared by Chen Xun was broken into pieces and thrown on the dripping cloth. The water on the cloth was absorbed by the mud, and the color that was originally neat was made darker and lighter, and some places were still wet. Reddish brown stained with mud. When the color was almost absorbed, Chen Qicai removed the mud on it, and put the cloth on the rack next to it to dry.
Ali felt a little heartbroken when he saw that a good piece of cloth was stained by Chen Qi. Although he knew that Chen Qi would not waste a piece of cloth that was woven with great difficulty for no reason, he couldn't help but asked a little worriedly: "Chen Qi, what are you doing?" Can this cloth still be worn after doing this?"
Chen Qi handed Ali a wooden board with a pattern of camouflage uniforms drawn on it, "I want to dye the cloth in this color."
Chen Qi originally wanted to use salt to give texture to the cloth, but salt is a rare commodity here, and it would be too wasteful to do so, so he planned to use mud instead. Obviously, for Chen Qi, a novice cloth dyer, it is necessary to dye Camouflage patterns are still more difficult.
Looking at the green and red pieces of cloth after washing and drying, Chen Qi would think it dirty if used as a rag. He sighed at the failure, and Chen Qi mixed another plate of gray-green dyed fruit. He put the cloth in it and dyed it two or three times before the color of the cloth became normal. Then he took a brush and forcibly drew a camouflage pattern on it with yellow and black.
Looking at the rough camouflage cloth with satisfaction, Chen Qi waved to A Li, "A Li, help me make a camouflage uniform according to this pattern, just make it according to A Ze's size."
Chen Qi explained the main points of the camouflage uniform to Ali in detail. When Ali started to make it, he started to make belts, real belts.
Chen Qi only made the belt once when he got married, so it is easier to do it now than before, but the one he made before is really not as rough, and the color of the camouflage uniform is not the same. It was too good, so he decided to make another one.
The leather used for the belt is a kind of cowhide, which is brownish and has a certain degree of toughness. Chen Qi first cut it to the length, then polished the edge with a smaller grindstone, and colored the edge finely with brown fruit dye, and waited for it to dry. After polishing the belt with turpentine, there is no way, there is no suitable material here, so I can only use turpentine instead.
The buckle is made of bone, and the cowhide is very tough. It took a lot of time to punch the belt. After Chen Qi polished the belt and sealed the belt with melted glue, Ali has already made almost all the clothes.
Chen Qi couldn't wait to ask A Ze to come back and try it on. Every evening and early morning, the snow in the yard needed to be cleaned up. Chen Qi could hear it as long as he stood at the door and called A Ze.
When A Ze changed into this set of clothes that took several days to make, Chen Qi couldn't help whistling, "A Ze, you are more handsome than those little brothers who were handed over."
"Is there any other use for this kind of clothes?" A Li watched Chen Qi toss a lot of time from the cloth to the final product. The strange patterns on the clothes were drawn by him meticulously stroke by stroke. In the past, he didn't pay much attention to other clothes. He always threw the design drafts to Ali, at most he would explain or ask him if Ali didn't understand.
"Isn't it necessary to go hunting in the forest after summer starts? Wearing this kind of clothes should be able to camouflage a little, so that it is not easy to be spotted by prey."
Most of the cloaks that Chen Qi prepares for the females in winter are made of white animal skins. As long as you put on the hoods and lie down in the snowdrift, it is difficult to see that there is another person here, but the animal skins are rarely green. Dragons are much smarter than the creatures on the plains. Aze told him that hunting in summer is not so easy. Then he remembered that if he could make a few sets of camouflage clothes, it should increase the hunting success of the females. Rate.
"This suit really suits you." Chen Qi walked around Aze a few times, Aze's back was very straight, and he stood there with a bit of a soldier's heroic posture.
Aze's ears are red, he likes to hear Chen Qi praise himself.
Hearing Chen Qi say that the clothes can increase camouflage, Azhang, who followed behind to join in the fun, also went over to take a closer look, except for the strange color blocks on the clothes, he really couldn't see where the clothes could be camouflaged, but this Still unable to reduce his enthusiasm for the so-called camouflage uniform, Azhang returned to Ali and said flatteringly, "You can help me make one too."
A Li gave him an angry look, picked up another set of cloth that hadn't started to be dyed, and asked Chen Qi how to paint the camouflage pattern.
The cloth at home is just enough to make three sets of camouflage uniforms, one for each of the three females, but Chen Qi hasn't figured out how to simply dye the camouflage, so it's a waste of time to paint with a brush every time Fortunately, Ali's learning ability is good, and he can draw a similar camouflage pattern according to his own appearance.
Although the snow did not show signs of stopping, Chen Qi was worried that the snow would really fall until summer. When he was free these days, he asked Aze and the others to start digging a drainage ditch on the edge of the fence to avoid When the ice starts to melt, the water will not drain and will flow back into the house.
It was another month without a day, this day Aze went to guard in the middle of the night, because of the cold weather, Chen Qi's sleepiness in the morning came out again, he tossed and turned in bed for almost half an hour before he gritted his teeth and prepared to get up Before he could put on his clothes, at this moment, the heavy wooden door was suddenly kicked open with a "bang", and the cold wind blew in with snowflakes. Chen Qi couldn't help shivering, and the sleeping Ah Jing also Woke up by this movement.
A Ze was still breathing cold, he walked to the bed in two or three steps, and before he could explain, he picked up an animal skin quilt and wrapped it around Chen Qi, then carried him behind his back, picked up A Jing with one hand and lifted him up with the other. The little wolf cub who was still drooling in his sleep, before Chen Qi could ask what happened, Aze rushed to the door, jumped up a few times and climbed onto the tall fig tree next to him.
"What's the matter? Is there another hyena dragon attacking?" Chen Qi lowered his voice and asked nervously.
Aze shook his head and put Ajing down, "It's not an attack."
While talking, Ake carried Carlo on his back, and Azhang also climbed to the top of the tree with Ali on his back. Then Chen Qi heard a rumbling sound, and then there was a huge sound of water.
The snow did not know when it had stopped. The moonless morning turned from dense night to day almost instantly. When Chen Qixun looked in the direction of the sound, he happened to see the tall and tall The ice wall collapsed almost instantly, and a huge water flow rushed to the surroundings, and then flowed from the yard to the house where several people lived.
The half-dug drainage canal did not have time to divert such a large flow of water.
Through the door that was still too late to close, Chen Qi saw that the burning fire in the hall was instantly extinguished by the water, black carbon was scattered all around, and tables, chairs, futons and the like were washed aside. Even the tall fig tree that several people were temporarily in was shaken by the current, and Aze hurriedly supported Chen Qi's shoulders to prevent him from falling into the tree.
Chen Qi looked at all this in shock, his brain still couldn't react, "What's going on? Why did the wall suddenly collapse?"
"Because the ice melted."
"How could the ice suddenly melt?" Chen Qi was puzzled. Even if such a large wall was to be melted, it would not be possible to do it in an instant. If you set up a fire under the wall, it would take hours to burn it. ? How could it be that the entire ice wall suddenly turned into water
Aze gathered the animal skin quilt that Chen Qi was wearing, and said softly: "Summer is here."
It was only then that Chen Qi discovered that with the collapse of the ice wall and the disappearance of the thick snow that originally covered the entire plain, without the wall to block his sight, Chen Qi could clearly see the speed of snow melting, as well as the snow on the plain. The gurgling water, and the traces of greenery that did not know when to emerge from under the snow.
The water came and went quickly, and there was almost no pooling of water around. Only the raised threshold in the room could not let the water gushing into the room flow out again.
With the passage of time, the temperature has been so cold that you have to stomp your feet when you are wrapped in animal skin quilts, and it gradually becomes hotter and hotter. It seems that the moon has no sun. Instant effort.
Chen Qi stared blankly at this change, this change was completely beyond his cognition.
Aze had already taken back the fur that had turned into a beast, and Ajing had carried the little wolf cub down to the ground long after the water receded. Now the two little guys are excitedly stepping on the stagnant water in the grass to play.
Seeing the two little guys having fun, A Yao kept waving their little hands, as if he wanted to join in.
"This is summer." Chen Qi looked around and murmured.