Su Qiao rolled her eyes at him and said, "Do you think you can still stand here if you did it on purpose?"
"Stop whining and go hunting in the woods."
"Yes, ma'am."
Zhao Jingting knew that she had forgiven him, and immediately happily helped her hold the axe and followed her like a servile servant.
Seeing that the mute uncle behind him turned his head away, Xiao Qingyang became even more confused.
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The next day, Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting went out with the team to gather information and look for winter clothes.
Although I was as tired as a donkey after running all day, I still found some unused quilts and clothes in some uninhabited farmhouses.
Although they are neither new nor old, they are still good enough to last through the winter after being washed and cooled.
When Xiao Qingyang got the clothes and shoes given to him, he was as happy as if it was New Year.
The clothes he was wearing were picked up from others on the street. The sleeves and trouser legs were a bit long and were worn out in many places.
Most of the people who received the clothes and quilts were very happy.
They don’t care whether the clothes are old or not, as long as they keep warm.
Moreover, the clothes many of them wore were actually stripped from dead bodies while they were fleeing famine.
Although this behavior is not very nice, there is no other way. The weather is getting colder and they have to save their lives.
Two days after I got the clothes and quilts back, it rained heavily and the temperature dropped suddenly. When I got up in the morning, the grass and leaves were covered with frost.
In order to survive this winter, people in the camp became increasingly busy.
Anything edible in the forest, whether it was wild vegetables, mushrooms, wild fruits, or even edible Chinese toon leaves, were all brought back, blanched in boiling water, and then dried in the sun or on a kang.
No matter whether it is river snails, clams, fish or shrimps in the river, no matter how small they are, they will be brought back, cleaned, smoked dry and put into baskets.
Thanks to everyone's efforts, the vegetables, fruits and melons in the field have begun to sprout. In order to prevent the seedlings from freezing to death, a layer of hay has been lightly covered on them.
Su Qiao, Zhao Jingting, Uncle Ya and Xiao Qingyang ran to the woods every day.
We would give them an extra meal outside every day to fatten them up, and when we came back, we would usually bring back a lot of prey.
Whether it is wild boars, wild rabbits, wild deer, gazelles, pheasants, voles, snakes, sparrows, bird eggs, etc., as long as it is edible and has something to do with meat, they will bring it back.
Every time they came back, there was a cheer in the camp.
Su Qiao had secretly taken some anesthetics and wanted to go to the deep mountains to hunt wolves, but was stopped by Zhao Jingting.
He felt that wolves were too dangerous and troublesome, and that if he killed one, there would likely be a pack of them, which would bring danger to the camp.
In addition to hunting, Su Qiao also found a way to build the simplest kang for his own house and the house of his uncle Ya and his friends.
In fact, it is just to dig a ditch on the ground, then lay stone slabs on it, and then lay hay and straw mats on the stone slabs. Then leave an air vent at one end of the ditch leading to the outside, and the other end is connected to the simple stove in the center of the house.
As long as firewood is lit in the stove, hot air will come out through the ditch to another hole, and heat the stone slabs when passing through the stone bed.
The whole process is simple and easy to learn, and it doesn’t take much effort. It can be done in two or three hours.
Su Qiao's move attracted many people to follow suit, especially some older people and women, who all ran to the foot of the stone mountain to pick up thin and flat stone slabs. The whole camp was busy.