The first snow when winter came, it fell very hard, and the falling snowflakes quickly accumulated on the trees and the ground.
Those trees with broad leaves, all the leaves have fallen off at this moment, are standing bare, but some trees with relatively small leaves are still supported by leaves on the trees.
However, after a snowfall, I am afraid that there will be a lot of "light".
Zhou Ji liked this scene quite a bit, but Kumano didn't let him see it more: "It's such a big snow, how cold, let's stay at home and don't go out, lest we be frozen."
Xiong Ye was really worried about Zhou Ji, and seeing that Zhou Ji didn't respond, he added: "You don't know, a few years ago in the winter, a child in the tribe was starving, ran out to find food, and ended up walking in the snow. For too long, one of his feet was frozen, and after he went back to the tribe to bake a fire, two feet even fell off his legs... He died later."
Kumano said later, fear and sadness appeared on his face.
"There will be no such thing in the future." Zhou Ji hugged Kumano.
Kumano is not very old, he was not an adult a few years ago, the person he is talking about... may be a companion about his size. As for the feet being frozen... After staying in a cold place for a long time, the fingers and toes are easily frozen to death. If they are not handled properly, they may fall off.
"That's right!" Kumano quickly became happy: "In the future, everyone will not be hungry. Now, only the eggs and barley can feed a lot of people. These things will be more abundant next year."
Zhou Ji nodded.
It is impossible for a tribe to grow and grow by relying only on hunting and gathering to obtain food, but if it develops cultivation... it can feed many, many people.
Zhou Ji and Kumano returned to their bedroom together.
Considering that Xionghe's animal shape is very large, their bedroom is also very large, with a length and width of five meters. In this bedroom, in addition to a bed, there is a large pit.
Zhou Ji laid animal skins on the side of the pit and lit a fire in the pit, and the room became warm.
The walls were very, very thick mud walls, the windows were sealed, and the light was only lit by a lit fire... The room warmed up all at once.
Zhou Ji put his reclining chair by the fire, and then took out some pumpkin seeds for Kumano to eat.
After he brought back the pumpkin, the tribe began to plant it.
Pumpkin is sweet, the priest likes it very much, and the children in the tribe like it very much, so they carefully keep the pumpkin seeds, and plan to make seeds to continue planting next year.
Zhou Ji brought all these seeds over. The external claim is that the seeds are in his hands and will be easy to sow next year, but in fact... He fried half of them into pumpkin seeds - anyway, you don't need so many seeds to grow pumpkins.
Put nothing in the clay pot and heat it first, then pour in the pumpkin seeds. After frying for a while, add a little water that has dissolved a lot of salt, fry for a while, and the pumpkin seeds with salty taste are ready.
Unfortunately, there are too few.
"What is this?" Kumano asked.
"Pumpkin seeds, try it." Zhou Ji said.
Kumano grabbed a few pumpkin seeds, threw them directly into his mouth, chewed them and ate them: "It's delicious."
Zhou Ji chuckled: "Eat more if you like."
He said, took a few, and knocked slowly.
It was funny for Kumano to see that Zhou Ji still peeled the shell after eating such a small thing.
The outer shell of this pumpkin seed is not hard, so there is no need to peel it at all! But it's probably more delicious when peeled.
Seeing Zhou Ji eating so slowly, Kumano didn't move those pumpkin seeds. He can eat such a little pumpkin seed in a few bites, and he doesn't think it's delicious, so he might as well not eat it and keep it for Zhou Ji.
But the husking thing made Kumano think of what he could do - he found tools and a large bucket of barley, and began to husk the barley.
After the new home was built, Zhou Ji once planted a lot of barley in her yard. These barley had already been collected and dried, but they didn't have time to hull them. Now they are free.
Zhou Ji eats pumpkin seeds, and Kumano gently taps the barley to hull the barley. The two surround the fire and enjoy a rare leisure time.
"This house is really nice. I used to live in a cave, and even if there was a fire, it was still cold." Kumano said. He used to live in a cave all the time. At that time, even if he put a lot of animal skins and feathers under his body, he still felt cold, but this house was different.
The soil under their feet has been smashed and burned, and now a fire has been lit... Sitting next to the fire pit now, the mud under him is warm and makes people want to lie down.
"Wait next year, let the people in the tribe build more houses, and everyone can live in houses." Zhou Ji said. Although the col is safe, the living conditions are definitely not as good as the house.
"I think so too!" Kumano told Zhou Ji about his many thoughts about the future, and then began to talk about the various things he encountered during the winter.
"When I was in winter, I didn't have salt, and the meat I ate would stink. Later, I made a snowdrift outside to freeze the meat, but I don't know who stole the meat..."
"I went to catch fish in the winter. I dug a hole in the ice, and those fish would come out and catch one! I'll catch you in a few days!"
"Winter has just passed, and when the snow melts, a lot of tender grass will grow, which is delicious."
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Zhou Ji touched Kumano's head, what Kumano said was real grass, it must not be delicious, he would think it was delicious, it should be because of starvation.
"Don't touch my head..." Kumano said, something was stuffed in his mouth, and after chewing, he realized that it was a peeled pumpkin seed.
Zhou Ji has been peeling the shell just now, and he peeled a small handful out, and he ate it!
Kumano said: "Forget it, you can touch it if you want." Zhou Ji probably didn't have a beast shape, so he liked his hair very much, and touched his head... Because after he became a human shape, there was only hair on his head.
Kumano felt that he could still tolerate this little hobby of his partner.
In those days before, Kumano had been very busy, but now that he is suddenly free, he has nothing to do. After husking the barley, Kumano said: "Now that I am full and warm, I don't want to hibernate at all. I don't want to go out, I have nothing to do."
"I have something to do." Zhou Ji said, "Let's learn to read."
Kumano: "…"
Zhou Ji said again: "If you can learn twenty words today, I will tell you a story."
Kumano immediately became refreshed: "Okay!" When Zhou Ji taught him how to fight before, he once told him stories, and those stories were very nice, and he really wanted to hear them.
"Then let's start learning. After I finish learning, I will tell you the story of Xiong Da Xiong Er." Zhou Ji said again, and then while teaching, he recalled a certain cartoon that he had glanced at a few times, and started by the way. make up a story.
It is definitely not enough to talk about cartoons directly. He will tell the story of Xiong Da Xiong Er who went on an adventure outside and eventually became the Beast King. Kumano must like such a story.
When Kumano was thinking about listening to the story, and excitedly began to study, in the priest's cave, the tall Xiong He sat opposite the thin priest, his face full of despair.
In winter, a strong man like him, who has a lot of food, should obviously sleep in his cave with his arms around his woman. Why is he here facing the priest's wrinkled old face and carrying things
Xiong He couldn't help but said: "Priest, I can't communicate with the beast god, I don't think I'm suitable to be a priest." He had never felt the beast god!
The priest was very calm: "It's okay, I can't communicate with the beast god like you."
Bear River: "… "
When Xiong He was depressed, Kumano had already learned twenty words, and then he lay comfortably beside Zhou Ji and began to listen to Zhou Ji's stories.
Bear Big Bear II is amazing! He wants to learn from them!