The cold season is coming, and the Xinghuo tribe ushered in the first snow.
When I woke up in the morning, the whole tribe was covered in white, and there were still snowflakes in the sky.
Before dawn, the people in charge of tribal cleaning work have already started to clear the snow on the main road.
"It's snowing, it's snowing, the weather is colder, and the harvest will be good next year." The one-eyed person in charge of sweeping the snow said cheerfully while shoveling the snow.
He was wearing a thick padded jacket, a hat and gloves made of wool on his head and hands, and boots made of animal skins on his feet. He was tightly wrapped up.
Working in the cold wind, I can't feel the coldness at all, and the whole person feels warm.
Cyclops is already quite old. He has already passed the prime of life, and he is an ordinary person. What he feared most in the past was the cold season.
Every time he was very worried that he would freeze to death and starve to death in this cold season.
During the cold season, he would not leave the cave unless he had no choice.
During the harvest season, he would collect a lot of firewood, and stay by the fire in winter to prevent himself from freezing to death.
I also try to feed myself well during the harvest season when there is plenty of food, in order to make it easier to survive the cold season.
Try to move as little as possible so that your stomach will not be consumed so quickly.
Without what he did, ordinary people with average strength and reduced physical fitness could easily not survive the winter.
In the past, the tribe gave very little food to the elderly, so most people did not live long.
This is also impossible. The tribe itself does not have enough food. Of course, they are more willing to give it to young adults with more energy, or children who represent hope.
But now it's different!
One-eyed can also get thick clothes, live in a warm house, and have enough food to eat.
The most important thing is that there are many things to do in the tribe, which can create value, and they are not dispensable useless people!
Cyclops cherishes his current life very much. When he knew there were rebels, he was very, very angry. Every time he passed by the corpses of those people, he would spit.
"Why? Wouldn't the weather be too cold to freeze the things we planted?" The orc child who swept the floor with One Eye asked puzzled.
"You don't understand that." Cyclops explained proudly, "It's cold in winter, which can freeze the eggs of pests in the soil. Next year, there will be fewer pests, so the things we plant will grow better."
The orc child suddenly realized: "So that's the case! You know a lot!"
"This is what God's envoy said, and this is the wisdom bestowed by God! With God's wisdom, our life will be better and better." Cyclops said earnestly.
"So you have to study hard and learn knowledge to make our tribe better and better."
The face of the orc child immediately fell down: "But going to school is so difficult, even harder than hunting!"
"You have to learn, not to mention how good you are, at least you can count, do arithmetic and recognize characters. There are many interesting story books in the tribal library. If you don't know characters, you won't be able to read them!"
"I let someone else tell me."
One-eyed stretched out his finger and nodded his head: "You, you, I've been studying at such an old age, why are you so unmotivated!"
The orc child wanted to cry but had no tears: "But it's really difficult. I'm serious every time I go to class, but I just don't understand."
One-eyed patted his head sympathetically: "Poor kid."
The orc child sighed deeply: "But I would rather go to school than imagine that I was starving and freezing before."
The old and the young gathered up their clothes again, their whole bodies were wrapped in warmth, and they didn't feel cold when the cold wind blew on their faces.
The two looked at each other and smiled, speeding up the cleaning, trying to clear the roads before dawn, so as not to delay the normal operation of the tribe.
When Yang Yi woke up, the snow had stopped and all the roads had been cleared, but he could still see the whole land covered in silver, revealing another kind of beauty.
"No wonder it's so cold, it's snowing." Yang Yi pushed open the window, his eyes brightened.
Yang Yi is a southerner, and it rarely snows in his hometown.
Even if there is an occasional cold winter, the snowflakes will melt on the ground, and the snow can be built into a palm-sized snowman, and you can take pictures and post them on Moments to show off for a long time.
When he was studying in the north, he often saw snow, which was not surprising, but he was still inexplicably excited every time he saw it.
"It's cold, be careful of the wind and get sick."
Hei Lie walked in, saw Yang Yi blowing the wind without a coat on, couldn't help frowning, and quickly put the coat on Yang Yi's body.
Yang Yi smiled and said, "It's very warm in the room, I'm not that weak."
The two are still sleeping in the same room. Yang Yi proposed to go back to his room after the trade fair.
Black Hunter agreed, but he also followed.
It is said that although all the tribal personnel have been cleaned up, no one can guarantee that there will be fish that slip through the net.
Night is often the peak time for sneak attacks. In order to avoid the recurrence of previous events, Black Hunter felt that he had to stay close to protect him.
Yang Yi finally agreed, and the person who attacked him quickly recovered, but the others were very nervous.
Jiao also organized a special worship activity, asking the gods to bless the Xinghuo tribe, so that such things would never happen again.
There are more people arranged beside Yang Yi, and everyone is very clear about Yang Yi's weight in the Xinghuo Tribe.
Although Yang Yi's guidance is no longer needed in many places, and some people have begun to read the books in the library. Even if Yang Yi leaves, the tribe can still operate normally.
But he is still an indispensable existence. If he is taken away by other tribes, no one can imagine what the tribe will become.
Anyway, I'm used to sleeping together before, and it's true that I feel more secure.
Yang Yi's bed is so big that they don't interfere with each other.
In winter, even though there is a fireplace, the room is still not warm enough, and it is too hot for multiple people to sleep.
"I don't know if this snow will freeze the vegetables in the field to death." Yang Yi worried.
He basically took out the film and other materials prepared in the space to build a greenhouse to ensure the food supply in winter.
In addition to the use of straw to protect the roots of the plants in the greenhouse, they have survived smoothly before. Today, the weather is colder and it snows. I don’t know if I can survive it.
"Qing didn't send anyone to report. It shouldn't be a big problem. I'll find out after a while."
When Yang Yi went to wash up, Hei Lie prepared breakfast, big steamed buns with cornmeal, millet porridge, fried eggs and your little pickles. Although it was very simple, it was very delicious.
The big steamed buns are made from the corn and wheat flour grown by the tribe. They taste very fragrant and are much more delicious than what Yang Yi ate on earth.
He is not a person who eats steamed buns very much, usually steamed buns with stuffing like steamed buns, but here he likes this kind of steamed buns because of the fragrance of the food itself.
Take a bite and fill your mouth with the unique aroma, and the whole person feels comfortable. Even without pickles, he could eat three or four of them the size of a fist.
Yang Yi is the one who brings strong food, but he eats the lightest food in the tribe, and he likes the original aroma of food.
For example, chicken, people in the tribe especially like to eat relatively heavy food such as spicy chicken, but Yang Yi likes to eat white-cut chicken.
You only need to cook the chicken, what seasonings must be added, and when eating, dip some salt, green onion, ginger and sour dipping sauce.
The taste is so good that Yang Yi will never get tired of eating it.
Occasionally, he will make some relatively complicated tricks as a spice. When he comes here, Yang Yi feels that he is particularly satisfied with eating.
Healthy and delicious, getting better has a lot to do with diet.
"How's the aqueduct doing?"
Not long after the canal was excavated, it took Yang Yi, Hong Guang and others a lot of time to investigate and fix the location.
Canals cannot be dug randomly, and must be planned in advance.
Yang Yi only went to see it when the construction was officially started, and then he didn't have time to pay attention.
Black Hunter will pass by every time he trains, and he knows the situation of the canal very well.
"The speed was faster than we expected. The orcs couldn't sit still and ran to dig a ditch." Black Hunter couldn't help laughing.
Digging ditches is only a part of the people. After all, there are not enough tools, and there are other jobs to be done in the tribe.
In order to treat everyone equally, the orcs will also be transferred to dig water canals in proportion, and some people will stay in the tribe to do other work.
Winter work is relatively easy. Although handmade is very hard, it may be much better to live in a warm house than to go out to dig ditches.
Yang Yi was helpless: "These orcs, why don't they know how to be blessed when they are in the blessing, and they don't feel cold if they want to run out."
"This has something to do with their animal talent, and it can't be forced."
"But if they only do some physical work, they may lose balance in the future." This is what Yang Yi is most worried about.
According to the progress of development, some manual jobs without much technical content will be tiring and have low returns for a long period of time.
Although there are many clever orcs, overall, the proportion of orcs with simple minds and well-developed limbs is more.
Black Hunter is not worried about this at all: "This is only temporary, and there will be no such thing as orcs in the future."
"That's true." Yang Yi immediately understood what he meant, "We need to encourage the orcs and the people from the Eastern Continent to be together."
"The current situation is not bad. Everyone doesn't care, but finds it a bit novel."
"novel?"
Black Hunter evoked a weird smile: "With animal talent, I don't know if we will feel different when exercising together."
"..."
Yang Yi feels that he is not the kind of person who is easily shy. He usually speaks pornographically occasionally, and he is even free on the Internet, but he always feels that he is out of place here.
The people here are too calm. When talking about the Harmony Movement, they are as calm as drinking water and eating, but it seems that he is contrived.
After all, he was still affected by certain circumstances, unlike the people here, who are particularly calm and calm.
"Cough, this is also... very good, it can eliminate the barrier."
Hei Lie glanced at Yang Yi: "Hong has found a boy with deer talent and is planning to get married."
Hong was the first person to confess his love to Yang Yi boldly. Yang Yi was still a little distressed before, and didn't know how to deal with this overly hot relationship.
I haven't seen him for a while. It turned out that he knew a new goal, and Yang Yi breathed a sigh of relief.
"This guy is quite fast, and he got married."
Yang Yi was a little surprised by this. Not long ago, he swore that he was the only true love, but he didn't expect to find a new true love in the blink of an eye.
Suddenly, they got married.
Black Hunter said very seriously: "Don't worry, I am completely different from him."