The flat and happy days always pass quickly, the weather is getting colder and colder, and everyone's clothes are getting thicker and thicker. A lot of coal, food, and medicine have already been stocked in Bai Mu's space. The large crossbows in the tribe were also completed, and they were covered with thick animal skins after everyone learned to use them. In order to cope with the sudden situation, Patriarch Er and Patriarch Buz divided the female Xi_ng and the underage orcs with combat ability into groups.
As long as something happens, everyone does not have to gather and go directly to their designated location. Because there is no place where you originally lived in the canyon, the view is wide. So in order to save time, the two patriarchs made arrangements in advance.
The houses close to each other are in a group, and large crossbows are used to assist in protection. The surrounding area is guarded by little orcs and those who have not operated the crossbow to prevent the flying birds that slip through the net from hurting the crossbowman. The orcs were also divided into five groups, two groups at the city wall, and the other three groups to deal with the possible flying birds in the sky.
As the weather kept getting colder, finally ushered in the first heavy snowfall of winter. Bai Mu was standing in the courtyard wrapped in a thick leather jacket, with his hands in furry sleeves, watching this world gradually being frozen in ice.
Bai Mu looked at the world covered in silver and frozen water, without the awe when he first saw it. Right now he Looking at these will only think of those ferocious herds. He felt someone approaching behind him, and he didn't need to look back to know who came. Asked softly: "Selte, when do you say the herd will come this year?"
"I don't know, but we moved. This year should be more night than usual!" Celtic was wearing a black fur coat. , The waist design makes him not only look bloated, but also more handsome. He stood side by side with Bai Mu, looking at this world that seemed to lose its vitality. But he knew that there was a vigorous breath of life under the heavy snow, and they would be full of new vitality after the heavy snow melted.
"If you have spare energy this year, let the patriarch send someone to look up the reasons for the abnormalities of the herd. If you find out, you will have a bottom line." If something is abnormal, it is a demon. Only by identifying the root cause of the problem can we better protect it. tribe. And this can be regarded as knowing oneself and the enemy, a hundred battles will not end.
"Yeah." Even if Bai Mu didn't say anything, the patriarch would send someone to investigate if he had spare capacity.
"This canyon is really a good place. It feels like it's not as cold outside in winter. I just don't know what it looks like outside now?" As Yi-n spoke, the sun’s sky was sprinkled with light snow, and it fell on Bai Mu On her skin, it melted into water, and it was cold to the bones.
"Go back, the weather is getting colder and colder, don't freeze."
"Yeah." Bai Mu nodded and walked into the room with Celter and closed the door.
All the doors in the house connected to the outside were closed tightly, and curtains were hung with old animal skins to prevent cold wind from pouring in through the gaps. Therefore, the whole house is still very warm. In order to save resources, they will gather in Tabor's room most of the day. Only when they go to bed at night will they heat up all the kangs and return to their own room.
After entering the house, Celter wiped off the snowflakes on Bai Mu's clothes, and when he touched his cold skin, he quickly made him go to the Kang to warm him.
Leizhe still spends this winter with them. Leizhe and Tabor live in the same room, and Angelo live in the same room. In addition, the conditions have improved a lot in winter this year. The kang head is so hot that I feel comfortable sleeping on it. At this time, he was fighting against the landlord with Tabor and Anqiluo on the kang under a quilt.
On the kang table were playing cards made of thin wood chips, as well as a plate of melon seeds, some Bai Mu's homemade dried meat, and preserved fruits. Several people were sitting together eating and playing cards. Recently, these people are very addicted to playing cards, and they spend their days eating snacks and playing cards on the kang. If one of Celtic and Lei Zhe went to stand guard, they would switch to double buckle. If Lei Zhe and Celtic both went, Bai Mu would fight the landlord. Everyone was having fun. The only resentment was Celter, because this made him spend less time intimacy with Bai Mu.
Feeling the cold, Bai Mu kicked his shoes and climbed up to the kang. The whole person was nestled in a thick quilt of animal skins, and it took a while before he recovered.
Then Celtic who came in also squeezed onto the kang and embraced him in his warm embrace. He was angry and funny and said: "Looking at the way you were in a daze just now, I thought you were not cold."
"You Everyone said that I was in a daze, and it would be easy to ignore something in a daze."
"It's warmer now?"
"Yeah."
"I said Celtic, can you please stop here to excite people." Lei Zhe looked at them as if there was no one else. Tired, closed the cards in his hand and complained.
"When you are paired with Anqiluo, it may be worse than we are." Celt said lightly.
"Brother Lei Zhe, it's your turn to play the cards. You still want to play. Is it because you, the landlord, is about to lose, so I want to shame." Tabor urged him to play.
"Nothing." Lei Zhe ignored the couple and continued to focus on the row.
Tabor has shredded pork in his mouth, chubbyHolding the poker in his hand, a pair of clever, big eyes rolled around, constantly calculating. Anqiluo is similar to him, now he patronizes the cards in his hand.
After Bai Mu warmed up, he went to the space to cook. Now the weather is too cold, and almost always make the back end in the space. If Bai Mu can't get out of bed, Angelo will cook in the kitchen at home.
The small days of the day lived in such a peaceful way, because they were worried that the herd would attack at night and Bai Mu and the others did not enter the space. Every time Celtic and Bai Mu rolled the bed, Bai Mu would endure trying not to make a sound. Celt thinks this kind of white animal husbandry is extraordinarily cute, and can't help but do everything possible to please him. Seeing him move, because he is shy and more sensitive, he can't control his impulse.
In fact, there is a lot of snow outside these days, and there is no need to worry about the sound coming to the next door. But Bai Muhao didn't know about it, so he was bullied by Celtic every time. And every time Celtic diarrhea in Bai Mu's body, he would stay in his body for a period of time, and would not immediately take it out. Bai Mu was very distressed about this, because it would be easy to wipe the gun and misfire. But Celter was always happy, knowing that this was all for Bai Mu to conceive as soon as possible. If Bai Mu can't get out of bed the next day, everyone will come to the kitchen to start cooking with a tacit understanding.
At this time, Celter would continue to be tired and crooked in the room with Bai Mu, the direct result was that Bai Mu had to continue to nest on the kang again.
In winter, every family hides in their house Maodong. Everything is good this day, but it is not very convenient to get water. The water in the gorge was frozen, and the water everyone used was melted with snow. It’s a little inconvenient to take a bath. Not only do you have to boil a lot of water, but you also have to set up a small stove to bake it, and then get into the warm bed after washing.
However, such conditions are much better than before, and there are a lot more types of food this winter than in previous years. In addition to last year’s potatoes, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, dried fish, etc., you can now make some meat porridge or sit on gnocchi to improve your food.
In a blink of an eye, the first heavy snowfall stopped, and people did not notice the herd. After ten days, it started to snow again, and everyone continued to live their own little days at home without going out. If the weather is warmer, practice arrows. If the weather is bad, sleep on the kang or make small things.
In this way, more than two months passed by, and just when people thought that this year's herd would not appear again, the sound of the horn spread all over the canyon. The orcs acted immediately according to their groupings. Female Xi_ng is no longer weak this time, they also put on thick leather clothes and bows and arrows on their backs. This time they are no longer the weak who need protection, and they can also protect the tribe.
This time, apart from the adult female Xi_ng who is pregnant and has a small child, the rest of the females Xi_ng are assigned as originally assigned and come to the side of the large crossbow with the minor orcs. They took off the hides covering the crossbow and quickly cleared the snow.
The Sh_e range of these large crossbows is about 350 meters, which can be regarded as a Xi_ng weapon of mass destruction for birds. Bai Mu was also very confident about this, and they had experimented when it was completed. Even if you can't kill with one arrow, you can pull the bird down and kill it with the arrow's barb and connecting rope.
Patriarch Bouzi is responsible for leading people to defend the city gate, and Patriarch Er is responsible for the battle command over the valley. Everyone took their own responsibilities, and basically arrived at their respective posts after the horns stopped.
Patriarch Booth stood on the wall, under the wall, the herd of animals constantly trying to climb up. Fortunately, they built the city gate with heavy stones before the winter, otherwise the thick city gate really could not stop such an offensive. Seeing the beasts in the tunnel, Patriarch Booth frowned.
Now this person is good defensive, but his vision is not good enough to grasp the situation of the herd. No, you have to draw a group of people to investigate the situation of the herd.
"Abuli, you take a few people to find out how many beasts are coming this time, and whether there are emperor beasts in it." Patriarch Bouzi called in Abuli and asked him to take someone to check.
"Yes, patriarch." Abuli quickly flew out with five orcs.
Patriarch Booth looked at their distant figures, expecting that what they brought back would not be bad news. He has just lived a stable life now and doesn't want to just lose it.
At this time, the orcs on the city wall were holding their bows and arrows and sh_e continuously, while the other group was boiling hot oil. They will drop firewood later, then pour the hot oil down and light it. Besieged the herd and burned to death to stop their ferociousattack. According to Bai Mu's meaning, as long as the big birds in the air are eliminated, those at the door can slowly fight attrition.