After more than a month of snowfall, Lin'an Prefecture ushered in three consecutive days of sunny weather.
During the day, Taiyang went to and from get off work on time without any slack. Anyone who saw the scene of hard work would have to praise him.
However, the people of Lin'an Prefecture were tortured to death.
Without him, it would be too cold!
The temperature brought by the sun can accelerate the melting of snow and also absorb the surrounding heat.
The originally soft snow that could leave footprints at any time has now become hard, leaving no traces and making it easier to slip.
If you don't pay attention, you can throw someone far away with a "pounce".
This worries all the villagers.
"It's too cold, it's too cold! What can
we do if the walls are frozen?" "Don't even go out now, even if you stay at home, it's still very cold!"
In every household's yard, on the windows, under the walls, Any place where snow had accumulated in the past has become a natural freezer, always letting out air-conditioning.
The number of people catching colds due to the rapid drop in temperature is increasing at an incredible speed, and you can hear the sound of someone coughing even when you walk on the road.
The Shen family was not affected because they drank ginger tea and red date water for three days in a row, but they could not withstand the "enthusiasm" of their neighbors.
Cheng Xi had to take out the quicklime he finally found from Shennong Mountain, make lime water and spray it all over the courtyard for disinfection.
However, when she turned to the north side of the courtyard with a bucket and saw a series of animal footprints, her expression gradually became serious.
"Animals are coming down the mountain."
This is not a good sign.
The last time everyone encountered a 300-pound wild boar halfway up the mountain, Cheng Xi thought it was just an accident.
Now that I think about it, they didn't think deeply about it at the time.
Maybe he was just admiring her heroic appearance.
Cheng Xi stared at the string of small footprints for a long time without understanding what species they were, so he simply called Shen Xingluo over.
"How about it, can you tell what kind of animal it is?"
"It's a wolf."
Shen Xingluo's expression was more solemn than hers.
Wolf? What the hell are these wolf claws? !
Cheng Xi doubted life, she thought it was left by some kind of soft-legged animal!
Now it's better, it's all big in one go!
"Wolves are supposed to be social animals, right?"
"So this one was just exploring the way and didn't attract our attention."
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This is indeed true. If it hadn't been for disinfection and sterilization today, they wouldn't have been found.
Cheng Xi was depressed. Why did the animals come down the mountain? Of course it was because there was no food.
They are using the foot of the mountain as a storage warehouse -
"Should we be lucky that wolves can't climb trees?"
Otherwise, the two-and-a-half-meter wall of their house would not be enough to build, and they might be broken into one night.
Shen Xingluo nodded and shook his head, "Don't be careless. I'll go to the sixth uncle's house first."
His family is the only one in the village who has a two-and-a-half-meter-high wall. Most people can't build the wall so high. Some people can't even build it one meter high. There are no high fences.
It's nothing during the day, but it's easy to get into trouble at night.
"Go, go."
Watching Shen Xingluo's figure disappear from sight, Cheng Xi looked around and saw no one ducking before entering the space.
She emerged from the black earth outside the small courtyard of the villa. Since the space became larger, this place has become a place where she often comes.
Seven or eight kinds of medicinal materials have been planted on the originally more than one acre of black land. The first few ginseng plants planted have already turned green and are now dancing happily with a few green leaves.
Cheng Xi hasn't figured out how time is calculated in space, but she also knows that these ginseng plants are completely different from when she first sent them in.
There was no time to observe them this time. After entering the yard, she went straight to the underground storage room.
After searching for a long time, I finally found the power grid rolled into a mess.
"Fortunately, you are here."
As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves, you are afraid of being missed. Although the wolves can't enter the wall of their house, they are scary enough outside.
Well now, she has electricity!
"I'm afraid you won't come!"
Once you come, don't leave, stay!
Cheng Xi took out the power grid after it was fully charged in the space, and circled the small courtyard twice before stopping.
"That's it, turn on the power grid at night."
The wolves probably didn't dare to go down the mountain during the day, and there was a high possibility of sneaking up at night.
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After discovering the wolf paw prints behind the hospital, Shen Xingluo and Cheng Xi became more alert at night.
After their reminder, Uncle Six also asked Li Zheng to open the ancestral hall again and convey the news that the animals were coming down the mountain.
"What? Animal footprints were found?!"
"A wolf? Doesn't that mean there are wolves!"
"I'm scared to death. My family doesn't have enough food to eat, and they still dare to come and snatch it?"
"Oh my God, this What kind of world does it allow people to live?" Not
only do they have to fight the snow disaster, but they also have to bring along a pack of wolves that can eat human flesh?
Scary, so scary!
The villagers couldn't believe it because they had seen wild boars coming down the mountain before. After returning home, they brought almost all the poultry in the yard into the house.
Whatever you can keep is worth it, even if you eat it yourself, you can't take advantage of the wolves!
Because everyone has become aware of the crisis, the nights in Shenjia Village are quieter. As soon as the sun goes down, every house closes its door, and even the coughs are much quieter, let alone visiting.
As expected, the howling of wolves was heard the next night after the notification.
One sound was louder than the other, making the villagers in the house tremble.
Most of this night was spent in fear. Only the three people in the Shen family courtyard slept deeply.
When the sound of howling wolves gradually subsided at dawn the next day, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and even felt lucky to have saved their lives.
Cheng Xi wrapped himself up as a bear early in the morning and walked around to the north of the yard. As expected, he found some traces of wolves behind the house.
Wolves are cunning and have a strong sense of teamwork.
Compared with these two, there was another feature that concerned Cheng Xi more.
That is holding a grudge.
Yes, wolves are extremely vengeful animals.
When the power grid was being laid around, she was hesitant about whether to adjust the current to the maximum. She originally thought, "If you dare to come, you will have to stay for me," but she finally gave up the idea.
One wolf is not scary, and two wolves are not scary, but who knows how many wolves there are in Shennong Mountain?
What if one of them is electrocuted and they hold a grudge against it, and it will continue to die forever?
By then, the entire village might become the target of their revenge.
"Don't come here again next time, otherwise you won't have the same luck this time."
Cheng Xi rearranged the power grid, cleaned up the traces, and returned to the small courtyard.
No wolf howls were heard in the next two days, which allowed the villagers to get some good sleep and feel grateful to have escaped disaster.
However, just when everyone thought that the wolves had given up entering the village because they had not found food, news spread that the two neighboring villages were visited by animals.