In the end, everyone didn't come up with a solution and could only continue on their way.
I don't know if it's because of the cold weather, but there seem to be suddenly fewer wild animals in the forest, and insects and snakes are no longer afraid, and have long since disappeared.
In the team, old and young all had some speculations and were worried, and their feet became faster and faster.
But more than a dozen mountains cannot be climbed over by speeding up in one or two days.
After walking for another three days, the second snow fell.
This time it has been raining for half a day, but the snowflakes have not melted yet. When I step on them, they are almost covering the tops of my feet.
Everyone took out their cotton-padded clothes, and those who didn't have cotton-padded clothes wrapped themselves in two layers of unlined clothes.
The Li family was the first to prepare cotton-padded clothes for everyone, including Uncle Zhao.
Only Doctor Zhang was only wearing a single suit when he was "tied" by Ye Shan.
Fortunately, the Li family was kind enough to prepare new coats and trousers for Uncle Zhao early.
Uncle Zhao wore the old ones and gave the new ones to Doctor Zhang.
He was not polite, dressed warmly, and urged Zhao Yuru to sew a hat for him.
Uncle Zhao had nothing to do on the road and tanned a few wolf skins, but the time was short and the smell was very strong.
Doctor Zhang didn't mind it either, he kept it on his head and wouldn't take it off day and night.
Because it is too cold to sleep at night, and the most heard thing in the camp recently is sneezing.
It was another night, especially cold after snow.
The old people and children were hiding in the shack, and the men were talking around the campfire. It wasn't that they didn't want to sleep, but they were too cold to sleep.
The village chief and Uncle Zhao gathered together to talk, "Look at this, we can't go out before the heavy snow closes the mountain. We should make preparations in advance and quickly find a place to stay for the winter. Otherwise, the elderly and children will not be able to bear it and will get sick. It will be too late."
Everyone nodded, "It's really too cold, let alone the elderly and children, we won't be able to bear it for another two days."
Li Laoer said, "Uncle, let's find a place to stay. It's okay to spend the winter. But first of all, you need to find a cave that is sheltered from the wind and warm, and one or two are not enough, so it is not easy to find such a suitable place. The second is the rations for the winter. You need to quickly collect mountain products and collect anything you can eat. The third is to stock up on medicinal materials in case everyone has a headache or fever in the winter."
"The second brother is right, there are these three major things at hand. Let's discuss it, we must act separately, and settle down as soon as possible before the third snowfall. ."
The village chief knocked the pot of his pipe and said again, "Liu Biaotou, you have walked through this mountain, and I will leave it to you to find a place to live?"
"Okay," Liu Biaotou agreed, "I vaguely remember it. , there is a similar place two mountains away, but I can't tell for sure. Give me a brother, plus Liu Yang and Jiayi, and I'll set off at dawn!"
"Okay, you can pick as many people as you want, and mark the way. , let's follow him and find him." The village chief waved his hand, and it was settled.
Of course, it was Dr. Zhang who took the young men to collect medicines.
It became the job of the whole village to pick all the edible mountain products and prepare winter rations.
It's only September now, and we won't be able to go out until March next year.
There are nearly a hundred people, and there is still a month's worth of food rations left.
In other words, they have to find mountain products that can feed the whole village for five months in this endless mountain forest.
This is simply a foolish dream, but we must do it if we can't do it.
No one wants the elderly and children to go hungry!
This journey has been extremely difficult and dangerous, and it is not easy to get here.
No matter what, we can't fall short!
The woman left the cooking job to the old people, and would rush into the woods with her basket on her back whenever she needed a rest.
At this time, I am no longer afraid of insects, snakes, black bears and wild wolves.
These are no longer scary to them compared to starving to death.
Jiayin had been waiting for this moment for a long time. She lay obediently in her grandma's arms, gradually led her mother and aunt out of the group, and then frantically moved things out of the space.
Apples, pears, piles of chestnuts, dates, suicidal rabbits, and nests of eggs.
Everyone is frantically picking mountain products, walnuts, chestnuts, fungus, frozen mushrooms, all kinds of things.
From time to time, some people hunted pheasants, rabbits, and even roe deer.
Therefore, although the things Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law brought back were novel, they were not too eye-catching.
Even if it is eye-catching, no one has time to think too much about it.
When you are struggling to survive, anything that can fill your stomach is a good thing, no matter where it comes from.
It's better if it falls from the sky, which proves that God didn't want them to starve to death!
Just like this, walking and walking, the villagers were so busy that their eyes turned red.
What the women picked back was enough to load four large sledges.
The men were not idle either, and three sledges were filled with prey.
Especially Li Laosi, he carried back a lone male wild boar.
Although these things are still not enough to survive the winter, they also give everyone great confidence.
After walking like this for another three days, the weather got colder and there was wind and snow at night.
Everyone crowded together to protect the elderly and children from the wind and snow, and also burned many bonfires.
But after one night, more than 20 people still contracted the cold.
Five little children, five old people, and the rest are young and strong.
Except for Mrs. Li, who has a stuffy nose, everyone else in the Li family is fine.
Their coats and trousers were already thick, so Jiayin secretly took out an old quilt at night and thickened the bedding.
It was thrown away when she left home, and she packed it up.
When I took it out at this time, no one paid much attention.
Mrs. Li, Tao Hongying and Zhao Yuru blocked Jia An Jiaxi in the middle, and Jia An Jiaxi hugged her sister tightly.
The second brother Li and the Jiaren family gathered around the outside.
The Li family is like an onion, protecting good news layer by layer.
But she couldn't sleep well, her heart was burning, and she was anxious about how to get the food out of the space.
How to keep your family warm and how to survive this winter safely?
As a result, before she could figure out a solution, something happened again.
Doctor Zhang took half of the boys to collect herbs and boil them, but maybe they were caught by the wind and also caught the wind and cold.
Because he was a doctor, he didn't think it was serious, so he just drank a bowl of medicinal soup to prevent colds.
But at night, he had a severe fever.
He was already sixty years old, and was tied to a horse by Ye Shan and jolted all the way to Li's house. After staying there for only a few days, he fled.
In the deep mountains and old forests, even if the Li family takes care of her, she can't eat well or sleep well.
The old man's body couldn't bear it, which was expected.
But at this time, he was everyone's protector. He suddenly fell and everyone panicked.
Li Laosi led people to cut down trees all night and built a small one next to the Li family's shack. I laid out a bedding for the old man alone and built a small brazier for warmth.
This will not infect the Li family and make it easier to take care of them.
Tao Hongying and Zhao Yuru fetched water and applied it to the old man's forehead. Seeing that it was useless, they did not care about etiquette, so they untied the old man's cotton-padded jacket and wiped his chest and back.
The old man also drank the antipyretic soup he had prepared for the villagers.
But the old man's fever kept getting worse and worse, and in the middle of the night, he started talking nonsense.
"Look where you are running. I must find out who you are?"
"Tell me, what magic medicine was it that cured Ye Xiaozi!"
"There is nothing in the world that can heal itself without medicine!"
Jiayin was originally thinking about the old man. I sneaked over to the small shack to take a look, but I heard this when I walked in.
Her feet went weak and she almost fell on the old man.