Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

The temperature in the late winter is more than twice as cold as in the early winter. Now Chen Qi is hiding in a warm room every day like Carlo and is reluctant to go out. A Ze is also worried that he will be cold. He and A Ze are cleaning the snow every day. It's fine for the two of them to do it together, A Li can't be a beast, and A Zhang won't let him out.

Because the temperature change is really big, A Yao is still young, Carlo no longer runs to Chen Qi's house every day, the first thing to get up every day is to teach A Yao how to walk, a little girl who is only a few months old, Now he can crawl fast on all fours, and that speed is comparable to that of a little wolf cub.

Ah Li still reports to Chen Qi's house every day. Before Chen Qi, there were a lot of root threads, and now Ali uses them to weave them into cloth. The toughness of root threads is much stronger than that of cocoons, and it is not easy Abrasion is the best material for making outdoor clothing, and the cloth woven by the root is more breathable than the cocoon. Except that it feels a little rough on the body, it should be just right to wear it in hot summer, better than the beast. It is much better for people to wear animal skins on a hot day.

After the cloth was woven, Chen Qi did not paint the pattern after finishing the clothes as before, but put the whole cloth into the fruit dyeing solution with the adjusted color. Now that the winter is coming to an end, the use of dyeing fruit Chen Qi didn't care anymore.

Chen Qi dyed the whole cloth green and laid it flat on the floor of the washroom. The floor was covered with some wooden boards and leaves, so as not to stain the floor with the fruit dye.

The dry mud that Chen had prepared before was broken into pieces and thrown onto the dripping cloth. A lot of the water on the cloth was absorbed by the mud. A reddish brown stained with mud. When the color was almost absorbed, Chen Qicai removed the mud on it and put it on a nearby shelf to dry the cloth.

A Li felt a little heartbroken when he saw that a good piece of cloth was soiled by Chen Qi, although he knew that Chen Qi would not waste a piece of cloth that he finally knitted for no reason, he still couldn't help but asked worriedly: "Chen Qi, you Can this cloth still be worn like this?"

Chen Qi handed A Li a wooden board with a pattern of a camouflage uniform on it, "I want to dye the cloth this color."

Chen Qi originally wanted to use salt to texture the cloth, but salt is a rarity here, and it was too wasteful to do so, so he planned to use mud instead. Camouflage patterns are more difficult.

Looking at the cloth that was green and red after being washed and dried, I was afraid that if this cloth was used as a rag, Chen Qi would think it was dirty. He sighed at the failed product, and Chen Qi adjusted another plate of gray-green dyed fruit. He put the cloth in it and dyed it two or three times, and then the color of the cloth was dyed to a normal color. Then he took a brush and drew a camouflage pattern on it with yellow and black.

Looking at the rough camouflage cloth with satisfaction, Chen Qi beckoned to Ali, "Ali, you can help me make a camouflage uniform according to this pattern, just according to the size of Aze."

Chen Qi explained to Ali the main points of the camouflage uniform in detail. When Ali started to make it, he started to make leather belts.

Chen Qi only made the belt once when he got married. Now it's more convenient to make it than before. It's just that the one made in the past is not so rough, and it doesn't match the color of this camouflage uniform. It was too good, so he planned to make another one.

The leather used for the belt is a kind of cowhide, which is brownish and has a certain toughness. Chen Qi first cut the length, then used a smaller grindstone to polish the edge, and then used brown fruit dyeing liquid to color the edge finely, and let it dry. After polishing the belt with pine resin, there is no way, there is no suitable material here, so I can barely replace it with pine resin.

The buckle is made of bone, and the cowhide is very tough. It took a lot of time to punch the belt. After Chen Qi polished the belt and used the melted glue to seal the belt, Ali has almost done the clothes.

Chen Qi couldn't wait to ask Aze to come back and try it on. The snow in the yard needs to be cleaned every evening and early morning. Chen Qi can hear it as long as he stands at the door and shouts at Aze.

When A Ze put on this set of clothes that took a few days to make, Chen Qi couldn't help whistling, "A Ze, you are more handsome than those little brothers who were handed in."

"Is there any other use for this kind of clothes?" Ali watched Chen Qi tossing from the cloth to the final product for a long time. The strange patterns on the clothes were drawn by him carefully, stroke by stroke. In the past, he didn't care so much about other clothes, and he always threw the design drafts to Ali, and at most he would explain it or ask him if Ali didn't understand anything.

"Don't you need to go hunting in the forest after the start of summer? Wearing this kind of clothes should be able to camouflage a little, and it is not easy to be found by the prey."

In winter, most of the capes that Chen Qi prepared for the females were made of white animal skins. As long as you put the hood on and lie down in the snowdrifts, it is difficult to see that there is still a person here, but the animal skins are rarely green. , Dragons are much smarter than the creatures on the plains. Azer told him that hunting in summer is not so easy. Then he remembered that if he could make a few sets of camouflage clothes, it should increase the hunting success of the females. Rate.

"This suit is really suitable for you." Chen Qi circled around A Ze a few times, A Ze's back was straight, and he stood there with a bit of a soldier's heroic appearance.

Azer's ears were red, and he liked to hear Chen Qi praise him.

Hearing that Chen Qi said that the clothes can increase camouflage, A Zhang, who followed up to join in the fun, also went over to take a serious look. Apart from the strange color blocks on the clothes, he really couldn't see where the clothes could be camouflaged, but this Still unable to reduce his enthusiasm for the so-called camouflage clothes, A Zhang returned to A Li and said flatteringly, "You can also help me make one."

Ali gave him an angry look, picked up another set of cloth that had not yet been dyed, and asked Chen Qi how to draw the camouflage pattern.

The cloth at home is just enough to make three sets of camouflage uniforms, and the three female sons are just one set for each, but Chen Qi has not yet figured out how to simply dye the camouflage, and it is a waste of time to draw with a pen every time. , Fortunately, Ali's learning ability is good, and he can draw a similar camouflage according to his own appearance.

Although there is no sign of the snow stopping, Chen Qi is worried that the snow will really fall until summer. When he is free these few days, he has asked Aze and the others to start digging a drainage ditch on the edge of the fence, so as to avoid the ditch on the fence. When the ice begins to melt, the water will not drain away and will flow back into the house.

It was another month without a day, and Aze went to guard in the middle of the night. Because of the cold weather, Chen Qi's problem of staying in bed in the morning came out again. Before he could put on his clothes, at this moment, the heavy wooden door was kicked open with a sudden "bang", and the cold wind blew in with snowflakes in, Chen Qi couldn't help shivering, and A Jing, who was asleep, also shivered. I was awakened by this movement.

A Ze was still braving the cold air. He walked to the bed in three or two steps, before he had time to explain, he picked up an animal skin quilt and wrapped it around Chen Qi, then carried him behind him, carrying A Jing with one hand and the other. The little wolf cub, who was still drooling in sleep, ran out of the door before Chen Qi could ask what was going on, and a few jumped up to the tall fig tree next to him.

"What's wrong? Is there another Hyena dragon attacking?" Chen Qi asked nervously in a low voice.

A Ze shook his head and put A Jing down, "It's not an attack."

Just as he was talking, Ake carried Carlo on his back, A Zhang carried Ali on his back and climbed to the top of the tree, and then Chen Qi heard a rumbling roar, followed by a huge sound of water.

I don't know when the snow has stopped. The moonless morning changed from heavy night to day in almost an instant. When Chen Qi looked in the direction of the sound, he just saw that with the disappearance of the night, the tall tall The ice wall collapsed almost instantly, and a huge stream of water rushed around, and then poured into the house where several people lived from the yard.

The drainage channel that had been dug halfway before had no time to divert such a large flow of water.

Through the door that was too late to close, Chen Qi saw that the burning fire in the hall was instantly extinguished by water, black carbon scattered around, and tables, chairs, futons, and the like were washed aside. Even the tall fig tree where several people were temporarily swayed by the water was swaying, and A Ze quickly supported Chen Qi's shoulders to prevent the other party from falling into the tree.

Chen Qi looked at all this in shock, and his mind still couldn't react, "What's going on? Why did the wall suddenly collapse?"

"Because the ice has melted."

"How can the ice suddenly melt?" Chen Qi was puzzled. Even if the wall was so big, it couldn't be done in an instant. If you set up a fire under the wall, it would take several hours. ? How could it be possible that the entire ice wall suddenly turned into water.

A Ze closed the animal skin quilt that Chen Qi was draping over him, and said softly, "Summer is here."

Only then did Chen Qi discover that with the collapse of the ice wall, the thick snow that originally covered the entire plain disappeared. Without the wall to block his sight, Chen Qi can clearly see the speed of the melting of the snow, as well as on the plain. The gurgling water flow, and the slightest traces of greenery that began to appear under the snow at some point.

The water flow came and went back quickly, and there was almost no stagnant water around. Only the threshold in the room that was built a little higher could not allow the water that poured into the room to flow out.

With the passage of time, the temperature has become too cold to stomp your feet when you are wrapped in animal skin quilts, and slowly it starts to get hotter and hotter. It seems that it is the same as the moon without the sun. The transition from winter to summer is just a matter of time. momentary effort.

Chen Qi stared blankly at the change, which was completely beyond his cognition.

A Ze has already taken back the fur from the beast. A Jing carried the little wolf cub to the ground long after the water receded. Now the two little guys are excitedly stepping on the stagnant water in the grass that has no time to retreat.

A Yao saw the two little guys who were having a good time waving their little hands, as if they wanted to join in.

"This is summer." Chen Qi looked around and muttered.