Time flies, time flies.

winter.

The evenly paved mud-brick road looked a bit dirty due to the trampled snow. A figure hurried past, leaving a shallow trace.

The green pear trees planted on both sides of the road shed their leaves early, and when a gust of wind blew by, snow fell on the dry branches to the ground, making several loud noises.

Luo Zhen pushed open the heavy wooden door of the mud-brick house in the middle. The wooden door was covered with a layer of animal skin, which could keep most of the cold air out of the door.

Feeling the warmth of the room, a small fiery red head emerged from the close-fitting animal skin bag. It moved its two tendrils that were about to become stiff, and turned its head left and right a few times. A strap from the collar hanging down into the animal skin bag crawled back to Luo Zhen's collar, and the shoulder that he used to occupy a good view had been completely abandoned by it because of the snow falling, wet and cold.

I took off the cloak outside and hung it on the hanger by the door, because the doors and windows were closed, leaving only one vent for ventilation, and even though the fire had started to light, the room still looked a bit dark.

Luo Zhen took a few pieces of burning firewood and put them into the fireplace next to it. The smoke from the fireplace was passed to the kang in the room, so that it would be very warm when sleeping at night, at least in the tribe now. People will no longer experience the situation of being too cold to sleep in the middle of the night.

The chimney is made of bamboo. The bamboo joints inside are hollowed out, and after drying, the inside and outside are covered with mud, so that even if the smoke is overheated, there is no need to worry about the bamboo being burned.Most of the bamboo forest in the small forest was moved back by them this summer. Now there are still a few bamboo trees planted in the courtyard of Luo Zhen's house. In the cold winter, it has become the only touch of green in the tribe.

The area of ​​two bedrooms and one living room is larger than what Luo Zhen imagined at the beginning. There are a lot of wooden furniture piled up in it. Although it has been polished with some rough stones, it still looks a little rough, but fortunately enough It is strong, and some things that cannot be connected with mortise and tenon will be fixed with a hard bone nail. Now, in addition to the necessary tables and chairs, some wooden boxes, wardrobes and even cabinets for placing dishes are available. , In the house that Luo Zhen transformed into a storage room, there are several tall and large wooden shelves specially used to hold things.

The broth in the stone pot was boiled by Luo Zhen before going out. There were a few fragrant leaves in it. At this moment, the whole room was filled with an attractive smell. He stirred it with a wooden spoon, and scooped it up. I blew on the hot air from above, put it in my mouth and tasted it, it was a bit bland, I went to the place where the seasonings were piled up next to it, took a small wooden tube, scooped a little white-brown fruit powder from it and sprinkled it into the broth.

This kind of fruit powder is dried and ground salted fruit. After removing the tiny core inside, the taste is much better than when it was just picked.

There is a large stone mill in the tribe, which is placed next to the commandment tablet in the middle of the square. It took Heiya a whole summer to grind it little by little. It is used to grind cassava flour. However, there is not much cassava that can be harvested in the summer in the tribe, so I can only share some with children and the elderly. starve.

The door of the room was pushed open, and Ah Shui walked in with a small wooden bucket, her face was red from the cold, and when she saw Luo Zhen in the room, she raised a big smile, "Big witch, are you back?"

"Why are you going to fetch water when it's so cold? Just get some clean snow next to the house and melt it." Luo Zhen stepped forward to help Ah Shui pick up the wooden bucket and put it aside.

In one year, Ah Shui was much taller and stronger than Luo Zhen's thin and small appearance when he saw him for the first time, and the muscles on his small arms felt a little hard when pinched. The horse ran wildly around the field, and practiced a small bow and arrow quickly and accurately. Unfortunately, he was too young and lacked strength. Once he was too brave and provoked a jackal, and was chased and fled back to the tribe in embarrassment. It was the horned bamboo that found out and got rid of the jackal.

Those who don't know the situation will think Ah Shui is a little orc warrior.

"The food cooked in the stream is better." Ah Shui cracked his mouth and smiled. The stream here has a little sweetness and is very cool. The boiled broth seems to have a sweet taste, and the snow melts It was too slow, and after melting a large bucket of snow water, only about one-third of the water was obtained at most, and it was not as fast as going directly to fetch water from the stream.

Ah Shui will collect the snow and slowly melt it unless he is not in a hurry, but after a while, after the stream is completely frozen, even if Ah Shui doesn't like it, he can only melt the snow to get water.

Luo Zhen smiled helplessly, took out a few clean dishes, put a piece of meat on the wooden plate to cool down, then scooped a bowl of soup full of meat pieces and handed it to Ah Shui. Falling on the other party's messy hair, "Is your hair long?"

As Ah Shui took the wooden bowl with his hand, he used his free hand to pull his bangs a few times, "It's a bit long, do you want to cut it for me?"

"Why don't you let your father cut it for you?"

Speaking of this matter, Ah Shui's shoulders drooped, and he said with a sad face: "He will only cut off all my hair."

Since the invention of the bone scissors, it has been popular among the Sunshine tribe to cut each other's hair for a while, because most primitive people have never had the habit of combing their hair, and the hair has long been tangled together, greasy and dirty. Luo Zhen cut it for the first time The demonstration for them is to shave directly, and then teach them how to wash and comb after the hair grows back.

Now everyone in the Sunshine Tribe looks neat and tidy. If it weren't for the wilderness behind the city wall, they would have the illusion that this is some remote small town.

Probably because cutting off this hairstyle is easier to learn. When Ah Shui cut his hair for the second time, Jiaozhu followed suit and shaved Ah Shui directly. At that time, the whole tribe probably only had the big witch and the leader with hair on their heads. That's right, Ah Shui almost didn't cry because of his own father at that time. Why did he have to shave his body even though the witch said that he just needs to cut it short?I really want to have a nice hairstyle like Da Wu.

Luo Zhen also seemed to remember the past, thanks to the fact that it was summer, otherwise in this cold winter, one by one would have a bald head, and even their IQ would be frozen by three points.

"Okay then, I'll give you a more handsome haircut after eating later."

"Thank you, great witch." Ah Shui cheered, and brought the broth to the dining table, and then brought over a few dishes that had been kept warm. Now they no longer need to sit on the ground to eat. It is covered with thick animal skins, so you won't feel cold even if you sit on it.

"Lu Yi, come down to eat." After sitting down, Luo Zhen put her finger on the edge of the wooden plate, tilted her head slightly and said to the flame ant hiding at the neckline.

In the past, Luo Zhen had been following three soldier ants for a long time. In order to distinguish them, Luo Zhen directly called them one, two, three. It is a great honor for the ants to be named after the queen, at least those other flame ants left in the ant nest do not have such unique treatment.

It was probably because the big soldier ant called Luo Zhen his mother. Although Lu Zhan didn't understand, seeing Luo Zhen call it Ah Yi, he threatened to let the big soldier ant call him Lu Yi after his surname.He didn't ask Luo Zhen to admit the name. He just called the big soldier ant Lu Yi over and over again in front of Luo Zhen.

After the winter, the activity of the flame ants dropped a lot. Luo Zhen didn't know whether the ants needed to hibernate, but obviously the flame ants needed it, because there were very few animals that could move outside after the winter, and the flame ants were really big. They are too small, even if they are fast, it is not cost-effective to go over the mountains to find food, so most of the time, after the first snow falls, the flame ants will return to the ant nest to prepare for the winter .

Of course, this does not mean that flame ants cannot move at all in winter.

Throughout the summer, Luo Zhen gradually learned more about flame ants, and his thoughts on them gradually changed. He even took flame ants out hunting, as long as it was his own order, no matter what it was, even if it was The flame ants have never defied the danger of extinction of the entire ant colony, just like the most sophisticated instrument, they will execute Luo Zhen's request very well.

As the time spent together gradually increased, Luo Zhen trusted the flame ants more and more.

However, after trusting him, there was one thing that made him feel very sad. This ant colony did not have a real flame ant queen.

As a human being, even if Luo Zhen is recognized as an ant queen by the flame ants, he will not be able to give birth to flame ants. If the lifespan of this group of flame ants is up, they can only wait helplessly and slowly go to the point of extinction up.It is unrealistic to catch a queen from other flame ant colonies now. If this group of flame ants is instigated by the new queen, Luo Zhen really has nowhere to cry.

The only way is to transform other female ants into a new queen, and this queen must completely obey her orders as she does now.

Luo Zhen put his idea on Lu Yi's head at the beginning. I don't know whether the other party's IQ is higher than other flame ants or Luo Zhen is very sticky and refuses to stay in the ant nest to become the ant that keeps breeding back.But it was unwilling, but encouraged Luo Zhen to let the other two soldier ants who were with him do it.

Sometimes Luo Zhen suspects that Lu Yi has simply become a genius, but he still seriously considers Lu Yi's suggestion.

But Luo Zhen didn't know how to turn a sterile soldier ant into a queen. At first, he fed the two soldier ants with a little blood like Lu Yi had drunk a little of his blood before. It became a little easier to communicate and felt the growing loyalty of the two soldier ants, nothing else changed.

Later, Luo Zhen talked about it in front of the two little soldier ants, and gave them an order. It wasn't until the first snow fell that Luo Zhen finally saw some signs of transformation.

作者有话要说:感谢在2020-04-0523:33:04~2020-04-0619:49:29期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw mines: Jiaki1;

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: I want to raise 20 bottles of cats; 9 bottles of Jiuyou; 2 bottles of wooden people;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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