Defeat natural disasters with farming

When Father Ye returned home, he couldn't figure it out. Could it be that the wolves still know how to weigh?You only come here once, and when you see that the village is well-defended, you won't come again?

He thought about this matter, but because he didn't sleep all night, the more he thought about it, the more painful his head became, and he didn't think of a reason until the end.

So Ye Yu suggested during breakfast: "Let Uncle Hu take us out to look at the wolf paw prints later, it would be even better if we can find other clues."

Father Ye rubbed his eyebrows and replied: "Success, you and Brother Xu went to find him together, I have to sleep, my mind is dizzy now."

Mother Ye gave him a bowl of porridge when she heard the words, "Go to sleep after eating."

After that, no one spoke at the dinner table, and everyone was buried in eating.

Ye Yu finished the porridge in two or three gulps, and when Chu Xufeng also finished eating, they went to Hu's house together.

After hearing their intentions, Hu Chun immediately said, "I'll take you there right away."

Speaking of which, the main gate opened on the outer wall of their village is facing a small road, and next to it is a forest with slightly low trees. It looks ordinary during the day, but it looks very dark and weird at night, especially the shadows projected by the branches swaying in the wind. The shadows and the crows twittering in the ears made the timid dare not pass through them.

Of course, almost no one walks alone after dark.

Hu Chun greeted the village soldiers guarding the gate, and they came out.

"The forests on both sides are really inconvenient," Hu Chun said, "Anyway, they are not good trees, and they are very sparse. I think we can just cut them down and turn them into fields or something."

This is a good suggestion. Ye Yu thought about it for a while. If this kind of thing happened again in the future, it would be better for the village to face the plain, at least it would be open and not like it is now.

Wolf paws were printed in the woods, and they had to walk for about 5 minutes to reach them.

When Ye Yu followed, her attention was focused on the forest. The branches of the trees in this forest were very sparse, and it was cold now, without a single leaf, so it looked very desolate. Occasionally, hoarse calls could be heard , I don't know what kind of bird it is.

Hu Chun reminded as he walked: "Be careful and pay attention to your feet. We found a corpse in the forest a while ago. It has been dead for many years. I don't know why he died in the forest and was entangled by dead vines. It's stuck, stuck in the mud, if the wolves didn't smell the smell and pick him out, we probably wouldn't be able to find him."

bones?Ye Yu frowned and asked, "Where is that corpse now?"

Hu Chun replied: "After being checked by the doctor, it has been burned."

Ye Yu immediately asked again: "What is the cause of death?"

Hu Chun continued to answer: "There is a dent on the head, it must have hit a rock."

During their question and answer, the three of them quickly arrived at their destination, which was a bush with many small dark red fruits growing on it.

Ye Yu squatted on the ground and carefully examined the paw prints. They were exactly the same as the ones they saw on the road, and the possibility of the same pack of wolves could not be ruled out.

Hu Chun waited for them to finish reading before asking: "Any new discoveries?"

Ye Yu shook her head, "Just looking at the paw prints, we can only see that there are a lot of wolves in the pack, as for the rest, we can't see it yet."

After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Chu Xufeng to see if he had any different opinions. At this time, Chu Xufeng was staring at the paw prints intently, as if he had seen something, so Ye Yu didn't bother him, and waited quietly.

After an unknown amount of time, Chu Xufeng finally waved to Ye Yu, and when he came over, he pointed to the two wolf paw prints and asked him, "What do you think is the difference between these two places?"

Ye Yu looked carefully, and there seemed to be no difference between the two paw prints except for the different sizes, but he knew Chu Xufeng well, and he would never say it easily if he was not sure, and once he said it, it meant he knew it.

So Ye Yu continued to observe attentively, the paw print on the left was smaller and shallower than the one on the right:

Wait, thinking about this, Ye Yu suddenly realized something, the difference in the marks was not caused by the weight of the wolves, but because the paw print on the left was covered with a layer of mud, while the paw print on the right was covered with dirt. No soil cover.

As for why this happens...

When Ye Yu realized this, she shuddered suddenly. There was only one possible reason, that is, the two paw prints were left at different times, and the different times were at least one day apart, which meant that In fact, a wolf came over last night, but they never found it.

Seeing this, Chu Xufeng understood that Ye Yu had also thought of it, "The division of labor within this pack of wolves is clear."

There is even a certain amount of wisdom, Ye Yu added inwardly.

Hu Chun, on the other hand, was dumbfounded when he heard what they said, "What?"

Chu Xufeng patiently explained to him: "The two paw prints have different degrees of moisture. The left side is soaked in water and the color is darker, while the right side is lighter. The humidity is high at night, and the right side should not have passed the whole night after it was formed."

The two methods of judgment are different, but they lead to the same goal.

Only then did Hu Chun understand, and suddenly realized: "Doesn't that prove that the wolves actually came over last night?"

Ye Yu nodded, "That's right, it seems that those wolves are after our village."

After he finished speaking, he stood up and looked around. He only felt that there were various dangers hidden in the countless shadows, which made people shudder.

Chu Xufeng comforted him and said, "It's okay, just wipe out the wolves."

Hu Chun also said: "If the wolves really dare to attack, we are not vegetarians. We have bows/crossbows and machetes, and we are afraid of what they will do."

Ye Yu was very happy to hear him talk. What he was worried about was not the attack of wolves. Naturally, the force of wolves is not as powerful as that of armed humans, not to mention that they occupy a favorable position on the tower. As long as they throw down the torch Enough for the wolves to eat a pot.

What really worried him was that the intelligence of the wolves was obviously not right. It was a bit strange. Are wolves so smart?

But it's useless for him to think so much now, he still has to go back to the village to inform the matter.

The three of them were very quiet on the way back to the village, and each had their own concerns. Ye Yu looked at Hu Chun a little excitedly, as if he wanted to fight the wolves immediately, which made him dumbfounded.

After returning to the village, when Father Ye woke up, Ye Yu told him everything they found.

After hearing their findings, Father Ye immediately made a decision, "Ask everyone in the village to gather in the square."

Immediately afterwards, with the sound of gongs and drums, the square gradually filled with people.

Father Ye first explained the reason, and then announced: "From today onwards, the fifty village soldiers in the village will be divided into ten groups of five, and will patrol every half an hour according to the schedule. We must ensure that every part of the village is patrolled. In place, there can be no omissions.”

"The remaining [-] village soldiers are divided into groups of four and divided into five groups to guard the front and rear gates. They rotate every hour. Whenever they see a pack of wolves, they will ring the bronze bell."

The village soldiers are all young men in their twenties, and all of them are strong and strong. After learning about this incident, they are not only not afraid, but are excited with the naked eye. so big.

Except for them, the villagers reacted normally. After learning about the wolves, they immediately went into an uproar. They all began to whisper, worried and surprised, not knowing what to do.

Father Ye didn't tell them to wait any longer, and then ordered: "Ye Zhong, you take Hu Chun and the others to dig a few traps outside the village, with sharpened wooden thorns standing inside, remember to cover them with straw mats. "

Ye Zhong replied solemnly, "Don't worry, leave this matter to me, and make sure that the group of animals will never come back."

Father Ye trusted Ye Zhong very much, and when he got his response, he began to order other people, "Put up a few haystacks at the entrance of the village, and throw torches on the haystacks as soon as you see wolves attacking the village."

"Mingde, you lead people to bury a few torches on both sides of the path at the main entrance of the village, and wait for the lights to be lit at night."

Then the people whose names he named started to take action one after another. Ye Zhong and Hu Chun led people to start digging traps. A total of three were dug at the entrance of the village in front, and a haystack was tied with straw between each trap. There are four in total, and these will firmly block the front. If the wolves are smart enough, they will avoid the burning haystack and pass through the middle, and the middle is a trap full of wooden thorns. Once you drop them, they will never come out again.

While they were digging traps in full swing, the others were not idle. Ye Mingde led Ye Minghui and others to bury giant torches on both sides of the path and beside the forest.

These giant torches are made of fir bark, one meter high, covered with grease from top to bottom, and can be burned everywhere. If there is no accident, they can last all night.

Their village's torch-making technology is excellent after so many years of practice, using the least amount of fat to burn for the longest time.

Of course, these tasks cannot be finished in just one afternoon. Fortunately, the pack of wolves did not show up for the next few days, which gave them enough time to prepare.

Not long after, the father and son of the Qin family came over, and they brought good news.

Uncle Qin said: "This is a rocket. There is a layer of flammable material tied to the arrowhead. As long as it is lit, it will burn immediately. It can be shot with a bow and arrow. It is more powerful than ordinary bows/crossbows."

This rocket is not that rocket.

Father Ye looked at it for a while, and immediately decided to replace all the ordinary wooden arrows with this kind of rockets, but the rare iron arrows were not replaced.

Even with the new weapons, the atmosphere in the whole village is still very tense, as if there is a guillotine hanging above the head all the time, and we can no longer see the sights that we usually see everywhere. The doors and windows of every house are closed. When the wind blows and the grass stirs, there are village soldiers who go to check, even at night, there are patrols in the middle of the night and the middle of the night.

The past few days have been the most difficult time. When Ye Yu was delivering food to Father Ye, he heard Uncle Zhong complaining, "What's the matter? I don't want to give it a hard time. They say that slow knife cutting is the most painful. Now I finally I understand what it means."

Ye He agreed: "That's not it, I'm looking forward to the wolves coming quickly, don't be like this now, no one can sleep well."

Ye Yu thought the same way, this situation is the most uncomfortable, like a finishing touch.

They were chatting and eating, and in the middle of eating, they suddenly heard Ye Minghui's excited voice, "Wolf is coming!"

The voice was so small that only they could hear it. Father Ye immediately threw the food box in his hand on the ground when he heard this, and went up to the tower in three steps and looked out.

Sure enough, there were a few wolves wandering in the woods. These wolves were full of vigor. They were not too big, at most half a meter high, but they had dark eyes, which made people feel cold when they stared at them.

Ye Zhong lowered his voice and said, "We don't have wolves like this in the back mountains. It seems they came from somewhere else."

Ye Yu thought for a while and guessed: "It is probably to avoid the volcanic eruption."

This guess is reasonable, and everyone nodded.

Seeing the stern expressions of the wolves, Father Ye hurriedly ordered, "Don't sleep tonight, and tell the whole village to gather in the meeting hall."

Ye Mingde and the others responded, and immediately began to notify from door to door.

Everyone in Ye Family Village knew the importance, so no one had any objections, they all lined up into the assembly hall, and they could all hold it.

The men surrounded the wall of the meeting hall with kitchen knives. They were the last line of defense in the village if something happened.

But the village soldiers didn't go to the assembly hall, and kept watching the forest vigilantly from the tower. Those wolves didn't leave, but the number increased. In the end, even both sides of the forest were full of wolves. Ye Yu roughly If you count them, there must be seventy or eighty.

He gasped, this number was several times more than what they thought.

As the sky darkened, the soldiers in the village had outstanding arm strength, and those who were good at archery shot the rockets that were tied with a layer of inflammable materials and had already been lit on the oiled haystack. The stacks burned violently, and the soaring flames even illuminated half of the sky.

The wolves seemed to be frightened by the fire, and the continuous howling of wolves sounded instantly, making people frown.

As time passed, Uncle Xing frowned and said, "These wolves are so calm."

An old hunter answered him: "The wolf king hasn't come out yet. You must know that the wolves are united because they have the wolf king, and the wolves have a clear distinction between superiority and inferiority. If the wolf king comes out, he will definitely stand at the front."

That's right, Ye Yu frowned slightly, she really didn't see the wolf king.

Thinking of this, he suddenly realized something, and immediately became anxious, "Father, did you send someone to guard the back door?" Don't be afraid of [-], just in case, if the wolves know how to make a move, something will happen.

Father Ye nodded when he heard his question, "Don't worry, Master Wu has brought people there, there are more people there than here, Escort Yue is also there, as well as Jia Yi and the others."

Ye Yu glanced at Chu Xufeng and was relieved when he saw him nodding.

Fortunately, the wolves were not that smart yet, and half an hour later, when the sky was getting darker, the wolf king finally came out. It was a one-eyed wolf with shiny black fur, exuding a ferocious aura.

"Aww." Hearing a loud howl of wolves, the pack of wolves began to rush towards the entrance of the village.

Seeing this, Father Ye waved his hand and shouted sharply: "Light up the rocket and shoot."