On the way to escape from natural disasters: She went crazy with space

My second uncle and cousin, who were circling the black horse, also saw the words on the saddle, and their happy expressions suddenly turned solemn.

Lu Qingqing walked towards them at the right time.

Looking closer, the horse was very thin, like a bundle of dry firewood!

A spine protruded high upward, like a giant python coiled there.

The body wrapped in horse hair is not strong either. Can you clearly count the ribs on the abdomen?

There is not a bit of meat on the four legs. If it weren't for the huge horse hoof in front, people would almost mistake it for a donkey's leg instead of a horse's leg!

Fortunately, it is tall enough, so even if it is thin, it is no worse than an ordinary horse!

Lu Qingqing raised her hand and gently stroked the hair on its head, from the horse's head to its back, smoothing it out bit by bit, and then said:

"Just follow us from now on. If we have something to eat, you will have something to eat, too."

Lu Qingqing immediately brought a large bundle of dried wild vegetables and placed it in front of it!

Maybe Lu Qingqing gave it food, and it felt the kindness and was no longer afraid of strangers. It opened its mouth, neighed, then lowered its head and started eating.

It turned out to be a horse from Xunmaying, it understands human language, and most importantly, it understands the current situation!

This makes things much easier.

"Uncle, brother, it understands human nature. As long as we are careful, it will be fine."

In another cave, Chen Jiaye said the same thing to Wang Zhenhang and his brother as he looked at the tall horse in front of him.

After all, the snow has not melted yet and it is still too early to set off for Chongzhou City, so there is no need to think too much about things that have not happened yet.

In fact, it is not early. The stars move, the day and night change, and time slips away through your fingers in just the blink of an eye.

It is New Year’s Eve and tomorrow is the new year.

According to the old customs in Muyang Village, on New Year's Eve, people would put up door gods at home, sweep away the ghost of poverty, eat glutinous rice cakes, worship their ancestors, make rice cakes, give out red envelopes, stay up all night, eat reunion dinners, and so on.

But if you leave your hometown, how can you have a home?

Without a home, many customs cannot be carried out one by one, so I just picked three simple ones: making rice cakes, giving out red envelopes, and eating reunion dinners.

Second Aunt had made the rice cakes a day in advance. After finishing all this, she took a piece of red cloth and cut it into three small sachets.

She opened the money box and took out three taels of silver and stuffed it into the sachet!

In the morning, before they even put on their shoes, Second Aunt came in to hand out red envelopes.

The first custom to welcome the New Year is to give out red envelopes not after noon, the earlier the better!

When you meet someone, you should say auspicious words. The more you say, the better!

The family is busy preparing the New Year's Eve dinner while saying congratulations!

The New Year’s Eve dinner is much more sumptuous than before.

There are steamed fish, salt and pepper spare ribs, braised pork head, stewed wild mushrooms with taro, roasted wild yam and pig tail bone soup, stir-fried pork belly with wild garlic, roasted wild pigeon, boiled red mushrooms, steamed tit, fried glutinous rice cake, stir-fried wild vegetables with lard, and two desserts, sesame cake, and sweet rice cake.

There are eleven dishes in total, two desserts and one soup!

There are so many dishes, and not all of them can be eaten on New Year’s Eve.

Set aside a portion to be eaten on New Year's Day.

It is customary not to kill or light fire on the first day of the new year.

Therefore, on New Year’s Eve, we must prepare the dishes for the New Year’s Day, which can then be heated up and eaten.

The whole family was mobilized and worked from morning to evening before all the dishes were ready.

When we were preparing to have the reunion dinner, it started snowing again.

Frozen snow as big as copper coins and as white as jade poured down from the sky.

The pitter patter.

Swish swish!

Large chunks of frozen snow scraped against the branches and broke them, making rustling sounds.

It was evening and it was almost dark, but nothing could be seen outside.

It was like being covered by a layer of opaque gauze, or like the eyes were covered by a layer of mist, making everything hazy.

The cold wind also picked up.

Huh…huh…huh.

The wind blew through the woods, like a wild beast howling, as if it wanted to grab everything into its bag!

The cold wind blew into the cave, blowing the fire in the cave all over the place, and the flames were completely extinguished after a while.

The temperature dropped suddenly, and the biting cold penetrated into my heart and spleen, which was much colder than any snowfall!

Lu Qingqing quickly added some firewood in, but the cold wind was too strong and the fire did not ignite. She had no choice but to block half of the cave entrance and then light the firewood to warm up the cave.

There is a custom when eating New Year’s Eve dinner: you cannot eat with the door closed!

To eat with the door open means not to be stingy, and only then will the grain be abundant in the next year.

There is no door in the cave, so we can only use the cave entrance as the door.

Now even the entrance to the cave that was used as a door was blocked. My second uncle and second aunt felt a little lonely, but they soon got over it.

Now that I don’t even have a home, there’s no point in caring about that little bit of restraint.

This snowstorm was heavier than any other before.

It snowed continuously for twelve days before it slowly died down. When it became as thin as a cow hair, it was no longer a small amount, but there was no sign of stopping.

The firewood in the cave had been burning continuously. Lu Qingqing looked at the firewood in the corner that could last for three days, and her brows were filled with worry.

In fact, the firewood had long been insufficient, and she had secretly taken it out from the space and added more firewood several times, which was why it had lasted so long.

If the freezing snow didn't stop, they might have to risk leaving the cave to chop wood.

Outside the cave, some victims had already come out to chop firewood.

The small trees near the cave were cut down early, and the bark of the big trees was also stripped off.

If you go out to chop firewood now, you have to climb over another hillside to find the forest.

That hillside is not as flat as the one on this side of the cave. There are many rocks and steep walls there. If you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss and die!

Lu Qingqing looked at the vast expanse of white outside and said to herself, enough is enough, don't let it rain any more.

Perhaps it was because of Lu Qingqing's pitiful prayers that the frozen snow, as thin as cattle and horses, stopped early in the morning of the third day.

This day is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which is also the Lantern Festival!

The freezing snow stopped at the beginning of the morning.

The stove, which had been burning for half a month, slowly went out after all the dry firewood was burned and a cart was dismantled and burned.

The cave is airtight, so the heat doesn't dissipate so quickly.

At this moment, it was still warm inside, but everyone could clearly feel the change in temperature.

"Strange, the freezing and snowing has stopped, why is it getting hot again?"

"Spring has already arrived, and the temperature should have risen."

It would be great if spring came, but the fear is that what comes is not spring but cruelty.

Lu Qingqing and others were not the only ones who sensed the sudden rise in temperature.

Other victims in the cave also felt the heat noticeably.

Some victims who were particularly afraid of heat took off their thick cotton-padded jackets and only wore a long sweatshirt.

"This damn weather, it's cold and hot at the same time, is it going to let people live?"

"Don't keep talking about whether he's alive or not. It's freezing and snowing, but he's still alive, isn't he?"

"This heat is different from cold. I always feel that this heat is not a good sign!"

"Pah, pah, pah, you crow's mouth, hurry up and spit!"

"Can you please stop scolding me? I just think it's too weird, it's so hot all of a sudden."

"Damn it, who told you to never say a single nice word? How about I scold you? You're such a disgusting bad mouth!"

"If you keep cursing, I'll beat you to death!"

The two argued endlessly and soon started fighting.

Lu Qingqing on the other side also started thinking about it.

The temperature has risen so much in an instant. It seems that the high temperature in the picture is about to come.

Lu Qingqing no longer hesitated and quickly said to her family:

"Uncle and aunt, let's get ready and head north tonight."