Quick travel: the life of smuggling is so exciting

Chapter 24: Escape from the Troubled Times 22

The wild boar struggled for a few rounds and then lay down pretending to be dead. Lin Xia would not be deceived by the illusion in front of him anymore. He took out a big knife and cut the wild boar to death with two cuts.

After it was completely dead, Lin Xia pulled it out with force.

This wild boar was not big, weighing about 100 pounds, half the size of a domestic pig. It was dark brown in color, with a top layer of hard bristles, two sharp fangs, and a small cut on its abdomen. Except for the two cuts from Lin Xia, the rest of its body was uninjured.

It seems that the bamboo strips are not very lethal, and the anesthetic has a certain effect on it, but the effect is not strong. However, it may also be that the trap has been left for too long and the powder has lost its effectiveness.

Anyway, she has a good meal today.

Empty the trap, restore it to its original state, dig out the bloody soil inside, insert bamboo strips, cover it with branches, and drag the wild boar to the water pool.

The blood flowed into the pool, causing waves to splash. The fish rushed to the surface to grab the food. Lin Xia chopped it down with the back of his knife and knocked out a two-pound fish at random.

Oh ~

Lin Xia thought thoughtfully that catching fish in the future would be like feeding them, and the fish would be caught when the fish are least prepared.

Bring the prey back to the cave and have a good meal.

In fact, wild boar meat is fishy and has a dry texture, so it needs to be cooked with rich spices to taste good. Unfortunately, due to the simple conditions, we can only make do with it.

I put half of the wild boar meat into the space to keep it fresh, and put the rest in the newly woven bamboo basket at the door. Fortunately, the weather is cold, so the meat doesn't spoil easily.

In this way, except for not being able to eat rice, Lin Xia's other food was pretty good, except that there were fewer vegetarian dishes.

Just two days after the wild boar was caught, heavy snow began to fall. The snow kept getting heavier and heavier. In less than a week, the door was covered with a foot of snow, reaching Lin Xia's knees.

She had a feeling that this heavy snow would be worse than the previous heavy rain, so she had already prepared to hibernate for two or three months.

*

The mountains are covered with heavy snow, and the world covered in silver is surrounded by silence. The thick snow covers the peaks like a quilt, and everything seems to be in deep sleep.

Halfway up the mountain, smoke curled out of a stone house.

After a rustling sound, a fat figure walked out of the stone house with a blazing fire behind him.

This person was Lin Xia. She walked out of the house, took out a homemade broom, and began to sweep the snow in front of the door.

Lin Xia didn't expect that this heavy snowfall was so horrible. It continued for a month without interruption. The snow in the forest was more than one meter high. If you walked deep into the forest, it would instantly cover your head.

Lin Xia was a southern girl in her previous life. She had never seen such thick snow. She ran out to play on the snow. Unexpectedly, she missed a step and fell into the deep snow, with only the top of her head exposed.

Being buried in the snow is not a pleasant feeling. There is a feeling of suffocation from nowhere. Fortunately, Lin Xia did not fall down at that time and could see the sky above his head. Otherwise, it would be easy to get stuck in the snow and lose his life in vain.

After this incident, Lin Xia would at most play with the snow at the door, build a few snowmen to keep her company, and never go out again.

No matter how novel something is, you will lose interest in it after a month. Lin Xia's daily routine became sweeping snow, exercising, practicing with a sword, and throwing stones.

I don't seek to be invincible, but I do seek the strength to fight.

*

On this day, the heavy snow that had lasted for a month finally stopped. According to calculations, it was only the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. Given the extreme weather, the snow would probably continue for another two months.

In the original owner's memory, there had never been such heavy snow in the north, let alone in the south.

In ancient times, common people were not very good at keeping warm. In addition, there was a drought for more than half a year, heavy rain for a month, and plague and hail in between. The upper class nobles were busy fighting for power and profit and did not care about the lives of the people.

The number of civilians who died across the country in that year is unimaginable.

I hope she doesn't start a fight before she leaves for Xiangzhou next year.

After the snow stopped, Lin Xia didn't want to go out, but she was very bored staying in the cave, so she quietly ran out to test the bearing capacity of the snow, as if she could walk on the snow as if it were flat ground by sneaking around.

Although the snow was not as smooth as walking on flat ground, the bottom layer of snow had melted and become hard, so when you stepped on it you only sank up to your thighs.

It was extremely cold to walk in the snow, and Lin Xia's shoes and pants were soaked in no time. She returned home disappointed after only ten minutes.

After returning to the house to dry, he soon felt like making his own skis. Thinking about the modern skis used in snowy weather, Lin Xia decided to make his own skis.

Choose a bamboo of appropriate thickness, split it in the middle, roast it over high heat until it is soft and smooth, and then curl the front end upwards. This way, a pair of simple skis is ready.

Lin Xia carefully went down the mountain, walked to the flat ground, and put on her skis. However, she had never skied before and could not control her speed on the flat and gentle slope, and crashed straight into the tree.

Seeing that Lin Xia was about to hit the tree, she turned quickly and was about to pass by the edge of the tree when she reached out and hugged the tree. Then the snow on the tree was shaken and fell down, covering her under the tree.

Lin Xia was not convinced. She thought that even skiing was a simple skill that she must master.

Then, there was a thud, a scream, and a string of angry curses from the forest...

After careful selection and bold attempts, she has initially mastered the skill of melting snow, understood the methods of acceleration and deceleration, knows how to turn, and can even park independently when the speed is not fast.

Lin Xia was high. She loved the extreme feeling of adrenaline rush, the freedom of dancing with the wind, and the process of improving her control over every muscle in her body.

In the next few days, the occasional light snow in the sky did not stop Lin Xia from going out skiing.

She goes out in the morning and returns in the evening every day. Her gray figure flexibly shuttles between the woods, occasionally causing the snow on the trees to fall.

The joy of skiing is beyond words. Lin Xia's eyelashes are frosted, and there is a smile in the corners of her eyes as she skis boldly in the mountains.

Just when she wasn't paying attention, she disappeared while paddling. It turned out that she had fallen deep into a snow pit.

Lin Xia skillfully adjusted his body position, took out a small hoe and dug himself out. Then he continued to adjust his position and sank deeper into the forest.

For a week in a row, Lin Xia practiced skiing every day. Later, when the equipment was limited, he gradually calmed down and no longer acted like a crazy person who had never seen the world before.

After that, it started snowing heavily again. Lin Xia didn't want to go out and step on the fluffiest upper layer of snow, so she stayed in the stone house. It was then that she discovered that her hands and feet were all frozen and had frostbite.

Looking at the frostbite, Lin Xia warned herself in her heart that she should be restrained when playing, as her health is more important.

She didn't want to get frostbite every year, so she didn't go out unless necessary in the following days, and strictly prevented her hands and feet from getting cold. She kept herself warm every day. After half a month, the frostbite was finally healed.

The scar heals and the pain is forgotten, this is what Lin Xia is like.

She saw that the heavy snow outside had stopped again. In addition, the cave was really boring. There was not even a book. Sitting there in a daze would easily make her depressed. Lin Xia finally couldn't resist the temptation of skiing and took her newly made skis out for a leisurely trip.

But this time she didn't dare to get carried away. She played for an hour and then came back to add firewood to the fire. It was just right that she could bring back firewood every day when she went out.

One day, Lin Xia went out to ski and chop wood. Looking at the steep slope in front of the door, which was covered with snow, an idea suddenly occurred to her. She took a wooden board, sat on it and started sliding.

A quick slip.

Oh ~

The remaining sound echoed in the air.

There was no human figure in the snow, only a pair of feet waving in the air above the snow pile at the bottom.

Afterwards, Lin Xia became addicted to the new type of skiing. She even built herself an extra-long slide according to local conditions, which looked like a large paradise. However, she did not remember her previous self-warnings at all, and ended up with frostbite on her hands and feet.

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