webnovelfull Chapter 147 I thought it was a ghost?
Chapter 147 I thought it was a ghost?
Shen Zhiqiu strode forward, the raincoat on his body scraping the snow on the wall of the passage, making it fall down:
"Let's go back and dig traps around the semicircle we cleared. Dig it wider and put bamboo thorns in the traps. It won't matter if the wolves don't come, but if they dare to come, we will make sure they never come back."
Everyone thought about it and realized that the method was indeed a good one, which could minimize casualties, but it was very difficult to implement.
It's icy and snowy here, and the ground is frozen. Even if we use fire, it would probably be difficult to dig.
When Shen Zhiqiu returned to the cave and told the situation, many old ladies began to scold the wolf, asking why it was so blind. They just wanted to spend the New Year in peace, why was it so difficult?
You howled from New Year's Eve to New Year's Day. Not only did you scare us for the whole night, but you also ruined our construction on New Year's Day. Fortunately, this happened not in your own home, otherwise how could this be auspicious?
That's exactly what happened. It's hard to believe that this happened during the Chinese New Year, especially since we just vowed yesterday that "every year will be better than the last!"
On the second day, New Year's Day, a ferocious hungry wolf came to the door.
However, now that things have come to this, there is no point in saying anything. All work for today has been temporarily suspended. Men and women alike will work together to dig traps. They have to dig all the traps and insert the bamboo thorns before dark.
Look at the young man, he took off his straw raincoat and started chopping bamboo in the wind and snow!
The others were at the cave entrance, some were lighting fires, some were digging holes,
The trap must be dug as wide as possible, because wolves are very smart animals. If it is dug too narrow, it will only trap the front two wolves, and the wolves behind will be able to jump over it.
The trap cannot be too shallow. As I said before, wolves are so smart. If it is too shallow, they can get through it by stepping on the corpses of their companions.
Although they had blocked the entrance of the cave as much as possible, the wolves could not rush in all at once, and at most two or three could come in at a time.
But Shen Zhiqiu tried his best not to let everyone meet the wolf.
When digging traps in the middle of winter, the fire must be kept burning.
After this piece is burned, someone has to start digging a hole immediately. But it won’t be long before it freezes again, so they have to light the fire again.
It is always like this: the women and the elderly are responsible for getting firewood and lighting the fire, while the men are responsible for digging the pit. Sometimes the women even take over the men's digging for a while.
It was New Year's Day, and we had dumplings in the morning and were planning to have fish balls at noon. But now, the women had no time to cook lunch, so Shen Youyou had to take the girls to grill fish for everyone.
This can be considered to satisfy my younger brothers' wish to eat all-you-can-eat grilled fish.
During the meal, there were too many fish to grill, and more than a dozen girls couldn’t take care of them all, so some of the fish were a little burnt.
Shen Zhiqiu sniffed and said, "Girl, today's grilled fish is not as good as before. It's all burnt."
Shen Youyou glared: "We grilled so many fish, it's good enough to have some to eat."
After scolding her father, she turned around and told the little kids to ask their sisters to get them food if they wanted it, and not to go near the fire. Yes, they were also responsible for looking after the children.
I was enjoying a happy day yesterday, but today I encountered this incident and I am so busy and worried.
It seemed as if God was deliberately making things difficult for them and didn't want them to relax even for a moment.
Shen Zhiqiu was digging the hole with great effort. In the middle of winter, he was sweating all over his forehead. When the cold wind blew, his sweat turned into ice. What kind of torture was this?
"Brothers, starting from tomorrow, in addition to fishing, it's time to exercise. Uncle Gao and Uncle Li will be in charge of your guidance.
I think when we set out again after the Chinese New Year, we will have to learn a few tricks. Although we are walking in the mountains now, it is impossible to walk in the mountains all the time when we reach the north.
What's more, it's snowing, and there's no shortage of water. Otherwise, there might be bandits in the mountains who rule the mountains."
This work lasted until about the evening at about 8 or 9 o'clock according to modern time.
Finally, the trap was set up. It was two steps deep and two steps wide, with pointed bamboo thorns inserted at the bottom and a layer of bamboo mat on top, which was intentionally made thinner.
Shen Zhiqiu had someone cover it with another layer of snow before he finished it.
In the evening, we had stewed fish and braised catfish. In Shen Zhiqiu's words, it was worse than your mother's.
After being hit with a chopstick by Old Lady Hua, he no longer teased his daughter on purpose.
There's no way. My mother is right beside me. If I say one more word, I'm sure the second round of attacks will come. With so many brothers watching, he has to save his face too.
Shen Zhiqiu had the only passage left at the entrance of the cave blocked with a bamboo raft, and a dozen thick bamboos were fixed on the back.
He called out to everyone, "Add more firewood, and catch up on some sleep before the wolves come."
The purpose of adding firewood is to heat the kang. Although their kang is always burning, firewood needs to be added every few hours, otherwise the fire will go out and the kang will not be warm.
In fact, Shen Zhiqiu didn't need to explain this. The boys just listened to Shen Zhiqiu and blocked the bamboo raft at the entrance of the cave. They were shivering in the cold wind one second, and in the next second they walked to the kang, fell on it, and fell asleep in the blink of an eye.
This speed of falling asleep is definitely something that will make a lot of people who used to suffer from insomnia due to various pressures in their previous lives envy them.
Maybe they were tired, and soon there was a loud snoring in the cave. Everyone was sleeping soundly.
Because I feel like I can sleep peacefully now, because I might wake up early tomorrow morning and catch dozens of wolves in the trap for free!
Except for Shen Zhiqiu and Shen Youyou, even Li Jingshu fell asleep holding her son.
Shen Youyou and Shen Zhiqiu sat between the cave entrance and the partition, burning a brazier and observing the situation outside through the gap.
By the end, Shen Zhiqiu was dazed and leaned against the stone wall they had built, almost falling asleep in a daze.
Shen Youyou wore two layers of cotton clothes and sat by the fire. When the cold wind blew, she couldn't help sneezing: "Aqiu!"
"Ouch!"
Shen Youyou was startled: "Dad, Dad!"
Shen Zhiqiu thought he was dreaming, and even tried to respond in his dream: "Hmm?"
After he hummed, there was no further talk. A few seconds later, he started snoring again.
It seems that I am really exhausted after these two days and two nights.
The reason Shen Youyou looked so energetic must be that she had slept soundly last night without any care in the world.
She didn't dare to speak loudly, so she could only pinch her father's nose and say, "Dad, the wolf is coming!"
The method of pinching the nose can wake up even the most sound sleeper, especially the phrase "Wolf!"
Shen Youyou's tone was too scary. Shen Zhiqiu suddenly stood up, and was completely confused. He thought he heard something other than "Wolf is coming!"
But "The ghost is coming!"
It took Shen Zhiqiu a while to react, and then he heard a wolf howl, and then he came to his senses:
"Are there wolves? Go wake up your uncles and aunts, and don't go out yourself. Also wake up the kids so they won't be startled in the middle of the night."
Shen Youyou turned around and went in, and the wolves really came.
These gray hungry wolves had fierce green light in their eyes and bared their teeth ferociously and greedily as they stared at the entrance of the cave.
Because of the tunnel dug by Shen Zhiqiu and his team, the wolves saved a lot of trouble, as they no longer needed to dig tunnels themselves.