Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

For the past two days, Aze stayed at home and took the initiative to take over the cooking work. Now there are basically only two people eating at home. Chen Qi made a low table and placed it by the fire. It is very convenient to put away.

Aze put the prepared dishes on the table. Today, I steamed a few sweet potatoes as the main dish, and then fried a sliced ​​cabbage and pan-fried meat patties. There are not many dishes, but the portion is very large. After everything was done, he found that Chen Qi was standing by the window in a daze, and Aze clenched the chopsticks in his hand, "Chen Qi, it's time to eat."

Chen Qi came back to his senses and waved to Aze, signaling him to come over.

A Ze set up the chopsticks and walked over, "What's the matter?"

Chen Qi smiled and pointed out the window. The snow in the yard was cleaned yesterday. The reddish-brown ground with no weeds mixed with white snowflakes looked messy. Covered with mud, you need to change your shoes to enter the house, so it's not a hassle. "Aze, do you want to build a stone road in the yard?"

"Stone road?"

"Well, just lay slate on the ground, so that you don't have to step on the mud floor all the time." Chen Qi explained: "I remember that there was a lot of slate left in the house before Ah Zhang and the others. It should be enough to pave a way to the ground."

Aze never objected to Chen Qiti's opinion, he nodded lightly, "Okay."

Chen Qi thought of it and did it. After eating, he ran to say hello to A Zhang and Carlo. Everyone had nothing to do. Hearing that Chen Qi wanted to make a stone road, they all came out to help.

Chen Qi simply divided the approximate range of the road. This is a road that connects the front of the three houses and then leads to the main gate in front of the wall. Because the stone slabs are directly laid on the ground, not even the glue is needed.

The remaining slates that were used before were stacked on the wall of A-Zhang's utility room. There was a huge pile. A few females could carry several slates alone. Chen Qi stood on both sides of the planned road and directed the others. How to lay the slate.

Chen Qi has a little obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since he wants to pave the road, he wants to make it look as good as possible. Some too large slates will be cut off by Aze. It is necessary to make the size of the road similar. The road is too long and several people have made it for a whole day.

A Jing was worried that the little wolf cub would stain his fur when he ran outside. Now in winter, the little wolf cub is too young to take a bath, so he can only hold the little wolf cub and stand aside to watch other people busy.

After the stone road is paved, it is still a little loose, and it takes a while to walk around to become firm. Chen Qi walked back and forth on it a few times with satisfaction, so that he wouldn't get another shoe of mud when he visited the door next door in the future.

The only lighting tools in this world are fires. Chen Qi used to make torches, but now there are occasional blizzards, and torches are of little use in winter. Chen Qi thought about it and planned to make a lamp.

He tied a rectangular wooden shelf with a root wire, the base was a wooden board, and the cloth was sewn around it. Looking at the white cloth lamp, he felt a little unlucky, and he dyed the cloth again with red fruit dyeing liquid. After that, A Ze made a simple bone bowl, and he went to Ali's house to get a few wool cocoon threads, and melted a piece of fat that was iced outside the house.

Use the wool cocoon thread to knead into a rope as thick as a pinky finger. After the grease is melted, put it in a ceramic bowl. Soak the wick made of the wool cocoon thread into the grease. After soaking for about half an hour, take out the wick and put it on the fire. Heap to dry. Chen Qi found a small piece of cork, opened a hole in the middle of the cork, inserted the wick into it, then poured a little water into the bone bowl and then added oil, and carefully placed the bone bowl with two-thirds of the oil in it. Put it into a wooden shelf with cloth sewn around, and then put the wick in. The wick is very long, and it goes around the bottom of the bowl. It will not sink into the oil if it is supported by cork. Chen uses a wooden stick to lead it in the fire. The wick was lit in a flash. The transparency of the cloth is not very good, and the light is very dim.

"Aze, you can help me make a lamp post." Seeing this simple oil lamp, Chen Qi couldn't put it down, and hurriedly called Aze for help.

The lamp post is only about half a meter high, buried on the side of the newly built slate road at the entrance, and there are two wooden boards on it, one as the base and the other as the cover. In order to block the snowflakes, Chen Qi placed a cloth lamp on the lamp post, and the faint light was just right. Can illuminate a small area under the column.

Chen Qi asked Aze to make six such lamp posts, one on each side of the road in front of each house, and all these simple oil lamps were put on them. The surrounding ice wall was nearly four meters. Go outside and provoke some terrifying creature.

Ali looked at the oil lamp that was placed on the red cloth shelf with a little reddish light in surprise, "Chen Qi, are these also your customs?"

Chen Qi coughed lightly and winked at Ali, who quickly changed the subject and praised the usefulness of this oil lamp, so that it would be more convenient to go out in the future.

After Ali gradually lost the ability to transform into animal fur, his eyesight also decreased a lot. At night, as long as the moonlight is a little weaker, he can't see. For the injured females and males, it gives them one more option to travel at night. If the oil lamps can be fully lit in the tribe, then even if the females are not there, others do not need to stay overnight. Just stay in your own home.

After paving the road, Carlo and Ake went back to the room. At this moment, Chen Qi was fiddling with the lamp post for a long time outside, and neither of them came out. Chen Qi was worried about what exercise they were doing, and was too embarrassed to pull them out to see the lamp at night. . A Jing was still young and after feeding the little wolf cubs, he burrowed into the bed and fell asleep.

After turning on all the lights, Ali saw that the other party was done, so he leaned into Chen Qi's ear and asked in a low voice, "I have already made the clothes you asked me to make before, do you want to try them on first? ? If there is a problem, I will revise it."

Chen Qi nodded, turned to A Zhang and said, "A Zhang, aren't you curious about how to use this kind of oil lamp? A Ze has already done it for me just now. Let him teach you."

After Chen Qi finished speaking, he made an excuse to go into the house with A Li, but Azer held him back, "It's very late tonight, and Uncle A Zhang is also tired. I can teach him again tomorrow."

Chen Qi looked at A-Zhang suspiciously, A-Zhang's mouth twitched, he lived with Ali, he naturally knew what Chen Qi and Ali were tinkering with in the dark, took a few steps forward and said to A-Ze, "It's okay, this thing is not very good. Is it easy? I'll just learn it tonight."

Azer paused, slowly let go of the hand that grabbed Chen Qi's sleeve, pursed his lips and stopped talking.

Chen Qi hurriedly looked at the finished product, but did not find that A Ze was in a wrong mood. He gave A Zhang a grateful smile and left with A Li.

When the heavy animal skin door curtain was lowered, A Zhang patted A Ze on the head and scolded with a smile, "Are you worried that Chen Qi will be abducted by your ghostly appearance? I don't even think about how old your Uncle A Li is. Now, and if Chen Qi has any crooked ideas, I can let him enter the house?"

A Ze's face was tense, his eyes stared at the thick animal skin door curtain for a moment, and he stood quietly for a long time before turning around and walking back, "Let's go, I'll teach you how to make an oil lamp."

Ah Zhang secretly sighed in his heart. At first, he thought that Chen Qi's plan was good, so he helped the other party to hide from A Ze. Now, looking at A Ze's expression, don't he think he has gone into a dead end? It seems that it is necessary to remind Chen Qi not to play too much, and he can continue to do the same after the plan has been opened.

When Chen Qi came back, A Ze was already asleep. This was the first time Chen Qi saw A Ze fall asleep early without waiting for him. Although the distance between the several houses was very close, Chen Qigang was still cold when he came back from the outside. He threw a few sticks of wood into the fire to burn the fire, and only took off the animal skin coat and climbed into the bed until his body was warmed by the fire.

A Ze had previously replaced the animal skin quilt they had made with a large quilt that was big enough to cover two adult men. He asked Ali to sew it secretly. .

Thinking of what A Zhang said about himself just now, Chen Qi stopped lifting the quilt, "Aze, are you angry?"

Aze turned his back to Chen Qi, Chen Qi couldn't see the other party's expression, and he didn't know whether he was really asleep or fake. Chen Qi climbed into the bed and propped half of his body on top of A Ze, feeling the familiar breath approaching, A Ze's eyelashes moved unconsciously. Chen Qi chuckled lightly, got out of bed and went to Aze's room to find the big quilt that had been replaced by the bed, warmed the big quilt by the fire, and then put the two quilts on the heated kang bed that were only enough for one person. replace.

A Ze let Chen Qi do it, stiffened and continued to pretend to sleep.

After Chen Qi got it done, he got under the quilt. This time, he didn't hold A Ze's hand, but moved his hand to A Ze's thin waist, where the lines were tight and the hand felt very good. Chen Qi couldn't help dawdling. After eating a handful of tofu a few times, he felt that Aze's body was getting stiffer and stiffer, and he was about to pretend that he couldn't sleep before he stopped.

Chen Qi chuckled contentedly, rested his head on Aze's neck, and almost hugged Aze halfway into his arms, the warm breath made Aze feel an itchy neck. "Sorry, I misunderstood you."

A Ze's body moved when he heard Chen Qi's words.

"Originally, I wanted to give you a surprise after everything was done. I didn't expect that I would fail when I did this kind of thing for the first time." Chen Qi remembered that a colleague used to propose to his girlfriend. Then, holding a bunch of red roses, he stood at the door and shouted to the girl to marry him when people were coming off work. The girl smiled and agreed.

Unexpectedly, he wanted to do something like this, but he was stillborn. His ideal proposal scene would be to prepare a delicious meal on a sunny day, half-kneel in front of the other party with the ring in hand, and ask him for it. Don't marry him, not when the two are lying in bed and each other is still angry.

But Chen Qi didn't like what A Ze misunderstood. He did those things without telling the other party to make them happy. If the cart before the horse was put upside down, it wasn't what he wanted to see.

After thinking about it, Chen Qi became a little nervous. He half propped himself up and sat up, straightening the expression on his face, and then asked seriously: "Aze, do you want to be a partner with me? ?"