Super Chief

Chapter 538: Winter ice project

   Because of the stove, kang, and fire wall, even if the outside temperature can often drop to minus thirty or forty degrees, the house is still warm as spring.

   Even if you go out, don’t worry, because all the people here wear natural fur...

Just like the famous stand-up comedy actor Fang Qingping said in his cross talk that the furs worn by primitive people are absolutely pure natural furs, Shixiong and the others wear leather clothes, leather pants, shoes, and leather hats on their heads in winter. The leather gloves worn on the hands are also pure natural fur.

No way. At this time, hunting of wild animals is not prohibited like later generations. Modern people in later generations paid a huge price for their ancestors' uncontrolled hunting. One of them was to praise those wild animals higher than their ancestors. .

   This is not allowed to be killed, and the other is not allowed to be arrested. Anyway, as long as it is hairy, I want to protect them all.

   But now, in the North American continent, in this place that has not been ruined by humans, wild animals are the food in the mouth of the Indians and the source of the long clothing.

   With the first heavy snowfall, Superior, which is near forty-seven degrees north latitude, began to snow every three to five.

   Keep down, keep down. The previous heavy snow has not melted, and new snow will cover it again. After a few snowfalls, the entire land will be covered by snow.

   The vast lake surface also began to freeze. Of course, before the lake surface freezes, the St. Louis River that flows from west to east and finally flows into Lake Superior at Superior has been completely frozen.

   Then, the surface of the Great Lake began to be frozen from the surroundings to the middle. Often after a cold wave, you can find that the range of the Great Lake’s ice has extended a lot inward.

   Return to the United States in December, and the Stone Bears can walk from the shore on the ice to the island in the narrow lake that is more than ten kilometers in length between Lake Superior and Bay Superior.

  The Five Great Lakes are all formed by glaciers, so the shores of the Great Lakes and the shores of the islands in the lakes are mostly rocky cliffs. It is rare to see gentle places, let alone sandy beaches.

   But this long and narrow island lying at the mouth of the St. Louis River has a beautiful beach. On the east bank of this long and narrow lake island, a long sandy beach will appear after the lake surface is thawed in spring, which is said to be the longest lake island beach in the world. In summer, this beach will become the darling of the locals.

   Later generations, this beach is also the darling of the locals. The six-mile beach is an excellent natural bathing area. There are countless beach volleyball courts and beach football fields on this beach...

   It's a pity that Stone Bear has never seen this beautiful beach in his previous life. Although he has seen it now, it is a pity that it happens to be winter.

   In short, at least this year, Shi Xiong can't bring his wife and children to play here.

   However, although it is not possible to play in the water, there are still many places to play and have fun in Lake Superior in winter.

   For example, ice-cutting fishing is a very good game.

In this season, killing Iroquois and Hurons dare not engage in sneak attacks on land. The cold wave and blizzard that do not know when will come are the most powerful killers in the wild in this era. No one can resist. , No one dares to wander around in the wild at this time.

   So except for the necessary vigilance, the soldiers of the Grim Bear Army relaxed.

   Shi Xiong, who is the boss, naturally has to take a bunch of brothers with him.

   Ice fishing is a fun and fitness activity.

   Although the entire Lake Superior has not been frozen, but within a few dozen kilometers from the shore of the lake, it has completely frozen. And the closer to the shore, the thicker the ice layer. Just like Shi Xiong and their current location, the thickness of the ice layer is more than one meter.

  The thickness of the ice layer is not to mention leaving people, even if it is running a tank, there is no problem, so everyone can play on the ice as much as possible.

   It’s really not an easy task to shovel such a thick layer of ice. There is no electric drill or electric saw these days. If you want to smash the iron-hard ice layer, you can only do it bit by bit by manpower, so this is really a very physical exercise.

   But once a hole is cut in the ice, it becomes lively.

The fishes under the ice layer drill out of these ice holes just like they are dead. Some big fish can even jump out of the ice holes directly, and then jump on the ice for a few times to end their lives. ......

   To use the old Northeast Chinese saying, the scene is really "Beat the roe deer and scoop fish."

   Lake Superior in this era is not for later generations, let alone Lake Superior for later generations, the entire Great Lakes is due to overfishing and lake water pollution, resulting in a long period of time almost no fish in the Great Lakes.

   Later, Lao Mei felt that this would not work, so she began to close the lake to raise fish, and it took decades to restore the ecology of the Great Lakes.

But now, there are more than one fish in the Great Lakes, especially there is only one Chippewa tribe around Lake Superior, and the entire tribe is less than 100,000 people. Even if they are allowed to fish desperately, they will not be able to catch the big lake. The fish in it.

   A bunch of bear kids looked silly on the edge of the ice cave. Where have they seen this scene?

   Let alone children, even adults are dumbfounded. Most of these soldiers live in the central and southern parts of the North American continent. Many people have never seen such a scene.

   The only happy is Tep.

   It is an out-and-out brown bear~lightnovelpub.net~Fish is one of their favorites.

  Tep used to go fishing in the river, it was really too strenuous, and he was thrashing and busy, and he couldn't catch many fish in a long time. But now, there is no need to flop in the water at all. The fish jumps up by itself. Where is there such a good thing in the world?

   So Tep was not too cold. He sat down next to the ice hole and jumped up a fish. It stretched out its big claws and pressed it directly on the ice, and then half of the fish was gone after one bite...

   It didn't take much time, even with Tep's big belly, I couldn't eat it anymore.

   Shixiong is also a bit embarrassed. He originally made a few simple fishing rods and wanted to teach the children to fish. As a result, the fishing rod was not used at all. It was really embarrassing...

  Tepu is a good time to eat fish, but after eating it, it’s hard.

   The sledge built by Stone Bear himself was tied to Tepp again, and the flamboyant Tepp who had just eaten became a sledge driver in a blink of an eye.

   The other children are not idle either, and the dog pulls the sledge as violently.

In addition to ice fishing and dogs pulling sledges, Shixiong also spent more than 20 days deliberately, riding the dog pulling sledges with his family and a large group of people to the later Apostle Islands to see the famous Superior. Lake ice cave.

This very famous winter attraction for later generations is still unknown to outsiders, so when a group of dumplings from the south saw the magnificent ice caves, ice waterfalls, icicles, ice swords, ice drops, ice towers, ice beads, etc. , All of them look dumbfounded...