Time flies, time flies.

winter.

The smoothly paved mud brick road looked a bit dirty because of the stepped snow. A figure hurried past, leaving a shallow trace.

The green pear trees planted on both sides of the road had fallen out of their leaves early, and when a gust of wind blew, snow on the dry branches fell to the ground, making a few loud noises.

Luo Zhen pushed open the heavy wooden door of the mud-brick house in the middle. The wooden door was covered with a layer of animal skins, which could keep most of the cold away from the door.

Feeling the warmth in the room, a small flaming red head came out of the close-fitting animal skin bag. It moved its two stiff tentacles, and turned its head a few times from side to side. A strap hanging from the collar of the animal skin bag climbed back to Luo Zhen's collar. The shoulders that had been dominating the line of sight before had been completely abandoned by it because of the falling snow, wet and cold.

Take off the outer cloak and hang it on the hanger beside the door. Because the doors and windows are closed, only one vent is left for ventilation. Even if the fire has started to light up, the room still looks a bit dim.

Luo Zhenshun took a few pieces of burning wood and put them into the fireplace next to him. The smoke produced in the fireplace was passed into the fire kang in the room, so that it would be very warm when sleeping at night, at least now in the tribe. People will never experience the situation of being too cold to sleep in the middle of the night.

The chimney is made of bamboo. The bamboo joints are hollowed out, and after drying, they are covered with mud inside and out, so that even if the smoke is overheated, there is no need to worry about the bamboo being burned. Most of the bamboo forest in the small forest was moved back this summer. Now there are a few bamboos planted in the yard of Luo Zhen's family, which became the only green in the tribe in the cold winter.

The area of ​​the two bedrooms and one living room is a bit larger than Luo Zhen had imagined. There are a lot of wooden furniture stacked in it. Although it has been polished with some rough stones, it still looks rough, but it is good enough. Strong, some can’t be connected by tenon and tenon joints will be fixed with a kind of hard bone nails. Now in addition to the necessary tables and chairs, some wooden boxes, wardrobes and even cupboards for dishes are all available. In the house that Luo Zhen transformed into a storage room, there are several tall and big wooden shelves specially used to hold things.

The broth in the stone pot was boiled before Luo Zhen went out, and there were a few pieces of fragrant leaves in it. At this moment, the whole room was filled with a tempting smell. He stirred it with a wooden spoon and scooped it. I blew the heat on it a little bit, put it in my mouth and tasted the taste. It was a little light. I went to the place where the seasoning was piled and brought a small wooden tube over, scooped a little white-brown fruit powder from it and poured it into the broth.

This kind of fruit powder is made from dried salted fruit and ground. After removing the small core inside, the taste is much better than when it was just picked.

There is a big stone mill in the tribe, which is placed next to the commandment stele in the middle of the square. It has been polished bit by bit for a whole summer in Heiya. Now in addition to grinding salted fruits, you can only It is used to grind cassava flour, but there are not many cassava that can be harvested in the tribe this summer. Only a few of them can be harvested for children and the elderly. Luo Zhen collects the rest first to avoid the long winter when they are suddenly short of food. Starving.

The door of the house was pushed open, and Ah Shui's face was red with cold and he walked in carrying a small wooden bucket. He saw Luo Zhen in the house and raised a big smile, "Da Witch, are you back?"

"Why are you still fetching water when it's so cold? Just get some clean snow next to the house and melt it back." Luo Zhen stepped forward to help Ah Shui pick up the barrel and set it aside.

In a year, when Ah Shui Bi Luo Zhen saw him for the first time, his thin and small appearance became much stronger, and the muscles on his small arms felt a little hard to pinch up. He rode his antlers in summer. The horse ran wildly around the board, and a small bow and arrow were trained quickly and accurately. Unfortunately, he was too young and lacked enough strength. Once he was too courageous to pick up a jackal and was chased and fled back to the tribe in embarrassment. It was Kadotake who found out that jackal was dealt with.

If this is someone who doesn't understand the situation, he would think Ah Shui is a little orc warrior.

"The food cooked in the stream should be more delicious." A Shui cracked his mouth and smiled. The stream here has a little sweetness and is very cool. The broth that is cooked seems to be sweet and the snow melts. It's too slow. After the big bucket of snow is melted, you will only get about one-third of the water at most, and you can't go directly to the stream.

Unless it is not in a hurry, Ah Shui will collect the snow and slowly melt it, but after a period of time, after the stream is completely frozen, even if Ah Shui doesn't like it, he can only use it by melting the snow.

Luo Zhen smiled helplessly, took out a few clean dishes, first put a piece of meat on a wooden plate and let it cool, then scooped up a bowl of soup full of pieces of meat and handed it to Ah Shui. It fell on the messy hair of the other party, "Did your hair grow longer?"

While accepting the wooden bowl with his hand, Ah Shui used the free hand to pull the bangs a few times. "It's a bit long. Dawu wants to cut it for me?"

"Why don't you let your father cut it for you?"

When talking about this, Ah Shui's shoulders drooped, and she said with a sad face, "He will only cut all my hair."

Since the bone scissors were made, it has been popular in the Riyao tribe to cut each other's hair for a while, because most primitive people have never had the habit of combing their hair. The hair has long been entangled, oily and dirty. When Luo Zhen first cut it. The demonstration to them is to shave them directly, and then teach them how to clean and comb the hair after it grows back.

Everyone in the Riyao tribe now looks neat and tidy. If it's not behind the city wall or the wilderness, it would still be a little more remote.

Probably it’s easier to learn to cut this hairstyle. When Ah Shui cut his hair for the second time, the horn bamboo was straightforward and shaved again. At that time, the entire tribe probably only had hair on the head of the witch and the leader. Yes, at that time, Ah Shui was almost not crying by his own father. He obviously said that as long as it was cut short, why did he have to shave it? I really want to make a nice hairstyle like a big witch.

Luo Zhen also seemed to remember the past, but it was summer. Otherwise, in such a cold winter, he would have a light head one by one, and even his IQ would be frozen by three points.

"Okay, I'll cut you a cooler haircut after a while."

"Thank you, Da Wu." Ah Shui cheered, and brought the broth onto the dinner table, and then brought a few warm dishes. Now they don’t need to sit on the ground to eat anymore, on the chairs. Covered with thick animal skins, you won't feel cold even if you sit on it.

"Lu Yi, I'm down to eat." After Luo Zhen took a seat, he put his fingers on the edge of the wooden dish, and said to the flame ant hiding in the neckline with his head slightly sideways.

In the past, Luo Zhen had been following the three soldier ants for a long time. In order to distinguish them, Luo Zhen directly named them one, two and three. For Luo Zhen, these titles were a bit casual, but for the small soldiers It is a great honor for the ants to get the name of the queen, at least those other flame ants who are left in the ant nest do not have such unique treatment.

Probably because the big soldier ant called Luo Zhen his mother, although Lu Zhan couldn't understand it, seeing that Luo Zhen called it A Yi, he threatened to let the big soldier ant follow his last name and call it Lu Yi. He didn't ask Luo Zhen to recognize this name either. He only asked the big soldier ant to be Lu Yi in front of Luo Zhen over and over again. Luo Zhen had no choice but to change his tune with him, so the name of Lu Yi was decided like this.

After the winter, the activity of the flame ants has dropped a lot. Luo Zhen is not sure whether the ants need hibernation, but it is clear that the flame ants need it, because there are very few animals that can move outside after the winter, and the size of the flame ants is really very large. Too small, even if they are fast, it is very uneconomical to cross the mountains to find food, so most of the time, after the first snow falls, the flame ants will return to the ant nest to prepare for the winter. .

Of course, this does not mean that flame ants are completely inactive in winter.

Throughout the summer, Luo Zhen gradually learned more about flame ants, and his thoughts about them also slowly changed. He even took the flame ants out to hunt, as long as it was his own order, no matter what, even if The flame ant never defies the danger of extinction of the entire ant colony, just like the most sophisticated instrument, it will execute Luo Zhen's request very well.

As the time spent with each other slowly increased, Luo Zhen became more and more trusting in the flame ants.

However, after trusting, he felt very sad again. This ant colony did not have a true flame ant queen.

Luo Zhen as a human being, even if he is recognized as a queen by the flame ants, he still cannot give birth to flame ants. If the life of the group of flame ants reaches the end, then he can only wait and see to the point where they will slowly go to extinction. Up. Now it is unrealistic to catch a queen among other flame ant colonies and come back. In case this group of flame ants is turned back by the new queen, then Luo Zhen really has no place to cry.

The only way is to make other female ants transform into new queens, and this queen has to obey her own orders as it is now.

Luo Zhen initially put his idea on Lu Yi's head. I don't know if the other party has a higher IQ than other flame ants or if Luo Zhen is sticky, he refuses to stay in the ant's nest and become the ant that keeps reproducing. Rear. But it was unwilling, but urged Luo Zhen to let the other two soldier ants next to him do it.

Sometimes Luo Zhen suspected that Lu Yi had become a master, but he still seriously considered Lu Yi's suggestion.

But Luo Zhen didn’t know how to transform an originally infertile soldier ant into a queen. At first, he fed a little blood to the two soldier ants like Lu Yi had drunk a little of his blood before, but besides It became easier to communicate a little and felt the growing loyalty of the two soldier ants, but there was no other change.

Later, Luo Zhen talked about this in front of the two soldiers and gave them as an order. It was not until the first snow fell that Luo Zhen finally saw some signs of transformation.

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