Chapter 98: cold winter
The sun is shining.
In the yard of Willy's house, next to Wally's bear den, there is a wooden den, and outside the den, there are two layers of barbed wire.
This is the new home of the drug mouse, the den that Willy ordered Aden to place for the two little guys.
Aden also hung two layers of barbed wire from the outside, for fear that the two earthworms would carve out a hole in the wooden house to escape. It's just that the craftsmanship is so poor that it looks like a tattered steel ball in its new nest.
"These two little things are too ugly."
Through the window of the den, Veria saw two dwarf rats moving around uncomfortably. The female dwarf rats were better, because they were pregnant, they just moved around the corner twice, and then called for two. Voice. As for the male drug rat, it kept jumping and tried to jump out of the window of the wooden hole, but because the hole was too small, every time it got stuck in the head, it would push the wooden board with its short forelimbs to make itself restart. Fall back into the nest.
"Although it's ugly, it's very useful."
Willy squatted aside, also looking at the two little guys.
After watching for a while, he turned and called to Wally, who was dozing in the yard, "Wally, bring the basket with the herbs here."
Willy pointed to the basket in the corner of the room.
These were collected by Willy before entering the forest. Because they were of little value, they were dried and stored at home.
Although these herbs are not good things, the medicinal properties and nutrients contained in them can fully satisfy the food of the earth drug rat. After eating these things, the drug rat will quickly decompose and catalyze, and pull out the good fertilizer.
When Wally heard Willy's order, his drooping ears quivered, and he quickly brought the basket to Willy's feet.
"Vilia, watch how I feed them. You can just feed them like me in the future."
Willy said to Veria while inserting the herb into the dungeon's nest.
"No! I don't want to feed these two ugly things!"
Veria showed a look of disgust, and then expressed a strong protest.
Willy ignored Veria's protest: "I will pay you a salary, a copper rum a day."
"Only a copper rum?"
Veria is no longer the little girl in the tough family before, and now with the improvement of the family environment, her shock threshold for money has also increased unconsciously.
"At least five copper rums!"
Veria raised the price five times. Although she didn't want to raise these two ugly things, she could consider it for the sake of money. After all, my parents never gave me pocket money because they were too young.
"A copper rum."
Willy continued to feed the herbs without changing his face.
Veria frowned and gritted her teeth: "Three copper lums."
"One."
Willie was unmoved.
Veria clenched her little fists tightly, her little brows were knitted together, she seemed to have made a great determination, she just gritted her teeth and said: "Two, at least two copper rams, otherwise don't let me be coolie."
"make a deal!"
As soon as Veria finished speaking, she saw Willy looking at her with a smile.
Velia felt angry immediately, and when she saw Willy showing his teeth, she knew she was being tricked.
However, although she was a little depressed, Veria recognized it when she thought of the income of two coppers per day.
"Two copper rams a day, sixty copper rams a month..."
Thinking of this, Veria suddenly grinned. The little friends in the village had never seen such a huge sum of money.
After teaching Veria how to feed the drug mouse and the amount of food, Willy became the shopkeeper.
He doesn't have so much time to waste on trivial matters. More time should be spent on practicing Frost Knight's Breathing Technique.
Just as he was about to go around to the backyard, Willy suddenly watched Lake hurried back from outside with a helpless look on his face.
According to Lake's diligence, he should be patrolling around Pandoutun at this time. Why did he come back so early?
"What's the matter, father?"
Willy asked casually.
Lake snorted, then shook his head: "I'm going to Diamond Town to buy some farm implements."
"Everyone is working hard, but the quality of the farm tools I bought before is too bad. It has only been more than a month, and it has been damaged and unusable. I really miss the time when I was in Xiangguo Village, and Ubi could solve the whole problem alone. The farm implement needs of the village.”
Lake muttered to Willy, "It would be great if Ubi could be brought to Fandoutun, but that guy would definitely not agree."
Lake's face was full of regret.
Willy snorted: "It's hard work, father."
This kind of thing is a small problem in his eyes, but for Lake, who is full of Fandoutun, as long as he encounters even the slightest problem in the construction of Fandoutun, it cannot be tolerated.
After a brief exchange, Willy went to the backyard and continued to practice Frost Knight's breathing technique.
At present, his progress is still maintained at about 70%. The further back he goes, the more difficult it is to practice.
However, because there is nothing urgent, Willy's mentality is relatively calm.
He deliberately controlled his breathing and began to combine it with combos.
……
The days in Pandou Tun passed quickly, and nearly half a month passed in a blink of an eye.
This winter is getting colder and colder. The early winter has just passed, and the deep winter has not yet entered. Even so, the villagers have already wrapped in thick cotton-padded clothes, especially the children, who have passed through several layers all over their bodies and can be seen from a distance. Go like a ball.
These clothes are very tattered, most of them are cut and re-sewed from the torn clothes worn by adults in the family.
In this weather, even Willy would feel cold in a single coat, so he had to add a coat.
"This winter is more difficult than I thought..."
Willy looked up at the distant horizon, the sky was dark, the clouds were heavy, and it should be snowing soon.
Although the Xingshan Xuegen and Fandou planted in Fandoutun are both crops that are not afraid of the cold, there are limits. If it reaches minus 15 degrees or even lower, both the star-spotted snow root and the sweet potato will stop growing.
"Looks like I have to think of something..."
While strolling around Fandou Tun, Willy pondered countermeasures.
When he was just strolling to Tunkou, Willy suddenly heard the sound of expelling the villagers and the pleading of a man.
He was about to go forward to check the situation, but saw Aden trotting all the way to get close.
"How is this going?"
Willy asked Aden.
At this time, Aden was wrapped in cotton-padded clothes that had been repaired many times, his face was red with freezing, and he even had frostbite, he explained tremblingly: "A refugee with a child wants Fandoutun to take him in. …”
shelter?
Willie raised his eyebrows.