Maybe it's because spring, summer, autumn and winter are all Yuan beasts, so the four seasons of the year in this world are very strictly divided. Each season lasts exactly three months, neither more nor less.
The characteristic of this winter season is that the first month is very cold, so cold that even Tamro dare not go out.
However, after the first month, the temperature will rise a bit.
At this time, the stronger Tan Luo can walk out of the cave, but the weaker Tan Luo and ordinary tribesmen still cannot walk out of the cave.
The first month of cold winter had just passed and the temperature had risen slightly. Yanshan braved the biting cold wind and came to the stone house.
Ever since Erya got older, he would come to the Stone House as soon as possible every year.
Although he didn't say it, everyone knew that he was worried about Erya.
However, what was different from previous years was that this time, as soon as he arrived at the door of the stone house, he heard voices coming from inside the stone house.
With doubts, he opened the door of the stone house and saw Zhao Qian chatting with Erya.
Yanshan was stunned for a moment, and then asked loudly: "Why are you here?"
Zhao Qian smiled and asked: "I am the teacher's student, isn't it normal here?"
Yan Shan shook his head and said: "That's not what I meant. What I meant was that I was the first of the tribe to come out of the cave. You should come after me."
It is normal for Yanshan to have such doubts.
His animal pattern totem characteristics made him more cold-resistant than others, and he was stronger than others, so he walked out of the cave several days earlier than others.
Therefore, he instinctively thought that he would be the first person to see Erya every year.
Erya smiled and said, "Don't be surprised. Zhao Qian has been staying with me for more than half a month."
"Most of a month!"
Yan Shan suddenly opened his eyes wide, "Doesn't it mean that he walked out of the cave when it was the coldest? How is this possible?"
Erya continued: "Not only did he walk out of the cave, he also went to the forest and found a strange flower and fruit."
Hearing this, Yan Shan suddenly realized that he had missed a lot of things while staying in the cave. He couldn't help but look at Zhao Qian and asked, "Tell me what happened this month."
Zhao Qian had no intention of hiding Yanshan, so he told the story about Liu Yun's illness and that he went to the forest alone to save Liu Yun.
Of course, the battle with the swollen horse is indispensable during the narration. After all, it is well known that precious exotic flowers and fruits are protected by powerful beasts.
However, he did not tell the details of the battle, otherwise Erya and Yanshan would not be calm when they heard that he was eaten by a swollen horse.
After Yan Shan heard what Zhao Qian said, he stood there stunned for a long time without saying anything, because Zhao Qian gave him too much shock.
In the coldest time of winter, go to the forest alone to look for exotic flowers and fruits!
Hunt the barbarian beast alone!
Either of these two things seemed impossible to him.
But the key point is that Zhao Qian really took out a barbarian beast core and a strange flower and fruit.
"There are eight lotus seeds left in the strange flower. I will give you four. I have other plans for the remaining four. These lotus seeds have the effect of strengthening the body and resisting the cold."
Zhao Qian first took out four lotus seeds and handed them to Yan Shan, and then handed over the barbarian beast core, "I'll give you this barbarian beast core too. It's up to you to decide who will use it."
Yanshan looked at the yuan beast core and lotus seeds in his hand, and was so excited that he was completely speechless.
Because whether it is Yuan Beast Core or Lotus Seed, they are too precious to the Yanze Tribe.
Four lotus seeds can cultivate four excellent prepared tanras.
And a barbarian beast core can awaken a Tan Luo for the tribe, who has at least the potential of the fourth level, and there is even a very small probability that he can break through to the fifth level in the future.
By then, including Zhao Qian, the Yanze tribe will have two fifth-level Tanluo.
"Hey...hehe..."
Yanshan giggled.
Seeing this, Erya hit Yanshan on the head with a wooden stick, "Stop laughing, you still have things to do next."
Yanshan had rough skin and thick flesh, so he didn't mind Erya's wooden stick at all. He grinned and said, "Don't worry, I remember to count the casualties. I'll come back as soon as I go."
Saying that, Yan Shanhuo left in a hurry.
However, only an hour later, he came back with a smile on his face.
Erya quickly asked: "How is the situation this year?"
Yanshan replied: "Currently, thirty-two people have frozen to death, six of them are clansmen, and the rest are slaves. Among the clansmen who have frozen to death, four are too old, and the remaining two are young.
child."
After that, he added: "Because our tribe has compressed biscuits, no one will starve to death."
After listening to Yanshan's report, Erya smiled and said, "This year's situation is not bad."
not bad!
Zhao Qian thought he heard wrongly.
Thirty-two people froze to death, but this is still pretty good!
So, he asked: "Teacher, how many people would die in the winter of previous years?"
Erya said: "In the past, hundreds of people would freeze to death in the first month of the year. In the next two months, there would be far fewer people freezing to death, but the number of people dying of starvation would increase. In one winter, almost three hundred people would die."
hiss!
When Zhao Qian heard this, he took a deep breath.
It should be understood that the Yanze tribe only had a total of more than a thousand people including slaves.
Three hundred people died, which is equivalent to a mortality rate of 30%, which is a bit too scary.
Suddenly, he understood why Erya said it was not bad.
Compared with the 300 people who died in previous years, only 32 people froze to death this year, which is really not bad.
As for the next two months, the temperature will start to rise and people will not freeze to death. The main cause of death is hunger.
However, this year, the Yanze tribe has compressed biscuits, so people will not starve to death.
In other words, this winter, no more than fifty people from the Yanze tribe will die.
At this time, Yan Shan suddenly said: "Although not many people froze to death today, someone just reported to me a situation that has never happened before."
Zhao Qian frowned and asked, "What's going on?"
Yanshan said: "There are many tribesmen and slaves who say they can't pull it out, and they all feel uncomfortable holding it in."
"Can't pull it out!"
Zhao Qian was taken aback for a moment, but then he figured out that this should be caused by eating compressed biscuits all the time.
Compressed biscuits contain very little vitamins and water. If eaten for a long time, the stool will become extremely dry and difficult to be excreted.
If this situation occurs on earth, you can use medicine. If it doesn't work, you can solve it by adjusting your diet and eating more vegetables.
But in this world, neither medicine nor diet adjustments are possible.
Thinking of this, Zhao Qian thought to himself: "You can't... let a living person be suffocated to death by shit!"