books44 Chapter 256 Snow Comes
Chapter 256 Snow Comes
She was completely unaware of it until after the incident.
As for Lin Chunyi, the person involved, even though there was a bamboo rake between them, she still managed to feel the snake's touch in a rather bizarre way.
In that instant, she was so shocked that she felt as if her soul was floating away!
Luckily, she used a bamboo rake to collect it; otherwise, she might have stepped on it while walking by...
hiss!
This brain! Don't think about it, don't think about it!
Now all the hairs on my body stood on end, as if we were having a contest to see who could stand straighter and stand longer.
Having lived in the mountains for over a year, they encounter these soft, slippery, or soft, hairy creatures quite often, so they're no longer afraid of them.
but!
However, this situation, where no danger was anticipated and one is completely relaxed, leisurely chatting and picking fallen leaves, is quite different.
Suddenly, I felt the rake in my hand hit something soft and yielding, yet also like a large, resistant mass! Then, after the fallen leaves were rakeed away, this "big plate" of stuff was revealed...
It's really hard for people to be calm as their first reaction!
Of course, it's also because they were ignorant and never thought that snakes hibernate in piles of fallen leaves like this.
They were lucky and fortunate before. They had gathered fallen leaves and collected firewood in the deep mountains so many times, but they had never encountered a snake coiled around them before!
So snakes hibernate under piles of fallen oak leaves.
Waaah, they used to watch Animal World, so they thought that animals only hid in burrows or burrowed into large, dense patches of grass in winter...
Lin Lanshan stared intently at the spot where they had just been, and asked with some curiosity, "Sister, did you see clearly what kind of snake that was? Was it poisonous? Did you wake it up just now?"
Lin Chunyi said speechlessly, "I only caught a glimpse of a few circles of messy patterns at a glance. I didn't have the mind to look at the rest carefully, I was too scared to even look at it."
She was still holding the bamboo rake tightly in her arms, looking as if she would immediately kill it with the rake if it dared to slip out.
"Okay, I'd better not know any more detailed descriptions, it's too easy to create images in my mind! So what do we do now, our baskets are still there."
Lin Lanshan pointed to the large basket filled with oak leaves, lying alone in the pile of fallen leaves.
Lin Chunyi hesitated, squeezing the bamboo rake, and said uncertainly, "Or should I kill it and then take it?"
Knowing there was a snake in that location, and knowing the snake wasn't particularly large, she figured since the danger was all known, she wasn't afraid.
She was so frightened that she panicked and ran far away, forgetting even to take her basket. Now that she's calmed down, she needs to get the basket back.
Buying another one would cost a lot of money! We can't just leave it here like this.
The hibernating snake, having been inexplicably poked with a bamboo rake, was filled with indignation: "I hid so well just to get a good night's sleep. And now you're disturbing me, and now you want to kill me? Is there no justice?"
Lin Lanshan thought the same thing, "Ah, it's been hibernating peacefully and hasn't bothered us. Are we just going to suddenly go over there and turn it into an eternal sleep? That's not a good idea."
For the first time ever, she felt that doing this seemed a little immoral...
"Oh? That makes sense! Okay then, I'll use a rake to slowly hook the basket over. Keep a close eye on it, and if it leaps over, pin it to the ground with a knife!"
Lin Chunyi took a few steps forward, swallowed hard, and then carefully reached out with her bamboo rake to reach the straps outside the basket.
Lin Lanshan stood to the side, holding a machete, ready to nail down anything that darted out—anything that came flying at her!
The snake that had been awakened had already sensed its own danger when the two sisters said "kill it," and quietly slipped away to another place.
So in the end,
No one killed the hibernating snake, and no unlucky snake was killed.
And so the two sisters successfully obtained a basket filled with oak leaves!
Lin Chunyi let out a breath, wiped away her sweat, and said, "We've gathered almost all the firewood, and the cart is full. Let's go back. Today's experience was too exciting. I need to go home and get a good night's sleep to digest it all!"
Lin Lanshan glanced at the lynx cave, pouted, and said, "Let's go~ I wonder what's going on with those two kittens!"
The enemy had set up camp right outside their door, and they hadn't noticed at all; they were even sleeping soundly.
I've only ever heard of cats and mice being friends, never cats and snakes being neighbors!
She shook her head and followed her sister down the slope.
At this moment, Lin Chunyi tied the basket to the cart and, listening to her younger sister talking nonsense with a straight face, joked:
"Who knows? But this snake is actually quite big. When it stretches out, it might be longer than those two lynxes combined. Even if they were to fight it, I don't know if they could win."
"Tsk~"
It's not a situation where "you can't kill me, and I can't eat you, so let's just make do and live together"—we're forced to be neighbors, right?
Hahahaha...
The two did not linger anywhere else, and returned to the valley, dragging a cart full of firewood and two baskets on their backs.
However, what they didn't know was that both squirrels and lynxes are actually semi-hibernating animals.
Simply put: if the weather is good, they will come out of their burrows to look for food; if the weather is too cold, they will sleep in their burrows.
Therefore,
When they went to find the three little squirrels, they had just gone out to forage for food.
When they're looking for lynxes, it's actually because they've worked hard all night to catch good prey, and are now taking a nap after a good meal...
The two sisters, upon returning to the valley, did not go home to sleep.
Instead, they dragged their carts to the charcoal oven and immediately began making charcoal. They were busy from morning till afternoon, even having lunch there.
It wasn't until dark that the two of them took the charcoal and the remaining unburned firewood home.
After a long day, they didn't bother with anything else. They ate some food from the space and went to sleep before 7 PM.
And after they snuggled into their warm beds and fell into a good sleep...
The first snow of this winter arrived quietly.
Snow is different from other weather conditions.
It is not like a sunny day, full of vitality and radiant with light, striving to shine on everyone and every inch of land;
It's not like a rainy day, which is artistic and lyrical, touching people's hearts. Instead, it acts like a decelerator, soothing people's inner world.
It is often accompanied by the wind, sometimes by the rain, and occasionally by the sunshine.
Each petal falls silently to any spot, so beautiful that anyone can't help but stop and admire it.
Yet, there is no place that is not afraid of its chill or its icy body.
Snow is the most elegant and quietest weather, but also the most cruel and intense.
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