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    Seeing that autumn is coming to an end, Chen Qiao and others are busy storing food for the winter.  There are basically no fruits in winter, and most animals hibernate, making them difficult to catch.

    Chen Qiao himself is not afraid. He can eat sea fish and shellfish, but several others cannot adapt to the fishy smell of seafood and cannot eat it at all.  The main reason is that the cooking conditions here are too limited. Whether it is fish, crabs or shellfish, they are all roasted in the fire.

    ??The animals that Kevin hunts back every day are processed by Ada. Apart from the part that is eaten every day, the rest is really very limited.

    They dug a hole in the ground and stored the fruits they picked in, hoping they could be preserved for a longer time.

    Chen Qiao made several backpacks with vines. Although they don¡¯t look good, they are indeed very practical, especially when they go out to pick fruits.

    Because all the nearby fruits have been picked, they walked further than usual today.  There is a big tree on the hillside in front. The leaves on the tree are large and long. The outside of the fruits are full of burrs, and some have cracked mouths

    "Haha" Chen Qiao laughed happily and ran under the tree while laughing.  Dilla was a little confused, but she still followed Chen Qiao closely.

    There was actually a chestnut tree here. Chen Qiao was so happy that she squatted under the tree to pick up chestnuts without any delay.  Dilla has never seen a chestnut tree, but he knows that there are nuts growing on some trees that are edible. Seeing that Chen Qiao is so happy, these small brown nuts are probably good things.

    They put the chestnuts they picked up in the house and saw that there were still many on the tree.

    "I'll climb up and pick it."

    ¡°No, we¡¯ll come back another day.¡±

    This chestnut tree is very big and very high. Chen Qiao is afraid that Dilla will fall into it, although he has always known that this child is very good at climbing trees.

    Chen Qiao was in a surprisingly good mood that day. Ever since they came to this land, they seemed to have been suppressed. Except for the heartless Maixi, no one of them was freed from the disaster that night.

    That night they had dinner and sat around the fire in the yard.  Yard?  Haha, generally the area in front of the house is considered a yard if it is not a road or farmland, although they do not have a fence around it.

    Chen Qiao was playing with Maixi and throwing chestnuts into the fire. When the fire crackled, he picked out the chestnuts with small branches.

    He used a branch to roll a chestnut on the ground for a while. He carefully picked it up and peeled the shell. He took a small bite and found it very fragrant, so he stuffed the rest into Maixi's mouth.  As a result, the child became addicted to eating it all of a sudden. While eating, he made a "babbling" sound and wanted to throw himself into the fire to get the chestnuts.

    "Hey, ancestor, that's fire." Chen Qiao had quick eyes and quick hands and picked him back up.

    "Smells, smells" The little one waved her little hands and still wanted to go into the fire.

    "You greedy person!" Chen Qiao directly picked him up and threw him to Ada, while he worked hard peeling chestnuts. Of course, most of the peeled chestnuts went into Mai Xi's stomach.  Even the silent Dilla ate a lot of chestnuts today, and Ada and Kevin also had faint smile lines on their faces

    Since eating roasted chestnuts once, Dilla has been running under the chestnut tree from time to time, fearing that he would not be able to pick up the fallen chestnuts in time, and would take advantage of the rats in the ground.

    Chen Qiao didn't care about him much. It took a lot of effort to see him become more cheerful. It wouldn't matter if he was a little indulgent.  It's just that he is not allowed to go up the tree. It would be no joke if he falls from the tree. They can no longer afford any accidents.

    They have been pretty lucky recently. Chen Qiao found a lot of wild taro in the lower reaches of the creek where the water flow was gentle.

    When he roasted taro for the first time, he didn't dare to let everyone eat it. He just ate a small one first. After waiting for a while and feeling that he didn't feel any discomfort, he peeled one and handed it to Mai Xi.  I can¡¯t wait.

    Recently, he discovered that Maixi eats a lot of miscellaneous food, which is similar to him. She can even eat some sea fish, but she can¡¯t eat shellfish.  Maybe children are younger and have stronger adaptability.  In this case, he was somewhat relieved. After all, marine life was still very nutritious. At least he didn't have to worry about the little one's nutrition not being able to keep up.

    Among them, Maixi is also the most cheerful one. Recently, he has been babbling and learning to speak. Chen Qiao taught him to call him "Daddy". After he learned how to do it, he shouted it hundreds of times a day. Chen Qiao sometimes even felt that  This baby is actually his own biological child.

    So, this little one who doesn¡¯t know how to talk yet,Soon he became the loudest among them.  It's just that no one will find him noisy. It's really good to have such a child by your side.

    When the weather was about to get cold, they started to sit in the house and warm themselves by the fire. Chen Qiao suddenly remembered that he still had a box of needles and thread stuffed in his pocket. In fact, his pants were already very torn, and it was rare that his pockets were still intact.  They ran in a hurry that night, and it was only later that Chen Qiao realized that he still had needle and thread in his pocket.

    Now was the time, so he took out the rabbit skins he had saved recently, pieced together pieces, and sewed one-piece suits for each of Maisie and Dilla.  Two children were wearing onesies and eating chestnuts around the fire. The two puppies looked like bears, so cute no matter how cute they looked.

    Kevin and Eddie were just stunned for a moment when Chen Qiao took out the needle and thread, and then watched Chen Qiao finish making two pieces of clothing without asking any questions.  What Chen Qiao didn't know was that when he appeared in front of these people wearing a T-shirt and shorts, he was already a different existence in the minds of this tribe.

    Seeing that the ball of thread was getting smaller and smaller, only a little more than half of the clothes for the two children were left. Chen Qiao thought for a moment and asked Kevin to take some larger animal skins and sew them into two pieces.  A blanket, when it was all finished, there was only a little bit of thread left.

    From now on, they will have to rely on these to survive the winter. They have a lot of dried meat, and there are also a lot of fruits hidden in the ground, including chestnuts and taro. Now they have two more blankets.

    When the weather is nice, Kevin will still go out hunting, and sometimes he can bring back small animals to improve everyone's food. Recently, they have eaten a lot of dried meat and are really tired of it.

    Chen Qiao went out to collect some canes and compiled them. After winter, he probably wouldn't have time to do these things.  His baskets got better and better, and later he even picked some soft vines, scraped them with stones, washed them carefully, and woven them into a mat.

    He was working with his hands, but his mind was never free for a moment. Everyone planned to settle here in the future. If they wanted to live here for a long time, just one room was obviously not enough, and building a house was really a huge undertaking.  project.

    And now their life style also needs to be adjusted. Now there are no more people than when they were in the tribe, and they dare to challenge any beast.  Now among them, Kevin is the only one who can go hunting. Some small animals are fine, but it would be dangerous if he encounters a large beast.

    And, in the long run, it is also the biggest problem.  He didn't want these two children to spend their lives in this desolate and inhabited land. Maybe those so-called civilizations didn't mean much, but at least they should know that there was another group of people in the world, and they didn't  Lonely.  Or, they can marry a gentle and virtuous wife and have their own children

    But it doesn¡¯t matter, the two children are still young now, and he still has a long time to prepare.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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