Return of the Swallow

It's really an infinite road!

With this piece of land warmed by underground warm springs, you can't hide your footprints!

Qin Yining ran along the road for a while in the snow, deliberately leaving a string of footprints in other directions, then stepped on a bush and jumped over this section of black ground covered with pine needles, carefully taking a few steps forward.

A steady stream of white air came out from the ground, and the soles of my feet were a little warm.Qin Yining was afraid of leaving footprints, and there was snow again going forward. She simply tucked the cloak into her belt, and climbed a thick and tall pine tree neatly. She chose a place where the branches and leaves were still dense, and it was still considered. The sturdy branches sit still.

With her movement, the tall tree crown shook slightly, and snow fell, but it melted immediately.

Qin Yining dared to take a few deep breaths in silence.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps.

Qin Yining hurriedly held his breath and held his mind, his whole body stiffened into a piece of wood, and he did not dare to move at all, taking himself as part of the big pine tree.

Two masked bandits walked not far away, one holding a steel knife and the other holding a thick wooden stick in the wine cup. Both looked down at the footprints on the ground, and then followed the footprints deliberately made by Qin Yining just now.

Not long after, Xu was back because of a broken footprint.After searching for the land covered by the warm spring for a while, no other footprints were found, and the two of them just walked around to investigate, their own footprints have also damaged the scene, and the clues were broken for a while.

The two looked at each other, and both scolded their mother.

"A little lady can run like this!" The speaker was a northern accent, apparently from Da Zhou.

Another person said: "Master Hou told us to search and kill the Qin family, and I don't know if the one we are chasing is named Qin!"

"Whether it is or not, since you are chasing you can't let her run away easily."

"If you don't believe it, you can really disappear. Keep searching, what tree hole is Xu hiding in?"

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The two began to look for tree holes and natural caves and ground holes nearby.

As a result, they really found a sign of collapse in a snowy area not far away. What was hidden under the snow was a big puddle. The puddle was supposed to be an underground warm spring with a faint smell of water. I don't know how deep it is, only the mist that emerges, turning the surrounding white snow into smooth ice.

The two dared not move forward, for fear that the snow under their feet would loosen and accidentally fall into a puddle of unknown depth.This mountain is really perilous everywhere, and it is already deep in the mountains and old forests, even hunters do not come here to hunt.

So the two bypassed this dangerous zone and searched the vicinity again.

Qin Yining didn't rush to leave. She still hid in the tree. After waiting for an hour, she was sure that the two of them had no intention of going back, and then slid down the tree carefully.

She didn't dare to stay here any longer, deliberately ran to the depths of the densely uncivilized forest in the mountains, and broke a shrub branch with dead leaves, and ran all the way to pay attention to clearing the traces passed by.

After running so cautiously into the mountains, Qin Yining really couldn't run until the sky dimmed.

She was holding on to a tree and panting for breath, and when she looked at her left and right, the surrounding scenery was the same. The only thing she could tell was whether she was on the "slope" or "downhill."

The cold wind at night in the north was bitter, and once it stopped, the body started to get cold.The sweaty back was blown by the wind, and the cold Qin Yining shivered.

She looked around, dragging her tired body and selecting a leeward slope at the root of a big tree.

It was half-concave here, with a "canopy" with a sharp root on the head, and two large rocks beside it, which barely covered some cold wind, and there was no snow on the ground.

Qin Yining went to find the firewood, hay and pine needles, shaking his hands to find the fire folds from his arms, first ignited the hay and pine needles, and then chose a dry branch stand to make a small bonfire behind the big rocks.

Qin Yining's body was extremely exhausted after recovering from a serious illness, and could not help coughing.

But she knew that she could only take a short rest, because if she did not take any measures to guard a pile of bonfires that would burn out at any time, she would definitely be frozen to death here.

Qin Yining hugged his knees, wrapped himself tightly in a cloak and roasted for a while, feeling that his hands and feet became flexible, and then went looking for firewood, pine needles and dead grass.Then I went to find some shrubs and removed many branches from the beginning.

Qin Yining couldn't help smiling wryly.

She is not as good as she is when she is eight years old. At the very least, she still had some handy tools in her hand.

Fortunately, she is fairly experienced in dealing with these.

Qin Yining has been busy for an hour, using the branches of the bushes to weave an arc-shaped shed for herself, which can allow her to get in and sit on her knees alone, regenerating the size of a fire.

She dragged the shed to a slightly warm place that was burned by the bonfire behind the big stone, took off her sweat towel, took off a coat, wrapped the snow with these two things, and baked it over the fire.

The snow melted and wet the gowns and sweat towels. Qin Yining hurriedly covered these simple sheds that she made, just to cover the sheds.

Qin Yining did not dare to delay, and immediately went to transport the snow, sprinkling a layer of snow on his face while his coat and sweat towel were still wet.

When the snow met the moist cloth, it immediately adhered tightly, and was frozen into ice by the low temperature.

It took Qin Yining half an hour to firmly cover the shed built with branches with snow.Sprinkle a layer of snow and pull out some very hot branches from the bonfire. The snow meets the hot branches and melts into water, and the water freezes again, slowly forming a very strong small snow shed.

Qin Yining rubbed his hands that were turning red from the cold and almost lost consciousness, covered his mouth and coughed a few times, thinking that it was too late, and it was impossible to hunt in the mountains with bare hands. He would starve for a night without starving to death. He didn't want to do what he wanted, and picked up a lot of dry wood and pine needles nearby, added pine needles to the bonfire outside the cave, and lit a bonfire in the shed.

Finally, Qin Yining took off the quilted jacket and hung it upright at the entrance of the hole, just the right size.

Wrapped tightly with a cloak, and a cotton skirt wrapped around his feet, Qin Yining faced the bonfire, tucked his knees and leaned against the branches, napping peacefully.

Although there is still wind coming in through the cracks, and there will be smoke from a fire in the shed, but the smoke just radiates from the cracks, even if it is a little panicky, it is better than sleeping in the open overnight and freezing to death.

Qin Yining slept lightly all night wrapped in a cloak.As her hands and feet gradually warmed up, she also felt hungry, and it was not so difficult.

The night in the mountains was perilous, and the howling of wolves was vaguely heard in the distance.

Qin Yining didn't dare to relax, but she wouldn't treat herself badly. She had a pretty good night. She woke up early the next morning except that her bones were aching because she was sitting and sleeping.

Qin Yining began to analyze whether he should go down the mountain now or continue to hide in the deep mountain.