Most of the older people in the capital still remember the heavy snowfall seventeen years ago.
According to the centenarian at the time, "I have lived for a hundred years and have never seen such heavy snow."
It can be seen that the snow that year was indeed extremely rare.
At the end of October that year, the weather became extremely cold, and it started to snow at the beginning of the next month. For three whole months, the capital city was covered with snow for hundreds of miles.
The snow on the outskirts of the city was more than half a foot thick, crushing many houses and freezing to death. But in my impression, after the snow melts, beggars are almost nowhere to be seen in Mandu City.
On November 11th, two children's cries came from a wooden house that was almost buried in the snow.
"Daddy, please hold a light and let me see if the baby is a boy or a girl." In the darkness, a woman said feebly.
The snow has been falling continuously for ten days, and I don't know when it will stop. There is not much food left at home. Although she is about to give birth, she has never had a full meal these days.
She had just given birth and was so exhausted that she could barely stand up.
A man's nagging voice came one after another: "In this day and age, what's the difference between having a boy and a girl? Is it possible that we still point to boys as providing for them until they die? Haha, God doesn't have such good intentions. I wish we could have done it earlier. die."
The woman advised softly: "Daddy, don't talk such nonsense, be careful that God hears it. It's been hard on you these days. Tomorrow morning, when I can get out of bed, let's go to the mountains to get some food, but don't So depressing.”
The man sighed heavily and slowly got up.
"Bang", the flint phase aroused sparks, but failed to light the oil lamp.
"Pa!", "Pa!" "Pa!"...
After trying dozens of times, the oil lamp still did not light up. The man sighed helplessly: "I think the flint has become damp and cannot make a fire."
After saying this, he climbed onto the bed and said softly: "Mother, shall I cut your umbilical cord?"
Before these twins, the couple had given birth to four children. Two boys and two girls were crowded in the next room. He knew the secrets of these births very well.
"It's two little girls." The man touched the crotches of the two babies and sighed softly, "Do you have any milk? Just feed the babies. Alas, people like us were born in this world. At this time, there must have been two evildoers in the previous life."
... ...
When it got slightly light, the woman got up.
After drinking some milk last night, the twin sister kept pooping and peeing all over her body.
After washing and changing clothes, I saw that my husband had swaddled the two milk babies.
"What two smart babies!" The man looked at the two daughters on the bed and sighed with tears, "It would be great if you were born in a better time!"
The food stored at home is only 40 to 50 kilograms, which is all the family of eight relies on to survive the winter. Winter has just begun, and there are many difficult days.
Born to be difficult to raise, this simple man felt like his heart was being stabbed with a knife.
"Big baby, second baby, you two have to watch the third baby and fourth baby and don't run around." The woman gently touched the faces of the children and said softly, "Mom and dad are going out to find food for you. , you guys have to be good at home, okay?"
"Well, mother, you have to come back early, I'm hungry!" an eight or nine-year-old girl whispered back.
"Mom, I'm hungry too." Erwa followed suit.
The man standing at the door raised his head high and tried his best not to shed tears.
"God, I was a bitch last night. If you want to blame, just blame me. Please bless my wife and children to get through this cold winter safely!"
The woman is not too worried about the newly born twins. They are still small, and the most they can do is cry out of hunger when placed on the bed, but they will not run around and cause trouble.
"Mother, please go out as soon as possible so that you can come back early." The man urged in a deep voice.
... ...
The man walked in front and the woman walked behind, slowly walking towards the distant mountains.
At this time of year, all the food at the foot of the mountain had been exhausted, so the two of them had no choice but to try their luck in the mountains.
If you are lucky, you may be able to catch a deer or a moose, and the family will have enough to eat for seven or eight days.
However, there is still thirty miles to the mountain. This usually only takes two hours, but now the snow is waist-deep, making it difficult to move forward, and I don't know when I will get there.
The couple also went out hungry. By noon, they were exhausted. They saw that they were still several miles away from the mountain.
"Daddy, look! Look!" The woman suddenly lowered her body, pointed two hundred feet away, and said softly to the man, "Look there, are there a group of deer?"
Following the direction of the woman's finger, the man looked hard and vaguely saw something moving in the valley, but he couldn't tell what it was.
"Let's go! Come closer and take a look!" The man took the woman's hand and led the way step by step.
One hundred and fifty feet...
One hundred feet...
"It's a deer, it's a deer!" Although the man tried his best to lower his voice, he could still hear his joy of "surviving from a desperate situation."
At this time, he had taken off the ax from his back, and the woman had tightened her grip on the hatchet in her hand.
Being able to see a group of deer deer here is already a great gift from God. Whether they can accept it or not depends on how they handle it.
They must hunt down the deer. Only by hunting down the deer can their family survive this long and cold winter.
Thinking of this, both the man and the woman clenched the iron tools in their hands.
Fifty feet...
Twenty feet...
"Ang~~~" Suddenly, several low sounds came from the notch.
It's a wolf! Both the couple recognized the sound and it was indeed a wolf.
The man looked back at the woman and saw her shaking her head at him, "Daddy, wait a minute."
Sure enough, the wolves were out. The man counted five of them, and they were outflanking them from five directions. One of the wolves was only a few feet away from the two of them.
The wolf's fur is all white, and it hides its figure unintentionally, making it extremely difficult to spot even from dozens of feet away.
It was a wolf. It stopped in front of the man and looked at him for several breaths, as if to warn the two of them not to steal the food.
The wolf was tall but skinny. Sure enough, not only the people suffered in the disaster years, but also the animals in the mountains.
The alpha wolf slowly walked past the man, suddenly accelerated and ran towards the lower group of deer. When the other four wolves saw that their leader had set off, they rushed down in time.
Only then did the group of deer react. They wanted to run away, but they couldn't go fast. In the blink of an eye, three or four deer had been bitten to death. They managed to escape halfway up the slope, but were killed one by one by the four wolves that rushed down. .
"Baby, mother, let's go now!" The man licked his chapped mouth and said to the woman in a deep voice.
The woman also knows that this is the best time. The opportunity cannot be missed, and it will never come back, so there is no need to hesitate. Although I was scared to death, I still held the hatchet tightly and followed my husband towards the wolves.
"Ang~~~", "Ang~~~"
The wolves noticed that the two of them were approaching slowly, and howled loudly, obviously warning them.
The woman only felt her heart beating wildly.
"Hey!" the man yelled at the alpha wolf, "You can't eat so much. Everyone has a share. We only need three deer, and the rest belongs to you!"
The five wolves formed a circle and surrounded the two in the middle, each baring their teeth and preparing to attack at any time.
One of the wolves was short, slowly came closer, and suddenly pounced on the man's legs.
He picked up the ax and struck it in the belly, opening a big hole in its waist and abdomen, and its internal organs also spilled out. It looked like it would not survive.
"Ang~~~", "Ang~~~"
When the four wolves saw this, they all looked up to the sky and howled, whimpering like weeping.
The first wolf turned around, picked up a deer and ran away. The other three wolves followed suit and followed him with a deer in their mouths. The figures of the four wolves quickly disappeared from the sight of the two.
"Baby, mother, hurry up, tie her up with a rope and drag her back quickly!" The man took a long breath and shouted to the woman.
Although they brought four deer with them when they came back, the two of them went faster than when they came, and they rushed back before dark.
Bloodstains...
Two miles away from home, the woman discovered blood stains in the snow.
After walking for more than a hundred feet, I saw a few more rags...
The woman's legs instantly felt weak, and she felt cold from her heart to her feet - those rags were the same as the clothes the second baby was wearing.
"Ah~~~"
The woman left the deer and her husband behind and ran home like crazy.
Along the way, there were hairs, rags, and... When she returned home, the door was open, but the first, second, third, and fourth babies were no longer there.
It's a wolf, it's that pack of wolves!
In previous years, when wolves came into the village, they would only pick up some livestock such as chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, and pigs. It was not very common to hear of wolves picking up children.
The wolf is very smart. If it hurts animals, it won't hurt people, and people won't hurt it.
However, they ate people today, and six of them were eaten at one time. This was obviously a kind of revenge, and the wolves were taking revenge on the two of them.
The footprints of the two people led all the way from the mountains to their home. After the wolves put down the deer, they quickly found this place by following the footprints.
When they heard the noise at the door, the four children thought it was their parents bringing food back. Unexpectedly, what came into the house was a group of scary wolves...
"My poor baby... My poor baby..."
When the man took the deer home, he saw the woman sitting on the ground crying. He had already had a premonition in his heart, and he almost fainted from the pain.
Unexpectedly, there were several cries coming from the room.
When the four wolves entered the house, the two infant children had already fallen asleep from crying and did not make any sound, so they were able to escape.
But after that day, the woman went crazy and acted stupidly, unable to do anything but breastfeed.
A man's health is getting worse and worse, and after spring he feels that he is not going to be able to survive. Taking advantage of the market day, he carried the two children into the city.
That day, he personally delivered his two daughters to two passers-by.
Of those two people, one was a middle-aged man in black and the other was a noble lady in white.
