Mountain and Forest Kingdom

"Gah~"

"Gah~"

"Gah~"

In the early morning, when the three of them were still sleeping, the sound of birds chirping could be heard outside.

Lawrence quickly stood up and sat down, listening to the continuous crows outside.

Salil and Sophia were also woken up. Salil got up and began to tidy up her messy clothes, "What happened?"

Lawrence got off the bed, put on two thick animal skin robes and quickly approached the door with a hoe.

There was a viewing hole in the door, and Lawrence found no one or dangerous animals outside.

I quickly and carefully opened the door. Against the backdrop of a thin layer of white snow, today's sunshine was particularly dazzling.

"Gah~"

The crow flapped its wings and flew past Lawrence's eyes, and soon landed on a stone.

When Lawrence saw that it was the crow from before, he said to Sariel who was following him: "It's the crow that I fed. It must have something to do with me. I'll go take a look."

After hearing this, Salil quickly said: "I'm with you, Sophia, don't run around at home."

Sophia agreed softly: "Okay..."

Lawrence quickly put on his shoes and followed. Although Salil behind him did not bring any weapons, Lawrence believed that Salil was more trustworthy than the hoe in his hand.

Lawrence thought that a crow had found a dead mouse and wanted to eat it, but when he walked over, he found that no mouse had been hit.

Just when Lawrence was confused, the crow quickly flew up again and flew more than 20 meters towards the south.

"Gah!"

Lawrence followed quickly with a hoe in hand.

The crow quickly took off, and this time it flew more than a hundred meters away.

After the two followed, they found that the crow had flown away again.

By this time, they had arrived at the river. Salil quickly said: "Don't pay attention to it. If you find it annoying, I will knock it down."

Lawrence hesitated for a few seconds.

"No, I'll go take a look." Lawrence comforted: "Don't worry, I won't go far."

The crow in the distance was urging, and Lawrence quickly followed. The crow continued to fly towards the steep mountain forest area with dense vegetation.

Salil was worried about Lawrence and quickly followed him. She also picked up a handful of stones and held them in her hands while walking along the river.

The crow will be shot away if necessary.

The two walked more than three hundred meters along the stream, and soon saw the crow on an ice covered with snow.

This time the crow didn't fly away, it was standing on the butt of a large moose.

Most of the moose's body was submerged in the water. Judging from the huge antlers and outline exposed outside the ice, it weighed at least seven to eight hundred pounds.

Lawrence saw obvious ice debris and signs of struggle near the moose. At this time, the moose had been frozen to a solid state, but how to fish it out of the ice water was also a problem.

"Gah!" the crow cried out to Lawrence again, and then waited for Lawrence.

Salil threw away the stone in her hand and said happily: "This moose probably fell into the ice water while drinking water!"

Lawrence said calmly: "Yes, this is a gift from the mountain elves to us, but we must be careful to obtain it. Go and bring our sheep and sled back."

"Okay!" Salil quickly went back to fetch the sheep.

Lawrence thought of something and shouted: "Bring another piece of bacon over and boil it in hot water for a few minutes."

"Okay!" Salil's voice came from far away.

Lawrence stood there and carefully observed the surrounding terrain. It was seven meters away from the ice, and the river was more than twenty meters wide.

Lawrence took into account the size and weight of the moose and the light snow that had fallen yesterday.

"I remember that the water here is not deep, it should not be more than two meters. It has been winter for so long, so there should be nothing wrong."

After hesitating for a few seconds, Lawrence waited quietly for Salil.

A strong person like Andrew would be in danger by going out alone. If I fell into the icy water, even for just a minute, it would be a huge blow to the family.

After all, Lawrence did not take the risk and get close there. While waiting, he used a hoe to scratch the snow a few times, pushing aside the snow layer that could be pushed away, and determining the approximate location of the ice surface and rocky beach.

Most of the rivers in the mountains are very shallow. The streams flowing down from the mountains are not as deep as those in the plains. Only in some areas where the terrain is lower than the surrounding areas will a large amount of accumulated water form.

Lawrence didn't understand why the moose came close to the deep water area. If it was drinking water, the surrounding snow would be able to handle it, and there would be no need to run into the middle of the river.

Lawrence soon looked at the location on the other side of the river. On the other side of the river was a dense coniferous forest, which contained mostly fir, pine, and other evergreen fine-leaf trees that were 50 to 60 meters tall.

"Maybe I'm going to eat grass."

Lawrence found a reasonable explanation. It may be that the curious moose couldn't find food here and fell into the ice water when it returned.

A big guy weighing more than 700 kilograms exerts much greater pressure on the ice than a human being. Especially when the four points turn into two points when walking, it is easy to fall in.

"Lawrence!"

Salil led the sheep from a distance. Although they were more than two hundred meters apart, Salil's voice was still clearly transmitted.

"Owner!"

Sophia was approaching here on the back of a sheep. Even from a distance, Lawrence could see the excited face under the gray sheepskin hat.

Lawrence felt relieved when he saw the two people approaching. He also looked at the frozen moose in front of him and slowly approached it.

It's not that I don't want to take risks, or that I don't even dare to step on the ice in the cold winter, it's just that I don't want to take unnecessary risks when I'm alone.

With two family members to look after him, Lawrence dared to do something risky but high-reward.

Sariel quickly led the sheep over. She was not as cautious as Lawrence. She had lived in the mountains for many years and led the Dom sheep directly to the ice.

Boom! Salil jumped hard on the ice and shouted happily: "The ice here is very thick, three people can stand on it."

Compared with Salil, Lawrence found that he was a little too careful.

Where the three of them approached the moose in the ice cave, there was no trace of water flow at all.

The huge moose was buried in the ice like rocks on the ground.

"How are we going to get it out?" Lawrence looked at the big guy, wondering whether to use a hoe to dig out the nearby ice.

After hearing this, Salil said happily: "Split it right here, I brought a knife!"

With that said, Salil kicked the moose on the back.

Salil said excitedly: "It's not very hard. The moose is not afraid of the cold. It looks like it just died not long ago."

Lawrence realized that the moose's vitality was stronger than he thought. It did not die and freeze first, but was first frozen by the surrounding ice like solidified cement, and then slowly died.

But there is no difference.

"Okay! Let's begin!"

When the three of them started to take action, the crow that flew away at some point flew back again.

"Gah!" The crow stood on the ice in the distance and screamed at this place.

Lawrence wanted to feed it bacon, but at this time he and Salil had already cut open the moose's skin and meat with a knife, so he took out a handful of still warm intestines with the knife and placed them five or six meters away. On the ice.

"It's time to eat." Lawrence called softly to the crow in a language that only he could understand.

He left quickly and turned around to continue his work without paying too much attention to the crow.

"Gah!"

The crow quickly spread its wings and flew over after Lawrence went back to cutting the meat.

It lowered its head, picked up the blood sausage in its big mouth and flew out, flying very hard.

Lawrence and Salil began to skin and remove the meat, removing the moose's fat and meat pieces from the hole, and at the same time, the hole was gradually expanding outward.

Sofia tied the rope to the thick fur skirt around her waist, and happily pulled the board to Lawrence.

Lawrence and Saryl put the pieces of meat from the moose on top and continued to carve the meat from the moose.

Sofia quickly pulled the board back to the shore and climbed directly onto the sheep's back, so that when Dom took her home, it would pull away the pieces of meat on the board on the other side of the rope.

The work efficiency of three people is much greater than that of one person. Lawrence himself would definitely not be able to move all the venison.