You are not exile, you are clearly traveling!

Chapter 144 Hands are cheap!

No one expected to be so lucky to find such a big cave during the worst of the snowstorm.

Because of the blizzard outside, there was no way to continue on the road, so everyone could only stay in the cave to rest.
Everyone was several meters apart, cleaning the ground and sitting down to rest.

It was very warm in the cave, not like a snowstorm at all.

Everyone had a rare chance to rest and immediately relaxed.

Although they could occasionally hear the howling of the wind outside, they were no longer worried.

Xu Tian and the yamen servants found some dead branches and lit the bonfire, but found that there were not many dead branches in the cave, which meant that wood became a scarce resource.

Fortunately, it's not cold in the cave, otherwise many people would freeze to death on a snowy night without fire.

Therefore, Xu Tian and others could only use limited fire to cook food. When they finished cooking the food, the flames jumped and went out.

After they distributed the food, the light in the cave became much dimmer. Obviously, it seemed dark outside.

But everyone didn't care, they went to bed early after eating, and they couldn't sleep at all after sleeping in the snow these days.

Even if they followed Chen Xue's advice and dug a snow cave, they would still feel cold, but not here.

Everyone rested early, and Chen Xue's family also returned to the space to rest. Of course, they had to eat before resting.

For rice, of course, hot pot.

Eating hot pot in winter is the most enjoyable.

After eating and sweating profusely, everyone will no longer feel the cold.

"We need to save more wood!"

Master Chen picked up a piece of pork belly. Chen Xue collected a pile of wood from home before, but they did not store any more wood after that.

But these days I have been cooking in space, and when I saw that there was no wood to burn for heating in the cave due to heavy snowfall, Master Chen felt that wood should be stored, and the more the better.

Chen Xue also nodded. She saw that there was a lot of wood in the space before, and then thought that it didn't snow in Nanman, and there were many trees there, so she didn't continue to store wood.

But now she felt like she was thinking too much.

Cooking with a fire consumes the most wood.

And not all trees can be used as firewood. More importantly, even if they can be used as firewood, they must be burned and dried before burning.

Therefore, next, they still have to find ways to store more wood.

In fact, Chen Xue also planted a lot of flowers, plants and trees in the space. Anyway, whatever he saw outside, he would basically dig some and plant them in the space.

However, waiting for those trees to grow up and be burned as firewood is impossible in less than a few years. Even if the trees planted in the space grow faster than the outside world, it will take several months.

After deciding to collect dozens of tons of wood, Chen Xue and others continued to eat hot pot.

Now, there is a blizzard outside, so if the team wants to leave, they can only wait for the blizzard to stop.

Early the next morning.

As soon as Chen Xue and his family got out of the carriage, they saw Xu Tian walking over.

"What's wrong? Has it stopped snowing outside?"

Master Chen thought that the blizzard had passed and Xu Tian planned to set off with his team, so he came to him.

As a result, he was told that he planned to take a few people out to look for wood.

"Although the cave is big, there is no wood, so it can't even make a fire." Xu Tian was a little helpless.

"It's a blizzard outside, you take people out, what if something happens?" Master Chen frowned, "If something happens to you, what will the team do?"

Without a leader, the prisoner will become a monkey trying to get out of trouble, running around having fun.

"Master Chen is here, aren't you?" Xu Tian said a little embarrassed, thinking that even if something happened to him, Master Chen would still be here to take care of him.

"you……"

Mr. Chen was speechless.

"It's a snowstorm outside, where are you going to find wood!"

Chen Xue curled her lips, and then sighed, "Forget it, we still have some wood in the carriage, you can go there!"

After all, Xu Tian helped them a lot, and Chen Xue was not an ungrateful person. Anyway, it was just some wood. At most, they had to work harder and save more in the future.

Chen Xue came to another carriage, opened the curtain to reveal the wood inside, then got out of the carriage and asked them to move it.

"How does this work!"

Xu Tian quickly waved his hand. If he took it away, what would Master Chen and the others do with it?

"Take it as you are told, why are you talking so much nonsense!" Mr. Chen glared at him, pretending to be a little angry.

Xu Tian saw Master Chen angry and had to do what he did.

With this wood, you can last for a few days without venturing outside.

The days that followed were very peaceful.

Maybe it was because everyone hadn't had such a quiet rest for a long time, so they really enjoyed this opportunity.

After all, no one knows if there will be such an opportunity in the future, so take the time to rest.

Even after the blizzard finally passed, everyone didn't want to leave.

"Get up quickly!"

"Hurry up!"

Xu Tian urged everyone, because they had been delayed for a few days because of the snowstorm.

When I went to Nanman, I was definitely delayed.

A delay of a few days would be fine, but if it were delayed for ten days and a half, not only would they, the government officials, be held responsible, but the prisoners would also be severely punished.

It can range from being tortured with ink to having words carved on the face.

At worst, it will make you a heavy laborer, that is, the kind with no rest, 24 hours a day, only a few hours of rest, and you will be made to work day and night until you die of exhaustion.

This is for the criminals. For the yamen servants, they may be deprived of their status as yamen servants, or sent to prison or even beheaded.

Therefore, the government officials urged everyone to hurry up.

But because everyone was used to being comfortable, they felt the cold wind outside and immediately didn't want to leave. They even said they would wait until it was warmer outside before leaving.

Others even prayed to Xu Tian to let them stay one more day.

Xu Tian saw these people kneeling and praying, and his heart suddenly softened, so he said, "Then it's the last day. We must set off early tomorrow morning!"

Everyone was overjoyed immediately.

Master Chen couldn't help shaking his head when he heard this, but he didn't say anything. Xu Tian's character can only be changed after he suffers setbacks. He can't change his character just by listening to other people's persuasion.

"bored to death!"

After those white-eyed wolves were beaten up by everyone, they just hid in the corner to recover from their injuries.

After finally recovering from the injury, I felt very bored.

They began to wander around the cave, and as they walked, they discovered a strange noise deep in the cave.

Several people put their ears against the stone wall and after listening for a while, they became even more curious.

So, several people picked up stones and threw them at the stone wall.

Bang!
Soon, the stone wall was smashed to pieces.

Buzz!
A burst of noise appeared next to everyone's ears, and then everyone saw a dark mass of unknown creatures pouring out of the hole.

"Mom, help me!"

Those people screamed in fright, and then rolled and crawled to other places. Others also saw this scene, and their faces were pale and bloodless.

(End of this chapter)