Chapter 78 Swimming
Jin Mang doesn't like summer very much. Although because of her physical constitution, summer in Anze is not difficult for her even without air conditioning, she hates summer bugs.
Especially for flies, Jin Mang, who originally planned to dry the meat in the sun, had to give up the original idea and instead use fire to dry the meat.
——Although she had expected that the meat would spoil during the production of dried meat due to the high summer temperature, but... the efficiency of roasting over fire was too low, and it was also inseparable from people, so people kept staring at it all the time.
But summer is not without other good things. Jin Mang likes to swim.
What surprised her was that the three adults, including Bai Yun, were very surprised that she would not sink in the water.
"How did you do it?" Qingsui asked.
"That's right." Qing Feng said: "Normally, humans from our Mangchuanling tribe can sink in the water. Unlike those ferocious beasts, although they are also afraid of water, they will not sink in the water and can survive by themselves if they fall into the water.
Swim ashore.”
Jin Mang blinked, "You can learn this, do you want me to teach you?"
In fact, Jin Mang's swimming was also a wild one. As a country child, she learned how to swim in wild rivers. But she was lucky. There was an old man there who liked winter swimming, so the first thing she learned was not dog paddle.
, but freestyle, that is, crawling.
Later, Jin Mang also learned butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke from a professional coach, but he was most accustomed to freestyle, after all, it was the most practical and labor-saving.
Fortunately, she had the experience of learning swimming from a professional coach, otherwise she would probably have just thrown them into the water when she taught Qing Feng and the others how to swim.
——Yes, after learning that they could prevent themselves from sinking in the water, Baiyun, Qingfeng and Qingsui all planned to learn.
Then Jin Mang discovered that it was a bit difficult for Baiyun and the others to learn to swim.
Because their bodies are too heavy, or to be precise, their bodies are too dense.
Jin Mang even hesitated for a moment. Could it be that the humans in Mangchuan Ridge have been unable to learn to swim due to changes in their body structure?
However, she soon overturned this guess, because she herself was a living example.
Since she can swim, Qing Feng and the others can definitely learn it too.
Since there were no auxiliary tools such as swimming rings, floating boards, and back floats, Jin Mang asked Bai Yun to break off a piece of wood as thick as a person's arms and throw it into the lake, and then let the three of them adapt to the water with the help of the wood.
This process is undoubtedly very difficult, because Qing Feng and others seem to be a little afraid of water.
It was not until the end of summer that the three of them were finally able to swim two or three meters. However, after that, the three of them made rapid progress, and it took them less than a week to completely learn how to swim.
What surprised Jin Mang was that Qing Feng actually planned to go out.
"What did you say you were going to do?" Jin Mang's eyes widened.
Qing Feng said seriously: "I want your uncle and the others to learn how to swim."
"But it's getting cold now, so let's wait until next year." Jin Mang said.
"Next year it will be too late." Qingsui said: "The end of this year will be the splitting season. If you can learn to swim before then, you can reduce a lot of risks when the rains and floods come. The most important thing is that you can wait until the migration
When the time comes, we can take the water route without missing many opportunities."
Jin Mang was stunned. She remembered the rains and floods during the previous Split Season. Because the cave they lived in was at a high location, so although they couldn't go out most of the time, the impact was very small. After all, they still saved some food at that time.
Yes, they won't starve too much, and the rain and floods will subside. After the subsidence, their parents can still go hunting.
But occasionally, the flood flooded the cave where they lived. At that time, Qingfeng and Qingsui would hold her and walk to higher places, sometimes on the trees, sometimes on the top of the mountain.
And during the migration...
Jin Mang reacted suddenly and said: "If I remember correctly, the migration was during a severe drought. At that time, the surface of the earth was cracked by the sun, so how could we travel by water?"
"That's in the east, but it's not like this in the west." Qingsui sighed: "During the dry season, although the water level in Da Ze will be much shallower, it will not dry up. It's just that Da Ze was very dangerous at that time.
, because Daze is bowl-shaped, and the exposed river bed will become very smooth under the sun. If you go to get water at this time, you will fall if you are not careful. Because of this, everyone will not leave when migrating.
That route to the west.”
"But if everyone could swim, it wouldn't be like this."
Jin Mang: "...But, it's too late now, right?"
"It's too late." Qingsui said without thinking, "As long as it doesn't freeze, you can learn to swim."
Jin Mang's eyes widened.
Qing Feng said: "I will go to the eldest brother's territory first and let the other brothers, except the second brother and the third brother, come to learn together. After they have learned it, I will let the eldest brother teach the second and third brothers."
After a pause, he looked at Bai Yun and said with a bit of reluctance: "It's up to you to take care of me here."
If possible, he would not want to hand over his sister to this outsider at all, but... the matter was so important that he had to make a choice.
Bai Yun raised his eyebrows but said nothing.
He could more or less guess what Qing Feng was thinking, but...he needed this kind of opportunity anyway.
——Sooner or later, his status in Qingsui's heart will definitely surpass that of Qingfeng.
Just like that, when autumn came, Qing Feng packed up two clothes and left.
Lan Chuan can already sit up at this time. The little guy likes Jin Mang very much and claps his hands happily every time he sees her.
Jin Mang had no experience in getting along with children, but he felt that Lan Chuan was a very well-behaved child.
——If he didn't keep spitting on her.
Jin Mang has been guarding the pear trees in her territory recently. She discovered this by accident. There are not many, there are only three trees in total, and there are a group of monkeys watching them nearby, so Jin Mang has to come over every three days to take a look, for fear of those monkeys.
Let her harvest the pears.
——She planned to boil some Qiuli ointment with pears, which she could give to Lan Chuan to drink, and she could also give some to Lu Lian and her sisters, as well as the twins born to Lan Ying and Qing Guang.
It is said that the two twins were not in good health. Previously, Qingguang's two children had a fever together, and they almost died.
It is easy to get sick during the changing seasons of autumn and winter, not to mention that they are about to encounter the split season, when the temperature changes will be greater, so it is always good to prepare more things like Qiuli paste.
It's a pity that Jin Mang couldn't find the cotton he had been looking for. Otherwise, playing with two quilts would have made things much easier during the rainy season.
Especially for children.
Jin Mang had already made plans. If he had no choice but to harass the wild ducks and geese, he would try to find a way to get Lan Chuan a down vest.
Chapter completed!