It's getting dark, and large beasts often appear in the Beishan mountain forest, which is no different from the virgin forest.
Firewood can scare away most wild animals, so you need to prepare enough firewood to burn for one night.
The severe drought has brought severe water shortages, and many of the big trees in the forest have withered. They have to be wary of wild animals and prevent forest fires. The couple is so busy that they have no time to stop and rest.
While Xu Da was chopping firewood, Wang built a fire break around the mountain wall. When it got completely dark, the whole family hid in the mountain wall.
This mountain wall is a large protruding rock that intersects with the slope to form a natural hill.
The inside of the col is about three meters long, with small slopes on the left and right sides, giving Xu Yue's family a simple shelter.
After traveling all day, they finally got a moment of rest. Except for Xu Yue, everyone in the family was almost exhausted.
Although Xu Yue is young, she can still do some hot water and rice.
The pottery pot brought at home was too big to be used in the narrow mountain wall. Fortunately, it was surrounded by rocks, and Xu Yue easily found a stone with a flat surface.
Put the stones in the fire until they are boiling hot, pull them out with branches, and then put the bamboo tube filled with water on the stones. The water inside will soon heat up.
The rice balls and barbecued meats are cooked in the same way, but two extra leaves are added to prevent them from burning directly.
The green snake that was torn into pieces by Mrs. Wang was non-venomous and was supposed to be a snack tonight. Who would have thought that the gallbladder of the snake was accidentally broken by Mrs. Wang. Xu Da and Xu Erniang were disgusted and wanted to beat them to death. Fortunately, they got it all.
corpse.
After drinking hot water and warm food, although the rice balls were still unpalatable, the barbecue improved the taste buds and the family's energy and energy recovered.
Mrs. Wang was sitting in front of the fire, polishing the branches she had just cut, intending to make small walking sticks for Xu Erniang and Xu Yue, and polishing the wooden arrowheads in her hands.
With the Xu family's living standard, it is impossible to obtain iron arrowheads. The arrow in Wang's hand is a straight and slender pure wooden arrow.
Such arrows looked like toys in the hands of children, and Xu Da secretly laughed at them at that time.
But after seeing Wang's precision and power later, Xu Da shut up.
Such an arrow may be a toy in other people's hands, but in Wang's hands, it is a killing weapon.
This woman's hands are steady and accurate. When she throws arrows with her hands, she can directly hit the eyes of the running prey, basically killing her with one hit.
This is just a wooden arrow. If it were replaced by a real arrow, how amazing would its lethality be?
Xu Da shook his head, he still couldn't imagine what it was like.
Looking at the little water and food left in the backpack, he just felt a headache.
The food was not bad. He had been to this mountain twice with Wang. There were many animals living in the forest. With his and Wang's strength, it was not difficult to get prey.
But there were only two bottles of water left, which was being consumed faster than originally expected.
This is a very helpless reality. We were walking in a hurry today and the sun was shining brightly. Erniang drank most of the bottle of water by herself.
Mrs. Wang was very generous to her children. She would give them a drink when they were thirsty, and she would consume them without restraint. Xu Da thought it was a miracle that she still had two bottles of water left.
Turning her head to look at Mrs. Wang, she was polishing arrows in front of the firelight. A large section of her long hair was cut off, and the rest was coiled on top of her head and fixed with a sharp branch. Her thin cheeks were tightly collapsed.
Be careful and focused.
The firelight softened the edges of her cheeks that were thin due to hunger, and her whole person revealed a quiet tenderness.
"Is there water nearby?" Xu Da also lowered his voice unconsciously, for fear of destroying this rare peace.
Wang didn't even raise his head and nodded lightly, "Going deeper, there is a natural pond."
When Xu Da heard this, he finally let go of his worries. Water would be good.
But when he thought about the situation at the bottom of the mountain, he still tried to say: "There is water and prey here. If the situation at the bottom of the mountain is not good, why don't we live in the mountain for a while first?"
Wang paused for a moment and looked up at him. Knowing that he had good intentions, she did not hit him directly, so she patiently explained:
"The pond here is not deep, and no one knows when it will dry up, and there are no caves suitable for living here. When the temperature drops in winter, the situation will definitely be worse than we imagined."
This is a completely unknown new world, and all the information they can obtain comes from the memories left behind by their original bodies.
In the memory of the original owner, winter is a very scary season, one that can kill people!
So they must find a safe place to stay before winter.
Xu Da looked down at the patched linen clothes on his body, then at the straw sandals under his feet that were on the verge of being scrapped, and fell silent.
After a while, he returned to the col, took out two fish-shaped stones that he had picked up specially from his breast pocket, used his feet to clear away the weeds under his feet to create a small open space, and started divination.
When in doubt, turn to metaphysics!
Xu Yue couldn't remember how long it had been since she washed her hair. Her head was itching so badly that she stared at her cheap dad doing superstitions for a long time without making any splash. She looked back and shouted to Wang outside the cave:
"Auntie, I want to shave my head!"
Seeing her scratching her head in discomfort, Mrs. Wang waved to Xu Yue to come to her, loosened her bun, scratched her head, and coaxed:
"There will be water to wash your hair tomorrow. If you don't bear with me, little girls will be cuter if they wear pigtails. Can we girls just stop shaving our heads?"
When Mrs. Wang faced Xu Yue's little bun face, she would subconsciously forget that she was not a real doll and coax her as if she were a child, being extremely patient.
Xu Yue didn't really want to become bald, and her mother-in-law scratched her head to relieve the pain, so she nodded and didn't want to shave her hair.
Xu Dalang couldn't leave his sister for a moment. When he saw Xu Yue and Wang staying a little longer, he began to roar violently in his throat.
Seeing this, Xu Yue glanced at her mother helplessly, got up and returned to the col.
When Xu Dalang saw her, he took her long arm and put it into his arms, making faces to tease her.
Xu Yue had no expression on her face, grabbed his hand and put it on her head, "Brother, scratch it."
Xu Dalang smiled ignorantly, scratched her head, and then looked at her. Xu Yue nodded encouragingly at him.
Seeing his sister's smile, Xu Dalang knew that he had done the right thing. He made an excited sound and scratched her head vigorously.
At first, Xu Yue was scratched several times due to poor control of strength, but she became more and more skillful later on.
While Xu Yue was enjoying being tickled, she also pointed at the stones and trees around her and taught her brother how to speak human words word by word.
Xu Erniang was sitting in the corner using a sharp needle to pick and soak her feet. She was not very skilled in the technique and accidentally pricked herself with a needle, which almost made her cry.
After finally picking out the blisters on my feet, my eyes involuntarily fell on my pair of tattered straw sandals.
Thinking that she would have to wear these shoes to walk on the mountain road tomorrow, Xu Erniang almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.
