When Heiba was chopping canes, he cut some thatch growing by the river and some pliable vines, and handed them to Yao Xiaoqing.
"Xiao Qing, weave two straw curtains. When the tree house is set up, lay some underneath and tie one to the door of the tree house to prevent rainwater from flying into the house."
"Okay!" Yao Xiaoqing took the vines, cut them with a knife, spread them on the ground and quickly weaved them.
After weaving the curtain, she poured some water into the pot, grabbed a few handfuls of corn and started cooking porridge.
After the water in the rice pot boiled, she grabbed some flour from the bag and put it in a large wooden bowl. She added water and salt to make a batter. She scooped it up with a small wooden spoon, poured it into the rice porridge one by one, and cooked a pot of noodle soup.
porridge.
When the noodle soup and porridge were cooked, Yao Xiaoqing turned to the people in the tree and shouted: "The food is cooked, you guys come down quickly."
"Okay!" Jiang Li tied the vines on his hands and jumped down from the tree.
Jiang Li saw Yao Xiaoqing taking out a few lumps of earth from the fire with a wooden stick, and looked at her with a smile, "Xiao Qing, what did you burn?"
"Duck eggs!" Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the three red lumps in the fire, "The three big ones are filled with wild birds. Go and wash your hands quickly, they are ready to eat."
Jiang Li nodded and walked to the river to wash his hands. Suddenly he saw a big fish jumping out of the water. In the blink of an eye, it submerged into the water again and sank among the water plants at the bottom of the river. The bottom of the river was stirred up with sand, and the surface of the river was turbid.
He turned to look at Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, do you want to eat fish?"
Yao Xiaoqing took out the waterfowl in the fire and said loudly without looking back: "We can't finish the food here. We will catch fish to eat at night."
Heiba came down from the tree and saw some lumps of soil on the ground, so he had to pick them up with his hands.
"It's hot!" Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly stopped him, looked at him and said with a smile: "It was just dug out of the fire. Go wash your hands and eat the food."
"Oh!" Heiba ran towards the river.
Yao Xiaoqing dug out the duck eggs and waterfowl from the fire and dried them there. He turned over the empty basket, scooped out four bowls of noodle porridge, and put them on it to dry.
He picked up the machete and smashed the mud wrapped around the duck egg with the back of the knife, revealing a green shell duck egg.
By the time Jiang Li and Hei Ba came over, Yao Xiaoqing had already knocked out all the duck eggs.
Heiba picked up a duck egg and said, "We used to wrap it in mud and bake it. The duck egg was burned to pieces and the yolk was everywhere."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Mix the mud a little thinner and wrap it thicker so it won't burn."
Jiang Li peeled off a duck egg and handed it to Yao Xiaoqing, "You must be hungry!"
Yao Xiaoqing took it with a smile, "A bit, you will get hungry faster if you do physical work."
"We have to set up the treehouse before dark. It's too humid here to sleep on the ground," Jiang Li said.
Yao Xiaoqing took a look at the treehouse and saw that the bottom floor had been tied up, "It will be ready by the afternoon."
After the four of them had eaten, Yao Xiaoqing went to the river to clean the pots and bowls and continued to collect firewood. Jiang Li and the others went up the tree and got busy.
After the bottom layer was tied, a small entrance door was left, surrounded by wood, and some wooden sticks were tied to the top.
Hei Ba kept mumbling, saying, "Why bother spending so much time just to stay for two days?"
Daliang turned him around and said, "You can sleep hugging the tree trunk tonight."
Heiba scratched his head and said, "The tree house is set up, I want to sleep in the house!"
Jiang Li glanced at the two bickering men and said, "Hurry up and chop down the palm leaves."
Daliang and Heiba went to the river and cut down some palm leaves, handed them to Jiang Li to cover on the roof of the tree, and fixed them with vines so that rain could not leak inside.
Jiang Li tied a few more wooden sticks at the door to put his shoes, and finally used a curtain made by Yao Xiaoqing to hang it at the door.
Jiang Li and Hei Ba spread the mats made by Yao Xiaoqing on the floor, then spread the animal skin mats on top, flattened them with their hands, and a small tree house was successfully built.
The room where Jiang Li and Muba lived was larger, and the room where Yao Xiaoqing lived had a few backpacks, just big enough for one person to stretch out his limbs and lie down comfortably.
Jiang Li looked at the sky and asked Heiba and Daliang to use machetes to cut steps on the tree trunk to make a natural tree ladder for Yao Xiaoqing to go up and down easily.
He picked up a long wooden stick, sharpened it with a machete, carried it to the river and entered the water. He aimed at a big fish and stabbed it. He heard a "swish" sound, and there was a ruler stuck on the wet wooden fork.
Grow fish.
The big fish was lifted out of the water with a wooden fork, swinging wildly.
Jiang Li stabbed three more fish, turned around and raised the big fish on the wooden fork, smiling brightly at Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, are four fish enough?"
Yao Xiaoqing looked back, pursed her lips and smiled: "That's enough! Just one for each person. You wash it and bring it over. I'll put some salt on it and marinate it."
"Okay!" Jiang Li left the big fish on the shore, took out his dagger and got busy.
The smell of blood lingered in the water, and a water snake as thick as an arm quietly poked its head out from among the water plants.
Jiang Li glanced at the gloomy snake eyes and threw the fish entrails in his hand towards it. The water snake opened its mouth and swallowed the entrails in one gulp.
Jiang Li looked at the dense aquatic plants on the shore. He raised his wooden fork and slapped the aquatic plants a few times. Several water snakes shot out from under the aquatic plants like arrows.
After the water snake escaped, he used a wooden fork to pick out all the water plants, leaving no hiding place for the water snake.
After cleaning the big fish, he took it back, smeared it with salt and put it on a stone to marinate. He took the machete to the river bank and chopped down all the vines, weeds and shrubs next to the fine beach on the river bank to avoid hiding snakes and insects.
inside.
The mosquitoes kept buzzing in his ears before it got dark. Yao Xiaoqing felt that if the sky got darker, there would be more mosquitoes, and the cut mugwort would definitely not be able to burn through the long night.
Yao Xiaoqing asked Jiang Li to chop some mugwort and come back.
After Heiba and Daliang tied up the wooden ladder, they took Daliang to the riverside and cut some red, purple, and yellow flower vines. They then spread them on the roof and hung down, making the two small tree houses look like among the flowers.
He stood under the tree and looked at the treehouse surrounded by flowers and vines. He turned to Yao Xiaoqing who was preparing for dinner, "Look at it, Qingwu, does it look good?"
Yao Xiaoqing looked up at Heiba, who was smiling brightly, and then at the tree house filled with flowers among the trees. He didn't believe that it was Heiba who decorated it. He didn't expect that the sturdy Heiba still had a girl's heart!
She smiled and gave him a thumbs up, "Yes, it must be very pleasant to live in a small house surrounded by a sea of flowers."
Daliang said anxiously from the side: "Qing Wu, Hei Ba and I tied him together!"
Yao Xiaoqing gave him a thumbs up and said, "It looks great. Come for dinner soon."
Jiang Li, who was holding a wooden stick to grill the fish, looked at the proud smiles of the two people and suddenly felt that these two guys were a bit of an eyesore and regretted that he should not have brought these two guys here.
Otherwise, it would be great if he and Xiaoqing were in this picturesque place!
Heiba and Daliang didn't know that they were disliked, so they happily went to the river to wash their hands.
Jiang Li quickly turned the wooden stick, and the big fish was roasted until it was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, exuding an alluring aroma.
Yao Xiaoqing smelled the aroma of grilled fish and smiled at him: "Jiang Li, your grilling skills are really good!"