Just as the three of them were looking at the lake view, two horses neighed from behind.
Zhang Chi and the others turned their heads and saw the two horses carrying things, neighing impatiently. It was obvious that the two horses were quite dissatisfied with carrying so many things on their backs and standing still.
Neighing tells humans: If you want to leave, just leave. If you don’t want to leave, quickly take off my belongings!
"Camp?" Zhang Chi asked Cannon with a smile.
Cannon also happily replied to Zhang Chi: "Well, let's set up camp!"
Zhang Chi really didn't expect that tonight's camp would be here.
Beautiful scenery is a word Zhang Chi has heard countless times since he was a child. Many scenic spots have overused this word. Zhang Chi has been to some places.
To be honest, he really doesn't feel that any place is really worthy of this beauty. The scenery in some places is good, but there are too many people every time he goes there. There are so many people here, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it can't be blocked.
Live with common people.
Cannon led everyone forward.
The road is quite easy to walk now, at least many times easier than before.
Three people, five horses and two dogs lined up, and Cannon led the team until they reached the junction where a small river merged into a large lake.
This place is quite open, and the terrain is quite good. The most important thing is that the water and grass all around are lush, so you can feed the horses easily.
The place was very good, not only Cannon knew about it, but some people also knew about it, because here, Zhang Chi quickly discovered the traces left by others camping, a pile of fire pits that had been extinguished.
Cannon stood next to the fire pit and said to Zhang Chi with a smile: "We will be here tonight. You see, we don't need to dig this thing ourselves. It is a good place."
"Okay, let's do it here." Zhang Chi nodded.
Now that this is the case, everyone starts to unload the things, put them away where they need to be put away, and put away the things that need to be sorted, and of course, prepare a sleeping place.
Cannon and Brian didn't have much to do. They simply spread hay leaves on the open space next to the fire, then put their sleeping bags on top, and then got into the sleeping bags when they went to sleep.
The cold air on the ground was isolated from the sleeping bags, so they had no problem sleeping at night.
Zhang Chi couldn't do it, but it wasn't that he couldn't do it. Zhang Chi had to have some fun when he came out, so Zhang Chi found two nearby trees, took out his hammock and tied it between the two trees.
After it was tied, I sat on it happily and shook it.
"BOSS, are you going to sleep on this tonight?" Brian had already returned from collecting firewood from the forest. He saw Zhang Chi sitting in the hammock, looking beautiful, so he asked with a smile.
Zhang Chi said: "Why not?"
Brian smiled and said: "Okay, why not, but I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep well."
"You still can't sleep?" Zhang Chi didn't believe it, feeling that Brian seemed to be looking down on him.
Seeing Zhang Chi's stubborn words, Brian smiled and did not continue to comment on his BOSS's hammock. He put down the firewood in his hand and turned back into the forest to find firewood.
Nowadays, we need to find more firewood. Firewood is not only used for boiling water and cooking, but also at night. On the one hand, it is for lighting, and on the other hand, it is to prevent wild beasts.
Wild animals are quick to catch fire, and the horror of forest fires is imprinted in the deepest part of their genes, so whether they are wolves, wild bears, or bobcats, they all have a natural fear of fire.
If you want to burn firewood all night, you obviously can't find a branch or something like at noon. The firewood at this time needs to be large, especially long and strong wood is best, so that the burning time of a piece of wood can be longer.
Zhang Chi tried his hammock and waited for Brian to leave. Cannon returned to the camp with a logging ax on his waist. When he came back, he was dragging a tree stump behind him. Obviously, Cannon was
Preparing for overnight camping.
"You want to sleep in the hammock?"
When Cannon came back, he asked Zhang Chi with a strange look on his face.
Zhang Chi had no choice but to say again: "No?"
Cannon looked at Zhang Chi and said, "If you are not used to it, sleeping on this thing will not be a pleasant experience."
Zhang Chi asked: "How bad can it be to enjoy it?"
Cannon smiled and said: "Anyway, it's not as good as sleeping in a sleeping bag lying on the ground, but you can try it. If you're not used to it, you can sleep back on the ground."
Zhang Chi felt that Cannon looked a bit young. Thinking about those days, it is not the same as those years ago, that is, a few years ago, we, Lao Zhang, had not endured any hardships, and we had been looked down upon by many people. Didn’t we, Lao Zhang, survive?
Is this little hammock too much for you? Tsk! You really look at people through the cracks in the door and look down on them!
Now that Cannon has no time to chat with Zhang Chi, he just talks casually, expresses his thoughts, and starts cracking firewood.
The trunk of the tree was already dead, so there was little moisture in it. When Cannon's logging ax was struck, it made a noisy sound, which actually sounded like a snare drum.
Zhang Chi couldn't always sit on the bed, so he came down and fed the horse first. Feeding the horse didn't mean like in the pasture, but now he had to feed the horse some concentrate. To put it bluntly,
As food, they feed oats. In addition to oats, each horse also has two raw eggs.
Horses cannot withstand just eating grass in the wild. Don't ask why wild horses can carry it so well. That's because wild horses don't need to carry things, but horses that go into the mountains must work, either carrying people or supplies, otherwise
Why do humans bring them into the mountains? Is it fun?
In addition to these, Zhang Chi also secretly spread some grass grown in gourds among the grass, so that the horses could eat better, making them almost as good as when they stayed in the pasture.
After smelling the delicious aroma of grass, several horses became quiet and gnawed the grass one by one, for fear that they would miss a bite and others would take advantage of their forgetfulness and eat their portion too.
Seeing the horse chewing loudly, Zhang Chi clapped his hands, and then reached out and patted Chiyanshan's neck. As Zhang Chi's mount, Chiyanshan's treatment was naturally different. Zhang Chi was hungry.
It was impossible for others to starve it. Zhang Chi picked up a few small apples and fed them to Chiyanshan while sneaking around on the road. Now Chiyanshan is not willing to eat the weeds by the lake.
While doing this, Zhang Chi said to Cannon and Brian: "I'll make whatever you want to eat tonight!"
After Cannon thought for a moment, he said, "Whatever."
Brian said, "How about making rice and stewing chicken? Stewed chicken with potatoes."
"Do you want to eat chicken?" Zhang Chi asked.
"We brought one here, and I'm afraid that if I don't eat it, I might not be able to let it go tomorrow," Brian said with a smile.
Zhang Chi asked curiously: "You actually brought a chicken here?"
Brian took out the chicken at this time.
There is a chicken wrapped in a plastic bag. It is not the chicken from Zhangchi Ranch, but the kind of chicken raised by Lao Mei here. It is not big, but it grows quickly and has a lot of meat.
The only drawback is that it's not delicious!
Generally speaking, the meat of things that grow quickly is not very tasty, just like the leeks from the South. They are big and have a lot of water, but they don’t have the same flavor as leeks.
Originally, Zhang Chi thought he had brought one of his own chickens, but Brian actually brought a chicken that was on sale in the market.
"Okay!"
Originally, Zhang Chi didn't want to do it, but after the words were spoken and the Blaine family took out the materials, it was a bit unjustifiable not to do it.
Fortunately, although Zhang Chi was not a cook, he was quite well prepared for this trip. He touched his luggage, took out the kitchen knife and chopping board, set up his stance and started chopping the chicken.
Zhang Chi wouldn't ask for chicken heads or feet, so he chopped them off and threw them to Daniel and Erhu. Two of them would make the two guys gnash their teeth.
Chop the chicken into small pieces, slightly larger than mahjong. He poured some water first, then Zhang Chi poured the chicken into a small hanging pot, added some oil and stir-fried, then poured some soy sauce or the like in, and added
Boil the filtered stream water together.
As for rice, Brian can make it himself. Not only can he cook it, but his skills in making rice in the wild are not learned from Zhang Chi.
But there was one thing that made Zhang Chi very dissatisfied. These Americans never wash the rice when cooking it. They just put the rice into the pot, wash it, add water and start cooking it.
After talking about it several times, Brian and Cannon have almost changed it, but sometimes they still forget that the rice their boss eats must be washed out several times with water, and the white pulp water in the rice is almost gone.
That's good.
Sometimes the two of them couldn't figure it out. The rice beaten by the machine was obviously very clean, so why did they need to wash it with water?
To be honest, Zhang Chi didn't know why. He only knew that when his mother taught him how to cook when he was a child, he had to scour the rice.
Maybe it's because rice in the past was crushed with a roller, and there were a lot of impurities in it, and there were probably small stones. It's not like today's machines, when it comes out it's just white grain.
The rice was simmering in the pot, and the chicken in the hanging pot was also simmering. The potatoes with hob cubes were also put in at this time. The aroma of the chicken quickly spread to the surroundings along the breeze.
Wild animals with sharp noses may smell the smell from the air, but experienced hunters will not follow the smell because they know that this smell must be emitted by humans, and humans
, is their real natural enemy.
The sun has completely set, and the crescent moon has taken over the sky at this time. Although it is borrowed light, the crescent moon still illuminates the earth brightly.
Just like now, Zhang Chi can see far away, but the distant view at this moment is divided into two colors, gray and silver, with clear layers and clear boundaries.
Suddenly, a sentence popped into Zhang Chi's mind: This is it, don't hesitate, what a great place it is, it would be a pity not to let the cattle out.
At this time, Zhang Chi also felt deeply convinced.