Chapter 780 Escape (3)
Facts have proved that there may not be a rabbit in the world that is stupid enough to hit a tree by itself, but there are other animals that are stupid enough to hit a tree and die.
For example, a lamb.
Night vigils are extremely boring, especially during the transition between darkness and light. The sky was just dim, half dark and half light, intertwined and turned into darkness. Even the sky was groggy, let alone the people who dared not sleep.
Chen Shi was responsible for keeping watch for the rest of the night. No one talked to him and he himself didn't sleep enough. During the night watch, he was half asleep and half asleep. When it was almost dawn, the whole person had completely closed his eyes and slept lightly. He was one of those very unreliable night watchmen.
In fact, let alone Chen Shi, even people like Jiang Feng who didn't need to sleep felt a little bored and sat on the rocks in a daze.
"Touch."
A loud noise not only made Jiang Feng jump up from the ground, but also Xia Mubing, who was sleeping, was startled. He opened his eyes and looked around, looking around cautiously.
The most exaggerated one was Chen Shi, who jumped up and shouted: "There are wolves, there are wolves!"
After shouting, he realized that there were no wolves around at all. Chen Shi stood there with a confused face, licking his lips with joy or regret: "It turns out there are no wolves."
Xia Mubing grabbed the knife that fell on the ground and got up from the ground: "You should be lucky that there is no wolf. Do you think the two of us can still beat the wolf now?"
"What is that? With such a loud sound, it can't be thunder." Chen Shi wondered.
Xia Mubing pointed to the side of the tree stump, and Jiang Feng and Chen Shi noticed that there was a lamb lying beside the tree stump. They didn't know whether it was killed or knocked unconscious.
Waiting for the rabbit is true!
What I’m waiting for is not a rabbit but a sheep!
Not to mention Chen Shi, even Jiang Feng was shocked. What kind of luck did it take for a sheep to hit and die next to him?
It was really a little lamb, a little goat. It didn't even look like its hair had grown. I don't know why it actually broke away from the herd and ran into the forest, and it happened to crash and die next to Xia Mubing and Chen Shi.
Chen Shi's heart and eyes were filled with sheep. If he didn't still have some sense, he would have wanted to hold the sheep and start chewing it.
Chen Shi rubbed his hands excitedly and turned to Xia Mubing: "Brother Xia, you are a butcher, why don't you kill this sheep now and let's roast it."
Xia Mubing:……
Now they can only eat roasted lamb. Chen Shi and Xia Mubing don't have any cooking props. Even if they want to eat fried lamb or stewed lamb, they don't have the conditions. The two of them only had one knife, and they didn't even have a pot to heat hot water. It was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, so Xia Mubing had no choice but to take the sheep to the river and kill it first.
After slaughtering the sheep, Xia Mubing buried all the internal organs and blood in the soil to cover up the smell of blood, so as not to attract other ferocious predators.
After the sheep were cleaned up, Xia Mubing faced another problem.
No seasoning.
To be precise, there are no seasonings, not even salt.
As we all know, sheep is a very difficult food to handle and has a strong smell. Generally speaking, sheep in the south have a more fragrant aroma than those in the north, and wild sheep definitely have a stronger smell than farmed sheep. Even though this sheep is just a lamb now, it does not belong to any adult sheep in terms of smell.
Xia Mubing decided to find some seasoning.
"You first go find a longer piece of wood to string it together, and then set up a fire again. I'll go pick something up and be back soon," Xia Mubing said.
Chen Shi followed Xia Mubing's instructions to look for wood. After searching around and not finding any suitable wood, he cut off a section with the knife that Xia Mubing left for him. Although the knife is not a machete specially used for chopping firewood and trees, it is sharp enough and can cut thin wood even with a little more effort.
After Chen Shi set up the fire again, Xia Mubing came back with the things he picked.
Xia Mubing picked a lot of dogwood leaves.
Perhaps because of the suitable climate, there are many dogwood trees in this forest. Cornus officinalis is a good thing that can be used as medicine, seasoning, and can be eaten directly as fruit, but it is a bit sour. Unfortunately, the season is wrong now. Dogwood fruits only mature in September and October. Even though there are dogwood shrubs all over the mountains and plains, there is not a single dogwood fruit.
When Chen Shi was really hungry yesterday afternoon, he picked two Cornus officinalis leaves and chewed them. The taste was so suffocating that he felt psychological shadow when he saw the Cornus officinalis leaves.
"Brother Xia, what are you doing picking so many Cornus officinalis leaves?" Chen Shi thought Xia Mubing picked these leaves to eat, "This stuff has a weird smell that's even worse than the leaves."
Xia Mubing didn't say a word. He made many cuts on the sheep with a knife. He silently crushed all the leaves he picked and spread them evenly on the surface of the sheep and the incisions. Maybe he wanted to use these to pound them. The leaves are used as pickling sauce.
Chen Shi didn't understand what Xia Mubing was doing, but inexplicably felt that Xia Mubing looked very professional, so he watched obediently. After Xia Mubing finished applying the mashed leaves, he asked Chen Shi to help put the sheep on the fire, just like a picnic barbecue, except that he wanted to roast the whole sheep.
The conditions were very simple, so Xia Mubing worked hard to control the heat, slowly rotating and moving the wooden sticks, and slowly roasting.
Roasting a whole lamb is a long process, and for people like Xia Mubing and Chen Shi who have been on the road without eating for two days, this waiting process is especially long. Gradually, the aroma of meat emanated from the sheep and filled the air.
This meaty aroma mixed with a strange and fishy smell made Chen Shi almost stop drooling from the corner of his mouth.
Jiang Feng could tell from his expression that what Chen Shi wanted to do most now was to rush up and hold the sheep and take a bite.
As an ordinary person who could not afford to eat, Chen Shi grew up in a poor family with many brothers and sisters in the war years. Even though he had fought on the battlefield, became a deserter and killed an officer, he still could not change the fact that he did not eat much. Overly fleshy facts.
"Brother Xia, are you ready? I think you can eat it. Let's eat some first!" Chen Shi's eyes were full of desire for meat.
"Wait a little longer."
Chen Shi waited patiently for almost five or six minutes.
"Brother Xia, you can now..."
"Wait a little longer."
A few more minutes passed.
"Brother Xia, now..."
"Wait."
"Summer..."
"Wait!"
Under Chen Shi's frantic urging, Xia Mubing still insisted on the basic ethics of a chef - to roast the meat, completely ignoring Chen Shi's words and just minding his own barbecue.
Finally, the lamb was roasted.
Not pretty.
This is definitely not a beautiful roasted whole lamb.
The leaves used as spices on the surface have been completely dried and turned black, and their original appearance cannot be seen. If you just dust them with your hands, they will disappear from the sheep. There was no sauce, no condiments, not even cumin, and the only saving grace was probably that it was lamb and it was roasted.
Such a roasted whole lamb sold in a whole sheep restaurant might make the customers angry enough to lift the table, which became a life-saving straw for Xia Mubing and Chen Shi.
Xia Mubing began to cut the meat, one leg of lamb for each person.
The two of them chewed hard, their mouths were full of meat, their bodies were in tatters, and their faces were filled with happiness.
While eating, Chen Shi suddenly started crying while holding half a leg of lamb.
He was sobbing, tears welling up like a fountain, and his words were slurred because there was still unfinished chewing and swallowing of the mutton in his mouth.
This is the first time Chen Shi has cried in the past two days.
He is the kind of person who looks fragile and timid and is afraid of death, but in fact he is very courageous and wants to struggle even if death is imminent to see if he can avoid death.
Chen Shi didn't cry when he was tired and thirsty, lost his way, and had no hope. Now he cried after eating the fragrant mutton.
"Wow, Brother Xia, your roasted mutton is really delicious. I have never eaten such delicious mutton. No, I have never eaten mutton. I didn't know mutton was so delicious." Chen Shi himself didn't know what he wanted to say.
"I thought we were doomed, and I think we are doomed now, but I think it's good to be like this. At least we have a full meal. I heard they said that some people can eat even if they have their heads cut off. Meat, if we eat so much now, it shouldn’t be that bad even if we go on the road. At least our meal will be richer than theirs.”
Xia Mubing:……
Xia Mubing silently put down the leg of lamb in his hand, feeling that he suddenly didn't want to eat that much anymore.
"Have you eaten? Let's go after eating."
Xia Mubing cut the remaining mutton into large pieces and asked Chen Shi to stuff it into a cloth bag. The cloth bag was so full that it almost failed to cover it.
Neither of them had finished chewing the leg of lamb in their hands. They were chewing on it as they walked, and even their steps were much longer than yesterday.
This walk lasted another whole day.
It started to get dark.
Jiang Feng didn't know if it was his hallucination. He felt that this forest was much sparser than the one Xia Mubing and the others took in the morning, and the light was much better.
Xia Mubing and Chen Shi were going to find a place to rest first.
Just when Xia Mubing planned the place and prepared to set up a bonfire for Chen Shi to find water like he did two days ago, Chen Shi suddenly looked into the distance and silently stretched out his hand to point forward.
"Brother Xia, is the forest in front of me on fire? Why do I feel like I see smoke." Chen Shi thought he had seen it wrong.
Xia Mubing glanced in the direction he pointed and suddenly became excited: "What's on fire? It's smoke! We're coming out, hurry up, there's a village ahead."
Chen Shi, who had already sat down to rest, quickly stood up and was about to run. He stopped, looked back at Xia Mubing, silently opened the bag and took out two pieces of mutton that were frozen hard.
"Brother Xia, let's eat a piece of meat to celebrate." Chen Shi grinned.
Xia Mubing:?
Before Xia Mubing could react to what Chen Shi was doing, Chen Shi happily took a bite of the mutton without moving it, then took another hard bite. It took a lot of effort to bite off a little bit of the meat, and happily Chew up.
"Brother Xia will go out later. Let's share some of this meat. I want to take this meat back to my parents and give them a taste."
"Let me tell you, I think it must be this meat that is blessing us. This meat is amazing. I felt it when I ate it this morning. When I finish eating the meat, I will offer the bones. It must be this package of meat that is blessing us." Come out." Chen Shi said cheerfully.
Xia Mubing:……
Xia Mubing silently took the meat from Chen Shi's hand and took a bite, imitating his example.
"Well, let's go."
Jiang Feng wanted to follow, but found that he was already in the fog.
The figures of the two people gradually blurred until they were completely unclear.
Jiang Feng left his memory. (End of chapter)