Chapter 24 In the Wilderness
They fell to the ground in twos and twos, and continued to use the method of 'cooking the ox' to clean up some branches and leaves on the branches along the texture, and then handed them to the people who could not wait. Zhang Lei, Ling Yi pulled out the wooden stick stuck on the ground next to him, flicked it casually, and said:
"Okay, Brother Lei, let's keep walking, we haven't found our lunch yet-"< br>
“Or are you going to eat the pancakes you brought?”
“That’s impossible—!” Upon hearing this, Zhang Lei dropped the precious ‘artifact’ he had just received to the ground. After a pause, he blurted out: "Stop talking and arrange for a beggar chicken!"
"Let's go——!"
Swinging the dark wooden stick forward, Zhang Lei said with high spirits: "Today I will show you my recent progress——!"
Looking at Zhang Lei dancing Wooden stick, striding forward, Ling Yi chuckled and shook his head, then looked down at the stick in his hand, and whispered in his heart with some emotion: "If I had this stick in my hand when I was young, there would be no cauliflower for ten miles." My head——'
Immediately, he raised his stick and knocked on the "iron birch tree" next to him, which was stronger than fine iron. With the sound of "dang~dang~", Ling Yi signaled to Ah Huang and Miao Miao. Spread out, stay vigilant at all times, and follow Zhang Lei's figure.
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Time became less obvious in the cold and quiet environment of the old forest. The light above the head remained the same from beginning to end, neither getting brighter nor dimmer.
But in Ling Yi's telepathy, the sunlight above the canopy of more than 20 meters high was particularly bright at the moment.
At this moment, it is probably noon~
Thinking of this, Ling Yi holds a bundle of branches in his hand and walks towards Zhang Lei who is digging a hole with his martial spirit "hoe" not far away. As he walked, he called out: "Brother Lei, it's not too early now. Speed up a little. When it's done, let's go meet Miaomiao for dinner..."
"Huh——"
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Hearing this, Zhang Lei wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, nodded vigorously to Ling Yi, who had already arrived at the edge of the pit, and said: "Don't worry, it will be done soon. This depth is definitely enough for a whole family of that thing." I can't even get out..."
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Ling Yi's response, he buried his head and waved his martial spirit "hoe" again.
Seeing Zhang Lei full of energy, Ling Yi squatted on the edge of the large pit, which was nearly ten feet wide and two meters deep, with smooth walls and straight up and down. He whittled it quickly with the sickle in his hand. A branch as thick as his own arm.
Soon, it was almost tea time. When Ling Yi had cut the last branch, he said to Zhang Lei who was beating the walls with a wooden stick at the bottom of the pit to make the earth wall more solid: "Okay. Come on, Brother Lei, just stick these wooden thorns underneath..."
As he said that, he threw the branches that had been piled up in a pile around him with sharp points at both ends and threw them about two meters away from Zhang Lei. bottom of the pit.
When Zhang Lei bent down to pick up the wooden thorns, Ling Yi jumped down and came to his side. He stretched out his arms and picked up six or seven wooden thorns. He walked to the bottom of the pit and started inserting the wooden thorns one by one. It went into the ground to a depth of nearly two feet, leaving only about a third of it outside.
With the joint efforts of the two, this trap pit, which was a large undertaking, was finally completed in a short time.
Climbing up to the ground along the rope and standing on the edge of the trap pit, Zhang Lei felt filled with a sense of accomplishment.
This big hole was dug by him and Ling Yi every now and then, and it took him more than a month to dig it. During this period, he was always worried that the target or other things would step on it and destroy it in advance...
Fortunately, with luck, none of this happened.
He didn't want to do what Ling Yi said, and if he failed halfway, he would treat it as practicing the 'hoe swing'.
If you really want to practice the ‘hoe style’, wouldn’t it be better to dig a fish pond next to the village? There is no need to worry here.
While Zhang Lei was sighing, Ling Yi had already arranged dozens of thin wooden sticks, which were prepared in advance, in an orderly manner on the trap pit. Then he pulled his arm and walked not far away. Walk to an open space.
After walking dozens of steps, a piece of "Blue Silver Grass" about twenty square meters wide came into view.
Nothing to say, just keep doing it.
Fortunately, the past month or so was not in vain. This grassland had already been treated by the two of them. Pieces of turf about three meters square were lifted up and piled into a pile by the two people, then moved to the trap pit, and then laid out piece by piece on the thin wooden sticks placed above the trap pit.
After completing all this, both Zhang Lei and Ling Yi could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The eyes met and after a few chuckles, Ling Yi took the lead and said: "Let's go and wash up in the stream in front, and then go find Miaomiao~"
After that , turned around and whistled towards the forest.
The next second, a yellow figure jumped out from behind a big tree and came to the two of them in the blink of an eye.
It was Ah Huang, who was previously assigned by Ling Yi to roam around and stand guard to be wary of wild animals invading the forest.
The two took Ah Huang, packed up ropes, sickles and other items, and walked towards the northeast.
There is a trickling stream there, nourishing the trees and green plants in this forest, making it more lush.
At the same time, it is also one of the drinking water options for many birds and wild animals in the southeastern area where the outer and inner areas of the old forest meet.
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After arriving at the creek and following the flowing water, they washed and wiped their hands, face, head and neck, etc. Ling and Yi did not drink the seemingly clear stream water directly.
Turn around and continue walking along the upstream direction of the water. After walking for more than 100 meters, we came to a rocky beach and stopped.
Under a gray-white boulder as tall as a person, Ling Yi bent down and took away a few fist-sized pebbles on the ground, and then lifted up a wooden board, revealing a puddle underneath that was as thick as an adult's thigh.
At this time, the puddle was filled with clear water, reflecting Ling Yi's fair and handsome face with a satisfied smile at the corner of his mouth.
"Ayi~Ayi——!" Zhang Lei's shout came from seven or eight meters away.
Ling Yi stood up, followed the sound, and saw Zhang Lei holding the iron birch stick he just got today, picking out two dark charcoal fires from a pile of dark red charcoal fire. Muduan waved to Ling Yi.
Using the bamboo tube he brought with him, he filled the puddle full of water. Ling Yi came to Zhang Lei, poured the water into a polished stone pot, and took it. Zhang Lei handed over a mud ball and casually smashed it on the big stone beside him, revealing the yellow-green lotus leaves inside.
For a moment, the air was filled with the fragrance of lotus leaves and chicken, which penetrated into the nostrils of Ling Yi and Zhang Lei, as well as Ah Huang and Miaomiao who came running after smelling the smell.
Miaomiao was fine. Although he was staring straight at the beggar chicken in their hands, his sitting posture was still elegant. He just squinted his eyes on a large stone, waiting for the feeding from Ling Yi and Zhang Lei. .
Ah Huang couldn't wait any longer. His fluffy tail was wagging like a cattail leaf fan, and he kept circling around Ling Yi and the two of them. His long tongue was hanging out, and drool was visible to the naked eye, which made the meow next to him look contemptuous.
A few dead wood were added to the extinguishing fire, and the fire was heated up. Ling Yi held a chicken wing in his mouth, while tearing off the head, neck and buttocks of the beggar chicken, and threw them to Miaomiao respectively. and Ah Huang, let them satisfy their cravings first.
Zhang Lei next to him followed suit. After feeding, he showed off the chicken legs in his mouth and helped Ling Yi put the stone pot on the fire.
Ling Yi took a few wet yellow mud balls under the big rock where Miao Miao was, and after peeling them open, he revealed the pickled hare and grass carp wrapped in lotus leaves, as well as two peeled The skin is exposed, showing the white flesh of the water snake.
Next, Ling Yi and Zhang Lei stuffed pieces of chicken into their mouths, Miaomiao and Ah Huang's mouths from time to time, and at the same time put hare and grass carp on the fire to roast.
As for the two water snakes, they cooked a pot of delicious snake soup in the stone pot~
In the afternoon, Ling Yi and Zhang Lei, who had eaten and drank enough, gathered around the trap pit for a month. The soil, dead leaves, etc. left behind by Ah Huang and Meow Meow, which were full of the smell of their urine and excrement, were deeply buried before they set off on their way home.
(End of this chapter)