Chapter 44: Drilling Wood to Make Fire

The moment Chu Qiao jumped down from the tree, his head buzzed.

There was something soft under my numb feet.

In the forest, it is so soft, is there no snake that has not yet entered hibernation?

Chu Qiao's whole body was like a sculpture. He carefully moved his feet and looked down.

A gray rabbit was lying motionless on the ground, its body stretched out, about half a meter long.

Chu Qiao bent down, grabbed the rabbit's ears, and brought it in front of him.

The rabbit's eyes were closed and it was not breathing, but its body was still warm and felt soft to the touch, indicating that it had died not long ago.

Chu Qiao found a large bloodstain on the rabbit's neck. After parting the fur there, he found two bloody holes on its neck.

It seems that the bite hit the artery and caused death from excessive bleeding.

"Master Chu, you picked it up."

“Give me some of this good thing too.”

"Master Chu, this is the real-life version of waiting for the rabbit to come to you."

"Master Chu, don't leave. Just stay under this tree."

Chu Qiao: "How can such a good thing happen? You're overthinking it. When surviving in the wilderness, getting something for nothing is the worst idea you can have."

"What's going on?"

Chu Qiao raised an eyebrow. "That's simple. If they didn't eat it, they'd just put it under a tree. There are two bloody holes on its neck. If it wasn't a wolf, who did it?"

"This wolf changes quickly. Didn't it want to eat you yesterday?"

"Did we misunderstand it?"

"Is the wolf a good wolf?"

"I told you, like son, like mother. The little wolf cub is so cute."

Chu Qiao was amused by everyone: "This is called giving me a papaya and I will repay you with a jade pendant. I was too preoccupied with it yesterday. After all, it's a wild animal. It's hard to imagine it would be grateful and repay you."

"On the trip to Daxing Mountain, Chu Ye and Mom's first lesson: gratitude."

Chu Qiao stopped chatting with everyone, took out his knife, and asked seriously:

"Does anyone like rabbit meat?"

"Master Chu, rabbits are so cute, why do you want to eat them?"

"Upstairs, please stop being disgusting, okay?"

"That's right, rabbit meat is so delicious, everyone loves to eat rabbit."

Chu Qiao continued, "I not only want the rabbit meat, I also want to peel off the entire rabbit skin and use it as a blanket tonight."

"To skin a rabbit, you have to start from the mouth. Chu Qiao hangs the rabbit on a tree with a rope, cuts the skin around the rabbit's mouth, and pulls the skin back towards the neck, then towards the front legs."

"The front legs are the most difficult part. They can easily get stuck. In order to avoid damaging the skin, we need to use our fingers to separate the skin and flesh little by little. The same goes for the hind legs."

As Chu Qiao finished speaking, his movements were almost complete. A cylindrical piece of skin was completely cut off.

Chu Qiao then removed the excess flesh from the skin.

The skin that was peeled off had a strong smell of blood. Although no one could smell it, the bloody appearance immediately made many men in front of the screen feel uncomfortable.

In order to improve everyone's impression, Chu Qiao quickly found a leafless dead tree and hung the rabbit skin on the tree to dry in the sun.

She went to deal with the remaining rabbit meat.

"Master Chu, you're not going to eat me alive again, are you?"

"I guess so."

"I can't bear to look at it. I just treat raw fish from the sea as sashimi, but this raw meat..."

Chu Qiao: "Today we will improve our lives. This should be the most sumptuous meal of this survival. After this meal, we will gather our strength to launch an attack on the highest peak."

Chu Qiao spoke as he walked, occasionally picking up wooden sticks on the ground and choosing them.

"This is good. She picked up a straight stick."

Then he found a piece of dead tree trunk that was 1 meter long and as thick as a lead ball.

Chu Qiao used a knife to drill a small hole with a diameter of less than 1 cm on the tree trunk, took a thin wooden stick, and inserted it into the hole to measure.

Someone on the barrage saw Chu Qiao's thoughts: "Master Chu is going to start a fire."

"Master Chu is worthy of being Master Chu. He wants to make fire by rubbing two sticks together?"

"Who still makes fire by rubbing two sticks together these days?"

Chu Qiao smiled and said: In the absence of tools, no matter how ancient the method is, we must try it!

As she spoke, she stood up again and picked up a lot of dry pine needles and fallen leaves and put them beside the wooden stake.

Chu Qiao put his hands together and rubbed the thin wooden stick, making it rotate continuously in the small hole.

As she rubbed the wood, she explained, "There are three ways to survive in the wild. Today we'll use the simpler method of drilling wood to make fire."

"The drill pipe should not be too thick. A thin drill pipe will generate more heat because it will generate more pressure."

Chu Qiao knelt on the ground, rubbing the drill rod violently with his hands.

"hiss--"

The wound on the palm of the hand has healed, but the newly grown skin is delicate and obviously cannot withstand such torture. After a while, the palm of the hand turns red and there is a hint of pain.

But this was nothing to Chu Qiao. She continued to rub the wooden strip quickly. After more than ten minutes, a wisp of smoke gradually emerged from the small hole below.

Chu Qiao continued to exert force, but no matter how much he rubbed it, only sporadic smoke came out, but no sparks, and he could not ignite the pine needles and fallen leaves.

Doctor Lu of Hua Tuo: "Pay attention to old injuries."

"Mr. Lu is so dedicated that he can't let go of his identity as a doctor even when watching the live broadcast."

"I really think that Mr. Hua Tuo should be named a model doctor of the Chu circle."

Doctor Lu of Hua Tuo said: "As expected, Chu Qiao's palms are almost worn out."

As expected, on the screen, Chu Ye sat down on the ground in frustration, her eyes red from the smoke. She frowned and turned over her palm, which was already red and bleeding.

Chu Qiao stood up, picked up a rope, hung it on the tree and sat down to compare it with the stick.

"What is Master Chu doing?"

"Master Chu has given up. He probably plans to just stick it in the raw rabbit and eat it."

The rope and the stick were tied together, and obviously there was a large gap in the middle.

Chu Qiao shook his head, pointed at the gap and said, "No wonder we didn't succeed just now. This drill rod is a bit bent, not straight enough. When drilling, the kinetic energy and mechanical energy can't be converted into heat energy."

She pursed her lips, her brows furrowed. “But this is the straightest one I could find.”

"Master Chu, let's forget it."

"That's right, you've eaten all the bugs, so you're afraid of eating raw rabbit meat?"

Chu Qiao stood there without moving. Just when everyone thought she was going to give up, Chu Qiao walked to a poplar tree with a rope and a thin stick.

The poplar tree was straight, and Chu Qiao tied a thin wooden stick to the tree.

He patted the sawdust contentedly, raised his eyebrows, and spoke with satisfaction:

"Wood becomes straight when it is straightened, and metal becomes sharp when it is sharpened."

"I'm using this tree to straighten this stick. When I encounter a problem, I must solve it instead of giving up."

After saying that, Chu Qiao picked up the knife and went to process the rabbit meat first.

Chu Qiao was very familiar with the structure of rabbits. In just a few minutes, she shaved off the meat along the bone seams. Chu Qiao cut the meat into small pieces and wrapped the meat and bones with a large leaf.

I took a sip of water. The sun was already close to my head, and the rabbit skin was blown by the wind and had not yet completely dried.