Chapter 59: Building a Shack
Lin Xi and Qi Mo exchanged a glance, and without saying a word, they walked towards the black man in tacit understanding.
The black man's companion was also nearby, a darker black man who was obviously much more alert than the man. He was looking around while trying to stop him from shouting.
Soon, they spotted Lin Xi and Qi Mo walking towards them.
The two black men looked at each other and suddenly ran away.
It seems that Lin Xi's fierce behavior yesterday left them with a serious psychological trauma.
Lin Xi snorted and was too lazy to chase after Qi Mo. The two of them searched for a while and picked up some shellfish. The plastic bag was already full, and all their pockets were filled with wild fruits and seafood.
Seeing that lunch and dinner were almost ready, the two decided to go back to the lake.
They had run out of water.
There were also quite a few people by the lake.
Lin Xi and their fire was about to go out. Lin Xi picked up some hay and put it on top. Qi Mo lay on the ground and blew on it for a while, and the fire started again.
Qi Mo fetched water and boiled it, while Lin Xi made a few clay pots and bowls by the lake. This time, with experience, they looked much better than the first time.
Throwing the clay bowl into the fire, Qi Mo cooked while Lin Xi took out some grass leaves she had picked earlier and crushed them in the clay bowl.
Then he picked another leaf of suitable size and put the crushed grass leaves on it.
Finally, he took out a leather rope, untied the nameplate on it and put it away, leaving behind a bare leather rope.
After doing all this, she gestured to Qi Mo, "Look up."
Qi Mo instantly understood what those grass leaves were used for.
Although he couldn't see his face, he knew that he had injuries on it, and it hurt a little when he made an expression.
He raised his head, and Lin Xi said, "Close your eyes."
Qi Mo leaned back and closed his eyes obediently. Lin Xi quickly applied the crushed grass leaves to his eye sockets.
Then cover it with leaves and tie it with leather rope.
After the bundling was completed, Lin Xi clapped his hands and said, "It's done."
Qi Mo sat up straight, turned his head and looked at Lin Xi with one eye, "This thing feels cool when applied to the face, it should be useful."
Lin Xi looked at him and chuckled.
Such a handsome guy, but she ruined him like that.
Became a one-eyed dragon.
He's not that cool one-eyed guy, he looks pretty funny.
Qi Mo saw her smile and started to smile too, "Do I look ugly?"
Lin Xi smiled and nodded, then shook her head. "It's not that she's ugly, it just kind of ruins your temperament."
Qi Mo didn't care about these things. As long as she didn't think it was ugly and it made her happy, that was enough.
At this moment, in a large villa somewhere in the capital, two elderly people with snow-white hair were staring at the TV.
The old lady looked at Lin Xi on the screen with a smile, "This little girl is good. She is very good at taking care of Xiao Mo."
The old man shook his head and said, "Xiao Mo is really useless. Look, he does whatever the girl tells him to do."
"Even with a broken leaf on his face, he can still smile."
The old lady rolled her eyes at him and said, "The girl is doing this for his own good."
She suddenly leaned closer to the old man and gossiped, "Xiao Mo is usually very disobedient. This is totally unlike him. Do you think he has fallen for this girl?"
The old man was stunned. "This damn kid, he insisted on participating in this, could it be because of this girl?"
The old lady disagreed. "Nonsense! He's been abroad for years. How could he recognize a little girl?"
"The little girl is still a student and just graduated from high school!"
The old man snorted and turned his attention back to the screen.
Lin Xi took out something about the length of a palm from his pocket.
This thing should be a certain variety of bamboo, or something similar to bamboo, hollow and with nodes.
Qi Mo was boiling water and cooking the shellfish he had picked up.
He looked at Lin Xi curiously, "You insisted that I take this down before, what were you going to do?"
Lin Xi smiled mysteriously, "You'll know when I'm done."
She first picked up a small piece of wood and used a stone knife to cut it into a piece of wood with a diameter about the same as the bamboo tube and a length of about one centimeter.
Then polish it repeatedly until the wooden block becomes a round wooden plug that can fit tightly on the bamboo tube.
Then she pulled out the wooden cork and began to stuff the bamboo tube with the same fluffy plants that she had used to make fire, pressing it down hard with a stick.
Lin Xi kept stuffing and pressing like this until the fluff almost filled the entire tube, and then she stopped.
She took a burning branch and lit the fluff in the tube. After burning for a while, Lin Xi quickly blew out the fire in the bamboo tube, and then sealed the tube mouth with a wooden plug.
Qi Mo suddenly realized, "So you are making a fire stick."
Lin Xi nodded. "I looked up the recipe online, and it says you should add some saltpeter and sulfur, but we don't have any here, so this is the only way."
"I don't know if it will work, I'll try again later."
"I was thinking that if it rained, I wouldn't be able to find dry wood to make a fire."
The old man stroked his beard, looked at the screen and nodded, "The girl is good, very smart."
The old lady glanced at him and thought, it's rare that this old man would praise someone for being smart.
Qi Mo nodded, "After we eat, we'll build a shelter first. The rain on the sea can come anytime."
The clams, conchs and abalone in the clay pot were almost cooked. Qi Mo used two sticks as chopsticks, picked up some, put them in a bowl and handed it to Lin Xi.
Then he picked up a bowl for himself and the two of them sat by the fire to eat.
I don’t know if the ferocity and deterrence of the two men yesterday was still there, or if they had no shortage of food, but some people looked over here, but no one planned to come over and rob them.
The two of them had a full meal and then began to discuss where to build a shack.
The high ground near the lake has been occupied by people, and there are even more than a dozen shacks built there.
Lin Xi and Qi Mo looked around and found a place a little further away, near the woods. The terrain was relatively high and not far from the lake, making it convenient to get water. Moreover, they could also keep track of the movements of the players by the lake.
After choosing a good place, they first moved their belongings such as clay bowls and clay pots there. Qi Mo went to get branches, and Lin Xi used a stone knife to cut the vines.
It took the two of them about an hour or two to prepare the necessary materials.
Then we started to build the shack.
Qi Mo inserted the branch into the soil, and after that, Lin Xi fixed it with vines.
The two of them cooperated very well. After the frame was set up, Qi Mo moved some stones over and pressed them around the frame to make it more solid.
Lin Xi used branches to tie many thin strips horizontally, perpendicular to the frame, to form small grids, which would be convenient for covering with leaves later.
Someone knowledgeable in the live studio immediately said, "This is about building an A-shaped shack."
“The space is a bit small, but it’s relatively stable.”
"Yes, this kind of shack is the simplest one."
(End of this chapter)
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