Chapter 21: Escape from the Troubled Times 19
Lin Xia held the deer tightly and quickly cut its neck.
Feeling the deer's struggling strength weakening, Lin Xia smiled with satisfaction. After all, the sickle was still the most useful and it was most convenient to cut the neck.
The little deer died with its eyes wide open in shock.
Lin Xia calmly took out a clay jar from the space, made a big cut in the deer's neck, and collected the remaining deer blood.
Speaking of the earthen jar, it was taken from the group of people who threatened Aunt Ge. As for whether human flesh was cooked there, it means it was never cooked there because no one saw it. The big iron pot with human flesh was thrown there in disgust by her.
In fact, doing business with no capital means making money.
I started from scratch in March and made all my money by counterattacking.
Lin Xia found 43 taels of silver in the hands of that group of people. Together with the 2 taels from Aunt Ge and the rest in his own hands, the total was 57 taels, which was a considerable fortune.
It was already afternoon when the hail started to get smaller. Without waiting for it to stop completely, Lin Xia couldn't wait to set off back to the cave.
Passing by a stream, I saw that there was no hail, so I cleaned the venison.
Lin Xia’s skinning technique was immature and he poked four or five holes in the small deerskin.
Back in the cave, she started to get busy. The whole deer weighed about 40 kilograms. She didn't know if it was due to its species or if it was just an underage fawn, but what was certain was that it was definitely a kind of deer.
After removing the internal organs and head, the remaining meat weighed less than 20 kilograms, which could not even fill her small space.
There was plenty of sunshine in the past month, and after Lin Xia's tireless efforts, the small space has evolved to 30 centimeters, which is more than enough to put food in, because there is no food to put in at all.
The space is enough to use as a lunch box, but too small to use as a suitcase. Lin Xia just hopes that it won’t rain for too long.
Lin Xia's hopes were soon dashed. The second hailstorm came together with a thunderstorm. The top of the mountain seemed like an immortal undergoing a tribulation. Bursts of terrifying lightning that reached the sky and struck the ground. The sky was dark, and from time to time it was as bright as day, and then there was a series of rumbling sounds that rang through the eardrums.
There was hail mixed in with the raindrops, creating huge splashes of water at the entrance of the cave, which made crackling sounds when they hit the ground.
Lin Xia was thankful that the flat ground in front of the cave she was looking for sloped slightly downward, so that rainwater would not flow back and the cave could remain dry.
She just sat at the entrance of the cave, watching the raging storm, the thunder and lightning, and the roaring brook, in a daze. It seemed as if she was the only one left in the world. There was no chirping of insects, only the threat from nature.
Her mind was full of thoughts. A lot of things had happened in less than three months. She seemed to be completely separated from the weak Lin Xia she used to be, and only cruelty and ruthlessness remained.
There are times when she has nothing to do and is alone. Lin Xia is emo and really wants to do some exercises to calm down.
With nothing to do, she decided to make some mushroom and bone soup. She hadn't had hot soup for a long time, so as soon as the rain stopped, she went to dig yam. Yam and bone soup is a must.
Lin Xia waited for 21 days. The rain kept falling, the stream turned into a river, and the river turned into a flood. Fortunately, the cave was located at a high location.
Fearing that the yams would be drowned, Lin Xia dug them out overnight in the pouring rain and eventually harvested 30 kilograms of yams.
In addition to exercising, bored Lin Xia also made a piece of clothing for herself.
She washed the deerskin, smoked it to make it soft, sewed up the holes, and managed to make a vest.
Heavy rains lasted for more than half a month, and the temperature dropped sharply until late autumn.
Lin Xia was anxious. Once the rain stopped, unless she could fly out to buy clothes immediately, the clothes she had would not be able to last.
Her thickest clothing is the tattered cotton-padded jacket that belonged to the grandmother in the village when she arrived. She has been using it to reduce shock for other items. However, the jacket is really thin and not warm. It is barely wearable now. Can she rely on her righteousness to survive the winter?
The key point is that she doesn’t have this thing either.
After careful calculation, it is now the beginning of October in the lunar calendar, which is November in the solar calendar. Winter is about to come in the south, so she has to get out as soon as possible.
In fact, wearing thick clothes for the winter is secondary. If all else fails, just stay by the fire at all times. There is simply too much firewood in the mountains.
For her, the most important thing is that there is nothing to eat in winter. Waiting in the same place means waiting to die. Animals appear less frequently, wild vegetables wither, and stocks decrease.
When she realized she had to find a way out, she started to sort out the food.
There are ten pounds of boneless venison meat left, and three pounds of it can be made into dried meat, three pounds of dried mushrooms, 15 pounds of yam, and half a pound of dried fish.
As soon as the rain stopped, Lin Xia did not set out immediately. First, the mountain road was difficult to walk on, second, mushrooms appeared again, and third, the direction was unclear.
Lin Xia was picking edible mushrooms frantically, as the amount of poisonous mushrooms she had before was enough.
She picked more than 100 kilograms of wet mushrooms in three days, and then tore them into strips and dried them over fire. In the end, she harvested 15 kilograms of dried mushrooms.
Before leaving, I filled half of the space with food, a quarter with water, both hot and cold, and the remaining quarter with valuable items.
After three days of stopping raining, the long-lost sun finally appeared and Lin Xia continued on his journey.
Even though her space was already filled with a lot of heavy objects, she still carried thirty kilograms, and the dried mushrooms took up a lot of space, so the entire backpack was full. Sometimes Lin Xia really wanted to throw them away, but when she thought about the days when she was not full in the past, and that she might have to rely on them to survive in the future, she had no choice but to resign herself to her fate and move forward with the load.
Lin Xia ate mushrooms for all three meals these days, and she almost vomited, just to reduce the weight and volume. But obviously, only a small part of the consumption in five days was gone, it is completely invisible, it is still the same amount!
The only good news is that the sky has been cloudless, the sun is shining and the temperature has risen these days.
According to the plan, Lin Xia should have left the forest, but due to her bad luck, she was blocked by the surging river water. She still couldn't swim, so she took a detour for several days and not only did she not get out, but she went deeper into the forest.
The roads in the mountains are not like those in the plains. It is easy to lose your way if you are not careful.
At first, Lin Xia didn't realize the seriousness of the problem until she broke into the monkeys' territory and found that she had gone too far and too deep.
The sun was shining brightly that day.
Lin Xia looked at the wild persimmon tree in front of her with surprise. She didn't expect that the extreme weather in the recent period had no effect on it at all.
The fruits on the tree were somewhat malnourished and there were not many of them, but they were more than enough for her to eat.
Lin Xia was picking fruits excitedly, her mind and eyes full of changing tastes. She was not paying attention for a moment, and a black and red "stone" hit her forehead accurately. She was so scared that she immediately slid down the tree, thinking that hail was coming again.
As a result, a burst of laughter came from the side. Lin Xia turned her head quickly and found that it was a little monkey laughing at her.
This was too much to bear, so Lin Xia picked up a stone on the ground and threw it at him.
"Ha ha ha ha."
There was another explosion.
Lin. Outline Master. Xia: ...
If quality doesn't work, then quantity will make up for it. He grabbed a handful of stones and scattered them around like flowers from heaven.
The damage was zero but the insult was extremely strong. The little monkey let out a sharp cry and then jumped to another tree, shooting the fruit in its hand like a bullet.
Lin Xia dodged flexibly, and just as the two sides were fighting "fiercely", a large number of monkeys came.
Lin Xia was shocked and ran away quickly.
But how could a human being be as fast as the nimble monkeys? The monkeys kept baring their teeth, and fruit cores, stones, and branches flew towards her. Occasionally, a monkey would climb onto the backpack and pick up dried mushrooms, which scattered all over the ground, successfully achieving her weight loss goal.
Fortunately, this group of monkeys was not as annoying as the ones on Mount Emei. They simply drove Lin Xia out of their territory and ignored her, nor did they steal her backpack.
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