When I woke up, I found Yunwen was not there. I immediately got up and looked around, feeling a little panicked.
"Oh no, in this remote place, this girl might have been taken away!" I muttered.
But before I walked out of the cave, I heard her voice. The voice was relatively far away, so I listened quietly. I could not only hear her voice, but also the voices of the Song sisters. In order to hear clearly, I walked out of the cave and a little closer, and found that the Song sisters were under the fault, and Yunwen was above it, talking up and down.
I lay on the side of the mountain wall and listened to their conversation.
"Zhang Yunwen, you are so capable that you just eloped with a man. Have you ever considered us? We are two girls alone in this broken place, helpless. Are we going to just sit and wait to starve to death? What kind of moral character is this! If I can go back, I should go to the airline to complain about you. You are a shitty flight attendant." Song Yingchun cursed.
"You came here just to tell me this?" Yunwen asked calmly.
Perhaps she had encountered such rude customers before when serving on airplanes, and had come into contact with such people before, so she was not panicked.
"Call Zhou Bo over to me. I want to ask him what he means. Why did he abandon us without saying a word? Is he a man of no moral integrity? He used to be a soldier. He really disgraces the image of special forces in my mind. He is just a perverted bastard who forgets his principles for the sake of beauty." Song Yingchun continued to scold.
"Have you cursed enough? You said I could do it, but isn't it a bit too much to curse even Zhou Bo?" Yunwen's tone was still calm, but it was sharp.
"I'm just scolding you, so what? Can't I scold you two dogs enough?" Song Yingchun's voice became even louder!
"First, it was Zhou Bo who rescued you and your sisters from the man who tied you up. You are ungrateful if you scold your savior! Second, he risked his life many times for us, and worked hard to provide us with food, clothing, shelter and transportation. He had no such obligations, but he has been doing it for us. He did nothing wrong, but you scolded him. This is ungrateful of you. Third, he has no necessary responsibility to waste precious resources and time on an ungrateful guy like you, so...if you want to scold him back, go ahead." Zhang Yunwen said, speaking in a logical manner.
Song Yingchun was confused by this. She probably never thought that Zhang Yunwen would say these words for me. It's true that when a rabbit is cornered, it bites.
"Oh, sister! You say something about her, she is too arrogant. She did something bad and still said these words to slander me." Song Yingchun said to Song Bailu beside her.
Zhang Yunwen no longer wanted to talk and was walking towards me. When she saw me leaning against the mountain wall listening to them talking, she was slightly startled and I smiled at her.
"Ms. Yunwen, I'm really sorry. My sister was ignorant and reckless just now! I apologize to you on her behalf and for what happened last night. We are not here to quarrel, but we two sisters really have no other choice. We just hope to meet Zhou Bo and ask him some questions in person. Is that okay?" Song Bailu's voice came.
Yunwen frowned slightly, looked at me and asked what I meant.
I waved my hand.
Boom...
I heard the sound of knees falling to the ground.
"Miss Yunwen, my sister and I are really desperate and have no food left. We can't rest peacefully tonight. Without Zhou Bo, my sister and I will have to die in these wilderness mountains and no one will collect our bodies. We take back what we said last night and will never mention it again. Many hands make light work, and there is strength in numbers. Please tell him that we want to return to the team. My sister and I will follow his lead in the future and never act rashly again." Song Bailu begged bitterly.
Yunwen looked at me with her head down, and walked towards me, whispering: "Zhou Bo, why don't you agree? Give them another chance."
I sighed, and seeing that Yunwen's attitude had softened, I walked over.
When the Song sisters saw me, they immediately stared at me, fearing that I would ignore them again.
"There are three conditions. First, whoever dares to mention cannibalism again must either leave the team or I will expel them. Second, taking care of the patients comes first. Song Bailu, you must understand your mission clearly. Finally, you must obey the orders given. Those who disobey will be considered to leave the team and be expelled. If you agree, I will let you return. If you don't agree, we will disband today." I said.
"You are engaging in dictatorship..." Before Song Yingchun could finish her words, Song Bailu covered her mouth tightly.
"We need to survive first, sister." Song Bailu warned in a low voice, but I have good hearing and heard it clearly. Then she said to me: "We agree, we totally agree! Let's return to the team..."
I nodded slightly, then turned around and walked away, fetched a rope, and pulled the two of them up the dangerous road from under the fault. Song Bailu was so excited that she wanted to cry. She hugged me tightly and shouted, "My sister and I have been looking for you all morning. If there were no footprints in the mud, we might not have found you."
I patted her back twice comfortingly.
Afterwards, the four of us returned to the small cave and discussed the next food solution. I told them about the encounter between Yunwen and I with the python last night. Song Bailu immediately said that the skin of the dead python could be kept and sewn into a leather bag, or it could be dried and used as medicine. Taking it in the future would have certain effects in dispelling wind, detoxifying, and calming the nerves.
I agree with the point.
"Our first priority is to unite and solve the problem. The most important thing for us now is food, so everyone must work together and find ways to get through the difficulties instead of thinking of some crooked ways. Do you agree?" I asked.
The girls nodded. Yingchun wanted to say something, but when her sister stopped her, she stopped talking.
"And I have the following plan. Yunwen is weak, so she will stay in the cave for the time being. Song Yingchun, you will be in charge of watching her. Bailu and I will go around here to see if there are any edible wild vegetables and grass roots. Then we will deal with the snake skin. After passing the jujube tree area and picking some red dates, we will go back to the Huoquan old house. We will deal with it first to fill everyone's stomach. Then I will go to the coast to explore. After the heavy rain, the tide will recede and there may be stranded fish and turtles. If possible, there will be some shells, clams and the like." I said.
"Well, basically everything has been considered carefully. You have indeed survived in the wild before." Song Bailu agreed.
So we started to act according to the plan.
First of all, we will have to come to this fault again in the future, so I tied the rope to a protruding stone cone and threw it down the fault, so that we can come here again next time. And now I figured out where the rope came from. It must be that the owner of the rope was swallowed by the python and left here.
After finishing all this, Song Bailu and I went down to the old house to get the backpacks, and then turned back to investigate near the dangerous road. This dangerous road basically relied on the mountain wall all the way, and the road was relatively flat. Bailu was able to find a lot of wild vegetable roots along the way.
Halfway through the journey, we came to a sudden uphill slope between two mountain walls. The slope was even narrower and could only accommodate one person. We went up out of curiosity. As soon as we went up, the world suddenly opened up, and Bai Lu and I were stunned by the scene before us.
There was a wooden house with a straw raincoat hanging on it, which showed that someone had lived there before. Next to the house was an acre of field with a scarecrow on it. However, the field was now overgrown with weeds and everything was covered with spider webs. The house was completely corroded by termites and the scarecrow had a broken back.