43 Wilderness Survival
◎It is quite warm. ◎“Awoo!!!”
In the depths of the forest in the afternoon, a young wolf howl suddenly sounded, followed by a series of wolves howling excitedly in response.
Following the direction carried by the wind, we traced back to its source and found that it was a group of lively wolves running and jumping back and forth on a mountainside.
Among the wolves, a small figure who was also cheering and jumping for joy stood out.
Ye Zhizhi jumped three feet high. After almost the entire spring and summer, she finally succeeded in making animal skins that could keep warm before the rainy season!
Although the animal skin is not soft, is very thick, has a strange smell, and may not be easy to preserve, it can still keep you warm!
Ye Zhizhi tied a piece of rabbit skin around his calf.
She had no needle and thread, but there were always more solutions than problems. When she just peeled the rabbit skin off, she let Silver Gray's small fangs bite a row of holes on the edge, and then used a flexible vine as thread. She wrapped the prepared rabbit skin around her calf twice, and then passed the vine through the hole and tied it to her leg, firmly.
Ye Zhizhi pulled her dress up and tucked it at her waist, revealing her short legs below the knees.
She walked around and soon felt the warmth on her calves wrapped in white fur, and soon a thin layer of sweat appeared on the wings of her nose.
Beside her, the little gray wolf, who had grown a circle bigger, was jumping and skipping behind her. Although he didn't know what his wolf brothers and sisters were happy about, it didn't stop him from joining in the joy. From time to time, he would raise his head and howl a few times in a milk voice, looking very proud.
This little gray wolf is the wolf cub from Uncle Scar's family. After Aunt Wolf left decisively, she never came back, and the wolf cub officially became a member of the tribe.
At first, Scar wanted to be a good wolf father and keep the wolf cubs by his side all the time, but the deep fatherly love only lasted for two days. Scar couldn't wait to push the wolf cubs to Ye Zhizhi, Yin Yi and others, and ran away, leaving the cubs looking at each other in bewilderment.
The wolf cub was very fond of Ye Zhizhi, who had a familiar smell.
Ye Zhizhi always sleeps between the wolf king father and the wolf mother at night, so he naturally has a strong scent of the wolf king on his body. He is lively and outgoing, and not afraid of strangers. He just follows Ye Zhizhi without any hesitation, wagging his furry tail.
Ye Zhizhi had a liking for the wolf cub who looked very similar to his father, the wolf king, but she was hesitant and had no intention of getting close. However, the wolf cub seemed not to feel his sister's resistance to her, and was very familiar and directly and enthusiastically stuck to Ye Zhizhi, which quickly diluted her sadness.
Ye Zhizhi hugged the wolf cub, which was several times bigger than her, and thought, "It's already this big, no matter what danger it encounters in the future, it will be able to survive, right?" Ye Zhizhi's resistance to the wolf cub decreased a little, but she still didn't go near the plump little wolf cub in the tribe.
Ye Zhizhi also carefully chose a name for the big wolf cub. Since he and Yin Yi were cousins, Ye Zhizhi thought for a long time and came up with a particularly suitable name, Yin Xiaohui.
Silver Little Gray adapted very quickly and soon forgot about his wolf father. He followed Ye Zhizhi around happily all day long. If the wolf king had not allowed it, he would even want to climb up to the boulder nest and sleep with his sister.
In fact, Silver Little Gray tried to climb over the boulder nest many times, but each time he was taken away by the wolf king and thrown back to Scar's nest.
The wolf king ignored the cub's whimpering of grievance and turned back with a heart of stone.
Ye Zhizhi originally thought it was quite comfortable to sleep with the warm little wolf cub in his arms, but seeing that the wolf father was so unhappy, he just silently sympathized with Yin Xiaohui in his heart and did not insist on letting Yin Xiaohui stay.
Of course the Wolf King was not happy.
What a joke! The wolf king thought, "It's bad enough that I have a cub that never grows up and can't leave the nest, but I want another one? Absolutely impossible!"
It will never allow that.
Back to the present, although Ye Zhizhi had a little follower, he was not affected much, except that he was often naughty, but it was harmless.
She concentrated on making animal skins. When the small area of the cave was not enough for her to tinker with, she moved outside the cave. She cleared out a piece of open space, built a fire pit, found some long, hard tree sticks, inserted them into the ground and crossed them, and then put some horizontal bars. Then she boiled and roasted the animal skins that she had cleaned as much as possible and dried them on the fire.
She tried to destroy many animal hides, but all failed. Later, when she ran out of firewood for drying, she put some half-dried firewood into the fire pit, which produced a lot of thick smoke. Finally, the smoke was blown by the wind towards some of the animal hides she had dried, and she was smoked for many days. Then she suddenly found that she had succeeded.
The animal skin that had been smoked for a long time was softer than other animal skins. Even though it was not what she had imagined, it was already usable!
Ye Zhizhi found the right direction and tinkered with it for several days before finally making a pair of animal skins that could keep warm.
Aaaaahhh!!!
God will not let down those who work hard! She knew she could do it!
She really did it!
Ye Zhizhi couldn't help but pull up the two front paws of Silver Gray in front of her and jumped excitedly again.
Silver Gray tilted his head, and his two hind paws swung back and forth and left and right in coordination, while his tail swung back and forth.
As soon as Yin Yi saw it, he felt a crisis. Ever since Yin Xiaohui came, Wolf Girl had focused more on it and interacted with it a little less. This was not acceptable.
Yin Yi raised his front paw and pushed Yin Xiaohui away. His huge body took the position in front of Ye Zhizhi, and his paw pads, which were many times larger than Ye Zhizhi's, rested on her small hands.
Silver Little Gray rolled aside and was covered in dust: "?"
Ye Zhizhi looked up at Yin Yi who was wagging his tail, and couldn't help but smile. She rushed over and hugged Brother Wolf, rubbed her little face against his fur, and let out a milky roar.
The biggest contributor to her success is Brother Wolf. If it weren't for Brother Wolf leading the wolf pack to work hard and get her whatever she wants, if it weren't for the wolf pack giving her so much support, she would never have been able to do it.
After hugging Yin Yi, Ye Zhizhi happily hugged every wolf here to express his gratitude.
This winter, she finally doesn't have to be a burden to the wolf pack anymore!
Ye Zhizhi is full of motivation.
Although she had found a successful method, Ye Zhizhi was still far from being able to make clothes and quilts. She needed larger pieces of prey fur, and could only hope that when the wolf pack hunted large prey, they would leave her with intact fur.
Ye Zhizhi rushed into the cave, ran to the wolf king father and wolf mother, and showed them the fur on his calves.
"Ahhhhhh!"
She walked in front of them a few times, then gestured for the fur of larger prey.
The silver wolf looked at the rabbit fur on the cub's calf. A thoughtful expression appeared on his face. The wolf king's eyes flashed with deep thought as well.
They had clearly seen the cub's recent intention of tossing the prey's fur around, hoping to transplant it onto their own body? If the cub had fur, when winter came, it would be able to withstand the cold like them, right?
In this way, they don't have to keep the cub warm all the time and worry that she will not survive and die.
Not only the Wolf King and Silver Wolf saw Ye Zhizhi's intention, but even Yin Yi saw it as well.
Its sympathy and pity for the wolf girl deepened again. The wolf girl was so pitiful. Her hair had not grown for such a long time, and she could only try her best to grow hair on her body.
Did you collect so much wolf hair before, but it stuck to your body and fell off, so you couldn't wear it on? Did you come up with the idea of skinning your prey and wearing it in one piece?
Yin thought of the group of invading wolves last year, and thought regretfully that if the wolf girl had thought of this idea earlier, he could have peeled some wolf skins for the wolf girl, so that the wolf girl would be covered with wolf fur instead of the fur of the prey.
I wonder if there are any wolves trying to take over our territory during this rainy season.
Yin Yi hopes that some ignorant wolves will come to seize the territory so that he can kill some wolves and get the wolf skins for his wolf sister.
As the rainy season approaches, Ye Zhizhi can't help but worry whether another pack of wolves will come to seize territory this year. She sincerely hopes that this year, next year, and every year thereafter, the wolves will be safe and sound without any more bloodshed.
Even though Yin Yi and the others have grown up and are capable of fighting to protect their territory, and the overall strength of their wolf pack has increased, Ye Zhizhi does not want a war to break out.
It was in this state of uneasiness that Ye Zhizhi began to smoke the fur that the wolf king father and wolf mother had brought back for her.
The wolves went out for three days and dragged back a musk ox with very thick fur. The fur alone was enough for Ye Zhizhi to use as a quilt and a cloak.
Ye Zhizhi pondered for a moment, and finally asked Yin Yi to use his sharp claws to cut the musk ox skin into several large and small pieces. She decided in her mind how to use them. She must be fully armed, and a pair of fur boots is indispensable. It doesn't matter if there are no conditions to make clothes and pants, as long as it can cover the whole body.
She wrapped both legs up, used a thin piece of animal skin to poke two holes in as a small underwear, poke a row of holes in the edge of the rattan rope and tied it around her waist, then put on an animal skin skirt, tied her arms with animal skin as well, put on a leather coat with three holes in it, and finally put on a hat...
Ye Zhizhi nodded, it was perfect.
If there was a draft in the gap, she would put on a cloak that covered her entire body.
Ye Zhizhi was full of energy as he thought about the full set of animal skin clothing he would soon own.
When the wolves began to go out hunting more frequently, she would grind the hides with stones outside the cave, smoke them, and put a pile of firewood next to them to dry them as quickly as possible.
In order to avoid having to drill wood to make fire frequently, she always kept a spark in the fire pit ready to be ignited at any time. Therefore, even if she was alone, the amount of firewood consumed was very large. It was estimated that soon, there would not be enough dead branches and leaves in the territory for her to pick up.
The wolves didn't know how many animal skins Ye Zhizhi needed, so from then on, when they hunted and ate, they would leave the prey furs and bring them back to Ye Zhizhi.
Ye Zhizhi could tell what the wolves had hunted from the hides they brought back: sometimes sheep, sometimes deer, sometimes cattle... usually deer. Regardless of whether they were useful or not, Ye Zhizhi took them all, smoked them, and piled them up in the cave.
When the rainy season came, Ye Zhizhi had smoked enough animal skins. The rest that were not fully cured were spread on the rocks in the nest.
What made Ye Zhizhi feel relieved was that this year her wish came true. No more wolves came to seize their territory. After the heavy rain, it meant that their territory was safe.
She still remembers the horror of the rainy season, when no animals would come out to grab territory.
Ye Zhizhi continued to make animal skins in the cave. Curious wolves surrounded her, but she remained calm, her fingers nimbly stringing vines onto the animal skins.
The wolves couldn't help her with this kind of skillful work, so Yin Yi and the others all lay aside and watched Ye Zhizhi. The wolves only helped when Ye Zhizhi needed to poke holes or cut animal hides.
Ye Zhizhi had an idea in mind and thought that making clothes would be very quick, but he didn't expect that it would take nearly a month to make the whole set.
As Ye Zhizhi put the animal skins on his body one by one, the little human cub turned into a short, chubby musk ox cub.
The wolves watched Ye Zhizhi, who had changed drastically, with their eyes widening wider and wider, feeling very curious.
Silver Gray came over and sniffed curiously. He smelled a familiar scent amidst the faint scent of prey fur. He raised his paw and patted it tentatively.
Ye Zhizhi shook her little head with difficulty. The animal skin hat that was pressed tightly against her head made her dizzy.
So heavy!
Ye Zhizhi prided herself on being very strong, but this animal skin coat made her feel extremely heavy. Not to mention lifting her hands or feet, even turning her head was difficult.
She wanted to take off the fur hat, but she struggled to lift her hands for a long time, as if they were restrained by an unknown force and could not be lifted up at all. So she fell backwards and rolled on the ground for a few times. She tried to raise her little head and try to shake the fur hat off. Finally, Yin Yi couldn't help but stretched out his claws and hooked the fur hat off easily.
Ye Zhizhi felt a lightness on his head, and his breathing instantly became smoother.
Her forehead was covered with sweat.
It is quite warm, but it restricts movement a bit.
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