Chapter 14: Marching into Dragon Mountain 6
In the forest, under a big thorn tree, a tiny person was moving slowly on the top of the thorn bush. The sunlight shone on her. From a distance, it looked like an elf fallen down to the mortal world. When you got closer, you saw that it was just a skinny little girl with a pale face. This was the poor little girl. She had spent three days and nights on the thorn bush.
As I walked and walked, I deeply realized the difficulties that Chairman Mao had to endure in his previous life when he climbed snow-capped mountains and crossed grasslands. The Long March has an end, and the thorn bushes in this area will also be walked through one day. Yi Ke's journey through the thorn bushes finally ended after four days.
She came down from the top of the thorn bush. The feeling of having her feet on solid ground was much better than having her feet on the clouds. She lowered her two arms that had been climbing the branches and stuck them to her sides. The pain in her other arm made her want to cry. She has truly experienced the hardships that Chairman Mao went through during his Long March in his previous life, and she has come to admire even more how great the older generation of revolutionaries were! "I want to eat! I want to drink water!" At this time, every inch of Yike's muscles was clamoring. She quickly lay on the ground and listened to the movements around her. She would go in the direction where she heard the chirping of insects and birds. Of course, Yike still had to leave a mark. After eating, she would come back here to rest because it was relatively safe here.
Don’t ask Yi Ke why she didn’t just find a nearby cave to settle down. She had already taken ninety-nine steps. Was she going to give up at the last step? There is no word "give up" in her dictionary.
Yi Ke cut a small piece of bark from the tree as a mark while walking. If he saw any herbs on the road, he would pick them! When you see wild vegetables, pick them!
After having to eat wild vegetables to fill her stomach for several days, she now collects everything edible and no longer complains that it is too heavy.
Think about it, after several days in the thorn bush, there was not even a single weed, let alone wild vegetables. If it weren't for the wild vegetables she had picked earlier, she would have starved to death. So the more food she stored, the better!
When she reached the place where the birds were singing, she didn't dare to walk so fast anymore. She wanted to quietly look around to see if there was any danger. So Yi Ke slowly moved forward.
Under a tree, a pheasant was eating something with its head down, and the birds on the tree were jumping happily on the branches. Apart from that, there were no other hunting beasts around.
"Pheasant!" Yike suddenly remembered the braised chicken, boiled chicken, and mushroom chicken he had eaten in his previous life...his saliva shamefully overflowed.
"Catch it! I must catch it!" Yi Ke shouted in his heart.
You definitely won't be able to catch a pheasant by jumping on it, but you could try shooting it with a bow and arrow. Unfortunately, I have arrows but no bow, and I don't even have a small stone on hand.
"Oh, right, we have arrows! It's so close, why do we need a bow? We can just throw arrows." She was still complaining about not having a bow and arrow, but suddenly she remembered that she could throw arrows.
Yike pulled out the arrow and threw it hard at the pheasant. She shot two arrows at once, both of which pierced the chicken. The pheasant flapped its wings and tried to run away, but its injured wings made it unable to fly. Yi Ke pounced on it and hugged it tightly. Tie up the pheasant with vines, take out the arrow and wipe it clean on the pheasant, then wipe it with leaves, and then put the arrow away.
There cannot be even a trace of blood on the arrows, because they have to be carried with them at all times, and the smell of blood may attract the attention of wild animals. Sometimes even a slight smell of blood can attract wild animals. Some of these animals have a particularly sensitive sense of smell, especially mollusks and snakes, because snakes mainly rely on their sense of smell to hunt, and their sense of smell is even better than their vision during the foraging process. Moreover, the environments in which snakes live are very diverse. They can be seen everywhere, on trees, on the ground, and in water.
I am particularly afraid of this kind of slippery snake, whether it is poisonous or not. Going to Longshan is full of dangers, and one can never be too careful. She cannot make such a fatal mistake.
"Great! Finally I have meat to eat." Yi Ke thought, "It would be great if there were mushrooms, but unfortunately we have eaten all the ones we picked earlier and didn't see any on the way. Fried chicken with mushrooms is so delicious! Alas! There is nothing to eat!"
Where there are chickens, there should be a chicken coop nearby. She looked around carefully and used a stick to pull apart some lush grass. Sure enough, he found more than 20 eggs inside. Yi Ke happily picked up the eggs, humming "One, two, three, four, five, go up the mountain to fight the tiger, no tiger, but a basket of eggs."
The time-travelling god: It’s just an egg, but I was so happy that I couldn’t find the white part.
Yike: You want to be scolded, right? If you have the guts, why not try eating only wild vegetables without drinking water for two days?
Yike picked up the eggs, cracked one and drank the egg liquid. "It feels so good!" My throat felt like it was on fire because I had no water to drink. Now it’s better, I feel comfortable!
Where there are chickens and birds, water is not too far away.
Yike grabbed a few handfuls of the surrounding mud and sand and found that the mud in one direction was relatively moist, so she walked forward in that direction.
Sure enough, a small mountain spring was found not far away. The spring water comes out from the cracks in the rocks and seeps into the surrounding mud and sand.
She quickly put down her bag, took out her knife, dug a hole around the spring, and found some broken stones to throw in and level it.
Yike took the pheasant to a far place, plucked all its feathers, cleaned its stomach, and buried the feathers and the contents of its stomach.
There are pheasants living here, which means there are no large animals around and it is a safe area.
Yike decided to rest here for a while before setting off again. The water in the pit next to the spring was already very clear. Yike used a bamboo tube to fill the water into the pot and boil it in the kettle, filling both the bamboo tube kettles.
First, wash the chicken, divide it into two halves, cook one half into soup, and roast the other half over the fire. When it is cooked, you can save it for eating on the way. This body was severely malnourished, but it was able to walk so far, partly because it had hunted pheasants and wild ducks to eat and drank chicken soup stewed with wild ginseng, and partly because it was supported by the decades-old soul in its body. I've been walking in the thorn bushes these past few days and I'm hungry and tired. This chicken is just the right thing to replenish my body.
Cut the chicken into pieces with a kitchen knife and put them into the pot. Add a piece of ginseng and simmer over low heat after the water boils.
For the other piece of chicken, there is no other ingredient, just smear it with salt, pierce it with a tree stick, and slowly roast it over the fire. Wild pheasant is so fragrant, even without any other ingredients, it is so fragrant, the aroma is lingering, and it will make you drool.
The ginseng soup couldn't be drunk so quickly, but I couldn't resist the temptation and tore a chicken leg to eat it voraciously. I only chewed it slowly after eating half of it.
The ginseng chicken soup was ready. Yi Ke only drank half of it and poured the other half into a bamboo tube to eat tomorrow morning. The cold roast chicken was wrapped tightly in banana leaves so that no smell could be smelled, and then put into the backpack.
Yike returned to the thorn bush where he had just walked out of, cut a small hole, and crawled in. Stuff the entrance of the cave with cut thorns, and this is your homemade "cave".
He spread bark in the cave, and then put hay on the bark, and then lay down on the hay and prepared to sleep. This thorn bush was the safest place, where even tigers could not do anything, so he could sleep peacefully as soon as he applied the medicine. Even though the sun had just set and night had not yet arrived, Yike still fell asleep quickly because he was too tired.
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