Chapter 21 Leisurely Life
"The sun is shining in the sky, the flowers are smiling at me, the birds are saying good morning, good morning, good morning. Why are you carrying a small schoolbag? I go to school and I am never late. I love to study and work, and I want to make contributions to the people when I grow up."
Yike sang "School Song" and happily put on his backpack and took a hatchet to look for grape vines. There are several ropes in the backpack. These are the result of her weaving ropes whenever she has nothing to do at night. Otherwise, how could she have so many ropes? There are also two bamboo tubes of water, a bag of dried meat, four eggs, and a bag of cooked dried vegetables. The dried vegetables can be eaten after being soaked in water. I don’t know how many days it will take to find the grape vine if I go out to look for it.
Yike dived into Tunnel No. 2 and crawled to the tunnel entrance. She stuck her head out and carefully observed the situation outside the cave.
Outside the cave is a sea of green, with thick branches intertwined together like close brothers. The trees are not densely planted and are far apart. The waist of each tree is thicker than a bucket, and the thick trunks stand upright on the ground, like steel warriors guarding the land. The treetops stretched out like big parasols, blocking the hot air blowing down from the sky, making the woods cool.
The sun was shining brightly above the treetops, and occasionally a ray of sunlight would shine through the gaps in the woods to the ground, bringing a ray of light to the dark forest.
The gentle breeze kissed Yi Ke's little face, and she felt happier as she sang the song. When I stood at the entrance of the tunnel and looked into the distance, I only saw loneliness. The trees had already grown taller than the entrance of the tunnel and seemed to be as tall as the mountains. So all he saw was trees. Perhaps because the trees were too big and too many, there were few shrubs and weeds on the ground under the trees. Unlike the mountains outside Longshan, where shrubs and weeds competed with the trees to grow tall, her journey into Longshan was so difficult. Although there are few shrubs and weeds on the ground here, there are many and thick fallen leaves.
"Which direction should I go?" Yi Ke muttered to himself. She sniffed the air hard. Besides the fresh air and the faint scent of trees, there was also a faint fragrance of flowers. After she figured out the direction, she climbed up the vines and slid to the bottom of the mountain, following the scent of flowers.
We stopped and started, knocked and banged our way along the way, especially in the unfamiliar environment with thick fallen leaves on the ground. Safety came first, speed came second. After walking for about two hours, the fragrance gradually became stronger and the thick trees gradually became sparse. She continued walking forward and found that there were more and more bushes and weeds. After walking for more than half an hour, the broad tree canopy above her head disappeared, and the trees in front of her were short and sparse. She could faintly hear the sound of flowing water. The blue sky and white clouds were also exposed above her head.
The sun shines down in large patches, and the view is wider. Once you find a stream, you will see clear water flowing slowly, and fish are swimming leisurely at the bottom of the stream. We walked upstream along the stream for more than half an hour and finally saw large areas of peach, pear and apricot trees on both sides of the stream. Aren’t those green leaves climbing on the bushes the leaves of wild grapes?
So many grape vines! Without taking a rest, he ran over and quickly cut a bunch of vines. He then ran to the pear tree, selected a few curved branches, and cut them down, putting all of them into his backpack. All the materials for making bows and arrows are ready. Yi Ke decides to go back and make bows and arrows, as he won't be able to return to the cave after dark.
Yike started to eat dinner, two eggs, some dried meat, and dried vegetables soaked in water in a bamboo tube and ate them with the water. ,
She chose the tallest pear tree, climbed up, hung the backpack on a branch, and tied a hammock between the branches with ropes. She would spend the night there.
The next day, Yike was awakened by the warm sunshine. There were no tall old trees or lush branches and leaves blocking the sky. The sun gave her a direct and intimate hug. Bathed in the warm sunshine, Yi Ke was dazzled and in a good mood. I went to the stream to wash my face and found some wild kudzu roots by the stream.
Yi Ke shouted happily, "I won the jackpot! Good luck all the time! Pueraria root! Pueraria root can be eaten and used as medicine! I have a place to wear clothes." There are colds and flu in the forest, and Pueraria root is the natural enemy of fever. It can be used as medicine and is edible. The most important thing is that Pueraria root vines can be used to extract fibers to make clothes, and generally there are large areas of Pueraria root growing. Although it is not inexhaustible, it can completely solve the problem of Yi Ke's clothes. How can Yi Ke not be excited? Swish, swish, swish, Yi Ke used the hatchet to chop a large bundle of kudzu vines and put them in his backpack. He also dug up a bunch of thick kudzu roots and put them in his backpack.
"It's so heavy!" There were too many things in the backpack and I couldn't bear to throw any of them away. In the end, I took out some kudzu vines. Yike reluctantly left the stream and returned to the cave.
The journey back was very smooth, which made Yike even happier!
Ever since he found the materials for the bow and arrow, Yike has been working overtime to make the bow and arrow. The time it took to boil and dry the grape vines and extract the fiber was longer than the time it took her to make the bows. It took more than ten days to boil the vines, dry them and extract the fiber, but it only took a few days to make 10 bows and 300 arrows for her.
In Yike's heart, there was always a voice urging him: "Make the bow and arrow quickly, make the bow and arrow quickly!" So there was a scene of Yike making bows and arrows without sleep for the past few days. She made the bow and arrow and decided to go out and test the power of the arrow.
Yi Ke checked the trap as usual and harvested a pangolin. The pangolin had already drilled a small hole at the bottom of the pit. If she had come to check later, the pangolin might have escaped. She tied the pangolin up like a dumpling, threw it into the backpack and continued exploring.
This will be a place where I can settle down in the future. She needed to be aware of the surrounding environment, and while testing the power of the arrows, she decided to explore this place carefully.
First of all, we need to check if there are any large dangerous animals nearby. We will often come here to set traps and dig wild vegetables and herbs, so unsafe factors must be identified in advance. At the same time, you should also look for places where it is suitable to set traps. It is impossible to go hunting every day, and the more traps the better.
The technology for making bows and arrows is still top-notch, and the accuracy of archery is as good as ever. This round of archery trial was very fruitful. Three pheasants, two rabbits, and a big bird in a tree. Speaking of this big bird, it is so funny. Yi Ke was standing less than 10 meters away from it, with the bow pointed at it, but it had no sense of danger at all and was combing its feathers comfortably. Then there was a whoosh, and the arrow pierced into its wings and went through its body, until it fell from the tree with its head hanging, not figuring out how it died. Perhaps at this moment it was shouting in its heart, "Who did I offend?" It was Yi Ke's first time hunting with a bow and arrow, and she was so happy to catch so many animals. She now understood why there had always been a voice in her heart urging her to “Make the bow and arrow quickly! Make the bow and arrow quickly.” It’s all Rourou’s fault!
But my current life can be described as leisurely.
Look at what she does every day: the first thing she does is cut grass and feed the rabbits. There are no longer just one or two rabbits. Now there are more than a dozen rabbits, and the original rabbit hive is no longer big enough. One way is to move the rabbit to a hidden cave. The cave is full of stones and light leaks in from the top. As long as Tunnel No. 2 is blocked, the rabbit will have no way to escape.
The second thing is to move the chicken coop and pick up the eggs. Now the chickens in the chicken coop have expanded to thirteen adult chickens, twenty-two chicks, and a proud big rooster. This was a rooster that Yi Ke had deliberately kept. Every time he hunted a rooster, he would kill it with a swift knife, and those roosters could not escape the fate of being eaten. There are two reasons why the rooster survived: one is that it is beautiful; the other is that a chicken coop should not have only hens, and “male and female work together to make the work less tiring”.
The third thing is to visit the traps and shoot chickens, rabbits and other small animals. But now I only dare to bully these small animals.
The fourth thing was to boil kudzu vines, dry them in the sun, and extract kudzu vine fibers to prepare for the clothing business. Although she could not weave cloth, she could knit sweaters. At most, she could rub these fibers into lines, cut four round bamboo sticks, and sharpen both ends. She could weave these kudzu vine fibers into clothes and pants like knitting sweaters, and could also weave socks and shoes.
The fifth thing is to go to the herb garden to water the vegetables and herbs, apply fertilizers, and weed. The types of wild vegetables and herbs in Baicao Garden are rapidly approaching the number "one hundred".
In addition to the Baicao Garden, Yike also added several gardens outside. Where kudzu is found there are many fruit trees, including peach trees, pear trees, apricot trees, and grapes. One can name the place Orchard.
There is also a valley with a prickly ash tree, a field of chili peppers, and clusters of wild ginger. You can name the place the Chili Garden.
There are only two places with normal names. One is a place where eight chestnut trees grow, called Banlipo; the other is a place that is suspected to be filled with sweet potatoes, so it is named Hongshudi. Whether to change the name depends on what grows in the end. However, I am basically certain that this is the sweet potato I ate in my previous life. At that time, Yi Ke took some leaves and tubers and fed them to the rabbit, and the rabbit did not die after eating them. The rabbit, who had acted as a guinea pig, happily went to play after eating the leaves. Yi Ke also boldly picked a handful of leaves to eat. The taste was just like that of sweet potato leaves, so the name "Sweet Potato Field" could not be changed.
One possibility is that the sweet potatoes in the field disappeared last year because no one dug them up. They might have been dug up and eaten by rats or wild boars. Yi Ke dug several large pits around the area, set up several traps, and waited for the wild boar to take the bait.
Who knew that after waiting for a long time, we didn't see any wild boars, but we did catch a few foxes and rabbits. These are all later stories, so we won't talk about them for now.
Yike feels that his life is pretty good now. He couldn't even imagine living such a comfortable life next to Yang Huaihua.
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