Chapter 6: Overnight in the Cave 2
While the sun was still dimly setting in the cave, Yike quickly made a broom out of weeds and went into the cave to clean it up.
The entrance to the cave is very small, but when you go in, you find that the cave is not that small. The cave is at least ten square meters, almost as big as a small room. There is a large rock on the ground at the innermost part of the cave, close to the stone wall, making the area of the cave look smaller.
She climbed up the rock and found that it was flat and at least as big as a bed. Her thin body was enough for her to sleep on. It was a stone bed.
You can throw the scattered stones and weeds out of the hole, sweep away the dust with a broom, and then go out of the hole to pick up dead branches and dry grass.
There are a lot of dry grass and dead branches in the mountains and forests. You can find a big pile of them just by digging them up. Because he was too small, Yi Ke had to run several times before he could move the firewood he had collected into the cave.
Looking at the firewood piled up like a small mountain, Yi Ke thought that there would be enough firewood for tonight's fire. With firewood, you still need fire, but this is not a problem for Yi Ke. In her previous life, she was a fan of outdoor survival, and she learned this basic survival skill very well.
Yi Ke first went outside the cave to see if there was any water source nearby, and he actually found a water source.
There is a valley not far from the cave, and in the valley there is a swamp. It was dry outside the mountain and it was very difficult for people to find water, but there was a swamp here. She really couldn't understand why no one came in.
In fact, it’s not that people from outside the mountain didn’t come in. The main reason is that there were wolves here and some hunters were eaten by wolves, so those who went into the mountains to look for water didn’t dare to come here to look for it.
Yi Ke first found flint around the swamp, then returned to the cave and lit a small fire. A small fire heated the cave, and she went out to look for food.
Yi Ke squatted carefully on the edge of the swamp and pushed aside the grass on the surface to reveal the mud and water underneath. I dug a small hole with a stick and then left it alone. The water in the pit is turbid now. Wait until it becomes clear before getting some water.
Yike saw that the light in the woods was getting darker and darker, and knew that it was about to get dark. She now urgently wanted to boil water in a pot. She searched the woods for a long time but couldn't find anything to replace the pot. She returned to the cave entrance dejectedly, stepped on a stone, and hurt her toe.
"What a broken stone! It's imitating the locust flowers to bully people!" Xiao Cao bent down to pick it up and wanted to throw it farther away to avoid being hit by it accidentally. When I picked it up, I found that it was a stone with a pit. This is the stone pot! It really is easy to get what you want, and there is always light at the end of the tunnel.
First, you can use a stone to carefully hit the bottom of the stone pot neither too hard nor too soft, so as to make the thicker bottom a little thinner. Use a few stones to build a simple triangular stone stove next to the fire, and then place the stone pot on the stove.
At this time, the water in the puddles in the swamp had become clear. I used leaves to collect some water and poured it into the stone pot. I ran it back and forth twice, and when there was about a large bowl of water, the stone pot was full.
She moved some of the fire into the stove and burned the stone pot, and then she left it alone. The water in the stone pot doesn't boil that quickly.
Yike's stomach started to act like an empty city.
"Sing, sing! I picked up purslane and motherwort on the road. Which one do you want to eat?" Little Grass thought happily.
"Eat meat, eat meat!" a little man shouted in his heart.
"Eat purslane." Another little man said honestly.
Although he had not forgotten the Kung Fu he learned in his previous life, it was not difficult for him to catch three or two pheasants and rabbits. However, he was only thirteen years old and had not eaten enough for a long time. He had no nutrition, so how could he have the strength? Moreover, this is the outskirts of the mountain, and any pheasants would have been eaten by hungry people long ago. I think the good luck I had last time won’t always be there. I want to eat meat! Look at this thin and small girl, a thirteen-year-old girl, who is estimated to be less than 1.4 meters tall, and weighs less than 50 kilograms including flesh and bones, and has very weak strength. The pheasant was running in front, and Yi Ke was stumbling after it. The thought of that scene was too unpleasant.
"Come and catch me! Haha, you can't catch me, you can't catch me." Yi Ke seemed to hear the pheasant's mocking clucking.
"Hmph! When I recover and have enough strength, don't even think about running away. Just come and offer sacrifice to my stomach." She thought to herself.
"It's all Yang Huaihua's fault. I can't even catch a pheasant."
Yi Ke looked at the green swamp with somewhat dazed eyes, feeling extremely depressed. It seemed that he could only eat wild vegetables tonight. She stood up and walked towards the swamp, preparing to fetch water to cook wild vegetables. As she walked, she angrily picked up branches and stones and threw them around.
"Flap, flutter, flutter!" The sound of flapping wings was heard. I saw two ducks emerging from a patch of grass in the swamp and quickly flew away.
It turned out that Yi Ke threw a stone and hit the ducks, scaring them out.
"Duck! Duck! Come back, don't go!" Yike shouted in the direction the duck flew away.
Looking at the duck flying away, Yike felt annoyed. There were ducks in the swamp. How could he forget this common sense! Now it flies away and the duck meat is gone! The meat is gone!
"Oh! Oh... How stupid! How stupid!" Xiao Cao'er pulled her hair in annoyance and turned around. Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind, "Duck eggs? Well, if there are ducks, there are duck eggs! If you can't have roast duck, you can eat duck eggs."
Yike quickly picked up a thick stick and a thin stick, used the thick stick to explore the way, and slowly walked towards the grass. It was a short distance but he walked at a snail's pace. Swamp! If you accidentally step in the wrong place, you will be stuck in the mud and die. Although it is a bit exaggerated, she doesn't know how deep the mud in this swamp is. What if it’s very deep?
I have just come here and I don't know that this world has been experiencing drought for several consecutive years. Even if there is silt in the swamp, it will not be very deep. This is the ignorant scaring themselves. She arrived at the grass, pushed it aside with a twig, and saw a nest of round, plump duck eggs inside. There are probably about a dozen of them. She carefully used a stick to dig out seven or eight eggs, then used the stick to arrange the remaining three eggs, restored the grass to its original state, and returned the same way.
When she was a child in her previous life, her grandmother told her that after chickens and ducks lay eggs, you must not pick up all the eggs in the nest. You must leave at least one, otherwise they will find another place to lay eggs. I thought, I kept three eggs. When the duck father and mother come back, they probably won’t notice that there are fewer eggs, and they will continue to lay eggs here. Haha, so I will have eggs to eat every day.
As I thought about it, my saliva started to flow uncontrollably and my stomach became even hungrier.
As soon as she walked out of the swamp, she ran quickly to the fire, "Delicious baked eggs, here I come!" She couldn't wait to bury the three duck eggs in the fire. After burying the duck eggs, Yike looked at the water in the stone pot again and found that the water in the stone pot had only slowly spit out three or two bubbles. It would take some time for the water to boil. She stuffed a handful of dry branches into the stove.
Yike sat and waited for the water to boil, watching the water in the pot getting hotter and hotter. Slowly, more and more bubbles appeared in the pot, as if many children were having a bubble blowing competition. Bubbles popped up one by one, and burst with a bang as soon as they appeared above the water. The little bubbles made gurgling sounds in defiance of the challenge. Yike's drowsy brain suddenly woke up. The water was boiled and ready to drink.
When she wanted to fill the bucket with water, she remembered that she had nothing to hold boiling water, so she went outside the cave to pick a few large leaves, surrounded it with a few stones, spread the leaves inside to make a bucket, and then overlapped two large leaves and folded them into a spoon. She scooped some water into the leaf bucket and waited for it to cool down to use it to wash the wound.
It was not easy to drink this water. The stone pot boils water slowly and it took a long time. She really tried her best to satisfy her thirsty mouth and stomach.
Pour some more water into the stone pot. After the water boils, put the washed purslane into it. I originally wanted to add a duck egg, but then I thought that without salt, I wondered if the soup would smell fishy. So forget it.
The duck eggs in the fire are roasted. You can take them out. The wild duck eggs are so delicious. Yike peeled off the eggshell, and the fragrance immediately entered her nose. She was so greedy that she bit half of the duck egg in one bite and almost choked. Yike quickly took a sip of the purslane soup. Although it had no salt and taste, she still felt that it was the most delicious and filling meal she had ever had since she traveled through time. In Yang Huaihua's home, we do the most and the heaviest work and only eat half a steamed bun. How can we ever feel full?
After eating, Yi Ke treated his wounds. She first cleaned the wound with cold boiled water, crushed the herbs, and then applied the residue and juice together on the wound. For large wounds, bandage them with cloth torn from the hem of clothes. For minor wounds, just apply medicine and there is no need for bandaging.
Although Yi Ke was a Chinese medicine doctor in his previous life, he knew a thing or two about external injuries. He just applied medicine on himself, and no one would want to experience that kind of pain.
Yike had satisfied his internal organs and treated his wounds, and only when he stopped did he feel exhausted. She prepared to go to bed, so she moved the fire closer to the cave entrance and spread a thick layer of dead leaves on the stone bed so that her back would not feel cold when she slept at night. The entrance to the cave was sealed again with stones, leaving only the upper opening unblocked. There was a fire burning in the cave, and smoke was coming out from here. Although this is the outskirts of the mountain and there are usually no large animals, necessary safety measures are still required. The fire cannot be extinguished and the entrance to the hole must be blocked. Safety awareness is a must.
After finishing all these, I thought it would be difficult to fall asleep at night in the mountains, but I fell asleep the moment my tired body lay down.
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