It turns out that there may not be a rabbit in the world that would be stupid enough to hit a tree by itself, but there will be other animals that are stupid enough to hit a tree and kill themselves.

For example, lambs.

Vigils are extremely boring, especially when darkness and light meet. The sky was just hazy, half dark, half light, intertwined into darkness, even the sky was drowsy, let alone those who were afraid to sleep.

Chen Shi was responsible for keeping watch in the second half of the night, no one spoke to him, and he himself didn't sleep enough, so he was in a state of half-dreaming, half-awake and half-dozing during the vigil. By the time dawn approached, the whole person had completely closed his eyes and slept lightly, belonging to the kind of very unreliable night watchman.

In fact, not to mention Chen Shi, even people like Jiang Feng who didn't need to sleep felt a little bored and sat on the stone in a daze.

"Bump. ”

A loud bang not only frightened Jiang Feng to jump up from the ground, but even the sleeping Xia Muqi was startled, opened his eyes and looked around, looking around vigilantly.

The most exaggerated belonged to Chen Shi, who jumped up directly and shouted: "There are wolves, there are wolves!"

After shouting, he found that there were no wolves around at all, Chen Shi stood in place with a confused expression, and licked his mouth with joy or regret: "It turns out that there are no wolves." ”

Xia Muqi grabbed the knife that fell to the ground and got up from the ground: "You should be glad that there are no wolves, do you think the two of us can still win the wolf now?"

"What's that? It's so loud, it can't be thunder. Chen Shi wondered.

Xia Muqi pointed to the edge of the stump, and Jiang Feng and Chen Shi noticed that there was a lamb lying on the side of the stump that didn't know whether it was killed or knocked unconscious.

It's true!

It's not a rabbit that's waiting, it's a sheep!

Not to mention Chen Shi, even Jiang Feng was shocked, what kind of luck does this have to be for a sheep to happen to die next to him.

It's really a little lamb, a little goat, it doesn't look like it's even hairy, I don't know why it ran away from the sheep into this forest, and happened to die next to Xia Muqi and Chen Shi.

Chen Shi's eyes were already full of sheep, if he didn't have a little sense, he would want to hold this sheep and start gnawing now.

Chen Shi rubbed his hands excitedly, turned his head and asked Xia Muqi: "Brother Xia, you are a butcher, why don't you slaughter this sheep now and roast it." ”

Shamuqi: ......

Now they can only eat roast mutton, Chen Shi and Xia Muqi don't have any cooking props, even if they want to eat fried mutton and stewed mutton, they don't have that condition. The two of them only had a knife, and they didn't even have a pot to boil hot water, so it was difficult for the Qiao woman to cook without rice, so Xia Muqi could only take the sheep to the river and slaughter them first.

After slaughtering the sheep, he buried all the entrails and blood in the soil to cover the smell of blood, so as not to attract other fierce predators.

The sheep were cleanly handled, and Xia Muqi faced another problem.

No seasoning.

To be precise, there is no seasoning, not even salt.

As we all know, sheep is a very difficult ingredient to handle, the smell is heavy, generally speaking, the southern sheep, the fragrance is more serious than the north, and the wild sheep smell is definitely heavier than the farmed sheep. Even if the sheep is just a baby lamb now, it does not belong to any adult sheep in terms of smell.

Xia Muqi decided to find some spices.

"You go find a longer piece of wood and string it together, and then build a new fire, and I'll pick something and I'll be back soon." Xia Muqi said.

Chen Shi went to find wood according to Xia Muqi's words, and after looking around, he didn't find a suitable one, so he cut it with the knife that Xia Muqi left him. Although the knife was not a machete specially used to chop wood and trees, it was sharp enough that with a little effort, you could see some fine wood.

After Chen Shi set up the fire again, Xia Muqi also came back with the things he had picked.

Charmulan picks a lot of dogwood leaves.

Probably because of the favorable climate, there are a lot of dogwoods in this forest. Dogwood is a good thing, it can be used as medicine, it can also be used as a seasoning, and it can also be eaten directly as a fruit, but it is a little sour. Unfortunately, the time is not right, the fruit of the dogwood only ripens in September and October, and even the dogwood bushes that are all over the mountains do not have a single dogwood fruit.

When Chen Shi was really hungry yesterday afternoon, he picked two dogwood leaves and chewed them, the taste was very suffocating, so much so that he now saw that the dogwood leaves had psychological shadows.

"Brother Xia, what are you picking so many dogwood leaves for?" Chen Shi thought that Xia Muyu was picking these leaves to eat, "This thing has a strange smell that is worse than leaves." ”

Xia Muqi did not speak, but made many cuts on the sheep with a knife, and silently crushed all the leaves he had picked, and evenly smeared them on the surface of the sheep and the cut knife edge, probably trying to use these mashed leaves as a pickling sauce.

Chen Shi didn't understand what Xia Muqi was doing, but he inexplicably felt that Xia Muqi looked very professional, and obediently watched from the side. After Xia Muqi's mashed leaves were smeared, he asked Chen Shi to help put the sheep on the fire, just like a picnic barbecue, except that he wanted to roast the whole sheep.

The conditions were very simple, and Xia Muqi tried to control the heat, slowly rotating the sticks, moving them, and roasting them slowly.

Roasting whole sheep is a long process, especially for people like Xia Muqi and Chen Shi who haven't eaten for two days and have been on the road. Gradually, the smell of meat emanated from the sheep and spread in the air.

This smell of flesh, mixed with a wonderful fishy smell, made Chen Shi almost catch the saliva that was about to flow from the corners of his mouth.

From his expression, Jiang Feng could see that what Chen Shi wanted to do most now was to rush up and hug the sheep and take a bite.

Chen Shi, as an ordinary person who can't afford to eat, has many brothers and sisters in a poor family during the war years since he was a child, even if he has fought on the battlefield, become a deserter and kill the commander, he still can't change the fact that he hasn't eaten much meat.

"Brother Xia, are you okay?I think you should be able to eat it, let's eat some first!" Chen Shi's eyes were full of longing for meat.

"Wait. ”

Chen Shi waited patiently for about five or six minutes.

"Brother Xia, you can ...... now"

"Wait. ”

A few more minutes passed.

"Brother Xia, ...... now"

"Wait. ”

"Summer ......"

"Wait!"

Under Chen Shi's crazy urging, Xia Muqi still adhered to the basic ethics of a chef - to cook the meat, completely ignore Chen Shi's words, and take care of the barbecue.

Finally, the sheep was roasted.

Not pretty.

This is definitely not a pretty roasted whole lamb.

The leaves on the surface of the spices have been completely dried and turned black, so that they cannot be seen in their original appearance, and they will disappear from the sheep if they are dusted by hand. There was no sauce, no condiments, not even cumin, and the only advantage was probably that it was sheep and roasted.

Such a roasted whole sheep that may make the guests so angry that they flip the table when they are sold in the whole sheep restaurant has become a lifesaver for Xia Muqi and Chen Shi.

Shamuli began to cut meat, one leg of mutton per person.

The two of them chewed heavily, their mouths were full of meat, their bodies were in tatters, and their faces were full of happiness.

While eating, Chen Shi suddenly hugged half a leg of mutton and cried.

Whimpering, tears pouring out like fountains, and muffled words for the lamb he had unfinished chewing in his mouth.

This was the first time Chen Shi had cried in the past two days.

He is the kind of person who looks fragile and timid and afraid of death, but in fact he is very bold, and even if he is dying, he wants to struggle to see if he can not die.

Chen Shi didn't cry when he was tired and thirsty before, lost and couldn't find his way, and when there was no hope, Chen Shi cried when he ate the fragrant mutton.

"Woo, Brother Xia, the mutton you roasted is really delicious, I have never eaten such delicious mutton. No, I've never eaten mutton, I didn't know it was so delicious. Chen Shi himself didn't know what he wanted to say.

"I thought we were going to die, and I think we're going to die now, but I think it's good, at least we had a full meal. I heard them say that some people can eat meat with a severed head, and even if we eat so much now, it shouldn't be so miserable even if we go on the road, at least our severed head meal is more hearty than theirs. ”

Shamuqi: ......

Xia Muqi silently put down the leg of mutton in his hand, feeling that he suddenly didn't want to eat so much.

"Have you eaten well? ”

Xia Muqi cut the remaining mutton into large pieces and stuffed Chen Shi into the cloth bag, which was so full that he almost couldn't wrap it.

The leg of mutton in their hands has not yet been gnawed, and they gnaw as they walk, and even their steps are much bigger than yesterday.

This walk is another full day.

It was starting to get dark.

Jiang Feng didn't know if it was his hallucination, he felt that this piece of forest was much sparser than the one Xia Muqi and they had brought in the morning, and the light was much better.

Xia Muqi and Chen Shi were going to find a place to rest first.

Just when Xia Muqi was planning the place and preparing to build a bonfire like Chen Shi did two days ago to find a water source, Chen Shi suddenly looked into the distance, silently stretched out his hand and pointed ahead.

"Brother Xia, is the forest in front of you on fire? Chen Shi thought he was wrong.

Xia Muqi glanced in the direction he pointed, and suddenly became excited: "What's on fire, that's cooking smoke!" Let's come out, hurry up, there is a village in front." ”

Chen Shi, who had already sat down to rest, hurriedly stood up and was about to run. He stopped, glanced back at Xia Muqi, and silently opened the cloth bag and took out two pieces of mutton that had been frozen hard.

"Brother Xia, let's eat a piece of meat to celebrate. Chen Shi grinned.

Shamuqi: ?

Before Xia Muqi could react to what Chen Shi was doing, Chen Shi happily took a bite of mutton, didn't bite, and took another bite hard, and it took a lot of effort to bite off a little bit of meat and chew happily.

"Brother Xia is going out, let's divide this meat too, and I'm going to bring this meat back to my parents to taste a little." ”

"I'll tell you, I think it's definitely this meat that is blessing us. This meat is amazing, I felt it when I ate it this morning, and when the meat is finished, I will offer the bones, it must be this bag of meat to bless us to come out. Chen Shile said hehehe.

Shamuqi: ......

Xia Muqi silently took the meat from Chen Shi's hand, and took a bite hard as he learned.

"Well, let's go. ”

Jiang Feng wanted to keep up, but found that he was already in the fog.

The figures of the two men gradually blurred until they were completely indistinct.

Jiang Feng left the memory.