Chapter 22: Drilling wood for fire
Seeing that I had a serious face, none of the subsequent speeches were interrupted in an uninteresting voice.
After finishing the speech, he took the water cup handed over by Xiao Qian and poured a mouthful of water to moisten his throat.
Nie Chunxian looked at everyone with a smile on his face and said, "Su Ye has already made it very clear, as long as you are willing, he will teach everyone how to live." There is hope to be alive!"
The short-haired woman glanced at Su Ye and turned her head to look at Nie Chunxian.
"Mr. Nie, it's been a week, maybe the rescue team will come tomorrow, why don't we wait on the coast, why do we waste time by doing something meaningless?"
"Yes, yes, it's been so many days, and the rescue team is afraid that they are already searching for us, so they should wait on the coast at this time, so that they can easily find us. ”
Nie Chunxian stopped speaking after hearing this, and could only sigh silently in his heart, the rescue team should have come a long time ago......
But I can't pour cold water on them, if I extinguish the last flame of hope in their hearts, I don't know how many people will commit suicide.
This is the last thing she wants.
In the end, there were 12 people who chose to learn survival skills in the wilderness with me, and the remaining seven or eight people chose to wait on the coast.
One of the most important skills in the wild is to make a fire, and there are many ways to live, and there are different techniques and techniques depending on the environment.
Drilling wood for fire is a very ancient method of making fire, but it is very practical, otherwise it would not have been used by the ancestors for thousands of years.
"There are several things that need to be prepared to drill wood for fire, drill fire boards and drill pipes, and finally the ignition material. ”
I found what I needed to drill wood to make a fire, and I explained it to them and showed them it.
"The drill fire board needs to make a gap in the edge of the borehole to let out the debris. ”
As I spoke, I rubbed the drill pipe in my hand, but fortunately, the materials found near the shore were relatively dry, and it was difficult to find suitable materials in the depths of the forest.
Dry materials can quickly drill out splinters, and wetter ones can start fires, but it takes more time.
With the crumbs, I carefully poured it out and placed it on the prepared fire, which was a bird's nest I had taken down from a tree, it was no longer inhabited by birds, it was a natural tinder ball.
Holding the tinder ball carefully with both hands, I gently blew the crumbs wrapped in it, and after a few moments the tinder ball smoked......
"You can see it clearly, this is how it works by drilling wood for fire, let's try it. ”
Everyone nodded, and each took the material to practice.
Nie Chunxian also learned to drill wood to make fire, and in less than five minutes, her palms were blistered.
"It's easy to see when you do it, why is it so hard when it's my turn?"
Nie Chunxian blew the blisters on her palms, and there were some fine beads of sweat on her forehead.
"I'm not like you. ”
I stretched out my hands and showed her, I had several calluses on my hands, and I had done a lot of things like drilling wood to make fire.
I remember spending six hours in the rainforest for seven days on a mission, and I slept at night as if my hands had been run over by a car.
The palms are as rough as the bark of a tree, but I don't find it boring, on the contrary, I feel proud to have mastered a survival skill.
"Your hands are so rough. ”
Nie Chunxian stretched out his right hand and touched the cocoon at the location of my tiger's mouth with the tip of his index finger, and then sighed.
"Of course, calloused hands are the hands that a man should have. ”
Nie Chunxian tried again, but he still couldn't make a fire.
"Looks like I can't. ”
Looking at his broken and bleeding hands, Nie Chunxian felt that he was so useless for the first time.
"Don't give up, even I can't guarantee that every time I drill wood for fire, I'm going to succeed, there's something wrong with what you've just done. ”
I took the drill pipe that had been rubbed a little smooth by Nie Chunxian, stepped on the drill fire plate with my left foot, and began to rub it with both hands.
"The key to drilling wood for fire is not how fast and hard you drill, but to continue to provide power evenly, and after rubbing to a certain extent, burning chips will naturally appear. ”
Although it is easy to say, I also used it for about half an hour.
Sweat slid down the tip of my nose onto the fireboard.
Nie Chunxian took the drill pipe, looked at the blackened end drill bit, touched it with his index finger and immediately withdrew his hand, because it was very hot.
"Well, I'm trying it myself. ”
While they practice, I'm going to find something to eat.
I saw hermit crabs when I was at the beach before. Maybe you can cook some seafood to eat tonight.
Seaside.
I followed my memory and found hermit crabs on the beach, and there were many conch shells on some gravel piles, and there was something wriggling in the conch, and it was hermit crabs.
Hermit crabs, as the name suggests, are crabs that live in this kind of conch, they are different from ordinary crabs, only one claw is larger, and what I need is crab claws.
In addition to the hermit crab, I also found a stranded turtle on the beach, which was the size of a fruit bowl.
The turtle meat was delicious, and some of them were eaten tonight.
Camp.
Seeing that I brought back a sea turtle, Nie Chunxian was a little happy.
Because she thought it was cute, but when she heard me say that she was going to eat it, her face changed.
"What? You're going to eat it?"
Nie Chunxian stared at me incredulously, as if he had seen something terrible.
I knocked on the turtle shell and said, "Why don't you eat it?"
I don't have a hobby of pets.
Xiao Qian pursed her lips and said, "Little Brother Su, we have eaten soft-shelled turtles, can this turtle eat it?"
In comparison, Xiaoqian is much cuter.
I nodded, "Yes, of course you can, and the taste guarantees that you'll want to eat it a second time!"
"No!
Nie Chunxian shook his head and resolutely objected.
I looked at her with interest, "It's okay not to eat, as long as you can find something else." ”
Nie Chunxian thought for a moment and said, "Aren't there still a lot of wild vegetables left from the wild vegetables picked yesterday?"
"Pull it down, eat wild vegetables every day, are you a monk? There are so many things to do every day, and the energy provided by wild vegetables is simply not enough. ”
Say I'm going to eat it today.
For the past week, this woman has often distributed the meat she has so hard to catch to some unrelated people, and I have been turning a blind eye, but that doesn't mean I'm not angry.
Now she doesn't want to eat turtles, so I have to eat them, but I want to see if she dares to raise a bar with me.
I didn't kill the turtle and bring it back, just so she could see how I slaughtered the creature she thought was cute.