Chapter 19: The Grasshopper's Legs
People still have to eat meat, and they can't survive without eating meat, especially in the wild.
Now I have a stable source of food, and it would be perfect if I could catch one or two more fish tomorrow.
Tong Chen picked up a piece of wood and threw it into the fire, as this piece of wood was ignited, the flames quickly swelled with a sneer, Tong Chen was stunned, and when he saw that it was pine wood thrown in, Huo Ran understood.
The pine trees here are tabuliformis, which are rich in oiliness and are very easy to ignite, and the flame is still strong and not easy to extinguish.
I'm really old and confused, or hungry, pine is the perfect ignition material, but I was before...
Tong Chen sighed while sighing, and kept slandering in his heart, if he had thought of this earlier, would it be so hard to make a fire.
At night, Tong Chen has no specific concept of time, not the same as when he was at home, playing with his mobile phone until after 12 o'clock in the middle of the night will he procrastinate and rest slowly.
Accustomed to all kinds of swiping screens on the mobile phone at night, at the beginning, Tong Chen was also very unaccustomed to it, and always felt that a part of life was missing, but when you didn't have any electronic devices in your hands, the past few days forced you not to take it for granted.
In the wild, after Tong Chen pondered for a while, he lay down in the shelter and began to sleep.
With calorie-rich food and a warm fire outside him, Tong Chen finally didn't have to sleep in a shivering mood like before.
I don't know how long it has been, Tong Chen, who was sleeping, was suddenly awakened by a cold, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at the fire outside.
When Tong Chen was sleeping, a lot of wood on the fire had been burned, the open flame had been completely extinguished, the smoke was about to completely dissipate, and there were still sporadic sparks among the ashes, and the fire was about to be extinguished.
Tong Chen instantly fell asleep, and the fire that he had worked so hard to make could not be extinguished again, so he hurriedly found some flammable leaves to gently cover it, and lay on the ground and blew it gently.
As Tong Chen blew, the green smoke became thicker and thicker, and after a while, the leaves were ignited...
Looking at the large cluster of dancing orange flames that appeared again in front of him, Tong Chen's fluctuating mood gradually calmed down.
Fortunately, it was found in time, and if it hadn't been woken up by freezing, maybe the fire would have been extinguished again.
After that, Tong Chen lay down in the shelter and never slept without any scruples in his heart as before, but kept thinking about this fire in his heart, and after sleeping for a while, he hurriedly came out to see the burning situation, and added some matches by the way.
On the seventh day, Tong Chen woke up early, sat by the fire, his eyes fell on the fire, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Since he was woken up last night, Tong Chen has never fallen asleep completely, and even if he is asleep, he is in a daze and half-awake and half-asleep, and he has not rested well at all, but because he ate roast frog meat last night and replenished his body's energy, he is still relatively energetic this morning.
When there was no fire before, Tong Chen would not wake up to see the fire at night, even if the temperature was low, he could not fall asleep completely, with the fire, it was estimated that he could sleep well all night, but he didn't expect to have to be deliberately distracted to take care of the fire, and he couldn't sleep honestly.
After thinking about it for a long time, Tong Chen also thought clearly, nothing can be perfect, if Tong Chen is still asked to make a choice, he will still firmly choose to make a fire, there is no doubt that the meaning of a fire in the wild is sometimes as if there is an extra life.
Get up, expand your chest, the sun seems to have risen again after a night's rest, and the temperature slowly begins to rise.
After having a fire, Tong Chen has another job, which is to collect the wood necessary for burning, and in order to keep the fire burning, the required matches are not a small amount, fresh branches must not be burned, Tong Chen must find dried wood or dead wood.
Fortunately, there was no shortage of wood needed in the wilderness where Tong Chen was, and after finding a pile of wood, Tong Chen threw the arm-thick branch into the fire.
Tong Chen found that there was still a lot of wood in the fire, and the fire could last for about three hours at most, and new wood should be added after two hours of burning.
Therefore, Tong Chen could not stay away from the camp for more than three hours at a time.
With yesterday's sweetness, Tong Chen is going to go to the waterhole again today to catch a few frogs to eat.
On the way, Tong Chen was not just in a hurry, he also tried his best to find other food, for this reason, he took a relatively long dogtail grass and started his life when he was a child.
That is, the grasshopper is worn on the dogtail grass, there is no plastic bag or bottle, Tong Chen has to use this method commonly used when he was a child, although this method is more cruel and disgusting, but this is also a way to do it, especially when the grasshopper is passed through the dogtail stalk, the brown body fluids in the grasshopper's mouth and the internal organs in the body make Tong Chen's hands full.
The most surprising thing is that even if the grasshoppers are pierced through their intestines and stomachs like this, they are still alive, and some are even "alive".
Not far from the waterhole, Tong Chen looked, and sure enough, there were many frogs jumping around in the water.
At this time, Tong Chen strengthened his guess: frogs are in a lively state when they are cooler, and once the temperature rises, most frogs will hide in the shady grass or in stone pits.
Put down the grasshopper, Tong Chen concocted two frogs again, he originally wanted to catch a few more, but the frogs also learned to be smart, Tong Chen began to act, the frog group will disperse, each hurry to escape, once the initial best capture period is missed, Tong Chen wants to catch it again is not so easy.
After killing the frogs, after disemboweling them with stone chips, Tong Chen threw them aside, he didn't want to kill the frogs so early, but the frogs were slippery, and if they were not careful, they would run away, and killing them was the best way to deal with them.
Tong Chen stared at the depths of the pool, he wanted to find the small fish he saw before, it was a delicious ingredient.
After waiting for a while, Tong Chenmao didn't see it, and he was still thinking about the fire in his heart, so he had to embark on the journey back.
After returning to the camp, after burning the fire, Tong Chen found two Y-shaped branches, made a simple stand, and placed the frog on it to wait for it to be cooked.
Looking at another string of grasshoppers, Tong Chen felt worried for a while, and he couldn't eat this string of grasshoppers when he roasted them on the fire.
Although Tong Chen has heard of many people, and even some restaurants even regard roasted grasshoppers as a delicacy, he still can't pass this hurdle in his heart.
Seeing grasshoppers with your own eyes does not mean that you have caught them with your own hands, and taking them with your own hands does not necessarily mean that you have seen the disgusting scene of opening your stomach with your own eyes, and it just so happens that all these Tongchen have experienced it personally.
Of course, Tong Chen didn't catch these grasshoppers to eat grasshopper skewers, he was to eat two legs the size of mosquitoes.
Grasshoppers, also known as locusts, have the habit of making food all over the world, frying and frying, and people make many kinds of dishes.
In fact, Tong Chen is not clear, grasshoppers in addition to edible, also have medicinal functions, the compendium of materia medica records that locusts can relieve cough and reduce adversity, asthma, also used for whooping cough, cough shortness of breath, and endlessly. It can also be used for bronchitis asthma.
If Tong Chen knew this later, he didn't know how he would feel.
If there were no frogs to eat, or even any other food source, Tong Chen might have endured eating against his heart, but now it is obvious...
There are three thousand weak waters, and only one scoop is taken, which is used to describe the comparative image of Tong Chen at this time.