Chapter 39: The Rat Trap
Tong Chen stuffed five or six morel mushrooms into a can, then poured some water from the plastic bottle, and finally put them on the fire and waited.
It's good to have a little meat again, meat stewed morels, I think it's good to think about it, Tong Chen didn't mix oyster mushrooms and morels, he was afraid that the two kinds of mushrooms couldn't be mixed together, in case there were any side effects, it wouldn't be fun.
After waiting for ten minutes in the torment, the water began to boil, and the morels kept tumbling in the boiling water, and the fragrance of talking gradually came out, just a special fragrance that belonged to the morels themselves.
The clear water gradually became cloudy, and in the silent wilderness, the mushroom soup in the cans gurgled non-stop.
In fact, Tong Chen didn't have much expectations for this dish of boiled morels, there was no seasoning, not even the least salt, how delicious could it be? However, this is no way, it is impossible to just pick it up and eat it raw.
As for roasting and eating, Tong Chen thought about it and forgot it, in case it was burnt, the mushrooms would not be eaten.
After boiling for a while, Tong Chen pondered that it should be almost over, because the can was burned by the fire, he couldn't hold it directly with his hands, so he had to use two branches to firmly grip the can and carefully move it to the side.
Tong Chen then folded two relatively short and thin branches to make chopsticks, he tried to clip a morel mushroom into his mouth, well, the morel mushroom is very soft, absolutely cooked, without any peculiar smell, on the contrary, I don't know whether Tong Chen was hungry for several days or other reasons, he felt that this morel mushroom tasted quite good, a faint special fragrance lingered on the tip of the tongue, Tong Chen ate the most primitive taste.
After eating a morel, Tong Chen was ready to try to taste a mouthful of soup, but he tried to touch the hot can, and gave up this idea, he had to pick morels again to replenish energy, and several morel mushrooms Tong Chen wiped out in no three or five points.
After waiting for nearly ten minutes in boredom, the heat on the can slowly subsided, and Tong Chen picked up the can and tasted the mushroom soup at a moderate temperature.
Tong Chen tried to take a sip first, although the taste was very light, but the umami of the soup was more than morels, and after feeling okay, he drank all the mushroom soup without a few sips.
The next step is to deal with oyster mushrooms, which have a completely different shape than morels, and are softer and smoother.
Tong Chen also collected a lot more oyster mushrooms than morels, and poured some water into the can again, as he did last time.
After waiting for a while, Tong Chen couldn't wait to taste it again, he had eaten this kind of mushroom before, but it was also the first time he tried boiled oyster mushrooms.
Tong Chen smelled it first, there was no fragrance, only the taste of mushrooms, and he suddenly felt that this oyster mushroom soup was definitely not as good as morels.
Because the oyster mushrooms are not small, when they were cooked, Tong Chen crushed them and put them in, and after ten minutes of cooking, the oyster mushrooms had already begun to become crispy.
Tong Chen picked a little with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, and sure enough, there was almost no taste, on the contrary, there was some earthy smell.
After chewing a few casually, Tong Chen frowned and swallowed his stomach.
Although the taste was not good, Tong Chen could not discard it willfully, because he knew that this was also a hard-won food energy.
Tong Chen knew in his heart that at this time, it was not a question of whether it was better to eat or not, but whether he could eat enough.
It was already dark, but he had a plan in mind, a plan to improve his diet.
When he found sour jujube before, he accidentally found a lot of sour jujube remains under the jujube tree, and after careful observation, Tong Chen felt that it should be the leftover from the rats.
Tong Chen's plan is a mouse, and the mouse is obviously a rare meal in the barren wilderness, and it is also meat, which is rich in energy.
wanted to catch mice, of course, Tong Chen also remembered a trap to catch mice, which was also a relatively simple falling rock trap he learned from TV.
On the way to the jujube tree site, Tong Chen also found a square stone chip weighing about a dozen catties, a falling stone trap, mainly relying on the weight of the stone to crush the mouse, the weight is too light, it can't crush the mouse at all, and even holding the mouse may let it escape.
The weight is too heavy and not very suitable, so it is inconvenient to set up traps and it is very likely to squash the rats.
Coming to the destination, Tong Chen then found two moderate stones, in fact, the rockfall trap is also divided into several kinds, there are relatively simple, and there are more complex ones, each with its own benefits, simple rockfall traps, easier to arrange, materials are also easy to make, complex traps, on the contrary, but the sensitivity is much stronger, and the success rate is higher.
Tong Chen then found several branches as thick as a thumb, sat on the ground, and began to simply process the branches with stone chips according to his own requirements.
A suggested rockfall trap requires a stone and two branches of moderate length, one end of which is to be made with a tool to make a gap of a suitable size, and then the stone chips are erected at about forty-five angles, and the two branches are connected at the openings to support the stone chips.
After setting all this, Tong Chen took another sour jujube and gently inserted it on the side of the branch that touched the ground. As long as the rat is greedy for sour dates and breaks the balance between the two branches, the trap will be triggered instantly, and the stone will fall.
Subsequently, Tong Chen set up two more traps in different positions.
After doing all this, night has fallen, fortunately this is not a deep mountain and dense forest, and the sky still has the help of the moon, otherwise, it is really not easy for Tong Chen to find his way back to the camp in the dark.
On the sixth day, Tong Chen felt that he had slept well last night and recovered a lot.
After adding a lot of branches to the fire, Tong Chen hurried to the place where the trap was set yesterday, and as soon as he arrived at the place, Tong Chen saw a trap that had not been triggered at first sight.
Squatting on the edge of the trap, Tong Chen observed and found that the bait showed no signs of passivity, and everything was still the same as yesterday.
Tong Chen, who was inevitably disappointed in his heart, once again walked towards the second trap.
"Gods bless, you must catch a mouse", Tong Chen muttered in his mouth.
Suddenly, Tong Chen's eyes lit up, and he looked at his gaze, the second trap had been triggered, and his heart suddenly became nervous.
Walking a few steps to the trap, Tong Chen first glanced around the stone, and there was no mouse tail or body as he imagined, Tong Chen took a deep breath and lifted the stone with one hand.
"Alas, unlucky, it's still nothing", Tong Chen was even more disappointed in his heart.
The jujube bait was not eaten, and Tong Chen estimated that the mouse had not stuttered the bait yet, but the trap was triggered in advance.
sighed for a long time, Tong Chen slowly walked to the last place to set the trap, after the previous failure, in fact, he didn't have much expectation for the last trap in his heart.
What is the problem with the traps that I have arranged, why are people so good on TV, the traps I have arranged always have a harvest, and it is so difficult to operate by myself, there is really no simple thing.