Chapter 32: Trash? Baby
Tong Chen stretched out his hand and picked a leaf, smelled it carefully, and a faint fragrance lingered on it, and he confirmed that this was the toon he wanted.
It's a pity that it's difficult to eat Tong Chen, and now the fire is not lit, so you can't just eat it raw, Tong Chen muttered in his heart, and tried to put the toon leaf in his hand into his mouth.
He didn't want to eat it raw, but his stomach was empty, and the ghost sent him a piece to eat, and between chewing, Tong Chen didn't taste any peculiar smell, the taste was very light, only some raw taste.
Feeling good about himself, Tong Chen picked a few more leaves and ate them like herbivores.
Tong Chen walked, and carefully observed the grass, he also wanted to find some grasshoppers that could be eaten, but after some searching, he didn't see a few, and the few that he occasionally saw were also some small grasshoppers, and they jumped fast.
"Plastic bottle?", suddenly Tong Chen saw an empty plastic bottle half-buried in the dirt in front of him, and he hurriedly ran over to dig the plastic bottle out of the soil.
"One person's garbage may be another person's treasure", Tong Chen remembers the words of Bell, a wilderness survival expert on TV.
In a wilderness where there is nothing, a plastic bottle that is thrown away as garbage by others is also a rare tool.
The biggest function is that it can be used to hold water, and secondly, it can also be used to make fishing traps where there is fishing.
It would be nice to see one more, Tong Chen is not surprised that there is people's garbage here, because there are park attractions a few kilometers away.
Tong Chen's own small goal was quickly achieved, because not long after he saw another bottle, but not a plastic bottle, but a can.
He was overjoyed, and the trip to get this can was worth it.
In addition to the surprise, Tong Chen still had a trace of worry, he didn't know that the system allowed him to pick up bottles or other things, but Tong Chen quickly thought about it, and he shouldn't confiscate things he picked up in the wild, after all, this is also part of survival in the wild.
Seeing that it was noon, the light rain was still dripping, Tong Chen thought left and right, and quickly made a decision in his heart.
He no longer waited for the weather to clear, and decided to build his own shelter in the rain, and the thought of not having a good place to live at night gave Tong Chen a headache.
After searching for a long time, when Tong Chen saw a lush elm tree, he determined that his campsite was still under a tree.
Why did he build a shelter under a tree again, wasn't Tong Chen afraid of being struck by lightning again?
Of course he was afraid, but it was usually those tall trees that led the thunder, and the one chosen by Tong Chen looked lush, but it was very short, and besides, the weather was always light rain, not thundershowers.
Tong Chen began to look for thicker branches, and this time he thought of an upgraded version of the triangular house.
When Tong Chen saw the oval-lanceolate leaves of the elm tree, his first impression was that it was one of the most popular plants for sheep, and when he was in the village, Tong Chen often saw sheep farmers go to the field to collect elm branches and give them to the lambs.
Tong Chen's impression is that when the flowers and leaves open, the clusters of branches are in the axils, the color is whitish, dense, fresh and delicate, and can be picked and eaten.
It's a pity that this month has passed the time to grow leaves, otherwise, Tong Chen has another food source.
Known as "elm pimple", it is elm, also known as spring elm, white elm, etc., for elm deciduous trees, the bark of young trees is smooth, gray-brown or light gray, the bark of large trees is dark gray, irregular deep longitudinal cracks, rough, twigs are glabrous or hairy, there is no bulging cork layer and raised cork wings.
The elm tree is far from being as simple as Tong Chen thought, it can also be used as a potted plant, and it also has certain medicinal value.
Fruit (elm money), bark, leaves, roots into medicine, elm money, soothe the nerves and strengthen the spleen, used for neurasthenia, insomnia, loss of appetite, bark, leaves, soothe, urination, neurasthenia, insomnia, body weakness and edema, endothelium, external use for fractures, traumatic bleeding, etc.
In fact, the old elm is more like a "market" veteran who is good at understanding the customs, whether it is in front of Wang Xie Tang or the backyard of the people, they all see its dashing figure, bold and hearty laughter, and the talent of embellishment.
After finding the four thick branches, Tong Chen began to build the main frame of the shed, the first time he survived he built a suggested triangular house, this time he came up with an upgraded version: the quadrangular house.
Generally speaking, the triangle has stability, and people usually build a triangular shelter, but in Tong Chen's view, an extra corner is not necessarily unstable, and the internal space is more empty.
The rope that fixed the four branches, Tong Chen was still ready to find some tough willow branches as always, he glanced at his shoes, the shoes rewarded by the system did not have laces, but used more convenient velcro.
Tong Chen inadvertently looked up and saw the elm tree, he slapped his forehead fiercely, there are ready-made materials here, why should he go far.
Elm bark is a tough fiber that can be used as a substitute for hemp ropes, sacks, or rayon and papermaking, and although Tong Chen knows that there are not so many, he also knows that it is a perfect material not inferior to willow branches.
The tips of the branches were firmly held together with elm bark, and then the four branches were branched out to form a frame structure, and then a large number of branches were collected as before, covering the shelter from the top down.
The reason why Tong Chen chose to build the shelter under the tree again is because of people's common sense, hiding under the tree can avoid the rain, and the cover of the dense branches and leaves of the elm tree can ensure that his shelter is not invaded by the rain.
Anything is more time-consuming than you think.
Time slipped by, and when the shelter was built, the canopy was completely dark.
Tong Chen sat down and looked at the two bottles that were still next to him, and felt a dilemma, although the weather had been raining lightly, but in this way, the bottle mouth was facing up, and the rain dripped into the mouth of the bottle with a diameter of a few centimeters, and it was full, which was undoubtedly a fool's dream.
If you can't collect rainwater, these two bottles will be like waste.
Tong Chen thought of using leaves as a funnel for dripping, but he quickly discarded the idea because he didn't have any of the wider leaves around him.
Dig a pit in the ground, wait for the rain to drip all over the pit, and then drink? Tong Chen shook his head in a blink of an eye, the situation in front of him is obviously not suitable, if it is moderate rain or heavy rain, this method is okay, light rain obviously does not work, small raindrops just drop on the ground, and they will seep and disappear in the blink of an eye.
In desperation, Tong Chen thought of a way that was not a solution, he found a stone, and then slowly smashed the plastic bottle mouth, so that the bottle mouth was much bigger, and the rain could drip more.
Of course, Tong Chen also remembered a way to get water in a desperate situation, that is, to put the mud in it with socks or clothes, and then squeeze out the water in the soil.
When he was not desperate, Tong Chen still didn't want to use that method, because the water squeezed out by this method tasted too sour.
Tong Chen lay in the shelter covered with wet branches, and his heart was also a little uncomfortable, God was too much of a bully.
The reason why he chose a relatively simple construction method was because of time, if it was a sunny day, Tong Chen would be willing to build a more solid and comfortable residence.