Chapter 15: Raspberries
Tong Chen is very strange why he didn't have a smooth day of surviving in the wild, others were eating big fish and meat in the wild, as if he was traveling and cooking, and when he arrived at his own place, there was no day that he was not unlucky, for three days, he was hungry and didn't say anything, he finally found a water source, endured the strong discomfort of the body and built a shelter, and the fire was also painstakingly lit.
But in the end, the fire that Tong Chen cared about the most was extinguished by the heavy rain, and I have to say that God is playing tricks.
I don't know if God deliberately played tricks on Tong Chen, maybe he was unlucky.
Tong Chen's hard work has caused the roof of the shelter to leak non-stop, and the trend of water seepage is getting worse and worse.
In the shelter, Tong Chen tried to hide in a place where the rain could not drop at first, but soon he found that he had nowhere to hide and had to abandon the shelter that he was reluctant to leave.
Standing among the trees pouring in the heavy rain, in the blink of an eye, Tong Chen became a chicken in the soup.
Familiar scenes, familiar pictures, the same encounter, Tong Chen, who had been watered by the heavy rain and couldn't open his eyes, couldn't help but think of the last time it was also on a rainy day, and the picture of being struck by lightning in the woods was again.
If it hadn't been for the last time, if it hadn't been in the woods last time, if it hadn't been struck by lightning last time, wouldn't all this have happened?
Tong Chen is not a saint, no matter how good his temper is, there will be a moment when he can't bear it, and he begins to constantly complain about everything that happened to him.
In the case of heavy rain, the branches and leaves on the shelter built by Tong Chen began to fall constantly, especially under the heavy rain, the ground soon became soft, and the main frame of the shelter was unevenly stressed, slowly tilting, until the entire shelter collapsed.
Tong Chen wants to cry without tears, how can this be?
"Boom", suddenly with a dazzling flash, white lightning fell on a high birch canopy, and in an instant, the various branches on the main trunk were broken in pieces, and two or three criss-crossing ravines were also split on the main trunk.
Under the light of lightning, Tong Chen happened to see this scene completely, he was dumbfounded, and he didn't know whether he was frightened or fascinated, and the whole person was motionless.
Fortunately, the feeling of luck appeared in Tong Chen's heart at this moment, and he suddenly woke up, how could he hide under a tree in a thunderous weather.
I'm so confused...
Although it was not the poplar tree that Tong Chen chose, and the fallen branches did not hit the shelter he built, Tong Chen still felt very lucky, he knew very well that the tree next to him did not grow low, and lightning also had a certain chance of falling on it, if it was split, the shelter had not been destroyed, and he happened to be still in it, the consequences were really unimaginable.
Tong Chen will never believe in the so-called God anymore, he only believes in himself.
Watching the intact shelter turn into a pile of tree trunks, branches and leaves, Tong Chen's heart was mixed.
The fact that Seon lost his horse and whose shelter was destroyed by heavy rain may not seem to be a good thing.
He couldn't hide from the rain under the tree, and Tong Chen couldn't find a suitable place to hide from the rain for a while, so he had to stand in a relatively vast place and wait quietly for the rain to end.
The rain came and went quickly, Tong Chen stood there and waited for more than ten minutes, and the rain gradually ended.
The dark clouds cleared, and the morning sun slowly rose from the eastern hills, and the morning sun began to dispel the morning cold, and the light shone on thousands of plants, and everything was still so beautiful.
Tong Chen's gaze also fell on the colorful rainbow that appeared on the mountain in the distance...
There was no time to appreciate it slowly, Tong Chen thought to himself, it seems that he has to find another campsite, and then make a fire, alas.
Tong Chen was going to follow the original plan and find a suitable campsite near the water source, but after looking around, he didn't find one.
Helpless, Tong Chen could only expand the scope and continue to search.
"Yo, is that red piece a strawberry?", following Tong Chen's gaze, an extremely dense red-fruited green-leafed plant with a radius of four or five square meters appeared not far away, and the red fruit was similar in size to a strawberry.
As Tong Chen gradually got closer, he found that these plants did not seem to be strawberries, first of all, the whole strawberry tree was not so big, and the shrub in front of him was more than a meter high, and secondly, the leaves of this plant were much larger than the fruit, and the strawberry leaves were much larger than Tong Chen's impression.
These fruits are not oval like strawberries, but are very irregular, and the fruit has a very strange appearance, as if it is a combination of small fruits.
Of course it's not a combination, Tong Chen looked at it carefully, this fruit grows like this, but it looks like small bubbles are popping up.
Tong Chen looked familiar, what is this thing called?
After thinking about it for a long time, Tong Chen didn't come up with it.
This is actually the raspberry in Tong Chen's mouth, also known as raspberry, dragon boat bubble, barley bubble, bubble thorn, thorn gourd, steamed bread pine, etc., mostly born in the sunny slopes, valleys, wastelands, streams and sparse bushes in the humid place, with astringent lean kidney to help yang brightening eyes, sobering up and quenching thirst, phlegm and detoxification.
But he felt that he could eat it, otherwise it would not feel familiar.
Tong Chen also forgot that not everything can be eaten indiscriminately in the wild, he picked one and smelled it first, the skin exuded a faint fragrance, and then Tong Chen put it in his mouth, I don't know if it was because it had just rained, the taste was slightly sweet, and it was not particularly delicious, so it was like that.
After eating a lot of raspberries, Tong Chen searched for a morning, and it turned out that he really found a shelter.
That's right, a shelter, not a campsite, a finished shelter.
It turned out that Tong Chen saw a huge stone, and when he got closer, he found that there was a big gap between the stone and the ground, which was enough for Tong Chen to lie down and sleep.
Tong Chen was happy, with the finished shelter, he was too lazy to build an unstable branch shelter, and no matter how heavy the rain outside was, this shelter would not get wet inside.
Tong Chen burrowed under the stone and filled the deep gap with the gravel in it, just to avoid any animals from coming out of the crack, it would not be fun.
To perfect the natural shelter, he collected some branches and weeds and spread them on the dry ground.
Perfect, looking at this "solid" shelter, Tong Chen is more and more satisfied.
If you light the fire again, it will really be perfect.
Without any fantasies, Tong Chen immediately took action, he returned to the original campsite, trying to find the previous fire tools, but with the heavy rain last night, a few branches have long been gone.
Helplessly, Tong Chen had no choice but to find a new fire tool, although there were not many dead trees in the forest, but he could still find it after a special search, and the dead tree was the source of the tool.
Collect the branches and igniters as usual, and bring them back to the campsite.
Start making a fire.
First failure,
Second failure,
The third time was a failure.
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Tong Chen gave up after the fifth failure, it was too difficult.
After a few times, not a single smoke came out.