Chapter 16: Accidental Injuries
What exactly is the reason?
But in the blink of an eye, Tong Chen laughed at himself and slapped his forehead: "I'm really confused, can't my stomach be full and my head will rust?"
Soon Tong Chen thought of the reason for the failure of the fire many times, it rained heavily, everything was soaked, although now the sun is shining, there is nothing to see on the outside, but it is still damp inside.
After slandering in his heart for a long time, Tong Chen was not ready to continue to work in vain.
He dried all the ignition and incendiary materials on a large stone that was relatively flat.
Tong Chen looked at the position of the sun, and immediately knew that it was almost noon.
The pants and shoes that were wet by the heavy rain were still worn on his body, and he didn't feel so uncomfortable when he was busy, but when he was free, the wet pants and underwear were tightly attached to his body, and it was very uncomfortable to be cold.
So Tong Chen took off the three clothes on his body and put them on the stone to dry.
The sun was very hot at noon, and it didn't take long for Tong Chen's clothes to be almost dry, but the cloth shoes were still a little wet.
Tong Chen stopped thinking to himself, got dressed and prepared to look for anything to eat.
For four days, he had only eaten some prickly pears and raspberries, which were not even a problem for maintaining Tong Chen's basic physical functions, let alone filling his stomach.
Tong Chenyi found that he was very sad, as a rural person, he didn't know what to eat and what not to eat on the mountain of his house, unless he happened to meet one of the few plants that could be eaten.
But if you want to come across the food you know, you really need a good luck.
Suddenly, Tong Chen felt that his back was particularly itchy, and he couldn't help but want to reach out and scratch the itch immediately, he didn't think much about it, he stretched out his back hand and scratched it on his back.
If Tong Chen could see his back, he would find that his back had become red at some point, and his skin had become wrinkled, which was clearly distinguishable from the smooth skin in front of him.
Tong Chen's hand scratched his back again, and the skin cracked instantly, and with the digging marks, blood marks appeared, and the scene couldn't bear to look at it directly.
As the blood stains appeared, Tong Chen then felt a burning pain, and only then did he feel that something was wrong.
Tong Chen looked left and right to see what was going on with his back, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't see it.
But after some inspection, Tong Chen found that the back of his upper arm also became red, and the difference from ordinary skin could be seen at once.
Could it be a sunburn?
I have never eaten pork and watched a pig run, although Tong Chen has no experience of sunburn before, but he has seen it.
After thinking about it, I have been exposed to the sun naked in the wild for a few days, and it is reasonable to be sunburned if I am not careful.
Tong Chen has no personal experience of sunburn, so he has no way to deal with it, if he has a mobile phone on him, he can also check it on the Internet.
Tong Chen's subconscious thought was to wear a coat to avoid aggravating the wound, of course, this was all a fantasy.
What should I do?
The itching and burning pain of the wound made Tong Chen's desire to continue looking for food gone.
He didn't want to continue to be exposed to the sun, otherwise his condition would worsen, and it would really be the end of the game.
Tong Chen returned to the camp and hid in the shelter.
Can I hide here forever? I don't have to starve to death.
Tong Chen, who was in a depressed mood, thought for a long time, the sun can't continue to bask the wound, can I try to make a shirt out of branches?
finally thought of a way, Tong Chen naturally wanted to try it.
Enduring the risk of getting sunburned, Tong Chen walked out of the shelter and began to look for the branches from which he made his shirt.
Twigs make a coat, Tong Chen has no experience, he made grass skirts before, and he also had an impression after watching it on TV, which can be used to imitate.
Making coats, Tong Chen was completely blind and couldn't cross the river, and after looking in the woods for a long time, he didn't observe the wide and long leaves that matched his mind, and there was no way for Tong Chen to retreat and choose a thin branch with relatively large leaves such as poplars.
Tong Chen didn't start making it blindly right away, he was now thinking about how to do it in his head.
Don't think about it, the sleeves definitely don't have them, the question is how to hang them together and still can't fall off?
Tong Chen's eyes lit up, and he came up with a good solution.
He tore off the bark from the thicker branches, then joined them together to form a long rope, and finally tied the prepared thin branches to the bark rope, so that he made a bark cloak.
Looking at his original work, Tong Chen is still very satisfied, this is also the simplest bark coat he can think of.
Tong Chen picked up the slightly heavy cloak and was about to tie it on his body, but the next scene surprised him, and he couldn't help but be annoyed.
Tong Chen hadn't completely picked it up, and not long after he lifted it, suddenly, several weak places of the bark rope broke, and then the bark windbreaker fell apart.
After wasting so much effort, it turned out to be like this in the end, alas.
After hesitating for a long time, is it possible for Tong Chen to give up? Impossible, reality forces him not to give up, otherwise what will he use to block the scorching sun.
Since the bark rope cannot bear its weight, then there is only that.
When Tong Chen was a child, he often used the branches of the willow tree with moderate thickness to make a bow, that is, the willow branches were bent and tied to the ends with ropes, so that a simple bow was made, and a straight so-called arrow could be pulled and shot to play.
The first thing that came to Tong Chen's mind was willow branches, because willow branches have good toughness and are relatively easy to process.
There were no willow trees near Tong Chen's campsite, so he had to run to a distant place to collect some branches.
One thing that has to be said is that on the way back, he happened to find a rabbit with gray hair in the grass, but only a few glances, and then the rabbit disappeared in a jump.
Is it possible for Tong Chen to be indifferent? Is it possible that there is no turmoil in his heart? Of course not, it is like a delicious dish in front of you, but you are told that you can't eat it, and the torment may only be known to those who have experienced it.
Sitting next to the campsite, Tong Chen chose a slender branch from all the branches he had brought back, and he was about to pick up the poplar branch and fix it on it, but compared to the slender and soft leaves on the willow branch, it was obvious that the willow branch was more suitable for making intimate clothing.
It took nearly an hour for Tong Chen's new willow leaf cloak to be completed.
Such a cloak is worn on his body, not only blocking the hot sun, but also faintly exuding coolness on the surface of the willow leaves, which makes Tong Chen feel that the situation in his back has been relieved a little.
Although the rabbit that he glimpsed was long gone, the rabbit seemed to have gotten into Tong Chen's head, and the picture of the fat rabbit had been haunting him and he couldn't forget it.
You have to find a way to catch it, it's really hungry these days, and if you can catch a fat rabbit, it's definitely a delicacy to roast it.
Tong Chen thought of a way to catch rabbits, first to find a strong rope, and then knot one end of the rope, the other end can be passed smoothly, so as to form the simplest looper to catch animals.
This knotting method will automatically tighten the rope as soon as an animal passes through it, and the more the animal struggles, the tighter the rope will be.
But there is a necessary condition for this kind of capture, that is, it is necessary to find the place where the prey must pass or the hole of the prey.