When Zhang Xing returned to the cave, it was already noon the next day, during which she spent the night in a cave she was passing by.

No matter how bold she was, she didn't dare to walk alone in the mountains and forests at night.

Shi Shi was haggard, obviously worried all night, and he didn't eat a few bites of the two dry cakes that Zhang Xing had prepared for him.

Zhang Xing looked at him with a relieved look, his heart warmed, and he said with a smile: "I told you, I went there once, and the way is clear, it doesn't matter." ”

Shi still said: "I think, you should not go in the future, those people are not easy to mess with, once or twice, they may not have paid attention, and if they have more times, they will always notice." ”

"I know. Zhang Xing nodded and said, "I don't plan to go again." "I often walk by the river, how can I not get my shoes wet? When thieves always miss, she understands this truth. Therefore, she touched a lot of things this time, and it would not be a problem to use it for a month or two.

Zhang Xing hung the bow and crossbow on his back on the wall of the cave, took out the contents of the baggage, put them in different categories, and quickly washed his hands, and took a meal of food, which was used together with the stone.

In the afternoon, she carried a spatula around the nearby mountains and forests, found a place with a lot of animal droppings and began to dig a pit. A spatula is a spatula, although it looks similar to a spade, but it is very different from each other. She dug for an afternoon, only to dig a pit about half her height.

But now the weather is just cold in the morning and evening, and she is not in a hurry. Chop down some branches and dry grass to cover the pit, and she carried the spatula back. The next day, after making a meal, she carried the spatula again.

After three days of busy work, she dug a deep pit more than one person high, inserted many sharpened sticks in the pit, and climbed up along the ropes. A shelf was built on top of the pit, and the shelf was covered with dead branches and leaves. A decent trap is done.

Zhang Xing was full of confidence in the trap he dug at the beginning, and went over to take a look every other day, but five or six days passed, and the cover on the trap was still intact, and there was nothing inside. Gradually disillusioned, she stopped focusing on the trap and began to practice archery.

The bow and crossbow were used by a grown man, and she was so heavy that she couldn't pull it away with all her strength.

The stone couldn't laugh next to him, if he hadn't been able to move, he probably had made a gesture by the morning.

Zhang Xing squinted at the stone with a flushed face, and said unhappily, "What's so funny?

Shi held back a smile and beckoned: "Xing'er, bring it over, I'll teach you, the bow and arrow are not pulled like this." ”

Zhang Xing hesitated and handed it to him. Shi smiled again and said, "Once, I went to Yu'an with our village Hu Hai, and he had a relative who worked in the Yu'an city defense camp. Although the bows and arrows of their city defense battalion were not as solid as this, they were about the same size. I've practiced my hands and shot a few targets. You used brute force just now, and you looked like you were exerting yourself, but in fact the strength didn't make it important. As he spoke, he taught Zhang Xing where to put his hand, how to stand well, how to exert himself, how to aim, when to release the arrow, and so on.

Zhang Xing preached according to the stone, practiced a few more times, and was finally able to pull the bowstring. After a few days of racing with rabbits and pheasants, it also paid off, shooting a pheasant with a short tail.

She happily disemboweled the pheasant and stewed a pot of delicious chicken soup that day.

The next day, chasing the rabbit to the vicinity of the trap dug some time ago, she found that the dead branches and leaves covered on it had traces of passing, she quickly opened it to see, there was a wild boar of about forty or fifty catties lying inside. This wild boar may not have been in for a long time, although the stomach has been inserted into several holes, and the blood does not stop, it has not yet lost its breath, and it is still humming.

Zhang Xing didn't dare to go down rashly, for fear that the wild boar could still jump up and hurt people. She looked for a long stick and poked it tentatively, but the boar only snorted, but did not move. Zhang Xing cut a few long vines and knotted them into a rope and slipped down, first made up a few knives in the wild boar, and when he was dead, he tied it tightly and pulled it up. Drag it to the creek and cook.

When Shi saw Zhang Xing returning with a full load, he was also surprised, and when he heard that the trap she dug actually went into a wild boar, he almost didn't jump up, and he couldn't wait to run over and take a few looks.

Zhang Xing still sprinkled the pork with salt and salted it, and she couldn't handle the contents well, leaving only some large items such as heart, liver and lungs, and the rest had to be fed to the fish.

As the day wore cold, the wound on the stone arm had begun to scab off, revealing new flesh, the bruises and swelling at the ankle had almost dissipated, one leg was already moving, he could now sit up, and walk a few steps with a club.

Zhang Xing simply sewed the wolf skin with fish bones and whiskers. The stone said that he didn't get out of the hole anyway, he couldn't freeze, and he didn't need to wear this. Zhang Xing had to use it herself. This is the first time she has done this, and the sewing tools are not complete, so the things made are naturally not good-looking, but they are very warm to wear.

With such a hide, she felt more and more like a wild man.

After an autumn rain, the lively mountains and forests were much more sluggish, the yellow leaves were all over the ground, pheasants and rabbits were rare, and even the stream where she used to draw water showed signs of becoming smaller and dryer.

Zhang Xing couldn't help but be a little frightened, they couldn't survive the winter if they only had food and no water to drink. She had traveled for miles near the forest, and although there were two streams, they were far from the cave where they lived, and the streams were not as big as that. It's all done here, and I'm afraid those two places are not much better.

Zhang Xing hesitated for a while, and decided to go over and have a look, but it really didn't work, so he had to find another water source. When she found two other water sources, she found that one of the streams had broken down, and the other had a much smaller flow than before.

Zhang Xing sighed, she didn't dare to pin all her hopes on these streams, she saw that it was still early, so she simply went up the stream that had not yet broken to see if she could find the source. As she walked, she left a mark, and she didn't know how far she had walked, when she suddenly heard the sound of rushing water. After a few hills along the stream, the current became much larger, and divided into two branches, one in the direction she came, and the other in the opposite mountain forest.

Zhang Xing washed her face, looked at the stream that stretched out to the top for a while, and a thought flashed in her mind.

She looked at the sun gradually setting in the west, or continued to move up, the higher she went, the greater the current, and gradually became a river several feet wide, the river was turbulent, rushing endlessly, branching on both sides, the river beach was full of strange stones, and the cliffs were visible from time to time.

When Zhang Xing bypassed a cliff and climbed a mountain peak, he was shocked by the scenery in front of him. In front of her was a deep and deep river, extremely wide, with endless peaks on the opposite side, and the trees and vegetation could not be seen, only a dense verdant patch. The river winds between the mountains, stretching into an unknown distance.

Zhang Xing was ecstatic in her heart, and she couldn't wait to shout loudly.

After searching for so long, she finally found her way home.