Chapter 7 Drilling wood for fire is not an easy task

For more than ten days, because he didn't dare to make a fire, he only relied on some wild fruits to satisfy his hunger, although he had salt, he couldn't dip wild fruits in salt water to eat, Xiao Yiran already felt soft and weak. It can't go on like this.

At noon on the eleventh day, looking at the blazing sun in the sky, Xiao Yiran thought that the possibility of making a fire and being found now would be very low. So, I brought two sun-dried sticks that had been prepared a long time ago, one was softer and the other was harder. With a hard one, start drilling the soft one. It's not as simple as you think. It wasn't until Xiao Yiran was sweating profusely and his arms were sore and weak that a little light smoke just came out.

There is no way, if you can't get the fire, you can't grill the small fish and shrimp that have long been dried. Xiao Yiran really didn't want to eat those wild fruits anymore. gritted his teeth and persevered, and finally came out of the spark, and the spark that came out instantly ignited the fluff that had already been rubbed, and the flames suddenly ignited. Because it was all dry firewood, there wasn't much smoke coming out. Xiao Yiran began to barbecue small fish and shrimp, then dipped in fine salt and ate them. That feeling, you don't have to go to the Yuelai Building outside the campus in Xiao Yiran's memory to eat your favorite fried shrimp.

Although he grilled all the small fish and shrimp that he had accumulated for many days at one time, Xiao Yiran did not let go of his stomach to eat, and he wanted to keep some for the future, and not eat wild fruits every day.

After eating the most comfortable lunch, Xiao Yiran didn't dare to rest, remembering that a few days ago, he had seen a few plants like edamame, and pods had already grown on them. Xiao Yiran relied on his memory to find those plants, picked a handful of pods, returned to his residence, and put them on the fire to barbecue. Xiao Yiran wants to determine whether this pod is the edamame in his memory. There is no need to wait for the pods to be roasted, just from the taste of the pods, Xiao Yiran believes that his future life will not be too difficult.

After carefully storing the roasted pods and the small fish and shrimp that had been tested, Xiao Yiran ran to the pod-bearing plants again. This time, Xiao Yiran has determined that the small piece of plant in front of him is the big soybean in his memory. Xiao Yiran cleaned up the weeds around the soybean plants, and in order to prevent them from being trampled by wild beasts, he specially pulled a few thorns and surrounded the forty or fifty soybean trees.

Xiao Yiran grew up in the city, majoring in archaeology, and almost didn't know anything about agriculture. Although she lived in her grandmother's house in the countryside for a while when she was a child, at that time, the family treated her as a little princess, where would she go to the fields, let alone learn to farm. Growing so big, Xiao Yiran can't even distinguish the most ordinary crops, and it can be said that he is the kind of person who doesn't distinguish between grains and grains. As for these soybeans, it is because Xiao Yiran likes to eat barbecue, and there are always roasted edamame beans on the barbecue stall, and boiled edamame are sold. After eating more times, Xiao Yiran remembered.

Next, Xiao Yiran would go to see the forty or fifty soybeans every day, pull out the weeds, clean up the branches that blocked the sun, and get some water to water the ground when it was dried by the sun. In addition to taking care of soybeans, the second is to continue to catch fish and shrimp and dry salt. In his free time, Xiao Yiran likes to wander around the neighborhood to try his luck and see if he can find edible grass seeds. Soybeans were discovered by chance, so will rice be found? Xiao Yiran remembered that rice was native to the East. If you can't find rice, it's good to be able to find millet that has been eaten in the community.

After a few days, Xiao Yiran's mind moved again. This time, Xiao Yiran wanted to catch some prey to eat. After leaving the group, he never ate meat again, and when he thought of the tempting aroma of meat, Xiao Yiran couldn't help it anymore. If you want to catch the prey, all Xiao Yiran can do is use traps. Traps are meant to be dug in the ground, and tools are needed to dig them. For Xiao Yiran, there are only two kinds of attacks that can be used here, stones and branches.

Fortunately, the ground was relatively soft, and Xiao Yiran took a lot of effort to dig a soil pit that was more than 60 centimeters deep and half a meter long and wide. For large animals, Xiao Yiran didn't even think about it, if he could catch one or two hares and pheasants, he would be content.

What Xiao Yiran never expected was that the trap he set almost brought disaster to himself. If Xiao Yiran knew that setting a trap would be the result, even if he ate wild fruits every day, Xiao Yiran would not think about eating meat anymore.

In the evening, the trap was dug and a dense, sharp branch was inserted at the bottom of the trap, covered with small dead branches, and a layer of leaves was sprinkled on the dead branches. Xiao Yiran hid in his attic, imagining the taste of meat after catching prey and grilling.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Xiao Yiran was awakened by the noisy roar. First of all, I was happy in my heart, knowing that the trap had worked. Xiao Yiran listened carefully, it was the howl of the little pig, and there was wild boar meat to eat. When Xiao Yiran excitedly drilled out of the attic, he was frightened back by the sight of the trap in the distance.

It's a wild boar, and there's a big boar with several small boars, circling around its trap. However, just as the wild boar was spinning, a colorful tiger suddenly burst out of the woods. An earth-shattering tiger roar frightened wild boars and boars to run around. Most of the wild boars ran away, including the large boar, but one and a half large boars were caught by the tigers. Listening to the howl of the wild boar under the tiger's mouth, Xiao Yiran's heart kept pounding, hiding in the attic, not daring to move.

It felt like a long time had passed, and the screams of the wild boars gradually became inaudible. Xiao Yiran waited for another half an hour before he looked out in horror and found that there was no trace of the tiger. The courage is only a little bigger. There seemed to be a faint little pig humming, and Xiao Yiran was sure that it should come from the trap he had set.

It wasn't until almost noon that Xiao Yiran cautiously walked out of the attic and came to the trap to check. Sure enough, there was a small wild boar in the trap, whose body was pierced by several wooden sticks, and blood flowed everywhere. Seeing that the little wild boar's legs were still kicking and kicking, the humming sound in his mouth was inaudible. Xiao Yiran leaned down, grabbed one of the little wild boar's hind legs and lifted it out hard. The pain when Xu is wooden bar was pulled out of his body stimulated the wild boar, and he let out another miserable howl, which frightened Xiao Yiran and threw the wild boar to the ground. This time, the little boar kicked his leg a few times hard, and then stopped moving.

dragged the little wild boar of more than 20 catties and less than 30 catties to the shade under the attic, Xiao Yiran was worried again. How do you peel off the skin of a wild boar? You can't bake like this, can you? After taking turns to try the sticks and stones, but only rubbing off a lot of pig hair, Xiao Yiran thought to himself, it was necessary to make a stone knife. dragged the little wild boar to the shallow pool, first found a relatively hard flat stone, sharpened the blade little by little, and really cut the pigskin along the wound where the little wild boar was pierced.

Peeling the skin, cleaning the internal organs, and surviving after a lot of work, Xiao Yiran, who was already tired and out of breath, realized for the first time that food was not easy to come by. In the past, I only knew that pork was delicious, but I didn't know that pork was hard to come by. Not to mention raising pigs from a young age, just killing pigs is so difficult. Xiao Yiran dug a pit on the spot and buried the pig entrails, she didn't want these entrails to attract any other beasts. After that, the pork was washed in the stream before returning to the station.