Chapter 133: Wake Up
As soon as the night fell, Yu Shu lit a fire in the cave, first, to drive away the nearby beasts, and secondly, to see the firelight, which made people feel more at ease.
Xia Mingming and Yu Xiaoxiu had already slept, and the two of them were huddled next to the fire, with grass branches collected from the forest during the day under them.
Yu Shu guarded Jingchen and would probe his forehead every once in a while to prevent him from heating up again.
There was a small pile of miscellaneous items beside her, and the leather bags used for the stuff were used to hold water, and she counted the things she had brought down from the boat, and she wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.
What I wanted to cry was that the few precious manuals I had sorted out when I was studying under Qing Zheng were all lost on the boat, and what I wanted to laugh at was that she remembered all those things in her head.
What I wanted to cry was that the two bags of silver that Zhao Hui gave her, as well as the things she bought on the road, couldn't be brought down, and what I wanted to laugh about was that the inner pocket that Zhao Hui sewed for her was still there, and it was still crumpled with five hundred taels of silver tickets.
When leaving Yiyang, Zhao Hui gave him a thousand taels of silver tickets, and Yu Shu quietly stuffed half of it under the mattress of her marriage bed on the day she got married, and only took the five hundred taels she should take.
But these five hundred taels are not as good as a pair of flints and steels for her now.
From yesterday day to this evening, they barely ate, only relying on a few bird eggs to feed their stomachs, they can't stand in this forest for two days, Jingchen is like this, they can't leave, what's the use of money, five hundred taels of silver can't buy half a baked cake.
I have to find a way to get something to eat, Yu Shu touched the "sword" in his hand, turned over the branches on the side, found a girl-shaped branch, untied the cowhide band on his hair, tried the elasticity, tied it to both ends of the branch, made a slingshot, picked up a stone on the ground, tested the power outside the cave, adjusted the angle for a long time, and barely popped out a foot away.
"Let's go out tomorrow to hunt birds, if I can catch a few sparrows, it would be good to eat them." Yu Shu thought in his heart, collected a small pile of stones in the stone cave, sat back next to Jing Chen, practiced his head in the open space, and sharpened his gun in battle.
I don't know how long it has been, she can't stand it anymore, yawning again and again, looking at the sky that is about to light up outside, then she got up and put out the fire, crawled her messy hair, stretched her waist, lay down next to Jingchen, closed her eyes, and fell asleep.
Not long after Yu Shu fell asleep, Jing Chen, who was lying beside her, moved, raised the hand hanging by his side, slowly touched his abdomen, pressed it gently, the dense pain made him wake up, stretched his heavy eyelids, and noticed that there was someone around him, he twisted his head, saw Yu Shu curled up and sleeping next to him, looked at him quietly for a while, moved his arm, groped her hand on the ground that was much smaller than himself, gently held it, tilted his head towards her, and closed his eyes again.
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The sun rose, the sun shone into the stone cave, Yu Shu frowned, then woke up, raised his hand to rub his swollen forehead, and as soon as he moved, he found that something was wrong.
She got up from the ground with a spirit, looked down at her hand that was firmly held by Jing Chen, and her eyes widened in surprise.
"Jingchen, Jingchen?" She stretched out her other hand and gently shook Jing Chen's shoulder, staring at his face, and after a few sounds, she saw Jing Chen's long eyelashes trembling, and her dirty face was reflected in her hazy eyes.
Yu Shu grinned, grabbed his hand and shook it tightly, and said excitedly: "Great, you can be regarded as awake, finally awake." ”
Being able to clearly feel Yu Shu's joy, Jingchen moved the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly.
With such a movement, Yu Xiaoxiu and Xia Mingming also woke up, they sat up from the grass pile one after another, looked at Yu Shu, and later, sent a letter that Jingchen woke up, Yu Xiaoxiu hurriedly crawled to Yu Shu's side, and happily looked at the sober Jingchen beside him, Xia Mingming was also happy at first, and then turned around uncomfortably and tidied up his sleeping hair.
Next, in the cave, you can only hear Yu Shu's warm voice:
"Jingchen, are you thirsty?"
"Jingchen, are you hungry?"
"Jingchen, is the wound very painful?"
"Jingchen, what's uncomfortable?"
……
Jingchen couldn't speak or move, so he could only lie down honestly. Yu Shu was busy around him, Yu Xiaoxiu didn't care at this moment, he heard Yu Shu mention yesterday that it was Jingchen who carried him all the way back from the river with an injury, and he was all grateful to Jingchen, and he didn't have much mind about the difference between men and women for the time being.
But Xia Mingming, who hadn't heard Yu Shu say a word to her in the morning, was upset, her stomach rumbled, and she said aggrievedly:
"Ah Shu, I'm hungry."
The two remaining bird eggs from yesterday were peeled and fed to Jingchen by Yu Shu just now, and now there are only two sour pomegranates left in the cave, which have been occupied by Jinbao and pushed around as toys to play.
It's a change out of Lu to go on a trip to find food.
Yu Shu said to Jingchen: "I'll go out to get some food and come back, you can sleep again, and ask Xiao Xiu to help if you have anything." ”
Jingchen nodded, pulled her palm, and wrote on it:
"Be careful."
"Hmm." Yu Shu turned his head to Yu Xiaoxiu and said, "Xiaoxiu, you stay here and take care of Jingchen, and Ming Ming and I will go out to find food." ”
When Xia Mingming heard her arrangement, he immediately asked, "I'll go with you?" ”
Jingchen woke up, Yu Shu was in a good mood, and said to her with a smile: "Yes, why don't you want to go?" ”
Xia Mingming hurriedly shook his head, "Go, go!" ”
After saying that, she felt a little more anxious, and she wanted to cover up and said, "Well, I suffocated in the cave, and I was trying to get out of the cave and go for a walk." ”
Yu Shu will let Yu Xiaoxiu stay and take Xia Mingming away, with her considerations, Jingchen has been in a coma for a day and two nights, and now that she wakes up, there must be physiological problems to solve, and it is very inconvenient for her and Xia Mingming to stay here.
Yu Shu quickly cleaned up, brought the strips of cloth to be changed, hung up the sword for chopping wood, and the rough slingshot he made last night, and led Xia Mingming out of the cave and into the forest.
Yu Shu had no experience in surviving in the wild, but she was well-informed and thoughtful enough, walking in the forest, very careful not to go deeper, once she found the footprints of wild beasts on the ground, she avoided them far away.
What's more, she holds the six hexagrams in her hand, and if she occupies them anytime and anywhere, she can probably judge which direction is safe and which direction is dangerous, Xia Mingming followed her closely, and when she saw her using the six hexagrams, her heart was itchy, and she wanted to speak several times, but Yu Shu interrupted, and couldn't find a chance to ask her for advice.
There are many birds in the forest, but most of them fall on the trees in the air, and the few that like to land are sparrows.
The wild sparrows in this forest are not very afraid of people, Yu Shu tried a few times, and found that as long as she approached lightly, at a certain distance, the sparrows usually did what they should do, pecked insects, and walked for walks.
Luckily, this distance was just within the range of her slingshot and the like.
However, because the equipment was not ideal, he scared away several groups of sparrows one after another, and changed four or five places before Yu Shu got his hands on it.
Xia Mingming was ordered by Yu Shu to stand aside and not make a sound, watching the fat sparrow not far away being hit by Yu Shu's slingshot, fluttering back half a foot yuan, lying on the ground, jumping up and clapping his hands excitedly:
"Hit, hit, hit! Ah Shu, you are so amazing! ”
Yu Shu stepped forward to pick up the dying sparrow, tied its legs with a torn strip of cloth, handed it to Xia Mingming, and said with a smile: "Take it, this one is just yours."
Xia Mingming took it with a blushing face and said "um" vigorously.
Then, Yu Shu seemed to find a feeling, hit a few one after another, tied them all with ropes and carried them for Xia Mingming, counted enough twenty, and then took her to the creek.
Yu Shu taught Xia Mingming to recognize forget-me-not, so he handed over the matter of picking herbs to her, and went to the stream to peel and wash the sparrows.
Xia Mingming picked up enough herbs, and ran over to find Yu Shu to express his skills, and when he saw the "ingredients" that she had peeled and cleaned and placed on the stones, his face was distorted for a while, and he turned his head and retched.
Yu Shu glanced at her with disgust, and continued the work in his hands, the chickens, ducks and fish on the dinner table, which one was not slaughtered like this.
Xia Mingming is still an acquaintance, and he didn't say anything about fake benevolence and righteousness, otherwise Yu Shu would definitely starve her for today's lunch.
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There is no salt, and it is not a special oven, Yu Shu grilled a bunch of sparrow meat mushy, but the aroma of meat wafted out, and it still made Xia Mingming and Yu Xiaoxiu swallow their saliva.
"Can you eat it?" Yu Xiaoxiu said.
"It should be able to eat." Xia Ming said.
Yu Shu took the branch away from the fire, lowered his head and sniffed it, handed it to Xia Mingming, picked up another skewer, and continued to roast.
Xia Mingming saw that Yu Shu gave her the first string, and happily said "Xie Lu Xie", blew a few times, and couldn't wait to lower his head to take a bite, burning his tongue, but he was reluctant to spit out the meat in his mouth.
Yu Xiaoxiu looked at his sister sullenly and pursed his mouth.
When Yu Shu saw it, he smiled and stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around his neck, leaned into his ear and whispered: "What's the hurry, that skewer is baked for her to eat, and I will be experienced when I bake it again, and I will give you a good meal."
Yu Xiaoxiu was happy again now, covering his mouth and snickering, dotting through, thinking, his sister is really bad.
Yu Shu's second skewer was really much stronger than Fang Cai, only a little paste, and gave it to Yu Xiaoxiu to eat.
She grilled another skewer, washed it with water after it was cooked, deducted the oily skin on the outside, tore the tender meat inside, and turned her head to feed it to Jingchen's mouth: "Open your mouth." ”
Jingchen opened his mouth very cooperatively and asked her to feed him, but he couldn't sit up with the injury on his abdomen, so he could only lie flat, so even though he was awake, he had to ask someone to help him drink water and eat.
"Is it delicious?
Jingchen nodded, and when she fed her again, he grabbed her wrist and brought it to her mouth, signaling her to eat it with his eyes.
Yu Shu smiled and put the piece of meat in her mouth, chewed it, the meat without salt was sweet, but it had a faint fragrance, it was indeed not unpalatable, she licked her fingers, tasted it for a while, and then tore it to feed Jingchen.
The barbecue meat brought to his mouth with heat was delivered to his mouth, and his wet fingers rubbed his lips, slightly itchy, Jing Chen remembered Yu Shu's small action of licking his fingers, and for some reason, his throat was a little dry.
"Ahem.
Yu Shu heard Jingchen cough lightly, and hurriedly asked, "Choked?" ”
Jing Chen shook his head, he just had an uncomfortable throat.