"Okay, Brother Qiang, I remember what you said. What are we going to do next, lift it out? ”

"Okay, let's use that paracord to hang it out and get that wolf corpse down first."

It took a lot of effort for the two to hang the dire wolf out of the trap, which made the fat man Luo who couldn't do it annoyed for a while, and vowed to eat more meat at the next meal, and quickly become stronger, so as to give Xu Qiang more help, and it has been Brother Qiang who has been rushing to the front line recently.

Putting the dire wolf on the grass aside, Xu Qiang asked Luo Fatzi to go down and restore the trap to its original state, and he took advantage of this time to peel the skin and save as much time as possible. Today's workload is still a lot, and after patrolling the traps, the rest of the work is to cut down trees.

Half an hour later, Luo Fatzi restored the trap to its original state, and even the body of the black-backed brown wolf was hanging above the trap again. Xu Qiang still had half the work to do, but he still stopped what he was doing, preparing to clean up after cutting down trees in the afternoon.

After spending an hour checking all the traps, Xu Qiang and the others had two more pheasants, a hare, two ancient pigeons, and a mouse. The rat was killed by a heavy object trap, and was finally used by Xu Qiang as a bait for the first sharp knife trap, and the bird entrails on it were also eaten by unknown animals, which made Xu Qiang have a toothache and began to doubt his life. Is there something wrong with the trap you set yourself? This kind of sharp knife trap set up when I was a scout in the past caught a lot of prey, maybe it was born by my own hands, and I have to practice * knots.

However, this trip was also very fruitful, which made Luo Fatzi, who was carrying the prey, very happy, and the food he was able to grow strong would be due to their contributions.

When I went back to the place where I cut down the tree yesterday, it was already about ten o'clock in the morning. After laying down their prey, the two of them once again took out their axes to find their target and start the most important work of the day. At the beginning, the two of them didn't dare to try fast, first, because of the blisters on their palms, second, they needed to be more familiar with the axe and strength in their hands, and third, they needed to know more about how the tree would fall in the direction they needed to avoid the recurrence of yesterday's situation.

While cutting, they exchanged logging experience, and slowly, the speed of felling gradually increased, and by about four o'clock in the afternoon, the two of them had already cut down thirty trees. At this rate, the 67 trees needed will be cut down tomorrow afternoon. However, if it is cut into sections, it is more cumbersome and time-consuming to transport it back and forth.

After drinking water and resting for a while, the two began to prune the excess branches, sawing the tree into a trunk of more than three meters and piling it up in the clearing. In Xu Qiang's words, those branches are indispensable fuel for winter, which can be piled together to dry, and when there is time, they can be pulled back to camp.

After cutting the thirty pine trees into more than 90 pieces of varying thickness, the two of them prepared to carry back some of the pine segments. The heavy ones are about 150 pounds, and the light ones are only more than ten or twenty pounds. The two of them carried a heavy one, and each of them took another light one in their hands, and it was already dark after four trips back and forth.

After going back, the two took advantage of the cooking time to bring the dire wolf back to the camp with torches, and the fat man Luo peeled off the remaining skin. Under Xu Qiang's guidance and Luo Fatzi's cautious operation, it took nearly an hour to get it done, but it was very complete and looked good, and Luo Fatzi sprinkled some grass and wood ash on the meat skin for simple nitration and then dried it on the shelf. Now the sun appears for a short time, and there is little sunlight, so it can only be dried by the wind, and after the blow drying, the formal tanning must begin, and the effort will not be less.

After eating, the two went to the bamboo forest to cut back five or six bamboos about ten centimeters thick, and prepared to weave bamboo baskets. The two divided the labor, with Luo Fatzi, who had woven bamboo as a child, weaving the back basket, while Xu Qiang went to dig a trench to protect the wooden stakes along the drawn line. Digging a ditch is simple, you only need to dig a ditch thirty-five centimeters wide and fifty centimeters deep, and what is needed is physical work, so Xu Qiang can also be competent, just after a meal, you can also lose weight.

When Luo Fatzi was a child, he saw his neighbors in the village weaving bamboo baskets, and the key to whether bamboo weaving can be woven well lies in the selection of bamboo, that is, it cannot grow old or too tender, and two to three years of bamboo is the best. The bamboo cut in the bamboo forest just now was cut back at the request of Luo Fatzi, this kind of bamboo looks older in appearance, yellow-green appearance, has experienced wind and rain, this kind of bamboo is easier to break, and the bamboo strips are also very strong and reliable, and the toughness is enough. But it can't be too old, the old is too hard, and the braided bamboo is easy to be damaged.

The fat man saws off the part of the bamboo that grows above the bamboo branches with a hand saw, and the roots are also sawed flat, and the cross is cut symmetrically from one end with *, and two wooden sticks are inserted to form a symmetrical cross, and then the outermost wooden stick is gently knocked inward with *, and the bamboo is broken into four pieces by the power of the wooden stick. Use a knife to scrape the edges of the four pieces of bamboo back and forth a few times, so as not to cut your hands with sharp and continuous sharpness. Then knock the bamboo knots off with the back of the knife, continue to divide the four pieces of bamboo into eight and sixteen parts, and then split each piece of bamboo from the cross-section downwards to divide into two thin bamboo strips. A few other bamboos were also concocted in the same way, and Luo Fatzi was ready to start weaving bamboo back baskets.

Under the reflection of the bonfire, Luo Fatzi knitted very seriously, without being disturbed by the outside world. He placed the bamboo strips one by one in the cross-warp and weft directions, and pressed them on top of each other to form a basket bottom about 40 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide, and then bent all the bamboo strips upwards and tied them together for a longitudinal closing process to facilitate the weaving of the basket body below.

After the body is closed, the horizontal bamboo strips are added, pick one and press one, rotate into a circle, and then connect another bamboo strip until a certain height is reached, and the bent bamboo strips are firmly fixed on the edge of the basket mouth in the form of a spiral to form a complete and firm basket body. Finally, use a two-millimeter thin bamboo strip to braid each other, leave the two ends unbraided, and insert the two ends into the upper and lower places of the basket to form the two shoulder straps of the basket. At this point, a complete basket is complete.

Looking at the watch, it was already half past nine, and it took a full two and a half hours before and after the weaving of the back basket, which was a bit long, and I felt a little raw in my hands. Looking up at Xu Qiang, a shirtless figure was sweating and digging a ditch. About half of the twenty-meter-long and wide trench has been dug and there is still half left, and it will be completed tomorrow night, and some wooden stakes will be placed, and the wooden fence will be fully built the day after tomorrow, making it the first safe haven and safe home for the two of them in this world.

Luo Fatzi stood up and tried the back basket, a little loose, Xu Qiang should be more comfortable on his back. But it's good enough, and the first bamboo-backed basket woven in this world will bring great convenience to the lives of both of them.