Chapter 60: Wild boar and bamboo shoots
The two of them really didn't have the energy to do anything else, so after adding a pine branch to the bacon rack, they put on raincoats and lit torches to check the fence to avoid washing away the soil at the bottom of the fence after the rain and causing a safety loophole. Everything went on as usual, locked the gate and went back to sleep.
Well? Is there a lock? There were no locks, just two simple deadbolts made above and below the door frame, and the wood was inserted into it and it was done, just like the old-fashioned elm doors in the countryside before the eighties. The ancient humans of this era should not be smart enough to understand the function of the door bolt, but if you encounter the ancient humans, you still need to improve it, and the current door bolt is only to prevent wild beasts.
After getting into their sleeping bags for a while, the two fell asleep one after another.
In the middle of the night, in the jungle on the west bank of the river, more than a dozen wild wolves were scattered in the jungle, approaching a herd of deer in their encirclement, silently. After a short chase, the deer left five or six of their kind to flee in disarray, and the wolves feasted on the dead deer. If Xu Qiang and the others saw the appearance of this group of wolves, they would definitely recognize that this was the black-backed brown wolf they had dealt with.
In the forest on the right bank of the creek, in a glade far from Xu Qiang's camp, five or six dire wolves circled around a bear lying on the ground to feed, this bear was huge, three points larger than a modern polar bear. At the bear's feet was the carcass of a clefted deer, which had been eaten most of it, but the bear had no intention of getting up, and did not see the threat of the surrounding dire wolves.
On the mountain, not far from the cave discovered by Xu Qiang, a lynx and a clouded leopard are facing each other, and the two of them are similar in size hoping to find each other's weaknesses and allow themselves to succeed in one blow, but without absolute certainty, they will not treat each other as mortal enemies, after all, there are still a lot of prey around.
The second sharp knife trap, where a wild boar is approaching, snorting and chirping in its mouth, constantly turning over the roots of the plant with its nose and fangs in its mouth. The smell of rotting flesh suddenly reached its nostrils, and its nose fluttered, and then it realized its target, a rotting corpse hanging from a tree. As an omnivore, it doesn't mind having an extra meat dish on its dinner recipe, and it doesn't think too much about it when it is excited, and rushes directly to this dish until it steps into the empty space and steps into the sharp knife trap that has been waiting for it for a long time, and a terrible pig cry sounds.
In the dark night, all kinds of scenes of predation and hunting are happening, and the two people in their sleep have no idea about it.
At nine o'clock in the morning the next day, the rain was still falling. Two green figures walked through the jungle, dragging two birches behind them, and two rabbits, two squirrels and a grouse were placed in the bamboo basket behind them. In the upper part of the basket there are some picked mushrooms and fungus, and this morning's harvest is really rich.
The two squirrels and grouse were shot down by Xu Qiang with a slingshot, and the rabbit was caught in a heavy object trap and a sharp knife trap. And the acquisition of the two squirrels made Luo Fatzi like it very much, and he felt that he was getting closer and closer to a hat made of squirrel skin.
The two of them were walking in the forest wearing army green raincoats, if you don't look carefully, you really can't find it, this color is the best protective color in the forest, and there may be a surprise effect in the future.
The two of them walked around talking and laughing excitedly all the way, this morning there was no prey being eaten in the previous two days, probably because of the rain last night, but no matter what the reason, as long as the prey was not eaten, it was something to be happy about. What's more, the two of them passed by the second sharp knife trap on the way back from cutting down the tree and found a wild boar lying inside, and there was nothing more exciting than this. The boar was huge, its sharp fangs glittering with cold light, and the bottom of the trap was so shattered by its dying struggles that it had to wait for the weather to clear up and rearrange the trap.
After returning to the camp, the two took a rope and a pine pole to the sharp knife trap and carried the wild boar, which weighed more than 200 pounds, back to the camp. The slippery ground and the increasing rain became an obstacle for the two to come back, especially now that their bodies were still a little thin, but the two succeeded in carrying the wild boar back against all odds, and even fell into the stream when crossing the creek, and got soaked without complaining.
When they returned to the camp, they changed into clean clothes and set up a small shed next to the hut, which was built of rough pine wood, in order to be strong, and the wild boar would have to be hung up and skinned. The job of peeling is still handed over to Luo Fatzi to do, and the beautiful name is called: exercise Luo Fatzi's skinning skills.
Xu Qiang went to the bacon rack and built another layer, ready to put the wild boar meat on to smoke. He also removed the original shelf from the campfire and built a stronger shelf, and prepared to make full use of the convenient bacon of this campfire. Now that there is a lot of meat stored, I don't have to go out to hunt for a long time recently, so I can focus more on preparing weapons and building camps.
Today's discovery of the wild boar disrupted the matter of the two of them agreeing to make arrows last night, so they can only clean up the wild boar before continuing to do it. Skinning on a rainy day was a really uncomfortable thing, and although there was wood under their feet, there was always a feeling that they couldn't stretch out, but they both had to do it.
It seems that it is really necessary to make a wooden house, one thing after another, and it is really impatient to not be able to concentrate on one thing.
After Xu Qiang prepared the matter of the bacon rack, he hurriedly helped Luo Fatzi clean up the wild boar, cut it, and smoke it on two bacon racks, but the pig offal really didn't have the energy to clean up, leaving only the pig heart, pig liver and pork kidney, and the others could only be thrown to the corner of the fence first, and then thrown out to land after the rain stopped.
Looking at the time, it was already 1:10 p.m., and the two hurriedly cooked a pot of mushroom soup and roasted a dire wolf's front leg meat to deal with the protesting belly.
After a full meal, the rain was a little lighter, and Luo Fatzi, accompanied by Xu Qiang, went to the bamboo forest together, preparing to cut a few more bamboos and come back for backup. At the moment when Xu Qiang, who was in the lead, stepped into the bamboo forest, a voice of surprise came:
"Wow, fatty, come and see, what is this?" Xu Qiang turned sideways and pointed to a pointed object on the ground for Luo Fatzi to see.
"Yikes! It's bamboo shoots, why didn't I think of it, there are still a lot of bamboo shoots after the rain, it seems that the two of us have a good mouth again, and there is a delicious food! ”
Luo Fatzi looked at the bamboo shoots, and then looked around, only to see that there were still bamboo shoots growing in a few places. The two of them happily closed their mouths, and hurriedly stepped forward to cut them all down with axes and threw them into the back basket. Then the two of them began to look for some favorite bamboo, ready to cut it back. In addition to making bamboo baskets and bamboo dustpans, I also cut thick bamboos and prepared to make two buckets.