Chapter Seventy-Eight: Into the Forest
The night was peaceful, there were no wild beasts, and although the deer tried a few times to break out of the fence, they calmed down after repeated attempts in vain, and on the whole there was no major disturbance in the night.
The next day, Wang Lang walked to the fence to check on the deer, and the deer immediately became nervous when they saw humans approaching.
After a while, the deer found that the humans in front of them were just standing here, and did not make any offensive moves, and the restless deer gradually stabilized.
Wang Lang smiled, explained a few words to the fire, and returned to the tribe by himself.
Seeing Wang Lang coming back, Kong Er stepped forward and asked, "Chief, how are those deer?" ”
"It's okay, just get them something to eat later, don't starve them to death." Wang Lang said.
"What do you give them to eat?" Bark asked.
Wang Lang thought for a while and said, "Just get some grass by the river and sprinkle some salt water, this herbivore should be very easy to feed." ”
"Okay, I'll go cut some grass right now." After Bark finished speaking, he took the scythe and was about to go out.
Wang Lang stopped him and said, "Just let the women do this, and the three of you will go to the forest with me in a while." ”
"What are you going to do in the forest?" Bark asked.
Wang Lang said: "Find a thicker tree, make something to hold water, and use it for those deer to drink, the wood is too thin now." ”
"Okay, let's get ready!" Bark responded.
Wang Lang nodded, and then said to the three women: "You guys can cook now, send some to the fire later, remember to bring weapons when mowing the grass, and be sure to leave someone to observe the surroundings." ”
The women nodded, and Wang Lang asked them to prepare breakfast.
After breakfast, the four of them took their tools and left the tribe.
Although the sink can be made of wooden planks, with Wang Lang's carpentry level, there is no way to make something that does not leak, so he can only use the simplest way to find a relatively thick tree, directly hollow out the trunk, and use it as a sink.
The trees at the edge of the jungle are all small trees with the thickness of a thigh, and if he wants to find a tree that meets the requirements, Wang Lang can only go deep into the jungle to find it.
Looking at the dark dense forest, Wang Lang took a deep breath, the forest in front of him always gave him a very uneasy feeling, and he always felt that the inside of this jungle was very dangerous.
Bark looked at Wang Lang, whose face was cloudy, and asked, "Patriarch, what's wrong?" ”
Wang Lang said lightly: "It's okay, let's keep going, everyone be careful!" ”
"Chief, are we really going in?" Kong Yi looked at the forest in front of him with some fear.
"Well, let's not go too far, there are so many of us, and weapons, don't worry! It's okay. Wang Lang pretended to be calm and said.
Kong Yikong and Kong glanced at each other, the legend of this dead forest made them very afraid of this forest, and they were not so scared when they moved on the edge, but this time they wanted to walk here, and the two of them felt a little chill in their backs.
But seeing that Wang Lang and the bark had already walked towards the jungle, although they were scared, the two of them gritted their teeth and followed.
The forest and the grassland are almost two completely different worlds, where the dense trees block out almost all the sunlight, the perennial darkness and dampness, and the smell of dead branches and rotten leaves everywhere in the air is very uncomfortable.
Although they think this forest is very weird, Wang Lang and Bark are also people who have lived in the jungle for a long time, and they are relatively suitable for such an environment.
As for Kong Yi and Kong Er, the two people who have been living on the grassland, the environment is torture for them, and the hot and humid air makes them sweat profusely after not walking for long.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for Wang Lang to find a suitable target, this is a big tree surrounded by one person, with a straight trunk straight into the sky, Wang Lang estimates that this tree is at least ten meters high, and I don't know how many years it has grown.
The bark wiped the sweat from his neck, patted the trunk and said, "This tree is good, patriarch, how about it, let's cut it down early, go back early, this place is really not stayed."
Wang Lang smiled and said, "When I lived in the jungle before, I didn't hear you complain, why are you complaining after a while." ”
"That's different, I haven't lived in the grassland before, and now I know that it's uncomfortable to stay in this place in the forest." Bark laughed.
Wang Lang knew that this was the so-called thrift to luxury, and it was difficult to go from luxury to thrift, so he didn't care, wiped his sweat and said: "Everyone work hard, we'll go back after finishing this." ”
For this kind of big tree, how to cut down is skillful, if cut indiscriminately, it is easy to cause casualties.
Wang Lang asked Kong Yi to put down the back basket containing the tools, took out an axe, and said to several people: "In the future, when cutting this kind of big tree, you must cut a big gap, the tree will fall in the direction of the gap, and when you perceive that the tree is about to fall, you must not stand in the direction of the gap, this must be remembered." ”
Although people don't know what the principle is, they also know that if they are hit by such a thick tree, they will definitely be smashed into a pile of meat puree, and everyone listens carefully to Wang Lang's words.
Wang Lang spat in the palm of his hand and swung the axe towards the trunk of the tree.
The tall trees look as straight as pines, but their trunks are as fragile as poplars, and they fly when you cut them down with an axe.
After an hour of rotation of the four of them, the tree, which had grown for an unknown amount of time, finally made a rattle and came to the end of its life.
Hearing this sound, Kong Er, who was cutting down the tree, hurriedly ran to the side with the others, watching the big tree fall little by little from a distance.
In the process of such a huge tree falling, a large number of branches were broken by the force of the fall.
There was a loud "boom", and the tree trunk fell to the ground, startling countless birds.
Seeing that the big tree was cut down safely, Wang Lang breathed a sigh of relief, such a big tree could not be transported by these few people, Wang Lang could only choose to process it on the spot.
Wang Lang asked people to use a saw to sawn the trunk into small sections of about four meters, and only four meters were used for trees of more than ten meters, although it was a bit wasteful, but the most worthless thing in this place was the tree, and no one cared about this meaningless problem.
The efficiency of the saw was much faster than that of an axe, and in less than half an hour, a four-meter-long trunk was sawed off.
After sawing the wood, the people began to make sinks with axes and chisels according to Wang Lang's request, and the tinkling of the tapping echoed in the silent deep forest.
Wang Lang's requirements for the sink do not need to be exquisitely made, as long as it does not leak and can be used, it is considered a success.
The noisy knocking sound drowned out the surrounding sounds, so that Wang Lang and the others did not notice that under the thick dead grass and fallen leaves, danger was approaching them step by step.