Chapter Ninety-Seven: Survival on a Desert Island (3)

At this time, the rain as thin as cow's hair began to fall, and everyone went into the shack and huddled together to keep warm.

Ding Shuisheng said with some concern: "It's not okay to go on like this!" If it rains heavily, the fire must be extinguished. ”

Gao Sheng added a piece of firewood to the fire, thought about it and said: "Then you can only light a fire in the shack, let the team members take turns to watch the night, and they must guard the fire well, and the fire cannot be extinguished." ”

The other squad leaders agreed to go to their tents to let everyone make a fire, and arranged the order of night duty.

After everyone came back, Zhang Hong remembered something, and he quickly said: "There is another problem, we must also keep the collected firewood, otherwise if this rain continues for a few days, we will not be able to find dry firewood." ”

Several squad leaders were in a hurry, and they were talking about it, but no one had anything to do. Gao Sheng thought for a while, and said: "That's the only way, let everyone stuff more dry firewood into the shack, if not, pile it a little higher, let everyone use it as a bed, squeeze on it, and you can sleep." ”

Ding Shuisheng said with a smile: "Lao Gao, you have a very bright brain!" This method is good, that is, it stores firewood and solves the problem of cold and damp ground. ”

Everyone went separately to arrange it, and stuffed as much dry firewood as possible into the shack. Then everyone squeezed together on top of the pyre as much as possible to keep each other warm. After a while, some people fell asleep, and snoring in the camp continued.

Ding Shuisheng led the team leaders to patrol the camp, and each shack had to go in to have a look, reminding the night watchmen to keep an eye on the fire and not let the fire go out. Also pay attention to safety, do not let the fire too close to the firewood to avoid fire.

Everyone walked around, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier. Some of the shacks began to leak, and the guards took out the branches in the shacks and began to plug the leaks. Ding Shuisheng and the team leaders hurried over to help them.

Tossing until midnight, the rain gradually became lighter, and the eight captains were too tired to work, and their clothes were soaked. They went back to their huts, fetched a torch, and lit the firewood. They put a clay pot full of rainwater on top of the fire, took off their wet clothes, and took turns baking the fire to keep warm.

After a while, the water in the clay pot boiled. Everyone scooped some hot water out of the shells, and you and I drank it one by one.

After the hot water went down, everyone gradually warmed up, and Ding Shuisheng said: "Let's also arrange the order of night duty, two people in a shift, each shift for one hour." That will be until dawn tomorrow. ”

Everyone was in order, and the others fell on top of the pyre, and after a while they fell asleep. Zhang Hong, who was on duty on the first shift, continued to bake the wet clothes for the captains, and covered them with one after baking. Another person on night duty said, "Lao Zhang, you look at the fire, I'll go out and inspect it." Then he went out.

After a while, Zhang Hong dried all his clothes, he covered the sleeping man, and then sat by the fire, listening to the sound of the rain outside, and slowly became a little sleepy. He pinched his thigh a few times, forced himself to get up, saw that the fire was not getting too strong, and added a few more pieces of wood to the fire.

At this time, the branch blocking the door of the shack was removed, and the team leader who went out to patrol entered. He quickly took off his soaked clothes, roasted them next to the fire, and muttered, "This ghost weather, the rain doesn't seem to be raining much, but it won't take long for the clothes to be soaked, and it's very cold." If it's been like this for the past few days, how can we get through it? ”

Zhang Hong scooped some hot water for him and brought it to his mouth, "Lao Zhu, drink some hot water, warm up, don't freeze." ”

Lao Zhu opened his mouth and drank hot water, feeling a little better, he complained: "Lao Zhang, do you say that Mr. Zhao is a little too cold, such weather throws us on this desert island, and he doesn't give us anything, could it be that he wants to deliberately torture us?" ”

Zhang Hong thought about it carefully and said slowly: "I guess Mr. Zhao wanted to hone our will, but he didn't expect it to rain, so we suffered a lot. But I've been thinking these days, Mr. Zhao and they bought us homeless people, gave us enough food, warmed clothes, and gave us three times a month, they must have wanted to cultivate us as henchmen. ”

He added a piece of firewood and continued: "Look at Zhai Xiaoshan, no one took him seriously at first. But the boy was a sharpshooter, and seized the opportunity to make a great contribution, and was immediately rewarded handsomely, and married a beautiful mother-in-law. This is a goal for us to work towards, if we want to get money, land, and mother-in-law, we have to fight with our lives. Anyway, I thought about it, I am a homeless person who crawled out of the pile of dead people, and there is only one bad life, and if there is a war in the future, I will definitely kill the enemy desperately, maybe I will be able to get a rich reward like Zhai Xiaoshan, so that I don't have to worry about it for the rest of my life. ”

Lao Zhu put on the dried clothes, nodded and said, "You're right, we are all people who have died once, we are not even afraid of death, are we still afraid of hardship?" There are about 100 of us in total, and we will definitely be able to persevere and complete this training. ”

The two chatted for a while, and when it was almost time to change shifts, they woke up the two people in the next shift, and then fell asleep on the firewood pile.

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In the early morning, Zhang Hong woke up from the cold, he opened his eyes and saw Ding Shuisheng sitting next to the fire, pulling the firewood in the fire to make the fire a little stronger.

He sat up and said to Ding Shuisheng, "What time is it?" ”

"It's about two o'clock, why don't you sleep a little longer?"

"I woke up from the cold and couldn't sleep. Lao Ding, you said we went there to get food today? ”

"Hey~, this weather is cold and humid, and people can't stay outside for a long time. I want everyone to go out in batches to find food, and when they come back, they will drink hot water and roast the fire, so that everyone can survive the remaining six days without getting sick. ”

At this time, Gao Sheng came in from outside, and he immediately gathered around the fire and roasted his wet clothes. He paused for a while and said, "I went to my own team just now, there is a team member, he learned to weave baskets when he was a child, and suggested that we learn basket weaving with him, anyway, I can't go out on a rainy day, so everyone can find something to do." In addition, the basket can be used to hold the collected food. You can't still put shells in clothes, can you? ”

Several people agreed, they got dressed, got out of the shack, and quickly ran to the shack of the high promotion team, and got in.

Gao Sheng shouted: "Huang Fushan, come out!" ”

A young man jumped down from the pile of firewood, stood upright, and looked at everyone curiously.

Gao Shengwen said gently: "Several of our captains agreed to your suggestion, now I order you to take the team members to start weaving baskets, you need to figure out what you need, if everyone in the team learns, you have to teach the brothers of the other teams, understand?" ”

"Understood, guaranteed to complete the task!" Huang Fushan said loudly. Then he gathered a few members of the team and prepared to go out and find some branches suitable for basketry.

Gao Sheng, Zhang Hong, and Ding Shuisheng left the shack and patrolled the camp. As they passed by a shack, they heard a lot of noise inside, and they went in one by one.

The guards in the shack were discussing something excitedly, and when they saw the three people coming in, everyone stopped talking and greeted the three of them.

Ding Shuisheng asked with a smile, "What are you talking about?" The atmosphere is very warm! Speak up and listen. ”

One of the team members stood up and said, "Report, Zheng Debao of our team said that he could catch a fish, we don't believe it, and we are arguing." ”

A thin team member stood up, "Report to the captain, I am Zheng Debao, who used to be a fisherman. When I was a child, I learned many ways to catch fish, and I should be able to catch fish. ”

The three of them looked at each other a few times, all interested. Ding Shuisheng said: "Tell us, how can we catch fish?" ”

Zheng Debao said confidently: "Captain, I can make a kind of fishing cage, that is, try to make it into a slender shape, leave a small hole at both ends, put some bait in the cage, tie it with stones and throw it into the sea, and after half a day to catch it, there will definitely be fish in it." ”

The three of them were a little puzzled, and Ding Shuisheng asked, "Can this method work?" Have you ever tried it? ”

Zheng Debao replied: "Captain, I used to go fishing like this when I was a child, I can definitely do it, there is no need to experiment." ”

Gao Sheng opened his mouth and said: "Zheng Debao, our team is trying to make baskets, you follow me there, and make the cages you said you can fish with them, and then go and try it." ”

The other members of the team also asked to take a look, and Zhang Hong said loudly: "Don't make any noise, you all go, can such a small shack squeeze you?" Stay honest, wait for Zheng Debao to weave the cage, and come back to teach you. ”

The team members stopped talking, and the three of them took Zheng Debao out of the shack and sent him to the team of high ascension. Then Ding Shuisheng went to his own team, gathered the team members, and asked them to go to the beach to collect food. Ordered them to return as soon as possible and not to get frozen. The team agreed to come down and went to the beach in the rain.

Ding Shuisheng walked to the shack next to him and asked the people inside to boil more hot water for the people who went out to collect food. When they returned, they immediately went out in search of food.

Ding Shuisheng arranged the order of going out to collect food all the way, and then returned to his shack. After entering, he saw that several of the other squad leaders had woken up and were curled up on the pile of firewood and chatting.

Ding Shuisheng told him what happened just now, and everyone was very happy. Lao Zhu asked, "Lao Ding, what can we do now?" ”

Ding Shuisheng thought for a while and said: "Everyone should return to their own team, try to calm the emotions of the team members, unite everyone, and face this harsh environment together, we must persevere and complete this survival training." ”