Chapter 2 Self-reliance

Xiahe Village is called Xiahe Village because it is located in the lower reaches of a river, and the river is named after the half-broken river that winds around the village, and the other side of the village is a large mountain.

Out of the village is a lush bamboo forest, high out of the village entrance, directly into the bamboo forest.

He searched in the bamboo forest for a long time, and finally found a nest of termites, pried off a large piece of anthill with a firewood knife, and put it in a sack.

I cut a few wrist-thick bamboos, cut the bamboo into a number of bamboo poles of almost equal length, cut off the branches and leaves on the bamboo poles, and cut the bamboo poles into bamboo pieces one by one, and then sharpened one end of the bamboo pieces.

After breaking all the bamboo poles, cutting them into pieces and sharpening them, he tied the bamboo pieces together with a straw rope, tied the straw rope tightly, and carried the processed bamboo pieces on his back to the river bank in the east of the village with the anthill.

On the banks of the river, there are several village women who wash their clothes with sticks in their hands, pounding on the pebbles for washing.

Washing dirty clothes by hammering with a stick made Gao Sheng's eyes light up when he just arrived at the river.

In this era, there were no soap, laundry, detergent and other detergents, and if he could make soap that every household needed, it would be impossible for him to make a fortune.

Isn't soap just alkali, he doesn't know the modern refining method, but he has a few soil methods.

Thinking like this, Gao Sheng's eyes lit up.

When the village women who were washing clothes by the river saw him coming to the river, they all looked at him, and they all covered their mouths and laughed when they thought of the scene of his flooding yesterday.

"Yo, the third child of the Gao family, what's the matter, do you want to go down to the river to fish again? Don't go into the deep water anymore, the third aunt can't save you from going ashore at her age. A village woman who was in the upper grade said jokingly.

As soon as these words came out, the village woman who was washing clothes by the river laughed even more happily.

Yesterday, Gao Sheng went down to the river to fish and was almost drowned, and it was widely spread and became a household name in Xiahe Village, becoming the laughing stock of the villagers after tea and dinner.

"Third aunt, I watched the stars at night last night, and if you don't die, there will be a blessing in the future, so you can see it." Gao Sheng replied with a nonchalant smile.

"Phew, can you still watch the stars at night with your melon skin? Auntie believes in you, and you are blessed, your family can't open the pot, but it's a pity that the maid will suffer with you. The woman, whose name was the third aunt, chirped.

This is the truth, there are more than 100 households in Xiahe Village, and everyone knows that the third child of the Gao family is so poor that even his daughter often starves.

The best way to counter rumors is to do what people say.

Gao Sheng didn't say much, put down the bamboo pieces on his shoulders, took off his linen robe three times and two times, and directly exposed his upper body, the intention was obvious, he wanted to go into the water.

The village woman washing clothes by the river might as well take off his clothes without saying a word, and the dazzling adult man in the sun made the shy expressions on the faces of the group of village women, and they didn't dare to look at it.

"The third child of the Gao family, you are shameless, quickly put on your clothes." The middle-aged woman called the third aunt twisted her head and didn't dare to look directly at Gao Sheng, so she could only call poorly.

"I'm going to take off my pants, aunts and sisters-in-law, don't peek."

"Ah, shameless!" The village woman who was doing the laundry by the river spat again.

Gao Sheng took off his pants in three times and two times, naked and ready to go into the water.

"Ah...... Bah...... Lecher. "There was still a lot of noise by the river.

"The third child of the Gao family, you are shameless, you are really ashamed."

"The third child of the Gao family, I didn't expect you to be a nasty embryo."

In the scolding on the bank of the river, Gao Sheng smiled slightly, hugged the bamboo piece, carried the termite nest on his back, and wore pants full of holes and went down to the river.

Choosing a body of water that was just knee-high, he inserted the prepared bamboo slices into the silt at the bottom of the river, one by one.

The bamboo slices are inserted into the silt one after the other, and the arrangement is shaped like two inverted "V" shapes, leaving a fist of water space between the two rows of inverted "V" shaped bamboo slices.

After inserting these two rows of inverted "V" bamboo pieces, a row of semicircular bamboo rows was inserted behind the two rows of bamboo rows to seal the back mouth.

A fish trap that can only swim in and can't swim out is completed.

There is a fist gap between the two inverted "V" bamboo slices, allowing fish to swim in.

Fish have zero IQ and are unlikely to be smart enough to escape along such a small entrance, which is a recipe for survival in the wild.

The most important thing is that this method saves time compared to fishing, and he has to keep an eye on fishing, and he doesn't have time to waste his precious time looking for food.

Since it's a trap for fishing, you have to have bait.

He took out the termite nest in the grain bag, broke off the termite nest with his hand, connected the termite nest, crushed it evenly, and sprinkled it inside.

After the fishing trap was ready, Gao Sheng began to shore, and although the village woman who was washing clothes by the river scolded low, she still didn't dare to look at it, for fear of seeing Gao Sheng, who was bare-bottomed.

Gao Sheng quietly went ashore at this moment, put on his clothes, picked up a kitchen knife and straw rope, and shouted to the village women by the river: "Aunts and sisters-in-law, don't look at it, holding their bare cheeks, they are lying on the river beach basking in the sun." ”

As a result, it attracted a burst of scolding from the women of the riverside village who were "shameless, indecent, and disciples".

"Haha." Gao Sheng laughed, patted his ass and left.

Leaving Xiaohe, he was not in a hurry to go home, as a wild survival pretend, he finally had the ability to hunt and find rations in the wild, he decided to go to the mountains to lay a few condoms.

The vegetation of the mountains and forests in the Tang Dynasty was not destroyed, and there were many kinds of animals and plants, even if you couldn't trap wild beasts, you could find some wild vegetables and wild fruits to satisfy your stomach.

With this in mind, he ascended to the back mountains of Xiahe Village, which are full of lush primeval forests and many food sources.

Along the way, he searched for the feces and footprints of wild animals, especially the water sources, and carefully observed the traces of animals.

An hour later, he had already laid seven or eight animal lassoes with the firewood knife and straw rope in his hand, and then he went down the mountain satisfied, picking wild vegetables along the way.

He followed the thorny path back to the northwest corner of a mountain, in a very secluded position beneath the rocks, where a groove formed by the rocks to protect him from the wind and rain, and several bees flew in and out of it.

This is the honeycomb that he found a few days ago when he went up the mountain to chop wood.

After determining the location of the honeycomb, Gao Sheng did not hesitate any longer, put down the wild vegetables, untied the grain bag that had been tied to his waist, and loosened the straw rope around his waist and abdomen.

Then he took off his torn Hanfu full of patches, put it on his head as a cloak, leaving the position of his eyes and a small hole for breathing, Gao Sheng risked being stung, grabbed the food bag and walked over with his waist.

When I got closer, I saw that the honeycomb under the rock was much larger than previously estimated, the size of a grain bag.

Gao Sheng was overjoyed in his heart, bit the grain bag in his mouth, and went to pick the beehive with his free hands.

Seeing him as an uninvited guest, the bee unceremoniously pounced on him with a "buzzing" horn.

His body was hidden in a wide shirt, and the bees could not sting at all, but his hands were bare, and the bees stung the intruder unceremoniously.

"......" Gao Sheng's arms were stung by bees several times, and the pain made him gasp and almost choose to escape.

Thinking that honey is the best nourishing thing, it is best to nourish Gao Yue, so he endured the sting of his arm, put the honey in the hive into the sack with the chrysalis, and then turned around and ran away with the wild vegetables.

The bees chased him for a long time, and if he hadn't covered his head, face and body with rags, he would have been stung into a pig's head.

When he went down the mountain out of breath, returned to the village, and was rushing to his own courtyard, ready to go home, put down the wild vegetables and honey, and then went to the small river to see the harvest of the fishing trap, but saw his neighbor Zhang Dazhu running towards him with an anxious face.

Zhang Dazhu is not only his neighbor, but also born a few months later than him, but also his childhood playmate, when the two become adults, Zhang Dazhu will come to his house every once in a while, and before he comes out to hunt, he will arrange Gao Yue in Zhang Dazhu's house.

"Third brother, I'm just going to look for you, it's good if you're back, go back and see, something happened to Yaya." Zhang Dazhu, who was sweating profusely, stepped forward and pulled him by the hand......