Chapter 10 The Road to Heaven
At this moment, a voice passed over their heads, Yang Bo raised his head violently, and an unknown bird was flying forward!
"Birds?"
"Sparrows?"
Yang Bo and Tie Niu glanced at each other, and infinite hope suddenly surged in their hearts!
In the past few days, Iron Bull has been trying hard to find any food to eat, but unfortunately he has been disappointed every time, not to mention rats, not even beetles.
But now there's a bird here!
The two of them followed the bird towards the back of the mountain with eager eyes, and suddenly something called hope swelled up in their hearts, and even forgot the intense hunger.
"Brother, I'm sure I'll be able to find something to eat in front!" Tie Niu leaned down and carried Yang Bo, who no longer insisted on staying alone, on his back.
Yang Bo didn't speak, and patted Tie Niu's shoulder to cheer him up.
(Many years later, Tie Niu told others about Yang Bo's predicament: "Just when my eldest brother and I thought that our life was cut off, fortunately this unknown finch guided us, I thought it was God's guidance at the time, but my eldest brother didn't think so......")
The story became more and more wicked, and later it became such a version: just when Yang Bo and Tie Niu were dying and had nothing to do. Suddenly, a thunderclap exploded in the sky, and there was a faint sound of fairy music in mid-air! Then a flock of colorful birds swarmed, holding up the bodies of Yang Bo and Tie Niu and flying to a table full of chickens, geese, fish and ducks, and delicacies, and Yang Bo and the two of them were freed from their predicament...... )
The words of export to domestic sales came back to the ears of Yang Bo and Tie Niu, and the two of them were silent for a long time......
After rounding a few dirt hills, some green began to appear in front of him, and Iron Bull cheered and quickened his pace.
Even if you can't find anything else to eat, these weeds will be able to deal with it for a while. Unexpectedly, just after turning the foot of the mountain, the scenery in front of me suddenly opened up, and the dense thorns and trees on the high slope were intertwined, making it difficult for people to walk an inch. This mountainous area is very large, and it is connected to several steep hills behind, and there is still an indescribable silence and depression as far as the eye can see, and some tall trees rise from the low thorn bushes, blocking most of the scorching sun, which makes the hungry and thirsty two a little more comfortable.
Tie Niu cleared a small area and helped Yang Bo to sit down under a tree. Yang Bo grinned and touched the wound on his back, and couldn't help but raise his head and scream, an unknown bird above his head was frightened and flapped its wings and flew away.
"What's that?" Yang Bo pointed to a few green fruits on the low bushes behind him and asked, Tie Niu looked up for a long time, and then found a few fallen fruits on the ground and put them in his mouth to taste.
"It should be the firethorn fruit" Tie Niu hurriedly spit out the fruit in his mouth, "The firethorn fruit, also known as the army food, is also called water tea there by us." Ah, phew, what an astringent ......"
Yang Bo was very disappointed: "Can you eat it?" ”
"It's not time yet, it's red after autumn, and now it's bitter and astringent and can't be eaten" Tie Niu shook his head, "Why don't my brother rest here, I'll find those that can be eaten"
Yang Bo nodded, sat under the shady tree, and a wave of tiredness came irresistibly. He just closed his eyes and took a nap, and went to a Cantonese-style roast goose restaurant in his dream, and when Tie Niu came back, Yang Bo's saliva flowed all over the ground.
The Iron Ox carried some plucked vines, and there were all kinds of wild fruits on them, but unfortunately most of them were green.
"This is a snake grape, and that one is called a black rice fruit," Tie Niu carefully plucked a few bunches of snake grapes from the vine and handed them over.
Yang Bo didn't care about being polite, and endured the sourness of the wild fruit and chewed it
"It's sour, my teeth are about to fall out" Yang Bo didn't forget to mumble a few words while eating, he really wanted to continue to go back to his dream to eat roast goose.
"Let's eat some indiscriminately first, and when we get to the front, let's see if we can catch some birds, even if it's to dig out some eggs," Tie Niu smiled at Yang Bo while eating, revealing a mouthful of black teeth.
"So what are you waiting for?" Yang Bo threw away the few black rice fruits left in his hand, in this case, who could let him eat a big meal, let him make a promise.
The mountain road ahead has become more rugged, and it looks like they are about to enter the hinterland of the mountainous area soon, and in Yang Bo's memory, the terrain of Henan is flat, so they are likely to have stepped out of the boundary of Henan now.
After climbing over a few hills, a steep mountain stretching for dozens of miles stretched in front of them, and the only reassuring thing was that the mountain looked lush and lush with vegetation. In later generations, Yang Bo liked to watch some programs such as survival on a desert island, and he was not very afraid of entering the dense forest, but for the sake of safety, he still ordered Tie Niu to fold two short sticks to defend himself.
The mountains here are steep and inaccessible, and there are a lot of creatures along the way, and birds often fly by, which makes the two even more excited. In order to climb over this high mountain, Tie Niu collected a lot of things such as grass seeds, insects, etc., and only started to set off after making sufficient preparations, Yang Bo even tasted the famous dish of roasted grasshoppers for the first time in his life, and the taste was really good!
After walking three or four miles further, the two of them suddenly heard the sound of gurgling water?
Yang Bo threw away the crutches in his hand and ran forward, where there is water, there is food, this is Bell's famous saying in the wilderness!
The two followed the sound of the water for a long time, and then realized that they had reached the foot of the mountain. The scenery in front of him suddenly changed, a small waterfall fell down in the tall mountain rocks, forming a small waterhole at the foot of the mountain, the waterhole is not big, Yang Bo didn't have time to look carefully, and the iron bull who came over had already shouted, "There is a stone chicken!" Big brother, big brother! ”
Yang Bo suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed......
In any case, the hardest time is over!
The iron ox threw himself into the pool, his target was those fat but somewhat stupid stone chickens, there were some silver fish scales in the sparkling waves, the hungry two people worked together, caught a few fat stone frogs, and a dozen small fish of inches long, with a bunch of broken branches on the fire roasted, looking at the food that kept dripping with oil, the two of them screamed like a drum, and they didn't know how much saliva they swallowed.
After a while, a burst of aroma came to his face, where could Tie Niu endure it? Regardless of grabbing the branch with his hot hands and gnawing on it, Yang Bo's speed was not slow, although the stone chicken and the small fish were a little charred, and the two of them almost swallowed their tongues.
The stone chicken is sweet, the small fish is crispy, and the black iron ox with a mouth full of black smiles at Yang Bo, while not forgetting to put his greasy fingers in his mouth and sip, as if he is still reminiscing about the taste of meat.
Yang Bo fell to the ground satisfied, some tears were flowing in his eyes, and the feeling of being full was so beautiful!
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The afterglow of the setting sun had begun to appear in the clouds, and Yang Bo felt the need to find a place to settle down first, who knew what beasts would be in the mountains at night, and the two of them cleared the surrounding bushes and cleared a clearing.
The sky gradually darkened, Yang Bo and Tie Niu soaked in the waterhole for a long time, a layer of lice corpses floated on the water, and occasionally a few small fish were choked by the black water and floated up with their white bellies.
Yang Bo hung his tattered clothes on the treetops to dry, and the two of them sat bare-bottomed by the campfire, "Tie Niu, help me clean up the suppuration place" Yang Bo pointed to the wound behind his back and said to Tie Niu, in this era of lack of medical treatment, a little wound infection is likely to have serious consequences.
After the iron bull was cleaned up, Yang Bo found a big fish bone, peeled some bark and kneaded it into silk thread, and handed it to the iron bull, "Come, sew it up!" ”
"Why don't I go find some herbs?" Tie Niu was obviously a little hesitant, making it a little difficult for him to do this.
"Let's do it, my brother can withstand it" Yang Bo shook his head with pain on his face, the wound on his back was a little deep, and it was difficult to heal on his own
Although Yang Bo found a branch to bite, after a while, his scream of ghosts and wolves came from near Shitan......
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