Chapter Twenty-Five: A Corner of the Middle
There's a big lock on the chest, and I can't knock it off yet, or I'll get the Bigfoot back if it's too loud, so I'll have to find another way.
"Zhou Bo, if you don't forget it today, let's go back first, so as not to have more accidents, and wait until the day when the situation is better, and then come back." Yun Wen suggested.
"Okay, anyway, there is no second person on the island, let's go back first, and it's too late to come back." I said.
So I pushed the box back into the earth cave, covered it with dirt and fallen leaves, and then took Yun Wen towards the old house of Living Spring, fortunately, there was nothing wrong with this one, perhaps because it was hidden behind many tall trees, and there was a cliff next to it, and the Bigfoot did not think about this barren area.
"Coming back?" Song Bailu hurriedly came over, and Song Yingchun also walked out of the house, and when she saw Zhang Yunwen also coming back, she immediately snorted coldly.
"Zhang Yunwen, are you embarrassed to come back? Are you still going to rely on your face to deceive men's feelings? Do you want to be embarrassed? Song Yingchun couldn't hide the words in his mouth, and said immediately.
Yun Wen took two steps back, I grabbed her, put her hand on my elbow, and said, "Song Yingchun, how about her, it's your business, take care of your own business." ”
Song Yingchun saw that I was still protecting Yunwen, and stomped her feet angrily.
I soothed Yunwen and called the other girls back to the campfire for a small meeting.
First of all, I told everyone what happened to Yun Wen and me, and the two girls also looked uneasy when they heard it, this is to achieve the goal, so I continued: "That guy is about 2.3m tall, weighs more than 300 pounds, has good physical strength, insight, agility, and strength are all top-notch, and is a tough hunter, so I suggest that everyone stay in this range recently, easily don't make a big noise, don't run out of this area, and wait for this juncture, and then try to go out to find out the situation." ”
The girls nodded, and then Song Yingchun asked, "Hey, didn't you say you found a treasure chest?" Leave it alone? ”
"Anyway, I can't lose it, just put it first, and then open it when the time is right, now it's too loud to smash the lock, and it's too dangerous around, and there are only four of us on the island, so we can't lose it." I said.
When the matter was finished, everyone went to rest and left the night watchman behind, which was a turning point for the time being.
Then, everyone obeyed my request, and stayed within the living spring area, not taking a step through the fence, lest the Bigfoot monster find out the traces, except for picking up some firewood, I basically didn't go out, and when I did, I was tiptoeing, even crawling forward, so that even if I was alerted, I would feel that it was some insignificant wild thing, and would not attract the attention of Bigfoot.
Most of the time, we were idle around the house, doing what we could, for example, I made a fence for the wheat field so that the wild beasts would not trample the field at night, and then I watered the wheat field to promote growth, and Song Yingchun also made the earthen bowl and the large funnel I asked for and the matching earthen pot during this time, I took advantage of the situation to make a wooden support for the big funnel, but it was really not strong and shaky.
Song Yingchun has a bit of ability, using a saw to make a tenon between the wooden stake and the wooden strip I saw, and in this way, it will be fixed a lot, and she also knows how to use wooden nails to add a layer of fixation, and the whole bracket will be stable.
After getting these, I filled the funnel with fine sand and coarse sand according to the method used by the coast, and then when I wanted to use it, I got some activated carbon, and made it in proportion, and covered the lower head of the funnel with a cloth, so that a larger filter was done, this kind of earthen pot-shaped funnel filter, which can filter a large amount of sea salt at a time, which is about 20 times the amount filtered in the earthen bowl before.
With this productivity, fine salt is no longer a luxury in our place, and Song Yingchun also specially baked a square earthen pot box with a lid, and engraved a small pattern of hellokitty on it to specially hold salt.
The wound on my scalp was also applied to Song Bailu's herbs, and gradually improved, Yun Wen's condition did not worsen, and in order not to be disliked by everyone, she always gave everyone a serious hand, helped Bailu cook, helped to roast in spring, asked seriously, and would review and study by herself at night.
They will also come to help me do some farm work, help with watering, help look at the land situation, the development of sprouts, and help me remember in detail every day.
She not only needs my protection, but at the same time she also wants to try whether everyone will recognize her without my protection, and obviously it has been a little effective, Bai Lu's evaluation of her has changed, and although Yingchun still scolds her for being a vase, she is not as sinister as she used to be, so bitter.
After the production of this large filter, I occasionally secretly went to the beach to get seawater and came back to get salt, the amount was more, and the ingredients dared to use this seasoning, especially under the cooking skills of Bailu, every meal made the mouth satisfied, extremely enjoyable, but because I couldn't go out, the vegetarian vegetables became less and less, and gradually began to eat only crab meat and clam soup at each meal, and there were no extra accessories.
In addition, those snake skins were also made of needles with bone spurs, and the threads of the clothes were unwrapped in the spring, and the needles were threaded into some practical bags, which were kept for later use, and some snake skins were dried as medicine.
Before I knew it, a week had passed, and during this time I would hear loud movements outside, but the frequency was decreasing, and I was going to investigate the situation so that the lockdown could be lifted.
I walked out of the tall woods and observed the footprints on the land, the footprints were blurred, apparently they were left three days ago, there were no new ones, I continued to observe, and when I got to the very front, I found the latest footprints, but it was also a day ago, but it was already far, far away from where we were, and it seemed that it had given up looking, and was just wandering around the area where it usually was, as long as we were careful not to be bumped into by it.
I went back and informed everyone.
"Zhou Bo, we only have half a crab leg left, but there are still three dried fish, and the food is urgent, should we find a way to go to the beach to find something to eat first?" Yun Wen asked.
"The food is enough for the time being, I think we should go and see the treasure chest first, otherwise there will really be a bad thing and someone will take it away, and our loss will be too great, what do you say?" Song Yingchun said.
Indeed, I have been thinking about this treasure chest for a long time, and this week, I have often wondered what is in it, thinking that the weight may be gold jewelry, maybe some precious jewelry, in short, there are also thoughts, which man will not be curious about some treasures?
"Take the dried fish away, put on the backpack, let's go and explore the treasure, as for the crab meat hidden in the hard shell, the beast will not covet it, my plan is, first go together to see what is in the treasure chest, take out the useful one, and then we will walk around together to find food, it will be more convenient for four people to act together." I said.
The girls sounded reasonable, and besides, they had not gone out for a long time, but only in a corner, like the frog at the bottom of the well, and the prisoners in the prison, so they all looked forward to going out for a walk, so they should let it go.
After going out, only Yun Wen remembered the way back to the dirt hole, so we followed her all the way to the narrow dirt hole, gently picked up the soil, took out the box, and was full of ten thousand expectations, and we wanted to open it to see what was inside.
However, the lock is firm, the stone can't be broken, the bayonet can't be pried open, and when I was worried, Song Yingchun walked up, pushed me away, pulled out a few of my hair, put my ears against the lock, and fiddled with my hands, I didn't expect her to understand this, she groped back and forth for a long time, and was more patient than ever.
Then, with a lot of effort, I heard a movement in the lock, and the big lock was opened...
And when we opened the treasure chest, we were really dumbfounded!