After Mo Lan calmed the old man's emotions, he returned to his dilapidated thatched house, looked around and tried to find some tools, but this family was too poor to find any tools that could be held in his hands, Mo Lan turned around and walked into the grass shed, gnawed a raw sweet potato, picked up the flint on the ground, picked up the firewood knife from the corner, picked up the kitchen knife on the board, and walked towards the meeting place.

When Mo Lan arrived there, there were only three or four people, some of them carried ropes in their hands, some carried baskets on their backs, and some carried firewood knives in their hands, and they waited for half an hour at the end of the day, and all the people who were willing to go up the mountain had arrived, Mo Lan divided them into three teams, the tallest person in each team was the captain, and the smallest person was the deputy captain, each captain stood at the head of the line, and each deputy captain stood at the back of the team, and the morale of the team increased instantly, because they had never been an official, although it was only a small captain, But on behalf of the village chief, they were very excited about their recognition, and Mo Lan led them towards the mountain.

Along the way, the three captains were holding firewood knives or sickles to clean the barricades in front, Mo Lan did not clean with them, because she knew that she had to maintain her physical fitness and be the head of this team, and she walked with sharp-eyed deputy captains, and when she saw a snake crawling in front of her, she exclaimed: "Village chief, there is a snake in front"

Mo Lan raised his hand to signal the team to stop advancing, looked in the direction of the deputy captain's finger and whispered:

"Don't move, see if the snake is running up the mountain or down the mountain, if it is running up the mountain, it means that the mountain is a snake nest, if it runs down the mountain, it will be fine"

It was the first time the villagers had heard such a statement, but they didn't make a sound, they all looked nervously at the direction where the snake was crawling, and watched the snake crawl in the direction of the mountain, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Mo Lan led the villagers to continue walking up the mountain, and after walking for about half an hour, one of the team leaders told Mo Lan:

"Village chief, we are now walking on the periphery of the mountain, and if we go a little further in, we will enter the depths of the mountain, usually we can pick some mushrooms at the foot of the mountain, but sometimes we can't tell the difference, many people have eaten toadstools and died......"

"Okay, I know, now all the staff stop here to rest, the three squad leaders and the three deputy captains, let's come here to discuss the next arrangements."

The three squad leaders informed the village chief's arrangement to each team member, and then walked to the village chief with the three deputy captains, waiting for the village chief's instructions.

"We are now on the periphery of the mountain, and it is still safe at present, but if we want to go into the mountain to find food, we must go to the depths of the mountain, we need to make some preparations to ensure everyone's safety, the purpose of this time is mainly to dig traps, so the villagers with shovels, rest in place to maintain their strength, bring machetes and backpacks, and the captain of each team will lead them to find some thorns around, or something sharp that can stab the beast, and if you can't find it, you will cut some thumb-thick branches and sharpen it, We can only stay in this place for half an hour, so everyone should hurry up and prepare, and after half an hour we will set off into the mountains. ”

After several captains arranged things according to what Mo Lan said, the deputy captain of the team stayed behind, and they were the villagers with backpacks and machetes who scattered to find what Mo Lan asked them to find. Mona estimated that after half an hour they would go into the mountains, and in half an hour they would enter the depths of the mountains, and then it would take them about an hour and a half to dig traps, and when they returned, they were afraid that it would be dark, and the night in the mountains would be more dangerous than the day. Mo Lan didn't plan to stay overnight in the mountains.

Half an hour later, all three teams returned, and their baskets were full. This made Mo Lan's heart feel a little more steady. He turned around and led the villagers to the heart of the mountain. I didn't walk as I walked, but I kicked and kicked the dirt in the ground, and I stretched out my hand to twist it to analyze the humidity of the land.

Since Mo Lan entered the investment bank, he often participated in the company's outward bound training, accumulated a lot of knowledge of survival in the wild, relying on the humidity of the land, it didn't take long to find the water source, the river water is crystal clear, can shine the shadow of people, those strange shapes of large and small pebbles are lying quietly in the river, Mo Lan slowly walked forward, trying to find the feces of wild beasts in the surroundings, the villagers saw Mo Na's cautious appearance, and couldn't help but get nervous.

"What's wrong with the village chief? But what's the problem? ”

The three squad leaders were very panicked, and couldn't help but ask Mo Lan, Mo Lan thought about it and told them to let the three squad leaders arrange it to go down in groups of five people to look for animal feces around the river, and if they found it, come over and inform Mo Lan, don't exclaim.

In this way, the villagers scattered along the banks of the river, and no one spoke, quietly looking for dung, as if they were looking for some treasure. As the saying goes, there are many people with great strength, and after a while, three groups found animal feces near the river, Mo Lan followed them, these three kinds of feces Mo Lan only knew two of them, one kind of feces The characteristics of one kind of feces are very obvious is the feces of animals like sheep, because the feces of sheep are spherical and highly recognizable; The other kind of dung is somewhat like the dung of a cow, or the dung of a large animal like a cow, and the dung is mixed with some yellow grass that has not had time to digest, and a lump of poop is so large that the small animal cannot pull it out for a few days; As for the last kind of feces that were white-gray in color, and the feces were mixed with some animal hair, Mo Lan was a little unsure whether he had seen this kind of feces.

However, these few pieces of feces alone provide her with a lot of information, and usually before the afternoon or evening, the animals will come out to the river to drink, so they need to hurry, otherwise they will be killed by the animals.

Mo Lan arranged for three captains to lead, and took the shovel out and began to dig a pit by the river, all the things in the back basket before were poured on the ground, and some arranged for those who were weaker to pick up some slender branches and withered leaves nearby, and the three deputy captains were arranged to go to a tree a little farther away to watch the wind, so as to warn them when they saw a wild beast coming to drink, Mo Lan followed some other people to help lift the soil in the pit, and when the people digging the pit were tired, the people with ropes and baskets went down to replace themMo Lan arranged for them to take turns to go to the river to drink water to replenish their strength, and those who drank water threw thorny thorns, sharp gravel, and sharpened branches into the trap, and covered the branches with branches on the trap and sprinkled them with fallen leaves before leading the villagers away.