Chapter 32: Parting Ways
This rain has been raining for two days, and it comes in a hurry, and it goes quickly! With a light breeze, the rain stopped.
A total of four planks were put on during the crowd, and now the entire camp is nearly half a meter above the ground. These fine planks were originally intended for the construction of ships, but they were the first to be used in this rainforest.
Outside the tent, there were ravines, ponds, and many streams that merged into a seasonal river, just to the right of the convoy, in the opposite direction from the forest. The convoy has to find a viable way in between.
The villagers reloaded all kinds of supplies into the wagon, and after a few days of rest, everyone and the horses were full of energy, and this time the rain came too quickly, and some materials that were afraid of water, such as hay and medicinal powder, were still affected to a certain extent.
The only misfortune is that Li Yichen is sick. Her face was flushed, her breathing was unsteady, her whole body was hot, and she had a high fever. What made Zhang Xiaohu feel unbelievable the most was that Chenyi refused to provide Li Yichen with any medicine. She actually rejected herself, which Zhang Xiaohu never thought of.
After the rain stopped, Chenyi suggested that everyone leave immediately, but Zhang Xiaohu knew that Li Yichen's current state could not go anywhere, and she needed to recuperate quietly.
The fight broke out suddenly, and Chen Yi and Zhang Xiaohu had a fierce quarrel before. With the quarrel between the two, the team naturally divided into two groups, one was Chenyi and his twenty villagers, and the other was the team of traversers led by Zhang Xiaohu. Before, Chenyi wanted to kill King Peter, but King Peter still remembered this incident, and he categorically would not follow Chenyi.
Chen Yi looked at Zhang Xiaohu coldly and said: "We must go, the monsoon is about to pass, we must rush to the beach before that, it is possible to go to Tianzhu Mountain, otherwise we will have to wait another year!" ”
Zhang Xiaohu refused to back down at all, he had to protect his companions and friends, and there was no room for maneuver in this matter. He found that the more he defended Li Yichen, Chenyi's voice and attitude became colder and colder, as if he had never known this person.
The final result of the quarrel was that Chen Yi did not leave any supplies and supplies for Zhang Xiaohu and the others, and left with the villagers, her original intention was to take away the weapons as well, but Zhang Xiaohu and the others were not idiots, in this dangerous wilderness, if there were no weapons, they would be completely equivalent to suicide.
In the shouting and scolding of Yan Cannon, none of the villagers dared to step forward and take away the weapons of several people, Chen Yi saw this, so he had to give up, and went straight to the car and left Zhang Xiaohu and the others.
"them! What is it! Yan Dacang looked at the people in the distance, and there was no stop in his mouth, and Chen Yi and the villagers, starting from the ancestors eight generations ago, scolded them over and over again!
"Lao Zhang, this Chenyi said that if we leave, we will leave us, but that's not what she said when she was looking for us! Crying again! Drugged again! Don't you just want us to take her with you? How is this inexplicable now? Zhao Zixuan was holding his sickle in his hand, and just now he was afraid that the villagers would come and snatch his treasure.
"Who knows what this psychotic guy thinks!" Zhang Xiaohu felt that he was about to be, how could there be such a capricious and emotionally changeable person.
Several people stood in the muddy muddy water, there were only two wooden planks, and on the wooden planks lay the unconscious Li Yichen, fortunately, except for King Peter, several people were very well armed, and it was not a problem to protect themselves.
But the biggest thing at the moment is that if there is another heavy rain, they will not have a tent to shelter from the rain.
"Lao Zhang, what do you think this is?" Zhao Zixuan took out a pair of tools to make a fire from his pocket and said: "I have long been prepared for no fire in the wild, so I carry something to make a fire with me, we don't have to worry about running out of fire sources, but where to go now, you still have to have an idea." ”
Zhang Xiaohu thought for a while and said: "Thank you for choosing to stand with me in this situation, I won't say much if you thank you, I think we have two ways to choose at present, one is that we go back, return to Donglu Village, get ready, we look for another direction and target to explore." The difficulty is that we don't have a carriage, and when we go back, we have to pass through the place where the python is haunted, and I don't believe that we will have such good luck to pass through smoothly; The other is that we continue to go south and find a way to go to Tianzhu Mountain by ourselves. ”
Everyone thought about it for a while and agreed with the second method, after all, it was to return to Donglu Village, and they still didn't know where to go next.
Once you've decided on your next step, you'll need to start refining your implementation.
Yan Dacang carried his gun and ran to the edge of the forest, and after waiting for most of the day, he hunted several huge prey and solved everyone's food problem.
On a whim, King Peter proposed to build a raft and float south along the Jiliu River, he was not sure how long the Jiliu River would be, so he just mentioned it, but he did not expect that everyone thought that the idea was still very good, at least it could be realized immediately.
They left King Peter to take care of Li Yichen, and the others were busy separately.
On the periphery of the forest there is a tree eight or nine meters high, which is extremely light, not only easy to cut down, but also very buoyant. In the process of cutting, Zhao Zixuan's invention of the sickle played a big role, this weapon is not only sharp, but also has a large edge area, easier to exert force, they cut down ten trees, and use the animal fur and tendons hit with the Yan cannon
It took a day and a half to build a rather delicate wooden boat, about 5 meters long, with a main sail and a secondary sail, all made of skinned animals, and a rain shelter was installed on the ship, and two oars were prepared, and a hidden warehouse filled with roasted jerky. Although it looks a little nondescript in appearance, it is fully functional and comprehensive.
They carried Li Yichen to the boat, built a bonfire, and slowly moved along with the pole of Yan's cannon. They adjusted the sails according to the direction of the wind at any time, and the ship gradually became faster.
According to the knowledge he has learned, when the ship was built, he proposed to adopt an irregular shape at the bottom of the ship, using the principle of fluid dynamics, so when the ship obtains the initial driving force, it can be driven according to the change of water flow and wind direction, so as to maximize energy and reduce the use of manpower.
Several people sat down the river on the boat, enjoying the beautiful scenery on both sides, and they all had a feeling of yesterday.
Li Yichen's condition did not improve, and occasionally there were convulsions, which made Zhang Xiaohu quite worried.
"Lao Zhang, what should I do? I think Yichen is in danger at any time! Zhao Zixuan touched Li Yichen's forehead with his hand, which was as hot as coals.
"I know, now there is no good way to cool her down except for physical methods, and the medicine has been taken away by Chenyi!" Zhang Xiaohu did not understand Chenyi's approach, but also hated it.
"This girl should be suffering from the cold!" Yan Cannon sat on the bow of the boat, looked at Zhang Xiaohu and said, "This disease is fatal!" I've encountered this situation in the barracks before, and it's really not easy to deal with it without foreigners' medicine! "During the Republic of China period in which Yan Cannon lived, wind chill was still a disease that could spread quickly and spread, and if it was not handled properly, it would really kill people.
The Black Death in medieval Europe, which was a high fever that did not go away, difficulty breathing, accompanied by bleeding, cough and other symptoms, and eventually took the lives of 100 million people, and almost destroyed the entire European civilization. It was only after this that Europeans began to realize the dangers of bacteria and viruses, and made breakthroughs in medicine, and then the discovery of antibiotics solved this stubborn disease that has plagued mankind for thousands of years.
"Uncle, do you have any good ideas?" Zhang Xiaohu felt that this arrogant, fierce, and unreasonable uncle always had some strange methods, and maybe he could come up with some good ideas this time.
Yan Dacang smiled bitterly and said, "Little doll, do you think that I am a monkey, and I can do anything in heaven and earth!" With that, his eyes wandered over the trees on the bank of the river, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he jumped into the water and swam towards the shore.