Chapter 15: Jungle Exploration
Continue to dig out a pile of soil to be used to fire tiles, at this time Cheng Ran thought of what to use to make a mold, and considered using wood, but wood is not suitable for making tile molds, and the production time is too long, if it is a knife, it may be a good choice, and I thought of bamboo, after all, bamboo only needs to be broken from the middle and then processed a little before it can be used.
Thinking of this, Cheng Ran took action and prepared to move towards the bamboo forest.
"I've been here for too long, when are you going to take me out for a walk?" Li Yuxin said with a delicate expression
Cheng Ran smiled and said, "Okay, I'm just going to take you to a place." ”
Hearing that Cheng Ran agreed to go out with him, Li Yuxin was so happy that she could finally go out for a walk.
"What are you waiting for, let's go." Li Yuxin couldn't wait, put down the mat in her hand and was about to leave.
Cheng Ran picked up the stone axe and signaled that she was ready.
This time Cheng Ran didn't plan to walk from the woods, he planned to bypass the beach from the beach, compared to the dangerous jungle, the beach is much safer, after all, there is no shelter, and it is easier to find the crisis.
With the shadow of the last attack, Cheng Ran was careful every time she entered the jungle, especially this time with Li Yuxin, she didn't allow any mistakes.
Cheng Ran's small actions were all seen in Li Yuxin's eyes, and he was still a little sweet in his heart when he was moved.
Li Yuxin didn't say anything along the way, just quietly followed Cheng Ran's side.
After half an hour of walking around the island, the two came to the bamboo forest before.
Along the way, Li Yuxin's breath was very chaotic, and at the beginning of her serious illness and the fact that she hadn't exercised so much for a long time, she was a little unbearable.
"How's it going, eat the fruit." Cheng Ran said with concern
"No more"
Li Yuxin supposedly supported her knees, her upper body was bent over, her face was flushed, sweat was left along her neck, and what was even worse was that her shirt was unbuttoned with two buttons, and some of the scenery was also looming with the ups and downs of her breathing.
Cheng Ran originally just wanted to care about Li Yuxin, but as a result, this beautiful scenery was in full view, and at this moment Cheng Ran had only one thought in his mind: This rabbit is so white and big.
When she was dying, Cheng Ran suddenly realized that there was something wrong with her behavior, just a casual offense just now, and reason told her that she shouldn't go on like this, so she quickly withdrew her gaze, turned her head to look away, and tried to stay calm, pretending that nothing had happened.
Li Yuxin didn't seem to notice the situation just now, and was still adjusting her breathing at this time, so that her body could slowly adapt to the intensity of such exercise.
After gasping for a while, Li Yuxin's breathing began to become even, the flushing on her face was fading little by little, and her body was no longer as uncomfortable as before.
Cheng Ran was relieved to see Li Yuxin getting better, walked to the side of the bamboo with a diameter of about 20 centimeters, and began to cut it from the bottom.
The material of bamboo is harder than wood, so Cheng Ran had to cut a notch from the bottom first, and then slowly cut it round and round, after all, the stone axe is not as sharp as the iron axe.
Cheng Ran put a bamboo and began to cut off the required bamboo knots from the middle, and began to make the mold of the tiles on the spot, first took the largest bamboo knot, and the previous practice of cutting bamboo, and so on After the bamboo knot was removed, it was divided into two from the middle, because the internodes in the middle of the bamboo {Note: the part between the bamboo knots are called bamboo} is relatively hard, and it can not be used for chopping, I am afraid that it will be difficult to deal with the back, so I can only find a stone next to it and knock it slowly, and try to maintain the integrity of the internodes. In this way, when the tile is taken away, it is a complete semicircle, and the two ends also need to be corrected, so that a lot of unnecessary labor can be reduced.
When Cheng Ran separated a section of bamboo, he found that it took less than five minutes to put a piece of bamboo, and it took nearly ten minutes to divide the bamboo section into two.
Shaking his head and smiling bitterly, he began to trim the extra half of the bamboo at both ends, leaving only a distance of about one to two centimeters to find a suitable bamboo knot, so that he didn't have to cut a lot of bamboo to compare them one by one.
After getting two suitable pieces of bamboo, the two began to walk back, a little bored on the way, the two began to chat, the experience of the past few days has increased the relationship between the two a lot, although the two have not officially mentioned, but it is obvious that the two have developed a deep bond of life and death.
Li Yuxin's attitude towards Cheng Ran is no longer the same as that of treating strangers before, and sometimes she will smile and joke with Cheng Ran.
"Have you ever thought that one day you will end up on a desert island?" Li Yuxin asked
"Didn't think about it...... Normal people, who would think about these problems......" Cheng Ran smiled bitterly and continued, "This kind of luck that is more difficult than winning the lottery of five million can also be met by me." ”
"I'm not the same, I'm glad I have you, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to survive when I'm at sea."
Li Yuxin frowned and said: "If it weren't for your encouragement and help, I might have died when the plane crashed, and I owe you several lives." ”
Cheng Ran waved his hand and said: "You don't owe me, now we are surviving on this island together, everyone helps each other and supports each other, and the only goal is to survive, until someone finds us." ”
Speaking of rescue, both of them seemed very depressed, so many days have passed since the plane crash, if there was rescue, they would have been rescued a long time ago, but after so many days, as for the rescue, both of them no longer have any hopes and illusions.
The atmosphere was a little depressed for a while, and in order to change the mood of the two, this time Li Yuxin took the initiative to find a topic.
"Do you think there will be an indigenous tribe on this island besides us?"
Cheng Ran thought for a while and said: "This shouldn't be done, we walked almost half of this island, the overall look is not very big, it takes about three hours to walk from one end to the other, it is estimated that this island is about four kilometers, such a small island should not be lived here." ”
As she was talking, suddenly Li Yuxin pointed to the sea level not far away, and said excitedly: "Cheng Ran, look at it." ”
Cheng Ran looked in the direction of Li Yuxin's finger, and saw that about two hundred meters away, a large three-masted sailing ship appeared on the sea.
"Look, it's a ship!" Li Yuxin was so happy that she almost jumped up, being able to see a boat on the sea, which meant that there was a great possibility that she and Cheng Ran would be saved.