068 Foraging(1)
After Zhang Xiangyang was blind and rolled around, he was too tired to do it.
The right air output has been out for so long, and the body that has just eaten dinner seems to want to rest.
After exercising for almost an hour, Zhang Xiangyang walked towards the door of his home.
At this time, I thought of the owl, so I went to the side of the house and took a look.
As soon as he walked to the side, Zhang Xiangyang saw four luminous bodies facing him in the shadows, like the light of a flashlight!
"Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! ”
"Woo~Woo...... Mutter! Mutter! ”
The calls of the two owls were different, the white one was hurried and nervous, and the gray one was simply frightened.
Seeing another owl appear, Zhang Xiangyang slowly took two steps back.
The gray owl continued to nest in the grass when it saw this, and the white owl continued to scream, its outstretched wings making it look even larger, and its sharp hooked beak kept opening and closing.
At night, the owl's call is terrifying.
The sleep quality of the people in the room was not very high, and while Zhang Xiangyang retreated, Wu Sang quickly ran out.
"Xiangyang!" When Wu Sang ran out, he quickly looked left and right, and shouted Zhang Xiangyang's name at the same time.
"I'm fine, be quiet." Zhang Xiangyang responded to Wu Sang softly, telling Wu Sang not to be so nervous.
Wu Sang's voice made the white owl even more uneasy, at this time it flapped its wings quickly, its huge body flew directly above the house, and its cry was even more torn, like the sound of a ghost.
Zhang Han and the others ran out with spears, and when they saw the white owl on the roof, they quickly gathered together.
"Why another one?"
Zhang Xiangyang looked at the very beautiful owl, "I don't know, you guys go in first, I'm watching here, they should be frightened, they were very quiet when I was here alone just now." ”
At this time, Zhang Xiangyang had already seen in the moonlight the place in front of the gray owl, where there was a dead mouse that had eaten half of it.
Not only that, but the pieces of meat that the gray owl didn't eat before also disappeared, and they should have been eaten by the two owls.
Since he is willing to eat, then many problems are not a problem, and Zhang Xiangyang is most worried that the owl will go on a hunger strike.
It is not that they commit suicide on a hunger strike, but that many animals will not eat when they are nervous.
Seeing this, Wu Sang and the others all returned to the house and handed over the matter here to Zhang Xiangyang to deal with.
When Zhang Han went back, he handed the spear in his hand to Zhang Xiangyang, "Take it for self-defense." ”
"Well, thank you." Zhang Xiangyang took the spear, he did not reject this kind of guarded mentality, after all, there was a frightened carnivorous bird of prey opposite.
After a confrontation between the two sides, the white owl flew out quickly and left the dangerous place.
The gray owl could not leave, and several times tried to spread its wings and fly, but fell to the ground, and finally could only keep walking on the cliff, making a wail.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiangyang went back to the house and took a few pieces of jerky, and threw them near the bird's nest after coming out.
The owl has been nesting in the haystack, not the bird's nest made by Zhang Han, and has always kept a distance from Zhang Xiangyang.
Zhang Xiangyang walked in front of the dead mouse and looked at the mouse the size of his own shoes.
It was indeed the kind of tailless rat I had encountered before, fatter than ordinary rats, without a tail, with a somewhat round head and large eyes.
I remember the last time I encountered a swarm of rats during the day, when these rats were eating the corpse of that human, and their eyes were glowing green.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiangyang felt that the eyes of these mice with reflective eyes were somewhat similar to the eyes of owls, they were both very large and round.
The two are certainly not closely related, nor are they one animal, but should be useful functions that animals living in the same area will develop when they adapt to this environment, depending on environmental factors.
"Jackal...... Wolf...... Python...... Mouse...... Owls, which are mostly nocturnal animals, or hunters that are active in the morning and dusk, have good vision. ”
Zhang Xiangyang is not a zoologist, he can't analyze anything useful, and his meagre knowledge lacks material that can be used as arguments.
Since the owl eats mice, it is a useful animal for Zhang Xiangyang, so Zhang Xiangyang hopes that the owl will get better soon.
Soon, Zhang Xiangyang returned to the house to sleep.
Knowing that there was an owl keeping vigil outside, everyone quickly fell asleep peacefully.
The next morning
Zhang Xiangyang felt movement around him, and when he opened his eyes and sat up, he saw Wan Jing just getting up from the haystack and getting dressed.
When sleeping, everyone basically takes off their coats and only keeps the clothes inside.
Wan Jing currently only has a coat and a chest, and the women's shirt, which was originally between a coat and underwear, had been decisively taken off by her last time when Zhang Xiangyang and An Ran came back from injury, and she was torn apart to bandage the two.
In a period of lack of cloth and clean disinfection tools, this was the most reasonable option at the time.
Considering emergencies, Wu Sang's sleeping place is closest to the outside, and at the same time, it is also the easiest to get up and deal with various emergencies.
The rest of the men and women slept separately, on a haystack that was not very large, with men in a row and women in a row.
Because of Zhang Xiangyang's digging of the pit, the man's sleeping place accumulated a lot of soil, and he happened to make a soil slope to pillow.
The sleeping place is a mountain-shaped structure, but the middle place is not high, only more than ten centimeters.
Zhang Xiangyang quickly looked at Wan Jing with an embarrassed expression.
Wan Jing was very natural, and said with a smile: "Don't be so nervous, you make me feel embarrassed like this, and it's not the first time I've seen it, it's normal things that make you seem to be very ambiguous." ”
Zhang Xiangyang can quickly adapt to the natural environment, but it is not so easy to adapt to this kind of thing, and he does not have Zhang Han's mentality of feeling nothing.
"Hmm." Quickly stood up and walked out, Zhang Xiangyang changed the topic, and said while putting on shoes with his back to Wan Jing: "I'll take a look outside." ”
Wan Jing also got up to cook, and sat on the edge of the earthen bed and put on her socks at this time, "I'm busy at home today, and I don't know what to do outside of cooking, do you have any arrangements?" ”
Zhang Xiangyang said strangely: "Isn't Wu Sang at home today?" ”
Wan Jing is very helpless, this guy is too dull in many places!
Stupid and low EQ!
Fortunately, except for this stupid person, the rest of the people have very high emotional intelligence.
Wan Jing said naturally: "Yes, but I want to hear your opinion, I can't always let people talk, I should also find something to do." ”
Zhang Xiangyang thinks that Wan Jing, like Lu Shiqin, wants to do more things for everyone, this kind of thing is a good thing, Zhang Xiangyang thought about it and said quickly.
"In addition to cooking and weaving, you also accompany An Ran to do something, understand the role and types of plants, you will definitely use these when cooking in the future, what can be eaten and what can't be eaten, haven't you been doing this kind of thing all the time? Let's do this well first, don't be so anxious about anything else, and there is nothing special to do recently. ”
In addition to going out to collect supplies, the most urgent thing is to dig a pit.
Compared with digging pits, learning from Enron, the ability to go out to find edible plants instead of Enron in the future is more in line with the current needs.
Wan Jing nodded, "Okay, I see." ”
An Ran was sleeping, and he didn't bother listening to the conversation between the two.
Wan Jing is a very smart and very good woman.
This kind of scheming can be used both in office fights and to ostracize the alien, but also in maintaining the team and championing someone.
She knows how to do many things, such as learning the medicinal properties of plants Wan Jing has already done, and she also knows what is the most important, but at this time, she still asks Zhang Xiangyang.
An Ran felt a little weird, and always felt that Wan Jing had used some inexplicable abilities in the right place.
And it's not just Wan Jing who does it alone, Ling Ling and others are doing it.
When Zhang Xiangyang went out, he greeted Wu Sang Lingling, who was exercising, and then looked at the owl.
At this time, the owl had already nested in the bird's nest made by Zhang Han, because there was a suitable place to rest nearby.
There is also a shelter on top of the nest, which allows the nest to block most of the light, which is very important for owls that need concealment to provide a sense of security.
"I haven't eaten the slices of meat, don't the birds eat when they are alone?" Zhang Xiangyang looked at the slices of meat on the ground that did not move a bit, and chatted with Wu Sang.
Wu Sang didn't know this either, "Probably, the smaller the bird, the more difficult it is to raise, if this owl is the same size as a sparrow, it is probably dead by now." ”
Ling Ling quickly said: "I know this, the larger the size of the bird, the higher the lifespan, the sparrow is only two or three years, the parrot and the eagle can live for more than sixty years. ”
"Where's the owl?" Zhang Xiangyang asked curiously.
Ling Ling showed an embarrassed expression, "I don't know, this owl is so big, it must be different from before, it should be about the same as an eagle, sixty years." ”
She is not an encyclopedia, where will she know the specific lifespan of a certain bird, and she will not take the exam!
Generally speaking, extreme examples are easier to remember, and ordinary data in the middle is not remembered because of the large number of relationships.
Wu Sang looked at the bird's nest and said, "What happened to the white owl yesterday?" ”
"Flew away, and I don't know if I'll come back." Zhang Xiangyang is not sure.
Wu Sang thought about it for a while, and quickly looked at Zhang Bin, who was watching the bucket dripping.
"Zhang Bin, which one is bigger than that white owl yesterday and this owl?"
Zhang Xiangyang felt that it was the same, and the difference was not obvious.
But when Zhang Bin heard it, he looked over and said, "The white color is about 10 percent bigger." ”
Zhang Xiangyang said suspiciously: "I look at it and feel the same, there is not much difference." ”
Hearing Zhang Xiangyang say this, Zhang Bin quickly said: "I didn't see it very clearly at the time, it was relatively dark at that time, and the two owls didn't stand together, maybe I was wrong, and the difference was not as big as ten percent." ”
Wu Sang looked at Zhang Bin helplessly, and said to Zhang Xiangyang: "Generally, the male bird is more beautiful, and the white one should be the male bird, and the body size is also larger." ”
Zhang Xiangyang felt that it was no different whether it was male or female, and it was not an animal such as a wild boar buffalo, and the boar was stronger and more irritable.
"Today I went out with Zhang Han and Shiqin to collect materials, and I plan to collect wild kudzu in addition to fetching water, and at present, kudzu leaves and kudzu are all things we have saved."
Zhang Xiangyang talked about today's arrangement.
Wu Sang nodded, "Be careful on the road." ”
"Well, I'll look and see if I can find the grain." Every time Zhang Xiangyang and others went out, they would look for seeds of grains, mainly rice and wheat.
Wu Sang didn't know what he was going to do today for the time being, he thought about it but didn't ask Zhang Xiangyang, just do whatever he needs.
At the moment, there are a lot of small things, and there are fewer things that are urgently needed and can be done.
The things that are really urgently needed are the things that need to go out and take risks, like finding food crops, fiber crops.
Everyone would discuss things after each meal, and everyone who always ate meat still missed the taste of rice and flour.
The area of human activity is so large, and the arable land area of the whole country is also very large, it is impossible not to find seeds!
However, considering that this is a mountainous area, everyone can only hope that there are mountain villages that have planted land here before, otherwise they can only find seeds in the area where arable land once existed.
At present, the only reliable thing is kudzu, which is also the main starchy food eaten at present.
On the way to Changzhu Mountain from the cave at the earliest, the kind of radish-like plant that An Ran gave Zhang Xiangyang to eat was a kudzu root dug from the nearby land, which An Ran named as a small radish.
Kudzu is the leaf of wild kudzu, which can be used to treat wounds, and it is a must-have for people who are sure to be injured right now.
Kudzu mainly grows in cool and low places, and it is very common to have a length of more than ten meters, but it is not suitable for vine use and needs to be processed again.
The earliest vine has been rubbed into hemp rope by several people at home because it has been used many times, and the waste is reused.
Using the stembark fibers of wild kudzu to weave kudzu into kudzu clothing can also solve the problem of clothing that is most needed at present.
Hunting is easier to get into the clothes problem, but it's too risky, and clashes with large animals mean that the fighting power of both sides needs to be wrestling.
Traps can also be set, but once you step into the range of the animal, you don't know who is waiting for whom.
It is even more impossible to set fire to the mountain, and the premise of doing so is that you are not in the mountain!
At present, everyone lives in the mountains, and there are continuous mountains nearby, surrounded by weeds, and the autumn wind is still setting fire to the mountains, are you ready to kill the whole family?
Arson is a big killer for Zhang Xiangyang and others, and it must be used at a reasonable time.
Zhang Bin's calculation ability, Zhang Han's design and planning ability, Wu Sang's action ability, the rest of the people's logistics reserve ability, and Zhang Xiangyang's own consciousness and decisive execution.
Sometimes one second it is still blowing towards the opposite side, and the next moment it may be reversed and swallowed up directly.
Zhang Xiangyang could not take into account the kaleidoscopic changes caused by the combination of temperature changes, convection, terrain and other factors, and he only knew that he would only use such a dangerous killing weapon on the premise of running through the fire.
Despite this, there is no doubt that such an immoral thing as setting fire to the mountain is absolutely fatal to the carnivorous beasts that do not have food reserves!