Chapter 23: Fire
Jiang Jianlong walked all the way to the desert island, and when he walked to a small hill on the island, he saw a cliff in the west, on which there was no grass, and countless seabirds inhabited various cracks, crevices and faults. Between these reefs are some long, winding waterways.
And the eastern shore is full of sand, like a sand blanket. There are some aquatic mosses growing sparsely on the beach.
Just in front of Jiang Jianlong there is a mountainous area with uneven heights and ups and downs, as far as the eye can see, the branches and leaves of the trees are sparse, and the color of the leaves is pale yellow rather than emerald green. These trees are predominantly Antarctic beech, which has a high trunk and horizontally branched branches, as well as a vigorous barberry and a winter wood with similar properties to vanilla.
In this climate, the island is extremely rare in the face of the onslaught of storms, and almost all of these plant species have been domesticated by the terroir. Among them are the cattail flower, gorse, elm, finch wheat, mother-in-law, needle grass, etc., all of which are very light in color. Whether in the shade of trees or among the grasses, these small, pale flowers can be found everywhere, even at the foot of rocks on the shore or on the rocky slopes covered with humus.
Jiang Jianlong walked forward along the mountain in front of him, he picked up some withered and dwarf winter wood, and some dead grass whiskers, and then returned to the cabin below, at this time Li Suyun had already moved their luggage to the cabin again, and got all the water in the cabin out, Jiang Jianlong saw it, put the dry winter wood and grass whiskers on a steel plate in the cabin, and then took out the lithium battery, first removed the outer packaging plastic paper, and then took out a narrow circuit board at the upper end, When the long and narrow circuit board is taken out, you can see two small lines, one end of the two small lines is the positive pole, the other end is the negative pole, when Jiang Jianlong connected the two small lines together, it caused a short circuit of the lithium battery, the lithium battery began to heat up and smoke, at this time, Li Suyun quickly took the dry grass whiskers and put them on the hot and smoking lithium battery, and after a while, the dry grass whiskers were immediately ignited, Jiang Jianlong saw that the grass whiskers were ignited, and immediately put all the winter trees on the fireSuddenly the cabin began to warm up. After Jiang Jianlong saw that the fire was burning, he ran out of the cabin and went to the island to pick up a large pile of dead wood.
Because Jiang Jianlong and Li Suyun's clothes were already wet, and they looked even more cold when they were worn on their bodies, after Jiang Jianlong picked up enough dead wood, he proposed: "Our clothes are all wet, and we can't dry them at all when we wear them, so it's better for us to pull two ropes in the cabin, and two people take off all the clothes back to back, and then hang all these wet clothes on the ropes, only in this way can the clothes be dried out." ”
After Li Suyun heard this, her face flushed with shyness, and although she felt a little disdainful in her heart, she nodded in embarrassment because the wet clothes she wore on her body felt too cold.
After Jiang Jianlong saw Li Suyun nodding, he got two more ropes from the bow of the boat, and the two were tied on both sides of the cabin around the fire in parallel, Jiang Jianlong first hung the clothes in the wet luggage on the rope on his side, and then took off his own clothes, and hung them all on the ropes, wanting to dry all the clothes.
Li Suyun saw that Jiang Jianlong took off all his clothes and hung them on the rope, and she began to do the same, she used Jiang Jianlong's clothes hanging on the rope as a cover, slowly took off her clothes, and then hung them all on the rope on her side, so the two of them took off their clothes, although they were in the cabin, but because of the clothes hanging on both sides, neither of them could see each other.
After both of them stripped naked, there was a long silence at first, and in this silence, Jiang Jianlong felt too embarrassed, so he broke the silence and began to say: "The island we drifted to may be the island of Estados. ”
Li Suyun repeated: "Estados Island? ”
Jiang Jianlong said: "This is just a guess on my part, what the real situation is, only we can determine if we go to explore in the future." ”
Li Suyun said: "If it's Estados Island. So that means that there is a lighthouse on this island, and if there is a lighthouse, there will be a tower keeper, and if we find the lighthouse and find the island keeper, we can return to the mainland again. ”
Jiang Jianlong said: "If it is really Estados de Island, it is true, but if it is not, then we must be prepared for the future." ”
Li Suyun said puzzledly: "If this is not Estados Island, then we must have come to a desert island with no people, maybe no one will come to this island, our life period is running out, and we may die on this desert island at the end of our lives." ”
Jiang Jianlong suddenly sneered at this time and asked, "Have you seen Robinson Crusoe?" ”
Li Suyun said: "I used to be a teacher, and I used to teach this text to children in class. ”
Jiang Jianlong said: "In fact, when you asked me to travel around the world with you, what I thought about the most at that moment was to die in a quiet and primitive land in nature that no one had reached during the trip, and now this wish has come true." ”
After Li Suyun heard this, he said with some regret: "But our money has been taken by Xiao Chuxun's accomplices, and our global travel has not yet been realized." ”
Jiang Jianlong said: "It's a bit regrettable, but we have to accept the reality, accept the reality is the only truth I learned after I got cancer, lying on the hospital bed, there are many things in the world that you can't change, when you can't change it, you can only face the facts, and try to accept it, if you can't face it, still live in the past and everything, then even when you die, your heart is painful." ”
Li Suyun listened to Jiang Jianlong's words, and after being silent for a long time, he said: "Yes, many times if we want to continue to live well and have the courage to live, we can only face the facts, and continue to walk in the face of everything that has happened now. ”
After Jiang Jianlong heard what Li Suyun said, he said with a smile: "Now we still have to accept the fact that if tomorrow we find out after exploration that this is not Estados Island, this is an uninhabited desert island, then we will start to do Robinson here again." ”
Li Suyun said fearfully: "If this is really not Estados Island, I'm sure we won't live for a week, it's close to Antarctica, it's too cold, you look at the wind outside, even if you stay outside, no matter how thick the clothes are, you can freeze people." ”
Jiang Jianlong said lightly: "Things are man-made, there is a fluorescence in the dark night, that is a representative of hope, now we are in this cold desert island, we have a cabin to shelter from the wind, there is a fire to bake, this represents hope, God let us die." ”
Li Suyun sneered and said, "I hope so!" ”