At this time, the burdock here was long and green, and Chen Xiaowu looked around and found some branches to dig up.

But the pine forest was not good, the trunk of the old tree was too flat to have any branches, and the branches he could reach were not thick enough to meet his needs for digging soil.

After looking carefully for a while, he finally saw a slightly sharp fist-sized stone, Chen Xiaowu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly picked up the stone and ran to the burdock side.

After figuring out the roots of the burdock, he gently scraped off the withered pine needles on the ground with stones, the soil on them was quite soft, and he easily plowed down more than ten centimeters deep, but the more he went down, the more difficult it became, and he always came across the slender whiskers that branched out from the rhizomes of these pine trees next to him.

These whiskers look very thin and soft, if there is a shovel, it will not have any obstacle to Chen Xiaowu's great cause of digging roots, but it is difficult to say that those tough and long roots are broken only with the stones in his hand, and he is afraid of breaking the roots of burdock if he is too hard, and as a result, the small roots of this root can often only be broken by Chen Xiaowu with brute force.

Sooner or later, the burdock root will be broken, and sure enough, when Chen Xiaowu broke a root that was slightly thicker than the other roots, he used a little more force with his hand and broke the burdock root he was digging.

Chen Xiaowu picked up the burdock that he had broken, and the part dug out at this time was about 20 centimeters long, and then looked at the ground, there was still a thick section where the stubble was broken.

The complete root of a burdock root is 40-70 cm long, and without a suitable tool at this time, Chen Xiaowu can only reluctantly give up a large section that is still buried in the ground.

Jiang Xiujing was also very happy when she saw Chen Xiaowu take out a burdock rhizome from the ground, although she didn't know what kind of plant this was, but it looked like the rhizome was very thick, a bit similar to yam, but slightly thinner, Chen Xiaowu dug so hard, this must be an edible food.

There are some white parts in the center of the white stubble, which should be starch, and the starch content looks very high.

When I was in high school, my biology teacher had already said that starch is converted into glucose by the body's transaminases to supplement the energy needed by the human body.

Jiang Xiujing's eyesight from North Korea is obviously much better than Chen Xiaowu, who has been poisoned by TV, computer, mobile phone and other screens for most of his life since he was a child.

Chen Xiaowu looked at Jiang Xiujing, although his strength was not as great as his own, and his movements were relatively clumsy, but he did much more meticulous work than himself, and it was better for two people to dig than to dig alone.

Well, the widow can be taught!

As soon as he was distracted, another burdock was cut off by him from a distance of more than 20 centimeters. Chen Xiaowu put this burdock together with the previous one, and then dug up the third one.

Due to the language barrier, these two people from non-comprehensible countries delayed their time compared to the gestures, so they simply didn't speak, and concentrated on solving the food problem first.

After about 1 hour or sore, Chen Xiaowu was tired of back pain, this squatting on the ground with a stone to dig the soil, it was really not done by people, at this time he had dug out more than 10 burdock roots of different lengths, the longest was more than 30 centimeters, it was really the more down the roots, the denser the roots, and then Chen Xiaowu broke the burdock roots.

Jiang Xiujing, who straightened up and looked at the side, also dug eight or nine roots, although it was not as much as he dug up, but the length was obviously more than what Chen Xiaowu dug a lot.

After so long of struggle between the two, this piece of burdock has been dug up, and only some small ones are left, and the roots are still very thin and have not been dug up by the two.

Chen Xiaowu didn't plan to let go of these small burdocks, because he knew that the leaves of burdock were also edible.

So he picked some delicate leaves and plucked them, and picked a bunch of leaves from the burdock that had been plucked.

By this time it was already getting a little dark.

There wasn't much sunlight in the woods, and as the sun set in the west, the temperature began to cool down in the woods.

At the end of September, the weather in the north has begun to turn colder, and the temperature difference between day and night has begun to increase.

I didn't feel it when I was digging hard from the soil just now, but now I was sitting on the ground picking burdock leaves, and I began to feel it obviously, and the wind in the forest began to blow and began to have a slight coolness.

You should hurry up and start a fire at dawn! Chen Xiaowu suddenly thought.

So he walked up to Jiang Xiujing and patted her on the shoulder, wanting to leave the work of cleaning up the burdock root soil to her.

Jiang Xiujing was carefully buttoning a burdock root, and when she turned around, she saw Chen Xiaowu holding a burdock root in her hand, and used a small wooden stick that she didn't know where to find it, and scratched it back and forth along the burdock root a few times. Jiang Xiujing understood what he meant.

She didn't take the wooden stick in Chen Xiaowu's hand, but turned around and picked up the burdock root she had dug up, and then picked up the burdock root that Chen Xiaowu had dug up, and walked cautiously to the other side of the hillside.

Chen Xiaowu looked at Jiang Xiujing suspiciously, why did this girl still take it away, could it be that there is water? But there can't be a spring on such a small dirt mountain.

Thinking of the water, Chen Xiaowu couldn't help licking his lips, he had slept for a day during the day, he just woke up and didn't feel it, but after working for a long time, he was really a little thirsty now.

The two of them climbed over this small hill, and walked down the slope for dozens of meters, and suddenly saw a small piece of open space, which was about a dozen square meters in size, and although it looked like every pine tree grew from a distance, it was surrounded by many lush weeds.

The two walked in a little further, Jiang Xiujing deftly burrowed into the weeds, Chen Xiaowu hurriedly followed, took two steps, but found that his feet were a little soft, so he lowered his head and saw that the grass roots were lit up with a trace of crystal water.

It turned out that this open space without trees was actually a small pond, and it was a bit of an exaggeration to say that it was a pond, but it was just a small puddle of more than ten square meters formed by the rainwater collected here by the soil slope.

Jiang Xiujing had simply walked through this small hill when Chen Xiaowu was sleeping, and had already been there once when she found this small pond.

At this time, he looked very familiar and walked a few meters inside, stopped at a pond where the water surface and the weeds were separated, squatted down gently, pressed the weeds beside him down hard, and put the burdock on the weeds.

Then he took out a long strip from the pocket of his jacket, lay down on the water, plunged one end into the water, and put the other end into his mouth, and puffed.

Chen Xiaowu was stunned when he watched it from behind, this was actually the "imported" outdoor drinking artifact that he put in his pocket during the live broadcast last night!

When he broadcast live last night, he then put it in the pocket of the jacket Jiang Xiujing was wearing, and he had forgotten it, but he didn't expect it to come in handy at this time.

Jiang Xiujing took a few sips, then turned around and handed the outdoor water purification straw to Chen Xiaowu. Chen Xiaowu relieved himself and took it, regardless of Jiang Xiujing's sucking just now, he leaned down and drank it.

The two of them replenished their water, and the fatigue of digging the soil with stones just now seemed to have eased, and Chen Xiaowu smiled and gave Jiang Xiujing a thumbs up.

Jiang Xiujing smiled lightly and washed the root of the burdock by herself.

Seeing this, Chen Xiaowu also washed two burdock roots indiscriminately, rubbed them on his pants, and then stuffed them into his mouth, chewed them over and over again and walked to the place where he had just shaved the burdock roots.

The burdock root is in his mouth, and he picks up the dead branches while walking with his free hands, and when he walks to the place where the burdock roots are shaved, he has already held a large number of dry branches in his hands, although there are no large branches in the Korean pine forest, some small branches as thick as chopsticks still have a lot of fallen to the ground.

In such a shady wood, it will definitely cool down at night, Chen Xiaowu has read "The Walking Dead", and has also read more than one apocalyptic novel with a biochemical theme, and now that a biochemical virus has broken out outside, I don't know what has become of chaos, the two are trapped in this mountain, and food is not guaranteed, let alone medicine.

At this time, the two of them must not get sick, Chen Xiaowu didn't notice it, when he was thinking about everything, he unconsciously counted Jiang Xiujing, who was even difficult to communicate.

Therefore, starting a fire is a necessary choice for the two. And this burdock pit, which was dug down by the two of them more than 30 centimeters, is a good place to make a fire.

This is in the deepest part of the vegetation of the hill, not afraid of being exposed by the firelight, attracting zombies or other humans, as for the problem of beasts, Chen Xiaowu is not worried, he grew up in this land since he was a child, and drifted in Songjiang for more than ten days, not to mention wild boars and wolves, even rabbits and pheasants have never seen one.

From the point of view of fire prevention, a small soil pit of nearly 10 square meters and a depth of more than 30-40 centimeters has been dug by two people.

And the most important thing is that the sky has begun to darken, Chen Xiaowu calculated, just watched the angle of the sun setting in the small pond, about an hour later, the night was about to fall.

He didn't have time to look for a better place.

Chen Xiaowu left the branches on the side, found the stone he had just dug the burdock root, and spread his thighs, like a dog digging the soil, to clear out the loose soil he had dug up. Clear a dirt pit more than three meters wide, and then jump on it again to stomp on the ground.

Then he grabbed the dry branches and arranged them in the shape of a hollow golden tower, then put in a handful of dried pine needles and a few pieces of bark removed from the pine tree, took a lighter out of his pocket, and lit the bonfire in a few strokes.

At this time, Jiang Xiujing also walked back, and when she saw Chen Xiaowu lighting a bonfire, she seemed very happy, and walked barefoot in the forest for a day, although she was not injured, but the soles of her feet were cold.

Girls are most afraid of cold soles of their feet, and at this time a bonfire is lit, and the night will be better anyway.

She saw that there were not many dry branches around Chen Xiaowu, so she hurriedly put down the burdock root in her hand, piled up all the dry pine branches near the soil pit, and held them over.

Gently thrown into the fire, but after the pine needles were dried in the shade, there was not much moisture, and the remaining grease in them was even more flammable.

Seeing this, Chen Xiaowu grabbed a handful of dry branches and compared them with Jiang Xiujing, meaning to ask him to find some such branches, Jiang Xiujing instantly understood what he meant, ran to a slightly farther place, and picked up some dry branches.

The fire soon grew bigger, but the dry branches were too small to burn long before they were reduced to ashes like pine needles.

Chen Xiaowu is worried now, he can't keep looking for dry branches to throw into the fire all night!

It would be nice to have a saw again, Chen Xiaowu thought with grievances.