Chapter 12: Life in the Wild, Snake Broth!
After walking for nearly an hour, Pang Yuan and his party encountered several poisonous snakes blocking the road, but it was equivalent to "sending food" to their team, which was easily solved, but they made up lunch at noon.
Pang Yuan and his team gradually walked into the depths of the jungle, and as far as they could see, there were huge trees everywhere, sometimes brown or green vines were intertwined and hanging in the air, sometimes there were thick roots protruding from the ground like dragons, and all kinds of trees were luxuriant with branches and leaves, so that they covered the sky and the sun. Although the weather is fine today, the sun is high, but the blazing sun is still difficult to penetrate, making the surrounding environment more and more dark and damp, which is a little uncomfortable.
Deep in the forest, there are birds singing everywhere, the mountains next to it are towering, and there is a clear stream flowing in the forest, leaning over to hold a handful, the stream is cool and sweet, and the colorful pebbles in the stream are clearly visible.
From time to time, there are a few roars of fierce beasts in the ears of the group, like a tiger roaring, like a wolf howling, like a chirping, the sound shakes the mountains and forests, startling the birds that inhabit the forest fly in flocks, and the sky above the head is covered densely for a while, which makes people can't help but feel a slight chill in their hearts.
But it is a wild and primitive style in the depths of endless mountains and forests, which is intoxicating.
Looking at the charming scenery around him, Pang Yuan felt relaxed and happy for a while, and his whole heart was empty, as if he wanted to dissolve in this intoxicating landscape.
Now that the sun is shining in the sky, it is already noon, everyone has already felt hungry, and the physical exertion is not small, Pang Yuan and his team began to look around for a suitable place to camp, as a camp for the past few days, and at the same time to make a fire for cooking.
Not far from here, Uncle Lin and the others quickly found a suitable camping site, but it was a natural low stone platform. It is only slightly higher than the ground, very wide, and flat, with mountain rocks at the edges.
And not far from here, surrounded by trees, a clear stream flows happily more than ten meters in front of the side, so that the problems of cooking and drinking water can be easily solved, and the stone platform is open and flat, the height is slightly higher than the ground, snakes and insects are also difficult to approach, and various conditions are really unique.
The group began to work together to set up a simple tent on the stone platform, and after having a foothold, they began to prepare for a fire to cook, Uncle Lin took a few villagers to the nearby woods to pick up a large pile of dead branches and leaves, Pang Yuan and Huzi also went up to help and carried it back together.
Pile up some of the dead branches and broken leaves, put them under the tripod that has been erected, a fat hunter took out the flint and steel from his arms, and soon lit the broken leaves, and then added thicker dead branches to make the fire bigger, the hunter took out the iron pot he brought and put it on the shelf, poured in the clean stream water that had just been hit, and the fat hunter told the people next to him to pay attention to continue to add firewood to the fire below, don't let the fire go out, and slowly fan the wind with a cloth on the side, so that the fire burns more vigorously, and prepare to boil the stream water in the pot first.
This fat hunter is Tong Hu's neighbor, surnamed Wang, called Wang Lei, but other hunters generally call him Wang Fatzi, as his name suggests, it is also more appropriate. Wang Fatzi is a good hunter, and he has good cooking skills, and he can cook all kinds of dishes, of course, this is relative to Pang Yuan and others, but it is indeed rare.
Every time Wang Fatzi goes out to hunt, in addition to the necessary weapons, basically pots and pans will be prepared, and this time there is no exception, it can be said that with him in the wild life team, there is basically no need to worry about eating and drinking.
In a short time, the water in the iron pot was already boiling and boiling, and bubbles were bubbling upwards from the center, steaming.
Wang Fatzi greeted the two brothers, Menzi and Zhuzi,
"Menzi, Zhuzi, where is the snake meat you contained? ”
"Alright, I'll be back!"
The two brothers of Menzi Zhuzi cleaned the cut snake meat on the side of the nearby creek and said loudly. The turbulent stream washed away the blood, leaving only the snake meat with white flowers, which looked very pink and delicious, and hurriedly processed the remaining snake meat, Menzi came over with a large bag of washed snake meat, and handed over the ingredients to the chef Wang Fatzi at this time.
Wang Fatzi stretched out his hand to check the snake meat pieces, flipped through them, and saw that the cleaning was clean, nodded with satisfaction, and waved them away.
Then he poured all the white and tender pieces of snake meat into the boiling stream water of the cauldron, and the snake meat sank into the water, and he grabbed a large handful of fresh wild vegetables that the villagers had just picked and threw them into it, mixed them together and steamed them, and kept stirring them slowly in the pot with a big spoon, so as not to scatter the snake meat pieces and wild vegetables, so as not to paste the bottom of the pot for a long time.
After a while, I saw Wang Fatzi carefully take out a small cloth bag from his arms, but it was a small bag of fine salt and condiments that he carried, adding these can make the food more delicious and taste better, Wang Fatzi poured a part of the powder particles in his hand, evenly sprinkled it into the soup and stirred it with a spoon, and folded the small cloth bag back into his arms.
The next thing is the time to wait slowly, Pang Yuan was a little idle, he felt bored for a while, and looked at the rest of the team around him who were doing their own things.
I saw Uncle Lin sitting not far away with a few hunters chatting and joking, several of them gathered in a circle, chatting enthusiastically, I don't know what topic they were talking about, from time to time laughter came here; there were also two villagers and uncles standing on the high ground near the stone platform with weapons in hand, their eyes staring at the surroundings, once there was an unknown danger happening, they could shout loudly at any time to inform everyone, and prevent trouble.
Pang Yuan didn't see Huzi and Li Xing, and he was a little confused and worried in his heart, when he suddenly heard someone calling his name, he looked at the side of the stream, and happened to see these two people in the lower reaches of the stream.
Pang Yuan walked over, and the two of them were sitting together, taking off their shoes and leisurely soaking their feet in the cool stream!
"A-Yuan, come here, this stream is cold!"
Huzi and Li Xing saw him come over and invited him warmly.
Thinking of the soup that Wang Fatzi used was the water of the stream and the snake meat that was cleaned inside, although there was a difference between upstream and downstream, Pang Yuan still had an urge to kill these two goods. Thinking in his heart, Pang Yuan kept on his feet, sat next to the two of them, decisively dragged his boots, and stretched his feet into the clear stream.
A burst of coolness completely surrounded the feet that had been walking for a long time, and the flowing cold stream water was like a soft little hand, stroking the soles of the feet, taking away the tiredness, very comfortable, Pang Yuan took a breath of cold air in his heart, and a comfortable and leisurely artistic conception gradually spread in the bottom of his heart......
I don't know how long it took.
"It's time to eat!
Suddenly, they heard the shouts of the fat man, and the three people with their eyes closed woke up suddenly.
Already hungry, they hurriedly stretched their feet out of the water, and after quickly drying in the sun, they hurriedly put on their boots and hurried to the camp, ready to fill their stomachs first.
As soon as the three of them walked to the edge of the stone platform, Pang Yuan smelled a thick aroma of broth in the air, which made people feel refreshed, but they felt even more hungry in their stomachs......
ps: The boy's first hunt in the deep forest, everyone said to arrange some setbacks for him...
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