Chapter 9: Home

Since there were a lot of things to go back to, it took a lot more time than it did to go. When I returned to the cave, it was already the evening of the third day, and when I got back, I put the basket on the ground and fell asleep on the bed without doing anything. Maybe it was because she was really tired and because she didn't sleep well the first two nights, it was noon the next day when she woke up again. And she was still woken up by hunger, if she couldn't bear it anymore, she might have slept for a long time.

After getting up, she turned out the two remaining steamed buns in the back basket and ate them cold, the steamed buns were a little dry and hard, and it took a long time to finish eating, during which she went to the river to drink a few sips of water. After eating, I washed up again before I was completely awake.

Then she opened the fire that had been buried before, and the fire inside was indeed extinguished. She didn't rush to light the fire at first, but packed up all the things in the back basket. First of all, pick out the lard and the basket, and put the oil in the basket; Then I took out the flour and salt from the pot and put it aside, then I picked out the clothes and shoes and put them on the bed, and finally the knife at the bottom. The lard has been bought for three or four days, although it is placed on the top and not covered, but due to the weather, there is already a smell, so she can't delay any longer, if she delays any longer, this oil can't be wanted, it will be a waste of money.

Thinking about it, he started to build a simple stove out of gravel at the mouth of the cave, and then went to the river to clean the lard and pots and pans. The washed lard doesn't smell like anything else, just a little bit. I went back to the cave and took a machete and went outside to cut down a green bar tree the size of two bowls, and cut off a section as long as the palm of my hand. After chopping it down, he used a machete to cut both sides relatively flat, took it to the river and washed it, and finally returned to the cave and used a cleaned kitchen knife to cut the oil into small pieces and put it in a pot.

I started to light the fire after I got all these things right, but it may have only been seen how to use it but not really used it, so it took a while to light it. After that, I began to boil the oil, and after the oil was boiled, I realized that there was nothing to fill the oil, and it was not very late outside, so I took the pot off the fire and carried the machete out.

When I came to the bamboo forest I found before, I found a few relatively large bamboos, trimmed the branches, and dragged them back. It turned out that she thought of using a bamboo tube to hold oil, so she chose the largest bamboo that she dragged back, and slowly cut it into sections with a knife, and then smoothed both ends, cutting out a total of three sections. After shaving it, I chose unused bamboo joints as lids, took them to the river, washed them and dried them, and then slowly poured the oil into the bamboo tube. The three bamboo tubes are just right, and two and a half sections of bamboo tubes are installed.

Put some salt in the remaining oil residue and stir well and pour it into a clean bowl. Seeing that it was dark and it was time to make dinner, I used the remaining oil at the bottom of the pot and added water to cook a pot of vegetable paste. I put some dried wild vegetables in it, an egg, two handfuls of cornmeal, and finally added a little salt and started eating. When eating, she found that there were only bowls without chopsticks or spoons, and then she took a moment to cut back and cut two pairs of chopsticks before to eat tonight's first, and the rest will be tomorrow. After eating, she packed up and prepared for bed, and the pots and bowls were left to be washed tomorrow.

The next day, Yang Xue got up very early, and when she got up, it was just beginning to dawn. Take the dirty pots, bowls and chopsticks left over from last night to the river and wash them, then wash them, and then return to the cave with half a pot of water. After that, she lit a fire and boiled eggs to eat, and after eating, she was idle again. Looking at the simple grass bed on the ground and the somewhat desolate pots and pans, she found something to do again, making beds, chopsticks, shovels, and spoons, but there are still a lot of things.

First, I sharpened five pairs of chopsticks with the bamboo I cut back yesterday, a large spatula, three spoons, a larger soup spoon, a smaller rice spoon, and a small spoon for scooping oil. The spatula is the deepest bamboo at the bottom of our bamboo, which is split in half, and then a piece is slowly flattened, and finally the thin end is cut into a handle. Chopsticks are even simpler, just split the remaining half of the bamboo into small pieces, and then cut it into a square and a circle, and then cut it into a long and short appropriate one. The hardest part was the spoon, which she wasted a lot of bamboo to make. First of all, the soup spoon, the soup spoon is easier to use the part of the bamboo to cut into a similar shape to the soup spoon. She had been using the rice spoon for a long time, but then she remembered that in her previous life, when her father was cooking, she seemed to use fire to burn the bamboo, so she tried twice to make the spoon.

The last thing is to make a bed, and she thought about it for a while, she was thinking about whether to make it with wood or bamboo, and then she decided to make it with wood and bamboo. First of all, I cut a lot of bamboo and drag it back in turn, and then cut the bamboo into a length of about two meters; Then I went and cut down four or five vertical tree trunks as thick as an adult's fist, and it took a lot of time just for these bamboo and tree trunks. The main reason is that it is heavier because it is fresh, and it takes longer to spend in the woods. She also cut down the stump of the green oka tree about four and a half meters long yesterday, and because the green oka tree was very heavy when it was fresh, she couldn't move it very well, and then she rolled it back to the cave. Fortunately, the ground is relatively flat, otherwise I wouldn't know how to get them back.

It took half a day to prepare the raw materials, but the rest was easy. First, the stake was erected at a suitable distance of about a meter in front of the stone wall on one side, and here she used a rectangular shape. Then he used a machete to cut a similar groove in each stake, and then put two of the prepared long straight logs on it; Then he cut two shallow grooves in each of the wood, and put the remaining two on them. It took a lot of time, but then it's as simple as laying the bamboos one by one. But after laying it, she found that the bamboo was not fixed, and when she touched it, it would roll. Later, she went to cut a piece of bamboo and came back, and cut it into long, thin strips of bamboo, which were used to tie the bamboo on the bed to the wood one by one. After tying it up, the grass that was used to make the bed was finally spread on it, and the simple bed was ready.

After the bed was ready, she climbed up and rolled a few times excitedly, and said with a smile while rolling: "Finally, I don't have to sleep on the ground, it's good to have a bed to sleep in!" Sure enough, I wasted so much effort. "It's already dark after getting up, she ate something this morning, maybe she was too obsessed during the day to feel hungry, and now she feels so hungry when she relaxes. But she didn't want to move now, but in order to fill her stomach, she still tried to get up, went to the river, fetched water, washed some dried mushrooms, and went back to the cave to cook a small pot of black mushroom paste. After eating, he climbed into a new bed and went to sleep.

The next day, Yang Xue woke up and got up a little incredible, thinking that she had really made such a good bed. But I slept really well last night, and after sitting in bed for a while, I got up and went to the river to wash the pots and dishes first. Then I went back to make breakfast and began to clean up the mess left over from yesterday. When eating, I feel uncomfortable squatting or sitting on the ground to eat every day, and I want to make a table and stool.

I went to cut the bamboo and the tree first, and since I didn't need so many materials to make a table, I cut three bamboos and a few straight branches with forks. With yesterday's experience in making beds, today she quickly made a table. This time, instead of using the whole bamboo, she split them in half and tied them up, so that only a little more than one bamboo was used, and there were two left. Looking at the rest of the bamboo and the things piled on the ground, she wanted to make a shelf to put things in again. Thinking of doing it, she went to cut a few thicker branches and came back and built a simple shelf with the remaining bamboo. The shelves are almost more than a meter high, more than 30 centimeters wide, and three or four meters long. So there wasn't enough bamboo, so she went and cut two more.

The shelves and tables were not particularly flat because of the small holes in the wood, so she dug a few small pits with branches to put them in, then buried them, and picked up some rocks and put them next to the legs of the table and the shelves. When all this was done, the food and clothes piled on the floor were neatly placed on the shelves. The stool was made of a piece of wood left over from the bed, but the side on which it sat was flattered, and a small straw mat made of grass was placed on it.

After doing this, take a look at the renovated cave, Yang Xue feels that this is what it looks like to have a home, although it is simple, but basically there is everything that should be there. She believes that it will be better in the future, and she will make up for what is lacking in the future.