Chapter 5: Dried Peaches

When the fish were ready, she went back to the cave with her clothes and shoes. Because the temperature is still a little high this morning, I don't feel cold, and the laundry is almost dry, but it's still a little wet, but the shoes are still wet, so I went back barefoot. After a while of grilling the fish after both sides became browned, she tasted it first, it was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, but the tender meat inside had a great fishy smell. But thinking that this fish is not easy to come by, I only caught these two small fish after catching it for so long; And this is not the same as this, it is okay to have meat to eat and have such a taste.

So she ate the crispy crust on the outside of the grilled fish and then put it by the fire to roast it, thinking that maybe the fishy smell would not be so strong when it was roasted dry. But it's true that her method is very good, and the smell is not so strong after roasting a little dry. She ate another small fish in the same way, and when she had finished eating it, she wanted to see the peaches on the peach tree, which she had seen when she picked them yesterday that they were almost all ripe. Some of them were soft and pecked by birds and fell to the ground, and she wanted to take a closer look while it was still early.

When she came to the peach tree, there were really a lot of bad peaches on the ground, looking at these peaches Yang Xue was a little anxious, these peaches were her main food. She had to find a way to store the peaches, or she would have to eat a lot less in the future, and maybe starve. She couldn't think of a good way to do it yet, and she didn't have any tools, but that didn't stop her from picking the peaches back. She found some very large leaves and put them together with grass to make them into a very large container, and she could carry many peaches back.

When she had picked many peaches and filled them with leaves, she took them all to the river and washed them, not thinking of any other way but to see if she could dry them. When she got back to the cave with her things, it was starting to get dark, and she picked up her pace. First of all, I found some smooth and straight grass poles, took them to the river and washed them, and then used grass leaves to put them together one by one to make something similar to a fence. I picked up a few more rocks and put the fence on top of it, so that it would not fall on the ground and would be more ventilated and easier to dry. Then she cut the peaches she had brought back with a dagger and divided them into small pieces, and finally put them on the top of the fence to dry.

Yang Xue put the fence next to the fire, anyway, the fire will always burn, and the temperature is much higher, so that the peaches will dry faster. After cutting and drying the peaches, it was already late, and I added a few sticks of wet wood to the fire and went to sleep.

She slept until dawn, and today she began to pull weeds to the right of the cave. After two days, the peaches she dried were already dry. I took a piece and tasted it, and it was not bad, although it was not as delicious as fresh peaches, but it also had another flavor.

Now that I had found a way to preserve the peaches, I spent two or three days plucking all the peaches on the peach tree, except for a few that were not ripe, and cutting everything except the soft ones.

The next time she began to pull the grass again to find something, and it took another seven or eight days for her to finally pull out the grass on the right edge more than a meter away. She had eaten all the eggs she had picked up before, but she had picked up some more. After that, she was going to use a big wooden stick to knock down the grass in front of the cave, and then burn it out little by little with fire, although it was very dangerous, but if she pulled it by hand as before, she didn't know that the year of the monkey and Ma Yue could pull out the grass in front of the hole.

On this day, she was ready to start burning grass, and the grass she had pulled before had been taken back to the cave and piled up to be burned, but there was not much to burn now. She started burning to the left, because the grass was growing again where she had pulled it out, and though it was still shallow, she didn't want to pull it again. She began to beat the grass in front of her with a stick, and by the way, to see if there were any wild eggs inside.

She hit it in the direction of the hole, because the part of the hole was pulled out and was not easy to cause a fire. After beating about five or six square meters, it began to burn, and because the grass was fresh and only partially dry, it burned very slowly. But this is just right, and she is satisfied, so that she doesn't have to worry about starting a fire. After burning for about ten minutes, she extinguished the remaining sparks with fresh branches.

In this way, the cycle of threshing and burning grass lasted three or four days, and the grass on the left was basically burned. While threshing the grass, she found some wild eggs, but some of them were accidentally broken by her, and there are still more than twenty intact ones. During the grass burning, her dinner was three eggs, mainly because it took too much effort and energy to burn the grass.

Next, she began to burn the grass on the right side again, and it took three days to burn the grass on the right side in the same way as before. This time, she was very careful when threshing the grass, so there were no cases of eggs being broken. However, there are not many wild eggs found here, only about a dozen. Now the entrance of the cave is completely open, there is no grass and trees to block the sun, and the day in the cave is brighter than before, I don't know how many times, at least you can clearly see the situation in the cave.

According to Yang Xue's visual measurement, the land at the entrance of the cave is about two acres, and she doesn't know much about these, but it is indeed very large. There are only a few larger trees and some unburned shrub trunks left in the field. Looking at this almost clean open flat land, Yang Xue was still very happy and proud, such a large piece was opened by her. However, looking at the cocoon on her hand, she still sighed: how white and tender these hands were when she first came, how black and thick they are now, worse than her hands in her previous life. In her previous life, although she was also from the countryside, she often worked in the fields when she was a child, but she never did this. But this is the hand that does the work, and although it is tiring, there is no need to think about other things, and this kind of life is still very good. It's even better if you don't have to worry about eating and drinking utensils.

The next day, Yang Xue woke up to the sound of rain, and walked to the entrance of the cave to see that it was raining. Originally, she was going to go to the side hillside to have a look today, but now it seems that she can't go, so she can only wait for the rain to stop and watch. I walked back to the cave and burned two more eggs to eat, and sat on the grass bed in a daze. I looked at the cave that was a little messy, so I cleaned it up, but it didn't seem to have any effect. The main thing is that those things are scattered on the ground, so it looks disorganized. She thought of the last time she pulled weeds, as if she had seen some He Shou Wu vines on the hillside on the left. I walked to the entrance of the cave again and looked at the rain outside, which was not very heavy but showed no signs of stopping. I just want to wait for a while, when the rain is a little lighter, pull some vines, and come back to see if I can make some simple baskets or baskets or the like to hold things. Although she had never knitted it, she had seen her father and brother weave it with bamboo strips before, and she thought that the principle should be similar.

After waiting for a while, she saw that the rain seemed to be lighter, so she went out in the rain.