Chapter 6: The Rattan Basket

Since she knew the place this time, and the road outside had been cleared up, and the road was easy to walk, she quickly dragged back with a small bundle of thick rattan. Go back to the cave and go to the fire and dry your clothes before you start to clean the leaves left on the rattan. After that, she began to try to make it, but it was unsuccessful for a long time, and then she stopped and slowly recalled her father's movements. After thinking about it for a long time, she started to make it up again, and this time she made it up a little bit like it, but it couldn't be used. It's not strong when you look at it, as if it will fall apart if you have more strength, and the gaps are also of different sizes. But she's still happy, at least she's made it up, isn't she?

So she dismantled it again and rearranged it, and in this way she repeated it many times, wasting most of the rattan before making a rattan frame that she thought could be used. Next, she used the same technique she had just knitted to weave two rattan frames and baskets of different sizes. However, these can only be used temporarily, and the texture of the rattan is not very good, so it won't take too long.

After using up all the rattan baskets she had pulled back, she made a total of two rattan frames and a basket, the rattan basket was one large and one small, and the basket was not very large, just suitable for her to propose to carry something not too heavy. After finishing the compilation, she felt hungry, and looking at the remaining dozen or so eggs, the dried peaches and a bunch of dried wild vegetables that were not much there, she only burned one egg to eat. During the time of burning the eggs, she set fire to the rattan that she didn't want in the hole, put the remaining eggs in a small rattan basket, and put a layer of grass at the bottom to prevent the eggs from being broken. I also put the dried peaches piled on the large leaves spliced with leaves in another larger box, which looks like a small half of the box.

After putting her things back together, she looked a little tidy, and then she went to the cave to see the rain outside. By this time, the rain had stopped, and it had been raining for most of the day. After standing for a while, I went back, shaved out the eggs, cooled them, and ate them. After eating, the day also began to darken, and she was ready to rest when there was nothing to do, and she could also save some energy and go out tomorrow to find something to eat. When she added firewood before going to bed, she found that the firewood at home was almost gone, and it could burn until tomorrow morning at most. It seemed that she had to go out tomorrow, and she prayed to herself, "God, you must not rain again tomorrow." ”

Maybe God was too busy to hear her prayers, because it was raining today, and it was quite heavy. I burned the few firesticks left in the house, and ate a handful of dried peaches to pad my stomach, so I didn't have anything to do. The rain is too heavy to go out, and she is afraid that she will catch a cold if she gets caught in the rain in the morning, and she has no medicine or ginger and nothing to boil water, so it is not easy to catch a cold in this situation.

In the end, she had to cover the fire with earth, so that at least the fire would not be extinguished for a short time. In this way, the rain did not stop or light up until the afternoon, and she was not ready to make any more fires, so she ate a few pieces of dried peaches and went to sleep.

Yang Xue got up early today, first went to the entrance of the cave to see if it was raining, and saw that it was not raining, and thanked God a few times in his heart.

Even though it was summer, the morning after the rain was still cold, and she went out again after returning to the cave and putting on the rest of her clothes. She didn't eat breakfast, she wanted to get up and burn the trunks of the little bushes that had not been burned in the field at the door, she was in dire need of firewood now, and the field was the closest. Soon she got a smaller one, then a smaller one and dragged it back.

When I got back to the cave, I picked up the fire that was buried in the earth, and it was almost all extinguished, except for a little bit of spark. But she was glad that it wasn't all extinguished, and took some of the hay that was used as a bed and put some on it. After waiting for a while, I saw that the smoke came out, and then I slowly blew gently until the fire ignited. I added some more hay and put the bushes I had just brought back on top of it, and put some more hay on top of the wood. In this way, even if the wood is wet, it can burn, and although it may not burn much, it will never go out.

After finishing the fire, I ate some dried peaches, and then went out to find firewood and food. Today she went to the hillside on the right, and she stopped walking almost noon. Along the way, she also found a lot of things to eat and a lot of firewood, but she kept them on the way here. There were some new wild eggs, some bracken, and many mushrooms, and several pheasants and hares, but she didn't catch them. After two days of rain, a lot of mushrooms grew in the woods, and there were many types, but there were some she didn't know, so she picked up some of the larger mushrooms she knew, such as: milk syrup mushrooms, Qingtang mushrooms, fungus, bigfoot mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms and other large mushrooms.

On the way back, I used the basket I had knitted before to load all the food I found, and I saw that I was almost out of stuff, and finally finished loading. It's just that because there are too many things, she is afraid that the basket will not be able to bear it, so she holds it in her arms, so she takes the food back first, and she is going to bring the food back and then bring the firewood back. The way back was quick, and when I got back to the cave, I saw that the fire was still burning, so I put three eggs next to the fire, and then went to get the firewood back with a hungry stomach. Since there was a lot of firewood, she thought of the method of dragging with branches on TV in the past, and went to break a branch with many branches, but not particularly large, just suitable for her to drag. Then along the way, I dragged the firewood that I had picked up and piled together, and when I was tired, I took a break and continued to drag.

It took almost half an hour to drag it to the cleared space in front of the cave. He put the firewood in the open space and picked it up, and he took it back to the cave, and when he went back, he put some firewood on the fire, and took out the eggs that had been roasted before and ate them. Because the firewood was wet and it was a tree pocket, it burned very slowly, but it was not extinguished.

After eating, I started to pack up the things I found today, because when I came back, the things were all packed together, so I had to sort them out. The eggs were placed in the basket where the eggs were placed, and the bracken was placed on the ground alone, and then only the mushrooms were left, and the fungus inside was picked out and set aside. Then I took the other mushrooms to the river and washed them, which took a lot of time because there were quite a lot of them. After the mushrooms were washed, they were put in the hole and nothing was done, and finally they went to the field to haul back the firewood that had been left outside. She was also afraid that it would rain again tomorrow or tonight.

It's getting dark these days, so it's dark to take a break in the cave and eat something. A busy day always passed quickly, and Yang Xue quickly rested.

On this night, the moon outside the cave was bright and the stars were sparse, and it was silent. The people in the cave slept very soundly, leaving only some firelight, waiting for the arrival of tomorrow.