Chapter 23: The Great Harvest
After having the arrow feather, Liu Qing's archery can be said to be progressing rapidly, and in the next practice, although it is not said that it is a hundred shots, it can also be achieved nine times out of ten. He was originally a master of shooting, and he had his own understanding of the principle of shooting, and now the arrows are very stable in the air, so he can basically judge the landing point of the arrows. After shooting all the arrows on the ground, Liu Qing felt that he had a deeper understanding of archery, and there was still a big difference between archery and shooting.
He ran to the target, collected all the arrows, and the target was densely packed with long arrows, which took him a lot of time, and it was not easy to make, so he had to recycle them all, and then he went back to the cave with a large bundle of arrows.
The arrows were simply sorted out, and those with cracked shafts and damaged arrows were all gone, and only the blades and straps were removed for later use, and in the end there were about 80 arrows left. If I have time, I will have to make some of these long thorns to make arrows, Liu Qing thought. Now, though, he had something else to do.
Thinking of this, Liu Qing looked at a large bundle of hollow poles on the ground, he wanted to use these hollow poles to make a container to take water and store water, so that he would no longer have to run over to get water every day, it would be too troublesome. Picked up a pole and looked at it, and made a few strokes on the body, and finally picked up the dagger, cut off a section, and then used the cut off piece to compare it on the body, and felt that it was about the same, and cut off a section on the other poles with this cut pattern, only the thickest part was taken.
I cut more than 20 of them, picked up one, looked at it and looked at it, and thought of a problem, both ends are open, and they must be blocked! If it's not tightly blocked, I'm afraid that before I get back to the cave, the water will leak out, so I still have a fart for this thing! But what is the best thing to use to plug the mouth?
Plug it with dirt, and then dry the soil? No, definitely not, even if it is dried, once it is blistered, it is useless. It doesn't work to plug the grass leaves, will it be leaked and not to mention, he also has an inexplicable fear of the plants here now, and if he doesn't understand, it's better to use it as little as possible, unless he can confirm that a certain plant is non-toxic and harmless, otherwise he will not pick and use it.
If you use poisonous blades of grass to plug the mouth, then you will poison yourself to death, so it is not okay to use grass to plug the mouth. After thinking about it, he suddenly thought of the cork stopper used in the thermos before, yes! Wouldn't it be just right to plug the hole with wood! As for plant toxins, they generally only exist in the sap or bark, leaves or fruits, and the wood part inside basically has few toxins, so even if you use them, you don't have to worry too much.
Thinking about this, he immediately went to pick out the branches, he picked up a lot of all kinds of branches, and even some of them were directly cut small trees, of all kinds of thicknesses, picked up a lot of them, first cut off the outer bark part, and then cut all the wood of various thicknesses into sections, ready to make plugs.
He hadn't gone to fetch water today, so he didn't even have to cook lunch, but fortunately there were still some fruits, and one man and one tiger ate six or seven fruits, so it was supposed to be lunch.
I took an empty rod, looked at a wooden plug of about the same size, and compared it, it was a little thick, but it was just right. I sharpened it with a dagger, tried it again, it was still a little bigger, and I sharpened it again, this time I sharpened it very carefully, after all, if it is big, you can cut it a little, and if it is small, there is no way. Sharpen a few knives, just take it and try it, and finally it happened, although I don't know how effective the blocking is, but at least it looks like there are no gaps.
Liu Qing took this blocked end, adjusted his head, blocked his mouth at the other end, and blew hard, feeling that the breath inside was very strong, and it should be blocked very tightly. The next step is to add two plugs to each tube, one at each end. Then I blew and tried each one, especially the end that blocked the bottom, which had to be tighter.
The plug at the bottom does not need to be removed, but the plug of the plug needs to be removed to facilitate pouring water. In order to make it easier to identify, Liu Qing used a dagger to engrave the number identification of Chinese characters such as "one, two, three, four...... on each plug and tube, otherwise once it is messed up, there are more than 20 pipes, and who knows which plug is plugged which one.
This matter took Liu Qing more than half a day, and cutting the wooden stopper is not a joke, it takes time and strength to cut it one by one. When he was about to finish, Liu Qing only felt that his vision was getting more and more blurry, and when he looked up at the gap in the hole, he found that in a blink of an eye, the sky outside had darkened.
After making the last wooden stopper, Liu Qing stood up, walked to the entrance of the cave, looked up at the line of sky, and couldn't help but sigh a little, it has been nearly a week since he came here, it is really like flowing water! sighed a few times, but now he has nothing to do, he has arrived at this place, he can only do his best and obey the destiny of heaven!
Turn around and continue to do your own thing, the bobbin and plug are ready, now all you have to do is tie them all together, and make a harness, so that you can carry the whole bundle of water on your body, and it is easier to travel back and forth.
By the light of the flashlight, he first tied up the more than 20 tubes with thinner rattans, but found that they were too big to even hold them, and if they were all filled with water, I am afraid he would not be able to carry them. So I could only take a step back and divide the more than 20 cones into two batches, one bundle of eleven and one bundle of twelve.
After tying a bundle, try to carry it first, but as soon as you carry it, you feel that your back is very awkward, and if you fill it with water, I am afraid it will be even more uncomfortable. After walking two steps, a tube fell out, after all, there was nothing to support it underneath, and it was very easy to fall out. The night is getting thicker, Liu Qing didn't dare to waste the power of the flashlight, turned off the flashlight, and went to add some firewood to the fire, the fire did not burn, but there was a faint green smoke, and the smoke floated up the gap above the cave entrance, and the cave also smelled of smoke, but it did not affect the rest, his gate was simply more permeable and more permeable, so there was no need to worry about carbon monoxide poisoning at all.
It was another morning, Liu Qing was too tired yesterday, so today Xiao Wu licked him, and he didn't get up immediately, and squinted and rested for a while before getting up. I peeled two more fruits for Xiao Wu and myself, and the only two fruits left were eaten, but they were also considered to have survived breakfast. Before coming here, Liu Qing sometimes didn't eat breakfast, but when he came here, he felt that breakfast was very necessary, no matter how much or little he ate, at least he had to eat, because the energy consumption of the morning depended on this breakfast.
When he had finished tidying up, he looked at the fire again, and found that it had not been extinguished, so he added some dry wood to it, and when the fire rose, he put some wet wood on it to suppress the fire. Then he said to Xiao Wu: "Xiao Wu, you stay at home, don't go out, I'll go outside to get some food." Xiao Wu shook his little head as if he didn't understand, and whimpered, looking a little aggrieved.
"Hehe," Liu Qing said with a smile, "It's not that I don't take you out to play, I'm going outside now to find food, and to get water, not to play, and there are a lot of scary beasts outside, as well as dinosaurs, you are still too young, it's very dangerous to go out!"
I don't know if Xiao Wu understood, or if he was angry, he actually turned his head and ran away, his little ass twisted and twisted, looking funny and cute. Liu Qing shook his head, this tube was not done well, and it was inconvenient to bring too much for the time being, so he carried a satchel and a kettle on his back, inserted the sapper shovel in his waistband, carried one in one hand, and went out.
This time he was going to fetch fresh water, and since the family had eaten all the fruit, he had to pick some more. He can't say what this fruit should be called, but it is indeed very durable, as long as it is not opened, it will be no problem to leave it for a few days. And he also thought that if he had the chance, he would go fishing for another fish and come back, after all, it was always less dangerous and easier to go fishing than to hunt wild beasts. It's just one thing, the strength of those fish is too strong, if he hadn't reacted quickly last time, I'm afraid that finger wouldn't have been able to keep it, and this time I must think of a perfect way.
The road is familiar, he walks fast, there are no animals during the day, the jungle here is dense, although the trees are not tall, but for that kind of large dinosaur, after all, it is still inconvenient. Therefore, as long as he didn't encounter that kind of velociraptor rex, Liu Qing would not be in any danger along the way. Soon arrived at the edge of the stream, the giant trees are still such giant trees, the giant trees that several people can't hug, they can't see the top at a glance, every time they come here, they always make Liu Qing feel a shock, these giant trees are even the largest dinosaurs can't compare, they can't shake a bit!
The only thing that made him a little uncomfortable was that the fruits in the low places on the vines had been picked by him, and some of them were relatively tall, nearly ten meters from the ground, but this kind of vine was both thick and strong, and they were generally thicker than Liu Qing's thighs, and it was not difficult to climb up.
He took out the pistol and spare magazine and put it in his trouser pocket, picked a bag full of fruit, and carefully climbed down the vine. He filled the kettle and two cones, cut a fruit as bait, chopped it up and threw it directly to the water's edge, while he hid in the grass on the shore and waited.
He had a fishing line and a hook, but the lesson he had learned last time was so profound that he gave up the idea of using a hook again, and since he had a gun, he tried to lure the fish to the shore and shoot them, which was more convenient than using a hook.
Sure enough, after a while, several black shadows slowly swam from the deep water on the opposite bank following the smell. Liu Qing quietly pushed aside the grass, the pistol had already been loaded, aimed at a big fish head, and shot directly.
As soon as the shot went down, the big fish trembled, and then a stream of blood flowed out, and this shot hit the fish's eye directly and shot its head. The shore was shallow, and the big fish fluttered and slapped the water, splashing a puff of muddy water. But even so, the other big fish didn't run, and they were really cute enough! Come to think of it, these fish haven't even seen a hook, let alone a gun, and I'm afraid they think that the fish is deliberately making trouble, so don't let them grab food!
Since this is the case, Liu Qing simply aimed at the other one again, and shot directly, which was another headshot. This seemed to have frightened the other fish, and several black shadows quickly fled, leaving only two checkmate fish struggling. Each of these two fish weighs twenty or thirty pounds, which is only bigger than the last one, Liu Qing is a little excited, this time it is two, a bumper harvest! There are several days to worry about food!