27.Chapter 27: Lighting a Fire
Ye Dai knew that Ding Chen was right, she was very weak now, and this wet suit was likely to kill her, and there was no way to do it in the afternoon, now that there was a replacement, there was no need to continue gambling on character. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć So taking advantage of the opportunity for Ding Chen to go back and get the branches that had built the shack to cover the entrance to the cave, she took off her clothes and got into the bear skin very decisively.
The bear fur is wrapped around the body, much softer than expected, if you don't consider the pungent smell, this bear skin coat is still very comfortable to wear, and it also makes Ye Dai feel the warmth that she has not felt for a long time.
Wrapped in bear skin, Ye Dai sat at the end of the earth cave and began to feel bursts of hunger. Her last meal was in the morning when she received the departure notice, and she ate a little dry food indiscriminately. After a day of tossing, it was already digested. When I was thirsty and tired just now, I didn't feel hungry, but when my body began to warm up, various physiological needs followed.
When Ding Chen walked back with a large bundle of branches dragging mud and water, he happened to see Ye Dai returning to the cave in a panic. Ding Chen couldn't help but feel a little strange, walked to the edge of the cave and threw the branch to the ground, and asked Ye Dai, "Where have you been?" ā
Ye Dai didn't expect him to come back so quickly, so she blushed and refused to speak. Ding Chen suddenly remembered that she was probably going to solve her personal problems.
The drizzle outside did not stop, and Ye Dai took off her clothes and pants and laid them flat on the ground in the cave to dry. From these clothes, it can be judged that Ye Dai is not wearing anything in the bear skin. Ding Chen thought that if Ye Dai wanted to be convenient, he had to take off the bear skin and be naked, and his nose was a little itchy.
If you like me, Ding Chen doesn't care about a dewy marriage, not to mention that Ye Dai is a rare beauty, and her temperament is also the kind he admires, which has a bonus to his attractiveness. But it is obvious that Ye Dai is not interested in him, even if Ding Chen has a heart, he has to keep it, and he has to keep it.
So he went straight to the side to work under the pretext of moving branches, and he didn't have to straighten his waist in a grand way.
The hole Ding Chen chose was actually just a large rock protruding from the edge of the hillside, half a person high above the ground, and there was probably a place for two people to lie down side by side. Except for the side of the mountain, it is basically ventilated on three sides. Because the wind blows the rain in, the ground under the stones is also wet.
Ding Chen first dug a shallow ditch with a black knife outside the cave along the projection of the edge of the stone, so that the water flowing down the hillside would not pour into the cave. Then the leaves that were brought in were kept out of the hole, this time without rain, mainly to keep out the wind.
After doing all this, it was already dark, Ye Dai leaned against the cave wall, watching Ding Chen busy with everything, and he was very unhappy. Unfortunately, she couldn't really help in this regard, so she could only watch from the sidelines.
After enclosing the branches, the hole finally looked safer. Ding Chen hung the clothes that Ye Dai had taken off on the side of the branch wall in the hole, which not only strengthened the windproof effect, but also made them dry faster.
At this time, it was already completely dark, and Ye Dai could only vaguely see Ding Chen squatting at the hole that was left behind, as if digging a pit.
This hillside is a soil and stone structure, and the place against the hillside is a whole stone, and the place where Ye Dai is sitting now is a hard rock, but there is a very thick layer of soil at the edge of the cave entrance, which should have been accumulated by the wind, and now Ding Chen is digging there.
After tossing for a while, Ding Chen stopped, and Ye Dai saw Ding Chen take out something from his pocket, slash it a few times with a saber, and then carefully squat down and sprinkle it on the ground.
After the wooden thorn on her left arm was pulled out, she felt much better, except that her left arm did not dare to exert force, it no longer affected her movement. At this time, curiosity aroused, so I bent over and walked over. Then he vaguely saw that Ding Chen seemed to have dug a hole in the ground, he first filled the pit with some thin branches and dead leaves, and then sprinkled something on it with a metal vial the thickness of a little finger, and then filled it with another layer, and sprinkled a little more until the pit was filled. Standing behind Ding Chen, he could vaguely smell a pungent smell.
There are some guns in the apartment, and Ye Dai, as a reserve engineer, naturally has to undertake the maintenance and repair of guns, so I think the smell is very similar to the gunpowder of bullets, but the temperature is different.
After doing this, Ding Chen glanced back at Ye Dai, signaled her to stay away from him, and then took out a thin metal stick with a little finger length from his belt, took it in his left hand and leaned on the pile of leaves, took out a saber with his right hand, turned the back of the knife and scraped it the thin stick, and immediately a small spark came out.
Seeing this unexpected appearance of Mars, Ye Dai screamed in surprise. She didn't expect Ding Chen to keep the fire on his body even though he was soaking wet, and she didn't expect him to plan to light the fire in such a humid environment.
Normally, it is difficult to start a fire on a rainy day, because it is difficult to find dry ignition materials at such times, and even if there is a fire, it will not be able to light it.
But what is very strange is that with the spark that appeared in Ding Chen's hand, a flame suddenly appeared in the pit in front of him, and then another one, and then the leaves in the pit burned, although there were bursts of smoke, but it was indeed burning.
Looking at the beating flames, Ye Dai was pleasantly surprised, there is nothing more exciting than seeing the fire in the dark and cold wilderness, with fire, it means that there may be more things, it can be said that human civilization is accompanied by fire.
Ding Chen didn't have time to observe Ye Dai's reaction, this time the fire consumed very precious resources, he had to take out a pistol bullet and use the gunpowder inside to raise the temperature of the flame. If it weren't for the injured Ye Dai, he might not have been willing to use it. Although the fire is lit now, it will be extinguished at any time, so you must take care of it.
He quickly took the branches that had been set aside and put them on top of the fire pit, allowing the flames to evaporate the water from them, and then filling them into the fire pit for fuel.
Ye Dai watched Ding Chen rub a small ball of white things on the branches, and asked curiously, "What is this?" ā
"Bear oil." Ding Chen said. As he spoke, the grease on the branches began to melt and drip into the fire pit, and the flames in the pit rushed upwards and emitted a scorching smell.
Ding Chen stretched out his hand and handed the saber to Ye Dai, asking her to cut some meat on the pile of bear meat piled in the corner to roast, and specially told her to pick a good one.
This bear has a lot of meat on it, and under the current temperature conditions, it will quickly deteriorate, and if you don't get it, you won't be able to eat it tomorrow, so there is no need to save at all.
Ye Dai's left hand couldn't move, she was wearing a bear skin and it didn't fit, so she rubbed over and cut the meat step by step, leaving Ding Chen alone to be busy next to the fire pit.
When she came back after choosing the meat, Ding Chen had already dried a bunch of branches and piled them up next to the fire pit, and added firewood to the fire pit once. According to him, the branches are not dry enough to provide the heat, so the main burning force has to be bear oil, and both are indispensable.
He put the meat cut by Ye Dai on the branches and let Ye Dai sit by the fire and burn it slowly. During this time, Ye Dai discovered that Ding Chen had actually dug two pits at the entrance of the cave, and the one that lit the fire in them was larger. There was also a faint black smoke coming out of the pit outside, and it could be seen that the two pits were connected, but I didn't know why they were doing it.
Ding Chen handed over the task of barbecue to Ye Dai, and ran to the cave to take a look. Ye Dai had already discovered that there was a deep crack in the stone wall there, and Ding Chen had sandwiched a strip of cloth in it, and the lower end reached into the snakeskin bag, and she could feel the water flowing down the strip of cloth into the snakeskin bag. Apparently the water she drank in the afternoon was collected in this way.
Sure enough, Ding Chen quickly came back with a half-full snakeskin bag, drank a few sips of it himself, and then handed it to Ye Dai.
Ye Dai hesitated, took two sips of breath, and shook her head and refused to drink again.
Ding Chen was not reluctant, he drank a few more sips, until the water in the snakeskin was almost drunk, and then he went back to continue to receive water. At the same time, he explained to Ye Dai: "The water in the cracks in the stones seeps down from the rocks at the top of the slope, and when the rain stops, the amount of water will become smaller. ā
Ye Dai carefully turned the branch with the meat in her hand, and asked, "How do you know these methods?" ā
"How do you know?" Ding Chen hesitated for a moment and said with a smile: "If you live for a long time, you will naturally know." ā