"Why?" Fang Jinyan asked with some surprise.

"Because we found a big bamboo forest over there." Zhang Chengbao said with a smile.

Fang Jinyan, the crowd behind him were all overjoyed when they heard this.

"Really? That's great! Bamboo is a good thing for us now! ”

"yes, take us there!"

Fang Jinyan asked one more question: "What type of bamboo?" How thick is the average size? ”

The reason why he asks this is because there are actually many types of bamboo, and the uses of different types of bamboo vary greatly, some bamboo can only grow as thick as a little finger at most, while others lack hardness

"Hehe, if I'm not mistaken, it should be Maozhu! It's usually as thick as an arm, and when I saw the first one, it was estimated to be about the same thickness as a thigh! Zhang Chengbao said with obvious pride.

"That's Maozhu, okay, take us to see it." Fang Jinyan nodded and said.

"Okay, you guys come with me" Zhang Chengbao was a little disappointed with his reaction, he originally expected Fang Jinyan to be overjoyed, and secondly, he should be excited, but Fang Jinyan didn't react much at all

It's too faceless

But it's hard for him to say anything about this kind of thing, if people aren't excited, you can't force people to be excited

Fortunately, others are still more face-saving

So everyone came to the upper reaches of the creek under the leadership of Zhang Chengbao and his party.

Sure enough, here, they saw a large bamboo forest. Although it turns out that Zhang Chengbao is a little braggart, most of the bamboo here is not "as thick as an arm". I didn't see "thighs about the same thick", but overall. And not much worse.

Moreover, this piece of bamboo forest is really large, stretching along both sides of the creek, with no end in sight, and it is estimated that there is at least an area of more than five acres.

"Wow, that's great, these are treasures, one of the best building materials, and they can be used to make all kinds of containers, water pipes, and other tools!" Mu Tielong excitedly touched the bamboo knot and said.

"That's right, someone said. Moso bamboo is the 'steel bar' of ancient Chinese architecture, I don't think it's an exaggeration at all! Zhang Chengbao also said happily.

"You're carrying axes, let's chop dozens of them at once, pick the thickest ones we can, and then open the bamboo joints, fill them with fresh water and bring them back." Fang Jinyan said.

"Why don't we just move here! In this way, we can bring back one or two hundred kilograms of water at most, although it should be enough for drinking, but it is still not enough, and we have to travel long distances every day to carry it together. What a waste of time and body! Mu Tielong said.

"It's not urgent, it's not for many of us to decide, so let's wait until we go back and discuss it with everyone before making a decision." Fang Jinyan shook his head and said.

"That's true, let's go back and talk about it." Mu Tielong thought for a moment and nodded and said

So the people did as he had commanded. He picked 20 thick bamboos, cut them down, and cut off all their tips and branches. The main trunk is cut into two bamboo tubes with an average length of 1 meter, and finally a sharp hardwood wooden gun is used. By opening all the bamboo knots in the middle, a rather large bamboo tube container is formed.

Zhang Chengbao said with great satisfaction: "Next time we will bring a saw." It will be more convenient, and you can even make some simple bamboo bowls, in the south of ancient China, bamboo bowls are the most common containers, even more widely used than ceramics, even in modern times, ethnic minorities in some mountainous areas in the southwest are still using this natural container. ”

"How much water can one of these bamboo tubes hold?" Someone asked curiously.

"It can be roughly calculated that the radius of these bamboo tubes is about 5 centimeters, the bottom area is about 75 square centimeters, the length is almost 1 meter, that is, 100 centimeters, and the result of multiplying the two is 7,500 cubic centimeters." Zhang Chengbao estimated it and said.

"Isn't that the same as not saying this, how do I know how big 7,500 cubic centimeters is," the questioner said, rolling his eyes.

"It's already very clear, well, the density of water is 1 gram / cubic centimeter, that is, if these bamboo tubes are filled with water, they can hold about 7500 grams, and 7500 grams is 7.5 kilograms!" Zhang Chengbao said.

"7.5 kg! Isn't that 15 pounds, much bigger than I thought, I thought it would be seven or eight pounds at most. The questioner was surprised.

"Yes, these 40 bamboo tubes can bring back almost 300 kilograms of fresh water, an average of 3 kilograms per person, according to our previous water use rate, it is estimated that it can be used for a week!" Zhang Chengbao nodded and said.

"That's impossible, at that time, everyone was very short of water to save so much, even reluctant to cook fish soup, now that we have found a fresh water source, it is definitely impossible to save so much, and we will also need some fresh water to deal with that wild boar later." Fang Jinyan said.

"I know, anyway, under normal circumstances, it's okay to take care of it for two or three days." Zhang Chengbao said.

As they spoke, they had carried the tubes into the stream, filled them with clean water, and then blocked the mouths with bamboo leaves, leaves, and even their clothes.

Then except for Fang Jinyan, Mu Tielong and other combatants, everyone else carried a bamboo tube on their shoulders and walked back!

The net weight of 15 catties, plus the weight of the bamboo tube itself, is estimated to be 20 catties, carrying 20 catties of heavy objects to walk the mountain road, it is not an easy thing but these days they are short of water and fear, so all of them are like chicken blood, no complaints at all, and even laughter all the way.

After returning to the camp by the sea, the rest of the personnel had already returned before them, and the number of people was counted, and no one was missed.

The carcass of the wild boar and the remains of the two victims were also brought back.

Seeing the tragic situation of these two girls, everyone who was originally excited about the harvest fell silent in an instant.

Although they are not very familiar with the two girls, and they don't even know their names yet, but the rabbit died and the fox was sad, and it was impossible for everyone to turn a blind eye to seeing them die so miserably.

You know, many of them saw the dead bodies for the first time

So when Liu Hongjun proposed to bury them properly, no one objected.

So they dug a pit in the ground by the sea, buried their bodies, and carved a monument out of wood.

It reads: "The tomb of the victims Han Ling and Hao Lingfei." ”

There are only these eleven words, and nothing else, because the area of the wooden tablet is limited, and there are not too many words engraved at all.

Many of the victims bowed at the grave and blessed them with rest

Fang Jinyan was quite touched by this, he actually didn't expect these people to be so particular.

In his previous post-apocalyptic memories, the vast majority of people don't care about the corpses of unfamiliar people after they die, and sometimes even the corpses of their companions don't care about them, because in the last days when dead people are commonplace, this kind of behavior has no meaning at all, and will only waste their own bodies and put themselves in a dangerous situation

But now these people, apparently their way of thinking is still influenced by the inertia of peacetime, and has not yet reached that cold moment

After burying the bodies of the victims, everyone gathered their minds and began to dispose of the wild boars.

Soon they were in full swing

Because Zhang Chengbao, Fang Jinyan and others brought back a large amount of fresh water, it was much easier to deal with.

Even though the water is still a bit too little, they still need to use seawater for cleaning as much as possible.

They boiled several pots of seawater with several paint buckets at the same time, then scalded the boar's carcass, and then used various props and even razor blades and sharp stone blades to shave the boar's hair.

Then the stomach is disemboweled, the internal organs of the large intestine and small intestine are dug out, washed in seawater, rinsed again with fresh water, and wrapped in leaves

The pig's body is cut open with an axe or even a saw, dismantled in eight pieces, and cleaned in the same way

Before that, Fang Jinyan pulled out his hamstring and took away the small intestine at the same time.

Because the main credit for killing the wild boar was his, no one else said that he deserved it.

It is said that this wild boar is not small, but it is far less fat than domestic pigs, so in fact, not much meat is cut in the end.

Fang Jinyan used wooden poles and stones to make a simple scale.

The standard of this scale was based on a graduated drinking cup of a girl: first he made a weight-like equal-arm lever like a scale, balanced the weight of the drinking cup with crushed stones, then filled the drinking cup with 1,000 milliliters of water, which weighed exactly one kilogram, and then Fang Jinyan beat it again to get a stone of the same weight as 1,000 milliliters of water.

This stone is his weighing stone, and then according to the principle of levers, he made a wooden scale with a maximum scale of 20 kilograms.

After several weighings on this wooden scale, they finally added up the results and learned the total weight of the meat cut by the wild boar.

Even including the smashed pig's head, it is only 47 kilograms, less than 100 kilograms of meat.

It seems like a lot, but when it is distributed to more than 100 people, each person is actually less than 1 catty

In addition, this is the tropics, and their salt is very limited now, so they finally decided to eat it all without salting and storing it! Let everyone have a good time, it's a celebration of treats!

They are still not in a very good situation, so they need a celebration to boost everyone's morale!

Especially the two people who have just died, we must eliminate the pessimism and despair that this incident has brought to everyone!

Sure enough, when everyone heard the news, they all cheered!

Although 1 pound of meat is not much, you can still eat it very, very happily after one meal! (To be continued......)