Chapter 43: Late at Night
The fire in the house was buzzing, and the orange light illuminated the room, and even the dimly lit corners made her feel warm.
After such a long time, her barbecue skills have improved greatly, but it is the first time she has tried slate barbecue. Throw the red-burning firewood from the fire into the stone stove and burn the smooth stones to the brim.
She peeled a thick piece of fat and laid it on the slate, and after a while the squeaky oil juice squeaked, and she used a Mongolian knife to cut the meat into thin slices and spread it on the slate to roast.
Suddenly, I remembered the basket that I put into the river in the afternoon, and I hurriedly ran to the river in the dark, squatted on the bank according to the position in my memory, and scooped up the basket from the water.
The small basket seems to be a lot heavier, and when I first picked it up, I could feel the fish jumping around restlessly in it, Qin Yue looked at the fish in the basket by the bright moonlight, and smiled, "Make you proud, let people eat you!"
In fact, she didn't know if it was still the fish, but she still couldn't hide the bad taste in her heart.
Thinking about the slate barbecue in the house, she didn't delay much, neatly shaved open the belly of the fish, cleaned the internal organs and gills, and carefully cleaned up the four or five fish in the basket.
She happily carried the fish basket back to the wooden house, and heard the sound of the waves on the shore of the lake beating the ground in the distance, and the river behind her also rattled, she did not know how big the lake was, but there was no end in sight.
The wind at night is a bit strong.
She closed the hut casually, and smelled an enticing burnt aroma, the roast meat on the slate was browned, and the edges were curled, and it looked ripe.
She washed the wooden bowl, put the cooked thin slices of meat in the bowl with chopsticks, cut a dozen or so slices, smeared them with coarse salt, and spread them on the stone slab to roast them again.
She took out two of the cleaned fish, salted them and marinated them in another wooden bowl, and threw the other three into a clay pot to stew. There are not a few pieces of ginger left from the Black Rock tribe, and they are all dry and turned into old ginger, she doesn't waste it, she takes a knife and cuts it into pieces and throws it into the jar, which can somewhat remove the fishy smell.
When she was empty, she pondered and walked around the neighborhood, this plain was covered with many vegetation but not rich, mostly vines and withered grasses, and now all of them were withered and decayed, and there were not even a few trees, but she still hoped that if she could run into ginger!
Outside, the wooden door blown by the autumn wind whirred, and a lot of wind poured in from the window, and the fire flickered on and off.
Looking out of the window, the thatch that drooped from the eaves of the wind-blown eaves swayed back and forth, but fortunately, when they built the roof, they specially bundled the thatch into bundles and tied it firmly to the wooden beams, so that no matter how strong the wind was, not a single thatch could be blown off.
The wooden house, which had been laid on the ground, stood firm and immovable in the autumn wind, and she did not worry about the strong wind, but the heavy winter snow that would crush the house.
The bright moon hanging on the canopy was half-covered by dark clouds at this time, and the autumn wind chased the dark clouds, and it didn't take long for the heavy dark clouds to cover the bright moon.
Her eyebrows frowned slightly, and it looked like it was going to rain.
The weather is changing, heavy rain in the morning, the sun will come out at noon, but I didn't expect it to be dark and ready for a rain.
She doesn't care if it rains, it's just that Liang Jian hasn't come back yet.
The night is cold, and if it rains again, it will be strange not to get sick.
The fish soup was stewed in the clay pot, and the grilled fish and meat on the stone slab exuded an attractive aroma, but she didn't have the mind, turned down the fire in the stone stove, withdrew a few sticks of firewood, and took the clay pot to the stone stove to simmer.
She stayed at the window and waited for Liang Jian to come back, but she was very impetuous, and she wanted to go out to find him, but she was afraid that the two would stagger away. She went out on the front foot, and he came back on the back foot.
After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the fire burned into a pile of ashes, leaving only a thin flame, and Liang Jian had not yet returned.
The wind was still whining outside, the clouds were getting lower and lower, and the rain was still falling.
She gritted her teeth, took a half-meter-long thick wooden torch, wrapped one end with dead grass and other flammable materials and smeared resin on it, lit the torch, she pushed open the wooden door, and walked into the darkness without looking back.
She knew that the place where Liang Jian often went hunting, in the depths of that forest, was deeper than the tree house they had lived in before, and there were many animals hidden in the jungle, but they didn't come out much.
Liang Jian had never gone out hunting so late this time, she had thought of countless possibilities in her heart, and countless possibilities could be attributed to one, that is, something happened to him and he was delayed by something.
She was flustered, she couldn't imagine what she would do if something happened to Liang Jian? The two husband and wife were one, and they had to go through an adventure to determine each other's intentions, she used to think that no matter where she was, she couldn't live without anyone, in her previous life, she lived alone, traveled alone, even if Liang Jian was away from home for a few months, it had no effect on her.
But since coming here, her mentality has changed, and she can't leave Liang Jian, not for a moment.
Maybe when people are in a hurry, the more they think about it, the more they think about it, and constantly comfort themselves that they are as strong as Liang Jian, and there will definitely be no accidents, but she still can't control her cranky thoughts.
Qin Yue ran desperately in the direction of the forest, the firelight swaying in the wind, and for a moment it seemed to be extinguished, but it still stubbornly burned, illuminating the path ahead of her.
Running into the outer edge of the jungle, she slowed down breathlessly, rested on her waist for a while, and then took a torch to shine into the woods.
When she entered the jungle, she lost her direction, this forest was big and deep, although the trees were sparse but thick, she didn't know the direction Liang Jian took, she could only go deep by feeling.
Not caring to wake up the animals in the depths of the jungle, she called out his name as she searched, startling the birds and squirrels among the trees.
She walked for an unknown amount of time, her feet on the fallen leaves stuck in the mud, and the morning rain made the land in the forest muddy, and after half a day of sunlight, the stagnant water evaporated, but it still made the land slippery and difficult to walk.
The only thing left in the forest was the sound of animals scurrying around, and she kept walking. Fine sweat overflowed from her forehead, and she couldn't feel the coolness of the autumn breeze all over her body, and she was steaming with a puff of heat.
When he suddenly passed by a big tree, he caught a glimpse of a black shadow flashing by, Qin Yue's eyes froze, and he fixed his eyes on the past, but there was nothing.
She stood still, her eyes wide open, and she looked around carefully so that she would not feel dazzled.
Half loud, no movement, she pretended not to care, and looked down, only to see a huge shadow on the ground illuminated by the firelight.
She jerked to the side, holding the torch forward, and suddenly heard a sizzling sound, and smelled the smell of burnt hair.
She took the torch and leaned forward, but saw a beast two or three meters high, grinning fiercely at her, but looking at the torch in her hand with fear, he took a few steps back and moved away from her.
Qin Yue was startled, she barely stood firm, her face turned pale instantly, she took a Mongolian knife to defend herself when she went out, but in the face of such a huge beast, it was obvious that the Mongolian knife could not hurt it in the slightest.
Her head turned a thousand times, thinking about what to do, and when she caught a glimpse of the beast, it was only staring at the torch in her hand, tilting its head to look at it, and even taking a step forward.