"Hey, there's a snake here!"

"No, it's not, it's a tree root, right?"

"The root of a tree is a black vine, and you can't eat it. ”

Lu lightly glanced at the black vine that was casually carried by the clansmen on the snow.

The length of her forearm, as thick as two thumbs, was quite similar to the roots of a tree, and she glanced at it casually, and suddenly felt a little familiar, and looked at it twice, and then walked over to pick it up.

"Deer, can you eat this?" Qi ran over, sweating profusely, and he was now full of energy to find the snake.

"Do you know what this is?"

"I don't know. ”

"What kind of plants did this generation have...... Forget it, you don't know if I ask you. ”

Lu gently looked at the black vine in his hand, always feeling familiar, but not sure.

She picked up a stone and smashed open the black vine, revealing the white inner stem, she twisted a little on her fingertips, a little pink, and licked it again, revealing a thoughtful expression.

"Qi, you can help me dig up this black vine more. ”

"Is this really edible?" exclaimed Qi excitedly.

"I'm not sure yet, but if we can eat it, we'll have one more piece of food. Lu said lightly, "Don't say it yet, lest you be disappointed if you can't eat it." ”

If you guessed correctly, this black vine is a fern root.

Fern is one of the most widely distributed plants in the world, the shoots can be used as vegetables, the rhizomes are rich in starch, for a long time, are the supplement food for the stomach of the mountain people, in Lu Qing's time, this thing is no longer a hunger thing, but has become the original ecological green food.

This fern root is mainly made into fern root glutinous rice or fern root noodles, Lu has eaten it gently, and has seen people do it with his own eyes, but it was a very small thing, and she still roughly remembers the specific process, saying that it is simple and simple, it is very tiring, but if this is really a fern root, it is worth it no matter how tired it is.

Although Lu Qing didn't want to make a noise, as the object of everyone's attention now, she had a movement that spread all over in a blink of an eye, and the clansmen immediately helped her dig up this black vine, and there were many such black vines under the hillside in this area, and after a while, there was a lot of it on the ground.

Lu couldn't cry and laugh lightly, so he hurriedly asked everyone to stop, and then took this pile of black vines like a hill, and followed a group of clansmen back to the cave to go back first.

In the morning, some of the igloos in the cave were demolished, but more were built, and four or five igloos were gathered together to form a circle, and a fire in the middle of the circle could warm up the surrounding igloos, which would save a lot of firewood and better manage the whole tribe.

Knowing that this was Jiao's idea, Lu Qingqing's opinion of this cheap father was a little different.

He is worthy of being a chieftain, and his mind is still good.

In this way, with him in charge, she is only responsible for solving the food problem, and she has more confidence in surviving this winter.

Lu gently came back and made the tribe commotion, especially when they saw that she brought back a bunch of new things, and everyone expected her to find new food.

However, some people were disappointed to see that what she brought back was something like tree roots.

Yao's follower Shi came over to take a look, and pouted his already crooked mouth: "The roots of the tree are also picked up, and when we don't have to eat anymore, we only eat the bark at most, does the god of food teach you how to eat the roots?"

Horn was on crutches, and people came over to take a look, and they were also a little disappointed: "Deer, how did you bring this back, you can't eat it and you can't burn it." ”

"Father, this is not a tree root, but the rhizome of a plant, but whether I can eat it or not, I have to try. Lu said softly, and called the old men who were good at dealing with wood before who were sleds, "You use those big wooden stakes to make a few pots for me, that is, hollow out the middle and leave the outer layer." ”

Lu gently gestured and explained, and asked the most skillful old man to make a funnel.

It is said that it is a funnel, but it is actually a basket, but it is a little smaller and simpler.

Take more than a dozen thick and tough long branches, take the midpoint as the standard, evenly disperse and overlap together, this is the warp, but also the vertical line, and then use thinner and soft branches to cross these warp threads, winding and weaving.

After weaving a chassis, the warp thread is erected, held in the hand and continued to weave, knitting to about the height of the calf, and then the warp is folded back to finish, so that a funnel-shaped basket that is narrow at the bottom and wide at the top is braided.

It is said to be small, but Lu Qing can't hug it alone, and put some hay in it, which can be used to filter.

"Good stuff, it's good stuff. The old man muttered to himself, excited and excited, "Deer, how did you come up with it, that is, a few branches, we also weave more straw mats, why didn't we think that we could weave it like this?"

Lu looked at this basket lightly and also felt a little nostalgic, these things were all learned by her grandfather when she was in the countryside, from the neighbor's old uncle and aunt, she was naturally interested in these things, and her grandfather never stopped her, always happy to say that it is better to learn more, in the future, if you want to survive in the wilderness or something, it is the ability to survive.

Sometimes the grandfather was interested, and taught her how to use this knowledge in a thorough manner, and from time to time the topic would be extended, talking about the stories of their older generation, talking about the various encounters encountered in the march, which involved the wisdom of life and the essentials of survival, which are great treasures.

Lu Qingqing even wondered if her grandfather expected that she would travel to another world one day, so he taught her these things.

She smiled: "This kind of weaving can weave a lot of things, baskets, baskets, and even bags, it is very good to put things, and there are many different weaving methods, I will teach you when I have time." ”

Lu Qingqing was about to clean those black vines next, but she still washed them with snow, and the clansmen came to help her, Sanzhi took some black vines and squatted beside Lu Qingqing, and whispered: "Deer, those things, you, can you tell them?"

Lu was slightly stunned, knowing that Sanzhi was worried that she would cause trouble by teaching everything to the clansmen, and said with a smile: "It's okay, things like snow houses, straw sandals, and baskets are all things that our tribe urgently needs, and I won't teach the really important skills casually." ”

"That's good, that's good. Sanzhi looked at Lu lightly with loving and extremely proud eyes, then lowered her head, grabbed the snow and scrubbed the black vine vigorously, and the turbid snow water fell from her fingers.

Two tears fell into the snow and quickly seeped in and disappeared, Lu was stunned when he saw it, but he didn't say anything.

The black vines were all washed, and Lu gently and luxuriously washed the water from the pool in the depths of the cave, and then put it in a clean stone pot, and began to beat it with a stone hammer, and when it was broken, it was hammered out, and the main ingredient of this slurry was starch.