Chapter 6 The Hole in the Stone Wall
Bring a small rattan basket, the rattan basket is loaded with a small hunting knife, push away the wooden fence, walk down the cobblestone steps, turn to the left is a small mountain village, the village road is paved with large pieces of water-milled bluestone, some houses in the village have been dilapidated, plus the fading of the plague more than half a year ago, the original people who took refuge in the mountains have also returned to the small town below the mountain, and now only four or five families live in the small mountain village.
"Ade, I picked up the meat of the half of the rabbit you sent yesterday afternoon, the bones are marinated, you take it back, I will make two more pancakes in the morning, and you can take it back to make lunch by the way. I saw a short aunt drying clothes on the small balcony of her house, and when she saw Ades from afar, she greeted him loudly.
"Hello Aunt Grace. Ades approached the room and chatted with the fat aunt with his head tilted, "Auntie, what are you leaving the pancakes for me, you should give it to Uncle Green, he has to do farm work, hard work." ”
"Stay, stay, you kid always thinks about others. Grace had a satisfied smile on her face.
"You're welcome, then?" replied as Ades raised his hand and touched the maroon short, pretending to be very unpolite.
Aunt Grace's face changed, and she pretended to be very angry and said, "What are you polite, tell you to take it quickly, Auntie is going to be angry." ”
"Hey...... Ay...... I'll go back and get some salted eggs first. Adès hurried forward, Aunt Grace was too polite.
The houses in the mountain village are very simple, when there are more than ten households, they can't afford to build brick and tile cellars, so the houses are built according to local conditions, large bluestone pebbles, lime, sand, clay mixed into a slurry, the coagulation is average, the firmness is general, the permeability is general, and it will be used.
The roof is either thatched, if the family labor is enough, on the thin bluestone slabs, tiles or something only under the town there is a cellar to burn, but the back to the small mountain village is very hard, the people who lived here at the beginning were not rich people, now the people who have taken refuge have moved away, the richest person in the village is actually Uncle Hunter, relying on hunting, the mountain goods collected during the hunting process are all sought-after goods, in fact, Hunter is also a rich family in the town, but in order to hunt nearby, he has been living in a small mountain village.
The rest of Aunt Grace's family, as well as Uncle Abbas's family and Grandmother Weiss at the entrance of the village, are all the current residents of the small village in the middle of the levels.
Ades walked quickly to his yard, the main house is a two-story wooden building, which has long collapsed, but the original firewood house next to it has been standing because it is built with pebbles, and the roof is also paved with thin pieces of bluestone, moisture-proof and cold-proof, Ades just returned to the small mountain village is to live here with his mother, after his mother died, it was used to store bacon and dried fruits, after all, the mill is a little damp.
Ham making zuò is very simple, choose pork hind leg marinated with sea salt and air dry, but the air drying time is a bit long, at least more than a year, a year and a half is the best. Just cut off a piece and take it back and cut it into thin slices, spread it on top of the dragon beard noodles, so that a combination of Chinese and Western imitation bacon Chinese spaghetti noodles can be eaten.
Before Ades came to the small mountain village, Uncle Hunter's staple food was actually black bread, grinding white flour would consume half of the wheat, and it would be possible for a very luxurious big landlord to eat white flour all the time, after Ades followed Uncle Hunt into the mountains to hunt, in a damp bush with a backlit leeward, surrounded a firewood stack with rotten wood, and brought back to the woodstack the rotten wood that he saw growing black fungus when he passed by。
In this way, Adès relied on hunting, mountain goods, the inheritance of his parents and maternal grandfather, not to mention white bread and meat, and there was no problem with adding a bottle of wine.
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Time flew by, two days passed in the blink of an eye, and the rain had completely stopped in the evening, and Adès decided to wait two days and go into the forest to find the source of the silver coin.
Early in the morning, the sky was bright, and Ades changed into the equipment to go to the field, simple cowhide half-body armor, cowhide boots, rattan shield, hardwood iron spear, and hung a ** on his left waist, a rattan basket on his back, a simple tent inside, some baked pancakes, a small iron pot, salt, spices, etc., the bow and arrow did not take this time, because the main thing is not to hunt but to search, with a bow and arrow, you must reduce the logistics of food or something, it is difficult to choose.
The long-range weapons that Adès brought this time were three small throwing guns, and under his divine power, even large cats, wild boars, and grizzly bears could be killed with one shot, and the power was infinitely high at short and medium distances.
Three months ago, Hunter graduated from Ades in the wilderness survival skills, but his combat effectiveness was a little poor, and he was not allowed to enter the interior of the forest, basically Ades was not stressed to stay in the forest alone for seven or eight days.
Swimming up the river, Adès walked very carefully and slowly, concentrating on the source of the silver coins and fighting the beasts that protruded from the grass at all times, especially the poisonous snakes.
In the forest by the river, all kinds of rainforest plants are entangled with each other, trees tens of meters high can be seen everywhere, thick fallen leaves are black rot under the erosion of time, and countless insects and ants reproduce under the fallen leaves.
He always made sure that the front was safe before he went forward, and if there was any trouble, he immediately stopped to observe, and anyone who was careless in the forest would die a miserable death.
Adès continued to walk forward, constantly observing the small river left and right for traces of water rushing out, it was possible that it was the stopping point of the owner of the silver coin, and the river, whether there were new silver coins or other artificially made items, relying on his divine thoughts, he could not let go of the slightest clue.
"Roar ......" A roar came from the distance, extremely penetrating.
Adès quickly put down the rattan basket on his back, and climbed a large tree not far away, listening to the sound in the distance, and after a while, he was sure that the battle in the distance was a grizzly bear foraging for food, but he didn't know what was being hunted.
Ades looked around, got down from the tree, put the rattan basket on his back, walked to the downwind, slowly bypassed the battle site, it was already evening, he was looking for a place to camp, there was no need to have a life and death with this grizzly bear, besides, the bear meat was not delicious, and the bear paws and skins were worth some money.
Adès continued to walk forward, constantly observing the small river left and right for traces of water rushing out, it was possible that it was the stopping point of the owner of the silver coin, and the river, whether there were new silver coins or other artificially made items, relying on his divine thoughts, he could not let go of the slightest clue.
In this way, he stopped and stopped, and soon came to a granite platform by the river, where Ades and Hunter used to rest if they were active near the river, and Ades took out a rough ladder from two bushes not far away, climbed the stone platform, and pulled the ladder at night It was a very safe perch, except for those who could fly, no snakes, insects, rats and ants could get up.
While it was still dark, Adès hurried to boil water, make food, set up tents, wash, and when he was done, it was already completely dark in the forest, but the sky was still blue, the night of the forest came quickly, the lush trees blocked the sun, and the birds foraging in the canopy of the forest in the distance were circling, they were ready to return to the familiar woods to roost, and all kinds of animals foraging at night also came out to find their own feast.
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Due to the storage of divine thoughts, there is no need to rummage through various clues with his hands, and the degree of Adès exploring the owner of the silver coin is still relatively fast, at least faster than the degree of hunting, hunting needs to set traps, need to ambush, need to wait for prey, so it only took him four days to come to the upper reaches of the river, close to the source, the river originated in a mountain col, and Ades saw a small collapse on the side of the mountain wall from a distance, revealing a cave in the collapsed stone wall.
The rocks that had collapsed under the rain were washed into the creek, and in the mud not far from the waterway, Adès found another silver coin, which was almost certain to have come out of a cave in the stone wall.
Looking at the cave from a distance, the entrance of the cave is about one and a half meters, and the width is only about one meter, which is an irregular circle. The backlight can only see about one meter inside the cave, and then it gradually darkens and becomes dark.
Adès came to the bottom of the cave and found a money bag made of cowhide, which was wet by the rain and then dried, and became hard and black, the rope at the mouth of the bag had rotted, and several silver and copper coins fell out of this mud, and the silver coin he first picked up was here that it began to be washed by the rain to the river, and when he opened the bag, he saw that there were about thirty silver coins and more than fifty copper coins in it, and there were all kinds of them, and some silver coins were even just a silver cake.
In this low-productivity world, one gold coin can buy a sheep, fifteen gold coins can buy a bull, one gold coin can buy an iron knight's sword, and in the town, a stone two-and-a-half-story house with a garden balcony costs thirty gold coins, and of course, the same house in Puerto Nantes is estimated to be doubled to buy.
Adès looked up and saw that the entrance of the cave was about six or seven meters above the ground, put the things that were not necessary on his body under the stone wall, carried the empty basket on his back, and tied the wooden spear to the edge of the basket.
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