Chapter 62: Survival in the Wilderness
The two men took the two dogs out on the path and walked a little further to chop wood and build a house for the night, and the house was built in the recess under the mushroom roof.
Two people chop firewood on the platform, burn firewood at night, pick up some dry firewood as much as possible, so as not to waste some, you can also cut down some trees, it is not easy to grow trees on the top of the mountain, you can also come back to take it later.
A person with two dogs, accompanied the second son, observed his reaction at any time, and told everyone immediately if there was a situation.
The father and the eldest son took the two dogs to the platform to find the animals, they looked for them very carefully, for fear of missing something, at this moment, as long as the platform can move and not poisonous things can become their dinner.
When he found one of the sides of the platform, the eldest son found that there seemed to be a small hole in a protruding rock under the platform, and the dust on the rock was very clean, and it must have been some kind of animal that often came and went there.
The platform has been searched for almost half of it and has not found anything, the father was a little panicked in his heart, when he heard the news, he suddenly felt a joke, ran over quickly to take a look, turned around and ran back to the place where they put things, brought two thick cow ropes and rattan ropes, tied one end of the rope firmly to a big stone in the middle of the flat ground, and the other end was tied to his waist, and let the eldest son tie another rope to his father at one end, and the other end was tied to the waist of the stone pillar that grew directly on another platform, and at the same time let the eldest son look at the two ropes, and called a child who was chopping wood to come over to helpArrange for two dogs to squat nearby to warn against other animals.
After tying it up, my father began to slowly slide down the protruding stone under the platform.
Below, the father saw that this was a bird hole, and the hole was very open, and people could directly get into it, but the black rumbling inside could not be seen clearly, and the father hurriedly called for the child to call someone to bring a torch over. Another woodcutter came and handed down a torch that had been lit.
The father stretched out the torch into the hole, and there was a "fluttering" sound, and a bird the size of the hole was so frightened that it flew out, and flew away with a "whoop", causing the dogs to howl too.
After the bird flew up, everyone saw that it was a goshawk.
The father slowly climbed into the goshawk's hole, and after entering a short distance, he found an animal lying in it, with no wounds on its body, and it seemed that it was food for the goshawk.
As soon as my father grabbed one of the animal's legs, he pulled it out of the hole, and when he pulled it out, he saw that it was an iguana, and its belly was still slightly undulating, and it was estimated that it was still alive.
That's a good thing! Everyone pulled my father and the iguana up with all their hands.
The iguana is the size of a goat, if this animal dies, it is not afraid to eat it, to prevent decay and deterioration, if it is alive, it is very likely that it was caught by the goshawk just now, and it should be no problem for people to eat it, but I'm sorry for the goshawk, please work hard again.
When the father came up, the rest of the people went about their own business.
After putting the iguana away, the father saw the second son sitting on the ground resting normally, and asked him how he was, and the child said mischievously, "I don't feel anything, I'm just a little hungry." ”
At this time, it was already an hour before him drank water, and if the water could not be drunk, there should have been a reaction, which meant that the water could be drunk.
At this time, there is another way, which is to pour some water on the iguana and see how it reacts, but the father said that it is not necessary.
The father smiled and said, with this, we just don't have water to drink, and there is no problem for a night, and the iguana has a special bag for water in its body, which can hold a bucket of water, and it has a lot of blood.
The father climbed on top of the mushroom again, dug a canal with his hoe by the puddle, and drew the water directly to the place where they were going to build the house, and it flowed down the stone like a small waterfall.
A few dogs, who had already licked their tongues, were about to go forward to drink water, but when they came to them, they stopped, looked at their masters with inquiring eyes, and when they saw that their masters nodded and acquiesced, they all lowered their heads and dipped their tongues in water and ate them.
With a good start, the rest of the story seems to go smoothly.
After a while, the eldest son found more than a dozen eggs in the grass, each the size of a fist, and he did not know what kind of bird it was.
On a sandy and gravel ground, my father found a large pool of Lei Gong, which is a good thing, and it tastes better than fungus.
Further ahead, I also found hundreds of small garlic roots one after another, this thing is a bit similar to shallots, round garlic tubes, but the bulb at the root is the size of a thumb, it is also something that can be eaten, and its fragrance mainly comes from this small ball.
Small garlic is not afraid of cold, is also cold and alkali tolerant, and especially likes to grow on desolate sandy soil. With all this was enough, the father and the eldest son returned to the second son with a large pile of things in their arms.
The child still didn't react otherwise, and when they met, they shouted that they were hungry, which made the father laugh and scold, "You see so many good things, and I'm afraid I'm hungry for you." ”
By this time, the house had been built, and it made full use of a natural place formed by a stone recessed, and although it was not too wide inside, it was no problem to squeeze everyone for the night.
The two people and the dog who were specifically blocking the path out of the platform did not find any animals running out, which means that there should be no animals on the platform except for birds, but they still used a large number of various thorns at the entrance of the path to build a thorn wall, and dozens of sharpened wooden stakes were obliquely inserted behind the thorn wall.
After the house was built, the woodcutter had nothing to do at this time, so he took the initiative to light a fire and set up a pot to cook.
But at this time, my father found an interesting thing - how the water on the top of the mushroom has been flowing for two hours, but the water flow is still so large, it is really strange.
Everyone also found it interesting.
A few well-wishing young men dragged their father up to the top of the mushroom again and came to the watering hole to see what was going on.
At this time, the sun is setting, and it is blood-red and blood-red for half a day, which is particularly dazzling.
Judging from the water marks on the water level, everyone saw that the water level of the puddle had only dropped slightly compared to the first time they saw it, and they didn't even know what was going on.
It stands to reason that at this rate and time, the water level should drop quickly, but the canal is too small, and it doesn't look like it's.
A boy picked up a hoe and dug up in the ditch, and he was going to dig a bigger ditch to see what was going on.
After the canal, which had been doubled, was dug and the water was quickly drained to the platform, everyone thought that the water level would drop quickly, but it still only slowly dropped a little and did not change.
At this time, the attentive eldest son lay on the edge of the puddle, looked at the slightly rippling water and said that there seemed to be water flowing out of the middle.
The second son grabbed a handful of hay and threw it into the middle of the water, and everyone was completely relieved to see the hay slowly drifting from the middle to the puddle around the puddle -- the puddle really came out of the water, the water was alive, and it was no wonder that the water could be drunk.
By this time, the second son and several dogs, who had already drunk water, had no abnormal reactions. By the time they returned to the hut, the fire was already blazing, and the cooks had skinned the iguanas, cleaned them under the waterfall, and were cutting them into pieces with their knives, and the entrails, tails, and skins had been thrown to the dogs.