Chapter 83 Rest by the river
Before the sun set, we found a small river. We're going to camp here.
The water was refreshing.
We first drank a few sips of water to moisten our throats, and then took off the weight on our bodies, and suddenly felt very relaxed. But now we can't drink a lot of water, and the body can't stand drinking a lot of cold water at once.
The river is damp, so you can't lie down, otherwise, you will have to catch a cold. These experiences were told to me by my father, who was the leader of the Murmur tribe, and he taught me a lot about survival in the wild, and with this knowledge, I could avoid detours and minimize unnecessary injuries in order to cope with the ever-changing surroundings.
We walked by the river, mainly to relax our bodies, sweat, the small river flowed loudly, reflecting the red sunset, crimson, light red clouds, and the reflection of trees, and from time to time a fish peeked out of their little mouths to blow bubbles, as if to tease us, and then wagged their tails and walked around nowhere.
After a while, the sweat on our bodies fell, and we felt comfortable, but we were a little thirsty, so we went down to the river and drank a hearty drink, only to drink until our stomachs went up and hiccuped.
Maybe we're a little tired, maybe it's too close to the last time we had a meal, or maybe the water has just filled our stomachs and we don't want to eat.
However, it is not possible to not eat, and we must supplement nutrition in time for long-distance walking, otherwise the body will not be able to stand it.
So, we took two handfuls of bananas from the peony's fruit stack, the kind that didn't break open and formed a circle. We each took a handful and ate it slowly.
In normal times, I would have been able to destroy ten handfuls of these bananas myself, plus a few other fruits, a few young leaves, and a few grasses, and we have not eaten them all to-day, but only a little more than half of them, and we are going to save them for supper, or for breakfast to-morrow.
There are no beds here, you know, we red-haired dinosaurs are civilized animals, we all sleep in beds, but now there are no beds to sleep in. If we are used to sleeping in bed, if we sleep directly on the ground, our body will not be able to bear it, not to mention that we are now by the river, the ground is damp, the air is humid, sleep for a while, the next day, can't stand up if you can't get up.
"We can make a bed," Peony saw that I was a little worried, and immediately said, "I have seen making beds and know how to make them." ”
His words reminded me that yes, we are all used to using ready-made things, and always think that these things are what I should have and use, and when we don't have these things all of a sudden, we will become at a loss, in fact, many things we can do on our own, and it may not be as difficult to do as we think.
It is impossible to make a high-standard bed, because we can't find so many fragrant woods at once, even if there are, there won't be so many ready-made dried fragrant woods, but we don't need to make a high-standard bed, we just stay here for one night, and we don't plan to stay forever, and we can't take it away.
I originally wanted to find some dead trees, knock them down, use a thick trunk as the foundation of the bed, spread a layer horizontally with the same thick trunk, and then spread a layer of dry branches on top of it, and spread a thick layer of leaves on the dry branches, so that it would be very comfortable to sleep on, although it is not as good as a formal bed.
But this is not possible.
It's not that I doubt that I can't do such a difficult job, it's that time doesn't allow, the sun will soon set, and soon night will fall, and if I can't complete this grand project, tonight, we will still have to sleep on the floor, what difference is it from not doing?
So I changed my mind, and we both went separately to pick up the branches, and we were going to spread a layer of branches on the ground, and then just spread some more leaves on the branches.
It was not difficult to find dry branches in the forest, so to speak, so we decided to pile the branches and leaves before dark where we had made our bed, a relatively dry spot a few dozen meters away from the river, and then make the bed in the dark.
But we are burly, to make a bed need more branches, according to our height of three meters, four meters in length, to make a single dragon bed at least 12 square meters, the two of us sleep together, at least more than 24 square meters, can not turn over, spacious, how to double, to make a large bed of more than 40 square meters to be comfortable, because there is no foundation, the branches should be spread thicker, the moisture on the ground will not erode our body.
The top priority now is to collect the dry branches as soon as possible, otherwise the best ideas will be in vain.
But it's useless to be anxious, we are not good at picking up branches, we have to lower our heads, descend from a height of more than three meters to close to the ground to find, and then hold in our mouths, we see that we are tall, but our heads are not big, we can't hold a few at a time, and the grinding of the mouth forks is wet and painful, and the teeth are also uncomfortable.
"It's a ...... of rubbish"
I'm not scolding others, I'm not scolding myself, I'm scolding my own forelimbs, I'm scolding them for being stupid like cows, what else can they do but walk?
In fact, we can't blame them completely, our body is too heavy, relying on two hind limbs can hardly bear the weight of the body, so, the forelimbs that can do a lot of things have to do the simplest work, they are locked in an ordinary post all their lives, they can't get the opportunity to go out to exercise, and the stupid hind limbs do the same work, in the end nothing is accomplished, even if they have been trying to walk in front of the hind limbs, always want to be a small step ahead of the hind limbs, but who can see it? Who would look the other way at you for that little step? Even if it is sold to a butcher's house, it is not worth as much as a hind limb.
Despite this thought, we are still very nervous to work, and we can complain, but we must not be ambiguous in our work. My two forelimbs were still doing their extra work as much as possible, and they had long developed a good temper of not scolding and not fighting back, and they gathered the nearby branches and leaves together as much as possible, or picked them up and threw them into the place where the bed was made, so that after a while, the branches near were all gathered together in the place where the bed was made, and there was a small pile.
There are leaves next to them, so you don't need to look far away.
I thought the branches were almost there, so I decided to make the bed. Peony said that he would look for some branches a little farther away, so that he would not be enough, and after a while he would not see anything, and if he wanted to find the branches, he would have nowhere to find them. I think that's good, because making the bed isn't a complicated task anyway, and I can do it on my own.
After all, the work is about to be done, I have accelerated the speed of making the bed, I want to finish it, and sleep beautifully,
"No, let's soak our feet in the river first......"
"How can you sleep without soaking your feet......?"
"Let the little fish gnaw on the calluses on my feet......"
I thought about it in my heart, and I didn't feel tired from work, and the bed would soon be made.
Suddenly, a terrible voice interrupted my thoughts.
"Help......
"Help ......" is another sound.
This is the peony, I can hear it, this is the voice of the peony.