Chapter 1 The beginning of the late Han Dynasty
"It hurts." Zhao Ye, who woke up, looked at the surrounding trees in confusion, and his head cracked. After opening and closing his eyes several times, the blurred ghosting in front of his eyes gradually became clear.
Turning over and sitting up, he looked around with a confused expression, the surrounding foliage was obscured, and only a few rays of sunlight penetrated the broad leaves, leaving a few mottled spots. Underneath him was a pile of dead branches and rotten leaves, rubbed with his hands, shattered like dust, and fell at his feet. A few broken branches with dark green foliage surround the surroundings.
Zhao Ye looked up at the cliff wall behind him, and went up the bottom of the cliff, a tree with vertically skimmed branches kept going up, and the top could not be seen.
"I should have fallen off the top of a cliff." Zhao Ye rubbed his swollen head and shook his head vigorously, and the memory finally came flooding back.
Zhao Ye likes to climb mountains, especially the inaccessible primitive deep forests, which has endless temptation for him, some time ago, a traveler posted a post on the Internet, inviting a few adventurous travelers to explore an unknown mountain peak in Shennongjia, Hubei, it is said that they have seen wild people there, so several people hit it off and were invited to explore together.
Along the way, they chopped the grass and grass, and even the fur of the savages was never seen, but fortunately, a few people climbed the nameless mountain just for the scenery along the way. Zhao Ye was sad at the moment of reaching the peak, the backpack strap broke, fell off the cliff, and hung on a pine tree, because it was not far away, Zhao Ye decisively went to get the backpack alone, but he didn't expect that the pine tree with a thick bowl mouth couldn't bear Zhao Ye's weight, and fell off the cliff with his bag.
Fortunately, the cliff here is not a cliff, there are still various trees growing on the cliff from time to time, and there is a road to the obstruction of trees, which buffers the speed of Zhao Ye's fall, plus the thick branches and leaves accumulated for thousands of years at the bottom of the cliff, like a natural air cushion, Zhao Ye surprisingly did not suffer serious injuries, except for being cut by branches all the way, none of the bones were broken.
It was early summer, and the dead branches and leaves at the bottom of the cliff were breeding bacteria, and Zhao Ye lowered his head and lifted his ragged clothes. Almost all the scars on the body are left by tree branches, especially the few scars on the stomach as if they have been plowed by a climbing plow, bright red and eye-catching. The wound had congealed now, but the sharp pain from the wound had apparently begun to suppurate. Infections have already begun, and at this time of year, wound infections are often fatal.
Luckily, the backpack was not far away and contained antibiotic capsules. Zhao Ye walked to the edge of the backpack with difficulty, tossed and turned, found the capsule, looked up and swallowed it, but due to the action just now, blood burst out from the wound that had just coagulated.
There is no white medicine to stop bleeding in the backpack, and it has been used up all the way over the mountains and mountains.
As a traveler who loves the beauty of mountains and rivers, Zhao Xuan knows more or less about the hemostatic effect of some plants, and the widely distributed is thistle, which is a good herb for blindly stopping bleeding. Right now is the season for the giant thistle to grow wildly.
Sure enough, the dense primeval forest could not stop the growth of the big thistle, Zhao Ye saw that there was a large thistle with sharp teeth and green leaves on the ground not far from the big tree on the side, and there were a few small flowers on it, which looked very cute.
Zhao Ye flipped through the backpack, took out a handful of military thorns from the bag, cut off the rhizomes, carefully removed the spikes, and then, turned out the iron bowl from the backpack, together with the flowers, cut it into the bowl one by one, and began to pound the medicine with the handle of the military bayonet.
A series of quite simple actions, because of the injury, Zhao Xuan had to do it slowly, and every time he pounded it, his facial expression had to be distorted once. The dried clothes were soaked from the outside of the stomach because of the bursting of the wounds.
With great difficulty, the sun was already setting, and the vegetated forest was darkened by the westward slope of the sun. The sight was no longer as good as it was just now, and Zhao Ye replenished some of the food and water needed by his body. Feeling the loss of strength, Zhao Ye picked up his backpack. Follow the flow of the stream and go outward.
The compass was not of much use at this time, with the past few days of forest shuttle, Zhao Ye knew that there would be at least two or three days of travel to the place where humans gathered, and at the moment, it was urgent to leave the dim forest.
The forest at night is terrifying, this vast primeval forest, even small to the bite of mosquitoes is unbearable, not to mention the dangerous beasts. Although Zhao Ye knew that there were no South China tigers in this forest, the black bears were also extremely terrifying, and the bear scratch marks left on the cedar trees on the side could prove that this area was within the range of black bears.
The seemingly bulky black bear runs faster than the average person, and Zhao Xuan doesn't want to fall into the mouth of the black bear after just experiencing nine deaths.
Chopping a bamboo pole as a crutch to explore the way, Zhao Ye staggered down the stream. Walk cautiously along the way, occasionally knocking on the grass around you. Lush grass is often a hiding place for poisonous insects and snakes.
A black and white snake with a triangular head on its back slipped out of the dead branches and leaves under Zhao Xuan's knocking, with Zhao Ye's cognition, this is a sharp-nosed pit pit tree, commonly known as the Hundred Flower Snake and the Five-Step Snake. Tang Liu Zongyuan said in "The Snake Catcher Said": "The wild of Yongzhou produces strange snakes, black and white. Touch the grass and trees, and die. To bite people, there is no one. This is the serpent in front of him.
The sharp-nosed pit is larger than ordinary snakes, and it is very aggressive, Zhao Ye didn't want to touch its brows, although he brought antivenom, but he was inexplicably afraid, and he still couldn't help but want to fly away from here.
Zhao Ye trembled and trembled with a bamboo pole to pick open the snout, regardless of the pain of the wound, his steps quickly fled from here.
Escaping the land of the pit viper, the sun is already very slanting, and over the high mountain at that end, it will quickly fall into darkness. A big tree not far away attracted Zhao Ye's attention, and the waist of the tree was so thick that it took at least three or four people to form a circle. From a distance, it looks like an old camphor tree, until Zhao Xuan walked in, he didn't know that this was a ginkgo tree, the orange and yellow ginkgo was shining in the sunset, and more than a dozen monkeys sat on the branches, picking ginkgo biloba and stuffing it into their mouths from time to time.
Zhao Ye secretly felt strange, when he entered the mountain, it was also the beginning of June when spring and summer were handed over, and it stands to reason that this ginkgo will have such golden and brilliant fruits at the end of August and early September.
Smelling the smell of fruit wafting in the air, it can be seen that the fruit is completely ripe.
This ginkgo tree is afraid to be thousands of years old. The strong roots are firmly attached to the mountains, and a large section of the exposed rhizome is as thick as an adult's thigh, and the dense ginkgo biloba leaves cover the diameter of the surrounding ten meters like a giant fan. The shrubs and weeds under the roots of the trees are estimated to be short and loose because they do not get sunlight all year round.
This is a good camping place, it doesn't take a lot of effort to clear a campsite, Zhao Ye walked under the ginkgo tree, but provoked a dozen or so monkeys on the branches to scream hoarsely for a while.
Animals have a strong sense of territory, and Zhao Ye didn't want to drive away the monkeys on the top of the tree single-handedly. But the monkey's calls came and went, but he was upset, helpless, Zhao Ye, who asked the master to stay overnight, took out a bag of nuts from his backpack, tore open the seal, poured out all the nuts, and sprinkled them in the other direction.
Zhao Ye traveled south and north, and the monkeys saw a lot, and this trick was used to deal with the monkeys many times. However, instead of being moved, the dozen or so monkeys in front of them bared their fierce teeth and their screams became sharp and rapid.
But I saw a large monkey pick a ginkgo fruit from the tree, and threw Zhao Ye directly, but I didn't expect the monkey to be wild, but the ginkgo fruit thrown was surprisingly accurate, Zhao Ye's eyes were sharp, and he flashed his body, so he could dodge. This one dodge is good, and more than a dozen monkeys on the tree have tore off the fruit on the tree and smashed it on Zhao Ye's head.
Two fists are hard to beat with four hands, let alone facing a dozen condescending monkeys. Zhao Ye hurriedly hid in Tibet and still couldn't stand the overwhelming fruit rain, and in a moment his whole body was covered with a layer of golden ginkgo juice.
The fruit may not hurt on the body because it is ripe, and it even feels a little tickle, but after a few rounds of fruit rain. Zhao Ye was finally defeated by this biochemical weapon, he never thought that this ginkgo biloba, which was well-known in the medicinal world, could emit such a foul smell.
Zhao Ye almost wanted to vomit when he smelled it, and he wanted to strip off all his clothes covered with juice. But I can only think about it, in the forest with many poisonous insects, it is best not to show the skin, especially when night falls, it is like sleeping in a mosquito pile, although it cannot be bitten to death, but it can be tossed to the point that the skin is incomplete, so sleeping in the forest at night, can be wrapped tightly and never show a piece of skin.
People are easy to get used to, and the pungent smell is so good. Stimulated by the strong smell, Zhao Ye's nose soon experienced olfactory fatigue. Coupled with the injuries on his body, Zhao Ye simply ignored the dozen or so naughty monkeys on the top of the tree, sat on the root of the tree, and let the painless fruit fall.
Seeing that the invaders no longer resisted, after a while, the monkeys at the top of the tree also lost the interest of continuing to throw fruits, and more than a dozen monkeys continued to move back and forth at the top of the tree, and did not care about Zhao Ye who was resting below. A few bold monkeys fell from the trees, as if they were curious about what Zhao Ye had sprinkled just now, and found a few nuts along the grass and put them in their mouths tentatively.
The delicacy of processed nuts is irresistible even for children, not to mention a dozen or so wild and untransformed monkeys, the deliciousness of nuts suddenly attracted the monkeys on the tree to the ground, and a dozen or so monkeys swarmed on the ground to grab the delicious food discarded by Zhao Ye.
Taking advantage of the monkeys taking food from each other, Zhao Ye hurriedly took out the tent from his backpack, and he was already familiar with setting up the tent.
The sun had completely set in the west, and the last few nails were fixed, and in order to prevent the beast from approaching the tent, Zhao Ye cut a few thorns and circled around the tent. After the monkey on the ground finished searching for the few remaining nuts on the ground, he cast a longish gaze at Zhao Ye. There is no longer any guarding.
In order to prevent the monkey from destroying the tent, Zhao Ye picked up his backpack and patted the backpack against the monkey's gaze, which meant that; "Only I have something good in this backpack." Then he took out another bag of nuts from his backpack and spilled it far away. Then straddle the backpack. Go find some firewood to make a fire.
Zhao Ye didn't expect to be able to block the attack of the beast with a few thorns, let alone a large beast, even a dozen or so monkeys on the tree, and he was not sure that he would be able to block it for a long time.
Fortunately, after human beings discovered the source of fire, no matter how fierce the beasts in this world were, they would be afraid to retreat when they saw the burning flames.
Rotting dead wood is everywhere, and such wood burns easily, but it also burns quickly, and even a large pile of such wood will not last for a night before it burns out. If you want to survive the night, you have to find some raw wood. Raw wood needs to be cut down, but fortunately, Zhao Ye brought a small saw, but the original intention of the saw was a bit unbelievable, in order to be able to meet the river and build a bridge. Unexpectedly, the bridge was not built, but it became a tool for survival.