Chapter 48: Firm Faith
"The midday sun is the warmest of the day, and at this cozy time, Private Jonah from New Zealand began to make his lunch!" Aaron pinched a picked branch, pretended it was a microphone, and began to narrate it in the tone of a food show.
"Jonah, who was born by the sea, knew the secret of making food delicious, and he skillfully grabbed this catfish, then knocked it to death with a stick, gutted it, scraped the mucus, and put it in the pot, well, the delicious fish soup is just that!"
"But we didn't go fishing, I was just cooking kidney beans!" Jonah poured a jar of white beans into a small pot, followed by ketchup, and after a few stirrings, Jonah covered the pot.
"Aaron, go wash your hands, and then you help me get those ground beef ready!"
"Anyway, if we make it so fragrant here, will there be any animals coming?" Alex is cutting buns in the car.
"It shouldn't be, this is not the African savannah, and there are no lions and tigers or anything!" Jonah said as he seasoned the beans.
"Yes, there are only two female hooligans who flirt with lemurs!" Aaron pointed to the forest, where Laura and Sanmantha were holding nuts and feeding the lemurs running around the forest.
"Maybe they'll meet King Julian!"
"Then I'd rather see penguins!"
Put the charcoal from the campfire in the grill, and Aaron starts roasting the beef patty and bacon. After the fragrance wafts out, it's time to infuse the soul.
“spg! spg! spg! Holding the saucer and sprinkling the salt, black pepper, and garlic mixture evenly on the meatloaf, Aaron only felt his saliva secreting wildly.
"Jonah, the meatloaf is ready!" After picking a poor-looking patty and tasting it, Aaron shouted.
"Alex, is the bread cut?"
"Alright, alright!" Then Alex brought over a basket of buns.
"Roast a little, I'll cut the tomatoes!"
"Understood!"
After the bread was baked, Jonah's tomatoes and kidney beans were cooked, and Aaron called back to the two who had fed the monkeys and began to enjoy lunch.
"Speaking of which, this is the first time I've had a picnic in a place like this!" Sanmantha looked happy.
"Laura, what about you?"
"I, when I was a child, my father took me to a heritage park in China, where we had a picnic, and I learned a lot about history!"
"Tell us about it!" Jonah swallowed a mouthful of food and said.
"What kind of man is your father?" Sanmantha also asked curiously.
"My father, for me, is a monument and an example!" There was a strange sparkle in Laura's eyes when she spoke of her father, and Aaron knew that it was an emotion called pride.
Count Richard Crawford, although the focus of his work has been archaeology, but for his daughter's education, Richard has never pulled down, like Nathan Drake, Laura has loved archaeology since she was a child, Richard taught Laura a lot of archaeological knowledge in the basement of Crawford Manor, and those traps and marks left behind are still preserved in Crawford Manor.
"After his death, I doubted myself for a while, but now I only feel ashamed, when the whole world is questioning him, I should support him, but now it's too late to say anything, I just want to find Yamatai and prove that my father is right!"
"Will find it!" Aaron nodded, and then when he found that everyone was looking at him in surprise, Aaron explained: "There are so many of us, there are hackers, local tyrants, archaeological experts, and naval soldiers, how can we not find such a strong team!" ”
"What about you? What are you? Sanmantha asked.
"I am the man in charge, leading you from victory to victory!"
"Cut!"
Although everyone was dismissive, Aaron knew that everyone present was extremely supportive of Laura, and at most, he would help her avoid detours, at least not have to take a pickaxe all the way through it.
After lunch, Aaron wanted to sleep for a while, but was pulled out by Jonah again.
"Let's see what we can eat, you don't want to eat beans in the evening, do you?"
"I think the beans are delicious!"
"You Englishmen, haven't you ever eaten a good bean, and you think that bean is delicious?" Jonah grumbled as he watched with his binoculars.
"I wonder if you're not also British in New Zealand?"
"But I served in the Yankee Navy, and from my first day as a sailor, I ate beans, even if there were dozens of roasts on the table, but beans were indispensable!"
"Wait, look where!" Jonah pointed to a large, unusually thick tree in the distance.
"What?"
"Baobab Tree!"
"Baobab, what's that? Eat? Aaron said he hadn't heard of it.
"You can eat it, you can eat the leaves, and you can eat the fruits!"
"But I want to eat meat!"
"There's still beef in the trunk, you can make it yourself if you eat it!"
"Come on, man, this is Madagascar, come here to eat beef, can't we catch some local animals?"
"Those are protected animals, you dare to catch them?"
"Alright! Let's go, let's go pick the fruits and leaves! ”
After walking to the baobab tree, Jonah took out a naval dagger and dug a hole in the tree, and then a stream of clear water began to spray out of the hole.
"Kettle, quick, catch!" After filling all the kettles that the two of them were carrying, Aaron tasted it, and the sap of this tree tasted quite good.
"How does it taste?"
"It's a little sour, it's okay!"
"Do me a favor when you're done!" Jonah smiled.
"What?" Aaron felt that something was wrong.
"I'll let you go up and pick the fruit!"
Looking up at the trunk of the tree, which is 8 meters high, and then looking at Jonah, who is only 1.8 meters, Aaron said, how can I climb the remaining 6 meters?
"Give me the knife!"
After taking Jonah's naval dagger and taking out his Roman dagger, Aaron began to climb with one knife into the trunk of the tree, then the other a little higher, and so on little by little.
"If I poke this tree, it won't do any harm, right?" Sitting on a tree branch while cutting fruit, Aaron asked.
"No, these will heal on their own in just a few days!"
"Then I'll be relieved, then!"
When they returned to the camp with the fruits and the leaves they had picked, the two saw a big surprise, a small wild boar about fifty or sixty pounds was arching in the forest.
"Jonah, this boar isn't a protected animal, is it?"
"Doesn't think so! But how do you solve it, we have two knives alas! ”
"Leave it to me!"