Chapter Twenty-Three: Back to Neihu

It took a morning to purify all the sodium chloride and fill two bark pots, which are more than two catties, which is the ration for many months to come, and it cannot be wasted.

"Damn, I've been working for a few days just for this little thing. Fengyun was very excited, and wrapped the three layers in the bark pot and the outer three layers, and although the remaining brine was of great use, it could only be poured out first.

The flint axe had been dismantled by Cao Ping, and the flint had been removed and put together with table salt, and replaced with a new stone axe that had taken five days to make.

Grinding a stone is a work that requires extreme patience, and it is normal to grind only a small lump in an hour or two, and it took a day to hammer out a rough shape, but it took him four days to sharpen the blade of an axe. However, the results are still very gratifying, the new stone axe can at least cut down trees, and the efficiency is more than a star and a half stronger than the flint axe.

It didn't take him much time to chisel the stone chisel, and when it was hammered, the stone bar happened to break a bevel, and after spending an afternoon grinding the section, the stone chisel was ready to use.

Carrying the clay jar on his back and putting the salt and stone chisel in it, Fengyun pulled the bark rope and said to Xiaobai: "Let's go! ”

Xiaobai's injuries healed quickly, but the branches still couldn't be removed, Fengyun squatted down and held it in his arms, and walked towards the forest.

After being here for almost a week, Fengyun was already quite familiar with the surroundings, and if nothing else, it was clear from the smell of the wild hens rushing over to chase him as soon as he stepped into the woods, that he had turned this scourge into something. He took the dead branches and dead trees in the surrounding forest to the shore and burned them for firewood, and several trees were also peeled off by him and shivered in the cold wind.

Fengyun walked leisurely to avoid the bombardment of wild hens, while shaking his head and sighing: "Why bother? You are also brainless, I dig your eggs every time, and you are still there every time, for fear that I won't be able to dig them?" Rao is wild hen was angry, and the crown was red with anger, but there was no stock after five bubbles. Seeing the wind and clouds swaying triumphantly below, the wild hen was annoyed and angry, and the chicken's head was hot, and she rushed down to scratch him.

"Damn! don't be embarrassed!" Fengyun waved his hand to drive away the fluttering pheasant and said angrily.

The hen could not catch it, but flew back to the branch and clucked at him.

Fengyun pointed to the wild hen above his head and shouted: "I have never seen you so unconscientious, I will leave you one every time I dig your eggs, you play bombing chickens without mercy!"

Xiaobai in his arms looked at Fengyun who was reasoning with pheasants, and his eyes were a little strange. It looked up at the pheasant, its pupils shrunk, and the pheasant paused for a moment, then clucked again.

Fengyun is naturally not stupid enough to quarrel with a bird, but the person who hasn't spoken for a long time is just a little depressed. Xiaobai is like a mallet, he doesn't pay attention to talking to it, at most he looks at it, how can he have the pleasure of arguing back and forth with this old hen?

Walking to the edge of the tree hole, Fengyun reached out and touched it, and there were two more warm eggs in his hand. Putting one of them back, he waved at the pheasant in the treetops and said, "Goodbye, I have to go back to Neihu, see you next time!"

The pheasant was originally standing on the treetop staring at him, and when he heard that there was a next time, he couldn't help but pounce angrily again, and Fengyun hurriedly fled with Xiaobai in his arms.

When they had disappeared into the distance, the pheasant fell silent, looked left and right, and jumped back into the hollow of the tree and disappeared.

Stop-and-go, in the evening, the wind and clouds returned to the inner lake.

Carrying a clay jar on his back, containing more than a dozen dogwood fruits, a pile of wild hawthorns, half a jar of soap carob beans, and the most important table salt pressed at the bottom, Fengyun hugged Xiaobai and greeted the familiar faces by the lake: "Hey, big nose, how about taking a bath? Yo! Old tortoise, the weather is good, come out to bask in the sun? Oops! PDD, your rhinoceros stick is very bright today......

Today, the animals by the inner lake seem to be a little uneasy for some reason, the goats and deer are trembling and half-leaning down, the tigers and leopards are staring at the footsteps of Fengyun, roaring at him, even the big noses are standing on the shallow water and pacing anxiously, Fengyun is a little puzzled, I haven't seen it for a few days, is there something wrong here?

A group of big guys were there, he didn't dare to step forward, he bypassed it far away, and walked towards the stream, he didn't see it, Xiaobai showed an eye from under his armpit, and looked at the inner lake, and all the Mao tribes eased down and returned to their usual calm.

"Haha! Lao Tzu is back again!" Fengyun looked at the familiar stream, opened his hands and shouted, before putting down the clay jar on his back.

Led Xiaobai to a tree, Fengyun instructed: "You eat grass here, I still have to eat, I don't have time to care about you!" After speaking, he tied it to the tree, and Fengyun walked towards the stream.

After clearing out the contents of the tank, Fengyun carried the tank to the stream and washed it well. The seawater that has been boiled with it for so long can't be drunk without washing the crystals on it.

I poured a small half tank of water, brought it back, made a fire, put it on it and burned it, Fengyun turned his head and went back and caught two crucian carp.

With salt, he finally doesn't have to eat barbecue anymore, and today he wants to stew some soup to drink! Thinking of the deliciousness of crucian carp soup, Fengyun's saliva is about to flow.

Dealing with the fish is the most troublesome, the wood chips have long been used up, Fengyun uses a stone axe to directly cut the fish in two from the head, and then take out the internal organs from the belly of the fish, it is very troublesome, and you have to burn the pottery knife as soon as possible tomorrow.

He threw the scaled and washed crucian carp into the tank, and threw in two dogwood nuts and four smashed wild hawthorns, and let them boil in the tank.

Although the dogwood tasted a little weird, the pepper had to go to Latin America to get it, and it was the only spicy flavor he could find so far, so he had to make use of it.

Before he could find the green onion and ginger, he used the fruity sour taste of the wild hawthorn to remove the fish, and when the water was boiling, he carefully pulled out a little from the bark pot with table salt and sprinkled it into the soup, and put the rest in his mouth and licked it before putting away the bark pot. This is the fruit of his labor for so many days, and he can't waste it, and tomorrow he has to burn a few clay pots to put salt in them.

Salt is the sect of all flavors, and as soon as it is put into the pot, the umami of the fish comes out, making Fengyun keep swallowing saliva.

It's a hassle to catch fish without a spoon, and tomorrow you have to cook a soup spoon out, and now you can only use two long branches as chopsticks to clip out.

Clip out a piece of fish head and put it in the bark pot, Fengyun couldn't wait for it to blow cold, so he bit it directly, and it was so hot that he grinned like a fight with Gray Liu'er.

Eating things with and without salt is like heaven and earth, the slight spicy taste of dogwood makes his forehead sweat, sucking the tender fish brain in the fish head, Fengyun is so moved that he wants to cry. After chewing up the bones on the fish's head and smacking the juice clean, he got off his chopsticks to catch the second piece of fish.

After eating the second half of the food for a while, he stopped, let the fish soup continue to tumble, and the rest boiled a little longer, of course, the crucian carp soup became more and more fragrant, and he was ready to wait for the soup to turn milky white before drinking.

It was already dark, full of soup and food, lying on the grass by the fire, and Fengyun wanted to have a cigarette at this time. He doesn't have a habit of smoking, strictly speaking, he doesn't want to smoke, but his brothers who want to smoke together.

Loneliness is the most bone-eroding poison, which can slowly wear down a person's strength, and as soon as the sourness of homesickness rises, Fengyun takes a deep breath, suppresses his thoughts, and hypnotizes himself to think about what he wants to do tomorrow, only in this way can he suppress the heat in his heart and no longer rise, so as not to expose his weakness with tears.

Turning over and sitting up, Fengyun stepped back and forth vigorously, shouting loudly: "Very good! I now have a system, skills, and food and drink! Life will get better and better! Tomorrow I will start cutting down trees and building a house! Isn't it just a year? Lao Tzu wants to live comfortably! Anyway, Lao Tzu will go back in a year! System, you say right?"

The night sky was quiet, Fengyun lowered his head expressionlessly, and after a while, he raised his head with a smile and said to himself: "What do you want to do with all this? It's serious to catch a rabbit tomorrow! Tut! I haven't eaten serious meat for a long time, dig a pit and see if I can catch a PDD, ah no, catch a wild boar, boil some lard and stir-fry vegetables! Haha!

Muttering, he didn't look at the clay pot that was boiling, got up and went back to the forest, found the tree that tied Xiaobai, climbed up, skillfully tied himself to the trunk with vines, and prepared to sleep.

Xiaobai stood quietly in place, looking at the fire still burning by the stream, when suddenly a drop of rain fell on a blade of grass. Sticking out his tongue and licking it, it was a little salty, and when he looked up, it lay in place, motionless, until a slight snoring sounded overhead.

A brown bear twitched its nose and waded down the stream, heading straight for the clay pot where it was boiling. Xiao Bai, who was lying under the tree, slowly stood up, knocked his front hooves slightly, and the brown bear suddenly turned his head and got up, but he didn't even dare to roar, he turned his head on the ground, turned around and ran.

The blades of grass around Xiaobai's body were windless and automatic, and the bark rope that tied it slowly untied, it shook its body, stepped on its front hooves, and stepped firmly in the void, as if there were stairs around the trunk of the tree, and slowly walked to the sleeping Fengyun.

After a while, it suddenly sighed softly: "Alas, it is also a poor man, but it should be this calamity, and it can only be blamed on the impermanence of fate, I can protect you for a while, but I can't protect you for a lifetime, life and death, everything is your creation, and look! and look ......at it, "Anyway, it turned its head and walked down slowly, and fell to the ground, the bark rope was tied to its neck again, everything seemed to have happened, it slowly lay on the ground, looked at the starry sky, a pair of light blue eyes were full of the Milky Way, and then slowly closed.

When I woke up, it was the next morning, and Fengyun slipped down from the tree with grinning teeth and rubbed his buttocks. People still have to lie down and sleep, these days they sleep comfortably on the beach, and then go up to the trees to sleep, it is a little unbearable.