Chapter Twenty-Nine: See the Mandrill Again
It takes at least three days for the rafters to dry, and during this time, the wind and clouds are picking up the bark and making rope day and night. After a long period of labor, several blood blisters appeared at the base of his fingers, which grew calluses after wearing. It looked a bit miserable, but the results were very gratifying, and he was given a bunch of bark ropes, which should be enough for a short time.
Xiaobai's injury healed very quickly, maybe it had something to do with it eating, sleeping, sleeping, eating, and already being able to run around with the wind and clouds.
Five miles west of the base camp, Fengyun was smashing a termite nest with a stone axe, throwing large pieces of soil into a basket of trees on the side.
To make a pottery knife, you need very fine soil, the loess by the stream does not meet the requirements, Fengyun searched for a long time in the surrounding area, and only found a towering termite nest. The termite nest is a natural clay mound, as it is all made of fine clay and does not contain a single branch or stone (the termite does not move).
It took several trips back and forth to get enough termite nests back, which were the raw materials used to make pottery knives.
Use wooden sticks to smash the termite nest into a delicate original soil, there is no fine sieve, Fengyun can only use his hands to pick out the fine debris particles little by little, although it is a waste of time and materials, but at present it can only use this stupid method.
Make a pile of soft clay, like smoothie, and when mixed with stream water, it becomes a hand-stained clay raw material.
After adjusting the clay, Fengyun took a mold. The so-called mold is actually a cut of a tree trunk in half, chiseled out of a knife shape with a stone chisel, and then ground little by little with the fine sand at the bottom of the stream to a smooth mold embryo. This embryo alone took three days. In the past three days, in addition to making bark ropes, Fengyun spent the rest of his time making molds. The most troublesome thing is to use sand to smooth the inside of the mold little by little, which is a time-consuming and laborious task.
The hardness of pottery is very high, and it is cumbersome to grind, so it is best to mold it in one go. In modern society, the ceramic knives used at home are sintered with zirconia powder at a high temperature of 2000 degrees, and then made of 300 tons of heavy pressure with molds. It has to be sharpened with diamond, and its hardness can be imagined.
Fengyun burns his own ceramic knife, which naturally can't reach such a high temperature, but it is best to form it at one time, which is convenient for later use.
After pressing a few embryos with a mold and putting them in the sun to dry, Fengyun began to take the loess by the stream to knead other things that needed to be burned.
After boiling the fish soup twice, he could only wait for it to cool and then drink it in a clay jar, although he was not a particular person, but he did choke, so he urgently needed a bowl to eat.
Of course, it is better to use stones to treat the surface of wood, but it is a big project, so it is better to burn one with clay first to see if it can be used, and then use stones to beat one later.
These are the little things, the most important thing is the house. Although there is a grass hut, Fengyun still has to open half his eyes to sleep. Knowing that Xiaobai was a little weird, like being able to restrain those big guys, but before he confirmed it, he still had to be careful not to be turned back and stepped on by the rhinoceros when he was sleeping. Therefore, he slept in the grass shed for two days, and then obediently went up to the tree to sleep, and then made up for sleep when the house was built!
After two days, the rafters were dry, but how to get to the trees became a problem. Even if it was dried, the whole trunk weighed one or two hundred pounds, and he originally used a bark rope to put it on the treetops, and used the pulley effect to lift one end, but when he lifted the other end, the strength of the bark rope could not keep up, and it was always broken.
His idea was to choose two adjacent trees as weighing beams, use the sun-dried rafters as beams, cut some small trees to make stakes and plant them around, and then make some slender branches hang down from the beams to both sides, and use straw curtains as roofs, and then slowly make them behind the walls. However, if the most important beam cannot be lifted, everything is empty talk.
Fengyun racked his brains all afternoon, but only tied the thin end of the rafters to the trunk of the tree, but the other end could not get another tree. Fengyun wanted to carry the trunk of the tree up by himself, but without the assistance of his hands, it was very difficult to climb the tree, let alone carry a rafter of more than 100 catties, which made Fengyun very unhappy.
No wonder it is always said that people are collective creatures, two fists are invincible to four hands, and it is troublesome to work alone, not to mention the matching of men and women, it is a good thing to have a big man to help build a beam!
Busy until the sun was in the west, the project still came to a standstill, Fengyun was so angry that he threw the bark rope and scolded: "Fuck, I won't do it!" and turned around and walked away irritably.
Depressed in his heart, Fengyun wandered aimlessly in the forest, scolding and shouting in his mouth: "It's all fucking blame on your system! If you hadn't gotten this barren mountain and wild ridge for Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu would have been a wild man with his bare ass? What ** genetic sample collection has a chicken feather relationship with Lao Tzu! Lao Tzu is a college student in the new era, and he has a great future waiting for Lao Tzu, who asked you to get me here without asking? Have you asked my opinion? If you let me know your complaint phone number on dog days, I will have to sue you!"
The system is still silent, playing the fine tradition of scolding and not returning the favor, and does not say a word. Fengyun scolded for a long time, his anger disappeared a lot, he felt a little bored, and muttered: "How bad are you? The systems in people's novels are very awesome, and they threaten the hosts to erase and wipe them out at every turn, but it's good for you to scold you for not letting out a fart for a long time, so why don't you quarrel with me? Do you know how boring I am alone?"
His eyes were sour, Fengyun quickly raised his head, took a deep breath and said to himself: "No! Fengyun, you can! You can't be afraid, you can't give in! You can definitely go back! As long as you can go back, no matter how much suffering you have, it's worth it! For the sake of your father and mother, you can't give up!"
Lowering his head again, Fengyun's eyes were full of determination, and he looked around, but he walked blindly and didn't know where he went.
Damn! Don't get lost, that's, I didn't bring anything with me just now, and everything is in the base camp! Fengyun quickly turned around and walked back.
The sun was setting, and as a rule of thumb, there was still a maximum of an hour of daylight to go, and the wind and clouds picked up their pace and hurried along.
A dark shadow flashed through the grass at his feet, and suddenly ran forward, and Fengyun was startled, and jumped three feet high into the tree next to him.
Climbing to the half-waist, Fengyun looked down, but saw a gray rabbit standing below, as if he was startled by the sudden jump, standing on the ground and looking at him suspiciously.
Damn, it's a shame, I was scared by a rabbit, but luckily no one saw it. Fengyun Lao's face turned red, and he became angry in an instant, a big man was frightened by the rabbit, even if no one saw it, he was also seen by the rabbit! Look at its eyes, they showed a faint contempt, no! Dare to despise Lao Tzu, must be caught and eaten!
Fengyun jumped down from the tree with drooling and tiptoed towards the rabbit.
The gray rabbit looked at him suspiciously, as if wondering how he had never seen such a strange-looking creature. Seeing that there were still two steps to come, Fengyun pounced, but only caught a hand of grass blades, the rabbit jumped twice, ran to the front, and looked back at him suspiciously, as if asking again, you want to catch Lao Tzu like that?
"Stand up for Lao Tzu!" Fengyun got up and chased after him, he had eaten fish for half a month, he felt that he was about to become a fish, and finally saw a long-legged one, how could the meat in his hand make it fly?
A man and a rabbit are scurrying around in the forest, and the eyes of the wind and clouds are full of the hind legs of the gray rabbit kicking quickly, such a vigorous leg meat should be delicious! The power of a foodie is infinite, and the wind and clouds who hunt hard can barely catch up with the fleeing gray rabbit, but he does not notice that he has almost run out of the woods.
The gray rabbit suddenly burrowed into a bush and disappeared, Fengyun picked up the bushes, but saw a rabbit hole in a black hole, presumably running back into the hole.
"Damn! I almost caught ......" Fengyun struck in annoyance, sitting on the ground gasping for breath. Looking at the rabbit hole, he was really unwilling, and his heart moved, and he suddenly got up and got busy.
The trunk of the bush is a small tree with tender green thorny leaves, and when you pick a handful of leaves, the collection suggests that it is a small pine leaf.
He took a branch from the big tree on the side, peeled the bark and made a bark rope, and Fengyun pressed the pine and laid a simple sleeve at the mouth of the rabbit hole.
"Today, Lao Tzu has to catch you!hehe!" Lying at the entrance of the cave, he shouted in a sloppy voice: "Xiao Xuan is not there, Xiao Xuan is not there, yes, I am a beautiful girl......
"Hahaha!" The feeling of bullying a rabbit is still quite refreshing, clapping his hands and standing up, Fengyun is in a good mood. I heard that there should be more than one door to the rabbit's house, and Fengyun swayed and found other holes.
Bypassing the trees, Fengyun suddenly heard a sound of sizzling, doubted in his heart, and tiptoed forward. He is still more confident in ensuring his own safety, if there is a big deal, it is good to go up the tree by himself, anyway, most carnivores will not climb trees, even leopards are estimated not to climb as fast as themselves. Therefore, the current situation is very arrogant, Lao Tzu will go to the tree, no one can catch it, haha! This is the advantage of primates.
Going around the bushes is a gentle slope, Fengyun walked over to take a look, stunned for a moment, but saw a little familiar big guy on the slope was squatting on the ground and digging the ground, not knowing what he was digging.
"Hey!Lu Benwei!" Fengyun shouted in surprise, it turned out to be the mandrill!" Lu Benwei was startled by Fengyun's voice, jumped on the spot, turned around angrily, and yelled at him.
Fengyun was very happy and laughed loudly: "Why did you come here?"
The mandrill glared at him, lowered his head and dug the ground again, Fengyun was a little curious, leaned in, stretched out his head to look, and asked, "What are you doing?"
The mandrill dug something out of his mouth and put it in his mouth, chewing it crunchy and looking delicious.
Is there any wild vegetables that can be eaten? Fengyun was very curious, stretched out his head to look, and the mandrill raised his hand, and suddenly threw a yellow thing.
Fengyun picked it up and looked at it, but it was a tuber that looked like ginseng, with a yellow body, followed by a little purple shoot.
"It can't really be ginseng, right? Won't eating it make up for nosebleeds?" Fengyun looked at the mandrill's big nostrils suspiciously, but saw that it was eating happily.
Wiped off the soil on the surface, Fengyun tentatively took a small bite and tasted it, a faint spicy taste spread, but it was not irritating, it was very familiar. Fengyun's eyes lit up, and he shouted happily: "This is the taste of ginger!"