Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

Chen Qi looked at the current sky, it was dark, even the moon was hidden in the clouds, and the weeds nearby could only see a little outline. "It's so dark now, will it be inconvenient for you to go back to the tribe in a while?" Chen Qi was a little worried, after all, they got so late because they were helping themselves.

After tasting Chen Qi's craftsmanship, although Ali didn't appear as eager as Carlo, he was full of expectations for the pheasant buried under the fire, and even got closer and sat by the fire, wanting to smell it and see if he could. He couldn't smell the pheasant, and of course he couldn't smell anything except the smoke from the charcoal fire. Hearing Chen Qi's question, Ali raised his head and said with a puzzled face: "It's not convenient? Why is it not convenient? We have three The female and the son together."

"I mean it's too dark, and the road might not be easy to walk." Chen Qi explained, and after thinking about it, he suggested, "How about I make some torches for you?"

"Torch? What is that? Okay, let's do it." Carlo raised his hand high, and he was now a little used to Chen Qi's idea that he should always agree with what he said.

Chen Qi went back to the house and picked up a pile of materials that he had been storing before. There were about a dozen wooden sticks as long as arms, and a few pine trees covered with turpentine. This was specially reserved when he saw the fire. There was pine resin. It would be a waste to throw the pine wood into the fire like that.

Chen Qi picked up a wooden stick, measured an approximate length, tied it tightly with a root wire at the confirmed position, and then picked up the sword-horn knife to break the front end of the wooden stick into a cross. Shape, break off a bit of turpentine and put it in the gap, let Aze help get a lot of wood that is a finger thick, tightly crisscross the firewood and stuff it into the gap of the stick, and then sprinkle a little pine resin on it, Then he continued to stuff a layer of firewood, and so on, until the gaps were filled with firewood, Chen Qiong tied the root wire around the stick that was stuffed with firewood, about five or six sticks. After the root thread, Chen Qi poured a little chicken fat from the front of the stick, and a simple torch was done.

Several people looked at Chen Qilong curiously. Chen Qi put the completed torch into the fire and lit it, and handed it to Carlo next to him, "Here it is." He needed to see how long the first fire would burn.

Carlo excitedly raised the torch to look left and right, but he didn't expect that the wood would not be like other single sticks, and it would go out not long after it was taken away from the fire.

The brightness of the torch is okay, at least two or three meters around can be completely seen, and with the eyesight of females, they can roughly see things with a little light, so even on a moonless night. Can be active outside. A Li and A Zhang looked at each other, and A Zhang asked, "Chen Qi, why did you add those turpentine to the stick?"

"Pine resin can prolong the burning time of torches." Chen Qi has already picked up the second wooden stick and started making the second torch. At the speed of the females, it will take at most seven or eight minutes from here to the tribe, even if Because it only took about ten minutes to slow down at night, Chen Qi planned to give each person one, even if the torches could only burn for a few minutes, how could they be able to support the tribe if they were used alternately.

Ali picked up a wooden stick and played with it, looked at Chen Qi who was busy with his work, and asked, "Chen Qi, can I learn to do it too?"

Chen Qi didn't lift his head, and said casually: "Yes, this is very simple, you can just follow me and do it."

Ali nodded, and followed Chen Qi's example to break the front end of the stick to open a cross. As a result, except for Carlo excitedly holding the lit torch and pulling Ake to explore in the nearby darkness, several others followed Chen Qiwei to make torches in front of the fire.

There were only a dozen wooden sticks in total, and it was finished by a few people in a short while. At this time, Carlo also came back with the torch that was about to go out, with a look of surprise on his face, and he shouted before the person arrived, "Chen Qi, This is amazing, it burned for a long time."

Because there is no equipment to accurately calculate the time, Chen Qi can only make a rough estimate. It takes more than half an hour from the time the torch is ignited to when it is about to go out, within an hour. Chen Qi was quite satisfied with the result. With a torch that could burn for such a long time, it would be more convenient to go out at night.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Chen Qi picked up a wooden stick and started to smash the extinguished fire. Aze also hurried to help. Seeing that Chen Qi was finally about to start digging out the pheasant buried in the ground, they all started Surrounded by.

The Pu leaf that wrapped the pheasant had changed color and was still steaming. Chen used a sword-horn knife to cut off the tied root line, and slowly opened the Pu leaf to reveal the golden chicken inside, exuding bursts of tempting fragrance. .

Chen Qi cut some chicken down and handed it to everyone in a leaf pack, "You guys have a taste." After speaking, he also twisted a piece of chicken with his hands and put it in his mouth. The taste is not the same. Although it was just a little bit of salt, it was surprisingly good. It can be said that this is the best dish that Chen Qi has eaten since he came here. Of course, except for the previous roasted sweet potatoes.

"Okay, it's delicious." Carlo swallowed the chicken in two or three times and looked at Chen Qi eagerly, "Chen Qi, do you want to cut the rest of the chicken like this?" Eat the next big piece of meat in your hand.

Several other people also stared at Chen Qi in unison. Although they have learned to use chopsticks now, it is obviously much more refreshing to directly hold the meat in their hands like when eating barbecue.

Chen Qi's mouth twitched when he saw it, and he waved his hand, "Eat whatever you like."

Several people cheered and swiftly took apart the other leaves wrapped in pheasants. Only A Ze, as before, slowly cut a large piece of meat and handed it to Chen Qi, and then he started eating. .

Although the four beggar chickens are very big, the speed of the beggars is also very fast, and they were finished in a short time, because they drank a lot of chicken blood soup before, and no one could drink the big pottery chicken soup left at the end. , Ake helped Carlo to rub his over-eaten belly, Chen Qi also ate a little too much today, and he didn't want to move at all after he was full, Aze led the other two to do the aftermath work silently.

After the things were almost cleaned up, the four of them took the torches and went back to the tribe. In the dark, the light of the fire can always travel far away. Chen Qi can see the two light spots that are getting farther and farther apart in the night. Far.

The next day Ake and Azhang came after hunting. It was almost noon when they came. Chen Qi and Aze had already checked the surrounding traps and harvested a few hares and pheasants. Chen Qi felt that These traps can solve their food problem, and Azer doesn't need to go out to hunt them to have surplus.

"What's wrong with you?" Chen Qi looked strangely at the obvious scratches on Ake and A Zhang's faces.

Ali coughed lightly, took off the animal skin backpack on his back and handed it to Chen Qi, "Today there are a lot of birds near Chishui River, we caught a lot of them, you can take these feathers first, and take advantage of crossing the river these two days. There are more birds, so let's catch more."

Chen Qi opened the backpack, and it was stuffed with colorful feathers. It was wet with water vapor. Chen Qi reached out and touched it. There was still temperature. It seemed that it had just been peeled off. Chen Qi's head is full of black lines, and the tragic situation of the two of them is that they were scratched accidentally while catching birds. He thought it was the result of too intense exercise some nights. Chen Qi stuck out his tongue in his heart a little guilty.

Today's main task is to assume a good frame for the roof. The roof is flat in the middle and sloped on both sides, using a slender stego-keel. Yesterday, there was a hole on the wall for placing the stego-keel. Now, as long as the stego-keel is placed Put it at the mouth of the pit and then pour the gum silt in it.

Chen Qi was worried that the still-dry walls wouldn't be able to support the weight of the roof, so the slate covered on the roof was going to wait until the walls were dry.

Then there is the bathroom. Chen Qi dug a septic tank next to the trench not far from the house, and used one of the houses to make a bathroom. The pipes were made of bamboo. The bamboo here is thick and hard. Chen Qi broke the bamboo into two pieces. Half, cut off all the obstacles at the bamboo joints inside the bamboo, worrying that the bamboo will rot for a long time, I also painted the gum inside and outside the bamboo, and after the gum dried, I buried the bamboo in the dug. In the pipeline, I tried it, and the water outlet effect is not bad. Although it is a bit crude, at least this solves the sanitation problem of Chen Qida in winter.

Chen Qi also built a fire pit in the hall of the house. He originally planned to build it in the room, but he was worried that if there were too many things in the room to ignite, it would cause problems, so he considered building the fire pit in the hall again and again.

The tunnel in the fire pit is connected to the stove. That's right, Chen Qi also built the stove in the hall. There are only four rooms, one for Chen Qi, one for Aze, and one for the bathroom. There are so many sundries, there is really no place to set up another kitchen. And the hall is big enough, although this design is a little different, but it is easy to use.

Because the material is limited, the material of the chimney is also bamboo. The smoke burning in the stove will pass through the tunnel of the fire pit and then be discharged from the chimney, so there is no concern that the bamboo chimney will be burned by the fire.

After all the work is done, the house is almost finished, and the rest is to wait for the walls to dry, then lay the slate on the roof and the slate on the ground, and then install the windows to complete.

The next day is Yue Wu Sun. After Yue Wu Day, we will set off for the gathering of the Lion and Wolf Tribe. The dried meat that has been marinated before is almost done, and it can be stored in a clay pot at this time. Because both of them needed to be away for a week, Chen Qi was worried that if there was too much meat in the house for so long, it would attract other predators, so he planned to let Aze suspend hunting first, anyway, the food for these two days Relying on those traps is far enough.

Azer also asked Ake to come to the traps here to collect prey every day. It's better than a week later when the two come back and find a pile of dead animal carcasses. of.