Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

Although the new house was built according to the original construction method of the orcs, the roof was laid according to Chen Qi's practice. Considering that the house needs to be overturned and rebuilt after the winter, the beams of the roof did not use stego-keel. Instead, tree trunks were used.

The construction of the new house went very smoothly. The remaining slate after the roof was laid was used to lay the floor. The gelatin fruit of the newly built house was not completely dry. Naturally, it was impossible to live in the new house at night. The people in the tribe had already They all moved to the Lion and Wolf Tribe, and the hyena dragon that escaped didn't know if it would come back.

The two habitable rooms in Chen Qi's house were too cold because there was no fire, so two animal skins were laid on the floor of the hall. Fortunately, the hall was large enough to sleep a few people without feeling crowded. The fact that several people are sleeping together always makes Chen Qi have the illusion of returning to the school days when he went out to sleep together.

Before going to bed, Chen Qi checked A Jing's wound as usual. The catgut that sutured the wound had been removed, and the wound had scabbed over. Now, apart from bandages to prevent the wound, he didn't even apply any herbs. .

Chen Qi found a few small red scratches on the shaved area next to A Jing's wound, raised his eyebrows and looked at A Jing.

A Jing shrank his neck and leaned subconsciously in the direction of the little wolf cub's nest. His eyes wandered and he dared not look back at Chen Qi. Chen Qi asked with a smile, "Is the wound itchy?" The feeling of itching is the most annoying. Chen Qi didn't have to guess to know that the child must not be able to stand itching secretly.

Ah Jing nodded and shook his head again.

Chen Qi asked strangely: "You nodded and shook your head, is it itchy or not?"

"Itchy, but it's fine during the day. If you don't disturb it before going to bed at night, you won't be able to fall asleep." A Jing put his hand behind him and replied obediently.

Chen Qi understood, he sat by the fire pit, "Then you can't sleep right now?" Looking at Ah Ding's head, Chen Qi thought about it, "Why don't I tell you a story, you can fall asleep after listening to it? Now, it doesn't itch after falling asleep."

"Story? The story of the beast god?" A Jing tilted his head and asked. The old woman who used to live next to his house also likes to tell stories, but there are only two stories about how the beast **** saves people. , at first he was curious to hear it a few times, but after a few times he was tired of the story.

Chen Qi shook his head, "My story has nothing to do with beast gods." He used to have a colleague who had a young daughter at home. Every night, his colleague would tell her a bedtime story. His daughter always fell asleep after listening to the beginning. He hadn't heard a story completely, so he thought of telling A Jing to sleep.

Chen Qi thought for a while, and then told one of the most memorable Andersen fairy tales. Chen Qi put his tone in a gentle tone and a soft voice, thinking that he finished the story after listening to the rhythm that made people sleepy. Looking up, he found that A Jing was not asleep at all, and was looking at himself with a pair of big shining eyes.

"Chen Qi, what is a mermaid?" asked the curious baby Carlo who was lying on the edge of the kang.

Chen Qi turned his head and didn't know when the orcs in the family had gathered around him. It seemed that several people had heard the story just now, "It's a creature that looks like a human but has a fish tail."

"A creature with a fish tail?" Carlo tilted his head for a while and asked Ake next to him, "Do you know what it looks like?"

Akke shook his head.

Chen Qi described it in detail several times, but several people still couldn't understand the mermaid. For the first time, Chen Qi felt the lack of imagination of the orcs. He couldn't. Chen Qi got up and went to the fire and took a piece that was already cold. charcoal, found a wooden board and simply drew the image of a mermaid on it, and then handed it to a few people, "It's probably like this."

"I'll understand if you draw it like this." Carlo smiled and passed the board in front of several people, and then handed it to A Jing on the fire pit. A Jing took it carefully. It was the first time he saw this kind of thing. Although Chen Qi's drawing was not delicate enough, the features of the mermaid were easy to understand at first glance. A Jing looked at it and couldn't help but reached out and touched it, but when he touched it, his hand was black and wooden. A large piece of the painting was also smeared, and the corners of A Jing's lips that were upturned just now collapsed quickly.

"What's wrong?" Ali found that A Jing's expression was wrong, and asked worriedly, he always felt heartache for this child, but unfortunately this child's temper was as stubborn as his deceased father. To persevere.

A Jing, who was about to secretly hide the muddled wooden board while others were not paying attention, was startled, he hurriedly shoved the wooden board into the animal skin quilt, shook his head and said, "No, it's nothing."

Chen Qi, who had just finished drawing the mermaid, was a little itchy, so he found a piece of wood and quickly drew another one. He used to be an art designer, and he never took a paintbrush after crossing the road. He almost forgot that he would still paint this piece. thing.

"Chen Qi, your painting is so beautiful. Why did you use charcoal to paint it? If you painted it with dyed fruit, it would have been preserved forever." Carlo said regretfully looking at the newly painted mermaid.

"We didn't find the dyed fruit before. It's winter now, so I don't know if there is any." Aze went to the forest a few times before, but Chen Qi didn't ask him to find the dyed fruit, and he didn't know if it was the one that Aze went to. The place is not suitable for fruit dyeing, and fruit dyeing has never been found. When Chen Qi needed to record everything, he simply took a piece of charcoal and then a slate or wooden board to record it, but he didn't find it inconvenient.

"When I was burning pottery before, there were a few dyed fruits left, but they were black, do you want them?" Ali asked. These dyed fruits have not been used because of the color problem. It is not easy to find dyed fruits in winter, so they have not been thrown away.

This is the first time Chen Qi has seen the dyed fruit. The dyed fruit and the milk fruit look a bit similar. They are also hard-shelled and have some round black spots on them. These spots are used to determine the color of the dyed fruit. The inside of the dyed fruit is a red liquid, and the round spots on the surface will show red.

Chen Qi felt a little novel. He found a clean bamboo tube and opened a fruit dyeing solution. The fruit dyeing solution was a bit thick and dark in color, but it looked a bit like ink. , I dug out the bird feathers that had been sun-dried a long time ago, found a relatively hard feather tube, cut it into the shape of a pen tip with a sword-horn knife, dipped a bit of the mixed fruit dye, and quickly painted on a new wooden board. up.

The feather pen has not been processed, the water output effect is not very good, and the drawing is a bit intermittent, but Chen Qi is very satisfied. It didn't take long for a new mermaid drawing to be drawn. Chen Qi handed the wooden board on which the mermaid drawing was drawn. Ali, "Ali, can you give me those dyed fruits?"

Ali was stunned for a while, took the wooden board over, and said with a smile, "If you like it, take it. The black dyed fruit is useless to me."

"Then I'm welcome." Chen Qi collected the intact dyed fruits. With these dyed fruits, there is quite a lot of ink. Find a time to make a quill or try to make a brush. Come out, then there will be writing tools, Chen Qi smiled and had already started to think about the use of various dyed fruits in his mind.

Seeing that Chen Qi was happy with the dyed fruit, Aze was a little annoyed that he didn't find it earlier. He leaned over to Chen Qi and said, "If you like dyeing fruit, I'll look for it again in the next two days?"

Chen Qi waved his hand, "No need, these dyed fruits are enough for me to use for a long time."

A Ze nodded, still deciding in his heart that if he goes out these days, he must find some dyed fruit to come back.

The dyed fruit dries very quickly, and it does not fade to the touch. It is said that it looks like ink, but it is more like paint. A Li handed the newly obtained mermaid picture to A Jing, and whispered in his ear, "Can you help me save this picture? I'm afraid it will be damaged."

A Jing looked at him suspiciously, and then looked at the beautiful picture of the mermaid, a little moved. "Then put it with me first, and remember to ask me to take it when you want it."

A Li looked at A Jing's bright eyes after he took the wooden board, and couldn't help rubbing the other's little head. He actually wanted to give this painting directly to him, but A Jing would give him every time. The things are back, he can only change the word.

As soon as Chen Qi got the dyed fruit, he couldn't help but start thinking about the tools that could be used for writing. The first thing he thought of was bamboo slips. There were still some bamboos that he had cut back before. Chen Qi chopped the bamboos into suitable lengths and moved them back to the room. At night, I was worried that it would affect the sleep of others, so I found a corner and broke the bamboo into the length of a finger.

Chen Qi was busy and A Ze naturally wanted to help. After a long day of building a house, Chen Qi wanted to send A Ze to rest early. Seeing that A Ze insisted on helping, Chen Qi had no choice but to give the broken bamboo pieces to the other party for polishing. People saw that Chen Qi was working on something new and lost sleep, so they all came over to help.

A few people started, and a few pieces of bamboo were quickly finished. Chen Qi put the bamboo pieces by the fire, and planned to bake them overnight at the temperature of the fire, and then start the binding work tomorrow morning.

After the bamboo pieces were finished, Chen Qi sent a few people to sleep.

The weather was sunny the next day, and the temperature felt a little higher after it didn't snow, and it wasn't as cold and uncomfortable as the previous days. Ali had already prepared breakfast early. He had learned to cook with Chen Qi for a few days before, and the dishes he made now tasted even better than those made by Chen Qi.

I made meat porridge and potato cakes for breakfast. Ali's potato cakes added some rice berries. The rice berries were a little sticky. Eat in hand. Chen Qi ate porridge while eating cakes, and couldn't help feeling again that Ali's hands-on ability was unbelievably good.

After eating breakfast, A-Zhang needs to go back to the tribe to bring back some of his remaining things. The dolphin dragons he hunted before had him hand over some to the patriarch of the Lion and Wolf tribe, and some to the clansmen who stayed in the Lion and Wolf tribe. The rest are just some hides and daily necessities.

With A Li staying at home, A Ze and A Ke also went to help, and Chen Qi began to tie the wood chips he made yesterday into bamboo slips.