After the Earthquake of Rebirth

Braised pork, shrimp with cashew nuts, shredded cabbage, dipped in pickles, and a pot of seaweed egg drop soup, a pot full of rice.There was a gust of wind and clouds on the dinner table, and the dishes were so clean that they almost didn't need to be washed.

After eating and drinking enough, Ning Qiyan picked up a small pot of persimmons from the refrigerator and brought them to the yard.Now there are only two orange trees left in the yard, and even the apples and persimmons, which were supposed to ripen in late October, are ripe as soon as October because of the suitable climate in the space.However, because the climate in the space is more comfortable than the outside world, if the picked fruits are not stored in the refrigerator, they will not survive within a few days.So except for the part that is left to be eaten as fruit and stuffed into the refrigerator, the apples and pears that were picked earlier were sliced ​​into thin slices and dried for storage.The persimmons are made into persimmon cakes according to Ning Xiaowen's native recipe.

"It's time to pick our oranges." Hu Zi swallowed the last bite of persimmons, got up and picked the lower orange, peeled it and divided it into four pieces, ate one piece himself, and handed it to others while talking.

Ning Qiyan looked up at the tree full of oranges, feeling a little tangled.

"Our refrigerator can't hold it."

After chewing, he found the taste to be good, so Huzi picked another five or six oranges and brought them over. Hearing Ning Qiyan's struggle, he said with a smile: "Keep what you eat now, and make the rest into cans. We have a lot of empty cans. Enough pretending."

Ning Qiyan thought for a while and nodded.Besides canned peaches, his favorite food is canned grapes and canned oranges.

"I don't know if there are grape vines in the mountains. If there are any, they will be transplanted into the space, so that there will be grapes to eat." Ning Qiyan said.Why didn't you think of planting one or two grape vines when you first planted fruit trees? !

Ning Xiaowen burst out laughing, Hu Zi also looked at Ning Qiyan with a half-smile on his face.

Ning Qiyan looked at the two of them inexplicably, "What's wrong?"

"Have you ever eaten wild grapes?" Beard asked.

Ning Qiyan shook his head.

"Wild grapes can make your teeth sour. When I was in my hometown, there was a field of wild grapes in the mountains behind our village. Generally, only the elderly could pick some to make some wine at home. There was no way to eat it as fruit." Ning Xiaowen explained.

Ning Qiyan swallowed the oranges in his mouth, saw the bright eyes of Du Cheng and Hu Zi, and grinned, "I remember our family bought a lot of wine back then, what about you two?"

Hu Zi waved his hand, "You don't understand, homemade wine tastes better."

Ning Qiyan rolled his eyes, "Let's talk about it when we see the vines."

It was almost time to rest, Ning Qiyan turned on the headlights in the yard.Since the oranges are already ripe, I picked them all as I just entered the mountain and didn't have much to live.

After working for a while, the two orange trees were picked clean, and the picked oranges were put in the rattan frame first, and the four of them packed up and went to sleep.

Everyone got up late the next day, and it was almost ten o'clock when we left the space after breakfast. Hu Zi and Du Cheng first went to check the place where the trap was set yesterday, and if there was any prey, they would collect the prey, and if there were no prey, they would also collect the wire. stand up.There are not many mountain goods in the vicinity, and the footprints of prey are not too dense. They plan to wait for a few more days when they encounter mountain goods or places with a lot of prey.

When the two came back, they brought back four rabbits and one roe deer, but they were all dead.

"Is this a roe deer?" Ning Qiyan asked.

Huzi and Ning Xiaowen nodded, out of the four they were the only ones who had seen this thing when they were young.

"I didn't expect to be able to catch this thing now. I heard the old hunter in the same village talk about the characteristics of roe deer's footprints when I was a child. I saw it yesterday, so I put a set to try it. I didn't expect to be able to catch it."

When Ning Qiyan finished being curious, he put the four rabbits into the box together. After Ning Qiyan entered the space, he hung the basket on the newly built shelf in the yard. Beckham was curious.Ning Qiyan doesn't want those three to develop the habit of eating raw food. It's okay in the mountains. If they return to the urban area in the future, God knows whether the bacteria formed by the decay of the corpses that have not been cleaned up will contaminate the living creatures. If the little things Infected with germs, Ning Qiyan didn't even cry.

After putting away their things, the four of them continued to walk into the mountains.

In the evening, he searched for a place to lay a trap, and continued walking after picking up the prey in the morning. After four days of stop-and-go, Hu Zi discovered the trace of a wild boar.

It is not uncommon to have wild boars in the deep mountains and old forests. Calculated according to the distance they have traveled, this place is now a remote mountain that is inaccessible even before the earthquake.But according to Huzi's judgment based on the footprints, there may be a herd of at least ten adult wild boars nearby.

"Forget it, we have a lot of rabbits and pheasants that we receive every day, plus the pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks raised at home, it is enough to eat. If a single wild boar is okay, such a large group, too It's dangerous." Ning Xiaowen stopped his beard that was about to move, and joked, except for machetes and sickles, he didn't have any lethal long-range weapons in his hand, so he called the attention of wild boars, did he think he was living too comfortably? !

Like Ning Xiaowen, Ning Qiyan grabbed Du Cheng's wrist, saying nothing to agree with his and Huzi's plan.

Did he not understand when he grew up in the city?The same number of wolves have to run around when they encounter a herd of wild boars. If you two are on the ground, you dare to try it. Are you bored? !

In the end, the four of them avoided the range of the wild boars and continued walking in another direction.It's a pity that Hu Zi babbled while walking.

Originally, he didn't want to hunt and kill wild boars face to face, and he wasn't stupid, because he and Du Cheng were purely delivering food to wild boars.But you can try trapping, maybe you can catch one or two ends!

But seeing his lover and Ning Qiyan's firm opposition, he had no choice but to give up.As the two of them said, they really have no shortage of food, and if they are really injured, the loss outweighs the gain.

Avoiding the herd of wild boars, the four of them walked for a while, until Huzi swore to the sky that there was no trace of wild boars in the vicinity, and then Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen let go of their lover's wrist.

That night, as the sky was getting dark, Ning Qiyan dragged the other three into the space.

This area is so close to the herd of wild boars, there must be no wild animals, so it will be a holiday. If you don't play tricks today, you will find a place to hunt tomorrow night.

The above is what Ning Qiyan said.

His beard was full of black lines, but he didn't say much.Although all the wild animals caught these days have been cleaned up, the fur and the like have not been cleaned up. There is enough time today, and he and Du Cheng should be able to clean up before going to bed.

Ning Xiaowen checked the hanging air-dried meat, and after confirming that there was no problem, he went out and began to process the dried hazelnuts and walnuts, peeling off the outside of the hazelnuts and walnuts, and leaving the dried fruit.

The hazelnuts and walnuts that have already been dried are the first to be picked. Later, the walnuts from six walnut trees need to be dried for a few more days.

Ning Qiyan prepared dinner by himself, and called the three people in the yard into the house to eat. After eating, he cleared the table, and he also started peeling the fruit.

Du Cheng shook the rabbit skin in his hand, "These skins are much thicker than the ones we got with Wang Yang and the others."

Beard brushed his fur and nodded again and again, "That's right, the fur was thin back then, it's not as thick as the fluff now, it must be warm."

"How much leather do you need to make four coats?" Ning Qiyan asked Ning Xiaowen after hearing what Hu Zi and Du Cheng said.

Ning Xiaowen glanced at the skins that had been washed and dried on the other side of the yard, then lowered his head and continued to peel the fruit, "According to our bodies, a coat would cost more than 20 pieces of rabbit skins. I can't beat ten of them."

Ning Qiyan grinned, the rabbits they killed are only enough for a coat now, it seems that they have to keep saving.

After the night passed, there was no need to check the prey. After leaving the space in the morning, the four of them continued walking in the direction they walked yesterday.

"Look quickly, is that a walnut tree?" Walking through a slope, there is a mountain depression on the right, but it is difficult to see the situation of the mountain depression because of the trees on the slope.Ning Qiyan's eyes were sharp, and he saw a piece of familiar fruit through the gap between the branches.

Hearing Ning Qiyan's words, the others stopped, and Du Cheng took a few steps down the slope while holding on to the branches, and found a place with better sightlines to take a closer look.

"It is indeed a walnut tree, a large area."

Ning Qiyan's eyes lit up, and he walked to Du Cheng's side in two steps and three steps. Du Cheng quickly reached out to support him, and kept patting the grass in front of him with a stick to prevent him from stepping on a poisonous snake and being bitten.

On the other side, Huzi also supported Ning Xiaowen while patting the haystack. The four of them carefully descended the slope and stood in the mountain depression, only to realize that the mountain depression that looked small before was actually not small. Hundreds, and some other trees.

"Let's stop here for a few days, at least finish picking these walnuts." Ning Qiyan said.

Ning Xiaowen nodded. This time, he said that he went to the mountains to harvest and hunt, but the amount of mountain goods he actually collected was too small. After drying, he didn’t know if there would be ten catties. This is still the weight with the shell. Kernel, weighs less.It is definitely a pleasant surprise to meet such a field of pecans growing well now.

Hu Zi and Du Cheng had no objections at all. Being able to stop and look for the prey in one place was much more than their previous sleight of hand.Seeing the severe drop in temperature, the outside temperature is only 2 or 3 degrees above zero at [-] o'clock in the morning. It is conceivable that the lowest temperature at night has already dropped below zero. They had to get back to the cave before the maximum temperature during the day dropped below zero, otherwise they would be trapped in the mountains if it snowed.

Not in a hurry to pick and set the trap, the four of them cleared out an open space together for daily activities or temporary storage of things.

After tidying up the place, Ning Xiaowen and Ning Qiyan went straight to the walnut tree with a big bag.On the contrary, Du Cheng and Hu Zi were not in a hurry to find prey, but checked the entire mountain pass to make sure that Ning Qiyan and Ning Qiyan were not in danger when picking here.

I don't know if it's because the temperature in the col is higher than that above, but the walnut trees bear more fruit than the previous ones.In addition to eating during the day, Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen picked non-stop, and Du Cheng and Huzi were no longer limited to trapping, and began to actively hunt more by relying on the traces of animals, and the prey they obtained were no longer always It's the rabbit and the pheasant.Roe deer and roe deer are relatively easier to catch. If they encounter a single wild boar, they can catch it with two machetes. One time they even encountered two sika deer drinking water by the stream. It was not small but had no antlers, so it probably belonged to the female head, and the other end was obviously a fawn. The two of them jumped on it without saying a word. The experienced Huzi was in charge of the big one, and Du Cheng caught the small one.When he was finally caught, the big head had already been wiped by the beard on his neck, and he couldn't die anymore. The beard took off a cotton shirt and wrapped it around the wound of the sika deer several times to ensure that there would not be too much bloody smell Attract the big guys in the mountains.Du Cheng broke off a hind leg of the smaller one, and then tied it with a rope.

Without delay, the two carried the big deer and dragged the fawn back to the col.After getting into Ning Qiyan's space, Da Lu's body was still cold, he let go of the wound, and began to skin and bleed with the iron bucket.The younger one was kept outside the sheepfold first.