The next day, Cheng Cheng continued to walk south.He never let go of any edible things along the way, but the animals and plants here are very huge. For safety, he only dared to pick some wild mushrooms he is most familiar with and put them in the small bag given by Liu Xiaoning.I also met a few piggy-like rabbits, but I didn't dare to hunt them, wondering if they could be eaten?

Two days passed, even though he saved in every possible way, the six bottles of water were almost finished.He only dared to take a few sips of the last bottle of water, but his throat was still so dry that smoke was coming out of him. He touched his chapped lips and tried hard to find the source of water. Right now, water is the most important thing.

Suddenly, a sharp call came from a distance, and Cheng Cheng came looking for the sound, and couldn't help being startled by what happened before him.A big, grotesque bird spread its wings and was more than three meters long. Its sharp claws were holding a child of about four or five. The child screamed miserably and writhed non-stop.A young man frantically took a long stick and tried desperately to hit the big bird, but it was a pity that the bird was about to fly away.Cheng Cheng took out his pistol and shot the big bird in the head. With a bang, the bird let out a loud scream and fell to the ground with a loud crash, and the child also fell down.The young man seemed to be petrified, and suddenly jumped up again, yelling something and ran towards the place where the bird fell.

Cheng Cheng also ran over and saw the young man crying and screaming in his arms, and the two father and son hugged each other for a long time, not daring to let go.

"Are you okay?" Cheng Cheng asked.

The young man jumped up as if frightened, and looked at Cheng Cheng cautiously while holding the child.Cheng Cheng was still holding a gun in his hand, and he pointed it at the big bird. The young man suddenly understood, and kept bowing and bowing to Cheng Cheng to thank him, muttering that he didn't know. something.

"What did you say?" Cheng Cheng couldn't understand his words at all, and the young man was wearing a knee-length animal skin skirt with some unknown things messed up on his upper body, and the kid was only wearing an animal skin. The skirt made Cheng Cheng wonder what the father and son did?How old is it and still wearing animal skins.

Cheng Cheng and the young chicken talked with the duck for a long time, but they couldn't figure out what the other party meant.Cheng Cheng wanted to ask him what is this place?And the other party didn't know what they were talking about?After working on it for a long time, Cheng Cheng sat on the ground angrily, thirsty and tired.He opened his backpack and found the last bottle of water, and took only a few sips carefully.

The child suddenly said, "Water?"

"You can speak Mandarin?" Cheng Cheng was overjoyed. Just now he thought that the young man was a minority and could not speak Chinese. He was still thinking about how to ask the way out of here. He didn't want this child to know that he was drinking water. I think it is much easier for children to learn Mandarin.

The child stared at the mineral water bottle in Cheng Cheng's hand with sparkling eyes, swallowing hard.Cheng Cheng didn't want to give him the bottle due to hygienic considerations, but he could clearly see the child and the young man swallowing, it seemed that both father and son were extremely thirsty.Just now, the two of them yelled exhaustedly for a long time, probably because they were thirsty.

Cheng Cheng took out another empty bottle. Fortunately, he was reluctant to throw away the empty bottle. He poured half of the water in the bottle into the empty bottle, and handed the remaining bottle to the child.

The child took the water, drank a few sips, and gave it to the young man, who also drank a few sips, but held the empty bottle and looked at it reluctantly.

"Mom, meat." The child pointed to the big bird on the ground and called excitedly.Cheng Cheng also understood this sentence.

"Can I eat it?" Cheng Cheng asked.

The child kept screaming for meat, and the young man said something to him in embarrassment. The child turned around and asked Cheng Cheng: "My mother said that you got it, and you should distribute it." I swallowed embarrassingly, and my stomach made noises, which meant that I was very hungry.

"How do you eat it? Can you do it?" Cheng Cheng didn't know how to do it with such a big bird.

As if the child understood what he said, he spoke to the adult again. The young man nodded, and picked up a knife at his feet to cut the big bird's leg, but the knife didn't look too good. He couldn't cut it off after working for a long time, so he picked up a big stone and beat the big bone at the base of the bird's leg vigorously. Cheng Cheng looked at his knife, but he didn't know what it was made of. He tried to cut it. The bird found it was too difficult, so he took out his Swiss Army knife, opened the knife, and quickly cut off a piece of meat.

The young man also got off a bird's leg. Seeing that he cut off a large piece of meat so easily, he looked at the knife in his hand curiously.At this moment, the child couldn't care about anything else, and kept drooling, screaming for meat.The young man instructed him to do something embarrassingly, while he handled the bird's legs. The child gathered a pile of firewood around. Some withered grass, and then set up a pile of firewood to burn, and cut a twig, cut the bird's leg meat, put it on and started to roast on the fire.

Could it be that it's too bold to just eat like this, Cheng Cheng thought to himself, and also used stones to make fire, could it be flint? Will be so behind.Cheng Cheng was thinking about it, and after a while, he smelled the smell of meat and felt hungry. Only then did he realize that the young man was sprinkling some yellow-white crystalline powder on the meat. , it looks like it can be eaten.

The child kept drooling, staring at the meat, but the young man quickly cut off a piece of meat, wrapped it in a clean big tree leaf, and handed it to Cheng Cheng. Cheng Cheng took it, but he didn't dare to say anything. He felt unclean, there was no water here, and the young man had never washed his hands at all, and now his hands were black and dirty, and the powder he sprinkled looked unclean, and he was afraid of having diarrhea.

The young man cut off another big piece and gave it to the child. The child picked it up and ate it. It was so hot that it screamed, but he ate it very fast. The young man smiled, cut a piece himself, and started eating slowly.Seeing that their food was delicious, Cheng Cheng also took a small bite, only to realize that the powder might be salt, the surface of the meat was salty, and it was roasted well, and it tasted pretty good, if you could sprinkle some cumin and chili powder on it It was even more delicious. The bird looked big, but the meat was very tender. After taking a bite, Cheng Cheng felt his appetite whetted, so he started to eat it too.Three people ate up a bird's leg in no time.In fact, Cheng Cheng only ate two yuan, which was a full two or three catties, and he was full.But the father and son were still eating. They finished eating the whole bird leg, and even roasted and ate a piece of meat that Cheng Cheng tried to cut off first, before they stopped.

The child stopped calling for meat when he was full. Instead, he circled around Cheng Cheng, staring at his knife. The adult was picking up the remaining bird meat, but his eyes flicked from time to time. Small knife, Cheng Cheng couldn't stand their penetrating stares, so he had to pass the small knife to the young man. The young man took it, tried it carefully, and found that the knife looked small, but it was very useful, and he fell in love with it right away. , quickly removed the remaining leg of the big bird, and cut off the meat from other parts, but this bird only had meat on two legs, and the other parts looked big, but the cut meat was not much.The young man cut the root and thinned the meat again, and bundled the meat together, it seemed that he wanted to take it away.

But the child ran into the woods on the other side, and after a while, he brought two big fruits. They looked like oranges, but they were much bigger than the oranges he used to see, and each one weighed more than two catties. , he handed the two to Cheng Cheng, and went to pick them again. Cheng Cheng tried to peel the oranges, and sure enough, he saw that the pulp inside was oranges. The portion was enough and delicious. He was very full, so he only ate a small half, and stopped eating. He found a convenient bag in his backpack and wrapped the orange meat in it.The other intact one is held in hand.

The child picked two more oranges and handed them to the young man. The young man touched his head with a smile, took them, peeled them off and ate them. He only ate one, and put the rest into a box on the ground. In the small animal skin bag, his knife, salt, flint and so on are all packed in it.He tied the animal skin bag around his waist, carried the meat and signaled Cheng Cheng to go with them.

Cheng Cheng tried to speak a few words with the child along the way, and Cheng Cheng found that although the child could speak Mandarin, he could only speak simple everyday expressions, and he might have learned it from himself.Because he found that the adult couldn't understand what he said at all, and he couldn't understand what the child and the adult said.But the words about water, meat, and what to eat should be universal.Young people also understand.

Cheng Cheng followed them for more than two hours. He was so tired that he couldn't walk anymore. He saw a small river. The children ran to the river happily, jumped into the water to play, and the young man carried his things into the river. A cave not far away.Cheng Cheng also followed him to the cave, and found that the inside was very simple, it looked like a bed with a roll of things spread on it, and there were several clay pots and other miscellaneous things on the ground.The youth put things down.I also went to the river to wash my hands, and then started to process the pile of meat. In fact, I took salt and sprinkled it directly on it. It seemed that it was to be marinated for preservation.He didn't return the knife to Cheng Cheng, but used it to cut the meat into small pieces, peeled off all the meat from the bones, and then returned the knife to Cheng Cheng. Give up.

At this time, the child ran in with a big fish in his arms, and the young man took the fish and went out of the hole. Cheng Cheng followed them out, and saw the young man using that unlucky knife to handle the fish again. Since the fish was easy to cut, he quickly cleaned the fish, sprinkled it with salt, and put it on the branches. It seemed that it was ready to be grilled, but it should not be the time to eat it yet, and it was not too early.When the young man had nothing to do, he and Cheng Cheng began to gesticulate and chat, and the kid also came over and translated.

It took me a long time to realize that the young man's name is Tru and the child's name is Batu.The three of them exchanged names and got to know each other.

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