It is not easy to traverse the wilderness

Chapter 15 Getting Ready for Winter

Song Lai found that things didn’t seem to be what he imagined. Oss not only took his own stone tank, but also took many other people’s things, the salt shared by the tribe, and some grass baskets, and even the fish were caught together by everyone. Yes, and the people in the tribe are very used to it, no one is as excited as myself.

And in the past few days, a dedicated man went fishing, and then came back to teach Oss.Orth's stone jar did not continue hunting until it was full.

Song Lai began to recall what An Ye had said to himself recently, winter seemed to be the theme recently.All that comes out of a few words is fear, yes fear.

Song Lai couldn't sit still anymore, handed the salted fish to Gan Zhi, and then walked towards Ao Si. "Is it cold in winter?" Oss was taken aback, and looked at Song Lai, "Don't you remember what winter is like, or your tribe is strong enough to have its own gathering place and enough food to live safely. Over the winter."

"I don't remember much after waking up." It took me several months to remember such a bloody setting. Song Lai was also helpless to himself, but who made himself confused for several months before he really knew what he was doing. Here to live to die there.Some necessary questions still need to be asked clearly, otherwise it is estimated that it will be easy to achieve the achievement of death.

Oss looked at Song Lai and patted Song Lai's head, "Winter will be very cold, very cold, and it will snow for a long time, and we will have little food, and we will be hungry, so from now on we have to Accumulate food, ""Are these all?" "Yes, they are all, originally your food needs to be prepared by An Ye, but you discovered fish and brought new food to the tribe, so the tribe can also provide you winter

Food for the day.Song Lai.You are now a child of the Horde too. "

Song Lai looked at Aussie's kind face, and thought to himself, after hearing what the old man said, why does he feel worse than my amnesia, should I burst into tears now?Staring blankly at the little old man Oss, he really didn't know what expression to use to face him, "I'll go see how Gan Zhi's fish is doing." Song Lai walked away.

Around noon, Song Lai returned to the shack, sat on the bed and began to think about the information he had heard.Winter will be very cold and there will be no food. Although the food of this tribe is mainly meat, the collected plants and fruits are indispensable. In winter, the plants will wither and the animals will go to warm places. After winter, the rest are carnivorous beasts, and hunting will be very difficult, plus the cold.Song Lai looked down at his panties, obviously they couldn't resist the snowy weather.

Fortunately, I kept the animal skins some time ago. I thought it would make the bed softer, but now it seems that it can save my life.

Song Lai went to a smaller shack on the side. There were a lot of beautiful animal feathers and a few rabbit skins in it. On the roof of the shack was a long wooden stick hanging horizontally, on which hung the endless meat.I don't know how long the winter here will be, but the shortest cannot be less than two months, but the food now is not enough for even two weeks.Song Lai took the dried rabbit skins, filled the firepit with plant ashes, and walked out with a stone pot.

Called Rich and some children, and went to the river beach together. On the river beach, the children went to find mussels, and Song Lai pressed the rabbit skin into the water.Then go to break the willow branches.The willow branches that the children folded a few days ago were soaked not far from the river beach, and they were all taken out today.Call the children together, pack up the mussels they found, put them in a stone pot, light a fire with a magnifying glass, and cook mussel soup for these children.

Song Lai picked up the willow branches and looked closely. After two days of soaking in the river water, the willow branches were already very soft. He distributed the willow branches and asked them to weave a semicircular basket. I've seen it before, it's very simple and practical, it can hold a lot of things and it's also durable.The locals call it a wicker basket.

Four or five horizontal bars and four or five vertical bars are placed in a cross, and the same cross is made to overlap in the shape of rice, and then the same press, pick, and one are made with long willow branches. It is very simple. , pay attention to the shape while weaving, weave it into a semicircle and then collect it a little bit, press one by one in the same way and then put the heads into the numbered box.Leave three or four bars on the left and right sides, and when the two sides overlap, it becomes a hurdle.Tie it tightly with willow branches, and a wicker basket is ready.

The children were very obedient and learned from Song Lai. These ancient people learned things very well, and Song Lai even felt that they were smarter than the children in his original society.Maybe it's because of the natural environment. As long as it's food-related, the people here are always quick to learn, but if you tell them that the sunset is beautiful and the stars are bright, no one will care about you.

After finishing the wicker basket, Song Lai's rabbit skin was basically soaked. He took it out and chose a thick tree, pulled out the bark, and tied the rabbit skin tightly around the head and tail with wicker.Then use a stone knife to scrape off the covered meat and fat little by little. When Song Lai was making the characters, the children were also watching intently. After Song Lai scraped off the first piece, let the children help him He also scraped the rest. He picked up the plant ash he brought and began to apply it on the rabbit skin, and then kept rubbing the rabbit skin until the plant ash seemed to be drenched with grease, then put the rabbit skin on again. Put it in the water, then rub it continuously, and when the ash is clean, continue to tie it to the tree and scrape it. After doing this three or four times, I feel that the whole skin has grown two times.Apply plant ash on the rabbit skin again, press it under the stone, and call the children to drink soup.

After drinking the soup, Song Lai washed the stone pot, put water on it and started to cook willow branches. During cooking, Song Lai watched the rabbit skins that the child was making, and occasionally pointed out a few words. The water from the branches was applied to the rabbit skin, and then the place where the water was applied was folded in half, rolled up and tied tightly with a straw rope, and then the children went home.

After they came back, the children put all the bound rabbit skins in Song Lai's small warehouse.Then they went home individually.

When Song Lai just put the meat in the pot, An Ye had already returned with the prey. During this time, An Ye went hunting alone, so those who came back were earlier than the tribesmen. Song Lai is a bulging straw bag.Song Lai took it and saw that it was the fruit that Rich gave him a few days ago, very sweet fruit.

"Where did you find them? There are so many." An Ye didn't answer Song Lai, but just patted Song Lai's head, "Tomorrow I'm going to go hunting with everyone, and I'll be back late. If you're hungry, eat first." Don't wait for me." "Is it dangerous for you to go hunting?" "It depends on what you meet. If you are lucky, you will meet a lot of herbivores, and if you are unlucky, you will meet fierce beasts."

"If possible, bring back the skin of the prey in its entirety. I can use it." "Yes, okay." "Be careful, I'm the only relative here." An Ye turned around and patted Song Lai's head." Eat more, you are still too thin."

On the third day, An Ye brought back a large skin that might be a deer, because An Ye also brought back its head.The two branch-like horns are sharp, but the head length is somewhat different from the deer on the earth. This deer seems to be bigger.Song Lai found that the deer's fur was very short, so he asked An Ye to help him remove all the deer's hair with a dagger, and then dry it. The deer's skin is relatively thin, and if it is tanned, it can be used to make close-fitting clothes.My panties were about to rot, so Song Lai had to make another one, and there was only a small piece of the bathrobe left. Song Lai didn't dare to rely on him to survive the winter.

After the deerskins were dried, Song Lai’s rabbit skins were healed. He asked the children to return to the river beach with stone pots, wash the rabbit skins in water, and then continue to tan them with plant ash. The skin was obviously very soft, and Song Lai felt very satisfied when he touched the words in his hand.It's just that the rabbit's skin still had a little bit of *questioning, but Song Lai also endured it.Imagine that if you wear rabbit skin clothes in winter, you should have no problem in winter.

It was almost done, so Song Lai followed the river to the lotus lake, saw a lot of lotus seeds mature, picked a lot of lotus pods, dug a few lotus roots in a shallow place, and picked a few lotus leaves , put all the things into numbered wicker baskets, and then swam back to the river beach. The children had been fishing for several days and were cleaning up. When they saw Song Lai coming back, they all surrounded him. Song Lai took out the lotus leaves and put The fish was rubbed with salt, then wrapped in lotus leaves, and wrapped in lotus leaves with river mud, hehe called flower fish.Dig a hole on the ground and put the wrapped fish in, cover the hole with soil, then set up a stone pot on fire, cut up the lotus root and put it in quickly, put some chains you picked, and find a few mussels to clean up. Put it in, simmer on low heat, and lead the children to continue weaving wicker baskets and tanning rabbit and deer skins.

The deerskin is also tanned and brushed with willow branch liquid, folded and rolled up, the rabbit skin is washed clean of plant ash, and put together with the deerskin in a wicker basket.The soup in the pot is also good.Each person puts a clam shell in a bowl, then removes the fire, and scoops out the steaming beggar fish. As soon as the mud seal is opened, a burst of fish smell comes into people's noses.The children immediately gathered around and put lotus leaves on the ground, then put all the fish for three days on the lotus leaves, and gave each of them two chopsticks made of twigs, and then sat down to eat.

Because the women were busy pickling fish, no one took the children in the tribe to collect fish for the time being, but the children were used to coming out in the morning and starting to look for food, but in the end, no one brought them and they all screamed with hunger, so Song Lai took them out every day to eat some small stoves or something.These children are also used to eating in front of Song Lai and they can grasp everything with their hands. It was really not easy to learn to use chopsticks when they first used this thing.But now it can be applied flexibly.

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