through the ancient times

Chapter 24 Candles

Yang Jun half-closed his eyes and lay on the bed in a daze. He had been awake for a while, his head was empty, and he really didn't think much about it.The heavy rain that started at night has not stopped until now, the gray sky and the cold wind blowing, accompanied by the sound of raindrops hitting the roof and the ground, no matter what it is, it is a good night for sleep.

Adi opened the door, and wolf cub Doudou rushed in impatiently.His gray wolf fur was knotted or curled up by the water, his front paws were resting on the edge of the bed, his tongue sticking out, and his long wolf eyes looked at Yang Jun excitedly, as stupid as he could say.

"...Stupid wolf!" Yang Jun grumbled.

Wolf cub Doudou tilted his head.

Yang Jun twisted his face and rushed forward with a roar, the frightened wolf cub Doudou got up crookedly and ran away.

"Porf..." Yang Jun laughed out of joy in the animal blanket.

Adi wiped off all the moisture and came to pat him. "It's time, get up."

Yang Jun hugged the warm animal skin blanket and rolled on the bed warmly. "I don't remember."

Adi sat by the bed, took a picture of the older child who was rolled into a ball: "Ayang, I haven't eaten yet, breakfast."

"Not hungry."

Adi was worried, so he had to go to the kitchen to add some firewood and continue to heat up the fish soup until Yang Jun got up to drink.

Yang Jun stared angrily at Adi's back, Yumu's head, wondering how to coax him to kiss him and hug him?If it wasn't because of him last night... Is he still lying in bed now?Yang Jun was bored on the bed and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

Adi warmed up the fish soup, dredged the drains in the yard under the heavy rain, and ran to the stream to see if the circled fish ponds were broken, whether the hairy crab baskets were completely flooded, and whether there were enough leaves to cover them , Is the basket for the stone screws tight enough? After turning this round, not a single yarn on my body is dry, and the water-absorbed hair on the head is dripping with raindrops.

Yang Jun, who just got up, didn't care about being angry anymore, so he hurriedly dried him with the animal skin, and then took out a clean animal skin gown and animal skin skirt to put on for him. Fortunately, his family had a lot of animal skins and made two more sets at that time. Otherwise, it will be urgent and there is no need to change it.

"It's raining so much, don't go out again!" Just now, I was walking around covered in water vapor, and now I'm completely soaked again, do I really think I'm a hard worker? !

"I'm going to see crabs, see if there are any, and run away. There are also fish and stone snails. A Yang likes to eat 'snails' made of stone snails, and I can make them the day after tomorrow." Adi said that his Chinese became more and more fluent, and Yang After Jun discovered Adi's language talent, he seldom learned the original language of the tribe on his own initiative.Fortunately, Adi didn't mind, and was very motivated to learn Chinese.

Hearing this, Yang Jun secretly rolled his eyes. "Did it run away?" The bamboo basket containing the crabs was fixed with stones, and the bamboo basket itself is so strong that it would not be so easy to break, but Adi did not believe it, just like Adi did not believe that the house would not leak when it rained last night Same, he clearly said that there will be no leaks, but he is not at ease looking here and there with the flashlight, he is so noisy that he is already tired, and he didn't fall asleep, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed in bed for so long today.

"No." Adi smiled.

Yang Jun rolled his eyes, turned his head and vomited secretly.He looks so handsome and doesn't go to beauty pageants, he doesn't look like a newly evolved new human at all!

Moved a chair and sat under the eaves, took the fish soup that Adi had brought to warm up all night, drank two mouthfuls of milky white and delicious fish soup, looked up at the heavy rain with appreciative eyes, looking back, it was Adi sitting on a small stool On the ground, he used bamboo slices to study and make a bamboo hat, and next to him, Doudou, a wolf cub, was squatting on the ground with his front paws lying on the animal bones and grinding his teeth.With the heavy rain blowing a gust of cold wind, Yang Jun lowered his head and drank two mouthfuls of fish soup, feeling his whole body was warm.

After the fish soup was finished, Yang Jun stretched his waist and stretched his muscles and bones, and ordered Adi to take his newly made bamboo hat and go to the stream to pick up all four loads of stone screws. After they were cooked, they put them under the eaves to pick out the meat with bamboo sticks.Stir-fried stone screw meat is best served with rice, and dried and ground into powder is the most fresh.Stir-fried shrimp and stone screw meat at noon, Yang Jun ordered two bowls of rice.

It rained continuously for one day, and Yang Jun took the opportunity to pick up all four loads of stone screw meat, washed them and dried them like shrimps.The next day when the rain stopped and the sun did not come out, Yang Jun and Adi fished out the fish circled in the lake with a bamboo fish and raised them in another stream. Half of the crabs were raised together with the previous ones, and the shrimps could not survive. Only enough fresh food for two days was left and the rest was baked into dried shrimps. A large basket of stone snails was divided into three baskets at Adi's insistence and kept in the stream. Yang Jun looked down on the fish and shrimp, and offered all of them to the chickens in the cave.The seventeen female pheasants ate small fish and shrimps for several days in a row. Not only did they grow fat, but the eggs they laid were big and round. The feathers of the two male pheasants were even brighter.

Speaking of eggs, Yang Jun once worried that there were more than a dozen eggs every day, two people plus one wolf couldn't finish them, so he had to put them in the cave and store them more and more.

On the third day the sun came out.Yang Jun followed Adi into the mountains to pick out those wet places, thinking about trying his luck to see if he could find mushrooms.There are mushrooms, but most of them are poisonous, while the non-poisonous ones are too thin and small enough to fit your teeth.

Yang Jun held the basket and looked at a small piece of shiitake mushroom in front of him, and sighed.The biggest ones are only as big as the middle finger, so it's a pity to take them off.

Adi looked on in bewilderment.

Yang Jun gritted his teeth and let go of the small piece of shiitake mushroom that hadn't grown up yet, and continued to move forward with the basket in hand.The mushrooms that grow on the ground are not big enough, but the fungus that grow on rotten trees is fat enough.

Yang Jun beamed and was about to pick it off, but Adi stopped him. "Toxic. If you eat it, you will have a stomachache."

Picking a piece of fungus in his hand, the fat feeling is the same as that of modern fungus, even the torn fault is the same. Putting it under his nose and smelling it, Yang Jun is sure that it is the black fungus eaten by modern people. "We call it 'black fungus', and it's edible. But you have to dry it before soaking it. If you eat it raw, you'll get food poisoning."

Eddie was still a little worried.

Yang Jun persisted. "Don't worry, Adi, this food is really edible." Seeing that Adi hesitated, he hurriedly said, "Why don't we pick it up first, dry it and send it to the pheasants before we eat it? Okay?" Convincing Adi, Yang Jun picked all the edible fungus he saw along the way, harvested dozens of catties, and put them all in Adi's hands.You must know that black fungus is recognized as a good thing. Not only is it delicious, but it also has the value of health care. It is a rare mountain delicacy.

With black fungus, Yang Jun immediately became interested in looking for food again. He looked here and there, and found several edible fungi.It's a pity that without exception, they haven't grown up yet.Yang Jun immediately became depressed.

Adi saw it, and brought Yang Jun under the big pine tree to pick up pine cones for him, and broke open the pine nuts inside.

Compared with the pine seeds like northeast pine nuts in his hands, what attracted Yang Jun's attention more was the thick oil dripping from under the big pine tree embraced by several people.Pine resin, a natural candle material, do you still worry about the lack of light at night with this thing?

The plated yellow-white grease was dripping under the roots of the tree because no one had ever tidied it up. It was mixed with various leaves, branches and insects. Yang Jun didn't mind, he collected them all and asked Adi to pick them back.Perhaps God felt that today's surprise was not enough, since on the way back, Yang Jun found the traces of wild hemp that he had been looking for.But Yang Jun was so happy, he sighed that this time-traveling god must come from his own mother!

After the harvest season, the wild hemp trees were dead and crooked, but they were still uprooted by Yang Jun, and there was not a single tree left as far as I could see.Can't wait to go back, hemp is the best candle wick, but Yang Jun couldn't wait, so he used a few strands of dry bark instead.The black fungus was spread out in the sun casually, and Adi had set up a stone pot in that room, put in a small amount of pine tree oil to dissolve it, and cleaned up the debris.

While the fat was melting, Yang Jun cut off a child's arm-thick bamboo joint to make a simple candle model. The model made of bamboo must not be standardized enough, but at this time, he can only try it out.After the model is completed, the candle wick made of bark is fixed, and then poured with pine grease added with animal solidified fat, and a candle is ready when it is cooled and solidified.

The first time he tried to do it, Yang Jun made five. Because there is no machine to accelerate the cooling, he can only let it cool naturally outside the house.Fortunately, the temperature at night was low enough, and the natural pine oil solidified quickly. When Yang Jun got up to look at it the next morning, all five candles had solidified and formed.

Because the model was unscientific, it was unstable and the entire wick was buried in the candle, so Yang Jun had to hold the candle in his hand and dissolve a small section of the candle before lighting the wick.During the daytime, the light of the candle cannot be seen, but the dancing flame is real. The fact that the flame is not extinguished or flickered proves that the candle experiment is successful!

Yang Jun hugged Adi with bright eyes and kissed the corner of his mouth.

Adi put his arms around Yang Jun's waist, smiled and touched him.

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