through the absurd and primitive

Chapter 3 Finding Food
At dawn, Yingbai woke up, but he didn't immediately get up to pick up the spear and prepare to go out as usual, but looked at Li Mo's hair scattered on his cheeks and became fascinated.

It would be great if this woman belonged to him. Yingbai was taken aback by his own thoughts. Ever since he was considered a disaster, he was ready to die alone. Yingbai shook his head and put those Throwing away the idea, I got up.

Just as she was about to pick up the spear, Li Mo woke up.

"Eagle White." Li Mo slightly opened his eyes, the light is slightly brighter today, probably the sun has come out.

"Li Mo, you are sleeping for a while, I'm going out to hunt." Ying Bai thought he had woken Li Mo, so he hurriedly called.

"It's okay, Yingbai, where are you going hunting?"

"Few animals come out these days. I want to see if I can catch some fish by the lake." Thinking of this, Ying Bai frowned beautifully.

"Lake? There's a lake here!"

"Well, but it's a bit far from here." Ying Bai didn't know why Li Mo was so excited.

"Can I go with you, maybe I can help."

Seeing Li Mo looking at him expectantly, Ying Bai couldn't open his mouth.

"That's fine, but if you're not feeling well, tell me right away."

Li Mo felt warm in her heart, and looked at the cautious Yingbai with a big smile.

The two packed up and set off.

Ying Bai was only wearing something that looked like a shawl, and Li Mo felt sorry for seeing it, so she took off the scarf and wrapped it around Ying Bai's neck.

Li Mo repeatedly insisted that he take it with him, Ying Bai smelled the fragrance on the scarf, and smiled warmly.

Li Mo looked at it, and was stunned for a long time, blushing and walking with her head down, muttering in her heart: It is a crime to be handsome, so handsome, who is to blame.

Yingbai didn't walk very fast, only then did Li Mo realize that Yingbai walked slowly to take care of herself, Li Mo didn't speak, but just sped up her feet.

This is a bit far, that is really far.

Li Mo smiled wryly, they had been walking for several hours before Ying Bai told her that they were coming soon.

After rubbing her swollen and sore calf, Li Mo was still very happy. Since there are fish, it proves that there must be other creatures.They have access to other things.

God!Reeds, a large area of ​​reeds!

Li Mo grew up in the south and had never seen reeds. This was what she saw on TV. When she grew up and went out to work, her friends in the north lived next to the reeds and often told her stories about their childhood. It also made Li Mo yearn for it.

I was shocked when I saw it today. In such a place where there is heavy snow and the cold can kill people, there are still nearly thousands of acres of reeds, a vast expanse of white, and the wind blows, and the little reeds are rattling. It moves with the wind, like the blue sea, like the white clouds in spring, like the feathers plucked from the mother's arms, hanging gently in Li Mo's heart.

"Eagle White, Eagle White, is this a reed? It's so beautiful."

Seeing Li Mo's surprised face, although Ying Bai didn't know what's so good about this plant, but seeing Li Mo happy, the hairy grass in front of him also thought it was the same thing.

"Yingbai, let's pick some back later, this is a good thing."

"Really? Well, we'll pick some later when we go back." Ying Bai smiled, and pampered Li Mo's head.

The two walked into the reeds. Yingbai should know the way. After groping for a while, a big frozen river appeared in front of them.

The fish here is not big, and there are many fish bones, and there is no seasoning to remove the fishy smell, so few people eat it.Yingbai lives alone, so he doesn't pay much attention to it.

Yingbai found a big rock and stabbed it hard at the ice, but unfortunately it didn't work.

Li Mo hurriedly called Ying Bai to stop.

Li Mo was in a leeward place, took a few reeds and rolled them into a big stick shape, then lit them, and let Yingbai stand by the river to slowly dissolve the ice. ice.

And Li Mo took out a used plastic bag from the backpack, rolled the reed into a hemp rope, and passed it through the plastic bag.After Yingbai melted a small piece of ice, Li Mo put the plastic bag under the ice like a net.

"Yingbai, are there any birds around here?" Seeing so many reeds here, Li Mo narrowed his eyes.

"Yes, but it's hard to catch, unless you're lucky and hit it with a stone." Yingbai looked around and said.

"Yingbai, let's set a trap."

Li Mo talked about the next simple trap, which is to dig a small pit, put sharpened wooden strips under the pit, weave a circle with reeds, connect it around the trap, and tie the circle with wooden sticks. Li Mo only remembers the book a little. It was mentioned above, but I don't know if it will work, anyway, Yingbai was very happy to hear it, and improved it a bit, dug three or four traps, and marked down, and the two returned to the river.

Ying Bai went to get the bag, and Li Mo walked by the river to see what he could find.

Maybe it was really lucky, Li Mo found a rotten turtle shell, about [-] centimeters in length, now I can cook some soup, Li Mo was very happy, and even pulled out a lot of reeds, put them in the backpack, and ran happily Go to Yingbai's side.

"Yingbai, how is Yingbai?"

Yingbai excitedly picked up the bag and showed it to Li Mo. There were eleven small fish inside, including one that was more than ten centimeters long.

"That's great, Yingbai. Look, I found a turtle shell. I'll cook something delicious for you when I get back."

Yingbai happily smirked, can you imagine how hard it is for a noble and beautiful boy to keep a smirk on his face.

Just when the two of them were about to leave, Yingbai suddenly stopped, he made a movement of silence, and then signaled Li Mo to stand here and not move, after a while, Yingbai disappeared into the reeds Inside, Li Mo's heart skipped a beat, a kind of primitive strangeness made her feel fearful, yes, it was the arrival of the prey that made Yingbai sharper, the Yingbai just now had no smile, only a wave of ready to hunt The instinct to kill.

Li Mo's thinking was right, she stood in the reeds, bent slightly, looked around quietly, it really was.

Outside the white reeds, a sharp horn turned out. It was a deer, a robust deer.It is watching the surroundings, the quietness and eerieness in the white reeds.

With a sound of "Woo", a stone spear flew out like the wind, and then rushed straight towards the heel of the deer. The deer was obviously frightened and ran immediately, but it was a pity that Yingbai was faster than it. He rushed out, took out the stone axe, grabbed the antlers with one hand, and knocked them down vigorously with the other hand, blood flowed out, after two blows, the deer twitched twice, and then there was no movement again.

Li Mo has never seen such a primitive, such a beast-inspiring thing, no, it is a kind of human instinct, people get food from hunting, primitive survival must learn the ability to hunt, Arouse the blood in the body, so as to survive.

Yingbai dragged the deer up, and then slammed it on his shoulders. The thick deer seemed to be just a feather. Li Mo was yearning for it when he saw it. This strength is really too powerful.

As soon as Yingbai looked up, he saw Li Mo smiling at him, Yingbai touched his nose embarrassedly, and then walked towards Li Mo.

The two walked back happily, and when Yingbai approached, Li Mo realized that the deer was really not that big, although it was a little thin, but its limbs were very graceful, Yingbai said it was a stag.

Li Mo's mood improved a lot. While chatting with Ying Bai, she quickened her pace. Both of them couldn't wait to rush back to the tree house. The food could last them two or three days.

Back in the tree house, Yingbai began to peel the skin, Li Mo took a knife to remove the carrion on the turtle shell, Yingbai was very surprised to see the knife.Li Mo told him that this was the only one, but if he had the materials, he could make a sharp knife. Ran Yingbai was very envious of these words, and wished he could conjure up a good knife tomorrow.

Li Mo asked Yingbai to keep the deer's viscera and intestines, and then went out to pack the snow into the turtle shell, and built a new fire pit in the tree house, with a small top and a large bottom for boiling water.

After cleaning the turtle shell, I gave Yingbai the knife to cut the venison into small pieces, put them into the turtle shell from the melted snow, shake off the crumbs, and add the salty meat from yesterday. The fruit, called Yingbai, made two chopsticks, spoons and two wooden bowls out of wooden sticks. Li Mo was making venison soup, and Yingbai was making barbecue next to him. It was a happy meal.

Although the venison still had a strong smell, it was in the absence of food. This kind of meat was like a source of water for people without water in the desert.This feeling is indescribable, even Li Mo, who can't eat fishy food, gobbled it up.

Li Mo was not idle either, she let Ying Bai clean up beside her, and she began to find a large bunch of reeds that she had brought back.Reed is a good thing, it can be made into paper, and it can also be woven into curtains. The stems can be used as medicine, and those tidbits can also be used as pillow cores. As a time traveler, the days without pillows are simply too difficult, Li Mo thinks about it and feels bitter.

What would I do if I ran out of sanitary napkins in my bag? Could it be that I was going to run naked while bleeding? Li Mo shook off the messy things in her mind and started to deal with the reeds.

These reeds can be used to weave a mat. It's not summer yet. I heard from Ying Bai that the high temperature in summer will set the tree house on fire. Li Mo is terrified to think about it. This mat can be made later.

Li Mo weaved a broom out of reed flowers, this kind of thing almost made her cry, the environment here is too primitive, for people who are obsessed with cleanliness, it is simply death.With a broom, the tree house can be cleaned frequently. Those dead animals are always in the house, which is easy to breed bacteria.

Cut off the root of the reed flower and hide it. It is said that this can cure pneumonia, and I will save it for later use.

Looking at the bloodstains all over the floor, Li Mo's eyes twitched, and she wove a crooked mat out of reeds and spread it beside the fire pit, at least as a cutting board. It's so shocking to say.

Reeds can make paper, this is a necessity, because when going to the bathroom, well, when it is convenient to go outside the tree house, do you really need to wipe it with animal skin like Yingbai? My God, the animal skin still needs to be washed and recycled .

No matter how Li Mo can make do with it, she will fail.

She thought about it, and started making paper tomorrow. Li Mo likes ancient Chinese history, especially some folk customs and production techniques. She used reeds to make paper. She had done it in a book, but she didn't know if it could be done.

(End of this chapter)