doomsday survival

Chapter 24 Autumn Harvest
That day, Shi Jian went to the trap to collect prey as usual.Now the animals have also become cunning, and they no longer always walk in the same way, and Shi Jian has to change the position of the trap frequently.

When passing by the hazel bushes, Shi Jian discovered that the hazelnuts had already matured, and the original green bracts had turned golden, embellishing them particularly conspicuously among the green leaves.There are only a few hazelnuts left on the tree, and most of them have fallen off naturally and fell to the ground, laying a golden coat under the hazel bushes.The two chipmunks stood upright, holding a hazelnut in their front paws and were nibbling. When they saw Shi Jian approaching, they hurriedly dropped the hazelnut and ran away.

Looking at the calendar on the watch, it is now August NO.20, and Shi Jian has been living in the end of the world for nearly a month without knowing it.The season is also in early autumn, everything is ripe, and it is the season to start picking and harvesting.

It wasn't until he saw the two little chipmunks that Shi Jian realized that he was not the master of nature. Compared with the native animals, he was an intruder in this forest.

However, whether it is the owner or the intruder, Shi Jian must speed up the collection.It is not just to compete with animals for fruits, but also to compete with nature for time, otherwise, the long winter will not be able to survive.

In order to speed up the collection of supplies for the winter, Shi Jian put aside the training of Xiaomeng and Xiaowei first, and went all out to work on the autumn harvest.

Without Shi Jian's torment, the two little lynx's life would not be too comfortable.He resumed his nocturnal habit early, lying at home during the day, ignoring Shi Jian except for eating.At night, as long as it doesn't rain, they will go outside to live a happy life in the mountains and forests.

Shi Jian was also happy that they didn't come to make trouble. Every day at dawn, he carried a hiking bag to collect hazelnuts. The things in the bag were scattered on the bed, which became a nest for the little lynxes to sleep.

Most of the hazelnuts fell to the ground in a thick layer, which was easy to collect and filled a full bag in no time.After collecting them, Shi Jian spread all the hazelnuts on the open ground, let the sun dry the hazelnut shells, and paved the ground in front of and behind the house. Fortunately, the area of ​​the open space is large enough, otherwise Shi Jian would have really Do not know what to do.

At night, Shi Jian had to take the hazelnuts back into the room to prevent them from getting damp.In order to store the hazelnuts, Shi Jian also built a fence with wood at the corner of the house at night, and then densely woven rattan into a granary.Every morning, Shi Jian had to dry the hazelnuts again, and was extremely busy.

What Shi Jian was most worried about was the rain. Every time he saw that the weather was not right, Shi Jian would run home quickly to put away the hazelnuts.Xiaoxing'an Mountains is rainy in autumn, and the weather is more erratic than in summer.Often, just as Shi Jian put away the hazelnuts, the weather would clear up, and Shi Jian would be asked to do some useless work.

Whenever Shi Jian was busy harvesting the hazelnuts, Xiaomeng and Xiao Wei didn't sleep anymore, they ran along and almost tripped Shi Jian several times.

Shi Jian was so angry that he scolded the two little fellows, and said: "I don't need your help, ancestors, you are the ancestors, I beg you, go to sleep. Why don't you go and tease the squirrels in the trees and the rabbits in the grass?" That's fine too."

Because there are no big carnivores in this forest, the two lynxes also dominate here. Although they often fail to catch their prey, they often chase small animals such as squirrels and hares like wild dogs, disturbing them for nothing. A peaceful life here.

Xiaomeng and Xiaowei often ignored Shi Jian's words. Every time Shi Jian couldn't bear it, he grabbed the back of his neck with one hand and threw them into the woods, and they calmed down.Especially Xiaomeng, with big eyes shining, looking at Shi Jian with tears in his eyes, as if he had been wronged so much.Seeing them like this, Shi Jian couldn't bear to punish them further.

"Where is this a war pet?" Shi Jian often complained, "This is the ancestor. You can't beat it, and it doesn't work if you scold it. No wonder people used to call their cats, dogs, and dogs sons and daughters. Zhenhezi They are all little ancestors!"

After working for a few days, the hazel skins that were harvested first were completely dry, so Shi Jian rubbed off the hazel skins, leaving only the shells, and then put them in buckets, stacking the buckets together.The barrel is made of large pieces of birch bark sewn densely with thin rattan. Although it cannot hold water, it is still not a problem to hold things.

After working like this for more than ten days, Shi Jian has packed hundreds of barrels of hazelnuts, big and small.There are no more hazelnuts in that hazel forest, and if they are to be harvested again, they will have to climb over the mountains.Shi Jian felt that the efficiency was too low, so he stopped collecting hazelnuts.

Hundreds of barrels of hazelnuts weigh three to four thousand catties, which sounds scary.In fact, the hazelnut shell accounts for at least three-quarters of the weight, and this kind of wild hazelnut is not as easy to store as the American hazelnut, the kernel will shrink a lot, and it is not known how many hazelnuts there will be in the end.But in Shi Jian's opinion, it is enough to serve as emergency food for the winter, after all, the real thing is hunting.

Shi Jian planned to set more traps during this period of time to dry the excess meat, so that winter should not be so sad.

While setting big traps, Shi Jian also considered his own safety.Although there are no ferocious beasts nearby, it is because it is summer and autumn, and there are many prey.In winter, when everything is silent, who knows if there are any hungry beasts wandering around.Don't say that leopards don't take the initiative to attack humans. If they are hungry, there is no such thing as saying that they don't attack humans.And there is a leopard on this mountain.

Shi Jian didn't expect the leopard to survive.Once when Shi Jian went to fetch water from the stream, he met the leopard face to face. The leopard was already a little bigger, nearly one meter long, and it seemed to be doing well.If it weren't for the obvious scars on its body, Shi Jian would have thought it was another one.In the end, the leopard turned around and left, and he was never seen again. Maybe the leopard had tacitly accepted that the front mountain was Shi Jian's territory.

As for the black bear, Shi Jian has never seen it before, but bears are going to hibernate, so in Shi Jian's mind, winter is coming, and the threat of leopards is far greater than that of bears.Besides, if a pack of wolves appeared, Shi Jian, who only had one cabin, would really be the second pig among the three little pigs.

Because of this, Shi Jian began to prepare for some defensive measures while setting more animal traps.

Regarding defense, Shi Jian was really not sure, and he didn't know how to do it himself, so he could only check the phone, but sadly, the phone was dead.

Although Shi Jian can make the simplest fruit battery, the power is really low.If the mobile phone can be used, tens of thousands of fruit batteries are needed, and this is just a boot.Besides, Shi Jian didn't have enough metal to serve as electrodes, so the mobile phone became a decoration.

Shi Jian, who is busy setting traps, has no time to tangle with his mobile phone. Shi Jian, who has harvested every day, now spends all his time on skinning and smoking his prey.

Shi Jian doesn't know how to tan fur, but the newly peeled animal skin can be processed.Shi Jian used a short knife to cut off the excess parts of the animal skin such as claws and lips, then carefully scraped off the remaining meat on it, removed the soil, sprinkled salt on the meat layer of the skin, and put it in a cool place under the eaves for ventilation. , After five or six days, it becomes rawhide.Rawhide is relatively hard, and it has to be folded and flattened, and then it can be spread on the bed as a mattress.Although the cooked leather that has not been tanned is soft and comfortable, it is better than nothing.

Shi Jian also smokes the meat that cannot be eaten every day.Shi Jian first salted the meat for three hours, then replaced the wood in the stove with pine branches, hung the meat on a wooden rack, and smoked it dry with the smoke from the pine branches.The smoked and dried meat is hung in a ventilated place and can be eaten for a long time.The hanging meat is not afraid of Xiaomeng and Serena eating it, now they are so used to raw meat by Shi Jian's cooked food that they don't even bother to look at it.

The only fly in the ointment is the smell of pine smoke everywhere in the room, which is very choking.So I only smoked Shi Jian once and moved the workplace outside.Even if it is outdoors, it is only smoked again.Because the salt is gone.

Originally, Shi Jian found a bag of table salt in the small wooden house, thinking that saving a little would last a long time, after all, a person only needs ten grams of salt a day.Every time Shi Jian cooks, he puts as little salt as possible, and it is estimated that he will last for forty or fifty days.Unexpectedly, it was leather making and bacon jerky, and I used up the remaining half bag of salt. This time it was troublesome again.

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