Chapter 54: The Fire and the River Wilderness
There are small wooden cabins for tourists to stay in the forest for short periods of time. However, the equipment is too primitive. You need to chop wood to make a fire yourself. The water is groundwater from a pressure well outside the house, which is very sweet and delicious.
The huts are separated by trees and remain relatively independent. They walked to the management station on the outskirts of the forest and rented a hut furthest into the forest on the map.
The administrator drove an off-road vehicle to take them to the location, pointed out the location of the tool room and storage room, and then drove away again.
The cabin is located in the woods, but it is not inaccessible.
Not far away, there is a small river flowing among the rocks.
When they came here, they miscalculated two things.
In the first two days, Brother Ao and the five of them found animal traps, bows and arrows in the tool room, and wanted to try hunting.
They spent a long time in the forest and walked a long way, but they didn't see any decent beast. Except for a flower rabbit that died when it saw them, the only birds they could see in the forest were various birds.
The second miscalculation was the nearby creek.
Sleeping in the cabin, I heard "buzzing...buzzing...buzzing..." all night long.
You can only hear a little bit during the day, but it's quite emotional. When it's quiet at night, the river becomes particularly noisy, as if there are rough waves rolling over the rocks. It's endless and shakes the soul.
When we woke up in the morning, everyone was in bad spirits, except for the heartless Lan Ze.
After discovering that there was no prey to be found in the woods, they learned their lesson.
The river is quite close. You can still fish if you don't want to hunt.
The fishing equipment stored in the tool room next to the hut includes fishing rods and fishing nets.
The river didn't look big, but a group of people splashed around for a long time, but they harvested quite a lot of fish.
Lan Ze didn't play with them. His goal was very clear, which was to live happily with Yun Ya.
In the first two days, he and Yunya had been studying chopping firewood and making fire.
After going through the challenging practice of burning wood in an earthen stove to cook, Lan Ze discovered that among all the people, Yun Ya was the one who cooked the best.
Even though she can do something as challenging as baking bread in a furnace, she can actually knead the dough and complete every step from rising to baking the dough without any difficulty. She is truly gifted.
So she acted as everyone's cook without hesitation.
Lan Ze, give her some help. Press water, chop wood, chop wood and light fires, and do some physical chores.
It's a pity that bread doesn't taste good no matter how you bake it. So Lan Ze is still looking forward to the group of people who went out to bring back the prey.
Without prey, everyone can only eat the food stored in the hut.
The cabin has no electricity or refrigerator, and the only electrical appliance is the monitor used to call the management station. The antenna and solar tiles connected to the monitor are all mounted on the roof, and they look very primitive.
The food reserves in the hut, except flour, noodles and other easy-to-preserve raw materials, are all convenience foods in vacuum soft packaging. Put them in a boiling water pot and cook them to heat them up. If you don’t have boiling water, you can have cold water. You can also use chemical heating bags to heat them up.
.There are both meat and vegetables, and the nutrition is pretty good, but it’s not very tasty.
After catching the fish, the seven people naturally ate the fish. Although most of the creatures in the wild may have parasites, for the sake of eating, forget about such disgusting things.
They lit a fire in the hut and roasted salted fish under the stove. In a large pot above the stove, they cooked fish soup with soft-packed vegetables.
There is more than one kind of fish caught in the river. The water is clear and has not been polluted for hundreds of years. Each fish is delicious and has a slightly different taste. The different tastes bring everyone a pleasant enjoyment, but at the same time have a consequence: everyone
I feel like I haven’t eaten enough.
So, smoothly, everyone unanimously decided that the five-person group would continue fishing the next day.
The next morning, before the fishermen set out, a large group of people came to the hut.
Lan Ze was confused. Most of his friends were as confused as him.
I don’t know who summoned the friends. Men and women gathered in groups and went fishing as soon as they arrived.
Okay. Let’s go fishing.
The first few people who arrived first went to other nearby huts to borrow fishing gear. When they found an unoccupied hut, they called the administrator and asked the administrator to open the tool room.
After gathering together a pile of fishing gear, a large group of people walked toward the river in a mighty manner.
It rained a little in the afternoon. A group of people by the river called it a day and went back to their houses to light a fire and grill fish.
There were really too many people in the room.
Lan Ze took Yun Ya out with him and found a quiet place where the two of them could do some private things.
For example, playing Idiom Solitaire?
Light rain was floating in the air, and the raincoats couldn't block the fine water droplets, so the two of them stopped wearing them. The weather was still a bit cool, and the fresh water vapor smelled very pleasant.
Suddenly Yun Ya said: "There is smoke over there."
Lan Ze looked up and saw that the house was smoking from the inside out. "What are you burning? Make such a big smoke?"
"I'll go take a look." Lan Ze left Yun Ya where she was and ran over.
As I got closer, I noticed that the smoke coming from the house was strange.
The chimney is smoking. There is still some smoke that does not come from the chimney or the window.
On a rainy day, the windows were closed. And the windows were far away from the smoke. The smoke came out from the cracks in the wooden wall.
Lan Ze pushed the door but did not open it. He patted the door several times and called for someone to open the door, but no one opened the door.
Smoke was also leaking out from the cracks in the wood that made up the door.
After taking a look at the smoke coming out, Lan Ze left the door. He found the ax for chopping firewood and returned to the door. He breathed out a breath and did not dare to hack the door directly for fear of someone behind the door. He took the ax and pointed it hard at the door frame.
After a few blows, the door frame was broken into pieces, and I broke it off with my hands. Then I chopped a few times at the logs on the door to make a gap, dug my hands in, and then pulled the door out with all my strength.
Sure enough, the door couldn't be pushed open because there was someone behind the door.
There's more than one.
Lan Ze pulled the wooden door out of shape and finally opened it.
The two people leaning against the door slowly slipped to the ground. Their faces were flushed, and they both looked pretty.
Lan Ze dragged one out and continued to use an ax to hack at the door. The door finally opened. The other man was lying inside the door, and Lan Ze dragged him out too.
Yunya saw something happened and ran over.
"Do you know first aid?" Lanze asked her.
Yun Ya shook her head.
"Then sprinkle some water first."
Looking around the room, one could see people lying on the ground under the thick smoke.
I don't know how long they have been unconscious.
Opening the door seemed to bring about bad changes.
It was not possible to see where the fire started, but the fire suddenly grew larger and the smoke became thicker.
All Lan Ze could do was to hold his breath and go in, dragging people one by one, dragging them to the open space first.
Yun Ya carried a big bucket and was busy sprinkling water on everyone's face.
Chapter completed!