Mountain Wild Clouds

Chapter 8 Rafting on a Bamboo Raft
Dinner was the four pig's trotters. He tore off the scorched skin on the outside of the trotters and threw them away. In fact, there was not much meat left in the trotters.

In the end, he ate another catty of pork head meat in the rattan basket.

He found that his appetite has increased a lot, maybe it's because he has consumed too much!
He threw the remaining hoof bones into the bonfire, so as not to attract any wild animals.

After dinner, he broke off an Osmanthus stalk, held it in his mouth and picked his teeth silently.

Listening to the crackling of the nearby bonfire and the occasional roar of the beasts in the distance, I wondered in my heart how to make a bamboo raft tomorrow.
Then I wondered, could there be some water monster hidden in the river?

Thinking about it, I didn't know when I fell asleep in a daze.

When he got up the next day, he ran to the river to relieve his hands, then washed his face, and stuffed Osmanthus leaves into his mouth as a toothbrush.

He didn't immediately make bamboo rafts, but looked for bamboo shoots.

In the bamboo forest, there are indeed quite a few bamboo shoots with black lacquer skins that protrude from the soil, but if these bamboo shoots are eaten raw, they will definitely not taste good, and the tongue will feel numb.

Only those yellow-skinned bamboo shoots that have not exposed the soil, or only have a little point, will be sweet.

He didn't pay attention to the bamboo shoots that had broken out of the ground, but looked for the small bumps and small cracks, kicked them with his feet, and found one in a short time.

He scraped away the dirt with the boar's tusks, and dug down along the tops of the bamboo shoots.

It didn't take long to dig out the root of the bamboo shoot. The sharp wild boar's fangs scratched the root of the bamboo shoot lightly, and broke the bamboo shoot off.

Then peel off the bamboo shoot shell layer by layer to reveal the white bamboo shoot meat inside.

He hadn't eaten breakfast yet, so he lowered his head and gnawed on those white bamboo shoots.

Sweet, crisp and delicious, absolutely green and pollution-free, he thinks the taste is not bad.

After nibbling half a bamboo shoot, he continued to search.

After searching for more than two hours and digging more than [-] bamboo shoots, he began to chop bamboo with wild boar tusks.Some bamboos have water in them, but most are hollow.

He needs to tap on the bamboo to hear which ones are hollow.

He randomly found a bamboo that was as big as a bowl, and he scraped it slowly with the sharpness of the wild boar's tusks.As the tusks of the wild boar scratched, strings of bamboo shavings emerged and were collected by it.

These bamboo shavings are not only a combustion aid, but also can be used to add softness under the body.

The sharpness of the wild boar's tusks was once again beyond Yun Buliu's imagination. It didn't take long for him to cut off a piece of bamboo.

He followed suit, and by the evening, he had blown down more than thirty bamboos.

He rested in the bamboo forest for another night. On the seventh day, he got up early and started to make bamboo rafts.

He didn't know if the buoyancy of these bamboos was enough, so he planned to tie a double-layered bamboo raft.

Having watched wild survival programs, he still knows how to build a bamboo raft.

He first cut all these bamboos into a shape of about ten meters with the tusks of a wild boar, then gathered fifteen of them together, put a thin bamboo on top, and then used straw vines to tie these bamboos and the thin bamboo together. Wrap them tightly.

In order to increase the safety factor, he got two extra thin bamboos and tied them in a few more places.

Then, he dragged the bamboo raft into the water to test its buoyancy.

He found that his strength had really increased a lot.

He didn't know if it was a gift from time travel, or if it was electrified by that weird little beast.

In the past two days, that weird little beast didn't shock him, but just looked at him from a distance, and he felt that his whole body seemed to be a little weak.

But this kind of idea is too cheap, he didn't test it.

But this piece of bamboo raft, which weighs at least two to three hundred catties, doesn't seem so heavy in his hands.

After testing the buoyancy, he dragged the bamboo raft back to the shore and started to make the second bamboo raft.In the end, he stacked the two bamboo rafts together and tied them together.

However, this is already an afternoon.

He didn't rush into the water, but went to find resin and made a few torches.

On the morning of the eighth day, he gnawed a bamboo shoot, and strung the remaining [-] bamboo shoots into several strings with grass vines, and tied them to the bamboo raft one by one.

Then the bamboo handles filled with resin were tied vertically to the bamboo raft.

Then he jumped onto the bamboo raft with a long pole in his hand, tied the rattan basket to the bamboo raft, and finally looked back at the strange little beast squatting on the bushes by the bank, and waved to it. "Little guy, goodbye, I'm going to find the civilized world. These days, thank you for your company."

After he finished speaking, he squatted down and untied the grass and vines on the raft, and the bamboo raft lost its restraint, and slowly drifted downstream along the river.

Standing on the bamboo raft, with no experience in punting, he swayed involuntarily, and finally had to sit down and put the four- to five-meter-long pole across his knees.

The long pole swings left and right to adjust the direction of the bamboo raft.

On the shore, the weird little beast looked at the bamboo raft where Yun Buliu left, a little dazed.

After a long time, it started running on the bushes, and its figure was so fast that there was almost only a black shadow left.

call……

It jumped up and threw itself on the bamboo raft in the river.

From a distance of seven or eight meters, it jumped to it.

When it landed lightly on the bamboo raft, it just made the raft shake.

It seemed to Yun Buliu that the bamboo raft shook while sailing in the water, and he didn't even look back.

The weird little beast squatted at the stern of the raft, looking towards the bottom of the river on both sides.

From time to time, a black shadow flitted across the bottom of the river, making it extremely vigilant, and started babbling.

Hearing this voice, Yun Buliu suddenly turned his head.

When he saw this strange little beast standing on the bamboo raft behind him, he couldn't help being stunned.

Then he laughed, his eyes couldn't help being a little moist.

In this lonely world, it feels good to have a companion!
He really wanted to hug this weird little beast, but thought that it would discharge electricity, so he had to give up this tempting idea.

If it was electrified by it here, and then fell into the river, wouldn't it be dead?
He put down the long pole, took out a piece of pig's head from the rattan basket, and placed it carefully in front of the little beast.

The little beast glanced at him, blinked its round eyes, stretched out its sharp claws, stabbed at the piece of meat, lifted the piece of meat, stuffed it into its mouth, and began to chew slowly.

Just like that, Yun Buliu joyfully took this weird little beast, paddled a bamboo raft, humming happily, and walked across the big river among the vast mountains.

Although the sound of birds chirping on both sides of the strait was endless, he always felt as if there were peeping eyes in the dark. He suspected some ferocious monster.

It seems that the bamboo raft has not stopped, and it is rushing away with the flow of the river.

In one day, the straight-line distance of the bamboo raft was more than forty or fifty miles. If the distance of the winding river is counted, it is estimated to be seventy or eighty miles.

The efficiency is many times faster than his walking on foot.

Fortunately, there was no turbulence in the big river, which made him feel relieved.

In the evening, he rowed the bamboo raft to the shore, tied the bamboo raft to a tree on the bank with straw vines, lit a torch on the bamboo raft, and peeled two bamboo shoots for dinner.

He handed the peeled bamboo shoots to the little beast, and the little beast avoided it with some disgust, and then jumped into the bushes on the shore.

……

It's the ninth day in this world.

Not knowing whether it was the lack of appetite caused by the lack of salt, or because he had been eating bamboo shoots for the past two days, Yun Buliu felt that there was a problem with his appetite, and he wanted to vomit when he saw the bamboo shoots.

Maybe it's both!
Although he had no appetite, he still forced himself to gnaw down a bamboo shoot.

Although the salt shortage has just begun to appear, he is worried that if he cannot replenish enough salt for a long time, even if he does not starve to death, he will probably get sick, and then he may die of illness.

He didn't know much about medicine, so he was naturally worried about getting sick.

He desperately wants to find the shadow of human beings and return to civilization.

With many hidden worries, he embarked on the journey of searching for civilization again.

The little beast came back again, and jumped onto the bamboo raft without his orders.

"Little guy, since you follow me, why don't I give you a name! You are so fluffy, like two balls of black wool, I will call you fur ball from now on!"

The little beast that Yun Buliu forcibly named Mao Qiu stared at him blankly without any reaction.

On this day, the bamboo raft was walking on the big river, and suddenly, the fur all over the fur ball exploded.

Yun Buliu looked around, and then followed Mao Qiu's gaze to the bottom of the river.

Seeing this, he also felt his scalp tingle.I saw a huge shadow at the bottom of the river. The shadow twisted slowly, and finally fled towards the stern of the raft and disappeared without a trace.

He suspected that it was a big snake.

But if it was really a big snake, it would be really scary.

He roughly estimated that it was at least three to forty meters long.The blue python I saw in the forest a few days ago, in front of this shadow, is the little witch in front of the big witch.

I don't know if it's because I'm really lucky, or because there is a furball by my side, this water monster, which is probably a big snake, didn't jump out to trouble him.

"Blessed by the Bodhisattvas of the heavens and Taoists, please bless me to find human civilization safely!"

He crossed his hands and bowed all around with a pious look.

Fuqiu tilted his head and looked at him curiously.

In this way, it really allowed him to spend a long time without any danger, and ushered in the sunset.

After floating in the big river for two days, he had already eaten up the pork head meat, but there were still a lot of bamboo shoots left.

On the tenth day, Yun Buliu set out on the bamboo raft again.

Until noon, nothing strange happened to them, if they didn't pay attention to the peeping eyes from the dark place on the shore.

And just as they were about to approach a bamboo forest, the soft fur on the fur ball exploded again.

I saw it jumping directly from the bamboo raft, skimming the river surface of seven or eight meters, jumping onto the bank, rushing towards the upstream direction, and disappeared in an instant.

Yun Buliu looked bewildered, but soon became apprehensive. He quickly paddled the bamboo raft to the shore, pulled the bamboo raft to the shore, and looked around cautiously.

At the same time, I kept cursing in my heart: You little furball, you are so disrespectful!Fly separately when the disaster is imminent, it is you who are talking about!

He carried a stick, carried the rattan basket on his back, put the remaining three torches into the rattan basket, checked his belongings, the lighter, the cigarette, the last cigarette was left.

Then he walked cautiously towards the bamboo forest.

When he walked for a mile or two, came to the end of the bamboo forest over there, and looked in front of the big river, he never expected that there would be such a beautiful scene in this deep mountain and old forest.

The bamboo forest is 60 to [-] meters long along the river. At the end of this bamboo forest, the big river suddenly plunges into a large lake, and the field of vision suddenly becomes wider.

At the same time, he also understood that Fuqiu saved him again.

(End of this chapter)