survival in the wilderness

Chapter 32

After all the work was done, Lin Yan's house had changed drastically, and he no longer had the original sense of emptiness.

In addition to the kang, there are some sundries piled up in the two rooms on the left and right.

The room in the middle is just like that for the time being, and it will be changed slowly in the future.

The kitchen is the most full, with clay pots and other things for cooking, and a pile of firewood.

In the yard, a circle was built with bricks, about twenty square meters, which was specially used to raise pikas.

This is the main source of food for the family. Before finding other food, Lin Yan never dared to ignore the breeding of pikas.

For the sake of safety, several houses built courtyard walls with bricks, leaving only one door opening, which was blocked by fences.

In this way, each house is a separate courtyard, surrounded by brick walls, which makes it feel much safer.

While several houses were busy repairing, other people in the tribe came to watch one after another, and went back to start repairing their own houses.

After the house was renovated, it was already June, and the domestic pika had already given birth to a litter, which became eight.

Half of the year has passed, and Huahong is busy preparing food again, preparing for the cold season.

Seeing that Auntie was busy, Lin Yan hurriedly said, "Auntie, when you go hunting, don't kill the pikas. Whether they are cubs or not, they will be caught and brought back alive. Pikas breed Hurry up, as long as we catch a few more live pikas, we will have many pikas in the cold season, so we don’t have to worry about food at all.”

In the past few months, Lao Lin went to the net to catch fish from time to time, and every time he harvested a lot, he would distribute some to Lin Yan's family. Bonus occasionally went hunting with him, and the prey and wild fruits he brought back were enough for the family to eat. .

In fact, Lin Yan discovered early on that food is not hard to come by.There are abundant supplies here, as long as you are not lazy, you will not starve to death.

In the past, it was too cold in the cold season, and people couldn't go out, so they were busy stockpiling food.

Now that the conditions have improved, pikas are bred, and wild fruits are picked to make dried fruits, which is enough to cope with the cold season.

She recruited Lao Hei, Mao Mu and Lin Yun to study and build a good kiln together.She has the blueprint of the kiln, as long as it is built according to the blueprint.

This firing kiln is well sealed, the temperature is controllable, and the heating is uniform, so the fired pottery will be better.

As long as you find the material for the enamel, you can prepare to fire the porcelain.

In the future, if you find glass materials, you can also make glass by hand.

Although materials are currently in short supply, kilns are also very useful.

The eyes of Lao Hei and the others were bright, looking forward to the future described by Lin Yan.

With the bricks and drawings, it is not a big problem to build a kiln.Lin Yan gave the things to Lao Hei and asked the three of them to work together to build the kiln.

The location of the kiln was chosen at the place where the clay was first discovered, so that it is convenient to obtain materials locally.

Huahong went out for three days and brought back five live pikas, all of them fat and fat, and one of them was about to give birth.

Lin Yan felt that it was almost done, so she pestered Huahong to open up wasteland to plant hemp. She also collected some wild fruit seeds, including red apples and green lemons, and planned to plant them together.

Huahong didn't understand why she had to work so hard to open up wasteland for planting. It's better to scatter the seeds and let them grow.

"Aniang, get rid of the weeds so that the things you plant will grow better and it will be easier to manage. Let's just open up a small piece of land in the pika field first. You won't regret it when you see the benefits of planting."

Hua Hong was dubious, "Really?"

Lin Yan nodded affirmatively, "Take me with you. Let's find a good place first, remove the vegetation on it, turn over the soil again, plant seeds, and wait for the harvest."

"It's easy to say, but it's too much work to do. It's not easy to get rid of those plants." Disgusted, Hua Hong took tools and Lin Yan to the pika field.

"Aniang, when you open up wasteland and grow food, you don't have to hunt hard. If you work hard now, you will enjoy the blessing later."

"How can this kind of good thing be true? My ancestors have been hunting for a living for generations. You suddenly said that you can get food by farming. You really are not lying to my mother?"

"Really not. After a few months, Auntie will know."

The pika was originally on the west side of the house, and it took about ten minutes to walk there.

Lin Yan asked Huahong to hold her and chose a flat wasteland.There are no big trees and relatively few bushes, which reduces the difficulty of land reclamation.

A piece of land was circled, about 50 meters long and 30 meters wide, and the two began to work.

Huahong went to clean up the bushes, and Lin Yan pulled the weeds. The grass here is what the pika loves to eat, and it is not wasted.

She tried her best to feed her milk, her little hands kept tossing and turning, and she was so tired that she was sweating profusely.

I kept muttering in my heart, it was really hard.Since ancient times, life facing the loess and back to the sky has been difficult, and she didn't know what it was like until she experienced it herself.

Almost an hour later, Huahong finally cleared out a bunch of miscellaneous trees, and led Lin Yan to the next bush.

Lin Yan looked at the similar-looking miscellaneous trees, which were nearly two meters high, and saw that Aunt was about to do it, so he hurriedly shouted: "Aniang, don't do it, this is a good thing, you have to keep it."

"What?" Hua Hong stopped and looked at this small piece of miscellaneous forest, something she had never seen before.

After Lin Yan's popularization, she knew most of the vegetation around the tribe.

Lin Yan was a little excited. When he first enclosed the land, he only thought that this piece of land was easy to clean up, but he didn't expect such a surprise inside.

"Aniang, this is a chestnut tree. Have you seen the fluffy fruit on it? It's a fruit. Pick it off and eat it to fill your stomach."

Lin Yan pointed to a furry chestnut with his little finger, the size of a baby's fist, and a tree had grown quite a lot.

Huahong saw that it was really a fruit. She reached out to pick it off. The green fringe made it inedible no matter how you looked at it. "Is this really edible?"

"It can be eaten." Seeing that Huahong hesitated to stuff it into his mouth, Lin Yan hurriedly said, "This is not how to eat it. You have to peel off the green fur on the outside, then crack the hard shell inside, and eat the innermost pulp."

Under Lin Yan's command, Huahong finally cracked open a chestnut. The white and tender flesh made it taste delicious and creamy, very different from the wild fruit.

Huahong's eyes lit up, "It's delicious."

The mother and daughter picked another five or six chestnuts and ate them. Their eyes sparkled when they saw this patch of chestnut trees.

Huahong said: "These are all chestnut trees, so let's keep them. I'll clear out the miscellaneous trees beside them."

"Yeah, aunt, this piece must be kept. After a while, the chestnuts will be ripe. Let's pick them back and roast them with fire to make them more delicious. These chestnuts can be stored for a long time. I can eat it."

After cleaning for a whole morning, the two of them managed to clear out an area of ​​less than [-] square meters, and the piece of chestnut tree was not cleared.

Taking Lin Yanba's two baskets of grass with him, he went home to eat and rested, full of energy.

After seeing Mao Lizi, she felt that what Lin Yan said was right, as long as the wasteland was reclaimed, planted with other edible things, and taken care of frequently, there would be no need to worry about running out of food.

Lin Yan was too tired to move.

It is too difficult to open up wasteland. Without tools, I don't know when the land will be opened by relying on manpower.

(End of this chapter)