Courtyard: Complain first at the beginning

Chapter 81 Cave
After Zhao Xiaotang got off the car, he walked towards the outside of the city. This place was not far from the outside of the city. There were already people walking around.

There were people carrying children on their backs, people carrying burdens, and there were also people driving horse-drawn carriages, ox-carts, donkey-carts, and mule-carts. There were quite a variety of types along the way, but I didn’t see anyone riding a bicycle.

Maybe it was because I went to the suburbs that I didn't meet any cyclists, but I did see a few trucks passing by.
How about the fact that people are wearing the same clothes nowadays? There are no other colors except blue, gray, white, and black. You will only see children wearing brighter clothes unless you go to Yuhong class or elementary school, which is impossible in this suburb.

Now my body has been well maintained, and after taking strength-increasing pills for so long, my strength is now comparable to that of the world champion in Strongman.

Walking this way is not breathtaking at all. The weather is already in the twelfth lunar month. Except for the pine forests and cypress trees in the mountains and plains, everything else has withered and turned yellow. They are either dead or waiting for the next spring to be reborn again.

There is still some unfinished snow left in some mountain cols or on the top of the mountain.

Don't expect to be lucky enough to meet a wild rabbit in this weather. After all, the color of the wild rabbit's fur in this season is the same as the environment. Unless it may detect the trajectory of the other rabbit when it is moving, it must stay motionless. Then no one can do anything about it.

Zhao Xiaotang changed his shoes halfway up the mountain. The mountain road was too slippery, so he stepped on a pair of nail shoes. They were real wooden clogs with nails nailed on them.

Walking on the slippery mud road is much easier than before. It's my fault that I didn't take these situations into consideration.
But now that I've come, I can't go back home halfway. Fortunately, I'm well prepared and won't be too embarrassed to climb a mountain.

Walking along the path up the mountain, we passed a village before. There were only six or seven houses scattered in the village. They were quite far apart. I don’t know if they ran so far to avoid the war and hid in the woods. If it weren't for the green smoke rising from it, I wouldn't know anyone living there.
"Fu Bao! Can Fu Bao come out for a moment?"

After walking for more than an hour, Zhao Xiaotang drank some warm water that he brought and started to slap people in a series.

"What are you doing~!?"

Fu Bao yawned loudly when he appeared, and asked sleepily,

"Fu Bao, I'm in the mountains now. I want to find a place with no one, preferably dozens of miles around. Can you help me check it out?"

"What are you doing here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he yawned loudly again, but he also looked around.

"I made some bacon and sausages and wanted to smoke them, but you also knew that too much would cause trouble, so I came to the mountain. But I was afraid that there were people living on the mountain, so I asked you to find me. Come out and ask.”

Zhao Xiaotang explained the reason again and looked at the other party with a hopeful look on his face, "Ah~ ha, you really don't mind the trouble, just for a little bit of food, right?"

Fu Bao yawned and said speechlessly, but he still flew to the farthest place from Zhao Xiaotang to sense the surrounding situation for her.

After flying around for a while, he came back, pointed in the direction and said:
"You can walk less than an hour from here and there is a cave halfway up the mountain. You can smoke meat there and no one will know about it for miles around. I will just shield the place a little."

"okay, thank you."

"You're welcome. Pay attention to your own safety. There is a wild boar den three miles away from here, so be careful."

Another big yawn, this time even tears came out. After saying that, the person disappeared.

After Zhao Xiaotang determined the direction, he used a woodcutter to chop the cypress branches he encountered on the road while walking in that direction, and then put the branches into the space.
Fortunately, he came across a few camphor trees, and Zhao Xiaotang was overjoyed and cut off a lot of branches. These two things are a perfect match for bacon, and the smoked bacon sausage is almost unnecessary!

By the time he found the cave, Zhao Xiaotang didn't even know how many branches he had picked up.
The cave is quite big. It seems to be as high as a three-story building. It is a wide opening and is not very deep inside. It is not as big as half a basketball court overall.
There are rocks of different shapes and sizes everywhere inside, and there is some water accumulation in some places. It should be formed when the snow melts but has not dried yet.
I found a better place and put out all the bacon and sausages, including the racks for hanging sausages and bacon. I placed them at the wind outlet to let the mountain wind blow hard. I have to say that the wind here is really strong.

After placing the meat, all the cypress and camphor tree branches that were cut down along the way were put out in the space.
Then the stones in this area were collected into the space and placed on top of another pile of stones. Using this method, a place was quickly cleared.
After cleaning up, I discovered that the bottom of these rocks was quite flat.

I cut down some tree poles with thick arms and relatively straight sides, and built them up with ropes to make horizontal rails.
After doing all this, Zhao Xiaotang took out a piece of clothing and put it on. He didn't feel like he was exercising all the time just now. Now it's okay. Sitting here, he suddenly felt a little cold.
I looked at the meat and sausages, they were still very moist and couldn't be smoked at all.
At this time, the sun has also risen. Fortunately, although this is halfway up the mountain, the sun can still shine. The key point is that the mountain wind here is very strong.
Zhao Xiaotang couldn't have these things and couldn't leave alone, so he simply took out the book and read it. After all, the winter vacation was not long, and school would start not long after the new year, and he wanted to skip a grade, so he didn't work hard! How can you get what you want.

It's cold, what are you afraid of? There are so many dead branches on this mountain that can be used to warm the fire.

Not far from the cave, there was a tree that fell to the ground and had been dead for who knows how long.
Zhao Xiaotang ran over with a woodcutter and waved it up and down a few times, then cut off a lot of tree branches, put them all into the space and took them to the cave.

He adjusted his direction and placed a large stone next to him that was taller than him. Then he put out the branches and quickly lit a fire for himself.

You can see the meat from this direction, but you won’t be exposed to the wind, and it won’t blow out the fire you lit. It is simply the most ideal place.
I checked the time and it's almost ten o'clock now. Two or three hours of blowing here should be enough. Then I can call it a day and go home after another five or six hours of fumigation.

Zhao Xiaotang made a plan in his mind, then took out the book and started reading.
Time passed by, and occasionally a crackling sound came from the burning fire, or a bird chirped not far away.

Zhao Xiaotang occasionally threw a branch or dry trunk into the fire. After a while, he turned to the next page and continued reading the book.
(End of this chapter)