Go through the wild and seek life

Chapter 27 Aunt and Uncle

He also learned how to make fire with a crystal pendant with Rudama.

The crystal pendant should be a very magical existence for Ye.When Rudama took it off from his neck and handed it to him, he seemed to feel his big palm tremble slightly, holding the crystal pendant in his palm with extreme care.He could not understand how this tiny, water-like thing could produce such a terrible fire.The first time I saw Rudama using it to make fire, Ye felt that this little thing was really dangerous. After getting used to it and discovering the benefits of fire, Ye felt that this little thing was too powerful and too precious.Even the eyes that see it every day have changed from fear to almost worship.

When it comes to worship, Ye thinks Rudama is amazing.She can control this little thing, and can think up and make so many novel but useful things.It's great to meet her and be saved by her. Well, she even has novel ways of saving people and treating injuries.

When Ye lit the fire with the method Rudama taught him, he couldn't believe it.He carefully returned the pendant to Rudama, and then stared at his big palms in a daze.There was surprise in the dark purple eyes. So, can he do it too?
Rudama was pleased by his silly look again, and burst out laughing with a "puchi".

Ye Xunsheng looked up at her, then at his hands, scratching his head at Rudama and giving a silly laugh.

After ten days, Rudama's foot injury still hasn't healed.The temperature is changing day by day, getting colder and colder.

Ye also became different from before, and the prey he caught were all fat and thick, which he didn't like to eat very much before.At the same time, he also started to eat a lot. Although he only ate one meal a day, the amount he could eat was twice as much as before, or even more.And he also looked at Rudama and told her to eat more too.

Rudama thinks Ye is accumulating fat, which is what we call "sticking autumn fat".It seemed that winter was coming soon, time was too tight, she couldn't wait any longer, so she limped and dragged Ye to catch the oil turtle.

Ye expressed his disapproval, but was ordered by Rudama, "You can have opinions, please keep them."

So Ye frowned and followed Rudama on the road with "reservations".

It went very well.Rudama and Ye caught three oil turtles, picked up a dozen oil turtle eggs, and went home.It's not that the oil turtle is hard to catch, nor is it that the oil turtle eggs are hard to find, it's the exact opposite.Arriving at the habitat of the oil turtle, without much effort, Rudama found more than a dozen earth pits where the eggs were buried, and each pit contained more than a dozen eggs.

And Ye easily smashed the heads of the three oil turtles, and there was a tendency to drive all the oil turtles in this area to extinction.Small-minded, this guy is not ordinary narrow-minded, just because an oil turtle bit his tail, he regarded the whole family of other oil turtles as enemies.

Rudama stopped him.If it wasn't for the fire for the winter, she wouldn't have gone to the oil turtle's house to "kill the turtle to get its eggs" anyway, just kill them all.Together with Ye, he dragged three big oil turtles and returned home with a dozen eggs on his back.

Put the oil turtle eggs together with the ones brought back last time into wooden barrels, and soak them in the cold stream water to prevent the small oil turtles from hatching accidentally one day, and also to prevent them from spoiling.

Then the three big oil turtles were processed, and the fat and oil were also stored in the big wooden barrel made at night, sealed tightly, and immersed in the stream water.Wash the turtle shells, pick the largest one as a brazier, and put it in the hole to burn firewood for warmth in winter.I chose two smaller ones, one the smallest, to be used as a pot for boiling hot water, and the other as a basin for washing and rinsing.Two more Rudamas came out and put them away for later use.

After another ten days, the leaves on the tree gradually withered and turned yellow and fell off.Every morning, Rudama could see the puff of her breath.

When the north wind blows into the canyon, winter comes.

Rudama's activity area was moved into the cave, and the wind outside was so strong that it was like cutting a face with a knife.She began to draw the character "正" on the wall of the cave with a blackened branch.She wants to record how many days there are in winter here.After all, I am going to become a resident of this world, and I want to know as much as possible about everything here, so let's start with the seasons.Knowing how many days there are in winter and how bad the weather is, you can be more fully prepared for the coming winter.She also needs to make a calendar, and she is used to the clear days of the year, month, day, and week in the original world. After coming here, the life she lives here is a bit muddled. Rudama doesn't even know how many people she has lived in this world. .

Rudama made a "wild calendar" on the cave wall. She set the day when she heard the north wind blowing into the canyon as "winter day [-]" and so on "winter day [-], [-] day..." She didn't know If you know how to divide the time by looking at the celestial stems and earthly branches, then use the simplest season to distinguish it.

At night, they still went out hunting every morning. After returning, they skinned and cut the prey under the cliff. Even the animal skins were cleaned before being taken to the platform outside the cave on the cliff.He also, as always, does not allow food to enter the hole.Rudama would wrap several layers of thick animal skins on her body, come to the platform, light a fire, and barbecue with Ye.After eating and returning to the cave, Rudama would teach Ye how to speak to pass the time.

It seems that the night does not know the cold. In the winter, standing in the whistling north wind, I only wear an animal skin apron, shirtless and barefoot.Seeing him dressed like this every day, Rudama couldn't help but want to shiver for him.So every night when he came back from hunting, Rudama would take out the fat animal skin robe made for him to help him put on, and then hold hot water for him to soak his hands and feet.

One is, Ye is the "pillar" of the family, and the two of them depend on him for food, don't they?

Furthermore, Rudama also felt sorry for him.This concern is mutual, Ye knows that she is afraid of the cold, such as fetching water, collecting firewood, cleaning...he undertakes almost all "outdoor work".So Rudama tried his best to help him.

It is still warm in the cave in winter.

Rudama made a thick curtain out of animal skins to block the hole tightly. In order to prevent it from being blown up by the wind, she also dropped many animal bones under the curtain.

The north wind is blocked out, and the light cannot shine in either.Fortunately, there is a tortoise shell brazier, which can not only keep warm but also illuminate.

This has advantages and disadvantages.The curtains are tightly closed to prevent the cold wind from entering, and there is a brazier. The cave is warm, but there is no ventilation.The firewood was burning with a "crackling" sound, and the cave was filled with smoke, as if in a fairyland, choking to death!
In order to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning, Rudama had no choice but to open a small square window at the top of the curtain.The air in the cave can flow out, and the cold wind from outside can also blow in.Fortunately, the warm air inside the cave is light and rises upwards, while the cold air coming in outside the cave is heavy and sinks downwards. In this way, the warm air will not feel too cold when it meets the cold air to neutralize it.

(End of this chapter)