Chapter 5 Hanging Foot Cover
The days passed easily for two or three days, and they still ate gruel cooked with wild vegetables. After getting up early in the morning, Zhong Mugen and his wife went to work in the fields until evening before returning home.
Zhong Wen and Xiao Hua could only stay at home. Apart from going out to pick some twigs or small fruits to satisfy their hunger, the rest of the time could only be spent collecting some firewood.
One day, after breakfast, Zhong Mugen and his wife went to the fields again, carrying farm tools.
"Xiaohua, I'm going to get the sickle."
Zhong Wen saw his parents working in the fields, so he couldn't be so idle.
"Brother, what are you doing with the sickle? Are we going to mow the grass?"
Xiaohua didn't understand why. Ever since her brother was hit on the head, she felt that there were many strange things about her brother.
"I don't know what to do. Just take the sickle and go to the forest to have a look."
Zhong Wen really didn't know what he wanted to do. He just thought that taking a so-called weapon could guarantee his own safety, although this excuse was a bit far-fetched.
Zhong Wen walked in front with a sickle in his hand, and Xiao Hua followed Zhong Wen towards the edge of the forest.
At this time, many villagers in the village began to work in the fields one after another, leaving behind their children at home. Although the children in the village were not very big, they all had their own world and their own fun.
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"Xiaohua, do you want to eat meat?"
When Zhong Wen took Xiao Hua to the edge of the mountain forest, a patch of thorns that could be used as rattan ropes appeared in front of him, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.
"Brother, of course I want to eat meat. I haven't eaten meat for a long time. If I want to eat meat, I have to wait until the cold weather comes."
After Xiaohua heard her brother's words, she recalled the taste of the meat she had eaten half a year ago and swallowed her saliva.
"Xiao Hua, do you see? I'm going to cut these canes and peel them in a while so that I can make some ropes. Then we will have meat to eat."
Zhong Wen pointed to some thorns in front of him, and began to imagine the kitchen at home, hung with bacon, and the parents at home, as well as the little flowers swallowing a lot of saliva. It was funny to think about it.
"Brother, can we get meat by cutting these canes and making ropes? Brother, is your head okay?"
Xiaohua listened to what Zhong Wen said. She was confused. Could it be possible to get meat by cutting some canes? That was impossible. It was not like her parents had never cut them. It seemed that her brother's head started to hurt again and he started to feel a little weird.
Startled.
"Xiao Hua, you stand aside and I'll cut some canes."
Zhong Wen finally understood the meaning of Xiao Hua's words, thinking that the little girl thought that she was going crazy again.
Zhong Wen held the sickle in his hand and cut the cane in front of him vigorously, but found that apart from his strength, the sickle couldn't stand up to him. Although he was only ten years old, his body was very thin except for the wound on his head.
In addition, the sickle in my hand is not only old but also extremely dull. It takes a lot of effort to cut a cane.
Zhong Wen had no choice but to work hard to harvest these canes. Even if the sickle was blunt and no matter how weak he was, he still had to cut off and peel the canes.
After a lot of effort, I cut off the twenty or so canes in front of me, held them aside, and sat on the weeds, breathing heavily.
"Brother, are you okay?"
Xiao Hua had been standing by and watching Zhong Wen harvesting the canes. Although she wanted to step forward to help, her little arms and legs couldn't help much.
"Brother, I'm fine. I'm just a little tired. Let me take a breath and rest for a while."
Zhong Wen looked at the rattans he had cut and began to think about how to make rattan ropes.
For Zhong Wen, if he really wanted to make the peeled skins of these rattans into ropes and then into slings, he obviously did not have enough experience.
Although Zhong Wen had watched a lot of documentaries in his previous life and knew how to make them, it would probably be a bit difficult to put them into practice.
After Zhong Wen rested, he began to pick up the cane and peel it off. Even Xiao Hua, who was standing aside, also imitated Zhong Wen's technique. The two brothers and sisters had done these things frequently.
"Brother, can you eat meat after you have these ropes? But why do I think you are possessed by a demon?"
Xiaohua held the rattan skin that Zhong Wen had peeled off, with a look on her face that she didn't believe that with the rope, she could get meat to eat. At least in her mind, she estimated that her brother was about to start a demon again.
"Xiaohua, don't worry, you will know after I finish the rope."
Although Zhong Wen doesn't know how high the success rate of trapping prey is in a sling, he thinks he can always hit one out of ten, or even one out of twenty is possible, it just takes some time.
It took half an hour to finish peeling off the skin of the cane and twisting it into a lot of ropes. Zhong Wen looked at the laid out ropes and felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart. Maybe these would become his own meat.
The source, or even the source of your own meat.
"Brother, what are these ropes used for?"
Xiaohua looked at the ropes placed on the ground and thought to herself that her brother would not find a tree with a crooked neck to hang himself on.
"I need to make some condoms first."
Zhong Wen began to pick up the rope on the ground, thinking about the method of lifting leg braces in his mind, and started working with his hands.
"Brother, brother, you can't hang yourself, you can't hang yourself, wuwuwu."
When Xiaohua heard that Zhong Wen was going to make a condom, she caught her idea and snatched the rope from Zhong Wen's hand. She hugged Zhong Wen with all her strength and cried loudly.
"You little girl, what are you thinking? I'm just making some slings. I haven't lived enough yet and I don't want to hang myself to death."
Zhong Wen was greatly annoyed by Xiao Hua's sudden change. Instead of saying good things, he insisted on saying that he would hang himself and go drink tea with the King of Hell. This is not what people say.
"Brother, aren't you going to hang yourself? Then why are you making a condom?"
After Xiaohua heard Zhong Wen say that he would not hang himself, she immediately let go of her hands holding Zhong Wen. Although she had let go, her little hands were still holding on to Zhong Wen's already tattered clothes.
"Brother, I just made a few sling traps. They are for trapping hares, not for my neck. You damn girl, what are you thinking in your head?"
Zhong Wen was really confused by this little girl. He just made a few leg slings, but he was suspected of being hung by his neck. What kind of thing was this?
"Brother, what is a sling trap? Can it really trap a hare?"
After hearing this, Xiaohua loosened her little hand holding Zhong Wen's clothes, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, sniffed, and looked at Zhong Wen curiously.
"Don't worry about how to lasso the hare. I have to make a lasso on these ropes first. You quickly wipe the tears from your face and wipe the snot from your nose."
Zhong Wen was busy with his own affairs and was really speechless for this little girl.
"Brother, can these condoms really catch hares?"
After Xiaohua wiped the tears and snot from her face, she stared at Zhong Wen, as if Zhong Wen would have to stare at Zhong Wen if he didn't trap a hare.
Zhong Wen stopped knitting the stilts with his hands and looked at the little flower in front of him with a longing face.
In his heart, he said he was sad, or he said he was not sad. Maybe it was these two memories that made Zhong Wen have two emotions, but at this time, he had an indescribable bitterness in his heart.
"Okay, don't look at me like this. Let me braid the ropes first." After Zhong Wen finished speaking, he started to braid the sling covers again.
Xiaohua stopped talking and stared directly at the movements of Zhong Wen's hands. Maybe these seemed strange to her, but at least she understood that her brother really didn't hang himself with a trap, but just to trap a hare.
That's all, I started imagining the scene of my brother lassoing a hare, swallowing saliva.
Two quarters of an hour later, Zhong Wen knitted the ropes into slings. He held a large bundle in his hand, not many, but not many, fifteen or six slings. The ropes were a little thin, but the slings were
Just a pheasant, hare or something, it shouldn't be a big problem.
"Xiaohua, let's go. I'll take you to the mountains and forests to set traps. Maybe there will be hares when we come to check this afternoon."
Zhong Wen stood up from the ground, took the sickle, and hugged the prepared sling.
"Brother, do you want to go to the mountains and forests? But my father and mother said, don't go to the mountains and forests to play, there are wild animals in them."
After listening to Zhong Wen's words, Xiaohua refused in her heart. It is not easy to go in the forest. If you really want to be eaten by a wild beast, you won't be able to find any bones.
"Xiaohua, it's okay, haven't we been there in the past few days? Large beasts will not come here."
Zhong Wen raised his feet and walked towards the mountain forest, talking in his mouth, Xiao Hua could only follow Zhong Wen, but her two little eyes began to look around, feeling scared.
"Brother, brother, don't go in there anymore."
Xiaohua tugged on Zhong Wen's clothes and looked around nervously, fearing that some wild beast would suddenly jump out.
"Xiaohua, please don't pull me. Where are we now? Do you still want to eat rabbit meat? Go over there for more."
Zhong Wen was frightened by the little girl behind his butt, so he couldn't beat her. With all his life experiences in his twenties and thirties, he couldn't do anything to a four-year-old baby, and even cursed her.
If so, I feel blushing.
"Brother, we really can't go in again."
After walking less than two hundred meters, Xiaohua started to pull on Zhong Wen's clothes again, with a worried look on her face, and the little girl's whole body was tense.
"Okay, let's set the trap around here."
Zhong Wen looked back at Xiao Hua, knowing that the little girl was worried about him, so he finally agreed. He picked up a sickle and chopped off a few small branches as thick as his fingers. He cut them into small sections for tying the slings and inserting them into the soil.
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"Brother, can this sling trap really trap a hare?"
Xiaohua looked at the condom that Zhong Wen had inserted into the soil, her eyes filled with disbelief. How could such a simple condom trap a hare? In her little mind, only a silly hare would do this.
"We don't know yet. We'll find out in a few hours when we take a look."
Zhong Wen didn't dare to answer this question. This was the first time he had done it, so he didn't know whether it would be effective or not, but he believed that as long as he was willing to do it, even one of fifteen or six tricks would be successful.
Two or three quarters of an hour later, Zhong Wen finished setting up the last sling and looked up at the mountain forest covered with stilts within a radius of 300 meters. He hoped to gain something and satisfy his appetite.
I even hope to have a hearty meal.
Zhong Wen was a carnivore in his previous life. If he didn't eat meat for a day, he would feel unhappy. Now that he's here, he naturally doesn't want to get rid of meat. Although porridge can also fill the stomach, people's desire for meat is anything.
Nothing can stop it.
"Xiao Hua, let's go out first. We can also pick some food on the way."
Zhong Wen looked around the forest. Along the way, he saw a lot of edible buds and leaves, and there were also a lot of small fruits. Although they were not yet mature, they were at least edible. Fill in the
Filling your stomach is no problem.
"Brother, please pick some small fruits for me to eat."
Xiaohua grabbed the corner of Zhong Wen's clothes and followed him, watching Zhong Wen picking some buds and stuffing them into his mouth. She also started to drink, looking at the small fruits not far away, swallowing her saliva from time to time.
Along the way out of the forest, the brother and sister would always reach out to pick buds, leaves, small fruits, etc., which filled their stomachs that were about to be digested.
Chapter completed!