Chapter 9 Worked
Grass marsh, as the name suggests, is a grassy swamp, while swamps, aquatic plants and many trees are difficult to survive.
Here, it is located at the easternmost point of Cao Zhuo. From here, you have to travel for a day to reach the forest on the edge of the lake.
Therefore, even if the primitive world is not short of trees, it is currently on the grass swamp, and only scattered hills can be seen. The trees on the hills are still very unseasonable, but the wood is very rare.
If firewood is not controlled, the trees on these small landblocks within the tribal territory will definitely not be maintained for long. If these trees that have finally taken root in the cold wind of the lake are gone, the small landblocks will probably disappear in the shortest time.
Although this place is just a wintering place for the tribe, and although she thought about choosing a suitable place to live when she migrated next year last night, Xia Weiwei, who was still in a modern thinking mode, subconsciously carried out an environmental protection mode.
At this moment, she didn't realize that she was thinking too much, and there was not even a member of the Aoki family who had first come into contact with the fire.
I saw Aoki raised his hand after pondering for a while and gently pressed Xia Wei's hair down: "Aoki Dad remembers it."
"Then I'll leave first." Xia Weiwei stood up naturally after trying her best to tilt her head and let go.
Aoki, who withdrew his hand because of the child's standing up, pulled his backhand and grabbed Xia Weiwei who wanted to turn around: "Don't go into the water."
"I know." They were not very easy to catch fish, and she had the confidence there.
Aoki was a little funny and a smile appeared on Xia Weiwei's face.
Looking at the child who returned to his cheerful appearance before his father died, Aoki couldn't say anything else.
He let go of his hand and just watched the child clean up the grass he vomited, and then turned away after watching her lay it on the back of his tent.
When the child disappeared, Qingmei, who had been frowning, asked, "Aoki?"
"Don't think too much, don't worry." He didn't say why his attitude changed so much. He just gave his woman a look of confidence.
Let a child survive by himself, she can feel at ease: "When I rest, I will collect more dead grass. Then, you father and son will be in the water for a while."
There is no fire, they have to stay in the water for a longer time every day, let alone the fire.
Nodded, Aoki urged: "Eat quickly, it's getting late."
When Aoki arranged for everyone to pick up dry branches and trees, collect reeds, velvet grass, and hay, Xia Weiwei explored the radius of 500 meters near the tent.
While discovering three types of mint, water polenta and beauty potassium have medicinal value, and several familiar vegetation that have not yet completely withered but not far from death, Xia Weiwei also determined the reserves of lotus roots and taro.
"I really don't know how these people have brains!"
Eat lotus seeds and lotus seeds, but not lotus root.
···I don’t know what expression I would look like when I saw her eating lotus root!
···I don’t know if the taro here can be eaten.
Muttering, Xia Weiwei slipped into a shallow canal without hesitation, and felt the sticky mud under the slightly cracked surface, and she felt unconsciously excited.
To be honest, if she hadn't dug lotus roots in the lotus pond when she was a child, she would probably not be able to control this mud.
This feeling is really indescribable.
Some beautiful scenes flashed in my heart compared to her, and my hands stretched into the mud without hesitation.
Xia Weiwei first moved the mud in front of her and then pulled it along the rhizomes under the mud. However, the lotus roots under the mud were astonishingly numerous. From digging to a piece of lotus root that was as long as her arm and three fingers, she successfully pulled it up by her, and it didn't take much time.
However, bending over and digging the mud was very hurtful, and it took even more time to pull out the whole lotus root. When she successfully pulled out this lotus root, she almost didn't get tired or sweaty.
"Hiss~" Digging lotus roots is really a physical job.
In his heart, Xia Weiwei tried her best to wipe off the mud covered by the lotus root, and then raised her hand to throw it at the edge of the canal.
He was whispering, digging one or two of them to rest for a while, hehe, she shouted the rhythm while exerting force.
Finally, two hours later, she felt that it was almost done.
After leaving the shallow canal, Xia Weiwei first threw all the lotus roots into a nearby pool to wash, then chewed two of them slowly after washing them, and then walked towards the tent with her arms in her arms.
At this time, there was no one in the tent, but she didn't stay for too long. She collected some reeds, velvet grass, and hay and turned to the nearest mountain bag after she was sunburned.
There are not many trees on the hills and they are not very weatherable, but these short trees that are basically shrubs are just as Xia Weiwei wants.
Not long after that, there were three bundles of fresh branches about one meter, five to two meters long and small finger-sized bundles in front of the tent.
For the firmness of the fish basket, Xia Weiwei collected soft velvet grass without fear of trouble. However, when the branches and strong velvet grass ropes were ready, Xia Weiwei was stumped by how to combine them.
I thought back and forth in my heart, and repeatedly assembled and disassembled my hands. When Xia Weiwei finally felt it was OK, it was more than three hours later.
"Huh~" It's really not easy!
After swaying her little arms for a while, she stood up and stretched her waist and pressed her legs. Then she began to continue again. With the first one, the second one and the third one were much easier to make.
In fact, the second one was completed more than just a little time, and it looked much better than the first one.
Of course, the third one is more perfect.
After admiring for a while, Xia Weiwei picked up a small branch and walked towards the edge of the pool.
After digging and scattering, she finally gave up the idea of using earthworms as bait.
Standing by the pond for a long time, Xia Weiwei turned around and entered the tent.
When she came out, she pinched five lotus roots in one hand and carried a heavy stone axe weighing seven or eight pounds in the other.
Xia Weiwei was silent in front of the tent, and then she put down the lotus root and stone axe to pick up the remaining small branches.
Break the branches side by side, tie them tightly together one by one, and then complete the production of a simple cutting board.
Carefully smash the lotus roots into moisten moist, Xia Weiwei divided them into ten small piles, and then covered them with hay and tied them up.
After putting three of them into the fish basket, she checked the fish basket again, and then carried them to the water with her belt.
At this time, except for the four burning fires on the shore of the waterside, there were only Ada, who had added dead grass back and forth, staring at Grandpa Hunzi, who was not far away.
Neither women nor men were seen around.
From a distance, Xia Weiwei glanced at them and staggered her eyes and walked west along the slope.
Regarding the issue of fishing, Xia Weiwei felt very speechless because her memory was too vivid, so she didn't want to see or know what was going on in the water at this moment and whether the harvest was good or not.
She was really afraid that there would be too many complaints she could blew out fishing baskets, traps, fishing nets and other fishing methods.
Chapter completed!