Chapter 14 Harvesting eggs along the mountain road
In the minute or so after Wang Chengzhu left the army, he used an owl to drop vine roots, ramie leaves, eggs and other items under several trees along the mountain road, and simply made five bird's nests exposed by the bushes.
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After following up with the main force, I told the soldiers around me that I found a bird's nest on the ground and there were eggs in the bird's nest. The soldiers from the guard platoon heard this and said that when we come back from collecting firewood, we still take this road and the eggs are still there.
Take it back to the cafeteria.
After hearing this, Wang Chengzhu thought about it. It is not convenient to collect fragile items like bird eggs when going up the mountain to collect firewood. They will not be lost if they are left where they are, and it will not take half an afternoon to be picked up or pecked by other animals.
There are wide roads and narrow roads on the mountain road. For the sake of safety and efficiency, several sick and wounded patients holding walking sticks walked in front of the team, cutting grass and alerting snakes along the road, breaking the branches of shrubs that stretched out onto the mountain road. The butts of the guns were hung upward on the right shoulder.
The soldier from the guard platoon was holding the line at the back of the team, with several water bottles slung on his right shoulder and left shoulder.
Collecting firewood in the mountains is different from chopping firewood with a hatchet and hatchet. Just pick up some dead branches that have fallen on the ground, pull a few dead vines and bundle them up in your hands. When you encounter dead branches again, go to the middle of the bundled firewood sticks.
Just plug it in. If you encounter a whole diseased, dead or decayed tree, two people can saw it down by pulling on the straw rope, break off the twigs and carry them back. As for the tree trunks that have fallen in the forest, you need to hire someone with tools and experience.
The master took it up the mountain to deal with it, but seven or eight lightly wounded people couldn't carry it.
The soldier leading the team followed the scratch marks on the trees and led the team to the place they had been before, a forest clearing full of messes. This clearing was not far from the mountain road, and there were many beast footprints and animals on the ground.
A few black pebble-like pieces of mud. Soldiers with experience as hunters said that this was wild boar excrement. There were several fallen or crooked trees around with broken branches used as fuel. They might have been knocked down or knocked down by wild boars. p>
Wang Chengzhu heard from the Orion warrior that wild boars rub trees to rub the rosin on the trees. They can add fur together with the mud to resist bites of mosquitoes and other insects, and can also prevent cocklebur balls from hanging on the bushes when walking through the forest.
As for the arch tree, there is probably food nearby that attracts wild boars, such as shallow roots, tubers or mushrooms that the arch tree digs out and eats.
This place is thanks to the wild boars, and the pine trees that were knocked down were all pine trees. I picked more than ten kilograms of pine cones the day before, and sent them back to peel out more than three kilograms of pine nuts. Although it is not easy to shell these things, they were picked up for free.
Who can refuse food?
I have finished moving the pine cones that are easy to pick, so I pulled a lot of pine branches back this morning. Pine trees are very oily, so whether they are used to make torches, or filled into stoves to keep tinder or to help start fires, they are extremely low-cost raw materials.
So, I came here to pull pine branches in the afternoon. I broke off all the ones that could be easily broken, tied them up and carried them back to the village. The thicker branches were broken and carried back, and the hard-to-gather parts were left to the mountain people or the healthy and strong ones.
Just soldiers.
In this forest clearing that is five to six meters long and three to four meters wide, there are many shrubs that have been knocked apart and trampled. Wang Chengzhu did not join in the fun beside the fallen pine trees, but squatted on the pile of leaves and picked up a dozen little fingers.
The branch was as thick as an arm's length. He also tore a dry rattan from the tree next to him, wrapped it around seven or eight times, tied it with a fastener and carried it on his left hand.
The Orion soldier who was instructing his fellow soldiers to break off fallen pine branches saw Wang Chengzhu collecting shrubs. He casually said to comrades who were inconvenient to use force that they could collect the boxwood branches scattered on the ground and take them back as firewood sticks.
At that moment, two lightly wounded men put down the two-finger-thick pine branches in their hands, turned around and walked to the shrubs, picking up or breaking off the scattered branches of low shrubs. They saved a handful of dry branches and pulled off the canes.
Tie it up and hang it on the straw rope with the pine branches when you are ready to return.
I took two breaks while working and sat on two lying pine trees. The seats were covered with dry fallen leaves to prevent the pine resin on the tree trunks from sticking to my clothes and pants. The sticky pine oil and pine needles are extremely difficult to adhere to.
Cleaning. The aluminum water bottle carried by the guard platoon soldiers is constantly changing hands while resting. Each person takes a small sip and passes it to the next person.
Wang Chengzhu was among them. As a working young man born in the 1980s, he noticed a familiar feeling. It was team building and ice-breaking activities in the workplace. The same was physical labor and sharing meals, but the difference was playing games and collective labor.
Listening to the soldiers present speaking with Zhiyan accent, Wutai accent, Dabao accent and Mandarin, Wang Chengzhu missed the workplace where everyone spoke Mandarin.
Rest for a while, work for a while, time passes silently between the comparison of achievements and hard work. The sun moves from the south to the southwest. It is not easy to sense the weather in the woods, but it is not difficult for those who are willing. The guard platoon soldiers borrowed a piece of wood when they went out.
With a Citizen watch, you can lift up your cuffs to look at it and rush back to the hospital cafeteria before dinner. Another one is Wang Chengzhu, who is inconvenient to tell the time. With his eyes closed, he can see the date and time with more information than a Japanese watch.<
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The guard platoon soldier carrying a rifle on his right shoulder did not participate in the activities of the lightly wounded team collecting firewood. His duty was to be on the spot. Wild beasts, poisonous and harmful animals and plants, and traps set by mountain people were all things the guard platoon soldier needed to pay attention to.
, and remind others of the safety hazards to guard against.
Wang Chengzhu blinked and glanced at the time. It was 16:30, which was almost the time to return. From gathering in the mountain village to this forest clearing, he walked alone in a file for about twenty minutes. But that was the state of taking a nap after lunch.
, worked for about two hours, and walked back with the bag on his shoulders. He estimated that it would take half an hour. Thinking of this, he stopped picking up dry shrub branches, stood up, walked to the tree on the edge of the clearing, and pulled
Rattan with dead leaves, ready to bundle collected items together.
Carrying seven or eight canes, he walked towards the open space where he had piled small bundles of firewood. The dead leaves were picked up casually by Wang Chengzhu and became part of the dry leaf layer on the ground. Standing next to the pile of firewood, he chose the withered vines to be as long as his arms.
, one end is tied with a loop and placed under the feet, the other end is divided into three strands, and a rattan rope is braided like a braid.
Turning a handful of rattan into a rattan rope, Wang Chengzhu tied five bundles of small firewood into a tower shape and held it in his hand, about ankle-high from the ground.
Wang Chengzhu looked at the soldiers on the side. Under the urging and command of the soldiers from the guard platoon and two soldiers holding canes, the branches and firewood tied with rattan on the two piles of dry leaves were tied one by one.
On the straw rope. When setting off for the return journey, the lightly wounded people lined up in a single file holding a piece of straw rope in each hand, and followed the soldiers in front to walk along the mountain road toward the mountain village to the east.
There are two exceptions, one is a guard platoon soldier who maintains his strength and is responsible for safety, and the other is Wang Chengzhu, who is carrying a pile of firewood in his left hand. The guard platoon soldier carries an empty water bottle and a gun on his shoulders respectively, and Wang Chengzhu is carrying a pile of firewood on his left hand.
It was taller and heavier than the bundle of firewood strung with straw ropes, so I didn’t ask him to untie the ropes to share the load in order to save trouble.
After walking on the road for about a quarter of an hour, Wang Chengzhu pointed to the roadside tree where he had marked the roadside to the guard platoon soldiers. Five bird's nests with eggs were exposed beside the bushes under the five pine trees. The guard platoon soldiers stepped forward and asked each one one by one.
He picked up the bird's nests placed on the dried yellow pine needles. He carried three nests around his left arm, and Wang Chengzhu, who was beside him, put two nests on his right forearm. Together they followed the lightly wounded soldiers carrying straw ropes on strings down the mountain and into the village.<
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Note 1: Eggs are supplies for the 2nd anniversary event and can be purchased at the auction house.