After Zhu Ping'an's demonstration, Li Shu and the maid Baozi also picked a red azalea flower, removed the stamens like Zhu Ping'an, blew on it, hesitated for a moment, and put the flower into their mouths.
Rhododendron doesn't have much fragrance, but when you put it in your mouth, a faint sweet and sour taste surrounds your taste buds.
It’s really edible.
After the little maid Baozi finished chewing a flower, her eyes lit up. Then she couldn't wait to pick another azalea flower and put it into her mouth in the same way.
Li Shu stopped eating. She looked at the clusters of azaleas blooming on the slope, squinted her eyes slightly, and said sincerely, "These flowers are so beautiful."
Azalea, so this is azalea.
Zhuangzi dreamed of butterflies in the morning, and King Wang placed his love on the cuckoo. Li Shu couldn't remember whose handwriting she had read, but she only remembered that it said that the motto of the azalea was that when you see the azaleas blooming all over the mountain, it means the god of love has come.
Now the hillside is covered with rhododendrons. Has the god of love arrived
Thinking of this, Li Shu silently turned her gaze to Zhu Ping'an, and then found that a certain piece of wood was not at all romantic and was picking flowers with his butt sticking out like a pig entering a vegetable garden... Zhu Ping'an picked about thirty flowers and put them in his clothes pocket.
wood!
Li Shu rolled her eyes in her heart and complained.
Zhu Pingan picked the flowers and wrapped them in clothes, then led Li Shu and Baozi, the little maid, to the island. The azalea flowers they picked were for food reserves. With food in hand, they would not be worried. After all, these azalea flowers were edible, so something was better than nothing.
"Master, where are we going?" The chubby little maid asked with her chubby face raised as she followed Zhu Ping'an to the island.
"Let's find food and a place to stay." Zhu Ping'an replied calmly. The first two things to be solved when arriving on such an isolated island are food and shelter. Neither is dispensable.
"I just looked for it, but couldn't find anything to eat." Baozi, the little maid, said again.
Zhu Pingan shook the azalea wrapped in his clothes and smiled without saying anything. The meaning was self-evident. Baozi, the little maid, blushed when she saw this. She had just said that she had not found anything to eat, but her son-in-law still found edible azaleas, which showed that it was not that there was nothing to eat. It was that she lacked the eyes to find something to eat, so Baozi, the little maid, blushed shyly.
"Nature is very generous. This island is lush and green, and it must be home to many food gifts from nature. It's normal that you don't understand since you have been living at home for a long time. When I was a child, I often went up the mountain with my father and brothers, so I am more familiar with the mountains and forests." Zhu Ping'an comforted him.
After walking up the slope, Zhu Ping'an stopped for a while, looked around, then chose a direction and led Li Shu and the little maid Baozi to continue walking forward.
Zhu Ping'an's ability to survive in the wild is much better than Li Shu and Baozi's maid. He had watched Bear Grylls' wilderness survival show in the modern era and had accumulated a lot of other knowledge. Now that he has come to Daming, he has accumulated a lot of experience following his father and elder brother up the mountain, and his hands-on ability has also improved a lot. So facing this isolated island, Zhu Ping'an is also somewhat confident.
Just now, Zhu Ping'an stood on the slope and took a rough look, and found that the forest in one direction of this island was denser and taller than other places.
Generally speaking, river valleys have well-developed streams and mountainous areas have dense vegetation. Therefore, Zhu Ping'an guessed that there might be streams in that dense and tall mountain forest.
Fresh water is indispensable for survival on this island. Although the island is surrounded by seawater and has no shortage of water, the concentration of seawater is higher than that of human blood. Drinking too much may cause dehydration and death. At the same time, seawater contains many other minerals that are harmful to the human body. The current conditions do not meet the requirements for distilling seawater into fresh water.
Therefore, finding fresh water on this island is of utmost importance.
Walking on the island, Zhu Pingan felt a bit like Robinson Crusoe, but luckier than Robinson. He had two girls to accompany him. It turned out that happiness comes from comparison. Zhu Pingan smiled slightly.
"Hey, what are you laughing at?" Zhu Ping'an's smile made Li Shu roll her eyes.
"If we're lucky, we'll find water." Zhu Ping'an naturally didn't say what he just thought. Instead, he took the opportunity to encourage the two.
"Water? I just walked a long way and couldn't find it." The little maid shook her head, expressing doubt. "Master, you just took a look, how can you be sure that you will find water? There are only grass and woods ahead, and there is no water at all. Master, did you see any water?"
Li Shu also expressed doubt about Zhu Ping'an's words. She had just looked, and just as the little maid Baozi said, she could not see anything except flowers, plants and trees. Zhu Ping'an just took a look, chose a direction and said that he was about to find water. She was a little skeptical.
"In the direction ahead, there is a curved line of trees that are denser and taller than other forests. Generally speaking, trees grow better in places with sufficient water sources. The water source in the curve is most likely a stream." Zhu Ping'an pointed to a forest in front and explained with certainty and confidence.
Li Shu followed Zhu Ping'an's gaze and found the difference. There was indeed an S-shaped curve of mountains and forests in front of her, which was very conspicuous. They were several heads higher than the mountains and forests in other places. Although Li Shu didn't understand geography, she still had common sense. After thinking about what Zhu Ping'an said, Li Shu believed it a little and her eyes lit up.
It would be nice to have some water; she is very thirsty too.
Baozi, the little maid, was still wondering why the source of the curved water was a stream... But since both the son-in-law and the young lady said it was, then it must be, and the little maid's eyes lit up.
Zhu Pingan led Li Shu and the maid Baozi to the curved forest. In fact, Zhu Pingan was not sure that there was a stream in the S-curved forest. The forest was high and it might be the terrain, or it might be an S-shaped slope. However, Zhu Pingan would not tell Li Shu and the maid Baozi about this concern. They had finally raised their hopes, and he did not want to pour a basin of cold water on them.
The island is quite large, and the forest looks close, but it is actually very far away on foot.
Li Shu could not walk anymore after walking for a distance. Zhu Ping'an regained a lot of strength after eating azalea flowers. He broke two branches and made two simple crutches, which he gave one to Li Shu and one to the maid Baozi. This helped the two save a lot of energy when walking in the mountains and forests. In addition, they could walk more steadily with the crutches.
Zhu Ping'an also broke a wooden stick as a simple self-defense weapon to protect himself from any blind wild beasts in the mountains.
Before reaching the forest, Zhu Pingan found a bunch of wolf-tooth grass about 60 centimeters high under a tree. The grass was covered with white fluff and had serrated leaves. Zhu Pingan was a little surprised when he saw the wolf-tooth grass.
This is wolftooth grass. When Zhu was a child, his arm was cut by gravel while going up the mountain. His father picked this grass and applied it to him. It stopped bleeding very quickly and the effect was very significant.
Li Shu's wrist was cut so hard that blood was still seeping from the bandage. With this wolftooth grass, Zhu Ping'an felt much more at ease.
"This is wolfberry, it has a good effect in stopping bleeding. Your hand will be healed in two days."
Zhu Ping'an said this, and then, regardless of the risk of the wolf grass cutting his hand, he picked up a piece of wolf grass stem and put it into his mouth along with the leaves to chew. After chewing it into pieces, he applied it to the wound on Li Shu's wrist, and then carefully bandaged it for Li Shu.
"How disgusting. There's your saliva on it."
Li Shu pouted and said with great disdain, but a smile quietly blossomed on her face. (To be continued.)xh:.74.240.212