Since the three of them went hunting together, it has been raining for the next few days.
It's not easy to go hunting on rainy days. After Meng Sheng smoked the remaining unsmoked meat, he took advantage of the rain to go out for a while.
When he came back, he was still covered in water vapor. He fished out the wooden sticks he had chopped down and the hemp that had been picked a few days ago and soaked in the creek, and put them all by the fire.
After soaking the hemp for a few days, the skin of the stem has been rotten. He sat down cross-legged, peeled off the skin that looked like threads, washed them one by one, and dried them by the fire. The ones were already dry, so he divided them into two strands, rubbed them in the palm of his hand, continued, and after a while, he rubbed out a long hemp rope.
The aborigines of the primitive tribe usually use vines to tie things, but the vines are not as flexible and strong as the ropes. He saw hemp in the woods and couldn't help but bring some back.
After rubbing the hemp rope, he peeled off a wooden stick about two fingers thick. He originally wanted to cut yellow bamboo, but he couldn't find it after wandering around for a long time. He had never seen it before when he went hunting. Fortunately, he found an old willow tree by the river, and he cut off the branches to replace the yellow bamboo.
Compared with other trees, willow has much better toughness, and it is an ideal material for making what he wants.
After cutting the branches, he made two gaps at both ends, and then tied the twisted hemp rope to the two gaps, bent the branches, and stretched the rope as tight as possible.
When the bow is roughly formed, some fire is drawn out and roasted in the middle of the branches to fix the shape.
After the rough bow was finished, he smoothed the bow body with a knife to make it look more comfortable. Finally, he used the remaining tougher branches to sharpen the front section, and opened a small gap in the back end to facilitate the bowstring to get stuck.
After the bowstring was ready, he couldn't wait to try it out, put the arrow on the string, pulled the hemp rope back, and after the arrow had accumulated enough strength, it flew out of the cave with a whoosh.
Meng Sheng hurriedly chased to the entrance of the cave to have a look. Because Meng's archery skills were average, the wooden stick was stuck on the ground outside the cave, and he missed anything~
But this didn't diminish his satisfaction with the bow and arrow he made, and he didn't care about the rain outside, so he took the bow and arrow and went to Qiu Juan's cave.
After getting together from his cave, he hadn't seen Qiu Juan for several days, but Aunt Luo came over to deliver wild vegetables on the way.
When he arrived at the entrance of the cave, he smelled a smell of meat from a long distance, and guessed it was cooking lunch.
"Aunt Luo, are you there?"
When the people in the cave heard the sound, they came out very quickly. Generally, Ya females would come out first because of their quick legs, but today it was Luo who came out.
The female smiled when she saw him: "Meng Sheng, why are you here?"
"Oh, I want to find Qiu Juan."
"He went out and hasn't come back yet."
Meng Sheng's brows tightened, and he looked outside a few times: "Go out even in the rain?"
"It's raining, come in quickly, you're all wet, Aunt Luo also cooked bone soup using your method, try it!" Luo invited him.
Meng Sheng shook his head quickly: "No need, Aunt Luo next time, I'll go back and make lunch first."
Without waiting for Luo to stay again, he waved his hand, turned around and entered the rain again.
He came suddenly, and Aunt Luo usually prepared food for her and Qiu Juan. If she really went in to eat with them, it might not be enough. Moreover, his eating was completely different from the two weaklings going to eat with him. Just now, I was so happy that I was dazzled, and ran over without thinking about the time. It was not the time, and I didn't know what Qiu Juan was still doing outside at this point.
Back in the cave, you put the remaining red peppers by the fire and dry them. After the peppers are crispy, use stones to grind them into pepper noodles, which is convenient for roasting beef later.
He has only these peppers left. Fortunately, the lemons and peppers planted outside the cave have come to life, but he plans to wait for those peppers to mature and grow old, then collect them as seeds, and disperse the seeds directly in spring.
With the daily barbecue, his barbecue technique and proficiency, he has been able to master the degree to which it is tender and not fishy.
After eating a large piece of beef, he chopped some small pieces of meat and went out to feed the chickens.
It has been raining heavily these past few nights. Even though the chicken coop was covered, when Meng Sheng threw all the meat in the chicken coop, he still found that the rain was leaking from the chicken coop. Did not come to eat.
Usually, he came flying over with fluttering wings. He felt a little strange. He opened the door of the chicken coop and was about to go in to see if the pheasant was sick when he suddenly heard Qiu Juan's voice.
"Meng Sheng!"
He straightened up and saw Qiu Juan running towards him with a pheasant in one hand and some chili peppers in the other. Ya Nu smiled showing eight white teeth, and the cold raindrops on her body seemed like warmed up.
"I caught a pheasant and brought it to you!" He ran up to Meng Sheng and handed him the pheasant that was already wet in his arms.
The flower-feathered pheasant seemed to have been drenched in the rain for too long, with its head shrunk and motionless, letting the two hug them around.
Meng Sheng hugged the chicken and couldn't express how he felt in his heart. He only knew that Qiu Juan's hair was wet and stuck to his shoulders. He wanted to dry him off. I went to look for you before, and Aunt Luo said you went out to catch pheasants?"
Qiu Juan nodded: "When it rains, pheasants hide in their nests, and they are easy to catch alive."
Meng Sheng didn't speak, but narrowed his eyes slightly.
"What's the matter? You...don't like it?" Qiu Juan's smile faded slowly, wondering why the male in front of him looked so strange.
"No, I like it very much."
Qiu Juan became happy again: "Then lock it in the chicken coop, don't hold it. I saw some of these when I was catching pheasants, so I picked them all for you."
Meng Sheng stood at the door of the chicken pen, looked at him, and said in a low voice, "Thank you."
"What are you being polite about? Didn't you say that we are neighbors and don't need to be so polite?"
As he said that, Qiu Juan saw the pheasant in the chicken pen, and he got in at once: "You pheasant is so weird, it doesn't move at all."
He felt strange, went to hug the pheasant squatting on the chicken coop, and then exclaimed: "Meng Sheng, come and see, the little pheasant has hatched soon!"
Meng Sheng came back to his senses and got into the chicken coop. Sure enough, the eggs in the coop had been cracked, and the beak of the chick inside could be seen. He quickly put the pheasant in his hand aside and fiddled with it gently. Take a look at the little pheasant that is about to hatch.
Qiu Juan suddenly snapped his hand open: "You can't touch it now, your strength is so great, what if you break it!"
Meng Sheng laughed suddenly: "Am I so ignorant?"
But she still listened to Yafei and took her hand back.
Qiu Juan bowed his waist, looked at the chicken coop, and said, "It's leaking inside, we can't let the pheasants get drenched in the rain, let's cover it with some grass."
"I was just about to put the roof back on it."
Qiu Juan got out of the chicken coop first, but went to look for grass first.
Meng Sheng called him quickly: "Qiu Juan, it's raining outside, you go back to my cave first, I'll do it, you can see that you're all wet."
"It's okay, it's not raining too much."
Meng Sheng smiled helplessly, looking at Ya Nu who was helping him, he was a little unbelievable, thinking that he was very polite to him at the beginning, always keeping a strange and polite distance, but now he is helping him He caught the chicken, and picked peppers to cover the chicken rings. It seemed that he was finally accepted by him, and the distance was much closer.
For a child like Qiu Juan, at first he closed his heart and erected a wall, and when someone approached him, he would drive them away, but when he really cared about him patiently, he slowly accepted it and just Caring about others regardless of oneself.
Speaking of which, he is a good-natured child.
After the two of them were busy making the roof of the chicken coop tighter with leaves and weeds, Qiu Juan stood outside the chicken coop door, staring at the pheasant he had caught.
Meng Sheng leaned aside and patted his head: "What's the matter, I can't bear it anymore, if you regret it now, it's still too late."
"What is there to be reluctant to part with a pheasant? You think I'm too stingy, and besides, I went to catch the pheasant specially for you."
"Huh?" Meng Sheng raised his eyebrows.
Qiu Juan suddenly realized that what he said was wrong, coughed dryly and stopped talking: "Then, the things have been delivered to you, so I'll go back first."
After finishing speaking, he turned around and ran, Meng Sheng quickly grabbed his wrist.
"Wait, I have something for you!"
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