Chapter 153 Going up the mountain to catch birds
Xu Chen became interested and asked carefully. He learned that it was a wild bird I had never seen before. It was a big body, long tail feathers, and the color was as beautiful as a rainbow.
Unfortunately, the lack of language of a group of hunters made Xu Chen unable to figure out how beautiful the bird was. He only knew that he found a particularly beautiful wild bird in front of the cave where he lived before. As a result, a group of people rushed to attack and none of them shot, and the wild bird flew away.
A group of people had to go to the hillside of the milk fruits below the cave to pick some milk fruits. When the sun was about to set, they decided to go and take a look. They saw the beautiful wild bird again. As a result, the group of people did not learn from their lessons. In order to show off their merits, they alarmed the wild bird in advance and ran away again.
Recently, in order to meet Xu Chen's request, a group of hunters searched all over the valley, but they were already a little angry. As a result, they finally encountered a good bird, but they missed it twice because of the competition.
Therefore, it is naturally inevitable to cause quarrels and complain about each other.
Mother Ba brought a few women out of the kitchen to scold him. A group of hunters broke up in a bad mood. Some began to clean up a few turtles and rabbits, some started to clean up a milk fruit, and a group of children cheered and found wooden sticks to start prying the fruit inside.
Looking at the ripe milk fruits, Xu Chen couldn't help but make a few and try fresh ones.
Sure enough, it is still the same strong fragrance and silky, and the taste is different from all wild nuts.
In a blink of an eye, a year passed and the milk fruits were ripe again.
I remembered the situation when he first came here last year when Ye Baojian took him to the hillside to pick milk fruits in order to eat in one bite.
He even clearly remembered the first time Ye climbed up a steep cliff and came down with a fruit in his mouth.
At that time, in order to eat more milk fruits, he improvised and weaved a vine basket.
Ye was carrying a vine basket for the first time, and he was happy and excited to grab the vines and jumped away on the steep mountain road, which made him remember it even more vividly.
Wearing a fur skirt, she is black and thin, like a mountain elves, full of wildness.
However, this year, the little female savage is afraid that she can't jump anymore. She lives at the foot of the mountain and rarely climbs. Not only does she grow taller, but she also gains weight, and her skin has turned a lot whiter. She has already begun to show signs of evolving towards normal humans.
I haven't left the mountain for more than half a year, so I guess I can't move forward. A group of women are busy collecting food and have not had time to pick milk fruits recently. I have been quite idle recently, so I can just take Gu Heju to get some more back.
A group of hunters said that the big bird appeared in front of the cave twice. It seemed that it was not a normal passerby, and maybe it was building a nest near the cave.
If you are lucky, you may encounter it again.
It’s good to be able to grasp it, but it’s okay if you can’t catch it.
He felt that it was certainly extraordinary that a group of beautiful wild birds who had seen countless species of wild birds and beasts were very amazing.
However, his archery skills were too poor. Gu Heju was comparable to him. A group of hunters who hunted every day could not hit the prey. The three of them were most likely to hit the prey unless God was blind.
But in this world, there are not only bows and arrows that can hunt birds. In fact, the best way to catch birds is to nets, especially after knowing the scope of bird activities.
So after eating seven or eight milk fruits in one go, he found a thin linen to start weaving the net.
This thin linen rope is specially used to weave fishing nets. The shoddy fishing nets used to be now evolved into the third generation. They are not only larger, but also stronger and lighter, with better water permeability, and are even easier to disassemble and assemble.
Since we have this more useful fishing net, the harvest of fishing has increased greatly. Sometimes we can get hundreds of kilograms of fish a day, and we can eat it all by eating fish.
However, the fishy smell is strong and the taste is light and the thorns are many, and in fact, people from the tribe do not like it very much.
In addition, making fish balls is very time-consuming.
In the past, there were marinated sashimi with jam, and men were still rushing to eat it, but with the arrival of summer, fish tended to smell easily, and women didn’t have much time to process the fish in detail. In addition, the fruits and melons in the wild plants and fruits were ripe, and after enough food, the weather gradually became hot and the fish was eaten less.
Hunters focus more on hunting, because fresh flesh and internal organs can replenish the salt quickly consumed in summer. The more fish eat, the more salt it is, the less salt it is.
This is also the most primitive hunting instinct. They will send out different hunting activities according to their physical needs.
In fact, the one who eats the most fish is in winter and spring.
Since last year, a group of foreigners were hired to build a house, they ate fish almost every day in those months. In winter, women have no collection activities and have plenty of time to process fish. In addition, with fruit wine seasonings, fish is very popular.
Therefore, after eating fish for a whole winter, Xu Chen was completely injured. Now he feels a little nauseous when he sees the fish.
But with autumn coming, it is soon the golden age for eating chickens and stewing mushrooms.
This kind of delicacy is different from fish. It tastes delicious and never get tired of eating it for a long time.
Make a few bird catchers, maybe you can have a few more meals this fall and winter.
After a pretty sumptuous dinner, Xu Chen called Gu Heju, and the three of them tied a net together. Before going to bed dark, they made a net of two square meters.
The next morning, Xu Chen got up early, cut a few wooden sticks, and then prepared, taking Gu He with his back and taking a vine basket with a bow and arrow and followed a group of hunters to the mountain.
The road up the mountain was almost covered by weeds and thorns, but everyone was familiar with this road. Half an hour later, a group of people arrived near the cave.
The last time I came to the cave was in March. It was already the end of June. There was no trace of the original appearance in front of the cave. It was all weeds and thorns that were more than one person tall. Only the entrance of the cave was a rock, and some discarded bricks, stones and wooden sticks could be seen, which vaguely traces of old life.
"Moga!"
A group of people hid in the woods and observed for a long time. Apart from the squirrels, snakes and common wild birds, they did not see the beautiful wild bird they mentioned yesterday.
"You go to the mountain and don't get close to here. The three of us stay here and guard!"
"Be careful!"
A group of people exchanged a few simple words, and the wind took the hunter away.
Xu Chen took Gu Heju to the surrounding area of the wild grassy rocky clearings and observed it. He used wooden sticks to support the rope net, and made some simple disguise and concealed the surroundings with branches. Then he sprinkled some oats around the net, and then retreated into the woods to continue waiting.
As a result, after waiting for more than an hour, the three of them had countless large bags of mosquitoes, and they did not see any wild birds patronizing them. So Xu Chen was a little discouraged and took Gu He to the hillside to pick milk fruits.
In the past, near the cave was the area where the tribe members lived. Because of frequent activities, there were few weeds in the woods, and some wild fruits and plants were even specially cleaned and planted.
But now they are all covered with dense weeds and vines, and they are almost unable to move forward.
Not far below the cave, the crooked tree still lies prone to the edge of the cliff in an eternal posture. Ancient vines as thick as a waist are wrapped around the trunks, and green fruits are densely hung on it. Occasionally, you can see a few of them that have begun to turn golden red.
In another month, these ancient vine fruits will be in the harvest season again.
Thinking of the wonderful taste of these vine fruits, Xu Chen felt that he couldn't stop his saliva.
In fact, he was very surprised that this ancient vine fruit seemed to be the only one in the valley, and it was extremely huge. I don’t know if it had grown for hundreds or thousands of years.
According to the situation where the crooked neck tree and the ancient vine grow in entangled, it seems like a symbiotic relationship, and the roots of the two are almost entangled and grown together.
He was very suspicious that this ancient vine was a parasitic plant and might have come from a very distant place.
Moreover, this vine fruit does not seem to have seeds, because it is similar to kiwi fruit after being cut. After years of ripening, the fruits fall down and the hillsides below did not grow out of the valleys below.
If this is true, then this is a unique orphan, and the chances of introducing it are not high.
But no matter what, such delicious and high-quality wine-making fruits are worth transplanting on a large scale. He decided to wait until winter to cut a few vines and find a place near the foot of the mountain to try cutting. If he survives, he will never have to risk climbing to such a high and dangerous place to pick the fruits again.
Chapter completed!