Chapter 2 Toxic
The sky is infinitely blue.
The air is fresh and natural.
Gongliang has never seen such a blue sky. Even in a place that was said to be free of pollution in his previous life, the air has never been so fresh. Taking a breath, his body seems to have been washed again. This kind of comfortable feeling is absolutely incomprehensible if you have never experienced it.
Feel it.
After a period of recuperation, his body had recovered from the poisonous snake bite. He didn't want to stay in the house all the time, so he went out to dig wild vegetables with Xiao Shi and the others today.
The Yanbu people live on the boulders in the crater of the extinct volcano.
When he walked out, he specifically looked back and saw that the boulder was huge, at least two to three hundred meters high. At this time, his belief that the boulder was made of magma had faded away. He did not feel that the magma from the volcanic eruption could form such a rock.
A complete boulder.
The boulder is surrounded by a very flat plain, which seems to be due to the volcanic terrain. There are no tall trees around, and even the grass that grows is withered and yellow.
Beyond the plain is a steep mountain wall. There is nothing growing on the mountain wall near the Yan part. There are only green moss, grass and other things growing on the mountain wall, while the ridges above the mountain wall are covered with
Dense trees.
Speaking of which, the crater where Yanbu is located is like a concave ground, surrounded by steep mountain walls. However, there is a gap in one place, and the Yanbu people built a gate to guard the entrance.
"A-Liang, are you feeling well?"
Someone was guarding the gate of the village to prevent wild beasts from the mountains from running in. The guard seemed to know the former owner of Gong Liang's body, but Gong Liang didn't, so he just nodded and said "Yes."
"Be careful," the caretaker warned.
"knew."
After leaving the village gate, there is a hillside sloping down. The trees on the hillside leading to the village gate have been cut down cleanly, clearing a path for people to walk, while there are still tall woods on the left and right sides.
Gongliang didn't know where to dig wild vegetables, so he could only follow Xiao Shi forward.
Behind Xiao Shi was his younger brother, Xiao Xiao Shi. The little guy was jumping around, but he was not sure yet. He was still well behaved and knew how to follow his brother. At the foot of the hillside was a plain formed by the silt left by the flash floods, with weeds and wild vegetables growing on it.
People in the tribe usually dig wild vegetables here. But here is close to Yanbu, and most of the wild vegetables have been dug up, so if you want to dig more wild vegetables, you have to go a little further.
Xiao Shi has been digging wild vegetables and picking wild fruits with his mother all year round. He knew where the wild vegetables were most abundant, so he took Gong Liang and his younger brother to continue walking.
In front of the plain is a broad stream. There are big fish in the stream that eat people, so you can't dig too close to the stream when digging wild vegetables.
It’s just that the wild vegetables by the stream are the most abundant, and many people can’t stand the temptation to pick them. This is how Gongliang’s predecessor, Emu, was dragged into the water by the big fish.
After walking forward for a while, the wild vegetables that appeared in front of him were obviously much more than those on the plains at the foot of the village gate and on the hillside. Xiao Shi began to squat down to dig wild vegetables, and Xiao Xiao Shi followed suit. Seeing that he was skillful with his hands and feet, he must have dug for a long time. Gong Liang
So we dug together.
There are many varieties of wild vegetables here. Some people can vaguely recognize the wild vegetables in their previous lives, but most of them don't.
Suddenly, something crawled from a distance, running rampant and looking very arrogant.
Gong Liang's eyes widened when he saw it. This...this...isn't this a hairy crab? Why is it so big? The hairy crab crawling over was bigger than a palm, but he had never even heard of it. He didn't know what it tasted like.
?His mouth watered when he thought of the deliciousness of the crab meat.
"Click..."
"Well..."
Suddenly, Xiao Shi stood up and trampled the hairy crab that crawled over to pieces.
"Why are you stepping on it?" Gongliang felt that his whole body was not feeling well.
"This thing has no meat, and it can bite people. Last time, Xiao Xiaoshi was bitten and made him cry." Xiao Shi said seriously.
"Then...is this a lot?"
"There are many along the stream, but there are fewer here, but there are big fish there, so we can't go there."
Gongliang felt like crying when he thought about the delicious crab meat being gone, but he was protecting his younger brother and could not blame him. As for the stream, he did not dare to go there now, for fear that his little arms and legs would become delicacies for the big fish in the water, so
I can only continue to dig wild vegetables.
After digging for a while, the two baskets he brought were filled with wild vegetables. He stopped digging and walked towards the nearby forest.
On the edge of the hillside heading to the forest, Gongliang suddenly saw a plant that was more than two meters tall and nearly three meters tall, and walked over. The plant was covered with fruits, some red and some green, and it looked very much like him.
The wild sansho pepper he had seen in his previous life. However, this wild sansho pepper was half the size of the one he had seen in his previous life.
Out of curiosity, I wanted to pick it off and take a look, but was stopped by Xiao Shi.
"A Liang, this thing is poisonous and cannot be picked."
"poisonous?"
"Well, last time the Gaga family's mother's hands became red and swollen because of the juice from this fruit. She didn't get better for several days. Finally, she asked a witch for medicine and it was cured."
Isn’t this the wild sansho pepper that I remember?
Gongliang thought for a while and asked, "Has anyone ever been killed by poison?"
"That's not true." Xiao Shi scratched the back of his head, "But last time Yuhan's greedy little beast almost died after eating a fruit, and it took him a while to recover."
As long as it's not dead, it's easy to deal with. Even if it's poisonous, it's just a minor poison, so it doesn't matter. Besides, if you eat wild pepper and it's not spicy to death, then the little beast is still alive. As for the redness and swelling of the arms, some people who are allergic to spicy food are like that, which is a normal phenomenon.
After analyzing it, Gongliang felt more and more that the plant in front of him was the wild pepper that he had seen before, but he still needed to prove it. So, he reached out and planned to pick a few wild peppers and go back to test them.
When Xiaoshi saw it, he quickly grabbed his hand and said solemnly: "A-Liang, you can't pick it off."
Gongliang smiled and said: "It's okay. I don't want to eat it. As long as the skin is not damaged, it should be fine."
After explaining, Gongliang reached out to pick wild peppercorns. This time, the pebbles did not stop him. Wild peppercorns fall easily when ripe. Seeing that there were many ripe wild peppercorns on the tree, Gongliang simply picked them all and then found a dry piece.
Wrapped in broad, soft bark.
After picking wild sansho peppers, they walked to the nearby woods.
Gong Liang turned his head and glanced at the wild san pepper. If it turns out that this is really wild san pepper, then there will be an extra condiment in his life.
In the past few days, he found that people here only boiled or roasted the food, and there was nothing in it except seasoning with salt. The taste was extremely monotonous and simple. But who in this wilderness tribe would care so much about these things, there is anyway to eat
That's fine. Only people like Gongliang who are used to eating delicious food will feel like they're about to vomit.
The trees in the forest in front are huge, each one is as thick as an arm. This is not big. After crossing the big stream, the trees over there are even bigger. Each tree is at least as big as two people can hug, otherwise it would not be called a tree.
.
When he came here, Gongliang found that everything here was very big.
Let’s just say that everyone in Yanbu is tall and burly. Based on previous life calculations, each person is at least 1.8 meters tall. They are all big-bodied and thick-waisted, with amazing strength. A wild boar weighing several hundred kilograms can be weighed by one person.
Can carry it and run away.
When he arrived in the woods, Xiaoshi looked up at the trees from time to time. Suddenly he noticed something, so he put down the basket in his hand and climbed up the tree. After a while, when he came down, he already had a few bird eggs in his hand.
"Come and eat."
Xiaoshi divided the eggs between the three of them, then broke them and ate them. Xiaoshi also had a decent schoolmate, and he ate until the corners of his mouth were filled with golden egg liquid.
Gongliang's former family had eaten raw bird eggs in the countryside, but I don't know if it was an illusion, but the eggs here seemed to be much fresher and sweeter than what I had eaten before.
I took out a few bird eggs, and picked some black fungus and wild mushrooms from some dead trees. Black fungus is wild fungus, and wild mushroom is actually wild mushroom, and there are many varieties.
Chapter completed!