Fire was indeed a problem.
Zhu Pingan and the three of them did not have a penchant for eating raw fish, so fire was inevitable; of course the pot was also a problem, but after the little bun maid found a naturally indented stone by the mountain stream, an irregular quadrangle with a pit the size of a sea bowl indented in the middle, weighing about eight or nine pounds, Li Shu and the little bun maid scrubbed it in the stream, and it could serve as a stone pot for the time being.
With fish and pots, there was a lack of fire.
But the fire folders that the three of them were carrying had long been lost in the middle of the sea.
“Auntie ~~ what should we do without fire?”
After the little bun maid finished scrubbing the “stone pot”, she looked at Zhu Ping An with wide eyes, as if Zhu Ping An could instantly make a fire.
“You can try drilling wood for fire.”Under the burning gaze of the little bun maid and Li Shu, Zhu Pingan opened his mouth with some uncertainty.
Han Fei Zi – The Five Lemons recorded: the people eat fruit plants and clams, and hurt the stomach and stomach, the people more disease. A saint made, drilling flint fire, in order to melt the stench, and the people pleased, so that the king of the world, called the flint man.
Drilling flint for fire, that is, Zhu Pingan said drilling wood for fire.
The reason why Zhu Pingan’s tone is uncertain is because Zhu Pingan only knows the truth of drilling wood for fire, never practised it, and has also heard that the difficulty of drilling wood for fire is S-class, many people try to drill wood for fire, but their hands are rubbed out with blisters, and the fire does not even rise. Especially after last night’s heavy rain, it was expected that dry grass and dry branches were hard to find, adding another lot of difficulty to drilling wood for fire.
“I’ll go with Painter to find dry grass.”
When Zhu Pingan said drilling wood for fire, Li Shu brightened her eyes, this she also knew, she just didn’t think of it just now.
The little bun maid was just at a loss, drilling wood for fire or something, she didn’t know anything about it at all. But since Auntie said that she could drill wood to make fire then it would be fine, then the bun little maid followed Li Shu to look for hay in the neighbourhood.
While Li Shu and the girls looked for hay, Zhu Pingan looked for wood nearby that could be drilled for fire, and the three of them divided the work.
Last night’s rain was too untimely, the three of them searched the neighbourhood for quite a while but did not find any dry grass or dry wood. Almost all of them were drenched by last night’s rain. Even if they weren’t soaked through, they were all damp, and were simply not up to the task of drilling wood for fire.
After searching for half a day, Li Shu and Baozi’s little maid were able to find some withered grass that was glistening with damp energy, which was still found under a pile of rocks. The wind had blown the dead grass and fallen leaves under the rocks and piled them up, if it wasn’t for the rocks blocking the wind and rain a little bit, they wouldn’t have been able to find even this Fanchao’s dead grass and fallen leaves.
Although it was difficult, these dead grass and leaves were not up to the task of starting a fire, and could only be used as fuel once the fire was up. Still a bit damp.
After searching for a while longer and finding nothing, it seemed that they could only try to use the somewhat damp dead grass to start the fire.
Just as the three of them were walking towards the stream with the dead grass in their arms, Zhu Pingan found a dead tree that was very tall, and at a height of more than one person, there was a hole in the tree.
“Wait a moment.”
Zhu Pingan looked around the withered tree and after noticing that there were quite a few bird droppings under the trunk as well as the roots of the tree, he could not help but have a joyful look on his face, such a regular pattern of bird droppings. It means that this tree hole is where the bird’s nest is located, it is not some kind of bat or snake or rat or something like that that is borrowing a place to stay.
Zhu Pingan put the withered grass aside, turned his head and gave Li Shu a word to the two of them to wait a moment, then he lifted up the long hem of his clothes and tucked it into his waistband, and began to climb upwards with his hands hugging the big tree.
“Zhu Pingan, be careful ……”Seeing Zhu Pingan climbing the tree, Li Shu was a little worried, she hadn’t heard that the well read scholar would climb a tree, so don’t fall.
The bun little maid looked at Zhu Pingan who climbed the tree with bated breath and followed Li Shu under the tree saying be careful.
In fact, the two do not need to worry at all. As a child, following his father and brother into the mountains, Zhu Pingan had long practised his tree climbing skills.
Zhu Pingan climbed very quickly, that tree hole was just over one person high, and soon Zhu Pingan climbed to the front of the tree hole. For safety reasons. Zhu Pingan sat on a branch on one side, reached out and folded down a section of the branch, the branch into the tree hole to explore some, to see if there are no snakes and rats and so on.
After reaching in and checking, Zhu Pingan determined that there were no snakes or rats inside, so he reached into the tree hole with confidence. Inside, he touched a few small round things and took out one.
“Bird eggs, it’s bird eggs ah miss ……”The bun little maid cheered, there were bird eggs to eat.
Li Shu ignored the bun little maid and raised her head to look at Zhu Pingan in the tree, lest a certain stinky toad accidentally fall down.
I’m sorry, it’s really life that compels me.
Zhu Pingan silently apologised in his heart to the bird that had not yet returned to its nest, and carefully placed the bird’s egg into his arms.
Zhu Pingan touched it, there were a total of six eggs in the bird’s nest, Zhu Pingan took out four eggs and left two for the bird.
This was a habit that Zhu Pingan had developed since he was a child, and also had the credit of Zhu’s father’s education since he was a child, don’t do everything to catch fish, of course Zhu’s father couldn’t say such a written theory, it was just the simple thoughts of the farmers.
In addition to the bird’s eggs, Zhu Pingan also took out half of the hay laid in the bird’s nest, the bird’s nest blocked the wind and sheltered from the rain, the hay inside was not damp at all, it was just a good material to start the fire, Zhu Pingan left half of the hay for the bird, and put the other half into his arms all together.
“Here, these bird eggs, you mend your body.”
After Zhu Pingan came down from the tree, he took out the bird eggs in his arms and looked at Li Shu and said. At the beach if Li Shu hadn’t fed herself blood, it was estimated that she would have hung herself.
“Which one is rare ……”Li Shu looked away, her pretty face was full of disdain, but the corner of her mouth was hooked up in an arc. It turned out that this stinking toad risked climbing the tree to touch the bird’s nest in order to replenish his own body.
After coming down from the tree, Zhu Pingan picked up the withered grass again and led the two towards the stream, and halfway there, he found another banyan tree with wrong roots, with lush branches and leaves, and a section of timber under the roots that came from nowhere, which could be used as the main body of the fire drilling, and brought it to the stream together.
Using a few stones to build a simple stove, the stone pot just now was filled with fresh water, the bun little maid picked up a small stone slice by the stream, it was relatively thin, Zhu Ping’an polished it briefly, and used it as a right to act as a knife.
Kill the fish, Li Shu and Baozi little maid do not dare, Zhu Pingan had to take up, will be small fish after disembowelling handed over to the Baozi little maid to clean, clean and put into the stone pot. Zhu Pingan touched a few bird eggs, also cleaned into the pot.
Everything was ready, just waiting for the fire.
Under the gaze of Li Shu and Baozi’s little maid, Zhu Pingan placed the wood he found under the roots of the tree on a stone, used the stone to cut a small hole in the wood, placed the hay he pulled out from the bird’s nest around it, and then found a thin pointed stick to make a drill.
The drilling of wood for fire was officially begun.
