After we walked in, we discovered that this was a man-made house built on a tree.
The trees here are all extremely thick and short, but the branches of the tree crown extend upward in a fan shape.
Even the leaves on the branches are huge, blocking the few sunlight above the head even more.
Visibility suddenly dimmed.
But after all, it was daytime, so nothing could be seen. There were several collapsed houses around, and there was even a house made of accumulated stones.
Obviously this is a place where old hunters who go into the mountains to hunt temporarily take shelter from the rain and spend the night.
Nowadays, there are only two relatively solid-looking houses left that can actually be lived in.
We found the largest house and put our backpacks and everything in it.
Then he was under the house, preparing to start a fire for cooking.
Li Dabao had more experience in mountain exploration. He first found a relatively open place and cleared away the surrounding weeds, and then dug a large circle of fire ditches.
Then he started to dig out the smokeless stove. I saw him busy with the engineering shovel, so I asked, "Didn't you see, Li Dabao, does he still have this unique skill?"
Li Dabao sighed and said, "My father was a soldier a few years ago. Later he came back from the army and often took me hunting in the old woods. This smokeless stove is his technology in the army."
"It's just that later, my father was scratched in the eye by a blind bear in the old forest, and he never took me hunting again."
Regarding Li Dabao's father, I seemed to have heard him mention it before, but because it was someone else's family matter, I couldn't ask too much.
I just know that Li Dabao is an orphan just like me now.
Therefore, we all belong to the Lord who can feed one person and keep the whole family from going hungry.
While Li Dabao was digging the smokeless stove, Leng Yue had climbed up to the wooden house in the tree and started cleaning up the messy vegetation around it.
He also sprinkled anti-insect herbs from the mules around the wooden house and applied them to the main tree trunks one by one.
Grandma Ka had prepared these for us in advance, but she didn't tell us directly.
In my opinion, people like Grandma Ka are very strong-willed by nature, speaking unreasonably and unforgivingly, but being kind at heart.
This may be similar to Leng Yue who is busy at the moment.
I saw that both of them were busy working, and it was not a problem for me to be idle alone, so I walked to Dahuang.
Seeing me passing by, Dahuang stared at me and wandered back and forth, his red eyes so eerie at night.
I saw Dahuang wandering back and forth, and I thought, this Dahuang doesn’t want to leave.
He said, "Are you leaving?"
"Woof... woof woof..."
Dahuang barked at me several times, looked in another direction, then turned back and barked twice more.
I asked: "Aren't you leaving?"
"Woof..."
Li Dabao, who was digging the stove, saw that I didn't quite understand the meaning of rhubarb and laughed directly.
"Chen Jiuri, why haven't you ever raised a dog before? This beast wants to go out to hunt on its own, so you can just let it go."
After saying that, he looked at Dahuang in front of me and said: "Go, bring some wild game, and I will cook a feast for you, my dear. Seeing how skinny you are, your master must have never given you meat, right?"
Dahuang seemed to understand what Li Dabao meant, raised his tail high, turned around a few times, then looked in a certain direction and swooped out.
After Rhubarb left, I fed the mules grass and said, "Li Dabao, you have something. You can understand what animals say. You weren't a dog in your last life, were you?"
"Screw you, Chen Jiuri. If you don't have the ability, don't squeeze on others. I tell you, you are the master's destiny. You have never suffered the hardships that low-class people like us have suffered."
"You have lived in the countryside after all. Don't you know the habits of dogs?"
"Forget it, forget it, I can't explain it to you. From now on, just follow me and learn more and talk less, Master Bao. I know a lot of things, Master Bao."
Li Dabao just said a few words to stop me. He wanted to start cooking, but Li Dabao asked me to find a place to stay, or go up and help Leng Yue make the bed or something.
He also said that he didn’t like others to help him when he was cooking. I told him that he usually seemed lazy, but why was he so diligent now.
Li Dabao said: "You know what a bird is, cooking is an art, and no one can stop me from pursuing art."
"Since ancient times, food has been the most important thing for people. No matter what they suffer, they can't hurt their stomachs..."
"Okay, okay!"
"You are powerful, you are tall, you are mighty..."
I gave Li Dabao a thumbs up, and then climbed up to the wooden house on the canopy very wisely.
The inside had been almost cleaned by Leng Yue, and I didn't ask if there was anyone who needed help after I entered.
Then he started to work.
It didn’t take long for the wooden house to be sorted out. I climbed down again, found some drier weeds, moved them up, and then spread them all on one side of the wooden house, leaving the middle part. .
After everything was ready, he took out the kerosene lamp from his backpack. This kind of lamp was taken from the old man Guishou's house.
Although the light is not very bright, it is more than enough to illuminate the entire wooden house.
Moreover, this kind of kerosene lamp burns for a long time and does not attract too much attention.
After doing all this, I heard the sound of rhubarb, got out my head and looked down.
Good guy.
Rhubarb actually got several fat and big hares.
The hares here have grown too big, and one of them is as big as half a rhubarb.
There are also some small wounds on Dahuang's body. I don't know what caused them.
Li Dabao is talking to Dahuang.
"Good dog, you did a good job. You stand guard for Master Bao and watch how he roasts rabbit meat for you."
"Go, lie far away, don't get blood all over you, it won't look good with such a beautiful fur covered in blood..."
Dahuang stepped back obediently, then wandered around, and finally lay down not far from the mule, lying on the ground and watching Li Dabao peel the rabbit meat.
You can see Dahuang's tongue sticking out and drooling a lot.
While Li Dabao was peeling off his skin, I discovered a very interesting situation.
That is, it will dig a big pit first, put all the blood into the pit, and then peel off the skin.
After a brief cleaning at the end, I quickly covered it with soil.
Then I stood on it and peed, and I asked him what was going on.
Li Dabao explained: "Do you know what weird things will appear in the mountains and forests?"
"Once the smell of blood spreads, it is easy to provoke some difficult things..."
Seeing that Li Dabao was telling the truth, I turned around and asked Leng Yue, who was sitting on the canopy of the tree playing with an ancient sword: "Miss Leng, is what Li Dabao said true?"
This time, Leng Yue did not ignore me. Instead, she glanced at Li Dabao at her feet and said, "Yes, not only blood, but also things with particularly obvious smells can also attract unclean things."
Dirty stuff?
I was a little confused and wanted to get the answer, but Leng Yue replied, you will know by then, and continued to lower his head and look at the ancient sword in his hand.
Seeing that he was asking for trouble, he got into the wooden house and took out the wooden box from his portable bag.
Then he carefully took out the ancient book from the wooden box that seemed to fall apart when touched.
I didn't pay attention until I took it out, but when I took it out, I realized that there was only half of the witchcraft code.
There are only less than twenty pages. The reason why it looks thick is because the paper is not ordinary paper.
It's made of animal skin like sheepskin, but I'm sure it's not sheepskin because I don't smell the mutton smell.
I opened the first page of the witchcraft book and started reading. I couldn't stop reading it.
The contents of the witchcraft record record various things related to the forest. Many witchcrafts turned out to be so interesting after getting to know them far away.
For example, a normal seven-star ladybug can be used to remove parasites from the human body through the theory in the witchcraft.
If this were applied to modern medicine, it would definitely be nonsense.
There are also ointments that can treat bruises and injuries, and they are made from local ingredients in the forest, etc.
These are just the most basic things, witchcraft, witchcraft, and naturally many things are related to witchcraft.
And witchcraft is obviously more than just these, and I still can't understand some of the content behind it.
So I just read it as a novel.
In addition, the shaman code is all a combination of traditional Chinese characters and ancient characters, so I had to carefully identify many places before I could understand them.
Moreover, the written content is all in classical Chinese, which is difficult to understand, but after being deciphered, it gives people a sense of accomplishment.
I watched so fascinated that I completely forgot the time. I didn't even hear Li Dabao calling me from below.
Completely immersed in the ocean of knowledge.
Until a fragrant rabbit leg was handed to me...!
