prehistoric chef

Going down the mountain quickly, their cave was not far from the foot of the mountain. Gao Ming pushed the cart downhill, and the wooden wheels were jolting. Gao Ming was almost dragged by the cart, and Bujia helped him with one hand.

"Brother Xiaoming, do you want me to come?" Landa asked.

Gao Ming cared about the cart. In order to prevent the bamboo baskets from falling down the mountain, he even blocked the front of the car with a wooden plank. But he had to watch the road, and going down the mountain was not easy. "I'm still tired from going up the mountain later, you and Sado will push together later." While talking, a big rock fell, and Gao Ming worked hard, pulling the handle in a daze and going around it.

When the trolley was completed for the first time, everyone in the cave was very surprised. Landa, being curious, wanted to let Sado sit on the cart and push the road at the entrance of Sado back and forth. Guan, Sado almost fell down several times, and when Landa practiced his skills, Sado's buttocks almost broke into four petals.

"Then I'll push it later." Landa rubbed his fists and said, "I can already push it."

Saduo patted his butt reflexively but didn't respond.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, they began to go up the mountain. Landa took over the cart, and Gao Ming asked Landa to pull the cart.Bujia took the water bottle from the bamboo basket and handed it to Gao Ming, "Drink some."

Pushing a cart down the mountain is not as easy as going up the mountain. You must control the speed and road obstacles, otherwise the car will be taken away if you are not careful.Wiping the sweat from his forehead with one hand, Gao Ming gulped down two sips of water, wiped the water around his mouth, and handed it to Bujia, "You also have a few sips." They have a lot of water bottles, so they are not afraid of running out of water.

Landa took the lead to pull the cart, and Sado Xiaohe followed behind to push. When Bujia saw him, he said, "Let's go ahead and open the way. Be careful of the danger behind the Dashi Palace."

"Okay!" Dashi nodded, his face was full of excitement, and he was finally able to move his muscles and bones.

The sun is getting hotter and hotter. Gao Ming wiped his sweat and looked at the sun above his head. It must have been noon. Landa, who was pulling the cart, changed to Saduo early, and the small river of Landa pushed behind him. Hey, Gao Ming looked around to find the place. That day when Bugashi was injured, he was out looking for food alone. Although he roughly remembered it, he had been in a hurry for more than a month, and now he was still preparing to find out the location.

"There!" Gao Ming pointed to a very big tree, and said, "Go around there and there is a whole lot behind!"

In the mountains in May, the big trees are lush and lush, and the grass grows crazily. The red and yellow wild flowers bloom all over the mountain road.

Bujia took over and pushed the cart behind Gao Ming. It was like a jungle in front of him, eyes full of green. With curiosity, they followed Gao Ming's footsteps, turned a corner and saw the yellow wild wheat, and went around the back of the mountain. The layered wind is particularly beautiful.

"We're here!" Gao Ming's face was filled with joy. He saw the little wild wheat with green sprouts more than a month ago, and now the heads of the wheat had fallen down heavily. With a bright yellow hand, Lili lowered her head and blew away the kneaded wheat husks, "Look, this is wheat!"

Landa squeezed a small grain and threw it into his mouth. Before Gao Ming could stop him, Landa chewed it. His face was wrinkled, but he didn't spit out the food in his mouth. He just said, "It's not good to be so small!"

The wheat here is no bigger than the modern ones, and is slender, a bit like modern Jiangmi.When Xiaohe heard it curious, he squeezed a grain and put it in his mouth. His face also expressed that it was not delicious, but he said with his mouth: "Brother Xiaoming said it was delicious, maybe this one will be delicious!"

"Hahaha, what Xiaohe said is good!" Gao Ming was full of enthusiasm, and said, "Landasado should rest and eat something first. Let's cut first and change later, so that we can take turns eating and resting."

The bacon and fruit baked in the morning, the bacon was placed under the bamboo basket and covered with leather leaves, and it did not spoil all morning.Landasado nodded, took the barbecue and began to gnaw it, and Gaoming Bugashi Xiaohe carried a bamboo basket on his back and began to cut with a sickle in his hand.

In order to save effort, they only cut a little bit of wheat ears, so that they can cut more without taking up space, but the speed is slow.Gao Ming saw it and said, "There's no need to cut Xiaohe so small, if it's easy to cut the pole, it's okay."

Landa Sado finished eating quickly. After eating a sweet fruit and drinking two sips of water, he went to work in the field with a sickle. Gao Ming asked Dashi and Xiaohe to eat first.

The big guys took turns to eat lunch, the sun above their heads was hot, and a few of them got into the wheat field, the wheat stalks pricked their bodies, and when the sun burned, they sweated, their backs were sore and dizzy, Gao Ming stood up stiffly He tapped his waist, looked at Xiaohe, whose face was red from the sun, and said, "If you are tired, sit under a tree for a rest, drink some water, don't get too hot, Xiaohe goes to rest." This silly boy I worked so hard that I didn't understand him at all!

Holding a sickle, Xiao He shook his head with sweat dripping from the tip of his red nose, "I'm not tired, really."

"Then go to rest when you are tired, don't carry it to your death!" Gao Ming instructed.Seeing Xiaohe nodding, he bent down and continued working.

The backside of the mountain was always stacked, Gao Ming and the other six worked non-stop until the sun was westward, and Bujia looked at it and said: "Today is fine." It is not safe to walk at night.

The ten bamboo baskets were full, and Gao Ming saw that there were still two-thirds of the work to be done, and it seemed that it would take two days.Loading the bamboo baskets into the car, the six of them still carried them on their backs. Gao Ming saw that Xiao He was wrinkled from the sun, but he was in good spirits.

With something in the car, going down the mountain is even more difficult, not to mention that this mountain is steeper than theirs. The six people carry bamboo baskets around the cart and start pushing down the mountain. If the slope is steep, they will have to use their strength. Hold on, don't lose control and let the car roll down.Xiaohe was bent under the weight of the bamboo basket, and he almost rolled down with the basket when he didn't step on a steep slope. The big stone eye next to him quickly grabbed Xiaohe's arm, took a good look, and said, "Xiaohe, put the bamboo basket in the car." Come up, just hold on."

"Brother Xiao Ming, I can do it!" Xiao He insisted in his eyes.

Gao Ming is used to taking care of the weak and weak in modern times, but here, both the pregnant Qi and the skinny Xiaohe are very strong, and they are all very diligent in their work. It's not sympathy.

"Okay! Then be careful!" Gao Ming said with a smile.

After getting off the mountain, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, but when I looked up and saw their mountain, Landa laughed. When Gao Ming thought that Landa was exhausted, he heard Landa say, "It's almost there! I don't know if Sister Qi is there. Make delicious food! Let's go quickly!"

Gao Ming, who hadn't done farm work for decades, was almost exhausted, but when he heard Landa's words, he was a little funny, laughing that he only saw the hard work of going up the mountain, but Landa saw victory in sight!Beware of getting motivated again, he said: "I and the Bujara cart, you push it!"

It was dark in May, but when the six of us reached the hillside, it was already getting dark. Landa saw Qi and Lin Zi sitting at the entrance of the cave from a distance, and said with a smile, "Brother Lin Zi, we are back!"

Lin Ziqi hurried forward to help the cart with things. The six people's hair, faces, and bodies were covered with dirty sweat and straw scratches, not to mention sore hands and feet. Gao Ming's body was sticky and uncomfortable, and he didn't care about eating hot food, so the six of them took a leather bag and went to the river to take a bath together.

After taking a shower, it was almost dark, and the six people in the cold river were all wet and only wore shorts. If it wasn't for Qi in the cave, they would have come back naked.Dongliqi made the soup, ladling out bowls of soup, Linzi was roasting meat on the stove, and the six of them smelled the aroma when they returned to the cave, and couldn't help swallowing, Gaoming was sore all over, sitting tired He took a sip of the dried soup on the stool and said comfortably, "Sister Qi is really good at cooking!"

"I'm so happy!" Landa pouted and said, "Brother Lin Zi, is the meat roasted?"

"Okay." Lin Zi smiled and put the meat into the Lanta bowl, and said, "Do you still go every day?"

"There is still more than half of the cut, and I will go tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Gao Ming was holding the meat by himself. He was about to starve to death. It's just cold meat and wild fruits. It's no wonder that I don't have an appetite for the hot soup and barbecue.

Lin Zi turned over the sliced ​​meat and said, "Tomorrow I will go with you."

Gao Ming glanced at Bujia, who was steady, and said, "The wheat harvested today will be dried and harvested in the cave tomorrow. This is no small job—"

"That's right! Brother Lin Zi, you're good at hunting and have good physical strength. Keep it to take care of the safety of the cave and dry the wheat. Six people are enough for us to harvest the wheat." Gao Ming said.He knew that Lin Zi must be blaming himself for not being able to help, but it's really not safe for Qi to stay in the cave alone, and she can't stay in the cave all day. !

Lin Zi paused, looked at Qi with a big belly, nodded silently and did not speak.

After dinner, Qi cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, Lin Zi looked at the ears of wheat in the bamboo basket, and asked, "How will we deal with this tomorrow?"

"Isn't there a mat left in the storage cave, and it will be laid out at the entrance of the cave tomorrow, and the ears of wheat will be poured on top of it and pulled evenly with wooden sticks, to dry for a while and turn over for a while, and when the sun is about to set, it will be put away and brought back with the mat Put it in the hole, it is estimated that it will take a few days in the sun, until the grains inside are dry and hard." Gao Ming said one by one.After a few days of using the big mat made by Landa, the hole began to be divided into smaller ones for sleeping. The mat has been placed in the storage hole, and now it is just in use.

Lin Zi nodded, Qi came out from the storage cave holding the big mat, and laid it flat at the entrance of the cave, and Lin Zi poured all ten baskets of wheat on it.Bujia thought for a while, and said, "We still don't need to push the cart tomorrow."

Gao Ming thought about it and understood, originally the cart was just for convenience, but now the road up and down the mountain is uneven, not to mention the waste of energy, and there are only four baskets in the cart, it would be better for two people to carry one basket. , It’s not as laborious as it is today, and they are not professional in making wooden frame carts. The wooden wheels are not shockproof, and the bamboo baskets can fall if they are bumped, and the wheat will fall with them. It is not as good as manpower.Nodding, said: "Listen to you!"

At night, I boiled a pot of hot water and soaked my feet, and fell asleep early. I was so tired that I fell asleep in Gaoming Cave before the fire was extinguished. I slept soundly and snored, and there were high and low sounds from the big rocks in the Lanta River. With a snoring sound, Bujia turned off the fire, hugged the drooling Gao Ming and kissed him.

Qi hugged Lin Zi and said in a low voice, "If it wasn't for me..."

"Don't say that." Lin Zi kissed Qi's mouth, and said: "You and the child will be fine, and drying the wheat tomorrow is also a job, don't think too much about it."

Qi nodded.

The next day Qi got up in the dark and helped the six people boil water and barbecue for cooking before washing up. When the six people woke up, the sun had not yet risen outside the cave. Gao Ming yawned. He was really tired and sleepy. All the bones in his body were so sore as if he had been beaten.

Qi poured boiling water into six bamboo kettles and placed them in bamboo baskets for six people. After the roasted meat had cooled down, it was wrapped in leaves and placed in bamboo baskets, and the big leaves were covered.The six of them had finished washing, ate meat, ate wild fruits, drank hot water, and started on the road before the sun came out.

"Brother Lin Zi, when the sun comes out in the morning, it will be hot!" Gao Ming waved his hand. He knew that Qi and Lin Zi were probably trying to slow them down. Everyone is silently working hard for this cave in their own way. At this moment, Gao Ming understands the meaning of the Dong tribe.

Without the stroller, their pace quickened, but each of the six of them carried one on their backs, and two of them carried one in their hands. There was one less bamboo basket than yesterday, but the speed was indeed much faster.

In the morning, when the sun was still not hot, we had already arrived at the place, and without saying anything, we started to work silently with each other. At noon, we ate meat and drank water, and we were busy until after two o'clock. It was full, more than an hour faster than yesterday.

The six of them rested and drank water under the big tree. After resting, they carried the bamboo baskets on their backs and walked back down the mountain.

There was no such stupid thing as a pushcart. Although the few people carried the frame on their backs and carried it with their hands, their pace was much faster. When they reached the foot of the mountain, it was already sunset, which was much faster than yesterday.

For three consecutive days, the six people started to leave the cave every day before the sun rose, and came back at sunset, and worked for four full days. It was even peeling from the sun, her face was red and curled up, and Bujia grinned hoarsely in pain when she touched it, and Qi smashed the green leaves to paste her face, which made her feel much better.

Gao Ming stared at the piles of wheat ears and couldn't help sighing: "There are so many, what are you using to put them in!" The leather bags that were originally sewn are definitely not enough. It would be great if there were Dawagang. That's business.

Holding my chin, doing the math, I have been busy this summer, and I guess autumn will come after a few days of rest, and I will start storing food and firewood for the snow season...