alien island

When the meat was cooked, everyone held the ripe fruit that had been pierced with a stone knife, drank the sweet juice wine inside, and ate the meat.

The meat has been cut piece by piece with a knife and placed on wiped clean non-toxic blades.The hot meat is still steaming. In this cold and humid field that is still filled with white moisture, being able to roast your body on a warm fire and eat steaming barbecue in your mouth is a great sense of happiness.

Ke Yiqiao took a bite of the meat and chewed it in his mouth. Although there was no seasoning, it only had the original taste of meat, but the taste was not unpalatable, and it also had a charcoal-grilled aroma that is unique to barbecue.She then took another sip of the juice from the fruit in her hand. It smelled a little like wine, sweet, but still delicious.

With a satisfied expression on his face, Ke Yiqiao happily raised his head and said to Zhang Yao: "The juice in this fruit is delicious, and it tastes sweet."

"Tsk, I just think it's a bit sweeter, and the wine tastes better." Zhang Yao felt that it was too sweet, and instead lost the pleasure of drinking.After taking a long sip, Zhang Yao suddenly thought of something, looked back and forth at Pei Yan beside him, and said, "Have you ever used chopsticks to eat?"

Pei Yan, who was skillfully tearing the flesh of his hands, stopped his movements after hearing Zhang Yao's question, and replied with some confusion: "Chopsticks?"

"Hey, do you always eat with your hands?" Although Zhang Yao was also carelessly grabbing the meat with his hands at the moment, gnawing at it without any image.But just now, he suddenly remembered this question.Because Pei Yan has been growing up with those beasts, probably no one has taught him to eat with other tools. Zhang Yao's curiosity flared up for a while, and he also wanted to see Pei Yan's He didn't respond, so he asked with a little bad humor.

"I can also use a knife." I don't know why Zhang Yao suddenly asked this question, but Pei Yan still answered seriously, and pulled up the long knife inserted in the ground beside him, and moved the knife in his hand cleanly. Large pieces of meat, chopped into small pieces for demonstration.In addition to the meat that is usually easy to tear with his hands, he can also use a knife to solve some difficult foods.

"Ha, knives...not counting, let me teach you how to use chopsticks~" The mischievous mood became more and more serious, Zhang Yao felt that teaching this "savage" who has been calm and strong in the past few days should learn how to use chopsticks. It must be a very interesting thing to eat with chopsticks.

"Oh." I don't know if learning to use chopsticks has any great significance, as long as Zhang Yao offered to teach him, Pei Yan agreed without thinking.

So, Ke Yiqiao and Xiang Chen, who were eating dinner around the fire, were lucky enough to see a mixed-race man with a serious expression on his face, holding a pair of simple chopsticks made of local materials in a strange posture.Trying to clip the joyful scene of things placed on the ground.Seeing some small round stones that Zhang Yao deliberately found, he asked Pei Yan to try to pick them up with chopsticks, but Pei Yan, who didn't know how to put the two chopsticks between his fingers and held them together, moved awkwardly. The chopsticks were awkwardly held in his hands, and he wanted to use them to pick up the round stones on the ground.

With his lips tightly pursed together, Pei Yan, who looked very focused, managed to pick up a stone with the twisted chopsticks in his hand, and when it was rising in mid-air, another unsteady roll fell on the ground. on the ground.The whole 'difficult' process of picking things with chopsticks made Zhang Yao really unable to bear it, and laughed for a while.

Patting his legs, Zhang Yao laughed unrestrainedly. He laughed for a long time before barely stopping. He said to Pei Yan: "Pei Yan, you don't hold chopsticks like you do, and you shouldn't hold them like that. Otherwise, you won’t be able to hold things. Hahaha, it’s wrong! It’s not like this.” Looking at the usually tough and powerful person, the current trembling hands are really funny when compared together, it’s obvious that he is using a knife Time is so smooth.

Frowning, Pei Yan followed Zhang Yao's guidance and continued to try hard to pick up things with chopsticks, but unfortunately the effect was minimal, and the picked things still fell one by one, while Zhang Yao looked on happily from the sidelines.

Even Xiang Chen, who had been watching from the sidelines, seeing Pei Yan's appearance of not being able to use chopsticks, disintegrated his arrogant and stiff expression of keeping a distance from others, and couldn't help laughing.

In the end, there was only Ke Yiqiao alone, watching the behavior of the two people next to Pei Yan, they all laughed, and couldn't help but sympathize with Pei Yan from the bottom of their hearts.After all, she didn't know how to use chopsticks because she had been in the wild for so long without being taught. Her movements seemed awkward, and it was a bit pitiful to be laughed at. She turned her head to Zhang Yao, who was still laughing at Pei Yan, and preached : "Brother Zhang Yao, stop teasing Brother Pei Yan, he is so pitiful."

"Haha, how could I have teased him?" Zhang Yao innocently defended with a smile on his face. After thinking about it in his heart, he felt that he had had enough fun, and it was better not to bully a person who didn't understand anything too much.Originally, in the wild now, even people with higher education or high society, if they want to survive on this broken island, they have to live a life like a savage who drinks blood and eats. It is normal to use hands to help.It is true that at this time, people still pick up food with chopsticks in a gentle manner, that is the really strange person who has got the wrong line with his brain.

However, if they return to a civilized social environment in the future, using chopsticks is the necessary tool for eating, and it is not impossible to teach Pei Yan now.Having had enough of laughing at Pei Yan's clumsy movements, Zhang Yao directly moved his body towards Pei Yan, stretched out his hand and readily grabbed Pei Yan's hand that could not hold the chopsticks well, and directly demonstrated how to hold the chopsticks with his own hands. As he instructed, he signaled Pei Yan to hold the chopsticks like this so that things would not fall off.

At this time, Pei Yan had already focused his attention on Zhang Yao's active hand holding his own. He was absent-minded for a second, but he quickly adjusted back and refocused on learning how to use chopsticks. .At the position of Pei Yan's heart, it felt like the two hands seemed to be beating faster at the moment of contact just now, as if feeling the strange feeling that Zhang Yao described as electricity last time again.

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After all the hustle and bustle was over, the four of them who had enough to eat and drink climbed back to the hammocks on the big tree to rest one by one. In his luggage bag, there is no animal skin wetted by water.Cut it open with a dagger, divided it into two, and threw it beside Ke Yiqiao and Xiang Chen, and covered them with half a sheet each. Covering them at night like this should be a lot warmer.No way, Zhang Yao thought, who told these two little devils to be younger, it would be even more troublesome if they were given cold disease.

The animal skin covered the two slender people, and it happened to be able to completely cover the body. Xiang Chen looked at the animal skin that Zhang Yao threw for him, and without speaking, he turned over and hugged the animal skin with his back to Zhang. Yao, Zhang Yao also walked away indifferently, this kid's silence is the best answer.When Ke Yiqiao received the animal skin, he was still a little worried: "Brother Zhang Yao, what will you and Brother Pei Yan do?" The animal skin was distributed between them and covered.

"It's okay, we both have thick skins and can carry it. Don't you still have a few unsoaked clothes in the bag? Take them out and let's make do with them first." Bending over to lift the bag beside Ke Yiqiao, Zhang Yao He dug out two clothes from the inside and replied.

"But..." Although there were clothes, the cover was too thin in this weather. Ke Yiqiao looked at the clothes and didn't know what to say.

"Just go to sleep, do we still need you to worry?" Pushing Ke Yiqiao's head and overturning her on the hammock covered with thick leaves, Zhang Yao still reminded her: "Remember Tie the tree vines around your waist and sleep again, or you will fall off the tree in the middle of the night, and there will be no salvation."

"En." Lying on the hammock made of branches, Ke Yiqiao nodded in agreement, and checked the vines tied around her waist with her hands again.

"Okay, then I'll go up." Continuing to hold on to the vines, Zhang Yao climbed towards the hammock that was higher than the hammocks of the two little devils, and finally sat on the hammock where he was going to sleep, and looked at his hands. Although it was big, it was obviously much thinner than the fur of wild animals. He picked out one and threw it to Pei Yan who was sitting in the hammock on the other side.

"Sorry, I gave them your animal skin. It looks like we're going to have a hard time sleeping tonight."

"...Tomorrow I'll go hunting and skinning animals." Pei Yan didn't really care. He had already adapted to this kind of climate change, but he felt that Zhang Yao must not adapt to this kind of temperature change. God, he won't stick to that animal skin forever.

"Okay, I need a little more supplies." Four people always need more daily necessities than two, and Zhang Yao is in a good mood when he thinks that he can have something warm to cover.

Seeing that Zhang Yao was in a good mood, Pei Yan also squinted his eyes, arched his body and wanted to stand up, as if wanting to come to Zhang Yao's side, Zhang Yao saw that something was wrong, and immediately stopped: "Hey, hey! Don't you Do you want to come over? The hammock I made here is not so strong, it can’t bear two old men, you should stay in your hammock obediently, I don’t want to fall from such a high place.” Looking sideways The lower part of the Wangshu hammock is about ten meters above the ground. No matter how thick the fallen leaves are, it cannot withstand such a fall.

Pei Yan, who was stopped by Zhang Yao, saw that he had no way to go, so he could only continue to sit where he was, watching Zhang Yao shake off his clothes happily, lay down on his body, and sleep peacefully, while his heart was still restless, It made him unable to fall asleep peacefully for a long time, and he could only look at Zhang Yao's broad back sleeping with his back facing him, drooping his eyes and thinking about something.

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After falling asleep in the middle of the night, Zhang Yao suddenly turned over from the hammock, and suddenly woke up, with a little sweat on his forehead. He scratched his short black hair with his hands, and gave a wry smile. , making Zhang Yao feel as if he was cruising between reality and dreams, which made his thinking a little confused and uncomfortable.

In the dream, he carefully dreamed of the face of the mother who was still thinking about the fetus in her womb when she was dying. From this influence, he dreamed that he ran back in a hurry, only to see his mother passed away with a white cloth covering her head In the scene, the arm hanging from the white cloth is dry and thin, and it is full of pinholes caused by injection needles. The ravages of the disease made the mother's weight when she died was only half of a normal person.The last time we met, I saw my mother's face like a skeleton, which has always made Zhang Yao deeply shocked and shadowed.

Recalling these painful memories, Zhang Yao held his head even more uncomfortable. He simply turned over and got out of the hammock, climbed down the big tree, came to the fire with a little spark left, picked up the other side and piled it into a pile. Stacks of branches and firewood were added to the fire one by one, and the fire was slowly ignited. Then, Zhang Yao plucked a fruit from the bunch of fruits that Pei Yan cut and dragged, and knocked it open. Hard shell, drink the juice wine inside.

Although it's not for the sake of drinking to relieve worries, but in the current situation, drinking some alcohol can calm one's emotions.After drinking the juice wine from the three ripe fruits, Zhang Yao was about to pick up the fourth broken fruit and drink the juice wine inside when he heard the sound of someone stepping on the fallen leaves behind him. Immediately turned around and asked, "Who?"

"..." Without speaking, the visitor jumped forward lightly, and landed beside Zhang Yao lightly, looking at the emptied fruits beside Zhang Yao, said: "You will get drunk, be careful."

"Fortunately, this wine will make you drunk easily?" Unconsciously raised the corner of his mouth, and smiled at Pei Yan who was next to him. Zhang Yao didn't know that his face was slightly flushed because of drinking, although his wheat color Not very noticeable on the skin.

"The reaction speed will be slow..." Pei Yan did not stop Zhang Yao from continuing to drink, but just explained the influence of fruit wine.

"Ha, as I said, I'm not drunk, so don't worry so much." Zhang Yao took another big sip of fruit juice wine, leaned back against the tree trunk, rubbed his head left and right on the tree trunk a few times , I feel a little fluttering all over my body.This fruit wine seems to be easy to get drunk...

Obviously according to his usual drinking capacity, it is not so easy to get drunk.Zhang Yao speculated that it might be because the sweetness of the wine blinded him, making him feel that there would be no stamina after drinking it, but after drinking it, the alcohol began to slowly increase.Counting the amount of juice wine he drank before going to bed and the amount he drank now, his whole head began to become a little dull and drowsy due to the strength of the alcohol.

Raising his head, Zhang Yao looked at the hammock above the big tree. The two of them were sleeping like a dream. It was probably because the juice wine in the fruit had gained its stamina, which made the two people who had only drank half of the juice wine in the fruit sleep soundly now. So familiar, no sound can wake them up.