Chapter 33 Digging Sweet Potatoes
After making an appointment with Ye Sen to go back to collect sweet potatoes the next day, Lin Shu hummed a small song and went back to prepare what she wanted tomorrow.
The previous bamboo arrows had almost been consumed, so Lin Shu cut off another bamboo and cut a lot of bamboo arrows for later use.
There were still a lot of medicine powder prepared before the migration, and Lin Shu used a small bamboo tube to carry some with her.
In addition, she also brought a piece of animal skin to keep warm, brought a stone knife to cut sweet potato vines, and even brought a small stone pot and several bowls made of bamboo tubes to make it easier to boil water or cook things in the middle.
She put all these things in the basket, and she just carried the basket back and carried it.
The next day, Lin Shu and Ye Zi and the others arranged the collection and followed Ye Sen on the way back.
Ye Sen walked very fast, but he kept the speed that Lin Shu could just keep up, so that Lin Shu would not feel uncomfortable.
After walking for a long time, Lin Shu found something was wrong: "Yesen, it seems that this is not the way we came?"
"We will go directly to the place where we saved you last time this time. The road is closest." Ye Sen kept paying attention to the surrounding situation in front and explained after hearing this.
"Oh, I thought I would go back to my original tribe first." After hearing this, Lin Shu followed him quietly, looking around with her eyes constantly.
Since this is a path she has not walked, maybe she can make any new discoveries.
Compared to the wide route that facilitates the large army to operate together during migration, this road is obviously more original and requires passing through dense forests.
The air in the forest was humid, and there were a lot of moss growing on the surface, and Lin Shu also saw a lot of mushrooms.
There are red, yellow, black... mushrooms of various colors and shapes in the primeval forest.There are some mushrooms that Lin Shu often eats in modern times, but she dare not gamble.
"Red umbrella, white umbrella, let's take a slate together after eating." This sentence is too deeply rooted in people's hearts. She knows very well that she doesn't have the ability to identify, so she won't be a "mushroom brave man".
The tall and dense canopy blocks the sun, the forest is dark, and occasionally there are trees that fall to the ground, leaving a small piece of blue sky above the head.The sunlight shines obliquely from the gap, forming golden light columns.
Dust was flying among the light columns. Lin Shu looked at these beautiful light columns and suddenly found a silk that reflected golden light in the light column. She looked down along the thread-
"Damn it!" Lin Shu rushed towards Yesen, "Such a big spider!"
A spider bigger than her face hovered in the air, with black and white markings intertwined on her body, which looked very terrifying.
Lin Shu was actually not afraid of insects in modern times. Not only are Xiaoqiang and spiders dying under her slippers, there are countless numbers.
But this giant spider is too outrageous!
Lin Shu subconsciously pulled out the wooden bow and hit the spider. In desperation, she failed to hit it. The spider was angry by her attack and jumped into her face!
"Be careful!" I heard a sound of breaking through the air. Something quickly brushed past Lin Shu, and a "choke" sound nailed the giant spider to the trunk behind.
Lin Shu felt relieved with a high raised heart and exhaled.She looked closely and found that it was a stone knife.
Ye Sen stepped forward to check and saw that the spider was dead, so he pulled down the stone knife and told Lin Shu: "This kind of spider is poisonous. I will hide behind me when I see you next time."
Lin Shu nodded repeatedly and said nothing. At this moment, the leader Yesen was her god!
The two of them traveled lightly and simply, and the speed was much faster than when the large army came.
When passing through a relatively sparse forest on the morning of the third day, Yesen lowered his voice and said to Lin Shu: "There is the activity area of the cannibals nearby. Be careful and follow me closely."
Lin Shu followed Ye Sen with a light "um" and pulled out the stone knife to deal with the emergencies.
The two continued to move forward, thinking that they would meet some cannibals, but unexpectedly they were very peaceful along the way and they did not see the cannibals.
After staying alert for a while, Lin Shu saw the large area of dense sweet potato field again. After she looked around and confirmed that there were no cannibals, she excitedly picked up the knife and started digging sweet potatoes.
Sweet potato planting is very simple, and one vine can cut out many new plants.But because it will take a few days to go back, it is not just to dig it out and plant it immediately. In order to ensure the activity of the sweet potato vines, Lin Shu decided to dig it back in the whole tree and then cut it in sections after returning.
Yesen patrolled around and confirmed that there was no danger, he also squatted down and started helping dig sweet potatoes.
This piece is full of wild sweet potatoes, no one can dig it to eat. The sweet potatoes that were previously grown were buried in the soil and were frozen after the severe cold of winter.
Lin Shu felt ache while digging: "What a pity. So many sweet potatoes rotten in the ground!"
Ye Sen asked after hearing this, “Don’t you eat leaves?”
"No. Well... Sweet potato leaves can be eaten, but the main thing they eat is the swelling roots it grows in the soil." Lin Shu explained, "Many plants have similar roots, such as potatoes and yams. There is nothing special on these surfaces, and all the roots in the ground can be eaten."
"So that's the case."
Ye Sen was very fast and digging out a whole sweet potato in just a few seconds. He rolled up the long vines and spread them in the basket, lowered his eyes and said softly, "I would have known that these things could be eaten early."
A memory suddenly popped up in Lin Shu's mind. When Ye Sen was a child, his father died under the claws of a wild beast, and he grew up with his mother alone.
The original owner's messy and broken memory also shows the scene of her following her father to visit and help Ye Sen's family when she was very young.
But at that time, everyone was short of food and couldn't spare too much food to help others.Yesen's mother left all the food she had for Yesen, and she was eventually starved to death.
Lin Shu sighed in her heart and said lightly: "It's okay. We can grow sweet potatoes ourselves now. We will produce a lot of sweet potatoes every year in the future. At that time, everyone will be tired of eating sweet potatoes!"
After hearing this, Ye Sen smiled and said, "I'm waiting for that day to come."
The atmosphere returned to relax, and the two continued to wield their stone knives to dig sweet potatoes.The vines of each sweet potato are very long, and the basket is full without digging a few sweet potatoes.
Lin Shu got up, moved her numb limbs and stretched her waist and stretched her muscles.
Halfway through her stretch, she found Ye Sen standing firmly looking into the distance, as if she was observing something.
Lin Shu asked curiously, "What are you looking at?"
Ye Sen did not answer immediately, but after continuing to observe for two seconds, he immediately packed up his things and carried the basket, pulled Lin Shu and ran away!
"Run quickly, there are a lot of people coming here!"