Chapter 45: The arrogant girl with a red face and a pale face eats food.
Shortly after placing the seafood, Zhang Liu and Anya, who were busy working separately down the cave, and Qin Rushuang, who had returned from hunting rabbits, completed their meeting.
At this moment, it was dark outside, and the three of them were preparing to spend the fourth night in the wilderness.
"What is wrong with you?" Anya sat by the fire and took off her shoes to warm herself. She looked at Qin Rushuang as she walked from the side and looked embarrassed by the broken grass all over her body. She suddenly felt curious.
Of course she saw "straw mats" spread out inside the cave, but it shouldn't be this far, right?
Zhang Liu, who was pouring the seafood, also gave Qin Rushuang a strange look.
“There's a rabbit in the haystack over there! But I can’t catch him,” Qin Rushuang said regretfully.
“Rabbit...” Hearing this word, Zhang Liu suddenly felt that the oyster meat rolling up and down in front of him no longer smelled good.
After all, it's a protein with a strong, meaty flavor!
"Well, it's hard to catch!" As she walked beside Anya, Qin Rushuang removed the grass from her body and said, “Zhang Liu, are you going to watch outside tonight?”
“Yes, I want to guard the water source. In that case, I might have a chance to catch him tomorrow night.” Zhang Liu nodded, then used a piece of metal to cut the kelp roots into pieces and put them in a pot. He continued, saying, "If the hunt fails tomorrow evening, I will set off for the wreckage of the plane the day after tomorrow."
"Okay!" Qin Rushuang nodded slightly.
Although she was a little worried about whether there would be problems if Zhang Liu was alone.
But considering that his performance here was completely incomparable, Qin Rushuang didn't have the confidence to say anything.
“By the way, you can try this,” Zhang Liu said, handing the bright yellow fruit to Qin Rushuang and Anya. “I’m sure this is a Jiabao fruit, because the taste is exactly the same as what we had before, and it also looks like this in the illustration of the plant.”
Faced with this new fruit, the two women behaved differently.
Qin Rushuang grabbed the fruit with both hands and looked at it carefully. It was obvious that she had never seen such a fruit before and was a little curious.
On the other hand, Anya started speaking directly.
“It's seems so good." Then she couldn't help but complain vaguely.
When she takes a bite, it feels like she's eating sweet sand with a low water content.
When Anya smelled the sweet fruit and bit it, she thought it would taste like a big mango.
As a result, this thin layer of crust is very tough and sour.
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The inner pulp is particularly lacking in water and is like a cooked egg yolk that instantly covers every corner of the mouth, demanding water voraciously.
“It is said that the vitamin C content is very high.” Zhang Liu brought the boiling water to Anya, then looked at Qin Rushuang, who was eating it after peeling it, and asked, “How do you feel?”
No answer……
Since Qin Rushuang's first bite was also very large, the inside of her mouth was smeared severely, like Anya's.
She was chewing vigorously, trying to stimulate her salivary glands to secrete saliva and remove the egg yolk-like object stuck near her throat.
After struggling for a while, the two girls swallowed the fruit into their mouths and then began to take small bites to taste this relatively rare fruit.
On the other hand, Zhang Liu silently looked at the fruit in his hand. A thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately fell into deep thought.
"What's the problem?" After eating the fruit, Qin Rushuang and Anya looked at Zhang Liu, who was thinking.
Their voices were a little worried.
“I'm worried about the time.” With a slight sigh, Zhang Liu put the fruit in his hand, then looked at them and said, “Our original school travel plan was to go to the Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean to enjoy the tropical scenery, right?”
“Yes.” When Zhang Liu suddenly mentioned the truth of the situation, Qin Rushuang’s tone suddenly dropped. “Is there any problem?”
“And we have still completed the transfer from Sydney.” Zhang Liu pointed to the ground and said, “In other words, if this is the worst-case scenario, we should be on a desert island in the Pacific Ocean by now.”
“It should be so.” Anya nodded, then asked, “Zhang Liu, what do you want to say with this?”
“In other words, this is definitely a tropical region, so the cold winters we were worried about before should not happen, but there may be heavy rainy seasons and dry seasons.”
Frowning and thinking about the geographical knowledge he had learned, only then did Zhang Liu understand the difference between books and reality.
Catalogs of knowledge related to survival in the wild only record many interesting techniques or examples.
But there is never a complete package.
There is no detailed description of how to survive the rainy season or the dry season.
"Does a heavy rainy season mean heavy rain?" Qin Rushuang immediately frowned after hearing Zhang Liu's words.
“Yeah, but in the current situation, without medical logistical support, it is impossible to risk being exposed to the rain. Right now it is around November, which should be the dry season, so there is no problem, but it is around June; it seems that it will be the rainy season.”
Zhang Liu clicked his tongue, then said, “We have to prepare in advance to protect ourselves from the rain.”
“We'd better hide here,” Anya said, pointing to the mountain above her head. “It's so deep here that it can't get rain inside.”
"Then what do we eat?" Qin Rushuang looked at Anya, then said, "It's not raining now. It's appropriate to go out to find something to eat. What if it rains constantly in the future?"
“Let’s take it step by step; with such a vast forest, it won’t starve the three of us.” Zhang Liu shrugged and then said, “Let’s have dinner first.”
Looking at the solemn expressions of the two people, he also understood that he was a little anxious and had brought an emotional aura to the entire team.
So Zhang Liu took the initiative to take two cooked crabs from the little shell, then handed them to Anya and Qin Rushuang, who were looking anxious, and said, “Classmate Anya, classmate Qin Rushuang, let’s eat the crabs first."
“Thank you.” Qin Rushuang extended her hand to catch the shell, then placed it in front of her and waited for the crab to cool down.
But Anya had an angry expression on her face and kept staring at Zhang Liu, sitting still as if she didn't see the crab that was handed to her.
"???" Zhang Liu was stunned for a moment, then remembered the name he should call the other party, cleared his throat, and then tentatively repeated, “Anya, how about some crabs?”
"Yes!" The angry expression on her face immediately disappeared, and Anya, who thought she had “trained” Zhang Liu perfectly, reached out to take the crab and began to enjoy it with her head down.
From time to time, she would make a sound because she was burned: “Chiha, jiha.”
Seeing Anya's cute behavior of being burned but reluctant to let go, Zhang Liu couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth and smile secretly, then turned around and took several pieces of kelp roots for himself and placed them with the oysters.
Behind him, Qin Rushuang, who was playing with the crab legs, looked at Anya and then at Zhang Liu.
She suddenly felt a sour feeling in her heart.
Unlike Zhang Liu, who was very naive and did not understand the difference between: classmate Anya and Anya.
From what Qin Rushuang heard, it was clear that Anya didn't want to eat, and then Zhang Liu convinced her to eat by just calling her name!
If she didn't want to eat, would Zhang Liu just call her Qin Rushuang?
Thinking of this, she wanted to say “I'm full” as a test.
But seeing Anya impatiently stuff crab meat into her mouth with a pale face, Qin Rushuang did not dare to speak casually.
What if this guy snatches the crab from me and eats it right away?
As she struggled, she stuffed her mouth with sweet crab meat and quickly got over it.
Meanwhile, the highlight of the dinner was a large bowl of a mixture of oyster meat and kelp roots, which was poured evenly into bowls for three people.
A bowl filled with soup that has been cooled to the point of being eaten.
Qin Rushuang and Anya, who had already aroused their appetite for crab meat, did not think about the title issue at all.
They picked up the bowl and used makeshift chopsticks made from tree branches to move it to their mouths.
Compared to the two people who enjoyed it freely, Zhang Liu, who kept the impure meat with broken shells for himself, had to spit out a piece of splinter from time to time.
Qin Rushuang and Anya also saw this scene, and they remembered that Zhang Liu had given the first two layers of meat to them.
Looking at each other, they all stopped eating silently.
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