The soil used to make the adobe bricks was stirred continuously for three days. After the grass in the soil fermented, Maxine took only half a day to mold all the adobe bricks to dry. Lu Bing sat on the side sewing animal skin bags, which were to be taken to the salt lake to store salt. After drying the last adobe brick, Maxine asked Lu Bing to see if there were enough adobe bricks, and if he was preparing some. The height, length and width of the adobe bricks are all the same. After counting carefully, Lu Bing squatted on the ground and counted, but it was still a bit worse. "Maxine will make another pool of adobe bricks, and you can use mud for the rest. After these are ready to dry, you can go first and get the salt back."

"Okay. I'll get the soil first." Maxine picked up the piles left under the cliff. A stack of baskets woven from rattan and a stone pick made of wood and stones. There is soil everywhere by the river. Maxine is also quick to do this job. After the soil is made, weeds are added to the first pond and mixed well. Life here is over. "Lu, I'm going back."

I started molding early this morning, and it's just past noon at this time. Feeling a stomach that had just eaten lunch, Lu Bing put down the half-sewn bag. "Maxine, let's go to the forest before it gets dark to see if there is anything good? After the rainy season, I haven't been there yet."

Maxine looked at the sun still high above his head. "Then, go to the swamp. There's not enough time today."

"That's good." The environment in the swamp is good, and many good things have not been spoiled by wild animals. After hastily packing up the animal skins and baskets brought by the medicine, Maxine flew directly to the swamp area with Lu Bing. This swamp is located in a high valley plain. After the rainy season, there is not much flood backlog, and now it has receded, leaving only connected pools. Maxine picked a hillside without water and landed. Lu Bing turned over and looked at the swamp that had expanded more than twice after the rainy season. "Maxine, do you still remember those wild herbs?"

"Lu, remember what you said." Before Lu Bing taught me how to collect wild vegetables and medicinal materials, I still remember the appearance. Maxine bent down with the animal skin bag and prepared to collect them. It was also Lu Bing's luck that he found a few corn seedlings mixed in the weeds. After digging out the soil carefully, Lu Bing said to Maxine, "Look, Maxine. This is corn, which is also an edible grain. When we go back, we will plant it on the side of wheat. This does not require much water and is very It 's easy to feed."

Hearing what Lu Bing said, Maxine took the seedlings that Lu Bing handed to him, looked carefully and asked about the taste. "I've made a note of it. Tell me if you need anything else, I'll find it for you."

"That's right, these are good treasures that we will rely on for our survival here in the future. Be careful." Lu Bing put the seedlings away nervously. He got into the back basket, lowered his head and looked again to see if there was anything else good. Before the sun set, Maxine flew back to the cave with two bags of wild vegetables and one bag of medicinal materials, as well as more than forty corn seedlings and dozens of peppers wrapped in soil in the road ice basket. Maxine first took Lu Bing to plant the seedlings of medicinal materials and corn pepper seedlings together, and took Lu Bing to the side of the mud pool on the opposite side to set up a grill stone pot and leave Lu Bing to cook dinner by himself while stirring the soil with his tail.

In the next two days and two mornings, after breakfast, Maxine would take Lu Bing into places with few wild animals to find some seedlings that could be used. Along the way, he also found wild grapes spreading in a valley. Looking at the small green grapes the size of mung beans on the vine, Lu Bing excitedly held Maxine's hand. "Maxine, when this thing is ripe, we will pick it to make wine. Drinking it in the ice and snow season can warm the body, and adding it to the meat can get rid of the fishy smell."

"I will come over in a few days to see it. Let me tell you." When Lu Bing appeared, Maxine drank a little of the wine, and one sip in the bitterly cold weather could warm people up from their stomachs.

Now that the grapes are not yet ripe, the road ice does not stop. The two walked around the valley and passed through several forests to find a lot of medicinal herbs and wild vegetables. Maxine also caught a few wild boars. Lu Bing was very excited when he saw the long mane of the wild boar. His own toothbrush had already lost its hair. This wild boar really came in time. Let's go back tonight and think about it. Let's make the toothbrush first, and the mouth will be clean by then, and the kisses and the like won't keep thinking about yellow teeth. Maxine didn't know that he didn't kiss Lu Bing because he didn't brush his teeth. If he knew, he would clean his mouth even if he borrowed Lu Bing's toothbrush.

After dinner in the evening, Maxine squatted by the mud pool and used a new mold to dry the clay bricks without grass one by one. These bricks are only as big as clay bricks when they are four side by side. These bricks are made of road ice. I thought of it when the fire wall was hot. Sitting by the fire, Lu Bing carefully arranged the wild boar's manes according to their size, and tied them around the waist with thread from his worn-out jeans. After carefully picking up more than 20 clusters, Lu Bing picked up the dry cork toothbrush handle that was baked by the fire. The wood of the toothbrush head is split and split into two thin halves.

Putting the one with the wooden handle aside first, Lu Bing took the mane and folded it in half and stuffed it into a small cork pierced with animal bones. Lu Bing made twelve tufts of bristles side by side on the surface of a toothbrush. After finishing it, Lu Bing glued the cork on the toothbrush surface and the handle of the toothbrush together with gum. After the gum dries, Lu Bing tried the next two pieces of cork. will be too big. After Lu Bing was sure that the homemade toothbrush was successful, he cut off the excess bristles on the toothbrush with a knife, and made a new toothbrush of the same kind. Maxine used a much smaller mold this time, and the speed was much slower. At night when the two of them were going to sleep, Lu Bing asked Maxine to prepare eight toothbrush handles to make toothbrushes.

Early the next morning, Maxine came back with six wild boars, helped Lu Bing break them into pieces, cleaned the internal organs and gave Lu Bing an enema. Wiping the animal skin with his hands, Lu Bing took off the roasted pork and placed it on the big leaves. "The meat is roasted, so don't rush to fetch water."

Maxine's stomach was already bulging after being busy hunting and processing animal meat early in the morning, and Lu Bing said that he could sit in front of the barbecue after eating. Cut off the tender meat on the back and handed it to Lu Bing who was adding wild vegetables to the pork liver soup in the stone pot. "Don't prepare a barbecue belt for me, I will hunt by myself."

"There's a lot of meat here, I can't eat it all by myself in three days." Lu Bing ignored Maxine's words, because he was so afraid that he would have an accident if he was left alone, he must have been rushing along the way. "It's enough to keep half of the wild boar, and I will bring you the rest that can't be enema. By the way, you haven't lost the pig's head, have you?"

"No, it's all there." Maxine swallowed the meat and pointed with a finger By the river, there are six wild boar heads that have been scalded with hot water and their hair removed. "It's all done according to your instructions."

"The soup is ready, I'll let you dry it with water." Lu Bing took a small stone pot and placed it in the shallow water by the river with a cover made of rushes. It's cold. Maxine smiled at Lu Bing's little move, hurriedly filled his stomach and drank a pot of soup before putting three whole wild boars on the grill, and flew to the center of the upstream river to fetch water and pour it into Lu Bing's self-made filter Strain through a bucket. Back and forth several times, Lu Bing sat on the side and served three grills at the same time, and took time to make sausages. In the morning, Maxine prepared all that Lu Bing needed for the three days, and then he ate his lunch and left under Lu Bing's gaze. They lack a lot of things during the harvest season, and they don't know when they will come to fetch salt next time.

It wasn't until Maxine could no longer be seen that Lu Bing returned to the platform in despair, divided the pig's head, pig's heart and large intestine into three stone pots, and started with the chili, salt, ginger, garlic, fennel, star anise, fruit, fragrant leaves and unknown super Sweet fruits that look like red plums, and yellow lemons are finely marinated. They ate four pork livers for breakfast and lunch, and the remaining two Lu Bing decided to marinate them together for half a day. They ate too much today and got bored.

Marinating takes a lot of time. Lu Bing returned to the cave and took out a bag of goat hair that had been cleaned and dried. When I was young, I often saw my grandmother spinning on the three-handed spinning wheel passed down from my ancestors in the farmhouse, but I only saw the elastic cotton before the yarn a few times. Lu Bing took the wool and nestled it in the cave where the stone pot could be seen. The bamboo bow made of bamboo slices and animal tendon bounced like a bamboo bow. Pretty good. Lu Bing looked at each of them one by one to see that there was still a lot of marinade, added some water, added some firewood and continued to cook, thinking that it would be fine if the firewood was gone, so he simply ignored it.

The wool that has been stretched is twisted into threads to make spinning threads. This is the first difficulty of Lu Bing weaving at this stage. Lu Bing, who had never done it at all, was either thick or thin enough to break the thread. It took two days of continuous tossing and spinning a small half bag of wool Lu Bing to feel the handle, and the thickness of the thread that was read later was even. Holding the heavy spinning thread in his hand, Lu Bing's pride doubled. This was directly wrapped with branches, and when Maxine came back, he was instructed to make the three spinning wheels first.

This time it was just fetching salt, and there was no herd of beasts on the road. Maxine came back much earlier. When he got home, Lu Bing happened to be in the cave and re-stretched the untwisted wool. Hearing the flapping of wings, Lu Bing hurriedly dropped the bamboo bow and ran to the platform, just in time to see Maxine standing in the open space next to the vegetables under the cliff. Count carefully Maxine really brought enough this time, a full eight packs of salt.

"Maxine." Lu Bing shouted down, Maxine looked up and saw Lu Bing and laughed. Lu Bing waved Maxine's back, stretched out his wings and flew up the cave with a bag of salt in his hand. "I'm back."

"It's good to be back." Lu Bing stepped forward and hugged Maxine, then directed Maxine to send the salt into the cave for storage, and then went to cook the pig's head lo mei by himself. After putting the salt away, Maxine drank the water that Lu Bing had poured in one gulp, squatted in front of the wool and asked, "What is this for?"

Lu Bing looked up at what Maxine was asking, and walked over after throwing away the wood. "I'm going to make fabric. That can be used to make clothes. It's the kind I wore before. Unfortunately, I haven't found cotton yet. That's what makes clothes and quilts."

After speaking, Lu Bing gave Maxim a pop of cotton trees . The appearance of cotton, Maxine listened to Lu Bing's work before taking over the wool carefully. After eating the pig's head and large intestine made of Lubing's marinated pig's heart, Maxine hurried to hunt for today's dinner while it was still dark.