living in a mountain village

Chapter 53 The Treehouse in the Forest

After seeing off the wolf king, Lin Hao and Mo Qian wandered around under the moonlight for a while before returning to the camp.I saw Wang Bin looking at the bonfire and planning to watch the night.When he saw Lin Hao and Mo Qian coming back together, he looked at Lin Hao in surprise and asked, "Did you tell Teacher Mo about the wolf king?"

"Well, I just took her to see Xiaoyue. They just left not long ago. This is their territory. It's safe to have them at night. You should go to bed early." Lin Hao said to Wang Bin.

"That's all right, I'm going to rest too, and you guys should go to rest earlier too." After hearing Lin Hao's words, Wang Bin didn't think much of it, and went to rest in his tent.

Lin Hao and Mo Qian were warming up by the bonfire. The dew in the mountains was heavy, but luckily everyone was wearing moisture-proof mats.The rest is not so uncomfortable, because of the bonfire, several tents are still very dry.

Lin Hao and Mo Qian woke up very early. When Ma Tianyu and Xu Tianke got up, they found Lin Hao and Mo Qian were making breakfast. When they looked around, they saw Wang Bin repairing tools.It seemed that only the two of them went to bed the earliest and woke up the latest.Ma Tianyu and Xu Tianke walked to Lin Hao's side in embarrassment.

"You guys are up, go wash your face and prepare for breakfast. After breakfast, we will start working." Lin Hao greeted Ma Tianyu and the others.

Ma Tianyu and Xu Tianke hurried to the creek to wash their faces and came back. Lin Hao called Wang Bin to put down the tools in his hand and eat.The five of them quickly finished their breakfast.Then Wang Bin left the camp for a while, and when he came back, he saw several hares and a pheasant in his hand.He gave the things to Mo Qian and asked him to put the prey in the cave. The cave is very shallow, but it is still possible to store some prey.Because the weather is a bit hot, Lin Hao prepared a lot of saltpeter when he entered the mountain this time.He took out part of the saltpeter and froze it into ice and put it with the prey.

Lin Hao took Wang Bin and the others to transport the wood to the first selected location for building the tree house, buried two pieces of wood next to the four big trees, and fixed them into a triangle with mortise and tenon. Then they put two crossbars on it, and then covered it with logs from the mouth of the bowl to form a platform. Then they made a wooden ladder and climbed to this platform.Because the table is three meters above the ground, it can effectively prevent danger and prevent people from getting sick due to moisture.

When it was noon, they had just built less than a third of the platform, because it was a physical effort, so everyone worked very slowly.Mo Qian took out part of the prey in the morning in the camp. In order to make it easier for Lin Hao to help Mo Qian deal with the prey in advance, Mo Qian put the chopped pheasant in water and boiled it to remove the blood.Added fresh water to the pot again.It was placed on a simple stove piled up with a few stones and slowly simmered on a low fire.

It was noon when Mo Qian finished stewing the pheasant soup.She came under the tree house under construction and shouted: "Lunch is ready, let's work after eating." After hearing this, Lin Hao also said to everyone: "Let's eat first, we will start working after eating. "

After a whole morning of physical work, a bowl of delicious pheasant soup entered my stomach.Everyone moaned uncontrollably, as if their taste buds were pried away by the delicious pheasant soup.Maybe it's because everyone is doing physical work. Everyone's appetite is very good. After eating a whole pheasant soup and a big pot of rice, everyone still doesn't feel full.

After dinner, Lin Hao and everyone enjoyed the shade under the tree, because the sun was too big at noon, and if you didn’t pay attention, you would suffer from heat stroke, so everyone followed Lin Hao’s words and enjoyed the shade under the big tree. After playing two decks of cards, several people played poker, while Mo Qian went back to the tent to take a nap.

The sun slanted to the west a little bit, and when it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, the weather seemed to start to cool down.Lin Hao and the others tidied up and started to get busy again. Maybe it was because they had eaten and rested. In short, everyone seems to be physically strong at the moment, and the progress of work is also happy.

The days are always long in summer, and by the time the sun went down, they had finished laying two-thirds of the floor of the treehouse.At this time, the paved area was enough to set up two tents, so Ma Tianyu and Xu Tianke proposed to Lin Hao and the others to move the tents to the platform built on the tree.This can also avoid the trouble of keeping watch at night. Lin Hao and Wang Bin glanced at each other without saying anything, and Mo Qian cooperated and kept her mouth shut without explaining.

"Let's put up the tent on the tree. The paved area is just enough for us to set up two tents. Then we will sleep in a tent with Wang Bin, and you and Mo Qian will sleep in one. The tree is quite safe, at that height Wild beasts are generally not able to come up. Everyone can have a good rest and you and Wang Bin don't have to take turns to watch the night." Ma Tianyu and the others said.

"Listen to you, let's move the tent to the tree." Several people quickly moved everything to the tree.

Wang Bin pulled Lin Hao's clothes with some amusement, and walked behind Ma Tianyu and the others.Wang Bin whispered to Lin Hao: "Brother Hao, if they know that the wolves here listen to you, will they vomit blood in anger?"

"It should be. After all, they didn't let them watch the night when they entered the mountain a few times. It may be embarrassing. It's just that we don't want the bonfire to go out so that we can get rid of the moisture."

Maybe it was because of moving to the tree. When Ma Tianyu and Xu Tianke got up the next day, they felt refreshed, as if a big stone that had been stuck in their chest had been removed.

When they saw that Lin Hao and Mo Qian were busy making breakfast below, and Wang Bin was returning empty-handed, Lin Hao waved to Wang Bin.

"Brother Hao, what's the matter?"

"Today is empty-handed."

"Well, there doesn't seem to be any prey nearby. It should be scared away by the sound of our building."

"It's okay. When the wolf king came, he brought us a little wild boar. I put it in the cave. You can clean it up." Hearing Wang Bin's explanation, Lin Hao expressed his understanding.

When they saw Wang Bin turn around and head towards the cave, Ma Tianyu and the others were very curious about what Wang Bin was doing.But soon they saw Wang Bin coming out of the cave carrying a little wild boar.

After Wang Bin took the wild boar to the stream and cleaned it up, he brought it back to Lin Hao because the little wild boar had a lot of meat.So Lin Hao cut up the little wild boar and put it on top of the bonfire, smoked it continuously, and rubbed a thick layer of salt on the pork.

(End of this chapter)