Chapter 5 The Swallow Holds Mud
Half a young man died of food, and his body shrank to thirteen or fourteen years old, and his stomach seemed to have become a bottomless pit. Liu Xiu had to face such an embarrassing fact.
"Maybe the increase in your appetite is related to practicing Wuming's health and energy, otherwise your appetite will not increase so much at once..."
Such an association could not help but have arisen in my heart. Liu Xiu guessed that this was the fact, but the benefits of Wuming's health care skills to him were obvious. He did not plan to stop practicing health care skills in the future in order to save food.
Now that I don’t have to worry about food in a short period of time, Liu Xiu no longer has to worry about this issue.
With a busy schedule, the sun is already at its peak. The world is probably in spring. As the sun rises, the temperature rises. Liu Xiu, who is only wearing a pair of trousers, does not have to worry about maintaining his body temperature.
There are still many things to do, and Liu Xiu doesn’t have time to be a salted fish.
After filling his stomach, Liu Xiu first came to the lake with a bonfire burning of the remaining charcoal, applied the powder from the crushed charcoal on his teeth, and put his fingers into his mouth to rub it for mouth cleaning.
In the wild, without toothpaste and toothbrush, charcoal is the best way to clean oral teeth. The smell of carbon in the mouth is average, but at least it can barely keep the oral clean.
After that, Liu Xiu returned to the cave again and cut some lemongrass with sharp stone flakes along the way.
Lemongrass is used to smoke rabbit meat, which can be seen everywhere around this plant. It can effectively prevent rabbit meat from rotting and spoiling.
When smoking a whole rabbit with wooden sticks on the bonfire, Liu Xiu also baked the rabbit and pheasant's heart and liver by the bonfire. After baking, it can prevent rot and deterioration in a short time. Liu Xiu decided to eat it in the afternoon. These things can supplement trace ingredients such as iron required by the human body.
The rabbit meat is smoked and hung in the cave with a few pieces of thatch, so that it can avoid being caught by insects like ants, while the hearts and livers of rabbits and pheasants are wrapped in leaves.
Next, Liu Xiu will start to decorate the place where he lives.
When the sun was scorching, Liu Xiu left the cave and spent half an hour, using sharp stone slices to cut a lot of weeds and spread them on the ground to dry. Half a day was enough to dry them in the water. If you spread them in the cave at night, you could have a comfortable sleep.
As long as you are willing to use your brain and use your hands to improve your quality of life, it is not difficult to put it bluntly. All things in the world are prepared for people, but it depends on how you use them.
The next thing is the heavy physical work. Liu Xiu needs to collect stones around him to block two-thirds of the cave entrance.
He felt it was completely necessary to do so. Two-thirds of the closed hole could not only effectively shelter from wind and rain, but also provide himself with a relatively independent private space. Although there were no other people around, the relatively closed space could give him a sense of security.
Although the so-called sense of security is only a little dispensable psychological effect, Liu Xiu did not decide to ignore it. Many times, a little psychological comfort can often bring people great courage and confidence.
There are many stones around the cave, so it is not difficult to collect them. It is nothing more than physical work. The only trouble is that the cave is about three meters away from the ground, so it is not easy to move the stones up.
In desperation, Liu Xiu could only use the stone to build two simple steps, one about one meter, five or eighty centimeters, and the two steps were next to each other. In this way, he could move the stone up smoothly.
However, it took Liu Xiu almost three hours to build these two steps, and all the stones he could move within a hundred meters around had been moved. The stones needed to block the hole were far several times the steps, and they also needed to be relatively flat stones, so that they could be built easily.
Undoubtedly, blocking the hole was a big project for Liu Xiu. Fortunately, he had expected this a long time ago and planned to complete it in three days.
It took several hours to set up the steps. In the afternoon, Liu Xiu was hungry again and tired.
In desperation, he had to stop working and eat, and rest and recover his strength.
The roasted pheasant and hare entered his stomach in the morning. He didn't eat enough, so he ate another rabbit leg before he could barely fill his stomach.
After a short rest, Liu Xiu continued to collect stones and transport them back to the cave with both hands. The range became wider and wider, the physical energy consumed was getting bigger and bigger, and the time spent was getting more and more...
There is no time to make him sad and sad in spring and autumn. He comes to this world alone and has nothing. He must find something for himself to do so that he will not have to think randomly.
People cannot be idle. They are prone to random thoughts and fall into a vicious circle of thinking, and may even drive themselves crazy.
He used his hands to create his own living environment bit by bit. Although he was tired, Liu Xiu enjoyed it. He felt that he was very fulfilled. Every time he improved his residence, he would feel a little more fulfilling in his heart.
In fact, anyone familiar with Liu Xiu knows that he has a little obsessive-compulsive disorder. Once a decision is made, he must find a way to achieve his goal. No matter how many times he fails, no matter how many detours he takes, he will not give up. This is why he was able to create a fortune from scratch.
The day was busy until the sun was about to set, and Liu Xiu collected only one-third of the expected total. As the surrounding stones were collected, he had to go further.
It is conceivable that it will become increasingly difficult for him to achieve the goal of sealing two-thirds of the hole. I am afraid that the expected three days are not enough. Fortunately, what he lacks the least now is time. At most, it can be extended or accelerated, and at most it can be just a little tired.
As the sun sets, Liu Xiu stopped collecting stones, moved the dried weeds back to the cave, and threw a bed on himself at the bottom of the cave. Not far away was the bonfire, so I could have a good night's sleep tonight.
As night fell, although he had been tired for a day, Liu Xiu did not rest. He was hungry again and ate a few kilograms of rabbit meat to fill his stomach.
"The remaining rabbit meat is only enough to eat tomorrow."
Looking at the rabbit hanging, Liu Xiu murmured in his heart, fortunately, the rabbit still had fish after eating, so he didn't have to worry about food for a short time.
Although Liu Xiu had no rest after eating, he had not had a rest. The stones he brought back during the day were just piled up in a mess in the cave. At this time, he needed to build them one by one and slowly close the hole.
Although he didn't have to run around, it took him almost three hours to finish the stones collected during the day.
When Liu Xiu first left school, he worked in a construction site. He knew how to build the stones he collected to be solid. Although there was no concrete reinforcement, this was not a high-rise building, it was just about 1.5 meters high, and it was not too difficult.
He finished his work for the day by using up the stones collected during the day.
Although he was tired, he was very fulfilled. Everything he did was meaningful, at least he was satisfied in his heart, right?
He added fire to the bonfire again. The fire was booming, and Liu Xiu also lay in the haystack, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
This sleep was the most comfortable sleep in Liu Xiu when he came to this world. There was no need to worry about it, there was a warm bonfire.
What made Liu Xiudan feel hurt was that he felt comfortable sleeping. However, the next day the bag biting more than a dozen mosquitoes on his body made him very confused. There were no mosquitoes on the camphor tree on the first night, and the second night the worry was heavy and there was no time to care about so much. This time he experienced how annoying mosquitoes were.
"I remember there are a lot of mugwort around. I put some tonight on the bonfire and light them, so there should be no mosquitoes..."
With a pout, Liu Xiu got up and the new day began again.
Although it was comfortable to sleep, Liu Xiu's workload yesterday was too great, and he couldn't help but feel sore all over. However, after a period of health care, his physical discomfort completely disappeared, and he even lost his bag of mosquito bites on his body. So he used the health care work again to experience the comfort from the inside out.
As the red sun rose, Liu Xiu practiced health care in a moderate manner on the grass. The mist between breathing was like a fairy eating energy. What he didn't know was that as he breathed, there were strands of purple air in the sky across the red sun and crossed the endless space from his mouth and nose to merge into his limbs and bones...
"It seems that my strength has increased again, exceeding the peak period before I came to this world. Although I don't know how much it has exceeded, it is always a good thing. Now I am only thirteen or fourteen years old. I really don't know how much changes will be made in my future after years of practice of health care..."
After finishing the second round of health care, Liu Xiu let out a long breath and murmured with his own changes.
Next, he ate and went to the lake to clean his mouth with charcoal. After that, Liu Xiu went to see several condoms he had taken. However, what disappointed him was that there were no stupid pheasants and hares who crawled in. He had no choice but to transfer the condom to the location, hoping to improve next time.
Then, continue to collect stones against the sun.
The key to building a nest in the Swallow Street mud is to persevere little by little. You are afraid of giving up halfway through anything. As long as you persevere, difficulties can always be overcome.
Including the first day, Liu Xiu spent four days collecting stones to seal the entrance of the cave with two-thirds to achieve his goal, and it took one more day than expected.
There was no way, he had moved all the stones around the cave, so he could only go further away.
In four days, the rabbit meat had already been eaten. Liu Xiu started eating fish from the next night. More than 100 fish in the circle surrounded by stones by the lake were enough for him to eat for a while.
He practiced both sides' health care skills every day without any movement. Liu Xiu could clearly feel his own changes and his strength increased a lot. He didn't know how much, but he just felt a little bit difficult to walk with a stone the size of a millstone!
In four days, although Liu Xiu sealed the entrance of the cave with stones, his work was not over yet. Because the stones had gaps and could not completely shelter them from the wind, he still needed to mud to cover these gaps to be considered as barely satisfying the temporary residence of the cave.
Strength increases, residence is improved, and life is developing towards a good direction.
However, Liu Xiu was not happy. He is now facing a very serious problem!
"The strength has increased significantly, but I gradually felt like I couldn't use my strength and couldn't do it. I don't lack food, but I'm salt..."
Chapter completed!