Life is a Game

Facts have proved that there may not be any rabbits in this world who are so stupid that they hit a tree, but there are other animals that are so stupid that they hit a tree and kill them.

For example, lamb.

Vigils are extremely boring, especially during the transition between darkness and light. The sky was just getting brighter, half of it was dark, half of it was light, intertwined and turned into darkness, even the sky was groggy, let alone people who dared not sleep.

Chen Shi was in charge of keeping watch in the middle of the night. No one talked to him and he himself didn't get enough sleep. During the night watch, he was always in a state of half-dream, half-awake, and half-dozed off. When it was almost dawn, the whole person had completely closed his eyes and fell into a light sleep, belonging to the kind of very unreliable night watchman.

In fact, not to mention Chen Shi, even Jiang Feng, who didn't need to sleep, felt a little bored, sitting on the rock in a daze.

"bump."

A loud noise not only made Jiang Feng jump up from the ground, but also the sleeping Xia Mubing. He opened his eyes and looked around vigilantly.

The most exaggerated one was Chen Shi, who jumped up and shouted: "There are wolves, there are wolves!"

After yelling, he realized that there were no wolves around. Chen Shi stood there in a daze, and licked his lips with joy or regret: "So there are no wolves."

Xia Mubing grabbed the knife that fell on the ground and got up from the ground: "You should be thankful that there are no wolves. Do you think the two of us can still beat wolves now?"

"What is that? Such a loud sound, it must not be thunder." Chen Shi wondered.

Xia Mubing pointed to the side of the tree stump, and it was only then that Jiang Feng and Chen Shi noticed that there was a lamb lying on the side of the tree stump, whether it had been hit to death or fainted.

Sitting on the sidelines is true!

It's not a rabbit or a sheep waiting for it!

Not to mention Chen Shi, even Jiang Feng was shocked. What kind of luck did it take for a sheep to crash and die beside him.

It's really a lamb, a kid goat, it doesn't look like it's even hairy yet, for some reason it escaped from the flock and ran into the woods, and happened to bump into Xia Mubing and Chen Shi to death.

Chen Shi's heart and eyes are full of sheep, if he doesn't have a little sense, he wants to hug this sheep and start gnawing on it now.

Chen Shi rubbed his hands excitedly, then turned to Xia Mubing and asked, "Brother Xia, you are a butcher, why don't you kill this sheep now and let's roast it."

Xia Mubing: ...

Now they can only eat roasted lamb, Chen Shi and Xia Mubing don't have any cooking tools, even if they want to eat fried lamb and stewed lamb, they don't have that condition. The two of them only had a knife, and they didn't even have a pot to boil hot water. It's hard for a smart woman to cook without rice, so Xia Mubing had to take the sheep to the river to slaughter them first.

After slaughtering the sheep, Xia Mubing buried all the internal organs and blood in the soil to cover up the smell of blood, so as not to attract other ferocious carnivores.

After the sheep were cleaned up, Xia Mubing faced another problem.

No seasoning.

To be precise, there is no seasoning, not even salt.

As we all know, sheep is a very difficult food material, with a strong smell. Generally speaking, sheep in the south have a stronger smell than those in the north, and wild sheep must have a stronger smell than farmed sheep. Even if this sheep is just a lamb now, it does not belong to any adult sheep in terms of smell.

Xia Mubing decided to find some seasoning.

"You first find a longer piece of wood to string it up, and then build a fire again. I'll go pick something and come back soon," Xia Mubing said.

Chen Shi followed Xia Mubing's instructions to find a piece of wood. After searching around but not finding a suitable one, he chopped off a piece with the knife Xia Mubing left him. Although the knife was not specially used for chopping firewood and trees, it was sharp enough to cut some fine wood with a little more effort.

After Chen Shi set up the fire again, Xia Mubing also came back with the things he picked.

Xia Mubing picked a lot of cornel leaves.

Probably because of the suitable climate, there are many dogwoods in this forest. Cornus officinalis is a good thing that can be used as medicine, as a seasoning, and can be eaten directly as a fruit, but it is a bit sour. It's a pity that the season is not right now, and the fruit of dogwood is only ripe in September and October. Even though there are dogwood shrubs all over the mountains and plains, there is not a single fruit of dogwood.

When Chen Shi was so hungry yesterday afternoon that he couldn't stand it, he picked two cornel leaves and chewed them. The taste was so suffocating that he felt psychologically disturbed when he saw the cornel leaves.

"Brother Xia, what are you doing picking so many cornel leaves?" Chen Shi thought that Xia Mubing picked these leaves to eat, "This thing smells worse than the leaves."

Xia Mubing didn't speak, and cut many cuts on the sheep's body with a knife, and silently crushed all the leaves he picked up, and evenly spread them on the surface of the sheep and the incisions. Maybe he wanted to use these mashed leaves The leaves are used as a pickle sauce.

Chen Shi didn't understand what Xia Mubing was doing, but somehow felt that Xia Mubing looked very professional, so he obediently watched from the side. After Xia Mubing finished smearing the crushed leaves, he asked Chen Shi to help put the sheep on the fire, just like a picnic barbecue, except that he wanted to roast a whole sheep.

The conditions were very simple, Xia Mubing worked hard to control the heat, slowly rotating and moving the sticks, and slowly roasted.

Roasting a whole lamb is a long process, especially for people like Xia Mubing and Chen Shi who have been on their way without eating for two days. Gradually, the smell of meat emanates from the sheep and permeates the air.

This meaty smell mixed with a wonderful fishy smell made Chen Shi almost stop the saliva that was about to flow from the corner of his mouth.

Jiang Feng could tell from his expression that what Chen Shi wanted to do most now was to rush up and hug the sheep and take a big bite.

As an ordinary person who couldn’t afford to eat, Chen Shi grew up in a poor family with many brothers and sisters in the war years. Even if he went to the battlefield and fought, became a deserter and killed an officer, he still couldn’t change that he didn’t eat much. Facts over meat.

"Brother Xia, are you ready? I think it should be ready to eat, let's eat some first!" Chen Shi's eyes were full of desire for meat.

"hold on."

Chen Shi waited patiently for about five or six minutes.

"Brother Xia, you can now..."

"hold on."

A few more minutes passed.

"Brother Xia, now..."

"etc."

"summer……"

"wait!"

Under Chen Shi's frantic urging, Xia Mubing still insisted on the basic ethics of a chef - to roast the meat, completely ignore Chen Shi's words, and cook the meat by himself.

Finally, the lamb was roasted.

Not pretty.

This is definitely not a pretty roast whole lamb.

The leaves used as spices on the surface have been completely dried and turned black, and the original appearance cannot be seen, and it will disappear from the sheep if you dust it with your hands. No sauce, no seasoning, not even cumin, the only good thing about it was that it was lamb and it was roasted.

Such a roasted whole lamb sold in the whole sheep restaurant might make customers so angry that they would overturn the table, it became Xia Mubing and Chen Shi's life-saving straw.

Xia Mubing began to cut meat, one lamb leg per person.

The two chewed, their mouths were full of meat, their bodies were tattered, and their faces were filled with happiness.

While eating, Chen Shi suddenly cried while hugging half a leg of lamb.

Whimpering, tears gushing out like a fountain, and his words were slurred because he still had some mutton in his mouth.

This was the first time Chen Shi cried in the past two days.

He is the kind of person who looks fragile and timid and afraid of death, but in fact he is very courageous and wants to struggle even if death is imminent, to see if he can avoid death.

Before, he was tired and thirsty, lost his way and couldn't find his way, and Chen Shi didn't cry when he had no hope, but now Chen Shi cried when he ate deliciously cooked mutton.

"Oh, brother Xia, the lamb you roast is really delicious. I have never eaten such delicious lamb. No, I have never eaten lamb. I don't know that lamb is so delicious." Chen Shi himself didn't know what he wanted to say.

"I thought we were dead, and I think we are dead now, but I think this is pretty good, at least I have a full meal. I heard they say that some people can eat a meal if they cut their heads Meat, we eat so much now, even if we go on the road, it shouldn’t be so miserable, at least our severed head meal is richer than theirs.”

Xia Mubing: ...

Xia Mubing silently put down the leg of lamb in his hand, feeling that he suddenly didn't want to eat so much.

"Are you ready to eat? Let's go after eating."

Xia Mubing cut the remaining mutton into large pieces and asked Chen Shi to stuff it into a cloth bag, filling it so full that it almost failed to cover it.

Both of them hadn't finished gnawing on the leg of lamb in their hands, and they gnawed as they walked, even the steps they took were much bigger than yesterday.

This walk is another whole day.

The sky began to gradually darken.

Jiang Feng didn't know if it was his hallucination. He felt that the forest in this area was much sparser than the one that Xia Mubing and the others took in the morning, and the light was much better.

Xia Mubing and Chen Shi were going to find a place to rest first.

Just when Xia Mubing planned the place and prepared to set up a bonfire for him to find a water source like the two days ago, Chen Shi suddenly looked into the distance and silently stretched out his hand to point forward.

"Brother Xia, is the forest in front on fire? Why do I feel like I see smoke." Chen Shi thought he was wrong.

Xia Mubing glanced in the direction he pointed, and immediately became excited: "What's on fire? It's cooking smoke! Let's come out, hurry up, there's a village ahead."

Chen Shi, who had already sat down to rest, quickly stood up and was about to run. He stopped, looked back at Xia Mubing, and silently opened the cloth bag and took out two pieces of frozen mutton.

"Brother Xia, let's celebrate with a piece of meat." Chen Shi grinned.

Xia Mubing:?

Before Xia Mubing realized what Chen Shi was doing, Chen Shi happily took a bite of the mutton. Chew up.

"Brother Xia will go out later, let's share this meat, I want to take this meat back for my parents to taste."

"Let me tell you, I think this meat must be blessing us. This meat is amazing. I felt it when I ate it this morning. When the meat is finished, I will offer the bones. It must be this bag of meat that blesses us. It came out." Chen Shi said cheerfully.

Xia Mubing: ...

Xia Mubing silently took the meat from Chen Shi's hand, and took a bite hard just like him.

"Well, let's go."

Jiang Feng wanted to keep up, but found that he was already in the fog.

The figures of the two people gradually blurred until they could not be seen clearly at all.

Jiang Feng left his memory.