Real World Simulator

Fleeing famine, Fang Yu has no experience at all.

The only experience I have is some information I learned from film and television dramas.

And these materials generally describe how terrible the famine is and how difficult it is to escape the famine.

What corpses are scattered all over the field, the vegetation is empty, and they are so hungry that they eat dirt or change their seeds to eat.

When seeing these materials or descriptions, Fang Yu naturally felt a little palpitated at the time, but not many.

After all, I have never experienced it myself.

But in this world, Fang Yu can truly experience what it is like to flee from famine.

Because everyone left in the afternoon, the sun in the sky was not so bright at this time.

At the beginning, Fang Yu was quite novel, but he found that, except for him, the rest of the people seemed a bit depressed, so he could only bury his head and move forward.

On the way, they also discovered a novel thing.

A group of Taoist priests galloped past on the official road on horseback.

Not only Fang Yu, but even Fang Sanduo and the others saw Taoist priests for the first time.

In the end, an old man in the village said that the priest might belong to the bishop.

As for the others, he is not very clear.

Fang Yu seriously suspected that the old man probably only knew the name Bishop Ling, so whenever he saw a Taoist priest, he would use this Christian name uniformly.

However, Bishop Ling?

The name is also interesting, and these Taoist priests seem to be at least the middle class.

It seemed that the life was quite nourishing, which made Fang Yu suddenly want to become a Taoist priest.

This matter was just a small episode on the road. After the discussion, everyone quickly returned to silence.

The route of escape from famine has never been randomly chosen.

During Fang Yu's inquiries, he learned that the escape from the famine will be guided by the river, heading south.

Along the way, when you encounter official roads, you will try your luck to find the county seat or village. After finding the county seat, everyone will enter the county seat together, beg first, and then observe the situation in the county seat.

If this county is not a disaster area, some people will stay here, find a village here to join, and live here.

But neither the county town nor the village can accept the victims indefinitely.

Those victims who cannot stay can only continue wandering until they die on the way, or find a place that can accept them and survive.

It seems to be the same thing, but no one can experience the hardships and sufferings except those who fled the famine.

The reason why rivers are used as a guide is because, even in ancient times, everyone knew that to survive, one must be close to water sources.

So along the river, and then referring to the direction below, you can basically reach the cities in the south smoothly.

Moreover, even if you can't find it, everyone can't do without water along the way.

Especially when we encountered a drought, we could survive without food, and without water, we really couldn’t survive.

The river they are following now is a branch of a branch of the Chu River, which is generally called the Chu River in the village.

To give each mountain and river a name is called literature and art in modern times, but it would be foolish in ancient times.

From far and wide, a company of people can be called out with a sound of dog egg.

Expecting these people who can't eat enough to name these mountains and rivers is purely overthinking.

The Chu River is not often called by people. Jiaoling is generally called Houshan, and this river is called Xiaohe. Those who have no knowledge even know that this river is a branch of Chu River.

Well, this knowledge point is what the old man said.

Fang Yu watched him secretly several times.

No matter the thinning hair, or the old man who can kill mosquitoes with a smile, they can't hide his eyes that reveal the vicissitudes of life.

This uncle is a man with a story~

Fang Yu walked all the way, looking at the situation on the road.

In fact, he didn't really want to leave.

He just had a meal of meat at noon today. He originally wanted to go to Jiaoling for a few more days to get more game to nourish his body. Now that he left like this, he couldn't go hunting anymore, which made him quite regrettable.

But Fang Sanduo's scruples are not without reason.

Fleeing from famine also has to pay attention to timing. It will be too late to start fleeing when the mountains and rivers are exhausted.

Drought is not just for humans.

Humans have nothing to eat.

Other animals and plants will have no way out.

Not to mention anything else, Fang Yu could see that the water in the river had already dropped to an arm's depth.

Moreover, the amount of water is less, and the river water becomes turbid after mixing with sediment.

But it was precisely because of the lack of water that Fang Yu and the others discovered new food.

That is the fish and shrimp in the river.

In the past, when the depth of the river was still high, fishing was not so easy to catch.

Don't say anything about fishing nets.

Except for the fishermen who make a living by fishing at the seaside and can make fishing nets, the rest of the area basically relies on farming for a living and fishing for fish. Just such a small river can't support it for even a month, so it's gone.

Therefore, the villagers here basically don't know how to make fishing nets.

Not to mention, making fishing nets requires weaving ropes, which is costly and laborious. Even after making them, you have to be careful to avoid being accidentally stolen.

This is not modern, what plastic fishing line can easily make fishing nets.

The fishing nets here are basically made of hemp rope.

Fishing nets made of hemp rope are not resistant to corrosion and are not durable. They will become brittle after being exposed to the sun once. It is not bad for a fishing net to be used for at most two times.

Make a fish cage at most.

Moreover, in the absence of suitable fishy smelling spices, the fishy smell of river fish is quite strong, and few can get used to it.

Therefore, everyone still focuses on farming.

But now, after all, things are different.

The famine began to spread, and we ate a little less rice. In order to keep ourselves going for a while, everyone decided that during this period of time, fish and meat would be the main food supplemented by rice. If we could eat less rice, we would eat less. farther.

So, before it was getting dark, everyone chose to camp on the shore.

The so-called camping is actually to find a woods. Everyone finds a suitable open space in the woods, and then starts to cut some branches and firewood.

They were a little messy at first, but soon, under the arrangement of the old man whose name Fang Yu didn't know, they soon found their respective roles.

Some people cut off the branches, some people cut the trunk.

The amount is not a lot, because no one wants to waste too much energy on it.

After cutting down four fist-thick trunks, they cut down enough branches, pulled some vines, and stopped.

Because of the large number of people, these things were done in about ten minutes.

Then, under the guidance of the old man, everyone began to tie the three cut tree trunks with the original trunks and vines to form a triangular slope structure.

The last tree trunk is tied in the middle of the slope.

Finally, cover the tree branches on the slope, and a simple triangular shelter is ready.

Then everyone spread the beds on the ground in the shelter, and a collective big bed was made.

During the whole process, Fang Yu didn't say a word, relying on the old man's command, they walked out of the shelter.

That's why Fang Yu knew that the old man was the Fangjia Village who fled famine when he was young.

Therefore, he understands more.

Especially the experience of fleeing famine, he is the richest in the village.

I heard Er Niu and the others chatting, this old man is called Cao Er. When he was young, he escaped from famine and came to Fangjia Village, and took root in Fangjia Village. He also had a wife, but her wife had tuberculosis and cough a few years ago. After death, he will live alone.

This time Erniu and the others were about to leave Fangjia Village, and few people in the village followed.

Erniu and the others would not have left if it weren't for the desolation of the forest.

But they couldn't tell them about the wild forest.

After all, they did something illegal, so how could it be possible to tell them.

Therefore, under the unclear eyes of the village, they finally met at the entrance of the village, but they did not expect that Cao Er would follow.

After hearing that he had escaped the famine when he was young, Erniu and the others took him directly.

But now, seeing this triangular shelter, Erniu and the others felt that it was really right for them to accept Cao Er.

It's not in vain for them to support such an extra population.

The shelter was ready, and they went to the river to fish.

Because the water surface has become shallower, the movement of fish and shrimps that were originally hidden in the water can be easily caught.

Also under the guidance of the old man, each of them took a wooden stick. After entering the river from both sides, they surrounded a section of the river inside, and then obeyed the old man's words.

About ten people surrounded the river, and the wooden sticks fell in turn.

The fish in the river were in trouble immediately. Under the shallow water, they could not hide their tracks, and soon some fish were knocked unconscious or killed by sticks, and floated on the surface of the water after turning their bellies up.

After seeing the first fish turn white, the fishermen let out joyful cries.

It's like picking wheat during the spring harvest, with a long-lost happy smile on his face.

Er Niu and his uncle were also in the river, but Fang Yu didn't let him into the river because his body was too thin.

Seeing Er Niu and his uncle happily catching the fish, Fang Yu couldn't help showing a smile.

Dinner tonight was great.

In just half an hour, we caught a dozen fish.

Fish soup was stewed in seven or eight large earthen pots. For some big fish, a whole pot was put in, and for small fish, a few more.

Although the taste of the fish soup is still very fishy, ​​but no matter what, it is still meat.

All the people present were hooked by the fish soup in the earthen pot, staring at the earthen pot, drooling.

Even Fang Yu is no exception.

It was already dark at this time.

At night, the originally sweltering weather became cooler, and it was even a little cold in the woods.

Fortunately, the bonfire in the middle gave us enough light and warmth.

Everyone is cooking fish soup in front of the small stove they built.

After the fish soup was cooked, everyone began to share it.

Because they are river fish, most of these fish are carp, grass carp and crucian carp, and there are some river fish that Fang Yu doesn't know.

If it was sea fish, he could still recognize it, but river fish happened to be in his blind spot of knowledge.

These fish, big fish are basically fishy, ​​and the fish bones are small and numerous.

Grass carp is better, with fewer bones, and crucian carp is a nightmare

Although some small fish have less fishy smell, they also have more fish bones.

When everyone really ate it, the original high appetite was immediately completely obliterated by these fish bones.

After eating a big mouthful of fish meat, he vomited the fishbone for a long time.

A careless and reckless man like Er Niu, who had no patience, planned to forcefully crush the fishbone and swallow it, but the fishbone got stuck in his throat. , using a branch to pinch the fishbone in his throat, relying on his swallowing method, he must be stuck to death.

The people who were taken aback by Er Niu's recklessness no longer had such a big appetite for fish.

There is no way, this fishbone is too painful, even in modern times, some people are reluctant to eat fish because of the problem of fishbone.

However, this is a rare food, and you have to eat it if you don’t eat it.

Thus, the final scene seemed rather comical.

A large group of people sat on the edge of the earthen pot, and when they ate a piece of fishbone, they had to shake it with their teeth and tongue for a long time until all the fishbone was knocked out before they dared to swallow it.

With Er Niu's lessons learned from others, everyone had to go through it twice before swallowing it.

There is not much fish in one bite, and it took a long time to pick the thorns.

One fish was only half eaten, and the soup was cold.

Even Fang Yu was so angry that he picked a fishbone and almost threw the bowl!

You know, everyone is hungry now, but because of the fishbone problem, it takes a long time to eat meat.

This is undoubtedly a kind of torture.

No wonder people in ancient times were unwilling to catch river fish to eat!

If you catch fish with few bones, you can still have a full meal. If you catch some fish with many bones, you won’t be mad at eating a fish!

Fang Yu deliberately picked two grass carp, thinking that there should be fewer fish bones.

Unexpectedly, this is just a small river. The grass carp is not fat, but has a lot of thorns. Although it is better than crucian carp, it is still troublesome to eat.

At the end of the cheerful atmosphere of cooking rice, only the sound of spitting out fishbone was left.

After everyone finished eating the fish, everyone didn't feel full because they ate too slowly.

It seems to eat, but it seems not to eat.

On the contrary, the tongue and lips were pricked more than once by fishbone.

But everyone is poor after all, so there is nothing to be particular about fleeing famine, at least they can be considered as eating meat, so after dealing with the fishbone, everyone squeezed into the shelter one after another, and fell asleep on the ground separated from each other.

The next day, just before dawn, everyone woke up one after another.

In this day and age, there is no alarm clock purely based on the biological clock.

It rises at sunrise and rests at sunset.

Basically everyone can wake up naturally at dawn.

As soon as they woke up, everyone picked up a branch one after another, chewed one end to pieces, and after biting out the wood fibers, it was the tooth wood for cleaning the mouth.

After simply cleaning the mouth with tooth wood, everyone came to the river.

They caught more than those fish last night, they dug a small hole by the river and kept them in it.

Seafood or river fresh food, in this situation where there is no convenient way to keep fresh, no matter whether it is dead or cooked, it will immediately deteriorate after one night, and it cannot be eaten at all.

This is also the reason why Hexian is not popular.

The food that cannot be saved can only be snacks.

Even with this puddle, because it is stagnant water, these fish will look a little bit dying after one night.

But at least they didn't really die, so these fish were fished out and dealt with directly.

Although the scene of eating fish last night is still vivid.

But the people at the scene were really not stupid enough not to eat fish.

Although eating fish is troublesome and expensive.

But they don't have a choice.

After a while, the familiar but slightly disgusting smell of fish soup came out of the crock.

The fish soup without fishy smell always smells like dead fish when cooked, which is very disgusting.

After another morning meal that could not be explained in words, everyone began to pack their things and prepare to continue on the road.