Chapter 9 – I Want to Take A Bath
Edited and Proofread by: aprilmayaugust
Lu Zhan came back when it was evening, and when he came back, he held a bag of wild fruits in his arms, before he walked to his tent, he smelled a very good fragrance from a distance.
“What are you doing?” Lu Zhan looked at the busy person squatting by the fire and asked curiously.
Luo Zhen raised his head and saw that it was Lu Zhan, he wiped a handful of sweat beads on his forehead with his hand, opened his mouth, and said with a smile, “You’re back? It’s time for dinner, just wait a little longer.”
Lu Zhan looked at the pit, and the simple firepit that was originally just a few stones in a circle was now completely changed, a relatively flat stone was piled up, firewood was burning underneath, and above it were some pieces of chopped meat, and some weeds without names. Luo Zhen was holding two wooden sticks and kept stirring, and the good smell was exactly from these pieces of meat.
Seeing Lu Zhan put the wild fruit aside, Luo Zhen saw the kind of fruit that looked like a green pear that he had eaten before, this fruit was very full of moisture, and Luo Zhen already knew that Lu Zhan used these fruits as water.
Luo Zhen was also not polite, he picked up a green pear, used a stone knife to cut a few cuts on it, and then squeezed some of the juice inside the fruit and dripped it into the piece of meat that was being stir-fried.
In addition to the small half of the roasted meat that he ate at noon, considering Lu Zhan’s food intake, Luo Zhen chopped all the remaining pieces of meat with a stone knife, and the wild vegetables were picked on the side- most of the plants here were a little different from Luo Zhen’s memories.
Luo Zhen did not dare to pick these wild vegetables casually at first to eat when sorting out the weeds around the tent, he saw a fist-sized hare holding this wild vegetable and nibbling, and he picked a little to ask his new neighbor Jiao Zhu to make sure that these wild vegetables were not poisonous, so he dared to pick a little and mixed them with pieces of meat and stir-fry together.
Lu Zhan was a little curious when he saw someone handling food like this for the first time, and sat directly cross-legged opposite Luo Zhen, watching the other party being busy.
The stone slate is not large, and the meat and wild vegetables can only be divided into several parts to stir-fry, because there is no oil, and the stir-fried dishes are a little dry, but for the primitive people who saw the stir-fry for the first time, there is nowhere to compare it with so they don’t know whether the appearance is good or not.
Lu Zhan sat close, and the smell of meat kept rushing into his nose, he couldn’t wait, so he directly reached out and twisted a piece of meat and put it in his mouth.
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Luo Zhen funnily patted the back of his hand with a wooden stick, pulled all the stir-fried meat of wild vegetables on the stone slab onto the clean leaves that had been prepared long ago as bowls, and handed the other two wooden sticks that served as chopsticks, “You take this and eat it first.”
Lu Zhan was not polite, he didn’t know how to use the two wooden sticks as chopsticks, but since it was given to him by Luo Zhen, he held them in his hands as the other did, and continued to twist the pieces of meat with his fingers and ate them.
“How does it taste?” Luo Zhen tasted it just moments before, and the taste is not very good, but it can still be eaten.
However, Lu Zhan didn’t have time to answer him at all as his mouth was full of food. Lu Zhan’s appearance is very good, although the act of stuffing something into his mouth with his hand is not elegant, and the speed is fast, but it is not ugly, maybe this is because of his unique look where even such a rude action will only make people feel that it was pleasing to the eye.
Until all the pieces of meat in his hand were eaten, Lu Zhan still licked his fingers unexpectedly, and then he had time to answer Luo Zhen’s question, “It’s delicious, you will cook food like this in the future, I can help you get the meat.”
Luo Zhen looked at the leaves handed back by the other party where only the wild vegetables were left behind, and the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but twitch. Yesterday Lu Zhan said that he wouldn’t care about his share of rations, but he didn’t expect that just stir-fried meat and wild vegetables would make the other party change his decision.
“Then can you help me get some water back?” Luo Zhen didn’t mind eating all the remaining wild vegetables that Lu Zhan left and asked the other party.
Lu Zhan nodded, stood up, and turned to leave.
Luo Zhen didn’t know what tools the other party planned to use to carry the water back, and after frying all the remaining pieces of meat and wild vegetables, he left most of the meat to Lu Zhan, while he ate the rest himself, and finally, he ate two more wild fruits, which made him feel full.
When Luo Zhen cleaned up everything and it was dark, Lu Zhan came back, and it was not until the other party returned to the fire pond that Luo Zhen saw clearly what the other party used to hold water, it was a huge wood trunk half a person high, the middle of the trunk was hollow, Lu Zhan rushed all the way back but the water in it did not spill much.
Seeing that it was full of clear water, Luo Zhen was very happy, he had not bathed for several days, although the water Lu Zhan brought back was not enough for him to bathe, but at least he could wet the animal skin and wipe his body well- he has lived long enough but he really wasn’t ever as dirty as he was now.
Lu Zhan didn’t care what Luo Zhen used the water of the trunk for, he happily ate the stir-fried meat that the other party left for him, went back to the tent to sleep, and before leaving, he pulled out a small part of the charcoal in the fire pit and threw a small handful of weeds into it.
As soon as the weeds fell on the red-hot charcoal, a large plume of smoke came out, and the smoke quickly dissipated, leaving only a faint smell of grass.
“These weeds can repel mosquitoes.” After Lu Zhan finished explaining, he entered the tent.
The inside of the tent had also changed, the weeds next to the tent were all cleared, the large stones on the ground were thrown out, the earth seemed to be rammed again, and the animal skins placed under the stone bed had a good smell of sunlight, and a small piece of torches was inserted in the corner of the door, the light of the torches was a little weak, but it was enough to illuminate the narrow space in the tent.
Lu Zhan’s eyebrows moved, but he didn’t say anything, he climbed back onto the stone bed, and quickly fell asleep.
After having the water, Luo Zhen simply washed and changed into a fairly clean animal skin skirt, intending to let Lu Zhan take him to the big river tomorrow to take another good bath. After moving the remaining wild fruits back into the tent and putting them away, today there are weeds to repel mosquitoes, Luo Zhen no longer needs to sleep by the fire, but he lays on the sun-dried animal skin cover and sleeps peacefully for the night.
“Good morning.” Early the next morning, Luo Zhen woke up early, stretched, and turned his head to say hello to Lu Zhan, who had just got up.
“Hmm.” Lu Zhan nodded, he was not used to a morning with another person.
The breakfast in the morning was only the wild fruits that Lu Zhan brought back yesterday, Luo Zhen washed all the wild fruits before wrapping them in leaves and handing them to Luo Zhen, and asked the other party while clicking to eat, “A-Zhan, can you take me to the big river?”
“Is there not enough water?” Lu Zhan looked at the wood trunk placed at the door, Luo Zhen used it very sparingly, and now there was still more than half of the water in it.
“No, I just want to take a shower.” Since leaving the deserted island, Luo Zhen has not bathed for almost a week, even if there are no mosquito bites at night, he feels that his body is itching badly, and in this primitive society that lacks medical care and medicine, Luo Zhen does not want to get sick because he has not been clean for a long time.
Lu Zhan nodded, “Okay.”
“Thank you.”
After breakfast, the two set off, and Luo Zhen brought the animal skin clothes of the two, as there were not many pieces in total, just to wash them together.
The people in the Black Panther tribe do not seem to have the habit of visiting their neighbors and hanging out, and after leaving the tribe, they can’t even see a few figures, except for a few extremely fast small animals occasionally passing in the grass, and no other animals can be seen.
As soon as Lu Zhan left the scope of the tribe, he took off the animal skin on his body and casually put it on his shoulder, Luo Zhen noticed that the injuries on his body had long been healed, and not even the slightest scar remained, he was secretly envious of the powerful healing ability of these primitive people, and then looked at the traces left by mosquito bites on his body that had not had time to subside, feeling regretful that he did not get this powerful healing ability.
The river is far from the tribe, flowing down from the Changfeng Mountains and across the entire southern foothills plain, passing through the Panther tribe, and then flowing into the great lake they had seen before.
Luo Zhen estimated the time it would take them to walk all the way down was at least two or three hours before they saw the big river, there was no one else by the big river, as the people in the tribe usually came out every few days to get water.
Several birds that stood by the river drinking water seemed to feel the breath of the two, and fluttered their wings and flew up.
The surface of the river is more than ten meters wide, the current is not fast, and there are no other animals except those birds.
Lu Zhan took Luo Zhen to the place where he usually took his own water, there was a small cave that was concave, and a small pool was formed there, and the water depth was relatively shallow, so there was no need to risk going down the river.
“Don’t move.” Lu Zhan waved his hand at Luo Zhen, first jumped into the small pool and swam around, making sure that those dangerous fish did not run into this small pool, then got up, walked to the grass on the side, picked up a huge log that was already a little rotten, and threw it into the inlet, only then clapped his hands and said to Luo Zhen, “Now you can take a bath here.”
“In the future, without me with you, you should not come here casually.” Lu Zhan glanced into the river and added.
Luo Zhen naturally would not contradict the other party in this kind of thing, he nodded obediently and saw that Lu Zhan jumped into the small pool after explaining, and then slowly walked over.
The water of the small pool was tested by Lu Zhan, and it was already a little turbid, but Luo Zhen didn’t mind. He reached into the water and probed, even during the day, the water temperature was a little low, but seeing Lu Zhan staying comfortably in the water, he couldn’t wait and threw the animal skin skirt on his body, and jumped into the water with a splash.
“Cold.” Luo Zhen floated up from the water, wiped a handful of water droplets on his face, and laughed.
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