Crossover in the Jungle Chapter 7

"You let me go."

Jiang Yan was so anxious that his face turned red and white. That place that could not be ignored was simply...

The first time he yelled at the python, "Put me down---"

The giant python did not understand Jiang Yan's emotions at the moment. It just thought that it had wrapped this small person too tightly and made him uncomfortable, so it put him back to the shore.

Jiang Yan was naked, propped up his arms and gasped for breath.

In the wilderness and jungle, he was the only one exposed to the air without any cover.

Jiang Yan turned his head, his ears and neck were red, and cold sweat was flowing out. He looked at the giant python curled up lazily beside him like a mountain, and he could only swallow the discomfort and suffocation in his stomach.

how to explain?

No matter how detailed he interpreted the human ethics, morality, integrity and shame, how could this beast understand?

Thinking this way, I hint to myself and remind myself that it is just a wild beast, a different species, so don't take it to heart.

Gradually, I seemed to calm down.

Jiang Yan went into the water and quickly washed his body before it got completely dark. Although he tried his best to ignore it, the feeling of being...slipped by him still lingered.

It was too big and strong, and...

He rubbed the sides of his legs with both hands with gradually increasing strength, as if he was trying to rub something out.

Jiang Yan closed his eyes and endured it, but still felt a little ashamed and angry.

It's two...

The tip of the giant python's tail is immersed in the water, as if it is playing in the water, and it leaps up like a dragon's tail, bringing out strings of crystal clear water droplets. The inky snake scales sparkle even more under the setting sun.

Jiang Yan closed his eyes and pretended not to see it.

He picked up the clothes beside him and put them on one by one, and reminded: "Don't sprinkle the water too high, my clothes will get wet soon. It's windy at night, and it will be very cold if the clothes get wet."

Regardless of whether the giant python understood or not, Jiang Yan didn't want to stay any longer and hurried towards the cave. He was a little afraid that the python would use its tail to wrap him up again and stick out something that it shouldn't.

Jiang Yan slept restlessly that night and couldn't turn over.

The python's tail completely entangled him from the waist down to the abdomen. He felt so dazed that he had to open his eyes to confirm that he had not been slipped by the two terrifying things before he closed his eyes again in a daze.

He didn't sleep well at night, so he felt tired during the day.

Fortunately, the giant python basked in the sun in the cave for a while and then went out, leaving him with some space to calm down alone.

Jiang Yan worked hard to distract himself. He picked up a few bundles of firewood from outside and went to the pottery firing site to check.

The fire that had been burning in the pit all night gradually went out. It was slowly dug up with a wooden stick, revealing the burnt clay pottery buried underneath.

After being burned, the clay pottery used to make cooking utensils is covered with a layer of rough skin left over from high-temperature oxidation when it comes out of the pit. It looks dirty and covered with gray dust.

The temperature of fire is not easy to control, and not every piece of clay pottery that Jiang Yan buried in the fire pit was burned successfully.

He carefully cleaned the gray-black pottery one by one with water. Among the seven utensils, four had cracks on the surface. When they were filled with water for testing, two leaked, while the other two were intact inside and could hold clean water.

As for the other three, although the texture was not dense enough, fortunately, except for the rough surface, there were no cracks, and the water would not spill if it filled a whole bowl or basin.

Jiang Yan lives alone, and the preliminary ceramic cooking utensils he made are enough for him to use alone.

The result of the pottery firing was far better than he expected. Jiang Yan picked up the cooking utensils and brought them back to the cave, feeling a little happy.

He wanted to share this happy thing, but the words stopped on his lips. He looked around the empty cave, shrugged his shoulders, carefully put away the cooking utensils, and placed them in a corner where the python's tail would not sweep them.

The first rain fell after the beginning of autumn, and the temperature became even colder. Jiang Yan couldn't help sneezing as soon as he came out of the cave.

He turned back and took the deerskin to wrap himself tightly, rubbed his hands, looked at the night sky rising in the mountains, and secretly guessed when the giant python would come back today.

Logically speaking, the weather was getting colder day by day, and snakes should be reluctant to leave their holes. However, the giant python went out shortly after Jiang Yan woke up every day and rarely stayed here during the day.

He filled a pottery vessel that looked like a pot but was smaller than a pot with water and placed it over the fire. When the water boiled, he saw some impurities, so he used it to wash his hands and clean the remaining venison to avoid wasting any of it.

After the second pot of boiled water was free of impurities, Jiang Yan let it cool down and tried to drink a few sips. His stomach was wrapped in warmth, which made him feel comfortable in the cold autumn.

It seemed like he hadn't had a sip of hot water for a long time. Jiang Yan finished the hot water with half a piece of barbecue left over from last night. He stroked his slightly swollen belly and went out to look around for wild vegetables to collect.

After the rain, things would often pop up from the ground or next to tree stumps in the mountains. When Jiang Yan lived in the village, he often followed the adults into the mountains to pick mushrooms. He was quite familiar with the more common edible mushrooms.

He walked on the moist and soft soil and searched around. He had walked almost all over the area and knew by heart what types of plants grew in which places.

As expected, Jiang Yan saw a kind of mushroom similar to the edible mushrooms in modern times around several dead and rotten trees. This kind of mushroom looked very similar to boletus, but was slightly different from boletus.

The mushrooms in the jungle are a little bigger. Jiang Yan held a mushroom in his hand and looked at it, carefully observing its appearance and sniffing its smell. Except for its larger size, it is indeed very similar to boletus.

Jiang Yan put it into a ceramic jar. Since it looked very similar to boletus, and was much larger than the boletus he had seen before, he called this mushroom the big bull mushroom.

With his feet as the center and spreading out around, there were many of these large bull mushrooms growing. It didn't take long for Jiang Yan to collect a whole jar of mushrooms, which was considered a good harvest.

He deliberately took a detour and returned to the cave from another direction. On the way, he saw a mushroom similar to the Phoenix Mushroom. He also picked the mushroom and put it in front of his eyes for observation. The mushrooms in the jungle were also more than twice as large as the Phoenix Mushroom, and their smell and appearance were similar to those of the Phoenix Mushroom.

Jiang Yan mistook it for big-tailed mushrooms. As there was no extra space in the pottery jar to put it in, he brought the whole jar of big bull mushrooms back to the cave and continued to collect big-tailed mushrooms without stopping.

The mushrooms that popped out of the mountains after the rain were all very big, plump and thick. Jiang Yan had a fruitful harvest on this trip after the rain.

After picking several jars of mushrooms and bringing them back to the cave, Jiang Yan took the mushrooms he was going to eat today to the stream to wash them.

It was not yet evening and there was no sun. Jiang Yan calculated based on his past habits and deduced that it should be early afternoon.

The sky was cloudy, and he put the washed mushrooms into a pottery jar and brought it back to the cave, where he unexpectedly saw a giant python.

The giant python usually does not appear here during the day. Jiang Yan was surprised. Not only that, the python also brought back a wild boar that it had just hunted not long ago.

The wild boar was no longer struggling, and the blood flowing from its mouth and nose was still warm, which showed that it had been hunted by the python not long ago.

Jiang Yan narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Is this specially brought for me?"

He didn't eat much of the deer he brought back, as the food on the deer was very nutritious. He was young and in good health, and his body couldn't handle two more meals a day, so he kept eating pork.

Just as he thought, the python saw that he rarely ate venison and thought he didn't like it, so it hunted a wild boar on its way back.

Eating pork every day would make you sick of it, but Jiang Yan already had cooking utensils that could make fire, and he had picked several cans of mushrooms after the rain, so he had fresh pork ready, which was just the right way to improve the cooking method.

He was eager to try it out, and his expression showed joy.

He took out a jar of mushrooms for making soup from the corner, met the giant python's pale eyes, and explained with a smile: "These are cooking tools. I put them all in the corner. Please don't break them, okay?"

Although it is not too difficult to make simple tools, it takes time and effort to make them. Now that winter is approaching, Jiang Yan has more important preparations to do.

It was still early, and Jiang Yan had time to take off one of the wild boar's legs and deal with it.

He used a flint to hammer hard at the pig's leg, intending to use the pig's trotter and leg bones to make a pot of soup to drink in the evening. He put the blood oozing from the pig's leg into a ceramic bowl and set it aside. The pig's blood can also be used to make soup or stir-fry.

The most important thing is that he had a pot, so he could put the pork in the pot and fry it in oil. Frying dishes with lard was quite common in the past or in the countryside.

In order to survive the winter, fat needs to be stored, so Jiang Yan tries to stock up on as much food as possible that can provide energy to the body.

The giant python poked the leg bone that Jiang Yan had chiseled out. He straightened the leg bone that was about to fall off the rock, and the long black tail was stopped and coiled quietly to one side.

Jiang Yan cleaned the leg bones and pig's trotters by the water. When he returned to the cave and made a fire, the sky had turned gray.

Due to limited conditions, he fried the pig's trotters, put them in water and boiled them over high heat, then added the leg bones after the water boiled.

After simmering for a long time, the bone soup boiled and turned milky white. Jiang Yan added the fried pig's trotters, and after a while he grabbed several handfuls of big shiitake mushrooms and big-tail mushrooms.

The bone broth has mushrooms as an ingredient, and it emits a constant stream of sweet and fresh aroma.

Jiang Yan poked the pig's trotter a few times with a wooden stick, and the trotter was cooked until it was almost soft.

This pot of soup was boiled from the evening until the dark of night. Jiang Yan turned the fire to the other side and blew hard at the pot with his face.

The bone broth was so fragrant that it caused his throat to secrete saliva continuously, and he couldn't wait to taste it.

Jiang Yan scooped out a piece of pig's trotter and bone soup in a bowl, and picked up a few mushrooms with a wooden stick.

There was no moonlight at night, and except for the light of the fire in the cave, it was pitch black all around.

Jiang Yan sat on the platform where he could enjoy the breeze and took two or three sips. Although there was no salt to season it, the rich aroma of bones and meat, coupled with the freshness of mushrooms, made him salivate after eating so much greasy barbecue.

After eating the whole bowl of bone soup and pig's trotters, Jiang Yan clearly felt the warmth flowing through his body.

It's inevitable to think too much after a full meal. Thinking about the time when I lived alone in the desolate and primitive jungle, my eyes couldn't help but feel sore.

He turned his back and was about to go back into the cave when he was suddenly lifted into the air and was swept into the cave by the snake's tail.

"What's wrong?"

He then seemed to see in the light of the fire a flash of doubt in the animal's eyes as he stared at his bowl.

Jiang Yan patted it and tried to kick his legs which were almost tightly entangled.

"Put me down, do you want a taste?"