Chapter 271: I solely desire a mouthful of soup

“Whoosh!” The sound of rustling leaves because the bone shovel cleared them away whereas Han Cheng stood close by, eagerly awaiting the looks of bamboo shoots.

“Wow!”

After two shovels went down, as an alternative of pleasure, there was alarm!

A yellow snake, nearly half a meter lengthy and as thick as a rolling pin, emerged from the bottom. It wasn’t fleeing however coiling up, elevating its head and spitting out crimson venom, evident on the individuals who disturbed its peaceable slumber.

Han Cheng had at all times been fairly afraid of snakes. These cold-blooded creatures made him really feel uncomfortable simply by them.

The sudden look of this snake gave him goosebumps immediately, and he felt the hairs on his physique stand on finish.

He had been so centered on discovering bamboo shoots that he forgot this was the favourite habitat for snakes close to the riverbank!

Now, on the finish of spring, the snakes had already woke up.

“Swish!”

A bone shovel all of the sudden appeared, slamming straight onto the snake. This majestic snake was immediately subdued.

Even when the bone shovel pressed it to the bottom, and it coiled across the shovel with all its power, it was nonetheless helpless.

The bone shovel quickly minimize off the snake’s head. Eldest Senior Brother retrieved the shovel, and in Han Cheng’s admiring gaze, he reached out and pulled the headless snake off, holding it in his hand and excitedly exclaiming to Han Cheng that lunch was sorted.

Watching, Han Cheng took a couple of steps again.

He realized he was nonetheless a pseudo-primitive man who could not be as powerful as Eldest Senior Brother and the others. Watching them catch two extra snakes, Han Cheng’s face twitched uncontrollably.

The bottom was dug up, revealing fats bamboo shoots that had saved vitality for a very long time. Sadly, earlier than they may explode with astonishing progress, they had been dug up, together with the snakes, and have become meals for the individuals of the Inexperienced Sparrow Tribe.

With a number of bamboo shoots in his arms, Han Cheng, laden with spoils, left the bamboo forest with Eldest Senior Brother and the others, heading again to the place the boats had been moored.

Eldest Senior Brother’s hand additionally had a bamboo pole about 4 centimeters in diameter.

This was chopped down in accordance with Han Cheng’s directions for use as a ship paddle.Findd the latest novels on n/ovelbin(.)com

The slender and light-weight bamboo pole was extra appropriate for paddling than different picket sticks.

This bamboo pole was chopped off from under after digging via the soil. With out ranging from right here, it might be troublesome for the Inexperienced Sparrow Tribe’s instruments to cut down a whole bamboo pole.

He needed to return to the bamboo forest with Eldest Senior Brother and the others to catch extra snakes and proceed making soup.

With light waves, the oars swaying, the 4 canoes left the place that they had stayed in a single day plus half a day, slowly drifting downstream.

A green-headed water chook quietly peeked out from the grass, seeing the ferocious unwelcome visitors leaving, and could not assist however open its mouth to cry out in delight…

Han Cheng stood on the boat’s bow, utilizing a charcoal pen to mark a black dot on the south facet of the intersection of the Crimson River and the Egret River, labeling it with two characters – Bamboo Forest.

Within the coming days, Han Cheng and his companions continued downstream, stopping and disembarking wherever they discovered appropriate spots to discover the vegetation, rocks, and different environment.

Nonetheless, their luck appeared to have run out. Other than the bamboo forest, they did not discover something useful for the Inexperienced Sparrow Tribe.

At this time was the sixth day since leaving the tribe. Because the river continued to merge, it grew to become wider.

Not far forward, a water bay appeared earlier than them, the place the river grew to become extraordinarily calm, with no seen move.

Seeing that the solar was already barely westward and everybody was hungry, they determined to cease the boat and land right here to make a hearth and prepare dinner.

A number of fish traps hanging from the strict, half submerged in water, had been lifted up. Inside had been the fish that they had caught however hadn’t completed consuming.

After the meal, they launched the ropes and pushed the small boats away from the shore with poles. Then, armed with weapons and instruments, they headed in the direction of the shore to discover the abandoned space.

“What’s this?”

Just some steps in, Han Cheng stopped in his tracks, a couple of inexperienced vegetation within the thicket, his coronary heart full of anticipation.

Eldest Senior Brother, Third Senior Brother, and Shang seen Han Cheng’s uncommon expression and knew he had found one thing. They adopted Han Cheng’s gaze.

Apart from the wild grass, there was nothing particular in sight.

Han Cheng took a couple of fast steps and arrived earlier than a clump of grass nearly degree with him, rigorously analyzing the large-leaved vegetation.

The leaves of the vegetation had been considerably much like palm leaves however clearly not from the Chinese language parasol tree. That they had some small thorns on them and a few on their our bodies, with a barely purplish colour on the roots.

That is…

Wild hemp?!