Time Travel: My Comfortable Life After Going to the Countryside

Liu Xiangyang slung the short spear over his shoulder, feeling incredibly smug. He had taken down those three silly roe deer with a single spear thrust, clean and efficient.

This was much more satisfying than killing the bear last time. That time, I only managed to defeat the bear by relying on my spatial abilities. This time, I relied on my own true skills.

He squatted down by the stream and rinsed the short spear in the icy water. The water was cold, but his heart was burning with desire. After washing away the bloodstains, he continued walking upstream along the stream.

The further they went into the mountains, the quieter it became. Apart from Liu Xiangyang's own breathing and the sound of his footsteps breaking dry branches, there were no other sounds.

After walking for about an hour, we passed through a grove of trees and came to a small pool of water with crystal-clear water.

The area around the pool was covered with the footprints of various animals, and there were also tree bark scraped off by wild boars on the water.

The most wonderful thing is that there is a spring on the mountainside more than twenty places above the pool, where water is bubbling out and flowing down into the pool.

Liu Xiangyang's eyes lit up: This place is sheltered from the wind, faces the sun, and has running water; it's practically a natural sanctuary.

Furthermore, the pool below the spring serves as a water source for nearby animals.

His stomach was growling with hunger. Liu Xiangyang glanced at his watch; it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon. He decided to fill his stomach first.

Finding a flat spot, he moved some stones and built a makeshift stove. He took out the enamel mug he had received as a reward from his spatial storage; the red characters "Serve the People" on the mug were still vivid.

He first went to the spring and filled a vat with water, then took a sip of the clear and sweet spring water.

I grabbed a handful of rice and sprinkled it in, then sliced ​​a few pieces of Harbin red sausage and placed them on top of the rice.

Liu Xiangyang gathered a bunch of dry branches and stuffed them into the stove. He struck a match and lit the leaves. Flames leaped up and licked the branches.

While cooking, he cleared away the dead branches and leaves around the spring, and then found some flat stones to lay around it. This would make fetching water much easier in the future.

As the aroma of cooked rice wafted over, Liu Xiangyang laid down the last stone, lifted the lid of the jar, and saw that the oil from the red sausage had completely seeped into the rice, making the grains glistening with oil.

Liu Xiangyang couldn't wait to start eating. The smoky flavor of the red sausage mixed with the fragrance of the rice tasted especially delicious in this desolate wilderness.

After finishing his meal, Liu Xiangyang cleaned the jar and went to the spot he had just chosen.

Liu Xiangyang stood in front of the mountain wall he had chosen, looking around for a moment. This mountain wall faced south, so the wind couldn't get in; the location couldn't be more perfect.

Liu Xiangyang raised his right hand and made a gesture towards the mountain wall. It was as if the mountain wall had been sliced ​​by an invisible sharp blade, instantly creating a neat cut and revealing the cross-section inside.

Liu Xiangyang first cut out a door frame outline that was two meters high and half a meter wide. Then he cut inwards, making a cut three meters deep, and then put the soil into the space.

Then they cut four meters to the right, and after collecting all the soil clods into the space, a space that was four meters long, three meters wide, and three meters high was created.

Then they took out the large stones they had collected earlier, broke them down into bricks, and used the bricks to build a kang (heated brick bed) that was two meters long and two meters wide. In the middle of the kang, they piled up a row of stones to support the bricks on the kang surface.

They then selected large stones over a meter long, broke them down into bricks for the kang (heated brick bed), and covered the entire kang with yellow soil and water to prevent smoke from escaping.

Liu Xiangyang then spread a thick layer of dry straw on the bed board, which would make it much more comfortable to sleep on.

Next, it was time to make the door. He walked to a dead tree not far away. The tree was completely dry, making it perfect material for the door. Liu Xiangyang gestured a few times at the trunk, and it snapped off with a smooth cut.

Liu Xiangyang broke down the tree trunk into planks of uniform thickness, and each plank was shaped under his precise control.

When making the door panels, he deliberately cut mortise and tenon joints along the edges of the wood, making the assembly more secure. The door hinges were made of harder wood and fitted perfectly onto the door frame.

Next, he built a stove. Using the stones he had cut off earlier, he built a stove platform near the entrance of the cave.

The stove is low, just reaching knee level, so you don't have to bend over too much when cooking. He specially cut ventilation holes inside the stove to allow air to circulate.

He built a low wall of mud between the stove and the kang (a heated brick bed), which separated the rest area from the living area without affecting the lighting.

With everything ready, he lit a fire in the stove. The dry firewood crackled in the stove, and the firelight illuminated the entire cave warmly and brightly. The newly made clay kang (heated brick bed) still needed to be dried, so he kept the fire burning.

Just then, he heard a faint sound coming from outside the cave. When he went to the door, he saw snowflakes falling heavily, and the distant mountains were already covered with a thin layer of snow.

Winter has truly arrived.

He returned to the cave, closed the door, and the stove fire warmed the cave, while the clay bed surface began to dry.

He was a little tired after a busy afternoon, so he decided not to cook dinner. He took out the dry food that Xue Bingbing and the others had prepared from his backpack and ate it slowly with water from his water bottle.

After eating, they filled an enamel mug with water from the spring, placed it on the stove, and added a few more pieces of firewood to the stove to keep the fire burning all night and dry the kang (heated brick bed).

Liu Xiangyang's mind went completely blank. He sat on a tree stump, drinking hot water and watching the flames in the stove to rest.

Liu Xiangyang stared at the flames, his thoughts drifting elsewhere.

Liu Xiangyang was dozing off against the cave wall when he was suddenly awakened by a series of "crunching" sounds.

He sat up abruptly, listening intently; the sound was coming from the pool below.

Liu Xiangyang quietly grabbed a short spear, pushed the wooden door open a crack, and carefully crouched down to the spring, peering down into it.

Upon seeing this, Liu Xiangyang was overjoyed. There were more than a dozen wild boars gathered around the pool, indicating that he had encountered a herd of wild boars.

Under the moonlight, it was clear that there were three large, robust female wild boars, the largest of which weighed at least five or six hundred pounds, leading sixteen half-grown piglets as they drank water.

The sow's tusks gleamed a stark white, and she would occasionally look up warily to survey the surroundings. The half-grown wild boar piglets, on the other hand, were carefree, huddled together, splashing water everywhere in the pool.

Liu Xiangyang's mind raced: If he could capture all these wild boars, he could keep the smaller ones to eat slowly, and hand over the three larger ones to the village. That would be enough to earn Xue Bingbing and the others a lot of work points, and it would also solve their meat problem.

Liu Xiangyang weighed the short spear in his hand, his eyes gradually becoming sharp. He returned to the cave and placed the other eight short-haired animals in a convenient position.

Liu Xiangyang selected the two closest female wild boars, weighing between three and four hundred pounds.

The two animals were drinking water, their thick necks fully exposed to his view. He took a deep breath and suddenly exerted force with his arms.

"Whoosh!"

The short spear pierced the air and precisely sank into the neck of the first sow. The boar didn't even utter a sound before collapsing to the ground.

The next second, the second short spear was already in motion, giving the second wild boar no time to react. This spear went slightly off course and passed through the second wild boar's shoulder blade.

The wild boar let out a mournful howl, thrashed its body wildly, and collapsed by the pool, slowly becoming still. Its blood immediately stained the water red.

The wild boar herd immediately erupted into chaos, with the piglets scattering in panic, splashing water everywhere.

At this moment, the last and largest female wild boar spotted Liu Xiangyang's location and let out a deafening roar.

It stared intently in the direction of Liu Xiangyang, its two front hooves digging fiercely into the ground, kicking up a cloud of mud, its hind leg muscles taut, ready to charge at any moment.