The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man
Chapter 1126 - Chapter 1126 1126 Cliff Survival 11

Chapter 1126: 1126 Cliff Survival 11 Chapter 1126: 1126 Cliff Survival 11 “`

“Hmm,” she said, “third brother, if we keep relying on climbing the cliff to gather firewood, not to mention the danger, the branches we could reach yesterday from the top of the cliff are almost all broken off now.

Without food, we won’t last.

The firewood left unburned on the raft, if we conserve it, should last until tomorrow morning.

After the snowfall, it’s not like yesterday; the cliff is too slippery now, even I don’t dare to go up easily.

The sheer height of the cliffs all around us makes it impossible to find a way out by going up.

So we get into the water.”

She pointed at a few fish swimming a few dozen meters away, “We put the raft in the water and paddle over.

With my skill, once the raft is in the water and the fish come within a two-meter radius, spearing a few would be too easy.” She also pointed to another cliff a few dozen meters away, near the water surface, “Look, less than ten meters above the water, several trees have grown on the cliff.

I was thinking earlier about how to get over there and break off the firewood, which would be much better than climbing the steep cliffs here.

Once the raft is in the water, not only is it possible to spear some fish, but the firewood will also be easier to access.”

He added, “More importantly, if we find the water outlet of the pond, we can leave this place!”

“Exactly.” She glanced at the wooden raft underfoot, “Third brother, the raft you made seems sturdy, but will it fall apart in the water?”

“Tighten it with some vine and it will be fine.”

Su Qingyue had found a very long vine on the cliff yesterday; when tied together, it measured several dozen meters.

It was by climbing down this vine from halfway up the cliff that they had descended yesterday; now the other end of that vine still hung from a tree halfway up the cliff, with its end dangling by the edge of the cliff where the wooden raft stood.

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Yesterday, third brother had used about five meters of vine to tie up the ‘shed’.

That meant there was also a particularly long piece of vine that hadn’t been used.

Su Qingyue swiftly climbed up the cliff using protruding rocks, verifying that, indeed, after the snowfall, the cliff was much more slippery.

Climbing to a height of ten meters, she grabbed onto the cliff with one hand and pulled on the end of the long vine with the other, skillfully snapping it.

The rest of the long vine, several dozen meters in length, fell down.

“Wife, be careful,” Xiao Yuchuan called from below, his heart lurching at the sight of his wife at such a height.

“I’m fine.” She easily descended to the raft, “Third brother, we can start securing the raft.”

He nodded and immediately set to work.

The two found a few flatter pieces of firewood, lined them up side by side, and tied them together to create a simple paddle.

After securing the raft, Su Qingyue and Xiao Yuchuan together lifted the roughly square-meter-wide, two-meter-long mixed wooden raft and tossed it into the water.

The raft splashed into the water, throwing up a high spray.

Su Qingyue and Xiao Yuchuan didn’t jump onto the raft, not wanting to risk damaging it with their weight.

Since the thick tree trunk they were on stretched across the surface of the pool and was only a little over a meter above the water, both of them hung onto a tree branch and lowered themselves onto the raft with their feet landing directly on it.

Once they were steady on the raft, they shook it slightly to check its stability and, finding it firm, they felt reassured.

Su Qingyue intentionally threw a few small branches into the water about twenty meters away from the pool, and the branches soon floated to the surface.

She wanted to see where the branches would end up drifting too.

Because the pool seemed as still as dead water.

At first, she had thought it was stagnant, not flowing.

Xiao Yuchuan, paddling with the newly crafted paddle, asked, “Wife, where should we head to now?”

“Let’s head towards where the fish like to surface,” she said.

“Go to the middle of the pond.

Let’s catch a few fish to eat first; we didn’t eat enough just now.”

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