The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man
Chapter 1135 - Chapter 1135 1135 Drilling underwater rock holes 1

Chapter 1135: 1135 Drilling underwater rock holes 1 Chapter 1135: 1135 Drilling underwater rock holes 1 “Actually, I used to catch as much prey as second brother did, but in one household, having one person hunting was enough.

Second brother isn’t good with words, so I looked for other ways and became a vendor who sells goods,” Xiao Yuchuan said.

Su Qingyue listened to him talk about the past.

As they spoke, he had completely skinned the tiger.

She immediately took the skin, wrung out the water, and brought it over to dry by the fire.

Although they were wearing the winter clothes they had acquired a few days ago, early winter garments were adequate for the village, but here at the base of the cliff by the cold pool, it was much colder than the village.

Without staying close to the fire for warmth, one would freeze to death; the clothes were simply not warm enough.

Having such a large tiger skin would be much better.

Yuchuan dismembered the skinless tiger corpse into eight large pieces, placing two big chunks on a wooden raft.

The rest he tied up with vines and hung from rock bulges on the cliff wall.

He cut ten jin of meat from the tiger’s leg and brought it over to roast by the fire.

“Cut them into smaller pieces, they’ll roast better that way,” Su Qingyue instructed.

He smiled slightly, “Wife, if I were really hungry, I could even swallow raw meat.”

She rolled her eyes; in truth, if she were really starving, she would eat it too.

Nothing was more important than staying alive.

The aroma of roasting tiger meat slowly spread through the air.

Su Qingyue was drying the tiger skin in her hands, her boredom prompting her to take another look at their surroundings.

All around, there were sheer cliffs of ten thousand feet.

It was impossible to climb up, even without the two days of snow.

At most, with her skill, climbing dozens of meters high to gather firewood was the limit.

When she looked up while gathering firewood yesterday, the cliff still seemed impossibly high and nearly vertical with no footholds to climb further; the cliff walls on all sides were like that.

Up above, even birds might not make it out.

Down below, there was a pool that appeared to be still water encircling the base of the cliff.

The depth of the pool was unfathomable.

It was at one spot against the cliff wall inside the pool where a cave had an opening leading to the outside.

But that long, narrow hole was two meters deep in the pool water.

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Not on the surface of the pool.

It would be better if the cave opening was at the surface, they could just break their way out.

In the water, the cave wall’s inner side was filled with water.

Holding one’s breath to swim through the long cave, one’s air would almost run out, and just one meter from the exit, the gap was too narrow for a person to pass through!

Once the pool’s surface froze, they wouldn’t be able to dive, and they wouldn’t even be able to spear fish.

Food would then be limited to the tiger corpse.

They needed to break through the underwater exit before it froze.

Otherwise, if the ice formed and diving was no longer possible, they would have to wait until it thawed the next spring.

No matter how large the tiger corpse or how much meat, she and third brother wouldn’t be able to survive a whole winter on that alone.

Having consumed the tiger corpse, without any other food, they would still starve to death.

They said it would take five days to freeze completely.

After three days, once the pool is half-frozen, it’s estimated that it would no longer be possible to dive.

The harsh survival conditions filtered through her mind once again.

The desire to live was so strong that she constantly analyzed their current situation.

The roasted tiger meat was really delicious.

But with the situation desperate, neither of them felt too good while eating the roasted meat.

Xiao Yuchuan saw her furrowed brows, “Wife, don’t worry, even if I have to risk my life, I will break through the last meter of the long hole in the water.

I will make sure you leave this place.”

She didn’t speak, her determination to leave together with him was just as staunch.

The two of them had a full meal of roasted tiger meat.

After taking some wound medicine and resting a bit, Xiao Yuchuan stripped off his clothes, took a dagger in hand, and with a “plop,” he dived into the pool water, swimming toward the rock cave two meters below the surface.

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