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Chapter 198 The Actor County Lord

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    Zhao Hao did not refuse. How can there be any defense between men and women at this time?  Survival is the most important thing.

    "Besides, this woman has a ghostly face and is dressed like a bear. There is absolutely no need to avoid suspicion.

    So he huddled side by side with the woman in the fox fur cloak, and while waiting for the sweat to subside, he said: "Now that the shelter is available, we have to find a way to light a fire, so that we won't be afraid even if we spend the night in the mountain tonight."

    "Yes." The woman nodded. She was naturally the unlucky head of Lanling County, Li Mingyue.

    Although Li Mingyue is usually strong, she is still a little girl, so she naturally feels dependent on Zhao Hao, who saves her and helps her like a big brother.

    "Do you have a lamp on you?" Zhao Hao touched his whole body but couldn't find anything that could ignite the fire.  This is not surprising, Mr. Zhao usually wears all those bezoars, horse treasures and other sundries on Gao Wu.  "Oh, in northern dialect it's called hair candle."

    Li Mingyue shook her head. Zhao Hao didn't carry any sundries with him anymore, let alone her dignified county master.

    "Okay, I'll think of a way" Zhao Hao got up and walked around for a while, then came back with a piece of ice.

    ¡°He found this from under the snow.  The snow melts into water little by little under the sunlight, and then penetrates into the snow surface and forms ice. This is also an important reason for avalanches.

    "Aren't you going to make a fire?" Li Mingyue asked in confusion: "What are you doing with ice?"

    ""Huainan Wanbi Shu" says: 'Peel ice to make a circle, hold it up to the sun, and use moxa to support its shadow, then fire will grow.'" Zhao Hao didn't have time to talk nonsense with her, so he interrupted the sentence.

    This is a book he only read in order to teach his disciples. Speaking of it now, it seems to have a lot of credit.

    Sure enough, Li Mingyue listened to him quoting scriptures. Although she didn't understand it, she felt it was serious, so she stopped talking.

    Zhao Hao used a branch to draw the shape of a convex lens on the ground. After explaining it for a while, he asked Li Mingyue to grind the ice cubes into as large a mirror as possible, and then went to find firewood.

    When he came back with the firewood, he saw that Li Mingyue had made a magnifying glass the size of a cooking pancake and was polishing the surface with a piece of horsehide.

    The horsehide is naturally removed from the ski.

    Seeing Zhao Hao come back, Li Mingyue held up the ice lens as if offering a treasure and said, "See if it looks like this."

    Zhao Hao gave a thumbs up in surprise and said, "I didn't expect you to be quite good at it."

    "What's so difficult about this?" Li Mingyue polished it harder and harder: "I'm a good sharpener."

    "You must be a young lady, can you do that kind of rough work?" Zhao Hao glanced at Li Mingyue strangely, without looking at her face, just looking at her luxurious fire fox fur cloak and the exquisite cloud pattern embroidery on her feet.  Calfskin boots, you know she must be from an extraordinary background.

    If Li Mingyue had his usual temperament, he would definitely sneer and ask, "What's wrong with the eldest lady?"  Can¡¯t the eldest lady sharpen a knife?

    But today, for some reason, she unexpectedly lowered her head and whispered, "I'm bragging. Actually, I don't know how to sharpen a knife. I've only watched my brother sharpen it"

    After saying that, Li Mingyue shyly touched the lens with all her strength. Zhao Hao hurriedly snatched it from her hand and said, "It's almost done. Too much is not enough."

    Then he folded the collected firewood into small pieces and piled them up, then spread thatch underneath, and finally tore up the cotton-padded jacket and pulled out the cotton wool to use as fire starter.

    He habitually wanted to explain that the flash point of this cotton wool is below 28 degrees and is flammable.

    But thinking that the two apprentices were not here, he had no choice but to shut up.

    After finishing the preparations, Zhao Hao raised the mirror, pointed it at the sun in the sky, and adjusted the focus to the cotton wool.

    By this time, the sun was already setting in the west. To be honest, Zhao Hao was not sure whether he could light a fire.

    But thinking that since people can use this method to start fires in Antarctica, there is no reason why the sunlight here is weaker than in Antarctica, right?

    The two of them waited with bated breath for the moment when they witnessed the miracle. Li Mingyue was still staring at the light spot ignorantly, and she looked away after being dazzled.

    Suddenly, a wisp of smoke rose from the ball of cotton wool

    Zhao Haoxin said, this guy really has a bad temper.  He did not dare to neglect, and quickly handed the lens to Li Mingyue, asking her to continue to maintain the focus, while he stretched his neck and blew gently while carefully holding up the ball of cotton wool.

    Finally, the smoke became bigger and bigger, and the flames started to appear!

    Li Mingyue didn¡¯t dare to breathe when she saw Zhao Hao holding the precious flame and igniting the thatch. Finally, the thatch ignited the twigs and the fire burned completely.  Then she cheered and said:

    "You are so awesome!"

      Zhao Hao coughed twice and said to himself that if it had not been for the period of living in Caijiaxiang, I would not be able to light these damp firewood even if I had a magnifying glass.

    Or how to say, suffering is the best teacher, but the premise is that you have to defeat it first.

    However, it is also good to make the firewood damp. This will make the smoke thicker, making it easier for people to find them.

    ??~~

    In the wild, fire is warmth, hope and security.

    Although aftershocks continued after this, Zhao Hao and Li Mingyue were no longer so panicked.

    "Be prepared to spend the night." Zhao Hao looked at the simple shelter surrounded by snow walls and stone walls, and said with some regret: "It would be great if I had a knife. I can cut some shrub branches and add a roof to it.  It will be much better at night.¡±

    Hearing this, Li Mingyue hesitated for a moment, then bent down and pulled out a bright dagger from his boot

    "Why do you have this?" Zhao Hao was startled.

    "My brother asked me to take this with me" Li Mingyue lowered her head and said in a voice as loud as a gnat: "It's better to commit suicide if you meet a bad person."

    She wanted to say it was self-defense, but she didn't know why her mouth didn't obey her command and she said it in another word.

    "Hey, you brother is really stupid. What is more important than life?" Zhao Hao shook his head and sighed. He took the dagger and took a look. He saw that the dagger body was like a stream of autumn water, with two words engraved on it.  Lanling'.

    Even a layman like him can tell that this is a rare sword.

    Others would probably say, how can such a precious weapon be used to chop down trees?

    But Zhao Hao said happily: "Great, it's much easier to chop wood now."

    He asked Li Mingyue to take care of the bonfire, and then ran to chop randomly for a while, and got a large handful of forsythia and thornberry branches.

    The two of them worked together to tilt the branches between the snow wall and the stone wall, then covered them with thick dead leaves, and finally covered them with snow.

    A small shack with a roof and walls was built.

    Now most of the heat from the fire was retained, and the shack quickly became warm.

    Zhao Hao took off the mink hat again and took out the leather lining inside. He saw that the stitching was very fine. It was indeed a high-end product from Dashilar.

    The next moment, he inserted the dagger into the hat and carefully cut off the leather lining.

    Seeing Zhao Hao trying to build a stove with stones, Li Mingyue's eyes lit up and she suddenly said: "I know what you are going to do. I heard that Mongolians boil water in leather pots!"

    "Smart." Zhao Hao smiled and nodded, just about to show off.

    But I heard Li Mingyue say: "But there's no need, I have this"

    As she spoke, she took out a flattened silver kettle from her cloak and said, "This is for warming soup, but the soup was spilled."

    Zhao Hao rolled his eyes at her and said in his heart that if you didn¡¯t tell her earlier, you would have wasted my Hai Long hat in vain

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