The two returned to the camp. Zhao Xinqing left Su Bai alone to deal with the bamboos just picked today, while she hitched the snack plow to the south side of the field near the river and began to plow the ground.
At first, the snack foodie was very resistant to the curved shaft plow that was put on his shoulders by a rope. He kept struggling and twisting, trying to get rid of this strange thing.
Zhao Xinqing, on the other hand, seemed very patient and kept comforting the snacker.
After nearly an hour of grinding, the foodie finally understood what Zhao Xinqing wanted him to do, and tentatively began to pull the plow to plow the land.
When the cows start to cooperate, plowing becomes easier and more enjoyable.
Zhao Xinqing followed the snacker, corrected the direction, cleared some rocks, picked up some new weeds, and crushed small pieces of hardened soil with her feet.
At twelve o'clock at noon, when Su Bai called Zhao Xinqing back to the camp for dinner, half an acre of land had been plowed.
But when the snack food was exhausted, he rushed into the cow pen and ate like crazy.
Zhao Xinqing and Su Bai ate bamboo shoots and fresh fish soup, smacked their lips, and said in surprise:
"Today's fish seems to taste better than yesterday's?"
Barrage:
【???】
【No way?】
[It has been left out overnight, so it should be a little stale, right?]
Su Bai nodded and said:
"Well, the fresher the meat, the more delicious it is."
"Meat has a concept of 'maturation'. During the process of decay, the fat will gradually dissolve and begin to merge with the muscle texture."
"And in a certain primary stage of corruption, it tastes the best."
"If it continues to be corrupt, it will be ruined."
"Under the human industrial system, there are freezers that can artificially control the ripening process."
"Of course we can't do it now. I'm afraid it's just these two meals today that will catch up to this stage."
"By tomorrow, if the fish is not smoked, the taste will plummet."
Zhao Xinqing nodded with understanding:
"That's right! I thought it was the bamboo shoots."
"By the way, what do you use bamboo shoot peels for?"
She suddenly remembered what Su Bai said in the bamboo forest and couldn't help but be curious.
Su Bai ate the fish soup and said:
"Prepare to wrap the connection area of the water pipe with bamboo shoot skin, and then apply it with resin to prevent insects and dust."
"Try to seal the water pipe as much as possible. We can drink the water flowing out of this pipe in the future."
Zhao Xinqing thought for a while, her beautiful eyes lit up, and she said:
"There is a lot of pine resin in the red pine forest. Just collect more next time you go there!"
Su Bai nodded:
"That's what I think. It doesn't take much. About five bamboo tubes of resin should be enough."
Barrage:
【Awesome! Such control over details!】
【Stable as an old dog!】
[Su Bai, who is as steady as an old dog, are you telling me that he doesn’t deserve to be number one? 】
[Damn, I get so angry when I talk about it. The more I talk about it, the more angry I get. This morning, the program team issued an official statement. Have you read it? 】
[After seeing it, I was already furious. I had been trolling the program team in the forum all morning. I took advantage of lunch time to come to the live broadcast room to calm down and continue to troll in the afternoon. 】
Su Bai looked at the barrage, raised his eyebrows and asked:
"Official statement? What did it say?"
Hearing Su Bai's question, the barrage became more violent, with everyone talking:
【So angry! The program team is actually praising us!】
[The announcement, translated in human terms, is: We viewers don’t understand wilderness survival at all, so don’t use our shallow wilderness survival knowledge to speculate on the standards of the experts on the judging panel.]
[Perhaps we, the audience, do not understand wilderness survival, but at least we have eyes! We can see who is living better!]
[By the way, the announcement also said that the scoring standards have indeed changed recently, but it is definitely not to target certain players. The scoring is absolutely fair!]
[If it is fair, then why do we need to change the standard? Doesn’t this mean that I am guilty, but I refuse to admit it???]
[This program team is simply too much, no! You must not indulge them like this!]
【Squirt! Squirt them all for me!】
[No one is allowed to trap my little brother Su Bai like this!]
Zhao Xinqing sat next to Su Bai, waving her fists, her face also full of indignation:
"Spray! Spray! We must not let this program team confuse right and wrong!"
"Come on! I'm optimistic about you!"
"Hmph..." Su Bai smiled playfully and refused to comment. Anyway, he still had a long time to let the bullets fly for a while.
Even if the program team did not make any changes under the pressure of public opinion, Su Bai was confident enough that in the next period of time, the judges of the program team would not be able to find any flaws in him even if they revised the standards.
"Where is Li Jixian? How is the construction of his water diversion pipe?"
The barrage went silent for a while. Most of the viewers spent the morning criticizing the show crew and had no time to pay attention to Li Jixian's updates.
A small number of people watched Li Jixian’s live broadcast, and then came up:
[I have been hanging on Li Jixian’s live broadcast! 】
[Just now, he seemed to have really come up with a good idea! 】
【Replace your bamboo as the material for water pipes!】
Su Bai raised his eyebrows:
"Oh? Really?"
"What is it?"
…
In Li Jixian's live broadcast room, he and Song Mingyue thought hard all morning, trying to find a suitable alternative that would allow them to build a water diversion pipe to divert the distant stream water to the cave.
"How about... we use tree bark?" Song Mingyue asked tentatively.
"The bark is very light and easy to obtain. Can you lay a strip on it and guide the water over?"
Li Jixian frowned slightly and whispered:
"Bark..."
"It will rot."
Song Mingyue looked confused and asked:
"But... aren't all ancient ships made of wood? Why don't those ones rot?"
When Li Jixian heard this, a light flashed in his eyes.
"I see!"
He clapped his hands heavily and said happily:
"You are right! The reason why ancient ships did not rot was because they were painted with tung oil!"
“We can refine tung oil!”
“Then brush it on the bark!”
"After it dries, it can be used as material for water diversion pipes!"
"Although it cannot be completely closed, there will be great disadvantages, such as falling ash and leaves, and it is easily damaged by wild animals, but it is still much better than nothing!"
Song Mingyue was stunned for a moment:
"So……"
“Where can I find tung oil?”
Li Jixian laughed and said:
"When I was looking for water earlier, I saw a small tung tree forest that had already produced fruits. We just need to squeeze out the tung oil from the tung tree fruits and that's it!"
Song Mingyue's eyes lit up, she nodded and said:
"Sounds doable! You're so smart!"
…
The barrage recounted what happened in Li Jixian's live broadcast room to Su Bai.
Zhao Xinqing was beside her, holding her chin in her hands, looking a little dazed.
Brush the bark with tung oil?
It sounds like... it can indeed be used as a material for water pipes...