"I thought I could really be relaxed, but carrying so many mulberries is also a physical job!"
Zhao Xinqing covered her mouth and chuckled:
"We pick it and let the foodies carry it down."
Su Bai's face was full of deep consent and nodded:
"That's right!"
Barrage:
【???
[Snack foodie: You two are simply not human!]
[Snack foodie: You two are relaxing for a day, I will do heavy physical work for a day! Is there any bullshit?]
Zhao Xinqing went to the corner to bring the small bamboo tube that fermented wine koji.
As soon as I opened the lid of the small bamboo tube, I smelled a slightly pungent smell of alcohol and came out.
Su Bai looked over and saw that the originally dark green mixture in the bamboo tube was now covered with a thick layer of white hair.
Zhao Xinqing put her hand into the white hair and felt it for a while, nodded and said:
"Mulberries are rich in sugar and are a good ingredient for brewing fruit wine."
"Mix this wine koji and mulberries to seal it, and you can get mulberry wine."
"What we really lack now is actually some containers."
Often, winemaking is large jars, but in the wilderness, there are no big jars for two people to make wine.
After thinking about it, there is only bamboo.
Although the bamboo tube is a natural container, it is still too small for making wine, which is not ideal.
Zhao Xinqing shrugged:
"It's okay, just use small bamboo tubes to ferment them separately."
"It's the same if you control the distribution of wine koji."
"It's just a bit more complicated."
The two of them had cut down a hundred bamboos before. In addition to the part that made the water pipe, there were also many leftover materials.
Now all the left and right materials of these bamboos are hollowed out inside and made into bamboo tubes that are two palm-height, which can be used for the best use.
A pile of small bamboo tubes were piled up to the west of the camp. Su Bai looked up and down and said:
"This can't hold one-tenth of mulberries, right?"
That mulberry forest is really vast.
The capacity of this pile of bamboo tubes is already quite considerable.
But compared with the output of mulberry forests, it is still very difficult.
Zhao Xinqing looked at the pile of bamboo tubes and said thoughtfully:
"The rest can only be dried."
"Dried mulberries can be stored for about three months, and it is also a very considerable amount of sugar and trace elements."
Su Bai nodded and said:
"That's going to require more charcoal."
"Well, let's get some charcoal."
"We are not only drying mulberries, but we are about to build a house and need to boil cement, but also charcoal."
When Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing first set fire to the woods on the south side, they had obtained some charcoal, but the amount was not large.
These days, the charcoal used to bake mulberries, bows and arrows, and camps have basically been sold out.
The preparation of charcoal is actually not complicated and has a wide range of usage. Su Bai had the idea of making it.
He directed Zhao Xinqing, and the two worked together to make a waist-high mound with dirt on the west side of the camp near the woods.
The mound is basically closed, with only a small square window left on the front, the inside is hollowed out and the top is opened.
He put some firewood as thick as an arm into the mound, and then used open flames to penetrate the small window on the front, igniting the firewood inside the mound.
Su Bai explained:
"The so-called charcoal is the more efficient fuel obtained by firewood after incomplete combustion."
"This mound, because the air inside cannot flow freely, creates an incomplete combustion environment."
"After the firewood inside is ignited, the flame will quickly extinguish and turn into muffled. During the muffled process, some impurities in the firewood will be removed, leaving behind charcoal that burns more efficiently."
"Charcoal burns without open flames, some charcoal of high quality will not even have smoke."
"But its combustion temperature is much higher than firewood, and it can even melt steel."
"In the wilderness, once there is a lot of charcoal, you can perform complex operations such as burning pottery, smelting iron, and refining lime."
“It can be said that preparing charcoal is a necessary step toward a higher quality of life.”
The barrage of the China Kingdom applauded:
【Awesome!】
【Brave or Su Bai can brag!】
[You have been blown to the sky by the snacks.]
[Snack foodie: Dame! This is not for you! You can find Dr. Zhao!]
Su Bai looked at the barrage and laughed:
“It doesn’t seem difficult.”
"However, the air flow needs to be considered. The construction of this mound still requires certain technology, otherwise it will be difficult to obtain high-quality charcoal."
"The process of smoldering will be very long. Let's see it tomorrow morning."
After preparing the materials for disposing of a large amount of mulberries tomorrow, Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing saw foodies and snow leopards walking from the foot of the mountain from afar.
The cow and leopard face each other for many days, and they are familiar with each other, but the fear of predators from the genes still makes the foodies a little uneasy.
The foodie walked in front, looking back at the direction of the snow leopard from time to time, and was obviously a little alert.
The snow leopard had no desire to hunt foodies, but just followed him from afar, obviously coming to the camp to have dinner.
The foodie has already regarded the cattle pen in the camp as its nest. After eating alfalfa, Zhao Xinqing doesn't need to go over and pull her, so she just turned around and rested in the cattle pen.
The snow leopard followed the foodie and entered the camp, about to walk towards the catnip.
But suddenly I found that in the catnip, there was a Zhao Xinqing who was smiling gracefully.
Zhao Xinqing and Xue Leopard looked at each other for a while. Xue Leopard turned his head and looked at Su Bai who was cooking fish soup by the fire, and tentatively approached Zhao Xinqing.
Barrage:
[Wow! What an active snow leopard!]
【It's really not that scary anymore!】
Zhao Xinqing whispered:
"Look, when the snow leopard leaned over, its tail was high and upright."
"This means saying hello in the body language of felines."
As he said that, Zhao Xinqing squatted down slowly and stretched out a hand to the snow leopard that was walking towards him.
The snow leopard tiptoed and sniffed Zhao Xinqing's fingers.
Barrage:
[Wow! So obedient! Hurry her! Quickly!]
【Catch her right face with her left hand, grab her left face with her right hand! Rua her hard!!!】
Zhao Xinqing shook her head and said:
"No, this is not how cats communicate."
"Dare to communicate with the snow leopard like this, the snow leopard will at least be scared and may even conduct protective attacks."
"At this time, you have to hand over the initiative in communication to Xue Leopard, so that she will feel safe."
While speaking, the audience in China saw through the live broadcast screen that the snow leopard slowly approached and gently rubbed Zhao Xinqing's fingers with his cheeks and beard.
During this process, Zhao Xinqing also scratched the snow leopard's cheek very gently and interacted with her.
Both sides have a very small amplitude, but very harmonious.
A "hulu" sound gradually came from the snow leopard's throat.
Anyone who has raised a cat knows that when a cat makes such a sound, it has a little bit of a pleasing and acting cute.
Zhao Xinqing reached out at the right time and stroked Xue Leopard's neck...