Chapter 260 Director Chen: Grab the tail and don't let go!
The next day, after Zhao Xinqing woke up at four o'clock, Su Bai took two hours of sleep and got up and began to continue processing the horns.
By nine o'clock in the morning, the rain stopped.
Su Bai also chiseled all the two cow horns from the central axis and turned into four-petal cow horns.
Su Bai only took half of the outer part of the two horns, and Zhao Xinqing put away the inner part.
The next work is polishing.
Su Bai needs to grind half of the buffalo horns to the point where only the outermost piece remains.
Barrage:
【Good guy, I grind an iron rod into a needle!】
[For this ox horn bow, Su Bai really made a sacrifice...]
[However, you see, the buffalo horns are hollow and not solid, and the difficulty of polishing may be lower than we had expected before.]
【Even if it is hollow, the tongue file of the giant tongue fish should not be able to bear to grind like this…】
Su Bai looked at the barrage and smiled:
"Yes, the tongue of the giant tongue is not suitable for polishing the horns of buffalo."
"I need to pick up a piece of fine and porous basalt."
As he said that, Su Bai put the buffalo horn in his hand on the bed and pulled Zhao Xinqing out.
Now the rain is temporarily closed, and it is an opportunity to go out to find stones.
As for the buffalo horns, it must be time to wait until it rains and slowly grind it in the bamboo shed.
The two of them went to the farmland on the south side on their daily basis, harvested alfalfa on the sweet potato field, and adjusted the water level of the paddy field.
I went to the earth kiln and ordered firewood to bake the moisture and water in the earth kiln.
Then he led the snack foodie up the mountain.
Cement is not enough, so today's task is still to collect limestone.
In addition to limestone, there is another one more thing, which is to find a suitable piece of basalt.
Basalt is a type of volcanic rock, which is solidified by magma.
During the condensation process, dense and tiny holes will grow inside it, and sometimes they can even float on the water surface with the help of the air in the holes, so it is also called "pumice stone".
Since ancient times, basalt has been a good polishing object and can even be used to polish metals.
In modern society, the most common role that basalt plays in people's families is stepping stones - when washing feet, use the fine pores of basalt to grind off the solid dead skin on the feet.
Due to the movement of the earth's crust and the changing world, basalt does not necessarily appear only around volcanoes.
There are also traces of basalt on the mountain to the east of the two, but the frequency of occurrence is much lower than that of limestone.
I picked up limestone for a morning, and it was not until twelve:30 noon that Su Bai found a satisfactory piece of basalt.
This basalt is only slightly larger than the fist, with dense air holes and very hard material.
Not all basalts have the same hardness, some are very fragile.
But this part is different, it is a good choice to polish the buffalo horns.
When the two returned to the camp with basalt and a full pole of limestone.
The snow leopard has already squatted in the catnip bush and has sucked up the catnip of today.
Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing almost took the buffalo she had hunted, so naturally they had to continue to take care of the food.
Zhao Xinqing gave the snow leopard fifteen kilograms of fat beef meat to feed the snow leopard without hesitation, and then ignored the snow leopard's feasting, and only arranged lunch for himself and Su Bai next to the fire.
Su Bai calcined today's cement in the earth kiln.
Burning cement, Su Bai hurriedly turned around the camp and took out the buffalo tendon he brought back yesterday.
"The participation of the bovine tendon is indispensable for making a ox horn bow."
"Compared with the tendon fibers of yellow baboons, buffaloes are much stronger to assist the ox horn bow and burst out with powerful lethality."
"The sun is very weak now, the air is wet, and it is not feasible to dry or air dry."
"If it is delayed until the end of the cold wave, these tendons may rot."
"Under the proliferation and consumption of microorganisms, even the strong buffalo tendons will turn into soft and corrupt substances."
"So, we can only use drying."
"The good news is that the temperature of calcined cement in the earth kiln is very high and there is no need to consume excess fuel."
Su Bai used the bamboo blade to separate the large tendon vertically along the lines of the tendon fibers to form thinner tissue.
Then, a bracket with a slightly larger pore was erected with bamboo, which was hanging far away next to the top of the earth kiln.
I didn't even dare to put it directly on the top of the earthen kiln.
I was afraid that the temperature was too high and I would directly batter my tendons.
Even the temperature next to the earth kiln is enough to dry the tendons.
When he returned to the camp, Zhao Xinqing had already cooked her lunch and was waiting for Su Bai to come back while playing with the snow leopard to play with the cat stick.
Seeing Su Bai come back, Snow Leopard looks a little restrained again.
Although in the past few days, Su Bai and Xuebao have a much better relationship under the medium acting as Zhao Xinqing.
But the snow leopard is still more afraid of Su Bai.
Zhao Xinqing hugged Xue Leopard's head and asked Su Bai to stroke the snow leopard's back with soothing movements.
This location is not a key point, it is a relatively safe place.
Sure enough, the snow leopard just kicked Su Bai lightly, but did not stretch his claws.
Barrage:
【Snow Leopard: Get out!】
【Snow Leopard: Dirty hands, spread out!】
[Snow Leopard: Touch your wife! I am the mother of several children!]
Su Bai smiled twice, and did not force the silver layer to go to the bamboo shed to scoop beef soup with a bamboo tube.
The snow leopard was also full and drank enough. While the two of them were eating, they walked up the mountain with light steps.
"Is the temperature warmer today?"
Zhao Xinqing asked while drinking beef soup.
Su Bai nodded:
"It seems to be a little warmer, but not obvious."
"I'm not sure if it's a sign that the late spring cold is about to pass or something else."
Zhao Xinqing sighed:
"Go over quickly, the sweet potato seedlings have been destroyed and will soon be unable to hold on..."
As the saying goes, manpower is sometimes exhausted, and although farming depends on people, it depends on the sky.
This late spring cold has lasted for four days now.
If you continue to keep going so cold, even a PhD in Botany will have no choice.
I could only watch the sweet potato seedlings frozen to death in pieces.
...
Program team office building, Director Chen’s office.
He saw Zhao Xinqing's face full of sorrow in the live broadcast screen, turned his head and asked the staff behind him:
"How many days will this cold wave last?"
The staff member looked over the weather forecast and leaned over and said:
"Five days left."
Director Chen took a breath of air conditioning: "So long?"
"Dr. Zhao said earlier, what is the loss rate of sweet potatoes for five to ten days?"
The staff member recalled and replied:
"Sixty percent."
Director Chen was a little silent for a moment.
The staff member comforted:
"The yield of sweet potatoes with a yield of 3,000 kilograms per mu will be reduced by 60%, and there will be 1,200 kilograms."
"During the next sweet potato growth cycle, Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing can eat 24 kilograms of sweet potatoes every day."
Director Chen was stunned for a moment and imagined what the concept of 24 kilograms of sweet potatoes in his mind.
Can pile up a hill on your desk.
It's only after I finish eating it.
This loss seems huge, but it cannot have any substantial impact on the two.
Director Chen nodded:
"After all, sweet potatoes cannot be stored for a long time, they are just transitional food."
"The most important thing is the rice harvest..."
While speaking, the clerk's cell phone suddenly rang.
He answered the phone and listened to a few words, and said to Director Chen:
"Director, what you asked me to pay attention to last time has come to an end."
"Li Jixian, that safety officer, has a turnover."
Director Chen narrowed his eyes and said with a smile:
"Let's go and visit this security officer who has something to do."
"I finally touched the fox's tail, so I can't just let it go."