"I'll see. ”

I picked up a fruit and smelled it, then I took a bite and tasted a little bit, "This is saccharin." ”

I've seen this thing in the village before, and there is a wild saccharin tree in the village that bears fruit every year, but no gluttonous child in the village will pick it up and eat it.

It's not that this thing is poisonous, it's that this thing is sweet and bitter.

"Is saccharin used to make sugar?"

Nie Chunxian picked up a saccharin fruit and looked at it and smelled it, there was indeed a sweet smell, and he took a bite gently.

At first, it felt sweet in the mouth, followed by a burst of bitterness.

"In the past, people in rural areas who couldn't afford brown sugar or white sugar would buy saccharin, which is extracted from this saccharin fruit, and as long as a saccharin the size of a grain of rice can make half a bucket of water taste sweet. ”

"Is it so powerful?"

Xiao Qian looked at the saccharin fruit in her hand in surprise, this was the first time she had seen this kind of fruit, and she had never even heard of it before.

Sugar is also one of the energy sources needed by the human body, and it may be possible to refine these saccharin fruits to obtain saccharin.

"What about this?"

Nie Chunxian carefully picked out a thorny light-colored fruit that came out, which he found when he came back.

"Damn, why do you pick all kinds of fruits? This thing is ice hemp seeds, not a fruit at all, it can be regarded as a kind of Chinese medicinal material. ”

"Can't you eat it? ”

Nie Chunxian threw away all the thorny fruits with some regret.

At noon, everyone should rest, and before resting, just ask if anyone understands the calculation of the twelve hours.

"By the way, I would like to ask any of you if you know how the twelve hours are divided, or what time the twenty-four hours correspond to. ”

"Then you're asking the right question. ”

Nie Chunxian smiled faintly.

"You know?"

"Of course. ”

In ancient times, a day and night were divided into twelve hours, namely: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.

Each hour is equivalent to two hours in modern times. The ancients named the hours according to the time of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.

The sub-hour corresponds to 12 a.m. to 1 a.m., the ugly hour corresponds to 1 a.m. to 3 a.m., and so on to the last hour corresponds to 21 to 12 a.m.

"It's noon, and the sun is directly above, around twelve o'clock in the afternoon, which is the ancient noon. The usual decapitation at three o'clock in the afternoon is now. ”

"I didn't expect you to understand this. ”

Nie Chunxian stroked his hair and said with a smile: "My hobby is to look at these ancient anecdotes, and occasionally dabble in these trivia that others don't know. ”

Today's people's concept of time is not like that of ancient people, and I dare to say that modern people will never know what time it is if they don't have a watch or mobile phone.

Now that you know the correspondence of the hour, you can consider making an hourglass.

"The hourglass isn't good, it's not going to miss an hour, especially if you don't have a watch. ”

The deputy captain raised his own doubts, and I think this is also everyone's doubts.

So I've got to figure out a way to do it.

The stupidest way is to count second by second, an hour and sixty minutes, a minute and sixty seconds, which is three thousand six hundred seconds.

Prepare the hourglass, then find someone to count and stop when you reach an hour, it sounds simple, but it's torturous.

If you don't pay attention, if you make a mistake, you have to start all over again.

So the question is, who is going to do this?

"You go, the way is what you want. ”

Nie Chunxian raised his chin and looked at me, feeling that I had to do this.

"I'm afraid I can't, this kind of thing needs to be careful and patient to do well, I have patience, but when it comes to carefulness, I can't compare to a woman. ”

A lot of the work that requires attention is done by women, such as checking the lines on a train.

"You mean to let us women do such boring things?"

"What's going to be boring about this? It's a very important thing, okay. It's just an hour's delay. ”

If the women present are unwilling, then I can only coerce and entic.

"I don't have the heart to do such a thing. ”

Nie Chunxian clasped his hands in front of his chest, his face facing to the side, and made his attitude clear.

Xiaoqian is also doing the same.

It's really a chain that falls off at a critical moment......

Coercion is afraid that it is not suitable for these women, so it can only be tempted.

"Ahem, all the beauties present listen to me, if anyone is willing to spend an hour to contribute to everyone, I, Su Ye, will give her a mirror and make a comb after this promise is completed. ”

There is no mirror comb, and during this time, women dress up by the waterhole and look at the reflection in the water, combing their hair with their fingers.

"Bragging! Where did you get the mirror?"

Xiao Qian was the first to suspect me.

Other women also cast questioning glances, they have never seen a mirror in a long time, and saying such things at this time will inevitably make everyone think that I am bragging.

But I do have a mirror, and I brought back a few backpacks from that cave, and there was a mirror in it, presumably because there was a girl in the expedition.

To convince everyone, I took the mirror out.

This mirror is not a stand-alone mirror, but is attached to a dressing box, and there are eyebrow clip nail clippers or something in the box.

"Really?"

Nie Chunxian squinted at the dressing box in my hand, why didn't this thing take it out earlier?

"Now you believe it, right? There is no comb in this dressing box, but it can make a wooden comb. How's that? Is there anyone willing to do so now?"

"I do!"

"I do!"

"I do, too!"

……

Now that someone is willing to help, I can also go for a lunch break and dig the toilet in the afternoon.

"Where did you get your dresser?"

Nie Chunxian found me and questioned.

"It's in those backpacks that I brought back, it's a little rusty on the outside of the box, but the contents are still good. ”

"Damn! It's been a few days since you took it out!

Nie Chunxian stepped forward and grabbed my clothes, and saliva sprayed on my face when I spoke.

The dressing box was taken away by Zhang Yan, because she counted it at one time and there was no mistake, everyone rushed to come before, so they took turns to count, and those who counted wrong were eliminated directly.

Zhang Yan is the oldest, and her mentality is also the most stable.

Sure enough, Jiang was still old and spicy, but she gave the dresser box to her daughter Lin Ya.

"Auntie, calm down, who told you to count wrongly? Would you like to gamble and lose?"

"Phew! You just did it on purpose! Obviously you just want to keep it for flirting with your sister! Don't think I don't know!"

Nie Chunxian felt that this must be the case, and his angry teeth itched and he wanted to give me another kick.