Chapter 228: Venom Celestial Star (Requested)
"Be careful, these plants are poisonous, shovel the sappers to me. Xu Yi said, and then pointed to some plants on the ground.
Lu Ke nodded, then took out the sapper shovel in Xu Yi's back basket and handed it to him.
These plants Lu Ke looked quite normal, but he didn't expect them to be poisonous.
"Touching their juice can cause your skin to fester. If the area is large, it is normal to have a severed limb or even die. Xu Yi explained, because his experience in identifying toxic substances contained information about this plant.
"This, so terrifying, what kind of plant is it?" Lu Ke listened to Xu Yi's words, and his hairs stood up.
Xu Yi carefully dug one up, and then said, "Venom Tianxing, use it well, that's a weapon." ”
"Go cut the flax, and I'll dig out these venom stars. Xu Yi handed his machete to Lu Ke, and there was indeed a piece of flax in front of him.
"Okay, then you be careful, it's too dangerous to get it. Lu Ke admonished, after all, what Xu Yi said was so terrible.
"Well, this kind of thing is rare after all, I'll be careful. Xu Yi smiled and said, he knew the horror of Venom Celestial Star, so he would naturally be very careful.
Fortunately, its venom is all in the leaves, and the liquid on the rhizome is not dangerous.
Otherwise, Xu Yi really didn't dare to dig.
"Let's cut two or three bundles, we can't carry it back if we have more. Lu Ke turned around and said to Xu Yi, after all, time is limited, and it is impossible to waste too much time here.
Otherwise, you won't be able to reach the camp after dark.
"Well, come back tomorrow and decide on the location, we can save a lot of time. Xu Yi replied without raising his head. He's digging a venom star out of the dirt, and he doesn't want to accidentally get his hands on it.
The reason why they have taken so long to come here today is because they need to explore carefully, and when they encounter some plants, they have to stop and check if they can eat them or if they have medicinal properties.
Naturally, it took a lot of time, and if I came directly to cut the flax tomorrow, I might be able to save about two hours.
"Thirteen, good luck. Xu Yi grinned happily, and then put all these venom stars into his back basket.
Then, he and Lu Ke cut the flax together.
After cutting 4 bundles, the two men called it a day.
After all, it would take a few hours to go back, and it would still be without delay.
On the way back, Lu Ke hit a rabbit with a short crossbow.
By the time we returned to camp, it was already getting dark.
"Lu Ke, you go deal with the rabbits, and I'll take down the strawberries. Xu Yi put down the linen and the back basket, and prepared to take down the strawberries on the roof.
Xu Yi felt that after being exposed to the sun for so long, the strawberries were estimated to be drying up.
"Don't you need my help?" Lu Ke asked after putting down his things.
"No, you don't need to take the dustpan off, just put it on it, I can do it myself." With that, Xu Yi erected the ladder and put it on the beam at the top.
"Be careful, then. Lu Ke admonished, after all, it is six meters high, and if you fall, it is also very dangerous.
"Don't worry, it's fine. Xu Yi said, and then climbed up.
After arriving at the roof, Xu Yi found that the strawberry slices had not turned dry, and most of them had rotted.
"Did you fail to dry it?" Xu Yi picked up a piece and used it to smell it, and there was a sour smell.
None of the strawberry slices in the two round dustpans were successfully sunburned, which made Xu Yi a little depressed.
He originally thought that after two or three days of drying, he would be able to harvest some dried strawberries. It turned out to be a complete failure, and there was not a single dried strawberry.
So, Xu Yi folded the dustpans together, and then took them back to the ground.
The strawberries are dirty and must be cleaned.
"Xu Yi, why did you take down the dustpan, the dried strawberries have already been dried?" Lu can already dry the dried strawberries, so that there is no need to put the dustpan on the roof, because there is no need to continue drying it tomorrow.
"No, it's all melted away, and it didn't succeed. As he spoke, Xu Yi took some remaining strawberries and showed them to Lu Ke.
"How can this be, the sun is very big today. Lu Ke glanced at Xu Yi puzzled, after all, there are also dried strawberries for sale in the market.
"I guess we used the wrong method, the strawberries have too much water. Xu Yi said while cleaning the dustpan.
"But the grapes also have a lot of moisture, aren't we also dried into raisins?" Lu Ke said.
"Grapes have skins and don't soften easily. Let's touch the strawberries, and after a while they will be soft and rotten. Therefore, it should not be the same way, you have to get the moisture out first, and then you can dry it. Xu Yi thought seriously for a moment and said his thoughts.
"That's ......" Lu Ke thought for a while, felt that what Xu Yi said was quite reasonable, and then asked, "Then how can we use to get the water out of the strawberries?"
After all, there are so many strawberries that you can't eat them all every day. If you don't dry it and store it, it's a waste.
After all, the two of them are Chinese. Unlike the blacks, they would rather leave the fruit rotten than think about how to preserve the fruit and save it when needed.
"Salt, or sugar, should be fine, as long as it's denser than water. Xu Yi said.
"Salt? We have very little salt, it's enough for normal food, and it's too wasteful to make dried strawberries. Sugar, we have honey, is this okay?" Lu Ke was reluctant to use salt on this, after all, if he was going to the beach now, it would take at least a day and a night.
Their salt was given by Wang Jin and Lu Yao.
"You can take a small part and try it, if it doesn't work, forget it. "Even if they knew that salt and sugar were needed to dehydrate it, they still didn't know how to make it.
"Otherwise, let's exchange a book for making dried fruits, there are books in it that can be exchanged, and I guess there are books that specialize in making dried fruits." Lu Ke made a new suggestion.
She felt that it was a pity that she could only throw away the strawberries that she could not eat.
It is shameful to be wasteful.
At least, that's what she thinks.
"Let's see if there are any, how many points. Xu Yi felt that it was still not cost-effective.
"Okay, I'll look for it later. With that, Lu Ke cleaned the rabbit and carried it out of the water.
Then she chopped the rabbit into pieces of meat and boiled them in a pot.
Xu Yi also washed the dustpan and returned to the stilted building.
Lu Ke fixed the rabbit skin, and then began to look it up with the star catalog.