Chapter 34: An Unlucky Day (Part II)
It's a walnut!
When Wu Yicai got closer, he could smell the fragrance of its leaves, which were found in the mountains of his hometown, and there was one in front of his grandfather's grave.
Wu Yicai remembered that when he was a child, he went up to the mountains to pick fruits, and at that time he didn't know the walnut on the tree, thinking that it was some kind of apple or something.
At that time, I was very stupid to take it off and take a bite, but it turned out to be very astringent, and I thought I couldn't eat it at the time, so I used it to play football......
Later, because the green peel fell off, revealing the husk inside, he learned that it was a walnut.
However, the walnuts on this tree are much larger than those he had collected before, but he doesn't know if these walnuts are ripe, and the unripe walnuts are some white liquid inside.
The half-ripe flesh is white and tender, but these flesh are wrapped in some yellow tender skin, which is very bitter and must be removed before eating.
You can also eat it after drying, and after drying, it will be the same as the walnuts you bought, and you can eat it directly!
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Wu Yicai picked a walnut, smashed it with a stone, and found that it was half-cooked, the yellow tender skin was peeled off, and the white tender meat was eaten.
The white tender meat is fragrant, crispy, and has a lot of moisture, but it is far less delicious than the dried walnuts!
Now that they can be collected, they need to be brought back to let the green skin rot on the outside, and then the husks can be washed and exposed to the sun.
He didn't have a bag, so he continued to strip his shirt and knot the neckline and sleeves to act as a bag.
Because the walnut tree is very tall, about 6 meters, he has to climb the tree to collect it after collecting the following.
Wu Yicai was picking walnuts on the tree, and Wangcai was squatting and watching below, and his neck tingled as he climbed up.
Damn, I feel like I've been bitten by something.
Wu Yicai's neck is now burning and hurting, it shouldn't have been bitten by a snake, he didn't notice a snake on this tree when he was climbing.
Wu Yicai turned his head and saw the thing that bit him, it was indeed not a snake, but a fat caterpillar!
This caterpillar is so fat, it's a big one......
It had long hair, its body was green, and it was wriggling on the leaves, but he was panicking, and it had just attacked his neck.
In fact, it was Wu Yicai who accidentally touched it, and the thorns on its body entered his body along his pores, and within a few seconds, his neck was red and swollen, and now it is super painful!
Wu Yicai was also attacked by caterpillars when he was a child, and later he used transparent tape to glue the thorns out, although there is no transparent tape here, but he still has a way.
With thin mud!
Wu Yicai has collected a lot of walnuts now, and these on this tree let them collect them for a period of time first, and then come back after a while, his neck is getting more and more painful now, and he has to deal with it quickly.
Putting away the walnuts, he went to the river, and now the water was clear, and he could see some shrimp and small fish swimming in the river, and he had to hurry to treat his neck, and he needed the mud by the river.
Apply the mud to the sore area, wait for the mud to dry, and then get the mud off the whole piece, which may bring out the stinger in the body.
Wu Yicai did it a few times, and now his neck is not so painful, he should have taken out the stinger, I really didn't expect that this little insect could make people hurt terribly!
When he came to the camp, Wu Yicai poured the picked walnuts on the ground, there were about 80 of them, dug a pit and poured a little water to let the walnut skin rot slowly, and then washed and dried for a few days before eating.
He picked a little more aloe vera and applied it to his wounds, which had been scratched by thorns today, and although the wounds were not big, he still had to be careful to prevent infection!
Now Wu Yicai needs to make some basket nets, he found yesterday that there are big fish in the river, and using basket nets can allow him to get fish and shrimp.
Wu Yicai now has to plan his future well, now that there is fresh water, he has to ensure a steady stream of food, there are basket nets in the sea, you can get fish all the time, and some traps are set up in the freshwater river to catch more fish.
With plenty of food, he could find time to do something else, and he needed to build a strong house and a kiln, which was heavy and took a long time.
The rabbit skin cleaned today has dried, it is also fixed, he put it away, put it in the hut can make him a pillow towel, his wooden pillow is a headache, now with this fluffy pillow towel, he is no longer afraid of hard pillows!
Wu Yicai now wants to make a few basket nets, it is best to make a few larger ones, yesterday he found that there are bearded catfish in the river, as well as small river shrimp, indicating that the food here is still very rich.
He still had several nets from which he had made the trap wall yesterday, and he could use them to make basket nets, but he had to use bark instead, as there were few vines to be found here.
Wu Yicai used a saw made of wire to break a small tree, the bark of which is so tough that a lot of rope can be made by tearing the bark and tying knots, and its young branches can be used as a frame for a basket net.
The basket nets he makes are still of the progressive type, with small openings about 30 centimeters in diameter, and then slowly tapered and slowly grown.
It is a cylindrical net with a length of three meters and a diameter of one meter.
However, the net mouth of this fishing net is still too big, and there are many river shrimp in the freshwater river, and their bodies are very small, which means that he has to make the net the size of a fist smaller, it must be less than a centimeter.
An hour later, the basket net was finally ready, and his cervical spine was swollen after doing this.
When he came to the river, he put the net with the entrails into the water, and he put it in a good position, the water was very gentle, and it was between the river and the reeds, and the depth of the river was about 1.5 meters!
There are a lot of shrimp in this river, they look different from those in his hometown, these shrimp are too big. They are very long, occupying half of their body, and their whole body is translucent, with a total length of about 20 centimeters!
Damn! So big?
Wu Yicai wanted to go into the water to catch these tempting prawns, but they were so cunning that they ran away when they saw his shadow.
However, Wu Yicai is really not good at catching these sensitive little guys, he is good at playing tricks, and his good basket net will help him catch these sensitive and cunning delicacies!
Haha, I'm looking forward to tomorrow, he seems to have seen a basket full of prawns!
But the water quality here is really good, there are shrimp, and they grow so fat.
When he came to the camp, he cut a bamboo pole with a saw, straightened it out, and wanted to make a long pole for picking coconuts.
It's very heavy with bamboo, there should be water in it, and he needs to release the water inside!
Wu Yicai used a knife to dig up the bamboo knots with water, and released about 2 liters of water, these bamboo water was saved by him, and he could drink it directly later!
Sharpen the tip of the bamboo pole so that you can cut off the branches of the leaves perfectly!
When he came to the coconut groves, he found that there were many coconut trees here, stretching from here to the far side of the coastline......
There are at least hundreds, if not thousands, of coconut trees.
The long bamboo pole made by Wu Yicai is very easy to use, and it takes 6 coconuts in less than 1 minute.
Well?
The shells on the ground are moving, are these hermit crabs?
No, these are not hermit crabs, but a delicacy!