As soon as he thought of this, some memories that made Song Xuan very unhappy came back to his heart.

Fortunately, although the water discharged is dirty and smelly, it is also a normal product of biodegradation, and the impact of slow discharge of small water on the environment is not so great.

Unlike some of the beasts on the island, it is not afraid of those fish and shrimp knocking on its door in the middle of the night.

"Phew~"

Thinking of this, Song Xuan couldn't help but take a sip.

Seeing that the eyes around him gathered, Song Xuan also hurriedly reined in, fortunately, in this era, it is all pollution-free, and basically there is no need to worry about ecological problems.

Although there are a lot of people, but after digging for a long time, everyone has not completely got all the hemp out of the pool.

Because the smell is too strong, you have to go out to breathe after drying for a while, so after half a day, there is still some left in the pool.

But if you don't finish it here today, everyone will definitely not go to eat, otherwise you will definitely eat like a stone class, and you will have to vomit it all.

Song Xuan hadn't eaten in the morning, and he was even more hungry until now, and the others were similar, although Shi Ban was full, he vomited all of them when he first came.

Seeing that there was not much hemp in the pool, everyone also sped up.

The dirty water in the pool was put in the morning for a long time, and there was not much left at this time, and everyone worked hard for more than an hour, and finally got it clean.

The next thing is to find a way to get out the hemp fibers, which is the hemp that the tribe really needs.

It's not difficult, you can just take it to the creek and scrub it, although this is the real source of the smell, but it's already almost rotten, plus everyone stirs it up in the pool, if it's only a small amount, the taste is still within the acceptable range.

"Let's go, go back to dinner!"

Although all of them were full of stench, they didn't feel so strong when they got away from the pool.

After a brief wash, back to the tribe is a mess of eating seas.

Originally, Song Xuan also wanted to take these hemp to the downstream main stream for rinsing, but after thinking about it, it was not necessary to clean it all right away anyway, and the river channel downstream of the tribe was gradually widening, so it should not be a big problem to wash it directly here.

Rather than making a lot of effort to transport it downstream, clean it and then pull it up, it is better to solve it on the spot, which can also save some trouble.

"Let's go, one person with two baskets!"

The basket is naturally to prevent being washed away by the river when washing, although there is a lot of hemp, but after all, the tribe needs more, and this is also after a lot of hardships to get out, can not be spoiled or not spoiled.

"You see, it's like this......"

Song Xuan demonstrated how to rub off the other things on the hemp, although there was not much dirt on it, but the taste was still very good, fortunately, he had a good rest at noon, and after the cultivation in the morning, everyone had slowly begun to get used to it.

In order to leave as much complete hemp as possible, you can't scrub too hard, otherwise it is easy to break the knot, and once it is broken, the quality will be much worse.

The basket on the right is naturally filled with hemp taken out of the pool, and after being scrubbed clean, it is placed directly into the basket on the left.

The basket is also just right to drain the water inside.

The shelves in the tribe have been set up, this one is very simple, anyway, how much bamboo you want, you can use any one.

When scrubbing, Song Xuan told everyone to be neatly arranged, otherwise if they were all entangled, it would have a great impact on the later steps.

However, more than a dozen people washed together, and the power caused was still very great, and Song Xuan saw a few small fish floating not far away.

Although this summer is not like last year, the rain is very concentrated, but the total amount is also quite large, so the current water level of the river is not low, and the flow rate is not slow, and it can be diluted quickly after being dispersed.

For the next few days, everyone was involved with these stinky hemps, and after three days, all the hemp was finally rubbed out.

On the first day, it had already been dried, and as for whether there were any extra steps to strengthen the toughness of hemp, Song Xuan didn't know, and now he could only use it directly, but fortunately, the strength was still very good.

Shi Hua has come back relatively early in the past few days, and has also rubbed out some threads and strings, and the strength is still speechless, and it is no worse than the animal skin rope in the tribe.

However, the only drawback is that the rope in the tribe can be rubbed out, but it is difficult to rub it very long, and once it grows, it starts to have problems, either here or there.

Of course, there are still some techniques that Song Xuan doesn't know, of course, it is not excluded that everyone's techniques are not very good, after all, they have just come into contact with rubbing long ropes, but it is already very good to be able to achieve the current point, and it is a big deal to use the weaving method, at most, the efficiency is slower.

Now that the hemp has been made, the animal skin ropes in the tribe have basically entered the end of their careers, and there will definitely be hemp to gradually replace them later.

However, Song Xuan found that he seemed to have overestimated the output of hemp, and after all of it was dried, it was only half a room, but fortunately, as long as it was not particularly wasteful, it would not be a problem to use it until next year.

Song Xuan also hopes that the harvesting method can be improved next year, and if it is uprooted like this, it is indeed a little unbearable, if it can be harvested many times, not to mention more, there should be no problem with two crops a year.

But this is just Song Xuan's imagination, after all, the tribe still plays with stones, even if these broken stones are played out of flowers, they can't be cut when they are used to cut hemp.

Since there are not many places for everyone to use now, Song Xuan didn't let Shi Hua and the others pick out the time to rub some ropes.

Now is the time when all kinds of fruits are concentrated and ripe, so Shihua they are also very busy, they can only pick time to rub some out, and this aspect was done by Shihua alone before, so I have to teach how to make it to others, the speed of making hemp rope is not very fast, so it is even slower, but after everyone is familiar with it, the speed will naturally be faster.

Due to the dense forests around the tribe, there are also a lot of all kinds of wild fruits, after all, Song Xuan knows a few, most of them are peach and plum, and there are so many kinds of wild fruits here that Song Xuan can't recognize them.

Whether it is sweet or sour, as long as it can be eaten, Teng Snake will not refuse to come, and all of them will be picked back.

But even so, it is impossible to pick it cleanly, in addition to the limited ability, it is natural to leave some for the surrounding beasts.

Not only do people feed their stomachs with these fruits, but so do birds and beasts, which are also an important part of their food chain.

And many wild fruits depend on these animals for the spread.

As for the Teng Snake exclusive fruit forest planned by Song Xuan last year, the progress is not fast at present, and more than a dozen fruit trees have survived so far.

Although there are a lot of planting, but there are many deaths, there is no planting experience, and after pulling it out, just dig a pit and no longer care about him, such a planting method is naturally difficult to ensure the survival rate.

Fortunately, the base number of seeds planted is relatively large, otherwise it would be difficult to keep even these dozen or so.

But even if it is planted, it will take a long time to wait until the harvest, after all, the seedlings planted on the Teng Snake side are all seedlings, and the largest one is only one person tall and the thickness of a small arm.

It's not that Song Xuan doesn't want to move the ripe fruit trees directly, it's really limited in his ability, and he can't make it alive if he moves over, so when Shihua and the others had this idea, Song Xuan directly interrupted.

But then they also secretly got a lot of large and small fruit trees, and in the end only the largest one survived, and after so much effort, they couldn't see the harvest in the end, and now Shihua They slowly don't have much motivation.

But the small saplings are also the tasks assigned by Song Xuan, and they still have to do it, and they will find some to plant in every ten days.

Cultivating Teng Snake's own fruit forest belongs to the contemporary, beneficial thing, in a short period of time may not be of great benefit to Teng Snake, but also wasted a lot of manpower and material resources.

But when they grow up, as long as there are enough of them, they can still meet the needs of Teng Snake.

And the fruit can not only be eaten directly, everyone is also the same as making dried mushrooms, the excess fruit is cut and dried directly, although the taste and texture are basically lost, but some is still left, and it can also be used to improve the taste in the winter when materials are relatively scarce.

In particular, some of the sweeter fruits, although they look dark after sunning, are also very popular with everyone when soaked in water.

Of course, this welcome must have been confined to winter, and now the season is not even ripe, let alone the dried fruit.

Although Song Xuan also looked down on those dried black fruits, in winter, he sometimes coveted them.

Other than these two methods, Teng Snake does not currently make any other use of it.

Of course, the way to eat the fruit was originally very limited, but Song Xuan still wanted to make full use of them, after all, now the collection team would bring back a few hundred catties every day, and they couldn't eat it at all.

Even if half of it is made, it is far from keeping up with the speed of everyone's collection, and many of them are only discovered by the collection team after they are ripe, and if they are picked up and eaten in time, they will quickly rot.

Many of these fruits are the sweet and fat kind.

So Song Xuan now wondered if he could refine some sugar in it, although sugar cane and sugar beets, the most commonly used sugar extraction raw materials in later generations, were not found around the tribe.

But in these sweet fruits, there is also a lot of sugar.

No matter what era it is, everyone is very fond of sweets, but in the tribe, they can only be eaten when the fruit is harvested.

Even if there is dried fruit in the back, but when it is soaked in water, the taste is relatively light.

Except, of course, some of the people in the hunting party who are not afraid of death.

The surrounding environment is so good, there is naturally no shortage of bees in the mountains and forests, and sometimes if you are lucky enough to shuttle through the mountains, you can also find some.

Of course, most people definitely don't dare to provoke, but there are exceptions in the tribe, that is, Shi Yong, and this trick alone makes everyone admire him very much.

After discovering the hive, if the conditions are right and there are not a lot of bees, this honey snatcher will change his clothes.

Although he is bold, it will still hurt when he is stung, so Shi Yong will also find some animal skins and wrap the exposed parts of his body as much as possible.

Like the face and hands, although he could not be wrapped in animal skins, he would also be painted with some mud.

Then there was the real robbery, first finding some half-wet firewood, lighting it to create a lot of smoke, driving away the honey, and then snatching and running.

Although I will be swollen by this blue nose and face every time, the harvest is also very considerable, and a small jar of nest honey will definitely not be able to run away.

But no one else dares to do this kind of thing, and everyone can't stand being stung twice, let alone robbing their nests under the noses of bees.

Every time I saw Shi Yong come back with a blue nose and swollen face, the children in the tribe knew that there must be honey to eat this time.

Although the tribe can also obtain excess sugar in this way, after all, the hive is not easy to find, and the suitable one is even less.

This way alone is definitely not enough, and sugar is not only a good way to satisfy the appetite, but also a good way to replenish energy, as for whether fructose can have the same effect as white sugar, although Song Xuan does not dare to guarantee it, it is estimated that in addition to making Ivan bigger, the others should be able to be replaced.

Anyway, there are too many fruits in the tribe to eat, rather than waiting for them to rot, it is better to make full use of them, when the time is particularly ripe or very sweet, you can use it to squeeze sugar, and you can generally eat it directly or make it into dried fruits, so that there will be less waste.

It is not easy for them to carry a few hundred catties a day, and now in this season, when there are few, there can be two or three hundred catties, and when there are many times, everyone's basket is full.

Many of them were even bumped up on the road, and after coming back, everyone didn't look at them, and just threw them all away.

Due to the large number of results, Shihua and them basically don't bring too much food when they go out recently, and the main thing they eat is these fruits.

Of course, although there are many fruits, not all of them are sweet and greasy, and most of them or taste not so good, after all, they are the most wild and primitive state, so they can be used as staple food, but they can also make do, and with a little, dried meat broth, filling the stomach is not a big problem.

However, if it is used to squeeze sugar, it is naturally sweeter the better, fortunately, the number of such fruits is not small, and the minimum brought back each time is at least dozens of catties, in addition to being more popular at the beginning, now everyone is a little tired of eating, of course, there is naturally one to keep some ideas to eat in winter.

Song Xuan roughly estimated that the fruit that could be used to squeeze sugar would have a surplus of about fifty or sixty catties per day, although the time for large-scale harvesting of fruits was running out, but the use of it was still very considerable.

No matter how to squeeze out some sugar, it is always good for the tribe, and at the same time, Song Xuan also misses eating sugar a little.

Since you think of it, let's go straight to it, this is also Song Xuan's way of doing things after coming to Teng Snake, but the preparations that should be made still have to be done.

First of all, Song Xuan found the stone and customized a few special pots, these two pots are smaller than the ones everyone usually uses, and there are many small eyes at the bottom.

These little eyes are made of very, very thin branches.

The purpose of this is naturally to filter out the impurities in the juice, and when the pot is cooked, Song Xuan also started Teng Snake's first sugar production.

Song Xuan is still very sure of this, but it is not difficult to squeeze out the juice and then evaporate the water in it, it is nothing more than the problem of more sugar and less sugar, Song Xuan does not know the specific sweetness of these fruits, but he estimates that it should be no problem to get a pound of juice and get one or two sugars.

It's not much, but it's enough as a spice for everyday life.

So before going out today, Song Xuan agreed with Shi Hua and asked them to pack the sweeter fruits they usually eat separately when picking seeds.

In this way, you don't have to sort separately when you come back.

Moreover, these fruits are generally relatively soft, and they can be easily squeezed together with other fruits, and many of them are wasted for this reason.

With Song Xuan's advice, not only did they pay extra attention to the stone flowers when they picked them, but they didn't eat much at noon, and only picked a few that were completely ripe.

Hearing Song Xuan's thoughts, Shihua was also very happy, so that the tribe could have sweet things to eat at any time, especially the attraction to the children was still very great.

Today's fruit is also very powerful, and when I came back, the collection team carried two baskets, adding up to one hundred and fifty or sixty catties.

"Divine messenger, why don't you all use it to make candy!"

"Yes, everyone is tired of eating anyway......"

“……”

Hearing everyone's request, Song Xuan was not polite, although it seemed to be quite much, but if he really wanted to squeeze all of them into juice, it would be very good to have three or four catties of juice for ten catties of fruit.

After all, not all fruits are the kind of juicy ones, and many of them have enough sugar, but they don't have a lot of water, and as for the kind of orange in later generations, which can form a flood, it is completely unattainable.

Song Xuan estimated that even if all the fruits were used, it was estimated that it would be three or four catties of sugar in the end, so he simply accepted more and looked better.

These sweet fruits didn't last long, so Song Xuan started to act after the collection team returned.

After washing, it is poured into several large basins, and the only advantage of these fruits is that the fruits here only need to be cleaned briefly, and there is nothing extra on them except for a little dust.

Although the fruit is large and small, it is basically something that can be picked up and eaten.

After washing, it is to squeeze out the juice in it, this step naturally has to rely on a human juicer, and the softer ones are squeezed directly with both hands, and the effect is usually quite good.

So although it was said that it was more than 100 catties of fruit, Song Xuan only called five people, and the preliminary juice had been completed before dinner.

"Oracle, it's time to eat!"

"You eat first, and you'll come right away......"

But even if Song Xuan said that everyone should eat first, under normal circumstances, everyone would still wait for Song Xuan, and Song Xuan also knew, so he didn't delay much, and quickly opened up.

The first step of the crowd is to squeeze out the juice, which is poured directly into a special basin, and the outside of the basin is covered with the usual use.

So most of them have been filtered through, of course, there are still a lot of leftovers, and at this time, they can be filtered down by rubbing them by hand.

After two filtration, there are only two pots of impurities left, of course, there are still some of them.

Song Xuan didn't waste it, washed a few small basins and filtered them again, and at the same time took a trip to the ones that had been filtered, of course, there were very few impurities in it, but even so, this simple filtration method was naturally impossible to completely clean, and it was harmless.

More than a hundred catties of fruit finally came out of a pot of juice, Song Xuan estimated that it was about forty or fifty catties, Song Xuan was still a little surprised by this result, after all, it was a total of one hundred and fifty or sixty catties of fruit.

In this way, the water content is almost one-third, but it is not too little.

However, the color of the juice is not pretty, although most of the fruit is a little redder, but the final color is brownish.

But fortunately, the color does not affect the taste, although it tastes weird, but the sweetness is also really sweet.

After finishing it, several people clearly felt that their hands were sticky, and several fingers were even about to stick together.

The next steps are basically the same as refining salt, and the water in it can be slowly evaporated over low heat, as for how much sugar can be refined, it depends on the sugar content in it, and Song Xuan feels that it should not be low.

When the meal was about to be finished, the juice in the pot had already been boiled several times, but fortunately, it was still early, so Song Xuan did not turn down the heat a little, boiling sugar still can't be the same as refining salt, and it is more secure for someone to watch from the sidelines.

Even if the salt is boiled overnight, it has no effect, not only because there is a lot of water, but also because the fire will not cause much change in quality, but the sugar is different, and if you continue to burn it after drying, there will be nothing left.

So even if you stay up all night, you must get it out today, and when it's time for everyone to rest, the water in the pot still hasn't evaporated, but most people can't stay up at this time, after all, there is no habit of staying up late, and a few children who are looking forward to it have already been lying in their parents' arms.

"Go back to sleep, it won't be long here......"

Since everyone was sleepy, Song Xuan also sent them back, after all, refining sugar is not a particularly important thing in the tribe.

This is the icing on the cake, it is better to have nature, if not, it will not have a particularly big impact on the production and life of the tribe, the reason why everyone is so curious is that they want to experience how delicious the sugar Song Xuan said.

Although he has adapted to the rhythm of life of Teng Snake, Song Xuan can still survive a little more than everyone, after all, the usual work is not particularly heavy, it is more of a mental activity, with the help of the bonfire, looking at the little juice left, Song Xuan touched the head of Wangcai, who had fallen asleep on the side.

It's rare that the little guy didn't run out today, probably because he saw that Song Xuan hadn't rested.