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Chapter 71: Something is wrong

Su Meng looked up at the huge coconuts on the top of the tree, and took a breath. It was about three or four meters away, and she could pick those coconuts.

After adjusting her breathing, Su Meng continued to climb up.

After a few minutes, she finally touched the coconut.

"Get out of the way! Be careful not to hit you!" Su Meng was afraid that Su Xiang, who was standing below, would not be able to hear clearly, so she shouted at the top of her voice, and now she could touch the coconut by raising her hand.

Hearing this, Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, Bai Jing, and Du Jiayue ran away in a hurry, for fear of affecting Su Meng's performance.

Seeing that the four of them had exited the dangerous area, Su Meng held the tree trunk with one hand and the coconut with the other and twisted it directly.

Generally speaking, the mature coconuts are easy to pick, but there are also a few difficult ones, and she twisted them several times before unscrewing them.

"bang"

"bang"

"bang"

Coconuts fell from the tree one after another, hit the sand and rolled out, making a dull sound.

It wasn't until all the coconuts on the coconut tree were twisted that Su Meng carefully supported the trunk and slowly moved down, but there was an expression on his face that was still unfinished.

"How's your foot? Does it hurt?" Su Xiang took the lead to ask.

Seeing that the four of them did not pick up the coconuts on the ground, but surrounded her, Su Meng blinked her big eyes, her thick and straight eyelashes flickering like a small broom, she suddenly showed a bright smile: "I'm fine , it doesn't hurt at all."

After finishing speaking, she also performed a few steps for Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, Bai Jing, and Du Jiayue.

Seeing that she was really not injured, the four of them were completely relieved, and then resolutely left her and ran to pick up coconuts.

"Wow, there are 12 coconuts! And each coconut is so big, I just don't know if it's sweet or not." Du Jiayue ran back with three coconuts in her arms, and put the coconuts in her arms behind their temporary camp , ran away to pick up coconuts again.

"You'll know if you try it." Su Meng took out the hatchet, aimed at the coconut and slashed it down.

Maybe it's because her strength has grown a lot, the knife actually split the skin of the coconut directly, revealing a small mouth, and the clear and transparent coconut juice like water flows out from it.

Su Meng leaned over and sniffed with her nose. When the wings of her nose flapped gently, a faint natural fragrance with a little sweetness floated into her nose, which made her swallow involuntarily.

But she still passed the coconut in her hand to Su Xiang: "Here, let's taste it."

Su Xiang put the coconut in his arms on the ground, took the coconut handed over by Su Meng with a smile, and poured the coconut juice into his mouth without caring about the crumbs at the opening.

After drinking, Su Xiang wiped the water stains on the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, and said with a satisfied face: "The poison test is over, this coconut juice is as clear as water and sweet as honey, crystal clear, sweet and delicious to drink, very wonderful~"

Su Meng: ... shut up, you

Then, she opened four more coconuts, allowing everyone to drink the refreshing coconut juice.

"Come here later, put all the coconut juice into a bamboo tube, and dig out all the coconut meat. The undried coconut shell is quite heavy, so we don't need to take it back with the shell."

"By the way, the dried coconut meat can be used as a snack to satisfy the craving, and the fresh coconut meat can be used to make soup, and the coconut fiber should not be wasted. It is the layer of fluffy fiber between the hard shell and the inner shell of the coconut. In the future, it can be used to make fishing nets, or twisted into ropes, anyway, you can figure it out yourself, just don’t waste it.”

Su Meng felt that she really engraved the word "thrifty" into her DNA.

After arranging the next general task, Du Jiayue obediently returned to the fire and continued to stare at the steel pot to boil the salt. This time, two steel pots boiled the salt together, trying to boil more, otherwise it would be useless in a few days. up.

At this time, the seawater in the two pots has lost two-thirds, and it has gradually become viscous, with a tendency to crystallize.

Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, and Bo Jing are all restless masters, and they just want to go to the beach to explore (cross out, play).

Su Meng was too lazy to dismantle them, she looked up at the rising sun, and tapped the coconut that had just finished drinking coconut milk with her fingers: "I will teach you how to make a pure natural version of sunscreen, after applying sunscreen, go explore , or you'll get sunburned."

"Sunscreen?" Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, Bo Jing, and Du Jiayue were all stunned. They are in the wilderness now, how do they make sunscreen?Could it be coconut?

Seemingly seeing through their thoughts, Su Meng raised the corners of her mouth and smiled, affirming their guess: "That's right, just use coconuts. Of course, if you don't want to waste coconuts, you can also use mud."

After speaking, she cut the coconut shell in half with a hatchet, then found a bamboo blade to scrape the surface of the coconut meat, and stuffed several pieces of coconut meat into her mouth openly in the middle.

As the coconut meat gradually thinned, a lump of milky white sticky pulp was gradually revealed.

Su Meng picked up the lump of flesh, held it in the palm of her hand and squeezed it hard, drops of translucent liquid fell into the half-cleaned coconut shell again, and she didn't stop until the lump of flesh was gone. , casually tossing the pulp aside.

"These juices contain a small amount of coconut oil, and coconut oil has a certain sunscreen effect." Su Meng pointed to the translucent liquid in the coconut shell, and earnestly popularized the science: "Just apply it directly on the body, and the sunscreen effect is said to be great. .”

In fact, the effect of coconut oil is far more than just for sun protection, it can also be used for skin care and hair maintenance.

But the five of them are all inch-cut now, and there is no hair to maintain~
Su Xiang, Zhang Lin, Bo Jing, and Du Jiayue followed suit by applying squeezed coconut oil on their exposed skin.

As the sun rises, the sun will become more poisonous. If you are exposed to the sun for a long time without proper protection, your skin will sting, and in severe cases, a layer of small blisters will form.

"These coconut oil won't hold up for too long, I suggest you weave a straw hat for yourself, and don't go out for too long." Su Meng watched the three of them running towards the beach, and couldn't help joking.

"Mengmeng, let me make a straw hat for you." Du Jiayue leaned close to Su Meng, her little face flushed, and her face was cute.

She wanted to stay and cook the salt, so she didn't follow Su Xiang and the three of them to play.

"Okay, thank you Jiayue." Su Meng did not reject Du Jiayue's kindness, and simply stayed and knit straw hats with her.

It is said that it is a straw hat, but it is actually better to say that it is a grass ring, which is the kind of grass ring that costs 5 yuan each to go to the scenic spot.

After weaving the five green grass rings, the seawater in the steel pot was completely boiled dry, leaving only crystallized sea salt, so the two took bamboo shovels to shovel out all the domestic sea salt and poured it into a dry In the bamboo tube, half a pot of sea water was filled again and boiled on the stone stove.

When passing a coconut tree, she sharply noticed a small detail that she hadn't noticed just now.

There is no coconut meat in the cracked coconut shells on the ground.

"There seems to be something wrong. Where did the disappearing coconut meat go?" Su Meng muttered, and a certain animal figure suddenly flashed in her mind, and she immediately became excited.

(End of this chapter)