Desert Island Survival Diary

Chapter 80 Nine days, the use of hive residues to add more money
Finally, the honeycomb has not been wasted, and I have processed it into dregs. Now I am going to start my experiment.

It doesn't matter if you succeed or not, this time I just take it as an attempt.

After putting these residues into the pot, I added water and put the pot on the fire. I added a lot of firewood to the fire. I think it will take a while for the honeycomb to melt.

Under the roasting of the high fire, the water in the pot soon burst into bubbles. I knew that the water would boil soon, but these residues did not show any signs of melting. They were just driven by the bubbles. Constantly floating up and down, floating around.

The water boiled and kept tumbling in the pot. I could see these honeycomb residues kept swirling in the boiling water, seeming to be slowly shrinking and melting.

"It's interesting!" This discovery made me overjoyed, and the development of things was proceeding according to my imagination, which made me overjoyed.

In order to ensure that these honeycomb residues can be completely melted, I boiled the pot of water for three full 10 minutes.Yep, I don't want to waste every hard-earned hive.

Now I need to wait for the pot of boiling water to cool down. I have put the pot on the ground and let it cool down naturally. I can clearly see that besides some unmelted residues on the water surface, there is also a layer of oil visible to the naked eye floating on it. on the water.

Is this supposed to be beeswax?I kept staring at the pot excitedly, as if possessed by a demon.

The waiting time is suffering every minute and every second. It may be 10 minutes, or it may be 10 minutes. Anyway, the water temperature has not dropped, let alone cooled and solidified. I still need time...

Smoking a cigarette, pacing in the yard, trying to ease my anxious mood, but the effect was not obvious, and my inner curiosity kept urging me to check it out.

But, does the water cool down that fast?Won't!So it doesn't make any sense for me to look at it!

If I don't find something to do, I will be tortured by this emotion. Fortunately, I thought of one thing to do, transplanting small wild flowers in the small garden.It's not an easy job, but it's certainly a good idea to do it while the urgency lingers.

For the small wildflowers this time, I try to choose the varieties with a higher survival rate last time. It is good to have experience. After the last transplant, a group of withered plants made me feel a little uncomfortable.

But this time, I think it should be able to survive more than 90.00%. For a while, the bottom of the plastic basket was filled with these small wild flowers I picked. When I was about to leave, I found a creepy thing. thing!

I stopped all movements and held the plastic basket in my hands. In just a few seconds, cold sweat covered my back and forehead.

I was really scared, very scared, because I had a snake on my foot!

The head of this snake is very sharp, it feels at least two meters away, and its head is on my ankle...

It seems that because of my walking, it disturbed it. It looked very angry and took an offensive posture. In this posture, as long as it exerts strength, it can rush over like lightning.

I dare not show hostility, even though I know it can detect my existence from my body temperature, but I am betting, I bet it will abandon me, a huge opponent, after finding that I am not hostile.

I'd love to kill it, but I'm not even remotely sure I can kill it before it bites me, so all I can do is pray that it will suppress its rage.

If I knew such bad luck, I think I would rather squat next to the pot and wait for the pot of water to cool down. At least that would be much safer, wouldn't it?
In the stalemate, it didn't run away or attack. The snake spit out the letter, which made me pale with fright. I tried to suppress my nervousness as much as possible, and I couldn't move!

Cold sweat has soaked the clothes on my entire back... The hands holding the plastic baskets are also starting to swell.

Finally, it seemed that I was no longer a threat, and its twisted body swam into the grass.

"Huh..." I finally let out a long breath. Next time I come to a place with dense grass, I think I should use branches to explore the road first, to scare away the snakes or other creatures hiding inside, so as not to Once again caught in today's dangerous situation.

But on the way back, I was also thankful. If I took a little bigger steps and stepped on the snake directly, I think it would definitely give me a bite without hesitation, and then inject all the venom in the fangs. My body, in that case, I will die soon, and in the near future, I will become the nourishment of this grass...

fine!Fortunately!
Although my heartbeat was still fast and my breath was short of breath, I still restrained my aftereffects of shock and planted these small wildflowers in the small garden that had just been ash.

After that, I could no longer restrain my urgency, and rushed into the lower level of the tree house. I was going to see if the beeswax was successful, and whether it was exactly as I imagined.

I saw!I saw!There is a solidified solid fat floating on the water surface, it!Solidified!
No one can understand my excitement at the moment!I!It worked!

I actually relied on my own reasoning and imagination to successfully make beeswax!If this was in the past, I wouldn't even believe it myself!

Carefully scooping up the solidified beeswax, I excitedly flipped it over and watched it over and over again.

However, in the process of watching, I found some problems. There are many impurities in this small piece of solidified beeswax, including unmelted honeycomb residue and the like.

This gave me a headache. I was afraid that the impure beeswax would not be fully utilized by me. After all, the solidified beeswax this time was much less than I imagined.

Originally, I wanted to make a few things with this beeswax, but at this point, I think I will have to try to make beeswax candles first.

But first, I have to figure out a way to get rid of these impurities in it.How to get rid of them gave me another headache.

But in the end I got ruthless and decided to use the most stupid way to remove these impurities.

That is to pour out the water in the pot, and then boil this piece of beeswax directly in the pot, let it melt again, and when it solidifies, those impurities should all settle at the bottom of the pot, I just need to get rid of these impurities up.

This method is cumbersome, but it works. After they cooled again, the scum and impurities settled at the bottom of the beeswax, and I just scraped it off with a Swiss army knife.

Finally, cut open a soda can beverage bottle, get a few cotton threads from the quilt again, twist them together, and prepare to make a wick.

After melting the beeswax for the third time, I poured them into soda can beverage bottles. I soaked the wick in the beeswax and placed it in the middle of the beeswax. I tied one end of the wick to a small branch, and the small branch was placed horizontally. The top of the can, so that when the beeswax solidifies, the wick will be fixed in the middle.

It's finally finished, but Xiao Hei hasn't come back yet!I don't know what it's doing, but I can't play today...

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It's done!Looking at this beeswax candle that solidified and turned yellow, I am very satisfied!Yes, it has been lit by me. It is much more stable than lard candles. As long as it is lit, it will not go out, unlike lard candles that often go out due to insufficient oil supply.

And beeswax candles have no black smoke and are very fragrant!Well, it is very fragrant!Lard candles have a bit of burnt smell in the lard fragrance.

If there is not enough firewood in the future, this beeswax candle can last for a long time...

(End of this chapter)