After living on a desert island, they all plotted evil against me.

Because they had seen Zhang Liu firing clay kilns with their own eyes!

So no matter what happens, it won’t be a surprise!

"Okay, now we're going to start burning charcoal." With a slight clap, Qin Ruoyan's words made Xiang Lingying, Gu Qingrou, and Su Yan recover from their surprise.

Then she started working on her schedule.

The five people piled firewood and other things in batches in Bamboo House No. [-] yesterday, and now they just need to put them in.

Under Qin Ruoyan's methodical and proper arrangements, the branches on each layer were laid out, and a groove was left in the center for lighting the fire.

"Today, we need to separate one person to watch here to prevent accidents." Qin Ruoyan took a torch from Bamboo House No. [-]. She looked at her sister who was pressing the wood hard in an attempt to put down a few more firewood. He opened his mouth and said, "Ruoshuang, can you stay here and guard me?"

Hearing her sister's words, Qin Ruoshuang was stunned for a moment.

Then she nodded and said, "Don't worry, sister, I will take care of your home."

As she spoke, Qin Ruoshuang's tone was slightly helpless. She knew that she was going to be the "homebody" by default today.

Before last night, everyone not only discussed what Zhang Liu would be doing now, but also what they should do during the day tomorrow.

After all, after starting to burn charcoal, at most one person needs to be left to look after the house, and everyone else can leave to do other things.

After inspecting the food storage inside Bamboo House No. [-], the five girls clearly saw the biggest problem at present.

There is an inexhaustible supply of firewood around, so you can just carry as much firewood as you want from the nearby woods.

But in terms of food, the storage capacity of the bamboo house is already in short supply!

There are currently seven large taros, eighteen medium taros, and more than 60 small taros.

Half a bowl of lard.

Semi-dry taro paste in three bamboo tubes.

Although it seems like a lot, based on the fact that five people eat at least two meals a day and one large taro per meal, in fact, it can only last for two more days at most and it will be over in less than [-] days.

Of course, if you count the white rotten taro paste that has been steadily being made.

Then the support time can be increased to about three days.

But for things like taro paste, the girls still expect to wait for it to dry in the shade before continuing to make noodles.

So in any case, it is urgent to go to the top of the mountain to replenish taro.

As for fruits and peppers, that’s zero.

Even the nearby edible palm cores have been cut down.

So after the charcoal making work started, the girls planned to run outside to collect some food.

For example, bird eggs in thorn bushes, or shooting two birds directly.

As the rainy weather continues, people's desire for fresh meat is increasing...

Su Yan has now made the bow and arrow again.

Compared with the previous wooden arrows, the bamboo arrows currently used are more than one level higher in terms of shooting accuracy and lethality.

The range has changed from a maximum of ten meters to a stable ten meters.

But this is also the limit of handmade wooden single-sided curved bows.

In Su Yan's opinion, if you want to increase the power or range, you need to work on the wood of the bow body and the bow string.

But no matter how much she studies now, she still can't figure out how to completely extract the tendons from the sheep's trotters.

And even after it was extracted, Su Yan was still confused about the subsequent tanning.

You must know that in the bow and arrow course, even if you make bows and arrows manually.

The bow string and bow body have also completed their prototypes.

The most she had to do was perfect.

If bird hunting fails, Qin Ruoyan has plan B.

That means leading the team to the top of the mountain before noon.

Then the four soldiers split into two groups.

Three people along the way.

Two of them stayed in the wild taro fields in the river on the top of the mountain to collect taro.

Another person went to the bottom of the river to sort taro stems and leaves.

The other route was for her to go solo.

Target locations where mint and wild pepper are found.

Of course, if there were plants like native ginseng that could be used as vegetables on the road, Qin Ruoyan would not let them go.

Chapter No.17 I can only feel sorry for my sister...

The only issue that was not discussed last night was who would guard the house...

No one wants to stay.

In theory.

Su Yan, who is currently menstruating, will be the No. 1 choice for Shou Jia.

But she is an indispensable part when it comes to archery and catching birds, so she must participate in this outing.

Otherwise, the source of meat will be affected.

Unless Su Yan herself doesn’t want to.

However, when she heard Qin Ruoyan propose "Let's go catch birds to eat together", she straightened up her waist from the bed to express her approval.

As for the others.

Whether it is the two sisters Qin Ruoyan, Qin Ruoshuang, or Xiang Lingying and Gu Qingrou.

They were all tired of staying in the bamboo house, so they wanted to go out for a "walk".

Therefore, a group of people discussed it for a long time last night, but no one had an answer.

It wasn't until Qin Ruoyan asked her sister to stay and guard that this tangled issue was over.

"Then be careful on the road..." Qin Ruoshuang looked helplessly as she watched her four companions wrap themselves in curtains and banana leaves as defensive measures.

Then she was extremely aggrieved and said to her sister: "Sister, I want to eat scrambled eggs today!"

"Okay, okay, if there are any eggs tonight, I will make you a scrambled egg first!" Seeing the aggrieved look on her sister's face, Qin Ruoyan said with a hint of helplessness in her tone.

The other three girls around her also nodded vigorously in approval.

There is actually a reason why Qin Ruoyan behaved in a way that "wronged" her sister.

After Zhang Liu and Xiang Wanying left, she already understood that she needed to be the leader of this team, so when assigning work, Qin Ruoyan could only assign to herself the work that no one wanted.

But the work of collecting pepper or native ginseng involves knowing the way and identifying medicinal materials.

Among everyone present, the only ones who knew the location of Pepper were Qin Ruoyan, Qin Ruoshuang and Anya.

Currently, Anya and Xiang Wanying are going down the mountain together.

As for her, she was someone who could recognize the road and identify medicinal materials, so she had no choice but to stay with Qin Ruoshuang.

In this way, after Qin Ruoyan, Xiang Lingying, Gu Qingrou, Su Yan and Qin Ruoshuang said goodbye, they walked directly to the south of the hill.

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The rain above the head was still falling in a steady patter, without stopping at all, as if it wanted to submerge the entire desert island.

Time soon came to noon.

When Qin Ruoyan and others began to search for bird eggs among the thorn bushes, and Su Yan bent her bow and set an arrow to hunt flying birds, Zhang Liu was already standing in front of six trees, each about eight meters high, in a daze.

He reached out and picked up a round, brown fruit from the ground, and then carefully looked at the small bush in front of him again.

There was some hesitation in his eyes.

If I remember correctly, these seem to be the seeds of the coffee tree?

Although poor.

But Zhang Liu actually has a very deep understanding and knowledge of coffee.

Of course, it can't be high-end goods like Ribach, which cost more than a dozen yuan or even dozens of yuan.

The price of coffee he is familiar with is basically the same as that of soy milk powder.

The reason why Zhang Liu was able to get perfect scores in the high school entrance examination, get the first score in the city, and maybe even be among the top in the province, was that there were more than just two cute teenage sisters standing behind Zhang Liu.

There is also highly concentrated black coffee that is so bitter and astringent that one sip will make your tongue numb until midnight.

While doing English grammar exercises, Zhang Liu would also take the opportunity to read some foreign literature.

There is a detailed introduction about coffee.

At this moment, Zhang Liu was silently recalling the descriptions of coffee trees in those foreign documents, and began to compare them one by one.

There are many branches at the base, the young branches are very smooth, and the old branches are mostly gray-white, which is no problem at all.

The leaves are very thin, leathery, and roughly ovate or lanceolate. After picking a leaf and comparing it, there is no problem with this, but most of them are ovate.

The main growing environment is a warm, humid and shaded environment.

In order to confirm this, he also began to turn his head and look at the growing environment of the coffee tree in front of him.

Above these five or six coffee trees are several towering trees about 30 meters high and about one meter wide.

Their trunks are mottled like scales, while the leaves on the crown of the trees are densely packed, blocking most of the sky, leaving only a few holes to let in rain and sunlight.

I guess this is also representative of the "moist and shaded" environment necessary for coffee trees to grow.

It bears fruit in a certain time and falls off easily.

As for the shape of the fruit, it is mainly divided into three stages: green fruit, red fruit and brown fruit.

The main usable part is the fruit inside, which contains things like caffeine, which can have a refreshing effect.

The five or six coffee trees growing together in front of me have a thin layer of brown fruits under them.

This is also very consistent with the description in the literature that coffee trees easily drop fruit!

After repeated identification, Zhang Liu suddenly felt relaxed.

It's not that he's pervertedly cautious.

It’s because the food in front of you has to be eaten in your stomach. If you don’t distinguish it carefully and eat the wrong thing, the consequences will not be as serious as usual.

Now that the determination was complete, Zhang Liu acted much bolder. He directly used his nails to crush the outer skin that had been swollen by the rain. Then he saw the green fruit.

This is not consistent with the brown fruit seen in the foreign literature.

But the overall shape is still the same.

Before his death, Zhang Liu would occasionally shamelessly go to Ribak store to enjoy the air conditioning.

So he had seen coffee beans up close, and they looked exactly like this one, except they were a bit smaller.

As for the difference in scent.

It’s probably because the coffee beans haven’t been dried yet.

Put this green coffee cherry into your mouth tentatively and chew it.

After holding on for less than a second, Zhang Liu subconsciously opened his mouth and spit it out.

Not to mention bitter, and with a strong taste of raw wood.

His body resisted this kind of thing.

But Zhang Liu also understands that as long as the coffee beans in front of him are processed, they will directly become something good that can refresh you!

So he immediately started to lean over and pick it up.

It's not enough to put a metal pot in it. It's not enough to fill up all the breast pockets.

Pulling up the alloy pipe on the ground, Zhang Liu touched the coffee seeds in his pocket, and then continued to move forward.

Process the coffee beans when you find a place to stay tonight, and then you can drink a bowl of coffee before hitting the road tomorrow.