After treating A Ze's wound, Chen Qi poured the hot water into a small plate and went outside to scrub his body. He hadn't bathed for more than two days. It was very uncomfortable for A Ze to take himself to the river after being injured. It's convenient, Chen Qi can only clean it up like this.
After returning to the house, I saw that Aze was sorting out the things in the backpack. The fruits that Ake brought back were filled with a large ceramic plate. There were five of the largest single-volume milk fruits, and there were four bright red ones. Red berries like apples, and then a bunch of grapes.
Chen Qi leaned over, picked a grape, wiped it with his sleeve, and put it in his mouth. It was a little sweet and a little sour, and the taste was no different from the ones bought in the supermarket.
"Do you want to drink milk fruit?" Aze picked up a milk fruit and asked. The few milk fruits that Ake picked back were yellower than the ones Chen Qi had seen before.
Chen Qi nodded, A Ze used his nails to cut open the husk of the milk fruit, Chen Qi took a sip and smacked his mouth, "Why do I feel that it is sweeter than before."
"This one is fully ripe, and the taste will be sweeter. Look at the liquid inside, isn't it clearer than the ones you've seen before?"
It was only then that Chen Qi noticed that the liquid in the milk fruit was not completely milky white, but more like water. Chen Qi looked at the milk fruit in his hand thoughtfully.
Aze also cleared the contents of the other backpack into another pottery plate, and sighed: "I used to think that the pottery I exchanged from Uncle Ali was useless, but I didn't expect almost every one of them to come in handy now." Now Chen Qi needs pottery to do everything, almost all the pottery in this room has been used, if you want to install new things, you can only go to the utility room to get the stored pottery.
"Ali made these pottery?" Chen Qi really couldn't call a man who looked not much older than himself an uncle, so he called Azhang and Ali directly by his first name. of.
"Yes, Uncle A Li is the only one who can make pottery in the tribe." Seeing that Chen Qi just held the milk fruit without drinking it, Aze felt a little strange. Chen Qi eats that kind of sweet and greasy apple. Did you enjoy your meal? It can't be that I don't like it because the taste has become sweeter, "What's wrong? Don't you like such sweet milk fruit?"
"No, I just suddenly had a new idea." Chen Qi said as he took out a smaller pottery dish, used the simple filter cloth used to filter the salt stones to filter the juice of Suiruiguo, and then put the filtered The pottery dish of the juice is put on the fire and stirred with a clean wooden stick while burning. It wasn't until the juice became thick and was about to burn that Chen Qi took out the pottery dish from the fire, put it on the edge of the fire, and warmed it with the firelight. That's right, Chen Qi wanted to try to see if he could make sugar.
Sugar does not precipitate out by directly boiling the water dry like making salt. After the syrup is processed, Chen Qi ignores it for the time being. He takes out a few flat stone slabs and paints on them with a thin piece of charcoal. Draw, while drawing, while recalling the process of how other people build houses that I have seen before.
A Ze finished handling the things, and brought some bundles of firewood from the utility room. Seeing that Chen Qi was still immersed in thinking, he thought for a while, and carried the warthog in the corner out of the house to deal with. Although I can ask Ake and Ali for help tomorrow, this warthog has long since lost its breath, and the quality of the meat may change tomorrow after being left like this for a night, and if Ake knows that he can't even move because of such a small injury He couldn't even handle the prey, so he might laugh at himself.
However, A Ze did not blame Chen Qi for being overly concerned. On the contrary, he was full of joy that Chen Qi cared so much about his injury. Thinking of this, his subordinates couldn't help but speed up a lot.
After Aze finished dealing with the warthog, he went back to the room and saw Chen Qizheng frowning and staring at the slate in his hand in a daze, with a troubled expression on his face. "What's wrong?" Ace asked worriedly.
"I'm thinking about what to find instead of glass for the windows of the house. If I use wooden windows, I'm afraid that if I close the windows in winter, the house will be dark again." Chen Qi habitually wanted to bite the tip of his pen, and found that the window in his hand After taking the charcoal, he stopped immediately.
"Glass?"
"It's a very hard and transparent thing." Chen Qi explained.
"Like the eyes of Locust Dragon?"
"Yes, like the locust dragon..." Chen Qi paused, then suddenly looked up at Aze, "You mean the locust dragon's eyes?"
Aze was puzzled, "Isn't it? Locust Dragon's eyes are hard and transparent, and even after the Locust Dragon's death, it can remain incorruptible for decades."
Only then did Chen Qi remember the corpse of the locust dragon he had seen on the way here, "Ah Ze, you are so amazing, how could I not have thought of that." Chen Qi excitedly drew the prototype window on the slate Next to it, write the word locust dragon, and then ask: "Are the eyes of the locust dragon easy to get?"
"At this time, the locust dragon has basically entered the depths of the forest. It is not so easy to find the locust dragon, and the locust dragon can only remove the protective film on his eyes after a period of death." Ze leaned over to look Looking at what Chen Qi drew on the slate, um, I can't understand it.
Chen Qi was a little discouraged, "Can't get it now? I don't know if the locust dragon we saw before is still in the original place."
"Do you want it? I can go get it back." Aze suggested.
Chen Qi hesitated a little, the place where he met the locust dragon was too far away.
Aze saw the other party's worry, "At my speed, I can come back in two days and one night. I slowed down the speed because I took you with me. You can go to the tribe for a day, and I will come back the next night. I can come back." Because of bringing Chen Qi along, the route Aze chose was relatively safe, so naturally he needed to take a detour, if he was alone, he would have no worries at all. What worries him is that the eyes of Locust Dragon are too huge, and it may not be possible to move all six eyes back at once.
Chen Qi was a little moved by the words. After all, windows are still very important in a house. After thinking about it, he nodded and agreed, "But you should rest for another day tomorrow, and go when the wound is almost healed."
"Well. Tomorrow my wound will be almost healed."
It was only then that Chen Qi discovered that the warthog next to him had already been processed. This time, Aze kept the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys of the warthog, and only threw away the difficult-to-handle intestines and pig stomach. Chen Qi He gave the other party a sideways look, rolled up his sleeves, and planned to marinate all the meat, and save the internal organs to eat tomorrow.
Naturally, it takes a lot of salt to marinate a whole warthog. Aze saw that he had reduced a lot of salt. It seems that he needs to go to the meeting of the lion and wolf tribe in a few days. He began to think about how much he had at home. Animal skins can be exchanged for salt.
Chen Qi washed some of the pig's bones, stewed the bone soup in two large pottery plates over a low heat, and cut the pig's lungs and wild ginger into it, so that he could drink it directly when he woke up tomorrow morning.
Tonight, Chen Qi was driven back to the slate bed, no matter how much he protested against Aze, he remained unmoved, then Aze found a piece of animal skin and lay down beside the fire and fell asleep. Before falling asleep, he seemed to hear Chen Qi's soft low laughter came.
When he woke up the next day, Chen Qixian went to check the kelp fruit syrup that had been boiled last night. A whole kelp fruit had only a thin layer. Chen used a wooden stick to stir it, and it was sticky. After thinking about it, I picked up the pottery dish containing the syrup and went outside. The sun is very good today, and I plan to dry it in the sun. I don’t know if it will easily precipitate sugar crystals.
Today is still Ake carrying Carlo on his back, and Azhang coming here with A Li on his back. The backpack on A Li's back was bulging, and when he arrived, he greeted Chen Qi and went into the room to clean out all the things in the backpack, and then put the Handed the empty backpack to Zhang.
Ake still carried a thick sword keel. After putting Carlo down, he took the sword keel to the position where it was placed yesterday.
After seeing off Azhang and Ake, Carlo ran to Chen Qi with small steps, "Chen Qi, what are you going to do today?"
A Li also came up from behind, "You seem to have a lot of meat strips hanging in your room again, isn't it afraid of deterioration if you just hang them like that? Don't you need to take them outside to dry?"
"The strips of meat won't go bad so easily if you put salt on them. The sun outside is too hot to dry the cured meat, and it's better to dry the cured meat in the shade." After Chen Qi finished speaking, he turned to Carlo, "Today we can First go see if the trap has caught any hares, and then I will draw the basic plan of the house."
Today there are only two backpacks made by Chen Qi. Chen Qi gave one backpack for Aze to carry to fetch water, and the other for Carlo to carry. With Ali here, Aze is also relieved to let these two males Be active nearby.
Today's trap also harvested two fat rabbits. Carlo happily tied up the rabbit's limbs and stuffed them into the backpack. He learned how to tie the rabbit yesterday, and now he is doing it more skillfully than yesterday.
After returning home, Chen Qi found a lot of charcoal that had cooled down, and a thick rope specially woven yesterday for measuring distances. He looked at the ground, took out a few stone slabs with blueprints on them, and roughly determined the location. , and then let Carlo and the two come to help.
Chen Qi's house is very simple, with four symmetrical rooms and a hall in the middle. Originally, he wanted to build a house with the same specifications as a modern house, but unfortunately, he had to be defeated by reality after repeated consideration. The reason was that he didn't know how to build a house. The houses of the orcs are all square and four walls and one room. The utility room of Aze’s house seems to be connected to the front room, but it is actually separated, and there is a fist gap between them. . Therefore, in order to build a house, it is not only necessary to plan well, but also to consider issues such as load bearing.
Chen Qi, who doesn't know how to build a house, considered the simplest and most achievable plan, making it symmetrical and using the wall separating the hall and the room as the load-bearing wall.