"I think I can edit it..."
Although Ding Yi was still smiling while speaking, his eyes were empty. He was obviously still thinking about something. He subconsciously said, "But I have to experiment first to see if my idea is feasible."
"Tsk, that's so troublesome!"
Gu Laosan didn't expect that he would have to do an experiment just to weave a house for a badger. According to his own idea, it was nothing more than weaving a basket with a door, and at most adding a bed inside.
"How about we ask someone to make one for us when we get back to Shengjiawu?"
Gu Laosan's thoughts drifted further and further away. But before he could be distracted for long, Yang Xu tapped him on the shoulder and called him back.
“Here…”
Using two homemade wooden chopsticks, Yang Xu picked up the cooked earthworms that looked like noodles, raised his eyebrows and handed them to someone, saying, "Eat your earthworms quickly, they have to go wash the pot and cook!"
There was complete silence under the crevice. Five pairs of eyes plus a pair of night vision eyes were all staring at someone.
"Depend on… "
Gu Laosan rolled his eyes and cursed Yang for being nosy. Everyone had been chatting for so long but no one had forgotten about this matter.
He reached out to take the chopsticks, and watched Yang Xu "thoughtfully" holding the chopsticks for him, as if he was afraid that the earthworm would fall again due to an "accident". Someone sighed with a dark face, rolled his eyes, and stuffed the earthworm into his mouth.
“Crunch…Crunch…”
After chewing it for only two times, Gu Lang was obviously stunned. He looked at Yang Xu in confusion, and asked with "meat residue" in his mouth: "Why is this crispy? It's a bit like jellyfish."
"It's supposed to be crispy!" Yang Xu shrugged and sighed, "It's a pity that it's cooked. If it was raw, it would taste like cucumber."
"Fuck cucumber!"
"It's over. Third brother has also embarked on a path of no return."
"And Asuna gave anchor Gu Lang 3 rockets..."
“Cucumber flavor, crunchy!”
“I can’t look at cucumbers anymore”
"A big cow pig gave a gift to anchor Gu Lang airplane x8..."
"Hasn't it been impossible to look at cucumbers?"
"I suspect you were driving, but I have no evidence"
In the live broadcast room, a certain salted fish received another wave of rewards. Seeing that Gu Laosan finally swallowed a worm today, everyone seemed to have let go of some worries, and the atmosphere suddenly became happy.
"Ah~~ I really can't stand you two!"
Li Mengdie rubbed the goose bumps on her arms, pulled Hu Li and said, "Xiao Li, come with me to wash the pot. You must wash it several times!"
"sharp!"
On the other side, Hero Han gave the two of them a thumbs up. It was unclear whether he was saying that it was amazing that Gu Laosan dared to eat earthworms, or that it was amazing that Yang Xu could make the earthworms taste like cucumbers.
Wang Ping thought the latter was more serious. Anyway, he ate earthworms every day in the recruit camp, but he didn't taste cucumber. It seems that he has to keep an eye on Gu Laosan in the future, because he might become abnormal if he eats too many insects.
After coming up with the idea of how to build a residence, Ding Yi could no longer sit still. He stood up and walked out, saying that he wanted to find a place to conduct experiments.
The others had nothing to do and it was still early before dark, so they all went to watch the fun.
Just outside the crevice, on the edge of the woods opposite the rocky cliff, Ding Yi spent a long time picking and found four red nanmu trees with straight trunks about one meter apart. He cleared away all the plants in the middle to make a clearing.
Gu Laosan stood aside with a badger squatting on his shoulder and picking a handful of ground ivy as a snack, and the more he watched, the more he felt strange. Is it necessary to build such a large area to build a house for a badger? Besides, what I want is a "mobile RV", what's the point of bringing two trees
But thinking of what Ding Yi said about doing an experiment, someone held back and didn't express his opinion. Anyway, he didn't know how to weave a basket, so maybe this was some unique secret.
After Ding Yi had cleared the area, he began to search around, chopping down any green ivy or long branches that were as thick as a thumb and flexible.
Seeing this, Han Daxia and Yang Xu, who had come to join in the fun, also went to look for it separately, broke it, brought it back and threw it on the open space.
The three of them worked at the same time and soon collected a pile of leaves. Ding Yi called a halt and then squatted there to get busy. He cut off the extra leaves from the branches, put the long and short ones separately, and made them into wooden poles for later use.
Han Da Xia, who was standing by, watched for a while and couldn't help but comment: "This tree is too thick. Even though the branches are tough, I'm afraid they can't bend to this extent, right?"
"Indeed," Yang Xu nodded, "This kind of branch is far less flexible than a thin vine. Maybe Old Ding has another way."
Gu Laosan listened for a long time but didn't understand a word. He walked over curiously and asked, "What are you talking about?"
"Ahem... nothing..." Hero Han touched his nose and turned around, not knowing how to explain to Gu Lao San.
At this time, the two women who had washed the pot in the puddle at the foot of the low mountain in the south returned to the crevice and found that no one was there, so they came over. Seeing that everyone was gathered here, Li Mengdie smiled and said, "Why don't we make a fire and cook here tonight? It's not raining anymore anyway."
"That's good. When it gets dark later, it can provide some light for Old Ding." Han Daxia replied.
The others got busy again. Yang Xu built the stove, Gu Lang followed Han Da Xia to get dry firewood, and only Wang Ping stayed there, watching Ding Yi busy with curiosity.
When the branches were almost trimmed, Ding Yi returned to the cleared space, measured roughly between the two trees, and dug a hole on one of the tree trunks ten centimeters above the ground with the tip of an engineering shovel.
After all, it was a big tree, not as easy to cut as those small trees. Ding Yi shoveled for a long time before he made a small hole less than two centimeters deep. Then he turned around and shoveled at the same height of another tree opposite.
Now Wang Ping understood that Ding Yi did not want to "weave" these branches into the tree, but to dig a small hole on the surface of the trunk and use the flexibility of the green wood pole to insert it between the two trees and lock it.
"Do you need help?" Wang Ping looked at his claws, not sure if he could dig the tree trunk.
At this time, Ding Yi had already dug the other side and was digging the third hole twenty centimeters upwards.
After hesitating for a while, Wang Ping ran to the tree behind him and started digging with his claws above the first hole he dug.
It was easy for him to dig off a piece of the outer bark, and Wang Ping didn't even feel much resistance. But when he dug to the trunk below the bark, he started to feel a little tired, like digging an apple with his bare hands, and could only dig down small pieces.
But even so, as Wang Ping got used to the hardness of the tree trunk, his speed began to increase. In less than two minutes, he had dug out a thumb-sized hole. A badger even took interest in trimming its shape.
When Ding Yi finished shoveling the third hole and turned around to dig the opposite tree trunk, he saw a badger standing behind him, looking at his "masterpiece".
"Emm..."
Ding Yi looked at the small hole that Wang Ping had dug out, which was exactly the right size for the branch. He then looked at the shallow hole he had dug, which was obviously several times larger. He suddenly had the urge to throw away the shovel.
In fact, if Wang Ping was willing to chew it, he would probably get it faster than using his claws. After all, he has another distant relative who likes to chew tree bark, and his teeth are much more slippery than his claws. However, he often gets killed by the big tree he bit off because he was looking at his masterpiece.
Because of this outrageous operation, they were driven to the brink of extinction and became Canada's national treasure.
However, Ding Yi did not expect the badger to learn from his relative. At the moment, the efficiency and quality were much higher than his.
So when Gu Lang came back with a bundle of dry firewood to make a fire, he saw that a badger had somehow come together with Ding Yi and was digging rows of small holes in the tree trunk at the latter's request.
It was not until they had dug vertically to a height of 1.5 meters that Wang Ping found a gap to catch his breath. He sat on the side and watched Ding Yi cut the short branches according to the distance between the two trees and put them into the small holes on both sides.
As the slightly bent branches straightened, they were firmly stuck between the two trees. After three branches were stuck horizontally, Ding Yi took the thick vines he had picked out and stuck the bottoms on the three wooden poles one by one according to the basket weaving technique.
Now, Yang Xu, who had been observing this side with his peripheral vision, also understood.
"Smart!" Yang Xu couldn't help but admire: "With this intensity, I'm afraid I won't be afraid of a storm again!"