Chapter 228 Venom Star
"Be careful, these plants are poisonous, shovel the engineer to me." Xu Yi said, then pointed to some plants on the ground.
Lu Ke nodded, then took out the engineer shovel in Xu Yi's backpack and handed it to him.
These plants look quite normal, but they didn't expect that they were poisonous.
"When touching their juices, your skin will continue to ulcerate. If it is large, it is normal to break limbs or even die." Xu Yi explained, because there is information about this plant in his experience in identifying toxic substances.
"This is so terrible, what kind of plant is it?" Lu Ke heard Xu Yi's words and his hair stood up.
Xu Yi carefully dug one, and then said, "Venom Star, if you use it well, that's a weapon."
"You go and cut the flax, I'll dig out these Venom Stars." Xu Yi handed his machete to Lu Ke, and there was indeed a piece of flax in front.
"Okay, then be careful, it will be too dangerous to get it." Lu Ke reminded him, after all, what Xu Yi said was so terrible.
"Well, this kind of thing is rare after all, I will be careful." Xu Yi said with a smile. He knew the terribleness of Venom Star, so he would naturally be very careful.
Fortunately, its venom is all in the leaves, and the liquid on the rhizome is not dangerous.
Otherwise, Xu Yi would really not dare to dig.
"Cut two or three bundles, we can't carry them back if there are too many." Lu Ke turned around and said to Xu Yi. After all, time is limited, so it is impossible to waste too much time here.
Otherwise, it would be dark and I wouldn't be able to arrive at the camp.
"Well, come back tomorrow. Once we have determined the location, we can save a lot of time." Xu Yi replied without even lifting his head. He was digging out a Venom Star from the soil, but he didn't want him to accidentally get Venom.
The reason why they spent so long to get here today is because they needed careful exploration. When they encountered some plants, they had to stop and check whether they could be eaten or whether they had medicinal value.
Of course, it took a lot of time. If you come directly to cut the linen tomorrow, you might save about two hours.
"Thirteen trees, you're really lucky." Xu Yi grinned happily, and then took all the Venom Stars into his backpack.
Then, he and Lu Ke cut the linen together.
After cutting 4 bundles, the two of them finished work.
After all, I still have to walk for a few hours when I go back, but I still haven't been delayed.
On the way back, Lu Gong hit a rabbit with a short crossbow.
When I returned to the camp, it was almost dark.
"Lu Ke, you go and deal with the rabbit, I'll take down the strawberries." Xu Yi put down the linen and the basket, and was about to take down the strawberries on the roof.
Xu Yi felt that after being exposed to the sun for so long, the strawberries were probably almost dry.
"Don't I need to help?" Lu Ke asked after putting down the thing.
"No, you don't need to take down the dustpan, just put it on it. I can do it myself." After saying that, Xu Yi stood up the ladder and put it on the top beam.
"Then be careful." Lu Ke reminded him, after all, it is about six meters high, and it is very dangerous if it falls down.
"Don't worry, it's okay." Xu Yi said, and then climbed up.
After arriving at the roof, Xu Yi found that the strawberry slices had not turned into dry, and most of them had rotted.
"Has the sun failed?" Xu Yi picked up a piece and used it to smell it. It smelled sour and smelly.
None of the strawberry slices in the two round dustpans were successfully dried, which made Xu Yi a little depressed.
He originally thought that he could harvest some dried strawberries in two or three days. But he failed completely, and there was no dried strawberries.
So Xu Yi stacked the round dustpans together and took them back to the ground.
It was stained by strawberries and had to be cleaned.
"Xu Yi, why did you take down the round dustpan? The dried strawberries have been dried?" Lu Kewei's dried strawberries have been dried, so that you don't have to put the round dustpan on the roof, because you don't have to continue to dry tomorrow.
"No, it all melted and it was not successful." As he said that, Xu Yi took some remaining strawberries and gave Lu Ke a look.
"How could this happen? The sun is very big today." Lu Ke glanced at Xu Yi in confusion. After all, there are dried strawberries on the market.
"It must be that we used the wrong method. The strawberries have too much water." Xu Yi said while cleaning the round dustpan.
"But the grapes are also quite watery. Aren't we still dry them into raisins?" Lu Ke said.
"Grapes have skins and are not easy to soften. We touch the strawberries and they will soften and rot after a while. So, it should be a different method. We have to make out the moisture first before we can dry it." Xu Yi thought seriously and said his thoughts.
"That's it..." Lu Ke thought for a while, and felt that what Xu Yi said made sense, and then asked: "Then how can we use to remove the moisture from the strawberries?"
After all, if you eat so many strawberries every day, you will never be able to finish them. If you don’t dry them and save them, it would be a waste.
After all, the two of them are Chinese. Unlike black people, they would rather keep them rot than consider how to preserve the fruits and take them out to save them when needed.
"Salt or sugar should be fine, as long as the density is greater than water." Xu Yi said.
"Salt? We have very little salt, which is enough for ordinary food. It is a waste to use it to make dried strawberries. Sugar, we have honey, is this okay?" Lu Ke couldn't bear to use salt on this. After all, if you want to go to the beach now, it will take at least one day and one night.
Their salt was given by Wang Jin and Lu Yao.
"You can try a small part, if you don't, forget it." Even if you know that you need to use salt and sugar to dehydrate, they still don't know the specific method of making it.
"Or what, let's exchange a book for making dried fruits. There are books to exchange for. There are probably books that specialize in making dried fruits." Lu Ke made a new suggestion.
She felt that it was a pity that she could only throw away the strawberries she could not finish.
Waste is shameful.
At least, this is true in her concept.
"See if there are any points, how many points are." Xu Yi felt that it still seemed to be worth it.
"Okay, I'll look for it later." As he said that, Lu Ke cleaned the rabbit and took it out of the water.
Then she chopped the rabbit into pieces of meat and put it in a pot and cooked it.
Xu Yi also washed the round dustpan and returned to the stilt house.
Chapter completed!