After being stranded on a deserted island, they all plotted against me

Because they had seen Zhang Liu firing the earthen kiln with their own eyes!

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

"Okay, now we're going to start burning charcoal." Qin Ruoyan's words, with a slight clap of her hands, brought Xiang Lingying, Gu Qingrou, and Su Yan back to their senses from their surprise.

Then she started to arrange her work.

The five of them had piled up firewood and other items in batches inside bamboo house No. 3 yesterday, and now all they had to do was put them in.

Under Qin Ruoyan's orderly and proper arrangement, each layer of branches was laid out, and a groove was left in the center for starting a fire.

"Today, we need to assign someone to watch over here to prevent any accidents." Qin Ruoyan took a torch from Bamboo House No. 1. She looked at her sister who was pressing the wood hard in an attempt to put down a few more pieces of firewood and said, "Ruoshuang, why don't you stay here and watch?"

When Qin Ruoshuang heard her sister's words, she was stunned at first.

Then she nodded and said, "Don't worry, sister, I will take good care of the family."

As she spoke, Qin Ruoshuang's tone was a little helpless. She knew that she was going to be designated as a "homebody" today.

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

After all, once the charcoal burning starts, only one person needs to be left here to look after the house, and everyone else can leave to do other things.

After inspecting the food storage inside Bamboo House No. 1, the five girls clearly saw the biggest problem at hand.

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

But when it comes to food, the bamboo house is already running short on storage!

There are currently seven large taro, eighteen medium taro, and more than sixty small taro.

Half bowl of lard.

Three bamboo tubes of semi-dried taro paste.

Although it seems like a lot, considering that five people eat at least two meals a day, and each meal contains an amount of one large taro, it will only last less than two days.

Of course, if you include the white taro paste that is being steadily produced.

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

But as for the taro paste, the girls hope to wait for it to dry in the shade before making noodles.

So no matter what, it is urgent to go to the top of the mountain in time to replenish taro.

As for fruits and peppers, there is absolutely nothing.

Even the edible palm hearts nearby have been cut down.

So after the charcoal burning work began, the girls planned to run outside to collect some food.

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

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 wooden arrows used before, the bamboo arrows currently used are more than one level higher in shooting accuracy and lethality.

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

However, this is the limit of handmade wooden single-sided curved bows.

In Su Yan's opinion, if one wants to increase the power or range, one needs to work on the wood of the bow and the bowstring.

But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't figure out how to extract the sheep tendon completely.

And even if it was pulled out, Su Yan was still confused about the subsequent tanning.

You should know that in archery classes, there are even hand-made bows.

The bowstring and bow body have also been completed.

The most she needed to do was perfect it.

If bird hunting fails, Qin Ruoyan has a plan B.

That is to lead the team to the top of the mountain before noon.

Then the four of them 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 out the taro stems and leaves.

She set out on the other route alone.

The target is where the mint and wild pepper are.

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

Chapter 17 I can only let my sister down...

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

No one wanted to stay.

In theory.

Su Yan, who is currently menstruating, would be the first choice to guard the house.

But she is an integral part of archery and bird catching, so she had to be a part of this outing.

Otherwise it will affect the source of meat.

Unless Su Yan herself doesn't want to.

However, when she heard Qin Ruoyan suggest "Let's go catch some birds to eat together", she straightened her slender waist from the bed to show her agreement.

As for everyone else.

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

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

So last night a group of people discussed for a long time, but no one had a consensus.

It was not until now that Qin Ruoyan asked her sister to stay and guard the place that this tangled issue was finally resolved.

"Then be careful on the road..." Qin Ruoshuang watched helplessly as her four companions, each of whom was wrapped in curtain cloth and banana leaves as a defensive measure.

Then she said to her sister in a very aggrieved tone: "Sister, I want to eat scrambled eggs today!"

"Okay, okay, if I get any bird eggs tonight, I will make you a portion of scrambled eggs first!" Looking at the aggrieved look on her sister's face, Qin Ruoyan's tone was a little helpless.

The other three girls around her also nodded vigorously to show their approval.

There is actually a reason why Qin Ruoyan acted to "wrong" 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 the work that no one wanted to herself.

But collecting pepper or wild ginseng involves knowing the way and identifying the medicinal materials.

Among all the people present, the only ones who knew where Huo Jiao was were Qin Ruoyan, Qin Ruoshuang, and Anya.

At present, Anya and Xiang Wanying went down the mountain together.

But she was the type who could recognize the road and identify the medicinal herbs at the same time, so Qin Ruoshuang had to stay behind.

Just like that, after Qin Ruoyan, Xiang Lingying, Gu Qingrou, Su Yan and Qin Ruoshuang said goodbye, they went straight to the south of the hill.

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The rain above was still falling without stopping, as if it wanted to submerge the entire deserted island.

The time soon came to noon.

When Qin Ruoyan and others began to look for bird eggs in the thorn bushes and Su Yan bent her bow and drew her 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 brown, round fruit from the ground, then looked carefully at the small bush in front of him again.

There was some hesitation in his eyes.

If I remember correctly, this seems to be the seed of a coffee tree?

Although I am poor.

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

Of course, it can't be the high-end stuff like Ribak that costs tens or even dozens of dollars.

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

The reason why Zhang Liu was able to get full marks in the high school entrance examination, obtain the first place in the city and possibly even rank among the top few in the province, was that there were more than just two cute teenage sisters standing behind him.

There is also high-concentration black coffee that is bitter and astringent, and can make your tongue numb until midnight after just one sip.

While doing English grammar exercises, Zhang Liu would also read some foreign literature.

It includes a detailed introduction to coffee.

At this moment, Zhang Liu was silently recalling the descriptions of coffee trees in 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 grayish white, which is not a problem at all.

The leaves are very thin and leathery, roughly ovate or lanceolate. After picking a leaf for comparison, there is nothing wrong with this, but most of them are ovate.

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

To confirm this, he also turned his head to look at the growth environment of the coffee tree in front of him.

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

Their trunks are mottled like scales, and the leaves above their crowns are so densely packed that they block most of the sky, leaving only tiny holes to let in rain and sunlight.

I guess this also represents the "humid, shady" environment necessary for the growth of coffee trees.

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

As for the fruit shape, 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.

There are five or six coffee trees growing together in front of me, and there is a thin layer of brown fruits under the trees.

This is also consistent with the description in the literature that coffee trees are prone to dropping fruits!

After repeated identification, Zhang Liu felt relieved.

It’s not that he’s too cautious.

It’s because the thing in front of you is going to be eaten into your stomach. If you don’t distinguish it carefully and eat the wrong thing, the consequences will be extremely serious.

Now that he had made up his mind, Zhang Liu moved much bolder. He simply used his fingernails to crush the 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 document.

But the overall shape is still similar.

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

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

As for the difference in fragrance.

I guess it’s because the coffee beans haven’t been dried yet.

Tentatively put the raw coffee fruit into your mouth and chew it.

He only held on for less than a second before Zhang Liu subconsciously opened his mouth and spit it out.

Not only is it bitter, but it also has a strong taste of raw wood.

His body resisted this stuff.

But Zhang Liu also understood that as long as the coffee beans in front of him were processed, they would directly become something good that could refresh people!

So he just bent down and started picking it up.

It wasn't enough to fill a metal pot, he also filled up his chest pockets.

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

I'll process the coffee beans when I find a place to stay tonight, and then I can have a bowl of coffee before I hit the road tomorrow.