In this oil refining, Lin Shuhang extracted a total of 2 tons of palm oil from 10 tons of palm fruits.
After refining the oil, Lin Shuhang and Crazy General went to the nearby bamboo forest to cut down the second batch of bamboo.
Like the first batch of bamboos, this batch of bamboos is also inhabited by a large number of giant bamboo shoot insects, and the bugs in this batch are larger, some even weighing two or three kilograms.
Since this is the edge of Giant Insect Ridge, except for all kinds of insects, there are no large creatures living within 20 kilometers of this area. For Lin Shuhang and Crazy General, these giant bamboo shoot insects have become
Their most important source of protein during this time.
Naturally, one's own rations would not be wasted easily. Lin Shuhang and Crazy General would stay here for a while. After taking out these giant bamboo shoots, they put them all into the pit dug before and stored them.
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After doing all this, Lin Shuhang and Crazy General dealt with the bamboos.
After punching through all the bamboo joints with wooden sticks, Lin Shuhang and Crazy General polished the inside of the bamboo as necessary, and then put the processed bamboo into the earthen pot filled with palm oil and soaked it.
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Lin Shuhang estimated that soaking for about 3-7 days should be enough.
In other words, before the bamboos were soaked with palm oil, he and the crazy general would not be able to leave here, and they would have to stay in this small courtyard for at least a week.
In the next few days, Lin Shuhang and Crazy General spent their time in boredom.
Because there was nothing to do, time felt longer and longer. This was simply a torment for Lin Shuhang and the Crazy General who couldn't calm down.
In order to pass the time and prevent themselves from psychological collapse, Lin Shuhang and Crazy General would find something to do for themselves every day.
For example, they go out every day with bamboo baskets on their backs to pick jujubes, remove the jujube flesh and leave the jujube cores as plant bullets. According to Lin Shuhang's original words, this is called preparing for a rainy day and storing ammunition.
For another example, when he had nothing to do, Lin Shuhang would study various delicacies in the courtyard with Crazy General every day.
Of course, the things he is studying are not Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, etc. You must know that this is the edge of Giant Insect Ridge. Within a radius of 20 kilometers, except for all kinds of strange and incredible insects, there is nothing else for Lin Shuhang.
Research. We can only study bugs here, and not just any bugs.
Giant Insect Ridge, also known as the Valley of Ten Thousand Insects, is the oldest, most mysterious, and most incredible primitive place on the Titan continent. Its existence even exceeds that of the ancient giant forest!
Although this is not the core area of Giant Insect Ridge, there are still many types and quantities of insects.
There are all kinds of insects that fly in the sky, crawl on the ground, swim in water, burrow in the soil, and hide in trees.
Here, apart from the juicy and delicious giant bamboo shoot bugs, Lin Shuhang's favorite bugs to eat are grasshoppers and giant snails.
Different from grasshoppers and snails in other places on the earth, due to genetic mutations, the grasshoppers here can grow to weigh thirty or forty pounds, and are as scary as piglets.
Snails are even more amazing. Even the most common snails weigh hundreds of kilograms, and the largest snails can even weigh more than half a ton. Such a large body can no longer be called a snail.
Of course, in the eyes of Lin Shuhang and Mad General, these huge mutated insects are still bugs, after all, their size is there.
Compared to grasshoppers, giant snails are more favored by Lin Shuhang and Mad General.
This is because grasshoppers move quickly and have the ability to fly. Every time their strong thighs beat, they can fly thousands of meters like a glider, making them very difficult to capture.
Snails are different. Snails belong to the invertebrate family Molluscs, gastropods, and the biggest feature of gastropods is that they have no arms and legs, such as conches, field snails, slugs (slugs) and other creatures.
Since it has no arms and legs, the movement of a snail is quite unusual, that is, it uses the contraction and peristalsis of its abdominal muscles to control its body to move forward or backward.
This is a very inefficient way of walking, and with a huge "house" hunched over the snail's back, the speed of movement can be imagined.
For example, a snail starts climbing in the morning, and at night, it can still be found within a radius of 50 square meters. Therefore, compared with those grasshoppers that can jump hundreds of meters in one bound,
Creatures like giant snails are still easy to catch.
Most soft-bodied creatures have a strong ability to survive independently, just like snails. They can crawl around and forage as soon as they are born. They do not need maternal care, nor do they need to work hard to build nests every day like other creatures, because their
The shell is your own house.
When invaded by external enemies, the snail will retract its body into the shell and quickly secrete mucus to seal the shell mouth. If the shell is damaged and disabled, it will also secrete some special growth genes to help it repair the damage.
Damaged body and shell.
The flesh of snails has high edible, medicinal and health-care value. Their meat is tender and delicious. Together with shark's fin, scallops and abalone, they are known as the four famous dishes in the world and are highly sought after and loved by foodies all over the world.
The protein content of snail meat is higher than that of beef, mutton and pork, but the fat is much lower than them. According to measurements, every 500 grams of snail meat contains 90 grams of protein and amino acids, vitamins, calcium, iron, copper, phosphorus and other nutrients needed by the human body.
It is a high-protein, low-fat healthy food.
In some countries in Europe and the United States, especially France, which is famous for its romance, snail meat can be said to be a must-have "meal" for every family during Christmas. Its status is even comparable to that of turkey, and it is almost to the bottom that it is not a holiday without snails.
In backward Africa, snails are a must-have delicious food for every household.
Take the small African country of Ghana, for example. Foodies here eat 15 million kilograms of snail meat every year, almost turning snails into an endangered species.
In addition to its nutritional value, snail meat also has medicinal properties.
Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine believe that snails have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, relieving asthma and regulating qi, and can help treat scurvy, asthma and frequent urination. In addition, it is good for diabetes, cough, pharyngitis, mumps, lymphoid tuberculosis,
It has a certain curative effect on sores, hemorrhoids and other diseases. There are records about the treatment of snail meat in the "Compendium of Materia Medica". A long time ago, some people in some areas of our country used snail meat as a nourishing food. It is a delicacy that strengthens the body.
Because of this, this soft-bodied creature with a thick shell on its back quickly conquered Lin Shuhang's mouth and stomach, and almost every day the mad general would go out to catch a few snails to eat.
There are many ways to eat it, such as boiled snails, charcoal grilled snails, and fried snails.
One of Lin Shuhang's favorite ways to eat is snails fried on a stone slab.
Find a large slate with a flat surface. After the slate is heated, brush a layer of palm oil on it, and then put in a giant snail. As the slate is fried, the snail meat sizzles on the 150-degree hot oil.
The ground is calling, and after a while, the alluring fragrance can make people intoxicated.
Of course, Lin Shuhang's life is not only about food, but also work.
In order to pass the time and live a better life in the future, Lin Shuhang built a blast furnace with clay. He would make some containers out of the clay every day, and then work with the Crazy General to bake various pottery.
Most of the fired pottery are pots, bowls, ladles, and pots, but there are also some other items, such as several strange pottery pots that look like wine jars.
However, unlike wine jars, these pottery jars have matching pottery lids on the top.
These pottery pots have a special purpose. Lin Shuhang plans to use these pottery pots to contain acid rain. Because acid rain is an important substance that triggers the explosion of jujubes, there must be a container to contain them.
At first, Lin Shuhang also thought about using bamboo tubes as containers for acid rain, but after experiments, he discovered that bamboo tubes would be corroded by acid rain.
In nature, the only materials that can withstand acid rain corrosion are plastic, glass and ceramics.
Lin Shuhang did not have the ability to manufacture plastic. Plastic is a by-product of petroleum, and petroleum is usually buried hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters deep in the ground. Lin Shuhang simply did not have the ability to mine it.
Glass can be made, and its manufacturing method is very simple. You only need to build a furnace, mix sand and lime, and bake them in an environment of 1100 degrees Celsius. Then you can artificially create glass.
However, Lin Shuhang has not considered using glass to make containers, because he has no experience in making glass, and compared to firing pottery, making glass takes more time and energy, and is far less troublesome and labor-intensive than firing pottery.
Lin Shuhang already had quite a lot of experience in making pottery before this, and the yield rate was quite high, probably around 80%.
Considering that the pottery vases might be damaged during use in the future, Lin Shuhang fired a total of 4 pottery vases.
These clay pots used to contain acid rain are 1.5 meters in diameter and more than 4 meters high. They look like a large water tank in the shape of a wine jar. Of course, that is only in human eyes.
According to the height ratio of Lin Shuhang and Crazy General, these clay pots are not big. At best, they are only equivalent to a can, and can hold about 5 tons of water at a time.