Chapter 263 263 Connecting the Water Pipe (1)
When Xia Tian heard Si Ye say that he had brought the bamboos to a safe place, she felt relieved and went back with him to rest.
Early the next morning, before daybreak, Si Ye went out to bring back the bamboo from yesterday, and then went out hunting.
After washing up, Xia Tian hurriedly began to process the bamboo she brought back yesterday.
The thin parts will be the raw materials for weaving in the future, and there is no rush to use them now. She first cleans the forked branches and leaves on them and piles them all up against the wall of the cave to dry.
The large ends to be processed are old bamboos used as water pipes.
Because it is mainly used for water diversion, we must try our best to ensure the permeability and sealing of the bamboo inside, so that we can use atmospheric pressure to divert river water continuously.
Xia Tian also first cleaned up the forked branches and nodes on the surface of the bamboo. The problem now is how to clear the internal structure without damaging the external structure of the bamboo.
This is actually not difficult. Just use a thinner bamboo, tie a sharp heavy object to the front end... and poke it directly.
That’s right, great effort can make miracles happen.
There's no special trick to it, just be careful not to pierce it directly, and keep persisting.
So, the audience who were originally expecting the anchor to have some amazing handicrafts, actually saw a girl holding a thick bamboo in one hand and a thinner one in the other hand, with a stone knife tied to the top, and then... kept poking it in.
The image is somewhat broken.
What the hell is this? This is too ugly. What on earth is the anchor trying to do?
[I also find this a bit baffling. Besides, this move really doesn't look good. Isn't Xia Xia tired?]
Didn't they say they were going to use this knotty tree as a water pipe? They probably just need to dig out the knots, right?
[Hahahaha Xia Xia always brings surprises to people, I wonder what the final product will be like]
Clearing the bamboo is indeed not an easy job. By the time Si Ye came back with the prey, Xia Tian had just finished dealing with one bamboo.
Moreover, this body itself is congenitally deficient. After making these two, blisters have appeared on the palms, and many tiny fibers have penetrated into the skin.
I didn't pay attention at the beginning, but now that I've stopped to rest, my hands are a mess, it's really horrible.
If I continue doing this, I'm afraid the skin will be rubbed off, and then infection will occur, which will be troublesome.
So she put down the bamboo in her hand, washed her hands with clean water, and cleaned the thorns on her hands bit by bit.
"What's wrong with your hand?" Si Ye was sharp-eyed and quickly noticed the dense wounds on the girl's hand. Shocked, he immediately dropped the prey in his hand and rushed over to check the situation.
"It's nothing. I didn't notice it myself." Xia Tian pulled out the thorn from her hand without changing her expression or blinking, but the people watching were terrified.
She was used to doing farm work at home, and her hands had thick calluses on them, so she didn't have to worry about getting injured in this kind of work.
But for some reason, this body does a lot of work, but the hands are still tender and delicate, and they can be pricked by hangnails if you are not careful.
"Is it the thorns from the gnarled tree?" Si Ye knew it clearly as soon as he saw the gnarled tree trunks neatly stacked on the ground.
The fibers of this plant are hard and straight, and the thin part is like a thorn, which can easily pierce the skin. No wonder the girl's hands are in such a state.
(End of this chapter)
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