After another three-hour battle with the stone, Milkball finally finished drilling the hole. The hole was very well made, and he showed it to the audience with the polished stone hoe.
He never hesitated to praise Naituan, always practicing encouragement and praise-based education: "Naituan, you are so amazing, you have made this hole so big and smooth."
After hearing her father's praise, Naituan felt all the fatigue of the day disappear, and her face lit up with joy: "Of course, Naituan will never let Dad down."
The people in the live stream felt ashamed looking at the solid evidence made by a three-year-old child.
Everyone can play with stones, but hammering and drilling a large, round hole in such a hard stone is not something that just anyone can do well.
"When I was three years old, I couldn't even skip stones on water. This girl is amazing."
"Geniuses play with stones differently than ordinary people."
"Actually, I could do it too, but I don't have that much patience."
"She's just a child, and she worked for almost ten hours straight without taking a break except for meals."
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This stone hoe will be extremely useful in building the wooden house. After completing the task, the little girl immediately lay down and fell asleep on the large rock next to her.
He fell asleep almost instantly, clearly exhausted. But for Li Sheng, it was going to be a sleepless night. He hadn't finished processing the trees yet. The bottom section of the wood needed to be flat, so he had to split each section of wood in half evenly.
This is not something that can be solved by brute force alone; it also requires a little skill. It is practically impossible to split a five- or six-meter-long tree trunk evenly in half without any external force.
Li first made several wooden awls with an axe, smaller at the bottom and larger at the top. He then raised the axe and aimed at the middle to chop down. The coconut tree was really hard. With this axe blow, he managed to open a small gap right in the center, and the axe got stuck inside.
This is where the awl comes in. Wed the awl into the split, and use a short piece of wood as a mallet to strike the awl, making it go deeper into the split, until the axe can be easily pulled out of the split. Then continue chopping vertically along the original split.
A wooden awl was inserted at intervals until the axe chopped to the other end. At this point, it was not split in half yet, but it was beginning to split in half.
Using the back of the axe as a hammer, Li Sheng gradually struck the wood piece by piece. Slowly, the wood began to tear apart more. After repeated striking, it was finally split in half. However, the cross-section did not look good, so Li Sheng had to use the axe to repair it a little.
After splitting several logs in half, the remaining logs also needed to be processed. Without modern tools, steel wires, nails, or screws, he could only use mortise and tenon joints to complete the construction of the wooden house.
I used this technique many times when I was building a shelter in the wilderness and doing carpentry six months ago. The process itself is not complicated, but it is not easy to dig out the right groove and drill holes in the wood to embed wooden nails without the right tools. It's like a milk ball drilling a hole with a stone hoe.
It's very simple to do and doesn't require much technical skill, but because there are no tools available, you can only use the most basic methods, and it requires a great deal of patience to complete.
He had to carve grooves at both ends of the logs so that they could fit together when assembling. Li Sheng worked on all these logs until the moon went down, and all the logs on this side were processed.
He had been working at a high intensity. Although he had enough supplies, he was still afraid of dying suddenly. He could barely keep going, but his mind was heavy. His body was communicating with him, telling him that he was tired.
Even after he tossed and turned all night, the baby didn't wake up. Now that it was getting light, he needed to get some sleep.
Wang Yao and Yang Xiaoxiao also didn't sleep all night. Wang Yao decided to build a shelter, but it was nighttime and he had no way to find suitable materials. All he had left was a file, which was of no use.
Viewers watching this large-scale live stream moved between various live stream rooms. Wang Yao learned from his own live stream that Li Sheng was going to build a wooden house in three days, and that Li Sheng had been chopping wood all night. Then, all the comments were mocking him, saying that even God couldn't stand a man like him.
Wang Yao was so angry he almost rolled his eyes. Why did this Li Sheng always have to be one step ahead of him? He could even boast about building a wooden house in three days. Anyone can brag. In a fit of anger, he shouted that he could also build a better shelter than Li Sheng in three days.
Although both of their partners are women, Yang Xiaoxiao is at least an adult woman who can do a lot of things, while Li Sheng's partner is only a few years old and it's good enough if she doesn't cause any trouble. He can definitely compare to her in that respect.
Since things had already come to this, he was determined to prove Li Sheng right, even if it meant sacrificing his pride.
Almost every group had a restless night. When they arrived here on the first night, everyone was full of energy and curiosity in a new place, so they hardly slept. This was the second night, and even without sleep, they couldn't stay awake. They still chose to take turns on duty.
But with mosquitoes and occasional noises coming from somewhere in the forest, everyone suddenly became a group suffering from neurasthenia.
Aside from the baby's drowsiness, it's possible that the baby was simply unaware of the dangers around it and could sleep so soundly.
Li Sheng woke up after sleeping for less than two hours, just as the sun was peeking over the horizon. Sure enough, there were plenty of good things on the beach.
Naituan also got up. It was the first time she had seen the beach after the tide had gone out. There were many small crabs crawling on the beach. The father and daughter prepared their tools and started beachcombing.
Li Sheng had already made a prediction about going beachcombing this morning last night. Many people got up early to go beachcombing in the cloud. One group followed the milk group, and another group followed Li Sheng.
Although small crabs were everywhere, they weren't Li Sheng and Nai Tuan's target. Crabs didn't have much meat, and chewing them directly would be too rough on their throats. He and Nai Tuan preferred seafood with more meat.
For example, Milkball spotted a blackhead fish swimming in the shallow water. Although it wasn't much bigger than Milkball, it was still better than catching ten small, meatless crabs.
However, she didn't act rashly because the blackhead fish has barbs on its fins, and it might get hurt if she grabbed it directly. With quick eyes and hands, Naituan scooped it up with a fish trap and put it in. All the water seeped out and the fish jumped around inside. The opening of the fish trap was much smaller than its body, so the fish wouldn't be so easy to pull out of the opening, but it was still quite strong.
The little girl put the blackhead fish into the fishing net bag woven by her father and let it soak in the seawater, thus imprisoning the blackhead fish.
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