After driving the monkeys away, Chen Yang left to tell the people in the camp about his harvest. Yun Shi, Wang Bing, and Tang Jiaqi came to help Chen Yang move the crocodiles, but it would take them another day and a half to get there.
Before this, Chen Yang cut the crocodile meat into several pieces and made a temporary smoking rack. He planned to smoke some of the meat before they arrived, and then smoke all the meat into jerky before taking it away. Otherwise, even for four people, so much meat would be too heavy.
It was only when Chen Yang was dragging the crocodile carcass that he realized the crocodile must have weighed over 700 kilograms.
It was lighter than he had initially expected. Perhaps the crocodile meat wasn't firm enough. After bleeding it out and cleaning out its internal organs and unnecessary parts, the weight had decreased significantly, to less than 400 kilograms. Chen Yang couldn't estimate the exact weight.
After finishing one smoking rack, immediately make the second one. It's just a simple rack for the meat, no skill is required, and it can be done quickly.
As dusk approached, he had already prepared four smoking racks and placed meat on them for smoking.
Four is about right; any more than that and he can't manage it all. Just collecting firewood is a huge task.
He plans to stay up all night to smoke the meat, so that their work will be easier when they arrive tomorrow night. The smoked meat will be much lighter after the moisture evaporates, making it much easier for them to carry.
Even for three grown men and one woman, carrying 400 kilograms of meat would be extremely difficult. After smoking, the weight would be reduced even further, making it easy to carry together on a stretcher.
Chen Yang peeled off the crocodile skin completely. Before thinking of any other uses for it, he decided to use it as a bag to wrap meat. So, he processed it simply and planned to dry it in the next day or two.
However, there was no sun in the dense forest, and Chen Yang was not sure if the leaves would be dry enough by tomorrow or the day after.
After smoking the meat for eight hours, Chen Yang replaced it with another batch and continued smoking. To enhance the smoking effect, he built a small shed with leaves for each rack, creating a small smoking room.
"This amount of meat can feed everyone for a long time. In the coming period, we should focus on developing breeding and planting. It's not good to eat smoked meat all the time," Chen Yang thought happily.
He stood among several fires, adding firewood from time to time, and tended to the smoked meat all night.
The body in the micro-world retains its state. If he doesn't sleep all night, when he enters the micro-world the next day, his body will still be in the state of not having slept all night. That's why Chen Yang would occasionally take a nap in the middle of the campfire.
He was destined to have a restless night, only able to try to get some sleep. He still had to smoke meat all day when he entered the micro-realm again tomorrow. But once Wang Bing and Yun Shi arrived, he could finally rest.
Chen Yang endured until eight o'clock in the morning when he was kicked out of the micro-world before waking up in the real world.
However, in the real world, he gets plenty of sleep and is full of energy, and this huge contrast makes him feel a little uncomfortable.
"Alien Yang, I heard you killed a tyrannical crocodile and stayed up all night smoking meat. That's not easy," Li Su'er said to Chen Yang with a smile.
He didn't get up early to go for a run today because he had to guard the smoked meat, but he also practiced Xingyi Quan in his micro-world.
Why are you smiling so brightly?
Chen Yang noticed that Li Su'er was unusually happy today, as if she had eaten honey, and her eyes were squinted into slits.
"Of course it's because something good happened! I made a great discovery!" Li Su'er said with a smile.
"What discovery?" Chen Yang asked while eating a steamed bun.
Li Su'er playfully pointed to her cheek, closed her eyes, and said, "Give me a kiss and I'll tell you."
Chen Yang casually picked up the European Emperor at his feet and let the European Emperor lick Li Su'er's cheek.
Li Su'er trembled all over. She opened her eyes and saw that it was the European Emperor. She patted her chest and said, "You scared me to death. I thought you were such a pervert. You actually used the European Emperor to fool me. I'm not telling you anymore."
Li Su'er snorted coldly, then sat down at the dining table and angrily turned her head away.
However, Chen Yang was not about to fall for this feigned indifference tactic. He calmly continued eating his bun, giving the last few bites to the lucky man, and even greeting a passing tenant.
Li Su'er hesitated for a while, her eyes constantly glancing at Chen Yang. When she found that Chen Yang was unmoved, she quickly gave up.
“Alien Yang, I’ve found camellia trees, and the climate there is special. It’s just past the first frost, which is the perfect time for the camellia seeds to ripen.”
Chen Yang was taken aback. "Does that mean we can press oil now?"
“That’s right.” Li Su’er laughed. “How about it? This is a great discovery, isn’t it? Do I get a reward?”
Chen Yang nodded and said, "Kissing is out of the question, but let's hug."
Li Su'er leaped into Chen Yang's arms and rubbed against him comfortably a couple of times.
"So, you two finally got married?"
Jiang Yining walked over, paused for a moment, and then smiled.
"This is a reward for finding the camellia tree for her," Chen Yang said, then patted Li Su'er and said, "Alright, we're over time."
“You didn’t set a time,” Li Su’er said.
"Hold me a little longer, maybe I'll react," Chen Yang said.
Li Su'er was stunned for a moment before she understood what Chen Yang meant. She sprang out of Chen Yang's arms like a startled rabbit.
"Alien Yang, I never expected you to be so impure."
"No, no, it's just a physical reaction. Did you see the innocent look on my face? I'm very pure," Chen Yang said.
In fact, he had already reacted; his wolfish sexual desires had been aroused, but he forcibly suppressed them.
This made him realize even more that he needed to overcome the negative effects of his wolf-like bloodline.
"Chen Yang, I need some manpower here. Making the oil press is a bit troublesome, and the grinding disc isn't finished yet," Jiang Bo said in the group chat.
Chen Yang said no problem. He could help after he transported the crocodile back. The search of the western border river area was almost complete, so there was no need to leave anyone there. He just needed to remember the location and go harvest the immature plants, such as peanuts.
Jiang Bo took great care in making the oil press. Oil is a very useful resource that could greatly improve their dietary conditions.
Camellia oil extracted purely by hand is a premium oil, better than ordinary oils, with higher nutritional value and medicinal value. It can help prevent high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and even has some anti-cancer effects.
However, making an oil press is quite troublesome. Not only that, they also need to make a steamer for steaming the powder, an oil filter, and so on.
In order to obtain oil, almost everyone in the group mobilized this time, and even Hong Gui had to make some metal parts.
Iron smelting and forging are also very important tasks. After things calmed down in the spring, Chen Yang planned to study iron smelting together to see if they could make more exquisite and sturdy ironware.
(End of this chapter)
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