Chapter 53: Drink More Hot Water
As the strongest individual soldier in their tribe, Zhou Chongshan’s main job is to guard the camp and ensure its safety.
Under this premise, it is indeed a suitable choice for him to take care of the patients at the same time.
"Okay, Chongshan, you will take care of him."
Zhou Xu said as he looked around.
"Light up all the stone stoves and boil water!"
After arranging this matter, he turned and looked at Zhou Chongshan.
"Chongshan, come with me."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu walked a few steps to a stone stove. At this moment, the water in the pot was already boiling.
Picking up a ceramic bowl from the side, Zhou Xu scooped half a bowl of water from the pot and poured it into the ceramic bowl. Then he scooped half a bowl of boiled water from the ceramic jar used to store boiling water and poured it into the bowl.
Mix half bowl of boiling water and half bowl of cold water to make warm water.
"Just follow this method, mix a bowl of warm water, then bring it in for him to drink, and let him drink it all. When you go in, you have to put this on like I just did."
While speaking, Zhou Xu handed the mask in his hand to Zhou Chongshan.
"This is very important. You must wear it properly and take it off after you come out. Of course, the water is also very important. Let him drink it when he wakes up. Drink it continuously."
Having said this, Zhou Xu paused, then stood up and looked at the tribal members around him.
"You are all the same. If you don't want to get this disease, from today on, everyone must drink more boiled water. Each person must drink at least ten bowls of water every day!"
Although the size of their ceramic bowls is normal, requiring each person to drink ten bowls of boiled water every day is definitely a lot.
It can also be seen from this that Zhou Xu attaches great importance to this matter.
After all, in his opinion, once the cold breaks out on a large scale, it will have an impact that cannot be ignored on the development and even survival of their tribe.
He was careless before, and now that this situation has occurred, he must take precautions quickly.
"In addition, each of you should pay attention to your own condition. If you have symptoms such as sneezing, coughing, itchy throat, sore throat, and hot forehead, you must report it to me immediately."
After explaining all the things that needed attention, Zhou Xu slowly let out a long breath.
"Okay, let's make breakfast."
As the start of the day, Zhou Xu certainly didn't intend to make the breakfast too shabby.
Basically, each person has a bowl of fish soup and half a grilled fish. You have to eat something to have the strength to work.
This should have been a happy time, but the occurrence of this unexpected situation made the atmosphere of the entire tribe a little solemn.
"Chief, do you want to give that..."
"cold."
"Oh yeah, do you want to send some food to the person with the cold?"
Since he had accepted the task of taking care of the other party, Zhou Chongshan naturally showed a responsible attitude at this time.
"People with colds should avoid fish."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu handed the two skewers of roasted rat meat in his hand to Zhou Chongshan.
"Send this to him."
At this moment, Zhou Chongshan undoubtedly had an epiphany.
At breakfast time, everyone in the tribe was either grilling fish or cooking fish soup, only their leader was grilling rat meat.
At first they thought that their leader didn't want to eat grilled fish, so he changed his breakfast.
Now it seems that these two skewers of roasted rat meat were specially prepared for the patient.
Don’t think that rat meat is bad. Apart from the physiological discomfort, the protein content in rat meat is actually very high.
To put it bluntly, the reason why eating rat meat is not encouraged in modern society is that the modern environment is too bad and rats carry too many viruses.
But this primitive society is different.
They had eaten for such a long time in the Salt Lake Camp before, and nothing happened.
This was enough to prove that these rats were indeed cleaner than the modern rats he had imagined.
Under this premise, even without talking about protein, in terms of taste, rat meat may not necessarily be inferior to fish.
For Zhou Xu, who has eaten both, these two kinds of meat have their own merits.
Although roasted rat meat has little meat, it has a unique flavor and is very suitable as a side dish for drinking.
So even when they arrived at the Black Moon Camp, where they had more meat and freshwater fish that were easier to catch, rat meat still did not disappear from their menu.
Zhou Xu would roast a few from time to time to satisfy his hunger.
If they want to eliminate rat meat from their menu, they may have to wait until rabbit meat is added to their diet.
A delicious and filling breakfast cheered everyone up to a certain extent.
To be honest, their current condition is definitely better than before.
Putting aside their worries for the time being, under Zhou Xu's arrangement, everyone quickly immersed themselves in the new day's work.
Zhou Xu's plan for today was mainly to stay in the camp. At this moment, he was spreading out a piece of animal skin, using a branch dipped in plant dye juice, painting while explaining to Zhuang Mengdie the new things they were going to make next.
That thing is a wooden cart! The most important and most difficult thing for Zhou Xu and his team to pull a wooden cart is to ensure the smooth rotation of the wheels.
Of course Zhou Xu didn't expect the wooden cart they made to be pulled as smoothly as silk, as long as the wheels could turn relatively smoothly.
Purely hand-polished production has high requirements for precision and is undoubtedly very time-consuming.
However, considering Zhuang Mengdie's skillful hands, and as long as they can successfully make a wooden cart, only one is needed to easily complete the workload of the five-person transport team, and the transportation efficiency can be significantly improved.
This temptation made Zhou Xu finally decide to put in the effort and give it a try.
He drew the blueprints and explained each design clearly to Zhuang Mengdie.
Listening to all this, Zhuang Mengdie's eyes couldn't help but sparkle with a strange light.
In Zhou Xu's opinion, this wooden cart might be something so ordinary that it couldn't be more ordinary. Its structure is also very simple and not complicated.
But in the eyes of Zhuang Mengdie, a primitive man, this seemingly simple structure made her feel the genius conception in it.
Was their leader's wisdom really a gift from God? If it were her, she would never be able to come up with such an ingenious design.
"I'll start now!"
At this time, Zhuang Mengdie couldn't wait to turn this idea into reality.
"Very good. From now on, you will be mainly responsible for making this wooden cart. Other things can be left to other people in the department. Good luck!"
At the end, Zhou Xu did not forget to encourage the other party.
This task would definitely be the most reliable one if it was handed over to Zhuang Mengdie. As for himself...
Apart from his advanced ideas and relatively rich knowledge reserves, he now does not think that his hands can be more delicate than Zhuang Mengdie's, so it would be better for him not to stay here and cause trouble.
(End of this chapter)
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