Chapter 204: Disgusting Lake Water
Chu Qiao spread a few leaves on the stone, pinched the persimmons hanging around his neck, picked a relatively soft one, peeled it and put it in his mouth.
The bitter feeling of the persimmon flesh on her tongue made her frown slightly, and she swallowed it with gritted teeth.
"What's with that expression, Master Chu? He's not happy about having persimmons to eat."
Chu Qiao broke open a persimmon and showed it to everyone in front of the camera.
The inside of the persimmon is not the usual orange-yellow, soft liquid, but whitish and hard.
Chu Qiao stuffed the raw persimmon into his mouth like taking medicine, and swallowed it without chewing.
After a long pause, he finally began to explain, "Wild persimmons will fall from the tree once they are fully ripe. Those that remain on the tree are usually unripe. Unripe persimmons are very astringent and will corrode your tongue, making them difficult to eat."
"Also, unripe persimmons contain a lot of tannic acid, which easily combines with iron. People with anemia should eat less."
"Mr. Chu said it was unpalatable, but then he ate it."
"Mrs. Chu is a heroine and is not afraid of the cold."
"Am I the only one who feels sorry for Master Chu?"
"Ruoshui Sanqian gave Chuqiao 300 bottles of Coke—he had nothing to eat or drink, so pitiful."
Chu Qiao stood up and said, "I'm doing this for survival. Don't eat raw persimmons. Oh, and don't eat them with crabs, whether they're raw or cooked. It's the Great Cold."
Ruoshui Sanqian: "Master Chu, you should popularize science as early as possible in the future. I just ate and I'm crying..."
Chu Qiao smiled and said, "Occasionally, it's okay."
After saying that, Chu Qiao raised one foot.
"Master Chu, be more civilized."
"That's right, the feet are out of the country."
"Master Chu's feet are so small?"
The camera moved forward, and Chu Qiao peeled off the mud on the soles of his feet. Everyone saw that there were many blisters of various sizes on the soles of Chu Qiao's feet.
The blisters were swollen and swollen. For an ordinary person, just one would be too painful to sit still. However, Chu Qiao looked at his feet as if nothing had happened.
Chu Qiao stood up and pulled a lot of dandelion leaves from the ground. She sat on a branch and smashed the dandelion leaves into mud with stones.
Chu Qiao explained, "I'll treat these blisters first. It's okay to leave them alone, but it will affect your walking speed."
"Blisters like these are caused by friction. When we walk, the underlying skin doesn't move easily with the upper skin, causing the upper and lower layers of skin to move in opposite directions, causing the skin to crack. After the cracks occur, the tissue fluid under the skin enters the cracks, forming friction blisters."
As he spoke, the dandelion had turned into green mud, and Chu Qiao casually placed it on a leaf for later use.
Xiao Diao walked over with a thorn branch in his mouth and put it at Chu Qiao's feet.
Chu Qiao pulled a thorn from a nearby thorn bush and pointed at a few smaller ones. "If friction blisters are not too large, they generally don't require special treatment. The tissue fluid in the blisters will slowly be absorbed over time."
"If blisters like these are larger than 5mm, it will affect walking and the fluid needs to be drained. If you want to treat it yourself at home, you can use a needle to burn it over a fire and then disinfect the area, then poke the blister, but don't cut off the blister's epidermis. Of course, it is best to go to the hospital for treatment."
"I don't have the conditions here, so I found a thorn on a bush, pricked it, and then applied dandelion juice to reduce the inflammation."
As he spoke, Chu Qiao aimed at the largest blister and pricked it gently. A transparent liquid immediately emerged from the blister, and the blister slowly became dry and flat. Chu Qiao squeezed the blister with his hands to drain all the liquid inside, and then applied the dandelion that had been crushed into a paste on the blister.
Chu Qiao dealt with more than a dozen blisters one after another, raised his head and turned his neck.
"It seems that we must speed up the process of making clothes and straw sandals. Otherwise, my feet will keep touching the ground and fungal infections are inevitable."
"Master Chu, just tie a leaf around your feet."
"Yes, you can use it temporarily until you find the right materials to sit on the shoes."
Chu Qiao looked at the plants around him and shook his head. "Not all leaves can be worn close to the body. Most leaves are too small to fit, some are too brittle and break easily, some are poisonous, some have thorns, and some easily attract mosquitoes."
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work. It feels like this wilderness expedition has been full of difficulties on the first day. There's nothing to eat, nothing to drink, nothing to wear."
"Ditto."
"Master Chu is really miserable."
Chu Qiao paused, searching his mind for some soft plants: Kapok? No, although kapok resembles cotton, it cannot be woven without processing.
Dandelions? No.
Reed catkins? Chu Qiao's eyes lit up, and he excitedly said to the drone, "We can try to find some reed catkins. According to their growth habits, as long as we find shallow water, we'll find them. Reed catkins are very soft and have lots of fuzz."
As he spoke, Chu Qiao couldn't wait to walk into the depths of the jungle.
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“Quack—”
A faint voice was heard and Chu Qiao suddenly stopped.
Netizens are confused.
"Master Chu, what's wrong?"
"Isn't it dangerous?"
"I heard there are lions, tigers, and bears here. I wonder if you've encountered one..."
"Quack—" Another cry sounded, and Chu Qiao's frown, which was caused by the pain in his feet, relaxed. He smiled and said, "There are frogs."
"I go, where there are frogs there is water."
"Master Chu, you are lucky."
"Hurry up, if Master Chu doesn't have any clothes to wear, we can only see his head and feet."
Following the croaking of frogs, Chu Qiao headed west. The sun stretched Chu Qiao's shadow longer and longer, and the sound became closer and closer.
"Quack, quack—" the sounds of frogs rang out one after another.
The corners of Chu Qiao's mouth rose higher and higher. She quickened her pace, pushed aside a patch of dense weeds, and walked to a cliff with a lake below.
From a distance, the live broadcast room looked like an ordinary lake, but Chu Qiao immediately covered his nose and wrinkled his face.
Chu Qiao pinched his nose and uttered in a low voice: "This lake water stinks. It must be because the river has dried up and slowly turned into stagnant water, and it's getting stinker by stinker."
The drone flew towards the lake, and the closer it got to the water, the clearer the picture became.
Dark green seaweed was floating on the surface of the lake, and countless mosquitoes were circling around the seaweed, as if they were being swept up by a tornado.
The corpses of fish and frogs were floating in the lake, and the shore was even darker.
"Master Chu, don't go. It's too disgusting."
"I saw the moth's body."
"This isn't a lake, it's a stinking ditch."
Chu Qiao looked at the reeds on the shore, closed his eyes, and walked forward.
The cliff wasn't high. Chu Qiao flipped over, one hand grasping the tree trunk on the long cliff, his foot on the cliff wall, and the other hand reaching down. He was as nimble as a monkey trying to grab the moon.
Chu Qiao grabbed a handful of grass and threw it onto the shore. The grass was more than one meter long at some and two meters long at others. The flowers on top were white and as soft as feathers.
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