famine queen

Chapter 26 Filters

For a whole day, nearly [-] bamboo tubes were used, and the water collected in the end was less than five liters, and about one-tenth of the black mud was mixed in it.

——This amount is not enough to provide the daily consumption of 30 people, right?
Even though Grandma said that little by little savings can add up, this figure still forced Jin Mang to use his brains.

She remembered that one of the early education products that a friend bought for her son contained a kit of materials for making a water filter. She posted it in Moments, and she vaguely remembered that it seemed to be Heijinsha...what else?

Forget it, anyway, it's something she can't get right now.

Jinmang thought for a while, and finally remembered that activated carbon has an adsorption effect and can purify water and air.

As for how to make activated carbon, she really figured it out after thinking for a while.Taking out two large clam shells from the grain cart, Jin Mang put some small pieces of wood into one clam shell, covered it with another clam shell, and put it in the fire for heating.

Afterwards, the charcoal in the mussel shells is taken out, cooled, washed, smashed, and dried in the sun.

In this way, the activated carbon is finished.

——The whole process took Jinmang half a day to complete, which was also due to the hot climate today.

Jin Mang was a little excited and tied the gauze rattan cloth as gauze to the opening of the bamboo tube, which was empty at both ends. In order not to bear enough weight, she wrapped a few more layers, and then carefully poured activated carbon into it.

She first put the water filtered with swamp mud into the filter she made simply, and after waiting patiently for more than ten minutes, the drops of water falling from the bottom of the filter gathered a shallow layer of clear water.

Jin Mang looked at it with his probe, and found that the water was clear, and smelled it again, and the previous stench was gone.

She couldn't help showing joy.

Finding out what she had done, the rest of the Youying clan were stunned.

Given a choice, who would like to drink foul-smelling water?
Lan Ya held the filter made by Jin Mang with joy, and couldn't help sighing: "It would be great if this could filter the water from the swamp mud."

"Who said it couldn't be done?" Jin Mang couldn't help but said, "Isn't this a very simple thing?"

Saying so, she took out a gauze rattan cloth that was usually used to wipe sweat, grabbed a handful of wet swamp mud and put it in, wrapped it in a special way, and twisted it up hard.

After a while, the water in the swamp mud was squeezed out by Jinmang. Although it was not very clean, not much cleaner than the original filtered water, the efficiency was more than ten times higher.

——This method Jin Mang actually completely copied the method of killing vegetables when making dumpling stuffing in his previous life,

Everyone was stunned again, Qingyan was the first to react, she took out a piece of gauze and rattan cloth from nowhere, and imitated Jin Mang and began to squeeze water.

However, although Qingyan managed to do a very simple thing, it's just that the amount of water she squeezed out was obviously not as much as Jinmang's, and the swamp mud leaked out behind her.

She herself was a little confused, but Jin Mang was not surprised.

This technique looks simple, but she learned it from a pastry master who has been passed down from generation to generation in the family. This method of killing vegetables is the essence of their family's improvement from generation to generation.

At that time, the teacher had a bad temper and insisted that they would not be able to learn it, so Jin Mang went up against him. It took him two years to learn this technique thoroughly.

Originally, every time the sky darkened, their tribe would start to rest, and only a few people in charge of night watch sat by the fire.

However, on this day, the whole family gathered together and learned how to kill water from Jin Mang.

Jinmang is the most efficient, and squeezed out about a basin of dirty water in less than an hour.Qingfeng didn't have the patience to learn how to kill water, so she was responsible for filtering the dirty water beside her.Qingsui also learned how to kill water from Jin Mang, but the efficiency is not very high for the time being, so she gives Qingfeng a helping hand from time to time.

Finally, before going to bed, the family of three had filtered clean water from two bamboo tubes, and there were still more than a dozen filters left to filter. It is estimated that they could harvest another five or six bamboo tubes of clean water tomorrow morning.

——This is still because of insufficient activated carbon.

The harvest of others is not as great as theirs, but there is clear water for every bamboo tube.

Early the next morning, they started on their way again, but Ru Jinmang and the others sitting on the grain truck did not stop filtering the clean water.

Activated carbon is used frequently, and it needs to be replaced if it absorbs too much soil.Therefore, after accumulating enough experience, they focus on burning charcoal and killing water every time they set up camp, and the night watchmen are responsible for filtering clean water, and the people on the grain truck will continue to filter water on the way.

In the end, there were not enough bamboo tubes, so they cut down a lot of bamboo along the way.

In order to filter out more water, they also deliberately slowed down.They didn't really leave the swamp area until they found that the swamp was completely dry.

Even so, the bamboo tubes filled with clean water occupied most of the area in the grain cart.

In contrast, their food is almost gone, and they can only rely on hunting if they want to eat again.

Then Jin Mang discovered a strange thing, after leaving the swamp, the food intake of many adults, including Qing Feng and Qing Sui, began to decrease significantly.

After careful observation, she found that the two filled her stomach very full every time, and they would only eat if there was any leftover.

——Because of today's weather, meat that has not been marinated and processed is absolutely unsuitable, and it will stink within half a day.Jin Mang has also thought about making jerky, but... there is not enough to eat, so where is the meat for her to make jerky.

Jin Mang also thought they were hungry and saved the food for her, and lost his temper very much.

——Let yourself be fed as a child, but the two of them are starving as adults. Isn't this stupid?How can they survive if they starve to death?
However, not only were those two people not ashamed, but they were also dazed?
"Mangmang is a good boy." Grandma smiled and took her to her side, explaining to her: "Your parents are fasting gradually."

fasting?

Jinmang frowned, "Is it the same as those hibernating animals?" But Qingfeng and Qingsui don't hibernate.

"It can't be said to be exactly the same." Grandma said: "In order to support the elderly and raise their children, adults like your parents will fast and save food in this way. Although there must be enough prey in the second half of the migration, it will The food you hunt is definitely not enough for everyone to eat. You are a cub, if you don’t eat enough, your bones will be affected. The body of an old bone like mine has already started to go downhill. If you don’t eat enough, it’s not good. get sick and even die."

She stroked Jin Mang's head and said softly: "Your parents have accumulated enough energy in their bodies before this. If you fast for a period of time, your body will lose weight, but it will not have other effects."

"even……"

　Axue rushed to the scene two days ago, attended a wedding and a funeral, and experienced two completely different emotions in one day

　　Fa Xiao finally regained her strength after being raped by a scum girl, met a really good girl, and then entered the palace of marriage. Axue was so excited that she applauded so much that her hands became red

　　And then there was the funeral... a little bit of a stretch.The deceased was an elder who was nearly ninety years old. This elder had a stroke for two years. He was still able to take care of himself a little, but he fell completely paralyzed on the bed a few months ago.And in these few months, because the two sons were busy fighting for his pension, he experienced almost all the abuses you can think of or can't think of. I called 110 several times, and the police came to mediate not once or twice.He couldn’t get clean until he died, and there were a lot of weird things (for example, he was dying and his grandson had to rush to work, and when he received the news of his death, he sent a crying selfie to the circle of friends saying that grandpa had a good journey ;For example, call the police in the middle of the night and call the public officials who are already going to sleep to comment...) When I attended the funeral, I was like walking in a minefield, afraid that they would suddenly quarrel and call the police or something...

　　
　
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