Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 89 Water Spinach

The little girl happy and the little boy Zhuang came to find Jiang Luoluo early in the morning.

Today, the two of them will also help with the chores and take care of Jiang Luoluo.

It wasn't because I was greedy for the jar of jam they gave me yesterday... well, the jam was partly to blame.

But the most, most, most, most important thing is their desire to help the cubs... hehehe.

Since nothing unusual happened all day yesterday, He felt reassured and entrusted the cubs to happy and Zhuang.

Before noon, Cong delivered two newly made wooden shelves. According to Jiang Luoluo's requirements, the bottom shelf was a cabinet about one meter high, with partitions in the middle to increase storage capacity.

The cabinet's internal depth has been increased to half a meter, and the top of the cabinet can be used as a desktop, making it convenient to place some items.

The shelf above the cabinet is multi-tiered and divided into sections. It is only half the width of the cabinet below, but this makes it easier to put and take out items, as it is not inconvenient to reach them because it is too deep.

Most importantly, this way it won't block the top of the cabinet where it can be placed on a table.

Jiang Luoluo originally wanted to customize a few more drawers, but the drawers were relatively complicated, and she didn't understand many of their structures, so she didn't mention it.

However, this also opened up a lot of ideas for Cong, giving him more thoughts.

Jiang Luoluo looked at the dark circles under Cong's eyes and thought, no wonder it was delivered to her so quickly. It must be that Cong's interest in the new wooden products kept her up at night, and she had to stay up all night to finish it so quickly.

Cong left with two jars of jam and several new orders placed by Jiang Luoluo.

Jiang Luoluo also paused her work of carving words on the wooden jars, first tidied up the two shelves, placed them against the wall in the cave, and then put everything away again.

Fortunately, Jiang Luoluo had tidied up many times before, and many things were neatly placed in fixed locations, so she only needed to move them over, without having to reorganize everything.

Even so, Jiang Luoluo had only tidied up halfway by the time He returned. In the end, He had to come along to help her put everything away again.

Two wooden shelves were placed on either side of the stone bed. Jiang Luoluo secretly planned to use these two shelves to store her and Ge's personal belongings, and it would be more convenient to place them on either side of the stone bed.

There are two ordinary wooden shelves left, like the kind the shaman uses to display various herbs. Cong said they would be delivered tomorrow and placed next to the water tank to store food and other things.

After this rough tidying up, all the things that were still in the cabinet were put back in, and the space in the cave seemed to suddenly be half empty.

When Akashi and Shigeru returned, the fruit they carried filled the cave again.

Jiang Luoluo: ...

I want to escape, but I can't.

The good news is that Jiang Luoluo spotted a lemon-like fruit at a glance. It was about the size of a football, yellow and oval, and stood out prominently among the other fruits.

Chi said this fruit is called "water prickly fruit".

Jiang Luoluo found the origin of the name very strange. She looked at it for a long time but still couldn't understand how the fruit had anything to do with "water" and "thorns".

Chi demonstrated it to Jiang Luoluo, casually stabbing the water thorn fruit with a stone knife.

One second, two seconds... no response.

After waiting for seven or eight seconds, a thin, long stream of water suddenly gushed out from the hole. The water flow was very strong, and when Jiang Luoluo put her hand over it, it felt like she was being pricked by a needle.

The water flow lasted for more than a minute before gradually diminishing and disappearing.

Jiang Luoluo smelled her palm, which was covered in the juice of the sago palm, and smelled a familiar scent. She was about 80% sure that this must be lemon.

As for the remaining 20%... that's not important.

Driven by her curiosity about the water thorn fruit and wanting to know why it oozes water, Jiang Luoluo took a stone knife and dissected the fruit.

Surprisingly, this spurious fruit, about the size of a soccer ball, has an outer layer of skin, with only the fist-sized center containing juicy flesh.

To explain the principle, it's because piercing the outermost hard skin causes an imbalance in pressure on the inner soft skin—the white, fluffy structure. Part of the soft skin is stimulated and begins to swell, squeezing the inner flesh.

This causes the juice from the innermost layer of fruit pulp to be squeezed out and ooze out through the punctured opening.

It's probably because the pressure is high that the water flow is so powerful... That must be it, Jiang Luoluo thought.

The flesh is just too small. Such a big fruit, but the flesh is only about the size of a fist inside. The juice looks like a lot, but it's just an illusion caused by the small amount of juice coming out.

That's normal, though. If the thorny fruit grows large and has a lot of edible flesh, even if it tastes a bit sour, many tribespeople will still bring it back to their tribe.

However, these plants, which grow tall but have very few edible parts, are so unappealing that the tribespeople don't even bother to look at them.

Chi thought of the cubs' requirements and felt that the water thorn fruit would meet them, so she picked a few and brought them back.

Jiang Luoluo quickly grabbed Chi's arm and pointed at the water thorn fruit—Yes, that's it!

At this point, the smaller wooden containers that Cong had brought over came in handy. Jiang Luoluo collected all the juice from these water thorn fruits, intending to add it to the wine later.

To my surprise, a single thorn fruit couldn't even fill the smallest wooden container.

Jiang Luoluo couldn't help but look at Chi... After realizing that Chi couldn't see her clearly, she turned to look at Mao beside her.

After finishing lunch, the two of them, without even taking a break, ventured back into the Taz Forest to find the water thorn fruit that Jiang Luoluo wanted.

Jiang Luoluo wanted to say there was no need to rush, but she couldn't stop Chi, who was incredibly proactive. This person was like a program that would start loading immediately if accidentally touched, and could neither be paused nor exited.

Should I do it? Yes, I should... Okay, it's done.

With a sigh, Jiang Luoluo could no longer continue being a lazy bum, so she had no choice but to join in the work.