Chapter 46: Little Rabbit Tries Poison

  "Good!" Mo Yuer's words were always obeyed by Sang Zhen, and this time was no exception. After cleaning up everything, the women brought back clean fruits, wild vegetables, and mushrooms to the front of the cave, while the men also returned, gathering around a large tree to watch Chu Huo and Fan Ge sawing wood. Xiao Lai had already been replaced by Fan Ge, and everyone seemed to enjoy this new and interesting work. A whole tree with a diameter of over 0.5 meters had already been sawed halfway through, and victory was in sight. Because the stone blade was several times thicker than the metal saw blades used in the 21st century, the gap in the wood was also large, and the sawdust was plentiful.

  The women also curiously stopped to watch, Mo Yi'er couldn't help but shake her head and smile, and went to prepare dinner first. Dinner needs to be made with seafood egg drop soup, wild boar meat stewed with pumpkin, pan-fried fish, and roasted corn. Although there are so many fresh dishes, roasted meat is also indispensable. This primitive dish color, Mo Yi'er still can't grasp the fire well, and the meal volume of dozens of people in the tribe is very large, it's completely impossible to rely on her alone. Sang Zhen quickly came over to help, and shouted at the women to work together. Mo Yi'er handed over the roasted meat to her to do, and herself took a clay pot to simmer fruit sauce.

  The washed fruit was cut into small pieces with a stone knife, inside which were sesame-sized seeds that weren't very hard. Mo Yi'er simply didn't bother with them anymore. Half a pot of water and half a pot of fruit were added together, but the flavor would be unknown without sugar, so it had to be done this way. It was boiled over high heat, then some firewood was added, and the flames slowly died down. A leaf was used to cover it, and it simmered slowly! Then she went to help with other food, men, women, old people, and children all busily using their own strength.

  Although it was hard work, everyone looked happy. Mo Yier was even more so, the 0.5-meter tree had been sawed before dinner was ready, and Xiao Lai rushed to call Mo Yier, asking her what to do next. Sang Zhen smiled and said: "Mo Yier, you go take a look, we women can handle cooking."

  "Alright, help me watch this jam pot, don't let it burn." Mo Yier was still worried that her jam might not turn out well. Since arriving in this primitive society with a scarcity of food varieties, Mo Yier had also become a foodie who loved to research delicious eats.

  "Don't worry!" Sang Zhen smiled and waved her hand at Mo Yier, who walked over to the men's side and looked at the sawed tree. The part near the root seemed like it could be used as a table or stool, which was great. However, the surface wasn't very even, and similarly, the bottom part that would be used for the water bucket wasn't very even either. "This still needs to be polished later to make it even and able to stand upright," Mo Yier said, gesturing to a position about 1 meter from the bottom. The people here were tall and big, with great strength, so making the water bucket a bit taller was perfectly suitable.

  "Good!" Chu Yan and Fan Ge responded in unison, continuing to saw the wood. This time, they didn't saw for long before reaching the hollow center, but the hollow part wasn't completely empty - water was seeping out at this moment.

  "Wait." Mo Yi'er hastily called out to stop, when making the water pot, there was some moisture in the hollow part, occasionally where it was a bit thicker, a few drops of water would drip down. It seemed that the water near the roots was more abundant and somewhat viscous, which could be called wood sap. "What kind of juice is this? Can you drink it?"

  "I don't know..." Everyone shook their heads. No one had ever cut open a tree trunk before, and it was the first time they discovered that there was sap inside a hollow tree.

  Mo Yu'er thought it was a pity that the sap was flowing away, what if it was edible? With the idea of not wasting, she walked over, dipped her hand in and wanted to taste it, but was stopped by Chu Yan. "Have you eaten this before?" Chu Yan remembered that every time Mo Yu'er found food, she was excited and very sure it was edible, but this sap seemed to be something Mo Yu'er had just discovered, so eating it would not be safe.

  "No!"

  "If there isn't any, we can't eat. What if it's poisonous?" In the past when food was scarce, some of their tribesmen had mistakenly eaten something toxic and died. Chu Yu would never allow Mo Yi'er to take that risk.

  "This..." Mo Yier also hesitated, she didn't want to die either. "But we can drink water from hollow tree branches without any problem, this wood pulp should be fine too!"

  "That won't work either!" Chu Yan was extremely firm, not willing to let Mo Yi'er try even a little bit of danger because he couldn't afford to lose, Mo Yi'er was the only one, their most loved.

  "Alright!" Mo Yi'er furrowed her brow, her face stern as she stared at the wood pulp that was slowly seeping out. She was thinking about something. Everyone was quiet and still, not daring to disturb Mo Yi'er who was deep in thought. No one knew when it started, but Mo Yi'er had already become a person of equal importance to the tribe's leader, and no one dared to disturb her when she was thinking.

  Finally, Mo Yier thought of a way: "Let's try it out, and we'll know if it's poisonous in a moment."

  Mo Yi'er fetched a leaf that women used to hold water in the past, attached some wooden pulp to the hollow part of the tree, and then brought it in front of her two little rabbits. "Come drink water, sorry to let you be my experimental white mice." Mo Yi'er said with a smile, anyway these rabbits would eventually be eaten, if they died from poisoning, there was nothing to regret.

  These two rabbits have been raised for a period of time and are used to eating the wild vegetables and water that the tribe members bring, so when Mo Yi'er handed over the water, they jumped over and started drinking. At first, they drank slowly and elegantly, but later they became greedy and even directly bit the leaves into their mouths. Mo Yi'er hastily dropped the bitten leaves, and the rabbits even licked the wooden pulp on the leaves clean. She turned around to say to the tribe members: "Let's put the hollow tree with its opening facing up for now, we'll eat first, everyone is tired from a day of work, and we can decide what to do tomorrow."

  "Alright!" Chu Yan agreed, Mo Yier's method was good, he also wanted to know if the wooden pulp could be eaten. Although it was only a liquid-like substance, it was very thick and different from water!

  After dinner, Mo Yier went to see the rabbits. The two rabbits were still hopping around and seemed fine. But Mo Yier didn't dare to make a conclusion yet and needed to observe them for another night.

  Chu Yu and Fan Ge were not idle, and they took the stone saw to cut down another smaller tree at the bottom. The other tribesmen were eager to try, but there was only one stone saw, and none of them could use it. Some people even said that tomorrow they would go find a piece of stone and grind out a stone saw.

  The women had been busy all day and were now gathered around the fire, chattering away about the men. As they talked, they mentioned Mo Ye's silk clothes from today, which reminded Mo Ye that she had brought back a large batch of cocoons. It was time to teach the women how to weave clothes. The clothes made from silkworm threads weren't very good, and Mo Ye hoped they could come up with something better!