Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 205 Happy Lantern Festival!

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The smoothie was made successfully, since it wasn't difficult to make.

The only thing Ge couldn't understand was—"Why don't we just eat the jam?"

Ge couldn't understand the pleasure of eating "ice".

"Uh... what if it's very hot?" Jiang Luoluo asked back.

“That must be very cold.” Go thought for a moment and nodded. “But it’s very cold now, Luo.”

Jiang Luoluo shrugged, "Because when it's hot, it can't freeze into ice... Hmm, wait a minute?"

"It doesn't seem like it's impossible." Jiang Luolu recalled that she had seen it in a TV series, and it seemed that saltpeter and water were all that was needed.

When saltpeter dissolves in water, it absorbs a lot of heat, causing the water temperature to drop continuously until it eventually freezes.

Why do I say I didn't see it in a textbook... Haha, I've long forgotten what's in the book. Simple words are nowhere near as memorable as images.

Jiang Luoluo put down the half-eaten shaved ice in her hand and started thinking. What does saltpeter look like again?

Oh no, I have absolutely no idea what raw saltpeter is. Even if I saw saltpeter, I probably wouldn't recognize it!

Jiang Luoluo revealed a serious expression, and it was clear at a glance that she was pondering some serious problem.

Ge glanced at the shaved ice in Jiang Luoluo's hand that was about to melt, worried that it would taste bad later, so he took it from her. "Luo, aren't you going to eat it? Then I'll eat it for you."

Jiang Luoluo did not react, still immersed in her own thoughts.

If she really couldn't recognize saltpeter, was it possible to make it herself? Jiang Luoluo tried her best to recall.

Surprisingly, it actually reminded her of something.

Aha! Sometimes you see white crystals on the walls of outhouses in rural areas—that's saltpeter...? Wait, not that!

Jiang Luoluo suddenly slammed her fist down, her face contorted in pain. She was trying to recall the chemical formula for saltpeter, not this one!

Although this method seems simpler and more direct, chemistry teacher, please love me one more time! I'll definitely memorize it well this time.

After some time, Jiang Luoluo looked at Ge dejectedly.

"What's wrong?" Ge asked, a little confused. "I just ate the smoothie... Luo, do you want some more? I'll go out and get you some more?"

"It's not that... um, it's just..." Jiang Luoluo looked embarrassed and awkward.

Where do the excrement in the tribe usually accumulate?

There are no public toilets in the tribe. On a daily basis, people usually relieve themselves in the grass near their own caves. Because Silver Peak Mountain is very large, there is no overlap between the households, which is equivalent to a fixed "private toilet".

As for whether these private toilets are clean or not...

The tribe regularly conducts clean-up operations, just like the plant vines that are often cleared from the small rocky hill, and then they are collected and buried in a designated location.

Jiang Luoluo asked Ge about the location for unified burial and disposal.

The area around Silver Peak Mountain, especially the direction facing the Taz Forest, is not purely muddy. Not to mention the stone content of the ground itself, there are also scattered stones that have been brought back by the tribe from other places over the years.

Over the years, it has long since merged with the ground and become an integral part of it.

Given that the place where the excrement was buried would likely have plenty of stones, if there really was saltpeter, it would probably be on the stones, which would be quite easy to extract.

"Luo can't go." Jiang Luoluo had already prepared herself mentally, but she didn't expect Ge to give such a cruel answer.

"Why?" Jiang Luoluo asked unwillingly.

"Because it's down at the foot of the mountain," Ge replied innocently. The cubs were not allowed to leave Silver Peak Mountain.

Jiang Luoluo lowered her head in disappointment. The solution she had finally come up with could not be completed because she was a cub. How annoying!

"But what does Luo want to do?" Ge asked, puzzled.

What exactly is it that needs to go to... the place where the excrement is placed to do this?

Is it food too...?

Meeting Ge's somewhat strange gaze, Jiang Luoluo quickly explained, "It's ice! Ice!"

Jiang Luoluo explained what saltpeter is and its uses, "So that we can have some cool ice when it's hot!"

Then, Jiang Luoluo's tone became dejected again, "But I don't know what saltpeter looks like, I only know that it might be found... well, near a large amount of excrement."

"White, like snow-like crystals."

Go scratched his head. "But Luo, even if we could go now, we probably wouldn't be able to find it."

Jiang Luoluo tilted her head in confusion, "?"

Ge pointed to the outside temperature, where a layer of ice had already formed, and asked, "It's so cold outside, how can you tell if those are frost or the saltpeter you mentioned, Luo?"

Jiang Luoluo's eyes widened suddenly... Right, right, the weather is so cold now, it's either frost or ice outside, finding saltpeter in this kind of environment is just a dream.

"Then we can only wait until the snow season ends and the weather warms up before we can talk about it again," Jiang Luoluo sighed.

After thinking for a moment, Go thought, "How about we ask the tribesmen who mine ore if they've seen similar stones?"

The stuff collected from next to the excrement was used to make ice... Thinking of the jam smoothie he had just eaten, Go sincerely hoped that the cub would give up this terrible idea.

Jiang Luoluo didn't know what Ge was thinking, but she thought the suggestion was good, and she didn't have any other plans for the day.

But who should I turn to?

Go was also confused because he was in a hunting team and was too young to know many of his tribesmen, let alone the mining team, which he rarely came into contact with.

Compared to hunting teams that would be out for ten days or half a month at a time, mining teams were the most hardworking, because they might be gone for several months at a time.

Even if it's shorter, it's still basically at least a month.

Because the mined ore had to be carried back manually throughout the entire process, the members of the mining team were not necessarily the best fighters, but they were definitely the strongest.

"I've got it!" Jiang Luoluo's eyes lit up. "Let's go find Zhuang!"