He cursed at the system in his heart and then happily studied the system mission.
The task of " filling the granary " required Zhou Ye to store 300 catties of food that could last for more than three months.
The key to this mission wasn't the 300 catties of food. Zhou Ye didn't have any pressure to get 300 catties of food. There were plenty of fish in the sea.
As long as he worked hard, he could obtain these 300 catties of food in a very short period of time.
The key was how to keep the food for more than three months. If it was smoked like this, the smoked fish would not last for three months.
The humidity by the sea was quite serious, and the temperature was also relatively high. A simple smoking like this could only preserve it for ten days to half a month at most.
The only way to preserve the fish for more than three months was to marinate it and then smoke it.
This was the only way to preserve the fish for more than three months. However, Zhou Ye didn't have any salt to preserve the fish.
"Squeak squeak…"
Wu Kong saw that Zhou Ye suddenly fell silent. He woke Zhou Ye up anxiously.
"Alright, alright, I'm fine. I'm just thinking about something."
Zhou Ye comforted Wukong and placed the palm leaf back into the fire. He made the smoke bigger and continued to smoke the remaining fish.
"Squeak squeak…"
Wu Kong pointed at the thick smoke rising from the fire and asked Zhou Ye in confusion.
"This isn't for you to eat. Moreover, this smoked fish can't be eaten now. It's not cooked at all.”
Zhou Ye explained to the greedy Wukong. Although it was fine to eat the fish raw, he had just thrown away a few rotten fish today.
Zhou Ye couldn't guarantee that the remaining fish wasn't rotten. Although he didn't smell anything strange, it was better to cook it for safety's sake.
"Squeak squeak…"
Wu Kong saw that Zhou Ye kept smoking the fish but didn't cook it. He was very puzzled and asked Zhou Ye why he did that.
"Why don't you cook it well? How should he put this? This was smoked in order to preserve it for a few more days. When he wanted to eat it, he could just roast it.”
Zhou Ye began to explain to Wukong when he heard Wukong's question.
He explained to Wukong that because of the hot weather, the fish were not easy to preserve. They had to be smoked to preserve them for a few more days.
However, Wukong didn't understand. It kept squeaking and scolding Zhou Ye for wasting food. The fish that were thrown away were kept intact and didn't rot at all.
Zhou Ye didn't want to spoil Wukong when he saw Wukong rebuking him. He wanted to make Wukong completely convinced. After all, this monkey was wild and difficult to train.
If he couldn't explain it clearly to the monkey, the monkey would definitely make a fuss.
"You silly monkey, the fish that I threw away earlier are already rotten and inedible. Although the appearance of those fish hasn't changed much, the meat has already rotted. It's full of harmful bacteria.”
Zhou Ye was afraid that Wukong wouldn't understand what bacteria were, so he explained to Wukong about the dangers of bacteria.
These words made Zhou Ye's mouth dry. He grabbed the cold water and drank it.
Wukong was a little confused by Zhou Ye's explanation. However, he understood the basic dangers. However, what did this have to do with Zhou Ye smoking the fish?
Zhou Ye was speechless when he heard Wukong's question. He felt like he was playing the lute to a cow. He had been talking for a long time, but this stupid monkey was still wondering why he didn't roast the fish for it.
"I told you, smoking is to keep the fish for a few more days. The meat of the smoked fish is not easy to breed bacteria.
Moreover, some of the water in the fish would evaporate, and the environment where bacteria grew would be destroyed. This made it easier to preserve the fish.”
In the end, Zhou Ye was really helpless. He could only say firmly,
"You just have to remember that if you want the fish to last longer, you have to smoke it.”
However, did Wukong understand Zhou Ye's words? He did not know.
In any case, everyone in the live broadcast hall felt awkward. They had been complaining for a long time, thinking that Zhou Ye's brain was broken and that he was playing with smoked fish. In the end, the clown was actually them.
In order to preserve the food better, people smoked the fish.
"Professor Chen, can smoked fish really be preserved?”
The host, Qian Hao, looked at Professor Chen with confusion in his eyes. Rotting meat was a natural phenomenon. Other than preserving it at low temperatures, he really could not think of a way to preserve it by smoking.
In this technologically advanced world, there were plenty of resources. Humans no longer had to worry about food. Because there was plenty of food, humans ate fresh food and did not need to store it.
Therefore, in the current human society, there was no habit of storing food at all. If they had the time to think of various ways to store food, it would be better to eat high-energy food directly.
When Professor Chen heard Qian Hao's question, he thought about it seriously.
"Actually, from a scientific point of view, smoking meat can indeed preserve it. After smoking the meat, a lot of the water inside would evaporate, making the meat dehydrated.
In this way, the bacteria would not be able to reproduce easily, and the speed of meat decay would be greatly reduced. Moreover, after the meat was smoked, some carbon would be attached to the surface of the meat, which would further suppress the decay.”
Following Professor Chen's explanation, everyone finally understood the scientific principles behind it.
Zhou Ye didn't know that his simple action of smoking the fish would be interpreted by the people in the live broadcast hall. They actually interpreted his actions through various scientific principles.
If Zhou Ye knew about this, he would definitely scoff at Professor Chen and the others. How could a simple smoked fish be interpreted like this?
After smoking the fish, he hung the smoked fish on the beam again.
Zhou Ye started chopping wood again. After chopping more than a hundred kilograms of wood, he started burning charcoal again.
He sealed the fire again and let the wood inside carbonize.
After using up all the clay he had brought back, Zhou Ye let the wood cool down on its own. He carried the rattan basket and walked towards the small mound again.
The clay that he brought back in the morning was only enough to make charcoal twice. Zhou Ye lit two bonfires at once and the clay that he brought back was used up.
In order to gather enough charcoal to make the pottery basin as soon as possible, Zhou Ye had to increase the speed of making charcoal. Originally, he had only made the pots to improve his diet.
Now that the system had issued a mission to store food, Zhou Ye had to boil the sea salt. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to complete the system's mission.
When he arrived at the small mound again, Zhou Ye began to dig the soil. Just as Zhou Ye was busy, he heard a sound coming from the dismantled bushes beside the mound.
When he heard the sound, Zhou Ye immediately stopped digging. He picked up the stone spear beside him and started to be alert.
All kinds of dangers could appear in the wild. Even the slightest sound had to be maintained with enough vigilance.
Zhou Ye held the stone spear and stared at the thicket that was making a sound.
As time passed, the noise became louder and louder. Judging from the sound, it must be a noise that only large animals could make.
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