Chapter 471 - 468 The Best Actress 35 Ji Moxue’s Reward for 10,000
Ning Shuangshuang laughed and said, "Picking dry firewood should be simple and not require picking it up from the ground. As the saying goes, ’a big tree has dead branches.’ In this mountain forest, no one prunes the leaves, so there are plenty of dead branches. Moreover, these dead branches on the trees are not on the ground, so they don’t absorb moisture. They’re very dry, easy to ignite, and produce less smoke. We just need to find some dead branches up in the big trees and pull them down."
Over there, Yu Yingjie was also pulling dead branches from trees with Qi Qing, who was a bit doubtful and said, "I heard that dead branches on trees can sometimes come back to life after a year. Isn’t pulling them down harming the trees?"
Yu Yingjie chuckled and said, "Don’t worry about that. These dead branches actually should be pruned anyway. For a tree to grow well, it needs pruning. As long as we don’t damage the tree’s bark, cutting off all the branches is fine. Pulling down some dead branches is actually beneficial to the trees."
In order to give Yun Chuching and Qi Qing a sense of participation and team spirit, Ning Shuangshuang and Yu Yingjie taught them how to handle the dead branches, leaving this task to Yun Chuching and Qi Qing to manage themselves, while Ning Shuangshuang and Yu Yingjie went to find rocks to build a small outdoor stove.
The stove needed to last for a full fifteen days, so Ning and Yu planned to make it sturdy. The two spent half a day by the riverside gathering a big pile of stones of similar size, then stacked them one by one, quickly assembling a decent-looking small outdoor stone stove.
Once the small stove was completed, Qi Qing and Yun Chuching eagerly came over carrying a huge pile of dried branches. The two had made several trips, collecting more than enough to last two or three days.
Ning Shuangshuang’s side of things was bustling yet orderly, while on Feng Zhipeng’s side, things weren’t going well. First of all, their catch from fishing wasn’t great; spearing fish with tree branches was much harder than using fish traps.
Previously, to ensure fairness, the show didn’t allow the two teams to make food at the same spot, the aim being to prevent one side from learning tricks from the other to pass challenges.
The all-male star group had no idea of Ning Shuangshuang’s success. After half a day of labor, spearing four fish with branches, the four were discussing how their haul was quite good and should be enough to trounce Ning Shuangshuang’s group!
Back at their camp, Lin Xichen and Jiang Mengchen were responsible for gathering dry wood, while Feng Zhipeng and He Bin were in charge of building a fire stove. However, the stove they made with He Bin wasn’t very neat or beautiful, just barely functional.
It was Lin Xichen and Jiang Mengchen, while gathering dry wood, who got lucky; they stumbled upon a dead giant tree, and, full of excitement, carried the whole thing back, huffing and puffing.
However, once they returned with the dead tree, they were dumbfounded! Without tools at hand, although they had a lot of firewood, they couldn’t use it at all. After wiping their faces, they resignedly continued to gather more dry wood under the bemused gazes of Feng Zhipeng and He Bin.
The two groups were unaware of each other’s situation, but the audience watching the live broadcast saw everything clearly, and soon all kinds of comments flooded in.