Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 87 Setting up Control Group Conditions

The three of them each did their own thing, without affecting each other, and it was quite harmonious.

Jiang Luoluo first categorized the fruits according to their type, then selected the juicies with the richest and most concentrated juices as the main choices for making fruit wine.

Then, the winemaking containers are divided into two groups. One group is used to make fruit wine, which uses overripe fruits, some of which are so ripe that they can be smelled of fermentation and look like they are about to rot. The other group is made from normally ripe fruits.

The other type is completely normal, healthy fruit, which is manually chopped and crushed before being added in. This is used to distinguish and determine how the fruit should be processed for winemaking.

Is it natural fermentation, or is the reaction accelerated artificially?

The main reason is that Jiang Luoluo has never brewed wine before and is not very clear about the precautions for each step of the brewing process, so she can only use some of her impressions as conditions.

Try brewing using various methods, relying on the most primitive methods to discover a truly useful brewing process.

After distinguishing between these two basic parts, the remaining task is to break down the details one by one.

For example, do the fruits used for winemaking need to be cooked, or can they be soaked directly in cold water?

Although Jiang Luoluo did not recall the step of cooking the food thoroughly, she could not be sure whether it was truly absent or simply something that was not mentioned and she subconsciously overlooked.

So there were two separate wooden jars on either side, each containing fruit that had been cooked in hot water, but unlike jam, it wasn't cooked until it was soft and mushy.

Jiang Luoluo then made different distinctions in sugar content within the allowable range of containers and fruit quantity. For example, she added nearly half the amount of water puff juice to one of the jars of fruit wine to adjust the sweetness and sugar content of the fruit wine.

The remaining bottles were reduced in proportion to different amounts.

This way, once the wine is actually brewed, Jiang Luoluo will be able to distinguish which ratio is the most suitable and how much alcohol can be produced from different sugar contents.

Jiang Luoluo couldn't possibly finish all the work in one afternoon; she had only carved words on half of the wooden container—not even counting the new wooden barrels that would be delivered in a few days.

At this moment, Jiang Luoluo couldn't help but feel fortunate that she had the memories of the previous world, that she could use simplified Chinese characters to describe things, and even that she could use some English letters or abbreviations of words to replace the meaning of the whole word.

It won't be confusing at all; on the contrary, it will be simpler and clearer.

If Jiang Luoluo were to use the script passed down in the tribe to inscribe and write, she might spend the entire day struggling with a wooden container.

Jiang Luoluo had seen the script passed down by the tribe. It was based on pictographs, but with added details that made it more complex.

A single word is equivalent to depicting a whole picture.

For example, the character for "house" in the tribal script is written by first depicting the shape of a whole wooden house, including windows, wooden doors, and even a faint human figure inside the windows, to indicate that this is a house where people live.

For example, the character "洞" (dong) in "山洞" (shandong, cave) is an arc shape of an entire cave, with human figures and various common object shapes added to it.

—Given the complexity of the text, some details can be freely altered.

For example, you can draw more little people inside the character for "house" (房), and add wild animals to the character for "cave" (洞)...

Of course, some simple characters still exist in the tribal script, but they are no longer commonly used.

Therefore, compared to the script passed down in the tribe, the script Jiang Luoluo used from her previous world was as simple as symbols that a child might scribble.

It wouldn't even arouse suspicion in the tribe. No one would think that the "S" shape could represent a clear word meaning, nor would they think that Jiang Luoluo could recognize characters.

They would only think that Jiang Luoluo had drawn some of her own markings on it.

This is something that people in the tribe often do, since not everyone can remember such complex font shapes; most of them are illiterate and have never been taught.

Moreover, when hunting, there isn't much time to have someone carve a bunch of complete characters to express meaning. The symbols used for communication should be as simple and quick as possible, as long as they can be understood.

Jiang Luoluo was very skeptical about the accuracy of the scripts passed down in those tribes. She always felt that some of the scripts had been reverse-optimized by the tribes over the past 1,500 years.

Making a simple font more complex has the advantage of making it more vivid and easier for people to understand. They may not be able to write it, but they can recognize its meaning just by looking at it.

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Mao and Chi returned briefly, bringing back some sour fruits that met Jiang Luoluo's requirements. Before Jiang Luoluo could even examine them, the two of them rushed off to the Taz Forest to continue their search.

In Chi's own words, the next few sunny days might be her last chance to go out and find fruit. She had to take advantage of this time to find all the fruit she could find, otherwise she wouldn't be able to go to the Taz Forest when the rainy season truly began.

Jiang Luoluo found it strange. A few days ago, it rained so heavily, but Chi was still able to come and go freely in the Taz Forest. Why couldn't he go out after the rainy season started? Is there anything special about the rain during the rainy season?

Jiang Luoluo naturally expressed this question to her two friends.

The little boy Zhuang said naturally, "During the rainy season, you can't go out. It's so boring to stay at home."

The most terrifying thing was that his parents were also at home at that time, and he had to be very careful to avoid being beaten every day. Just thinking about it is painful.

The little girl was pleased to learn that Jiang Luoluo had no memories of the past and understood Jiang Luoluo's confusion. She realized that it was impossible to imagine things that she had never seen before, but she couldn't figure out how to explain it to Jiang Luoluo.

He could only comfort Jiang Luoluo, "Luo, it's okay. You'll understand why once the rainy season starts."