LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 33
Chapter 33: Chewing the Fern Tree in the Morning
After practicing a round, Chen B-Dog felt warmer. He was relieved that he had earned another point in proficiency. However, after LV4, it was too hard to level up just by depending on practice alone.
Eight Extreme Fist was a kind of martial art that emphasized internal strength and it was just one of the skills he possessed. It was very helpful to improve his body attribute and he had never used any skill points on this skill yet.
An idea crossed his mind and he had just used one skill point on the Eight Extreme Fist.
Eight Extreme Fist (A), LV5!
There was a lot of knowledge transferred into his mind and he understood more about the covert strength now. However, it seemed that his body attribute had not much of changes.
Indeed, there was no such thing as a free lunch. It was easy to level up the skill by using the skill points directly. However, at the same time, you would miss many things. It was difficult to feel the intuitive effect on the body’s attribute increment. He had to keep practicing with determination and worked hard to digest the slight outcome of this skill point. When he was able to digest it properly, his attribute point would be increased naturally.
In fact, this concept was applicable to other skills.
After all, this journey was long and full with restrictions. He had just started his journey and he could not slacken from now on.
Then he practiced the fist for two more rounds until his body felt warm. Only then did he stop. He already achieved a million worth of popularity in the live broadcast room now. It was very rare for a morning session.
“You guys are quite early. There are so many people here and I cannot face everyone without any makeup. It is too impolite. Allow me to wash up first before I present myself. I can wash my face with the underground spring water. There are also are many methods to remove tartar from the teeth.”
Chen B-Dog was already used to saying a greeting in front of the camera alone. He could handle it with ease. He continued, “In China, the first sanitary ware used to clean the teeth is the willow branch. It is probably during the late Tang Dynasty. People will soak the willow branch and when they were going to use it, they would bite the willow branch with their teeth. The fiber in the willow branch will protrude out just like a tiny wooden comb. It is a convenient toothbrush. That’s how the old saying ‘Chewing the Fern Tree in the Morning’ came about.”
“The economy was more prosperous in the Song dynasty and people were more demanding towards life. At that time, there was a substitute similar to toothpaste. The ancient people will cook the Tuckahoe and other herbs to make ancient toothpaste. They use it to rinse their mouth in the early morning. If they worry it is not clean enough, they will use the fingers to be the toothbrush which we use nowadays. Else, they would just use the willow branch I mentioned earlier and dip the ancient toothpaste to clean the tooth.”
“According to the ancient book record, during the Southern Song Dynasty there were shops in town that specialized in making and selling the toothbrush. At that time, the toothbrush was made by bone, horn, bamboo, wood, and other materials where they will drill two holes at one end and fix it with the horsetail. It is very similar to the modern toothbrush. There is also the halite in ancient times which uses the cloth, finger or the ancient toothbrush I mentioned which can be dipped to clean the teeth and rinse the mouth. However, my current condition is more primitive, I have to use a kind of charcoal to clean the tartar.”
He then picked up a charcoal from the ground and crushed it with his fingers to be the soot. Then he applied it on his tooth and brushed the teeth with his fingers. In an instant, the audience witnessed the clean and white teeth became black. The screen was full of laughing emojis. “I have screenshot your look.”
Chen B-Dog showed bitter face and said, “I am just full of theories. Actually, this is my first trial, it is not feeling good. Luckily the tartar was removed cleanly. Now, I only need to rinse my mouth with water a few more times. If you are lacking water, you could use your tongue to clean the charcoal in the mouth.”
“Guys, please do not laugh. It is said that there is a kind of makeup which was called black teeth that was popular in ancient times. Blacken the tooth for some kind of fashion. The aesthetic standards are puzzling but it may be good. Since it has been blackened once and for all, they don’t have to consider cleaning the tooth anymore.”
He washed his face again and took back the food that was hung outside last night.
After a night, whether the fish or the meat, both had frozen and become very hard. “This morning, I am going to grab some simple food before I continue my journey. Hmm… Let’s cook the fish soup.”
The audience felt imbalance again. “Damn, it is too early for the fresh fish soup. You are eating better than the nation’s President. Mr. President is only eating few buns.”
Chen B-Dog laughed and quickly defrosted the fish with the hot water in the pot. He skipped the cutting step and put in the whole fish in order to avoid the fish meat being separated. “Do you remember the traps I set last night? While waiting, we shall go and check. Let’s see if we have any harvests.”
He put on the hunting knife again and rushed into the jungle with high speed. There were many tracks of an animal along the way. “Everybody look at this. This is the footprint of a wolf and quite a number of them. It means that there were wolves passing by yesterday.”
It was not snowing last night. Under the high definition camera, the footprint on the snow was very clear. The tracks were thickly dotted.
Chen B-Dog could not help but felt scared. “It is actually not far from the tent and there are wolves passing by from here. Yet, I did not notice about this… I am really lucky.”
Unfortunately, the pits style baits trap he set did not get anything. However, Chen B-Dog did not give up. In total, he made three traps yesterday.
He rushed to the next bow and arrow trigger trap and was stunned by the view he saw. The location he set the trap was in mess. It seemed like some big size animals had stepped over it making the audience feel shocked. The jungle was dangerous indeed.
Chen B-Dog checked the footprint carefully and he spoke with the serious face, “Everybody, look at this. This is the footprint of a wild boar. According to the depth of the surrounding tracks and footprints, its weight is no lesser than 300 kilograms.”
“We are more familiar with the domestic pig. It is different with wild boar. They are normal yet unpredictable. Normally, the weight ranges are between 80 to 100 kilograms. They live in the forests of Asia, Europe, Africa and America and are not raised or trained by humans. Normally they do not come out at daytime in order to avoid humans. As the food in the jungles is not as sumptuous as eaten by the domestic pig, the wild boar grows slowly. To become this size, it must be a big, fierce wild boar. Certainly, this trap would not work on it. If this wild boar likes to rub the resin and roll on the mud, the arrow might not get into its skin.”
He took back the shoelace which he used for the trap and put it back on his shoes. Then he ran to the last rope style trap.
In fact, he did not hold much expectation but as he got nearer, he heard a crying sound. He was overjoyed.
And it created a wave of excitement in the live broadcast room.
“There is a prey. Something is shouting.”, “Wow, seriously? Hunt with the shoelace?”, “You are actually catching an animal.”, “Bravo.”…
Chen B-Dog came closer and found a fat snow rabbit. One of its legs was tied by the shoelace. It was struggling anxiously but was of no use. He quickly rushed up, covered the lens and used both his hands to give a sharp twist. The snow rabbit was motionless now.
He lifted the long ears of the rabbit and put them in front of the camera and could not help but smile. “Such a surprise. This rabbit is about 4 kilograms. It is enough for a few meals.”
The rabbit had the white fur. It was slender and thick with the fur on the side and abdomen being the longest. Its entire body was in white color which was thick and soft. The fur on the side was about 5 millimeter long. Only the tips of ear and eye circle were dark brown in color. It gave a warm feeling when touching it.
The audience cried, “Unlucky rabbit, why did you fall into B-Dog’s hand? And there was some kind audience kept sending the comments, “It is so cruel. Such a lovely rabbit and you are killing it.”, “What if the rabbit has a baby?”
Chen B-Dog chose to ignore these comments. He was becoming popular in a very short time. It took time for the audience to accept him. Neither the Virgin Mary nor the trolls would make any difference. He was not the Renminbi (The money currency of China). He could not make everyone to feel satisfied even he had done the best. So, he would just try his best to make himself comfortable.