Chapter 109 - Extracting Oil (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Bai Qingqing picked up a clean willow branch and smiled at Parker with her brow raised. “I naturally have my use for it. Come and give me a hand.”

She placed the willow branch into the trough, then asked the dazed Parker to place the round stone onto it.

The heavy stone instantly flattened the firewood and a green-colored oil was forced out of it, wetting wood trough.

Parker widened his leopard eyes.

Bai Qingqing was overjoyed. “Ah! I’ve succeeded!”

She had come up with this idea by referencing a sugarcane juice machine. Before she completed it, she couldn’t be certain it would work either. After all, the sugar cane had much higher water content than tree branches, and it was also much less tough. Hence, she didn’t know if she could squeeze the liquid out of the tree branches.

Thankfully, the stone was heavy enough and managed to flatten the tree branches.

The two of them excitedly rolled the round stone to crush the tree branch. The oil slowly dripped out of the tree branches through the trough and finally into the stone basin.

When Cortis returned, the two of them had already extracted a basin full of oil. There was much less firewood in the house now. Instead, there was now a pile of firewood residue outside.

He glanced at Bai Qingqing in surprise, then set down the firewood and went out again.

There was a high level of water content in this oil. Given time to settle down, the oil would be separated from the water; as oil was lighter than water, there was now a thick layer of green oil on top.

Bai Qingqing scooped out the oil using a stone bowl. When she was done scooping out the oil, the stone basin was more than half-filled with green-colored water.

With so much water in this, it was little wonder that every time it was dripped into the pot, it resulted in splattering.

The more Parker looked, the more impressed he felt. He poured the pure oil into a piece bamboo and sealed it, a look of disbelief in his eyes. He said with a sigh, “Ape beastmen are indeed intelligent.”

“Hur hur…” Bai Qingqing was embarrassed by the compliment. She shrugged her shoulders and said with a smile, “Because I’m a foodie.”