Jiang Ning was unaware of the risk that her past experiences might be dug up. After she had prepared the rooster, she placed it on the previously cleaned perilla leaves.
The wild ginger and thyme that Nong Chun had just dug up were cleaned and set aside. Jiang Ning used her knife to chop them finely and, along with other seasonings, evenly rubbed them on the rooster, giving it a thorough massage inside and out. Then she wrapped the chicken in more than ten perilla leaves, securing it tightly with vines, making it look very much like a large, irregular rice dumpling.
While Jiang Ning was busy, Nong Chun was equally engaged.
Seeing the perilla leaves, he guessed Jiang Ning might be using a method similar to "beggar’s chicken," so after washing the wild ginger and thyme, Nong Chun proactively mixed some sticky wet mud together.
Jiang Ning coated this wet mud around the exterior of the perilla leaves to act as insulation and protection.
Once the ingredients were ready, the two found a spot nearby and dug a small pit in which to place the "beggar’s chicken." They gathered some firewood from the vicinity and quickly started a fire, and Jiang Ning also put her metal water bottle filled with water on the fire.
Leaving the fire tending to Nong Chun, Jiang Ning, holding her Survival Knife, walked upstream along the creek.
She noticed a clump of lush bamboos growing by the stream and instantly thought of the items that could be made from bamboo: chopsticks, bowls, and bamboo tubes.
Jiang Ning wanted to make bamboo tubes.
That way, when she returned, she could carry back more water.
No sooner said than done.
Jiang Ning began to work earnestly.
[Ah? What is she doing?]
[Oh... She’s going to cut bamboo]
[I can’t help but laugh, Jiang Ning seems to have been busy ever since she woke up]
[You can make a lot of things from bamboo, what is she planning to do?]
[Jiang Ning chose her Survival Knives and daggers well, the short ones for self-defense and the longer ones for cutting bamboo]
[Her movements and posture when cutting bamboo are as clean and efficient as ever]
[Hopeless, I actually find it relaxing to watch her cut bamboo]
The bamboo was hollow inside, and it didn’t take Jiang Ning much time to cut it down. She trimmed off the excess branches, kept the sections she needed, and began making bamboo tubes.
The staff of the "Survive for 30 Days" show had been silently monitoring the live broadcast data back at the company.
Ever since the variety show made the trending list the previous afternoon, countless viewers had been drawn in; "Survive for 30 Days" had only been live for a day and had already broken the record for viewer numbers in a live broadcast on Douyin.
The audience that was drawn in was mostly attracted by the hot keywords "virtual variety" and "the guests in the live broadcast don’t know they are being streamed live."
These new viewers were fans of the program itself, not specifically of any guest, so their preferences were clear: they would stay in the live broadcast room that had the most interesting content.
And the staff responsible for data analytics discovered that, apart from a surge in viewer numbers for live broadcasts by Ling Bo, Huo Miao, and others during last night’s downpour, starting from this morning, the numbers in Jiang Ning and Nong Chun’s live broadcast had been steadily climbing as they went from morning clam digging to the present, while the live broadcasts of Ling Bo, Huo Miao, and others had been experiencing a significant loss of viewers, indicating a clear difference.
After waking up early, Jiang Ning and Nong Chun went to the seaside to collect seafood, Nong Chun prepared breakfast, Jiang Ning thoroughly defeated Mu Mingxuan, they ventured into the forest, Jiang Ning threw a dagger to hit a poisonous snake, Jiang Ning caught a chicken with her bare hands...
In just half a day, Jiang Ning and Nong Chun had done a lot of activities.
In contrast, Ling Bo, Huo Miao, and others were still cleaning up their mess, and quite a few were starting to elicit some annoyance from viewers... The quality of their live content was clearly no match for Jiang Ning’s.
The staff reported this issue to Shen Zha and Chen Yan.
Shen Zha was surprised, "It’s only been a day, and Jiang Ning has the most viewers coming to watch her? Don’t Ling Bo and Huo Miao’s live broadcasts have five celebrities? Can’t five celebrities outshine an unknown with a scandalous past?"
The employee laid out the data in front of Shen Zha.
Shen Zha was flabbergasted.
Chen Yan picked up the thin report sheet, looked at it, and curved his lips in amusement, "The Huo Family is making quite a stir, saying on one hand they want to drop out of the program, and on the other, they are secretly paying for fake engagement."
"The Mu Family is also furious. Right after Mu Mingxuan got beaten up by Jiang Ning on the show, they immediately made a call to the old man. What does Mu Mingxuan getting beaten up in the show have anything to do with our program?" Shen Zha rolled his eyes.