Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder Suddenly Made a Comeback!
Chapter 496: Hot Pot Tonight!

Chapter 496: Chapter 496: Hot Pot Tonight!

"This woman is way too fierce, yelling at our Wenwen like that."

"Right, with such a temper, no wonder nobody likes her."

"??? Did all of Su Yinwan’s fans get their heads smashed in a door? She was clearly the first one to sit on someone else’s bed without manners."

"+1, I’d really freak out if a stranger just sat on my bed."

Su Yinwan’s pity party was quite a success, successfully garnering her fans’ sympathy.

But it failed to move Shang Shuyue even slightly; it even annoyed her.

One Nina left, and now another one shows up, huh?

And from what she just said, does she plan on staying here?

Shang Shuyue angrily glanced at Jiang Li.

Jiang Li calmly shifted his gaze and began sipping the chrysanthemum tea he had prepared.

He had forgotten, this girl was still fixated on Jiang Yan.

"These two are from Team L, they came here to negotiate terms for the rights to use the water pool..."

Shang Shuyue became even angrier, "And you just welcomed them in like that? And let them sit on my bed so casually? And drink the wild chrysanthemum brought by Dean Yu? You, as a team leader—"

"They offered a thousand points."

Shang Shuyue immediately shut her mouth.

Holy crap, a thousand points?!

She couldn’t earn that many points in ten days of digging wild vegetables!

She quickly checked her watch and, seeing her team indeed had a thousand more points, her entire demeanor softened.

"Well then, it’s fine, drink up, have a seat."

As long as there were points, anything goes.

"It’s getting late." Jiang Li stood up, effectively issuing an eviction order, "President Shang, you’d better hurry back and set up your tent or something."

With words like those, Shang Shaojing naturally wouldn’t linger any longer and promptly left the cave.

Su Yinwan was somewhat reluctant, but at least the place was secured. With the green hills still there, there’s no fear of running out of firewood. She could take her time.

Seeing that the visitors had left, Shang Shuyue excitedly approached Jiang Li.

"What do you plan to do with those thousand points?"

Jiang Li pondered for a moment, "Everyone’s been pretty tired lately, so let’s use half to have a good meal."

Shang Shuyue was shocked, "You can’t be serious, what kind of meal costs five hundred points?"

Jiang Li responded with a smile, "Don’t you want to eat hot pot?"

Shang Shuyue: !!!

Bai Lu’s eyes instantly lit up, "What? Hot pot? Can we actually have hot pot here?!"

Once Jiang Li mentioned it, everyone’s taste buds were activated, and they could almost taste the spicy beef tallow.

Even Yu Li who arrived later nodded in agreement over and over.

"Hot pot does sound great."

The recent humidity has been excessive, and the weather scorching—hot pot would be perfect to dispel the dampness.

However, with limited resources, it was uncertain what kind of hot pot they could have.

"Wait a minute." Bai Lu had a delayed realization, "We’ve run out of everything to start a fire with, and a fire stick costs five hundred points. Can we really afford to have hot pot?"

Not to mention, the prices for fresh ingredients weren’t cheap, either.

The group instantly plummeted into a slump again.

Jiang Li clapped her hands, "Solutions are created by people, and since I said we’re having hot pot, we definitely will."

With that, she walked outside.

The cotton and sweet potato leaves that had been sun-dried all day were now bone dry, lying limp on the ground.

Jiang Li gathered them up, found a flat stone, and began to rub them slowly, continually mixing in powders like resin and sulfur until she had formed a rope-like shape.

Then, she took a previously prepared bamboo tube, stuffed the cotton rope inside, lit it on fire, and quickly covered it with a lid.

"Okay, the ’lighter’ is ready."

Shang Shuyue looked at the black object in her hand, completely confused, "What kind of lighter is that?"

Jiang Li didn’t respond, but simply opened the lid and blew on it. The flame reignited vigorously, even more so than a regular lighter.

Bai Lu clapped her hands in amazement, "Isn’t this the fire striker from period dramas?! Jiang Li, you actually made it!"

"It is indeed a fire striker." Jiang Li covered it with the lid again and passed it to Bai Lu, "Now we have fire for the hot pot tonight, right?"

Shang Shuyue was flabbergasted and then, feeling annoyed, hit herself on the head.

She had actually forgotten about this!

Yes, although one can’t make a lighter in the wild, a fire striker is essentially the same kind of device!

Damn it, she was going to have to cook for another day!

Only Jiang Yan looked at the object in Bai Lu’s hand with fresh curiosity.

"What’s a fire striker?"

Bai Lu: "..."

She’d better not talk to a fool.

She couldn’t remember her lines anyway.

But, unexpectedly, Shang Shuyue, who was usually short-tempered, patiently explained it.

"A fire striker is a kindling device. Its principle is ’reignition,’ a physics concept, which means that something that has been burning will enter a half-burnt, half-extinguished state due to lack of oxygen. When it encounters oxygen again, it will reignite. So when using it, just remove the lid and blow on it, and the fire will start. When not in use, cover it with the lid to cut off the oxygen, leaving it in a semi-burning state, which allows it to be used continuously."

Jiang Yan: It seems like I understand, yet I don’t, my ears understand, but my head hurts a bit.

[Wow, Jiang Li is so awesome, she actually made a fire striker?!]

[666 I thought she was just boasting, but she really has some skills.]

[Just finding those materials is impressive, she’s really skilled.]

[Totally crushing on her intelligence, Hua University is indeed different!]

Seeing this scene, the director, Zheng Xun, almost fainted.

His plan was to use this opportunity to put Jiang Li in her place, to make her bow down, but she didn’t play along and managed to solve the fire-making problem on her own.

Making furniture and fire strikers, he was really curious whether this woman had always lived in a primitive society?

With a fire-making tool at their disposal, the enthusiasm of the group rose considerably, with Bai Lu even enjoying the fire-starting process a bit more.

Jiang Li wasn’t idle either, exchanging 500 points for a bunch of food.

As dusk fell, a small fire gradually began to burn outside the cave.

It was only then that Shang Shaojing and his group managed to set up their tent.

To assert her status and to keep a better eye on Jiang Li and her group, Su Yinwan specifically suggested they camp above Jiang Li’s cave.

The spot was indeed windy but had a broad view and more space, making it more comfortable.

Zhuola had no objections, since she too was keen to observe this woman named Jiang Li.

Jiang Cheng had even less to say, being above that female devil meant he was less likely to be spotted.

Ren Yuegeng had no complaints either; at that moment, all he wanted was to quickly set up his tent and get a good night’s sleep.

Little did he know his real test was yet to come—