Traveling through ancient times to farm and build infrastructure

Chapter 339 Chapter 339

Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "The salt has been prepared a long time ago. Same as before, three complete animal skins can be exchanged for a bamboo tube of salt. You can also exchange it with dried meat. How much do you plan to exchange?"

"That's great!" the ram cheerfully took out what was used to exchange salt for salt from the back basket, "I'll exchange five sheep's jerky and three bamboo tubes for salt and salt hides."

After Yao Xiaoqing asked someone to count, he asked Chun'am to measure the salt to the ram with a bamboo tube.

The ram looked at the pure white salt in the bamboo tube and exclaimed, "Qing Wu, what is this? It's not salt."

"Chief ram, dip some in it and taste it, is it salt?" Yao Xiaoqing said while looking at him with a smile.

The ram dipped a little bit carefully and put it in his mouth, "It's so salty!" After a while, he nodded, "Hey! The taste is better than the previous one. The previous one is a bit bitter, but the white one is not bitter."

Only then did Yao Xiaoqing say: "Chief Gongyang, these salts have been refined, and a little bit is enough when eating."

Ram nodded happily, "Okay, I want this kind of salt."

He took out the leather bag and asked Chun Amu to put the salt into the bag.I feel strange in my heart, why are people from the Yaoshan tribe helping to exchange for the salty salt of the Wuxian tribe?As long as he can exchange for salt, he doesn't ask too much.

After the Yaoshan Great Fair opened, there were only a dozen or so tribes who came from afar.

After the reunion, they each told about the hardships of the past year after the earthquake.Some tribal leaders hugged their heads and cried when they were sad.

Yao Xiaoqing's nose felt sore, no matter which time and space he was in before the disaster, human beings would always be as small as ants.

A few days later, Yun'am told Yao Xiaoqing that some of the beans had grown white fluff.

Yao Xiaoqing took out the bamboo flats and found that some of them were not fermented well, and the mycelia that grew out were gray-black.

After digging out the gray-black mycelium and throwing it away, she poured the bean koji into a large tank that had been dried long ago, added salt water, and pressed down the bean koji so that it was completely submerged in the salt water.

Sprinkle a layer of salt on it, cover it with a layer of sackcloth, and expose it to the sun.

After soaking the bean koji.Yao Xiaoqing told Yun'am, "If you find that the weather is not right, quickly cover it with a cover, so as not to get caught in the rain."

Yun Amu nodded with a smile, "I know, it's the same as we post Douban."

Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "This one takes longer to dry. I'm afraid it won't be finished until late winter and early spring."

"Don't be afraid, let's put the lid on when it snows."

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Jiang Li, You Lu and the others had already reached the top of the mountain, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the men's bronze-colored skin, and Hei Ba neatly raised his spear to kill a long insect that spewed out a long bloody letter.

The warrior in the back is carrying a basket with dried meat inside.The weather was so hot that they dug a pit and buried only the meat, bones and internal organs.

When entering the mountain this time, in addition to catching prey, they also collected some food seeds that were not available on the opposite side.

Youlu, who was walking in front, found many cylindrical fruits covered with hairs on the vines in the forest.Picking one off at random, peeling off the fur, revealing the dark green flesh, the fruit exudes a sweet and sour fragrance.

You Lu swallowed, and stuffed it into his mouth, "Oh, it's delicious, it quenches your thirst!"

Seeing this, the other people picked up the vines and applauded after eating.

After Jiang Li ate it, he felt that the fruit was sweeter and slightly sour, a bit like the kiwi fruit he had eaten, but it was much bigger than the kiwi fruit.He estimates that the largest fruit is at least three or four in weight.

A lot of fruits have fallen from the dense vines, exuding a sour smell after fermentation.

You Lu ate seven or eight of them in one go before stopping, savoring the taste of the fruit, looking at Jiang Li, "This fruit is so delicious, let's get some seeds back."

Jiang Li nodded, looked at the pulp in his hand, and found that there were small brown seeds the size of millet grains on it, which he thought should be the seeds of the fruit.

"Pick some fruits, put them in the basket to dry and take them back."

Everyone collected some, and You Lu liked to pick a lot and put them in the back basket.Jiang Li also found some shriveled fruits to bring with him.

A group of people continued down the mountain to the canyon.

I saw that the vines at the bottom of the valley were full of the kind of fruit in the basket, and some unknown fruit trees were full of red, green and green fruits.

You Lu looked at the fruit on the vine and regretted walking so far with such a heavy load on his back.

Jiang Li also found a piece of wild grapes, thinking that he would definitely bring Yao Xiaoqing to see it next year, thinking she would like it.

Everyone went to the place where they hunted last time, and found that the wooden fence was already covered with vines.

Heiba ​​and a dozen warriors held long wooden sticks, knocked on the lush vines, and opened the gate.The fence gate fell to the ground.

Jiang Li remembered the rice that Yao Xiaoqing had mentioned, and decided to go to the south of the canyon after the hunting was over.

Everyone packed up the campsite, leaving the night watchmen to go to bed early.

The next day, hunting started early in the morning, and everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that there were still so many wild animals in the canyon, and they were even fatter than last time.

After the hunting was over, the warriors spread the peeled off complete animal skins on the ground, scraped off the flesh and blood on them, smeared grease and plant ash on them, and put them aside.

Dried meat is sprinkled with salt and baked on stone slabs.The valley exudes bursts of meaty fragrance.

You Lu thinks it is more comfortable to hunt in winter, without fumigation of mosquitoes, roasting of jerky, or tanned animal hides, and they are dragged back to the back basket and buried in snowdrifts to eat slowly.

Muba picked up a piece of roe deer meat and glanced at him, "Wild animals in winter are not as fat as autumn."

Leopard nodded, "I also think that wild animal meat is the best in autumn, and it will be fat and oily in one bite."

Jiang Li put the dried meat into the basket, and said to several people: "I'm going to take a dozen people and go to the south to see if there are any other seeds? Come back tomorrow afternoon at the latest."

Leopard nodded, "There are fierce beasts in the canyon, you have to be careful."

"Don't worry." Jiang Li replied with a smile.

At daybreak, Jiang Li took Heiba ​​and the others to the south of the canyon, but they couldn't find the rice that Yao Xiaoqing mentioned.

But on a hillside, I found a piece of wild grass with branches as high as four or five feet. On the nodes of the stems, there are white hairs like wax gourds.

I broke off one and rubbed it a few times, revealing the yellowish fruit inside, which is larger than a millet grain.

Jiang Li felt that it was a bit like the Shushu planted in Zhuangzi, but he was not sure, so he took Heiba ​​and the others to pick all the weed ears and put them in the basket.

Going forward, everyone heard a roar of water, following the sound, they came to a cliff, and saw white horses pouring from the top of the mountain and falling into the deep green pool.

Everyone stood on the high cliff under the cliff, listening to the sound of roaring water, a gust of wind blowing, the water mist was blown up by the wind, and a chill hit the face.

(End of this chapter)