Brother Xiaoshi saw Gongliang holding a cage to catch fish in the water. They were curious and swam to him. When they saw the fish in the cage, they immediately became interested and rushed to catch the fish. Gongliang had no choice but to do it. He had no choice but to give the fish cages to the two brothers, and he went ashore to ask Shanteng to make two new fish cages.
There is no skill in weaving fish cages. It is nothing more than pressing the vines horizontally and vertically, and weaving them together. The difference is that the things made by people with good skills will be more beautiful, and the things made by poor people will be more ugly, such as the things made by Gongliang himself.
After weaving two fish traps, Gongliang saw that the mountain vines here were tough and had thin branches, so he cut some of them and planned to take them back to weave some household items.
This makeshift fish cage is a disposable item and can easily rot. If it is really to be made into something for home use, it would require a whole set of processes, such as drying, peeling, oiling, etc., so that it can be stored for a long time. Even a rural person born in the 1980s like him still knows some of the craftsmanship of the older generation. If it were the current urbanites who do not distinguish between grains and are not diligent, they would probably starve to death here, let alone enjoy life like him. Already.
After cutting down some mountain vines, Gongliang suddenly saw that the leaves of the mountain vines under a cliff not far away looked a bit like the rat melons in his hometown.
The rat melon is also called mountain potato. It is a kind of medicinal material that can be used to clear away heat, detoxify and remove internal heat. Because it is small, the largest one is only two fingers thick, so it is called rat melon. That thing is the rhizome of a vine plant. It is rich in starch and tastes similar to sweet potatoes, but it is not sweet and has very thick fiber.
Looking at the mountain vine that looked similar to the leaves of a mouse melon, Gongliang walked over. After a closer look, it was not necessarily the case that this thing looked like a mouse melon, because the mountain vine was tall and not as small as the mouse melon vine, but no matter Anyway, you have to dig it up to find out whether this thing is a rat melon.
So, he found a branch from the side and dug up the root of the mountain vine.
The soil beside the cliff was soft and fertile. After digging for only a while, Gongliang saw the rhizome of the mountain vine and immediately started digging harder.
Brother Xiao Shi, who was fishing in the water, saw him digging on the edge of the cliff and ran over to take a look out of curiosity.
After digging for a while, the rhizome at the bottom of the mountain vine revealed its original shape, and he saw a nest of more than a dozen large and small rhizomes lying there. He was stunned. Was this the same rat melon he had seen before? This was obviously better than what he had seen before. Big sweet potatoes are still bigger than they used to be.
Xiao Shi saw the dug rat melon and said, "A Liang, why did you dig this thing? It's not delicious."
Gong Liang was surprised and said: "Have you eaten it?"
"I've eaten it before. My dad dug it before. It's pink, thick, and not sweet at all. I won't even eat the pebbles."
Xiao Xiaoshi has always had a good appetite, and it is rare that he doesn't like to eat something. It seems that the taste of this rat melon is really not that good.
Gongliang didn't care what the taste of this thing was, so he immediately dug out all the rat melons, washed them in water, and then cut a small piece and tasted it. The taste was the same as the rat melons he had seen before. It seemed that it was real. .I really didn’t expect that the rat melon here is so big. With its current size, it is no longer appropriate to call it rat melon. From now on, it will be called yam!
After cleaning up the sweet potatoes, Gongliang and his brother Xiaoshi filled the fish traps they had made before going home together.
In the evening, Gongliang cooked a cage of fish that he had caught.
Although this kind of fish that grows in mountain streams is small, it tastes very delicious. In the ancient times of Gongliang's past life, there was no such thing as MSG that can be extracted to increase the flavor, but some people cooked fish and mutton together to get delicious food.
It tastes delicious, so the word "fresh" comes into being.
Gongliang saw that the fish was delicious, so he salted the remaining small fish, dried it, and ground it into powder, which he used as natural MSG. Every time he added a little when cooking, the taste suddenly became extremely delicious.
Gong Liang used a stone mill to grind the dug potatoes into pulp, and then used a finely woven sieve to sieve out the rough and fine parts inside, leaving only the starch for cooking. From then on, he finally had something to eat besides meat and vegetables.
Staple food.
While grinding the sweet potatoes, he suddenly remembered that sweet potatoes can be used to make wine. Since sweet potatoes are rich in starch, can they also be used to make wine? In any case, you have to try it before you know. However, this
It also depends on how the mountain fruit wine is brewed, otherwise there will be no koji used to make the wine.
Counting the time, he has been brewing mountain fruit wine for almost two months.
So, he went to dig out the mountain fruit wine buried in the ground, and took back the jar of mountain fruit wine that had been exposed to the sun outside.
When he opened the two cans of mountain fruit wine and smelled it, he smelled a strong smell of wine. It seemed that the brewing of mountain fruit wine was successful. Next, he filtered the two cans of mountain fruit wine to remove the pomace and left it for a few days to obtain the result.
A slightly turbid fruit wine liquid was obtained. At this time, the fruit wine had too low a degree to be stored and needed to be steamed. However, for the sake of experiment, he boiled a can of mountain fruit wine with the pomace filtered out, resealed it and buried it in the ground;
The cans were placed in wooden basins and steamed in iron pots. Finally, half a can of clear, high-alcohol fruit wine was steamed.
At this time, the fruit wine was still very hot, so he buried the steamed fruit wine in the ground, leaving only a little to prepare it as koji to make wine from yam.
In fact, the man who uses cassava to make wine has no conscience because he has never made wine himself, but he always has to try everything. Who knows if he will be lucky and succeed.
So, he steamed the potatoes, added fruit wine and some fructose, then packed them in stone jars and buried them underground, and then waited to see if they would turn into wine.
It is worth mentioning that there are many yam potatoes here that Xiao Xiaoshi doesn't like. Xiaoshi took him to a valley to see them. They were everywhere. They were huge and he didn't know how they grew. The same was true.
He doesn't have to worry about not having yams as raw material for making wine.
Dashi came back from hunting again. In order to thank him for taking care of him over the years, Gongliang specially invited his family to his home for dinner.
He used all the materials he had recently acquired and cooked a sumptuous dinner to thank him.
There are many things, including rice rolls made with minced mushrooms and meat, starch and seasoned with fish from mountain streams, wild vegetables boiled with wild peppers, and a large pot of hot pot made with thick soup made from animal bones. In addition, there are several more dishes.
The meat dishes, because they were seasoned with delicious marinated fish powder, were so delicious that the Dashi family almost swallowed their tongues.
In this primitive tribe, most of the food eaten was rough roasted food, but never had such delicate and delicious food.
After eating, Gongliang also took out some of the newly brewed fruit wine. This slightly sweet fruit wine immediately aroused Dashi's interest. Fortunately, there was not much wine and the alcohol content was not high, so he did not get drunk. But
There are no secrets in the tribe. Coupled with Dashi's bragging, the news that Gongliang had delicious fruit wine spread throughout the entire tribe. There was an endless stream of people coming to him every day to beg for fruit wine, which annoyed him.
The most important thing is that he doesn't have much fruit wine. He wants a little of this and a little of that, but they are almost gone.
Fortunately, his newly brewed fruit wine would be out soon, otherwise he wouldn't have had to drink it himself.