The house was partitioned off and things were tidied up, but the room was empty, missing furniture such as beds, tables and chairs.
People in Yanbu sleep directly on the ground and sit on the ground. There are no tables or chairs.
It's just that Gongliang was used to using beds, tables and chairs, and he was never used to sleeping on the ground, so he asked Uncle Dashi to help him make a bed and a pair of tables and chairs. These things were simple to make, just split into thick pieces of wood.
Cut a few concave and convex grooves and rivet them together. No one here cares whether it looks good or not, and you don’t have to do it very finely.
After the thing was made, Gongliang was very satisfied and felt that it had a primitive and wild flavor.
But Dashi was not interested in these things, because everyone was used to sleeping on the floor and sitting on the ground, and had no feeling for sleeping on a bed or sitting on a chair.
The bed, tables and chairs are ready, and there is also a kitchen.
The kitchen is the most important, it controls your appetite and all the flavors of your life.
The Yanbu people are very rough in their eating methods, which is nothing more than boiling and roasting. If you can build a firewood stove and an iron pot in the kitchen, you can use it for stir-frying, steaming, etc., and you don’t have to eat the same food every day. Gongliang doesn’t have any hobbies.
, I just like to eat something delicious.
Building a firewood stove is very simple. Gongliang used to live in a rural area and had seen building stoves several times.
There is no technology involved in this thing. It is nothing more than building a fire with objects and clay.
There was a stone field near the Yanbu boulder, which was where the tribes used stones. There were many useless stone flakes, so Gongliang went to pick some and brought them back to build the stove. The clay used to build the stove did not have cement here.
There is something, but there is a lot of sticky soil in the ditch under the Yanbu water spring, which can be used just right.
Gong Liang first found a few relatively flat large stones and placed them on the ground as the foundation of the stove. Then he started to build the stove one layer at a time with soil and stones.
In one day, with the help of Xiaoshi and Xiaoshi, Gongliang built the stove.
Because he is small now, the stove is not built very high, about one meter. When he grows taller, he will build a new stove. The built stove is divided into two layers, with firewood burning on the top and ashes stored on the bottom.
He went to the blacksmith shop and asked Yehan for a few iron bars to put in the middle as partitions. After the stove was built, a chimney was needed to serve as a vent. There was no tile chimney here, so he had to ask Lao Wu for help.
A few stones.
Although his body is only nine years old, he has the soul of a thirty-year-old man. To have him act shy and innocent again and again to ask for things from others is really more uncomfortable than killing him.
Therefore, after the kitchen stove was built, he began to plan to store food.
If you have something in your hand, you can exchange it for something when you go to ask others for something. You don’t have to be shy to ask others. The same is true for people in the tribe when they ask for things from others, such as when they ask Lao Wu for stone tools or Yehan for iron tools.
Just take things from home in exchange. Even though they belong to the same tribe, they are not obligated to provide you with these things for free.
The next day after the stove was built, Gongliang and his brother Xiaoshi went digging wild vegetables and mushrooms again, but this time he brought an extra animal skin bag.
When picking mushrooms, he put the good ones in animal skin bags and put the rest in baskets to take home for eating.
After bringing the mushrooms in the animal skin bag back, he took them out to dry. Soon, Gongliang had a pile of wild mushrooms. He took some of them to Lao Wu and asked him to help him make a pool and a stone jar.
The sink is placed in the kitchen for washing things, while the stone jar is intended to be used for pickling things, and the stone jar is intended to be used for making wine.
The wild fruit resources here are very rich. When he and Xiaoshi go out to pick wild vegetables, they can often eat wild fruits, and they are all very big and sweet, so he plans to make wine, but it is not yet known whether he can make it.
"Moo..."
When he returned to the tribe after digging wild vegetables, Gongliang once again saw a giant turtle calling on the shore. These guys were very arrogant and not afraid of people at all. Some even climbed to the shore to play during the day. But they were also very clever.
As long as the tribal warrior runs over, it will immediately dive into the water.
Gongliang has always had an idea during this time, which is to kill the giant turtle.
Giant turtle is actually a giant turtle. Gongliang’s hometown was in Fujian. There was a popular delicacy there called braised turtle with pullet and pork belly. It was extremely delicious and very delicious. I don’t know how this thing tastes?
Furthermore, there are many things along the stream, such as wild vegetables, clams, hairy crabs, fish and shrimps. If the harmful giant turtles in the stream are cleared away, we will not want those wild vegetables, fish and shrimps by the stream in the future.
As many as there are.
So, when he got home, he began to think about how to kill the giant turtle.
Others are small and have little strength, so they can only outwit them and outnumber them.
When he was studying in the past, he had seen a secret method for catching turtles, which was to hide an embroidery needle in a pig's liver and put it on the shore. Turtles eat by swallowing, and the embroidery needle will be swallowed upright with the liver.
Go in. There is a rope tied to the embroidery needle. When the turtle swallows something, the rope is tightened, and the embroidery needle gets stuck in the turtle's throat and cannot escape. However, this method can be used to deal with ordinary small turtles, but not large ones like giant turtles.
The turtle is useless. There is another way, which is to find a toad directly by the stream, and the turtle will be found the next day.
The toad is delicious and the turtles like to eat it, but it is poisonous, so the turtle dies after eating it.
But this method has no effect on the giant turtle, because Gongliang has never seen a toad after coming here for so long. Besides, the giant turtle is so big, where can he find such a big toad for it to eat.
This won't work, that won't work either. After much deliberation, Gongliang couldn't come up with any good ideas. Suddenly, he remembered the wild sansho pepper he found a while ago.
Wild mountain pepper is extremely spicy. If you hide it in the meat and feed it to giant turtles, what will be the effect?
Just smelling wild sansho pepper is unbearable, not to mention eating it, it should kill a giant turtle.
Thinking of this method, Gongliang took action. First, he went to Xiaoshi Amu and asked for a large piece of animal meat. Xiaoshi Amu gave it to him without saying anything. After taking the meat, he beat the meat to pieces so that the giant turtle could eat it.
It's easy to digest when it's down. After smashing it, he didn't rush to stuff wild sansho peppers, and ran to find a few hairy crabs. Although there were no hairy crabs on the coastal plain, there were always a few climbing up. After catching the hairy crabs, he
Remove the crab meat and mix it into the meat, then crush the wild sansho pepper and put it inside the meat.
When kneading the wild pepper, he specially put on the animal skin, but the spicy smell still hit his nostrils. He quickly took the things to the stream to make bait, so as not to fill the whole house with the spicy smell.
After stuffing the wild pepper, he hid the big iron hook that Ye Han gave him inside the meat, then cut down a few tough mountain vines and tied them to the big iron hook, and then placed the meat not far from the stream.
When fishing for giant turtles, the mountain vines are tied to a thick tree trunk to prevent the meat from being dragged away by the giant turtles.
After doing this, Gongliang ran far away to avoid being eaten by the giant turtle that came ashore.
"A-Liang, can we really catch big fish like this?" Brother Xiaoshi, who was acting together with Gong Liang, had doubts in his eyes.
"It should be possible!" Gongliang didn't know if it was possible.
Tao, who was guarding the village gate, didn't say anything. He just watched a few little guys playing. He regarded it as a child's game.
After guarding the village gate for a long time, no giant turtle took the bait. Gongliang was very frustrated. It seemed that this method was not working, so he was too lazy to take care of it and planned to come back tomorrow. So he took Brother Xiaoshi back to have dinner and slept until midnight.
At that moment, he vaguely heard a huge moo, and he didn't know which giant turtle was going crazy again.