Hazy and dazed, Gongliang felt as if someone was pushing him. When he opened his eyes, he saw Uncle Tao, who was guarding the village gate, standing beside the bed.
"Uncle Tao, morning!"
Gong Liang rubbed his sleepy eyes and glanced at the sky outside the house. It was dim and bright. He couldn't help but look at Uncle Tao. He didn't know why he was looking for him so early.
"A Liang, you caught a big fish with the meat you put in yesterday." Tao said excitedly, as if he had caught the big fish.
“Big fish??”
When Gongliang heard his words, he had a question mark in his mind, and then he remembered that he was talking about the giant turtle in the big stream. At this time, he suddenly remembered what Uncle Tao said. Catching a fish??? Gongliang jumped up from the bed and ran away.
When I came to the stream, I saw a few people gathered in front of me, pointing at a giant turtle on the ground.
Gongliang got into the crowd and saw the giant turtle with its legs in the air. It was obviously dead.
He approached the giant turtle, touched it, and found that the giant turtle was still a little warm.
"A-Liang, be careful that the big fish rises up and swallows you." The person next to him who knew Gong Liang joked.
Gong Liang turned around and took a look. It was Tu Lie, a good friend of his father's former hunting team. At this time, Tao who went to call him also came over. He said to them: "Uncle Tao, Uncle Tu Lei, can you help me kill the big fish?"
, I’ll give you half of it when the time comes.”
"Who cares about your big fish?" Tao slapped him on the head and cursed with a smile.
The people nearby burst into laughter when they saw it.
The people of the tribe are extremely pure. Although it is not so difficult for a family to get support from all directions, if anyone has something to say, everyone is happy to help. Not to mention that no one will ask for the children's things. The warriors of the tribe eat ferocious beasts.
Meat, I have no interest in this kind of ordinary animal meat that cannot replenish physical strength.
The giant turtle that was killed by wild pepper was more than five meters long. Tao and Tu Lei first bled the giant turtle.
Gongliang ordered some giant turtle blood and tried it. It was a bit spicy. It seemed that the wild pepper was really powerful. The spicy taste actually penetrated into the blood.
According to Gong Liang's wishes, Tao and Tu Lei split the giant turtle into two halves from the corners, and then threw away the internal organs. Gong Liang took the giant turtle's gall, crushed it into pieces, rubbed the bile on the giant turtle's body, and asked Tao to
He Tulei helped cut the giant turtle meat into pieces, leaving only the breastplate. After they helped divide the meat, Gongliang gave them half of the meat mentioned earlier, and gave some to the tribe warriors who were watching. Just
Why would they want something belonging to a child? It's so shameless.
In the end, the kindness was too great, so everyone took some and went back to eat.
In fact, Gongliang didn't know that someone had killed big fish before, that is, giant turtles, but they were so smelly that the tribesmen didn't like to eat them, so they let the giant turtles in the stream run rampant here, otherwise they would eat them with the urine of the tribesmen.
Sex, has been extinct for a long time. It is difficult to turn around and leave after taking other people's things, so everyone helped Gongliang take the giant turtle meat home. When they got home, Gongliang specifically told them that this thing must be boiled pheasant and
Mountain pig belly is the most delicious, but he doesn't know if anyone will listen to it.
It was still early when I came back, and Brother Xiaoshi was still sleeping, so Gongliang went to wake them up.
Gongliang gave half of the remaining giant turtle meat to the Dashi family and kept half for himself. He took a few more pieces and went to Yehan to replace them with some iron hooks, and then hung the giant turtle meat to dry. Then, he
I took a few pieces to Lao Wu and asked him to help make a large stone mortar and a small stone mortar, and also customized a stone mill.
Lao Wu didn't know what a stone mill was, but Gongliang showed it to him and drew a pattern with charcoal wood for him, and he knew.
In the life of this primitive tribe, these things are necessities. Stone mortars of large and small sizes can be used to pound things, and stone mills are used to grind things into powder or pulp. In the past, Gongliang and his village had many such things, almost in every household.
Necessary supplies, but with the development of science and technology, these things were abandoned in corners and not used. Later, I don’t know if they were stolen or not, and they have never been seen again.
Although some giant turtle meat was given away, there was still a lot left, and Gongliang couldn't eat it by himself, so he planned to marinate the giant turtle meat and air-dry it so that it could be preserved longer.
Salt is needed for pickling, but there is not much salt in the Dashi family anymore, so Gongliang and Xiaoshi brothers carry baskets on their backs to dig for salt.
The Yanbu is located in the crater of an extinct volcano. When a volcano erupts, many things will be flushed out from the ground, such as iron, coal, or salt formed by the evaporation and sublimation of underground salt water by volcanic heat. These salts have been heavily covered over time.
, became what is now called some rock salt. Of course, there are many forms of rock salt, and volcanic sublimation is only one of them.
Gongliang had never dug salt, so he could only follow the pebbles.
Xiao Xiaoshi followed Xiao Shi, looking around with his head open, curious about everything.
Gong Liang also looked around. This road was obviously not the way to dig wild vegetables, but the opposite direction. To dig wild vegetables, go to the left of the village gate, and to dig for salt, go to the right.
There are some woods here that I know, but they are all primitive and wild in style. Each tree is huge, unlike the small trees I have seen before. At least one person can hug more than one tree, and even the vines are thicker than an arm.
The small ones are seedlings. A path was cut out of the forest. Following the path, there was a small hill. That was their destination.
There was no grass in front of the hill, and as soon as I got closer, I smelled a strong salty smell.
Walking inside, you will see a cave full of crystal rock salt.
The salt here does not have any impurities. Unlike some impurity-containing rock salt which is purple or white, the salt here is crystal-clear. In this wild jungle, no one is grabbing these things, so the Yanbu people only come when they need it.
When the time comes, some will be dug up and used, and the rest will be left to fend for itself here.
There are a lot of fine crystal salt chips left by the salt diggers in the cave. No one likes these. The tribesmen all like the big ones.
When they got to the place, Xiao Shi took out the small hoe he brought and started digging. Xiao Xiaoshi also stuck out his butt and dug aside.
Gongliang looked at it and found a place to dig it up. In fact, relatively speaking, he preferred the finely dug salt chips because they could be used without having to go back to grind them, but they had been stepped on and were not dry.
He couldn't use it even if he wanted to, so he could only dig it out honestly.
The children didn't have much strength, and the rock salt was heavy. They only dug a few pieces, and everyone started walking back carrying the dug rock salt.
Gongliang needed to pickle the giant turtle meat and used a lot of salt, so he dug a few more times. Brother Xiaoshi was very loyal and helped dig together. The salt that was dug back also had to be crushed. It was undoubtedly a good idea to smash the salt blocks with something.
It was very tiring, so Gongliang melted the rock salt he brought back in water, then scooped the salt water into an iron pot and boiled it dry, so that he could get white rock salt fine powder.
There are two ways to pickle food, one is soaking in salt water, and the other is pinching with salt.
Although soaking in salt water is more palatable, it will destroy some things in the food, and the soaked food is salty, which Gongliang doesn't like, so he uses salt pinching. Salt pinching is to spread salt on the food, and then
Pat the food to let it absorb the flavor. The way it absorbs the flavor is gradually, so the pickled food has distinct layers, and each layer has a different taste, which is what Gongliang likes.
The cured meat is hung up with iron hooks to dry and then stored in the house. This kind of cured meat can be eaten for a year.
There is no shortage of meat in the Yan department, but it is undoubtedly a happy thing to use one or two different flavors to improve the taste.
Xiaoshi saw Gongliang marinating the giant turtle, and took some of the giant turtle meat out to marinate, but more of it went into their stomachs. It is said that half-grown children will eat me to death, and it is true. Xiaoshi and Gongliang are now nine years old.