On the rough log table, a cast iron pot was steaming, and underneath was an iron stove burning red charcoal.
These two things were exchanged by Gongliang for two large pieces of pickled giant turtle meat and blacksmith Yehan. In addition, there were bone-cutting knives, kitchen knives and spatulas. With his efforts, his own kitchen utensils were slowly being prepared.
together.
"Gulu..."
Smelling the aroma that was constantly wafting from the cast iron pot, Xiao Shi was swallowing his saliva beside him, but his saliva was already flowing all over the floor.
What was cooked in the pot was a pheasant skeleton and pickled giant turtle meat and crab meat. At first, Gongliang had cooked it on the big stove, but now he put it in a small pot and cooked it over slow fire. Seeing that the heat was almost done, he put it in
Thinly sliced pheasant meat and animal meat were put in, and after the meat was cooked, a lot of wild vegetables and fresh mushrooms were added.
In just a moment, the aroma mixed with the smell of meat burst out from the cast iron pot, making even Gongliang himself salivate.
He mixed a piece of meat with fresh mushrooms and wild vegetables and tried it. When it was cooked, he said to Brother Xiaoshi next to him: "It's ready to eat."
Xiaoshi and Xiaoshi, who couldn't wait for a long time, quickly picked up the spoon next to them and scooped out the meat in the pot and put it into their own stone bowls. They didn't stop until the stone bowls were full. Gongliang naturally wasn't to be left behind and filled them up.
A bowl.
He ate and savored it.
The soup made from crab meat, giant turtle and pheasant carcass is very delicious. Although there are not as many seasonings as before, the thick soup made from natural river and wild food is not bad at all. And it is more delicious, after all.
It is a purely natural product.
It's a pity that there is no food.
He is from the south, has a rice belly, and enjoys every meal without rice.
But when we got here, there was nothing but meat all day. There was nothing we could do. It seemed we had to find time to find other things to eat.
There is probably no rice here, but there must be starch. The roots of some plants are rich in starch, but these still need to be tested and screened. Don't accidentally eat poisonous things, it will be terrible if you lose your life.
He was thinking as he ate, and when he finished the food in the bowl, he wanted to scoop out the meat, but saw that the pot was already empty.
The meat has long since disappeared, and the vegetables have been fished out. Not to mention the meat and vegetables, there is only a little bit of soup left.
I glanced at the two brothers Xiao Shi and Xiao Xiao Shi next to me, and saw that they had eaten enough and were lying on the chair while stroking their big bellies.
Fortunately, he was prepared. He put down the bowl and walked into the kitchen to bring out the remaining soup and meat dishes. He also added a few drops of diluted wild pepper water into the meat. The meat of the giant turtle that was spicy with wild pepper also contained...
It has a slight spiciness, but almost not at all. After adding wild pepper water, the spiciness suddenly came out. Gongliang tasted it and found it was a bit spicier.
Xiao Shi looked at the meat and vegetables he brought out, frowned and said, "A-Liang, I can't eat any more." Xiao Xiaoshi next to him also nodded.
"Then you guys can rest aside first, and I'll eat some more." After saying that, he picked up the cooked meat and vegetables and started eating.
When he raised his head after taking a few mouthfuls, he saw Xiao Shi grabbing something to eat again. He couldn't help but question: "Aren't you full?"
"I can still pretend a little bit," Xiao Shi said honestly.
Gongliang glanced at his swollen belly and rolled his eyes.
After eating and drinking enough, people became lazy, so Gongliang put his feet on the table and leaned on the chair to rest.
But Xiaoshi said: "Let's go pick fruits."
Gongliang was too lazy to move. After eating, he had to rest for a while to feel better. What kind of fruit could he pick? So he lied to him: "You must rest for a while after eating, otherwise your stomach will hurt when you walk."
"oh..."
Xiao Shi scratched the back of his head and felt that this was really the case. Last time, he would move immediately after eating, causing a stomach upset.
So, he sat on the chair and rested obediently.
Gong Liang looked at the house. Although it was in a primitive and rough style, it was not bad and had a very artistic taste. Here, he had no worries about food and clothing, and the two major issues in life were solved. He was also content. Like before, just to make a living.
To eat, I had to write all day long just to earn some rations to avoid starving to death. Now I don’t lack anything, and I feel comfortable.
He has a character that is at ease wherever he goes, so he is doing well here.
They all said that life is nothing but firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. Now he has firewood, but can’t find rice. He only has animal meat and vegetables, and the sauce barely includes wild pepper. I’ll see if I can find beans or something to make other sauces later.
There’s no vinegar either, but I’m going to pick fruits to make wine later. If I can’t make wine, at least I’ll have sour vinegar. There’s no need to worry about tea here, since insect excrement is pretty much the same.
In the past, there was insect excrement tea in Yunnan and western Hunan. You can look for it in the future.
In addition to these, the most important thing is sugar. You can’t live without sugar when cooking. However, there is probably no sugary cane and beet here, so you can only choose honey. I don’t know where it can be found. I’ll find some time to find out. Just based on this
With his young body now, he cannot go into the forest because there are too many ferocious beasts and poisonous insects in the forest.
If you can prepare all the sauces for cooking and have delicious food to accompany you, life here is actually pretty good, better than the urban jungle before.
There is no pressure to make money, no worries about air pollution, no worries about substandard food all over the floor, and no worries about being forced to get married without a wife. Just think about it, it’s a life like a fairy.
After resting for a while, Xiaoshi couldn't wait to take him and Xiaoshi to pick fruits.
There are many fruits in the mountains, some are long, some are short, some are round, some are flat, it can be said that the shapes are all different and strange.
Xiaoshi led them to a small mountain col. There was a kind of mountain vine growing on the mountain wall next to it. Curved purple fruits hung from the vine. Xiaoshi saw that one of the purple fruits was cracked.
, he picked it off and ate it. Peeling off the outer layer of purple skin, there was a strip of blue pulp inside, which looked strange. Xiao Shi didn't pay attention and stuffed it into his mouth.
When Xiao Xiaoshi saw it, he immediately became anxious, "I want it too, I want it too."
Xiaoshi picked some purple long fruits and gave them to his younger brother and Gongliang. Gongliang tried them. They were soft, glutinous and sweet, a bit like bananas, but not quite like them. They were very sweet and had a core in the middle, which were seeds.
After picking some purple long fruits, Xiaoshi took them to other places to pick fruits.
On the way, they also met several tribal children of about the same age, all of whom came out to pick things to eat. In primitive tribes like this, children were not cared about at all and could go wherever they liked.
Gongliang planned to use mountain fruits to make wine, so he specially carried an animal skin bag and went out, and did not go back until it was full.
When he returned home, he began to prepare wine. In this primitive wilderness, making wine was very simple. It was nothing more than crushing all the fruits and putting them into jars. Whether it would turn into wine or not depended on luck and God's will.
He took out the two prepared stone jars, and then began to peel the skin of the mountain fruits, crush the flesh of the mountain fruits and put them into the stone jars. Some even had to use a knife to peel, core and chop them.
In line with the principle of experimentation, he didn't dare to make much, and only made two cans.
Xiao Shi and Xiao Xiao Shi were eating and watching him make wine with a pile of fruits. When he saw him putting the wild fruits into the jar and sealing it, he suddenly realized and said, "So you are making wine."
"You know?" Gong Liang asked curiously. He thought no one in this place had ever seen wine, but he didn't expect Xiaoshi to know about it.
"Of course I know. Uncle Heiyan knows how to make wine, and so can my father." Xiaoshi said proudly.
Gongliang thought, it seems that he thought this place was too low-level, and thought it was an ignorant primitive society, but it seems that is not necessarily the case. Otherwise, there would be no people who knew how to blacksmith and brew wine, and there would be no people who worship ancestors.
The sparks and flame patterns were all far beyond his cognition, which was incredible. It was really strange to say that this place was primitive, but there were iron tools, wine and other things. It was really weird to say that it was not primitive, and all life was in a primitive state.
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Unable to figure it out, Gongliang simply ignored it and asked Xiaoshi: "Can the wine they brew be drunk?"
"You can't drink Abba's. Sometimes you can drink Uncle Heiyan's and sometimes you can't."
It seems that these people are also half-handed, just like him making wine now, relying purely on luck and not really knowing how to make wine.
Ignoring him, Gongliang dug a hole in the open space in front of the big rock and put a stone jar filled with mountain fruits into it. The other one was placed outside to be exposed to the sun. He didn't know if it could be fermented with mountain fruits.