Although with the help of a simple knife, the amount of meat that needs to be smoked is really large. After removing the bones, internal organs and other things, the amount of meat will reach nearly two thousand kilograms. It can only be cut and smoked at the same time, and the smoking time also takes a day.
After understanding the benefits of bacon, the tribe's enthusiasm for work has only increased, because every year, especially in winter, many people in the tribe starve to death due to food shortages. Fewer people means low productivity. Such a vicious cycle leads to
The number of the Shui Tribe, which originally numbered more than 300 people, has dropped sharply to less than 70 today.
The next work was much simpler. Almost all the men and women of the clan used large and small stone, bone, and wooden tools to cut the smelly wild dog meat by hand. After two hours of hard work, they had already finished it.
Nearly five hundred kilograms of dog meat had been cut out. Hua Xi was also busy, instructing several tribesmen and children by words and deeds to stuff pine branches and dead grass into the stone furnace, and then spread it on the logs of the large frame.
Hang up the sliced pieces of dog meat, and the thick smoke mixed with a little bit of flames smokes the dog meat on the stone stove.
"It's a pity that there is no salt, otherwise the preservation time and taste would be better. Well, there is a river next to the camp, and there must be the sea along the downstream. Then we can refine some salt for consumption, but I don't know how far the entrance to the sea is from here..."
Matters depend on their severity. The salt problem can only be solved in the future. The most important thing to solve now is the food and clothing problem of the tribesmen. Only by solving the food and clothing problem of the tribesmen can you win sincere support. Perhaps the workload and frequency of labor yesterday and today are compared.
After eating barbecue and fruits, everyone in the tribe fell asleep early and felt tired. Hua Xi, like the others, closed her eyelids and went to find Duke Zhou.
The next day, Hua Xi got up early. Before the first golden ray of dawn shot out from the horizon in the distance, he asked Shi Zhui to call the young and strong men of the clan to gather in the open space of the camp, saying that they were young and strong men.
, but in the eyes of a modern person like Hua Xi, except for Shi Zhui and two of the tribesmen who were in their thirties, the other tribesmen were thinner than a group of beggars, with sallow complexions and skinny skin. But he noticed that they were tribesmen.
His bones are very thick. If his nutrition keeps up, he will be a muscular man.
"Damn, those pornographic films made by Hollywood make all the ancient barbarians look so heroic and muscular. They are simply misleading us flowers." Hua Xi cursed secretly in his heart, and then raised his voice and shouted: "Two days
We have consumed a lot of food in this time, we need to go out and get more food back today, you know?"
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A total of thirty warriors, including Shi Chui, were all confused about Hua Xi, because they only understood the words "food", "us", and "many" and had no idea what their powerful clan leader said.
What do the other words mean? But at the critical moment, the elder Zi Ding had already stood beside Hua Xi at some point. After listening to the patriarch's words, Zi Ding thought for a moment and turned back to a small cave where food was stored to get back a small
A piece of bacon waved with a wooden stick, then pointed at the bacon and looked at Hua Xi
"Yes...right..." Seeing Ziding's movements, Hua Xi admired him very much and couldn't help but nod, thinking that this old man has a good understanding. After receiving the clan leader's confirmation, Elder Ziding turned around and faced the clansmen who formed a half circle in front of him.
After speaking in a nonchalant manner, everyone finally understood.
Now that the mission was clearly explained, it was natural to take action. Everyone brought a few pieces of smoked dog meat, grabbed stone axes, wooden sticks and other weapons, and followed Hua Xi boldly and walked into the forest south of the camp.
From the experience of wandering in the forest a few days ago, Hua Xi had some understanding of the situation in the primeval forest, but the guide still asked the tribesmen to come. Hua Xi understood that simply relying on hunting and gathering to obtain food was the least efficient, and only breeding and breeding were the most efficient.
It's the right way, and plundering is the royal way. But under the current situation, let's not say there are no seeds. Even if there are, I'm afraid I won't be able to recognize them. As for breeding, it's a bit tricky, but so far, apart from the pheasants I found when I came here, I haven't found any other ones.
It is difficult to breed livestock, but if you want to survive in this prehistoric Stone Age, all you have to do is fight against nature.
By the way, Hua Xi felt a little light when he brought dozens of people with him for the first time. Of course, he quickly struggled out of this unprecedented sense of entitlement and vanity. Shi Chui, who was leading the way, was already there.
He led his group of Youshui tribe members into the primeval forest and observed from the route forward. It was obvious that they had come here often to hunt before Hua Xi came to hunt the Youshui tribe, because the route under their feet was obviously man-made. It was very difficult today.
Strange, after walking into the forest for nearly an hour, I didn’t see even a bird.
"bluff..." Shi Zhui, who was leading a team to hunt for prey in front of the new clan leader for the first time, couldn't even see a hair with the clan leader today. This was such a humiliation, who wouldn't be angry...
Shi Chui was about to move deeper into the forest but was stopped by Hua Xi: "Shi Chui!" Hua Xi made a stop gesture, which was easy to understand.
Hua Xi noticed that the faintly visible path disappeared after reaching here, which showed that the tribesmen used to go into the deep forest at most. Now except for himself, who has a decent weapon, other people are either wooden sticks or stone axes. None of them can effectively kill
Weapons of beasts, it is too risky to rush into the depths of the forest. Since this road is blocked, we can only go back and find a way.
The start was unfavorable, and the morale of every water tribe warrior was a bit low. However, Hua Xi quickly thought of another idea, and recruited a seemingly smarter tribesman to figure it out for a while.
Although the thirty skinny tribesmen who walked to that place were all puzzled, they did not dare to have the slightest doubt about the authority of the tribe leader, because what they had seen in the past few days was too unimaginable.
Among the ten tribesmen, Hua Xi and the others, apart from paying a little attention to the surrounding movements, traveled very fast, taking less than an hour.
Two hours from now), we arrived at the place where we just asked the tribesmen.
Hua Xi and the others carefully lay down in the bushes. Following the gap, they could clearly see a relatively gentle area tens of meters in front of the bushes. The river section about half a kilometer long was crowded with animals of all sizes drinking water.
The closest to them was a group of about sixty or seventy goats. The goats were very cautious. Like other animals, they drank water in batches. There were also several goats who always stopped from time to time and turned their heads to stare at the surroundings vigilantly.
situation, and when I saw nothing unusual, I continued to lower my head and drink water.
"Well, we can only do a sneak attack." Hua Xi turned around and whispered to the people around him, gesticulating and gesticulating with words: "The four of you listen to the code, and then use stones or sticks from both sides to move the goats toward the bushes.
"Catching in that dense forest"
The four tribesmen nodded and expressed their understanding. Just as they were about to turn around and leave, Hua Xi called out: "Be careful and pay attention to safety!" The four tribesmen all nodded. They originally looked at Hua Xi with fearful and admiring eyes.
Be careful if you are a little touched, they can still understand the words "safety"
The four of them were cautious, not daring to make any big noise and surrounded them from both sides. At the same time, they paid careful attention to the situation around them. After all, in the forest, there were all kinds of dangers lurking around them all the time. The goat alone initiated the move.
Kuang Lai is no joke here. Hua Xi and the others are not idle either. After getting along for a while, Hua Xi has become quite familiar with the gesture language. Hua Xi took the remaining 26 tribe warriors and lurked secretly next to the bushes.
On the dense forest, 27 people were spread out. It looked messy, but in fact they were in groups of 5 or 6 people, forming a network-like battle formation. After everyone hid their bodies, Stone Hammer made several bird calls.
Make a secret signal
"Squeak...chirp..." Suddenly after hearing the signal, the four warriors on the other side were dancing with big wooden sticks. While dancing, they grabbed stones and threw them wildly at the group of goats who were drinking water. The sudden change caused the sheep to panic.
, but soon, under the leadership of the leader, he turned around and ran towards the dense forest behind him.
Stomp... The panic caused by the sudden change was not just for the sheep, but also for several small deer herds nearby. After seeing clearly, the deer went back to their original place and quietly drank the sweet river water, but they were obviously vigilant.
a lot
"Hit..." Running towards him were the powerful muscles of three rather strong sheep. The hard horns were what Hua Xi felt when he saw goats up close for the first time. He had no doubt about the pair of hard horns.
The goat horns can smash oneself to pieces in a high-speed collision. According to the original plan, everyone suddenly appeared from behind the tall trees, yelled, and aimed rocks as big as two fists at the leading goats and smashed them wildly.
, the sheep that were originally led by the head goat were even more panicked at this moment. They scattered in all directions and ran away like a nest. The head goat and the other two goats were the first to bear the brunt. They suddenly stopped their momentum and tried to turn around and escape, but the rain of stones came like raindrops.
The ground hit his strong body, and the pain was excruciating. The four warriors from the Shui Tribe behind him also rushed to cooperate with the tribesmen to surround the three sheep. They kept saying "hoohoo..." Dozens of tribesmen were holding two-meter-long weapons.
They poked the goats with long sticks and tried their best to surround them to prevent them from escaping. The wooden sticks, stone axes and stones in their hands unceremoniously hit the goats on their heads and bodies.
"Woooo..." After several mournful cries, the three goats fell to the ground before they could resist, their bodies twitching continuously, and their weak eyes wandered around.
"Oh...haha..." After hunting the prey, everyone was naturally happy. Hunting for the first time was more exciting for Hua Xi. After all, this kind of thing is difficult for a modern person to think of. The second thing is
Problems with hunting methods Although three goats were successfully hunted, this hunt also exposed a serious problem. In order to capture these goats, several thinner tribesmen were accidentally injured by the goats when they besieged them.
Fortunately, the injury was not serious and he could just rest for a few days, but there were indeed many problems. In the end, everyone in Hua Xi had to take turns to carry the three dying goats back to the camp. After returning to the village, Hua Xi immediately ordered the women in the clan to use
A stone knife is used to cut the sheepskin, the goat is slaughtered, the meat is smoked and stored, while the sheepskin is hung to dry.