Chapter 888: Ancient Farming by Foolish Internet Celebrities (23)
Xu Yin came over for inspection several times and saw that they were learning well, so she took Ah Chun and others to deal with the batch of nuts.
The first thing to deal with is Ganli.
Peel off the thorn shells and dry them in the sun to be used as firewood.
The fruit can be stored for a long time after drying.
"Great witch, can I eat it like this?"
Ah Chun opened a large chestnut with force and looked at the light yellow flesh inside.
"It's edible. The texture is different from when it's cooked. You can try it."
"I want to eat! Mom, let me eat!"
"I want to eat, too!"
The boys who were squatting nearby to help peel the thorn shells couldn't break the sweet chestnuts in their hands, so they stretched out their hands to get the ones in Achun's hand.
Xu Yin rubbed their little heads: "Don't worry, everyone can taste one."
She picked a few larger chestnuts, held them in her hands and gently broke them apart. The brown hard shell of each chestnut cracked open, revealing the golden flesh inside.
The boys opened their bright black eyes and looked at Xu Yin with admiration:
"Great witch, you are so powerful!"
"That goes without saying! Our great witch is the most powerful among all the tribes!"
"My father said so too!"
"My father and mother said so!"
“My father, mother, and grandfather all said so!”
"..."
Can this also make a noise?
Xu Yin burst into laughter and gave each of them a raw chestnut: "Try the raw ones first, and then the cooked ones later to see which one tastes better."
Needless to say, cooked chestnuts are definitely more delicious.
Although raw sweet chestnuts are fragrant, sweet and crunchy when chewed, they always have the same taste.
There are more ways to eat cooked chestnuts, and the taste is richer: boiled chestnuts are glutinous and glutinous, with original flavor; roasted chestnuts have a slightly burnt aroma and are rich in flavor; stewed meat is nourishing and nourishing the stomach. Read a book
After a feast of sweet and chestnuts that night, the boys were so exhausted that they could hardly move their legs.
In the past, after dinner, they would play and jump in the open space in front of the cave until their parents took them into the cave to sleep.
We ate too much tonight. As soon as they were full, Xu Yin asked them to sit down for a while and then move around. They obediently leaned in their parents' arms and helped sort the acorns.
Xu Yin picked out the skinny little acorns that had been sifted, and taught them to use small tree branches and animal skin scraps to make slingshots by the campfire, using the skinny little acorns as bullets.
"It's okay to play for fun, and it's okay to beat up bad guys, but you're not allowed to bully your fellow tribesmen."
"Great witch, we listen to you!"
The kids were so happy to receive this gift.
Their parents were also happy, because the wizard said that although the plump acorns cannot be eaten raw, they can be made into a food that has a completely different taste from sweet chestnuts and can be used as both a staple food and a vegetable.
"Go to bed early today and I will teach you tomorrow."
Everyone cheered in unison.
"Kun, the great shaman of the Xu tribe knows a lot!" Kun's tribesmen said enviously.
"I heard Achun and the other women saying that with just one kick, they killed a ferocious beast that even ten people might not be able to defeat when surrounded by it."
"I've also heard that their great witches are extremely powerful! They can fight one against ten."
"Otherwise, I won't be able to subdue the four-legged winged beast." Kun nodded.
Although their great witch knew a lot, the crisis a while ago was resolved by his ability to predict.
Otherwise, they had no idea that the Featherwing Tribe would besiege them, and would not be able to send people to the other side of the river to ask for help in advance. Then, that night would be the day their entire tribe perished.
But in other respects, he had to admit that it was the great shaman of the Xu tribe who knew more, was extremely powerful, and ran extremely fast, let alone one against ten, or one against a hundred.
I thought of what Min said that day: "Guangming is not in the Guangming tribe in the south."
Kun put his hands behind his head and had a sudden thought: Could Guangming be in the Xu tribe?
Then it is better to be friends with them rather than enemies.
Kun and others learned how to make pottery and bows and arrows. They knelt down to Xu Yin with the highest etiquette, and then went back to the tribe to get busy.
As he expected, the tribesmen were dumbfounded when they heard that they had learned the skills of making pottery and bows and arrows from the Xu tribe.
Yu blurted out: "Father, the Xu tribe does not agree to trade with us, so don't daydream like this!"
Kun was angry and funny: "What are you daydreaming about? We have really learned these two skills. How could we delay it for so long? But we didn't learn them in vain."
He described Xu Yin's conditions in detail.
Even so, the tribal people were still surprised.
"Just the first two years? After two years, it will be ours to use freely?"
"Bows and arrows only need one year? Six sets a month, only seventy-two sets a year. Such a powerful weapon, after teaching it to us, we only need to pay seventy-two sets and it will be ours?"
They looked at each other, thinking that the Xu tribe was too talkative, right?
"That's because they regard us as brothers in the tribe, brothers whose blood is thicker than water, so they don't care so much and are willing to help us become stronger together." Kun San Ling Wu Shen said, "So, in the future, when we encounter good opportunities and discover good things,
and share with them.”
"that's for sure!"
"Not to mention anything else, just because they saved our lives, we should share it!"
Min stroked his long gray beard and smiled happily.
Thinking again of the starry sky they had glimpsed not long ago: the light was neither in the south nor in the north, but right before their eyes.
As for what Kun said, the great shaman of the Xu tribe wanted to learn the art of foresight from him, which put him in a bit of a dilemma.
It’s not that I don’t want to teach, it’s that I don’t know how to teach.
His ability to predict has existed since he could remember, but it can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.
"However," he stroked his long gray beard, "I am willing to tell her everything I know, but I can't guarantee that these are premeditation techniques."
Min was willing to tell her everything he knew, and Xu Yin was very happy.
It doesn't matter if you can learn a little bit, but it doesn't matter if you can't. It's always good to have more knowledge.
What's more, this knowledge goes beyond the scope of science and is a bit mysterious in metaphysics.
But then again, isn’t there a saying that “the end of science is metaphysics”? Maybe the mystery of the universe is really related to metaphysics?
After Min agreed, Xu Yin flew to the Cross-River Tribe every two days on a Winged Tiger, listening to Min share his thoughts and ideas, and discussing each other's views on the development of the tribe.
The great shamans of the two tribes often sit together to chat and drink tea, which also makes the people of the two tribes closer and have more frequent contacts.
When not going to the Cross River tribe, Xu Yin took the women of the tribe to put all the nuts away.
Chestnuts can be stored for a long time after being dried and can be cooked and eaten whenever you want.
The same goes for hazelnuts, which are dried and put in rattan bags. Occasionally they are fried in a pot and distributed to everyone for leisure.
She was going to keep the walnuts and press them for oil.
I always eat animal fats, and the blood in my body feels like it has solidified.
It can be boiled or stewed. Many wild vegetables are not very tasty. Even if they are boiled and served cold, she wants to use vegetable oil instead of deer fat, beef tallow or goat fat.