As the situation gradually opened up, the entire project quickly got on the right track.
In addition to helping with some light tasks, some of the girls who followed us also had an important task, which was to provide logistical services.
A few small stoves were simply dug and piled near each construction site. A few girls put the clay pots and pots they brought on them and boiled some water and grain and meat porridge. They had been preparing since the morning when the work started. At noon,
The porridge is cooked just enough.
"Here, let's just eat some porridge to fill our stomach!"
After a group of people met, Xu Chen led them to the construction site outside the mouth of the valley.
Xu Chen asked someone to serve a bowl for everyone, scooped out a spoonful of pickled cabbage, and then sat down among the messy soil and fallen branches and leaves to start eating.
The porridge with pickled sauerkraut tastes much better than the usual plain porridge.
Even the Uzbek people are extremely short of salt now, and it is impossible to make a large amount of pickles. As a witch, they cannot eat them every day. A group of people ate this sour, salty, and hot porridge, and they all felt extremely
Such a surprise, everyone held the earthenware bowl with both hands and ate with great enthusiasm, and even licked the bowl clean.
Seeing the little witch sister carefully licking the pottery bowl and spoon, her little tongue was extremely nimble, Xu Chen thought of his little savage cousin, and couldn't help but compare it in his mind, and found that it was just as generous.
This is an instinctive habit developed in primitive life, because since Xu Chen traveled through time, he knew that all savages have the habit of adding food after eating, drinking, and defecating.
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Lick when you are injured, lick when you grab something, and suck when it is dirty. Especially when eating, you used to take food with your hands. After eating, you have to eat it clean like a cat before giving up.
What? You said washing your hands is something only fools do. Normal people usually lick it clean.
However, since the advent of pottery, the bad habit of licking hands has gradually disappeared, but it has become a group licking of bowls.
At the beginning of every meal, a large group of people would sit around the fire pit and lick their bowls, which made Xu Chen dumbfounded. It made him feel embarrassed even if he didn't lick a few times, and he felt like he was unique and out of place.
However, as food became more abundant, and with Xu Chen's constant and subtle guidance, the Ba people's habit of licking the bowl to add more food gradually changed. At most, the food in the bowl was eaten clean, and few people licked the bowl every day anymore.
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But for the Uzbek people, their food reserves are far less abundant than those of the Ba people, whether it is grain or meat, let alone salt and other meat pickles.
Not to mention salted fish and bacon, except for the Kaiba tribe, other tribes don’t have it at all.
Because the salt was only found last winter, and most of it was transported back to the Ba people. At present, only the Ba people have the luxury to use salt to pickle fish.
Although other tribes also learned to make salted vegetables and pickles after Mother's Day, they were extremely short of salt, so each tribe could only get a few kilograms or more of salt. In addition to being frugal on weekdays and using it for cooking, they also
I will learn how to make some pickles like the Ba people, but the quantity is very small and not enough to distribute, and I will eat them all in just a few times.
Although the little witch sister, as a witch, may be able to obtain these delicious food offerings more than ordinary people, she cannot eat alone, so she will inevitably become more gluttonous when she encounters them.
What's more, she is only a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old.
Seeing how hot the dragon, the little witch and others were licking their bowls, Xu Chen asked the cooking girl to add another half bowl of hot porridge and a small spoonful of pickled sauerkraut for them.
On weekdays, everyone doesn't eat lunch. When we were short of food before, we could even only eat one meal a day, but this meal was just a little bit of food, not to mention delicious.
Xu Chen clearly remembered that when he first crossed over, he usually ate some barbecue bones left over from the night, simple dry grain cakes, or messy plant roots in the morning.
If there is more food in the evening, you will eat a little more decently. However, in order to have the strength to work the next day, you should not eat too much, so you should save some food for the morning.
Eating two full meals a day has always been the greatest wish of all tribesmen, but this wish was slowly realized until they went down to the mountains for large-scale farming two years ago.
By this year, we can basically guarantee that we will have enough food and clothing.
Therefore, starting from the autumn harvest, Xu Chen specially arranged to cook some porridge as a snack every noon. It was not much, one bowl for each person, and a little pickles for seasoning. Even so, it greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of all the tribesmen for labor.
After all, it is very uncomfortable to work hard every day and still be hungry at noon.
This has nothing to do with habits, the main reason is that the body cannot bear it, especially for a growing boy like Xu Chen, who is hungry every day.
Road construction is strenuous work, and you also need to eat a snack at noon.
However, the Uzbek people do not receive such treatment.
They still have to work hungry at noon until evening.
Therefore, the dragon and the little witch can eat a bowl of porridge and some pickles, which is great happiness and enjoyment.
The group of people finished the porridge quickly with a fuss. Long and others still carefully licked the bowls clean, and Xu Chen reluctantly put down the pottery bowl while his face was twitching.
"The pickles are delicious!" Long said while wiping his mouth.
A group of hunters who followed also nodded their heads like chickens pecking at rice.
The little witch sister was still licking her fingers gently. When she saw Xu Chen staring at her with a half-smile, she lowered her head in shame and was embarrassed to speak.
She knew that neither Xu Chen nor her sister licked the bowl, but she couldn't help it. The main thing was that the pickles and porridge were so delicious. She ate them in the Ba tribe last Mother's Day, and also made some pickles after returning to the Uzbek tribe.
, but they are not as delicious as those from the Ba tribe.
In addition, she was also a little sad, envious that her sister could accompany His Majesty the Witch King every day and eat such delicious salted vegetable porridge every day.
After a simple lunch, Xu Chen took Long and the twin little witch sisters to inspect the ongoing construction near the entrance of the Ba Valley. At the same time, he also explained how to deal with some complicated situations encountered during the construction, so that
Long will handle it accordingly after he returns.
In order to encourage them to speed up the progress of road construction after returning, Xu Chen also asked Gu and Ju to ride back, each took a jar of pickles, and gave one jar each to the dragon and the little witch for them to take back and eat slowly.
So the dragon, the little witch and others were overjoyed and grateful and rode back happily.
Although salt is considered a rarity and luxury item for other tribes, for the Ba people, it is now considered a daily condiment.
Not to say very sufficient, at least enough.
Nowadays, autumn is crisp and the climate is dry, which is the best season of the year for salt drying.
After the autumn harvest in mid-July, Mo took people to the Mongolian people and sent some pottery, linen, animal skins and bronze tools, and brought back more than two hundred kilograms of white salt. All of this salt was left in the Ba people.
If consumed, it can last for more than two months.
However, Xu Chen still needs to reserve as much as possible to wait until winter to make pickled foods.
There is food in hand and no panic in mind.
There is no distinction between good and bad food, so one must prepare enough, especially in this barbaric era without external aid. The more he reserves, the stronger his ability to resist unknown risks, and the greater help he will have in his future expansion.
In any era, food security ranks first.
As long as a person goes without food for one day, he will fall into a panic. If he goes without food for two days, no matter how strong he is, he will be in trouble. If he goes without food for three days, he will basically be in trouble.
In terms of external expansion and war, food security is even more important.
The troops and horses have not moved, but the food and grass have gone first. No one can go out to fight hungry.
Just like the last exploration, it is not that he cannot go farther and longer. The main reason why he returned early was because of the shortage of food. Even though he was leading a group of excellent hunters with rich hunting experience, plus bows and arrows weapons and
Living in this barbaric era with abundant flora and fauna, we can barely guarantee food security.
And luckily there weren't many people.
If hundreds of thousands of troops were dispatched, there would not be enough wild animals for them to hunt and eat along the way.
Therefore, trying your best to store the most food is the basis for maintaining the stability and security of the tribe and alliance.
Even if the Ba people do not eat these foods, they can still help other tribes in the future.
Just like last winter, they lent food to the Gonghuo Tribe, the Thunder Tribe, and the Five Ghost Tribes.
Three thousand kilograms of grain were given away, and the Ba people had to live frugally.
But it is this food aid that stabilizes the Thunder Tribe and the Five Ghost Tribes of the Gonghuo Tribe, allowing them to survive the cold winter safely.
Although salt is not as important as food at the moment, with the harvest of food from various tribes this year, the role of salt will become more and more important. Therefore, Xu Chen did not forget the demand for salt from other tribes, and several hundred kilograms of rock salt were also sent.
The Thunder Tribe brought it back to the Ba Tribe, but these impure mineral salts were distributed and traded to other tribes.
Although he is a wise man, he is not a saint.
Naturally, you must first satisfy yourself with good food and drink, and then use the excess to help other tribes and guide their development.
Although giving some pickles to the dragon and the little witch was a last-minute idea, and I felt sorry for the little witch that a great witch who was the spiritual pillar of the tribe couldn't even eat a bite of pickles, the bigger purpose was to hope that they could supervise more diligently.
The tribesmen built roads.
As the saying goes, take advantage of someone's weakness and eat someone's mouth.
Xu Chen can believe that they will work harder after returning.
The little witch's words are more effective than him arranging people to run ten times.
Therefore, when giving gifts, it is natural to give them in a thoughtful way.
What's more, the emperor doesn't need hungry soldiers.
Even if the dragon and the little witch are his die-hard fans, he still has to give him the benefits he deserves. Winning them over is much easier and more pleasant than trying to win over the leader of the Wu tribe and a group of old ladies.