Everyone squatted there and watched for a long time.
Yao Hu pointed at the house and looked at Yao Xiaoqing, "This is like a cave," and pointed at the wall, "This can stop the giant bears and the others from entering the cave, right?"
"Yes, that's what it means."
Yao Hu thought for a while and looked at Shan, Dashi and the others, "What do you think of what Xiao Qing said?"
It was only after Yaohu said this that Dashi and the others understood what the house and the wall were for. Looking at the wall which was much higher than the house, they also felt that it could resist other tribes.
Shan said: "Chief, Xiaoqing is the person chosen by the gods. We listen to Xiaoqing."
After hearing this, Yao Hu stood up and looked at everyone, "Okay, we will listen to Xiao Qing and build houses and walls."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at them, "Father, we have no food. We can't all build houses at home. We need to allocate the manpower for hunting. Father, how do you think the manpower should be allocated?"
Yaohu looked at everyone and said: "Mufeng, Pig, Bull, continue hunting, Hua, Shan'amu, Yun'amu collect wild vegetables, look for duck eggs and wild bird eggs, and prepare food. Dashi, Shandai and I
Uncle Chushui and Uncle Chong are following Xiaoqing in building a house at home. We all practice archery skills at night."
"Yes, leader." Everyone responded in unison.
Yao Hu said loudly: "Come, let's peel off the goat's skin first, dry the meat and store it."
"Yes." Everyone started working in a hurry.
Swine and Shan skinned the sheep, while Uncle Shui and Uncle Chong disemboweled the wild boar and took out the internal organs, leaving the heart and liver and the rest for Shan'am and Yun'am to throw away.
"Shan Amu," Yao Xiaoqing quickly stopped the two of them. Shan Amu looked at her and said, "Xiaoqing, you can't eat these things."
Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the pile of internal organs, "You can eat the large intestine and small intestine after washing them. Pork belly, small tripe, and pig lungs can all be eaten. Suet and flower oil can be used to refine oil."
"These things can be eaten too!" Shan'am and Yun'am both laughed, "Xiaoqing, please teach us, what a pity it is to throw away edible things!"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "Okay, let's take these to the ditch, light a bonfire there, and wash things by the light."
There were no baskets or basins to hold the internal organs, so Yao Xiaoqing had to take out a basket from his back and said to Yao Hu and Dashi who were watching Mu Feng and the others skinning them: "Father, hurry up and dig out some basins and buckets!"
Yao Hu nodded happily, "Okay, okay! Let's go dig now."
The three of them lit a pile of firewood by the ditch, and Yao Xiaoqing led the two of them to clean the internal organs.
I washed the large intestine and small intestine several times, rubbed them twice with plant ash, and put them in a backpack.
Fill the pig's lungs with water, rub and clean them repeatedly until no trace of blood is visible. Scrape and clean the pig's belly and lower belly and put them together with the large and small intestines. After the earthen pot is boiled and blanched twice, there will be no peculiar smell.
After washing the flower oil and suet, they still had to wait for the earthen pot. Yao Xiaoqing began to pray that the earthen pot would not burn out, otherwise his work would be in vain.
Yun Amu and Shan Amu followed suit and washed it once. After the goat was disemboweled, they took the internal organs to the ditch and washed them.
Uncle Shui and Uncle Chong spread the skins with wooden sticks and placed them against the cliff. Mufeng and Zhu cut off the fat meat and put it aside. The fine meat was placed on the stone slab. A fire was raised under the stone slab and they began to barbecue.
strip.
Yao Xiaoqing knew that except for the bag of salt in his bag, there was currently no salt in the tribe. Only by storing meat in this way could it prevent it from rotting.
There are barter activities held twice a year in Qiu Shan. People use a sheep's roasted dried meat or five sheep skins in exchange for a bamboo tube full of impurities in salt from the Wuxian tribe.
For small tribes like the Yaoshan tribe, salt is a very valuable thing. When they are short of salt, they will eat raw meat and drink the blood of prey to replenish the salt their bodies need.
Yao Xiaoqing felt that there must be a salt mine where the Wuxian tribe lived, but he didn’t know whether it was rock salt or natural brine underground? If it was rock salt, could it be found elsewhere?
Yao Xiaoqing suddenly thought of the gallnuts that he used to eat in the mountains. Everyone also called it the salt tree because there was a layer of white stuff on the fruit and it also had a salty taste. The old man in the village said that he used to have no money to buy salt, so he would pick gallnuts in winter.
Go home and boil salt.
It's spring now, and those gallnuts at the foot of the mountain can't get any salt!
Another way is to look at where the animals are licking, and there will be salt there. This can only be noticed by Mu Feng and the others.
Yao Xiaoqing sat on the stone and saw the meat sizzling on the stone slab, and the smell of meat penetrated his nose. Thinking of the barbecue powder in the bag, he took half of the small intestine out of the basket and used a small
Blanch the iron pot twice and cut it into inch-long pieces. I went out and took a piece of pork belly and cut it into thin slices with a dagger. I put it in the wok. I opened the bag and took out the barbecue powder. I saw the small bag of chili noodles and the bag of chili noodles.
pumpkin seeds.
Yao Xiaoqing took it out together, opened it, and found that the pumpkin seeds were actually raw, and there were chili seeds in the chili powder.
Yao Xiaoqing was so happy that she almost laughed out loud. She hurriedly covered her mouth and sat on the leather. Looking at the things in her hands, she thought: The yield of pumpkins is not low after planting, and peppers are not suitable for someone like her who is used to spicy food.
From a human perspective, it can be considered a good thing.
Yaya lay on the leather, looking at her covering her mouth with silly joy, "Qinggu, did your father give you something delicious?"
Yao Xiaoqing rubbed her yellow hair and said with a smile: "No, did your father give you something delicious?"
Yaya shook her head, "I have an uncle, but I don't have an father."
Yao Xiaoqing rubbed her gently and said, "Aunt Qing will give you something delicious, okay?"
Yaya nodded happily, "Yeah!"
Yao Xiaoqing took out a few pieces of toffee from her bag, peeled off the wrappers and put them in her mouth. The taste of toffee made Yaya narrow her eyes in satisfaction, "Sweet as honey."
After saying that, he got up, bit off half of the toffee in his mouth and put it into Hua's mouth, which was guarding the fire. He looked at her with a smile and said, "Mom, it's as sweet as honey. Aunt Qing gave it to me."
Hua smiled and kissed her and said to her: "Yes! It's as sweet as honey."
Yao Xiaoqing gave the two pieces in his hand to Yaya and said with a smile: "Yaya eat honey."
Yaya took it, kissed Yao Xiaoqing on the face, and happily rolled on the leather twice.
Seeing her happy look, Yao Xiaoqing felt a little sour in her heart. She put the pumpkin seeds and chili powder back into her bag, picked up the pot and walked out with the barbecue powder.
Mufeng picked up a piece of dried meat and handed it to her, "Xiaoqing, here you go."
Yao Xiaoqing shook his head and put the meat in the pot in front of him, "I'll roast the meat for you."
"Barbecuing, I'm barbecuing!" Mufeng looked at the meat slices and small intestines in the pot in confusion.
"You'll know later." Yao Xiaoqing smiled and took a pair of bamboo chopsticks cut from a large stone, picked up the pork belly and small intestines and placed them on the stone board.