Chapter 22 22The anger of the fire fox, earthen pot
Seeing Black Badger's eyes turning around, Huoli became suspicious and stared at him and said, "Black Badger, is there something you didn't tell me?"
Under the hawk-like gaze of the firebird, the black badger felt guilty and frightened, "Chief, I, I..."
Huoli looked at him and shouted sternly: "Tell me, what are you hiding from me?"
Black Badger did not dare to look at Huoli and said hesitantly: "Chief, I followed Shan Shu that day and saw him and A He being killed by Yao Hu."
"What did you say?" Huoli thought he heard wrongly, "Say it again!"
"I saw Yaohu kill mountain rats and rivers." Black Badger finished speaking in one breath, glanced at Huoli anxiously, and then lowered his head.
"It's been so many days, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Huoli was so angry that he punched him.
The black badger fell to the ground, his head lowered and remained silent.
"Yaohu, how dare you kill Shan Shu and Ahe! Did you kill Dawu too? Yaohu, I shouldn't have let you go!"
Huoli lost three of his confidants in a row. He was so angry that he waved his fists and roared loudly, wishing he could find Yaohu and kill him immediately.
After venting his anger, he took a few deep breaths and began to think: He couldn't let Yaohu and the others go, he had to go farther to hunt and find them. If they didn't find them in the spring, they would have to wait until summer. They would always go to the mountains to exchange for magic medicine and salt.
At that time, I will go to Yaohu to settle the accounts.
Huoli made up his mind, looked at Black Badger and shouted: "Get up, take your weapons and take me to hunt in the direction Yaohu and the others are going, and find them by the way."
"Yes, yes..." Black Badger got up and nodded, turned around and ran out.
Black Badger took Huoli to the forest where Yaohu killed Shan Shu and A He. They searched all over and couldn't even find the bones of Shan Shu and A He.
The fire beaver stared at the black badger, "Where did they go?"
The black badger pointed to the woods ahead, "I didn't dare to look, I just knew they were heading that way."
Huoli glanced at him bitterly and led the people towards the forest ahead.
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When Yao Xiaoqing woke up, he learned that Yao Hu and Dashi had gone to check the traps together.
After going out for a walk, the golden retriever still didn't come back. Maybe there are no fruits it likes in the mountains and forests here!
Seeing Mu Feng carrying a basket on her back and preparing to go hunting, she thought that even if the bag of salt she brought was saved, so many people would be able to eat it for about twenty days at most.
If you don't have salt, you have to eat raw meat and drink the blood of animals to supplement the salt. Eating raw meat and raw blood is easy to contract germs, so you still have to find salt.
Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly called to Mu Feng, "Mu Feng, when you were hunting in the mountains, did you ever see cattle and sheep licking rocks or soil on the cliffs?"
Mufeng thought for a moment, "I didn't pay attention to it, what's wrong?"
Yao Xiaoqing looked at him, "When you and the others were hunting, you saw cattle and sheep licking rocks or soil. Remember to take the soil or rocks they licked and bring them back to me for a look. It might be salt."
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"Really?" Mu Feng looked at her with wide eyes.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and nodded, "Really!"
Mufeng showed a surprised smile, "Okay, I will take a good look at it."
Yao Xiaoqing filled the bamboo tube with water, and gave some compressed biscuits to Mu Feng, asking him to share them with the pigs and bulls. He watched as several people walked away with stone knives and wooden spears.
Hua came in from outside the cave, pointed to the clay pot in the ashes and said to her: "Xiao Qing, can you see if the pot is ready?"
"Let me take a look." Yao Xiaoqing opened the ashes, picked out all the earthen pots and lids that were burnt to earthy brown, knocked them lightly, and made a tinkling sound. He lifted the pots to his ears and heard
There was a "buzzing" sound inside.
I put the lid on and tried it. One of them had no gaps after being put on, and the other two didn't fit well, but they still work.
Hua looked at her nervously, "Xiaoqing, is it broken?"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled at her and said, "Probably not. Let's go to the ditch to wash it and fill it with water."
"Yes." Hua picked up the two jars and walked towards the ditch.
Yao Xiaoqing carried a jar and a lid to the edge of the ditch, washed it, filled it with water, wiped the water outside the jar, and found no sign of leakage.
Smiling, she said to Hua, who looked at her expectantly: "The pot was burned successfully."
Hua Lu hugged the jar excitedly, with a bright smile on her face, "Yes! It's burned, it's burned."
The two happily carried the earthen pot back to the cave, and Hua took the two lids to the ditch to clean them.
Yao Xiaoqing thought about the time when her mother bought a clay jar and cooked a full jar of porridge when she came home. She said that the clay jar that had been soaked in rice juice would not leak easily. After thinking about it, she scooped a bowl of rice into the jar.
Put it on the earthen stove and start cooking porridge.
Sitting there, he turned around and saw the wooden basin and barrel placed in the corner, and walked over happily.
In just one night, Yaohu took the mountain and big rocks and dug out three wooden basins and two buckets.
The wooden basin and barrel have been carefully polished, and there are no burrs to the touch. There are also light reddish-brown stripes on the wood, which looks very natural and simple, and smells of a faint aroma.
I lifted the barrel, but it was not very heavy. I wonder what kind of wood they chose? I was thinking about what to use to drill two holes in it and tie a rope to lift the water.
The size of the wooden basin is about the same as that of a commonly used washbasin, so it is a bit heavy to hold.
Yao Xiaoqing thought: Now I can boil water to wash my hair.
Hua shouted in surprise from outside, "Xiaoqing, the leader and the others have caught a wild boar."
Yao Xiaoqing ran out in a hurry and saw Uncle Chong and Uncle Shui climbing up carrying a wild boar. They laughed so hard that they couldn't close their mouths.
"Uncle Chong, my father hasn't come back?"
The two men laughed breathlessly: "Boss, they are shooting wild ducks."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the wild boar and was very happy, "Wow! Now we can barbecue again. It would be great if we could catch a wild boar every day."
The two put down the wild boar that had been stabbed with several bloody holes. Uncle Zhong smiled and said, "How can such a good thing happen? I don't know if I will catch it this time or not next time."
Yao Xiaoqing thought: If it doesn’t work there, we can dig a trap somewhere else!
The two put down the wild boar and without even taking a break, they picked up the stone knives and started skinning it.
Hua smiled and said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Xiaoqing, I'm going to dig the soil, make a big pot, put dried meat and lard in it."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "Okay, let's make a big jar."
Hua went to dig the clay with great interest.
Yao Xiaoqing stirred the porridge in the jar a few times to coat the entire jar with rice soup, then closed the lid and cooked for a while.
I made a straw mat to put on the handle of the jar, poured the porridge into the other two jars in turn, cooked for a while and set them aside to dry.
I took out the iron pot and boiled a dozen duck eggs and ate them with white porridge.
Clean the earthen jar, carry the jar back, cut the fat, suet, and flower oil into small pieces and put them into the jar as big as a small clay vat, pour two bowls of water in it and start refining the oil.
Then I blanched the fat intestines and pork belly twice, cleaned them, cut them and put them in jars. I thought I would look for them if I had time to see if there were any wild garlic, wild onions, wild ginger, etc.
Boil the fat intestines until the water is boiled out. Pour the remaining barbecue powder into a jar and stir-fry. Add salt, water, cover and simmer. There is also a jar for stewing big bone pork lung soup.