The delicious taste of salt is fresh in the memory of everyone in the tribe.
After eating food with added salt, I then ate grilled meat and fish without salt. I just felt that the food that tasted so good before was now a little hard to swallow.
It happened that we had better hunting luck yesterday and brought back more prey, so today Senior Brother and the others took their tools and followed Han Cheng to the Salt Mountain.
Yanshan is the name Han Cheng gave to the salt mine.
It's really inconvenient to have no name.
To go to Yanshan, you need to pass the place where he discovered the rapeseed. The rapeseed flowers are still blooming brightly, although some are only empty poles with no flowers left.
Han Cheng pointed to these yellow flowers and told the people in the tribe that this was another good thing he had discovered, and asked them not to step on it.
Because they were thinking about the delicious salt, they did not pay enough attention to the weed mentioned by the Son of God.
After all, they see a lot of weeds every day, and they don't think such flowering weeds are so rare.
Han Cheng followed the marks he remembered yesterday and walked eastward.
Fortunately, he led everyone in the tribe to find the location of the Salt Mountain. Unlike the fisherman in "Peach Blossom Spring" who was unlucky, he set his sights on it and there was no way to go back again.
Han Cheng couldn't help but smile when he thought about this. After all, the situation he encountered was different from that of the fisherman. There were only a group of deer here in Yanshan, but there were a group of people living in Peach Blossom Spring.
People are wary and will follow and change markers, but deer will not.
The deer and his group are still here, leisurely basking in the sun and gnawing on the grass. When nothing happens, he licks his tongue on the stone wall.
When the eldest brother and other people in the tribe saw that there was such a large group of deer here, their eyes immediately brightened. They were accustomed to hunting, and even without the eldest brother's instructions, they prepared to attack this group of deer with their weapons.
attack.
Han Cheng stopped quickly.
He has his own ideas about this group of deer.
Han Cheng talked to his senior brother and then issued an order that no one should disturb the deer.
Then he led this group of reluctant people to the south for a distance, about a hundred meters away from the deer, looking at each other without disturbing each other.
Uncle Deer and his little brother were quite wary of this group of uninvited guests at first, but they found out that the leader was the useless 'two-legged beast' that they had bullied yesterday, and the rest also used two legs.
They gradually relaxed their vigilance after these guys did not move towards them.
As their boss, after calming down his emotions, Uncle Deer even walked gracefully and leisurely like a king to the group of people who kept smashing their feet against the stone wall they used to practice their tongues.
In front of the beast.
Han Cheng quickly stopped his senior brother and others who couldn't help but want to take action again when he saw Lie Xinxi. On the way to get some rapeseed from the grass nearby, he pulled some rapeseed that had been eaten and could not produce seeds, and handed it to a
Uncle Deer with a kingly demeanor.
These things were conceived by him last night and specially prepared today.
Ben thought that if these deer were still there, he would try to send them there. Unexpectedly, before he took action, Mr. Deer, who had seen the world, had already come to collect the protection fee.
Facing the rapeseed handed over by Han Cheng, Uncle Lu was rude and ate it with his mouth open.
After eating, it seemed that he was quite satisfied with Han Cheng's winking behavior. Uncle Deer gave a loud noise to acknowledge the actions of these 'two-legged beasts' on his territory.
Then it returned to its group with elegant steps, holding its head high, looking like a proud general returning from victory.
With the addition of Senior Brother and others who are strong and often fight wild beasts, things like stone-breaking can be done much faster.
The large pieces of rock salt that were smashed were carried away directly, while the small pieces were placed in the animal skins used to wrap the fruits in autumn.
Because this place is about ten miles away from where the tribe is, I was worried that there would be danger if I dropped it back and forth, so when I transported the rock salt to the tribe, I didn’t just go individually, but I packed enough to transport half of the people.
After the rocks, they set off together again, just like when they picked fruits and transported them to the tribe in autumn.
These are precious things accumulated over a long period of life.
The efficiency of carrying it by hand and shoulder is very slow, but there is no way. There are no good tools at this time, so I can only use this stupid method.
But after a day like this, on the small river in front of the cave, not too far from the pottery making place, there was also a pile of large and small rock salt, weighing at least more than a thousand kilograms.
This is not an exaggeration. After all, rock salt is not too strong and it is relatively easy to smash it down from the mountain.
Moreover, in addition to all the members of the hunting team, there were seven or eight half-year-old children participating in the labor today.
So many people bring back more than a thousand kilograms of rock salt a day, which is not much at all.
There is no salt production today, all is used to transport rock salt.
After all, it's not often that Eldest Brother and the others don't have to go hunting.
Salt production can be completed by Han Cheng and some children in the tribe, as well as lame lame and a few women who are either weak, pregnant or raising children.
The task of smashing the rock salt down from the mountain seven or eight miles away and then transporting it here was difficult for old, weak, women and children like them.
The next day, the senior brother then led the people out for hunting, while Han Cheng took the old pottery maker's hands and started making salt.
The elder brothers actually want to stay. They are very interested in how to get delicious salt out of stones.
But if they don't hunt, the tribe will have no food to eat tomorrow, so they have no choice but to go hunting.
Beside the river, the great business of boiling salt was going on in full swing, and Han Cheng divided the labor according to the characteristics of everyone.
Heiwa, who is stronger, and several others who are lame, are responsible for smashing the big rocks into small rocks, and then smashing the small rocks into powder.
A few primitive women were not as strong as the Lame Heiwa, so they were responsible for filtering the salt mines using pots, withered grass and charcoal.
Xiaomei, Xiaoli, Xing and the others who were weaker were responsible for lighting the fire and boiling the salt.
Han Cheng was on the side as a technical guide and was responsible for taking the final boiled salt out of the clay pot and putting the offal into the jar.
It is necessary to move the salt-making site to a small river. After all, salt-making requires a lot of water and requires a large space. If it is all done in a cave, the already humid cave will be even more wet.
I can't live there anymore.
As long as it is labor, there is no one who is not tired. Everyone is exhausted at the end of the day.
But when they saw the half jar of delicious salt, everyone's faces showed smiles from the bottom of their hearts. With these delicious salts, it was worth it even if it was a bit tiring!
