Ancient wasteland

For foods that are relatively durable, such as salted duck eggs and bacon, the more you store, the better. The more food you have, the safer you will be during the cold season.

He smiled and said to the fish, "I can make it, it is salted, it is very simple, and the salted duck eggs are similar to bacon.

After making it, it can be preserved until the cold season, and the taste is also very good.

After the salted duck eggs are made, put some in when the broth is boiled, so that there is no need to add salt, and it will still be delicious.

Didn't we change a lot of salt? We can marinate more bacon and salted duck eggs and save them for the cold season. "

Yu looked forward to it. In her memory, the cold season was always very cold and there was a shortage of food. She had never experienced a full and warm winter.

Now there are leaders in the tribe, which is great!She nodded, "OK!"

Anyway, the sacrificial priest said, those who listened to the scene were right!

She greeted everyone excitedly, and ran to touch the quack beast's eggs.

The shelf life of fresh duck eggs is about 30 days. If it exceeds this time, it will deteriorate. In such an open-air environment, the time will be shorter.

Those that are soaked in water are more likely to breed bacteria and spoil.

Not to mention, there are many naturally damaged ones. These ducks are very lazy and basically don't bother to build nests.

Eggs were laid everywhere, all rolled to the ground, there were many broken ones, the egg whites, egg yolks and feces were mixed, and they smelled faintly.

Jing Que put thatch in the back basket, and then went to pick up duck eggs. He chose the ones that were clean and undamaged, and shook them in his hand.

If you can feel liquid sloshing inside the eggshell, most of the time it has deteriorated, or even stinks inside, so it is inedible.

Put those that are shaking and not moving, put them in the back basket, fix them with thatch, and continue to pick them up, just like a layer of thatch and a layer of duck eggs.

In order to prevent the duck eggs from being damaged, there is a gap in the middle, and the thatch mat is relatively thick.

Jing Que has put as many duck eggs as possible, and when the basket is full, it can only hold more than 200 duck eggs, which is less than [-] duck eggs.

It feels like there is a small hole in the place where duck eggs are piled up on the edge of the lake. Fortunately, they are all carrying baskets on their backs, and the total number is quite a lot.

This lake is not far from the tribe, so you can continue to pick it up when you carry it back.

Jing Que carried a basket full of duck eggs on his back, and walked back with the fish with a smile, "There are so many eggs, we can wait for the windy season to pick them up again."

The wind season is the best time to store food. When the time comes, pick up tens of thousands of duck eggs and make them into salted duck eggs, which will ensure that the tribe will not starve to death.

The fish shook his head vigorously, "When the dry season is the hottest, there will be no water here, and the quack beast will fly away."

Jing Yu, "..." Well, the dream is broken.

Then it is even more important to pick up more now, eat what you can eat, and make salted duck eggs for storage if you can't finish it.

As for over-collection, whether it will make the quack beast extinct, he can't care about it!

The duck eggs were transported back to the tribe. Jing Que temporarily found wooden boards and nailed out several large wooden frames half a person's height, two meters wide and three meters long.

Put the back basket down steadily, let the grass, water and the old people in the big hole wash and dry the duck eggs, and then put them in the wooden frame.

And he followed the fish, and the people of the collection team continued to touch the duck eggs by the lake, and ran a few more times.

Try to get all those duck eggs back and store them in the tribe. Jing Que believes that before these duck eggs go bad, the clay will definitely be found.

The ducks picked up too many eggs, and the ducks were a little panicked. When they picked up eggs in certain places, they would quack, quack, and fly over to peck them.

Jing Que observed carefully for a while, and found that those eggs were all born on the withered grass, and were well protected. They were probably fertilized eggs that could hatch.

He told the fish to keep those and just pick up the ones next to them. Anyway, there are so many duck eggs, there is no need to kill them all.

I bypassed those and went to pick up other ones. Sure enough, the ducks were lazy and ignored them, just quacking, as if they were watching a show.

Jing Que wondered if he should take two ducks back to eat. There are many ways to make fat ducks, such as roasting, stewing, and salted duck.

It's a pity that although these ducks are lazy, their vigilance is not bad. It is no problem to pick up duck eggs, but it is impossible to catch them.

As soon as Jing Que stretched out his hand, he flapped his wings and swam to the deep water area without even touching his hair.

Jing Que, "...! You wait for me to make a bow and arrow!"

The idea of ​​catching ducks, after thinking about it for a while, let go first, bows and arrows can be shot, but I'm afraid of frightening the ducks.

At that time, they will be frightened, what if they don't lay eggs for him? !Now duck eggs are sustainable development resources.

When he has stored enough salted duck eggs, or when these ducks stop laying eggs, he can eat duck meat with confidence!

Jing Que was thinking about how to catch ducks, and kept picking up duck eggs.

Not far away, Yu held up the silt on his hands, "Jing, come over and see if this is the clay you mentioned."

Jing Que was pleasantly surprised, "What a coincidence?"

Quickly put down the green-skinned duck egg that he touched in his hand, and ran over to look at it. Unexpectedly, it was really clay that could be used to make pottery.

It seems that the quality is still very good. The priest asked the hunting team and the gathering team to look for it, and they came across duck eggs when they came out to touch it.

What a coincidence, it took no effort at all.

Jing Qu saw all kinds of pottery through this pile of clay.

Pottery bowls, pots, jars, pots!

I was happy and playful, squatted down on the spot, dug out a small piece of clay, mixed it with the water in the lake, kneaded it well, and squeezed out a clay bowl.

The fish looked at it in amazement, "This is a bowl, a clay bowl! It's so thin and beautiful, and it's more beautiful than a stone bowl. How can it be so beautiful!"

In fact, it looks more exquisite than a stone bowl, but the fish don't know the word exquisite yet, and they will only praise it over and over again.

After complimenting the beauty of the pottery bowl, he continued to praise Jing, "Jing, this bowl you made is so fast, much, much faster than the millstone bowl!

But can this hold water, it is made of soil, will it collapse, the soil will run away when it meets water! "

Jing Que nodded, "Yes, so they need to be fired before they can be used. You pick up duck eggs first, and I will make some clay embryos. I will build the kiln tomorrow."

The fish was a little puzzled, "What is a kiln?"

Jing Qu smiled and gestured, "It's a place to burn pottery. Knead the clay into a bowl, then put it in and burn it, so it won't leak."

As he spoke, he put the clay bowl aside and prepared to dry it in the shade before firing it. He walked around twice to find a suitable place to build a kiln.

The most primitive earthen kilns are all dug directly on the mountain. They are very simple, like a big funnel.

Burn the fire below, place the objects to be burned on the top, and use a thin neck in the middle together with the two ends to allow the flame and hot air to pass through.

This kind of kiln is characterized by simplicity, small scale and uneven temperature.

Only small pieces of pottery can be fired, such as bowls, spoons, water glasses and kettles, and because of uneven temperature, the success rate is very low.

It is easy to break and become pottery.

There is no shortage of clay around here. Jing Que plans to use an earthen kiln first, burn some bricks, and use bricks to build a slightly larger kiln.

Then burn the vats and jars he wants, the vats and kimchi jars used to store grain, if the volume is too small, they will not be useful at all.

The pottery jar he wants to make should be about 1 meter in height, with a big round belly, wide mouth, and a slender shape that doesn’t take up much space.

Fill it with at least two hundred catties of water, of course, the bigger the better.

Besides, bricks are a good thing. With bricks and clay or yellow mud, you can build a kang in a cave, and burn it in the cave in the cold season.

The effect of keeping warm is great, and cats winter on the kang. As long as there is enough firewood and food, it is difficult for the tribe to die.

The prospect is bright... the process, Jing Qu sighed, squatted down resignedly, and started playing with mud and throwing bricks.

There is a long way to go.