Ancient wasteland

Smoked bacon needs a place, at least not in the open air, the wind and the sun are second, and it has little effect on bacon.

The main purpose is to prevent the meat from being drenched by rainwater when it rains.

Originally, smoked bacon is to smoke the marinated bacon to dry. If it rains suddenly in the sky after smoking, it will be soaked by the rain.

Not only will all previous efforts be wasted, but it will also affect the taste of the bacon, and even cause spoilage. The meat is second, mainly due to the lack of salt.

Besides, the marinated meat that has already been laborious, if it is damaged during the smoking process, it is not worthwhile to think about it.

Before smoking bacon, Jing Qu originally planned to build a shed specially for smoking bacon. According to his plan, the shed should not be too small.

After all, it is common in the tribe. Although the Dashan tribe is small, there are 120+ people. If you really want to gather the marinated bacon.

That's probably a lot of meat, apart from other things, the thousand catties of white bear meat that the priest gave him after he rescued the wild can take up a lot of space.

Jing Qu walked around the tribe a few times, trying to find a suitable place to build a shed for smoking bacon, but he couldn't find it...

The place where they live is a mountain col, and it is only suitable for their usual activities, but they really want to build the shed on the square.

The people in that tribe couldn't move at all, so they could only give up the idea of ​​building a shed to smoke bacon in a unified way, and planned to smoke it at the entrance of their own cave.

Like the cave where Jing Qu lived, on the mountainside, the slope is not too steep, and two wooden pillars can be nailed in slightly below the mountain.

Put wooden boards between the pillars and the mountain, fix them at an angle, and cover them with thatch to let the rainwater flow out, forming a small thatched shed.

Underneath, it can be directly nailed into a frame, or a few rows of beams can be nailed to the thatched shed to hang meat, and then lit, it is still very good.

The advantage of this is that it occupies a small area, and you can smoke your own meat by building a small shed. The disadvantage is that it is not easy to manage in a unified manner.

But compared with the two, Jing He still decided to smoke at the entrance of his own cave. He asked the wild for help, and quickly set up the shed and the meat hanging pole.

Try hanging the marinated white bear meat on it. It feels very stable, without any shaky feeling. It is estimated that it will be no problem to hang a weight of two thousand catties.

It seems that a shed of this size is enough for the family to smoke bacon. After all, the tribe divides meat, and no one can get 2000 catties of meat at a time.

In the future, cured meat and bacon will be smoked as they are pickled. When the cured meat is ready to be smoked, it can be taken off after hanging up for smoke without delay.

The operation of smoked bacon is actually very simple. The principle is to use the smoke and heat of the dark fire to dry the marinated meat for easy storage.

It should be noted that there should be no open flame as much as possible. If the flame burns too vigorously, there will be insufficient smoke. If the temperature is too high, it will easily burn the meat.

Jing Que called all the people in the tribe to the entrance of his cave, and asked them to take a closer look at the sheds that had been built for hanging meat for smoking, and asked wildly if they didn't understand.

I went to prepare something for bacon, which is a branch similar to a cypress tree, evergreen all year round, with small leaves, and fish call it a slag tree.

This kind of leaf has a slightly higher ignition point, especially when it is alive, it will not ignite at all, and if thrown into the fire, it will smother the fire, reduce the fire intensity, and there will be smoke.

People in the tribe hate it very much, but fish like to use it to smoke their own holes because the smoke from the burning dregs leaves has a clear fragrance.

You don't have to worry about lighting it, there is no flame, and when you come back at night, it has been burned, and the hole is full of natural wood fragrance.

Jing Qu couldn't help laughing out loud when he saw it. Isn't this specially used for smoking bacon, with smoke and no fear of fire, it couldn't be more suitable.

He originally wanted to use the woody flower branch, because when the woody flower branch is burning, the light herbal smell is very good, which is suitable for smoking bacon.

It turned out that even if the woody flower stalks are fresh, as long as the temperature is sufficient, they will be crackling and blazing when they burn.

Finally, select the slag branches, pour some water on the place where the bacon is, put the slag branches on it, and light it with dry hairy leaves.

Jing Que was afraid that the air temperature would be high enough to ignite an open flame from the dregs of the leaves, so after observing for a long time, it was really like Yu said, it was reflected slowly.

Seeing only a little bit of red light, rising heat and green smoke, floating towards the meat... It is simply tailor-made for smoked bacon!

After everyone confirmed all aspects of the shed, Jing Que asked them to go back to build the shed and prepare to smoke the bacon. The shed was very simple and easy to build.

There are also some holes that protrude themselves, just like the big caves where the old people in the tribe live. There is a stone protruding above the hole.

The protruding part is about three meters long and half a meter wide. There is no problem for people to stand on it. The land is dry when it rains, and there is no need to build a shed.

You only need to nail wooden strips to the hole, hang the marinated meat on it, pile up the slag leaves, and light it on the fire to smoke, which is very convenient.

All of a sudden, the entire mountain tribe was filled with green smoke, filled with the fragrance of the burned trees, and it looked like a dream.

After the people in the tribe hung up the bacon and started smoking, Jing Que called everyone to the entrance of his cave and told them how to marinate salted duck eggs.

There are several ways to marinate salted duck eggs. Jing Yu is going to marinate directly with water, which is to soak salted duck eggs in saturated salt water and seal the jars for marinating.

The advantage of this method is that it saves salt. After the salted duck eggs are taken out, the salt water can be used again, and there is no need to salt the salted duck eggs.

The salt in the brine can still be extracted...the premise is that the duck eggs need to be cleaned and no dirt can be brought into the brine.

Jing Zhu first taught them how to prepare saturated salt water. This is actually very simple. If you are not sure, you can add more salt.

If there is salt at the bottom that does not dissolve, it means that the brine has reached saturation, then put the brine in a clay pot to boil, and put it aside to cool.

Take the pottery jar you prepared, clean and dry the duck eggs neatly into the pottery pot, and pour in the salt water that has been allowed to dry to room temperature.

Pour salt water into it, and carefully told the surrounding people, "You must let the salt water submerge the quack beast eggs, and submerge them all.

If the prepared salt water is not enough, you can boil some more salt water according to the method just now, and you can’t add water directly, otherwise the eggs are easy to break.

Don't worry about not having enough salt, the brine can be reused, and the salt inside can be extracted again when the salted duck eggs are not made. "

Everyone in the tribe had learned how to extract salt from brine, so they nodded quickly when they heard this, Jing Que smiled and added all the brine to the pottery jar.

The duck eggs that had just been laid in the jar were still two centimeters away from the mouth of the jar. He took the wooden cover made of cork and gently pressed it to the mouth of the pottery jar.

It is just right to seal the tank, "Just leave it like this. From now on, the collection team of our tribe will go to touch the quack eggs every 30 days.

In 30 days, the quack eggs in the tank can be taken out, and new quack eggs can be salted again, and the marinated eggs can be stored for a long time. "

He clapped his hands and stood up, "Okay, everyone go to work!"

The fish stayed and wanted to know how long 30 days is.

Jing Que originally wanted to count 30 maomao leaves for her, but felt that it was a bit troublesome to throw them like this, because she couldn't count the maomao leaves every time.

It would be best if he could teach the fish to count, but although he wanted to, he didn't have the time. He was very busy, with bacon, salted duck eggs, and his land!

Yu is even busier than him. He has to lead the collection team to dig wild vegetables and continue to make pottery. He is so busy that his feet don't touch the ground, so he has no time to learn math from him.

As far as the current situation of the tribe is concerned, the food problem has not been solved. It may be a bit difficult to spread the culture, and the fastest has to wait until the cold season.

Jing Yu tapped his head and waved his hand to Yu, "I have to think about how to solve this problem, Yu, you go back and do your work first, I think I can find you."

Yu nodded, "Okay." He turned around and went back to work in his own hole.

She and Bei shared more than 600 quack eggs. Fortunately, Bei was a warrior and had priority in the pot, otherwise there would be no place to marinate them!

After the fish left, Jing Yu continued to pickle the salted duck eggs. The clay jar he just used for demonstration was made by himself and could only hold 50 duck eggs.

... And he needs to pickle a total of 1200 duck eggs, including his own, wild ones and sacrificial ones, and he has to use a large wooden clay pot.

There are a lot of duck eggs and the pottery jar is big, so it needs a lot of salt water. Jing Zhu is going to burn some salt water and pour it into the pottery jar to dry.

While boiling the salt water, he threw a few prickly ash, star anise and cinnamon into the earthenware pot to cook together.

After the water is boiled, take out the seasoning and burn it. The salted duck eggs will be more fragrant when marinated in this way. It not only has a salty taste, but also has a little spice.

He didn't give these seasonings to the people in the tribe, although Ye said that the priest already knew that he had something weird, so he didn't allow the people in the tribe to ask.

But after all, there are many people in the tribe, so I should be more careful, and usually try not to expose it to everyone.

Knowing that Ye is the only one who can get things out of thin air for the time being, he has always been taciturn and never talks much, Jing Que is still very relieved about Ye.

When the salt water was almost boiled, Jing Zhuo began to put duck eggs into the pottery vat, squeezing each other to the mouth of the vat, and the salt water was still half submerged.

He poured the remaining salt water into the clay jar, thought for a while, then took out a bottle of medicinal wine from the space, and slowly poured it into the clay jar.

Adding wine to the salt water can make the salted duck eggs easier to produce oil and turn over the sand, and can remove some of the fishy smell of the duck eggs themselves, making them more delicious!

The largest pottery jar was indeed able to hold it, and the more than 100 duck eggs were all put in before it was full, and Jing He pressed the wooden board on the duck eggs.

To prevent the duck eggs from floating and being submerged in salt water, the wooden lid can be safely covered, and the tank can be sealed and opened after the full moon.

After processing the salted duck eggs, Jing Que went to the entrance of the cave to add some slag branches to the fire, and sat on the wooden pier at the entrance of the cave to think about things.

He remembered that after the appearance of ancient languages ​​and before the appearance of writing, knotted ropes were used to record events, that is, when something happened, a knot was tied on the rope.

When I see this knot later, I can think of what happened in the past, but... how should I put it, the ancients had very few ways to tie knots.

There are too many things that need to be recorded. If I remember, I will confuse things or can't remember what happened at all. It's a mess.

So, words are the last word!

But word transmission is more difficult than numbers, and there is still a lack of time to talk about it. Jing Zhu rubbed his forehead uncomfortably, "It's really annoying!"

When he is irritable, he likes to count his pile of gold for fun. Looking at the shiny and glittering gold coins, his mood quickly improves.

Counting and counting, let him figure out how to let the fish confirm the time.

From the place where he piled firewood, he found two different colors of wood, and chipped out thirty small pieces of wood.

Among them, there are fifteen in cyan and fifteen in red.

Drill holes in all the wood chips, and then use a thin vine to press three red and three blue, and cross each other to wear them.

Stringed into a necklace shape, every fifteen small wooden blocks are separated by slightly longer white wooden boards.

Turn over the white board while you wait for the cured meat and salted duck eggs!

Every day, a small piece of wood is moved to the other end, and the meat is turned over once after a piece of wood of one color is removed, and the meat is taken out for smoking when the white wooden board is reached.

On the other white board, the pickled quack eggs can be taken out and re-marinated, and the smoked bacon can also be taken out for storage!

This is the most primitive timer, although there are still some disadvantages, but now the tribe needs to time, only bacon and salted duck eggs for the time being.

Reluctantly should be enough, Jing Que moved the wooden block back and forth with his fingers, and thought it was quite fun, so he made another one and put it in the hole to play.

After marinating the salted duck eggs, Jing Zhu took a short rest in the cave. After setting the timer, he took it to the fish and shellfish caves and explained how to use it.

Yu was surprised after hearing this, "Jing, how did you come up with this idea! You don't need to throw it away, you can use it many times!"

Jing Qu smiled, "I just wanted to use it a few more times before I came up with this. You take it and ask everyone to make a few more, and use it to calculate the time for marinating meat."

Fish nodded happily, "Good!"

Jing Que came out of their cave and turned to look for the priest, who was dozing off with his eyes squinted in a fox fur coat, holding a scepter in one hand.

His precious rough porcelain bowl was respectfully placed on the shelf, together with the best hemostatic powder, Jing Qu had just walked into the cave.

The priest opened his eyes and looked at him, and frowned to remind him, "Remember to bring the scepter, I'm exhausted, and you will handle the affairs of the tribe from now on."

Jing Que, "Okay."

The priest was very happy to see him agreeing so readily, "The bacon and salty quack eggs are ready, what do you want to do next."

Jing Que thought about the plan for a while, "The pottery has to continue to be fired, especially the large pottery vats, and there must be at least two vats in each hole.

It is used to marinate bacon and quack eggs, and it can also be used to pack dried radishes and sauerkraut during the windy season and store them for cold season. "

The priest frowned slightly, "Dried radish?"

Jing Que nodded, "There are radishes in my wasteland, but the number is still very small, I want to save them first, and then plant them in large quantities.

It is expected that during the windy season, a large number of radishes will be harvested before the cold season. At that time, the tribe will not be short of vegetables to eat. You can see it then. "

It's all nonsense to say now, Jing Zhu didn't plan to describe too much.

... The main thing is that even if it is described, it is difficult for the priest to imagine. He has never been in contact with planting, so it is difficult to understand how vegetables are grown!

While talking with the priest, he set up the pottery pot with his hands. When he saw the pottery pot, he remembered pottery making, and continued.

"I'm going to let Mu be in charge of the pottery, she is very talented in this area and has already learned how to make most of the daily objects.

When she does more research, she will definitely be able to burn better pottery, and then the gathering team and the hunting team will be divided into two people each, and the wood will form a pottery team.

The main thing is to make pottery with wood, and other people will help step on the clay and chop firewood. Try not to leave alone to avoid danger. "

He had already observed that the lake was not too far away from the tribe, and it was still within the territory of the tribe. Naturally, the warriors hunted and cleaned up the tribe's surroundings first.

As a settlement, there have been warrior activities for a long time, and there are no traces of wild animals around the tribe, only birds such as quack beasts.

I didn't know how to handle quack feathers before, and thought the meat was unpalatable, so I didn't think about catching and eating it. In addition, quacks don't like to leave the water, so there is no danger.

So he was too lazy to free up his hands to clean up. Now Jing Zhu is raising them and waiting to touch their eggs, and they will hunt until the quack beasts migrate in the dry season.

When the time comes to catch the quack beasts, let them take it easy, don't really scare the quack beasts into flying away, so they won't dare to come back.

How wonderful this lake is. The water area is large, and there are reeds and weeds growing in it. There must be no shortage of microorganisms and fish in the lake.

Quack beasts can find food by themselves, and they don't need them to feed them with food. They can touch the eggs of quack beasts. It is a natural duck farm.

If you want to touch the eggs, you can't scare the rats away. Sustainable development is necessary.

Generally speaking, the lakeside is still very safe. Just in case, two or three people can go together to ensure that nothing happens.

The work of the hunting and gathering teams could not be stopped, and had to continue as usual, after all, he hadn't found any food that could replace meat as the staple food.

The radishes planted in the field have just germinated, and this batch is inedible, so we have to save all the seeds and continue planting autumn radishes.

Garlic sprouts and wild onions can only be seasoned, not used to fill the stomach!

After the pottery team was separated, the tribe continued to operate as usual, and Jing Que took a little leisure time. Every morning, he followed the fish out of the tribe and ran around digging wild vegetables.

During the period, Jing Que found a saponin tree. The temperature was suitable during the water season, and all kinds of vegetation began to grow wildly, and the saponin tree was also flourishing.

There are still many saponins on the ground, most of which have rotted, but because the saponaria tree is very big, there are more saponins piled on the ground.

The unrotten ones were collected, and almost filled two panniers.

Jing Que asked the collection team to come out with two empty baskets, and specially carried the collected saponins, intending to carry them back for use.

Fish didn't like saponins very much, so he said to him with a bitter face, "This is not tasty, it will spit out bubbles after eating it."

Eating saponins and spitting out bubbles... I thought of the scene where after eating saponins, a lot of bubbles would come out of my mouth after hiccupping.

Jing Qu couldn't help laughing out loud, "Hahaha."

After laughing, I explained to her, "This is called saponin, and the ripe saponin is not edible, it is used for washing things.

It can clean off the dirt and blood stains, which is very useful. "

The fish was full of curiosity, "It's not for food, but to wash the animal skin?"

Jing Yu nodded, "Yes."

The use of saponins in China is similar to that of poles, and they are also artifacts with a history of thousands of years.

Before soap was invented and introduced into China, various saponins and plant ash were widely used to clean items.

Even after toilet soap and soap were invented and even spread, the use of saponin products is still very extensive.

Even in the era of Jingzhu, when laundry detergent and laundry beads were popular, some people still used saponins, because it is pure and natural and does not hurt hands!

There was a time when natural soap powder was very popular, and Jing Yu thought it was pure natural soap powder... It was later discovered that it was not.

When there is no soap and soap, the cleaning power of saponins is significantly greater than that of plant ash, and the ingredients of saponins are relatively mild.

It does not hurt the skin and does less damage to the fabric, so it is naturally more popular, but the decontamination power is always worse than that of soap.

Well, in this way, soap is better.

Jing Que remembered that he should have heard someone talk about making soap.

He frowned slightly, and tried hard to think for a long time, and finally remembered that the teacher had said it in his chemistry class in high school.

There is a well-known chemical reaction called saponification.

This reaction is essentially the hydroxide in the base reacts with the carboxyl in the ester to form carboxyl salts and alcohols.

In modern industry, strong base sodium hydroxide is commonly used for alkali, and various animal and vegetable oils are used for ester!

Of course, if these two materials are not available, they can be substituted.

For example, without sodium hydroxide, plant ash is weakly alkaline, and lime is usually alkaline after hydrolysis. Although the efficiency is slightly lower, it can be used.

Besides... Jing Que has a strong alkali in his own warehouse, which is specially used for saponification and degreasing when processing fur.

It is still a bug-free, inexhaustible portion, which can be used casually, and can be used to make as much soap as you want.

The tribe hasn't started using vegetable oil yet, but there is no shortage of animal fat. He only needs to boil some animal fat to make soap!

This matter is very simple in thinking, making soap, what a big deal.

There are materials and methods, and you can do it simply as you want, but the problem is that in the mountain tribe, or in this primitive society.

Jingzhu cannot produce sodium hydroxide, which means caustic soda, one of the main raw materials, must be taken out of other spaces for use.

Not to mention that he didn't want to expose his ability to take things out of space in front of people other than Ye.

Even if he is willing to do this, he can easily make soap by taking out a large amount of caustic soda and mixing it with animal fat.

But he can't stay in the tribe forever, there are always times when he is not in the tribe.

Now that the number of people in the tribe has decreased, making a few hundred soaps will last a long time, but their tribe needs to develop.

When the number of people in the tribe starts to increase, the consumption of soap will naturally increase. If the number of people in the tribe exceeds a thousand or tens of thousands.

I'm afraid he has to use hundreds of dozens of soaps every day. To ensure the amount of caustic soda, he has to watch the soap making all day long, and don't even think about doing anything else.

If one day he wants to leave the tribe and go out for a walk, he can't continue to supply caustic soda, even if he puts more soap and caustic soda there in advance!

It is always too cruel to ask others to use saponin or plant ash after getting used to the cleaning power of soap when it is used up.

It is not advisable to use caustic soda to make soap. He can make two of them himself, but there is no way to spread them among the tribe.

Unless he can use local materials to make caustic soda, Jing Que slightly shook his head, it might be difficult, so let them use saponins for cleaning first.

Wait for him to go back and figure out how to use plant ash instead of caustic soda to make soap, and then promote the soap.

The method of using saponins is very simple. After being dried, it is ground into powder to become saponins powder, which can be used as washing powder. Wet the clothes with water and rub the animal skins.

If you are in a hurry to use it, you can use the saponins to soak in water, or directly use the saponins to rub the animal skin.

The hunting and gathering teams in the tribe run outside all day, often trekking through mountains and rivers, and their clothes get dirty very quickly.

Cotton leaves are actually not bad, because they are leaves. Although they have many qualities of cotton cloth, the leaves themselves are not easy to get dirty.

If it is too dirty, throw it away and sew it again. Anyway, there are many leaves near the tribe, and the leaves grow very fast.

It is enough for them to make clothes to wear, and the thread used for sewing can be drawn from the leaves, which is very convenient and does not take too much work.

But animal skins are different. Animal skins are rare, so they are naturally more cherished.

What's more, once blood stains, mud or other stains are attached to the hair on the outside of the animal skin, it is difficult to clean it with water alone.

In this way, the accumulated stains will accumulate too much, the hair on the hide will become knotted, and even emit a bad smell and rot, and the hide will have to be replaced.

Back in the tribe, Jing Que showed them how to use the saponins. First wet the blood-stained animal skins, put the saponins on it and scrub.

Wait until the bubbles are formed, then use the foam to scrub several times, watching the blood stains be washed away, and then use the stream water to wash away the saponins bubbles.

Standing by the side, Yu stared at it with bright eyes, feeling very miraculous. Obviously, she tried so hard yesterday to wash off the bloodstain, but she couldn't wash it off.

The piece of animal skin was white, and the blood stains were particularly conspicuous. She wanted to wash it clean, but she almost failed to wash and rub the animal skin.

How did it become so easy to get into Jingzhu's hands? !Is it because the scenery is more powerful?

Jing Que looked at the question marks in her eyes, and gave her a saponin from the basket next to her, "It's because of the saponin, take it and wash your hands!"

It just so happened that her hands were black due to frequent tree climbing, and they felt a little unclean, so she found soap locusts to clean them well.

Yu took the saponins and went to the stream to wash his hands. He scrubbed vigorously for a long time, held up his hands and couldn't believe it, and murmured, "It's so white."

Jing Que smiled, "Yes, saponin can not only wash your hands, but also wash your hair and take a bath. Anyway, it can be washed clean, which is very useful."

Yu nodded excitedly, smelling the scent of saponins in his hand, and immediately decided to use saponins as the focus of the collection team to find targets!

It is necessary to pick up some more, dry them and mash them into saponins for use.

Jing Que didn't stop her, his soap making journey was extremely difficult...

He originally thought that the difficulty lies in the strong alkali sodium hydroxide, and there is no way to produce sodium hydroxide, but he found a slightly inferior substitute, plant ash.

Although the effect may not be ideal, but the problem of alkali can be solved at last, and I am fully convinced that the experiment of making soap can be carried out now.

But he suddenly discovered that the difficulty was not actually sodium hydroxide. Even if he used plant ash as alkali, he still couldn't produce soap.

...because he didn't have the right grease.

When cooking in the tribe, the oil control is particularly accurate, and you can't put too much oil. Every time the meat is fried in the pan, there is oil left, and you can't wait to add the bottom of the pan.

After being strongly asked by Jing Zhu not to lick the pot and plates, many people would always gather around the clay pot after cooking, waiting to drink the oily shabu-shabu water.

The oil is not enough to eat, and I want them to boil the oil to make soap...

Jing Que suddenly felt a little stupid. He dared to boil animal oil to make soap in a primitive tribe? !

It seems that he has had a very smooth life recently, and he is a little drifting.

Is it because the saponins are not easy to use, or the cooking is not delicious? !How could he think of making soap? !

snort!Throw the scepter in anger!

After reflecting on his unrealistic thoughts, Jing Zhu continued to think, in fact... It is not impossible to make soap, and plant ash can be used as alkali.

All the animal fat obtained from hunting was eaten, and it was impossible to use it to make soap for him. Even if the tribe wanted it, he would not use it.

There is already saponin in the tribe, and the oil is not enough to eat. It is completely unnecessary to use it to make soap.

He wanted to make soap, unless he could find some kind of inedible fat.

For example, tung oil.

Jing Que has thought about tung oil many times.

It is the tung fruit of the tung tree, and the oil extracted after ripening. The tung oil is poisonous, not only inedible, but also must be carefully avoided.

In addition to the shortcoming of being inedible, tung oil itself is full of treasures and has a wide range of uses, not to mention its gloss.

Can be waterproof, the oil paper umbrella is brushed with tung oil.

Anti-corrosion, moisture-proof, and insect-proof, it is particularly friendly to wooden furniture, especially furniture in places where the environment is not good and may be damp and insect-infested.

It can be said that if the canopy beds in their tribe are coated with tung oil, be careful not to damage them, and the life span of the canopy beds can be extended by at least five or six years.

Not only that, tung oil itself can also be used to make soap, pesticides and insecticides. Needless to say, the soap is the land where the sage is grown.

Sooner or later, when pesticides and insecticides are used, and it is oil itself, it can burn, and it can light oil lamps and torches!

Now people in the tribe are active during the day, and at night because there is no light, many things cannot be done.

The daytime in the water season is slightly shorter. According to Jing Zhu's calculation, it will be dark from around [-] o'clock to bright light at nearly [-] o'clock the next day.

The night lasts more than twelve hours, but the sleep time does not need to be that long, if there are oil lamps or torches in the tribe.

At least two hours can be saved to do something, such as pickling salted duck eggs and weaving a little basket, which can be saved by lighting the oil lamp after dinner.

Even if you're afraid of hurting your eyes, it's much more convenient to do things in the cave with a light on instead of groping in the dark at night.

When Jing Que thought of making soap and wanted to light a lamp in the cave, he naturally thought of tung oil.

But tung oil is not so easy to find. Although tung oil does not pick the growth environment and lives in many places, it is still the same sentence.

The Dashan tribe is really too small, Jing Que goes out with the fish every day, and wants to go to more places to find something, but the places he can go are very limited.

Moreover, no one else in the tribe knew Youtung tree, so there was no way to ask them to help find it. The description alone would only make Yu very confused.

You can only imagine how slow the search efficiency is when he goes out with the fish.

Jing Que sighed slightly, this is really difficult.

The sky gradually darkened, and the outside of the tribe began to become lively. Among the chirping voices, the loud voice of Shan Hefeng was the most obvious.

It passed through the air unimpeded to the entrance of Jingzhu Cave, and it was heard very clearly. The two were exchanging information about the animals that the hunting team hunted today.

When Jing Que heard them say that there were many bleating beasts and black-skinned fangs beasts, he was talking happily, and his tone couldn't hide his excitement.

It seems that the hunting team has gained a lot, and no one was injured.

This is something to be happy about, a good harvest is always a joy.

Jing Que smiled from the bottom of his heart, temporarily letting go of the idea of ​​finding tung oil to make soap.

Standing up and patting the dust from the animal fur coat on his body, he came out of the cave holding his two-meter-tall scepter and walked to the tribal square.

Prepare to calculate how to divide the meat first, and start dividing the fish when the fish collection team returns. It will be faster to divide the belly draft first.

The hunting team's harvest was still very rich, with more than a dozen medium-sized prey covered with short white hairs piled up there, which were the bleating beasts that Shan said.

This is the first time Jing Que has seen the baa-baa beast they are talking about. He used to hear it from tribal exchanges, and he followed the habit of naming in the tribe.

Jing Qu once guessed that the baa-baa beast should be some kind of goat or sheep. When he saw the baa-baa beast, Jing Que found that he had guessed well.

These bleating beasts all looked like the goats he knew.

It's just slightly larger, similar to a smaller cow, with sparse and short hair, and the horns on the top of the head are about one meter long, like two sharp knives.

Jing Qu walked up to take a closer look, Shan was cutting the horns of the biggest baa-baa beast, seeing him approaching, "Jing, do you want the horns of the baa-baa beast.

Their horns are very sharp and can be ground into weapons, which are more useful than bone knives and stone knives. All the bleating beasts hunted this time have long horns.

If they are all cut off, the hunting team's stone knives can be replaced, and more pieces can be hunted in the future. "

Jing Qu nodded slightly, "Well, the male's baa baa animal horn is longer, I don't want animal horns, I want two more animal skins."

Shan was earnestly cutting the sharp horns, and was a little puzzled, "The fur on the baa-baa beast is thick and sparse, so it doesn't keep you warm. If you need animal skins to keep warm, I'll give them to you."

Ye who was cutting another horn suddenly looked up at him, and said hesitantly, "He's a man."

Shan was obviously taken aback, and then he slapped the stone knife on Ye's back, "...what are you thinking, he is a priest, so if there is anything we need, we should naturally give it to him."

Ye Ye looked at Jing He in silence, then lowered his head again, and continued to work hard to cut the horns of the baa-baa beast.

Listening to their riddles, Jing Que was full of doubts, "What are you two talking about?"

Shan and Ye avoided this topic tacitly, and instead asked him, "What do you want the animal skin for?"

Thinking of the usage of the sheepskin, Jing Qu threw the doubts to the back of his mind, "Sheepskin... I mean, there are many uses for animal skins.

Although its hair is a bit thick and not warm, it is not suitable for tanning into fur for making clothes to keep warm, but it can be tanned into leather and can be used as armor.

It can also be made into parchment and used to write notes... I have to try this first, there is no ink yet, I have to figure out how to do it. "

Sheepskin can also be used to make shoes and boots. Although lambskin boots are not as durable as cowhide, he has never encountered cowhide.

I can only use a few pieces of sheepskin to practice my hands first. Besides, sheepskin is softer than cowhide, and there will be no problem of grinding feet when made into leather boots, so I get used to it first.

These Tian Jingqus follow the fishes and run around barefoot. Every night when they come back, they have to check the soles of their feet to see if there are any wooden thorns stuck in them.

Fortunately, it may be because his body is used to bare feet, and he is quite used to walking without shoes...

Now that the materials were in front of him, he had to try to make the shoes.

Looking at the attitude of the mountain, other people in the tribe don't seem to like the look of goat skin very much.

Sure enough, Shan heard that he wanted to make parchment... Why is it called parchment when the animal skin is made? !What is parchment paper?

Shan said that he couldn't figure it out, so he simply didn't want to think about it. Anyway, as long as it was made by Jing Yu, it must be a good thing, a good thing he had never seen before.

He also didn't understand the leather that Jing said, and the priest didn't allow him to ask more questions, so it would always be good to hand things over to Jing, Shan didn't even think about it, "Then I'll give you all the animal skins.

In the past, baa baa animal skins were used to cook soup. Recently, the tribe has a lot of food. You don’t need to use animal skins to make soup to fill your stomach. You can peel them off for you! "

Jing Qu nodded in satisfaction, and watched them peel off the animal skin and soak it in the stream, waiting for him to take time to deal with it.

When I turned around and went back to the square, Yu had led the collection team back. Most of the baskets contained wild vegetables, and two of them contained saponins.

It seemed that he had found another saponin tree, so Yu smiled and approached Jing Que, and walked around in front of him, "Look, Jing, do I look good?"

Yu found that after taking a bath with saponins, she became white and fragrant. The subconsciousness of a woman's love of beauty made her start to pay attention to her own image.

Now she is wearing a pair of wide-leg trousers sewn from soft leaves, and a small vest sewn from white fox fur, revealing her lean and slender waist.

The young women in the tribe basically have a vest line, long legs, no fat at all, and a natural supermodel figure!

On her slender neck was a silver ornament given to her by Jing Que, and a necklace made of vines, and her long black hair was tied into a high ponytail, shaking gently.

On the hair next to the ears, there are two white flowers pinned. The slightly orange-red stamens in the middle are slightly dyed, which looks very delicate and charming.

Saying it doesn't look good is all deceiving.

Jing Que has always admired beautiful things, nodded with a smile, and praised, "It's beautiful."

As she spoke, she frowned slightly, and looked intently at the white flower next to her ear, and looked at it carefully, the more she looked at it, the more familiar it became.

Seeing him staring at her intently, Yu thought he was interested in her, and couldn't bear it, hesitating and hawing with hesitation on her face.