Doing infrastructure construction with a big cat [farming]

Hushi glanced into the distance: "Hui, we may have encountered something bad."

"uncle?"

"It is said that in the year when the Beast God fell, there was no god to protect the Beastman Continent. The Beastman lived in dire straits. The dry season, the rainy season and the snowy season continued, and the Beastmen suffered countless deaths and injuries. Finally, I prayed to the Great Witch and asked for the blessing of other gods, for the Beastmen after each season. Gained time. The price is the once-in-a-hundred-year 'Year of the Beast God'."

"Year of the Beast God?" Qi Hui was a little dazed when he heard the word once in a hundred years. If it happens once in 100 years, it may take four generations in the middle. I have been to similar scenes, so I will not prevent it in advance.

"Yes, in the Year of the Beast God, it is said that a calamity will happen once in a year, and all seasons will change." It's just that time has passed too long, and all the legends are passed on by word of mouth. By the time of their generation, the old legends have been forgotten up.

"Uncle, do you mean that this year is the legendary year that will change the seasons?"

"Yes." Hushi nodded, and began to explain the legend of the orc tribe to him.

Eminem's Eminem told Eminem about this, and Eminem told herself about it again. None of the three had ever encountered such a thing, and the legend disappeared as the orcs no longer believed in the Beast God.

A long time ago, the Beast God was the belief of the entire Beastman Continent.At that time, there was a big witch in every tribe. If someone in the tribe was injured, he would go to the big witch to exchange for a bowl of "divine water". After drinking it, the pain would disappear.

But one day, a tribe prayed to the beast god when a member of the tribe was injured, and got two bowls of "divine water" bestowed by the beast god. They drank one bowl and poured the other bowl on the wound.But after a few days, the wound couldn't help but not healed, and it became more and more serious.

Some people began to doubt the ability of the great witch, and then everyone discovered that most of the so-called great witches did not receive instructions from the beast gods at all. Most of the time, they used the methods taught to them by the previous great witch to deceive others' trust.

After being exposed, the fate of these great witches is to be abandoned by their clansmen.The most intolerable to the orcs is deceit. Some of the remaining great witches who are good at healing are still not trusted by others. These people gradually became discouraged and stopped imparting experience. After decades, the great witches no longer exist.

At this time, the beasts knew that the most important thing for the great witches was not to contact the beast gods, but their medical skills, which could save the dying clansmen.It's just that everyone realized it too late. At that time, the big witch had already disappeared.

"What happened later?" Qi Hui wanted to know what happened next.

"Later, there were fewer and fewer legends. Without the great witch, the orcs began to look for herbs by themselves." Although the effect was mediocre, it was better than when they didn't take the medicine.

"That means we will still be hungry this year?" Qi Hui is most concerned about this matter.

"Yes, there may be very little food this year." Hushi realized that he couldn't see anything, and retracted his eyes. "If we are lucky, these things may be eaten by everyone." Their tribe is luckier than other tribes because they have wheat and cabbage And radish, although Hushi doesn't know what kind of radish is, but as long as it is edible, it is fine.

"Uncle, why don't you start fishing tomorrow?" Since there is not enough food, save as much as you can. Qi Hui wants to catch the fish and dry them in the sun, but it rains often now, and the speed of drying fish in the sun is too slow. It may be a little slower, but I can't care about these anymore, as long as there is something to eat.

The dog clan and the wolf clan have released the sea water. If they start fishing, some of them may run into the river. If they don't fish, these fish will not come back.

It's just that the number of people must be arranged well, and there are still radishes to be planted, Qi Hui sighed, feeling that the next days will not be free.

"Hui, can we get through this year safely?" Hushi has always felt that the legend is false, because people around him don't believe the legend, but now he is afraid, if this year is really different from usual, then they What about the Cubs of the Horde?

Cubs are the most important thing for a tribe, because only with enough cubs, their tribe will become stronger and stronger.But young cubs need too much human protection and a lot of food.

There are not many cubs in the tribe now, there are seven or eight cubs who are about to grow up, and there are three newborn cubs besides Huyue's children, but there are people in the tribe who are pregnant, so before the rainy season, it may be added Several cubs.

As a result, their pressure was even greater. Before the cub was one year old, he could only rely on his mother to support him. Even now that Hui made food that the cub could eat, he needed his mother to accompany him.

Moreover, the danger outside the rainy season is no worse than that of the dry season. Hushi is very worried about his tribe. The only way is to store as much food as possible during this time.

"Tomorrow we will come back later." Hu Shi thought for a while, and decided to go out earlier in the future, "Hui, do you have a way to store food?"

"I'll think about it." Qi Hui also knew that if he wanted to save more food, he had to research a good way to store food. Now they store food by air-drying and salting.However, these two methods are not suitable for use before the rainy season. The outside temperature is not low, but it is humid, and the dried meat will be spoiled before it is completely dried.

Salting is also unreliable, handy if there is little food, but also knowing that there will be a lot of food in the next two months.They had already bothered enough to catch the food, and it would be too wasteful to take out some Huanyan, Qi Hui shook his head, this method won't work.

But what else can I do besides these two methods?Qi Hui began to recall the methods of storing meat in his previous life, as if one method was smoking.

"Is it okay to smoke?" Qi Hui asked his uncle. Smoke can indeed prolong the shelf life of meat, but he only understands the principle and does not know how to do the specific steps. The result is not necessarily good. The advantage of smoke is that there is no need to waste food for salt , the time required is also short.

"What is smoky?" Hu Shi looked puzzled.

"I'll think about it again. I'll try it tomorrow. If it works, I'll use this method to save it. If it doesn't work, I'll think of another way." Qi Hui said, he didn't know if this method was reliable.

There are many ways to smoke, but Qi Hui only remembers one. When he was a child, the pork hanging from the kitchen stove was smoked by cooking.It's just that the piece of bacon needs to be stored for a long time, so they definitely can't use that method.

The substitute that Qi Hui came up with was to directly raise the fire to smoke, but

He has no experience in making it for the first time, and he doesn't know what size hot pot is suitable.

just from the night before

At noon the next day, Qi Hui couldn't find a suitable solution.After much deliberation, Qi Hui decided to seek help from the system.

It was just the system's answer this time that made him stunned.

[Four help has been provided, and the remaining help opportunities are six, whether to continue. 】

Before that, Qi Hui thought that the system could help him all the time, but today he found out that there is still a limit on the number of times. He has used four opportunities without knowing it, and now there are only six left.

It's just that no matter how many opportunities are left, the method of bacon must be learned, and they must learn a technique to increase the stored food.

"Continue!" Qi Hui gritted his teeth and said these two words.

[Exchange successful, please wait. 】

Qi Hui waited in the room for a while, and there was an extra piece of paper in his hand, which was exactly the same as the last time, except that there were more words on the paper now.

Qi Hui could no longer understand the words on it, and it took him a long time to barely understand what it meant. Fortunately, there was a picture next to it. Combining the two, Qi Hui memorized the steps of bacon.

It's just that the method of the Optical Society is not enough, and an experiment needs to be done. Qi Hui looked at the prey that Hushi and the others brought back yesterday.

Now the two pieces of meat in his house were brought to him by Hushi and Hutian, and he and the little milk cat haven't eaten such fresh meat for several months.

Qi Hui thought for a while, and finally decided to keep one piece, and make the other a bacon material.

The wood you need can't be used casually, the kind they usually ignite can't do it.Qi Hui remembered that there was a kind of wood in the forest, which had a fragrance.Moreover, this kind of tree is very tender when it is young, and the things inside the bark are very sweet. When the fingers are thick, they can be cut off and eaten as snacks.

This kind of tree has no name, because Qi Hui named it Xiangshu because of the smell of the young saplings.

He had eaten with the wind when he was a child, and it was one of the few snacks in the tribe. If a fragrant tree was found near the foot of the mountain, all the cubs in the tribe would be very excited.Because the cubs can't go too far away, the wood in the deep forest can stay.

When adult orcs usually pick, they will bring some branches of the incense tree, but they know to leave a large part to let them grow slowly. Once they are picked clean, they will be gone next time, so they don’t bring many back. .

Qi Hui planned to use the branches of this tree to smoke meat. There are many fragrant trees in the deep forest, but because the trees are too tall, and the branches are already big, even if they are cut down, they will not have that sweet taste, so there is no smell. People will bring it back.

However, this kind of tree emits a unique fragrance when it grows up. Qi Hui asked the people of the tribe and knew that this fragrance is not harmful.

The fragrance of the fragrant tree is not the kind of fragrance of flowers, but a kind of smell that belongs to the tree alone, faint, Qi Hui thinks it is just right to use it to smoke meat.

It's just that there are no incense tree branches near them now, Qi Hui thinks about it in the cave, and decides to go out to seek Mu's help.

Mu is currently leading people to grow radishes. The radish seeds he took out yesterday, all the picking team members did not go out today, because the open space under the mountain has been filled with cabbages, and they can only go further.

Qi Hui didn't go out today because he was thinking about bacon, but now he can only pass by, with three cubs in his arms, Qi Hui walked slowly to where they went, and occasionally saw a rabbit running past on the road .Just don't mention that he has three cubs on him now, even if there are no cubs, he can't catch them.

Qi Hui glanced regretfully at the rabbit that had already run away. The rabbit ran too fast, let alone him, even Lei and Hei couldn't catch it now.

"Oh, when can I eat another rabbit." Qi Hui sighed, he had a good meal that day, and he never dared to let go of eating meat again, not to mention the need to store food now, but to say that he He owed a large debt, and he didn't dare to act rashly.He might try to be a vegetarian as much as possible until he pays off his debts.

What Qi Hui didn't expect was that after he only said a word, the little milk cat in his arms suddenly jumped out, and then ran to the place where the rabbit had just passed.