Orcs through the age

This year's sacrifice is different from previous years.

First of all, Canaan, Luo Lei and I each held a glass of wine and poured three glasses to sacrifice to the gods at night.After that, a few more glasses of wine were poured, and everyone had some wine in their hands, and let them throw it towards the sky and the ground.

The living belong to the day, the dead belong to the night, and the dead return to and be with the gods—that's what I tell the people here.

In the past, we never worshiped our ancestors, because everyone's life is not easy, and it is very difficult to live by relying on God, let alone remembering our ancestors.

But I believe that our life will definitely get better and better.Therefore, offering sacrifices has become necessary.

When offering sacrifices to the ancestors, I could see that the people from the He clan were a little emotional, while the people from the You clan were not so serious.

Thinking about it, most of them were abandoned by their clansmen, in other words, they were abandoned by their ancestors. It is really not necessary for them to ask them to sacrifice to their ancestors.

But I told Canaan that one day, we will also become the ancestors of future generations. If someone can remember and worship us with such a spirit, it can be regarded as proof of our existence.

Therefore, members of the You Clan still tried their best to participate in this sacrifice.

After offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, we began to eat the New Year's dinner.

Fried sweet potato balls and pancakes are served in large pottery plates, and those who want to eat them can put them in their own bowls. Roasted pork with onions, dry roasted pork with pickled vegetables, and steamed fish with black bean sauce are served in large pots with large spoons inside. You can use a spoon to scoop it yourself. The steamed meatballs are still placed on the dried radish soup that is simmering on a low fire, and they are placed in a steamer. Those who want can take it by themselves.

The whole is probably the prototype of a buffet.

While I was still watching the other two clay pots burning on the fire, Ari was very sensible and helped me pack some things, filled a large bowl, and put it beside me.

Although, from time to time his eyes were aimed at the pot that I was still looking at the fire.

In fact, not only children, but also adults.Although everyone is eating in their mouths, they are also very interested in the clay pot that is still cooking in my hand.

Check that the heat is about the same, use a long wooden chopstick to poke it in to see if it is fully cooked, and see that everyone has almost eaten, and they are still staring at my movements.

I finally waved Raleigh over to help me carry the jar.

In fact, I don’t need to be called Luo Lei, Hongda and the others rushed over, took the initiative to help me lift the clay pots, and then stared at the two clay pots in front of me.

I've told them long ago that cooking in a clay pot is my secret weapon.So everyone was a little excited, and even everyone gathered around to watch.

When I opened the clay pot, the aroma made Hongda and the others want to eat it even more.

Open the earthenware pot, pour out the meat that has been boiled thoroughly, and the color is reddish-sauce, and put it on the large earthenware plate. Within a few minutes, everyone has already snatched up this kind of meat with a strong fragrance.

In fact, as early as when the Hezu made tempeh, I had already tried to make soy sauce. At that time, I also tried to use boiled soybeans and wheat flour to make the base of soy sauce. I just tried a few times, and I don’t know. Whether it is the relationship between the weather or the time, there is always no success.

When it came out later, I dropped a lot of things at that time, but this jar, I thought that one day I might be able to eat some barbecue with sauce or something, so I brought it along with the wine.

Adding a handful of sweet grass and some sweet potato wine that Ah Yuan gave me this time, I specially made homemade Dongpo pork for the first Chinese New Year.

The taste is certainly incomparable with modern Dongpo pork, but for the people here, this sweet and salty taste with the aroma of star anise is undoubtedly a good stimulation for the taste.

And the kind of meat that is cut into the size of a palm, because it has been cooked layer by layer in a clay pot for an afternoon, it is already quite tasty. It melts in the mouth when eaten, and both adults and children like it very much.

Once again caused the tribe to boil.

To be able to eat things that others can never eat, and to have better living conditions, is something to be grateful for.

Taking this opportunity, I also took the opportunity to show you that black sauce together with the wine that God gave us.And under the leadership of Canaan and Luo Lei, the whole clan worshiped the god again, thanking him for giving us so many things.

Sometimes I think about the usefulness of the gods. Anything is given by the gods. As for why they are given to me, because I am the messenger of the gods.

It was no doubt a boon to my increasingly detached position, too.

Maybe if this momentum develops, we can also expand our tribe.Coupled with the reason given by the gods, even if my dream of empire will not succeed, there is still hope for the ideal of the great tribe.

Probably because there were so many delicious foods and some good news, the first Chinese New Year celebration was very successful, and everyone was reluctant to move after eating it. Even the mess was cleaned up the next afternoon.

As for the next morning, everyone went to bed too late and didn't get up.

Although it was still winter during Chinese New Year and the mountains and forests were still covered with snow, after more than a month, the snow began to melt gradually.

Everyone didn't go out much in winter, and they were almost suffocated.

Everyone was very happy when they heard the sound of snow water starting to melt.

The kids were already running around outside.Even the males couldn't wait to get out and hunt.

The animals we kept on the plain in front of us were also very excited about the arrival of spring, and they began to gnaw on the grass that was just emerging from the ground.If they hadn't been released, I really doubt that the grass here can continue to exist?

Also began to think about planting grass.

Although it is already spring, I poked the ground with my stick. It seems that it is still too early to plow the ground, and the frozen soil is probably still thick.However, in order to realize my dream of planting two seasons a year, we also raise seedlings in large wooden square pots at home.

Now we don’t have as many people as before. If we only plant one season a year, we will undoubtedly have to plant a large area. Although the land here is definitely enough now, we don’t have such manpower.Seeing that the natural conditions here allow it, it is better to prepare earlier and strive for two seasons of harvest.

I also discussed with Canaan and Luo Lei. They use a few people to hunt every day, and the rest will stay with me to raise livestock and farm land.

Everyone has seen farming. Although the Youzu people have not stayed for long and have no idea about harvesting, they are still very impressed with the wheat and sweet potatoes all over the ground. They are very impressed with the farming circle. I also like the living animals very much, so I don't have much opinion on this.

At the end of November and the beginning of December when the winter started to be less busy, we organized the clansmen to build a new barn and breeding pen. In the downwind area of ​​the tribe, we used fences to form a large circle. A few sheds were built near the foot of the mountain, and a few manure pits were dug behind to store farmyard manure.So there is no need to worry about the breeding circle for the time being.

But things like arable land have still become a problem.

Last year, when there was no snow in the sky, I organized everyone to dig a canal about one meter wide from the small stream to the river along the edge of the lowest depression, and introduce the water from the river into this canal. At the same time, the water of the stream is also separated, and several canals with tight cross-sections divide this nearly rectangular depression into a well-shaped shape in a frame. It is planned to make the three parts of this depression near our tribe into rice planting first. the fields.The flat in front of the rice is intended to be used to grow our stored wheat, sweet potatoes, potatoes, rapeseed and a small amount of cotton.

According to this plan, the land we want to plant is very large.

Not to mention the land that was originally prepared to grow dry crops on the plain, there are even more than 30 acres of land for rice.Don't even think about planting grass.

Excluding the hunters, those we can really stay to do in the fields, and the two who are responsible for collecting grass to feed the animals every day, there are only about ten people.

No matter how streamlined and streamlined it is, at least we must grow enough food for a year.

How to plant these lands, I have a problem.

Spoiler: Luo Lei ([-])

Arnold will do a lot of strange things. Although it turns out that what he did is good for the development of the tribe, I am still worried.

He would go to the river alone to catch fish, and he would come back with the kind of fish that was almost as long as he could grow.Once, when I went to find him, I saw a cow behind him pushed him into the water when he was not paying attention.

If I hadn't picked him up quickly, I would have been scared to death.

He would also take a so-called hoe and start digging holes in the plain.Then cover that hole with twigs and grass.Wait for the animal to fall in.

But once, when he went to drag a wild sheep that fell into the hole, he almost fell into the hole with himself.

If it weren't for the people who went to find him to pull him back, I don't know what he would have become.

Every day I worry about what will happen to him, or whether he will come back home at night after running around like this.

But looking at the life of the clansman getting better and better because of him, I couldn't help feeling very proud in my heart.

When he married me, I gave him a young buffalo, and I remember he said he wanted to catch a young buffalo to raise.

Rather than catching a young buffalo when he doesn't know when, why don't I give him one, just hoping he can settle down a bit.Even if you want to know it's impossible.

The Arnold I married is completely different from the previous Arnold. He will do what he likes by himself, and he has the ability to live a better life than others.I don't even know why he wants to stay with me.

But I'm glad to be married to him.

Although I thought about it later, he and I were married, more likely, he didn't care about anything, and I was the first person he met to marry him.

On the day we got married, we didn't do anything, although I really wanted to kiss him, and then...

He said he was too young to do it.

Why didn't I know this was his excuse?Ah Xing is the same age as him, but Luo Lie is about to become a father.

I don't know if I will be so tolerant to other people, but to him, even though I feel a little uncomfortable, I still nodded.

In fact, apart from these, our life is very good.

With the help of the traps he taught me to make, I also discovered that we could drive bison and sheep into traps with a lot less effort.

We have enough jerky to eat all winter, as well as the sweet potato vermicelli he invented and the potato flour that we only have at home.

Although he can be mischievous sometimes, cook the so-called chili in the broth that I don't want to eat at all, and put a lot of vegetables in the broth I eat every day, but with him, I am more than ever Eat well.

He even made me a bow and arrow as he said!Prey can be shot from far away, and we don't even have to worry about getting hurt if we get too close to fight!

I spent the winter alone with him and we prepared more food than I had seen in any previous winter.

In fact, I should be satisfied, his personality is actually quite submissive, he hardly talked to me loudly, and a few times when I heard Ah Xing and Luo Lie quarreling, I felt that his personality was really good .

He can hunt and fish by himself, he can catch many animals to raise, and he will tell me some strange things like "36 Strategies" and "Sun Tzu's Art of War".

And because of his relationship, the tribe and us seem to have become more harmonious, and now the tribe prefers to come to us for many things.

But in fact, I still have some regrets, maybe it is what he said, the more you know, the more you want.

Sometimes I also feel that he has something to lie to me, and I also feel that he is using everything he told me on me, but I can't say anything.

When we lived together at the mouth of the cave in winter, he taught me how to make warm shoes, made me “pants” to wear inside, and even made fried dough pancakes for me, although in the end we had to make them for the whole family Some, and thus use up most of our oil and stored animal eggs.

But I wanted to hug him, but I couldn't.

Sometimes I think about it, maybe I might have to persist like this for the rest of my life.