It is not easy to traverse the wilderness

Song Lai found that the Artemisia annua buds were getting more and more bitter, and few people in the tribe collected them anymore.But I haven't eaten enough, so I went out in the morning to pick the most tender willow wormwood buds and collected a large basket, and when I got home at noon, I washed them one by one, then drenched them with water, and marinated them in a small jar.After keeping it for later, I thought about it and ate it. After marinating a jar full, Song Lai felt that his life was complete.

After pickling the pickles, I found that the salt in the house was gone immediately.Thinking about it, I still haven’t gone to the beach. The weather is not too cold or hot, so I should go to the beach.All kinds of clams, sea vegetables, shrimps and crabs.But before going there, I still need to prepare some tools or something, at least get some sets of jars.The pottery at home is obviously not enough, so we need to build a pottery kiln. The most important thing is that after the pottery kiln is built, if An Ye can't find stone slabs, he can still use the pottery kiln to burn bricks.

After An Ye came back at night, Song Lai and An Ye talked about their plans for the future, but they were told that because the place was too unfamiliar, the hunting of the men was not smooth, the speed of advance was very slow, and the distribution of prey was not very clear, so If Song Lai wanted to go to the seaside or build a pottery kiln, he had to do it himself, and even the women couldn't help much, because the women still had to collect.

Song Lai suddenly realized that since he traveled here, he allocated his own time, and no one asked him to do anything.In the end, I talked to An Ye.An Ye smiled and said, "Because you have food." Having food means that you can do what you want, and you can arrange your life as you like, and what you eat is An Ye From hunting and gathering.Walking to An Ye's side, leaning on him lightly.It feels safe and warm.

Song Lai still went to the patriarch and told him about the construction of the kiln, hoping that he could assign someone to help build the kiln. After hearing Song Lai's words, the patriarch distributed Xunfeng to him. The stonemason does not usually go out to hunt. The food at home is collected by his women and distributed to him by the tribe. He is mainly responsible for the production of stone knives and axes in the tribe.It is also very important in this tribe.Song Lai chose a place as the construction site for the vertical pottery kiln. After drawing the size on the ground, he and Xun Feng dug up the upper soil layer. When they dug to the rock layer below, they needed Xun Feng. Little by little, he smashed the rocks where Song Lai was painting and dug them out.After five or six days, a stone pit with a diameter of three meters and a depth of 1.5 meters was dug.Song Lai used the excavated stones to build a vertical pottery kiln directly on the dug pit with soil.

After the pottery kiln was built, Song Lai started looking for pottery clay. The pottery clay used to be made of sticky soil by the river. Song Lai decided to go to the nearby mountains to see if he could find kaolin or something.After searching Song Lai for several days, he didn't find any kaolin. Fortunately, there is a kind of red clay by the river here, which is more suitable for firing pottery, and there is a lot of it.Song Lai brought back several backpacks one after another.Put aside the daily beating.

Song Lai chose the backyard of his house to be the place where the forest used to be. The roots of the trees felled by the men in winter are still in the soil. In the past few days, Song Lai went to dig the roots and pick up the branches one by one, preparing to burn pottery.After less than half a month of preparation, the first batch of pottery was ready, and two of Song Lai's potted lotus seeds had germinated.The only two precious seedlings that germinated were loaded into a huge clay pot, and I planned to raise them artificially until they bloomed.

After arranging the family affairs, Song Lai still felt that he was going to go to the beach. He found Oss and the patriarch and explained the benefits of going to the beach in detail. There was no way to go away, and finally decided to send two strong men to Song Lai to take a few women to the beach together, but this time An Ye did not accompany Song Lai, because he was responsible for leading the men to open up the present The environment around the tribe.

Song Lai brought some pottery pots and flint, and set off with more than a dozen people, because the tribe is now divided into two parts, one part goes to the seaside with Song Lai, and the other part goes hunting with An Ye. There were very few, so the tribe resumed the habit of cooking and eating together, and the food returned from hunting every day was put together and distributed uniformly.

Before Song Lai left, Oss earnestly asked Song Lai to go back quickly and return to the tribe before the Changing Moon Festival. Oss said that although there are no single women in the tribe now, there are couples who got married last year. People, this year will be blessed by the patriarch and clan members, and Song Lai and An Ye are one of them.

Song Lai walked all the way to the beach and was still in a state of confusion, as if he was stupid.Why did I and An Ye become a couple? No, if it was really me and An Ye, they would also be called husband and wife.Kenima, what the hell is going on.At that time, I just felt that it was too sad that no one gave An Ye fruits and vegetables. It's so common for men to do gay things.It is obvious that the relationship between husband and wife is normal in the tribe, but a couple suddenly appeared, why did everyone accept it so flatly?What the hell is going on with this Nima.

Song Lai was extremely entangled in thinking and incompetent.The whole person followed the crowd to the beach in a daze, until the salty sea breeze blew head-on, and it was still a little damp and cold.Song Lai came back to his senses and remembered that he was here to cook salt and collect food.On a flat beach, the waves beat repeatedly on the beach.As far as the eye can see a lot of sea vegetables washed ashore, and some fish, shrimp and shells.

Invite everyone to build a firepit on a high ground by the sea first, then go to pick up branches, and put the huge pottery pot he brought on the built firepit. A long soil ditch about ten centimeters long, and then put branches on the soil ditch to cover the soil to make four hollow long ditches, then build a simple shack on the ditch, surround the firepit with soil, and make a simple stove.In this way, the heat from boiling the salt can heat the hut along the soil ditch. After all, the seaside is still very cold at night. Song Lai divided the dozen or so people he brought with him into two groups. Looking at the only two men who came out of Song Lai, Song Lai divided them into two groups, one group was in charge of boiling salt, and the other group was in charge of collecting salt.

Boiling salt was more difficult than imagined, because the branches were wet, it was not very smooth at the beginning, and they had to collect a lot of firewood for cooking salt, but fortunately, there were some woods nearby for them to get cooking firewood. Firewood for salt, so they began to take turns to collect firewood, and the collection was smoother than ever, because sea vegetables and shells and conch were everywhere on the beach. Song Lai left two people to watch the fire of boiling salt, and then led Everyone went to the beach to pick up seafood.

Because the people in the tribe have never seen the sea, let alone know about the ebb and flow of the tide, Song Lai was afraid that everyone would be in danger and never told everyone to go far, and they all searched for something to eat near him, while the salt cooker was in Looking at the fire and the water in the pot from the highland hut in the distance, Song Lai grasped the law of the ebb and flow of the tide until three or four days later, and told the tribal people in detail, and let them feel the time and appearance of the ebb and flow. Until everyone understood Song Lai, they let them go and explore by themselves.

Song Lai picked up sea vegetables at the beach and found that there were several kinds of them. Song Lai could only vaguely recognize one or two of them, but fortunately, these two kinds occupied the mainstream position on this beach, so he picked up quite a few of them.Song Lai took them to wash all the kelp they picked up, and then dried it near the shack. It took about two days for the kelp to dry without any moisture.Tie the dried kelp with straw rope and put it aside.

Song Lai also spared time to go fishing in the sea, but he didn't know whether it was because the fish in the sea had more food, or because they were smarter. Song Lai didn't catch a single fish, but he was on the beach on the way back. Picked up a half-meter-long sea fish, Song Lai took the sea fish back to the shack and saw that the first pot of salt had already come out, a layer of white flowers, carefully gathered together with small pieces of wood and put it into the jar. The amount of the small bowl, if you follow this speed, if you want to fill all the jars you brought, it will take about a month.After clearing the salt, Song Lai made a sea fish stewed kelp for everyone.Although there is no seasoning, sea fish has always been fresher than river fish and has no earthy smell.The monosodium glutamate was first extracted from kelp, which was full of umami. As a result, this big pot of sea fish stewed the sea completely captured these people, so that the number of kelp they brought soared in the next few days.

After coming to the beach, Song Lai began to eat differently every day, because there are so many things to eat at the beach.Conch, clams, kelp, fish and other things, every time Song Lai made a certain seafood that was more delicious, the number of such things would increase sharply the next day. Song Lai saw that everyone could only pick up some on the beach The fish and shrimp were a little depressed. After all, there were still a small number of fish and shrimp washed into the sea. Song Lai thought of the fishing net.If there is a fishing net, then I can go back with a lot of dried fish and shrimp, enough to eat for a whole winter.

Song Lai experimented with making it with grass, but it failed. Before he entered the water to catch fish and shrimp, the fishing net fell apart by itself.Later, I used a branch of a tree on the seashore, but the result was also unsuccessful. The first time I went into the water, it was okay, but once I caught fish and shrimp, I couldn’t eat it.It would be great if there were some skins. Cut the skins into strips and weave them into fishing nets, then you can catch fish. It’s all because the fish in the river are so easy to catch. I didn’t think of fishing with nets before, but now Far from the camp, there is nowhere to go to look for skins to make fishing nets.Song Lai felt a little depressed.

But fortunately, the amount of sea vegetables and some seafood we can pick up now is not bad. I am busy drying kelp and cooking salt every day, and my life is quite fulfilling.