Reborn stone tools to farm

After eating, Tang Zheng found some dry fine vines and kneaded two straw nests at random. After putting five eggs in them, the two hens instinctively squatted on them.

Tang Zheng plucked the wings and feathers of the two roosters to prevent them from jumping out. They screamed in pain, then surrounded the ground with branches about one meter away, threw some leftover fruit pits into it, and Some shepherd's purse dug before.

Before going to bed at night, Tang Zheng put the mushrooms in a basket and dried them together on the drying rack.I patted the two deerskins on the drying rack, they were relatively dry and soft, but it was still very early.

The women now have an extra bedtime activity of weaving baskets. Now that they pack everything up, there are five or six more. Tang Zheng considers using these baskets to exchange for something in a few days.

As usual, she fell asleep by the fire on the drying rack. Tang Zheng slept a little soundly, probably because she was too tired to go out today. If it was before crossing, Tang Zheng believed that she would have collapsed on the ground halfway through. The difference is that big.

When she woke up the next day, the tribe had already gone out, because Tang Zheng had a special relationship and no one cared whether she was working or not. Every new thing she made gave the tribe endless benefits.

Because she missed breakfast, her grandmother kindly left some pears for her, which were sour, but at least there were some to eat.

Some more firewood was added to the fire, which was chopped by the men in the tribe. Seeing that she needed it, a group of people ran out and carried several baskets back. All of them are really cute.

Went to the stream to find some rocks, Tang Zheng set up a shelf that was the same as when cooking mushrooms yesterday, Tang Zheng made a new batch of pottery bowls a little bigger than the previous ones, and then took out a small bag from the drying shelf Wrapped in leaves, there is a large piece of fat she bought specially, which is the whole fat on the deer's buttocks.

Because it was washed at night, it was baked next to the fire for one night. It was clean and there was no moisture. When it was chopped and placed in a hot pottery bowl, it made a "squeaky" sound, and the aroma of oil was full after a while. The whole lot.

The old grandmother, Shan Hezhi ran over to look around, no one could block the smell of meat oil, they just thought Tao was really amazing, he could conjure delicious food that he had never seen before.

Tang Zheng used two peeled twigs to stir the fat in the bowl. The clear oil became more and more fat and the fat became smaller and smaller. When the fat was refined until only oil residue was left, there was a piece of fat in the bowl. A whole half a bowl of meat oil.

After carefully filtering out the oily residue, Tang Zheng poured in the rest of the fat, and in the end the oil was less than a bowl.

Tang Zheng put a grain of oil residue into her mouth, and her mouth was full of fragrance, which greatly satisfied her taste system that was about to explode from exhaustion in the past two days.

Then I took a piece for the old grandmother, Shan and Zhi to try it out and refused to give it any more. The three of them looked astonished, staring at Tang Zheng's pottery bowl and couldn't take their eyes off it.

Carefully cover the bowl containing the oil residue with leaves and tie it tightly with thin vines and put it next to the drying rack. Tang Zheng took off the deerskin. It was still warm, a little hard but basically no different from the one he was wearing.

After the oil cooled for a while, Tang Zheng poured some directly on the deerskin and spread it evenly with his hands, then asked Shan to help him beat it with a wooden stick.

The mountain has great strength and good patience. It is basically regarded as Tang Zheng's personal "coolie".

Tang Zheng cooperated with the beating of the mountain, and kept folding the animal skins under his hands. Until about noon, Tang Zheng felt that the two animal skins had softened to a certain extent, and then Tang Zheng hung them up directly. On the drying rack.

In fact, it can be done only by smoking, but Tang Zheng wanted to be safe and perfect when dealing with it for the first time, because it was worn on his body after all.

After finishing the work, I felt a little hungry. I only ate two sour pears in the morning. In order to satisfy my appetite, Tang Zheng asked the old grandmother to take a few mushrooms, chopped them and put them into the pottery bowl with hot water. , and then ran back to take out the oil dregs and put a few grains. Although there was still no salt, Tang Zheng was almost moved to tears by himself. The mushrooms were delicious and the meat dregs were crispy. It was really the taste in my memory...

Although in the end her one bowl turned into four bowls for everyone to see, Tang Zheng was also a little happy after a little heartache. Isn't her goal to let the people of the clan live a good life?It's starting now!

Afterwards, when the women came back and smelled the smell of oil in the air, they all started to be amazed. Excited, Zhi and they once again exaggeratedly described the delicious taste of soup that Tang Zheng called it, and it was rare that even Shan Shan, who had always seldom talked about it, said it. Two sentences, they drool and couldn't eat. The old grandmother said that whoever performed the best today would let Zhen make a bowl for her, which caused Tang Zheng to hold her own pottery bowl tightly. However, there is no private property in the clan This concept, unless you eat it yourself and save it for later, is like the piece of meat that is smoked.

In the afternoon, Tang Zheng followed the collection team to go treasure hunting again. There was nothing special to discover along the way, but simply picking mushrooms, picking fruits, and digging taro. It was really boring. On the way back, Tang Zheng accidentally raised her head, Surprise found.

An octagonal tree!

Star anise, also known as anise, aniseed, etc., is a native spice in China, which can remove the smell of meat.

When Tang Zheng saw it, she immediately hugged the tree trunk and asked Tao and the others to help pick it down. After all, she didn't know how to climb trees, even if she knew this body before, she didn't dare to climb it.

Most of the ingredients used in modern times are onion, ginger, and garlic. The spices are generally only used in soup, and some are added when cooking meat, but unfortunately, the above three are imported. At this time, the spices that Tang Zheng can find are not There are many, maybe mint and cinnamon, pepper is also a specialty but grows in the southwest, and the origin of other spices is basically not in China, so star anise is simply a huge pie that fell from the sky for her.

Although Tao said that this food was not tasty and could not be eaten, she still climbed up the tree at Tang Zheng's request, shaking the trunk to get a lot of it down.

Tang Zheng didn't think there were too many, but it was getting late, and the woods at night were very dangerous. In the end, Tao said that she knew a place where this kind of tree grew and helped her pick it up next time, so she reluctantly returned to the tribe .

When they returned to the tribe, the men who went out hunting hadn’t come back. They didn’t see anyone until the sun was about to go down. They had some scratches on their bodies. A man who didn’t talk much was dragging another deer. It should be called Wu, who looks very happy, at least there is still meat to eat today.

Tang Zheng took a closer look this time and found out that the deer is actually a muntjac. The horns on the top of the head are only a little bit. It should be a river muntjac. It is not too big, generally only a little bigger than a musk deer. It is unique to China. Animals, if the black deer would be bigger.

The one lying on the ground is even smaller now. It should be a little deer just a few months old, and it can only give them two meals.

Wu is the fastest runner in the clan, and he contributed the most to this muntjac. He told everyone that today they went to the stream where they went a few days ago without seeing the prey all morning. Group muntjac.

Following the old grandmother's wishes, Tang Zheng cooked a bowl of soup for Wu and Tao respectively. The two who were fresh licked the bowls clean, and the others swallowed when they were greedy.

When dividing the meat, the old grandmother asked Tang Zheng to pick off the big pieces of fat, and the lean meat was divided into four fists. Basically, except for the first day when Tang Zheng first came here, Tang Zheng has never been hungry.

Hang up the leftover meat, the previous piece has been relatively dry and hard on the surface, but I just don’t know how it tastes.

Tang Zheng took out the baby star anise again, cleaned off the skin, carefully placed it on the leaves beside the fire, looked at it several times before falling asleep in peace.

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Waking up in the new day with the smell of star anise that has been roasted, Tang Zheng stretched his waist to stretch his muscles and bones. After rinsing his mouth and eating, he didn't go out to collect any more plants. He just told Tao to dig up any plants he encountered. Show her a piece or pick a fruit. As a reward, Tang Zheng cooks delicious food for her, and Tao naturally agrees happily.

After basking in the morning sun for a while, the whole person became more energetic. Tang Zheng pulled up the back of the mountain and put a basket on to dig the wet mud by the stream a little farther away. The environment does not conform to Tang Zheng's aesthetics.

With the help of Shan, they can do everything quickly. After a while, they dug a basket of wet mud and a basket of dry mud. The dry mud was a little less, only half of the basket was still a bit difficult for Tang Zheng to carry. The influence looks a little bit envious.

After taking the big stone slab, the two began to pick the stones and leaves inside.

Then came the beating. Naturally, Tang Zheng just watched from the side at this stage, observing the humidity of the clay, and adding some dry clay to it appropriately.

Shan was involved in the whole process, which Tang Zheng did deliberately. Shan was very patient in doing things, and she wanted to make Shan her first apprentice.

Yesterday when Wu came back with the deer, Tang Zheng noticed the envy and a little disappointment in Shan's eyes. After all, Shan was the person she had the best relationship with in the tribe, and she always treated her younger brother better.

After processing all the clay, Tang Zheng took equal parts and kneaded them into cylinders with the same height and bottom diameter for easy stacking, and then knocked the remaining large piece of clay on a stone slab sprinkled with plant ash to prevent it from sticking. Cutting off the excess part is almost a round cake with a diameter of less than one meter.

After trimming the rough edges, Tang Zheng drilled a hole in the middle of the mud cake with his fingers, and then dug the mud cake outward one by one to form a briquette-like thing.She is going to build a simple kiln to fire pottery, the temperature will be much more stable, and the yield will be improved. This part is very important, but Tang Zheng really can't remember what it is called.

After finishing the treatment, Tang Zheng took Shan to find a place next to the cave to dig a hole. The hole didn't need to be deep, just enough for firewood, and it didn't need to be big, just enough to hold the mud pan just made.

While digging, Tang Zheng remembered that the horizontal strips to hold the firewood hadn't been made yet, because air needed to enter from the bottom of the firewood to allow the firewood to fully burn, making the temperature higher and more stable, so the firewood had to be lifted off the ground to set it up. OK.

The author has something to say: I have a question here, let me change it. Onion, ginger and garlic cannot be said to be imported products. The original place is not in China, so they were introduced later, but the method is not imported.