Reborn stone tools to farm

After more than a month of delay on the island, a group of people returned to the Taoist tribe with a full load of snow-white salt grains. When some of the rice had already begun to ripen, a little bit of golden yellow was scattered in the emerald green ocean, which pleased Tang Zheng more than anything else.

There are clusters of pods in the soybean bushes, which are a bit smaller than the ones eaten before, but the output is definitely much higher than that of rice. If you don't sell them in the past two years, you can improve the food for the cattle.

The wild rice randomly sprinkled by the fish pond does not need to be taken care of, and now it is growing in pieces. It can be seen by people to see if any of them have grown "crooked" and become wild rice stems. They are all excellent things.

Among these fields is a small piece of Tang Zheng's experimental field, in which some "deformed" rice is planted. When harvested, they will not fall off automatically. They are fatal inferior genes in the natural environment, but this is what Tang Zheng wants most. need.Selective breeding, slowly select the best quality and most suitable parts of these plants to become seeds, so that they can get rid of the most primitive form and become more suitable for cultivation and mass production.

Treat these crops with care, they will not repay humans, but passively growing tall and strong is more suitable for humans to harvest.

Seeing that the crops in the field were almost ripe, but none of the barns had been built, Tang Zheng quickly recruited people to start building.This first year doesn't need much, about three barns with a diameter of two meters and a height of three or four meters are enough.Made of wood, a hollow section is propped up under the canopy of the dome, where the grain is poured.There is a small door at the bottom of the barn that can be opened, just like a drinking fountain, it is very convenient to take as much as you eat.

The two apprentices, Tan and Ji, are busy leading people to build the barn. Tang Zheng grabs the big apprentice Shan to choose stone materials. She has to make two things that will be used soon.

The first piece of stone was very large, and it was directly excavated from the nearby mountain rocks exposed on the ground, and two people hugged to surround it. It was used to make an utensil related to food and drink - a stone mill.

The style of the stone mill is very simple. There are two circular turntables, one large and one small. Two holes, plus the upper hole where the millstone is poured into the grain, not to mention the general shape of the stone mill, these three places alone took two people several days of work.

The matching sides of the two grinding discs are divided into eight equal fan shapes from the center, and then grooves are drawn on the triangles inside. The lines inside a triangle face up to the left, and the next adjacent line faces up to the right. The depth of the notch depends on whether the stone mill is used to grind soybeans or rice. The groove between the two grinding discs will cut and grind them in the opposite direction, and they will be collected and poured several times to get fine powdery rice flour. Or soy flour.

Of course, it is also good to make soybean milk after soaking soybeans fully.

Tang Zheng has some brine for ordering tofu, and there is no time to find gypsum, but she has plenty of brine as a by-product of drying salt.The bittern rich in magnesium chloride is poisonous and tastes bitter. You need to control the amount when using it. The tofu made with this kind of bitter taste is generally called old tofu. If you have time, you still have to find gypsum to make soft tofu. .

Time flies quickly when you are busy. In a blink of an eye, most of the rice has matured and harvested. Several tribesmen are harvesting straw in the field. With these straw and soybean stems and leaves, the cattle in the snow season There is no need to go outside to collect rations.On the flat open space paved with clay bricks, the rice was turned to dry, yellow and orange, and the soybeans were not in a hurry, and it would not be too late to harvest after the whole plant dried up.

At this moment of happiness even though it is busy, Que and Liao, who had attended the gathering of the Stone Tribe, came to visit again with their clansmen, and they were surprised to see the pieces of food, even if they didn't take it seriously before.

"You really used the things I gave you to conjure so much?" Que asked incredulously to the smiling Tang Zheng standing in front of him.

The word "change" is used very well. Tang Zheng's vanity was greatly satisfied, and she said with a joke: "Do you still think I was joking in the last fruit season?"

"No, no, no." Que shook his head again and again, the previous indifference had long since disappeared, "Just tell me what else you need besides seeds, I'll get people ready early. Next year, next year I'll start planting!" It's not delicious but not impossible Eat, she has more people who can grow more of this kind of thing than the wood tribe, she knows the benefits of food very well!

Tang Zheng looked at her eagerness and shook her head amusedly, "Talk slowly later, it's getting late, let's go eat first."

"Hahaha, I'm hungry, it's not too late to talk when I'm full." Liao laughed loudly.Farming is none of his business, and he will trade cattle, sheep and sparrows in the future, so he is naturally not in a hurry.

"Okay, let's go!" Que glared at Liao angrily, and walked towards the lobby.

They were shocked by the rice all over the ground before, but the two of them now saw that the wooden tribe looked different from a year ago.The ground was covered in pieces that looked like pottery, and it was smooth and comfortable to walk on. There were houses lined up on both sides, and the strange thing was that most of the wall facing them was empty.

"These houses are so strange, how can you sleep at night if you don't block them?" Liao, who has a straightforward personality, asked directly.

"Ah, these are not for people to live in." Tang Zheng slowed down and explained to the puzzled two: "Do you see that when there are many people in the Stone Tribe, isn't it very chaotic? Those who sell one thing are in one room , so it’s easy to find.”

Liao nodded half-understood, walked two steps and suddenly felt something was wrong, clapped his hands in surprise and said, "Okay, you actually came up with this idea, this is to become the second Stone Tribe."

Tang Zheng laughed but said nothing, Que sneered and mocked: "Is your brain blocked by meat? If it weren't for the lack of people in the clan, she would have been able to do it a year ago."

Que is a sensible person, and he is more transparent than Liao in these aspects. If he finds out and doesn't stop him, he also acquiesces.

Seeing Liao's face flushed, Tang Zheng said with a smile: "Isn't this a good thing for you? Your two families are far away, and I happen to be in the middle. When you have extra meat and food in your hands, come to me. Naturally, you can buy them all, and then you can buy them directly from me no matter what you need, saving most of your effort, right?"

Liao is not stupid, and there must be discrepancies in the prices, so he snorted coldly and said, "Hmph, no matter what, you are the one who has the best advantage."

"Hehehe, it depends on the two of you whether my life is going well or not." Tang Zheng chuckled lightly and catered to her.

When the reception hall arrived, Tang Zheng talked and smiled and took the two of them to a seat, and the clansman consciously went down to serve the dinner.

After everyone sat down, Tang Zheng said, "I call the things grown in the field rice. Since it's time to collect them, I should invite you to taste them tonight."

Que and Liao frowned when they heard the words, the rice they said was not as delicious as taro.

Not long after, Tang Zheng's clansmen came in with bowls of snow-white rice. The bowl with a big face was only half filled. No matter how good the appetite of primitive people is, there is a ration. Rice is hard to come by. If you can't eat enough, add more. It can't be wasted.

"What's this? Don't you mean rice?" Que asked, pointing at the contents of the bowl.

Tang Zheng pretended to be mysterious and said, "Try it first?"

There is a spoon by the side of the bowl for those who don't know how to use chopsticks. Others don't do it. Tang Zheng took the lead and took a spoonful of shredded pork blanched in salt water in the middle of the table and put it in the bowl. There were also some diced mushrooms in it. taste, then scooped up a spoonful of rice from the bottom, put it into the mouth together with the top dish, and said vaguely while chewing: "Let's eat together."

The exclamation of those who dared to try it came from below, Que and Liao took a bite of it suspiciously, and then opened their eyes wide in surprise, Que asked: "Is this rice?"

Tang Zheng nodded with a smile, and what he was eating now was real white rice.

The outer layer of rice not only has rice husk, but also a layer of hard rice bran, which tastes very bad. After drying the excess water in the open air, remove the rice husk, put it in a rice pounding bucket and smash the hard shell with a rice pestle to get soft and glutinous rice. white rice.Moderate force is enough when pounding the rice, the broken shell will not hurt the white rice inside, and the hardness of the rice is beyond imagination.

Naturally, the rice pounding barrel was the second object Tang Zheng made. It was a smooth stone with a hole in the middle, which was much easier to make than a stone mill. The rice pounding pestle was just a wooden stick with a thick root and a smooth bottom.

The steamed rice will not look watery after being stuffed in the pot for a period of time, and the grains will be full and not loose. Eating it is a long-lost satisfaction in the mouth. For the birds, this obvious sense of fullness Only taro can be compared with it, that is to say, rice can completely replace taro, and it is even better in yield and taste!

At this moment, Mi's position in everyone's hearts instantly rose several heights.

With a few simple dishes, Tang Zheng and Que were full after eating the bowl in their hands, and Liao went to add another bowl. After a meal, the sense of fullness of rice seems to be even better than that of taro. , making the sparrow even more excited, wishing to plant a wave now.

With enough water and food, Tang Zheng asked Que: "How is it? Can this kind of rice satisfy you?"

Que laughed heartily, "Hahaha, you are such an amazing person, good, very good!"

"From then on, the rice we trade must be the same as the rice we just ate." Tang Zheng made some requests in a timely manner.

"Yes, it has to be like the one I just ate!" Liao also said.

"Okay!" Zheng Xing didn't take this trivial matter to heart, and readily agreed.

The three looked at each other and laughed, thinking that having such a stable and affordable source of food for their partners is equivalent to having this channel for themselves, and it is easy to exchange their own surplus cattle and sheep, and they are naturally happy in their hearts.

Que is obviously the biggest winner. With this kind of technology for nothing, he can fully imagine the scene where there will be too much food in the future.

And Tang Zheng...you can buy and sell in the future, empty-handed and in vain!

"It's getting dark, why don't we come here today?" Tang Zheng suggested.

"Okay." The two looked at the sky outside and felt a little tired.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the place where you live." Tang Zheng got up and led them to the place to live, and let the clansmen make arrangements one by one, then stretched their backs and walked home.

From a distance, she could see that the lights were on at home, and the windows hadn't been closed. She was having dinner with Que and the others. I don't know what Jing ate that night. It should be with the old grandmother and the others.

There was a light in front of the house, and when Tang Zheng approached, he found a figure in front of the small bridge. He wondered why Jing was still packing things at such a late hour, could it be that he was waiting for him?As a result, Tang Zheng squinted his eyes and looked, oh, this kid, Lynn, is quite affectionate, and he is not an educated member of her clan, so his ideological consciousness is a bit high!

The author has something to say: I discussed it with a little angel two days ago, nothing else, but I found something that you didn't pay attention to or didn't care about.

Although the modern Mandarin I used throughout the story is convenient for expression, our protagonist actually speaks a dialect!It is still the kind of dialect that is developing in the direction of ancient Chinese and vernacular!

Hahahahahaha, does it have the feeling of a great country love story!

Especially the cuties in East China and South China, don't automatically bring in the native dialect (serious face).