Prehistoric Widows Survival [Farming]

With the utensils and the filter straw mat, there is only one last thing before making tofu.

salt brine.

The essence of making tofu is to use electrolytes to stimulate the coagulation reaction of colloids, so that soy milk coagulates into tofu.

Both salt bittern and gypsum can be used to make tofu. Gypsum is hard to find, but salt bittern Lu Er has some ideas.

The coarse salt that Lie Hezhong bought back from nearby tribes in exchange tastes bitter, much worse than the salt he bought from Heihe tribe in the past.It's just that there is no better choice, and the people of the Redwood tribe can only hold their noses and eat the bitter salt.

After firing the pottery, Lu Er tried to purify the coarse salt by himself, and extracted a part of the more or less pure salt by simple frying and steaming, and the rest was salt brine.

The cost performance of coarse salt purification is actually very low. Lu You knew that the orcs would not be willing to waste time and energy just to get rid of the bitterness in a little salt... What salt is not eaten?

It's just that he comes from modern society and tries his best to eat more comfortably.

After thinking about making soy milk, Lu Er had asked Yong Helie for help, reluctantly made a simple small stone mill and put it outside the tent, and pushed the soaked soybeans to grind them into soy milk.

The sub-beast's physique is much weaker than that of an orc, but Lu Er's regular daily farm work exercises after time travel have made him much stronger than before, more than enough to push a millstone.

Xiao Mi didn't quite understand it, and wandered around Lu You and Mopan for a few times, and called out "Mimi" twice.

It's not that it doesn't understand what Lu Er is doing.Judging from past experience, the inexplicable things this sub-beast does are very useful in the end.

Xiao Mi just didn't understand why Lu You didn't hire orcs to do the hard work of grinding beans.

——Clearly pushing such a heavy stone, there is sweat on the forehead...

A while ago, Xiao Mi made up her mind to wait until the hair on her butt grew well before trying to transform back into an orc. Seeing Lu Er working so hard now, she felt a little shaken.

Because the stone mill is very rough, Lu Er pushed it several times before grinding the soybeans into suitable soymilk.

Filter two or three times with a straw mat made of many feathers, and the filtered bean dregs are piled aside. These bean dregs are natural and affordable fertilizers, and they can all be sown in the vegetable garden later.

The soy milk is boiled in a clay pot, poured into a pot covered with grass mats, and after a while, it is slowly stirred while dripping homemade brine. Soon, flocculent solids appear in the thick white soy milk. You use the gourd scoop to stir more and more, thicker; and the soy milk gradually becomes clear and transparent from the initial milky white.

Xiao Mi's eyes widened a lot as she watched from the side.

Seeing that it was almost done, Lu Wei stopped stirring. After standing still for a while, he lifted the two corners of the straw mat and slowly squeezed the bean curd to the middle, trying to keep the bean curd from falling apart, and finally wrapped the whole piece of unformed tofu with the straw mat Get up and squeeze the water out.

I would also like to thank the straw mat made by Duoyu. Although it is not as soft as gauze, it is not as hard as the straw mat. Lu Er can still roll it together with the wrapped tofu with strength.

Take out the ball of tofu, put it on a clean stone slab, and press another stone on it, Lu Er looked at Xiaomi who was wandering curiously around the half-clear hot water, and asked with a smile: "Xiao Mi Mi want to eat tofu?"

Xiaomi doesn't know tofu, but she knows "eat", and her ears are pricked up.

Seeing Xiao Mi's pupils brighten up suddenly, Lu You couldn't help laughing again. Because his hands were covered with water, he didn't rub Xiao Mi's hair: "You can eat it later."

After the tofu condensed into a solid under the weight of the stones, Lu Er untied the straw mat, revealing the steamy tender white tofu inside.

The world's first tofu was born in this simple little tent.

Lu Wei was very satisfied, and took a bone knife to cut a small piece and taste it directly.The freshly made hot tofu is full of deliciousness. It is soft and can be swallowed with simple chewing.

Xiao Mi watched anxiously from the sidelines, and acted like a baby again, leaning on Lu Yi's bare calf and rubbing hard, looking at Lu Yi eagerly, waiting for this sub-beast to take a bite of her.

Lu You insisted that Xiao Mi's tongue is afraid of heat, so she must let the tofu cool before giving it to Xiao Mi. Xiao Mi watched Lu Er blow the delicious and soft food until it was no longer hot, and then jumped on it and took a bite. .

- Woo, delicious!

The deliciousness of tofu completely exceeded Xiaomi's expectations.It's hard to imagine that this tender food is made from those round soybean seeds!

It didn't like to eat those vegetarian foods that were tasteless and tasteless, and it wasn't until the last time it tasted Lu Yi's salted soybeans that it felt that the seeds of this plant tasted good.

But at that time, it was just "not bad", and it didn't make it so exciting.

After eating this piece of tofu, Xiao Mi actually felt a sense of fullness from her abdomen.

——This "tofu" can fill your stomach?

Xiao Mi finished eating the tofu that Lu You gave her, licked her paws, combed her beard a little, and looked at Lu You with more serious eyes.

——Where did this sub-beast come from, and how did it know so many magical things?

Lu You lowered her head, met Xiaomi's gaze, misunderstood Xiaomi's meaning, and cut another piece of tofu: "Do you want more?"

Xiao Mi immediately put aside the doubts in her head, and wagged her tail: "Mi!"

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After successfully making tofu, Lu Er confidently promoted soybeans.

When the cultivation of soybeans was successful at first, because there was no suitable cooking utensils in the tribe, even if this kind of food that needs to be cooked in special utensils was grown, it would be inconvenient for the orcs to eat, so Lu Er, who has always pursued safety, did not promote it.

After successful pottery firing and a way to further improve food cooking, Lu Er began to introduce the method of planting soybeans to the orcs.

Nowadays, many people in the tribe are very convinced by Lu Er, who has produced improved white root vegetables, anti-inflammatory ginger, and pottery, and immediately planted beans in their small vegetable gardens.

There are also some people who disdain soybeans, thinking that planting these seeds is useless and cannot fill their stomachs-it is better to grow a few white root vegetables!

Lu You didn't force it, but just took out the tofu.

Planting beans, bean stalks can be turned into the ground to make fertilizer, soybeans are used to make tofu, and the remaining bean water and bean dregs are also natural fertilizers. Maintaining a stable planting cycle, supplemented by plant ash and manure, the soil quality of the field will continue to improve. Quickly improve, and finally become a piece of fertile soil.

In addition, in order to make some tofu brine, the coarse salt in the tribe can also be purified to make it safer.

In fact, there are many harmful substances in bittern. A little bit of tofu will not cause much harm to the human body, but if you eat coarse salt every day without purification, it will be very harmful to human organs after a long time.

At this time, almost two months have passed since Lu Er proposed the concept of planting, and the climate is already very warm. Whether it is the hunting of the orcs or the gathering and harvesting of the sub-beasts, they are slowly getting richer. The Redwood tribe ushered in the happiest year of the year season.

The relatively abundant food makes the orcs and sub-beasts more able to accept new things. After tasting the hot tofu made by Lu Er, they were all impressed by this food that they had never tasted before, and immediately accepted Lu Er's idea of ​​planting soybeans. Suggestion, go back and open up land to grow soybeans.

Soybean seeds and planting methods were not given away in vain by Lu Er—it was not that he was reluctant to part with these seeds, but the experience in his previous life told him that things given away in vain are often not cherished too much, and it is best for both parties to pay a little price for exchange. perfect condition.

Lu Er asked those orcs to build a fence for his small vegetable garden.

Now that the weather has entered the late spring, there are more wild animals, and there are little guys who destroy crops in Lu Er's small vegetable garden.

Although the fluffy animals are cute, the little animals that can damage the experimental plants that Lu Er specially uses for breeding and observation are not cute.

This bit of physical labor is not worth mentioning to the strong orcs. According to Lu Er's request, they dug ditches around Lu Er's small vegetable garden, inserted the branches and saplings they found from outside densely, and filled them again. Then wrap it with a straw rope to ensure that it is stable and will not be knocked down by any animal.

This was the first time that the orcs in the tribe came to Lu Er's experimental field.

After several months of continuous expansion of Lu Er's first few small soil ridges, the area has increased dozens of times, and they were all cultivated by Lu Er alone with one foot and one hoe.

Different crops are separated from each other to avoid interference, the same crops are neatly arranged, each soil ridge is straight as if specially measured, rows of green plants are neat and uniform, tender red berries are looming under the dark green branches and leaves, bringing The orcs are unspeakably beautiful.

The orcs looked at each other, and they all saw the astonishment in their partners' eyes. They thought of their own vegetable gardens here and there, and felt ashamed.

——They saw a lot of plants when they were hunting in the wild. Why do the plants here in Luer look so...beautiful?

——Is this also the power of the witch doctor?

If Lu You knew what they were thinking, he would definitely tell them seriously: No, this is the power of labor.

There were many orcs and sub-beasts who wanted to grow soybeans, and a fence was erected quickly, leaving only a gap for Lu Wei to enter and exit.

"What's going on here, Green Ear?" one of the orcs asked curiously.

If this place is not blocked, there should be beasts getting in from here, right?But if it is blocked, what should Lu Er, a weak sub-beast, do?

"Make a door." Lu Er pointed to the remaining branches and straw ropes inserted into the fence, "I would like to trouble you to help me out."

To tie the branches into a simple wooden door, Lu Er asked an orc in the shape of a woodpecker to help drill a few hollow wooden circles to make a simple door hinge. After pulling it for a try, he turned around with satisfaction, only to see the door behind him. The amazed eyes of those orcs.

It was only then that Lu You remembered that there is no concept of "door" in the Redwood Tribe. Everyone is sleeping in tents, and the animal skin curtain is the door.

There are even many single orcs who don't hang the door locks, anyway, they are not afraid of anything.

This made Lu Er suddenly have some ideas about building a house.

Although the animal skin tent is convenient, the condition is not very good, the lighting and ventilation are very poor, even the most primitive earthen house that Lu Yi had when he went to the countryside to investigate was better than this animal skin tent.

However, the orc tribes in this era are semi-mobile, and they will relocate every once in a while due to various natural reasons. It may be unrealistic to consider building a house now.

Lu Er let go of this thought as soon as he changed his mind, and turned his head to smile at the orcs who were waiting for his next order: "Thank you for your hard work, I invite everyone to eat tofu."