Prehistoric Asian beasts battle the ocean

He remembered that prehistoric people named objects according to their color, shape or size, etc., just like red fruit, which is called red fruit because it is red, so why not the red, purple and yellow fruit in front of him? What about Huangguoziguo?

"Uh... I don't know either," Chiguo scratched his hair and said, "Since I can remember, my tribe has called this fruit Cotton Fruit."

"It's because the cotton fruit will explode when it is ripe, and the fruit inside is only cotton silk."

Teng Yan explained, and then flew to the branch of the tree and rolled down a cotton fruit with the tip of his tail, "Like this one that is already ripe and old, peel off its exploded outer skin, and only this is left inside. A ball of cotton is tangled."

Hami touched the long strip of cotton thread, and inexplicably felt that part of the cotton fruit was a bit like a loofah.

The same is true for loofah. When you get old, remove the outer skin and pulp, and the rest is this kind of silk, but it is not called cotton silk, but loofah.

However, this silk is a good thing, it can be used to wash dishes and pots, Hami said with emotion, when cooking, he can finally not use animal skins to wash pots, God knows, every time he uses animal skins to wash pots, he will Very worried about hair loss.

After Hami and others picked several baskets of cotton fruit, they deliberately picked two baskets that were too old to crack. When they returned to the cave, they peeled off the peel and pulp, and pulled out the silk threads to use as brushes for cleaning the pot.

After returning to the cave, while it was still early, Hami and Chiguo stayed in the cave to wash and dry the dried cotton fruit, while the orcs went on to collect wild eggs and firewood in the forest.

Hami and Chiguo cut the cotton fruit into small slices like red fruit, and put them on the bamboo raft in the yard to dry in the sun, turning them over from time to time so that the other side faces the sun to dry evenly.

Then before the sun goes down, the dried cotton fruit is taken back to the cave. The forest is humid at night to prevent it from becoming moldy after being wet by dew and water vapor.

Wait until the next day to take out the dried cotton fruit and hang it outside until the pulp does not feel a little wet to the touch, then it can be stored in a jar.

In the afternoon, the orcs picked up a lot of wild eggs, and Hami decided to keep some of them to eat fresh, and the rest to be salted eggs.

Hami first cleaned the dirt on the surface of the eggshell, then put it in a bamboo basket to drain the water, then put it in the yard, and exposed it to the sun for a noon. Fragrant is delicious.

Then buy high-quality white wine from the space, pour it into a ceramic jar, put the eggs with no moisture in the shell, and soak them for a few minutes to disinfect and sterilize, so as to prevent bacteria from entering the shell through the small holes on the surface of the eggshell during the pickling process Pollution inside affects the quality of pickled eggs.

Finally, pour refined salt into the vat, coat the eggs that have not been exposed to white wine evenly with a layer of salt, then place the vat of pickled salted eggs in a corner of the kitchen, and Hami covered it with a bamboo curtain and said, "Marinate in this way for about seven days." You can eat it."

Chiguo sucked in his saliva, "It will take another seven days, I really want to eat a mouthful of pickled wild eggs now, and taste what it tastes like."

Hami laughed at her, "What a greedy cat."

After all kinds of pickling recently, they didn't have much salt left. While tidying up the stove, Hami thought about it, and felt that he still needed to cook some salt before the snow season came.

See when you are free and discuss with Fujiyan.

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In the early morning, everyone got up early, ready to explore the distance, and will not go back to the cave at noon, to see if they can find some other ingredients.

For today's itinerary, Hami boiled a pot of wild eggs last night, so that he could bring them with him today, and eat one when he was hungry.

Hami sat on the back of the rattan rock and ate eggs, while looking around to see where there was food.

The first thing that comes into view is the ancient trees. The long and lush ancient trees are connected together to block the scorching sun, and the breeze blows gently, bringing coolness. Hami sighed, the prehistoric environment is good, the blue sky White clouds and green forests, sunny, fresh air, new...

Hey, no, what is this smell?

Hami shrugged his nose and kept sniffing, then asked, "Have you smelled it?"

"Smell what?"

"Well, there is a faint spicy smell, no, besides the spicy smell, there is also a smell of onion." Hami followed the direction of the smell, and after a while, he yelled in surprise, "Ah, it turned out to be wild onions! That's great." !"

These fat and tender wild onions grow in clumps in the grass. If you don’t look carefully, you can’t see them at all. Fortunately, Hami’s eyes have been sharpened in order to find food in the virgin forest. Wild onions can be found in thickets of similar growth.

Chiguo picked up a green onion leaf and put it in front of his nose to smell it, with a disgusted expression on his face, "It's so spicy and choking, dragons and beasts don't even eat it, Hami, what can this be used for?"

"Wild onion is a good ingredient. It tastes good and has a strong onion flavor. Whether it is used for cold salad or fried meat for chopped green onion, it tastes delicious."

Hami digs the wild onion with his head down, and gives Chiguo a popular science while digging, "At least with this wild onion, whether it's stir-fried or stewed, the taste will be better."

The wild onions grow densely, and with a bone knife, there are a lot of them. He carefully peels off the mud from the roots of the wild onions, revealing the white of the onions, which are white next to the white, and the green onion leaves next to the green onion leaves, neatly stacked. Together, these are meant to go back and make pickles for winter.

For the remaining wild onions that were dug out, Hami did not peel off the mud from the roots of the onions. Instead, he dug up the soil from the roots of the onions and planted them in the cave to see if they could survive. If they survived, they In winter, fresh wild onions are eaten.

Bundled wild onions with mud and put them in a basket. After dug two baskets full, the nails were filled with mud, and the smell of shallots still lingered in the palm of his hand. Hami smelled it, and he was afraid that he would wash it once or twice. I can't wash off the onion smell all over my hands.

He stretched his waist, and there were still many wild onions growing in this area, but Hami decided not to continue digging, mainly because he couldn’t finish digging too much, and he was willing to spoil it in such hot weather, so it’s better to remember the location here and wait in the It is enough to dig a few times before the snow season comes, but what they need now is to move on and find other foods that can be eaten and still feel full after eating.

The morning was short. After digging wild onions and looking for food for more than an hour, the sun had already risen to the middle of the day, and it was so hot that I felt dizzy.

Fujiyan asked everyone to stop and rest, to hide in the shade of a tree to cool off, eat something and drink some water, so as to save the heat from getting sick.

Hami leaned against a big tree, wiped the sweat off his neck, and pulled the black underpants that were close to his body to flirt, feeling much cooler immediately.

The sun was so hot at noon that the ground scorched his feet. Hami took off the straw sandals to dry his feet. He looked at the tender white soles of his feet and the dark insteps of his feet that had been tanned by the sun. He muttered, "The Chu River and Han borders are black and white."

After he finished speaking, he shook his head and couldn't hold back his joy. He took the boiled eggs out of the basket and distributed them to everyone one by one. After eating a wild egg with water, he leaned against the tree trunk and planned to squint for a while.

Suddenly, with a bang.

Hami let out an ouch, opened his eyes in pain, and said a little irritably, "Fuck, what fell on my head?" He stretched out his hands and rubbed his head, while looking at the culprit who fell beside him.

It is a kind of brown-red fruit, the fruit is big and flat, with a shell on one end, like a small wooden hat, with oblong fruit growing on the hat, and the small hat covers about one-third of the fruit , and there is a layer of long and curly raised diamonds on the small hat, which looks like a small bird's nest from a distance.

Hami's face was full of surprise, it turned out to be an acorn.

You must know that acorns were the main food of human beings in the early days. Even in modern times, many people still eat them.

Acorns are rich in starch, which can be made into acorn noodles. Hami thought that there would be no staple food in the snow season, so there would be flour.

He looked up to the tree, and saw a little squirrel, holding three or four acorns in its two little paws, standing on the branch with a stunned expression.

Hami looked at the cute and cowardly little squirrel, and his anger at being hit on the head immediately dropped by half.

He stood up and wanted to see where it got the acorns, when he saw the little squirrel flapping its big tail, jumping quickly to another tree, and running away.

"Tengyan, let's catch up with that little squirrel. It should know where there are oak trees, and the fruits of the oak trees can be eaten." Hami hurriedly warned, and followed the direction of the little squirrel to chase.

The little squirrel was too small, and Fujiyan didn't like the meat at first, but when Hami said that the little squirrel knew where there was food, he immediately started to swim in the forest.

The others also quickly stood up from the ground and followed behind Hami.

Chi Guo squinted and asked, "Do you need to grab this little thing?"

"Hey, be quiet, don't scare it. You don't need to catch it, we just follow behind it secretly."

After a while, the little squirrel stopped, looked around with the acorn in its arms, and saw that there were no other animals, so it buried the acorn in its paws into a shallow pit, and then bounced away. .

"Chiguo, you and Huyi follow it, don't lose it, if I'm not wrong, it's going to the acorn tree again. Tengyan Langmu, let's go to the pit Take a look." Hami whispered.

This behavior of burying the pit is probably the little squirrel’s intention to eliminate the astringent taste of the acorns, but hehe...it never expected that the mantis, the cicada, and the oriole were behind it. Hami dug up the pit, and as expected, he found a large pile of acorns. fruit.

Hami put the acorns into the basket, sat on Tengyan, followed the mark left by the tiger's wings, and swam towards them quickly.

After about ten minutes, two oak trees appeared in front of Hami's eyes. The two oak trees cuddled closely together, like a loving couple, and many acorns fell on the ground of the oak trees. From time to time, there were birds and The squirrels were running around on the oak tree with acorns in their mouths, but they all avoided a place under the tree at the same time. Hami took a closer look and found that there were several young wild boars lying on the ground.

When Hami was idle and bored reading magazines, he knew that wild boars like to eat acorns, but he couldn’t help but be surprised when he saw the six members of the wild boar family eating acorns. .

After Huyi and Langmu saw the wild boar, they were so excited that they couldn't help rubbing their fists. Langmu stared at the wild boar and said, "Beat it, take it back to eat meat!"

This wild boar has a family of six, including a female wild boar and five young wild boars. As long as the female wild boar is subdued first, the young wild boars will be easy to clean up.

Fujiyan put Hami on the tree and told him, "Hami, you and Chiguo are holding the little tiger's head and hiding in the tree, don't come down."

Hami nodded, "Understood, be careful."

The fur of this female wild boar is brownish red, and it weighs about [-] to [-] jin by visual inspection. It has a strong body, stubby limbs, and a mane on its back that stands upright like steel needles. Its long fangs are exposed and turned upwards. , while the little wild boar cubs have brown-red stripes on their bodies.

The sow rubbed against a rock while eating, and when she felt that her skin was no longer itchy, she lay down and rested in a cool place under the rock, while the little wild boar cubs ate The arch of 鞥鞥 is sucking milk under its belly.

Fujiyan flicked the tip of his tail, his golden pupils narrowed into a vertical line in the sunlight, and said calmly, "Now, go!"

Before the sow could realize what was going on, she was bitten on the neck by the tiger wing. With a bang, half of her neck was broken, and the sow let out a painful roar.

Seeing the sow wild boar going mad with pain, Fujiyan quickly twitched her head with her tail, until it fell to the ground with a thump and couldn't get up, then Fujiyan retracted the tip of her tail.

And this one, the wolf eyes also killed all the little wild boars one by one.

Fujiyan took Hami down from the tree, and Hami said excitedly, "There are so many wild boars and so many acorns, what a bumper harvest today!"

Chiguo was also very happy, and said excitedly, "Hami, let Tengyan and Huyi take the wild boars back first, and the wolf eye will stay to protect us. Let's pick more acorns in the afternoon. "

"Row."

Most of the acorns on the ground have been chewed by squirrels and various birds. Some of the acorns have fallen off, and few are intact. Hami had to climb up the tree humming and picking the right ones from the tree. Put it full in the back basket.

After picking up a basket, Hami stood on the acorn tree and looked around. Suddenly, a familiar green tree came into his sight.

Hami rubbed his eyes, and after making sure he read it correctly, he cheered, and quickly climbed down the tree, telling Chiguo and Langmu to follow him.

The ancient tree in front of me is an evergreen tree with a height of more than 20 meters. The crown is spherical and covered with small shelled fruits. Hami touched the longitudinal cracks on the dark gray bark of the ancient tree and said excitedly, "This is the bitter oak tree!"

"Bitter oak tree?" Chi Guo wondered, "Can the fruit on this tree be eaten?"

"Hmm! It can be eaten, not only can it be eaten, but this Chinese chestnut is also a kind of medicinal material, which can be used to treat dysentery."

The chestnut is covered by a layer of husk, exposing the upper part of the brown-black skin. When Hami peels off the husk, he can see the white kernels inside and smell the bitter and fragrant smell from the kernels. Said, "This white nut also contains a lot of starch, and it can be ground to make bitter mango tofu."

Thinking of bitter mango tofu, Hami sucked in his saliva greedily.

The fruit of the bitter oak is bigger and rounder than the acorn, and about the size of a hazelnut. The three of Hami picked two baskets and put them under the tree in a short time.

Then Hami also collected the leaves and bark of Quercus chinensis in two baskets, and took them back to dry in the sun for medicinal purposes.

The bark of the eucalyptus tree is very effective in stopping bleeding and sores, and the chestnut is very effective in treating dysentery and thirst for fluid wounds.

After returning to the cave, because the acorns are too astringent, in order to eliminate the astringency, Hami followed the example of the little squirrel and buried the acorns in the yard soil. After a long time, the bitterness and astringency will disappear a lot.

The wild boars were piled up in the kitchen first. After a tiring day, everyone was hungry, so Hami decided to cook dinner first.

Ever since he dug up the wild onions, he has been very greedy, and he has been thinking about it. He just made a big pot of scrambled eggs with wild onions at night, and served it with a big pot of fried bacon with wild onions and a pot of egg drop soup.

While Hami and Chiguo were busy cooking, Hami also arranged a job for the orcs, asking them to temporarily build a large stove in the yard, the kind that can fit into a large clay pot, so that they can be used later To scald wild boar hair, you need to use a large pottery vat along with the oil, otherwise you need to use a clay basin of this capacity. How long will it take to rely on so much pork?

Moreover, the weather is so hot that fresh pork can't be stored at all. It's better to turn all the fat into oil to make it more resistant to storage.

Because wild onions grow very slender, it takes time and water to select and wash them. Hami and Chiguo used two large tanks of water to clean these wild onions.

Hami took half of the washed wild onions without cutting them, and put them in a clean jar, sprinkled them with salt, sealed them for ten days and half a month, and then they became pickles.

Pickled wild onions can be eaten directly as pickles, or they can be put in dishes, no matter how you eat them, they are delicious.

After finishing this, Chiguo has beaten the eggs and cut the bacon into thin slices. Hami stir-fried the shallots with the chicken oil extracted before, and the hot stir-fried vegetables came out of the pan in a short while.

This is the first time that Hami made stir-fry before and after his arrival.

He used a shovel made of bamboo, and divided half a bowl of scrambled eggs with wild onions and half a bowl of fried bacon with wild onions in each bamboo bowl.

Then boil water in the pot, and when the water boils, add egg liquid to make egg drop soup.

This meal of wild onions completely conquered the stomachs of the prehistoric people. After eating and drinking, they all talked about digging wild onions tomorrow.

Hami laughed a few times, sat up from the kang, dragged his two legs that were so tired that they seemed to be filled with lead, and made three big bamboo boxes together with Huyi and Langmu. After the water, the wild onions dug back with soil clods were planted in bamboo boxes.

Busy and busy, a round of apricot-yellow full moon rose slowly without knowing it, like a big round pumpkin hanging alone in the night sky, and the silver radiance swayed made everything extraordinarily quiet.

Hami took out a few burning torches from the stove and placed them around the yard for lighting.

Tengyan wrapped her tail around the sow, and the other threw the wild boar into the big pottery vat, while Hami and Chiguo took the bamboo bowl and poured the boiling water in the pottery pot, and sprinkled it on the sow to scald it. hair.

When the fur was almost scalded, Huyi and Langmu took bone knives to shave.

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