Beginning Backpack [Farming]

Two days later, Shen Huaijin harvested the first batch of sun-dried mushrooms.

Although the mushrooms were dehydrated a lot after drying, he still got eight baskets full, sent one basket to Yu, and put the remaining seven baskets into the storage house properly.

Sun-dried mushrooms are for saving in the cold season. Shen Huaijin usually prefers the taste of fresh mushrooms.

The rainy season has passed for some time, and the sub-beasts have rarely found fresh mushrooms to exchange with him recently. Shen Huaijin does not intend to dry out the only basket of fresh mushrooms left, thinking about stewing some soup during this period to try something new.

In the morning, as usual, he would pick up some leftover sweet potato radish skins and wild animal offal to feed the wild birds.

There are already more than a dozen wild birds in the birdhouse, two of them are male birds, Shen Huaijin had hoped that they would bring him a few fertilized eggs, who knew they were all silver-like wax spear heads, one It doesn't work.He thought that they would not be able to lay eggs even if they were raised normally, so it would be better to slaughter the meat and stew it while the meat was still not too old. Wild bird stewed with mushrooms is an extremely fresh soup.

As soon as he said it, Shen Huaijin asked Li, who came to visit, to help kill a male bird and deal with it, while he prepared side dishes.

Remove the old roots of the washed mushrooms, cut the radish into hob shapes, and slice the green onion and ginger.

After preparing these, Shen Huaijin scooped a spoonful of animal oil onto the slate, heated it up, put in wild bird pieces and stir-fried until the color changed, then scooped the meat and oil into clay pots, added mushrooms, onion and ginger, salt and water and stewed After about half an hour, add radish and licorice powder into the pot, and then simmer for about 10 minutes. A bowl of fragrant and delicious wild bird stewed mushroom soup is ready.

Shen Huaijin tasted the saltiness and felt it was just right.His body has adapted to the tribe's habit of eating twice a day, and now he doesn't feel any hunger. Thinking about the nourishment of bird soup, he planned to bring Xiu Ye a bowl.

On the day Yangkou made a bet with Shen Huaijin, Xiu seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden, and after the tribe adopted the food sharing system, it also made him more in-depth and easy to leave.

When Shen Huaijin knocked on the door of Xiu's room, Xiu Xiu leaned on a wooden stick to pick things out on the shelves. In his hands, the wooden stick was no longer a symbol of power, but more like an ordinary old man's crutch.

"Xiu, I stewed wild bird soup, it tastes good, I brought a bowl for you to try."

"Jin, come and sit down." Xiu called Shen Huaijin to sit down on the bed, with a familiar kind smile on Shen Huaijin's face, "Put down the soup, I'll drink it later. From now on, you can keep these good things for yourself That’s fine, you don’t have to think about an old guy like me who is about to step into the arms of the beast god.”

Shen Huaijin frowned and said: "Xiu, don't say that, without you, the Dahe Tribe would not be able to return to what it is now; without you, I would not be able to become a part of the Dahe Tribe. You have put in a lot of hard work, and both the Dahe Tribe and I should Thank you very much, I will think of you a lot.”

Xiu stroked Shen Huaijin's shoulder, and said, "Jin, I should be the one thanking you. You brought a turning point to the tribe, and it was you who gave me the opportunity to express my depression for so many years. But in our few tribes The old orcs and sub-beasts have all experienced the beast tide and migration back then, and their bodies are more or less injured. Many of their companions from the past are gone. The rest of us can survive until now, until you come. The beast god's greatest favor."

"It doesn't matter if the tribe remembers me or not, I just hope that when I see Lu again, I will feel free from guilt."

When Shen Huaijin came out of Xiu's room, her heart also became depressed.

What Xiu said is right, the members of the tribe who experienced the great migration a hundred years ago are now basically over 110 years old, and most of them also have disabilities or old injuries, such as the one-eyed orc stone, the one-armed Yashouli and so on, the lifespan is basically below the average.In other words, in the next few years, the remaining old orcs and old Asian beasts will gradually die, including Xiu.

Because these old orcs and old Asian beasts have no ability to go out, they always take the initiative to reduce their food intake when food is in short supply. This phenomenon was only slightly alleviated after the implementation of the food sharing system.

Shen Huaijin always thought that finding some food, making some tools and pottery, etc., had fulfilled the responsibilities of witches, but it was indeed his negligence for not paying attention to the problems of this part of the members.

Seeing that Shen Huaijin gave him a bowl of soup, he came back sullen, and asked him strangely what was wrong.

Shen Huaijin lowered her eyes, with a disappointed tone, and said, "As a witch, my duty is to make the tribe stronger, so that the tribe members can live a stable and happy life, but I just found out after meeting Xiu that I just ignored the tribe's responsibility." The old orcs and old Asian beasts who need the most care here."

Li understood instantly, and he patted Shen Huaijin on the shoulder.

"After all, you have only come to the tribe for less than a hot season. You have been busy with this and that. It is impossible to finish everything at once. Now you can think about doing things for them, which is already very good. The rest You can take your time."

Shen Huaijin shook his head, thinking that they were the last thing to wait for, but he couldn't tell Li directly, so he asked, "Li, can you tell me about these old orcs and old Asian beasts in the tribe?" something?"

Sternly said: "When I was young, I heard... I heard from other members that the Dahe Tribe experienced an escape a hundred years ago. They crossed the wild beast jungle from the windy wind to the Linshanyuan. Those old orcs and old Asian beasts experienced it personally. Those are dangerous, so they have injuries on their bodies, and their bodies will return to the earth earlier than other orcs and sub-beasts."

Shen Huaijin blamed herself in her heart, so she didn't pay attention to Li's stumbling when speaking.

He had already listened to Xiu's explanation of what Li said, and it didn't make much sense, so he continued to ask: "Then do you know what troubles they usually have in the tribe?"

"Trouble?" Li was young and didn't have much contact with old orcs and old Asian beasts. After thinking for a while, he hesitated and said: "These old orcs and old Asian beasts have bad teeth. They don't quite bite when it's just roast meat. Does that count?"

Shen Huaijin pursed her lips: "Forget it. Thank you, Li."

Shen Huaijin can't cook for the time being, but it's good to prepare some soft, glutinous and easy-to-digest food.He asked Yu to cut some fresh licorice and squeeze out licorice juice, intending to make a mashed taro dessert for the elderly.

Fresh taro is peeled and cut into pieces, steamed for half an hour and pressed into taro paste.Heat up animal oil, deep-fry shallots until fragrant, remove, then add taro paste and licorice juice, stir-fry over low heat until smooth, gradually add water to cook through.Put this mashed taro in a bowl and steam it over water.

There were eight old people in the tribe plus Xiu. Shen Huaijin made a total of 11 servings of taro paste, eight of which he sent to the old people while it was hot in the rain. Food prepared by orcs and old Asian beasts.

Shen Huaijin did this not to show anything, but to express to everyone that he attaches great importance to these old orcs and sub-beasts, and hopes that there will be less contempt and inferiority in the tribe.

Shen Huaijin didn't stop after steaming the mashed taro.

I used a lot of fresh licorice today. He remembered that Ann said that this kind of plant is not cold-resistant. I am afraid that only some licorice powder can be used as spices in winter. It is not feasible to use fresh licorice juice instead of sugar, so I want to try it out. Boil out the sugar with licorice juice.

Licorice is no better than sugar cane. Although it has sweet water, the amount is not much. If you want to boil enough sugar, you must have more raw materials.Although there are licorice in the valley, but not much, and members of the tribe all need it, so Shen Huaijin decided to go around the valley with Li.

There are many licorice growing around the valley. After a while, the two returned home with two baskets of licorice on their backs.

Shen Huaijin and Li washed the licorice, crushed the licorice stem with a clean stone, and let the juice flow into the large clay pot. Four baskets of licorice produced less than one jar of licorice juice.

The remaining licorice is used by Yu to dry, while Shen Huaijin puts the crushed licorice juice on the stove, stirs and cooks slowly over low heat, and filters out the impurities floating on the upper layer while cooking.This was a time-consuming job, and Shen Huaijin and Li took turns to do it.

After boiling for about an hour, the licorice juice will have a lot of bubbles.

When the licorice juice becomes darker and thicker, and the bubbles are denser and smaller, continue to stir and cook.After about half an hour, the bubbles completely disappeared, and the licorice juice had turned into a dark red viscous liquid.

Shen Huaijin took the clay pot from the stove through the animal skin, and kept stirring the boiled licorice juice with a spoon. This is an anti-sand operation, which can quickly cool down the liquid and change its tissue to form anti-sand.

As time passed, the boiled licorice juice showed a semi-solid state, and it became more and more difficult to stir like sand. Then Shen Huaijin poured it into a prepared plate and let it cool and solidify.

The solidified sugar becomes real sugar. Although the efficiency of boiling sugar with licorice juice is not high, the boiled sugar is red and black. Shen Huaijin pried off a small piece and put it in his mouth. The sweet taste has the unique aroma of licorice. The quality is really good.

He pried off two small pieces and shared them with Li and Yu. Seeing Yu's eyes lit up, he thought that children really like sweets.

"Jin, what is this licorice boiled? Why does it taste so..." Li couldn't tell what it tasted like, but he always thought it was good.

Shen Huaijin explained: "This is sugar. What you eat is sweetness. Sweetness can make people feel better."

While speaking, Shen Huaijin had divided a piece of candy into many small pieces.He has a steady hand, and each piece of candy is almost a small cube of 2 centimeters.

Li took another sip of the small candy in his hand, thinking that you are quite sweet too.

After working so hard for almost an afternoon, what I got out of it was only the sugar at the bottom of a clay pot, which was obviously not enough, and now I can't divide the amount, so Shen Huaijin made an agreement with them: "Li, if you still cut licorice with me tomorrow If you grind the juice and boil the sugar, I will give you half and half of the boiled sugar tomorrow; Yu, you will continue to dry the licorice for me tomorrow and grind it into powder, and you can take some of the licorice powder and sugar back.”

Both of them naturally agreed.

Li Huan added with a smile: "Anyway, I'm eating yours and drinking yours now, it doesn't matter if I don't share the sugar."

Shen Huaijin just smiled and ignored him.

He had been busy working in front of the stove for almost a day, drank chicken soup and mashed taro during the day, and had no appetite for dinner, so he asked Li to bring some pickled radish and pickled young ginger to greet everyone on his behalf, and then went to bed early up.

The author has something to say: The author's broken thoughts:

When I went online yesterday, I found that the collection did not increase but decreased, and the dementia value increased significantly.jpg

Also, because I got an offer from my favorite company, there is a second update today, which is scheduled to be at [-]:[-] noon, but I don’t know what time it will be when it is released. You can watch it the next day~