Beginning Backpack [Farming]

The sky and the earth are bleak, the autumn color is getting thicker, and there are fallen trees inside and outside the valley, withered everywhere. The vigorous gathering activities in the tribe have finally come to an end, and then it is time for the orcs to hunt in large numbers.

On the first day when Dawu announced that the season had officially entered its decline, Rin led the market team back to the valley. Everyone was excited and gathered around.Shen Huaijin also looked forward to whether he would bring any good news, but patiently waited for Rin and the others to report to the leader first.

When Shen Huaijin was making pickled young ginger and pickled radish in front of her house, she saw Lin and An carrying three rattan baskets across the bridge.

Shen Huaijin washed her hands to welcome them.

"Rin, it's good to see you all returned to the tribe safely."

Rin gave a rare hearty smile, and said: "Not only did nothing happen, but we also exchanged pottery for a lot of salt this time! I used your clay pot to exchange for ten animal skin bags of salt for you."

Shen Huaijin opened the animal skin covering the rattan basket, and saw several large bags made of animal skin piled inside. Although the workmanship was rough, it was very practical. I don't know which tribe's ingenuity.

He picked up one and weighed it, and it probably weighed more than 200 kilograms. After ten bags, there was more than [-] kilograms.

It's just that this is not what Shen Huaijin wants most, so he asked again: "Rin, did you find the plants I want in this market?"

Lin asked An to lift the animal skin of the remaining rattan basket. Shen Huaijin looked in and exclaimed, "Chili!"

Inside is a large basket of fresh twigs!Erjingtiao is an indispensable seasoning for cooking authentic Sichuan cuisine. It is not only spicy but also very fragrant.

He asked in surprise, "This is really important to me! Rin, did you find it at the market?"

Rin shook his head, and said: "There is no tribe in the market this time to exchange fruit, but when I asked other tribes with the bark you gave, I was seen by the tribe orcs in Tianheyuan, and he said that there is a fruit growing near their tribe. Take me to pick a basket of this plant."

Shen Huaijin wondered, "Then what did you exchange for this basket of peppers?"

"No tribe would go to the market to exchange fruits. I used two pieces of animal skins to exchange for peppers." Rin smiled again, "Jin, this basket of peppers is a gift from me and An, after all, we always Eat the food you cook, so don't even think about returning two pieces of animal skins to us."

Shen Huaijin nodded with a smile. He already regarded the two of them as friends, so he didn't worry about these things any more. Then he asked excitedly, "Then did you ask about other plants?"

Rin said: "There is a Damori tribe in the market who said that there are plants that look like 'rice' near their tribe, and they can be exchanged with them in the future."

"The Dasen Tribe is a big tribe on the Linshan Plain responsible for the opening of the fair. It will be their turn to hold the fair next summer. You can ask Li to find it for you."

Shen Huaijin was very happy. He didn't expect that he not only had peppers, but also got news about rice. Maybe in two years, he would be able to eat rice!

Due to the heavy tasks of the hunting team during this period, it was inconvenient for Shen Huaijin to go out with him, so he stayed in the valley to prepare his food in the cold season.

Now that he had salt, it was time to try making fish sauce.For this reason, he opened a kiln and fired several pottery jars. The pottery jars he fired were not as big as water jars on earth, but they were sixty to seventy centimeters in diameter, which was just right for pickling fish sauce.

Shen Huaijin is good at spearing fish, and there are many fish in the stream, so he can easily catch the required amount without the help of others.

The traditional process of making fish sauce is exposure and fermentation. Generally, fresh fish and shrimps and appropriate amount of water are placed in a large tank and exposed to the sun. After 3 to 6 months, the liquid will flow out, and then an appropriate amount can be added Season with sugar, garlic, chilli and lemon to make fish sauce.

However, there is no such condition in the long cold season. Shen Huaijin took the next best thing, stirring frequently every day, and it can always be fermented into fish sauce for more than half a year.

He cleaned up the fresh fish, some of which were too big and cut them into several sections, and then put them into a clay tank specially used to ferment fish sauce.

The amount of salt is about [-]% of the weight of the fish, and each layer of fish pieces must be sealed with salt, and finally completely covered.

The next step is to marinate for half a year to a year, during which pay attention to stirring it several times.

Shen Huaijin caught fish and handled them. After a busy day, she went to the square at night and found that everyone planned to eat hot pot together again. It seemed that she had fallen in love with this form.

Hot pot is indeed a good thing to keep warm on cold days. Shen Huaijin loves to eat it especially on earth, especially spicy ones.

It's just that Shen Huaijin has heard that the cold season is extremely cold, and the orcs and sub-beasts stay indoors to sleep most of the time, and two meals a day have become one meal a day. Only at noon when the sun is the best, everyone eats. I will go out to cook, and it will be difficult to eat hot pot, which takes time to boil the bottom of the pot.

Fortunately, there is no way.

Taking advantage of the good weather these two days, Shen Huaijin has already sun-dried the peppers, one-third of which should be reserved for seeds, and some of the remaining part can be used as a hot pot base. If you eat hot pot, it is also delicious to use the hot pot base material to make a steaming hot spicy soup.

It is not difficult to make hot pot bottom material, but some raw materials are missing, Shen Huaijin can only settle for the next best thing and make a simple version.

Soak the dried chili in warm water for half an hour, then cook for 10 minutes, take it out, drain and crush, and chop the onion, ginger and garlic.

After heating the earthen pot, he put in animal oil to boil, then added the chopped green onion, ginger and garlic, and fried it over medium heat until the spices were golden, then took it out and discarded it.

At this time, reduce the heat to low and lower the oil temperature to low, add new ginger, garlic and animal meat paste, stir fry for 5 minutes, after the aroma is released, add chopped peppers, and continue to fry slowly until the water becomes less.Then add salt, sugar and licorice powder and stir-fry for about 10 minutes. Shen Huaijin finally added a handful of dried chilies and boiled for another 5 minutes on low heat.

At this time, the bottom material in the jar was already shiny, with an overbearing spicy aroma. Shen Huaijin hadn't smelled this smell for a long time, and unexpectedly even sneezed twice.

As for the fried bottom material, put it directly in the tank to cool and solidify, and store it.

So far, the food problem has been basically solved, what Shen Huaijin has to consider now is how not to be frozen out of the cold season.

According to Li, the wild birds he raises are stronger than him.

This kind of wild bird can occasionally be seen in the cold season. It seems that the hair on its body is very good at resisting the cold, which makes him feel relieved. The wild bird that has been raised for so long will not freeze to death like this.

As for Shen Huaijin herself, the sub-beasts in the tribe have been busy hoarding food for the past two days, and no one has spun yarn. Shen Huaijin herself is also in the same situation. She only spins for a while before going to bed. Now there are only three rolls of wool in total. Knitting sweaters is impossible. that's it.This cold season probably can only rely on wrapping animal skins and burning fireplaces to keep warm.

It is said that after the cold season has officially entered, the heavy snow will not melt. Shen Huaijin estimates that it will not be easy to collect firewood at that time, so he has been picking up firewood and burning charcoal at a faster speed in the past two days.Li saw that he was working hard, so he helped him to collect firewood on the day when the shift was off, and let Shen Huaijin be in charge of burning charcoal in the tribe.

Fortunately, Shen Huaijin built a charcoal kiln that can be used many times early, and hurriedly burned several batches of charcoal before the cold season came. A total of twelve baskets of charcoal were harvested, and another wall-high firewood was piled up By the house, it should not be a problem to survive the cold season.

Before the official arrival of the cold season, Shen Huaijin counted the food she currently had.

In order to facilitate storage, he nailed wooden shelves on all four sides of the storage room, dividing the space into upper and lower floors.Some light ones such as dried mushrooms, sweet potato vermicelli and canned side dishes are placed on the upper layer, while heavier ones such as sweet potatoes and radishes are placed on the lower layer.

In order to prevent foods such as sweet potatoes and radishes from being damaged by freezing, Shen Huaijin covered them with hay layers to maximize heat preservation.

As for the taro, he put it in his room.In Shen Huaijin's memory, taro was easily frostbitten, and putting it in a room with a fireplace should slow down the rotting speed.

Over the past few days, after collecting, exchanging, and some ways of offering gifts from the tribe after teaching the method, he now has a lot of food.

In order to facilitate storage, Shen Huaijin specially compiled a batch of baskets with a volume larger than the rattan baskets used for collection.

Using this enlarged rattan basket, he also had fifteen baskets of sweet potato vermicelli, ten baskets of sweet potatoes, ten baskets of taro, six baskets of dried mushrooms, and six baskets of radishes.

He was not idle while burning charcoal, always cooking some side dishes, and now there are five large jars full of pickled young ginger and five large jars of pickled radishes on the upper floor.There were three and a half jars of sugar, two jars of jam, two jars of fat, and two jars of fermenting fish sauce.

Nearly a hundred bird eggs were also wrapped in mud and placed in his lounge.

He also has a lot of condiments such as onion, ginger, garlic and licorice powder in his house.As for the basket of peppers, one-third was reserved for seeds, one-third was used as a hot pot base, and the remaining one-third had to be kept for a long time.

The animal meat distributed in the tribe is still placed in the sunshade of the square. After the first snow falls, each household will take its own share and go back to bury it in the snow to freeze.

In addition, he has stockpiled a lot of fur from long-haired animals, which have been cleaned with hot water, and can be combed and spun while the cats are wintering.

In the whole cold season, it should be enough to spin a sweater, so that he can wear a sweater in the next cold season.

Shen Huaijin moved some positions, and arranged the food according to needs.

After counting so many things one by one, he was indeed a little tired and lay down on his bed.

The pillows and quilts on the bed were made by sewing several pieces of animal skin together with a needle and thread, but it always felt strange to cover him.

The set of long coats and trousers made of animal skins given by An gave him the same feeling, and he hadn't had time to change them yet.

However, thinking of the approaching cold season when even the natives were facing a formidable enemy, Shen Huaijin didn't care about any discomfort, and only hoped that he could safely pass through the first cold season in a different world.

He took out his mobile phone from under the pillow, took out a group photo of their family, and stared at it carefully.

During this period of time, he was so busy that he seldom thought of the days on Earth. When he recalled it now, he felt that everything had passed away, and even his memories were far away.

Not sure how his family fared in the other world.

If he could, he really wanted to tell them that he was still alive. Although he was forced to come to a place far, far, far away, he made new friends anyway. Because he is sad.

Shen Huaijin closed his eyes, two lines of tears soaked into the black hair beside his ears.