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Qi Su thought about this, so he asked casually, and then he realized that there is no really good way to preserve meat in the tribe. The large pieces of dried meat he received earlier were all exposed to the sun on the hottest day.

In the jungle and mountains, the high temperature also means that the possibility of rain is particularly high. The dried meat exposed to the sun is easy to deteriorate and rot, so how much dried meat can be dried depends entirely on God's will.

Moreover, after the dried meat is dried, it is not safe and sound. Although the dried meat will not rot, it will be eaten by insects.

Due to various reasons, the amount of jerky left in the winter is quite small.

In the winter here, there is constant heavy snow, and the dripping water turns into ice. Many animals hibernate, and those who do not hibernate hide and dare not come out for activities. Therefore, it is very difficult to obtain meat in winter.

Don't look at the tigers who are fat and strong now, with slippery fur. After one winter, they will all be hungry and skinny.

The most important thing is that the big tiger can barely resist, and the tiger cub is the hardest.

The threat to tiger cubs in winter is not only scarce food, but also the sub-zero temperature. In winter, cubs are prone to death.

To be precise, not only cubs, but also many adult tigers will die if the weather is too severe.

After hearing Guohuo's narration, Qi Su was dumbfounded, and after realizing it, he couldn't help regretting it.

He took it for granted. He has never been troubled by the scarcity of food in winter. After coming here, he saw the tigers lazy every day, and the string of crisis was not touched.

But in fact, the problem of lack of food has always existed. Winter is coming. How many tiger cubs will not see the warmth of spring next year because of hunger?

Qi Su hurriedly pulled the pot over the fire, and walked to the pile of meat, "Salt the meat with salt and pack it, and it can be preserved until winter."

Guohuo looked at Qi Su dumbly, they didn't know how much effort they had to dry the dried meat, how could the meat be preserved until winter?How can it be?

"Zai Zai, I understand that you don't want to be starved in winter, but according to your method, the meat cannot be stored for long."

Guohuo let out a long sigh, and patted Qi Su on the shoulder. He didn't want the meat to be stored until winter, but it was simply impossible.

Down-to-earth actions are always more useful than light words, Qi Su didn't argue, he picked up the bone knife and began to process the meat on the stone platform.

"Believe me, these meats will definitely last until winter, and we will no longer be short of meat in winter!"

Guohuo felt that he must be crazy, he looked at Qi Su's firm eyes, and actually believed the cub's words for a moment, after recovering, he immediately put down this irrational thought.

However, he felt that Qi Su was insane, and the fire would not let him do physical work such as dismantling the meat. The small one was less than half the height of a person, so what should he do if he hurts his muscles and bones.

Guohuo was busy making broth for the cubs, so he could only call Erhei in to help Qi Su.

In order to thank Er Hei for being busy, Qi Su said that the meat can be divided into two halves after marinating, and by the way, he gave Er Hei a popular science about what cured meat is and the function of cured meat.

Erhei's nerves were about as thick as his physique, and he didn't suspect that tendon at all. When Qi Su stopped talking, he almost jumped up excitedly.

There is no shortage of meat in winter, just these five words are enough to drive tigers crazy!

Which winter, they were not starving, forced to eat the carcasses of animals that had frozen to death in the snow.

You know, in the summer when food is plentiful, they don't even look at animal carcasses.

Erhei ran out in ecstasy and roared, all the tigers lying on the platform became irritable, and looked at Qi Su with eyes that were more eager than looking at potato pancakes.

It's about how to survive the severe winter, even if there is only one ten thousandth hope, they are willing to try with [-]% effort!

Seeing this situation, Qi Su was honest and blunt, he immediately asked Er Hei to call half of the tigers who were out hunting to carry the salt ore.

According to his observations and inquiries, in fact, hunting does not require so many tiger cubs. Most tiger cubs go out to run all over the mountains to play. It doesn’t matter if they catch a rabbit or a fox. important.

The tiger cubs left here are divided into three parts, two for stone pots, two for smashing salt ore, soaking in water and slag, and putting salt water into the pot to boil.

In the past, there was no rush to use salt, and it didn’t matter if it was dried or roasted. Now that a large amount of salt is used, it is naturally faster to boil the salt.

The other two are in charge of chopping the meat. The whole animal meat weighing more than 200 kilograms is divided into large strips about [-] centimeters long and [-] centimeters wide.

After the meat is divided, after simple cleaning, sprinkle the boiled salt on the top like snowflakes. After sprinkling the salt, wipe it and pat it, let the salt soak into the meat as soon as possible. After the pat, put the meat into the prepared stone. pot.

The size of the stone pot is controlled, and the meat strips are laid down horizontally, just enough to be put down.

When the three tigers from hunting came back from carrying salt ore, a stone pot had already been neatly stacked with a layer of fresh meat.

All three tigers clawed at the edge of the pot, stretched out their big heads to look in, and wanted to stretch out their paws to scratch.

"Can the meat be stored until winter?"

"Of course it's not enough to just put it in this way. You have to apply salt. Qi Su said that salt can keep the meat for a long time."

"Are you sure? Can it really work?"

"Whether it works or not, you'll know if you try it."

"If it's really possible to keep meat until winter, then salt is a treasure."

Qi Su happened to come over, and when he heard this sentence, he raised his eyebrows, salt is known as the source of life, isn't it just a treasure?

If you do not eat salt for a long time, you may experience dizziness, muscle cramps, blurred vision, etc. In severe cases, cerebral edema may also occur. Sometimes muscle cramps at night are due to low sodium caused by insufficient salt intake.

In ancient times, salt and iron were run by officials, and salt was as important as iron. Even in modern times, salt is just needed.

Qi Su walked in and patted the big tiger's head, "There is not enough water to filter the salt in the cave, you go and bring some water back."

"Ow! Good!"

"I'll go now!"

The other tigers moved as soon as they said they wanted to, jumping off the stone pot and running towards the river, but the tiger whose head was touched by Qi Su was different, its big paw swung Qi Su's hand away,

"Don't touch my head!" Then she changed to the opposite direction from Qi Su and ran away.

Qi Su looked at his hand in disbelief, and suspected that the way he was touching the tiger was wrong, "Did I offend it in any way?"

Don't tigers generally like to be masturbated?Even that strong man Erhei would rub his head if he was touched.

"Their female tigers are like this. After giving birth to cubs, all the tigers around seem to have robbed her of its meat."

Guohuo walked slowly to Qi Su's side, his face was twisted and twisted, he didn't know what expression to put on, obviously he still didn't believe that Qi Su's messing around could solve the winter problem that Guohuo couldn't solve in the past dynasties .

But in the end he didn't say anything, just sighed helplessly, and turned around to supervise the work of the tigers. Anyway, everyone is idle, so let's bacon, the cub is still young, so he should be pampered son of a bitch.

Qi Su nodded, it turned out to be like this, as a mother by nature, she doesn't like others to touch her cub, as an airborne personnel, he circles around the cub every day, it's not bad if Qingcao doesn't slap him.

He checked the size of the stone pots, and looked at the condition of the salt boiling stone pots. He found that two of the salt pots that had been boiled twice were almost broken, so he quickly asked the tigers to replace the salt water into another stone pot. inside.

This is the case with stone pots and pottery pots. They can't be boiled dry for a long time, and they can't be cooled and heated suddenly, otherwise they will crack for you to see.

I went back and forth a few more times, whether it was making stone pots, boiling salt, or applying salt to meat, everything was in order. Even if there were occasional small problems, experienced tribesmen could handle them.

Seeing that everything was normal, Qi Su also felt relieved, and entrusted Guohuo to watch, while he went to think about another kind of meat that was easy to store.

Put the salted meat in the pot for two days to let the salt melt into the meat, and then take it out and hang it in a ventilated place. It is the bacon that his hometown makes every year.

And smoke the meat melted with salt with the smoke formed by the branches of plants and trees, it will become another kind of smoked meat with unique flavor.

After these two kinds of meat are prepared, they can be stored for more than one year, and it is easy to pass the winter.

In addition, he also knows a good ham, the production cycle is as long as three years, not to mention storing it for a winter, it can be stored until the end of time, but it is a pity that he does not know how to do it.

For the next two days, the tiger cubs kept hunting, boiling salt, and marinating meat.

On the fifth day, Qi Su lifted the animal skin covering the stone pot, and the salt from the first batch of marinated meat had basically melted in. He checked it, not to mention rotting, and there was not even a smell.

The pot fire watched the freshly hunted beasts turn into piles of meat in the pot. After Qi Su lifted the lid of the pot, he was completely unable to express his feelings in words.

He has gone through dozens of winters, and he has thought of countless ways each time, but when the real winter comes, many tigers still die, especially the cubs. When each cub's body becomes cold and stiff, he feels half-life Also followed.

But to Qi Su, this extremely serious winter problem seemed nothing at all.

Guo Huo looked at Qi Su, who was not as tall as his chest, and his eye sockets became sour. It seemed that their problem of food scarcity in winter had really been solved.

Qi Su scratched his head from Guo Huo's emotional gaze. He probably knew what Guo Huo was thinking, but he really felt that he hadn't done anything. For a modern person, cured meat is really not a great skill.

Really unable to cope with this kind of situation, Qi Su could only continue to work, pretending not to see Guohuo who was about to cry.

He asked the tribe to set up a shelf to dry the meat in the other three stone pots, leaving the meat in the stone pot for him to deal with.

There were a lot of things piled up in the cave and the rocky platform outside. While making toothbrushes, Qi Su found a big dead fruit tree on the platform.

The branches of this fruit tree were vertical and horizontal, and even the dead leaves were still hanging on it. Obviously, after the tigers brought the tree back, they didn't clean it up.

Generally, the tigers would split the wood for firewood into pieces outside. This is obviously not for firewood, so Qi Su was really curious, what kind of power made the tigers carry back a whole tree and put it in the wood. here.

"This one." Erhei happened to pass by, and he thought about it for a while, "It's the fruit. I was afraid that the birds would eat the fruit, so I brought the tree back."

Qi Su has once again seen the tricks of the tigers, eating fruit and pulling trees, you are really good at it.

The longer he stayed with Huzi, the more Qi Su felt that his world view was impacted.

He has seen this fruit tree before. It is a peach tree whose fruit matures in July. You say that you can eat the fruit and pull the tree. From July to now, at least three months have passed. Up to now, the tree is still in good condition. The full form stands here.

Haven't you thought of chopping off the branch and tidying it up so that it doesn't take up so much space?

The three tigers who carried the water came back early today, and each of them carried back a tank of water as if they were playing.

Seeing the tigers bouncing around, still full of energy, the black supervisor Qi Su simply asked them to chop a peach tree and come back.

He arranged for the tiger to split the tree, and he built a low triangular shed here, a simple herringbone shed supported by a pole with two tripods at both ends.

After the herringbone shed was set up, the cured meat from the stone pot was taken out and hung in a dense row in the triangular shed.

When the tigers came back with the peach trees, they first cut off the branches and leaves of one peach tree to cover the triangular shed, and then chopped off the other leaves, but they were not used to cover the shed, but to be used as firewood.

Guohuo was busy leading the tribe to take the meat, and half of the stone platform was occupied by the wooden frame. With the quick movements of the tribe, the meat was hung on the wooden frame one by one,

Seeing that Qi Su was tinkering with strange things again, the pot fire immediately joined him. After so many things, especially this time with the cured meat, he already had a kind of blind trust in Qi Su, and felt that everything he did was justified. look.

When he saw Qi Su took a burning piece of wood and put it in the triangular shed, and then sprinkled green leaves on it, he couldn't help shaking his head,

"Qi Su Qi Su, you can't get a fire like this, you have to use a tree that has been hanging out for a long time."

Qi Su smiled, "What I want is that it doesn't burn,"

He carefully sprinkled a handful of peach leaves again to keep the fire in a state where the fire could not be ignited but could not be extinguished.

"Smoked meat, of course, needs to be smoked. If the fire is lit, it's not smoked meat but barbecued meat."

Pot fire tiger face confused, what is smoked meat?What is a roast?Qi Su was saying something he didn't understand again.

Although I don't know what smoked meat is, but soon, the pot fire understands its benefits. As the green smoke rises, a unique fragrance of peach leaves slowly floats out along with the faint smell of meat.

Guohuo swallowed involuntarily, "It smells so good."