Chapter 50: Jam

'The sunrise lasts for two nights?' Ye Ke silently analyzed in his heart, "Isn't that just two days and one night?"

As the days get longer, the weather will continue to be hot, and she can't help but sigh, 'No wonder there are so few people in the tribe, some of them are dying of hunger and some are dying of heat!'

Sighed secretly, according to her impression in the past few days, the extended time of the day is only two weeks at most, and the so-called dry season is coming.

"What does the patriarch say, can you call on everyone to hurry up and store food?" Ye Ke felt that this kind of big thing, the patriarch who seemed to be shrewd, should know the severity.

"It doesn't matter if he calls for it or not... Wolf Yue has told the people that you are the one who prayed to the beast god for a way to preserve food. Xing Han's tone sank, and he lowered his head and continued to cut the meat, slashing very hard.

"Wolf Leap, that guy is like a magic stick!" Ye Ke complained silently, and looked at Xing Han's appearance again, as if he had guessed something.

looked at the jerky hanging all over the cave, "What should be said has been said, what should be done has been done, she is not interested in being a savior or anything, let's take one step at a time." ’

And that night, after the fire of the Xinghan Cave was extinguished, many caves in the valley were still lit, and the figures of wolves and beasts were shuttling back and forth in the tribe, and there were curling green smoke, rising from the cave.

Tuya's cave is rarely visited by people for a long time, firstly, because she is strong, and secondly, she is not very good-tempered, and the clansmen are a little afraid of her and dare not come and go.

And that night, many of the tribesmen heard that Tuya had gone to make dried meat for the witch doctor, and they all brought some small game or wild fruits to inquire.

But I happened to see that she was making jerky, and she came around one by one, and then Tuya took the trouble to explain it, and those who understood immediately ran back and began to boil salt, cut the meat of the beast, and continued to stay and watch if they didn't understand.

However, there are some people who say wait and see, they feel that it is safest to eat food in their stomachs, and what is the storage method, the tribes around them have not heard of it, and it is unreliable at first glance.

Among them, Wolf Mountain, as the patriarch, took the lead in opposition, which also played a great role, at least at present, a small half of the clansmen are living in a step-by-step manner, regardless of what others say.

The next day, Tuya was rarely late, holding a bunch of wild fruits in a daze, and went back to get a lot of long-eared beasts, and the quack beast came back, and made a big hache, patted his face vigorously with both hands, as if he wanted to sober himself up.

"Didn't you rest last night, why don't you come here to sleep!" Ye Ke also knew that Tuya would make jerky every night when she went back, but it was the first time to see her so tired, and when she saw that pile of wild fruits, she thought that she had said something yesterday, and this stupid eldest sister went to pick it overnight.

This time she thought too much, Tuya shook her head, said that she was fine, and then began to deal with the prey again, compared to having nothing to eat, it was nothing if she didn't rest for a few days, and it was terrible to be hungry and unable to sleep.

"Thank you, kid. Grandma Ona handed Tuya a glass of juice made by Ye Kegang, "Last night, many clansmen went to ask Ya Cub how to make jerky, so I didn't rest." ”

I see. Ye Ke felt that the clansmen were still very positive, and when he saw Xing Han's reaction yesterday, he thought that no one believed it, "Then what are these fruits?"

"They sent it. Tuya said hoarsely, and then drank a glass of juice, instantly feeling a lot more refreshed.

Next, everyone started to make jerky again in an orderly manner.

Ye Ke took the time to clean all the fruits, including the ones that had been saved before, cut them into small pieces, and put them in a small pot and smashed them.

Then I brought it to the small stove outside the cave, ready to boil some jam out, but I don't know if it can be made without sugar.

The temperature outside was very high, but Ye Ke had to keep stirring the pulp to ensure that the pot did not stick, and Grandma Ona was afraid that she would not be able to bear it, so she asked Tucker to come out to replace it.

At this time, the flesh of the fruit has been boiled to a thin extent, perhaps because of the red fruit, which is dyed red, bubbling "goo-goo-goo", which is particularly like strawberry jam.

"Sister Kerr, what is this? Is it also used to make 'juice'?" Tucker just saw Ye Ke chop up and mash the fruit, which is the same process as making juice.

"This is not juice, boil these fruits out, put them in a small jar and seal them, you can keep them for a long time!" After Ye Ke finished speaking, he dipped a little jam out with a wooden stick, blew hard, and tasted it, 'It's so sweet!'

I feel that you don't need to add sugar, but the system doesn't prompt to add attributes, there may not be jam, or the ingredients may not be right, looking at Tucker, who is full of anticipation on the side, he also gave him a taste.

"Hmm~ so sweet!" Tucker had never eaten such sweet food, and even his heart was full of sweetness after eating it, and his mood became a lot better.

"Hmm~ Let's do more and get some back for Little Tucker, okay?" Ye Ke touched Tucker's head, feeling that his hair was a little too long, and when he was busy these days, he would definitely find time to design a handsome hairstyle for Little Tucker.

And so a few more days passed, the hunting party came back later and later, bringing back less and less food, and the days were getting longer and longer, and the temperature was getting hotter and hotter.

After the temperature becomes high, there is a benefit, Ye Ke put some salted meat strips outside the cave, and the meat has been dried in the morning, and then put it in the cave for an afternoon, and it can basically be put away and stored.

It's just that the animal meat is cut into slender strips, Ye Ke was influenced by the previous society, and it was also for faster air drying, so that it was easy to tie up and store, and the clansmen in the tribe would not be so patient to cut the meat strips.

In fact, at the beginning, it was the same process as Ye Ke and them, but later some people felt that it was cumbersome, and Wolf Leap was the first one, and suddenly one night he came over to consult Ye Ke if he could store a large piece of salt, and then dry it whole.

Listening to his thoughts, Ye Ke felt that it should be no problem to cut a few knives of large pieces of meat and infiltrate the salt, and Wolf Yue left happily, and Xing Han silently made a note for him to break into the cave in the middle of the night, and later the tribesmen also knew, so they began to dry it as a whole.

Then people unlocked various drying methods, some of which were salted and hung on trees, and some were inspired to dry on branches of trees.

Some are afraid that the prey will be stolen by birds and beasts, so they lay the animal skin and put it on the ground to dry, and there are also those who directly set the prey on the outer wall of the cave to dry.

Every day, as soon as you go out to look, you can see the busy figures of the tribesmen, but most of the working are males, and few females show up.