The cattle and sheep of the nomads, like the cultivated land of the Central Plains, are by no means eaten as they want.

It's just that after Yan Liuyuan arrived, Hassan has been killing sheep for Yan Liuyuan to eat in order to show respect, while the rest of the tribe can only eat meat by young and strong laborers, or livestock that died in the snowstorm.

A little girl like Kikige, even though she is Hassan's daughter, does not receive any preferential treatment.

It is probably Hassan's impartial character that made him the head of this tribe.

Because Yan Liuyuan was the most noble status as soon as he came here, he had never experienced the hardships of the nomads at all. He and Sister Xiaoyu saw that these people had their own cattle, sheep and horses, and thought that they were quite rich, but they didn't know that cattle and sheep could not be slaughtered at will.

Their tribe can't afford to toss it.

When Yan Liuyuan heard this, he began to ask Qiqige about the situation of the tribe carefully, only to find that the clansmen in the tribe not only could not eat meat from time to time, but even salt was rarely eaten.

Salt is scarce on the grassland, and the nomads have always supplemented salt from mutton, beef, goat's milk and milk, and the meat they usually eat has no taste, only the meat that Yan Liuyuan eats will put some salt.

And now, because the meat is not allowed to be eaten, and there is no salt supplement, many women and the elderly will experience symptoms of dizziness, muscle cramps, and nausea.

When this happened to the people of the tribe, because of their lack of knowledge, they all thought that they might be sick, so they prayed to the gods for their protection by the fire, hoping that the gods would cure them.

There is no salt or medicine here, and the sheep will be killed when they are so hungry that they can't stand it.

"Yes, they are all poor people in this era, how can I think you are doing well," Yan Liuyuan smiled bitterly: "This is my fault." ”

Yan Liuyuan asked Qiqige to call Hassan, Hassan glared at his daughter on the road, and then asked Yan Liuyuan respectfully: "Master, don't listen to Qiqige's nonsense, the tribe is not so difficult." ”

"Okay, listen to me," Yan Liuyuan said calmly: "Women and the elderly have symptoms of nausea because they can't eat meat anymore, so they can't replenish the salt, and we need salt." ”

Hassan said: "Salt is very scarce, only the big tribes have it, and we have to pay annual tribute to cattle and sheep to get that precious salt." ”

Yan Liuyuan suddenly realized, this is very much like one of the means used by the consortium to control the displaced people, isn't Hassan's tribe like the displaced people outside the barrier, subject to people everywhere.

But thinking of this, Yan Liuyuan became more interested, he wanted to take these people to live a good life.

Yan Liuyuan said curiously: "Don't you have the ability to find salt by yourself?" This grassland is huge, you should be able to find some, although there are few, but not at all." ”

"The salt ponds are all in the hands of the big tribes, and there aren't many salt ponds on the grassland," Hassan explained, "and I've heard that the big tribes don't have enough salt for themselves." ”

Yan Liuyuan carefully recalled some of the wilderness survival knowledge that Ren Xiaosu told him, he didn't like to learn, but what Ren Xiaosu told him, he always remembered in his heart.

Yan Liuyuan suddenly said to Hassan: "You gather all the herdsmen and ask them if they remember where they licked when they used to herd cattle. ”

He remembered that Ren Xiaosu told him that as long as mammals must ingest salt, human beings have long lost the instinct to survive in the wilderness, but human beings rely on wisdom, and if they can't find salt, let the animals find it for you.

Some cattle farms in the Central Plains will put some coarse salt in the cowshed for the cattle to lick it, while there is saline land on the grassland, and the cattle themselves will find such a place to replenish their salt.

Sure enough, Hassan went to ask a few people and got the answer.

After all, when they herd cattle, there are only a few places where the herd likes to lick, how can you not know?

Yan Liuyuan immediately set off and took Hassan and the others all the way to the grassland.

Then it was simple, and he led a group of people to pick up the snow and bring back a lot of the soil under the turf to the tribe.

Yan Liuyuan didn't know how to operate to extract salt, but he knew that there must be these all of a sudden.

He can only use this method, stirring water with soil, and then filtering it again and again with cotton cloth until the water is clear, and then distilled in the fire pit!

It was only a moment of effort, and Hassan, who was gathered around, saw a layer of faint yellow-white crystals at the bottom of the pot, very few, because the extraction process was not qualified, so the appearance was also very poor.

Hassan couldn't wait to rub a little with his finger and put it in his mouth, and then looked at Yan Liuyuan in surprise: "Master, it's really salt!"

It doesn't matter how it looks, but it's salt!

Yan Liuyuan breathed a sigh of relief, in the past, Xiaosu would go to the wilderness to find the root system of the walnut tree to boil water, and the boiled water was salty, at that time, it was Ren Xiaosu's business to find food, and now it was his turn.

He told Hassan: "Scrape these off, and you will go to the salted ground, just like I just did, understand?"

"Okay, okay," Hassan said excitedly, it was really a god, and it was amazing that he could extract salt from the barren soil!

In fact, the nomads had mastered similar abilities long before the catastrophe, but after the civilization developed to a certain extent, there was no shortage of salt in the grasslands, and they could even eat salt thousands of miles away in the north.

Before the catastrophe, when they went to school, they had already learned standard education, and no teacher had ever told them how to find salt on the grassland.

Therefore, when the catastrophe came, some people may still know that there is such a thing as King Teng's Pavilion Order, but how to survive on the grassland is not clear.

Slowly, the pressure of survival hung over everyone's heads, and they even forgot about King Teng's pavilion order.

The rest is just instinct, and then there is the rise of the hero, who began to integrate the forces on the grassland, and wanted to use the Central Plains as his granary.

It's just that there was something wrong in cognition, and when they went to the Central Plains, they found that they were the worst after the catastrophe, and the Central Plains had already built barriers, as well as guns......

The nomads on the grassland don't even know what the south is like now, only Yan Liuyuan and Sister Xiaoyu know best.

Yan Liuyuan was sitting in the tent, and Sister Xiaoyu next to him kept smiling at him, and he asked, "Sister Xiaoyu, what are you laughing at?"

"I laugh, you are very much like your brother now," Sister Xiaoyu said softly, "He will definitely be proud of you." ”

As a result, Sister Xiaoyu found that Yan Liuyuan was suddenly silent, and her expression was depressed.

Yan Liuyuan said in a low voice: "Sister, I miss my brother a little." ”