Chapter 111: Warehouse
When Du Ge came to the door of the granary, more than a dozen people came out with a wooden cart. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Info He immediately smelled a rotting smell in the air and stepped forward to stop the wooden cart. When he climbed onto the cart and looked inside, he found that it was full of moldy or rotten fruits and vegetables, as well as some large pieces of meat.
Seeing this scene, Du Ge frowned, and one of the coachmen pulling the cart asked:
"What's going on with these?"
"My lord, these are all left over from the previous year, and the rotten food deposited at the bottom of the warehouse is no longer edible, and it has to be landfilled. ”
"Don't landfill it, send it to the manure heap in the field. The name of the Tidu song, they naturally understood. ”
The coachman answered, and a dozen men pulled the wooden cart and left.
Du Ge's face was not very good-looking, and he walked towards the warehouse area. After showing the Queen's token, he stepped into the heavily guarded area. Upon entering the area, he smelled musty, alcohol, and rotting smell wafting through the air.
A middle-aged woman from the Blue Fox Clan walked up and saluted Du Ge with a flattering face. The warehouse has received an order, and today Duge came back to check the situation in the warehouse. Today's Du Ge, after proposing farming, has been exposed as a celebrity around the queen, and is also a hotly discussed figure among the elders and high-level officials. Therefore, although it is a man, the small officials on the warehouse side do not dare to slack off.
"Take me to see the meat storage area. ”
Duge offered to check the storage of meat, because in the rotting wooden cart, he saw large chunks of meat. In the absence of low temperatures, salt curing and other storage methods, Du Ge couldn't think of any method they used to store meat.
"Meat ......"
stopped Duge's order, and received his middle-aged woman, but with an embarrassed expression on her face. After noticing her expression, Wataru raised an eyebrow.
"What's wrong?"
"My lord, the food is all put together. ”
"What? You didn't store it separately?!"
"This ......"
Du Ge frowned in shock, he immediately understood why the fox clan had such a high food loss, feeling that they didn't know how to store food at all, and they just desperately collected food, but didn't think about how to protect the food.
Led by the other party, Duge came to a warehouse, opened the door and walked in.
Then, just as Du Ge entered the door, he stepped on a soft thing under his feet, accompanied by a squeaky scream.
The unsuspecting Duge was taken aback, and the immortals behind him reflexively pulled out, holding them in his hands on guard. However, this thing that startled him was...... A mouse?!
The fat, round gray figure desperately fled, burrowing into a crack in the wood to escape. However, just the head went in, but the round body was stuck in the gap, unable to advance or retreat, squeaking and screaming.
Du Ge picked at the green tendons on the door of his head, and the immortal returned to the sheath, pointed to the mouse stuck in the gap, and asked the middle-aged woman behind him:
"What's going on?"
The middle-aged woman was covered with fine sweat on her forehead, and she scolded her subordinates in her heart for not doing things well. Yesterday, when she heard that someone was coming, she organized a round of large-scale rat fighting, but she didn't expect to be bumped into. Looking at the round mouse again, she stammered:
"Big ...... My lord, the warehouse is seriously infested with rats, and we have to hunt a lot of them every day, but we still can't eradicate them. ”
Du Ge didn't speak, looking at the fat round rats that dared to come out in broad daylight, he knew how serious the rats here were.
"Haven't you ever beaten it?"
"We have a dedicated rat catcher who catches a lot of them every day, but we still can't eradicate them. And these rats can also provide some meat ......."
Speaking of which, the middle-aged woman couldn't go on, because she saw Du Ge Tieqing's face.
Du Ge's voice raised a little and asked:
"You guys make food directly from the rats you caught?!"
"yes...... Food is scarce, and I won't let go of any meat I can eat. ”
“……”
Duge was silent for a moment, not wanting to ask the question again, and walked towards the warehouse. After turning around, his face became more and more unsightly.
At this stage, it has just passed winter, there is not much food here, and the food left over from the previous winter is basically rotten, looking at those that are randomly placed on the shelves, without classification, and there is no trace of treatment, Du Ge is very suspicious of how they have been preserved for a winter. Moreover, the granary is closed, the air is humid and not circulated, and it is easy to breed bacteria and accelerate food corrosion.
It's just a random pile of food, and there's no effective way to store it.
The latest hunted prey is piled up on the outside, providing daily consumption, with only a few easily stored nuts inside the shelves.
After turning around, Du Ge didn't want to turn anymore, he already understood the situation here. The means of storage is that the fox people do not know how to extend the shelf life of food at all, and they do not know how to distinguish meat, vegetables and fruits. Du Ge asked again, and he also knew a thing or two about this situation.
The fox tribe begins to store food on a large scale after autumn. The temperature here in winter is very low, and after all the simple treatments, the food will be frozen before the accumulated food rots and survives until winter. Therefore, the fox clan has not carefully studied any storage methods.
Du Ge shook his head after hearing this, meat can indeed be preserved like this, because meat is dead. But the living cells of fruits and vegetables will only freeze if they are frozen.
After knowing a thing or two about the warehouse, he was ready to propose to rebuild the warehouse.
These granaries were useless, and when the time came, the wheat was harvested and piled up here. It must be a bad batch a year, and I can't let it go at all.
Not only the warehouse was rebuilt, but the food storage method he had to teach the fox clan.
The simplest air-dried, smoked meat. After he made salt, he used salt to pickle, and vegetables and fruits were sealed and stored in a cellar.
However, the reconstruction of the warehouse is not in a hurry, because it is only the turn of spring and summer, and it will take a long time for the harvest of a large number of planted things, so the reconstruction of the warehouse has delayed him. reported the situation of the warehouse to the queen, and explained the simplest meat storage methods, such as cutting meat strips and drying them, and moisture-proof treatment, to the people in the warehouse, and the warehouse was also equipped with additional personnel to handle the prey according to the method of Duge.
After doing this, Du Ge looked at the medicine valley again.
Because when he returned to the lab, there was a jar of golden honey on the table!
That means the bear beekeepers have tamed the wild bees, and the hives are functioning and the honey is in production. He gave the jar of honey directly to Elwei, and after teasing her for a while, Watari went to the diplomatic hall. Find the Bearren Diplomat and purchase several beehives again to expand honey production.
At the current stage, the various foundations of the fox clan are developing steadily and rapidly.
Du Ge began to focus on other aspects, that is, the strength of the tribe and the improvement of the fox clan's combat effectiveness.
However, the army Duge was not ready to intervene immediately, because he remembered the secrets that Yongye and Bai Tu carried on their bodies, which belonged to the totem.