New Life (2)

Gu Xi came back with bamboo shoots and soon shared them in the clan.

Now it is spring, the taste of bamboo shoots is the best time at this time, whether it is stir-fried vegetables or stewed soup, it tastes very delicious and very flavorful, even Huo Bai, who has always only liked meat, can't help but eat a few more pieces, Gu Xi eats fried bamboo shoots with meat, and feels that it will be more perfect if there is a bowl of white rice, but it should wait until the harvest season, after all, wheat can only ripen during the harvest season, I hope I can find it at that time.

This morning, Gu Xi was pleasantly surprised to find that there were three eggs in the clucking bird's nest, he only knew that some eggs could hatch, some couldn't, and he didn't know what it looked like, he only remembered that when he was a child, there was a family near his home that specialized in breeding chickens, he secretly looked at it, anyway, he saw that people took an egg to shine on this lamp, he decided to wait for the night to get dark, take the eggs to the firelight to see, and always find out the difference, he also counted on hatching more, so that he could not worry about eggs and meat every day.

There are a few families in the tribe who see that he raises giggling birds very well, and he lays eggs in a few days, and also lets the orcs at home take them back when they meet live giggling birds, almost every family has set up sheds, and he also went to help Uncle Moken build a shed together, Uncle Moken has to take care of two children, and he is really busy, and little Maury said that he will take good care of the giggling birds every day, so that his younger brother has eggs to eat every day.

Gu Xi, who had already saved six eggs at night, squatted in the kitchen with Huo Bai, carefully observing the eggs by the firelight.

"Nothing," Gu Xi slowly turned the egg.

"Look, there's a black spot here," Huo Bai saw it with sharp eyes.

"Is that something that doesn't have or is it something with black spots that can hatch? It seems that a warmer place is needed, "It seems that we need to build a sealed nest for the clucking bird's nest, and it is better to put some warm animal skins and hay."

"Ah, no matter, I bet it's this one with black spots, and I'll build a nest for the female giggle bird tomorrow" Anyway, the eggs I used to eat at home never saw any black spots when I opened them.

"It's good if you decide" Huo Bai smiled, his partner was the biggest in the family, and whatever his partner said was what he said, "By the way, what is gambling?" ”

"Uh...... This one...... Anyway, you have to know that gambling is not a good thing, that's right! ”

"Then don't say it in the future, it's not good" primitive people are honest.

The next day, Gu Xi got up early to solve the matter of the clucking bird's nest, and handed over the eggs that could hatch to the female giggle bird, and the female giggle bird went to the nest to incubate the eggs very well, Gu Xi made the remaining eggs that could not hatch into egg rolls, wrapped them in meatballs, and put them in a small wooden barrel for Huo Bai to take out to eat.

He studied bamboo at home, and in the past few days, Huo Bai has brought back a lot of bamboo from the mountains, and he plans to use it to make furniture. I heard that the weather will get hotter and hotter after the rainy season, and if you sleep on the animal skin again, it will be very hot, and if you sleep directly on the stone bed, it will definitely not be good for your health, so it is better to make a bamboo board and spread it directly on the stone, and it will definitely be very refreshing to sleep.

Alas, it's really sad to have no nails, Gu Xi thought of a way, choose a thicker bamboo, first cut it into the same length, Huo Bai is so big, you have to keep it long, and then the bamboo pierces a small hole in the middle, and then uses a thin bamboo strip cut into strips to pass through, and fixes it with wooden blocks on both sides of the thin bamboo strips, so that the strings are in a row, the appearance is not very good-looking, and it can be used, but it is necessary to bask in the sun more, keep it dry, and prevent mold.

Looking at the small cut of bamboo cut off on the ground, Gu Xi is going to use it to make a cup, the stone cup is slow and heavy, the bamboo is no better, you can also take it out with a lid, so that you don't have to drink raw water in the wild in the future, although the water here is also very clean, but Gu Xi still feels that drinking raw water is always bad, but this lid is not very easy to do.

Cut those small pieces of bamboo from the joints, polish the rough edges with a stone mill, and scald them one by one with boiling water, looking at a bunch of bamboo cups of different lengths on the stone table, Gu Xi was satisfied, it would be good to have tea, sure enough, he was very greedy, let's eat a full meal first!

As for the other furniture, it seemed that he was going to consult Uncle Jiang, so Gu Xi took a few bamboos and the bamboo cups that had been made and walked to Uncle Jiang's house.

Uncle Jiang is tossing all kinds of wood outside the house, and these days, Uncle Jiang has been studying these, and he has successfully changed from painting on a fine clay plate to building with a model.

"Uncle Jiang, I brought some bamboo, you can help me see if I can make some simple furniture."

"Xiaoxi, you're here, come and show me first, do you think this sentry tower will succeed? I built a small one out of wood, and "Uncle Jiang took out the small sentry tower like a treasure."

Gu Xi's eyes lit up: "Wow, what a good model!" ”

"What is the model?"

"The model is like this, making the originally big thing into a small object that is simulated first, uncle, you are so powerful!" Gu Xi exclaimed, human beings in primitive times were still very wise.

"Oh, that's it, then let's see if it's built like this?"

Gu Xi put the model on the table and took a closer look, and shook it from side to side a few times: "I think it's okay, when the time comes, this bottom will be reinforced with big wood, uncle, tomorrow we will talk to the people in the clan, find a few people, and build a look." ”

Uncle Jiang was very happy, and saw the bamboo brought by Gu Xi in a blink of an eye: "This is the bamboo you said?" ”

"Well, uncle, I also brought you a cup, with this water, it can be a lot lighter" Gu Xi handed over the cup.

Uncle Jiang took it with a smile: "As long as you pay attention to it, this makes you think of it." ”

Gu Xi was a little embarrassed, all the great inventions of his ancestors were going to be developed by him: "Uncle, you can help me see if you can add a lid, it is best not to leak, so that everyone can take water with them when they go out, in case it is difficult to find a water source sometimes." ”

In the cold winter, there was no water on the road, and he ate snow or something directly, Gu Xi was a little scared when he thought about it, it was already cold, and with snow in his mouth, it was even colder.

"Well, I'm pretty much done with the watchtower, I'll help you study these little things......"

Until the evening, Gu Xi went back with a bamboo cup with a lid and no leakage, Uncle Jiang's craftsmanship is really getting better and better, he definitely can't do it himself, he just proposed the general appearance of the modern plastic cup, Uncle Jiang carved it out, and after several rounds of polishing, it was finally ready to use.

During dinner, Gu Xi carved a white character on the cup and gave it to Huo Bai: "Look, there is a white character on it, your name." ”

"It's the first time you've given me something alone!" Huo Bai was so happy, he pulled Gu Xi and kissed him.

Gu Xi looked at Huo Bai holding a cup very preciously, and was a little moved, when did they get together so naturally, Huo Bai's love for him is always so direct and sincere, without asking for anything in return, he is actually not outstanding, he can only be regarded as beautiful, clean, there are a few sub-beasts in the tribe that are full of good, but Huo Bai just likes him, Huo Bai just thinks he is beautiful.

Huo Bai saw Gu Xi looking at him distractedly, the stunned Gu Xi looked so delicious, no, cute, he didn't want to drag Gu Xi's back of the head and kiss it, he had never kissed Gu Xi so eagerly, he dared to kiss a little in the past.

The atmosphere in the room was a little inexplicably ambiguous, Gu Xi was lying on the bed, embarrassed and didn't dare to move, Huo Bai hugged his shoulder: "Sleep, when the ceremony is held, you will be my person." ”

At this time, Gu Xi's whole person turned red, and in the dark, he didn't dare to move, knowing that he heard Huo Bai's even breathing, so he slowly fell asleep.

The next day, Huo Bai went out early, they needed to reach a farther hunting area today to explore the terrain, Gu Xi got up in the morning, ran around the land twice, and did twenty push-ups, this is his designated exercise plan, thinking that his family Huo Bai is so powerful in the tribe, he can't drag his legs, at least in the future, he will go up the mountain with everyone to collect, and his legs will not hurt.

On this day, the Tong brothers who went out to collect salt came back, and the two tigers came back with a large amount of salt, when Gu Xi saw the salt, he thought that he could finally stop worrying about the vegetables and meat that he couldn't eat, and he didn't have to worry about it, the prey was usually divided equally among the tribes, but Huo Bai could always fight some extra, and his meal was not so big.

It is also strange to say, the salt produced in the salt lake here is very fine, basically does not need to be processed, large pieces of salt are ground into fine powder, you can be practical, if there are impurities, you can pick it out, but it saves a lot of trouble.

At noon in the central square, he took out the endless fanged pork to demonstrate to everyone, smeared the surface of the pork with salt and flavored fruit powder, wiped it carefully with his hands, put it into a stone jar, and pressed it with stones.

"Before, because there was not much salt in the clan, I didn't teach you, now the salt is enough, you see, it's very simple, press it for three to four days, turn it over, continue to press it for three to four days, take it out and dry it in a place without sunlight and ventilation, so that you can eat it after twenty to thirty days, if you don't eat it, put it in a sealed stone jar, take it out and eat it when you want to eat, the way to eat it is similar to fresh meat, of course, it can be stored for a long time, especially in the cold winter, we are no longer short of food."

"There are also green leafy vegetables, very green leafy vegetables can be preserved in the same way, so that in the cold winter, we also have vegetables to eat, by the way, the amount of salt, in fact, I can't grasp it, everyone has to try it yourself to know." Gu Xi knows how to do it or depends on the elders in the family to do it, when he is a child, as soon as the people in the family do this, they will be very curious, and they will watch it for a long time on the side, he remembers it very clearly, haha.

All the people were very excited, and there was nothing more joyful than hearing that there was no shortage of food in the cold winter, in the cold winter before, they had very little food, and every year people would starve to death, even freeze to death, and they believed that no one would go hungry in their cold winter again.

Gu Xi must have been sent by the orc master to save them! Thank you Beast God, thank you Guxi!.