Chapter 040: Reed Mats and Baskets
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This long fruit, which has now been changed into something called noodles by Mu Tong, is also one of the foods commonly eaten in the tribe. This noodle tree takes a long time to bear fruit and has a large yield, especially in autumn, when the tribe likes to pick it and dry it and store it. Put some water on this thing and boil it, add a little salt, and after eating it, I am very hungry.
Of course, since it is called long fruit, it can also be eaten raw. Mu Tong tasted the noodle tree fruit called Long Fruit, which was crispy and slightly sweet, and the taste was not bad.
"What are these?" Mu Tong pointed to the black and white coconuts and the gourd and asked.
"I don't know, but you can see what they smell like when you open them." Ah Yu used a stone spear to pierce a hole in a black coconut, and immediately a familiar smell of Mu Tong came out.
Mu Tong suspiciously poured a little black liquid inside, the color, the smell, Mu Tong couldn't help but mutter: This can't be soy sauce, right?
Xiaoqiang's identification result is soy sauce. As a result, Mu Tong named the black coconut as a soy sauce fruit.
The white coconut, the liquid inside, has been identified as similar to white vinegar, and was named vinegar fruit by Mu Tong.
The gourd-like fruit, filled with oil, is a vegetable oil with a natural taste. In the end, this gourd was named an oil fruit by Mu Tong.
There is nearly 2 liters of oil in an oil fruit, and the oil also has a bit of coconut fragrance, and it is also very nutritious after testing. And after the gourd is used up, it can be cut into two and used as a tool for holding water; You can also leave it uncut, and when the oil runs out, wash it with water and dry it, and use it for other things.
Unexpectedly, there are so many magical plants in the forest of this primitive tribe? Mu Tong was an eye-opener. With natural soy sauce, vinegar, oil, and all kinds of spices, how can this tribe have such a hard time? It can only be said that the people in these primitive tribes are too wasteful of nature's gifts, maybe they are not stupid, but they lack the courage to take the initiative to discover, understand, and try.
According to Dorjee, there are not many types of plants that can be eaten in the tribe, especially in winter. If you don't store more meat, dried vegetables, herbs, furs, etc. in autumn, people will die in winter. At most, half of the tribe died in the winter.
You know, their tribe used to have nearly 500 people. Since that time, there have not been more than 300 people, and at most more than 200 people are now.
The reason why Ah Yu picked these three fruits today is entirely because of the seasonings used by Mu Tong when cooking before, and the taste made Ah Yu feel familiar. Later, when he went into the forest to hunt wild boars, he remembered that he had smelled these smells in some wild fruits that could not be eaten.
The purpose of picking these three fruits is to let Ah Tong see if they can be eaten and useful, if they are really useful, then the tribe will have seasonings other than salt, and they will be able to make more delicious food.
Knowing that these three fruits were really useful, Ah Yu smiled brightly. Putting down his things, he went to the yard to deal with the wild boar.
Mu Tong took two newly made stone basins and asked him to put the blood released from killing pigs into the basins to make pig blood; The offal are placed in another basin. She prepares to get a pig's blood for dinner, stir-fry some pork loin and pork liver to eat.
For dinner, as usual, it is purple rice dry rice, and the dish is a cold salad with side ear root, noodles and fruit roasted pork blood, stir-fried pork loin and pork liver with spicy leaves, and stewed pork heart with spicy cucumber.
Naturally, while it was time to cook, the chieftain and the sorcerer came again. While asking someone to write down the steps and materials used for Mu Tong's cooking, he looked at the newly added bowls and pans in the house strangely: Unexpectedly, in less than half a day, Ayu's family added a lot of things.
The chief was furious: if it weren't for the wizard's obstruction, these things would have belonged to his family.
Newly found seasonings: spicy leaves, hemp leaves, and the practice of spicy leaf powder, hemp leaf powder were recorded; The uses of soy sauce, vinegar and avocado are also documented; The young roots of kraft and houttuynia cordata can be eaten, and they are also included in the recipes of the tribe......
The wizard and the chief laughed at Mimi: With so many new ingredients in the tribe, can you be happy? Of course, the happiest thing is that they can have a delicious dinner at Ayu's house again......
A large table of food was eaten up. Mu Tong wiped his sweat: It's better to be much more prepared. The two wizards and chiefs, plus the people who came to record, as well as Ah Yu and Duoji, are all big stomachs!
If there are so many people coming to eat every day when cooking, how much more should you be prepared to eat? Mu Tong looked at the only few purple rice crackers left in the back basket, and his face darkened: These few purple rice crackers are probably only enough for tomorrow's day's meal.
Ah Yu seemed to understand what Mu Tong was thinking, and shook Mu Tong's hand: "Tomorrow, when I hunt, I will go pick some purple rice nuts and come back." ”
After eating, the wizard and the chief did not leave, they were still waiting for Mu Tong to teach how to press the reed flakes: Didn't you say it yesterday? Today I want to press the tablet, and then what to do the mat.
Dorjee went to wash the dishes, and Mu Tong commanded Ah Yu to pick up the soaked reeds, and pressed the round boulders he picked up in the afternoon back and forth on the reeds. I also turned it over a few times in the middle, and pressed the reeds like skin, and then I could weave them.
After pressing the reed sheets, Mu Tong began to teach Ah Yu to weave mats again.
When a reed mat was woven, the crowd sighed: If this mat were spread on dry grass and slept on it, it would be much better than sleeping on it.
Of course, it's much better than sleeping on hay, and it would be even better if you could get through a kang and put this thing on the kang. Sleeping directly on the hay like this makes it easy to get rheumatism. Mu Tong naturally does not sleep on the ground for a long time, although she has air cushions, cushions and other things, so she does not have to worry about rheumatism. But how can people sleep on the ground or on an air cushion for a long time, and how can they get a bed out?
Okay, let's wait until tomorrow to get the bed, and send these people away today. The civilization here is too backward, and there are too many things to change, so let's do it little by little. Mu Tong cheered up and told these tribesmen that this reed could not only be used as a reed mat, but also as something else.
Hey? What, not only can it be used for sleeping, but it can also be woven into a basket from reeds? What is a basket? Is it just a utensil that can be used to hold things, like a rattan basket?
In view of everyone's curiosity, Mu Tong asked Ah Yu to bring the remaining reed pieces and taught everyone how to make a basket. She taught the shallow, relatively large kind that could be used to dry items, because there was no one at home, so she taught this kind first.
Not long after, a round basket that could be used to dry items appeared in front of everyone, and everyone sighed again: God has made the hands of the adults too skillful, and they can do anything.
By the time everyone was finally gone, night had already fallen.
Even though he felt very tired, Mu Tong still insisted on taking a bath by the river before coming back to sleep.
In the middle of the night, when Mu Tong woke up, Ah Yu's guy climbed up again at some point. This guy not only climbed up, but also hugged Mu Tong tightly, and Mu Tong woke up because he was hugged too tightly and couldn't breathe.
"...... "This guy, there's no end?!" Mu Tong was very angry, raised his hand and slapped Ah Yu.
"Don't make a fuss, be good, it's me." The familiar tone and familiar taste made Mu Tong, who was originally full of anger, lose his temper: it turned out to be Kai...... (My novel "The Legend of Mu Tong Chengshen" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )