Chapter 043: Gathering and Granite

Dorjee and Mu Tong set off, although they were delayed because of chrysanthemum, but both of them were fast, and after a while, they caught up with the tribesmen who were collecting in a forest.

Most of the gathering team were women, and there were some half-grown children who could not participate in the hunting team, as well as some men who had been injured in the past and were now unable to do heavy work, and there were also elderly people who were quite agile.

Seeing the arrival of the Divine Envoy and Dorjee, everyone smiled: Thank you to the Divine Envoy, they can now collect a lot more food every day.

There are many foods that can be found in this forest: noodle fruit, prickly cucumbers, green beans, kraft cabbage, purple rice, and even the prickly lychee that Mu Tong found before.

"Can you eat thorn fruit?" Seeing that Mu Tong picked a lot of thorn fruits and put them in the back basket, Dorjee couldn't help but ask.

"Of course it's edible." Mu Tong didn't say much, but used a knife to cut the hard shell of the thorny lychee, and took the white flesh for Dorjee to eat.

"It's delicious!" Sweet and sour and juicy, this prickly fruit is so delicious. In the past, there were people in the tribe who smashed it open, but they couldn't be smashed at all with a stone spear, so they could only be smashed with big stones. When it was smashed open with a big stone, the flesh inside was smashed into water, and when the hard shell was opened, it was all gone.

And some of the thorns are opened, and the inside is simply empty. Dorjee didn't know, it was because the thorn fruit had grown, so the flesh had shrunk and disappeared.

The men of the tribe were not interested in sweet and sour wild fruits, let alone thorny fruits without flesh; And the women couldn't get through the hard shell, and even if they tried to get it open, they couldn't get anything to eat. So after coming and going, no one picked the thorn fruit.

Dorjee didn't expect that his sister-in-law found another edible fruit, and she could teach him to accurately recognize: which ones were ripe, which ones were not ripe, and which ones were old and had no flesh in them......

Moreover, Mu Tong also found a simple and easy way to open the thorn fruit, holding a sharp stone spear, stabbing a hole hard at the fruit pedicle of the thorn fruit, and then pulling the thorns on both sides of the thorn fruit, the hard shell on the outside was easily separated.

Hehe, after I go back today, I can brag to my friends in the tribe again.

Although the collection team is all collecting in this forest, the forest is very large, and as soon as everyone separates, they can only see people from a distance.

At this time, Mu Tong and Dorjee were collected together alone. And in this forest, it seems that only this thorny lychee tree is seen. Therefore, the two of them picked the prickly lychees hard, and no one grabbed them until all the ripe prickly lychees were picked.

As usual, most of the prickly lychees were put away, and only a small number of prickly lychees were placed in the back basket.

The harvest in this forest is really abundant, and it is summer, and there are many kinds of plants that mature in summer. In a while, the two of them had a full basket, especially the purple rice crackers. Thinking that they would bring food to the Jucao family, the two of them quickly ran back to the tribe, put all their things at home, and freed up the empty basket and entered the mountain.

If you don't help the Jucao family collect food, it is enough for the two of them to run, and all the excess collected will be stored in the ring.

But because I want to help the Jucao family, this extra trip must be run. Otherwise, some people will definitely wonder, how can his family have so much food to exchange with chrysanthemum?

When the two of them reappeared at the collection site, there were several people who were the same as them, and they belonged to the second time to collect. These people collect the most purple rice nuts and noodle fruits, which are stored for a long time, so it is okay to collect more and put them back.

The things collected by the collection team are also their own, but everyone acts together. Therefore, taking advantage of the fact that I have found so much food today, people who have the ability and time want to collect more.

This time, because everything that could be picked in the vicinity was almost mined, the rest of the people walked a little farther forward. Soon, everyone found a small piece of purple rice fruit forest, so they stopped to collect it.

Mu Tong and Dorjee also picked a purple rice fruit tree and climbed it to pick it.

There are many fruits on each purple rice tree, and the golden-red fruits are hanging all over the treetops, and everyone who comes to collect them smiles. If all the purple rice nuts on a tree are picked, they can be filled with at least dozens of baskets. With so many purple rice crackers, even if you eat them every day, you can eat them for a long time.

What's more, after these purple rice crackers are picked, the trees will produce purple rice crackers again. This tree bears fruit until winter. Therefore, the people in the tribe are very grateful to Mu Tong for discovering this edible and easy-to-preserve food.

Mu Tong climbed between the leafy branches, flipped his hands flexibly, and kept picking off the ripe purple rice nuts and throwing them into the back basket behind him. In fact, most of the purple rice crackers picked went into the storage equipment on her hands and ears. It's just that everyone is excitedly picking purple rice crackers, how can anyone notice her? What's more, there are dense branches and foliage to cover for her.

Duoji got off the tree after picking a basket of purple rice crackers, and saw that Mu Tong had been busy, guessing that his sister-in-law must be hiding purple rice crackers again, and he was so happy. The food that my sister-in-law hid was not his family in the end.

With the food that my sister-in-law hid, my brother also said that in the future, I would hunt more prey and come back every day and put it in my sister-in-law's secret place. This winter, with enough food, neither he nor Brother will go hungry, right?

After collecting all the purple rice nuts on the entire tree, Mu Tong estimated that he was five or six hundred catties. There were so many purple rice crackers, enough to eat for a while, so I got off the tree.

The two of them each carried their backpacks home, passing by a hill, and Mu Tong stopped. When she came just now, because she was in a hurry twice, Mu Tong didn't pay attention, but when she slowly walked back, she found that this bare mountain was all granite?

Thinking of the grass hut where he lived, there was still a mud floor, and the more Mu Tong looked at this piece of granite, the happier he became: Ha, with so much granite, it is completely possible to pave the whole house into a stone floor!

Stone floors are naturally much stronger than mud floors, so you don't have to worry about accidentally spilling water in the house, which will turn into muddy floors.

Putting the back basket on his back aside, Mu Tong chose a large piece of granite, took out a knife and cut it. In a short time, a large piece of granite turned into several stone slabs of uniform thickness.

Dorjee looked at the stone slab that Mu Tong made, and it was smooth after polishing. Just, what is this smooth stone used for?

"You put the basket back first." Mu Tong estimated the amount of stone flooring in the house and made arrangements.

Although Dorjee didn't know the reason, he honestly and obediently took the two backpacks home one by one. Then, he ran over quickly and looked at Mu Tong.

After a while, he understood Mu Tong's technique, picked up a piece of granite next to him, and learned from Mu Tong's example to chop and chop with a knife.