A drop of cold sweat slipped down Ding Qi's forehead, but before he could open his mouth to express his resolute disobedience, the deer next to him said amazingly:

"I said Conch Leader, you're not afraid of me taking it seriously. Tell you, this is my man, no one can beat his idea. Have you forgotten the majesty of women when you are accustomed to serving women? Don't underestimate women! ”

Everyone was immediately petrified on the spot, but they didn't expect Lu to dare to call Ding Qi her man like that.

Ding Qi covered his face, didn't dare to look at people, and could only bow his head and choke speechlessly. It seems that the deer is also a fierce woman, this conch leader saw that the deer who was a tribal doctor and witch spoke, and his face turned pale with fright, pointing at the deer, you and you couldn't stop saying a word, obviously because he was angry with the deer.

"Alright, Conch Leader. You don't have to insist on continuing the alliance between the two sides, and having the mussels and moos together is also a very strong solution. You can rest assured, as long as the two of them walk together, our Ding tribe is the strongest backing of the Bei tribe. ”

Ding Qi was afraid that the deer would say anything thunderous, so he hurriedly spoke out first, which could be regarded as giving the conch leader a step down.

The conch leader saw that he couldn't reach the goal, and he was a little unwilling. But the attitude of the doctor and witch is that he does not let his daughter be with the leader of the family, so he can only change his path. Well, this moo doesn't look bad, that's it!

The conch leader's heart is spinning, the Ding tribe is a big thick leg, and he has to hold it tightly! Since the road just now is not passable, then simply take the second road and promise your daughter to this person who looks okay, at least his daughter is from the Ding tribe, and the other tribes around him have to give face to the Ding tribe, this is a super big tribe. Moreover, the leader of the family is still the legendary god of the Great Wilderness.

"Okay, just do what Aragami says, let my daughter go with Moo!"

The conch leader looked lonely, as if this was a difficult decision, but he didn't know that he was already smiling happily in his heart. He has long been clear about the strength of the Ding tribe, and no tribe can compare to the Ding tribe. No tribe could do anything with the high walls alone. And with a promise from the leader of the Ding tribe and the Aragami, he doesn't mind who his daughter is with. Of course, if it can bring benefits to yourself and the tribe, so much the better!

"Good! The conch leader is a large number of adults, admire! You can rest assured, we will treat the women who marry into our Ding tribe well and treat her as sisters. ”

The deer smiled at the mussel in the corner who was mooing and muttering, and saw that the other party's face was flushed, and it was a gesture of goodwill when he said this. I almost became a rival in love just now, and this change in the situation must of course show the bearing of the future tribal leader's wife.

The two sides agreed that a lively wedding ceremony was held that night. Ding Qi originally wanted to have a ceremony, but he didn't expect the conch leader to take the initiative to have a marriage ceremony, which he heard from the Ding tribe, so he wanted to feel it.

Ding Qi didn't care, and immediately arranged for someone to prepare the dowry. The dowry includes two horses, one male and one female, two large bags of coarse salt, two sets of pottery, two bronze axes and saws, two longbows and two pots of arrow feathers, and eight pieces of animal skin clothes made in the spring and autumn period. The dowry may seem like a small amount, but the value is very high, which makes the conch leader very satisfied.

As for the dowry provided by the Bei tribe, it was nine mussel beads that he had prepared to exchange before, as well as fifty dried loofahs, a total of sixty gourds of various sizes, a number of other animal skins, and a female slave who grew up with mussels. Whether it's a loofah or a gourd, it contains a lot of seeds.

As for the mussel beads, he said that he had prepared three before, but in fact, he still had six hidden on his body. The conch leader has heard that not only the man must give a dowry when getting married, but the woman must also prepare a dowry. It is a conch that thinks that he marries his daughter, but he can't look too shabby, and he must take out all those mussel beads.

Unexpectedly,

When Ding Qi heard about the dowry prepared by the conch, he immediately ran to him to ask about the dowry.

Seeing Leader Ding's eagerness, the conch leader was happy on his face, but he was contemptuous in his heart.

"Humph! When you hear that there are these duck egg-sized mussel beads, you hurry over here, it seems that they are no different from the leaders of other tribes! ”

The excited Ding Qi didn't know what the conch leader was thinking, and if he knew, he would definitely despise it. For Ding Qi, among these three things, the most valuable are not those mussel beads, but loofahs and gourd seeds. Mussel beads are nothing more than a kind of pearl, just bigger. If it is placed in the 21st century, it is really worth a lot of money, but in the primitive society, pearls that only have a decorative role are really not as good as a mouthful.

The conch leader, who began to despise Ding Qi in his heart, showed some arrogance on his face, as if a rich man was treating a stinky begging for food.

"Come, Chief Ding. These are the dowries I prepared for my daughter, these are mussel beads, such a big one, one can be exchanged for a lot of food and slaves. ”

The conch leader picked up a mussel bead the size of a duck's egg and pointed it out to Ding Qi. But he didn't get a response from Ding Qi, and he looked at Ding Qi a little strangely, and there was a hint of inquiry in it, which meant: What? Can't attract your attention?

But he saw Ding Qi's eyes staring at the loofah and gourd in front of him without blinking, and he still said with a look in his mouth:

"It's really a loofah, it's really a gourd! It hasn't changed, it looks exactly the same as before. ”

Ding Qi was looking at a peerless treasure at this time, and he couldn't take his eyes off. This made the conch leader very puzzled, I didn't look at the real treasure in my hand, but went to see those things that were collected casually in the forest, and should not be eaten or drunk. If it weren't for Moo saying that Leader Ding liked these plant seeds that he hadn't seen before, he wouldn't want to bring them over, not to mention taking up space, tired!

It was the conch leader who couldn't help but ask:

"Leader Ding? What are you? ”

No response.

The conch touched Tinki's arm with his hand, raised his voice and shouted again:

"Leader Ding? What are you doing here? ”

The sound of the conch woke Ding Qi up, and Ding Qi smiled embarrassedly and replied:

"Ahh Excuse me, but make you laugh. It's been a long time since I've seen these two plants planted in my hometown. ”

Ding Qi adjusted his emotions, pointed to the loofah and the gourd and asked:

"Conch leader, do you have a lot of loofahs and gourds?"

"Are these two things called loofahs and gourds? We all call them melons, and although there are not many of them in our place, they save a lot every year. This loofah is itchy and comfortable, and this gourd, because they taste bitter and inedible when they are tender, they are all used by children to play, but it has a characteristic that it can float on the water. ”

Ding Qi laughed secretly after hearing this, the good things were really ruined by them.

The role of loofah is many, when it is tender, it can be eaten stir-fried, and when it is old, it can be used as a dishwashing brush or as a bath towel. As for the gourd, it is a traditional Chinese plant, and even the myths and legends say that it is the treasure of Taishang Laojun to store the elixir. In real life, tender gourds can also be eaten, and when they are old, they can be used as tools for storing water and oil, and they can also be sawed from the middle as a water scoop or used to hold things, and they can even be tied together and tied to a raft to improve buoyancy.

These two things are very practical, and they are rare treasures!

In view of the dowry that the conch leader brought to his tribe, Ding Qi expressed his gratitude and told the other party how to use such a thing. When the conch heard that it could be eaten and used in this way, it immediately jumped up with joy, and felt as if it was about to get married.

The wedding at night was very lively, and all the people who could participate were all involved

Added. Huge bonfires illuminate the central square, and young men and women dance their familiar dances, spreading the festive atmosphere to all sides. The wedding ceremony culminates when a couple walks to a cave room specially prepared for them, surrounded by young people and children.

After the wedding of Moo and Mussel, the conch leaders of the Bey tribe returned with the supplies prepared for them by Ding Qi, and they will also become an outpost to spread the information of the Ding tribe, and tell the surrounding tribes what they have seen and heard about the Ding tribe.

The young warriors of the Horse Hunting Tribe also bid farewell to Ding Qi, took the supplies prepared for them by Ding Qi, and returned to the Horse Hunting Tribe to return to the leader. This time, they traveled to the Ding tribe with Ding Qi, and along the way they formed a deep friendship that would form an unbreakable alliance between them.

After the guests left, the Ding tribe entered a busy and peaceful life.

The tribe used 20 docile oxen trained in advance to expand about 20 acres of land to the east of the current crop planting area as a place to grow Chinese cabbage. In total, the tribe has collected more than 60,000 cabbage seeds, which can be planted on about 20 acres of land based on the calculation of 3,000 Chinese cabbage trees per acre.

Ploughing, fertilizing, raking, leveling, and furrowing are all things that Ding Qi teaches the following farm veterans to operate, and he arranges for people to do two things at the same time.

One thing is to prepare to squeeze tung seed oil, he doesn't know how to squeeze tung oil, but he knows that it is nothing more than the word "pressing". Therefore, Ding Qi is ready to squeeze tung oil according to the method of rapeseed oil, and the specific process is divided into hulling, impurities, drying, crushing, frying, pressing, filtration, precipitation, until the final refined oil.

The pre-frying step is easy to operate, but the core of the pressing process, "pressing", does not know how to proceed. Fortunately, Ding Qi has seen the ancient method of squeezing rapeseed oil in "A Bite of China". It's just that seeing that their amount of work is a bit huge, Ding Qi is ready to change the method of squeezing.

Oil is pressed in wooden barrels.

The principle is actually very simple, that is, to make a wooden barrel straight up and down, and put on a circle of copper hoops on the outside to ensure that the barrel will not be crushed under the action of huge downward pressure. The bottom of the barrel is made of bronze, ten centimeters thick, and the mold is used to make eyes in advance when casting.

Once the barrel was built, it was placed on a carved circular stone platform, a few centimeters in diameter slightly larger than the bottom of the barrel, with grooves on which the oil could flow.

Next, they made a trunk half a centimeter smaller than the diameter of the barrel, and then nailed a disc the same size as the bottom of the bronze barrel into the front of the trunk. This disc plays the role of wear-resistant, squeezing tung oil seeds. At the top of the trunk, two square wooden troughs are sawn in a cross shape, on which are placed two square logs, on which four stones can be hung to put pressure on the log.

The barrel is fifty centimeters in diameter, eighty centimeters high, the two bronze discs are fifty centimeters in diameter, and the trunk is one hundred and twenty centimeters long.

When pressing tung oil, wrap the tung oil seed powder with wet hay like cabbage seed flour to form a cake shape and put it in a wooden barrel. Each cake is five or six centimeters thick, and a layer of grass is wrapped on the outside to ensure that the tung oil seed powder does not leak out.

After it is placed, the log with a bronze disc at the front end is put into the barrel, and two horizontal logs are put on it first, and then a copper block weighing about 50 catties is hung at each end of each horizontal log. Next, place the cleaned bluestone on the log, keep it balanced until the oil starts to come out underneath, and increase the pressure on the bluestone again.

In this barrel pressing method, there is not much tung oil powder that can be squeezed at a time, and it has to be pressed for about three days each time. But they can't stand the many barrels they make, anyway, they have time, and they can fully meet the needs of the tung oil seeds at hand. And, it also gives them experience in squeezing canola oil next year.