"Well, this is indeed horned venison, but with a spice added to it, so this meat becomes delicious."

The eyes of the two people listening next to him lit up suddenly, huh? Seasoning? Finding another good thing, it seems that this is the key.

Shui Yuan pondered his language for a moment and said:

"Elder Stag, City Lord, what are the 'spices' you mean? Can this be exchanged? ”

There was no meat in Yan's mouth for a long time, and at this time, he hurriedly asked what the seasoning was.

"It's just that this 'seasoning' is amazing, it must be a good thing to be able to make tasteless meat so delicious, right?"

The stag heart said, just waiting for your words!

The buck clapped his hands, and the snickering man brought over a bowl with something in it, white flowers. When Shui Yuan and the others saw this member of the Ding tribe, they didn't care, one cooked, what was there to see, it was nothing more than a little whiter.

After a casual glance, they turned their gaze to the white flower thing in the man's hand.

The buck hurriedly took it with both hands, and Shui Yuan and the two didn't care.

"That's right, this spice is called salt, and it's this white powder. With it, the meat becomes delicious, the fish soup becomes delicious, and even the barbecue we used to make is no longer difficult to swallow because of it. This is the magic of salt! ”

Yan glanced at the eager water abyss, and at this time he was no longer the leader of the flame that was easily angry. He didn't taste the taste of the salt for the first time, as Mizubuchi did, but he was evaluating the value of the salt, that is, how he could exchange it for something that would make the meat delicious at a smaller cost. In his impression, he felt that this salt must be expensive!

The water abyss over there directly grabbed a small handful of salt, and before the buck could react, he craned his neck and put the lump of salt about the size of a walnut into his mouth.

"Huh? This salt tastes a little salty! It's the same salty taste as blood, it's just ...... Vomit! It's just that...... Vomit! ”

Shui Yuan "just" a few times, almost didn't spit it out, and quickly spit out the salt in his mouth.

"Phew! Bah! It's just too salty! Panic! ”

Ding Qi, who was standing next to him and watching, smiled in his heart, and it was the first time he saw someone eating salt like this. Can that not be salty? Can it not be sluggish? The gods are coming, and they have to be ruined!

Shui Yuan smashed his mouth, seemed to be able to bear the saltiness in his mouth, tasted it carefully, his eyes immediately widened, and he said in surprise:

"Not bad, that's good. It feels a bit similar to the power stone, but it is not as bitter and astringent as the power stone, and it melts in the mouth, unlike the power stone and you have to lick it with your tongue. I feel like I have more power in me, more than the power added by the power stone! ”

Ding Qi's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but slander in his heart:

"Huh? He's a connoisseur! It can be tasted so quickly, and it is also associated with power stones and blood, which is not simple, and you can change your career to become a food critic in the future! However, you can feel the increase in strength, which is admiring you and the feeling of eating the spirit stone! ”

Shui Yuan doesn't know what this person next to him thinks, he's still tasting it!

How could the bucks tell each other the truth? Shift the conversation straight away.

"This salt has been researched by the leader of our Ding tribe, Aragami, and it can only be supplied in limited quantities at present. A small bowl of salt like this would cost at least twenty slaves in exchange. Every time we cook meat, we only dare to put a little bit, not more. This time, it was because you two leaders came here that we put some more as a sign of respect! ”

The buck's words not only said the price of salt, but also raised the identities of Shui Yuan and the two, which made the two of them extremely comfortable.

"Shhh This salt is so expensive! ”

Yan hadn't calculated it clearly there, so he gave him an offer here, and it was really expensive when he heard it!

Shui Yuan's heart trembled when he heard it, and he didn't understand why it was so expensive. But if you think about it, if you have such an amazing thing, it will definitely be more expensive, even more

I don't even share it with others. Good things must be owned by yourself!

As everyone knows, the bowl of salt in front of me is just coarse salt, which has been crushed by people with stones, and it is far from better refined salt. Now that the Ding tribe has mastered the salt mine, Hua and Cao have long led a group of tribesmen to produce coarse salt and fine salt according to the methods taught by Ding Qi. The salt that the tribe usually eats is fine salt, and coarse salt is only used to marinate salted meat and bacon. With such abundant salt resources, it is impossible to make it!

Live more delicately, right?

"It's not expensive! When the clay pot and bowl first came out, it took several slaves to get it, and this salt is a better thing than pottery, of course, it is more expensive. However, our leader said that when the production of salt comes up in the future, it will definitely be much cheaper. It's just that now, it's not easy to make, and you have to be so many slaves to exchange for a bowl of salt! If the slave is too thin and too small, it can't be changed so much! ”

The buck hurriedly praised his own things, as if Huang Po was selling melons and boasting about herself, and after speaking, he casually glanced at Ding Qi, and the other party secretly gave him a thumbs up.

Yesterday, Xiong gave Ding Qi a report on what he saw, including how many people came from the two tribes, how many were slaves, and how many were tribal warriors, and estimated a number, which can be judged from individual behavior and group status.

There are about a hundred slaves in the Blackwater tribe and about fifty in the Yanhuo tribe. However, the two tribes brought a lot of animal skins, and the two tribes must have a thousand together. Ding Qi is going to eat them all.

Moreover, Ding Qi concluded that among the hundred slaves of Blackwater, there must be sixty slaves who lost in Mizuzawa's bet last time, otherwise they would not have come over to exchange. As long as it is a tribe in the Great Wilderness, if you want to deal with other tribes, at least you have to be honest on the surface. In addition, from the place where the two tribes can fight so far, only a few wounded people can also see that the strength of the two tribes is not bad.

As soon as the bucks talked about the rules of exchange, the two began to calculate how much salt they could get in exchange. Yan also learned from Shui Yuan to taste the taste of salt, but he didn't dare to take more, so he just put a little bit in his mouth and sipped it.

"Hmmm! It's wonderful! This taste is the taste of true power! From now on, I will eat every day, every meal! ”

Ding Qi rolled his eyes directly at him:

"Nima, let you eat three highs in the future, see if you still have the strength!"

But after thinking about it, can you turn salt into a biological weapon, the kind that kills people without seeing it. However, considering that it can only be effective in the long run, it is better to kill the other party directly, the time cost is too high!

Seeing that the two were still thinking, the buck did not urge, and beckoned the two to hurry up and eat meat.

"Come on, come on, you two, let's talk while we eat. This venison is delicious, and you must try this fish soup. This is a fish we caught ourselves, called grass carp. Needless to say, the taste is even better! ”

The buck served both of them a bowl of soup, which was still steaming.

A scent wafted as they both shrugged their noses and took a deep breath.

"Wow! It's so fragrant! Is this really fish soup? ”

Yan wasn't sure, because the fish soup he drank last time he went to the Blackwater Tribe was yellow, bitter and fishy. Although the first time I drank it, it tasted good, but compared to the bowl of fish soup in front of me, it was far from it. Moreover, he was stuck in the throat by a fish bone when he ate fish, which is still fresh in his memory.

Regarding the consumption of fish, among the people present, Mizubuchi has the most right to speak, but his voice is limited to grilled fish. As for boiling fish, it was only from the time he got the clay pot, and it was only boiled fish in white water and gelatin, and his experience was really not as good as that of the people of the Ding tribe who had Ding Qi's guidance.

"Well, this should be fish soup, isn't there a fish tail in it?"

As soon as Shui Yuan exited, he embarrassed Yan.

Yan: "......"

Yan patted his bare head, his neck was stalked, and he muttered:

"I haven't eaten fish!"

It can be regarded as a sentence of replying to the water abyss, and I don't admit it

I admit that I have eaten fish, who let me get stuck in my throat when you entertained me! Are you trying to harm me?

Well, he's still remembering it!

Shui Yuan didn't bother to deal with the other party and gave him a big white eye.

"I used the clay pot that my brother bought from your Ding tribe to cook the fish, and it was a white fish soup at first, but it turned yellow after being placed in Lishi, and the fishy smell was very strong, not particularly delicious. If it weren't for the fact that the old man could drink fish soup and save his life, I would have stopped stewing fish a long time ago. So I'm not sure if it's fish soup in front of me, it doesn't smell fishy, the soup is still white, and the taste is delicious. ”

After speaking, without waiting for the buck to greet him, he directly picked up the bowl and took a sip.

"Huh?"

I didn't have time to speak, so I drank a bowl of fish soup in two bites.

Yan saw it, and quickly picked up the bowl, even more simply.

A mouthful!

When he was done, he licked the bottom of the bowl with his tongue, for fear that there would be leftovers in the bowl.

"Ahem! Cough! ”

Ding Qi next to him couldn't look at it, and quickly coughed, this inflammation is too strange, and he is too uncomfortable! Then he "stared" at this bowl with his eyes, there was a notch and black spot on the bowl, and he threw the bowl away, it was disgusting!

The bucks hurriedly spoke:

"Don't worry, don't worry, there's still in the big bowl, it's enough!"

What a hero!

Shui Yuan tasted the taste of the fish soup, it was indeed delicious, and he wanted to swallow his tongue just now. At this time, I took a breath, tasted the taste in my mouth again, and asked:

"Elder Stag, why is this fish soup so delicious? Could it be that the salt is added to it? ”

When the stag heard this, he was full of laughter, this water abyss is really on the road! Immediately replied with a word that Tinch often used:

"Leader of the water abyss, awesome! In the words of our leader, you are a connoisseur! Eat the marrow and know the taste, admire! ”

The buck praised Shui Yuan and continued to smile and say:

"In this fish soup, there is indeed salt, but salt is not the most critical, there is also a spice in it, called fragrant powder, that is, it removes the fishy smell, and also exudes the umami of the fish itself, which plays a role in removing the fishy taste and increasing the freshness!"

In fact, the fragrant powder mentioned by the buck is the combined name of mushroom powder and pepper powder. This is Ding Qi afraid that outsiders will know, so he gave such a name.

Sichuan pepper powder can be used alone or in combination to remove the smell and relieve the fishiness at the same time, it can also change the taste, promote people's saliva secretion, and increase appetite. The shiitake mushroom powder will produce a large number of aromatic substances in the drying process, which itself contains a variety of amino acids and is a natural umami seasoning, just like monosodium glutamate chicken essence. But it contains far more amino acids than MSG, which can stimulate the taste buds and amplify people's taste sensations to the maximum.

These two raw materials are dried and ground into powder, mixed and used together, enough to amplify people's taste buds countless times in the primitive era when spices were scarce. That's why Mizubuchi and Yan felt delicious when they tasted the fish soup made in this way.

In fact, shiitake mushrooms were discovered and cultivated by our ancestors around the thirteenth century AD.

"Incense powder? How is the incense powder made and how is it exchanged? ”

Leader Yan couldn't wait to ask, and wanted to inquire about the production method of the incense powder.

"This, to be honest, the yield of this incense powder is still a little low, this is just a spice that our leader accidentally discovered, and it can't be made in large quantities, much less than the output of salt. If you want to exchange, you need at least thirty minions to get a bowl of incense powder. As for how to make it, I can't tell you because I don't know either! ”

The buck didn't give Yan a satisfactory answer, but Yan also knew that he was too much. If you knew how to make it, would you tell someone about it? No, and it has to be tightly covered, so that no one can know about it.