Under the operation of the fox, the three pots began to stew meat at the same time, sprinkled with fine white refined salt, and the whole cave was instantly filled with a rich aroma of meat, and the throats of the people sitting around were surging, stretching their necks to look into the three clay pots, and they didn't understand how the meat and water could be put into that container and burned with fire, and such a fragrant taste could come out.

It's so fragrant! Never smelled, everyone was swallowing saliva and fidgeting, and the smell had even penetrated deep into their cells, allowing the body to remember the taste.

It seems that Aragami is right, and there is meat to eat with him!

The fox who was busy in front of the three clay pots was very happy, and from time to time stirred the meat in the clay pot with the clay spoon in his hand, and removed some of the white foam inside. At this moment, it is very refreshing to learn to control the three pots to cook, and it is more fragrant than eating meat. Moreover, standing here and enjoying the adoring gaze of the tribe was a feeling of spotlight that I had never enjoyed before.

Ding Qi is now walking around the cave with Ben, especially in the corner where the witch was before, and it is the focus of their search.

Ding Qi had been here before, and he was quite familiar with this corner, but it was night, and the situation was relatively tense, so he came in and hurried back, and did not look carefully around the place. At this moment, Tinch is here to find the treasure.

The murals on the walls are all outlined with white lines, but the content on them is mostly hunting animals, and there are some pictures of attacking other tribes and obtaining slaves, who brought back slaves, some of them were raised, and some were killed on the spot and sacrificed to heaven and eaten. Although there are no bloody scenes and red blood, the kind of scenes that make people feel frightened are still about to come out.

On the other side is the image of Tinki, the image of Aragami to be precise, and since the death of the old doctor witch, no one has carved anything on the mural anymore. The new Doctor Witch who took office hadn't experienced anything special or memorable, so he didn't draw anything on it.

On the stone platform, the stone bowl was still there, and there was still cyan powder in it, which had completely dried up and cracked into lumps. Some slender things like porcupine spurs or animal bone spurs are placed on the table at random, with different thicknesses, the whole is thin, and the tips are dyed blue, presumably this is a tool used by the Qing tribe doctors and witches to tattoo the clansmen for a long time.

Ding Qi had asked the fox about it, and this tattoo could not be tattooed on the body by just one person, only the warriors of the tribe or those who had made great contributions could enjoy this treatment.

There were no other bits and pieces of belongings, which were scattered around. Just when Dingqi felt that there was nothing worth rummaging through, there was a sound from the people who were rummaging in the corners.

"Chief, look at what this is, can you eat it?"

I saw Ben take out four or five pieces of slender sweet potato-like things, dark yellow in color, dry, should have been placed in this corner for a long time, no one found out so it became like this. However, this thing is more similar to the roots of plants that Tinki found in the tribe's food pantry, and it is unknown if they are the same tuber.

"I don't know, I'll ask them about the people here."

Ding Qi took it and sniffed it, up and down, it was relatively heavy, but he couldn't see what it was.

He turned to look at the corner and saw that there was nothing else of value

Take away those bone needles, and when the eye of the needle is sharpened, it can be used as a needle, which is better than the needle sharpened by their own tribe, and they should like it more.

"Who of you knows what this is?"

Ben came to the middle of the crowd, raised the tuber in his hand, and asked the people who were staring at the fox cooking meat. The slightly impatient crowd didn't dare to express their dissatisfaction when they saw the leader behind Ben, and they all looked at an older-looking man in the crowd, it seemed that he should know.

Ben handed the object in his hand to the other party and asked:

"Do you know what this is?"

The man took it with both hands, looked at it carefully, and said to Ben:

"This is a kind of plant tuber, the tribe used to collect this and eat, but the taste is bitter and astringent, but it can fill the stomach, eat two pieces, and don't feel hungry for a day."

When Ding Qi heard that this thing was so good, he quickly asked the other party if there were still any around the tribe.

"Yes, there are a lot of them on the hillside, and they grow in patches, but the roots that are dug up are not big. After the tribe found more meat, it was rarely eaten. By the way, we all call it "圪" because it looks like an earthen mound. ”

"Woo Woo? Ge? Could it be kudzu? ”

After listening to him, Ding Qi's face changed suddenly, thinking of a precious plant in later generations. Moreover, they have similar pronunciations, and primitive people did not have writing, so it is very likely that they are the same thing from the pronunciation.

If it is really kudzu, then the tribe's grain will add another kind, and it can also be used to make wine, and even use kudzu vine fiber to spin and weave cloth, in the absence of hemp, the clothes made of kudzu can change the dressing habits of the tribesmen in the primitive society, away from the primitive era of animal skin wrapping, and enter the agricultural era of spinning and weaving in advance. Coupled with the millet found, the tribe will be able to grow these two kinds of grain in large quantities next year, and the era of farming is no longer far away.

Ding Qi suppressed the excitement in his heart, and after confirming with the other party again, Ding Qi told the fox that after everyone's animal skin clothes and pants were ready, let this person go out and try to find this kind of kudzu, and after digging out some and polishing it into powder, you can know if it is "kudzu". Just now, Ding Qi directly named this plant pronounced "圪" in his heart "kudzu", and its root is called kudzu.

In order to reward the other party, Ding Qi asked the fox to add two more pieces of meat to the person, which made the other party very happy. The slaves used the second bowl of the hunting team, but there were not enough of them, so those who did not use the pottery bowl used the original stone bowl of the tribe to serve soup and meat.

Tinch left five men in the cave and returned to the camp with Ben and the rest of the hunting team before it was dark. At this time, the snow outside has already begun to fall, and the black snow has reappeared, and it is blowing one after another.

After dinner, because of the snow, it was impossible to move outdoors, which made everyone who was ready to fight again a little disappointed, and lay quietly in the shack, watching Ding Qi busy in front of the campfire, and from time to time holding a fork of a roasted semi-circular branch.

Ding Qi held a forked branch in his hand, which he took advantage of the light snow to run to the forest and cut back, but the two branches were roasted into an arc by him, and they were picked up like explosion-proof steel forks used by the security guards of major railway stations or banks. The handle of this wooden fork is six or seven centimeters thick

The head of the branch is about five centimeters thick, and it looks relatively strong.

Ding Qi compared it to the two heavy clay pots, one large and one small, in order to test whether they could be forked and determine the position of the fork on the body of the pot when the fork was lifted. This wooden fork has two functions, one is to easily serve the clay pot when smelting the copper juice, instead of using animal skins as before; Second, as a mold, the bronze fork will definitely be more durable than the wooden fork.

The next day, the snow was still falling, and the whole world was shrouded in a black world, and the light seemed to be absorbed by the black snow, and the sky and the earth were even darker.

Ding Qi was still not idle, Ben and Cang and the three team leaders were watching what Ding Qi was doing, and he taught them in this way.

Under the shed built by several of them, a pit has been dug two meters deep, one meter long and one meter wide. Ding Qi used a sieve to sift the soil out of it to remove impurities, and then began to mix the mud with hot water, but soon it was bitterly cold, but he didn't realize it, and slowly formed the water and mud, and pressed the axe, saw, shovel, pickaxe, machete and other models between the two pieces of mud of the corresponding size, pressed and molded, and then placed it in the shack to dry, ready to burn the charcoal again into a pottery mold. At that time, the two corresponding pottery modules are tied together, and the bronze juice is poured to cast the tool, and the later processing will be talked about.

Ding Qi even asked people to imitate the arrows polished by the graystone tribesmen to grind five arrowheads, and press them into a piece of clay to make arrow pottery molds, each pottery mold has twenty arrow models, and twenty arrows can be made at one time, which can be mass-produced. As for axes, saws, shovels, pickaxes, etc., there are also ten pottery molds each, which can quickly produce a batch of tools and improve the production efficiency of the tribe.

It snowed for a day, and Ding Qi was also busy for a day, with the help of Ben and Cang, most of the preparations were done, especially in the later stage, and he didn't need to operate it, and these apprentices did their work well. Finally, Ding Qi also roughly calculated the volume relationship between large clay pots and small clay pots, which is about a three-to-one ratio.

As for the rest of the hunting party, Ding Qi did not let them sit idle, and taught them two more activities: wrist wrestling and wrestling. Everyone knows about wrist wrestling, as for wrestling, it is estimated that many boys have also played it in middle school, that is, the right foot against each other, forming a bow, and holding the right hand to see who can pull the other party down from the spot.

Both of these activities are synonymous with strength, and they don't need much space either, with plenty of space in the shack for them to use. From time to time, they let out cheers, cheered for the winners, felt sorry for the losers, and played with full dedication and joy.

In the evening, when the snow was a little lighter, everyone hurriedly opened the cave kiln, which had been burned for two days and one night, and transported the charcoal inside to another newly built shed, and then put the wood in to continue burning charcoal. There is a particularly empty cave kiln without any wood, and it is full of dried pottery molds, ready to be fired into pottery. The grilles and lids that had been fired in the cave kiln were put in again because they were semi-finished products and needed to be put into the kiln to continue firing before they could be used.

In the future, Ding Qi will establish a sub-base, except for the women and children who will bring back to the Ding tribe, all the men of the other original Qing tribes will stay here to mine, burn pottery, and smelt bronze.