Chapter 64: The Trouble with Food
The sudden constipation suddenly wiped out the original joyful mood, and I thought that I would not worry about food, and now I had to worry about what to eat in the future.
Although it was late at night, Yang Hao was already sleepy, so he lit the simple stove, and by the light of the fire, he wrote and drew on the ground, sorting out all the possible ways to obtain food.
Yang Hao wrote a lot of words on the ground.
Agriculture and animal husbandry were first excluded by him, these two methods can only be placed in the future but cannot be used in the present, and acorns can only be used as an emergency.
The only way Yang Hao can think of at present is to get food from nature.
Natural resources are much more abundant in this era than thousands of years in the future, and neither plants nor animals have been destroyed on a large scale by humans.
Yang Hao drew a circle in the position of picking, fishing, and hunting, and knocked it with a wooden stick.
"At present, it seems that this is the only way to store food, but if you want to preserve this meat, you will definitely need a lot of salt, and you have to find a way to get more salt."
One trouble after another followed, making Yang Hao a little physically and mentally exhausted, and sat on the ground decadently, his eyes a little blank.
"Forget it, about salt, ask those people, as long as there are salt pans nearby, there will always be a way."
The more I thought about it, the more I had a headache, so I simply stopped thinking about it, lay on the straw mat, looked at the moonlight shining into the tent, and fell asleep in a daze.
After Yang Hao woke up in the early morning, he did not let people stop the collection of acorns, and asked Shao Yan to look for people who were familiar with the situation in the vicinity from the prisoners of war.
Half a day later, Shao Yan took three people to meet Yang Hao.
"Chief, these three people are familiar with the area."
Shaoyan said in a deep voice.
Yang Hao nodded and looked at the three who were a little nervous, and smiled: "Don't be nervous, sit down." ”
The three of them were startled when they heard this, and one of them knelt down and said, "First... The chief, the lowly one, did not dare to sit with the chief. ”
Yang Hao smiled: "It's okay, I'll let you sit down, and you will sit down." ”
The three of them hesitated for a while, and could only sit down on their knees.
"Do you know where there are salt pans nearby?"
Yang Hao asked bluntly.
The three of them looked at each other, and one of them said: "Chief, this salt field is generally in the hands of the big clans, the nearest one is on the side of the Sanshu country, and the farther one is the west of Ze, the two Fang countries of Wei and Kunwu hold a salt field, and the salt that the small tribes need is generally traded in the ruins they opened." ”
When Yang Hao heard this, his heart sank, and getting a little salt could also get involved in the Sanshu Kingdom, and now he already hated this force so much that he wanted to get rid of it quickly.
But at this time, the other said, "Chief, besides these salt pans, there is actually a place where you can get salt. ”
Yang Hao's spirit was shocked when he heard this: "Say it quickly, where is it." ”
The man was stared at by Yang Hao's cannibalistic gaze, and he was very nervous in his heart, and said tremblingly: "From here, follow the river to the east, there is a dry river over there, and there is also salt there." ”
Before Yang Hao could inquire in detail, the previous prisoner of war hurriedly said: "How can the salt there be eaten, only wild beasts will eat it, and people will die if they eat it." ”
"Oh, tell me what's going on?" Yang Hao asked in a deep voice.
The man replied, "Yes, there is salt over there, but the nearby tribes know that salt there is not to be eaten, and the salt over there is mixed with the mud and sand, and people will die within a few days of eating it, only those wild beasts lick and eat it." ”
After Yang Hao listened, he had a plan in his heart, if he guessed correctly, it should be the sediment left after the river diversion, there is salt but too many impurities, and it is strange to eat it directly without dying.
But this is not a big trouble for him, as long as this thing is processed by the filter light process, it is not a big problem to eat.
Compared to snatching the salt pans from those big forces, this salt pan is a very good choice.
"Okay, I know, this news is very important, if it is verified, I will reward you and others, Shaoyan, take them down to be busy."
Yang Hao said in a deep voice.
Shaoyan was confused when he heard this, scratched his head, answered, and left with the three of them.
"The leader doesn't want to be so terrible as others say."
After Shao Yan left, one of them whispered.
"My legs were weak from the scare just now." The other wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
"The chief asked about the salt, is the tribe running out of salt."
"Shhh, don't talk too much, if you are heard, hurry up and work, you don't want to live, I still want to live."
The other two were stunned in their hearts, and immediately kept silent, dispersed, returned to their own society, and continued to work with others.
"Chief, why did you call me over?" Qu asked suspiciously.
"You prepare, tomorrow take some people to the west to have a look, there should be a salt pan over there, you bring some samples back." Yang Hao said in a deep voice.
"What is a sample?" Qu asked with a blank face.
Yang Hao almost fainted when he heard this, but he finally straightened out his breath and said, "It's just to let people bring back some of the soil there." ”
"Oh, so, chief, do you mean we don't have salt? I think there should be a lot more? Qu asked a little puzzled.
"I want salt to be useful for myself, you just do what I ask, these are not for you to ask." Yang Hao said coldly.
Qu scratched his head and said, "Cheng, then I'll bring someone over tomorrow." ”
Yang Hao nodded and said, "If you encounter danger, return immediately, and if you are dragged back, you must also find a way to send someone back for help." ”
"Well, I remember, then I'll go and prepare."
Qu Shen said.
After explaining the canal, Yang Hao was a little uneasy in his heart, if God still made fun of himself, he really had no choice, he thought of all the ways he could think of, if it didn't work, he could only take the risk of taking the tiger's mouth, this was the last thing he wanted to see.
The next day, in the midst of the doubts of the others, Qu took a broken bag, led his men, and took a sad-faced prisoner of war out of the tribe.
For other people's questions, only one sentence was left: "The leader explains, don't ask more." ”
He hurriedly disappeared from everyone's sight.
When he went to collect samples in front of the canal, of course Yang Hao couldn't be idle, no matter whether he could get salt over there or not, he had to start stockpiling grain.
The hunting of wild beasts has been going on, but the beasts are not something that can be caught if they want to, at present, the various livestock of the tribe add up to no more than a hundred, these are all reserved for seeds, Yang Hao is of course reluctant to eat them.
In addition to hunting, the fastest way to get meat is to fish, and the Daqi tribe would also catch fish to eat before, but it was all small-scale fishing, and it was basically eaten and gone.
This time it was different, Yang Hao decided to do a big deal, there was a little benefit in ancient times, that is, there were as many wild animals as cattle hair, and if you want to eat them, you will see if you will find a way.