Volume 1 Building the City Chapter 82 The First Hunt (3) (Proofreading)
However, in the early stage, as long as the eggs are conceived, all of them have to be set aside to hatch chicks, chickens lay eggs, eggs regenerate chickens, and children and grandchildren are endless!
Thinking of eggs, Wang Tian asked everyone to search carefully in the vicinity, the nest of this group of pheasants must be nearby, and if they find the nest, they should be able to pick up some eggs.
Everyone tied the three live pheasants together with straw ropes and tied them up, Wang Tian took out the small scissors on the saber, and picked up the chicken feathers with a click.
Cut directly at the root of the chicken wings, so that they can no longer fly, in the face of the chicken feathers all over the ground, Wang Tian did not waste it, let people pick them all up and collect them.
The tail feathers of the big root can be used to make the "feathers" on the arrows, and there are very few feathers in the tribe, and many of the arrows brought out this time are not equipped with tail feathers. Although it is not as easy to use as Yanling, it is better than nothing.
After the tiny feathers are steamed and dried and sterilized, it is also good to use them as a pillow. Isn't it that I haven't seen wild ducks, otherwise down jackets can also be in the future.
After the feathers were sheared, the dead chickens were thrown into a basket, and the other three living ones were put in a basket and covered with broad leaves. The back basket can be ventilated and breathable, and there is no fear of suffocation.
The search for pheasants' nests finally found the chicken coops lined up under the rock wall on a small hillside. The front of the coop is blocked by bushes, so you can't find it without removing the grass.
What is gratifying is that not only did I find 83 eggs, but I also picked up three clumps of chicks, and there were as many as 25 under the inventory, which was also an unexpected surprise.
After dealing with the pheasant flock, everyone continued on the road, and the pheasants now even had chicks, so Wang Tian thought that it would be good if he could get the hare together on this trip.
Along the way, he laid a lot of traps to catch hares alive. A thin straw rope is used as a looper, one end tied to a strong grass root, or a wooden stick is nailed into the soil. The other end was tied to the crooked tree piggyback.
As soon as the rabbit touches the trap, the looper immediately shrinks, and the curved treetop will immediately pull the rabbit and drag it into a small stone house that has been set up in advance.
When the rabbit is dragged into the stone hut covered with stone slabs, it struggles and touches the stone slabs on top. Poor little bunny was imprisoned in the little black room.
The heavy slabs are supported by tiny branches, and if they fall, they will snap onto the stone house, and the rabbit will never be able to break free. The bottom of the small stone house is padded with stone slabs to prevent you from biting off the rope and making a hole to escape.
And there is the protection of a small stone house, which can also prevent it from being taken by other animals before coming to collect it.
Unlike the previous method of trapping rabbits with wooden fences, it is a trap set according to local conditions.
And the chance of a rabbit escaping in the same amount of time is lower, and the probability of successfully catching a live rabbit is much greater.
On this way, Wang Tian walked and walked down, the speed of travel was very slow, originally half a day to reach the col where the dogtail grass grows, now it is noon, a second brother still has ten miles of land, Wang Tian decided to camp for lunch before setting off.
The leader of the camping place was chosen on a platform with an area of nearly 500 square meters halfway up the mountain, and the view was relatively wide, and at a glance, the situation could be found within 500 meters of the vicinity.
Wang Tian couldn't help but cast an admiring eye on the leader, and there must be a reason why he could be the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of a tribe.
The camping location selected now is open on three sides, and one side is leaning against the mountainside, which can really be said to be offensive and defending, and the location is excellent.
The number of people who came out to hunt this time was a total of 36 people, including Wang Tian, and they were not afraid even if they encountered wolves.
The second brother brought stones to build a stove, used his hands to drill a firearm to light the firewood, and was about to pluck the chicken feathers and put the pheasants on the fire for barbecue.
When Wang Tian saw it, he stopped him, "Second brother, I'll do it!" Today I'm going to make a dish called Flower Chicken for everyone to taste! ”
Because they were out hunting, the group did not bring out any pottery except for a clay pot to boil water. There seems to be no other way to eat barbecue for this meal at noon.
The second brother of King Kong felt strange that the Son of Heaven actually stopped him from barbecuing chicken, what else could he do besides barbecue? Second Brother King Kong had doubts in his heart.
At this time, Wang Tian was also in embarrassment, so many people came out to hunt today, whether they went or stopped, everyone obeyed Wang Tianyan, and it can be said that he really obeyed the order.
But under his own leadership, he only got 45 pheasants, more than 80 eggs, and 25 chicks in the whole morning.
It seems that the only meat that can be eaten is the 9 roosters that have been killed, and the hens and eggs are intended to be used to give birth to chicks during the day, and are not intended to be eaten.
Then the problem comes, even if Wang Tian kills three more roosters, the total edible meat is only 12 pheasants, and the total weight will not exceed 25 catties after slaughtering and removing hair.
There were 35 adults who went out hunting together this time, which meant that the food obtained from the hunt was not enough to eat.
This situation made Wang Tian a little embarrassed, but asking him to take out hens and eggs to eat made him really feel pain in his flesh, and this kind of eating grain really did not fit his personality.
Wang Tian's face was panicked, and he squatted on the ground and silently took care of the chicken body in his hand, at this time, the leader had completed the inspection of the surrounding situation and sat next to Wang Tian.
He reached out and handed him a bamboo tube filled with cold boiled water, although Kuroko had already made a teapot with a lid. However, it is still very inconvenient to go out with pottery, and people are still accustomed to using bamboo tubes to fill boiling water.
Wang Tian signaled that he was not thirsty, and continued to take care of the chicken in his hand, and it was the most primitive way to make a chicken called Hua without any seasoning.
Cut open the belly of the chicken and throw out the internal organs, because there is no clean water source nearby, there is no way to clean it, in fact, as long as the internal organs are properly disposed of, do not break the internal organs, there is no problem if you do not clean them.
Wang Tian only took out the chicken heart and chicken liver and put it aside, and he didn't ask for any other internal organs, and he was very careful when handling the chicken. Except for the internal organs of the chicken, there is no touching anywhere else where the chicken is exposed.
After disposing of the 9 roosters that were killed earlier, Wang Tian asked the second brother to select three smaller ones from the remaining 6 roosters to suffocate to death, and then cut them open again and took out the internal organs.
After that, Wang Tian carefully cut off each chicken butt with a knife and threw it aside, then washed his hands with cold boiled water, took out the fine salt and sprinkled it evenly in the belly of each chicken, and used his clean hands to evenly smear it to make the salt in the chicken taste.
After applying salt, the chicken hearts and livers of the 12 chickens were washed with cold boiled water and thrown into the belly of one of the chickens.
He also stuffed a piece of cleaned broadleaf into the belly of the chicken. This is used to prevent the chicken's internal organs from falling out when the mud is smeared.
At this point, the chicken is done, and all that remains is to smear the whole chicken with a layer of mud and bury it in the fire to cook it.
Wang Tian asked the leader and the second brother to help carry 12 chickens to the depression under the camping platform, and in a low-lying place, there was a large amount of rainwater.
The rainwater looked clear, but Wang Tian didn't dare to use it to clean the chicken, although there were not so many germs in the primitive era, but this stagnant water was also undrinkable.
But the mud used to make the chicken was fine, and after wrapping all 12 chickens in mud, the three returned to the fire in the camp.
Throw the chicken into the fire and cover it with charcoal. Then the firewood was put on the rack and the fire began to burn.
The three giants walked back to the puddle at the bottom of the slope and washed their hands, at this time Wang Tian said: "There are only 12 pheasants, and there is nothing to cook eggs, so everyone may not be able to eat enough for this meal at noon." ”
"For most of the day, everyone walked or stopped according to what I said, and patronized the next set in the early stage, if only you could hunt a little prey before, if everyone was led by the two of you, you should have caught a lot of prey!" After finishing speaking, Wang Tian rubbed his hands uneasily.
Wang Tian felt a little guilty about not having enough to eat at noon, after all, he led them, followed the leader to have meat to eat, and he couldn't eat enough with himself, in addition to guilt, Wang Tian also had some embarrassment.
This does not fit the positioning of the traverser, all right! I've been disgraced by the crowd.