Chapter 68: Plan Ahead
The arrival of the chickens and prostitutes not only brought food and hides, but also brought some changes to the Blackstone Valley.
Once upon a time, the warriors of Blackstone Valley were full of fear of the opening of the world's gates, they were afraid of being attacked by beasts, but now, they began to look forward to the attack of beasts.
Because they understand that only in battle will they become stronger.
For this reason, they even began to take the initiative to look for beast duels, and of course, they still searched within the realm of Blackstone Valley.
The emperor lived up to his wishes, and really let them find a beast, which was the kind of giant boar that Li Qi saw for the first time, but I don't know if it was that one.
The result, of course, was that they hunted the giant boar without any damage, knowing that they still have the blessing of their mounts, and the wild boar can't fight them, after all, they can't run.
Of course, this kind of wild boar can't be raised, it's a little too big, and it doesn't understand human nature.
Of course, there are also some people who are not motivated, such as Nong, who doesn't seem to have any interest in making himself stronger, he only cares about eating.
Richie also satisfied him very happily.
But Nong would rather go and become strong with the Red Brothers.
"This ...... This dried grass is really unpalatable, and it makes me miserable. ”
Nong looked at Li Qi with tears of grievance.
In the past, he still ate grass, which he could accept, but now Li Qi has intensified his efforts, drying some fruits, roots, and grasses before giving him food.
It's a bit bitter, this is undoubtedly a torture for foodies!
Li Qi said: "Today we have to taste the herbs here. ”
Nong Dao: "But I've eaten them all!" ”
"It's dry."
"Isn't that different?"
"Of course not." Li Qi said: "After drying, the medicinal properties of these herbs will change, in short, the toxicity may be reduced, the medicinal properties may increase, we don't have much time, we have to hurry." ”
Nong was surprised: "Why don't you have much time? Am I going to die? ”
Day! Said it leaked! Li Qi smiled: "What do you think, you should know that we may face the attack of the beast at any time at the moment, we may be injured at any time, if we refine the herbs earlier, this is too important for us in Blackstone Valley." ”
"But...... But don't think so much. ”
Nong looked back, only to see that the bare stone mountain was now a verdant green, all covered with all kinds of herbs, since the chicken prostitute and they left, Li Qi asked them to pick some herbs on a large scale.
"It's not all for you to eat, what are you anxious about, you just need to taste a little bit of everything." Richie said with a roll of his eyes.
"That's just as well."
Nong nodded and continued to taste.
Obviously, Li Qi wants to make Chinese medicine seriously, because the recovery of those deer makes Li Qi very excited, which proves that Nong's crystal belly is very accurate.
However, in order to make medicine, it is necessary to reduce the toxicity of the herb and improve the medicinal properties, which needs to go through some treatment, so after treatment, it has to be tasted by farmers.
Li Qi once went to the Northern Song Dynasty and learned Chinese medicine from a famous teacher, which helped him a lot!
After tasting them one by one, Li Qi threw a piece of chewing gum to the farmer as a reward, and then hurried to the stream, only to see Qin and them cooking lunch.
But Li Qi just looked at it, and then ran to the back of the kitchen, only to see that there was still a stove over there, and Rong was taking care of it alone, and Nong also hurriedly followed.
"How?"
"I don't know, I'm firing as you say." Rong shook his head and said honestly.
"Li Qi, what kind of dish are you doing here, using animal skins and herbs to cook, can it be delicious?"
Nong looked at the cauldron with a look of suspicion.
"Don't just eat it, it's a plaster."
"What's the plaster?"
"You break your leg and I'll tell you what the plaster is."
Li Qi said angrily, and said to Rong again: "Uncover it." ”
"Oh."
Rong reached out and lifted the lid of the cauldron.
"Wow! It smells terrible! ”
Nong saw that it was black inside, and the smell was unpleasant, for fear that Li Qi would ask him to taste it again, so he hurriedly said, "I'll go and help Qin cook." ”
After saying that, he slipped away.
In fact, Li Qi taught him to taste it at all, because this medicine had already been tested on those deer, but he added animal oil and glue to prepare a plaster.
"Not bad, not bad."
Li Qi nodded happily, and said to Rong again: "Rong, you see that Huoqi's skill has surpassed me." ”
Rong scratched his head and said with a humble face: "You taught me." ”
"You're already better than me when it comes to controlling the heat."
Li Qi shook his head and smiled, he was very happy in his heart, he had brought countless apprentices, none of them could surpass him in controlling the fire, Rong was the first, and it was only a long time, it can be seen that Rong has a strong talent for fire.
It's still boiling here, and it's already cooking over there.
The wild boar meat I ate yesterday is a big pot dish of dried fish today.
I saw that everyone was sitting at their own tables, eating happily. Nowadays, everyone in the Black Rock Valley has their own dining table, which is very rudimentary, made of wooden piers, wooden blocks, or stone slabs.
"Savvy, is it delicious?" Li Qi walked over and asked Xiang Manxiao.
"It's delicious."
I was afraid that I would not express myself well, so I still stuck out my tongue and licked it on my lips.
Li Qi shook his head with a smile, and said, "I also prepared a special food for you today. ”
"What is it?"
Quite excited.
Nongdao: "Impossible, how I don't know." ”
"You have to taste the medicine with your heart, how can you not know." Li Qi looked at the farmer angrily, and said to Zu again: "Take it." ”
"Oh."
Zu bent down and picked up a large jar, opened it, and grabbed a handful of white things from it.
"What is this?"
Many people said in unison.
"Let's give it to everyone."
Zu immediately took some and distributed it to everyone.
Man took it and ate it immediately, and then pouted and said, "It's not delicious, this is definitely not made by Li Qi." ”
Nongdao: "The taste is good, but it lacks a little taste." "I've been with Li Qi for a long time, and I haven't learned less of the words of taste.
Megumi suddenly asked, "Haven't you tasted what this is made of?" ”
Everyone shook their heads.
Hui said: "This is made of white stems!" ”
"White Stem?"
"Yes, it tastes like a white stem, and it doesn't taste like anything."
……
Nong wondered: "Li Qi, what are you doing with this, it's not delicious, it's better to make more white jade mud." ”
Many nodded in agreement.
Li Qi smiled: "Do you know how long ago you picked the white stem you just ate? ”
Everyone shook their heads.
"The day before the chicken prostitute came."
"No wonder it's so unpalatable, it's been left out for so long."
Li Qi snorted: "If you leave it for so long, I'm afraid you can eat the taste of wine, these white stem slices are steamed by me, and then dried, so they can be stored for a long time." ”
"What is wine?" Nong asked.
That's right! How do I forget about the wine? Forget it, if you make wine now, these unrestrained guys have to be addicted to alcohol, so they will develop a fart! Li Qi said: "You don't care what the wine is, the point of this dish is not whether it is delicious or not, but that it can last for a long time." ”
Nongdao: "So what? ”
Li Qi sighed and said, "We have to rely on ourselves for everything now, think about it, if the beast occupies our picking area, then we will have to starve to death?" And now with this white stalk, we can store our food very well, so that we are safer, and we can also be said to be stronger, because we are no longer so easy to starve. Besides, in the future, we will always go out of the realm of the Black Rock Valley to hunt, and these dishes can be eaten by our people on the road, although they don't taste good, but at least they won't starve. Also, I try to improve its taste. ”
Lie said excitedly: "Okay, good, this white stem piece is really good." ”
Chiya looked excitedly at the white stem piece in his hand.
Nongdao: "If we can make delicious food, it will be even better, even if we don't go out to hunt, we can take a little with us and eat it at any time." ”
Man looked at Nong and said, "Nong, what you said is really right. ”
This guy's attainments in eating are really incomparable to ordinary people. Li Qi said: "So I think we should pick a large number of these white stems, make white stem pieces, and then save them, so that we at least have the bottom in our hearts, and if there is any accident, at least we will not starve to death." ”
Po Yi nodded again and again: "That's right, that's right, it's the right thing to do." ”
The rest, of course, have no opinion, after all, no one wants to starve to death.
"In addition to that, we should suspend the firing of pots and bowls, and go all out to pick and sew armor. ”
"Why?" Choma asked.
Li Qi said: "Because we have hoarded a lot of pots and bowls now, and the Yehu Department may not exchange a large number of pots and bowls with us, they exchanged enough last time, and even if we come back next time, we have enough to exchange with them." On the contrary, I found that they were interested in the armor we sewed, and I think they would definitely come and exchange armor with us next time. ”
Equator: "But the long insect skin is very precious. ”
Li Qi said: "I didn't say that I would exchange the long insect skin, and they don't know how precious the long insect skin is." We take the hides they gave us and sew them out of the armor, and then exchange them for more skins, so that we will only get more and more. ”
Nong was pleasantly surprised: "What a good idea! ”
He grinned and said, "I understand, Li Qi, you are really smart." ”
Li Qi smiled to himself, and said, "Of course, we have to sew all those long insect skins into armor, and there is always nothing wrong with being prepared." ”
Qiaoma and the others nodded their heads.
Meal.
Li Qi carried his hands behind his back and came to Lie them, only to see that they were all polishing the stone arrows very seriously, and couldn't help asking: "Aren't there snake bone arrows, why do you still build so many stone arrows?" ”
Lie said: "How precious the snake bone arrow is, we are reluctant to use it. ”
Li Qi said: "Do you use your brains, not shaking your head, but thinking about it with your head, our main task now is to catch the beast alive, and kill the invading beast, catch the beast alive, you can't use this stone arrow, kill the beast, it must be very dangerous, then of course you have to use the snake bone arrow!" So, this stone arrow is completely useless! Instead of making this stone arrowhead, you might as well make more mud arrowheads. Other than that. ”
As he spoke, he suddenly took out a large wooden stick from behind his back, somewhat similar to a baseball bat, but much larger, and said, "You can make more of these wooden sticks." ”
"What's the use of that?"
"It's very useful." Li Qi said: "We can use it to knock the beast out and bring it back!" It's almost the same to make a few hundred sticks. ”
"So much?"
"Didn't I say it, we have more goals now, and as long as we have more, then we will be safer. Starting today, stop grinding any stone tools and go all out to make clay arrows and this big stick. ”
They looked at each other, although they couldn't understand it, but the facts told them that Li Qi's words were usually correct, so they nodded in agreement.
"You guys hurry up and work, I'll go and have a look over there."
Richie tossed the stick to Lie and walked back to the stream.
After walking for a while, I suddenly heard someone shouting from behind, "Richie." ”
Li Qi looked back and saw Chi coming over and said, "Is there anything else you don't understand?" ”
Equator: "I think you've been a little weird lately. ”
Li Qi was surprised: "What's strange? ”
Equator: "You asked the farmers to pick a lot of herbs, and you had to pick a lot of white stems, and you also asked Qiaoma to sew armor, and here you let us make big wooden sticks." ”
Li Qi said: "Didn't I tell you all the reasons?" ”
Equator: "But I don't think you're telling the truth. ”
Richie asked, "So what do you think I'm doing?" ”
Chi was silent for a moment and said, "I think you're preparing for a big battle. ”
Li Qi laughed and said: "What you said is so right, didn't I say that, just in case, who knows if there will be a big battle, in case it happens, these preparations are very important to us." ”
Equator: "But I feel like you know there's going to be a big fight." ”
Li Qi smiled: "Don't make trouble, I'm not heaven, how do I know, and it's a big battle, have you ever fought a big battle?" ”
Chi shook his head.
Li Qi said: "It's a coincidence, and I don't have it either!" I'm preparing all of this just to make our Blackstone Valley safer. ”
Chi was silent for a while, and said, "I just want you to know that we are not afraid of fighting, but looking forward to fighting. "The implication is that don't hide it from us because you're afraid of us, I'm not afraid of fighting.
Li Qi nodded and smiled: "Understood." ”
Chi turned around and left.
Li Qi looked at Chi's back and sighed secretly, I really don't know if there will be a big battle, it all depends on Xiaobai's operation.