The tribesmen were busy collecting fruits everywhere for food for the winter, but Su Yan took the exploration team out again, because the fruits of hemp and pepper were ripe, Su Yan wanted to collect them, and the hemp plants had to be brought back.

The exploration team first came to the area where the pepper was found, there are a total of five pepper plants, about three meters high, the specific year is unknown, the trees bear dense red small fruits, this red small fruit is what Su Yan needs.

This time, there were only sixteen people in the exploration team plus Su Yan, and Su Yan ordered them to pick the red fruits growing on the pepper tree, and Su Yan himself joined the picking queue, constantly putting the picked pepper fruits into the vine basket.

The fruits of the peppercorns are very small, each less than the size of Su Yan's little finger, but the rattan basket is relatively finely braided, and there is no need to worry about the pepper falling out of the gap in the rattan basket.

Under normal circumstances, modern artificially planted pepper trees, two years after hanging fruit, three years later each pepper tree can pick more than one pound of dried pepper, five years later each pepper tree average pick two pounds of dried pepper, eight years later each pepper tree average pick about four pounds of dried pepper.

The five pepper trees found by Su Yan are expected to be quite high in year, but the fruit yield of these five wild pepper trees is definitely far from being comparable with the pepper trees that have been cultivated countless times in modern times.

Of course, you can't dry all the peppercorns, but also leave a pound as seeds, anyway, there are five wild pepper trees that can bear fruit every year, and there is no need to leave too many seeds, and the remaining peppercorns have to be dried.

After picking peppercorns, Su Yan was busy taking people to collect hemp seeds, hemp seeds can be smaller than pepper fruits, so Su Yan deliberately asked everyone in the exploration team to bring a large pottery bowl to collect hemp seeds, and even the rattan basket was covered with a layer of animal skin.

The area where hemp grows is not large, only about fourteen or five square meters, and Su Yan didn't bother to count how many hemp plants there were, so he directly instructed others to take a pottery bowl to collect the hemp seeds on each hemp, or to take them down.

Originally, the whole hemp was supposed to be cut off with a sickle, but unfortunately the dragon tribe didn't have a sickle, even if it was made into a sickle with stone tools, it was not suitable, so it was better to do it directly.

There are only a dozen square meters of hemp, and sixteen people work together, and soon all the hemp seeds are taken down, and there are about three catties of hemp together.

After picking up the hemp seeds, Su Yan asked everyone to pull out the whole hemp plant from the soil, which is also considered a strength work, but it is not a troublesome thing for the other fifteen members of the exploration team, holding a hemp plant with both hands, and using fifty percent of the strength can easily pull the hemp out of the soil.

The quality of life of primitive people is far inferior to that of modern people, but when primitive people are put into modern times, almost everyone is a strong man.

Compared to the hemp seeds, the speed of pulling hemp is faster, the sun has just passed overhead, all the hemp has been plucked, Su Yan instructed them to gather the hemp together and bundle it into several bundles.

Depart for the return to the Dragon Tribe's residence.

After two days, the "one and a half" crops were harvested, and Su Yan no longer needed to go out, so Jian and the rest of the exploration team also went to the jungle to find fruits to collect, while Su Yan handled the harvest in the tribe.

The harvested hemp seeds are too few, only a little more than three catties, Su Yan does not plan to eat hemp seeds or use hemp seeds to squeeze oil, they are all left to plant next spring, Su Yan has never planted hemp, and he did not dare to use all the hemp seeds for planting for the first time.

Although he couldn't use hemp seeds, the few bundles of hemp he brought back needed Su Yan to deal with them well, and study how to use the stem and bark of hemp to make ropes and weave linen fishing nets.

Compared with hemp, the matter of pepper is much simpler, after all, the five pepper trees have not been cut down by Su Yan and will continue to bear fruit every year.

The harvested eight catties of peppercorns, except for one pound of peppercorns as seeds, the remaining peppercorns must be dried to make pepper seasoning.

Zanthoxylum pepper seasoning does not need to use the whole fruit of Zanthoxylum, just use the dry and ripe peel, of course, there is no drying of the pepper fruit, it is difficult to separate the peel of Zanthoxylum pepper and Zanthoxylum pepper seeds, in addition, Su Yan is also worried that the pepper seeds can not be used as seeds after drying, so leave a pound of pepper fruits in advance and do not dry.

The drying process lasted about a day, and the next day, Su Yan asked a few pregnant clansmen to help separate the peel from the pepper seeds.

It is also a speechless thing, in previous years, the female tribe in the tribe will basically give birth to children in late summer and autumn, with the improvement of the living conditions of the tribe, the time of the tribesmen's breeding offspring almost does not change seasonally, every month there are adult female tribesmen pregnant, every month there are newborns, but summer and autumn are still the main seasons for newborn births.

Su Yan didn't quite understand how to make Sichuan pepper seasoning, but thinking of seasonings such as Sichuan pepper noodles, Sichuan pepper powder, Sichuan pepper salt, Su Yan knew that the remaining Sichuan pepper peel still had to be crushed.

So what are the steps before crushing? After thinking about it, Su Yan decided to take out a small handful of pepper peels and put them in a heated pottery bowl to fry them.

This step was done by Su Yan himself, Su Yan took a slightly larger pottery bowl and put it on the stove, lit a fire to heat it, worried that the pepper peel would be burned, and the flame under the stove was not big.

When the pottery bowl is heated, Su Yan puts a small handful of pepper peels into the pottery bowl, and then takes a piece of wood to stir-fry the pepper peels, and after the pepper peels are fried to a slight yellow, Su Yan stops stir-frying, pours out all the pepper peels, and waits for the heat on the pepper peels to dissipate.

How did Shennong die?

I guess I died of poisoning from eating poisonous plants.

Today, Su Yan also wants to learn from Shennong, and bravely put a small amount of pepper peel in his mouth.

Hiss!

The next moment, Su Yan, whose eyes were red, walked to the side of the "water tank" in a few steps, scooped water from the water tank with a pottery bowl and drank it, and drank a bowl of water before stopping, even so, Su Yan could still feel the burning sensation on his tongue.

"Poisonous! This thing is poisonous! Su Yan looked at the fried peppercorn peel in the pottery bowl as if he had seen poison.

The gap between wild pepper and modern artificially cultivated pepper is too big, the taste of modern pepper can be tolerated, the taste of wild pepper is numb and spicy, if Su Yan tastes a little more, I am afraid that tears will fall on the spot.