Chapter 17: The Power of Salt (1)
As the water slowly evaporates, the viscous crystals slowly dry to form crystals of various sizes, and because they are only filtered in the simplest way, the color of the salt is not as white as refined salt, but pale yellow.
Wang Lang pinched a small piece and licked it with the tip of his tongue, the taste was very salty and a little bitter, but the taste was not very strong.
Wang Lang is very satisfied with his results, these salts are already edible, and if he wants to get refined salt, he can't do it at all with Wang Lang's knowledge level.
Carefully poured the salt into the clay pot, with the salt, Wang Lang finally didn't have to eat those light and tasteless things, Wang Lang was excited.
According to the eating habits of the tribe, it is generally two meals a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, and there is rarely the habit of eating at noon, but Wang Lang doesn't want to wait until the evening at the moment, for more than a year, Wang Lang has almost forgotten the taste of those delicacies before.
Wang Lang lit a fire, set up a large clay pot, and prepared to cook and roast meat.
Wang Lang took off a dinosaur thigh that had been smoked on a rope, cut the meat into small pieces with a stone knife, found some edible wild vegetables and meat to cook together, and sprinkled a little salt in it.
The remaining meat is cut into small pieces, skewered together with branches, smeared with a little salt, and grilled over a fire.
It didn't take long for the food to be cooked, Wang Lang smelled it, there was no difference from the usual taste, Wang Lang knew that his cooking skills were not good, and he didn't think that he could make fragrant food for miles, in this wild world, where there was nothing to eat, he could eat food with salt, Wang Lang felt that there was nothing happier in this world.
Wang Lang took out a piece of meat from the clay pot with chopsticks, blew it, and put it in his mouth, the aroma of the meat mixed with the unique saltiness of table salt constantly stimulated Wang Lang's taste buds, and the piece of meat was held in his mouth for a long time, but Wang Lang was reluctant to swallow it.
A few children playing on the side had already seen Wang Lang making food, but because Wang Lang was the leader, they were still a little afraid of Wang Lang in their hearts, so they stood in the distance one by one, stretched their necks and looked this way, seeing Wang Lang eating so intoxicated, several children couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
Wang Lang called the children over and distributed the roasted meat to them, and as soon as the meat was in their mouth, the strange taste that they had never experienced instantly conquered their taste buds, and they devoured the meat pieces, screaming excitedly.
The clansmen who were busy doing things, when they heard the sound here, looked over here, and saw several children dancing around Wang Lang, and in curiosity, they put down their work and gathered around.
Seeing everyone coming around, Wang Lang smiled and said, "Everyone try it." ”
People are not polite to Wang Lang, each grabbed a piece of meat and threw it in his mouth, the meat was in his mouth, everyone's eyes were like hungry wolves, the meat in his mouth had not been swallowed, but his hand was quickly grabbing the remaining piece of meat, and he didn't say a word, throwing the meat into his mouth was chewing violently, as if he would be snatched away if he ate slowly.
Those who didn't grab it glared at those who were chewing desperately, as if they had some kind of hatred.
Wang Lang didn't expect people's reactions to be so exaggerated, thinking that if he didn't stand up and speak, these people were likely to fight for a mouthful of meat.
Wang Lang coughed, and the noisy people gradually quieted down.
"What do you think of the meat?" Wang Lang looked at everyone with a smile.
"It's delicious."
"I've never eaten meat so good."
"What kind of meat is this?"
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People excitedly sighed at the deliciousness of the meat and asked about the origin of the meat to express their feelings at this moment.
"Dinosaur meat," Wang Lang said lightly.
"What? Impossible, how can dinosaur meat taste like this? ”
Some people are incredulous about this answer, dinosaur meat is usually eaten, but it is not at all comparable to what was just eaten.
"It's really dinosaur meat, I just added a little salt to it when I cooked the meat and roasted it, now you can appreciate the benefits of salt!" Wang Lang explained.
After listening to Wang Lang's explanation, everyone's eyes changed, and they all looked at the bags containing salt cubes, a few children who didn't taste the taste of salt cubes yesterday ran over like a gust of wind, opened the bag and picked up a piece and bit it, Wang Lang wanted to stop it but it was too late.
In less than a moment, several screams and vomiting sounded in people's ears, and looking at their painful and distorted faces, everyone recalled the painful experience of yesterday, and the painful lesson extinguished the fire of impulse in their hearts just now.
People's hot blood gradually calmed down, and they didn't care about those unlucky children, looking at Wang Lang suspiciously, wanting to know a little bit of the mystery from Wang Lang.
Wang Lang looked at the children who were still retching sympathetically, reminded them to rinse their mouths with water, and retracted his gaze to look at the people in front of him.
"Yesterday I already said that those pieces of salt are not edible directly, and I have just made some edible salt, and you have added this salt to the meat you eat." Saying that, Wang Lang paused for a while, looked at Fanxing and said, "Fanxing, you can help me bring the jar covered with leaves in the cave." ”
It didn't take long for Fanxing to return with the clay pot in his arms and hand it to Wang Lang.
Wang Lang took off the leaves, grabbed a small handful of salt, spread out his palms, and said, "This is the prepared salt, everyone pinch a little and taste it." ”
People looked at the pale yellow and small transparent crystals in Wang Lang's hand, stretched out their hands and pinched a little and put them in their mouths.
The taste was a little strange, although the meat I had just eaten had this taste, but it was not so strong, and the salt slowly melted in the mouth, and people felt a little thirsty.
Wang Lang watched people smash their mouths and swallow saliva, smiled and said: "Salt, eating too much or too little is not good, if you put too much salt when cooking meat, the meat will not be delicious, just like the salt grains you just ate, it will make you thirsty." ”
People remembered Wang Lang's words, but they never forgot the delicious piece of meat just now.
Jianya licked his lips and leaned over to Wang Lang's side, looking embarrassed.
"Lang, can you get us some more meat."
Wang Lang glanced at Jianya with disdain, and said: "If you want to eat it, you can cook it yourself, the method will tell you, now the food in the tribe is quite sufficient, if you want to eat, you can get it yourself!" ”
As soon as the words fell, the crowd hula all dispersed, lit a fire to boil water, and took meat and cut it into pieces, which can be described as full of enthusiasm and a clear division of labor.
The children who were still retching just now endured the discomfort in their stomachs and excitedly joined the army of cooking meat.
Wang Lang looked at the busy crowd and muttered, "Isn't my leader too majestic?" ”