Chapter Twenty-Five: Salt and Fire
Recently, it is necessary to make salt, Yu Guang specially took people back to the bamboo forest, cut some bamboos of different thicknesses, and returned to Dazhai for processing.
Before leaving, he didn't worry about the cow and the calf, so he simply pulled the big black cow family to move into the Dazhai of the Heavenly Clan, and let people build a super large cowshed, and let people send them some hay to feed every day, they are all acquaintances, cows and calves are also very obedient, and they don't have to guard against the big and small beasts nearby all day long when they live here.
He, the owner of the big village, was busy running all day long, but fortunately, the daily exercise made Yu Guang quite comfortable.
Entering the salt village, all the work was basically completed, the stone knife led people to dig a big pit in a low-lying place, imitated the way they made the well, this length and width are five meters, nearly four meters deep, the bottom is also paved with pebbles, and the walls of the well around are also piled up with stones, and it takes a lot of effort.
It was already full of water, so Yu Guang scooped a bowl and tasted it, with a faint salty taste, and sure enough, the salt content was extremely high.
The stone knife took Yu Guang around the salt village, and built a large shed in the backyard, which was full of burned charcoal, all made of pine wood, which was easier to ignite.
There are also two water tanks, dozens of large clay pots, all of which are placed outside, and the technology of firing pottery with stone knives has improved a lot recently, looking at the tiredness of the stone knives, Yu Guang is very distressed, "Ah Da, you have worked hard recently!" ”
The stone knife is not good at talking and is the same as opening the mountain, always thinking about the people everywhere, "You can use it!" I'm old, but I'm very happy to see the Stone Clan grow. The White Stone Tribe of Gravel Heavenly Witch is our birthplace, and you and Fat Cloth must guard the clansmen! ”
The Gravel Heavenly Witch was also in front of him, "How do you make the big salt?" ”
"Follow me!" Yu Guang came outside with the stone knife and the Broken Stone Heavenly Witch, and he began to speak as he spoke:
"With a bamboo rake, the bamboo scraper scrapes up and piles up the saline-alkali soil dug out of the ground.
Put the open space here and stir it into a pulp to make a hoard, and pave the mat with purlins made of straw below;
Then pour the water from the other pool inside, leave a hole underneath and lead the slurry water to another dug pool and stir;
When there is enough water in the salt slurry, I scoop it out with a bamboo tube, use this simple filter I made, filter it and pour it into these clay pots to fire, and when it is dry, a large amount of salt will appear. ”
Although what he said was simple, the stone knife and the stone shattering heavenly witch couldn't understand what Yu Guang was talking about, but they all firmly remembered how to do it.
Now that it is about to enter winter, there is no way to dry salt, so I can only burn salt like this now, and when it is July and August, I can use the sun to dry salt.
Most of the tools are basically made of bamboo, but fortunately there are a lot of thick bamboo tubes that can be used, and there are enough charcoal burned, so a lot of filtering devices are made, and the salt water in the pond is directly scooped to burn the charcoal and consume clay pots.
Now the technology is not advanced, it would be good to be able to find this salt field, in order to want to eat salty food as soon as possible, it will be troublesome, I can't take care of so much, Dazhai still needs to open the field by himself Yu Guang can't stay too long, this time he brought big eyes and four bows made of animal tendons, "The four arrow towers in Yanzhai have been built, and the people who are on vigil and daytime vigilance are arranged, and the vigilance of Zhou Wei cannot be relaxed." Yu Guang told Damu to say.
Damu admires Yu Guang more and more, not only is he smart and can do anything, but he has recently competed with him for arrows, whether it is grabbing a bow or accuracy, he has begun to fall behind.
Taking advantage of the fact that it was still early, Yu Guang rode the big black cow back to Dazhai alone, in order to be able to lie on the back of the cow more comfortably, he specially used a whole piece of wild boar skin to make a thick cushion, which was covered with a few leopard skins, soft and much, the big black cow ran up, just hold on to the long hair of the big black cow and don't fall off.
Finally, only he and the big black cow were on the road alone, Yu Guang was happy and full of vigilance, ready to take the big black cow to the river, to see if there was any way to contact the crocodile threat by the river, and then you could build a big village by the river, and then there would be endless fish, and even go around the opposite side.
Although the prehistoric wilderness is extremely dangerous, but the beauty of the primitive ecological environment, he is in it every day, and even wants to make a hot air balloon and fly in the sky, then he will pull the wind and walk the prehistoric earth again, which is not in vain.
When the big black bull runs, no fierce beast dares to approach, and at this time dares to come out, unless they are impatient, they only walk in the grass and clearing, and do not enter the forest, which restricts the huge body of the big black bull.
Until he saw the big river, Yu Guang was shocked, the rolling river rushed to the southeast, more turbulent than the Yangtze River in later generations, and looked at the river blankly, "What is this the earth, not the earth?" ”
Hundreds of meters of the river, there is no way to cross it without a big boat, how did those tribes of goods come over? A series of problems lie in the constant repetition of the light mind.
After running along the vicinity of the big river to the southeast for a while, Yu Guang estimated that he could almost see the stockade to the west! Because I saw a lot of smoke in the west, this should be the mountain opening and people burning the wasteland!
Now the location of the walk is very good, a piece of thatch nearly one person high, has almost dried up, put a fire, it is estimated that it can burn the grass tribe. Suddenly, there was a flash of inspiration in Yu Guang's head.
"That's right! Use fire! He patted his head, this area turned out to be only a few sparse trees, let the clansmen choose a place to make a separation zone, arrange some traps, and burn them down, whether it is a fierce beast or a prehistoric giant crocodile, all of them will be cooked for him, and then he can eat barbecue crocodile meat!
With a good idea, I immediately returned to Dazhai westward.
Riding the ox and galloping for less than twenty minutes, I saw Dazhai, a piece of black pressure is full of 100 acres, and the black smoke is billowing from the burning of the mountain, and Yu Guang is so frightened that he thinks that the isolation zone they made has no effect.
"These primitives are crazy!" All the people in the Celestial Clan in the stockade came out, standing not far from the stockade and looking at the silence of the black pressure here, Kaishan stared at the turf and black fangs, what are these two things crazy on time, the fire is so big.
"There's nothing wrong with our people, right?" Yu Guang asked.
"None... Nothing! Kaishan replied tremblingly. For this fierce clansman, Yu Guang still likes it, he is strong and surrenders to himself, and believes in himself! The only thing he is dissatisfied with is that he respects the gods too much, and the fire is afraid that he will see the god of fire!
"Tomorrow, you will lead someone to level this piece well, take a hundred steps into a field, leave a ditch in each field, and when the time comes, we will bring the big river water over and plant corn!" Yu Guang said.
"What? Diverting the water of a large river? It will alarm the god of water! Kaishan said tremblingly.
"No problem! I'm already saying hello to the water god! Feel relieved! Yu Guang said with a smile.
Only the glazed eyes were left in Kaishan, and he returned to the stockade by himself.
The bone knife found himself at this time, and brought a woman behind him, a woman who looked very good in cloth clothes.
Fat cloth and bone knife divided into two groups in the surrounding half-day land, gathering some small groups like the stone clan, not far to the southwest, bone knife encountered a small clan of only more than twenty people, called the Youyi clan.
After the introduction of the bone knife, they will drill wood to make a fire, people live in a mulberry forest, this ethnic group has more women and fewer men, recently it is more and more difficult to hunt food, afraid that it will be difficult to survive the winter, the whole clan will go out to hunt.
When encountering a big cat, the female clan collar was eaten, and when it was in danger, the bone knife they appeared, and killed the big cat, and the woman took the initiative to follow the bone knife back, and the bone knife saw that the cotton cloth worn by these people was very similar to what Yu Guang said, so he took her back to see Yu Guang.
Yu Guang looked at the woman, who was probably in her early twenties and asked, "Why follow the bone knife?" ”
The woman replied, "He is strong enough to carry the Yi people through the winter!" ”
Yu Guang laughed, "What's your name?" ”
"Weave!" She replied.
"Do you know how to raise silkworms and weave cloth?" Yu Guang asked again.
"The people of the Youyi tribe can weave cloth, and we raise some small insects, and they will spin silk." Ori replied.
"Good! Uncle Dao, you have made a great contribution, I will build you a big house when you go back, and you two will live together! Ha ha! "Yu Guangle is happy.
The bone knife is nearly thirty, and there is a beautiful girl in her early twenties, it is really the right time for happiness to come, and there is a cloth.
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