As the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water, in fact, these days, food is not particularly difficult to find, there are many wild beasts, and there are many fish in the river, but there is no way to preserve it

A hunting trip can take up to three or five days, and the fish is also poked out with a thin stick, and one is poked and eaten, which is time-consuming, laborious and energy-consuming.

Food storage is a big problem, if you don't solve this, where will the marching dry food come from, although in the past, the Dongyi people often fought next to hunger, but it was forced, and Ji Fa didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the Dongyi people.

Under Ji Fa's intention to search, it was also his luck that he finally found a big bubble in the south of a certain village, and there was a layer of alkaline gaba on the ground on the east side of the bubble, and on the ground on the west side, there was a thick layer of gaba like hoarfrost, when he saw this, Ji Fa couldn't help laughing happily.

No wonder Ji Fa is happy, this layer of hoarfrost-like things is the legendary earth salt.

Even after thousands of years of civilization and development, some ancient places still retain the custom of eating earth salt.

With earth salt, the food problem is much easier!

Ji Fa found a few people to shovel out the soil salt, and then put it in a crude clay pot and brought it back to the village, then found a few rough copper pots and set them up with stones, and then made a bubble of fire at the bottom, and then poured the shoveled soil salt into the pot, and then began to boil slowly with fire, and after burning for most of the day, the fire was extinguished, and then patiently waited for the copper pot to cool down by itself.

The next morning, Ji Fa took matters into his own hands again, slowly scooped out the top layer of salt water in the pot, and then took out the remaining layer of mixed bottom and threw it away, and then brushed the pot with stream water, and then boiled it again, and repeated several times until the pot was completely cool, and the top of the pot was thick crystallized soil salt.

Due to the limited conditions, it can only be treated simply, but the salt can be used directly.

Next, Ji Fa asked people to find all kinds of ropes with the help of the patriarch, this is an era when ropes can already be knotted and there are simple hieroglyphs, ropes are already considered common, although straw ropes are the mainstay, but there are also a lot of other materials.

After collecting a lot of ropes, Ji Fa also did it himself, but let the clansmen observe and learn from the sidelines, knotting and connecting various types of ropes of different lengths to form an ordinary fishing net.

This seemingly extremely simple fishing net is so fresh in the eyes of the natives of the Dongyi tribe, and when he saw Ji Fa and a few people dragging it back in the water, he was even more stunned, and ran to tell each other about the magic of this thing.

There are a lot of fish in the river itself, just catch it in a net, even if those eyelets are different in size and very large, but the harvest is extremely rich, a net, all kinds of fat fish roll with white flowers and golden belly jumping lively, simply blind the eyes of the Dongyi people.

If you poke it with a stick, how many days will it take to poke out so many fish!

And look at the head, the long ones are almost dozens of pounds, and the short ones are four or five pounds, for the Dongyi people who have always struggled on the hunger line, seeing the fish is equivalent to seeing the delicious food from the sky, and many people have water flowing down, and they can't wait to immediately reach out and grab it and eat it raw.

However, Ji Fa did not give them immediately, but picked a few, and then boiled a large pot of water in a crude copper pot, sprinkled a little coarse salt, and then disemboweled, cleaned up, and then threw it into the pot and boiled it over a strong fire, and in less than a moment, the fragrance overflowing from the pot wafted far, far away, attracting the surrounding clansmen to surround him.

It's not easy to say that it's not easy to clean up this, mainly because the tools are not very easy to use, there are not many small knives in the Dongyi clan, and the only bronze weapons are like treasures, only the patriarch and a few young people have, fortunately, the patriarch is quite cooperative, and found a relatively convenient dagger-like sword for Ji Fa to use, and most of the others can only take crude stone chips to learn and use, and they can barely use it, but the efficiency is a little worse.

After that, under the arrangement of the patriarch, the fish with a stone knife was divided into everyone, and the fish with salt tasted delicious, and it was cooked many times in a row before everyone present could barely taste some, but with such a demonstration, how to set up a net, how to catch fish and how to cook food did not have to worry about Ji Fa anymore, in terms of eating, the Dongyi people learned very quickly.

And the dozen or so people sent by the big leader who had been following Ji Fa were particularly serious, and then rushed away with a happy face, it seemed that he had reported to the big leader, and according to the previous method, he also wanted all clans to share these skills.

Ji Fa did not waste time, after getting the net to catch the fish, Ji Fa picked a few fat fish, shoveled off the scales with a stone knife, disemboweled, and then washed in the river, and then strung up with branches and hung on the tree, dripping dry water, and then put the fish into the brine prepared in advance sprinkled with soil salt, soaked for about two hours, and finally took out and continued to hang on the tree in order to drip dry the brine.

While explaining, the soil salt is evenly rubbed on the fish body, gills, and eyeballs, and after the coating is done, a number of bamboo pieces are found to cover it, and then a flat stone is pressed on the fish, and the fish body continues to be immersed in the brine to fully absorb the salt, get rid of the water in the fish body, and then dry it......

In the end, the dried fish was finally made, which was the most complicated compared to any other food method, and it was really not easy to make, but the investment was still worth it, because he could make dried fish, and he basically learned all kinds of dried meat methods, so immediately after, Ji Fa set his sights on the small beasts in the mountains and forests.

However, the Yuyi people live by the water, and the variety of beasts on the mountain is not as rich as that of the Yiyi, so Ji Fa rushed to the Yiyi, a group that lives by the mountains, and planned to continue to carry out a production plan here.

Speaking of hunting, the Dongyi people are very familiar with it, especially the people in the Yiyi clan, who are basically young and strong, and even children are brave and good at fighting, don't look at their young age, their strength is not small.

And for those wild beasts, some were stabbed to death with one rod, some were stabbed to death with two rods, and some were beaten to death with knives and stones......

But this time, Ji Fa's request was different from the previous hunting process, except for some relatively large beasts, he also asked to catch as many live as possible!

It's not easy to catch the job, it took a lot of effort to complete this feat, and there are many people with injuries, to them, Ji Fa enthusiastically said that it was hard!

Those who caught the beasts and died directly skinned and dug their bellies to make jerky, while the living ones were enclosed by a low wall in the shape of a mouth, and each one was given a little leaf and fish bone to ensure that he would not starve to death.

Men, women, and children were dumbfounded and completely incomprehensible to Ji Fa's approach, including the patriarch, who was known for his enlightened vision: