"Wear more clothes and don't freeze." His voice is magnetic and melodious.

Ayi was very moved, snuggled in his arms, and whispered: "You should have a few more women." You're a lord, I can't be too selfish. ”

Tianhao hugged her tightly, his chin gently pressed against Ayi's soft hair, and his laughter revealed an emotion that only he could understand: "Don't say such stupid things again." I just want you to give me more sons. ”

The sweet feeling slowly injected into Ayi's body, she liked to be held by Tianhao like this, but she was still a little nervous and worried: "Many women are prettier than me, I ...... I'm so ugly. ”

It's not the first time that such words have been said in front of Tianhao, and Ayi is very self-aware. It's not that she is babbling over and over again, but that the whole social group concept is very strong, and individual consciousness cannot fight against it. Just like a flat boat floating on the sea, it is naturally safe when it is calm, but if the sea makes huge waves, everything will be destroyed.

Tianhao hugged Ayi tighter, and his hearty laughter was as bright as the sun: "I've thought about it, find a time, let's get married!" ”

They never got married. According to the concept of the northern barbarians, Ayi is now just "Ah Hao's woman", not a wife in the real sense.

The woman snuggled in her arms was shocked, she raised her head in disbelief, and asked excitedly and fearfully, "...... Are you sure? ”

Tianhao lowered his head and touched her lips lightly, smiled and nodded: "We will hold a wedding next autumn, and I will invite the great master to witness it in person." Having done so much, he should be able to accede to my request. ”

Autumn, harvest time.

The future is indeed worth looking forward to.

……

A new row of houses has been erected on the hillside north of Rock City.

These buildings are tall and structurally remarkable———— with the same masonry on the outside and thick wood on the inside. It is like taking the original wooden house as an embryo, with a solid concrete stone layer on the outside.

The house was not used to house the population. The empty interior is lined with tall wooden shelves, spacing and pattern similar to those of civilized libraries. Numerous clay pots are stacked on wooden shelves, about 30 centimeters long, with no crusts at the top and bottom.

The clay pots were densely stacked together, filling all the gaps in the middle of the wooden frame. The jar contains humus, and the mouth of the jar is slightly tilted upwards to ensure that the contents of the jar do not fall. In the early spring, when the weather has warmed up, there are people who come in on time every day to patrol here, and a very high threshold is set at the entrance, mainly to prevent insects, ants, and rats.

In fact, cultivated mushrooms cannot be regarded as a product of the civilized era, this technology has appeared for a long time, and the key lies in the scale of mass production. In the summer and autumn forests, mushrooms can be seen growing on grass and tree trunks everywhere: the black fungus is more fat than in civilization, the hazel mushroom and pine mushroom are more fragrant, and there is the famous artificial fungus, which has changed from domesticated to wild due to the destruction of the earth, and the wild form produced by radiation has increased several times. Especially in the hot and rainy summer season, wild artificial mushrooms the size of millstones can often be seen in the forest.

For a long time, wild mushrooms have been an important food supplement for the northern barbarians. Especially in the summer, a small amount of grain and a large amount of wild vegetables are mixed together, and although the soup and water are not full, there is a strong sense of satiety when eating. Mushrooms themselves have an umami factor, and some of them are mixed with clear soup and watery food, which is very smooth to eat, and I have the motivation to barely survive.

How to identify edible fungi was once the preserve of witch practitioners. Wizards discovered early on that there are two types of fungi: poisonous and non-toxic. The former was put to good use, and the latter was not completely abandoned. Witchcraft and medicine are inextricably linked, and the most brilliant sorcerers are often the best doctors. However, ordinary people's understanding of mushrooms is limited to food, and from recorded antiquity to the present, countless barbarians have died under poisonous mushrooms. They struggled in the wilderness, trampling on the bones of their predecessors to find a safe way to eat.

Speaking of luck, in the fourth year after Tianhao enlisted in the army, a college classmate resigned and returned to his hometown because his income was too low to support his wife and son, and started mushroom farming in his hometown, which was impressive. Tianhao went to see him a few times, chatted about their respective work while eating and drinking, and more or less understood some technical points in this regard.

He's not quite sure this method works, but it's worth a try.

The previous experiment was dominated by ergot, and the success was much simpler than Tianhao imagined. With the right temperature and humidity, the spores multiply very quickly. With the experience from highly poisonous mushrooms, it is naturally not a problem to engage in large-scale edible mushroom cultivation now.

Again———— there are no slackers in Rock City.

The elderly and children are the main force of the farming industry in the city.

In captivity, the pigs reproduce faster than expected. It was actually dangerous for dozens of fang-toothed pigs to be kept in a pen, and Tianhao had to order their fangs to be amputated. This further reduces the living space and does not puncture the body and cause casualties when colliding with each other. Countless examples in history have long proven that "eat more and move less" is an important factor in obesity covering the entire animal kingdom on Earth. No matter how ferocious these mutant species are, no matter how extensive their concept of food is, they will always stare at the pig feeders with cold and fierce eyes, but they will never be able to change their fixed fate.

Eat and sleep, and eat when you sleep, and the food is plentiful and varied. In particular, the "fishmeal" produced by the feed factory in the fishing village and the "bone meal" produced by the food factory in the city are always happy to eat as long as these two things are added to the food.

The children in Rock City are smart and hardworking. By order of the lord of the city, all children were required to attend a school run by the priests. The class lasts two hours after the sun rises, and focuses on the knowledge and comprehension of words. The pre-lunch period is led by teachers who work in the nearby mountains and fields, mowing or planting, feeding hungry fang-toothed pigs, patrolling chicken farms, replenishing chicken food and water, and collecting eggs and putting them into warehouses.

These things are not very active, but they are very complicated. Adults are responsible for heavy physical labor, which can only be performed by the elderly and children.

The happiness of eating, sleeping and sleeping all day long made the fang-toothed pigs no longer dream of freedom, and they soon forgot the majesty of the whirring mountains and forests. What's so great about the storm-maned bear, the black howling wolf is a fart, they would never have dreamed that Lao Tzu would live a happy life without worrying about food and clothing. What's more, the humans who kept me in captivity were so caring, they even locked up the young sow with me, and I just looked at it meaningfully, and it came running over to me, lying down in front of me, stretching its legs and feet, drooling, blushing, all with an expression of great expectation.

Well, there may be something wrong with the pose, but it doesn't affect the result.

Environmental change has affected all species. To ensure that the population does not go extinct, the fang-toothed pigs are investing more of their evolutionary power in reproduction. Twice a year, 10 to 20 calves are born each time, and the estrus period of the boar can last for more than three months...... These terrible stats are very true, and if it weren't for the large population of fang-toothed pigs, there wouldn't be so many black-howling wolves and tyrannical bears on the northern continent.

It's a complete food chain.

Now the barbarians are beginning to step in from it.

Last year, pickled pork became a specialty of Rock City.

Note that this is not about ham or bacon, but specifically about savory fats made from fanged pig fat. They spent a wonderful and happy time in the sturdy pigsty, eating and sleeping every day, and gaining weight at a terrible rate, but they did not understand that their white fat had a special meaning for the savages.

The practice of marinating pork is not unfamiliar, and the chefs of Rock City were the first to make the first batch of marinated fats using blubber as a raw material. The pigs loved the salty grease and cut it with a knife and chewed it in the bread. A group of harpooners, led by Akabi, brought this way of eating to the ship, and it became a top-notch delicacy that almost all hokan people loved.

The Niu people have a much broader understanding of meat than the pig people. In contrast, they prefer fang-toothed pigs. Also marinated fat, fatty pork is better than blubber fat in both texture and taste.

Of course, this is a one-sided understanding of the Niu people.

Anyway, whether it's pickled pork or pickled whale fat, Tianhao doesn't like it. He couldn't accept the terrible sensation of a fatty, large chunk of solid oil entering his mouth. Very nauseous, stimulating the stomach and intestines to roll, producing strong vomiting Yuwang.

He loves pig ears and does not refuse pork intestines and liver. The delicacy of braised pork runs through the entire civilization era, and countless Chinese chefs have gone forward one after another, constantly adjusting the recipe and making a variety of delicious dishes with regional characteristics. They are frugal and never waste anything to eat. The animal internal organs abandoned by the white devils and black-skinned fools can only and must be carried forward in the hands of this group of people.

The process of making soy sauce is actually not difficult, in simple terms, it is the product of soybean fermentation.

I still have to thank the friend who has long disappeared in the depths of the vast river of time, if it weren't for the hostility of the big city to him and the lack of life, he would not have chosen to return to his hometown to start a new life. At that time, many things were full of industrialization, and food safety became a common concern of the whole people. I have a piece of land at home, I usually raise some mushrooms, and by the way, I use soybeans to make some soy sauce, and if I can't finish eating it, I will send some to Tianhao who is far away, and turn on the mobile phone video to chat about gossip, of course, I still want to show off to a large extent.

Tianhao has never made soy sauce, but he knows the basic procedure.

Genetic memory is the knowledge hidden deep in the bones of barbarians, Tianhao made a start, and the next thing became logical: soybeans were made into cakes, steamed with water, mixed with a certain proportion of yeast, and then everything was left to time. There is a high probability of failure, and the probability of success is also there.

The newly made soy sauce exuded a strong fragrance, and Tianhao couldn't wait for someone to slaughter a fang-toothed pig, and he personally supervised the whole process of bloodletting and slaughtering. Pig's blood is not wasted and is mixed with half-cooked rice to make a blood sausage. The two large fans are divided into small pieces according to different parts, and the ribs and hind legs are stacked on the cutting board into small hills.

Broken Tooth took a few of his cronies and watched Tianhao roll up his sleeves and go into battle like an idiot. Wield a steel axe to cut off the pig's head, cut it in half from the middle, ignite Songming to burn the pig's hair, and then carefully scrape off the dirt with a knife, dig out the pig's brain for later use, take out the skull little by little, and finally the whole pig's face is left.

Boil water in a cauldron, deboned and clean pig's face and pig's trotters are boiled twice in boiling water, scoop them up and drain them, pour out the hot water in the pot, wash the pot, add various condiments, together with the freshly brewed soy sauce, put water to submerge the pig's face, cover the pot and simmer slowly, and a very fragrant smell will soon waft in the air.

In addition to thyme, the rest of the condiments are garlic, ginger, chili pepper and a variety of peppercorns. These are the harvests that are brought from A43. In particular, garlic and ginger were planted on separate plots around Rock City. The aroma and taste of these things are not much different from those of civilization, and the degree of variation is not high.

Sugar beets have not been cultivated for a long time and the scale is not large, so Tianhao can only choose honey as a substitute for sugar.

The old people who came from the Panshizhai era knew that Tianhao had good cooking skills. When the news of the pig killing in the morning had spread, a large group of high-ranking personnel, including the old priest, had arrived uninvited, Tianhao had no choice but to order the guards to set up a few cauldrons in other rooms, and treat the pork that had been cut into pieces in the same way to make braised pork.

When the sun is in the west, the meat is cooked.

Lifting the lid of the pot, the rich aroma was mouth-watering, and a group of pig leaders such as Broken Tooth were dumbfounded, and they stood by the pot and sucked their saliva. This kind of food completely subverts their understanding of meat, there is no difference between the same kind, and it is not the same as the strong smell of the past. Large pieces of braised pork were put into rattan baskets, and Ayi led several women with fans to cool the meat.

Broken teeth drooled, pitiful and cautiously approached Tianhao, lowered his voice and asked, "My lord, why do you want to fan those meat fans?" They...... Is it hot? ”

"In pursuit of the best taste." As he spoke, Tianhao walked over, cut off a small piece of hot braised meat with a knife, and handed it to Broken Tooth: "Taste it, feel it yourself." ”

It was a hind leg with skin. Broken Tooth cocked her fingers, like a little daughter-in-law embroidered with needle and thread, with infinite admiration and a high degree of mystery, picked up this piece of meat, put it in her mouth like a treasure, and chewed it slowly.

“…… I've never eaten such good meat in my life. He was reluctant to swallow it, but he swallowed it somehow, and the taste that remained on the tip of his tongue was very strong, and the whole mouth was filled with a delicious taste that he could not describe in words.

Tianhao looked at him with pity and kept shaking his head.

After more than ten minutes, the meat was almost dry. He cut a piece with his knife again and handed it to Broken Tooth: "Taste it again." ”

The meat is actually not cold, the surface is slightly cool, and the pork skin is tightened at low temperatures, firmly fixing the meat mass.