"Wu, is this salt, it's really salty!"

Yan knew a long time ago that Qiao Mu was going to make salt, and now he had just come back with something on his back, and he heard a few children on Wu's side shouting happily that the salt was made, and something like salt, so he hurriedly threw away the big dolphin leg on his back, ran to the side of the arbor and looked at it, stretched out his hand and twisted some light cyan powder and sent it to his mouth, and his face instantly smiled like a flower.

For the tribe, the two most urgent things for the whole winter are salt and food, without food, everyone will starve, without salt, even if they do not starve, then it is difficult to get much harvest in the early spring hunting, because if there is no salt in a winter, their body will become extremely weak and unable to exert energy.

In the three seasons of spring, summer and autumn, even if there is a lack of salt to eat, they can still replenish salt by drinking the blood of wild beasts raw, but in winter the wild beasts are almost extinct, and they are not able to go out hunting in the cold winter, so they can only rely on salt to replenish their physical strength.

In previous years, they had to spend enough food for a dozen people to spend for the winter every year in exchange for a whole winter's salt, and sometimes the people of the salt tribe would sit on the ground and increase the price, which was the main reason why their tribe would often lack food.

If you don't need to change the salt.

Then their tribe will have a better life.

Qiao Mu smiled and nodded:

"It's indeed salt, there are a lot of salt ores not far from our tribe, and those salt ores can't be eaten directly, but they can be eaten after processing, and we don't have to buy salt in the future.

Two days after tomorrow, the pottery embryos that have been in good shape can also officially start firing, and then we will have pottery to use, and I will also teach you to weave cloth, as long as we weave a part of the cloth, we can make all the trees that were cut back some time ago into starch and preserve.

At that time, not only will no one die of hunger in winter.

Everyone can still eat to their heart's content. ”

Qiao Mu went to such great lengths to help the tribe find enough food, obviously not only to let them eat and drink enough in winter, the people in this tribe are almost very busy in spring, summer and autumn, and only in winter will they be more idle.

This opportunity Qiao Mu naturally did not want to give up.

It just so happened that she had a lot of things to do, and a lot of things that needed a lot of help, and winter was not a good opportunity, and she could only let them work if she had enough to eat.

"It's wonderful, thank you.

Wu Wu, then we should not go to the rally again this time, in previous years, the main purpose of our rally was to get some salt back, now that we have salt, it seems that there is no need to travel long distances to the rally side.

Every time I go, I'm annoyed.

You also have to worry about others robbing you. ”

Yan is a very devout believer in ancestral gods.

Whenever something good happens, he will first say thank you to the ancestral gods, and this time is no exception, and at the same time, he is still thinking about canceling this assembly.

Qiao Mu wanted to veto it at the first moment, but in a moment he remembered some other things, and finally decided to agree: "If you don't go, don't go."

The strength of our tribe is still very weak, and it is not interesting to just go and see the excitement, but after two years, we will grow the tribe, and then we can also bring salt and pottery to the assembly to sell.

Not right now.

We are no match for those big tribes.

It's better to hold it off for the time being. ”

Compared to the simplicity of inflammation, it is troublesome.

Qiao Mu thought more, she also wanted to sell all kinds of things made in the tribe at the rally, but at present, the strength of their tribe was too weak, and the total number of people was only about three hundred, including some old, weak, sick and disabled, far from the opponents of those big tribes.

Now go sell the good stuff.

That's a complete sin.

It's easy to be approached, the tribe destroyed, and captured as slaves.

"yes, we can still sell it!

But what you said does make sense.

I have also heard that some tribes have sold salt, but they were approached by the salt tribe, not only the entire tribe was destroyed, but the place where they found salt was also occupied by the salt tribe, those big tribes are too domineering, we are not opponents at all. ”

Yan was first excited, then frustrated.

He was excited that he didn't expect that the things produced by his tribe could be sold, and he was frustrated that they were not qualified to sell at all, or that they did not have the courage to sell at all, and if they sold them, they might be wiped out.

"Okay, not now, it doesn't mean that it can't be in the future, with me, are you still afraid that our tribe's strength will not be able to develop and grow?

Grab the salt and go to the barbecue.

Grilled meat without salt is really unpalatable.

By the way, don't forget to put some cumin peppercorns.

I love to eat. ”

Qiao Mu persuaded two more words, and urged Yan to hurry up and go to the barbecue with the green salt that had just been made.

Since coming here, Qiao Mu hasn't been touched by the smell of salt, not even a witch of her, let alone other ordinary clansmen.

Dangyan came to the campfire with the salt.

When everyone was told that their tribe would never run out of salt again, the cheers almost resounded through the sky, and everyone ate more than they had in the previous day, and everyone had to stuff the food to their throats before they were satisfied.

Salt is the first of all flavors, but it's not a joke.

Food with salt and food without salt are two completely different concepts and textures.

In the past, even in winter, people didn't dare to rub salt directly on top of the meat in such a luxurious way.

Only dare to mix a bowl of water with salt.

Take a sip per person.

Now it's such an opportunity to eat salt unbridledly.

No one wants to give up.

Naturally, you can eat as much as you can.

Fortunately, at this time, the digestion ability of primitive people is very good, otherwise they may be able to swell to death.

The next day, I don't know if it was because of the salt or because of the simple psychological factors, everyone felt that they were full of energy.

One by one, they left the tribe with their weapons and began a ten-day autumn hunt.

This is the last hunt before winter.

Generally speaking, according to their usual experience, when the autumn hunt is over, it is almost time for the first snow, and the snow will help them to freeze the meat of the beasts that are not rotten smoothly, so as to preserve and eat them for the whole winter.

They went hunting, but Arbor remained with the tribe as always, becoming a house wizard, starting to burn pottery, starting to make primitive looms, and teaching the old and sick left behind in the tribe how to comb plant fibers and spin threads.

It took ten days like this.

The hunting party came back with a bunch of prey, the picking party with a large pile of various plant fruits and plant rhizomes, and the arbor got the primitive loom out in ten days.

After that, he taught the woman to weave.

While teaching those healthy adults who do not need to hunt for the time being, and are ready to spend the winter preparing salt and cured meat.

There are too many prey they have hit, and Qiao Mu alone does not have so much time to make so much salt for them to marinate meat, so he can only hand over the craft of salt-making to them, and let them make their own salt and marinate meat.

Anyway, there are no pre-problems with these two techniques, the salt has been done, and smoking bacon does not require too many skills, as long as you have more patience and take your time, it is easy to master.