"Wow! Tree! The warriors are back! So much meat! Lots of prey."

The child with wild vegetables on his back jumped in front of Li Yue and gestured with his hands.

"It's so big! So much! The child made an exaggerated gesture, staring at Li Yue with glowing eyes.

"I don't know how much our family will get"

Because the clay pot was successfully fired, every household could get one, and at this point, the chief announced that in the future, he would open the fire and cook by himself, except for the food collected for the winter, and the rest would be counted as that family.

Li Yue stopped what he was doing. Looking at the emaciated child in front of him, it was the kaolin that this child found. It is the child of an able-bodied family of the tribe. His name is Arrest, he is very clever, and ordinary children have to protect and eat when they get such a big piece of meat, but he generously invited Li Yue to his house to eat. Although it later evolved into Li Yue making them eat, it is rare for this era to share food.

Li Yue was not interested in how much prey the tribe had hit.

"Why don't you wait and see what happens?"

Are you so happy about this? This kid must have something else to think about.

"Hey, Brother Tree, I want to call you to our house," he smirked. Lick your mouth and swallow saliva from time to time.

Oh? Got it. Li Yue smiled.

"You want me to be a cook at your house."

"Cook?" Tilt your head.

"It is for you to make food, and the person who used to distribute food to the people was called a cook."

"Oooh! Then you come to my house to be a cook," grabbed Li Yue's arm excitedly.

"And me!"

"Let's go to our house first!"

"Go to our house first, I also have meat in my house now"

The children who were eavesdropping behind all shouted, scrambling to attract Li Yue's attention. That day, Li Yue made meat at the house, the fragrance wafted throughout the tribe, and everyone swallowed saliva after smelling it, and the water in their hands drank the feeling of broth. I also wanted to eat that delicious meat, and after some inquiry, I found out that it was a dish made by the tree. Everyone wants to try it or ask him to come to their house to cook.

It's a pity that the leader had ordered him to hurry up and make pottery, otherwise Li Yue would have to rush to make food that day.

In the next few days, the tree also refused many families, but the clansmen still did not give up asking Li Yue to take charge of the cooking, or taste the deliciousness.

"Don't call it a tree if you catch you, you did it once that day, now it's our turn"

"That's it, that's it! Smell the meat you made, and then eat my mother's food, I will Tula! ”

"Really? What I'm making is hard to eat? Behind a group of children, there stood several women with a gloating smile on their faces, and one of them, a stinky-faced woman, twisted her ears and vomited the child's ears.

"I'm sorry, tree, I think you should come to my house today to do it first," the woman took the opportunity to approach Li Yue and said.

The twisted child thought that he would be beaten, and his face turned into bitter melon, and when he heard what his mother said, his face immediately blossomed, and his mouth was echoed.

"That's right! Yes, yes, come to my house first."

"Hey......" The women behind them shouted that they were too cunning when they saw this, and they all blamed themselves for being slow.

It seems that a simple meal of meat inspires people to pursue a higher level of food. Li Yue's plan passes!

The time to eat normal food is coming! Then you have to work hard to get the spice up!

"It's too troublesome for you guys to do this, so let's do it, I'll teach you how to do it at noon in the place where the tribe used to concentrate on food."

thought that the children and women who had successfully invited Li Yue were all wooden, and the people behind them were ecstatic, so it turned out that it could be like this? It's a good idea!

"But you can prepare the meat and vegetables."

Although Li Yue made meritorious contributions to the matter of pottery, the leader Shi Li exempted him from having to collect every day and eat with flying sand, but there was no additional allocation of ingredients. I only have those spices.

"Minor problem! The food will be from my house, but when it is ready, you can eat it with our family," the woman immediately replied. The woman is happy in her heart, so that their family can eat the finished product directly, and the one who learns to make it is skilled and delicious?

The child in his arms praised his mother's wit.

"No problem!" Li Yue also agreed happily, once again making the people present feel that it was too late to start, and the other party was too cunning.

By noon, the clearing was already crowded with people, women and children gathered in the innermost corner, and some men watching the excitement in the back.

Li Yue glanced at the things he had prepared, a piece of flesh that was still hairy, and forgave him for not being able to distinguish the parts, because the lump of flesh seemed to have been smashed open, and the stone knife was not sharp, and it took several shaves to cut off the blurred part of the flesh. Sincerity is not as sharp as an iron blade. I thought that the iron tools were going to be made.

Then the dish is a fresh bamboo shoot and a basket of wild vegetables.

Li Yue first roasted the meat on the fire and removed the hair first. The people around were making voices about the reasons for doing this.

Yong, who was brushed down by the pottery, looked at it seriously, and also stood aside and asked him.

"Remove the hair of the meat, it is more delicious to eat this way," Li Yue said while doing it.

"Wouldn't it be enough to remove the skin?" the women did not speak, staring intently. When they watched the lively men talking, they felt that singeing was a superfluous move. Besides, the skin is left on top and the meat is hard to chew.

"That is, if you have skin like a child or an old man, you can't eat," the warrior also spoke.

Li Yue didn't answer, and then scraped off the black ash on it with a stone knife and cleaned it. Divide the meat into two pieces and boil it in a clay pot, and add wild garlic to the water.

Use this time to cut the bamboo shoots into almost "thin slices" and wash the wild vegetables.

Some time ago, Li Yue found a wild pepper, which was very small, but the spicy power was amazing, Li Yue only dared to wash a few small pieces, and then wash a handful of wild garlic, this kind of wild garlic collection tribe had already discovered, and it was usually used to dress up wild vegetables.

When the meat is inserted into the end with a thin stick, it is fully cooked. Take it out and put it on the slate. Blanch the bamboo shoots once in water and add salt to the soup after the meat has been cooked.

If the existing conditions are not too few, it is recommended to blanch the bamboo shoots with additional boiling water.

The stone knife is too thick, and the meat of the boiled Q bomb cannot be cut into thin slices, so it can only be done.

When the soup is fragrant, add the wild vegetables and cook for 1 minute, and the vegetables are just ripe and keep the texture crispy. The taste of the soup that can also be contaminated with it simply seduces Li Yue's saliva out, and he swallows saliva inadvertently.

And many of the tribesmen of the Ji tribe have exuded clams.

"God, it's so fragrant, what does this smell like!"

"It smells good, how did he do it?"

"I saw him put a piece of wood?"

"Is the dish cooked? Can we eat?"

The eyes of the people around me were literally glued to the clay pot. The family who provided the food wiped the saliva from their mouths and said loudly as they stared at the person who wanted to grab the food at any time.

"Don't think about it, this meal is from our family, it's the tree and we have lunch, you have to eat it yourself!"

"Hey, don't be so stingy, we'll exchange the meat for that pot of soup for you"

"No way, don't even think about it"

Just kidding, we haven't eaten anything so delicious, and it's not that we haven't eaten meat, who is rare!

"Oops......"

When the two waves of people were arguing about where, Li Yue had already fried the fat, scooped out the excess fat, stir-fried with chili peppers and wild garlic, and then stir-fried with bamboo shoots for 2 minutes, then added salt and took it out of the pot.

"That's it!" Li Yue took out the meat.

The sparkling red meat is interspersed with milky white crispy bamboo shoots, and the spicy aroma of chili peppers stimulates the noses present, causing the mouth to be dry, and the dryness can only be reduced by swallowing saliva.

At this time, the clansmen were like zombies besieging the city, and the wolves were as terrible as pounced on them. Looking at the food guard, the family was nervous.

"Tree! How do you make it so delicious" Although the food has been made for so long, compared to Li Yue's, it is embarrassing to be a grass.

"There are many reasons why it doesn't taste good. First, when eating meat, you must remove the fishy smell, and then remove the hair, no need to peel, the skin is actually better than the meat as long as it is stewed more, and second, a little spice or seasoning, you see that the wood I put is cinnamon, which is a spice that has the bark of a tree to be dried, and the red and yellow one is the chili pepper, which is the kind of thorn fruit that you say is poisonous. It is edible, and wild garlic is the seasoning. However, peppers should be eaten sparingly...... Otherwise"

"How about it else," the crowd craned their ears.

"Otherwise, you will know tomorrow, you can eat as much as you like, you can't die anyway, it's just a little uncomfortable in the morning" Li Yue laughed.

Yong on the side watched the whole process, although he didn't eat it, he was sure that these were delicious, so he found Li Yue. Ask him how to cook.

"Why do you want to learn?" Li Yue looked at the black man in front of him who was a little stronger and taller than him.

"I want to make something delicious!" Yong had the honor of eating the food that Li Yue made for children before, and he had heard Li Yue say a lot of food, as a companion who collected together, he thought that he would have time to eat the dishes he said, so he looked forward to getting a piece of the pie every day by relying on the opportunity to collect, but now Li Yue is not collecting with them, and it is estimated that there will be no chance.

So he has to take the initiative! Learn to cook on your own! And there is another reason that Yong bragged in front of his father, and the foodie father gave him a lot of other things, and Yong promised to bring him some food back next time.

Now, his father urges him every day and asks him where the things are! He looked at Li Yue, who didn't collect with them, and was also anxious! If you can't dig a hole yourself, you have to plug it even if you lose money!

Li Yue saw that he was unswerving, not because the pottery was brushed down and hot-headed, so he agreed to him, but it was still the same, he had no ingredients, if he wanted to learn, he had to bring things over by himself, and he could not learn to make one until Li Yue didn't want to teach anymore.

Yong nodded happily! said that there is no problem with this, his father and Da Niu are foodies, and he will always get some extra food to bring back when he is out hunting. And at the same time that Li Yue is doing a good job, he can also bring some back to his father, and he has learned it, it is the best of both worlds!

Today, Li Yue has already taught one publicly, saying that Yong can go back to learn this and teach others tomorrow.

Yong readily agreed.

After dinner, Shi Li called Li Yue to his tent. Point to something and ask how to keep the fresh meat from going bad.

The meat in front of me is the carcass of the wild boar herd that rushed into the tribe the day before yesterday, because these wild boars that came out to forage in the autumn cost the whole tribe a terrible price.

Not only were the tents destroyed, but the elderly and young children in the tribe were also killed, and five clansmen were killed in the stampede. 2 of them are children, 3 are old people, and the warriors of the clan basically hung up the lottery in order to save people and drive away wild boars, and there were many fractures and internal injuries. Only with all their might did they drive the wild boars away.

At that time, Li Yue saw this scene and blamed herself, angry, and helpless. I can't vent my sulk.

He thought that if he were an adult, he would at least help the tribe lose one person. If there were weapons, all this would not have happened.

Looking at these wild boars now, there is still a sense of sadness and powerlessness.

"Let's take the salt and marinate it," replied Li Yue, who came back to his senses. You can't eat it if you don't marinate it, and the meat has been sitting for two days.

Shi Li and Fei frowned. At present, the value of salt is relatively high, and a beast can only change a bowl of salt (the bowl here is the previous stone bowl, about 3 catties of salt) If you take the marinated meat, then this is putting the cart before the horse.

What's more, they have just experienced a vicious fight. Lost a lot of manpower.

"How much salt?" If you want less, you can also use it with gritted teeth.

After all, there is not much food that can be stored, and it will be life-saving food when the time comes.

In winter, all creatures lack food, and in this case, it is dangerous to go out hunting. Not stockpiling food in the winter is death-hunting, and they are not as powerful as carnivorous beasts. I want to eat and grab it at any time.

"Well, it's estimated that there are as many clay pots here" Li Yue looked at the meat mixed into a small mountain and compared the amount of salt.

"It's too much," Shi Li sighed. There are no more than 3 clay pots of salt in the tribe. With this, it will be too late to change the salt, and the risk will be greater. And it's not cost-effective.

"Is there any other way you can do that?" said Fei to the side.

"Well, yes, yes, I just don't know if I can find such a place."

"You say," the disappointment in Shi Li's eyes turned into a look of hope.

"If you want to find a deep hole, the entrance of the hole should be hidden. It's better if there is water in it" This environment is a natural refrigerator.

There is also the idea that Li Yue has an urgent need for iron after the wild boar attacks the tribe. Iron ore is easy to find in caves in the primitive.

"This ...... How deep is it" Shi Li and Fei glanced at each other, the cave knew a lot, but they didn't know which one was suitable.

"The most important thing is where is the cave where I live," Li Yue estimated, with a diameter of about 300 meters.

"So deep?" Shi Li recalled that none of the things he had seen were so deep. After all, they live in a plain landscape.

"There's one, it's just that somewhere is too dangerous, chief" Fei pondered for a moment, remembering a place, but feeling that that place was not good.

"Where?" The leader was puzzled.

"It's a stone mountain where there are no trees and no grass grows."

The leader squinted his eyes and remembered that there was indeed such a place.

"Not even the grass grows?" Li Yue touched her chin, and something flashed through her mind. "Excuse me, is that place full of stones? How big is it, what's in that hole."

"......" Fei didn't understand why Li Yue was so curious.

"Excuse me, this is important" Although iron is usually buried deep in the ground, it is still a primitive society, and there is also iron that is exposed to the ground due to changes in the earth's crust. A rocky mountain that doesn't grow grass or trees, even if there is no iron, is probably a mine.

"There is nothing on the stone mountain, the hole that Fei and I saw should be a big crack, we only went in some, it was relatively cold inside, there were a lot of black stones, and there was some pungent smell underneath, the smell was very uncomfortable, so I didn't go down, but it is estimated that it is still very deep" The leader remembered and replied to Li Yue on the side.

"Blackstone?" Looks like he's going to have to go to the cave himself.

"Tree, what do you think?" Shi Li asked.

"Chief, I think there is something very important in that cave, I have to go there tomorrow, please lend me this" Since Fei has also been there, Li Yue has to let him lead the way.

"No, where are we going with you tomorrow, you can ask us what you want to do, what do we want to prepare?" Shi Li decided that he would go with him tomorrow.

"Except for the fire, there is no ...... to prepare for the time being" Li Yue shook his head in some surprise.

The next day, Shi Li and 5 warriors plus Li Yue, a total of 7 people, arrived at the stone mountain that Fei said, and as far as the eye could see, there was not a single tree, and there was very little grass. Walking to the crack, Li Yue saw the black stone that Fei said.

Take it in your hand and look at it. This...... This is iron! The ancients said: Soil ingot iron (i.e., limonite nodules) "shallow floating soil surface, no deep holes", "if smelting and smelting, the floating person picks it up." And when it had rained, the oxen ploughed the soil, and gathered up a few inches of it."

It turned out that it was really so easy to get.

Li Yue put down the iron in his hand and followed Shi Lihe into the cave, and did not come out until the torch in his hand was extinguished.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Li Yue privately called Shi Li and told him about the important role of iron.

After listening to this, Shi Li immediately asked people to inform the tribe that except for those who went out and those who protected the tribe, as long as they could walk and carry all the iron ore, they could transport as much iron ore as they could.

As for the meat, Li Yue said that the hole is too deep, and the temperature inside should be negative, and there should be no problem in keeping the meat from deteriorating. Make a shelf and hang the meat underneath with vines, and then bring it up when you want to eat it.

The two of them agreed that they wanted to build weapons before the winter, and after the winter, they would also get the iron tools needed for next year.

And Li Yue, who was digging coal with his bare hands, was still reminiscing about the smell in the cave. Really tastes like sodium chloride, calcium sulfate and something like that. Although he hadn't reached the bottom of the cave yet, Li Yue already vaguely suspected that it was a salt cave!