Iron melting requires a temperature of more than 1,500 degrees Celsius, which is not available in the current open-air caves, and Shi Li learned about it and sent 10 warriors and half men to build a house.

The house encloses the cave inside. In this way, the temperature can be effectively maintained. Freshly baked molten iron will not be affected.

Now Li Yue doesn't know much about the weapons that the tribe needs, and the warriors brought two old men, these two old men have always made stone tools for the tribe, and they also went out hunting with the warriors when they were young, and it is more appropriate for them to guide the production of weapons.

"Is it really harder than stone when you melt this thing?" One of the old men, Ge Bu asked, pointing to the reddened molten iron.

"Yes, just wait for him to cool down" Li Yue had already melted some iron before the old man came.

Because it was the first batch of molten iron, Li Yue didn't dare to do anything else, so he used clay to make a mold with several hammers and iron plates, which were used to make tools for making ironware. The other Li Yue made some utensils for life.

"Okay, I'll see how he's harder than a stone, and say, what do you want us to do now?" Although the old man didn't believe Li Yue, after all, he was trusted by the leader, so he still had to give some face.

"I'll bother you to draw the weapon now, and I'll make a mold out of clay," Li Yue said respectfully.

"Hey, what to draw, we'll do it ourselves" Another old man, Tenseki, didn't have the sternness of Gebu. He smiled kindly.

"Then please come here" Li Yue invited the two old men to the pottery department, got some clay for them, and let them carve it by themselves, after all, he really didn't pay much attention to weapons, and he couldn't interject, so he quietly got what he needed on the side.

When the two old men saw that the children had brought them, they stopped asking them, and they were a little surprised. Slowly carve the model of the weapon.

After the hammer could be used, Ge Bu, who had heard Li Yue talk about how hard this thing was, clamored to test its hardness himself.

The warrior Ma Yu moved a large stone over, Ge Bu held the hammer with both hands, took a breath and smashed it down in his heart.

"Pop ......" The big stone opened directly, and there was nothing on the hammer, just a little lime.

"This thing is good!" Ge Bu was shocked that Li Yue didn't say anything big, sighed that this thing was really powerful, and touched the hammer in his hand with great satisfaction.

"Hey, this is good, Shuwazi, give me this" The old man of Tianshi on the side snatched the Gebu hammer and threw it on the stone.

Sure enough, the stone shattered again.

"This thing is better than stone, not bad."

The robbed old man Ge Bu glared at Tianshi angrily, and was a little indignant and let Tianshi take the lead.

"Hmph, I don't have to see how long it lasts" Gebu, who was uncomfortable, walked to the edge of the stove, looked down and saw the weapons painted on the pottery shard, and squatted down strangely to take a closer look, these weapons he had never seen.

"Shuwa, what are these you" Ge Bu is a little more twisted, but he really likes to make weapons. For this kind of unique and new things, he will naturally not let go.

"This is a saber, this is a long sword, this is a mao, this is a shield, an axe, an awl" Li Yue laid out one picture after another.

"You look good, why don't you let us build it, you should be busy" Tianshi and Gebu both admired it. I have to say, these things seem to be a little bit stronger than what you do? The finished product made by yourself is definitely better than this model.

"Then it's a problem for the two of you!" Li Yue said sincerely. For striking iron, he is a waste of hands.

Xingcao and his party waited for Li Yue outside the cave, since Li Yue found different food one after another, Xingcao went outside to find food as soon as Li Yue caught him, and it happened that Li Yue also needed to collect seeds in late autumn, so the two agreed to go out as long as Li Yue was empty.

Seeing Li Yue carrying a basket on his back, Xingcao and his party went up to meet him.

"Give me the tree baby, I'll carry it" and the woman who walked the grass took Li Yue's back basket.

"No need to ......"

"You're welcome, you're too young, you're going to go a long way later," Xingcao waved his hand. I took the back basket with one hand.

"Okay, thanks, where are you going today?" Li Yue had followed them around the places they frequented and the surrounding areas in the past few days. But not much was gained.

"It's a long way away, and I've only been there once, and I've heard from other clansmen that there are a lot of things I've never seen before," and Xingcao also wanted to try his luck somewhere.

"Okay, just go there!"

Li Yue and his entourage walked briskly for nearly 5 hours or so, and finally arrived at that place, which has some natural basin landforms, and there is a small lake below. The clear water of the pond sparkles in the sunlight, like fish playing in the water. The reeds on the edge of the lake ripple in the breeze.

"It's so beautiful!" Everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them.

Li Yue was also shocked, but it was not the beauty of this place, but the plants by the pond, the golden bean trees!

A trot down.

Li Yue peeled off a pod, and it was indeed beans, and it was soybeans.

It's just that these beans are a bit small, but now they are fully ripe, and when they are dried in the sun, they can be produced by patting, and the way to obtain them is much simpler than wheat and rice.

Beans, rich in protein and various microelements, can be made into a rich delicacy, can be used as a staple food or as a dish, it can be said that beans and wheat ears are as important in Li Yue's heart, and beans are easier to survive and yield is easy to go up. When there is a shortage of food, this thing can have an unimaginable effect, and thinking about those tofu, bean curd, soybean oil, tempeh, soy milk, moldy tofu and other ways to eat makes people drool.

"Sister Xingcao, please bring me the basket." You have to collect it quickly, otherwise this blockbuster will not be finished today. Taking the back basket, Li Yue distributed the sickle inside to the grass and them.

"Sister Xingcao, these are edible, let's cut them all back, be careful not to get those pods off, there are good things in there."

"Eat? Okay, leave it to us! Xingcao and the group patted their chests. I was so happy that I found another kind of food!

Li Yue didn't participate in the harvest, he had to see if there were still edible crops in this place.

Just now they were running downhill, but now Li Yue walked on a slight slope, and saw that there was a large clump of plant vines entangled, and Li Yue carefully observed that among the entanglements of various leaves, there was a kind of plant that was suspicious of trying fire. The scientific name is foot plate root, the starch content is extremely high, and the soup is very delicious.

Following the growth of the vines, he found the heel, Li Yue cleaned up the roots, pried open the soil with the back of the knife, and heard a crisp sound without thinking about it, it should have poked something, Li Yue was digging a little farther away, and gradually revealed a black and red root block.

Sure enough, it's Huojiao! What was damaged was a tender piece, the large and small fire bolts below were entwined together, some of them shrunk, and when they all got up, it was estimated that there were more than 10 catties, this thing should be a seedling long, and some of the old ones were almost like wood.

Li Yue happily put them aside, and then followed the vines to find them, but unfortunately the ones they found were the ones they had dug up.

"Forget it, it's probably this one" Li Yue put the fire in the back basket, looking like another tangled vine, this time he didn't distinguish those edible ones on the leaves, and when he cut the vines, there were actually two broken pumpkins hidden inside.

Pumpkin Teng has dried up, no wonder I didn't see it, I turned over the pumpkin and saw that it was hollowed out, the seed skins were gnawed everywhere, and there were a lot of rat droppings around. Li Yue was a little disappointed, and opened another one to see that he was a little happier, the seeds in this one had not been finished by the scourge, Li Yue hurriedly collected the remaining seeds and put them in a leather bag. Glancing at the bag, Li Yue was a little uneasy, afraid that the seeds would be missed, so he wrapped a few more leaves on the outside of the seeds.

Next, Li Yue collected a lot of pumpkin seeds, but unfortunately all the pumpkin flesh was destroyed. Or rotten.

When Li Yue walked to the opposite side of the row of grass, he saw some aquatic plants in the reeds by the lake, and took a closer look, hey, this is not taro.

Taro is a good thing, and it can be stored for about 2 months if it is put properly, and this thing is relatively full. Suitable for the clansmen who went out hunting, Li Yue inserted the thin stick he picked up before coming into the water, the water was probably up to his stomach, but the mud at the bottom of the water was softer, and he didn't dare to trade into the water, so he could only call the people of the tribe to dig them up.

After turning around and returning to Xingcao, the tribesmen had collected the beans. There are a lot of caves.

"Tree, you look so much" Xingcao wiped the sweat from his face. His face was filled with the joy of a good harvest.

"I don't know how much I can eat"

"There must be a lot."

The rest were overjoyed.

"By the way, how can we bring it back, we have too little today, and it will be dark when we call people again. It's not safe at night" Xingcao looked at the beans and was a little anxious, if you can't take it away today, you have to come tomorrow.

"It's fine, minor problem. Please sisters go and separate the vines, the longer and stronger the better."

"Row"

The vines were attached to the back of the basket, and the spilled beans were firmly tied and fixed, and each basket looked like it was rising high and pointed. The back basket is severely overloaded.

"Or you kid has a way!"

A cheerful eldest sister slapped Li Yue on the back, and felt that the internal injuries were shocked out in an instant. Li Yue swallowed heavily and walked away from her quietly.

Li Yue was still thinking about those taro, he needed to get them with better water.

"Sisters, which of you is better at water, I need her to help me collect something"

"Me!" The eldest sister who slapped Li Yue just now stood up and slapped Li Yue on the shoulder again.

"What do you want to pick, you say!"

"Ahem taro...... That thing is on the other side."

Tsk, the enthusiasm of this primitive man is simply deadly! I don't want to see if his body can withstand this problem.

The group walked to the other side of the lake to take a look.

"Hey, this thing can still grow in water?" Some of the eldest sisters said.

"Yes, what, sister, have you seen it?" Li Yue was strange, he hadn't seen it nearby.

"Don't we have a lot of this stuff in the east, but can we eat this stuff?" It seems that I remember the memories that are not very good, and the eldest sister's face shows that I don't believe it, don't lie to me, I don't believe it! I don't believe it!

"Yes, except for the leaves, you can eat it" Li Yue ruthlessly broke her illusion.

The eldest sister and the others showed an expression that I felt as if I had missed a hundred million.

"That's really ......," Xingcao twitched at the corner of his mouth.

"It's okay, it's not too late to know now, now is the best time to eat, we'll do it when we go back," Li Yue comforted.

Everyone's eyes lit up.

"So what am I going to do?" If you want to go into the water, my sister will take off the leather on her chest.

"Wait!" Li Yue stopped in time. Joking that although he is a child now, his soul is an adult, and he is still embarrassed to face such a scene.

"What's wrong?" The eldest sister was puzzled. Everyone in the back tilted their heads to look at Li Yue.

Hey, I made a mistake, I knew that I would have brought a male over, and in the face of a group of women, Li Yue supported his forehead.

"Ahem, it's okay, but since you said that there is one in the east of the tribe, then let's go back and get it, you see that now we have no place to put the basket!"

"Ahh Also, go, let's go, let's go back to the tribe"

"Fortunately, the tree baby saw it, otherwise there would be no place to put it after picking it"

"That's it, otherwise how could it be the person the chief has a crush on? ……”

Hey, hey, big sister! What is the person whom the chief has a crush? Li Yue was speechless, it seems that women love gossip in that era.

At night, under the light of the bonfire, Li Yue showed the eighteen ways to eat taro.

First, cut the taro stalks into sections and prepare them, boil the water until soft, set aside to cool, and then stir-fry with oil and chili. Add salt and wild garlic to the cold taro stalks, and then seal the rest in the clay pot and put it in a cool place to pickle, which is a famous dish of pickled taro stalks.

When the taro is cooked, it is okay to peel it and eat it immediately, first cut a little to fry it, fry it until the surface is golden brown, and then squeeze some juice on it. A dish of juice taro strips is finished. Then take it and stuff it with the hare, and a delicious dry pot rabbit is completed. Then take out the taro buried in the fire, and a simple and fragrant roasted taro is baked.

"The rest of the slices are baked on the walls of the cave, and who wants to have crispy taro slices?" Li Yue said on the side, Yong helped on the side.

"Me!"

"I'm coming!"

"Me!" There was a lot of noise from the crowd.

"Whoever wants it will be taken to the cave and roasted!" As soon as Li Yue's words fell, the crowd immediately surged, scrambling to run over, but fortunately he ran fast and immediately jumped to the other side. Yong didn't escape a section, and was pressed against his chest by an aunt.

"Fortunately, I was almost squeezed to death" When Li Yue was still rejoicing, his eyes flickered, and he was so embarrassed that the taro meal he made was all robbed!

Yong: You just saw it!

"Thank you, let the clansmen see hope" Shi Li didn't know when he stood next to Li Yue, the light of the bonfire shining on Shi Li's wrinkles looked extraordinarily vicissitudes, but his eyes were very bright.

Li Yue didn't speak for a while.

He could imagine the difficulties faced by the perennial migrating tribes that were unimaginable.

Not only is there the powerlessness against natural disasters, but also the threat from wild beasts, and the pressure of food shortages, but the knife hanging on the head of the tribe may fall at any time, so the atmosphere in the tribe has always been tense and fearful.

Now that the pressure of food shortages has become less and there is food comfort, the tension has eased. Everything was brought by this child.

For a while, Shi Li sighed that he was too a failure as a leader.

For a moment, the atmosphere was a little sad.

"You have done a good job, you must know that there is hope only when you are alive" Li Yue didn't know what kind of hope Shi Li was talking about. I didn't dare to promise anything.

It's just that he understands that his hope is pumpkin seeds, beans, and ears of wheat lying in the warehouse.