[016] Octagonal

During the few days he stayed in the Huangqiu tribe, Shen Nong found that the diet of this tribe was very simple, but everyone would use the method of barbecue and stew all the beast meat hunted by Team No. 1.

Barbecue is directly with a more resistant wooden stick to wear the meat pieces on it, and then put it on the fire to burn, and stewing is more particular, in the Huangqiu tribe there is a stone in the shape of a cube, the inside of this stone is hollow, there is a round hole directly above the stone and in the front, respectively used to place the bone pot and firewood made of the warehouse and the armor. The shape is a bit like the stove used in cooking in the countryside in the sixties and seventies, but it is a rough version.

The so-called bone pot is a pot-shaped vessel made of the head bone of a giant beast dragon, and the people of the Huangqiu tribe like to add water and meat bones to it, and then add firewood to the stone stove, and when the temperature in the stone stove rises to the extreme, the water in the bone pot will be cooked, and the meat in the water will be stewed at the same time.

These two ways of eating make the tribesmen happy, but Shen Nong eats too many times but is miserable, because there is always only one kind of food condiment in the Huangqiu tribe, that is, salt, if the amount of salt is sufficient, Shen Nong will not have any complaints, but this salt is not produced by the Huangqiu tribe itself, but from a primitive people who often come from the east to trade, called the Tushan tribe, exchanged it with food on hand.

The quality of the salt brought by this Tushan tribe is very good, white and beautiful, and there is no impurities mixed with it, it is very popular with the tribes in this area, but the price of trading salt with them is very large, basically each handful of salt needs to be exchanged for food carried by five people, so the Huangqiu tribe, which is not rich in food storage, can basically only exchange two or three handfuls of salt each time, which is already the limit.

And the Tushan tribe only comes to trade once every thirty days, which leads to the fact that basically every time the people of the Tushan tribe leave on the twenty-fifth or sixth day, the Huangqiu tribe has basically fallen into a bitter dilemma without salt and available.

And when Shen Nong crossed over, he just caught up with the embarrassing situation that there was no salt in the tribe, and in the past few days, he had not even tasted a grain of salt when he ate meat, and the water had already faded out of his mouth.

Now I was lucky to find this star anise, which is known as the 'seasoning aristocracy', which can be regarded as making Shen Nong very happy, and hurriedly asked Chi to go up the tree to pick star anise for him.

"Wu, can you eat this thing?" asked the chia, who was sitting on the treetops picking star anise.

"You can't eat it, but it makes both the meat and the broth more fragrant and flavorful. Shen Nong replied as he bent down and picked up the octagonal that had fallen to the ground.

"More fragrant?" Chi scratched his head incomprehensibly, he knew what incense was, whenever the adults in the tribe planned to go out to find a woman, they would carry a few flowers that could emit a good smell, they called this incense, but what was the use of making the meat and broth more fragrant?

Although he didn't know what Shen Nong wanted for these things with eight horns, Chi was still meticulously picking the star anise on the branches for him, and soon picked up two full hands.

"That's pretty much it, anyway, this tree is quite close to our Huangqiu tribe, so it's okay to pick it when you need it in the future." Shen Nong also picked up a lot, but he was not as stupid as Chi, and he grabbed all the anise in his hands and hindered his movement.

I saw that Shen Nong didn't know where to pick a leaf the size of a grinding plate, and put all the star anise on it and held it.

"Hehe, the soup will finally taste in the future. Looking at the anise full of leaves, Shen Nong couldn't help laughing.

Only people who have not eaten salt for many days can understand that when eating, food tastes like the pain of chewing wax, which is simply an inhuman torment.

Shen Nong's side has just been busy, and the flying shell side is also almost collected, because the Huangqiu tribe has never picked winter melons, radishes, and ball vegetables before, so the number of vegetables in this area is extremely rich, and you can find a few winter melons falling in the grass and ball vegetables growing in the bushes without looking for it.

Looking at the happy smiles on their faces because they found food, Shen Nong didn't feel the same way, because he knew that these harvests were only temporary, and when the Huangqiu tribe had harvested all the vegetables in this area, it would have to wait until half a year before a new batch of vegetables could grow, and during this period, the Huangqiu tribe still had to enter the dilemma of having no food.

The group returned to the Huangqiu tribe along the way they came, and the people stationed in the tribe couldn't help but immediately surround them after seeing the strange-shaped vegetables hanging on these people's flat shoulders, and asked what the flying shell and others brought back.

"Quiet! It's quiet!" Seeing these people around him and asking questions, you said one sentence to another, Feihuo felt that his brain was about to be boiled, and hurriedly stopped him loudly: "Listen to me! These are the newly discovered foods of Wu, all of them can be eaten! Wu has already personally tested the poison for everyone, and it is absolutely safe!"

The sound of the flying shell was very loud, it was definitely not too much to describe him with a loud voice, Shen Nong stood beside him and heard him shouting so loudly, he felt that his head was about to explode, and he quickly withdrew from the flying shell and walked towards the direction of the reservoir.

The star anise can not be used directly after it is picked, it needs to be boiled in boiling water for 5-10 minutes, and constantly stirred with a wooden stick, and then taken out and exposed to the sun, then the color of the star anise will change from green to yellow, and then finally become the kind of brown sold on the market.

In fact, it is okay not to boil it in boiling water, but to expose it directly to the sun, but Shen Nong thinks that this is not hygienic, after all, no one knows if there are parasites or anything on this wild star anise, and it is more reassuring to take some time to boil.

Anyway, they have come to the primitive era, there is no work here in the morning and evening, there is no worry about making money, there is no sophistication, there is no deceit, Shen Nong has nothing else, but there is a lot of time, and he wastes it.

Shen Nong walked to the side of the reservoir, there are two female tribesmen of the Huangqiu tribe who are using wooden barrels to draw water, since yesterday Shen Nong let Cang and Guanjia and others make wooden barrels, this kind of water holding tool that is lighter than the water bladder and has a larger capacity has become popular in the Huangqiu tribe, basically overnight, the water bladder that everyone relied on was eliminated by the times.

"Witch. When the two women saw Shen Nong, they hurriedly stood up and saluted, in the Huangqiu tribe, saluting was a kind of respect for witches.

"It's okay, you're busy with yours, I have my own things to do. Shen Nong didn't have any arrogance, so he immediately waved his hand and said.