As the peck dug deeper and deeper, the soil he dug out gradually became wet and sticky, and some traces of water could burst out when thrown on the ground.

"Ahh

"You come up first, don't dig it. Shen Nong hurriedly asked the peck to stop, and it could be seen that there was indeed a salt pond below, but how close the actual location was to the ground, this Shen Nong didn't know, in case the peck bone dug up the soil layer and fell into the salt pool, Shen Nong couldn't save him if he didn't know how to water.

"Phew, this water is so salty. The peck who crawled out of the pit kept shaking his salt-soaked hands and said.

"Let's go back first, and let Xiong Yao bring someone over to enclose this land tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Shen Nong turned around and was about to walk back in the direction of the Huangqiu tribe.

asked a little puzzled, "Wu, what's the use of enclosing this place?"

Shen Nong said without looking back: "Make salt." ”

"Oh, salt making...... ''s expression suddenly changed, and he ran to Shen Nong's side in great surprise: "Salt making? Wu are talking about salt making, can our Huangqiu tribe also have salt?"

"Keep this secret first, and then we can talk about the salt matter when the time comes, but you have to keep it secret from me during this time, and I can't tell anyone about this salt pond today, do you know?" Shen Nong said as he looked at the.

"Wu, don't worry, I will never say it!" pecked his chest confidently.

Shen Nong nodded, and the two of them left the low mountain.

......

The time was slowly approaching noon, and Xiong Kama, who led Team No. 1 out hunting, finally rushed back from the forest when the sun rose overhead.

Today, the hunting team was lucky, and they actually caught seven wild boars and two bighorn deer, which was enough for the entire Huangqiu tribe to eat.

"Huh, you're already boiling the pot, what are you cooking? When he saw the burning stone stove and the empty bone cauldron on the grass, Xiong Sickle put down the carcass of the wild boar he was carrying on his shoulder, and couldn't help but pull a clansman and asked.

"It was Wu who was cooking a fruit, as if he had picked it from the forest along with the worm and the flying shell. The clansman replied honestly.

"Fruit?" Xiong Sickle couldn't help frowning, "The strange behavior of Wu has really been increasing in the past few days, it seems that he didn't do this before, right?"

"Chief, the witch is here. Seeing Shen Nong and the peck walking back from outside the forest, the clansman immediately reminded Xiong Yao, and Shen Nong also noticed Xiong Yao for the first time and hurriedly walked towards him.

"Xiong Yao, how was today's harvest?" Shen Nong asked with a smile.

"Seven pigs and two deer, quite rich, enough for us to exchange a few more handfuls of salt with the people of the Tushan tribe tomorrow. Bear said as he pointed to the prey piled on the grass.

"The Tushan tribe is coming tomorrow?" Shen Nong was stunned.

"Yes, their people will come to this area every thirty days with salt, and trade salt with several nearby tribes, and I have sent people to mark the stone wall with stone chips, and a white mark is a day, and today is already the twenty-ninth white mark. Xiong Sickle nodded.

"And how many handfuls of salt are you going to change this time?"

"If you count the food stored in the cave, it should be seven. Xiong Yao thought for a moment, then replied.

"Seven handfuls of salt, then you have to trade the food on the backs of seven people...... It's really expensive!" Shen Nong couldn't help but sigh.

Because there are no standard measurement tools and units in primitive society, in order to convince both parties to the transaction results, everyone uses a handful and a person's back as the most basic units in the transaction of salt.

A handful is a person who reaches out to grab, no matter how much you grab, it is considered a handful, and you can't regret it.

One person's back is the amount of food that a non-warrior can carry, this Shen Nong has specially tested, a first-level warrior like Chi can carry a weight of 200-300 catties, while the carrying weight of ordinary male clansmen is about 100-150 catties, that is to say, one person is about 100 catties.

Take more than 100 catties of meat in exchange for a small handful of salt, which can be said to be very dark, but there is no way, who called the Tushan tribe to master the salt' Cutting-edge technology', for those tribes who can't get salt, the Tushan tribe is completely fearless, because I have salt and you don't have salt, if you don't want to exchange it with me, you can only watch others take the initiative to exchange food with me, and in the end you still have no salt available, so the Tushan tribe is not worried that this high transaction price will scare other tribes away, but they can sit at home and wait for the person who comes to the door to change salt.

"Forget it, let's lose it again, when I develop that underground salt pond this month, our tribe won't have to exchange salt with others. Shen Nong said secretly in his heart.

"Wu, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that Shen Nong suddenly quieted down, without any intention to speak, Xiong Yao couldn't help but feel a little strange and asked out loud.

"Oh, it's okay, by the way, I'm dying of hunger when it's time to eat. Shen Nong reacted and said.

"Owl and horn they're already dealing with it, wait a little longer. ”

I saw that the father and son were peeling the fur of a wild boar, and by the way, the wild boar was disemboweled, and all the organs and intestines in its body were scraped out, and the blood lipids and filth in the wild boar's body were cleaned with the water that the clansmen brought from the cistern.

Noon.

The wild boar, which had been cut into several pieces with stone knives, rose and fell in the large bone cauldron, and the water in the pot was already boiling, and in the center there was a continuous splash of water, and the sound of 'gurgling' boiled loudly.

Wild boar meat also slowly changed color under the high temperature of boiling water, from the original blood red to gray.

Shen Nong saw the opportunity and directly sprinkled a large handful of sun-dried star anise into the pot, watching these star anise collide violently with the boiling water.

"Witch ...... With this thing, can the meat really be edible?" Standing beside Shen Nong, the asked with some doubts, this bone pot of the Huangqiu tribe has always been cooked with meat, and has never been mixed with anything else, Shen Nong suddenly added star anise to the pot, naturally some people will not be used to it.

"Don't worry, not only can you eat it, but it will also taste good. Shen Nong said confidently.

Star anise can be said to be in addition to the basic condiments such as salt and oil can be the most integrated into the human taste buds, put a little star anise in stew, can be spicy and appetizing, it can be said that star anise is the most commonly used seasoning in stew, and it is precisely because of its unique taste, it has the function of making the food with fishy smell, smell, and smell odorless and then make the food fragrant, so it is listed as one of the five spices.

People like the Huangqiu tribe, who have only eaten salt, will taste wild boar meat with star anise, and they will not have to drink all the soup. Shen Nong looked at the clansmen gathered around him, and he was very much looking forward to seeing that picture.