Chapter 178: "Sugar Cake"
The news came back to the Baiyan tribe, and Liu Zhou was very interested in this matter: "I heard that this tribe has caught a lot of prey, and it can still make the food quite delicious?"
"It's a little more delicious than the average person, and there are a little more tricks. "They would crush the sour fruits and spread them on the meat, they would smoke the meat with tender pine needles, they would catch small fish and shrimp from the lake, grind them into a sauce to dip them in, and they would cut the meat into small pieces and wrap it in the leaves of wild vegetables." ”
Liu Zhou said: "This is interesting, what kind of tribe is this?"
"They don't have names, dozens of men mingle together, live like savages, and never interact with other tribes. ”
"I have the impression that they are not the last ones to come, they are all quite tall, but they can't speak. ”
"Yes, yes, that's them. ”
Liu Zhou said, "Call their leader over and I'll take a look." ”
A few days later, the horn was brought over, his face was stiff, a little cramped, his hair was messy, like a wild beast suddenly pulled into the human world, full of inconsistencies, he didn't understand much about what the people around him said, let alone speak on his own, and he had to rely on his hands to express his consciousness.
Liu Zhou sighed: "You don't understand the language, but you are quite good at cooking and eating." ”
The horn didn't know how to respond.
Liu Zhou asked him to show how to deal with a fish on the spot.
It was a palm-sized fish, fished out of the nearby river, and although the fish here were rare, it was not a rare food, because there were too many fishy spines, and most of the people ate it raw, and the taste was really indescribable.
Jiao looked down at the fish, went out and found some wild mushrooms in the damp ground, then took down the broken straw bag he was carrying, turned out some dry and smelly leaves from it, and used a stone knife to nimbly cut the fish open, took out the internal organs, lit a fire and stuffed the wild mushrooms and dried leaves into the belly of the fish, made a ball of mud, wrapped the fish, and then roasted it in the fire.
Soon after, it was estimated that it was cooked, and as if he was not afraid of the heat at all, he broke open the hard roasted mud ball with his bare hands, revealing the steaming snow-white fish inside, and wanted to present it to Liu Zhou to eat.
Liu Zhou looked at the rough fingers covered with dirt and smiled, "You can eat it yourself." ”
The horn looked at him, so he pinched a piece of fish and ate it, so that although the fish was still not delicious, at least the fishy smell was not so strong, and it was still okay to eat.
Liu Zhou sighed to the left and right: "This is the real indigenous, their spirituality and love for food are incomparable to us." ”
The people on the left and right don't understand very well, and they don't have more tricks to deal with food in the country, can they make it very delicious? Why can't they compare to this wild man?
Liu Zhou admired this kind of primitive and simple people, and was full of spiritual creation, and immediately decided to let Jiao and his companions be responsible for the supply of food.
There are only seventy or eighty of them, so they are only responsible for the food of fifty construction teams and nearly 5,000 people, which is only a small part of the more than 100,000 construction troops today, but for seventy or eighty people, it is a great burden. Liu Zhou said: "From now on, you will send someone here every day to get food for a day." ”
The horn understood with difficulty, and waved his hand again and again: "No, don't, it's too far." ”
Liu Zhou said, "Don't you want to rely on your own hunting?" This can't be done, right? Seventy or eighty people can't feed five thousand people by themselves.
"It's too far, it's going to be bad, salt, salt. ”
Liu Zhou suddenly said, no wonder this person who had never interacted with people suddenly ran out to ask for this task, it turned out to be for salt.
He said very gently: "Of course the salt will be given to you, but the food will also be given to you, and the food in the future will not be meat, but the baron has compassion for you, and specially asked for a few sugar cakes specially made by the cooks above, and it will not spoil for a long time." ”
The horn general was suspicious, and was taken away, and then he was divided into a lot of things, a kind of black-brown gelatinous substance, neatly stacked in a wooden box, the horn had never seen this, but he had not eaten sugar, sugar did not look like this, and the people next to him told him that everyone only needed to share a small piece of sugar cake at that time.
Jiao took a few people he brought, each carrying several boxes of this kind of sugar cake, maintaining a confused expression and leaving, in fact, his hair was full of sweat, and he walked a long distance, until there was no one else nearby, and only one person came out of the shadows.
The expressions of the people in the corner changed, and they all became natural and normal, put down the heavy box on their backs, and looked at the person who came over, and the horn sighed: "It's done, but how do you know that he will appoint me?"
"I don't know. Lu walked over lightly and said, "It's just that the matter of eating has to be solved, Ye told me that these people want to repair the Great Wall as soon as possible, but out of indifference and contempt, and habitually do not care about everyone's treatment, if someone can stand up to solve their problems at this time, let the construction speed go up, they will naturally be happy,
It just so happens that the elite group is a savage who can't even speak in their eyes, which is enough to reassure people, and I took a fancy to this point before letting you try it. ”
If that Liu Zhou suddenly went crazy and wanted to be bad for the horn, Lu Qing was waiting nearby, and if something was wrong, she would be able to take the horn away immediately, but fortunately, the result was gratifying.
Jiao said: "Fortunately, I have seen how you grill fish, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to pass this level." ”
Lu looked at these big boxes lightly and said, "What is this?"
"What I ate was called sugar cake, but I had never seen it. ”
Corner pried open a wooden box, "Look. ”
An indescribable smell came to his face, and Lu Qing couldn't tell what it was for a while, a little green, a little choking, and an earthy smell, and then the things inside were stacked one by one, and they looked a bit like turtle jelly, but the texture was tougher, a bit like rice cakes.
Lu gently picked up a piece and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't have the courage to bite it, and licked it slightly, there was no sweetness at all, how did he get the name of the sugar cake? She caught a big vole and broke a small piece of it, but it ate it with relish, and it was still alive after eating for a long time, which showed that it was non-toxic and edible.
Lu said lightly: "Take a few pieces back and study them, this thing is good if you are full, and your daily tasks can be easier." ”
From here to the place where they built the Great Wall, it will take many days to walk day and night, Lu Qingqing naturally will not let his people work so hard, and the big white eagles who are called will take the people and the boxes and fly away quickly, and they can go back to the tribe for a few days of vacation first, and then pretend to be in a hurry to arrive.