Chapter 236: Salt Mine
Zhu Yuanyuan cleaned the meat with his hands and feet, and hung it in a ventilated and cool place to make the marinated meat, which had to be dried first and then marinated and not easy to break, and most of the rest was cut into long strips with a bone knife, and a small part was chopped.
Before waiting for the meat to dry in the wind, she went to rummage through the salt bucket and found that there was only a little salt left at the bottom of the barrel, barely enough to cover the bottom of the barrel, and it was not enough to marinate the meat.
"Master, do you still have any salt here?" Zhu Yuanyuan asked in a loud voice.
Hu Yin said, "No."
"Then I'll go and order," Zhu Yuanyuan covered the salt bucket and casually took a bamboo basket from the pile of miscellaneous items and prepared to go out.
There is a salt mine near the tribe, which is full of large and small salt stones, and Bai Danian will organize people to dig it every once in a while, move it back and store it in the public storage room, and those in need can go to collect it.
Of course, digging and carrying salt and stone is manual work, and in order to prevent waste, each person can only receive a limited amount per month, and if it is not enough, they have to go to the salt mine themselves.
Hu Yin is a big witch, and the amount of salt and stone he gets is a little more, but it is not much, and it is enough for three meals a day, and occasionally there is some left over for marinating meat.
When he went out some time ago, he saw that the salt bucket was not empty, so he didn't let the leader send someone to send it, and he didn't care about it when he came back, and Zhu Yuanyuan made three meals, so he ignored the stock of salt.
Hu Yin didn't pay attention to some trivial things, and nodded casually in agreement, "Yes, come back quickly, and the meat will stink later."
"Okay," Zhu Yuanyuan clicked out the door.
When he walked to the public storage room, he learned from the mouth of the old orc who guarded the storage room, Bai Dong, that the salt stone had just been taken away, and he had to come again tomorrow afternoon, "The leader said that he would send someone to the salt mine to move it early."
Zhu Yuanyuan suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, and he heard a mistake, "Isn't it going to move before you finish receiving it every time?"
Salt stone is an important thing, eat barbecue without salt, do heavy work is not good, if conditions permit, the leader will not deduct anyone's salt stone.
"Recently, there have been too many things in the tribe, and nearly a hundred new fox orcs have been added, so I haven't had time to replenish," the old orc replied slowly, "If you need it urgently, I can give you the rest of the broken salt stone."
He pointed to the pair of crushed salt stones mixed with slag in the corner of the wall, "Well, it's all there, you can just take a bag of animal skins and take it away."
"Not enough," Zhu Yuanyuan shook his head, "Master asked me to marinate all the meat I can't eat into salted meat, which is a bit much."
Salt stone can not be eaten directly, you have to put it in the pot and add water to boil, boil and filter out impurities and then boil dry, the salt content of the crushed salt stone is too low, and one hundred catties can not boil two catties of salt.
The old orc hurriedly said, "I still have some at home, I can give some to the Great Witch."
is in a hurry to send things, that is, the big witch can have this treatment.
"No," Zhu Yuanyuan hurriedly shook his head, "The salt mountain is not far away, I'll dig a few big pieces and come back."
Everyone can get so much salt every month, and if they can't save much, the master will definitely not ask for the old man's salt in vain, but if he says that he borrows it, when he returns it, people will not accept it at all, and it will make people sad if he insists on it.
Moreover, there are many clansmen who are willing to selflessly dedicate themselves to the Great Witch, most of them are old orcs, once this opening is opened, there will be a pile of salt outside the master's door tomorrow morning.
I don't know who sent it in the dark, and I can't return it.
Don't ask Zhu Yuanyuan how he knows, it's all the price of pain and tears, and he will understand after experiencing it.
She used to be inexperienced, borrowed a certain clansman's pot, and before she could return it when she ran out, she had to say, 'If you don't want it, you will smash it, and the next day, the door of the master's house was filled with stone pots.
It takes more than half a month for the orcs with powerful claws to dig out the stone pots, and these pots are the fruits of the hard work of the clansmen, where can Hu Yin collect them.
Let the owner of the pot take it back, but no one claimed it from morning to night.
Afterwards, Hu Yin felt that the little disciple was not cautious enough, so she followed the orcs of her age for two months of hunting training.
It was a training program for the half-big orcs who were more powerful in the form of beasts, and it was too difficult for her to be a miniature fragrant pig, and she barely persevered, covered in injuries, tired and painful.
With the experience of the past, Zhu Yuanyuan no longer dared to borrow things from others, lest he be
If he didn't go back, he attracted more people who took the initiative to borrow and were punished by the master.
However, Zhu Yuanyuan underestimated the enthusiasm of the old orc.
"It's good to go to the salt mine to dig, but you can't carry much back, I'm idle and have nothing to do, so I'll go with you."
"No, no, no," Zhu Yuanyuan shook his head frantically and refused, "You are guarding here, I can carry some casually, as long as it is enough, someone will move it tomorrow anyway."
The old orc was over 100 years old, his cultivation was low, he walked and staggered, he couldn't do physical work, and he had to be reckless to open up the wasteland, so he was arranged by the leader to guard the public storage room and distribute salt stones to the clansmen.
After taking the task, you can't leave casually, and you won't be clamoring to go to the wasteland to plant potatoes.
Worried that it would be useless to refuse, Zhu Yuanyuan ran out, as if there was a ghost behind him, and quickly left the public storage room.
In fact, going to Yanshan is just an excuse, there is still a lot of coarse salt in her space, and if she wants to take it out directly, she has to have a legitimate source.
She was going to go home and get a bucket, first go out of the valley to plant some radishes near the hot springs, and then soak in the hot springs, and then go back to the tribe in the afternoon.
There are a few stone pots at the foot of the salt mountain, which the chief asked people to put there, and it takes time to dig the salt stones, so you can boil some coarse salt while digging, and take them back with you when you leave, and keep them for the big witches, or for the tribesmen to marinate meat in the autumn.
It's a pity that the coarse salt stored by the tribe last year was all used up, and no one has been arranged to dig the salt stone this year, so there is no stock, otherwise in the name of the master, you can directly receive the coarse salt.
Zhu Yuanyuan's plan was very good, but something went wrong halfway, and she met her second sister-in-law when she was out of the valley.
The little nephew is only a full moon, and Zhu Hong wants to take the cubs, so she can't participate in the hunt for the time being, so she can only stay in the tribe and wander around, or go into the mountains with the gathering team to pick fruits and collect mountain goods.
Today, the cubs were noisy, and they didn't catch up with the collection team to go out, so they could only walk around with the cubs, just blocking the sister-in-law who was going to the salt mine.
Before the merger of the three tribes, the site for the new tribe was deliberately selected near the salt mine, and the fierce beasts in the nearby forests never left that piece behind, to be precise, the salt mine belonged to the key clearing place, and the half-big orcs dared to go.
Vermilion was tired of wandering around the tribe, and was willing to go out of the valley to play, and strongly asked to go with him, on the ground, "I can help collect firewood."
It takes a lot of firewood to boil salt, and it takes time to dig salt stones, so two people can finish the work early.
Zhu Yuanyuan, who is not going to go to the salt mine, can she refuse "......"?
She tried to persuade her second sister-in-law to stay in the tribe to rest on the grounds that her nephew was young and unsuitable for blowing more wind, but failed miserably.
Zhu Hong said, "The little cub is wrapped in animal skin, and it can't blow the wind."
In desperation, I had to change my plan and take a trip to Yanshan.
Zhu Yuanyuan comforted himself in his heart, "Anyway, salt is a consumable, you can save as much as you want, and it's very simple to dig up a few large pieces of salt and stone to boil, keep the space and take it out when you need it later."