Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "The salty salt has been prepared for a long time, as before, three complete animal skins for a bamboo tube of salty salt, you can also exchange it for jerky, how much are you going to exchange?" ”

"Great!" The ram happily took out the things used to exchange for salted salt from the back basket, "I will exchange the dried meat of five sheep, and the skins of three bamboo tubes of salted salt." ”

After Yao Xiaoqing asked people to count it, he asked Chun Amu to measure the salty salt in a bamboo tube to the ram.

The ram looked at the white salty salt in the bamboo tube and exclaimed, "Qingwu, what is this?" This is not salty salt. ”

"Ram leader, dip a little and taste it, is it salt?" Yao Xiaoqing looked at him with a smile and said.

The ram carefully dipped it and put it in his mouth, "It's so salty!" After a moment, he nodded, "Huh! The taste is better than the previous one, the previous one is a little bitter, and the white one is not bitter. ”

Yao Xiaoqing said at this time: "Ram leader, these salty salts are refined, and a little bit is enough to eat them." ”

The ram nodded happily, "Okay, I'll want this salt." ”

He took out the leather bag and asked Chun Eminem to put the salty salt into the bag. I felt strange in my heart, why was the salty salt of the Wuxian tribe from the Yaoshan tribe helping to exchange it? As long as he can get salty salt, he doesn't ask much.

After the opening of the Yaoshan Market, there were only about a dozen tribes from afar.

After the reunion, they each told about the hardships of the year after the earth movement. Some tribal leaders hugged their heads and cried when they were sad.

Yao Xiaoqing's nose was sour, and he felt that no matter what time and space he was in, in the face of disaster, human beings would always be as small as ants.

A few days later, Yun Amu told Yao Xiaoqing that some of the beans had grown white fluff.

Yao Xiaoqing took out the bamboo flat and found that the existing ones were not fermented well, and the mycelium that grew out was gray-black.

After digging out the gray-black mycelium and throwing it away, she poured the bean koji into a large vat that had already been dried, added salt water, and pressed the bean koji down so that the bean koji was all submerged in the salt water.

Sprinkle a layer of salt on top, cover it with a layer of linen, and expose it to the sun.

After the bean koji is soaked. Yao Xiaoqing told Yun Eminem, "If you find that the sky is not right, quickly cover it with a lid and don't get caught in the rain." ”

Yun Emu smiled and nodded, "I know, it's the same as our Douban." ”

Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "This drying time is longer, I'm afraid I have to wait until the end of winter and early spring to be done." ”

"Don't be afraid, let's close the lid when it snows."

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Jiang Li and You Lu had already reached the top of the mountain, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the bronzed skin of the men, and Hei Ba neatly raised his spear to stab a long worm spitting blood-colored letters.

The warrior in the back carried a basket with jerky in it. The weather was hot, and they were left with only meat, bones and internal organs to dig pits and bury them on the spot.

This time they entered the mountain, in addition to capturing prey, they also collected some food seeds that were not available on the other side.

You Lu, who was walking in front, found many cylindrical fruits full of fluffy on the vines in the forest. I picked one off casually and peeled off the fur, revealing the dark green flesh of the fruit, which exuded a sweet and sour fragrance.

You Lu swallowed his saliva and stuffed it into his mouth, "Hmm~ delicious, so thirst-quenching!" ”

When the others saw this, they picked up the vines and picked them, and after eating them, they all applauded.

After eating it, Jiang Li felt that the fruit was sweeter and slightly sour, a bit like the kiwi he had eaten, but it was much more than the kiwi. He estimated that the largest fruit would weigh at least three or four taels.

There are also a lot of fruits falling from under the dense vines, giving off a sour smell of fermentation.

You Lu ate seven or eight in one go, then stopped, reminisced about the taste of the fruit, and looked at Jiang Li, "This fruit is so delicious, let's get some seeds and go back." ”

Jiang Li nodded, looked at the flesh in his hand, and found that there were small brown seeds the size of millet on it, and thought it should be the seeds of the fruit.

"Pick some fruit, dry it in a basket and take it home."

Everyone collected some, and You Lu liked to pick a lot of them and put them in the back basket. Jiang Li also found some shriveled fruits to take with him.

The group continued down the mountain to the canyon.

I saw that the vines at the bottom of the valley were full of the kind of fruit in the basket, and some unknown fruit trees were full of red, red, green, and green fruits.

You Lu looked at the fruit on the vine and regretted that he had carried such a heavy thing and walked so far.

Jiang Li also found a piece of wild grapes, thinking that he would definitely bring Yao Xiaoqing here next year to have a look, and thought she would like it.

The group went to the place where they had been hunting last time, and found that the wooden fence was already crawling with vines.

Heiba and a dozen warriors took long sticks, banged on the lush vines, and opened the fence gate. The fence gate fell to the ground.

Jiang Li remembered the rice mentioned by Yao Xiaoqing, and decided to wait for the hunt to finish and go to the south of the canyon to have a look.

The group packed up the camp, leaving the vigil to go to bed early.

The next day, the hunt began early in the morning, and everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that there were still so many wild things in the canyon, and they were fatter than last time.

At the end of the hunt, the warriors spread the skins on the ground, scraped the flesh off the top, smeared grease and plant ash on it, and set it aside.

Rub the jerky with salty salt and roast it on a stone slab. The valley smells of meat.

You Lu felt that it was still comfortable to hunt in winter, no need to smoke mosquitoes, no need to roast jerky, and no need to tanned hides, so he dragged it back in a back basket and buried it in the snowdrift to eat it slowly.

Muba picked up a piece of roe deer meat and glanced at him, "Wild things in winter are not as fat as in autumn. ”

The leopard nodded, "I also think that the wild meat is still the best in autumn, and it will be fat and oily in one bite." ”

Jiang Li put the jerky into the back basket and said to a few people: "I'm going to take a dozen or so people to the south to see if there are any other seeds?" I'll be back tomorrow afternoon at the latest. ”

The leopard nodded, "There are fierce beasts in the canyon, you have to be careful." ”

"Don't worry." Jiang Li replied with a smile.

As soon as the morning dawned, Jiang Li took Heiba and them towards the south of the canyon, but they didn't find the rice that Yao Xiaoqing said all the way.

But on a hillside, I found a weed, with a stalk up to four or five feet high, with white hairs like winter melons growing on the stalks, and the leaves were strip-shaped, and the top of the stalk had inch-long red seeds like ears of corn.

Break one off and rub it a few times, revealing a slightly yellow fruit inside, which is larger than a millet grain.

Jiang Li felt a bit like the Shu rice planted in the Zhuangzi, but he was not sure, so he took Heiba to pick all the ears of those wild grasses and put them in the back basket.

As they walked on, they heard the roar of the water, and followed the sound until they reached a cliff, where they saw the white horses pouring from the top of the mountain into the deep pool of turquoise.

Everyone stood on the high cliff under the cliff, listening to the roaring water, a gust of wind blowing, the mist was swept up by the wind, and a chill hit the face.

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