Chapter 7 Pickled Giant Turtle Meat
"Ah Liang, Ah Liang..."
Hazy and confused, Gongliang felt as if someone was pushing him, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Uncle Tao, who was guarding the gate of the village, standing by the bed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Uncle Tao, morning!"
Gongliang rubbed his sleepy eyes, glanced at the sky outside the house, it was bright, and he couldn't help but look at Uncle Tao, and he didn't know why he was looking for him so early.
"Ah Liang, you caught a big fish with the meat you put yesterday. Tao said excitedly, as if the big fish was the one he caught.
"Big fish??"
Gongliang heard his words and had a question mark in his mind, and then remembered that he was talking about the giant turtle in the stream. At this time, he suddenly remembered Uncle Tao's words. caught ??? Gongliang jumped up from the bed and ran away. When I came to the stream, I saw a few people in front of me, pointing at a giant turtle on the ground.
Gongliang burrowed into the crowd and saw the giant turtle on all fours, apparently dead.
He approached the giant turtle, touched it, and found that the giant turtle was still a little hot.
"Ah Liang, be careful that the big fish gets up and swallows you. The person who knew Gongliang next to him joked.
Gongliang turned around and looked at it, it was Abba's friend from the former hunting team. At this time, Tao also came over to call him. He said to them, "Uncle Tao, Uncle Tulei, can you help me kill the big fish, and then I will share half of you." ā
"Who scarces your big fish. Tao slapped him on the head and scolded with a smile.
The people next to him laughed when they saw it.
The hearts of the tribe are pure and replenished, although it will not reach the point where the family is in trouble and support from all directions, but whoever has something to say, everyone is happy to help. No one will ask for children's things, the warriors of the tribe eat all fierce beast meat, and they have no interest in this ordinary beast meat that cannot replenish physical strength.
The giant turtle that was killed by wild pepper was more than five meters long, and Tao and Tu Lei bled the giant turtle first.
Gongliang ordered some giant turtle blood next to him and tried it, it turned out to be a little spicy, it seems that this wild pepper is really powerful, and the spicy taste has actually penetrated into the blood.
According to Gongliang's intentions, Tao and Tulei split the giant turtle from the corners and split it in half, and then threw away the internal organs. Gongliang took the giant turtle's gall and crushed it, wiped the bile on the giant turtle's body, and asked Tao and Tu Lei to help divide the giant turtle's meat into pieces, leaving only the breastplate. After they helped divide the meat, Gongliang gave them half of the meat he had said earlier, and gave some to the onlookers of the tribe warriors. It's just that how can they ask for children's things, it's so faceless.
In the end, it was difficult to refuse, and everyone took a little back to eat.
In fact, Gongliang didn't know that there were people who had killed big fish before, that is, giant turtles, but they were extremely fishy, and the people of the tribe didn't like to eat them, so they let the giant turtles in the stream run rampant here, otherwise they would have been extinct with the urine nature of the tribesmen. It's always hard to turn around and leave after taking other people's things, so everyone helps Gongliang take the giant turtle meat home. When they returned home, Gongliang specially told them that it was best to cook pheasant and mountain pork belly, and as for whether anyone listened to it, he didn't know.
When they came back, it was still early, and the Xiaoshi brothers were still sleeping, so Gongliang went to call them up.
Gongliang divided half of the remaining giant turtle meat to the Oshi family, and kept half for himself. I took a few more pieces and went to Yehan to change a few iron hooks, and then hung the giant turtle meat to dry. Then, I took a few more pieces to Lao Wu's side and asked him to help make a large stone mortar and a small stone mortar, and also customized a stone mill.
Lao Wu didn't know what a stone mill was, but Gongliang compared it with him and drew a picture of charcoal wood for him, and he knew it.
In this primitive tribe, these things are a necessity. Large and small stone mortars can be used to mash things, and stone mills are used to grind things into powder or pulp. In the past, there were a lot of such things in Gongliang's village, which were almost essential supplies for every household, but with the development of science and technology, these things were discarded in the corner and not used, and then I don't know if they were stolen and disappeared.
Although some of the giant turtle meat was sent, there was still a lot left, and Gongliang couldn't eat it alone, so he planned to marinate the giant turtle meat and dry it, so that it could be preserved for a longer time.
Salt is used for pickling, but the Dashi family has not much salt, so Gongliang and the Xiaoshi brothers went to dig salt with a basket on their backs.
The crater of the extinct volcano is located, and when the volcano erupts, many things are washed out of the ground, such as iron, coal, or salt formed by the evaporation and sublimation of the underground brine by the hot volcanic gas, which in turn is covered by the passage of time, and it becomes what is now called rock salt. Of course, there are many types of rock salt formation, and volcanic sublimation is just one of them.
Gongliang had never dug up salt, so he could only follow Xiaoshi.
Xiao Xiaoshi followed behind Xiao Shi, looking around with his head open, feeling curious about everything.
Gongliang also looked around, this road was obviously not the way to pick wild vegetables, but in the opposite direction. Digging wild vegetables is to the left of the walled gate, and digging salt is to the right.
The woods here are some of the good people and know each other, but they are all primitive and rough style, the trees are huge, unlike the small trees that have been seen before, one is at least one person hugging each other, even the vines are more than the thickness of the arm, and the smallest is the seedling. A path was taken out of the forest, and along the path was a hill, which was their destination.
There was no grass growing in front of the hill, and as soon as I approached, I smelled a strong salty smell.
When you go inside, you will see a cave covered with crystal salt.
The salt here does not have any impurities, unlike some rock salts that contain impurities, which are purple or white, and here they are all crystal clear. In this wild jungle, no one grabbed these things, so the Yanbe people only came to dig some back when they needed it, and let the rest fend for itself here.
There are a lot of fine crystal salt chips left by the salt diggers in the cave, which no one likes, and the tribesmen like large pieces.
When he arrived at the place, Xiao Shi took out the small hoe he brought and dug it, and Xiao Xiao Shi also pouted his ass and dug on the side.
Gongliang took a look at it and found a place to dig it up. In fact, relatively speaking, he still prefers the fine salt chips that are dug down, because he can use them without going back to grinding, but those are not clean when he is trampled on, and he can't use them even if he wants to, so he can only dig honestly.
The children didn't have much strength, and the rock salt was heavy, so they only dug a few pieces, and everyone began to walk back with the rock salt they had dug up.
Gongliang used more salt because he wanted to marinate the giant turtle meat, so he dug a few more times, and the Xiaoshi brothers were very righteous and helped dig together. The salt that has been dug up has to be crushed. It is undoubtedly very exhausting to smash the salt with something, so Gongliang melts the rock salt he brought back in water, and then scoops the salt water into an iron pot to boil dry, so that he can get the fine rock salt of Baihuahuahua.
There are two ways to marinate food, one is to soak in brine and the other is to pinch with salt.
Although soaking in salt water is more flavorful, it will destroy some things in the food, and the soaked food is salty, and Gongliang does not like it, so he uses the method of salt pinching. Salt pinch is the process of spreading salt over food and then patting the food to let it taste good. The way it tastes is gradual, so the pickled food is layered, and each layer has a different taste, which is also what Gongliang likes.
The pickled things are hung up with iron hooks and dried and then stored in the house, so that the cured meat can be eaten for a year.
There is no shortage of meat in Yanbe, but it is undoubtedly a joy to be able to improve the taste with one or two different flavors.
Xiao Shi saw Gongliang pickling the giant turtle, and also took a little bit of the giant turtle meat out to marinate, but more of it entered their stomachs. It is said that half of the size eats Lao Tzu, and it is true. Now nine-year-old Koishi and Kira have shown an astonishing appetite.