After everyone listened to Xu Yin’s arrangement, they couldn’t help but get excited:
"Great witch, do you really want to teach us?"
"Great wizard, do you know how to make pottery? I heard that this is a craft that only the great wizards of the Bright Tribe can do."
"Witch, how are you making the wooden barrel you brought? This water-carrying bucket is much lighter than the stone pot. Can you teach us?"
Speaking of wooden barrels, Xu Yin thought of mineral salt: "Oh, I have to lend two of my people to dig more mineral salt and boil it."
"Salt?"
"Is that salt you brought, Great Witch?"
"Oh my God! We have salt!"
Xu Yin: "..."
Yes, comrades, there is an entire salt mine, and our small tribe of less than twenty people cannot eat it all in a lifetime.
Collecting, boiling salt, weaving, making pottery, hunting, breeding...all positions require labor, and there are really not enough manpower!
Xu Yin stood in front of the stone cave, raised her hand to cover her forehead, and looked at the bright sun. She was glad that it was summer and she had time to arrange for her to store for autumn and winter.
When spring comes next year, she plans to lead everyone to open up wasteland and cultivate land.
If I can find suitable clay, I plan to build a kiln and burn bricks to build a house.
Of course, you must first increase the force value, preferably one that the entire tribe can learn and use.
Otherwise, how can we protect our homeland?
After the tribal people assigned the tasks, they started to act in high spirits.
The old man and his cubs could no longer do the work of hunting and gathering, so they sat in front of the cave and learned to weave.
After collecting the first batch of vines, Xu Yin first taught them how to weave clothes, and then taught them how to weave bags after everyone had their shame clothes. The knitted bags were used to collect and assemble wild fruits, vegetables, and Panax notoginseng, which was better than leaf bags. The transportation efficiency of wild fruits and vegetables is much higher.
Xu Yin also found a kind of rattan that was stronger than soft rattan and softer than branches. She led the people of the left-behind tribe to weave baskets and baskets of different sizes. The baskets could be carried or carried, and the baskets could be picked or carried. More practical than a bag.
The collection team is responsible for providing wild vegetables and fruits for three meals a day.
In the past, when they encountered unfamiliar plants, they would ignore them. Now, if there is a big witch, they will wrap them in large non-toxic leaves and pick them.
Not to mention, Xu Yin actually discovered some edible foods.
One is a tuber similar to a potato, but larger than an ordinary potato, and the skin is black. Let's call it a potato, a black potato.
The tribesmen had dug it before, but it was black at first glance. They had vaguely heard that someone from other tribes foamed at the mouth and died after eating this thing. They were worried that it was poisonous, so they didn't dare to touch it. If they dug it accidentally, Get out of the way quickly.
Xu Yin wrapped it in bark and cut off the skin with a stone knife. She found that the color of the flesh was the same as that of potatoes. So I caught a pheasant and fed it diced "black potatoes" alone for seven days. I found that not only was the pheasant not poisoned, but it actually liked eating the black potatoes. It was mixed with other grass seeds and fruit pulp and sprinkled in front of it. It actually picked the "black potatoes" to eat first, and then other feeds.
This shows that black potatoes are not poisonous, and the poison is probably the reason for the sprouting. As long as you don't eat sprouted black potatoes, you'll be fine.
Hearing what the great witch said, the collection team began to search all over the hillside for these black potatoes.
After digging it back, follow Xu Yin's instructions, peel off the skin and stew the meat, or throw it whole by the campfire, roast it with the residual heat of the charcoal fire, peel it off and eat it.
The black potatoes, which have a completely different texture from meat, capture the taste buds of all tribesmen.
From then on, they had a third type of food besides protein and vitamins - carbohydrates.
In addition to black potatoes, Xu Yin also discovered olives and garlic sprouts.
Wild olives are very bitter when eaten raw, so even if the tribesmen knew they could be eaten, they rarely picked them back.
As for the garlic sprouts here, they are three times thicker than ordinary garlic sprouts. Chewing raw garlic sprouts is spicy and irritating, and the stomach is easily unbearable. Some people have stomach cramps after eating garlic sprouts, and no one dares to touch them again.
If the great witch hadn't asked them to pick up all the edible and inedible things for her to see, Achun and the others wouldn't have wanted to touch this stuff.
Unexpectedly, after bringing them back, Xu Yin showed them the correct way to eat olives and garlic sprouts——
After the olives are blanched and cooled, they are marinated in cold boiled water and salt for seven days. The salt water stimulates the fruity aroma of the olives, making them rich, sweet and sour, and very appetizing.
Choose crispy and green garlic sprouts, and stir-fry with alternately fat and lean meat slices. Before they come out of the pan, the overbearing aroma is overflowing. Who has the energy to work? Your mouth is watering. Come around and watch:
"Wizard, what is this? It smells so good!"
"Great witch, is this Lu Miaomiao who has a stomachache after eating it?"
When they heard that they had eaten green rice that had a stomachache, everyone took a few steps back, not daring to eat it no matter how greedy they were.
Xu Yin said with a smile: "This is called garlic sprouts. It is spicy when eaten raw, so it is easy to irritate the stomach. But when it is fried and cooked, there is no such problem, and it is actually good for the body."
real?
Xu Yin was afraid that they wouldn't believe it. After frying it, she picked up a chopstick with a chopstick cut from a tree branch and put it in her mouth. Ugh! tasty!
She closed her eyes with contentment. The original era... no, the garlic sprouts in the original game were relatively thick, and the garlic sprouts themselves were a bit old this season, so when washing them, they specially cut off the skin and pulled out the tendons. After they were cooked, It tastes crispy and tender, and is more fragrant and delicious than ordinary garlic sprouts.
Seeing the great witch eating so deliciously, what are other people waiting for?
You compete with me to eat.
You won’t know it if you don’t eat it, but you won’t forget it once you eat it.
Everyone’s eyes lit up: Let’s go! Go get some garlic sprouts!
At this time, they plundered all the black potatoes, garlic sprouts, and olives all over the mountains and plains.
It’s also good to marinate olives to make preserves.
Garlic sprouts are indeed eaten during this season. They are too old after August.
The black potatoes that mature this season are mostly spring potatoes, and you may be able to dig up another batch before winter.
However, potatoes tend to sprout if stored for a long time. If they sprout, you can plant them, but you cannot eat them.
Xu Yin repeatedly warned the tribesmen, and held a guessing competition every night while eating and chatting around the campfire——
"How to stop bleeding with Panax notoginseng leaves?"
"Under what circumstances should you never eat potatoes?"
"How can I eat garlic sprouts without stomachache?"
“What’s the best way to make olives taste best?”
“Why boil salt?”
"Why drink boiled water?"
“What nutrients do potatoes have?”
"..."
And so on.
she asked, and the others rushed to answer.
If you answer correctly, you will be rewarded with a blessing from the great witch. If you answer incorrectly, you will be punished by getting up early the next day to cook for everyone, or collecting everyone's poop and composting it.
After a few rounds, it’s hard for everyone to remember.
When the weaving team got better and the collection team had enough containers, Xu Yin took them to the woods where the winged tigers inhabited.
She didn't have time to inspect the hilltop where the tribe was located. Anyway, it was at the door of her house, so she didn't have to worry and collected the Panax notoginseng from the woods first.
She estimated that this season should be June or July, because the Panax notoginseng flowers and leaves are still green, but this is the best season for harvesting the Panax notoginseng inflorescences.
