The successful purification of salt ore means that the Vine tribe will no longer be short of salt in the future. If the tribe develops and grows, it can even sell salt as a commodity.
After Jiang Xuan got a small jar of salt, he temporarily stopped this very time-consuming work. The remaining salt ore can be saved for purification on rainy days when there is nothing to do.
The next day, when Jiang Xuan ate a pot of salted stew, he was immersed in a huge sense of happiness and almost burst into tears.
This is what delicious food should taste like!
Meat without salt tastes really unspeakable.
After solving the salt problem, Jiang Xuan made two relatively large three-legged round pottery tripods out of clay, as well as some pottery blanks such as spoons and ladles, and placed them in the bamboo house to dry in the shade.
Because there are more people eating now, it is obviously not enough to cook food in those two clay pots.
Cooking utensils such as three-legged pottery tripods can solve this problem very well.
The three-legged pottery tripod has a large capacity and comes with three legs, so it can be burned directly in the fire pit without being placed on a stone.
In addition, the three-legged pottery tripod also has two tripod ears. After the food is cooked, you only need to pass a wooden stick through the tripod ears, and the pottery tripod can be easily carried to another place.
Peaceful days always pass quickly.
In the blink of an eye, nine days passed.
On April 9, the weather has obviously turned from warm to hot, and the drizzle has turned into heavy rain or even heavy rain.
Whether it was the plants in the jungle or the food and vegetables grown by the Vine Tribe, they began to grow wildly, and everything was green.
All this shows that spring has quietly left and summer has arrived with heat.
"April 9th, sunny, the beginning of summer."
When he got up in the morning, Jiang Xuan carved the solar term "Beginning of Summer" on his bamboo tube calendar, then put the bamboo tube away and walked out of the door.
At this time, the sky was blue and the sun had not yet risen, but there were a few rays of sunlight penetrating the clouds on the horizon, turning the white clouds into the color of red clouds.
"Go and see if the pottery is fired successfully."
Jiang Xuan put the dried pottery into the Hengyan kiln yesterday and burned it for most of the night before going back to sleep.
"Chief, wait for me."
Uncaria also ran over excitedly, as well as Red Peony Root, Stone Loach, and Nan Xing, all running this way.
Jiang Xuan walked to the side of Hengyan Kiln and reached out to touch it. The wall of the kiln was still warm, but it was no longer hot.
Jiang Xuan took off his stone knife, dug out the mud on the side of Hengyan Kiln that was used to seal the feed inlet, and moved away the large piece of sintered mud, revealing the pottery that had been fired in the furnace.
The first ones to be taken out were five spoons for ladling soup. They were relatively thick and had long handles. During the firing process, the handles of two of the spoons were broken, but the other three were fired more successfully.
"Take it." Jiang Xuan handed the ceramic spoon to Undo.
"okay."
Undo happily hugged the five spoons. He knew that these were good things. With this thing, he would no longer have to carry a clay pot to pour soup. He could directly use a spoon to scoop it into a bowl.
With excitement, Jiang Xuan carefully took out another pottery tripod from the furnace of Hengyan Kiln.
Jiang Xuan checked it carefully and found that it was fired very successfully without any cracks!
This is a round pottery tripod with three legs and two ears. It is about 60 centimeters high and 40 centimeters wide. It is very thick and heavy. There is a tripod lid on it.
The most eye-catching thing about this pottery tripod is that its outer wall and lid are engraved with the totem pattern of the vine tribe: a huge ancient vine, wrapped around the steep stone mountain, like a giant dragon coiling pillars.
When Tao Ding appeared in front of everyone, everyone became excited.
Not because of how perfectly it was fired, but because of the totem pattern engraved on it.
Totem patterns are of great significance to tribal people. Things engraved with totem patterns will naturally be given special meaning.
Even if this pottery tripod is not so rounded or even rough, for the people of the Vine tribe, this is the best thing, and they will not accept refutation from outsiders.
Uncaria asked: "Chief, are we going to use it for cooking in the future?"
"Yes, with the Tao Ding, we can cook enough food for twenty people at a time."
"That's great. Tao Ding's cooking must be delicious!"
Others also nodded. This is a pottery tripod engraved with the totem pattern of the Vine Tribe!
"There's another one inside."
Jiang Xuan took out another pottery tripod from the furnace.
The wall of this pottery tripod is also engraved with totem patterns, and the firing was also successful.
With these two pottery tripods, not only will it be much more convenient to cook in the future, but it will also be much more convenient to purify salt ore, because it is large enough to hold more salt water at a time.
"Let's wash it first, and then go back and try our new pottery tripod."
Jiang Xuan took the lead to pick up one of the pottery tripods, and Chi Shao picked up the other. The two of them went to the stream to clean the pottery tripod carefully.
Afterwards, the two pottery tripods were carried back to the bamboo house and placed in the fire pit.
The three legs of the pottery tripod allow them to stand stably in the fire pit. You don't need to bother setting them up, and you can just light the fire directly.
Jiang Xuan put the burning firewood under the pottery tripod. The flames kept licking the pottery tripod, gradually heating the pottery tripod.
In the first pottery tripod, Jiang Xuan first added water, and then put in various edible plant tubers, such as stone eggs, round potatoes, polygonatum, etc.
This is the rice that the Vine tribe usually eats.
For the second pottery tripod, Jiang Xuan waited until it was completely heated before adding some mutton oil, then added wild ginger and wild onions, sauteed until fragrant, and then added water.
Then add the dried animal meat cut into small pieces, add many edible wild vegetable stems and leaves, finally, Jiang Xuan adds some precious salt, cover the tripod, and simmer slowly.
This is the meat dish they usually eat.
Sometimes it’s animal meat, sometimes it’s fish, sometimes it’s shrimps and crabs, and even some edible insects.
It takes some time to cook these foods. Jiang Xuan asked Nan Xing to watch the fire while he and the other three people went to the farmland to see the traps set yesterday.
With the continuous land reclamation, the Teng tribe now has more than ten acres of cultivated land. These cultivated lands are neatly planted with rows of grains and vegetables, which is very spectacular.
But problems also arise.
Because all the edible plants are gathered together, herbivorous animals in the nearby forest, including a large number of insects, gather here to harm these immature grains and vegetables.
To deal with the bugs, tourists can only catch them with their bare hands.
To deal with those beasts, Jiang Xuan and others need to set up traps.
In order to protect these crops that were finally planted, Jiang Xuan and others set up a large number of traps around the farmland, including rope traps, trigger traps, ground bows, etc.
These traps can catch or kill some wild beasts that come to steal crops almost every day, adding more meat to the Vine tribe.
Even the bugs were caught one by one by tourists, tied into strings with sticks, and grilled to eat. If Jiang Xuan didn't allow them to eat raw, they could even eat them raw.
The way to eat it is to make it burst into pulp after one bite, which is very vigorous.
"A fat mountain rat, take it back with you."
Jiang Xuan walked to the first trap and found a fat mountain rat that triggered the trap and had its head crushed by a wooden stick. It weighed about two or three kilograms.
This is also a good meat dish that can be taken home and grilled.
Jiang Xuan threw the mountain rat into the rattan basket and continued walking forward.
The second trap is a noose trap, but the rope of the noose has been bitten off.
Chi Shao carefully observed the traces left on the ground and said: "It must have lassoed a rabbit. The lasso must have caught its feet, so it bit off the rope and ran away. If it was the neck, it ran away." No more."
The four people continued to move forward. Some traps successfully captured the prey, some traps were not triggered, and some traps were triggered, but the prey ran away.
But after walking around for a while, they actually got a dozen small game animals, which they packed into a cane basket.
"Nice harvest, let's go back."
Jiang Xuan was in a happy mood. When he opened up wasteland for farming, he did not expect to harvest meat.
When they returned to the bamboo house, the food in the two pottery tripods had been cooked and the aroma filled the air.
"I'm so hungry, let's eat!"
Jiang Xuan removed the firewood from under the pottery cauldron, and then opened the lid of the cauldron. The steaming food suddenly gave off a more alluring aroma.
Jiang Xuan took out his pottery bowl and chopsticks, and used a long-handled spoon to scoop out more than half a bowl of cooked plant tubers. Then he scooped out some animal meat and wild vegetables from another pottery tripod, blowing on it with big mouthfuls. Start eating.
"It smells good!"
Jiang Xuan was very satisfied with the meal. After adding salt, all the food seemed to be infused with soul and tasted particularly sweet.
Others also started to eat. After they were full, they packed the food in clay pots and sent them to the tourists so that they could continue to work when they were full.
In order to allow these tourists to have the strength to work, Jiang Xuan was not stingy. There was almost no difference between the food eaten by the tourists and them, including the salt in the food.
If these tourists are not given salt, they will sweat so much every day while working hard to open up wasteland. Soon they will fall ill due to lack of salt and will be unable to continue working.
