Reborn Primitive Age

Chapter 11 Sweet Potatoes

Brother Xiaoshi saw Gongliang fishing in the water with a cage, and was curious, so he swam to him. When he saw the fish in the cage, he immediately became interested and rushed to catch the fish.Gong Liang had no choice but to give the fish cages to the two brothers, while he went ashore to ask Shan Teng to re-weave two fish cages.

There is no skill in weaving fish cages. It is nothing more than weaving mountain vines together horizontally and vertically.The difference is that things made by people with good craftsmanship will look better, while things made by poor people will be ugly, such as the things made by Gongliang himself.

After weaving two fish cages, Gongliang saw that the mountain vines here had good toughness and thin branches, so he cut some and planned to take them back to weave some household items.

This improvised fish cage is a one-time product, and it is easy to rot.If you really want to weave it into household items, you need a whole set of procedures, such as drying, peeling, oiling, etc., so that it can be preserved for a long time.That is to say, rural people born in the 80s like him still know some of the crafts of the older generation. If they were replaced by those urban people who don’t know the grain and don’t work hard, they would probably starve to death here, let alone enjoy it like him. Life is born.

After cutting some mountain vines, suddenly, Gong Liang saw that the leaves of the mountain vines under a cliff not far away looked a bit like the mouse melons in his old hometown.

The mouse melon is also called yam. It is a kind of medicinal material that can be used to clear away heat and detoxify. Because it grows small, the largest one is only two fingers thick, so it is called mouse melon.That thing is the rhizome of a rattan plant, which is rich in starch. It tastes similar to sweet potatoes, but it is not sweet and has thick fibers.

Seeing the mountain vines that looked like the leaves of a mouse melon, Gong Liang walked over.If you look carefully, it may not be that this thing looks like a mouse melon, because the mountain vines are tall and not as small as the vines of a mouse melon.

So, he found a branch from the side and dug it at the root of the mountain vine.

The soil on the edge of the cliff was soft and fertile. After only digging for a while, Gong Liang saw the roots of the mountain vines, and immediately dug harder.

Brother Xiaoshi, who was fishing for fish in the water, saw him digging on the edge of the cliff, and ran over curiously.

After digging for a while, the rhizomes at the bottom of the mountain vines showed their original shape, and he was stunned to see a nest of more than a dozen large and small rhizomes lying there.Is this the mouse melon he has seen before? It is obviously bigger than the big sweet potato he has seen before.

Seeing the mouse melon dug out, Xiaoshi said, "Ah Liang, why are you digging this thing, it's not tasty."

Gong Liang asked in surprise, "Have you eaten?"

"I have eaten it. My father has dug it before. It is pink, thick and not sweet. I don't even eat small stones."

Xiaoxiaoshi has always had a very good appetite, and it is rare to find something that he doesn't like to eat. It seems that the taste of this mouse melon is really not very good.

Gongliang didn't care how the food tasted, so he immediately dug out all the mouse melons, washed them in water, then cut a small piece and tasted it. The taste was the same as the mouse melons he had seen before. .I didn’t expect the mouse melon here to be so big. With the current size, it’s no longer appropriate to call it a mouse melon. Let’s call it a yam in the future!

After cleaning up the yams, Gongliang and Brother Xiaoshi filled the woven fish cage with fish, and then went home together.

In the evening, Gongliang cooked the fish in a cage.

Although this kind of fish that grew up in the mountain stream is small, its taste is very delicious.In the ancient times of Gongliang’s previous life, there was no such thing as monosodium glutamate to increase the umami taste, but some people cooked fish and mutton together to get a umami taste, so the word "xian" came into being.

Gongliang saw that the fish was delicious, so he marinated the remaining small fish with salt, dried it and ground it into powder, which was used as natural monosodium glutamate.Add a little every time you cook, and the taste will suddenly become extremely delicious.

Gong Liang used a stone mill to grind the dug yams into slurry, and then used a finely woven sieve to remove the coarse and fine particles, leaving only the starch for cooking.Since then, he finally has a staple food other than meat and vegetables.

While grinding yams, he suddenly remembered that sweet potatoes seem to be used to make wine, and yams are rich in starch like sweet potatoes, so can they also be used to make wine?Either way, you'll have to try it out.However, it depends on how the mountain fruit wine is made, otherwise there is no koji for wine making.

Counting the time, he has been brewing mountain fruit wine for almost two months.

So, he went to dig out the mountain fruit wine buried in the ground, and brought back the can of mountain fruit wine that had been exposed to the sun outside.

When I opened the two cans of mountain fruit wine and smelled it, I could smell a strong smell of wine. It seemed that the brewing of mountain fruit wine was a success.Next, he filtered the two cans of mountain fruit wine to remove the pomace, and left them for a few days to get a slightly cloudy fruit wine.At this time, the alcohol content of the fruit wine is too low, it is not resistant to storage, and it needs to be steamed.However, for the experiment, he boiled a can of mountain fruit wine that had been filtered out of pomace, then sealed it and buried it in the ground; another can was steamed in a wooden basin and placed in an iron pot, and finally half a can of clear, high-alcohol fruit wine was obtained by steaming. .

At this time, the fruit wine was still very angry, so he buried the steamed fruit wine in the ground, leaving only a little bit to prepare wine koji and make wine from yams.

In fact, Gong Liang has no idea about making wine from sweet potatoes, because he has never brewed it himself, but he has to try everything, who knows if he will succeed if he is lucky.

So, he steamed the yams, put them in fruit wine and some fructose, put them in stone jars and buried them in the ground, and then waited to see if they would turn into wine.

What is worth mentioning is that there are a lot of this kind of yam that Xiaoshi dislikes here. Xiaoshi took him to a valley to see it, and it was everywhere, each of them was huge, and I don't know how it grew.The same is true, he doesn't have to worry about not having yams as raw materials to make wine.

Dashi came back from hunting again, and Gongliang specially invited them to his home for dinner in order to thank him for his care over the years.

He used all the materials he had recently acquired, and made a good dinner to thank him.

There are a lot of things, such as sausage with minced mountain mushroom meat and starch, seasoned with mountain brook fish, wild vegetables boiled with wild pepper, and a large pot of hot pot made of thick soup made from animal bones, and a few more dishes The meat dishes, because they are seasoned with delicious marinated fish powder, are so delicious that the Dashi family almost swallowed their tongues.

In this primitive tribe, most of the food they eat is rough grilled food, but there has never been such a delicate delicacy.

After eating, Gongliang also took out some of the newly brewed fruit wine. This slightly sweet fruit wine immediately aroused Dashi's interest.Fortunately, there was not much alcohol, and the alcohol content was not high, so he was not drunk.But there is no secret in the tribe, and with Dashi's bragging, the news of Gongliang's delicious fruit wine spread throughout the tribe, and there was an endless stream of people who came to him every day to beg for fruit wine, which made him very annoyed.

The most important thing is that he doesn't have much fruit wine, he needs a little bit of this one, a little bit of that one, and it's almost gone.

Fortunately, his newly brewed fruit wine is coming out soon, otherwise he wouldn't even have to drink it himself.

(End of this chapter)