Reborn Primitive Age

Chapter 8 Pickled Giant Turtle Meat

"Ah Liang, Ah Liang"

Dimly, in a daze, 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 beside the bed.

"Uncle Tao, good morning!"

Gong Liang rubbed his sleepy eyes, glanced at the sky outside the house, it was so bright, he couldn't help looking at Uncle Tao, he didn't know why he was looking for him so early.

"Ah Liang, the meat you released yesterday caught a big fish." Tao said excitedly, as if he caught the big fish.

"Big fish??"

When Gong Liang heard what he said, his mind was filled with question marks, and then he remembered that he was talking about the giant turtle in the Daxi.At this moment, he suddenly remembered Uncle Tao's words.Caught it? ? ?As soon as Gongliang jumped up from the bed, he ran away.When I came to the stream, I saw a few people gathered in front of me, pointing at a giant turtle on the ground.

Gong Liang sneaked into the crowd and saw the giant turtle was on its back, obviously 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 Gong Liang next to him joked.

Gong Liang turned around and looked, it was Tu Lei, a friend of Abba's former hunting team.At this time, Tao who went to call him also came over.He said to them: "Uncle Tao Tulei, can you help me kill the big fish, and then I will share half with you."

"Who cares about your big fish?" Tao slapped him on the head and scolded with a smile.

The people around laughed when they saw it.

The people of the tribe are extremely pure and friendly. Although it is not so difficult for a family to support from all sides, if anyone has something to say, everyone is willing to help.Not to mention that no one would ask for children's things. The warriors of the tribe all ate the meat of ferocious animals, and they had no interest in this kind of ordinary animal meat that could not replenish their physical strength.

The giant tortoise that was scorched to death by the wild pepper was more than five meters long. Tao and Tu Lei first bled the giant tortoise.

Gongliang ordered some giant turtle blood to try it out, and it was a bit spicy. It seems that the wild pepper is really powerful, and the spiciness has penetrated into the blood.

According to Gongliang's wishes, Tao and Tu Lei split the giant turtle into two halves from the corner, and then threw away the internal organs.Gong Liang took the giant turtle's gall and crushed it, wiped the gall on the giant turtle's body, and asked Tao and Tu Lei to help divide the giant turtle's flesh into pieces, leaving only the breastplate.After they helped divide the meat, Gong Liang gave them half of the meat mentioned earlier, and gave some to the tribal warriors who were watching.It's just that they want things for children, how embarrassing.

In the end, the good intentions were hard to come by, so everyone took a little and went back to eat.

In fact, Gongliang didn't know that there were people who killed big fish before, that is, giant turtles, but they were so smelly that the tribesmen didn't like to eat them, so they let the giant turtles in the stream run rampant here, or they would use the urine of tribesmen to kill them. Sex, long ago extinct.It's not easy to turn around and leave after taking other people's things, so everyone helped Gongliang take the giant turtle meat home.When he got home, Gong Liang specifically told them that the pheasant and pheasant belly would taste best when boiled, but he didn't know if anyone would listen.

It was still early when he came back, and the Xiaoshi brothers were still sleeping, so Gong Liang went to wake them up.

Gongliang gave half of the remaining giant turtle meat to the Dashi family, and kept half for himself.I took a few more yuan to Yehan to change some iron hooks, and then hung up the giant turtle meat to dry.Then, I took a few more pieces to Lao Wu, and asked him to help make a large mortar and a small mortar, and also ordered a stone mill.

Lao Wu didn't know what a stone mill was, but Gong Liang made a gesture with him and drew a sample with charcoal wood, and he knew it.

Living in this primitive tribe, these things are all necessities.Large and small stone mortars can be used to crush things, and stone mills are used to grind things into powder or slurry.In the past, there were many such things in Gongliang’s village, which were almost necessary supplies for every household. However, with the development of technology, these things were discarded in the corners and were not used.

Although some giant turtle meat was given away, there was still so much left over that Gongliang couldn't eat it all by himself, so he planned to marinate the giant turtle meat and air-dry it so that it could be preserved for a longer time.

Salt is needed for pickling, but Dashi's family is running out of salt, so Gongliang and Xiaoshi brothers went to dig salt with baskets on their backs.

Yanbu is located in the crater of an extinct volcano. When a volcano erupts, many things will be washed out from the ground, such as iron, coal, or salt formed by sublimation of underground brine due to volcanic heat. These salts have been covered heavily due to the years. , became what is now called some rock salt.Of course, rock salt can be formed in many ways, and volcanic sublimation is just one of them.

Gongliang has never dug salt, so he can only follow Xiaoshi.

Xiao Xiaoshi followed behind Xiao Shi, looking around with his head open, feeling curious about everything.

Gongliang also looked around. Obviously, this road was not the way to pick wild vegetables, but the opposite direction.Digging wild vegetables is to the left of the gate of the village, while digging salt is to the right.

Some of the woods here are familiar to Gongliang, but they are all in a primitive and rough style. They are huge, unlike the small trees I have seen before. At least one person can hug each tree, and even the vines are thicker than an arm. The small ones are the seedlings.A small path was walked out of the forest, and along the path, there was a small hill, which was their destination.

There was no grass growing in front of the hill, and as soon as I approached, I could smell a strong salty smell.

Walking inside, you will see a cave full of crystal rock salt.

The salt here does not have any impurities, unlike some rock salts that contain impurities, which are purple or white, here are all crystal-like transparent colors.In this wild jungle, no one snatches these things, so Yanbu people only come to dig some for use when necessary, and let the rest be left to fend for themselves here.

There are many fine crystal salt chips left by the salt diggers in the cave. No one likes these, and the tribesmen like large pieces.

When he arrived at the place, Xiaoshi took out the small hoe he brought and dug up, and Xiaoshi pouted while digging.

Gongliang took a look, and then found a place to dig.In fact, relatively speaking, he still prefers the finely crushed salt crumbs that he dug up, because he can use them without going back to grind them, but those are all trampled by people, so he can't use them even if he wants to, so he can only be honest. digging.

The children didn't have much strength, and the rock salt was heavy. After only a few pieces were dug, everyone started walking back with the rock salt they had dug on their backs.

Because Gongliang used a lot of salt to marinate the giant turtle meat, he dug a few more times. Brother Xiaoshi was very loyal and helped dig together.The salt dug back has to be crushed.It is undoubtedly a waste of energy to smash salt blocks with things, so Gong Liang melted the rock salt he brought back in water, and then scooped the salt water into an iron pot to boil it dry, so that he could get white rock salt powder.

There are two ways to pickle food, one is soaking in salt water, and the other is pinching with salt.

Although soaking in salt water is more delicious, it will destroy some things in the food, and the food after soaking is salty, which Gongliang doesn't like, so he uses the method of pinching salt.A pinch of salt is to spread salt on the food and then pat the food to make it taste.The way it tastes is gradual, so the marinated food has distinct layers, and each layer has a different taste, which is what Gongliang likes.

The marinated meat is hung up with iron hooks to air-dry and then stored in the house. Such marinated meat can be eaten for a year.

There is no shortage of meat in Yanbu, but it is undoubtedly a happy thing to improve the taste with one or two different flavors.

Xiaoshi saw Gongliang marinating the giant turtle, so he also took some giant turtle meat out to marinate, but more of it went into their stomachs.It is said that a half-child eats Lao Tzu to death, and it is true.Now nine-year-old Xiaoshi and Gongliang have shown an amazing appetite.

(End of this chapter)