The Rise of Primitive Tribes Farming

Chapter 50 Smoked Fish and Bacon

The days of calm and calm always pass quickly, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Summer is here.

"Crash..."

In the creek, many people from the Mang tribe are swimming, splashing a lot of water. After two months of training, most of them have learned how to swim. After the hot weather, they have to go into the water every day.

The creek has been cleaned up by the fishing team, and almost all dangerous fish have been caught. It is relatively safe now.

As for the fishing team, they have already used canoes to fish in the river, and the efficiency is indeed much higher. Now the Mang tribe can't finish the fish.

Not only fish, but with the abundance of food, there is also a surplus of animal meat. These meats cannot be stored for a long time in summer, and they will stink if left for a long time. This is also a happy trouble.

"What are these fish and meat used for? Sun-dried?"

Chen Bei shook his head, and said to himself: "No, even if you put salt on it, it will stink if you put it in the sun in this weather, it's too hot."

Chen Bei thought for a long time, and suddenly saw the stove, his eyes lit up, and said: "Yes, it can't be dried in the sun, but it can be smoked!"

"You can build two barbecue rooms, one for grilling fish and one for grilling meat. After the grilling is done, use it to trade with other small tribes!"

One thought through, one thought through.

Chen Bei quickly thought that as long as these fish and meat were marinated with salt and dried, they could be stored for a long time.

If the tribe wants to grow and develop, trading is essential. Just like the eagle tribe, trading can bring rich returns and make the tribe grow stronger and stronger.

He didn't want to sell the salt directly. Although the profit was high, it would easily attract the jealousy of others, and even attract the attack of the big tribe. For the Mang tribe, it would be a disaster.

However, selling bacon is different, at least it doesn't look so conspicuous.

Chen Bei told Qingzhu and the elders about his thoughts, and discussed with them.

The elder stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Since the leader has decided, let's do it. I believe in the leader."

Qing Zhu also nodded, and said: "The elder is right."

Both of them had no opinion, Chen Bei had a lot of ideas in his heart.

"Well, I'll find someone to build a roasting house, and then I'll take someone to bring back a batch of salt soil, boil it into salt, and use it for bacon."

Chen Bei immediately went to call stonemasons, carpenters, and people who are good at building houses, and asked them to put down their work for a while and build a baking house first.

This time, because it was not for people to live in, a stone house was built, and the gaps were filled with a mixture of mud and plant ash. Such a house is much better for a baking house than a house with a civil structure.

When building the house, Chenbei took a hunting team to the salt flats to transport salt soil. They brought ten rhinos and a large number of animal skin bags, which can transport a large amount of salt soil back to the tribe.

The salt flat is very large, and there is a lot of salt soil deposited over countless years. Even though Chenbei has been here several times, the salt flat is not much less, and it still looks like a large expanse of whiteness.

While picking up salt soil, Chen Bei said: "Everyone picks the ones that are congealed into lumps, the whiter the better, and the salt soil with too many impurities is discarded."

Yun couldn't help but moved closer to Chen Bei, and asked in a low voice: "Boss, why are we picking this thing up?"

Chen Bei said mysteriously: "You will know when you go back."

"Okay, then I won't ask."

Although Yun was very curious, since Chen Bei told him to go back and tell him, he didn't dare to ask any more.

With the efforts of everyone, all the animal skin bags they carried were filled with salt soil, more than half of which were placed on the rhino's back, and some small bags were carried by the hunting team themselves.

Chen Bei also picked up his own animal skin bags and piled them all on the Rhino King's back. At the same time, he himself sat on the Rhino King's back.

For the Rhino King, this weight is nothing at all.

"Back to the tribe!"

Chen Bei gave an order, and the hunting team began to return to the tribe. Because of the existence of these rhinos, they were not disturbed along the way and returned to the tribe smoothly.

After returning, all the salt soil was piled into Wu's yard, because Wu's yard was wide enough and no one dared to break in casually.

Qingzhu looked at the mountains of salt soil in the yard, frowned slightly and said: "If you, me, and the elders cook salt, how long will it take to cook so much?"

Chen Bei said: "What does Wu mean to let other people from the tribe join in?"

Qingzhu nodded, and said: "We can let people from the tribe who are sure to be trustworthy join in first."

Chen Bei nodded and said, "Okay, let Yun, Lie, Bai Cao, Yan and Lao Lu join in first."

What Chen Bei was talking about was the five captains in the tribe, hunting, fishing, gathering, planting, and breeding.

In fact, Chen Bei didn't want to call Lao Lu here, because he was relatively old, and it might be too much for him to do such physical work.

But the other captains have all called, if he is just missed, it is hard to guarantee that he will have other thoughts in his heart, which will be a hidden danger for the future.

So Chen Bei simply called them all over without leaving any sequelae.

That night, after the five captains returned to the tribe, they were all told to go to Wu's courtyard.

When they arrived, they saw several cauldrons set up, and Chen Bei who was dissolving the saline soil and filtering the salt water.

"This...isn't this the soil we brought back from the forest?" Yun was a little excited, he knew that Chen Bei would finally reveal the answer.

Chen Bei put pieces of salt soil into a bucket filled with water, and explained as he put it: "Yes, it is the soil brought back from the mountains and forests. This is not ordinary soil. In fact, it is salt soil. After filtration, precipitation, boiling, Halo, can get the salt we eat."

"Salt?" The five of them were shocked, and no one thought that this thing would be the most scarce salt.

"That's right, the salt that our tribe eats now comes from this way."

"You have also seen that the salt brought by the Eagle tribe is ridiculously expensive. Ten big lobsters can barely exchange a catty of salt. How can our tribe afford it?"

"So, later, the totem god instructed me to use this method to turn the poisonous saline soil on the mountain into non-toxic and edible salt."

That's right, it was the instruction of the Totem God again. Chen Bei's face was blushing when he said such a thing now, because the Totem God never refuted him, and he just acquiesced.

Sure enough, when Yun and the others heard the instruction from the totem god, they immediately believed it, they didn't ask any questions at all, and even bowed in the direction of the altar a few times.

Chen Bei continued: "The reason why we don't disclose this secret in the tribe is because we are afraid that someone will spread it. If we let the big tribe know that we can make salt, it will usher in a catastrophe. Do you understand?"

Yun Zhengse said: "Don't worry, the leader, we will definitely keep the secret, and say that the salt is obtained by the leader in exchange with other tribes."

Chen Bei nodded in satisfaction, a child can be taught.

"Now, I will teach you how to make salt. You need to turn this huge pile of salt soil into edible salt."

In fact, the process is not complicated, the most important thing is to filter, palm bark can filter relatively large particles of impurities such as sand and gravel.

Charcoal is a key thing, it can absorb a lot of toxic substances, as for the substances dissolved in salt water, Chenbei has no way to solve it for the time being.

However, in the autumn, after a food crop in the field is harvested, he will have a way to get really pure salt without bitter taste.

Chen Bei didn't say anything about it, because he didn't know if he could do it successfully.

The five of them learned it quickly, because there was really nothing complicated. They looked at the salt they had boiled with their own hands, and they all had expressions of satisfaction on their faces.

While lighting the fire, Bai Cao approached Chen Bei, and said, "Boss, there is so much salt here, is it for us to eat? Shouldn't we finish it?"

Chen Bei smiled and said, "Did you guess something?"

Bai Cao said: "How can I guess what the leader is thinking, I just think that the stone house is being built outside, and the leader must have some good ideas."

Chen Bei said: "Forget it, you will know about this soon, so it's okay to tell you now."

"I'm going to marinate fish and animal meat with salt, then dry them with fire, and trade them with other tribes. I think they will be happy to pay a high price."

Bai Cao thought carefully about Chen Bei's words, her eyes suddenly widened, and she said, "There is salt in the meat!"

"Yes."

Bai Cao looked at Chen Bei with admiration, and said, "Boss, you are so smart."

If I were young, I would definitely marry you.Baicao did not say this sentence.

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(End of this chapter)