Mountain Wild Clouds

Chapter 45 Chisel the stone mortar, corned beef

Life in the mountains is obviously very monotonous.

But Yun Buliu could find some fun in it.

Weaving bamboo bridles, making bamboo chairs, bamboo beds, bamboo tables and other things is one of the fun.

He put the woven bamboo halter over the bamboo tube head for water diversion and tied it tightly with hemp rope. The water flow of the bamboo tube did not decrease much because of this, but it could effectively block the invasion of some foreign objects.

But bamboo chairs, bamboo beds, bamboo tables and other things are not so easy.

Of course, what is even more difficult is the preservation of beef.

That big buffalo is not much lighter than the little milk tiger's mother. Even if his appetite has increased so much that he can eat no less than a hundred catties of meat a day, he can still eat it for more than ten or twenty days.

The weather has long been hot and now, the meat has been left for three days, and it already has a peculiar smell.

For this reason, he planned to make all the remaining beef into beef jerky.

There are many ways to make beef jerky, but he basically doesn't know it because he has never done it.He only saw some old people making air-dried meat and bacon in his hometown.

But he doesn't have any seasoning for bacon now.

The only seasonings he could find were salt, wild ginger, and wild onions.

Other seasonings may be found in this vast mountain forest, but in fact, it is all luck if you can come across it, let alone a temporary search.

As for wine, vinegar, soy sauce, etc., there is no need to think about it.

Moreover, it is too troublesome to make bacon, mainly because it takes too long. It takes a few days to marinate, and it takes ten days and a half months to smoke.Besides, bacon can only be eaten as a dish, not as a staple food.

He mainly eats meat as his staple food now, and bacon is too salty.

Of course, there is another way, which is to make a simple version of beef jerky, which is to cook the beef and then dry it in the sun. This method is actually very simple.

If the seasoning is enough, you can also make beef jerky with a good taste.

But there is also a big problem, how to cook beef?

He simply doesn't have a pot that big for cooking.

And drying after cooking is also a problem.

Therefore, he can only use the simplest way to deal with it, which is to use salt, wild ginger, and wild onions to marinate the beef briefly, and then hang it on the vent for air drying.

Although it takes a long time to dry, at least the meat will not spoil so easily.

What's missing, though, is something to marinate the beef with.

So, he found a big stone with a length, width and height of about 1.5 meters six, and then used tiger teeth as a steel chisel and the black stone as a hammer to chisel out a huge stone mortar.

He had already done the work of chiseling a mortar once, so he could be considered a veteran this time.

First scrape a circle on the stone with the canine teeth...

It is very simple to draw a circle. Tie a thin hemp rope on the canine tooth, press one end in the middle of the stone, hold the canine tooth with the other hand, straighten the rope, and turn it around on the stone.

Then along the drawn line, scrape vigorously with much thinner wild boar tusks.After scraping out a groove, he used tiger teeth as a steel chisel and began to chisel the stone, hollowing out the center of the stone.

Ding Dang Dang Dang, like the sound of metal and iron clanging, resounded in this mountain forest.

The bones with mysterious golden patterns are not only as hard as iron, but even the sound of hitting the stone is very similar to the sound of a steel chisel hitting the stone.

In the big lake, the fools of Goose Village rowed the clear waves, held their heads high, and looked around, as if they were looking for the source of these sounds.

The birds in the forest startled one by one, because the sound can vibrate the eardrums and make people feel uncomfortable, and those birds are not much different.

The two fluffy little ears of the little furball had already drooped down, as if they were blocking their own ears in this way.

Yun Buliu didn't know whether the little white snake had left the small bamboo building.

On the contrary, the little milk tiger was attracted by the sound, looked at it curiously, and returned to the cave with his little head drooping.There is still a trace of its mother's breath in the cave.

Although the tiger tooth in his hand also has the breath of a tiger mother, it is not as strong as that in the cave.

If it is really carefully and slowly chiseled with a steel chisel, it is impossible to chisel out a large stone mortar in one day, even if you invite those teachers and fathers.

But Yunbuliu dug it out. Fortunately, because he was careful enough, there was no accident, and the stone was not cracked halfway through the chisel.

Originally, it was impossible for him to move a large rock that might have weighed more than ten tons, but now, after cutting away most of the inner stone and leaving only the mortar with a thickness of more than ten centimeters on the outside, it is much lighter.

He tried it and hugged it in an instant.

The volume of the large stone mortar is estimated to be one or two cubic meters, which can be used as a bathtub.

Carrying the big stone mortar to the water pipe outside the small bamboo building, cleaned the big stone mortar, then carried it back to the cave, and placed the big stone mortar in the cave.

Seeing Yunbuliu coming back, the little milk tiger lying in the cave looked up at him, screamed a few times in a childish voice, then slowly lay down again, looking at him with big innocent eyes.

Seeing its appearance, Yun Buliu sighed softly, walked up to it, and stroked its small head.

In terms of liveliness, it should be far superior to the little furball and the little white snake. After all, it is still so small and full of curiosity about the outside world. It doesn't know what fear is, unlike the little furball. It's too timid.

Don't look at it acting calmly in front of the little milk tiger, but in fact it is all pretending.

If the little white snake is not active, it is completely lazy. From its increasingly fat body, it can be seen that it will probably become a fat snake in the future!

Thinking of this, such a picture suddenly popped up in his head - Jia Ling was dancing in white lady's clothes!
Uh……

guilt guilt...

Yun Buliu shook his head hastily, throwing this broken picture out of his mind.

He didn't know that, in fact, the little milk tiger also knew to be afraid.

After masturbating the little milk tiger for a while, he left the cave.

Salt is readily available, ginger needs to be dug for wild ginger, and spring onions, on this piece of greenery, also have wild onions, just need to look carefully.

He first went to the bamboo forest to find a few wild gingers and washed them, and then found some wild onions on the green grass, and dug out the roots of the wild onions.

He planned to open up another piece of land for planting, and he had to plant some wild ginger.

Originally, he wanted to go to the big forest to the north of the orchard to find some honey to use as sugar, but after thinking about it, he gave up.

Because the big black bear family lived in that forest, it was obviously not a wise thing to take risks for a little honey.

Dig up a catty or two of wild ginger and a few taels of wild onion, wash and chop them, then put them in a clay pot, add a catty or two of salt and a basin of water, and stir.

Then, he cut the beef into strips and put them in the big stone mortar.

Every time he puts a layer, he will pour some condiments into it, and he will not stop until he enlarges half of the stone mortar and sees that there are about two or three hundred catties of beef left.

Although the big buffalo still weighed more than 2000 catties after it was killed, it was actually estimated to be about [-] to [-] catties without the bones.

And except for the horns which he kept, he cut off the whole bull's head and threw it away.

It was a hassle to handle the bull's head, and he didn't like the meat on the bull's head.

But he doesn't like it, the dead wood floating in the lake likes it very much.

He marinated the beef in a stone mortar, and then used tiger teeth to pierce the thigh bones of big bison. He wanted to select a few bone pieces from these big cattle bones to sharpen bone knives.

At the same time, after an hour, turn over the marinated beef in the stone mortar.

(End of this chapter)