Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Chapter 22 22 The Fury of the Fire Beaver, the Earth Pot
Seeing Black Badger's eyeballs rolling back and forth, Fire Fox became suspicious, stared at him and said, "Black Badger, is there something you didn't tell me?"

Under the hawk-like eyes of the fire raccoon, the black badger felt a little guilty, "Boss, I, I..."

Huo Li looked at him and shouted sharply: "Say, what are you hiding from me?"

The black badger didn't dare to look at the fire raccoon, and said falteringly: "Boss, I, I followed the mountain mouse that day, and saw him and Ahe being killed by Yaohu."

"What did you say?" Fire Fox thought he had heard it wrong, "Say it again!"

"I saw Yaohu kill the mountain mouse and the river." The black badger finished speaking in one breath, looked at the fire fox nervously, and lowered his head again.

"It's been so many days, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Fire Fox punched him angrily.

Black Badger took advantage of the situation and sat down on the ground with his head down, silent.

"Yaohu, how dare you kill Mountain Mouse and Ahe! Did you kill Dawu too? Yaohu, I shouldn't have let you go!"

Huoli lost three confidantes in a row, waved his fists and roared loudly in anger, wishing he could find Yaohu and kill him immediately.

After venting his anger with a roar, he took a few deep breaths and began to think: Yaohu and the others cannot be left alone, and he has to hunt farther and find them.If they don't find it in spring, they will wait for summer. They always go to Qiushan to exchange for magic medicine and salt, and then they will settle accounts with Yaohu.

The fire fox made up his mind, looked at the black badger and shouted: "Get up, take your weapon and take me to hunt in the direction Yaohu and the others went, and find them by the way."

"Yes, yes..." Black Badger got up and nodded, turned and ran out.

The black badger took the fire raccoon to the forest where Yaohu killed the mountain mouse and Ahe, and searched around but couldn't even find the bones of the mountain mouse and Ahe.

Fire Fox stared at Black Badger, "Tell me, where are they going?"

Black Badger pointed to the woods ahead, "I didn't dare to look, I just knew they were going that way."

Fire Fox gave him a bitter look, and led the people towards the forest ahead.

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Yao Xiaoqing woke up and learned that Yaohu and Dashi went to check the trap together.

After going out for a while, the golden retriever still didn't come back, maybe there is no fruit it likes to eat in the forest here!
Seeing Mu Feng carrying a basket on his back and preparing to go hunting, he thought that the bag of salt she brought would be used sparingly, so many people could eat it for at most twenty days.

If there is no salt, you have to eat raw meat and drink animal blood to supplement the salt. Eating raw meat and raw blood is easy to catch germs, so you still have to find salt.

Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly called Mu Feng, "Mu Feng, when you were hunting in the mountains, did you ever see cattle and sheep licking rocks or soil on the cliffs?"

Mu Feng thought for a while, "I didn't pay attention to read it, what's wrong?"

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him, "When you and the pigs were hunting, they saw cattle and sheep licking rocks or soil, remember to bring back the soil or rocks they licked, it may be salt .”

"Really?" Mu Feng stared at her with wide eyes.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and nodded, "Really!"

Mu Feng showed a surprised smile, "Okay, I'll take a good look at it."

Yao Xiaoqing took a bamboo tube and filled it with water, and took a few pieces of compressed biscuits to Mufeng, asking him to distribute them to the pig and the bull.I watched several people leave with stone knives and wooden spears.

Hua came in from the cave, pointed to the earthen pot in the ashes and said to her, "Xiao Qing, can you see if the pot is ready?"

"Let me take a look." Yao Xiaoqing scraped through the ashes, picked out all the earthen pots and lids that had been burnt to earthy brown, tapped them lightly, and made a crisp clang sound, lifted the pot to his ear, and heard There was a "humming" sound inside.

I tried it with the lid on, one of them didn't have any gaps after it was covered, and two of them didn't fit well, but they still worked.

Hua looked at her nervously, "Xiaoqing, is it broken?"

Yao Xiaoqing smiled at her, "Probably not, let's go to the ditch to wash it and fill it with water to try."

"Yes." Hua picked up the two pots and walked towards the ditch.

Yao Xiaoqing went to the side of the ditch with one cover and one cover, washed it, filled it with water, wiped the water outside the jar, and found no signs of water leakage.

Smiling, she said to Hua Hua who looked at her expectantly, "The pot was fired successfully."

Hua Lu hugged the jar excitedly, with a bright smile on her face, "Yes! It's burnt, it's burnt."

The two happily returned to the cave with the earthen pots, and Hua took the two covers to the ditch to clean them.

Yao Xiaoqing thought that when her mother bought a sand pot and went home, she had to cook a pot full of porridge, saying that the sand pot raised with rice juice was not easy to leak. Thinking about it, she scooped a bowl of rice into the pot, Put it on the clay stove and start cooking porridge.

Sitting there, he turned his head and saw the wooden basin and barrel in the corner, and happily walked over.

But in one night, Yaohu took the mountain and the boulder and dug out three wooden basins and two buckets.

The wooden basin and wooden barrel have been carefully polished, and there is no burr to the touch, and there are faint reddish-brown stripes on the wood, which looks very natural and simple, and smells a faint fragrance.

I lifted the wooden barrel, but it wasn't very heavy. I don't know what kind of wood they chose?Thinking about what to use to drill two holes in it, and tie a rope to lift the water.

The size of the wooden basin is about the same as that of a commonly used washbasin, and it is a bit heavy to hold.

Yao Xiaoqing thought to herself: Now I can boil water and wash my hair.

Hua shouted in surprise from outside, "Xiao Qing, the leader has caught a wild boar."

Yao Xiaoqing ran out in a hurry, and saw Uncle Chong and Uncle Shui climbing up carrying a wild boar, they laughed so hard that they couldn't close their mouths.

"Uncle Chong, my father hasn't come back?"

The two laughed out of breath: "The leader and the others went shooting wild ducks."

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the wild boar and couldn't help but be very happy, "Wow! Now we can barbecue again. It would be great if we could catch a wild boar every day."

The two put down the wild boar that had been stabbed with several blood holes. Uncle Zong laughed and said, "How can such a good thing happen! I don't know if I catch it this time or next time."

Yao Xiaoqing thought: It won't work there, you can dig a trap in another place!
The two put down the wild boar, picked up the stone knife and started peeling the wild boar without resting.

Hua smiled and said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Xiaoqing, I'm going to dig the soil, make a big jar, put jerky and lard in it."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded with a smile, "Okay, make a big jar."

Hua went digging the clay with great interest.

Yao Xiaoqing stirred the porridge in the jar a few times, so that the rice soup covered the entire jar, covered the lid and boiled for a while.

Weaved a straw mat to put it on the handle of the jar, poured the porridge into the other two jars one by one, boiled it for a while and put it aside to dry.

He took out an iron pot and boiled a dozen duck eggs, and ate them with plain porridge.

After cleaning the earthen jar, he returned with the jar, cut the fat meat, suet, and flower oil into small pieces, put them into the jar as big as a small clay pot, and poured two bowls of water into it to start refining the oil.

Then blanch the fatty intestines and pork belly twice, clean them, cut them up and put them in a jar. I thought I had time to look for them, if there was any wild garlic, wild onion, wild ginger or something.

Boil the fat sausage to dry out the water and boil out the oil, pour the remaining barbecue powder into the jar and stir fry, add salt and water, cover the lid and simmer.There is also a pot of stewed big bone pork lung soup.

(End of this chapter)