Traveling through ancient times: The rough man’s husband wants to post stickers

Chapter 14 It doesn’t matter whether he likes it or not
Qin Yao didn't care. Maybe he closed it last night but didn't remember it.

After a good night's sleep, she started to wash up when she got up. Chu Cheng helped her fill the water the day before and made a stone jar that could be used to hold daily water, but she would have to go out to fetch water by herself in the future.

It's hard work.

If you could drill a well underground, it would be much more convenient for daily water use and bathing.

Qin Yao secretly wrote down this matter, as there were more important things in front of her.

I brought back a lot of pine cones before, but they haven’t been processed yet.

These pine cones fell to the ground after they were fully mature, which meant that there were pine nuts inside. Peeling off the hard outer part of the pine cones, Qin Yao could see the pine nuts hidden inside.

She was instantly happy.

This thing has high nutritional value and is crispy when fried. Not only that, pine nuts can also be pressed for oil to make pine nut oil.

This is definitely a good thing.

Qin Yao spent the whole morning peeling pine nuts, and it wasn't until noon that she heard Chu Cheng's voice outside.

"You came just in time. These are the things I said I wanted to give you yesterday."

Qin Yao pushed the pine nuts in front of Chu Cheng. Chu Cheng picked them up and took a look, with a puzzled look on his face, "What's the use of this thing?"

"This thing is called a pine nut. It is peeled out of the pine cone. It is edible and tastes very good!"

After saying that, Qin Yao bit open a pine nut with her mouth to reveal the fruit inside, put it in her mouth and ate it.

Chu Cheng had seen pine cones before, and he had also seen squirrels eating pine cones, but he didn't know that there were fruits inside. He thought pine cones were just fruits.

"Is this really edible?"

Chu Cheng was still a little skeptical, "If you feel uncomfortable in any way, you must tell me!"

Qin Yao smiled, "It's okay, just take one and see."

Chu Cheng put the pine nuts into his mouth as she did just now, peeled the shells, and ate the fruit inside, frowning.

"This...this doesn't taste very good."

"Not used to it?"

Chu Cheng nodded.

"Could it be because it hasn't been fired before?"

Chu Cheng is not like her. The food in this world is very monotonous, so some things she thinks are delicious, he may not necessarily.

Qin Yao looked gloomy and didn't press any further. She just asked Chu Cheng to take back the pine cones made into decorations to decorate the cave.

Chu Cheng glanced at Qin Yao, "Have you had lunch?"

Qin Yao had been looking at these pine nuts as soon as she woke up, and then she remembered that she hadn't eaten.

"I just caught an ibex this morning and we can use it for barbecue later."

Chu Cheng knew that Qin Yao hadn't eaten. During the past few days with her, he had already figured out her habits. If there was nothing wrong, she would usually sleep until noon.

He consciously lit a fire for Qin Yao and put the prepared wild goat on it to roast.

"You just said that pine nuts can still be fried. Can we use a stone pot?"

"But didn't you say you don't like eating?"

Chu Cheng smiled and said, "Maybe it will taste better after being fried?"

It doesn't matter whether he likes her or not, what's important is that he doesn't want to see her depressed.

"I don't know how to do this, you will teach me later."

Chu Cheng moved the stone pot and set it aside. Qin Yao put the pine nuts in and simply stir-fried without adding any seasonings. After a while, a fragrance wafted out.

Chu Cheng admitted that he was attracted by the smell.

There is no need to over-fry pine nuts, otherwise they will burn easily.

It's ready when the color turns slightly yellower.Chu Cheng picked up one, peeled it open, and put the core inside into his mouth. He immediately felt that it was much more delicious than the raw one before, and there was no bitter taste.

"Right, right, I'll just say it's delicious!"

Qin Yao wrapped the remaining pine nuts in animal skins, "Take these back!"

She had to show off for eating his wild goat.

Chu Cheng didn't want to accept it, but couldn't stand Qin Yao's angry face, so he had to accept the pine nuts.

The two were just about to eat the wild goat when they heard a sound like a horn, and she immediately looked towards Chu Cheng.

"What happened?"

"We have to go to the chief's house now."

Qin Yao didn't know why, so she followed Chu Cheng to the chief's house.

On the way, Chu Cheng said that usually only when something big happens, the chief will blow the horn to gather everyone.

I just don’t understand what’s going on this time.

On the way to the chief's house, Qin Yao saw many people from the tribe, and their eyes stayed on her from time to time.

Some are malicious, some are amazing, and some are even disgusting and obscene.

Of course Chu Cheng also noticed it, and felt very unhappy. He took Qin Yao's hand and stood in front of her, with a fierce look on his face.

Chu Cheng rarely participated in tribal affairs, so he took Qin Yao and stood behind a group of people.

"What happened to the chief? Why are you calling everyone here in such a hurry?"

"Yes! I'm just getting ready to go hunting! Chief, if you need anything, please tell me quickly. I've been hungry for a long time."

There was an open space in front of the chief's house, and everyone gathered here. He glanced slowly at the crowd, as if he wanted to see who else hadn't come.

Finally, after being urged by those people, he said: "I'm calling everyone here today! In fact, I have a very important thing to tell you, that is, we don't have enough salt in storage..."

Before the chief finished speaking, the people below started talking.

"What? There's no salt left?!"

"What's wrong with this? How can we survive without salt?!"

"Didn't we have some before? Why did they disappear so soon?!"

Everyone was very surprised.

The chief asked everyone to calm down and coughed twice. "Everyone knows that this salt is very rare. We also need to get food to exchange with other tribes. Now we are preparing to winter, and they will not be able to produce so much salt, so we are now There’s no way to get salt.”

"Chief! What should we do?"

"We can't live without salt!"

"That's right! Chief, you should think of a way!"

The chief is also very distressed. His tribe cannot produce salt and has always been controlled by other tribes that can produce salt. As long as others don't want to give it, it's like their lifeline is being strangled.

"Can we give them more food?"

"Situations like this have happened before. Can we give them more food and hides and change careers with them?"

The chief frowned, with an expression of bitterness and hatred.

"I think so too! But they just don't agree!"

He approached them several times about this matter. They talked nicely at first, but when he talked a little deeper, those people became unhappy.

"There is only one way now, and that is for everyone to save money. It is best to survive this winter. When spring comes next year, maybe the situation will be better. I will ask again."

Everyone was obviously dissatisfied with the chief's remarks.

It was only midsummer now, and there was still a long time before winter. No matter how frugally they tried, they would never get to spring.

What's more, the winter here is still very long. What can they do if they don't have salt? !
(End of this chapter)