Primitive beast world farming and raising cubs

Chapter 5 Salt and Fruit

The families of these female orcs are relatively wealthy, and there are male orcs who can hunt in the family, and the meat of animals is not bad.

They also want to exchange some of this kind of fresh snacks for their relatives at home to try. Of course, they also like the taste of melon seeds. In this era of scarce condiments, melon seeds can be regarded as a delicacy.

"Xiao Jing, do you want to change this snack? It tastes so good, my cub likes it!"

"Xiao Jing, I also want to exchange some for my mother to try!"

"Can animal meat be exchanged for this melon seed? Xiaojing?"

The female orcs asked if there were any more melon seeds, and they were willing to exchange them with Yuan Jing.

Yuan Jing was also not polite, and expressed her willingness to exchange with them. After all, she, an old, weak, sick and disabled person who relies on family support, is indeed not rich.

Yuan Jing said: "Well, well, sisters, it's a change, a change. It's an exchange of melon seeds!"

At the same time, I told everyone that she needs animal meat and salted fruit. If you want to exchange them, you can go to her stone house to exchange them with her.

She also explained that the amount of melon seeds she prepared is relatively small, and one person can exchange the amount of a stone bowl.The volume of the stone bowl is about the same as the volume of a catty in the previous life.

The reason why each person can only exchange a small amount of melon seeds is that Yuan Jing wants more orcs to experience the joy of eating melons.

Only when more orcs experience the fun of eating melons can Yuan Jing get more customers, so that Yuan Jing no longer has to worry about supplies for the winter.

Animal meat and salted fruit are the two materials Yuan Jing needs most at present, and animal meat is Yuan Jing's main food.

Salt fruit is equivalent to table salt, and table salt is an important nutrient that needs to be ingested every day to maintain physical fitness.

In addition, she is now pregnant with cubs, so she needs to supplement more nutrition, and it is not enough to rely on the subsistence allowance animal meat from the clan.

So at present, the materials Yuan Jing most hopes to exchange are animal meat and salted fruit.

Hearing that the orcs expressed their willingness to exchange animal meat and salted fruit for melon seeds, Yuan Jing felt that today's goal was basically achieved.

Yuan Jing didn't stay in the square any longer.After greeting everyone, he went back to his stone house.

Seeing Yuan Jing leave from the square, other female orcs also left from the square one after another.

After returning to the stone house, Yuan Jing packed two bags of sunflower seeds weighing five catties.She took a bag and gave it to Huhua's family.

"Hua, this is a new snack I made, I'll give you a taste." Yuan Jing smiled and handed a bag of melon seeds to Hu Hua.

"Oh, Xiao Jing, you took too many melon seeds, you should keep them for animal meat. I don't want it!" Hu Hua evaded, "I really don't want it. I just taste the melon seeds."

In the end, Huhua accepted the melon seeds, and at the end, he even took 60 catties of his own animal meat and gave it to Yuan Jing. Yuan Jing saw that she couldn't refuse, so she accepted it.

The Huhua family has helped her a lot, and she is grateful to the Huhua family from the bottom of her heart.

I wanted to send them some melon seeds, but they didn't expect them to send her back animal meat.

Yuan Jing could only sigh that the orcs here are so friendly.There is no end to human affection.

She took the other bag and gave it to the patriarch's family. The patriarch's family also took good care of her, so she naturally had to learn to be grateful.

Hu Fei'er was at the patriarch's house.

"Sister Jing. You can save this melon seed for animal meat. It's really unnecessary." Hu Fei'er also politely refused.

Unable to resist Yuan Jing, it took Hu Feier a long time to accept the melon seeds.They sent Yuan Jing some wild fruits back.

After delivering two waves of melon seeds, Yuan Jing was too tired.

And Yuan Jing didn't expect that everyone would know about melon seeds in exchange for animal meat so quickly.

The speed of message delivery is off the charts!
When Yuan Jing returned to the stone house, there were already two female orcs standing at the door.They came to exchange melon seeds.

Yuan Jing quickly greeted the two female orcs: "Sisters, don't stand still, come here and sit on the stone bench.".

Seeing that the two orcs brought a basket of salted fruits to exchange for melon seeds, Yuan Jing immediately went into the room with great interest and scooped out two bowls full of melon seeds.

The two orcs didn't hold back, and immediately left after changing the melon seeds.It will be lunch time soon, and they are all rushing back to have lunch.

One after another, female orcs came to exchange melon seeds, and Yuan Jing didn't stop until all the melon seeds were exchanged.

Looking at the more than a dozen baskets of salted fruits and three hundred catties of animal meat in exchange for the storage room, Yuan Jing was very happy.

Needless to say, animal meat is a must-have staple food, not one of them.

Salt is the currency coin here.As long as you get enough salt yourself, the possibility of getting rare and exotic meat is even greater.

In the Divine Beast Continent, only the merman orcs far away from the sea master the salt-making technology, and salt is basically monopolized by the merman orcs.

The orcs need to add a certain amount of salt every day to meet the body's demand for salt, so the price of salt is very high.

The salt fruit trees growing in the dark forest are widely distributed, so the salt fruit is relatively easy to obtain, and the yield of the nearby salt fruit is also high. The salt fruit bears fruit once a year, and the fruiting period is about 20 days.

The preservation time of salted fruit is not long, and if it is not handled for a week after picking it, it will start to rot.

Since there is no method of extracting salt from salt fruit, the salt fruit in the dark forest has a edible period of nearly 30 days.

During the eleven months before and after the salt fruit eating period, the orcs still had to supplement their body's salt with salt or the blood of animals.

Because there are salt fruit trees growing in the dark forest, the amount of salt that the tiger tribe needs to exchange with the merman tribe orcs every year is much less.

Therefore, the Tiger Clan saves more animal skins every year, and the orcs of the Tiger Clan live a better life.

After Yuan Jing confirmed that no one came to her side, she started to make salt.

She doesn't want to be watched in the process of making salt, at least not now.

Because she is really poor now, if she doesn't find a way to get enough supplies, she and the cub in her belly may have to drink the northwest wind.

If her life is guaranteed in the future, she will consider telling the orcs here how to make salt.

Yuan Jing first built a small fire in the storage room on the left, and then put the salted fruit on the fire to dry. While roasting the salted fruit, she boiled hot water in a stone pot beside the fire.

After taking down the first batch of dried salted fruits, Yuan Jing put the second batch of salted fruits on the fire to dry.

The dried salted fruit was crushed by Yuan Jing in a stone basin to obtain dried salted fruit powder; Yuan Jing then dissolved the dried salted fruit powder in hot water to make coarse salt solution.

In the gap where the dried salted fruit powder dissolves, Yuan Jing makes a filter with a stone basin with a wide top and a narrow bottom. The filter is also easy to make.

First make a hole in the bottom of the stone basin. The cheap orc husband has the tools for drilling these holes. In addition, Yuan Jing has now become a female orc with great strength.In less than 3 minutes, a hole was chiseled at the bottom of the stone basin.

Yuan Jing spread three layers of permeable animal skins at the opening of the stone basin.I picked up a lot of black charcoal at the stove mouth of the kitchen, and spread a thick layer of black charcoal on the bottom of the stone basin.

Finally, two layers of permeable animal skins are laid on the black charcoal to make a simple filter.

Looking at the newly made filter, Yuan Jing felt a sense of accomplishment!
She couldn't help but said: "Cubs, am I good? What can I really do!"

Pour the coarse salt solution obtained by dissolving the dried salt fruit powder into a filter and filter to obtain a clear and colorless transparent salt solution.

Finally, the transparent brine solution is boiled dry to obtain snow-white and delicate table salt.

The salt that Yuan Jing made herself was much higher in quality than the salt that his orc husband bought cheaply.

Yuan Jing, who has become a strange orc young woman, is really strong physically.

With a big belly, he turned more than a dozen baskets of salted fruits into fine salt in half a day, and the salt he got was nearly a hundred catties.

It is roughly estimated that the salt content of salt fruit is more than 90%, and it is also because of the high salt content that Yuan Jing can make fine salt so fast.

It stands to reason that salted fruit with such a high salt content should be easy to store and not perishable, but the salted fruit here is extremely perishable.

But even Yuan Jing's transmigrating to this place will happen, and it is not uncommon for salt fruit to perish easily.No longer delve into the problem of salt fruit rot.

(End of this chapter)