wild trail

Chapter 18 The Power of Salt ([-])

Wang Lang is not that concerned about whether he is dignified or not in the tribe. There are only a dozen people in the tribe today, most of them are women and children, and these people are all related by blood. Many of them are half-brothers Brother, everyone only knows their mother but not their father.

Wang Lang felt that this might be the so-called matrilineal clan society. For a society where women only knew their mothers but not their fathers, why was the leader a man? Men are strong, and men are often dominant in obtaining food. Men lead the tribe to survive, and women only ensure that the tribe can reproduce.

All civilizations in the history of the world are men superior to women. Even in modern society after the women’s liberation movement, the idea of ​​men superior to women is still deeply rooted. There is a saying that women hold up half the sky, but some machismo Wang Lang scoffs at this statement.

Moreover, in the world before Wang Lang, due to the invasion of Western culture, women became more and more open, and a joke spread among the people expressed people's helplessness in the era of the collapse of ritual and music. Men want to be tall, women want to be thin, and dogs wear The clothes are naked.

Although now, including Wang Lang, everyone is running around the world with bare buttocks. He used to have no conditions to do things other than survival, but now the tribe has a fairly safe place to live, and the advancement of tools has made it easier for people to obtain food. It became easier and easier, and some moral concepts emerged in Wang Lang's mind. Now he can weave simple cloth, and the days of streaking will soon be history.

What Wang Lang wants to establish is a patriarchal society. According to his three views, men can have three wives and four concubines to increase the population. If women are free to mate, it will not be beneficial to the tribe. Let alone the issue of reproduction, Wang Lang is also moral hard to accept.

He was thinking wildly here, while everyone had already packed up the ingredients over there. A group of people gathered around the four fires, staring straight at the lumps of meat rolling in the clay pots, and the quilts on the fire. The grilled meat skewers crackled with fat, and everyone couldn't help swallowing hard.

Jian Ya and the others were scratching their ears and cheeks beside the fire with salt, not knowing what to do. Under the constant urging of the people, they felt very irritable. They looked in Wang Lang's direction and saw Wang Lang sitting there in a daze, holding the salt jar When he came to Wang Lang, he scratched his head and said, "Lang, we don't know how much we need to store this thing, so you have to come."

Wang Lang nodded, took the pot and came to the crowd. When people saw Wang Lang coming, they all hoped that Wang Lang would put the salt in quickly and eat the delicious food just now.

Wang Lang pinched a little salt and sprinkled it into the clay pot, stirred it with a wooden stick, then took a clay bowl to taste the soup, then took out some salt and sprinkled it in, tasted it again, and ordered it with satisfaction nod.

People's eyes moved with Wang Lang's movements. If they stood aside and looked at these people, they would definitely find it very funny.

"Lang, how is it?" People couldn't help asking.

"The taste is not bad. When adding salt, add a little bit. It is better to add less than more. Taste every little bit. Fire, you come and taste the taste, and you can get the meat from the other pots." Wang Lang As he spoke, he handed over the salt shaker to the fire standing beside him.

Huo excitedly took the salt shaker, scooped out some soup from a ceramic bowl, tasted it, his eyes were full of intoxication.

The onlookers, seeing him dawdling and looking like he needed a beating, were very upset, wishing to grab the salt and try it themselves, and urged Huo to hurry up.

Huo didn't expect that he almost committed the wrath of the public, and he didn't dare to delay any longer. Following Wang Lang's example, he squeezed out a little salt carefully, put it into the broth, stirred it with a stick, scooped out a little soup with a clay bowl, and tasted it. , It seems that the taste is not right, so I squeezed some more. I wanted to put the fire a little bit, but was suddenly urged by people, and I shook my hand and put all the salt in my hand.

Wang Lang subconsciously covered his eyes with his hands, this scene was really unbearable to look at directly, he put so much salt in it at once, it is estimated that one bite of this meat would kill him.

Huo turned around and wanted to ask Wang Lang if it was too much, but seeing Wang Lang's constipated expression, he knew he had messed up, so he bit the bullet and took a sip of the soup, his face turned red instantly.

"Pfft!", all the soup he drank was sprayed out.

"Water, water."

Huo threw down the salt jar, and under people's suspicious eyes and Wang Lang's laughter, he ran to the water jar and drank a few bowls of water like a cow, and the thirst and strange feeling in his mouth improved a lot.

"I thought I was going to die just now!" Huo said with lingering fear.

Wang Lang couldn't help laughing and said: "It's not that serious, it's just the result of putting too much salt, this jar of meat can't continue to cook, just pour out the water, add some more water and cook."

Huo remembered the lesson just now, and planned not to mess up again this time. He was about to continue to add salt to other jars, but was pushed away. He turned his head and saw Jianya looking at Own.

"What are you doing, Jianya!"

Jian Ya's rude behavior angered Huo, and he glared at Jian Ya with his eyes wide open.

"I'll just do the next one. You have wasted so much salt. Go and clean up that clay pot just now. If you follow the previous rules, if you waste such an important thing, you won't have food for a day." Ya's eyes met Huo's sharp eyes, and he didn't back down at all.

Although Huo was annoyed, he also knew that what Jianya said was true. In the past, people in the tribe often starved to death. The difficult living environment and lack of food made them understand the preciousness of living resources. Giving food is already a very light punishment, Huo subconsciously turned his attention to Wang Lang.

Wang Lang didn't expect things to develop into this situation. Originally, he thought that this was to let people understand the usefulness of salt more objectively. Originally, an unexpected episode made the atmosphere a little weird, and Wang Lang felt very helpless.

"Huo, just do what Jian Ya wants, and other punishments will be avoided, but you must not be careless in doing things in the future, let this time be a lesson!"

Huo beat his chest with his fist, expressing his importance to Wang Lang's words with the most solemn gesture of a tribal warrior.

Jian Ya made a promise when he saw Huo, and patted Huo on the shoulder with satisfaction.

Although a moderate conflict was resolved, Wang Lang always felt an indescribable feeling, which made him a little irritable.

(End of this chapter)