primitive survival evolution

Chapter 87 Weights and Measures

In a lush forest, a clearing that has been reclaimed by people, a small river nearly five meters wide slowly passes through the middle.

Several greenhouses and mud huts have been built here.

There was a big pit not far away, and three men and women were digging clay in the pit.

They sent the excavated pottery clay to a large shed by the river, where artificial pottery embryos were placed. Behind the potters, there were many pottery being dried in the shade.

On the left side of the open space, there are two kilns made of bricks, one of which is slowly emitting black smoke, and the other is open, and people are moving out pieces of pottery from inside.

Li Yan was squatting in a large shed in the middle of the open space. He was fiddling with various tools, including wooden scales, wooden scales, straight wooden rulers and ropes with engraved numbers, several cylindrical pottery weights of different sizes, and Pottery measuring cup.

He had been working on these weights and measures for nearly a week.

"A human step is about 75 centimeters."

"Two catties is about one liter."

Holding a wooden ruler, a balance, and a wooden scale, he was calculating and modifying the data of the weighing and measuring tools.

After a while.

He breathed a sigh of relief: "Now I can't get the exact weight and length units, so I can only estimate by myself. This should be almost the same. The tribe will use this set of measurements in the future."

"This is the unit of length, meter, decimeter, centimeter."

"This is a unit of weight, ten grams, one hundred grams, and kilograms, of which five hundred grams is one catty."

"This is milliliters, liters."

"In the future, you will use these tools to make or mix pottery, stone tools, feed, medicine, and even food distribution and irrigation and fertilization."

"Do you understand?"

Li Yan is teaching more than a dozen men and women to use these measuring tools.

The tribal people always used experience to make items before, and the things they made were not consistent at all, and even encountered a lot of trouble in imparting knowledge, so Li Yan decided to unify the tribal weights and measures.

These more than a dozen men and women helped Li Yan make these weights and measures a few days ago, and now they also know the benefits of these tools, but they are not yet proficient in using them.

Li Yan taught them patiently.

On the second day, Li Yan had no time to teach them. What the tribe lacks most now is money.

Although the tribe's pottery already has a certain market, they can only use differentiated competition to earn some soup by following the Tao Tang tribe, a big pottery clan.

Now, he desperately needs a unique product that will serve as a stable financial source for the tribe.

This is the place where oil is pressed. Mud houses, stoves and other facilities have been built here. Two women and a mammoth press oil here every day.

Olive oil is very fragrant, and now tribal people add some oil to cook every time they cook. Food with oil and water can make people less hungry and increase the physique of the tribe.

However, this kind of bland oil is difficult to sell to other tribes at a high price.

In order to solve this problem, Li Yan brought three women here, and used the stone mortar to grind the peppers they bought into fine pieces.

People in this era only have three cooking methods: boiling, steaming, and roasting, and there are not many condiments. Even if there is chili, it is cooked in one pot. There is no oil, and the taste of the cooked food can only be regarded as mediocre.

After Li Yan crushed it for a while, a woman walked up to him and said, "Patriarch, the oil is ready."

"Is it ready?"

Li Yan took a clay pot full of crushed peppers and followed her to a stove.

A pottery pot with a diameter of forty centimeters was placed on top of the stove, and half a pot of olive oil was boiled in it.

At this time, the oil temperature inside has dropped a lot.

Li Yan poured the chopped chili into it, and immediately, there was a "squeak" sound in the pot. The chopped chili was fried in hot oil, and immediately released a lot of spicy aroma, which was several times more fragrant than dried chili.

After it stabilizes, add some salt to it, and a pot of chili sauce is ready.

Li Yan tasted it quickly and was very satisfied. This chili sauce has a strong aroma, spicy and salty, and it tastes very exciting.

Now I have four baskets of peppers, I weighed them just now, they weigh about one hundred catties, and they are worth ten shellfish coins.

When eating at noon, Li Yan took out these chili sauces for everyone to taste.

Today the hunting team caught a deer and had venison stew for lunch.

Stewed venison is to cook the meat in a pot, add some salt if possible, and add some vegetables if you are more particular. The taste can be imagined.

Dozens of people ate together, and Li Yan ordered people to distribute the chili sauce to everyone.

They dipped the meat into some hot sauce and ate it. Immediately, everyone’s eyes lit up. This food is so fragrant. Eating it with this food can not only cover up the smell of the meat itself, but also have a kind of smell. Stimulate the sensation of the taste buds.

"good to eat!"

Everyone came to this conclusion, their appetites soared, they ate all the food for lunch, and they still couldn't get enough.

Mu was also very satisfied with the hot sauce, but after she finished eating, she said, "Yan, take the hot sauce and send it to the Wenjia tribe in two days."

"Send it? Sell it to them?" Li Yan asked repeatedly.

Mu shook his head and said, "No, it's for them to eat."

"Why? This is something from our tribe, but it was bought for ten Bei coins." Li Yan said reluctantly.

Mu was silent, looked at the people next to him, and said, "Tama, you will send some hot sauce to the Wenjia tribe in two days."

"Yes." Tamar nodded without hesitation.

"Mm, during the autumn meeting, the Wenjia tribe didn't come to our tribe. If the Lianshan tribe didn't come to help, we wouldn't be able to go there. If we want to send it, it should also be given to the Lianshan tribe? But why should we give it to the Wenjia tribe? Tribe?" Li Yan asked puzzled.

Mu was silent for a moment, and then said: "After giving to the Wenjia tribe, send some to the Yu family, the Wo family, and the Lianshan tribe you mentioned."

"Yu's and Wo's? These two clans are not the same thing!" Li Yan suddenly became angry, "Mum, why did you give it to them? Is it for the purpose of selling it to them in the future?"

Mu shook his head and said, "We are all tribes with the same surname, so we should give them a taste of this delicious food."

"Okay, I'd better go with them." Li Yan said helplessly.

after eating.

Li Yan came to the oil-pressing workshop, and he arranged for three women to make chili sauce here, and two more women were in charge of oil-pressing.

Afterwards, he worked with his tribe in the pottery workshop to make a small pottery pot that can hold a pound of chili sauce. The ginger character totem in the middle is the most conspicuous, and it also looks of a certain level.

He decided on this hot sauce as the tribe's flagship product.

A few days later, he and his people took the hot sauce to the Wenjia tribe again.

(End of this chapter)