Travel through the ancient forest system

Chapter 13 Jerky
The hot July has arrived while Wu Yu is waiting, and the milk fruit is about to usher in the ripening period.

Those who went to the trade fair have already returned, and everyone is tired and happy.

Because this year's salt, ceramics and other things have a lot of supply, the price has dropped a lot.

The things in her house were replaced by 30 catties of salt and 6 medium-sized clay pots, 2 more than before.

That day, after Lin Yi finished sorting out her belongings, she couldn't wait to go to Zhao Hong's house with Wu Yu in her arms.

From the conversation between the two, Wu Yu had a clearer understanding of the trade fair.

Zhao Hong and the others arrived at Fengyun Tribe the night before the opening of the trade fair. Fengyun Tribe has a specially established trading place.

Each tribe has its own fixed trading point there, and it is clear at a glance which tribe has not come.

The Fengyun Tribe will provide resting places for the tribes who come to trade, but they will not provide food.

Therefore, each tribe needs to hunt by itself, and [-]% of the prey they get must be given to the Fengyun tribe as their fee for using the Fengyun tribe's hunting area.

Every tribe has no objection to this, because the hunting area is the basis of the tribe's survival, and other tribes cannot easily set foot in it.

It's good to be able to allow them to hunt now, and it's nothing to pay a little fee.

On the opening day of the trade fair, there will also be a blessing activity. All tribes who come to the fair will participate. It is hosted by the witch doctor of the Fengyun tribe, and the general content is similar to that of Grandpa Feng.

Afterwards, the various tribes started trading on their own, and the Fengyun tribe did not interfere.

The trading items are mostly various dried meat and animal skins as mentioned before.

The reason why there is no fresh meat is that it is not convenient to carry, and there is no shortage of these at this time, and because the method of making jerky in each tribe is different, resulting in different taste and storage time.

Jerky is also graded according to storage time.

If the storage time is less than three months, it is classified as low-grade jerky, from three months to six months is middle-grade jerky, and if it is more than six months, it is high-grade jerky.

The longest time known to be preserved is 9 months, which comes from the Fengyun tribe, which is one of the reasons why the tribe has grown.

After all, the longer the preservation time, the more sufficient the food in winter and can feed more people.

When some small tribes lack food in winter and it is really difficult to maintain, they will go to the big tribes, but if it is a last resort, no one wants to abandon the place where they grew up for generations.

Therefore, jerky that can be stored for a longer period of time is more popular, but the price is also more "gratifying".

Each grade of jerky will be given a different price due to its different taste after roasting.

At present, the worst taste is dry and hard, followed by soft but slightly astringent, and the best is soft and slightly sweet.

The jerky from the Chasing Forest tribe belongs to the middle class, and the taste is inferior.

Therefore, every time I just barely survive the winter without anyone starving to death, but I can't do it for the time being if I want to live better and more comfortably.

This is still the result of Wu Hao's improvement since he took office. In the hands of the previous leader, one or two old people would always starve to death after the winter.

Generally speaking, in the first half of the trade fair, the Chasing Forest tribes exchanged for salt and clay pots, and in the second half of the year, they exchanged for high-grade jerky.

However, due to the troublesome production of high-grade jerky, it will only be exchanged after the Fengyun tribe meets its domestic needs, so the Chalin tribe does not exchange much, and they can only taste it.

Most of them are jerky, which are both middle-grade but taste better than tribal.

After Wu Yu understood this, he felt that survival in the ancient times was not easy, and his desire to grow up quickly became more urgent.

(End of this chapter)