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Chapter 72 Salt

Yesterday, after seeing the power of the bow and arrow, Wang Wei convinced his tribe members to the blueprint he drew for the future.

If you follow the method Wang Wei said to build a large walled yard, with the help of bows and arrows, you really don’t have to be afraid of those without surnames.

The preparations have been done during the previous period.

The amount of bamboo is very sufficient.

The next week was sunny. Under Wang Wei's leadership, the tribe members became busy for their new home.

Two bamboos were fixed into the ground, and a straw rope was pulled up in the middle.

The tribe members began to dig up the foundation along the straw rope.

The mud pool next to it is even more busy.

Five or six tribesmen were walking in the mud pond, mixing the long-leaved clover and the wet mud together.

Women are holding saws of bamboo under the sun.

Cuihua and several smart tribe members have accepted the unit of measuring distance by meters.

So when Wang Wei told them how many bamboos of each length needed, they were busy.

In addition to having to saw bamboo, Cuihua also had to take the knotted rice rope to measure the size of the other people's saws every once in a while.

Some women took small knives to the woods to peel the bark.

Even the children were not idle, and they ran around and were responsible for passing the message.

I will be responsible for counting the number of sawed bamboo poles later.

Sometimes, the bamboo piled up outside the village will be dragged over.

My mother is old and can’t do physical work, so she is responsible for boiling water for everyone and making food for everyone.

A handful of grass leaves that can kill insects and remove fishy fish were sprinkled into the fragrant fish soup.

Looking at this scene, Wang Wei felt that this should be regarded as the earliest seasoning.

Looking at Wang Wei who came in, the old woman scooped a little soup with a bamboo spoon and handed it to Wang Wei, "Taste it."

Wang Wei took the bamboo spoon and tasted it, it was tasteless and tasteless.

After thinking about it, he handed a bamboo tube to the old woman and said, "Mother, I saw bamboo on the mountain yesterday. I picked up this and tasted something very delicious. It should be very good to cook some fish."

As he said that, Wang Wei handed the salt over.

The old woman opened the bamboo tube in confusion and frowned at the white salt inside.

He stuffed his fingers into his mouth with a bit of suspicion.

After tasting the smell of salt, the old woman was stunned as if she was struck by lightning, with her eyes distant, as if she had remembered the memories from many years ago.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?" Wang Wei shook his hand in front of the old woman and asked.

The old woman woke up and quickly covered the lid of the bamboo tube.

Then she asked anxiously: "Where did you find this thing? Is there any?"

"It's gone. After finding it, I tasted it and felt good. So I searched nearby again, but there was no more." Wang Wei said.

He was a little confused, and it looked like the old woman knew salt.

However, my memory fragments have never told me that the tribe has had the experience of eating salt.

"Mother, what is this?" Wang Wei asked in conjunction.

The old woman held the bamboo tube and said suspiciously: "This should be salt, but I have never seen such fine salt before. Such white salt is not yellow, it is really strange."

Wang Wei was shocked and then he was delighted again.

The old woman knew salt indeed.

Since she knows salt, it means that there must be salt within a thousand miles of nearby areas.

Whether it is a salt lake, sea water, salt stone, or even brine, Wang Wei has a way to extract salt from it.

Wang Wei continued to ask, "Mother, you know this thing, why have I never seen it before?"

"I also ate this thing when I was a child. At that time, everyone had a piece of it. When they were eating, they licked it. When it was too hot, they would feel full of energy. Later, the tribe disappeared and migrated here, and there would be no salt." The old woman said with emotion.

When Wang Wei heard this, he was immediately delighted.

The ones that are divided into pieces are probably not the salt extracted from water.

It should be rock salt, and it can also be called salt stone.

Since there is rock salt, there are either salt lakes or rock salt layers nearby.

Since my mother has seen this kind of salt, it means that the mining will not be difficult.

After knowing that there was salt nearby, Wang Wei was extremely excited.

The effect of salt is really too great, and it can even be said to be the basis for determining the development of human civilization.

This sentence is not an exaggeration. If people want to develop, they must have a dense population, feed more people through farming methods, and support more people to contribute their strength to social development.

If you say goodbye to hunting and gathering and choose farming, you will eat grains and cereals, and you don’t think the blood of wild animals contains salt.

Without salt, you can't support farming.

If you don’t eat salt for half a month, you can’t stand it.

It is a trivial matter if you don’t have strength on your body. If you don’t have salt, you cannot metabolize it. You will faint when you are sunburned by the sun.

Therefore, with salt, there is a foundation for farming, and the possibility of providing the largest number of people with the smallest land, and the crowd can be gathered together.

Otherwise, humans would never be able to develop such a decentralized hunting method.

Wang Wei wants to make confusing words next and want to know more about salt information.

But unfortunately, the old woman was too young to remember many things when eating salt, so she could not get any information.

On the contrary, the old woman was amazed at this can of salt and didn't understand why this salt is so beautiful.

I can't understand who brought salt to Zhushan, a tribe-wide.

These doubts and curiosity do not affect the old woman's use of salt.

After making many New Year’s Eve dinners, she naturally understood that such fine salt would definitely not be able to be distributed to people for licking.

So he accepted Wang Wei's simplicity and twisted a small handful and sprinkled it into a copper pot with the fish.

Stir for a few times, and after the salt melted, she scooped some soup and tasted it.

Wang Wei swallowed his saliva aside.

He asked with expectant expression in his eyes, "Mother, how about it, is it delicious?"

The old woman tasted it in her mouth for a long time before swallowing the fish soup.

Opening his eyes, he sighed happily, but said nothing, but scooped up another spoonful of soup and handed it to Wang Wei.

Sigh.

Wang Wei drank the soup in one sip and finally tasted the long-lost salty taste.

It's not just the bitter and salty taste of salty grains.

Instead, it is combined with the tender fish soup, which is both warm and fragrant and salty.

Smash it, smash it, mouth, Wang Wei looked at the old woman and said in a trembling voice: "My mother, let's have a meal!"

As Wang Wei wished, the tribe members were called back for dinner.

Wang Wei was filled with a bamboo bowl of fish soup.

He said nothing, but squatted beside the pot and started drinking.

During this period, I would be so hot that I could breathe, but my mouth never stopped.

The tribe members lined up behind were a little funny when they looked at Wang Wei.

Now with fish baskets, traps, bows and arrows, food is no longer as difficult to obtain as before.

They can also have a full meal.

Wang Wei’s performance today is like returning to last winter, when the tribe members were having dinner during the most difficult period.

Some people got fish soup, came opposite Wang Wei, smiled, blew at the soup, and then took a sip.

Go down this one.

The tribe members were stunned for a moment, and an incredible look appeared in their eyes.

Finally, he started drinking quickly, and it looked even more cruel and anxious than Wang Wei.

Many tribe members who did not get fish soup were very curious about what was wrong with everyone today.

Why does it look like it is coming from hungry winter?

And what made them most curious was that when they asked, no one answered their questions.
Chapter completed!
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