Chapter 735 [734] Farming in the Beast World 44 (2 more)

The addition of the Tengshan tribe has made the Nandi tribe even more lively. Although it is a bit exaggerated to say that everything is ready for improvement, it has to be said that they still have a lot to prepare for. When there is a serious shortage of firewood, they have to take risks during the day.

But fortunately, the females, cubs, and old people are all safely located, so that they can go to work without any worries.

Tangtang and her family still have to do whatever they need to do. Lily usually takes them out to play. Although the weather is cold, the nature of the children is the same regardless of whether they are beasts or humanoids. It just so happens that without them making trouble, Tangtang can focus more on doing things at home.

gourmet food.

Today she plans to make some smoked bacon and sausages in the yard. There is so much meat. Although it is delicious simply fried or braised, it is far less fragrant than this unique flavor. She also makes it during the rainy season.

There is even some leftover air-dried bacon, but she likes diversified styles and multiple choices to eat more abundantly.

The orcs are very curious about this method, but the production process cannot be completed in one or two days.

The fresh meat is marinated with Sichuan peppercorns, dried chili peppers, and cooking wine (home-brewed), and then smoked over a low fire with fragrant cypress branches.

After the bacon is steamed, it is mellow and fragrant, fat but not greasy, thin but not stiff, and has an endless aftertaste in the mouth.

So the first step she had to do was to marinate the meat, and the longer it marinated, the more flavorful it would be. So today, her and the orcs' task was to coat the cleaned bacon with salt, seasoning, knead and marinate it.

After marinating, put it in the house and let it absorb on its own. Turn it over every day for about seven or eight days, and then hang the meat with a rope.

The stove in their house is suitable for hanging. It is cool and ventilated, and they also boil some hot water from time to time, so they can take the opportunity to smoke first.

Because the weather in the Beast World is relatively cold, there is no need to worry about it breaking. After about ten days, when the surface is dry and the inside is soft, you can move it to a specially made grill outside, hang it up, and use a small fire underneath.

Smoke it slowly, seal it around, smoke it once a day, usually two or three times. If you feel that the smell is not strong enough, you can smoke it a few more times. After smoking, the surface of the bacon turns brown. Find a cool place to hang it.

Just get up and eat as you go.

This kind of smoked meat stir-fried with chili is very satisfying. She only made it once, and they started to want to eat it a second time. They are really a group of foodies.

It's hard for her, a cook, to think of ways to cook delicious food for them every day.

That day, she was walking in the tribe and saw the orcs dragging back the chopped trees. A dark fruit rolled down from one of the trees. She just lifted it with her feet and it cracked.

Open it and pop out the white pulp inside.

She didn't pay much attention at first, and continued to take two steps forward. Then she suddenly stopped and looked back suddenly, and her pupils shrank instantly.

She took three steps at a time and ran over to pick it up. When she took a look, her mind exploded. She almost asked Yin Ye in a trembling voice.

"What kind of fruit is this? It's the tree just now. Go and confirm where they cut it."

Yinye took it casually, took a look, put it up to his nose and smelled it, then handed it to Tangtang with a frown.

"You don't need to ask about this. I know that this fruit is particularly smelly during the rainy season. It becomes even more smelly when it turns black in winter. It's called a smelly fruit. No one usually touches it. What's wrong?"

Smelly fruit?

She took it to her nose and sniffed it, and the pungent smell almost overwhelmed her. However, as she pulled out the pulp from the fruit, the soft and soft touch told her layer by layer that this was cotton.

Ah, but the smell is so bad, even if it’s cotton, you can’t stand it when you wear it, right?

Tangtang hurriedly turned around and told Yin Ye: "You go pick up these smelly fruits, the more the better. I'll try it when I go home and see how I can wash away the smell."

Tangtang went home with two smelly fruits, took out the damp cotton balls inside, put some of them into the water, and kneaded them gently.

After a while, she took it out, shook it in the palm of her hand, put it between her nose and sniffed it, and her eyes lit up.

"It seems that the smell is not so strong, but this cotton cannot be washed. It will lose its shape after washing,"

But looking at the cotton in my hand, it seems that its shape has not changed after washing. It is just as elastic as the silk floss in the previous life.

The second time, she directly threw a large ball into the basin and kneaded it. During the process, she observed their shape and found that they were indeed not deformed.

Tangtang became excited immediately. After changing three basins of water in succession, the smell was reduced a lot. Then she tried using plant ash water and salt water and conducted experiments respectively. Finally, she found that the effect of washing with salt water and plant ash was better than that of clean water.

, although the smell cannot be completely eliminated, if you wash it more often, the smell can still be removed.

And after washing, she put it on the kang to dry, and the soft touch was no different from cotton. In other words, this is washable cotton?

Tangtang's hands were shaking with excitement. The orcs who had just received the order to collect the smelly fruits came back with two carts full of them.

Tangtang ran out, "Are there any more? Are there any more outside?"

As soon as Yin Ye saw her expression, he knew what use the smelly fruit might have and said quickly.

"There are quite a lot, but some fell into the snow nest and are difficult to find. But the skin of these things is very hard. When the snow melts, we can collect a lot."

If one fruit can yield half a kilogram of cotton, then the two carts combined can produce almost fifty or sixty kilograms of cotton.

But there are many people in the family, and this amount is not enough. She wants quilts and cotton clothes. Moreover, she also wants to weave cloth. She has developed a loom. How can she pass the long cold season without weaving cloth?

"Then you work harder and continue to search for it tomorrow. Let me tell you, this thing is very useful. I didn't know it before. By the way, you said this fruit is available in summer? What's in it?"

"Just the fruit, it's because it's dried in the sun, has no moisture, and has become fibrous,"

fiber?

Tangtang carefully observed the pulp wrapped in cotton and found that the outer shell was indeed hard, but if it was hit with a stone, there would be a layer of powdered inner membrane on the surface, but there was a layer of particularly fine fibers inside. Seeing this layer of fibers, her eyes

Just swipe it and it will light up.

So in the next few days, they divided the work and cooperated. Lang Sen was responsible for cracking the skin of the smelly fruit, Tangtang dug out the cotton, Yinye and Jin Kan were responsible for separating the skin of the smelly fruit from the pulp inside, and then threw the skin aside and went back to dry it.

It is dried for fuel, and the pulp is also taken to an empty place in an empty room for natural drying.

The cotton taken out is hung on a bamboo pole and left to dry.

This work is very complicated, and at least two of the orcs have to go out to find these fruits every day. The weather is so cold and the ground is so slippery. It is hard work, but Tangtang told them that all the hard work will be rewarded and asked them to go quickly.

alley.

Cart after cart of stinky fruit was brought home. The tribesmen were curious and asked what they were doing. Tangtang replied: "For making fire."

Because it hasn't been studied yet, and the skin of the smelly fruit can indeed be used as fuel, she is not lying.

As more and more things piled up, Tangtang could only throw the unused ones into the basement first, while cleaning and drying the ones above.

It wasn't until hundreds of kilograms of cotton were washed and dried that she felt she was almost dead from exhaustion. She had been busy without stopping for twenty days.

Not only her, the orcs are also pretty bad.

But her work is not over yet, because these cottons are not as flat as the cotton in the previous life, but will bounce up. So after repeated experiments, she determined that after drying, she needed to bounce the cotton, gather the cotton together, and use

That kind of slingshot is used to play cotton, and beat it while playing it until it fuses together and becomes inelastic.

Just by doing this job, the orcs and her waited until the ice and snow melted. In other words, the cold season was over, and there were still two months to go from the cold season to the rainy season. The weather would gradually get warmer in these two months, but the first month was

It was not obvious, but only in the second month did I gradually feel the change in temperature.

Playing cotton every day made their arms and legs very uncomfortable, but in order to put on clothes and lay something made of cotton in the morning, she gritted her teeth and urged them to do it.

The cotton is considered qualified when it has no elasticity, is fluffy, and feels so soft that it makes you squint your eyes.

Then tear it into A4 paper size, roll it into cotton slivers with a stick, and then put the cotton slivers on the spinning wheel to spin the thread.

The principle of spinning a good online loom was told by Liangtian as an exception. The spinning wheel and the loom were all made by Liangtian. Otherwise, it would be impossible for her, an inexperienced time traveler, to complete it.

Task.

After that, under her groping, the cotton thread began to turn into cloth. Although the cloth was not white enough (washed with plant ash) and had not been dyed, the weaving was white or gray, but Tangtang watched as she made it purely by hand.

When the cloth came out and was shaped, I was so moved that I shed tears.

The length of the cloth is determined by the width of the loom. If it is not wide enough, just sew the two pieces of cloth together. If there is no iron needle at this time, you can only use a stone-ground needle or a wood-ground needle.

It's relatively large, but this is the best effect in this environment.

Tangtang spent more than half a month knitting the first bed sheet in the family, as well as a face cloth for each person.

If you want to make clothes, you have to wait for the flowers to bloom and collect flowers for dyeing. Only then can you make beautiful cloth and clothes.

Looking at the fruits of my labor throughout the cold season, I was filled with emotion and felt that the wisdom of the ancients was infinitely great and it was not easy.

Because of the work during this period, Tangtang's arms were swollen, so Tangtang rested for a week. A week later, she started spinning again. This time, she planned to make some small clothes such as underwear. The orcs didn't need sheets or quilts.

Yes, so there is no need to rush to do it for them. Just follow her and the little female first.
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