Chapter 31: If you want to eat, you have to work(1/2)
If you want to accelerate civilization, it is not enough to develop technology alone. You must have strong armed forces so that you can break through the layers of shackles. Then bows and arrows must be equipped, but Li Qi is not so anxious because it is not very useful to have bows and arrows now. They are just wandering around this acre of three-point land, without a powerful enemy to force them to quickly arm themselves.
Li Qi still hopes to use food to promote Blackstone Valley to the path of development.
After coming out of the hole, Li Qi called out yesterday's original crew and began to prepare the main meal. Judging from the preparation, the dishes were exactly the same as yesterday's, except that there were fewer side dishes. After all, the python only had a set of internal organs.
At the beginning, only a few of them were doing cleaning work, but gradually, more and more people were around.
Man, who had just finished training, came over and sat cross-legged in front of the kitchen table, with his big shiny eyes open and watching them busy.
The adults just stared at them blankly.
Maybe they have too few entertainment activities, and cooking is like watching a movie for them.
With yesterday's experience, today's melting speed is much faster than yesterday. Soon, the first pot of snake soup was released.
The second pot...
The third pot...
It was no different from yesterday. Everyone was intoxicated by eating it. This was definitely the happiest moment in Black Stone Valley.
After eating, I felt comfortable all over and didn't want to move. I lay down on the spot, squinted my eyes, and savored the deliciousness just now.
The farmer who ate at the end, holding a bowl of hot snake soup, suddenly asked Li Qi a question that he didn't quite understand: "Li Qi! Can this be done with this worm meat?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone's ears were erected.
Man and the others came over and looked at Li Qi with a gaze.
Li Qi smiled and said, "Of course not. Growing insect meat can have many different dishes."
The Nong asked again: "It's even better than this?"
“It’s much delicious.”
Li Qi nodded.
Qiaoma, who had been pricking her ears, asked anxiously: "Then why don't you cook better dishes?"
Many people sat up instantly and looked at Li Qi hungrily.
Li Qi sighed and said, "I also want to make something better for you to eat, but...just..."
Nong asked anxiously: "It's just what?"
In addition to being delicious, this kid is also a good support! Li Qi muttered to himself, holding a branch and pointing at the stone pot, and said, "It's just that our Black Stone Valley has fewer cooking tools!"
Lie immediately beat his hands and said, "You said earlier that we can make more stone pots, and we can make them all."
Everyone nodded together, grinding stone tools was like rubbing ropes. It was their special skills, but many of them had a relatively dull mind. If you didn't let them make them, they would rather lie down lazily. But if you could eat more delicious dishes, why not make more.
Li Qi shook his head and said, "This stone pot is not good. I need a better tool."
“What tool?”
Taba came over.
Li Qi digs out a small piece of soil directly from the soil, "It's it."
“It can be cooked even if it is soil.”
"Oh oh oh, I understand, can you make this mud as delicious as meat?"
"Really?"
Everyone was excited when they heard this. If this were the case, they would not need to hunt, and they would never be able to finish the dirt in their lifetime!
The straightforward rumbled a piece of soil into his mouth, savored it carefully, and gave his own answer, "This soil is really not delicious."
Man immediately retorted: "But Li Qi can make the undesirable ones delicious."
Li Qi suddenly burst into cold sweat and said, "This soil is not something to eat, but is used as tools."
Everyone looked at Li Qi blankly, completely unable to understand.
"You guys wait!"
Li Qiren Rong used a stone pot to fill some water, wet the soil, and pinched out a small pot of the same shape as a stone pot, and said, "Then put it on the fire and bake it, and the soil will slowly harden, so that we can use the soil to make any tool we want."
Of course, he wanted to make pottery. As a chef, he didn't want to cook with a hat every day. He urgently needed to enter the pottery era and bid farewell to the heavy stone pot that could only be used for melting.
Taba listened and tapped his head with a dead wooden stick. After a while, he suddenly jumped up, "This...this is such a good idea!"
He said very excitedly: "I want to play too!"
"So this soil is so fun."
"Can you teach us?"
The adults were still in a daze, and the children were already very excited and started to flip back and front flip again.
Nong said excitedly: "You mean, we can do this tool, too."
"right!"
"With this tool, we can eat more delicious food."
"yes."
"What are you waiting for? Teach us how to do it."
At this moment, he was no longer a tutor, he was really excited.
Everyone understands this. As long as you make this tool, you will have something more delicious and you keep nodding.
As expected, eating is the driving force for progress. Li Qi smiled slightly and said, "Since everyone is willing, then I will teach you how to use this soil as a tool now."
"Okay! OK!"
The children were very happy.
Li Qi did not pick up the mud on the spot, but took everyone to a gentler hillside on the left side of the cave entrance.
"What did you bring us here for?" Taba said curiously.
Li Qi said: "Dig the soil."
Taba asked, "There are dirt everywhere, why do you want to dig here?"
Li Qi said: "Because I want to dig a fire pit here to make it specially for fire."
Rong said: "There is a fire pit in front of the cave!"
Li Qi smiled and said, "But that's a little too small, and I have to pray every day, which will be a bit inconvenient. But I will burn it in the fire pit in front of the cave tonight, and I will burn it here in the future."
The others nodded, they could understand this.
Li Qi said again: "Let's dig first, I will explain it to you clearly then."
Rong said in confusion: "But if you want to dig a fire pit, you should also dig it on the flat ground!"
"My fire pit is a little different from that fire pit."
Li Qi shook his head, then put the mud pot in his hand on a stone, and said, "Taba, Rong, come here."
Taba Herong hurriedly squatted over.
Li Qi pinched the mud pot into a ball, like a hillside, and said, "If this is the hillside, we need to start digging at the bottom and lead to the top. Then we dig a larger one on top to pile up pots and bowls made of mud. The lower mouth will be used to pile up firewood and burn fire. Do you understand?"
This is actually a vertical kiln, with a living chamber below, that is, a combustion chamber, and the top is a kiln chamber, which is connected by a fire channel in the middle. Li Qi once saw some people burning pottery in this way during the Song Dynasty. Of course, he made it more simple, after all, there is no need for any beautiful pottery here for the time being.
Rong nodded.
Taba said curiously: "But why do you burn this way?"
Li Qi said: "This... I will explain it in the future, maybe there is no need to explain it. After success, you will naturally understand."
Taba nodded.
After explaining it clearly, Li Qi drew a circle on the bottom of the slope with a wooden stick and said, "Just dig the hole so big."
"knew!"
Rong picked up his stone gun and inserted it hard...
In just a moment, Rong dug out a large piece of soil. Li Qi hurriedly said, "Stop for a moment."
Rong looked at him curiously.
Oh my God! If you give them a target, it wouldn’t be a matter of minutes? It’s so good! It’s so good to work with them. These hands are a little easier to use than machines. Li Qi was very excited and told someone to pick up the dirt that had just been dug out. Then he smiled at Rong and the others: “You dig here, I’ll teach them how to make these mud pots and bowls.”
Li Qi took them to the stream with soil and taught them to mix the soil with water to remove the residue. In fact, there was no residue in the soil. The soil these days is just like a yellow girl, too pure.
Then, they were taught to rub with their hands or step on their feet to squeeze out the air in the mud and make the moisture in the mud even.
The adults were like machines. They did whatever Li Qi said, but the children were having fun, and they stepped on them barefoot, which was very happy.
"Yes! That's OK!"
Based on their strength, Li Qi also greatly shortened the rubbing time.
After the soil was ready, the kiln over there was already dug, because it was not very big, and it was not worth mentioning for the fierce men like Rong and others.
Li Qi was also mentally prepared. He was already hypnotizing himself. He lived in the mechanical age. He went to take a look and asked them to repair it a little. Then he came back and started teaching Qiaoma and the others how to make it. Because it was purely hand-kneaded, it could only be made into small pottery. Li Qi taught them to make bowls.
To be continued...