Chapter 19 Slate burning
Ga, you uncle!
Xu Chen got up and stared at the white mushroom ball: "Isn't this straw mushroom?"
Although they couldn't understand Xu Chen's complicated words, they still understood the questioning expression. The two of them shook their heads together.
Xu Chen had no choice but to pick up a chicken mushroom and asked, "Is this not eaten?"
The two shook their heads again.
Xu Chen picked up another one, but the two still shook their heads wildly.
So Xu Chen understood that these dogs and savages didn't know them at all, or they had ancestral phobia, and only thought that all mushrooms could not be eaten.
However, seeing the two of them's frightened and excited expressions, he finally compromised, sighed and gave up the idea of having a mushroom meal with regret.
Sitting down under the shade of the tree again, the three of them sat in a row and ate the wild fruits that Gu He picked.
Most of these wild fruits are hard to eat, either sour or bitter, and not full of stomach. After knocking a few, Xu Chen felt that his stomach was even more frightening.
"Chenga, fish..."
Seeing Xu Chen's constipation look, he raised his fingers in the direction of the river.
Xu Chen's eyes lit up, and he threw away the core and headed straight for the river beach. After walking for more than ten steps, he ran back quickly and took the basket on.
There was a heavy rain yesterday, and the water in the river increased a lot, much wider than usual. The river water was slightly turbid and the river beaches were flooded with large areas.
A large number of water birds fly in the shallow water plants for food. They have long legs and long necks, and they have short necks. They know wild ducks, wild geese, white cranes, and even more. They don’t know them. They are completely a bird paradise.
As the three of them approached the river beach, a large number of wild birds suddenly thrust into the sky, and the scene was spectacular.
Fish and shrimp are everywhere in the aquatic plants, and occasionally you can see turtles, turtles and water snakes swimming around.
Gu Zaizai covered his waters around the east and west, but he worked hard for a long time and didn't catch anything.
He held a spear and looked around carefully in a slightly deeper water. When he saw the fish, he poked it hard, but it also fell into nothing again and again.
After looking at it for a few minutes, Xu Chen curled his lips and chose a place with lush water plants. He pressed the basket down, then swept it from top to bottom, and quickly lifted the basket up when it was swept to the position of the basket.
This is a common ancient way of catching fish in rural areas, called catching fish. However, the fishing nets used are made of bamboo and are generally used in small rivers, not on river beaches.
However, it seems that there are a lot of fish and shrimp on the river beach, so it should be useful.
As expected, when I lifted the basket made of a rattan basket, there were indeed a few small fish and a few grass shrimps. Although they were not big, a group of fish and shrimps were jumping around inside, which looked very lively.
Gu Heju didn't know what Xu Chen was doing, so he came over curiously and saw it. He screamed in surprise. The two of them turned around and prepared to take their backpacks over to catch fish, but they were stopped by Xu Chen.
"fire!"
Xu Chen grabbed Gu's arm and pointed at the mountainside, and then used his hand to give him a hug.
If you have fish and shrimp, you can naturally fill your stomach, but you still have to have fire. However, there is no match lighter and there is not even flint, so if you want to have fire, you have to go back to the cave to get it.
Gu understood and ran away excitedly.
He went back to the place where he dug a hole to take two baskets. Then the two cooperated, lifted two baskets side by side and put them down the net. Xu Chen took a spear to catch fish in the aquatic plants, and the harvest increased greatly. Every time he drove, he would always harvest a few fish and shrimps. He quickly made a small pound of fish and shrimps and poured them into another vine basket to raise them with water.
Almost half an hour passed, and seeing that there were already two or three kilograms of fish and shrimps, the two of them took a break and pinched the fish and shrimps carefully. When they were almost finished, Gu Daman ran back sweating, indicating that the fire had been taken.
With fire, everything will naturally be easy.
First, a few stones were used to build a stone stove, and then a few firewood that Gu brought back with residual Mars were put in. They found some dried weeds nearby. After a storm, the fire was finally ignited, and then some dried branches continued to add, and the flames soon started to burn.
Xu Chen arranged for Gu to be responsible for making the fire, and asked Ju to find a very thin stone slab to wash it on the river beach, and put it on the stone stove to burn it.
Shibanyao, the ancestor of teppanyaki, is a local delicacy in Yunnan.
There is a saying in the local food industry: Everything can be cooked in stone.
It means that any food can be placed on a slate and barbecue.
This simple cooking method was also a method that Xu Chen often used during field inspections before.
Chicken, duck, fish, lotus root, potato, mushroom, yam, pepper, eggplant, and any solid food that can be heated can be processed with stone slabs.
When having a picnic, not only can the ingredients be used locally, but the same is true for cooking tools.
In fact, a group of primitive people usually put it on stone slabs and roast it, but they are still in a very ancient budding state.
It is best to make a stove like this so that it will be faster to bake.
Of course, the soul of barbecue lies in seasoning.
Unfortunately, everything is ready now, and there is only a shortage of seasonings. Not to mention the cumin chili noodles, there is not even the minimum salt.
But for a group of three and a half-year-olds who are growing and developing and are always hungry, not to mention that there is no salt, they can't even eat a few pounds of stone slabs when they are hungry.
It is a rare feast with so many fish and shrimps right now.
But no matter how simple the conditions are, for foodies, as long as the conditions are created, they should still have the taste.
So while Ju and Gu were busy, Xu Chen also searched nearby for a while, picked a handful of wild onions and leeks, took them to the river beach to wash them, and then smashed them into sauce on the stones. He picked up three clam shells on the river beach, washed them and brought them back.
After the busy meal, the stone slabs began to burn. Xu Chen broke two branches as chopsticks and picked up the washed fish and shrimps one by one and arranged them. Soon, the whole stone slab was densely packed.
Under the high temperature of the stone slab, the river shrimps quickly began to change color, and the smell of fish and shrimp barbecue slowly spread.
Not far away, Moba and a group of women were also resting under the shade of the tree.
Originally, Xu Chen and the other two were digging the soil, looking for food in the woods, and then going to the river beach to catch fish. They thought they were bored and playing, so they didn't care much, but when they saw smoke rising, they felt that they needed to come and observe.
After all, fire is the most important property of the tribe and has always needed to be protected and not allowed to spread everywhere.
Especially for tribes without fire, if you want to get the fire, you have to bring a lot of gifts to nearby tribes to exchange them.
Even if you get the fire, it will be a super troublesome thing to get it back. You need to use a torch to pass it on the road. If you accidentally extinguish it, you have to start over again.
The weather is quite hot in summer and autumn. If the tribe does not have fire in winter and spring, it will be very difficult to bear, and many adults cannot withstand it, let alone children.
However, after Mo Ba came to see it clearly, she was in a bad mood.
Xu Chen and the other two were sitting around the stove, eating grilled fish and shrimps with excitement on their faces.
Even if she eats it, she dips the sauce while eating it. The aroma of the food drifts away, making her unable to help but start drooling.
"Mother Baga!"
Seeing Mu Ba suddenly coming, Gu Heju stood up quickly, with a fever and a little ashamed.
The adults were busy collecting food, but the three of them were secretly making food, which was completely inconsistent with the rules of the ethnic group.
However, Xu Chen didn't have this idea.
When you are hungry, you have to eat, drink water when you are thirsty, and sleep when you are sleepy. The five major urgent things in life are: Eating, drinking, defecation, urinating, and sleeping are the most basic needs, and no one can control it.
So he smiled and picked up a roasted shrimp, dipped it in some sauce and put it on Momba's hand.
Mother Ba did not scold him, but put the shrimp in her mouth with a smile on her face and chewed it.
Gu He Ju breathed a sigh of relief, and each picked up a shrimp and put it on Mother Ba's hand. After eating, Mother Ba pointed at the fire stove and told him a few words and left.
However, not long after Mother Ba left, several young women ran over together.
These women are still very young, with bulging breasts. Although they are dark and thin, they are obviously much more attractive.
However, this kind of attractiveness is only relative. In Xu Chen's eyes, although his body is the same as them, his soul will always have a variety gap. Moreover, after watching it for more than half a month, his heart has been as calm as water and no longer has any turbulence.
What's more, all the women in the cave are relatives.
So no idea is left, a group of virtuous people,
Of course, the few women came over to watch the fun, but came over to eat after listening to Mo Ba's words.
A group of people gathered together to eat barbecue fish and shrimps from stone slabs and exchanged some topics. Xu Chen also explained the story of making pottery here with Bihua. After grilling all the fish and shrimps, several women went back to work. Xu Chen and the other two finally got two cents full, added firewood to cover the fire, and then cheered up and continued to dig holes.
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More than a dozen pottery ware in the fire pit have been burned for a whole day and a night.
And today my mother ordered to increase the fire for a day.
Xu Chen, who had finished work in the evening, returned to the mountain, immediately dug out the bowls, plates, cups and jars from the fire.
Several of them have cracks or even broken.
The sound of a bang bang was made with a light tap.
After a long period of high-temperature calcination, these instruments have undergone some qualitative changes and are no longer completely soil.
But it is far from the solidity of pottery, at most it is a low-temperature pottery.
The difference between pottery and pottery is not only the poor soil quality and rough workmanship, but the calcination temperature cannot reach the level of vitrification of silicon and aluminum in the clay and cannot be perfectly integrated.
Therefore, the pottery has poor strength, is not well sealed, has a relatively large pore, is easy to permeate and breathable, and cannot store food for a long time.
But even so, these objects can be used for daily use. There is definitely no big problem with drinking water and eating and putting things on them, but they are not strong and can easily be broken.
When Xu Chen took out these pottery, the entire tribe was shocked by his magical creativity.
The two little Tao people were taken away by a group of children before they could cool down.
And all the adults gathered together to watch the dishes, pots and basins and exclaimed.
Chapter completed!