Although the Ba people have temporarily escaped the embarrassment of not being able to eat, they are definitely not considered to be full of food and clothing, and they are just satisfying the most basic food and clothing that is not hungry.

With the increasing population of tribes, the supply of meat cannot guarantee that everyone can eat it every day.

Especially with the emergence of salt, the large amount of wheat and beans stored gradually became the staple food, and meat began to become complementary food. In addition, hunting difficulties in winter and spring, each person could get a spoonful of meat soup when eating.

With a strong amount of labor, although sufficient salt can ensure the balance of the body's electrolytes, if there is no sufficient meat supplement, calorie consumption requires more food to replenish.

But no matter how much food you eat without oil and water, you will feel that you can't eat enough.

Therefore, the more plant-based food you eat, the more obvious the human body's desire for meat will be.

The salty and fragrant meat of bacon is recognized by everyone as the best food, especially the stewed dried mushrooms and fungus of bacon. The smell alone can make people unable to stop. Every time, the pot pot can be washed with water several times before drinking the soup.

The pickled vegetables Xu Chen mentioned were as delicious as salted fish and bacon. Everyone couldn't stand firm in an instant, especially a group of women, who were yelling to carry vine baskets and carry baskets, and they were going out to collect wild vegetables.

It is already the end of January, and the flowers on the river beach are as green as brocade, and various plants are beginning to bloom and sprout in the hills. It is the most tender and delicious time of the year.

In previous years, just in the beginning of spring, women would go out early and come back late every day to collect wild vegetables to supplement food, but this year they were obviously slow to react, and basically no one did this specifically. Everyone had farmland allocated by the group to take care of.

The harvest of farmland is huge, and the changes brought to the tribe are obvious to all. Therefore, without repeated reminders from Moba and Amu, all women consciously go to the farmlands responsible for their respective teams to patrol and weed and drive away wild animals and birds every day.

Occasionally, when they encounter fresh wild vegetables, they will pick some of them and bring them back, making some vegetable soups as food supplements, but just like remembering bitterness and sweetness, the taste of wild vegetables is completely different from that of wheat beans and grains. No one will think of eating them every day, because most wild vegetables actually don’t taste good, and most of them are bitter. In the past, they had to eat them because they wanted to survive, but now there is no such urgent need.

But as Xu Chen said, spring is indeed the time when all kinds of wild vegetables are the most tender.

Whether it is crispy or tender or bitter, if it can be stored in the autumn and winter seasons when there are no vegetables, vegetables, melons and fruits, it will definitely be a rare delicacy. What's more, it can be as delicious as salted fish and bacon after being marinated with salt, which will be even more unnoticed.

So almost all the women from the courtyard went out in groups to collect wild vegetables, and Xu Chen also felt a little saliva.

Pickles, pickles, pickles, pickles, pickles are actually dishes that can be preserved for a long time by pickling with salt.

These dishes have one common feature, that is, they must have salt.

Because the treatment methods are slightly different, there are many types and the taste is extremely diverse. Some people are not tired of eating three meals a day, or they feel uncomfortable if they don’t eat them a day.

Xu Chen also liked to eat kimchi before traveling through time, especially the beans and chili soaked by my mother. It was crisp and refreshing, and moderately sour and spicy. Unfortunately, after going to college, I almost never ate it much. I can't stay at home for a few days all year round. After I started working, my mother's kimchi only appeared in my dreams.

After traveling through time, kimchi is like the fairy food in mythology, as if it is a distance between several worlds, which is beyond imagination.

In the past, the tribe had no salt and could at most dry some dried vegetables. However, at that time, life was in a difficult situation and food was scarce. I could eat half full every day, even if the old mother god blessed me, how could I have the energy and time to dry wild vegetables into dried vegetables?

But now all the conditions are ripe.

There are a wide variety of pottery pots of all sizes, and the salt is beginning to be abundant. The food is so abundant that there is almost no need to collect wild vegetables to satisfy your hunger. In addition to taking care of family farmland and spinning and weaving, the women of the tribe no longer need to be busy looking for food all day long. They have more time and energy to complete these things, store more abundant food for autumn and winter, and supplement and adjust their diet.

In the next few days, women from two families of the tribe went out early and came back late all day, digging and collecting a large amount of fresh wild vegetables.

There are wild vegetables such as shepherd's purse, mother-in-law's diced, prickly buds, purslane, etc. that Xu Chen also ate when he was a child, but more of them are varieties unique to this era that have been extinct in later generations, and these wild vegetables grow very fresh and tender.

Of course, if you only cook it with wheat beans into vegetable porridge and cook it into vegetable cakes, it is absolutely not good to taste it. You can only say that it can be eaten and fill your stomach. Moreover, if you eat too much, you will get a lot of oil and water, and everyone has a very good face.

Women in the tribe cannot make pickled vegetables, so Xu Chen naturally had to advance to the original version of the housewife again, clicked on this new skill, changed his job to become pickled vegetables, and began to teach a group of women step by step to learn how to handle pickled wild vegetables.

First, simply sort the picked wild vegetables and clean them from the old leaves and dead grass, then wash them in the canal, spread them out and dry them. If the vine plaque is not enough, they will be tied directly to become small handfuls hanging on the wooden rack for drying squid and fish.

When the drying surface begins to wilt slightly, put it in the pottery basin with salt and rub it with your hands. After the pickling is released, squeeze the water dry with your hands and directly into the jar, cover it with clay seal, and place it in the room for storage.

This is the most common way to make pickles.

When Xu Chen was a child, he often saw his mother and grandmother making pickles like this. In fact, every household in the countryside made this way. It would not break even if it was stored for a long time. When you want to eat it, you could grab some of it at any time. It could be vegetarian or meaty, fried or stewed, and it would be fine to eat it cold.

Of course, if you want to eat pickled vegetables as soon as possible, you don’t have to worry about it. Scallop the cleaned fresh wild vegetables with boiling water, then put them in a pot and seal them with salt water, soak them for about ten days before eating. The kimchi made in this way is sour, crispy and tender. Take them out and drain them when eating, and mix them with some chili and minced garlic and sesame oil. It is a delicious meal.

Although Xu Chen did not cook pickles and sauerkraut seriously before traveling through time, he personally tried to treat his mother when he was a child, so he naturally remembered some programs a little.

Therefore, under the command of his pickled vegetables, after a few days of busy days, more than a dozen jars of pickled vegetables were placed in the kitchen and warehouse.

It is now early spring and wild vegetables are just beginning to appear in large quantities. By February of the middle of spring, the temperature, height, rainfall will further increase, and the rise in wild vegetables will become more intense. Then it will be the time for large-scale harvest.

Therefore, after making a batch, Xu Chen asked the women to temporarily stop collecting wild vegetables. He needed to wait for a while to see if the pickles and sauerkraut he made could succeed. If they were all broken, it would be a waste of work.

While busy guiding the women of the tribe to make pickles, Xu Chen also took the time to start making the fourth batch of bronze knives.

Because the shapes of the instruments this time are quite special, he needs to make the mold in advance and then start smelting the metal, otherwise he may be in a hurry.

And this batch of knives and knives are completely different from knives and axes.

First, he wants to equip Feng and other groups of hunters who often go out with sharper weapons.

Second, we must also use a weapon to reflect the different identities of officers from each tribe.

If an army wants to have strict discipline and combat effectiveness, the relationship between superiors and subordinates must be clear, and the status and majesty that an officer should have must be respected before the order can be effectively implemented.

And equipment is the best way to reflect identity.

Equip officers with the best armor, weapons and war horses, so that ordinary soldiers can be encouraged to make positive progress and strive for bravery to achieve military rank improvement.

If there are not many benefits, soldiers will gradually become tired over time by relying solely on discipline and simple food tilt.

Therefore, this time Xu Chen planned to cast a batch of real weapon-level standard swords to distribute them to officers from various tribes and some brave hunters who trained to actively fight wars.

However, in order to make the swords made in line with the power and usage habits of these primitive savages, it is necessary to first make a batch of samples for them to choose the most suitable weight and style, and then according to these styles, a batch of pottery specimens can be produced before large-scale mass casting production.

Because these swords are of relatively large shape and require high straightness, they are very slow to make. It took six days before he finally completed six clay molds of different lengths and sizes. When it was about to be completed, the smelting workshop began to smelter the fourth furnace of bronze.

While smelting bronze, Xu Chen and several carpenters began to plan the production of the carriage.

The frame is simple. Find two pieces of wood that are more than meter long and have dried thighs, use an axe to cut it into square wooden squares, then measure it with a rope and a wooden ruler and then dig holes and tenons.

The tenons have been used to build doors, windows and wooden plows and field rakes before, but the stone axes were made very simple before, but now with sharp knives and chisels, these are no longer a problem. They are just because they have no experience in these square tenons and holes. Xu Chen needs careful guidance to dig slowly, and the progress is very slow.

In fact, digging holes and tenons is considered a laborious task, and it is not difficult. You just need to carefully follow the position where the ink line is drawn.

For a group of primitive savages who had just evolved from eating raw meat and sleeping in caves and peeping through furs to the cultivation era for only two years, how to design the location of these tenons and holes is the most difficult thing.

Because this requires mathematical and geometric knowledge far beyond their time and knowledge.

Fortunately, these carpenters have been with Xu Chen for three or four years. Although they have never made such a complex wooden utensil as a carriage, they are very obedient. They don’t ask why, they just need to follow Xu Chen’s guidance to assist in completing it.

Xu Chen also knew that even if the carriage was successfully made, this group of so-called carriages would still not be able to make carriages for a long time in the future, and he would have to personally guide them every time.
Chapter completed!