Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

When Chen Qi was going out, he saw this group of people learning to swim together, but he didn't expect that they were still there after an afternoon. His eyes swept across Ale's soaked hands, and he reminded: "The swimming thing can't be rushed, you have been soaking in the water for so long, go back to rest early today."

Ale responded, and Ashu cleaned up the two simple lifebuoys that had been devastated beyond recognition. They said hello to the other females, and agreed that they would go home with Chen Qi after continuing tomorrow.

Seeing that Ale's wet hands wanted to reach over to take his backpack, Chen Qi quickly avoided the opponent's movements, "I have saltpeter in my backpack, and your hands are full of water, so don't help me take it."

"Saltpeter? What is that?" Ale withdrew his hand in confusion.

Chen Qi blinked, "A very useful thing."

Unable to explain, Ale could only suppress the doubts in his heart. As soon as they returned to the cave entrance, they saw that A Xu was returning with a large backpack of salt. Chen Qi opened it and looked at it, and found that it was all refined.

"Now everyone in the tribe knows how to refine salt rocks. Just give us the salt you need, and we'll refine as much as you want." The most important thing they don't lack is salt. A Xu handed the backpack to Chen Qi and grinned.

Chen Qi was moved, and asked A Ze to collect the refined salt, and thanked A Xu.

The dried mussels dried outside the cave have also been taken back. A Xu plans to go to the rocky beach to collect some tomorrow. Chen Qi told them that there are also many mussels growing on the rocky beach on the other side of the beach.

"How come it's still not cooked after cooking for so long?" Chen Qi frowned and poked the turtle egg that had been boiled and dropped into the clay bowl with his chopsticks. It was still soft and semi-liquid.

Because Ale and Ashu soaked in Luoshui Lake for a day, their bodies were covered with sticky and greasy salt fragments, so they ran to the small river outside to wash them.

The water in Luoshui Lake is salty and not drinkable. The people in the tribe can only fetch water from a tributary of the Dosa River in the distance. It takes almost two hours to go back and forth at the speed of a female. How far away it is, probably the most inconvenient thing for the orcs of the Luoshui tribe is the issue of water.

Turtle eggs are soft, and they are not formed when they are cooked like eggs. Chen Qi dipped his chopsticks a little and tasted it. One word, fishy.

With a sigh, I cut some minced **** and wild onions, added a little sliced ​​meat and salt, and planned to make a stewed egg directly.

After Ale and Ale came back from the bath and water, Chen Qi and Aze had already finished their dinner. At this moment, Chen Qi had already started to take out the collected saltpeter, because he wanted to try the effect first, so this time the collection The number is not much. He poured a small plate of water from the clay pot he had just returned. Chen Qi took the pot to a place away from the fire, and his gloved hand held the saltpeter a little nervously.

The turtle egg has been made into a dipping sauce for barbecue by Chen Qi. It has been fried with **** and green onion to reduce the strong fishy smell. For Ah Shu, who is used to eating prey in water, he likes it very much. The taste is very subtle, and after two bites, I still just eat the barbecue.

The two of them were very curious about what Chen Qi was going to do, but Chen Qi didn't let them all surround him, lest their breath would make the surrounding temperature too high. Although the two could not understand, they could only squat aggrieved. While eating by the fire, he looked at Chen Qi who was tinkering with things in the corner of the room.

Chen Qi broke the saltpeter into pieces, and broke it into a size that the water depth in the pottery plate could submerge the saltpeter. Then he put the saltpeter in. Because he was worried that the amount of saltpeter was not enough, Chen Qi added it while watching and waited. After a while, all the saltpeter was dissolved in the water, and the water in the pottery plate turned into ice.

Chen Qi quietly observed it again, and felt that the ice had completely condensed. Then he reached out and touched it in surprise. Through the cloth gloves, his hands were cold.

"Aze, come and help me to see if this has really turned into ice." Chen Qi excitedly waved to Aze, who was driven to the side by him, and Aze walked over quickly and saw The water in the pottery plate had turned into a translucent solid, and the surprise could not be concealed on his face.

Ashu and Ale looked at each other, put down the half-eaten food in their hands, and hurried over. As soon as the two approached, they felt a chill. Ale couldn't help but stretched out his hand and broke it down a bit. Perhaps the temperature in his palm was too high. He stretched out his tongue and wanted to lick it, but Chen Qi quickly knocked it off. The ice cube fell to the ground and rolled twice, and it completely turned into water in no time.

"This thing can't be eaten." Chen Qi said with a stern face.

"Why?" Alesse flinched and rubbed the back of Chen Qi's red hand. He didn't expect Chen Qi to be so strong.

Chen Qibai glanced at him, "If you want to stretch your stomach for a few days, just eat a little and try."

Ale swallowed his saliva and dared not speak. Ashu looked at him with schadenfreude, and made him want to put everything in his mouth, not afraid of eating something wrong.

In summer, the ice is not easy to maintain. Looking at the ice cubes that have begun to melt slowly, Chen Qi frowned and thought for a while. He remembered the bale of cotton collected on the way here. The cotton has been picked out by him. , It was originally intended to be used for cotton-padded clothes, so it has been stretched in advance and pressed into flakes.

Chen Qi took out the cotton that had been pressed into pieces, made A Ze a small wooden box, and then sewed a layer of cloth coated with gum syrup on the cotton, hoping that the ice cubes would drip down when it melted so that it would be simple. Waterproof.

Chen Qi stuffed the prepared cotton into a wooden box, and even the top cover was tightly covered with cotton, and then put the ice cubes in the pottery plate into the wooden box. In order to prevent the ice cubes from melting too quickly, the wooden The box was moved to a corner away from the fire, and Chen Qi took out a few ripe red berries, washed them, and put them in a pottery plate, simply covered with a layer of Pu leaves, and put them in a simple version of the refrigerator. After Ale and the two finished their dinner, Chen Qi took out the red berries. The frozen fruit was sweet and cool and very refreshing.

Even A Ze, who doesn't like eating sweet fruits, couldn't help but eat a few more. The heat all over his body seemed to disappear as soon as he felt this icy cold thing.

When several people were enjoying the cold red berries, A Xu and A Xu came back with exhausted faces. After they brought the refined salt back, they were called away by A Chu. for several hours.

The food was still warm on the fire. As soon as Ashu saw them coming back, he hurriedly grabbed the last two red berries from Ale's hands, and hurriedly stuffed them into the hands of Axu and Axu. When they touched the cold fruit, both of them had expressions on their faces. Surprised, "What is this?"

"Chen Qi made ice. This fruit has been frozen in ice, and it's delicious." Ashu licked his lips and explained with a blank face. Now the second batch of red berries has been frozen in the small wooden refrigerator. , when the ice is ready, he will take it to Grandpa and Grandpa to taste.

A Xu curiously looked at the cold red berries, took a bite, and it really tasted much better than usual. A Xu didn't seem to be interested, and his brows were furrowed, as if he was worried about something.

"Did something happen to you?" A Ze served them a cup of flower tea, and A Xu took it and thanked him.

"The people from the Yanshan tribe are here."

"Yanshan tribe? They are so far away from us, how could they come here?" Ah Shu packed the two with barbecue and the turtle egg stew made by Chen Qi and handed them to them.

"They said that there was no way to hunt prey in the forest, and they wanted to come to Luoshui Lake to hunt, but they had no experience in hunting in water, so they came to A Chu and asked him to teach them." A Xu replied.

"Is their tribe very close to here?" If Zhao couldn't go hunting in the forest from the beginning of summer, then the food they had stored before winter should have been used up in the past few months. Come to Luoshui Tribe for help? Chen Qi thought so, and asked the same question.

"Their tribe is a little closer to here than Qize City, but it's only two or three days away."

"It's not that they couldn't enter the forest from the beginning. From what they said, it seemed that a group of hyena dragons lingered around there shortly after the beginning of summer. They had already lost a lot of clansmen, so they had no choice but to change the hunting place. Come and have a look at our tribe." A Xu continued with a headache while holding his forehead: "Everyone in the Yanshan tribe wants to hunt their prey back early, but hunting here is not that easy, and large prey is not every day. meet."

Chen Qi understood. The few people stopped discussing the affairs of the Yanshan tribe, and simply washed up after eating and rested.

The ice in the small wooden refrigerator had already melted the next day, because the red berries were placed in a ceramic bowl and they were not wet with water. The cotton inside is damaged.

Chen Qi also made ice from the remaining saltpeter and put it back in the small wooden refrigerator. On the way, he also found some mung beans. Now he boiled a plate of mung bean syrup, and put it on ice in the refrigerator before taking it out. , is simply a heat reliever.

Ah Chu also knew that this kind of stone could actually make ice. Early in the morning, he brought a few female sons to the old salt mountain and collected a lot. Chen Qi told them some precautions, especially Tell them not to eat the ice made with saltpeter, but to use it to cool down and freeze food.

Chen Qi also intends to make edible ice, but the thermal conductivity of the pottery bowl is not good. After several attempts, the water in the pottery bowl cannot be condensed into ice. It seems that he can only wait for the opportunity to make metal utensils. time to try again.

Because A Ze was going to take A Chu and a few people to collect saltpeter, today the two people's rock mountain treasure hunt could only be cancelled. The salt stone is now collected by people from the Luoshui tribe, and when it got into the hands of Chen Qi, it has become With bags of refined salt, Chen Qi was too embarrassed to let them work in vain, so he made a lot of food and frozen sugar water to entertain them. The orcs of the Luoshui tribe worked harder to help Chen Qi work.

Chen Qi is also not stingy with his own skills. As long as someone comes to ask him how to make those snacks or where the raw materials for those snacks are obtained, he will patiently explain them to everyone one by one. The small cave became the busiest place in the Luoshui tribe.