Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

the next day.

Before dawn, Chen Qi woke up, and put the bamboo tube with salt and flint in the backpack that A Ze was going to carry on his back. A few hares caught in the trap yesterday, Chen Qi simply salted them, wrapped them in pupa leaves, and stuffed them into the backpack. There was also a sturdy rope that was made overnight. With eyes wide open, Chen Qi taught Azer how to tie things with simple knots, and he was relieved after confirming that Azer made no mistakes several times in a row.

After a brief breakfast, Chen Qi carried another backpack on his back, which contained the two bone needles he had made before, as well as a large number of banyan tree roots, and a piece of cloth sent by Ali yesterday, a sword horn knife. Always keep it in your coat pocket.

Before going out, Chen Qixian went to check the boiled syrup. It was still sticky, and no crystals were precipitated after drying for a day. Fortunately, the color still looked milky white, and there was no sign of deterioration. The racks for drying and curing dried meat were moved to the door, and a slit was opened in the animal skin door curtain for ventilation. I was worried that passing animals would smell the smell of meat and run in. Chen Qi put a lot of thorns by the door as a fence. There were also several rows of small traps scattered around the house, which made Aze go to the tribe on his back.

This is Chen Qi's second visit to the Yanshan tribe. The guard on the fig tree outside the tribe has been replaced by a younger female, who will wave enthusiastically when he sees Aze.

Carlo's house is not far from Ali's house, and there are four or five houses in the middle, but because it is just behind a corner, you can't see the location of the other party's house unless you go to the intersection.

When Chen Qi came, Carlo was moving the meat out of the room to dry, and the ground was covered with thick leaves or clean animal skins. Carlo's dried meat is not cut into strips like Chen Qi, but a large piece. The jerky is placed outside the house during the day, moved back into the house at night, and continues to be dried by the residual heat of the fire until the jerky is completely dehydrated, so that it can be stored until winter.

"You are here." Ake took out the last plate of jerky, with a backpack behind him, as if he was going out.

"The room has been tidied up, it's next door, Chen Qi, you can stay as long as you want." Carlo finished disposing of the things in his hands, wiped his greasy hands with the hay by the roadside, and came up to talk.

"Chen Qi will trouble you to take care of it." A Ze put Chen Qi down and said to the two.

"Who takes care of who doesn't know." Ake poured the jerky from the pottery plate onto the leaves on the ground. "Today, the people from the tribe are going to Loya Forest, and they happen to be leaving the tribe. Let's go together."

A Ze nodded, and told Chen Qi a few words that he could go to A Li or A Zhang if he had something to do. Chen Qi rolled his eyes secretly, now it's him who wants to go far away, how can it be like he is going to go far away.

The two told each other that Aze and Ake left, and Carlo took Chen Qi to the next room. The structure of the room is similar to that of Aze's house, except that the space area is reduced by half and the height is lower. This time, it seems that you don't need to raise your hands to touch the roof. Maybe you can have a close contact with the roof with a little padding on your head. There was only a slate bed in the corner, and in the middle of the house was the place where the fire was burning, and two bundles of dry firewood had been placed beside it.

Chen Qi put the backpack on the bed and said to Carlo who followed up, "Carlo, I'm going to visit Ali's house."

"Okay, I'll go with you."

"Ok."

There are also a lot of jerky outside the door of Ali's house, and there are a few simple racks hanging a few hares. The racks are a bit like the racks Chen Qi made to dry the cured meat. Carlo patted his forehead when he saw it." Why didn't I think of making two shelves, it's so much more convenient, and I don't have to spread all over the floor."

The animal skin door curtain of Ali's house was pushed aside by a few thick wooden poles to reveal half of the opening, and the sunlight just poured in through the half-open animal skin door curtain. When the two entered the house, Ali was busy weaving, and he had been following Chen Qi for the past two days. The cloth that Ake's family needed had been delayed for several days. Fortunately, the child would not be born for several months. , but not in a hurry.

Seeing the two people entering the house, Ali smiled and stopped his work, "Why are you all here? You don't need to build a house today, right? Why didn't Carlo take you to select slate from the abandoned houses of the tribe? "

Although the tribe is called the Yanshan tribe, the rocky mountain on the back is not large, and the height is only about 20 meters at most, so the people in the tribe will not regard this mountain as a barrier as a material collection site for building houses. However, it is close to the Chishui River, so it is much more convenient to use water, and there is no need to drive thousands of miles home like Chen Qi and the others.

The plains of Dora are not rich in large stones. If the orcs in the tribe need to build a house, they have to go to the Loya Forest to find them. There are several large rock mountains in the Loya Forest, and the stones there are comparable to those in their own tribe. The rocks in this rocky mountain are much larger and harder.

"I still want to stay here for one night, don't rush this time." Ali's house does not burn fire during the day. Not only is there a shortage of stones, but also trees in the Dora Plain. Ya forest felled. Ali had inconvenience in his legs and feet, most of the firewood was chopped by A Zhang, while Ali would help him cook or handle things like tanning various animal skins.

Chen Qi picked up a slap-sized slate on the way here. At this time, he took a piece of charcoal directly beside the extinguished fire, drew a bowl shape on the slate, and then handed the slate to Ali. Look, cut to the chase and said, "I heard Azer say that all the pottery in his house is made by you. Can you help me make some pottery bowls?"

"Pottery bowl?" Chen Qi only drew a simple side view. For the beasts who were not used to flat surfaces, they couldn't understand what this thing should look like.

Chen Qi thought for a while, "Do you still have pottery mud here? I'll make one for you to see and you'll understand." Although Chen Qi doesn't know how to cook, he has been designing for a few years. Looks like it can still be done.

"Yes." Ali pulled out a handful of pottery clay. The pottery clay was a little dry. Ali added some water and kneaded it to soften it before handing it to Chen Qi.

Carlo also leaned over to see what Chen Qineng could squeeze out.

Although the bowl is only a simple shape, it is really not easy to make it look good. Chen Qi probably figured out a size and shape and Li will understand it. After all, he is also someone who has made pottery for decades. The speed and technique are naturally much better than Chen Qi's half-hearted. When Chen Qi finally finished pinching a slightly crooked pottery bowl, Ali had already finished one.

"Chen Qi, what do you want such a small pottery for?" Carlo asked in confusion. The pottery bowl that Chen Qi kneaded was not the kind of small rice bowl used at home, but more like the kind of sea bowl in the ramen shop. This also took into account the problem of Azer's appetite, and using this size of sea bowl for meat would be more convenient. convenient.

"This can be used to replace the Pu Ye that is usually used to hold meat." Remembering that the orcs eat barbecue meat directly with their hands, Chen Qi added, "And using it instead of the bamboo tube for sugar water, it will be much more convenient to eat. and easy to clean.”

Carlo remembered yesterday's bamboo tube. Although the bamboo tube is very convenient to hold soup, the height of the bamboo tube itself is relatively deep, and the opening is just enough to fit a fist. Fingers, looking at the pottery bowl that Chen Qi and A Li squeezed, they felt that it would indeed be better than the bamboo tube. "Uncle Ali, you can also help me make some of these pottery bowls."

Afterwards, Carlo also pinched a few times like the two of them, but he pinched them even more than Chen Qi's, crooked, but Ali didn't plan to recreate them.

A Li took out all the remaining pottery clay at home, because he hadn't made pottery for a long time, and there was not much pottery clay left at home. After about ten pottery bowls, the pottery clay was used up. Chen Qi He also took this opportunity to squeeze a few teacups.

The three of them had been busy all morning. After the pottery blanks were completed, they could not be fired right away. They had to sit for a while and wait for the moisture to dry.

Because Ake went to Loya Forest with the people in the tribe, and could not come back at noon, so the two of them had lunch at Ali's house.

Ali took the opportunity to ask Chen Qi to teach him how to marinate his kind of cured meat. Chen Qi said it carefully one by one, and demonstrated it once, then asked Ali to do it again, and finally reminded the other party that the cured meat is not enough to rub it with salt once. If you want to keep it longer, you can reapply it every other day, about three times or so, and it is taboo to put it in the sun to dry immediately after marinating. It must be dried in a cool and ventilated place for a few days, and after a few days You can put it under the sun, but that's how bacon is done.

Of course, there is no such detailed division in such places where materials are lacking, as long as the meat can be preserved for a longer time. Moreover, this method of drying meat in the sun is only suitable for doing it after the first snow comes, and the sun in summer is not suitable for drying cured meat. Carlo also took Chen Qi's words seriously in his heart. Ali's family had saved a lot of meat, and he tried to do it again.

In the afternoon, Ali planned to continue weaving the cloth in his hand, while Carlo took Chen Qi to collect the slates needed to build the house. The most severely collapsed houses in the tribe are in the periphery of the tribe, but even if they collapse, it will not damage the hardness of the stone. In order to reduce the effort of moving the slate, Chen Qi decided to focus on these basically collapsed houses.

Carlo is not good at choosing what kind of slate is better to build a house. He already believes that Chen Qi is very powerful. Chen Qi said that he wants to choose those houses that have collapsed, so he took the other party to the outside. After all, an intact house still needs to use fire to melt the glue at the joint before pulling the slate off. Even with their small bodies, they can't do it without a female by their side.