The Caveman Made Me Awesome

A thunderous thought flashed through Ye Xi's mind.

Fuck, these Jiuyi people, wouldn't they use the pine branches of Qinglu pine to smoke the meat? !

After passing through several stone houses, and bypassing the fossil-like prehistoric crocodile lizards blocking the road, a circular building much larger than ordinary Jiuyi people's stone houses appeared in front of Ye Xi.

"Old Rock! Old Rock! We're bringing guests!"

Before anyone could reach, the enthusiastic Jiuyi fighters around were yelling loudly towards the front with their loud voices.

Lu smiled and said to Ye Xi, "It's just ahead!"

Ye Xi nodded and looked at the residence of "Lao Yan".

There are three characteristics of this residence. One is the shape. He has never seen Jiuyi people pile up their houses in the shape of a yurt before.

The second is independence, there is not a single stone house or wooden house within a hundred meters around.

The third is a courtyard. At the entrance of the stone house, there are two high walls made of small white rocks, which together separate a large courtyard of a hundred square meters.

Different from the rough building method of the stone house, the two walls use a kind of translucent, unknown adhesive, which looks very strong.

A group of people walked to the entrance of the courtyard in a mighty manner.

Standing at the entrance of the yard, one can see many tall wooden frames set up in the yard, and the huge hind legs with bright red and distinct textures are hung in mid-air by thin grass ropes, which are densely packed and quite spectacular.

On the ground, there are rows of rectangular fire stoves built with stones. Inside the fire stoves are charred black coals burning with sparks, and pine branches with clear dew are placed on top of them. White smoke keeps evaporating from the pine branches and drifts mistyly. around the hind legs.

The crystal salt grains smeared on the hind legs were gradually melted by the smoke and heat, and all penetrated into the texture of the meat.

Grease with golden light dripped down.

"Stab!"

The grease dripped onto the charcoal fire, and a wisp of white smoke with a strong aroma came out.

The Jiuyi soldiers who were still noisy suddenly became quiet, staring straight at the ham meat, licking their lips with their tongues from time to time, the Adam's apple rolled up and down, and the saliva seemed to flow down.

It took a while.

"Oh, I really can't come to Laoyan's place! The aroma is really tormenting!"

A soldier complained: "I don't know when my ham will be ready. It's been a long time!"

The bald soldier next to him sighed and replied: "Stop talking, I'm with you, my ham is still a month away, your total is about the same..."

"Forget it, it's really a pity that you can't eat ham here, I'll go first!"

"I'm leaving too!"

"I want to stay here... No, no, no, this taste is too bad, I'll go too, go back and roast his 50 catties of meat to satisfy his hunger!"

More than half of the people left at once.

Ye Xi couldn't help but laugh.

He finally understood why there were no stone houses within 100 meters around here. Feelings can't stand the smell of smoked ham! Jiuyi people who love to eat can smell and see it but can't eat it, so they have to stay away from it!

Lu led Ye Xi through the ham array in the yard and into the big stone house.

This yurt-shaped stone house has no windows. Unlike the bright sunshine outside, it is dark inside and has a large temperature difference between inside and outside. Once you walk in, you will feel a chill.

Ye Xi cast his gaze to the left.

To his left is a large rock table.

The color of the rock platform was the same as the light in the room, it was pitch black, a one-eyed veteran soldier with skin like dead bark was rubbing the fresh hind legs with salt grains in the darkness.

From time to time, he grabbed a pinch of salt crystals from the big stone bowl, sprinkled them evenly on the hind legs like snowflakes, and then rubbed them repeatedly until the salt was rubbed into the hind legs.

Ye Xi fixed his eyes on the salt crystals in the stone bowl.

This salt crystal also seems to be unusual, it is a good thing! It should be better than the natural rock salt in the rock salt mine they found in Xicheng.

Lu Xing excitedly shouted to the old soldier: "Old Yan,

My ham should be ready, right? ! "

The old soldier named Lao Yan stopped his movements, glanced at them with his sinister one eye, and said nothing.

Lu didn't take it seriously, and patted Ye Xi's shoulder and said, "Ah Xi, don't blame him, this Lao Yan doesn't like to talk, even if he hit him with a stick, he wouldn't hear a cry of pain! Haha!"

"However, the ham made by Lao Yan is really delicious!"

"If you want to eat ham, in addition to paying enough, you have to bring good-quality hind legs and a few catties of Qinglu pine branches, otherwise you won't be able to eat it! Besides, you have to wait patiently for a few months, otherwise you won't be able to eat it." eat!"

"And each person can only order one ham per year. Tsk, I have to wait for a year to eat ham. This old rock doesn't make money even if he has a beast core... What a pity, what a pity!"

Ye Xi smiled and said to Lu: "The production of ham is very complicated. I heard that it needs to go through five steps: salting, smoking, drying, fermenting and drying. If one step is not done well, the quality of ham will decline. I think the old It's not that Yan doesn't want to make more ham, but he's afraid it will be bad!"

Lao Yan's one eye looked at Ye Xi again, but he still didn't speak.

Lu rubbed his big belly and said curiously: "Salted, smoked, dried, fermented and dried? Hey, it seems that Axi knows ham very well. I probably know about salted, smoked, dried, but fermented. What are you doing again?"

Ye Xi was stunned: "Uh..."

He was still thinking about how to explain it, but Lu over there had already abandoned the question, and shouted impatiently to Lao Yan with a loud voice: "I said Lao Yan, what are you doing in a daze? Quickly take out my ham! I want to ask my younger brother to taste it, hurry up, hurry up, go!"

After shouting, he even wiped the saliva overflowing from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.

Ye Xi: "..."

Lao Yan glanced at Lu, dipped his salt-stained hands into the water tank, then turned around and went into another room without saying a word.

Lu still didn't feel at ease, and urged behind him like a torrent of bells: "Hurry up—!"

After a while, Lao Yan came back with a three-meter-long ham that weighed more than a hundred catties. The surface of the ham was brown, covered with white hyphae, and hard.

Lu Xizi took it with both hands, looked at it repeatedly, and said: "Yes, this is my leg! Although you are old, Lao Yan, you have a really good brain! After so long, you still remember this leg. be mine!"

"Eat, eat, I can't wait!"

After all, under Ye Xi's shocked eyes, Lu held the two ends of the big ham with both hands, broke the big bone inside with a bang, and then used brute force to force the fiery red ham inside as well. tear apart.

After tossing half a ham to Ye Xi, Lu let out a groan, and couldn't wait to sink his head down and took a bite.

"tasty!!"