The Survival of the Wild Tribe

There is no salt-producing place near the Panther Tribe. It is better to say that there is no salt-producing place on this side of Changfeng Mountain. Therefore, for stone salt, they can only take advantage of the gap between the human face bird hatching the young bird and take the risk every three years. Over the Changfeng Mountain, go to the remote tiger and lion tribe to exchange.

Therefore, Luo Zhen was not worried about telling Axue the method of refining stone salt, because even if he told them, the stone salt refined by the Black Panther Tribe would only be enough for them to digest internally.

The method of refining rock salt is very simple. The rock salt is completely melted into salt water and then allowed to stand for a period of time for precipitation. There is no cloth or filter here, and the mud in the rock salt cannot be completely filtered out, only some of it is fairly obvious. Pick out the sand and gravel, and then boil the separated brine to dry, so that the preliminary refined salt can be obtained.

In order to save firewood, Luo Zhen only refined it once, barely able to remove the bitterness and astringency in the stone salt, which was much better than the original taste of stone salt.

Yesterday Luo Zhen only refined half of it. Before the charcoal fire was extinguished, Luo Zhen planned to refine the other half of the stone salt. By the way, let Axue see the method of refining stone salt with his own eyes.

"Is the refined stone salt reduced?" Axue stared at Luo Zhen's movements without blinking, until the water slowly turned into white salt grains, and then softly asked her own question, for fear of the sound. When it gets bigger, the exhaled breath will blow away those tiny salt particles.

"Well, after all the impurities in it have been filtered out."

Axue stared at the slowly precipitating salt grains, at least about one-fifth less than before. She still couldn't fully understand the impurities Luo Zhen said. You must know that stone salt is very precious to them. Existence, soldiers can directly cut the throat of their prey and drink their blood to replenish their strength when hunting. Ordinary people like them, if there is no stone salt, they will have no strength, not only can’t raise children, but if they encounter misfortune By the time of the attack, there was not even the power to escape.

Therefore, even though Luo Zhen's refined stone salt tastes better than usual, Axue still feels distressed that one-fifth of the stone salt is missing, and can't help but feel a little disappointed with this method of refining stone salt.

Luo Zhen didn’t explain much. He could guess Axue’s worries. He could only cool down the precipitated salt particles and collect them into animal skins for stone salt, and then share them with Axue and Ashui. I took some food, and took the rest back to the tent and shared it with Lu Zhan.

The temperature is still a bit hot now, and the beef has a fishy smell after being left for a long time. Although Luo Zhen marinated some green pear juice for a while, and then mixed it with cassava, the taste was not very obvious.

Before Axue came, he heard Jiaozhu report to his father about the food made by Luo Zhen. Even with the psychological preparation, she couldn't help showing a surprise when she ate this special taste for the first time.

The roots and stems of the cassava plant actually met when Axue was picking wild fruits in the small forest. At that time, she was picking a kind of wild fruits that grew close to the ground. The rhizomes exposed most of the soil and the ones that Luo Zhen just cooked. The cassava was exactly the same, but at that time she only thought it was just ordinary tree roots. She never thought that cutting these tree roots and steaming them and then stir-frying them with beef would be so delicious.

It is soft, waxy, and smells of beef. It is more delicious than the bark of the grass roots dug out under the thick snow than without food in winter.

Axue didn't even have time to follow up in the tent to see what the two of them were doing inside. Sitting on both sides of the firepit with Ah Shui, grabbing the cassava and beef with his hands without an image, she couldn't wait to stuff her entrance.

After eating breakfast, Luo Zhen was about to start preparing for the work of farming, because Lu Zhan planned to leave for a while while they were out collecting seeds, and said that Luo Zhen would pick some insecticides for Luo Zhen to come back. Once he put down the tableware, Luo Zhen Ji couldn't wait to pull the door and walked to the wild lettuce that he still wanted to find farthest.

He is really fed up with the mosquitoes here at night. If it hadn’t been for the insect repellent plant growing at the junction of the southern foot plain, it would take a day to get to that place at Luo Zhen’s speed. Maybe Luo Zhen would have ran by himself. Go and get those insect repellent plants back.

Of course, this time he did not forget to let Lu Zhan dug two trees with the soil and roots to bring them back. If he can plant them here successfully, he will no longer have to worry about the mosquitoes at night. The smell of insect repellent plants here is comparable to the previous mosquito coils. The effect of repelling mosquitoes is even better.

Wild barley grows on the outskirts of the tribe, not far from where they were separated from the warriors who threw guts and bones to feed the hyenas last time they went to the small forest.

Along the way, Luo Zhen met many women and children who looked at him curiously. Because some women were feeding babies with their upper bodies naked, Luo Zhen was too embarrassed to look back one by one, but just nodded to those people in a hurry. Say hello, and then rush to the destination with the two little tails behind him.

"Luo Zhen, do people in your tribe also grow vegetables? Then do you not get hungry in winter?" Axue is a girl who talks a lot, and after only getting along for a short period of time, she will soon be the 18th generation of Luo Zhen's ancestors. Asked all over again.

However, her temperament is also straightforward, and she will ask directly if she has any questions. She doesn't think it is right to ask, and will it cause trouble for Luo Zhen. Luo Zhen knows that the other party is the daughter of the big witch, and he still needs to stay in this tribe. In the last period of time, even if he knew that the other party was the eyeliner of the great witch, he could only answer some true or false questions to Axue.

"Well, there are too many ordinary people in our tribe, and there are not so many warriors who can go out hunting, so we can only try to get more food by ourselves."

Axue glanced at him sympathetically, "Then you must be having a hard time?" Tribes with too few warriors can develop safely as long as they get enough food. The various beasts in winter and some nearby tribes. Anyone who covets will set his sights on such a tribe with insufficient strength. Axue has heard the old people say that their Panther tribe was driven to this side of Changfeng Mountain in this way, and must rely on the acceptance of foreign talents to make it possible. The tribe has grown to its current size.

"It's okay." Luo Zhen smiled perfunctorily.

"Don't worry, our tribe has enough warriors. Even human-faced birds don't dare to rush into our tribe easily. You will be safe to stay here." Axue comforted: "And our tribe still With a child-mother tree, even if you are a man, you can give birth to your own offspring."

Luo Zhen felt a cramp in his abdomen as soon as he heard the son and mother tree. No, he didn't want to give birth to offspring by himself.