110.110 Drumming
This is the anti-theft chapter. Ilsas looked up and saw Tao Wei so frightened that he didn't care about running naked. The two jumping white rabbits on his chest swayed in a graceful curve.
At a moment of loss of consciousness, Ilsas jumped up to her position, and quickly took out two black creatures from the water.
It seems not a snake?
"Is this... eel?" Tao Wei was surprised. Such a big one, looking as terrifying as a snake, scared her to death!
He gritted his teeth and said, "We ate them at noon!"
Ilsas didn't agree, and he twisted them off with one hand and threw them on the shore and jumped around.
Tao Wei was still in a state of fear, for a few seconds, and then realized that he was not in a hurry. He blushed and looked at Ilsas' expression as usual, and he was a gentleman!
When Tao Wei dried his clothes and climbed onto the shore, Ilsas had already baked their lunch. The barbecue that faded out of the bird smelled fragrant and tasted nothing. Fortunately, the eel meat was tender, and it was not as big as it was all bones.
While eating dry barbecue and the spring water in the forest, Tao Wei was satisfied. If she hadn't brought her, Irsas could have brought a stone pot to cook broth, and she would not even have the chance to starve to death, so she would have become food for the beasts.
The black bones actually had black bones. Ilsas ate its meat, then grind it on the river stone with the longest bone, and made a bone spur. It was about one meter long and looked very good.
After chewing two sour wild fruits to relieve greasiness, Tao Wei took out herbs to bandage Irsas.
This is a herb called ground-based rooting. It has the effect of stopping hemoglomering and muscle building. It has abundant resources in the forest. Along the way, she dug out all the few herbs she knew. Unfortunately, she didn't know much and the number was limited.
Ilsas glanced at his right shoulder, tied with flowers, and felt that several small blood holes were not needed to make a big deal. "We are going to set off."
"So quickly? I just finished my meal and didn't have a rest when I was injured?"
“The rainy season is coming.”
Tao Wei blinked and looked at him in a daze.
Ilsas was indifferent to her ignorance and seemed to have become accustomed to it. "The rainy season usually lasts for a month, and during which the prey will hide, it is their mating period."
So food needs to be stored.
Tao Wei understood that Ilsas sent himself back to the tribe, which was actually a waste of his time. In this era without currency, not having food in stock means starvation.
"Thank you, Ilsas." Tao Wei was a little moved, "I can't say anything to you, I'm sorry to delay your time storing food. If possible, I really want to help you."
"Don't mind, you can't store it for that long now if you catch prey."
Storage? Yes, there are no refrigerators and preservatives in this era...
Tao Wei scratched his head and suggested: "It can be made into dried meat and vegetables and pickled."
Ilsas suddenly turned his head and looked at him with a focused look: "Do you have a way to preserve food?"
Tao Wei realized that this was an ancient Stone Age, and suddenly felt that he could do something to repay his help. He explained with a smile: "Marinated with salt can save food well!"
The method of storing food is the crystallization of people's wisdom accumulated over many years!
"Salt?"
Tao Wei nodded and suggested tactfully: "Actually, you should bring some salt when you go out..."
Otherwise, the three meals a day would be really painful! At least she had never eaten enough... She raised her eyes, but found that the handsome guy in front of her was looking at her expressionlessly.
"That...you haven't eaten salt..." Tao Wei gestured: "Don't you put something in to season when cooking? It's salty, salty!"
Ilsas's cold face showed a look of confusion, "What does salty taste?"
Tao Wei was completely stunned. What kind of world is this! Let’s talk about the primitive, there are stone pots, stone bowls, beds, and even skins that contain water, but they don’t eat salt?
How do she describe what salty tastes? Tao Wei frowned in a tangled manner: "Have you seen the sea? Or the salt water lake... salt is white and tastes very bitter. It can preserve food very well."
Saving food is a very tempting thing for any tribe, and it will not be so difficult to bear in rainy and winter.
Ilsas frowned and thoughtfully, and then suddenly stood up: "There is a place you can go and see."
Without saying a word, he carried Tao Wei, picked up his simple luggage and set off.
About three hours later, they arrived at the edge of a blue lake. The lake water here is very blue and clean, making people feel happy.
"So beautiful~"
Ilsas put her down, only the water here is different from the water in the rivers in normal times. Maybe this is the salty taste?
Tao Wei took a deep breath of the salty and fishy air. This lake is probably the salty lake they are looking for.
When I came to the lake and took a sip, my eyes lit up. I said, "This is right. I didn't expect that the salt content is so high. Let's sleep here tonight. Is it safe?"
Ilsas nodded, "Is there salt in the lake?"
Tao Wei pursed his lips and smiled, "You will know later. Now we need dry firewood and stone pot."
Ilsas didn't ask much, and asked her to stay here, and called him loudly if there was something to do. There was a lot of dry firewood in the forest, but the stone pot was a little troublesome. No matter how sharp the claws were, they could not cut the stones.
Tao Wei sat down by the lake and waited. To be honest, she had never refined salt. In this era of lack of equipment, the success rate was not guaranteed. But she had to try.
Now that she is here, she needs to adapt to it, she wants to survive!
Ilsas came back a little slow, probably because the stone pot was not easy to make, but fortunately they all got together. Tao Wei asked him to set up a fire and a stone pot, add lake water to the pot and slowly boil it until it was dry.
While burning the lake water, they roasted their dinner tonight. It was the wild boar that Tao Wei had eaten on the first day. There was no salt yet, so they could only soak it in the lake water for a while in advance and dip it in a little salty flavor.
In fact, Tao Wei feels that continuing to eat barbecue will cause constipation...
When the wild boar was sizzling with oil, a small pot of lake water finally dried up. The bottom of the pot was some not very clean white particles, which were salt!
"We have succeeded! Although there are a lot of impurities, it is enough to use it." Tao Wei was a little excited. He picked up the small skin bag prepared beside him, poured the salt in, solemnly put it away, and then continued to add lake water to the pot.
Ilsas seemed to have infected her excitement, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised.
"With salt, we don't have to eat light and tasteless things. It can make food more delicious and make bacon pickles for easy storage."
Speaking of this, Tao Wei glanced at Ilsas' silver hair. Could it be that this guy turned white without eating salt?
Chapter completed!