After returning home, Chen Qi took the two pheasants, proposed to make lunch by himself, and sent A Ze to build a simple shelf for him to dry his clothes. Aze didn't refuse. He heard Chen Qi talking about it when he was collecting perilla before, and he was quite curious about what kind of food Chen Qin could make out of the perilla leaves and wild ginger he picked.
One of the pheasants had already been cut into pieces by Aze in advance for later use. There were a lot of pottery piled up in Aze's house. Except for a few pottery plates containing some unknown bones, the others were almost empty, and I don't know. What's the use of him getting so many pottery.
Chen Qi took a pottery dish that looked more like a pot. Since there were only two pots of water, he only washed the pottery dish once, put the cut pheasant in it, and blanched the pottery with the soup that removed the blood foam. After the plate was carefully cleaned again, the chicken and chopped wild ginger were filled with water and stewed in the fire.
The other pheasant was still grilled on the fire with clean wooden sticks as usual, but Chen Qi was not in a hurry to coat the roasted pheasant with salt stone immediately. Use another smaller pottery dish to hold a little water, put a piece of salt stone in it and smash it with a wooden stick, the salt stone melts quickly after meeting the water, after the salt stone dissolves, the water in the small half of the dish becomes gray and turbid When I reached out and touched it, it felt like fine sand and stones. Chen Qi looked at the plate of salt water speechlessly. How many impurities were mixed in the salt stone? .
Chen Qi wanted to filter the plate of salt water, but he looked around the house and found nothing that could be used. He held his chin in distress and thought about it, wondering if his shirt could be used for filtering.
Outside the door, Aze was drying his last coat on a wooden pole. He did not know where he found two tree trunks with branches and inserted them into the soil to make two supports. Come to dry the clothes, but it looks good.
Seeing Chen Qi come out, A Ze put his coat to dry and asked, "Is the food ready?"
Chen Qi shook his head, "Not yet, it may take a while, I made some stewed chicken soup."
Chen Qi walked to the drying rack, took off the shirts hanging on it and went back to the house, Aze watched his movements strangely, not understanding why the other party took back the undried clothes, and followed him into the house.
As soon as Aze entered the door, he saw Chen Qi frowning with a distressed expression holding a shirt in one hand and a pottery plate in the other. Aze hurried over and asked with concern: "What's wrong? Do you need my help?"
"Need." Chen Qi handed the shirt to the other party, and pointed out: "Hold the shirt like this, and open a hole." After speaking, put a clean earthenware dish under the shirt, and began to slowly pour salt water into the shirt .
Chen Qi's shirt was off-white, and the areas that were soon wet with salt water were stained gray. The shirt was folded in two layers, so the speed of water leakage was slower, but the filtering effect was still very good. The two of them did the filtering two or three times before they got the results that Chen Qi was relatively satisfied with.
The chicken soup has been boiled, and Chen Qi used the husk of the milk fruit to scoop some filtered salt water into it, and put a small handful of perilla leaves in the chicken soup. This was the first time Chen Qi added perilla leaves to the chicken soup. The smell will not be too strange. The roasted pheasant has begun to emit aroma, and it is so mouth-watering when it is burnt yellow and orange. Chen Qi picked a few fluffy pheasant feathers and tied them together to serve as a brush. He brushed the salt water three times on the pheasant, then took out an apple, cut it in half with a sword knife, and squeezed out the juice on the barbecue. Smudged twice.
Chen Qipa pulled out some red-hot charcoal, put one or two sticks of firewood on it to light a small fire, and placed the pottery dish filled with salt water directly on it to burn slowly. After such a toss, the water in the two large earthenware pots brought back was used up, and the remaining Chen Qi was poured into the shell of Suirui fruit, and the few pieces of green fruit peel left over from last night were taken out , Put it in the fruit shell and boil it with water, Chen Qi thought, this can be regarded as a green fruit tea.
When the green fruit tea boiled, the roast chicken was almost done. Chen Qi cut off a small piece with a sword corner knife and put it in his mouth to taste the taste. The bitter taste on the roast finally disappeared. Chen Qi happily said Aze, who was sitting on the side, showed a big smile, and before Aze came back to his senses, he stuffed a piece of grilled chicken into the other's mouth, "Taste it quickly and see if it tastes better."
Aze doesn't like to eat too sweet and greasy food, when he saw Chen Qi smearing apple juice on the barbecue, Aze thought to himself, no matter how unpalatable the roasted meat is, he should eat it all calmly. I ate the barbecue that was handed to my mouth, and I don’t know if there was not much juice on it. The sweetness was just within the range that Aze could accept, and without the bitter taste of the salt stone, I felt better than before. The roasted taste is not a little bit stronger.
A Ze looked at Chen Qi with a face full of surprise, "This is much more delicious than what I baked, Chen Qi, I haven't seen you put salt stones on the barbecue, why does this meat still have a salty taste?"
Chen Qi pointed to the salt water that was burning aside, and explained: "I melted the salt rock into the water, and now I will burn it out again."
"Can the salt stone be burned out again by burning like this?"
"Maybe." Chen Qi is also the first time to do such a thing, and he is not sure, "The appearance of burning like this is not the same as salt stone, it will probably turn into salt like sand."
Aze exclaimed, and looked at Chen Qi with a complicated expression. Chen Qi, who knows so much, must be pursued by many women.
Chen used the remaining husk of the small piece of milk fruit to scoop up some still-simmering chicken soup and tasted it. How should I put it, the slightly salty broth is neither good nor bad, very ordinary the taste of. I took a bite out of a piece of stewed chicken with chopsticks made of acacia branches. The chicken has no taste after being stewed in water, and it still has a chai chai taste.
Chen Qi gave Aze a taste of both, the broth was better than Aze's own, at least not bitter, but not as delicious as the broth made from milk fruit juice, stewed chicken It had no taste, but Aze didn't mind. During lunch, most of the grilled chicken went into Chen Qi's stomach, and the pot of stewed chicken was almost wiped out by Aze.
After eating and drinking enough, Aze wrapped the used pottery dishes in a large animal skin, and held a pottery pot in his other hand to go to the Chishui River to clean and fetch water. Chen Qi then used a wooden stick with branches to fork the jelly fruit picked that morning, and roasted it in the fire. Not only was the jelly fruit hard, but after baking for a long time, there was only a slight sign of melting. Chen Qi A small pottery dish was placed under the jelly to continue the melted jelly juice.
Chen Qi took out the sword horn knife and the glue branch. The glue branch was handled by A Ze who was sitting idle when Chen Qi was handling the food just now. A narrow opening was made, just enough for the end of the sword horn to be inserted. Chen Qi rested his chin and stared at the two things in front of him for a while, then stood up and went outside the door to get some hay, burned it into ashes and put it on the cattail leaves, added a little water to make it muddy.
The gum fruit has melted about one-third, Chen Qi took out the gum fruit, picked out some gum fruit juice and mixed it into the grass ash, after processing, use a thin piece of wood to carefully spread the mixed glue on the glue Go through the broken opening of the branch. It takes a long time for the gum to dry after it melts. Chen Qi filled the opening of the branch with the gum liquid before inserting the sword horn knife, and then tied the opening tightly with a straw vine. The simplified version The original knife is complete. Chen Qi happily looked at it several times, and after confirming that there was no problem, he put the sword corner knife in the corner of the house to dry in the shade.
After Aze returned from fetching water, the small half plate of salt water was almost burned, and white solids had begun to emerge from the surface. Aze put the things down and leaned over in surprise. Chen used a wooden stick to stir continuously, and waited until the salt was almost precipitated before turning off the firewood, and signaled Aze to wrap the pottery plate in animal skins to take it out of the fire, and waited for the salt to dry completely with the residual heat.
A Ze dipped his finger in some white salt and tasted it, it tasted much better than the salt stone, "Chen Qi, this one is also salty, much better than the salt stone."
"Do you have any other salt stones? I will use this method to deal with them, and I will not eat any more salt stones in the future."
Aze went to the place where the pottery was placed, took out a small package wrapped in animal skins, opened it, and there were two or three pieces of salt stone the size of a fist, the same color as the one used before, all gray and gray , a lot of impurities are mixed at first glance.
Chen Qi picked up one and weighed it. This kind of salt stone can only precipitate less than two-thirds of the salt. The winter here lasts for several months, and there are not many prey in winter. Only these few salt stones are not enough to store food. the amount. "Aze, where did you get these salt stones? Can you get more?"
"Do you need more salt stones? This was exchanged with other tribes from the rally last year. In two months, the lion and wolf tribe will hold an annual rally. I can go and exchange some more at that time. return."
Chen Qi nodded, "Winter is coming soon, this salt can store food better, it would be great if we could get more." Speaking of food storage, Chen Qi looked at A Ze, "A Ze, Shouldn't we start preparing winter food? Is it too late?" It's only a few days before winter comes.
"Well. I'll take you to the tribe for a while, and I'll go hunting after you settle down." Azer paused, and added: "Don't worry, I hunt very fast and can hunt enough food in winter .”
Chen Qi smiled, and put the pottery plate with salt aside, "I don't have anything else to do now, can I go to the tribe to have a look? Or will it be later?"
Ze looked at the sky, Uncle Zhang went hunting in the morning, and should be back by now, he stood up and said to Chen Qi: "Then let's go to the tribe now."
"it is good."