Although the giant wolf god is harmless to orcs, a giant wolf god who behaves unreasonably can still arouse the vigilance of the orcs.
Taking advantage of the absence of hunting missions today, Azhang adjusted the defensive personnel of the hunting team. Previously, there were only female guards on the watchtowers on the front and rear walls. This time, a person was placed on the watchtowers on all four walls. And the personnel who went out to patrol were changed from the original one-person operation to two-person, so that there is a support, and even if there is any accident, at least someone can come back to pass on the information.
At this time, Chen Qi missed the extremely convenient communication system.
Because Ze was injured, the plan to learn swimming had to be postponed.
After finishing his daily morning jog, Chen Qi simply took a shower, and then began to organize the wild fruits that Aze and Ajing picked yesterday.
In order to exercise A Jing's ability, A Ze took A Jing out early in the morning. Today they don't need to hunt, and the defensive task is also rotated to the females who went out hunting yesterday, so A Ze plans to take the one found by the Chishui River. Small clusters of mature sweet potatoes and potatoes are dug back. Three months is enough for the plants on the plain to mature for one season. The next time they mature, it is estimated that they will have to wait until the first snowfall.
There are many kinds of wild fruits in Ah Jing's small backpack, each of which is only a little bit, but more than half of A Ze's backpack is full of ripe grapes, each grape is the size of a thumb, lavender, and grows crystal clear Yes, very beautiful.
Chen Qi picked one and put it in his mouth, biting it was a bit sour, he wondered if it could be used to make wine. But now there is no other choice.
Chen Qi picked out the grapes one by one and put them on the pottery plate. He only picked the big and good ones, and he discarded the ones with a little bit of skin.
Worried that the yeast hoarfrost on the grapes would be washed off, he simply passed through the water once, then put them in a bamboo sieve made of bamboo strips and put them aside to dry in the shade.
This kind of bamboo props was made by Chen Qi after drawing a rough rendering for the old females in the tribe. Although it is not too delicate, it already looks good. Now the bamboo in the small bamboo forest has been taken care of. They cut down most of the bamboo. In order not to cut down all the bamboo, Azhang would occasionally lead people to cut some bamboo back in the forest.
Not only bamboo products, pottery products, papermaking, cloth weaving, clothing making and so on are now dedicated to people. Even if they don’t need to go hunting, everyone’s work is full. Prepare to make some exchanges with other tribes at that time.
Chen Qi took out two cleaned pottery jars, this kind of jars are fat in the middle and narrow on both sides, much cuter than the straight up and down pots and plates before, because there is no alcohol to sterilize, Chen Qi only uses boiling water The water was passed twice in the jar, and then dried for later use.
After the grapes and the jars were completely dry, Chen Qi put on cloth gloves, crushed the grapes one by one and put them in the jars. Each jar was only half full, and then covered the mouth of the jar with a cloth. Cover tightly, but leave a small opening for ventilation, and then move the processed two jars of grapes back to the storage room, intending to let them ferment naturally overnight and then add sugar in the morning.
During this period of time, he made a lot of sugar again. Unfortunately, the milk fruit has not yet reached its peak maturity, and the sweetness of the sugar produced is not as good as before, but it should not be a problem if it is used to make wine.
Aze and the others came back before noon, and Ajing started calling Chen Qi's name before entering the door, holding something carefully in his arms, and when he saw Chen Qi, he quickly handed over the cloth bag in his hand, "Chen Qi Take a quick look, is this the rice you mentioned?"
Chen Qi was taken aback. He had been looking for rice since he came here, but he had never seen a decent-looking wild rice. Now his staple food is rice berries baked into rice noodles. , and then make it into various pasta for consumption. He was stunned when he heard Ah Jing say that he had found rice, and he didn’t realize it at all, "Rice? What rice?"
Ah Jing handed him the cloth bag in his hand, and Chen Qi took it. This kind of cloth bag was made by Chen Qi to hold small things for him, and it can be attached to his waist at ordinary times. It is a bit like those money bags in ancient times. Unfortunately, there is no concept of money here.
Reaching out his hand to take out the contents inside, there was only one string, which looked very similar to the rice that Chen Qi had seen, but the color was slightly blue, probably because it was not yet ripe, and the grains were bigger than the rice he had seen, but a little Like corn kernels, there are only seven or eight on a string. Chen Qi looked left and right in surprise, carefully picked one, put it in his mouth and bit it, it was a bit sweet, with a rice fragrance, hard Yes, very similar to rice.
"Where did you find it?"
"By the Chishui River, where we usually catch fish." Aze replied, "There are only a few of these trees. I don't know if you need them, so I just picked a few and came back to show you."
"Take me to have a look." Chen Qi couldn't wait any longer. As long as he had rice, he would not be afraid to starve to death even in the winter with nothing. This is too important for the tribe. After all, after a winter full of conditions, No one knows what will happen in the next winter, and storing more food is the most important task this summer.
A Ze unloaded the backpack behind him and put it aside, picked up Chen Qi and went to the Chishui River to look at the rice. Ah Jing did not follow, and after dragging the things back to the storage room with Xiaolang, he obediently took out the homework, and waited for the two to come back while doing it.
The little wolf cub lay at his feet, half-closed his eyes to make up for sleep. A cub of his age can only grow up quickly when he sleeps. When he grows up to be as big as the adult giant wolf god, he will not be afraid of anyone. Yes, the little wolf cub moved his ears, and fell asleep in his familiar environment.
The rice grows in a patch of tall grass. If it weren't for a milk fruit tree growing nearby, Aze would not have found it. The soil here is not wet. It seems that although it is rice, it can be planted on dry land.
Wandering around this piece of tall grass, I found only three trees, each with only two or three clusters of rice spikes, and each cluster had at most ten grains, the number was too small, and Chen Qi planned to wait a few days. These batches of rice are used directly as seeds after they are fully ripe.
After simply marking the surrounding area, the two caught a fish by the river before returning home.
The fish in the Chishui River have been frequently caught by the orcs during this period, and they have long been wary of the orcs. Even if they throw a lot of bait down, the fish will no longer crowd the river to grab food like before. Instead, they will swarm up when the bait slowly sinks to the bottom of the water or is washed to the center of the river by the current.
Although it is no longer possible to fork a lot of fish casually like before, there are more than one way to catch fish. As soon as Chen Qi arrived at the river, he got a wooden stick, tied a rope and a fishhook on it, and then tied a stick to the end. Put a small stone on it, let the stone sink into the water with the hook with the bait on it, and then firmly insert the wooden stick into the soil by the river. After he and Aze came back from inspecting the rice, the fish also took the bait.
Chen Qi happily looked at the big fish shaking on the ground, and took out the sword horn knife to kill it directly, "I think this fishing method can be popularized in the tribe, and you don't know how to swim, so it's much safer to use fishing than spearfishing." gone."
Ace nodded in agreement.
After lunch in the afternoon, Chen Qi planned to make some snacks. Besides the french fries that he would occasionally cook, there was also a snack that could be stored for a long time and could also be used as dry food, that is dried sweet potatoes.
There are already three big bags of sweet potatoes picked at home during this time, and Chen Qi has already planted two sweet potato seedlings in the yard, and they are growing very well now, and occasionally he can pick a meal or two of sweet potato leaves for cooking, which is a pity These are all used to grow sweet potatoes, and they cannot be picked too much.
Chen used a ceramic plate to cook a large plate of sweet potatoes, peeled them and cut them into strips, then put them on a bamboo sieve and took them to the yard to dry. It hasn’t rained since summer, the sun is very good, and the water dries up in just one afternoon. Almost there.
The taste of boiled sweet potatoes will be sweeter. Such a large bag of sweet potatoes is not much after drying, only a small half of the bag. If you have nothing to do, you can take a few bites to satisfy your hunger. There is no way, everyone usually has no snacks to eat, everyone is very curious about what new things Chen Qiyi came up with, anyway, it is not difficult to do, especially for the females who are sitting around guarding It's simply good news.
Unsurprisingly, there was a craze for drying sweet potatoes in the tribe. On the days when there was no hunting, Azhang even organized some people to go to the outskirts of the forest to look for sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are also delicious when roasted, and like potato stew, they are plants that almost all orcs in the tribe love.
Of course, apart from these two things, the orcs don't like other plants so much, so apart from Chen Qi and A Li's family who also grow other vegetables, other people in the tribe almost only grow sweet potatoes and potatoes. The behavior made Chen Qi speechless.
Early the next morning, Chen Qi added sugar to the grape jar, stirred it with a clean wooden stick, and left it to ferment.
Chen Qi was making wine for the first time. Although he knew that the fermentation process would take a long time, he still didn't dare to be careless every day. The sugar was only added twice, and the grapes in the two jars consumed half of the sugar. In order to complete the fermentation, it has to be stirred in the morning, noon and evening. In order to make wine, Chen Qi has basically never taken a step in the tribe except for going out when picking rice.
After about a week, the skin, juice, and seeds of the grapes were all separated, and the grape skins almost overflowed to the mouth of the jar, and the fermentation also calmed down, because the jar was made of pottery, and the situation inside could not be seen. Chen Qiyu An extra day was left for the fermentation to calm down completely before the wine was filtered out.
Filtration is still only possible with cloth.
Chen Qi found a clean earthen jar, put a prepared cloth bag on the mouth of the jar, and asked Ah Jing to help hold it, then poured the fermented wine in the jar into the cloth bag, with a little purplish red liquid flowing down the cloth bag Flow into clay pots.
Ah Jing frowned, "The taste of this water is so strange."
Chen Qi sniffed it. Although the smell was still very weak, it did smell like wine. He smiled in a good mood, "This is not water, but wine."
"liquor?"
"Well, a very useful thing."
There is not much wine in the two jars after filtration, only half a jar, and the filtered wine is exactly one jar after sealing it into the pottery jar. Plug the mouth of the altar with cork wrapped with cloth strips, then seal it with cloth outside, tie it with a rope, and then wrap the entire jar with paper.
Chen Qi took the bone shovel and patted the arranged wine jar and said to Ah Jing: "Let's go, let's bury the wine."
"Buried? Why do you want to bury?"
Chen Qi tilted his head and thought for a while, yes, why should he be buried? "I don't know, I always do it like this on TV, maybe the wine will taste better if buried underground?" Chen Qi said uncertainly.
Although he didn't know the principle of burying the wine, Chen Qi still excitedly took Ah Jing to dig a hole under the fig tree in the yard, buried the wine jar in it, filled it with soil, and found a wooden board to write down Today's date is inserted beside it as a sign.
After finishing the work, Chen Qi patted the dirt on his hands, and he seemed to be able to smell the rich fragrance of the wine when it was dug out and opened.
In a deep plain far away from Qi Ze City, there is a river connected to Luoshui Lake, which belongs to a small tributary of the Duo Sa River.
The river here is extremely calm, and you can't see the direction of the river's flow unless you look closely, and you might think it's just a piece of stagnant water. The tall and elegant white giant wolf stood by the river. It looked down at its reflection in the river, then suddenly stretched out its front paws and patted the river, saying, "Stupid dragon, send me a fish!" Come up."
The calm water surface suddenly turned violently, and a dragon head almost half the size of a giant wolf god emerged from the water. If Chen Qi were here, he would definitely find that the dragon in front of him was actually the same as the one in the myth he knew. Dongfanglong is so similar.
The huge dragon tail rolled under the water, and then rolled up a skinny fish dragon and flung it to the shore. Half of the dragon's body was raised high, and water droplets slid down his white scales little by little. In mid-air, the dragon's voice was low and full of magnetism, "I didn't expect you to come here."
The giant wolf god didn't pay attention to the giant dragon, but looked at the skinny ichthyosaur with disgust, opened his mouth and tore off the rough fur of the ichthyosaur, and began to gnaw on the meat that was no longer tender inside.