After dinner, Ah Chu and Luther left. After helping them pack their things, A Xu said to them, "You guys take a break today, and tomorrow morning I will take you to pick salt rocks on the Salt Mountain."
Chen Qi nodded, they came this time to exchange enough salt rocks for the entire Qi Ze City until next summer, but there are many impurities in the salt rocks, and Chen Qi wanted to take the refined salt with them. Go back, this will not only save you the trouble of having to deal with it again after you go back, but also bring more.
"Axu, can you ask the orcs from your tribe to refine the salt stone tomorrow?" Chen Qi took advantage of other people's busy time to check his latest drawing, and by the way, briefly described the scene of Ah Chu and others hunting in the evening. recorded it.
"It's ok, after refining here, you don't need to carry the impurities back." Ever since eating the salt without bitter taste in Qi Ze City, the two brothers A Xu are unusual for unrefined salt rocks. I hate it, but the salt stones in Qize City have already been processed when they went there. Even if other people explained to them how to deal with them, A Xu can't understand the refining salt stones well without seeing the actual operation with his own eyes. A step of.
"It's just that I don't know much about the steps of refining salt stone, so I'll trouble you to demonstrate it tomorrow." A Xu said apologetically.
Chen Qi smiled, "It's natural."
"I'll teach you tomorrow. Refining salt stone is very simple, I have already learned it." Ale knew that Chen Qi was busy drawing materials for his map, and he didn't have anything special to do here anyway. So he took the initiative to take matters into his own hands, so that Chen Qi could have more time to do his own things.
Seeing that Ale is so active, Chen Qi doesn't want to compete with him. He plans to take a walk around tomorrow. Such rocky mountains are rare on the Dora Plain.
Ah Shu has long been used to sleeping with them, so he didn't plan to go to his father's cave at night, so he found a few animal skins and spread them by the fire, and slept together with Ah Le. Xu didn't stay here, he left for more than two months, and he couldn't wait to tell his father and father in detail what he had seen and heard along the way, especially the skills he learned from Qi Ze City, and he wanted to teach himself as soon as possible people in the tribe.
After tidying up the drawings, Aze has already laid animal skins under the slate bed near the corner. The two slate beds in the cave are not big enough for an adult man to lie on his back. If I turned over, I was afraid that I would fall into the bed.
Unable to sleep on the slate bed with Chen Qi, Aze laid an animal skin under the bed to make do with it, and gave up the other slate bed to Ah Xu.
"Aze, you can sleep on the bed tonight." During this period of time, Aze has to carry a heavy luggage and carry himself on the road, and has to take turns to watch the night at night. Chen Qi feels distressed when he sees it. When they arrived in the Luoshui tribe, they naturally hoped that the other party could take a good rest.
Aze shook his head, "I'll just sleep on the floor, Chen Qi, you can sleep on the bed."
Chen Qi walked over and dragged Aze onto the bed without saying a word, while he found a piece of animal skin in his backpack, rolled it into a ball and used it as a pillow.
"Chen Qi, what are you doing?" Ze stood at the edge of the bed a little at a loss, looking at Chen Qi who had already laid down on his own.
Hearing Aze's question, Chen Qi spread his arms, smiled and pointed to the place beside him, "Do you want to sleep with me?"
Aze naturally knew what Chen Qi meant, but if the other party felt sorry for him, why didn't he feel sorry for him. Chen Qi yawned and rubbed the corners of his eyes, "Ah Ze, you are also very tired today, go to bed quickly." After finishing speaking, he ignored A Ze who was still struggling, closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep. He fell into a deep sleep.
Aze sighed helplessly, and took a piece of thin cloth as a quilt to cover the opponent's body. Even though it was summer, because it was close to Luoshui Lake, the ground was still quite cold.
After covering Chen Qi with the quilt, he looked up and found two pairs of curious eyes looking at him. Seeing that he had been discovered, Ah Le and Ah Shu quickly turned over and pretended to sleep.
A Xu came over just after dawn the next day, besides A Xu who was making breakfast, there were two sleepers on the other side of the fire, and Chen Qi and A Ze were not in the cave.
"Where did Chen Qi and A Ze go?" A Xu asked strangely.
Ah Xu pointed to the top of the cave with his finger, "Chen Qi said he was going to see some sunrise, and asked Aze to carry him up to the top of the mountain early in the morning, so he should still be on the top right now."
A Xu nodded, rolled up his sleeves and walked to A Xu, "Let me cook for you."
The top of the rocky mountain where Axu lives is covered with uneven broken stones, and there is only one huge sandstone that can barely accommodate two adults sitting on it.
The surroundings are very quiet, there are a few open bamboo tubes beside Chen Qi, and a piece of paper that has already been drawn is spread in front of him, and Aze stands quietly behind him, watching the breeze blow the other's hair .
When A Xu climbed up to ask the two to have dinner, Chen Qi drew a panorama of the rocky mountains in addition to the sunrise picture, which made A Xu envious, but he was too embarrassed to ask Chen Qi, and decided to go later After picking salt and rocks, he went outside to find some dyed fruit and came back. While Chen Qi was still here, he learned how to draw from the other party, maybe sometime he would be able to draw a panoramic picture of the tribe himself.
After a simple breakfast, several people cleared out a few empty animal skin backpacks and set off for Yanshan.
Yanshan is in the outermost place far away from the tribe, near Luoshui Lake, and it can be reached by walking along the edge of Luoshui Lake for about half an hour.
Walking a distance away from the beach is a rocky beach, the finely broken stones are wet by water, covered with moss and clusters of dark brown things, Chen Qi looked familiar, walked closer to have a look, bent over to break I got off one, looked up and down for a few minutes, and finally confirmed that this piece of rocky beach stretching for hundreds of meters was densely covered with mussels.
When Chen Qi was walking towards the rocky beach, the few people stopped, looked at Chen Qi holding a dark brown object for a while, then waved to them excitedly, signaling them to go over. Several people looked at each other and walked over suspiciously.
Chen Qi handed the mussels in front of A Xu, "What do you call this kind of thing?"
A Xu looked at it and shook his head, "This kind of thing doesn't have a name." Although the names of many animals and plants here are the same as those in Chen Qi's cognition, orcs generally seldom go out of their way to useless things. Pick up a name to remember.
"Don't you all eat mussels?" Chen Qi asked in surprise, no wonder mussels grow so densely in this area.
There is still a long way to go from here to the salt mountain, and I am afraid that it will not be until the afternoon when the salt and rocks are mined. Chen Qi thought for a while, then looked at everyone expectantly, "Do you want to eat a new food?"
A Shu pointed to the dark brown mussel in Chen Qi's hand, "Do you want to eat this kind of thing? This kind of thing is very hard."
Chen Qi gave him a white look, "Who told you to eat it with the shell."
"I'd like to try it." Ah Xu saw that Chen Qi was obviously attracted by these so-called mussels, so he turned to ask A Xu, "Can we pick salt stones in the afternoon?"
A Xu spread his hands, "Of course, you can go anytime." After speaking, he looked at Chen Qi, "Do you want to pick these mussels now?"
Chen Qi nodded again and again. Seeing that the few people had no objections, he waved his hand and bent down first to pick the biggest mussels.
After picking about half a bag, Chen Qi took a few people back. He didn't know if the orcs could eat mussels. If they picked too much and they didn't eat it, it would be a waste.
When he returned to the beach, Chen Qi directly washed the mussels with the water of Luoshui Lake. After returning to the cave, he took out the pottery dish for cooking food, put sliced ginger and wild onions on it, and put the mussels on the Put it into a pottery dish, fill it with water, cover it with a wooden lid, and wait for the mussels to boil until they open.
Because the mussels themselves are salty, Chen Qi didn’t add any more salt. After serving the mussels, Chen Qi couldn’t wait to pick one up. He directly held the shell with his hands and picked out the meat inside with chopsticks. The taste was delicious. , for Chen Qi, who has not eaten seafood for more than a year, even if it is just boiled in water, it is much more delicious than the usual barbecue.
After eating one by himself, Chen Qi picked up the other, took out the meat inside and brought it to A Ze's lips. After seeing A Ze chewed it a few times and swallowed it, he asked nervously, "Is it delicious?" People like Aze who have lived near the Chishui River for a long time should rarely eat fresh seafood, and Chen Qi was worried that the other party would not be used to it.
Aze nodded, "It's delicious."
Chen Qi breathed a sigh of relief, and then called the others to eat together.
Ah Shu picked up one, it was obviously hard when it grew by the lake, but now it was boiled and opened the shell, and you can see the yellow-brown meat inside, he directly took the meat inside with his fingers Twisted it out, put it in the mouth, chewed it a few times, and then commented inarticulately: "I thought these were stones, but I didn't expect them to be edible."
The taste of mussels is not the same as that of meat. The orcs were not used to this taste at first, so they would taste each one carefully before swallowing it. After eating a few, they felt that the taste was not bad, so they let it go A little bit, because not long after breakfast, half a bag of mussels in the animal skin backpack was a bit too much for the few people, and finally A Xu took the unfinished food to other caves and distributed them to the tribe the orcs.
Soon after, everyone in the Luoshui tribe knew that the dense pile of black-brown things that were as hard as stones growing on the rocky beach were edible.
After tasting the delicious mussels, Chen Qi made up his mind to bring mussels back to Qi Ze City. He took a few people to the rocky beach again, and this time he picked two bags full before returning.
After the mussels are cooked, the shells are removed, and then a layer of cattail leaves is spread on the open space outside the cave, and the meat of the mussels is spread out on the cattail leaves to dry, and the mussels are planned to be made into mussels before going back. Dried and taken away, raw mussels cannot be kept for too long, but as long as dried mussels are preserved properly, there is no problem at all to eat them in winter.
Mussels can’t just be exposed to the sun all the time, so Ale and Ashu took the initiative to stay and help take care of them. Axu’s family still has a lot of unrefined primitive salt stones. Teach A Shu the method of refining salt stone, and let A Shu teach it to other people in the tribe.
Under the leadership of A Xu, Chen Qi and the others went to the salt mountain to pick salt rocks.