When Chen Qi went out, he saw this group of people huddling together to learn how to swim, but he didn't expect that they were still there after an afternoon. His eyes swept over Ah Le's hands, which had already turned white from the soak, and he reminded: "There is no rush for swimming, you have been soaking in the water for so long, go back and rest early today."
Ah Le responded, and Ah Shu cleaned up the two simple life buoys that had been destroyed beyond recognition, and greeted the other females, agreeing to go home with Chen Qi after continuing tomorrow.
Seeing A Le's wet hand trying to reach out to take his backpack, Chen Qi hurriedly avoided the other's movement, "I have saltpetre in my backpack, and your hand is full of water, so don't help me take it."
"Saltpeter? What is that?" A Le withdrew his hand in doubt.
Chen Qi blinked, "It's a very useful thing."
A Le, who couldn't get an explanation, could only suppress the doubts in his heart. As soon as they returned to the entrance of the cave, they saw Axu coming back with a large backpack of salt. Chen Qi opened it and looked, and found that everything was refined.
"Now people in the tribe know how to refine salt rocks. Just give us the salt you need, and we will help you refine as much as you want." The most important thing they lack is salt. A Xu handed the backpack to Chen Qi and grinned.
Chen Qi was moved, and asked A Ze to put away the refined salt, and thanked A Xu.
The dried mussels outside the cave have also been taken back, Ah Xu plans to go to the rocky beach to collect some tomorrow, Chen Qi told them that there are also a lot of mussels growing on the rocky beach on the other side of the beach.
"Why haven't they been cooked for so long?" Chen Qi frowned and poked the turtle eggs that had been boiled and dropped into the pottery bowl with his chopsticks. They were still soft and semi-liquid.
A Le and A Shu ran out to the small river to wash themselves because they were covered with sticky salt crumbs after soaking in Luoshui Lake for a day.
The water in Luoshui Lake is salty and not drinkable. People in the tribe can only go to a tributary of the Dosa River in the distance to get water. It takes more than two hours to go back and forth at the speed of a female. How far away it is, probably the most inconvenient thing for the orcs of the Luoshui tribe is the problem of water use.
Turtle eggs are soft, they don't form like eggs when they are boiled. Chen used his chopsticks to taste the taste. In a word, it is fishy.
Sighing, he chopped some minced ginger and wild onions, added some sliced meat and salt, and planned to make stewed eggs directly.
After Ah Le and the two came back after taking a bath and fetching water, Chen Qi and A Ze had already finished their dinner. At this moment, Chen Qi had already started to take out the collected saltpeter, because he wanted to try the effect first, so this collection The number is not many. He poured out a small plate of water from the pottery pot he had just brought back, and Chen Qi took the pottery pot away from the fire, holding the saltpeter in his gloved hand a little nervously.
Sea turtle eggs have been made into a dipping sauce for barbecue by Chen Qi, and fried with ginger and scallions, the smell is gone. Ashu, who is used to eating prey in the water, likes it very much. Ale is very fond of this kind of food. The taste is very delicate. After two bites, I still just obediently gnaw on the barbecue.
Both of them were very curious about what Chen Qi was going to do, but Chen Qi didn't let them all gather around, lest their breath make the surrounding temperature too high. Although the two couldn't understand, they could only squat down aggrieved While eating by the fire, he looked helplessly at Chen Qi who was tinkering with things in the corner of the room.
Chen Qi broke the saltpeter into pieces, breaking it into a size large enough to submerge the saltpeter in the pottery dish, and then put the saltpeter in. Because he was worried that the amount of saltpeter was not enough, Chen Qi added it while watching, and waited. After a while, all the saltpeter was dissolved in the water, and the water in the pottery dish turned into ice.
Chen Qi observed it quietly again, feeling that the ice had completely condensed, then reached out and touched it in surprise, through the cloth gloves, it was cold.
"Aze, come and help me to see if this has really turned into ice." Chen Qi excitedly waved to Aze who was driven aside by him, and Aze hurried over and saw The water in the pottery dish had turned into a translucent solid, and the surprise on his face couldn't be concealed.
Ah Shu and Ah Le looked at each other, put down the half-eaten food in their hands, and hurried over. As soon as the two approached, they felt a burst of coolness. Ale couldn't help stretching out his hand and broke it off a little. Maybe the temperature in his palm was too high. He stuck out his tongue to lick it, but Chen Qi quickly knocked it off. The ice cube fell to the ground and rolled around twice, before it completely melted into water.
"This thing can't be eaten." Chen Qi scolded with a straight face.
"Why?" A Le flinched, and rubbed the back of Chen Qi's red hand, but he didn't expect Chen Qi to be so strong.
Chen Qibai glanced at him, "If you want to have diarrhea for a few days, try eating some."
Ah Le swallowed his saliva and dared not speak. Ah Shu gloated at him, making him want to stuff everything into his mouth, and he wasn't afraid of making mistakes.
In summer, the ice is not easy to keep. Looking at the ice that has begun to melt slowly, Chen Qi frowned and thought for a while, remembering the bale of cotton he collected on the way here, and the cotton had been picked out of the cotton seeds by him. , It was originally intended to be used to make cotton-padded clothes, so it has been played in advance and pressed into sheets.
Chen Qi took out the cotton that had been pressed into pieces, and asked Aze to make a small wooden box, and then sewed a layer of cloth coated with jelly juice on the cotton, hoping that when the ice cubes melted, it would drip down to make it easy. waterproof effect.
Chen Qi stuffed the finished cotton into the wooden box, even the top cover was tightly covered with cotton, and then put the ice cubes in the pottery plate into the wooden box. In order not to let the ice melt too quickly, the wooden box The box was moved to a corner away from the fire, and Chen Qi took out a few ripe red berries, washed them and put them on a ceramic plate, covered them with a layer of cattail leaves, and put them in a simple refrigerator. After Ah Le and the two finished their dinner, Chen Qi took out the red berries. The iced fruits were sweet and refreshing.
Even Aze, who doesn't like to eat sweet fruits, couldn't help but eat a few more. After eating this kind of cold food, the heat around him seemed to disappear.
When several people were enjoying the cold red berries, Ah Xu and Ah Xu came back with tired faces. They were called away by Ah Chu after they brought back the refined salt just now. for hours.
The food was still warm on the fire, and as soon as Ah Shu saw them coming back, he quickly snatched the last two red berries back from A Le's hands, and quickly stuffed them into the hands of A Xu and A Xu, both of them were shocked when they touched the cold fruits. Surprised, "What is this?"
"Chen Qi made ice, this fruit was frozen in ice, it's delicious." A Shu licked his lips, and explained with an unsatisfactory expression, now the second batch of red berries has been frozen in the small wooden refrigerator After the ice is ready, he will take it for Dad and Dad to taste.
Ah Xu looked at the cold red berry curiously, took a bite, and it tasted much better than usual. A Xu didn't seem interested, his brows were frowned, as if he was worrying about something.
"Did something happen to you?" A Ze served a cup of scented tea for the two of them, and A Xu took it and thanked them.
"People from the Yanshan tribe are here."
"Yanshan Tribe? They are so far away from us, how could they come here?" A Shu packed the barbecue and the sea turtle egg stew cooked by Chen Qi for the two of them and handed them over.
"They said that there is no way to hunt prey in the forest, and they want to come to Luoshui Lake to hunt, but they have no experience in hunting in water, so they came to Ah Chu and asked him to teach them." Ah Xu replied.
"Is their tribe close to here?" If they can't go hunting in the forest since the beginning of summer, then they should have exhausted the food they stored before winter in the past few months. How could they think of this time? Came to the Luoshui Tribe for help? Chen Qi thought so, so he asked the same question.
"Their tribe is a little closer to here than Qi Ze City, but it's only two or three days away."
"It's not that they couldn't enter the forest from the beginning. What they mean is that a group of hyena dragons wandered around there not long after the beginning of summer. They had already lost a lot of people, so they had no choice but to change the hunting place. Come and have a look in our tribe." A Xu supported his forehead and continued with a headache: "People in the Yanshan tribe want to hunt their prey as soon as possible, but hunting here is not so easy, and it is not easy to hunt large prey every day. can meet."
Chen Qi understood. The few people stopped discussing the matters of the Yanshan Tribe. After eating, they simply washed up and rested.
The next day, the ice in the Xiaomu refrigerator had already melted, because the red berries were placed in a pottery bowl, but they were not wetted by water. The cotton inside is soaked.
Chen Qi also made the remaining saltpeter into ice and put it back in the small wooden refrigerator. On the way here, he also found some mung beans. Right now, he boiled a plate of mung bean syrup, chilled it in the refrigerator, and then took it out to eat , It is simply a weapon to relieve summer heat.
Ah Chu also knew that this kind of stone can actually make ice, so he took a few females to the old salt mountain early in the morning and led by Ah Ze to pick a lot. Chen Qi told them some precautions, especially Tell them not to eat the ice made with saltpeter, just use it to cool down and freeze food.
Chen Qi also plans to make edible ice, but the heat conduction effect of the ceramic bowl is not good. After several attempts, the water in the ceramic bowl cannot be condensed into ice. It seems that he can only wait for the opportunity to make metal containers Time to try again.
Because Aze wanted to take Achu and others to collect saltpeter, today the two people’s rock mountain treasure hunt had no choice but to be cancelled. The saltstone was now collected by people from the Luoshui tribe, and when it was in Chen Qi’s hands, it had already become a saltpeter. Bags of refined salt, Chen Qi was too embarrassed to let them work for nothing, so he made a lot of food and frozen sugar water for them, and the orcs of the Luoshui tribe worked harder to help Chen Qi.
Chen Qi is not stingy with his skills, as long as someone comes to ask him how to make those snacks or where the raw materials for those snacks are obtained, he will patiently explain to everyone one by one. The small cave has become the most lively place in the Luoshui tribe.