the next day.
Before dawn, Chen Qi woke up, put the bamboo tube with salt and the flint into the backpack that Aze was going to carry out, and Aze always carried the lighter he brought when he crossed. The few wild rabbits caught in the trap yesterday, Chen Qi simply pickled them with salt, wrapped them in cattail leaves and stuffed them into his backpack. There was also a thick rope made overnight, which was to be used to tie the locust dragon For his eyes, Chen Qi taught Aze the simple knots to tie things, and he was relieved after confirming that Aze had not made mistakes several times in a row.
After a brief breakfast, Chen Qi carried another backpack on his back, which contained two bone needles he made earlier, a large handful of banyan tree roots, and a piece of cloth and a sword-corner knife that Ali sent yesterday. Keep it in your coat pocket all the time.
Before going out, Chen Qixian went to check the boiled syrup. It was still sticky, and no crystals were precipitated after a day in the sun. Fortunately, the color still looked milky white, and there was no sign of deterioration in the smell. The rack for drying marinated meat was moved to the door, and the animal skin curtain was opened for ventilation. Fearing that passing animals would smell the smell of meat and run in, Chen Qi put a lot of thorns by the door as fences. There were several rows of small traps scattered around the house, which made Aze go to the tribe on his back.
This is Chen Qi's second visit to the Yanshan tribe. The guard on the fig tree outside the tribe has been replaced by a younger female, who will wave enthusiastically when she sees Aze.
Carlo's house is not far from Ali's house, separated by four or five houses, but because it is just behind a corner, you can't see the location of the other's house unless you go to the intersection.
When Chen Qi arrived, Carlo was taking the meat out of the room to dry, and the ground was covered with thick cattail leaves or clean animal skins. Carlo's jerky was not cut into strips like Chen Qi's, but in large chunks. The jerky is placed outside the house during the day, and moved back into the house at night, and it is dried by the residual heat of the fire until the dried meat is completely dehydrated, so that it can be stored until winter.
"You guys are here." Ake took out the last plate of jerky, with a backpack on his back, looking ready to go out.
"The room has been packed, it's next door, Chen Qi, you can stay as long as you want." Carlo finished handling the things in his hands, wiped his greasy hands with the hay on the roadside, and leaned over to say.
"I'll trouble you to take care of Chen Qi." A Ze put Chen Qi down and said to the two of them.
"Whoever takes care of it doesn't know." Ake poured the dried meat from the pottery plate onto the pu leaves on the ground. "Today, people from the tribe are going to the Luoya forest, and they happen to be leaving the tribe too. Let's go together."
A Ze nodded, and told Chen Qi to go to A Li or A Zhang if he had something to do. Chen Qi secretly rolled his eyes, he must be the one who is going on a long trip now, why did he act like he was going on a long trip.
The two told each other a few words before Azecai and Ake left, and Carlo took Chen Qi to the next room. The structure of the room is similar to that of Aze’s house, except that the space area is reduced by half, and the height is also shorter. This time, it seems that you don’t need to raise your hands to touch the roof, and you can have a close contact with the roof by stepping on your head. There was only a slate bed in the corner, and there was a fire in the center of the house, with two bundles of dry firewood already placed beside it.
Chen Qi put the backpack on the bed, and said to Carlo who came in, "Carol, I'm going to Ali's house."
"Okay, I'll go with you."
"Um."
There are also a lot of dried meat outside the door of Ali's house, and there are a few simple shelves with a few hares hanging on them. The shelves are a bit like the ones Chen Qi made to dry pickled meat. Carlo patted his forehead when he saw it, " Why didn't I think of making two shelves, which is much more convenient and doesn't need to be spread all over the floor."
The animal skin curtain of Ali’s house was pushed aside by a few thick wooden poles, exposing a half opening, and the sunlight just came in through the half-open animal skin curtain. When the two entered the house, Ali was busy weaving. He had been following Chen Qizhuan for the past two days. The cloth needed by Ake’s family had been delayed for several days. Fortunately, the baby would not be born until several months later. , but not in a hurry to use it.
Seeing the two people entering the house, Ali smiled and stopped working, "Why are you all here? You don't need to build a house today, right? Why don't you let Carlo take you to pick stone slabs from the abandoned houses of the tribe? "
Although the tribe is called the Rock Mountain Tribe, the rock mountain they are backed by is not big, at most only about 20 meters high, so people in the tribe will not regard this mountain as a barrier as a place to collect materials for building houses. However, it is near the Chishui River, so it is much more convenient to use water, and there is no need to travel all the way home like Chen Qi and the others.
The Dora Plain is not rich in large stones. If the orcs in the tribe need to build houses, they have to go to the Loya Forest to find them. There are several large rock mountains in the Loya Forest, and the stones there are comparable to those in their own tribe. The rocks in this rocky mountain are much larger and harder.
"I'm going to stay here for one more night. I'm not in a hurry." Ali's house doesn't burn fires during the day, and the Dora Plain is not only short of stones, but also trees. Ya forest felled. Ah Li's legs and feet are inconvenient, and most of the firewood is chopped by A Zhang. On the other hand, Ah Li will help the other party cook or deal with things like tanning various animal skins.
On the way here, Chen Qi picked up a slab of stone as big as a palm. At this time, he took a piece of charcoal from the extinguished fire, drew a bowl shape on the slate, and handed the slate to Ali Look, he said straight to the point: "I heard from Aze that you made all the pottery in his house. Can you make some pottery bowls for me?"
"Pottery bowl?" What Chen Qi drew was just a simple side view, for the orcs who are not used to planes, they couldn't understand what this thing should look like.
Chen Qi thought for a while, "Do you still have clay here? I'll make one for you to see and you'll understand." Although Chen Qi doesn't know how to cook, he has done design for several years anyway. It looks like it can still be done.
"Yes." A Li took out a handful of clay. The clay was a bit dry, so A Li added some water and kneaded it until it became soft before handing it to Chen Qi.
Carlo also leaned over to see what Chen Qi could come up with.
Although the bowl is just a simple shape, it is not easy to make it look good. After Chen Qi roughly made a size and shape, Ali understood it. After all, he is also a person who has been making pottery for decades. The speed and technique are naturally much better than Chen Qi's half-baked guy. When Chen Qi finally finished pinching a slightly crooked pottery bowl, Ali had also finished one.
"Chen Qi, why do you want such a small pottery?" Carlo asked puzzled. The pottery bowl Chen Qi made was not the small rice bowl used at home, but more like the sea bowl in a ramen shop. This was also considering Aze's appetite, and it would be more convenient to use a sea bowl of this size to hold meat. convenient.
"Using this can replace the cattail leaves that are usually used to hold meat." Recalling that orcs eat barbecue directly with their hands, Chen Qi added, "And using it instead of bamboo tubes to hold sugar water will make it much more convenient to eat , and easy to clean.”
Carlo thought of yesterday's bamboo tube. Although the bamboo tube is very convenient for holding soup, the height of the bamboo tube itself is relatively deep, and the opening can only fit a fist. Not to mention it is inconvenient to clean, and you may be stabbed by bamboo thorns if you are not careful. Finger, and looked at the pottery bowl made by Chen Qi and A Li, it felt that it would indeed be better than the bamboo tube. "Uncle Ali, please help me make some of these pottery bowls."
Afterwards, Carlo imitated the two and made a few, but he made them worse than Chen Qi's, crooked, but A Li didn't plan to remake them.
Ali took out all the clay left at home, because he hadn't made pottery for a long time, and there was not much clay left in the house. After making about ten bowls, the clay was used up. Chen Qi I also took this opportunity to pinch a few teacups.
The three of them worked hard all morning. After the pottery blanks were completed, they could not be put into the furnace for firing immediately. They needed to be left for a while to wait for the water to dry.
Because Ake went to the Luoya forest with the people in the tribe, he couldn't come back at noon, so the two had lunch at Ali's house.
Ali took the opportunity to ask Chen Qi to teach him how to marinate his kind of bacon. Chen Qidu explained each of them carefully, and even demonstrated it once, then asked A Li to do it again, and finally reminded the other party that salting the meat is not enough. If you want to keep it longer, you can wipe it again every other day, about three times or so is almost the same, and it is taboo to put it in the sun to dry immediately after marinating, it must be dried in a cool and ventilated place for a few days, after a few days It can be put under the sun, but that is the practice of bacon.
Of course, there is no such detailed division in places where there is a shortage of materials, as long as the meat can be preserved for a longer time. Moreover, this method of drying meat in the sun is only suitable for cooking after the first snow comes, and the sun in summer is not suitable for drying cured meat. Carlo also carefully kept what Chen Qi said in his heart. A Li's family also stored a lot of meat, so he also tried to cook it again.
In the afternoon, Ali planned to continue weaving the cloth in his hands, and Carlo took Chen Qi to collect the stone slabs needed to build the house. The most serious house collapses in the tribe are on the outskirts of the tribe, but even if they collapse, the hardness of the stone will not be damaged much. In order to reduce the effort of carrying the stone slabs, Chen Qi focused on these houses that had basically collapsed.
Carlo is not very good at choosing what kind of stone slabs are better for building a house, and he already believes that Chen Qi is very powerful. Chen Qi said that he would choose those houses that have collapsed, so he took him outside. After all, a good house still needs fire to melt the jelly at the junction before pulling the slate down. The two of them can't do it without the female by their side.