The orcs didn't have the habit of taking a lunch break. They continued to work after eating some barbecue at noon, and because of this, the excavation progress of the city wall foundation was quite fast.
Chen used his fingers to simply measure the setting time of the sun. After confirming that the sun was going down in an hour or two, he stopped his work and walked to the busy Azhang, "Azhang, let's finish work early today." , I will teach you how to make a la carte in a while."
Azhang raised his head from the dug hole, and when he heard Chen Qi's words, he quickly agreed, "Clean up this place and I'll let them find you."
"Just go to the school, where the stove has been built and ready to use."
A Zhang nodded, and Chen Qi went back to make preparations first.
The school’s cooking classroom is larger than the other two, with five stoves and several wooden tables in the middle for storing things. Aze and Ake went to help watch the kiln, and Ali came back to help Chen Qi.
Except for the dragon dragon, most of the internal organs of dragons are inedible, so the prey that the hunting team hunts back during this period is only all kinds of meat.
Chen Qi took out all the livers that had been marinated in the summer. It had lost moisture for too long, and Chen used cold water to soak them to wash off most of the salty taste.
The crucian carp was caught by A Ze in the morning. There were two of them. Chen Qi only processed one of the fish and divided it into two large pottery dishes, then filled it with water and put it on the stove to cook soup.
Chen Qigang finished the preparations and the orcs came in. There were no stools in the classroom, so the orcs stood scattered. Chen used a rag to wipe his hands, "Let's have dinner together tonight. Now I'm going to teach you how to do it." After you go home, you often cook and eat some food, so maybe you can see something at night."
"How do you know that we can't see at night?" After entering winter, the eyesight of the old lady and those who can't transform into beasts began to gradually decline, especially in the early summer, when the sun almost went down and they couldn't see anything. But it will slowly get better in the middle of summer, and the cycle will continue after entering winter. The orcs can only attribute this phenomenon to the loss of animalization ability.
Chen Qi explained the characteristics of night blindness to everyone. He didn't know how serious their symptoms were, but they were obviously not born with them. After all, middle-aged women like Ah Xu had normal eyesight, so Just a few dietary adjustments should improve symptoms.
"You mean that as long as you eat more liver fish soup and vegetables, you can improve your inability to see at night?" Azhang asked after listening to Chen Qi's explanation.
Chen Qi nodded, "You should only eat meat in winter, right? And you don't eat much, unlike summer, you can eat some wild fruits to improve."
Ah Xu nodded in embarrassment. In fact, not long after winter began, when Ah Le came back and told them that the fish were edible, they didn't take this matter to heart. They thought that the stored food was enough for the winter, so they didn't go to the river to catch it. After passing the fish, there were several incidents of dragons collectively appearing on the plain, and the orcs hardly even left the tribe, and patiently stayed at home to wait for the end of winter.
Now that I moved here, I started to eat a little bit slowly, but some old females have experienced more things. Naturally, they have seen the fate of those who secretly ate fish before, and the orcs can’t swim. If you fall into the water and no one rescues you, you will almost have to wait to die, so even though you know that these fish are not in danger, you still have some resistance in your heart. This is also the reason why Azhang brought people into the forest to hunt in advance. Otherwise, based on his previous plan, he would not consider entering the forest until the tribe was fully completed.
"Apart from wild fruits, you can eat many things on the plain." Chen Qi took out spare ginger, onion and garlic from the backpack next to him and put them on the wooden table, so that everyone could see the appearance of these things clearly.
Ali showed them these things before when he taught them how to cook simple food, but the orcs are used to eating meat, wild fruits are usually only eaten by males, and now it is not the winter when there is no food, the hunting team came back from hunting The food is enough for the tribe to eat, so even if it is usually seasoned, the orcs still seldom eat it in their stomachs.
Chen Qi took out another pack of rice berry powder that had been processed, the color was a little yellowish, these were collected by Aze and the hunting team during this period, he asked Ali to pound two portions of meat, one portion It is ordinary rabbit dragon meat stuffing, one part is marinated liver stuffing that has been soaked before, and the two fillings are mixed with chopped green onion. Chen Qi took a portion of rice berry powder and kneaded it into dough, then rolled it into the shape of dumpling skin with a rolling pin.
When making dumplings, let other orcs do it together. The females are very good at doing things. Chen Qi only taught them twice and they will be able to do it. Put the wrapped dumplings in a pottery pan with hot oil and fry them until they are golden. Add water and cook until the juice dries up. Each person was given a pair of chopsticks, "Taste and see."
Ah Le was the first to come up. He had tasted Chen Qi's cooking skills, and he stuffed one into his mouth unceremoniously. He also got burnt because he ate too fast, and praised inarticulately: "It's delicious."
The others hesitated for a moment, and stepped forward to grab one to taste. Chen Qi didn't do much, just happened to have one for each of them.
Here, rice berries are for young children. For example, Ah Cheng has not eaten rice berries for more than two hundred years. He has long forgotten the taste of rice berries. Now it is clear that the crispy dumpling skins still feel a little fresh. The taste is very different from meat, but when you bite through it, a burst of fragrant and tender meat filling comes out.
The scallions are not added much, and you can’t eat them without carefully distinguishing them, and no one will deliberately tear the dumpling wrappers and pick them out a little bit.
After swallowing the dumplings, I still feel unsatisfactory, but the cooked dumplings have long been eaten up, Ah Xu stepped forward, "Chen Qi, are you asking us to learn how to cook this food?"
Chen Qi nodded, "You can call this kind of food dumplings. There are still a lot of processed rice berry powder here. You can make it according to the method I just taught."
There were several big tables in the room, and there were too many people, so Chen Qi asked them to learn how to knead dough in batches, and he taught a few old women how to bake rice berries into powder.
Taking advantage of the break, Ah Zhang walked up to Chen Qi, briefly told him about today's construction situation, and then said: "Chen Qi, I want to speed up the construction of the city wall."
Chen Qi looked back at him, "Do you want to continue working at night?"
Azhang nodded, "The surrounding area is too open. Once attacked, there is basically no way to hide. After the city wall is built, at least it will be safer."
Chen Qi knew the reason for a long time ago, but now that Ah Zhang mentions it, he has to feel strange, "Did you find anything while hunting yesterday?"
Azhang paused, "I originally thought to go into the forest in two days to confirm and then tell you. I found that there were traces of the giant wolf god's activities on the outskirts of the forest."
"...Are you saying that the giant wolf god who saved you and Aze has not returned to Sanchenhe?"
"I don't know if it's the same head." Azhang shook his head, "I'm afraid there are other reasons for the giant wolf god to stay on the outskirts. After all, we are too close to the forest here. Now that we can help the clansmen solve the problem of not being able to see at night. situation, it should be no problem to continue building the city wall at night, right?"
Chen Qi was silent for a while, "This is not a disease that can be cured by just eating one meal." And it didn't happen overnight to guide the orcs to eat other foods. How long has Carlo been eating with him, and until now he still doesn't like it except Vegetables other than potatoes and sweet potatoes.
"..."
Although there is no way to solve the problem of not being able to see things at night with only one meal, Azhang still took the young females to continue to build the city wall at night. In just one week, the city wall was fully halfway up. The rice is too high, but unfortunately the firing speed of the earthen kiln can't keep up with the construction speed, so it has to slow down again.
Outside the fence of Chen Qi's house, a whole circle of ghost needle trees was planted around the fence. This batch of ghost needle trees had been planted for almost two months. Once any tree died, Aze would dig it out and plant new ones. Once the ghost needle tree is alive, it will basically never die again. Now the tree is full of ghost needle flowers of various colors, which set off the whole wall very beautifully.
Others in the tribe saw it and imitated it and planted it in a circle. Those annoying mosquitoes smelled the ghost needle flower from a distance and avoided it. Now even if you walk in the tribe, you can’t see it. The figure of a bug.
The school now arranges two classes every day, literacy class in the morning and cooking class or manual class in the evening. Chen Qi only taught a few classes in the first two days, and then threw these classes to Ah Jing and Ali Although Ah Jing is young, he teaches things in an orderly manner. If he was born in Chen Qi's world, he would be a genius student.
Meanwhile, Chen Qi and A Ze were working on making paper. Azhang also wanted to see how it was done, but he was responsible for both the construction of the city wall and the hunting.
The most troublesome part of making paper is pulping. Fortunately, Aze has great strength, and he can make this job very quickly after handing it over to him. But Chen Qi has never made paper before, so he can only experiment while doing it. Naturally, he failed several times during the process. Second-rate.
Looking at the paper slowly being dried on the slate, Chen Qi carefully tore it off. This piece of paper was yellowish-brown and only about 80 in size. Although the surface of the paper was rough, some unmasked plant fibers could still be seen. It was also bumpy because the last step was uneven, but it still couldn't hide Chen Qi's excitement, "Aze, Aze, look, it's done."
Aze breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, these days Chen Qi has been messing around day and night, he is really afraid that the other party's body will not be able to bear it. "Um."
"Is this just paper?" Ah Zhu leaned over to look curiously, but he didn't expect that pile of mushy things to become like this after drying.
"There are more things you can do when you have paper." Chen Qi carefully put away the first finished product, taking advantage of the current feeling, he wants to make more, now that there are no gum leaves, and You can't use cloth to paint extravagantly every time. Chen Qi's hands have been itching for a long time. With paper, he can record some edible things.
"This pulp is still too rough, Aze, please make it finer."
"it is good."