The ant hangs on Zhuang Yu's arm, "I don't want a small box, I want a big box, I can't finish a box that big with a popsicle in each hand."
Zhuang Yu: "..."
Is this little guy selling popsicles or is he ready to hang a food box on his body at all times
However, selling popsicles is just a small business, and the main source of money is braised meat. To be honest, Zhuang Yu doesn't really care about the income of popsicles, otherwise he wouldn't just ask a group of children to sell them.
But, if the big box was hung on the ant's chest, he probably wouldn't even be able to see the way.
Zhuang Yu rubbed the ant's little head, let him do it, and when he knows that the big box is inconvenient, he will naturally change it back.
In the end, Zhuang Yu was really wrong this time.
Ant's eyes were narrowed into slits, and he was holding his big box. The box was higher than his head, and he couldn't see the front at all.
Ant hugged the box and bumped around, but was reluctant to replace it with a small box. This box can hold a lot of popsicles, and I laughed happily thinking about it.
It's just really inconvenient.
Then, Zhuang Yu saw the ant put the box on the ground, and the ant kicked its calf and walked forward, and the calf swung to the chest.
And the box at the back just followed him like that.
Zhuang Yu couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and after a closer look, he found that the bottom of the box was full of termites.
Termites carry boxes.
If you don't look carefully, you really can't tell. A child who is happily swinging his calf, followed by a box that moves by itself, looks... really weird.
Zhuang Yu couldn't help laughing, how could he use ants.
The small town does not allow huge monsters to enter, because the ground is covered with tiles, once the monsters come in, they will all be crushed.
Of course, ants like ants and Zhuang Yu's little mushrooms are not included in this restriction, they are not as heavy as humans.
Zhuang Yu also thought about how to place other huge beasts. After all, before Chidi City, humans and giant beasts lived together, and this living custom cannot be changed just by changing it.
Zhuang Yu plans to set up a big garden outside every small town. The garden doesn’t need to be too elaborate, just big enough. Of course, the necessary environment still needs to be there. Make a nest.
While thinking, Zhuang Yu walked to the entrance of the town, where the large refrigerator used to make popsicles was placed.
Zhuang Yu planned to put such refrigerators in every small town after their Chidi City stabilized, and the popsicles inside would be provided for the clansmen to eat every day.
Their lives in Chidi City also need to be improved.
The outside of the large refrigerator is a wooden board, and in order to hold water, a thin stone board interlayer carved from volcanic rock is used to hold water and saltpeter. Popsicles are separated, after all, ice made directly from saltpeter is inedible.
Therefore, this box is very heavy and very tall.
Placed at the entrance of the town, it looks very interesting, it is a special scenery, and it is also convenient. The first time a busy tribe returns to the town every day, they can open the refrigerator and take a popsicle to eat.
A group of radish heads has already surrounded several refrigerators, and they are waiting for the next batch of popsicles to be frozen.
It's just that these little radish heads are drooling while waiting, and it is estimated that they will have to kill some of the popsicles by themselves after they are frozen and sold.
Zhuang Yu didn't care how they sold popsicles, anyway, these refrigerators were handed over to these little radish heads, and he taught them how to freeze popsicles and when they could be frozen well.
Zhuang Yu is busy with his affairs now.
There are two kinds of braised pork he made recently.
One is the braised pork that is usually marinated. It needs to be eaten on the spot. It can't be kept for a day or two, but it tastes better.
One is the stewed meat that has been dried in the sun. The taste will be worse, but it can be stored for more than a month. This is the kind that caravans can buy and bring out of Chidi.
The latter one is particularly profitable, because even if businessmen like to eat stewed meat, they can’t eat much if they keep eating it. They need to buy the second kind of stewed meat in large batches to count as a truly profitable business. .
Zhuang Yu found Mrs. Chuncha and asked about the situation.
Unexpectedly, the results obtained are not bad. A lot of stewed meat has been sold in large batches. There are several large caravans, and a lot of them are specially customized.
However, Aunt Chuncha said, "Shaojun, we recently sold salt and porcelain, and a large part of the goods we exchanged were meat. Just now, a tribe came to report that the first batch of meat exchanged showed signs of corruption. .”
Aunt Chuncha said something worrying, but she had a smile on her face. They also have food stored in Chidi City, and there are times when they can't finish it.
Zhuang Yu frowned slightly, but he ignored this matter. Like before, Shaohao's meat was all handed over to him for preservation, that is to say, even large tribes couldn't preserve meat for a long time.
The situation of the people of the foreign race is not bad, they don't need to keep the meat for too long, they just go hunting when they run out of meat.
But the situation in Chidi City is different. Now they urgently need a way to preserve meat for a long time. In the past, there was not enough meat, so this situation was not urgent. Now that there is meat left, the situation has become severe.
Moreover, these meats were exchanged for the salt and porcelain they worked so hard to get, so they couldn't just go bad like this.
Zhuang Yu thought about it, and it was time to teach the people of Chidi City how to make bacon and how to preserve meat properly.
Although the taste of bacon is different from that of fresh meat, it is also very delicious. The most important thing is that it has a particularly long storage time.
Zhuang Yu said, "Let all the clansmen come to receive the meat, and the meat they get will be distributed to each clan in proportion."
After all, making bacon is a matter of manpower. Unlike before, it is enough to simply store the meat. Now where is the manpower dedicated to preserving them, they are busy repairing the house, so they have to disperse the meat and let them keep it by themselves.
The meat is divided at night, because there is no time to collect the meat during the day.
This is the first large-scale meat distribution after the opening of the trade route. In the past, each tribe went to collect the meat they needed.
There are huge crowds of people, and these are the meat-carrying people from all the tribes. If they all come, they can’t hold it. Although Chidi City has the smallest population among the five major forces, there are also 19 tribes. Except for the Golden Centipede tribe, every tribe All are huge.
The lively crowd was completely boiling when they saw the piled up meat mountain.
"Good... a lot of meat."
"Have we got so much meat in Chidi City? We've never seen so much meat before."
In front of him, there is really a mountain of meat, which is extremely spectacular.
There was a lot of voices, and the whole scene was in boiling.
After a while, Zhuang Yu said loudly, suppressing his voice, "I called everyone here today, so that everyone can come to receive the meat."
Wow!
"But there is too much meat. Even if the average distribution is made, it will be much more than before." They have also received meat before, so of course they know how much they should receive at a time.
Zhuang Yu said, "By the way, I will teach you how to preserve meat. If the meat is not handled properly, it will soon rot."
Some helpless.
And those who heard the words were stunned, corruption
The meat of their Red Emperor City is corrupt? In the past, when they only had enough meat to eat, how could they wait until the meat spoiled
I was a little worried, this is meat, what if it becomes corrupt? But there is a strange sense of satisfaction in my heart. The meat in their Red Emperor City is now so much that it is about to rot, and I am excited to think about it.
However, when Shaojun taught them how to preserve meat, he must have thought of a way to prevent meat from spoiling.
Zhuang Yu didn't talk nonsense, and began to teach everyone how to smoke bacon.
How to pickle with salt, how to smoke with fire, teach everyone one by one.
It is worth reminding that the charcoal fire of briquettes should not be used to smoke bacon. The bacon smoked by charcoal fire is probably too dark to eat and has a weird taste.
Now they have bought a large number of trees. These trees have been split into planks, leaving behind a lot of waste and unnecessary small branches. They just don't know what to do with them, but they can be used for bacon.
Zhuang Yu said, "Wait, all ethnic groups will also go to receive salt in proportion..."
When bacon is marinated, a lot of salt is needed.
Then, the division of meat begins.
A group of people resisted and left, their faces almost dying of laughter.
They got a lot of meat. They had never got so much meat before.
The improvement in the quality of life is almost visible to the naked eye.
The division of meat alone did not end until the middle of the night.
The next day, the smoked bacon began.
The unique aroma of bacon floats far away.
The smoked bacon is hung in a row at the door of the house. It is sallow and yellow, and it is gratifying to look at.
Every time I go out, I look at a row of smoked meat with a smile, and I can't stop being so happy.
Look at how good their bacon is, it doesn't look corrupt at all. Shaojun said that the meat treated in this way can be preserved for a very long time.
Every household is basically the same, with a pile of meat hanging in front of the door.
Now when we meet, the first thing we do is to ask, "How is your bacon doing? If you don't smoke it, it will go bad."
"The ones in our house are almost smoked, they are sallow and sallow, very beautiful."
"I specially cut some bacon to eat yesterday. It tastes really delicious, especially chewy."
"My woman got a little salty from smoking, which made me drink a lot of water."
Then he laughed out loud.
The taste of bacon basically conquered the mouths of the people in Chidi City in an instant.
It's just that when I went home at night, the children in the family came back with the eldest fish in their arms.
Now, every two days, I can go to the river and bring back a fish.
He looked at the bacon, then at the fish, "Should we eat meat or fish today?"
When you talk, you have to be more and more.
As a result, the woman at home gave her a stare, "Of course, eat the fish first. Shaojun said that the fish is still fresh and delicious. There are still a lot of chili and peppercorns I received last time. Besides, fish is not easy to preserve."
As a result, that night, Zhuang Yu taught him how to dry the salted fish again, because Mrs. Chuncha told Zhuang Yu that some people in the clan were reluctant to eat and preserved the fish, but all of them broke, and they were so sad that they cried for a long time.
Zhuang Yu thought about it, fish can also be preserved, the taste of salted fish is very good, and it is easier to preserve than bacon, and does not need to be smoked.
As a result, one or two shriveled salted fish can be seen hanging on the door of every household from time to time.
The women in the family also looked worried, "Is it better to eat meat or fish today?"
Laughing from ear to ear.
Then, still happy, someone came to inform, "Young Master sent me to get the bean cakes, this time I made a lot of bean cakes."
The soybeans that Zhuang Yu had planted before had already been harvested, and the newly planted soybeans had grown taller.
Zhuang Yu originally planned to teach everyone how to make bean curd, but in the end, all the soybeans were taken away for oil extraction.
The stone mill made of volcanic rock made a lot of them. After the beans were fried, they were ground into pieces with a stone mill, and then pressed directly with stones to squeeze out the oil.
The oil yield of soybean is very high.
Every household was given a large jar of soybean oil.
Now they also know that when grilling meat, apply a little oil, and the grilled meat will become very loose, not dry at all, and it tastes much better.
This soybean oil is a good thing.
The bean dregs left over from oil extraction are made into bean cakes.
In the past, the children in the family liked to eat bean cakes the most. As a result, they don’t eat much now, because they have meat. They just need to take the meat to the food court and ask the clansmen to help it marinate with the meat sold to foreign businessmen. OK.
Now the children in the family like to eat stewed pork, and bean cakes are not as rare as before.
Now I wrap a bean cake for the children every day for them to take with them as a snack, and they have to put some stewed pork on it, otherwise they won’t eat it, and it’s annoying to look at it.
How about letting Shaojun sell the bean cakes in the food street
In the past, Zhuang Yu wanted to add snacks to the children in Chidi City, but unexpectedly, the children began to pick their mouths.
As a result, there is another product in the food street, bean cakes.
The entire Red Emperor City has greatly improved the quality of life.
Finally, infrastructure and life are developing at the same time.
It can be said that these improvements are all based on that trade route, which allowed their salt porcelain to sell well.
At this time, Zhuang Yu was taking a group of radish heads to dig lotus roots in the river.
"Tonight, let's eat stewed lotus root with pork ribs, and put some lotus seeds on it, tsk tsk."
A group of radish heads were overjoyed, but, "What is stewed lotus root with pork ribs?"
Zhuang Yu just dug up a lotus root, which has seven or eight knots and looks really good.
The onlookers were also taken aback, there is actually this thing growing under these beautiful lotus leaves
Zhuang Yu looked at it, and found that the lotus root had grown very well, and he could harvest some.
That day, Zhuang Yu stewed several big pots of pork ribs. There were so many of them, one pot was definitely not enough to eat.
The fragrance of the lotus root, the deliciousness of the pork ribs, and the smoothness and sweetness of the pork rib soup made a group of radish heads turn red.
Zhuang Yu glanced at Shaohao, this guy is nothing but a fool.
Then he asked a group of little radish heads, "Is it delicious?"
A group of radish heads nodded, "Delicious."
They are a bit tired of eating meat recently, and now it is appropriate to eat lotus root.
The practice of stewed pork ribs with lotus root spread quickly, and new dishes began to be served on the food street.
If people in Chidi City want to eat it, they can dig lotus roots in the river by themselves.
In the past, if they were given bones when dividing the meat, they would be very dissatisfied. Now, if they don’t give them some ribs, they will stare for a long time. Shaojun said that if the ribs are stewed with lotus root, you have to stew the ribs with bones like this It's delicious.
Looking at the children at home, smiling and gnawing on the ribs, I feel satisfied in my heart.
Moreover, the lotus root is also delicious, and the soup is also very unique. Compared with the bone soup, it has more fragrance and a little sweetness. It is delicious, and even children can drink a big bowl.
People in Chidi City have never eaten any vegetables before, so they are particularly interested in the taste of lotus root.
If you eat a lot of meat and eat some lotus root, you will feel very different.
To sum it up in one sentence, this is another big dish, delicious food.
Thinking about it makes me very happy, especially the people who have been to Chidi and other tribes. How can there be such delicious food outside.
The tribes outside don't even know how to use a pot, they can only roast meat, hum.
People from other races only drink water, unlike them, they can make such delicious soup.
No matter how they look at it, their Scarlet Emperor City is getting better and better now.
Moreover, in the past, Ruidi City always looked down on everyone else, saying that they were more civilized.
But now let them come to Chidi City to have a look, especially their newly built town. Even the ground in their town is wiped clean with animal skins every day. With the advantages of food, who is more civilized? Not sure.
With the development of Chidi City, the people of the tribe all have a kind of pride in their bones, proud of Chidi City, and proud of themselves.
This kind of pride can make Red Emperor City more united.
In the thriving atmosphere of the Red Emperor City, the envoys of the White Emperor City finally arrived not far outside the Red Emperor City.
"Walk for half a day, and you will see Chidi City." The people from Baidi City said while flipping through the ancient animal skin map.
The environment of this Chidi is as harsh as the legends say, and no life can even be seen. "It's really hard to imagine that such an environment can actually survive."
Shaoyu nodded, "It is unimaginable for a person honed in such an environment to have a strong will, and the people in Chidi City are well known for their bravery and skill in fighting."
After finishing speaking, he continued, "However, they are not without weaknesses."
Everyone looked at Shaoyu. They came to make peace, but making peace also requires skill. It would be best if they could take advantage of each other's weaknesses.
The corner of Shaoyu's mouth rose, "They... are poor."
The yellow sand is so long that you don't even have to eat the bark. You can imagine how poor it is.
Looking at the large amount of supplies they brought in this time, Baidi City was also smiling, and the negotiation was stable.
What's the use of being brave if you have nothing to eat? It can be said that they caught each other's life.
They brought so many supplies, for the sake of these supplies, Chidi City will also agree to re-allocate.
Full of confidence.
Shaoyu continued to move forward with his people, and everyone in Baidi City was full of confidence in this trip.
"Hurry up and end the negotiation. Leave this ghostly place early. It's not a place to stay. No wonder no one has ever planned to grab their territory."
The envoys from Baidi City approached Chidi City. Zhuang Yu must have known the specific whereabouts. The people from the Huangsha Department had already reported each other's whereabouts one by one.
He even knew exactly how much the other party brought.
That's because the other party brought a lot of things, so the journey took so long.
Zhuang Yu thought, it seems that Shaoyu's sincerity this time is not bad.
So when Shaoyu and the others approached, Zhuang Yu led people to welcome them out.
Outside the Red Emperor City, the two forces meet.
To be honest, the atmosphere was kind of weird.
What happened between them seemed ordinary, but it was extremely bizarre and the relationship was complicated.
As the host, Zhuang Yu spoke immediately, "Welcome the envoy from Baidi City to our Red Emperor City."
The people in Baidi City were still wondering, because the other party seemed to have... no other superfluous reactions when they saw so many supplies they brought
But how is this possible
For people who lack food and are poor, this should not be the reaction.
Is the willpower strong enough to make them ignore their desire for food
But it doesn't matter, the fact that Chidi City is poor cannot be changed, and the other party is at most just pretending.
Shaoyu looked at the opposite side. To be honest, he was in a very weird mood now because...the other young master of their Baidi City, Shaohao, was standing opposite, and the two sons of the God of War were also standing opposite, facing each other. Looking at him winking and blinking, no matter how you look at it, it looks like you are doing well
This is different from what he imagined, especially Mr. Changkong, he understands it very well, how could he endure the poverty of Chidi City when he is used to living a comfortable life
But now is not the time to think about it, Shaoyu made a tribal etiquette, "Great Master!"
The people of Baidi City followed suit and said in unison, "Great Mage!"
To be honest, even Zhuang Yu, who thought he would not be shaken in any way, trembled in his heart.
After so many things have happened between Chidi City and Baidi City, are they still willing to recognize him as a great mage
Archmage, that is a title given to the most prestigious sage in Baidi City, representing supreme prestige and glory.
Zhuang Yu sighed in his heart, and said, "Everyone, please follow me into the Red Emperor City, and take a good look at the different customs and customs of my Red Emperor City."
They are not far from Chidi City, and they will be there after crossing a sand dune.
This meeting, at least for now, looks good.
Zhuang Yu led his people towards Chidi City.
The little fur hat and the feather head ran to Shaoyu's side, "Brother Shaoyu, you should have come to Chidi City to negotiate peace long ago. It would be great if our White Emperor City and Chidi City formed an alliance."
The corner of Shaoyu's mouth twitched, and he slapped the feather's head door, "See how I will punish you when I go back."
Featherhead raised his head, "We are heroes and have contributed to the friendship between White Emperor City and Red Emperor City."
The little leather hat kept nodding, "We haven't asked for a reward yet."
Shaoyu didn't bother with the two children, but asked, "How are you doing in Chidi City?"
The two children came to Chidi City through mountains and rivers. The hardships involved are unimaginable. In addition, Chidi City is so poor, they must be very unhappy.
As a result, the eyes of the two boys lit up, shining like flashlights, "The Red Emperor City is so much fun, ten thousand times more fun than the White Emperor City, we don't plan to go back."
Shaoyu was stunned, what fun could there be in such a barren Chidi City
But it doesn't look like these two boys are lying.
"Anyway, Scarlet Emperor City is amazing, you will know it after you go to see it."
The same goes for Shaoyu Xindao, they are almost at the foot of Chidi City, they don't need to ask, they can see it right away.
Shaoyu hesitated for a moment, and then asked with a strange expression, "By the way, you have been staying in Chidi City recently, have you heard that the youngest son of Xuandi City has descended to Chidi City?"
The little fur hat and Featherhead scratched their heads, shouldn't they secretly ask them about the situation of Chidi City first? Although they planned not to reveal anything, they were not the ones who betrayed their friends. They now made many friends in Chidi City who took a shower and picked up cow dung cakes together.
The little leather hat and the feather head replied, "Yes, Shaojun Jiang and we are neighbors now, we can see it every day, and today I saw him holding a pottery pot to go to brother Yu, saying that he wanted to learn how to cook it." Stewed pork ribs with lotus root."
Shaoyu's expressionless face stiffened imperceptibly.
Then, just as he was about to ask something more, the entire Baidi City team stopped abruptly.
There was no sound.
Shaoyu was taken aback, what's the matter? He didn't even give an order to stop. Could it be that Chidi City was too poor and dilapidated to frighten them
They're here to make peace, and it's really disrespectful to act like this.
Shaoyu raised his head and looked forward, watching him ease the atmosphere.
And then... there is no more.
Because Shaoyu, like other people in Baidi City, had a dull expression on his face.
Both the little fur hat and the feather head covered their faces in shame, how could the people from Baidi City act like they had never seen the world.