Orcs Build a Well-off Society - 74

Once all the food is collected, it will start to spoil. Except in very cold regions, fresh meat and fish will start to spoil in less than a day, and plants and vegetables will slowly lose their nutrients if they are not preserved properly. Because in winter, food in the wild is very limited, some plants will freeze to death, and some animals will hibernate, so it is certainly not possible to collect nutritionally balanced food every day. Therefore, it is necessary to take advantage of this period of time to collect a large number of times and save them for later use.

Because of the light rain a few days ago, mushrooms that hadn’t been seen for a long time appeared again in groups. This time everyone had no worries and wiped out all the mushrooms that could be eaten. If you don’t need to eat it right away, it is best not to wash the mushrooms when they are air-dried, because washing with water will destroy the protective layer on the outside.

The way to store fruits in the tribe, in addition to natural drying, can also be sliced ​​through the branches of the fruit, and then placed on the fire to dry. Of course, the fire cannot be too big, otherwise the fruit will not be stored if it is roasted. However, it is estimated that it is the problem of drying with fire. The fruit slices eaten in this way always have a smoky smell.

And most of the meat of beasts is cut into thick pieces, and then immediately placed on a rack made of wooden sticks to dry. The drying rack should be placed in a place with breeze, so as to avoid fishy mosquitoes such as flies. There should be enough space between the meat slices and the meat slices to ensure that the air can circulate, and it is best to choose a sunny day, so as to ensure that the surface moisture can be completely dried before the sun goes down.

After removing the moisture on the surface, continue to expose the meat in the next few days, and you’re done. It’s just that the freshly dried meat slices are hard, of course, they will get harder and harder in the future storage days, so generally winter food…I really don’t care about the “taste”.

Civilization knows many ways to store it, but there is no way. Sichuanese just like to eat. Just fish can be made into smoked fish, pickled fish, fish floss… etc. In addition, the fish in autumn are fat and big. It can be said that this winter has increased the storage of food for the tribe.

The weather was fine, and Parson had a rare trip to go fishing with Neil Wenming. It’s just that Parson is on the shore (preferably a long way from the shore-Kruhi) to help Civilization and Neal look at the tools and catch the fish. The temperature is not very low, even standing barefoot in the water does not feel cold and biting, and the current is not turbulent during this period, and the water in this area chosen by civilization only submerges to the calf, so Palos and the others Also rest assured that they will act together.

Naturally freshwater fish grow in the river. Most of the freshwater fish can be eaten with peace of mind. However, some fish are more delicious or easier to cook, while some fish have many fine bones, which is not only tricky to handle, if the bone gets stuck. It is also dangerous in the throat.

But what makes civilization feel gratified is that everything in this world is more than one size bigger than what he knows, so even those so-called fish with “many thorns”, in his eyes, those thorns are also It’s easy to pick out.

Civilization is not very knowledgeable about fish. It knows some common freshwater fish such as grass carp, carp, silver carp, mandarin fish, perch, puffer fish, and some edible sea fish like hairtail. As for poisonous fish, civilization only knows that pufferfish and most marine fish are poisonous…

Fortunately, the fishes in this river are common freshwater fishes. Civilization They use nets made of twine to fish. Although their skills are not very good, it is estimated that there have not been so many fish-eaters before, so there are still big fishes in the clear water from time to time. Hit it.

Every time they catch a fish, they are busy putting the fish into the wooden bucket with water on the shore. Once the fish dies, bacteria will start to breed. Therefore, even the most common freshwater fish will suffer from eating its dead meat. Dangerous, unless it is air-dried, smoked or pickled. So they all put the fish they caught in wooden barrels and kept them temporarily, and when Palos and the others came back, they were carried back by the orcs.

You know, these fish are very fat, and their vitality is also very strong. In order to prevent them from popping out, they use deep wooden barrels for civilization-although the empty barrels can be carried by Wenming and Neil at first. , But when they went back, they were full of fish and water, but they were helpless.

Neil was probably very interested because he had never caught fish like this before, and he caught several big fish in a short while. At this time, I can rest for a while. The quiet environment for fishing was broken by Neil’s words. He and Wenming were sitting on the shore with their feet in the water. Barabara was talking about his family’s Sigmund. When it turns into a beast-like shape, catch the fish and slap it in the air. At the end, he adds: “Sigmund is so handsome!”

Both Wenming and Parson understand Neil’s “beautiful beauties in the eyes of a lover” situation. For Parson’s health, Wenming and Neal don’t want him to soak in the water-even if the water doesn’t seem to be cold now-so He could only sit on a big rock on the shore, put his body in a comfortable position as much as possible, and lazily basking in the sun.

However, it is estimated that Neil’s happiness in front of Wenming and Parson provoked someone. After a while, Neil’s voice was suddenly interrupted by a scream: “…Ah!”

“What’s the matter?” Civilization asked quickly.

“It hurts, it hurts…” Neil gritted his teeth and let Wenming look into the water, “Xiao Ming, help me look at my feet…”

Civilization looked down—the water quality was very clear—there was a **** guy with two palms lying in front of Neil’s white and tender feet…

“Crab…” Wenming rubbed his eyes, seemingly stunned in disbelief… until Neil sounded a little crying: “What’s wrong with you, Xiaoming?! Help me get it down. Ah… ah, it hurts so much…” Civilization spit out the next word, “…crab…” and hurriedly grabbed the big guy up.

“Huhuhu…” Neil blew on his red toe, seeing that it was only a little red, and he didn’t see the blood, so he was relieved. Turned his head to see that Wenming was holding the “culprit” in his hand with a smirk(?), and said angrily, “This is this guy! I almost forgot about this thing, I always hide in the water…Xiaoming, you still hold it. What are you doing, are you going to eat it to help me vent my anger?”

Parson was taken aback by Neil’s actions before, but a series of actions happened too fast. When he reacted, he only saw Civilization holding the hard back of the big dark thing and laughing. It’s silly, although silly and cute, but… uh, wait, is he drooling?

“Eat, of course you have to eat!” Civilization carefully avoided the two pairs of tongs, and nodded to Neil and Parson. “This is a good thing. If it weren’t for Neil you were caught by it, I might not even think of it. There is still such a big meal in autumn!”

As the saying goes, “Autumn breeze makes crab’s feet itchy; chrysanthemum blooms and crabs come.” September and October of each year is when the crab is full of oil. Eating crabs at this time is the most supplementary. Tsk tusk tusk, look at their performance, I didn’t know this thing was delicious before, right? Civilization rolls his eyes-doesn’t this mean that there are many such big and plump crabs? !

For a while, Wenming quickly took another empty wooden bucket that hadn’t been filled with fish, tied the crab in his hand with a bunch of weeds by the river, and threw it into the bucket with a bang.

“Uh…is it really delicious?” Neal saw Wenming roar, as if he had seen something incredible. But in his opinion, that thing is so big, ugly, and fierce, it can’t be connected with delicious food at all?

“Of course, crabs go well with wine, that taste is good.” Wenming remembers that crabs seem to like to drill into the crevices of the stones, and at this moment they don’t care about fishing, so they look into the rugged stones. But catching crabs is not a joke. The pair of large tongs alone is enough to scare people, not to mention that the crabs in this world are bigger than the hairy crabs in civilization.

So he had to use the grass stems by the river to imitate the movements of small insects and shrimps at the openings where there might be crabs. Although a little tired, the harvest was not without. Neil looked interesting on the side, and he believed that if civilization said this thing was “delicious”, he would have forgotten the “grass in a pinch”, and followed civilization to tease crabs-there are so many fish, it’s rare to touch It’s such a fun thing.

Although Parson also wants to join, he has become lazy since he was pregnant with a little cub. In addition, Wenming and Neal both said that with a baby, he should take good care of the baby, so he has to give up this too. “Entertainment.” But he didn’t look aside. As long as Wenming and Neal caught a crab, he would swiftly tie up the crab’s tongs with a bunch of grass stems. Although he was a little messy at first, he fell down after he became proficient. Don’t be afraid of being caught.

By the time Palos, Crusch and Sigmund brought their prey back and came to look for them, the civilization had almost completed the “victory” of two large buckets of fresh fish and one large bucket of crabs.

At first, everyone was still wondering what to do with such a big bucket of black and big guy. Hearing civilization said that he could eat, they couldn’t help but look forward to it. It’s not that I feel that there is an extra reserve of food, but that such a thing can also make delicious food?

Civilization took advantage of the trend and invited everyone to his home, and everyone did not refuse, and the three orcs happily carried the “War Results” back. Wenming and Neal walked side by side with Parson, causing Parson to complain that they both treated him as a newborn cub. Although there is indeed one in his stomach, it is not guilty to be so cautious.

Freshly caught crabs cannot be cooked right away. Soak them in water and change the water several times during the period until they spit out the mud and sand in their stomachs-in fact, crabs are like that. The same goes for shrimp and shellfish.

During this period, several people discussed to clean up the other two large barrels of fish-because civilization uses its own wooden barrels of crabs, Parson and Neal both weighed out one third of their fish. come out. Anyway, this thing can still be caught, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Because it is going to catch fish in the future, the civilization decided to use it all to make kippers, not only because it takes a long time to make kippers, but also because of the number of processes. At this time, a lot of people will help together, and then divide it when it’s done, and just take it home and air dry.

There are a lot of fish, so even Parson has come to help. Sigmund is responsible for removing the scales, internal organs, cheeks, and tearing off the black film; Crusch is responsible for putting the cut and flat fish on the shelf to dry the water; civilization is just Responsible for adding salt, five-spice powder and chili powder to the pot, and stir-fry it over medium heat to make it fragrant. In order to prevent these irritating tastes from being sucked into the mouth, Wenming also used a veil around the mouth and nose to make a “masked mask”. Man”.

Parson is responsible for mixing wine, soy sauce and boiled sucrose into juice-this work is not troublesome for him. Then Neil is responsible for carefully brushing the sauce on the dried fish with a brush, brushing the inside and out, and then Palos puts the sauced fish into the container and fry it. After being evenly wrapped in a layer of salt and pepper powder, they are neatly packed in a pottery pot.

Six people worked together, two big buckets, estimated to be nearly a hundred catties of fish (you know that each fish is very big) in three or four hours. A total of three large pots were installed, exactly one in a family. Wenming asked Neil and the others to turn these fish over again tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow they can be stringed up and hung in a ventilated place to dry.

Among the six people, Parson’s task is the simplest, so he paid attention to the movement of the crab after finishing his own. The environment here is good, the crabs only changed the water twice and almost no mud and sand came out. Seeing that the crab has washed himself for nothing, he stroked his own long sleeves, thinking about steamed crabs and spicy crabs. The expression on his face was eager to try: “…well, you just wait to eat delicious crabs.吧＼（≧▽≦）／～”

The author has something to say: By the way, who wants to see the title crooked? The children who wanted to be crooked all stood up and let the sand tune and teach one by one (covering their mouths and laughing)…

The sand just remembered that it would be a big loss if you don’t eat crabs in autumn. The plump crab yellow and the tender crab meat are paired with hot wine (Uh, although the sand can’t drink), it’s delicious~(≧▽≦)/~

Saying that Nai people don’t talk, don’t they all want little buns! Fall~