Yu Wanwan once asked the elephant tribe about the preservation method, but the other party said that they couldn't tell her, so Yu Wanwan had to give up embarrassedly.
Looking at the depressed Yu Wanwan, Bai Jing stroked her furry head and advised: "It's okay, Wanwan. If you want to eat vegetables, I'll go to other herbivorous tribes and ask."
It was raining so hard outside, how could Yu Wanwan bear to let Bai Jing go out and run around?
She clenched her fists and snorted, "We'll figure out how to preserve it ourselves!"
She thought of several solutions, the first of which was to dig a cellar.
Yu Wanwan asked Bai Jing to dig a space under the kitchen as a cellar. Because the kitchen is close to the cave entrance and the temperature is relatively low, and the cellar is underground, it can keep the vegetables fresh without freezing them.
Yu Wanwan sorted the vegetables into categories and then waited to see how they turned out. If they spoiled slowly, she would eat them slowly. If they spoiled quickly, even if Bai Jing had to be mobilized, she would finish the vegetables quickly and resolutely prevent waste.
As for the remaining vegetables, Yu Wanwan washed some of them and hung them up to dry, and made pickles of the rest with salt crystals.
Of these two methods, she is more worried because the dried vegetables look a bit like cardboard and she doesn't know how long they can be preserved.
As for the pickled vegetables, there was no sealed container. Although stones were placed on the bamboo and stone jars and sealed with animal skins, Yu Wanwan felt that it might not be successful, so she only did a little.
It would be great if I could find clay so I could maybe mold a lid of the right shape myself.
The weather was getting colder, but it hadn't snowed yet. Bai Jing's meat couldn't be put in the ice and snow, so it had to be piled up in the kitchen and cellar. Yu Wanwan thought about it and decided to study smoked meat and dried meat.
Similarly, Yu Wanwan also took a small portion of meat for experiment.
She rubbed salt on the bacon, adding chili flakes to one batch and leaving the other batch plain.
Unfortunately, the chili fruit can only be used as a seasoning and cannot remove the fishy smell. Fortunately, Bai Jing said it didn't matter. Yu Wanwan lit the stove and slowly smoked the meat dry. When there was almost no moisture left, he hung it up with rattan and hung it at the entrance of the cave to dry.
As for dried meat, it is even simpler. Just cook it and dry it. When you want to eat it, just throw it into the pot and boil it.
Bai Jing thought that the dried meat tasted good and wanted to recommend it to Yu Wanwan. However, Yu Wanwan looked at the meat and found that it was as hard as a stick and waved her hands to refuse.
A few days later, Yu Wanwan began to inspect the results.
The vegetables in the cellar are still fresh, and the dried vegetables are also okay. As for the pickled vegetables, those in the bamboo jars have gone bad, but those in the stone jars are still intact, so it can be considered a success.
However, the pickled vegetables have no other seasonings, only salty taste, and the taste is average.
Compared to the vegetables, all the meats were successful, and the bacon and jerky tasted good.
Yu Wanwan decided to start mass production, and the two were extremely busy in the next few days. Bai Jing had to hunt and help at the same time, and he was so tired that he almost didn't even have time to close his eyes. Yu Wanwan felt very distressed, and kept urging Bai Jing to rest while working harder.
But how could Bai Jing let Yu Wanwan work alone? He still forced himself to help.
At this time, seeing a group of people busy at work in other people's homes, Yu Wanwan deeply realized the importance of population.
In this way, they hurried and hurried, and finally stored all the food before the second snow fell.
During this period, the witch doctor and Shunfeng also came to help a lot. Yu Wanwan told them how to cook meat, and also said that eating chili fruit can temporarily cause fever. The two were amazed and impressed by the taste.
After getting Yu Wanwan's consent, the witch doctor told these things to the tribesmen. Throughout the winter, many beastmen began to pick chili fruits. Even though there were a lot of chili fruits, many of them were plucked out by the beastmen.
With Yu Wanwan's method, everyone felt that barbecue was more delicious, but some people secretly resented Yu Wanwan.
For example, the patriarch’s family.
Nana felt that Yu Wanwan had not told her about the chili fruits in advance, which resulted in all the good and large ones being picked when her companions went to pick them. In addition, she was not told about the smoked meat in advance, which resulted in her companions not bringing back enough firewood for smoking the meat, thus wasting a lot of food.
Looking at the unsmoked meat, Nana clenched her fists, her eyes full of resentment.
The chief misjudged the time of temperature drop this year, resulting in insufficient food in the tribe, but he did not think it was his fault. Instead, he believed that it was Yu Wanwan who delayed everyone's collective hunting the first time, and later Bai Jing did not hunt properly because of her, which made it impossible for everyone to survive the winter.
Seeing the increasingly scarce food in the cave, the chief became increasingly dissatisfied with Bai Jing and the others.
He thought of the smoked meat that Bai Jing had hung all over the cave entrance, and a calculating gleam flashed in his eyes.
We must find a way to get the food from Bai Jing!
The weather was getting colder and colder. One morning when Yu Wanwan woke up, he saw a sea of white outside the small hole above his head.
It was not until a snowflake floated in that Yu Wanwan realized that it was snowing.
She got up from the bed in surprise, put on her shoes and ran to the cave entrance.
The outside was already covered in silver, with thick white snow covering the ground. Yu Wanwan stretched out her foot to feel around, and found that the snow was as deep as her knees.
She only saw snow on the first day she arrived. When she woke up from fainting, the snow had almost melted. It took her so long to wait for the second snowfall.
As a southerner, Yu Wanwan was very excited and almost jumped into the snow. Fortunately, Bai Jing appeared in time and stopped Yu Wanwan. He took the animal skin and wrapped her up layer by layer like a silkworm pupa.
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