The pit where pottery was fired still had residual heat, and there was no wind when lying at the bottom of the pit. We slept at the bottom of the pit for a whole night and everyone felt pretty good.
Sleeping at the bottom of this pit feels much more comfortable than sleeping on the floor of a cave!
The next day, Kumano took the hunting team to hunt, but Zhou Ji wandered around the tribe.
He has always been dissatisfied with the cave he lives in and wants to build a house of his own, and now he has almost started.
Of course, before building a house, you have to choose a good location and then make a design.
After thinking it over, Zhou Ji took action.
The house cannot be built too far from the tribe, but it cannot be too close either. He doesn't like being stared at by people in the tribe all day long.
At the same time, the house should preferably be two-story, with at least three rooms, and a large yard and wall.
You can plant flowers and plants in the yard, and the walls can be covered with creepers and morning glories. If possible, you can also dig a small pond...
The more Zhou Ji thought about it, the more he looked forward to it.
This is the life he has always dreamed of!
Facing a polluted world every day in the last days, he particularly hopes to live such a pastoral life.
At that time, this was absolutely a luxury for him, but now... he can definitely own a manor in this place that is bigger than all the manors on the earth!
Of course that's not necessary...
Finally, Zhou Ji marked out a piece of land that was larger than the valley where they lived, about 400 meters away from the entrance of the valley, right next to the hillside, and then found the priest and said, "This land will be mine from now on."
"Sure, what are you going to use it for?" asked the priest.
"I want to build a house here." Zhou Ji said.
"Build a house?" The priest was stunned. "You want to live outside the valley? How can this be possible? Aren't you afraid of encountering dinosaurs?"
"We can make a fence." Zhou Ji said. He initially wanted to make a wall with mud, but later he changed his mind because the area he had designated was too large.
He planned to stay in some trees and then drive some wooden stakes between them to make a fence.
Of course, you can also build a low wall near your own cottage.
After hearing what Zhou Ji said, the priest looked at Zhou Ji in confusion, not understanding what Zhou Ji was trying to do.
Their valley is so safe, why does Zhou Ji want to build a house outside to live in? And he built a fence around himself, locking himself up like the dinosaurs they kept...
But since Zhou Ji wants it this way, so be it.
Maybe in the end, Zhou Ji will come up with something new and interesting!
The priest thought about this and said, "The barley has been harvested and the ground has been turned over. You can send someone to help you tomorrow."
"Okay." Zhou Ji nodded.
On that day, Zhou Ji marked some trees and asked people to help him cut them down the next day.
This took him no time, and when he was done he wandered off to where the pottery was being fired.
The barley had been harvested several days ago, and the sun had been particularly good during the past few days, so the barley had been almost dried, and the grains of wheat were falling off the ears one by one.
Zhou Ji asked people to beat the ears of barley, pounding the grains onto the ground and then collecting them into some wooden barrels.
The best way to use barley, of course, is to hull it and cook it, but to be honest, this is not suitable for people in the tribe - it's too troublesome!
You know, on Earth, even in the Han Dynasty, people still didn't know how to husk wheat and then cook it, let alone make steamed buns and dumplings.
At that time, they cooked it directly in the shell and ate it.
At this time, some tribes that grew barley also ate barley in this way.
Knowing this, Zhou Ji had someone fry some barley with the shell on.
Barley is fried in a stone pot until it turns brown and becomes... barley tea?
Zhou Ji grabbed some, put it in his mouth and chewed it. He felt that although it was a bit rough, it was not unacceptable.
"Divide the roasted barley and let everyone have a taste." Zhou Ji said, and made himself a cup of barley tea - of course he did not forget to make cups when he was making pottery before!
The roasted barley was quickly distributed to the people in the tribe, but no one in the tribe got a handful.
“This barley smells so good!”
“It tastes good, a little bitter, but very fragrant.”
“This is really delicious, and I got a lot.”
"After eating a handful, I wasn't that hungry anymore. This is really good for the winter."
…
Zhou Ji felt that the hulled barley was a bit rough to eat, but the people in the tribe obviously didn't care. They even liked to fry the barley.
This barley has the aroma of grain. Although it is a bit bitter, the bitterness is not unbearable... Everyone eats barley as a snack and actually likes it very much.
Xiong Ye thought it was quite nice to eat it directly by chewing it, but he was a little reluctant to let Zhou Ji eat such a rough thing.
"Zhou Ji, let me husk the barley!" said Kumano.
"Okay." Zhou Ji gave Xiong Ye two hundred kilograms of barley: "These all need to be hulled."
Kumano: “…” So many!
"These barleys have been dried in the sun for a long time, so it should be easier to hull than the last time." Zhou Ji said again.
Hulling the barley would allow Kumano to exercise his ability to use energy in a refined manner, and he didn't mind letting Kumano do more of this work.
"I'll go hull it right away!" said Kumano.
Kumano's barley hulling technique this time was much better than last time. In the end, most of the grains were intact.
This time, Zhou Ji did not use water to separate the wheat husks and wheat grains. He asked Xiong Ye to pour the mixed wheat husks and grains from one wooden barrel to another. He took a fan and fanned the side, and all the wheat husks were blown away.
After getting the clean wheat grains, he asked Kumano to crush them and make flour.
Compared to barley rice, noodles definitely taste better, and... he knew Kumano wanted to eat it.
With a clay pot, making noodles is easier!
Zhou Ji made the filling as usual.
There are two kinds of fillings. One is fresh dinosaur meat, which is chopped and fried with pickles. The other is chopped smoked meat fried with chili peppers.
Each thick pancake is filled with stuffing and smells delicious after being fried in oil...
Kumano only spent two bread cakes that day and got two people from the Giant Pig Tribe to fight with him.
Zhu Zhan and the others cut the bread into pieces and each took a small bite...
“I didn’t expect that barley could make something so delicious!”
"People from the Beast God Temple never have the chance to eat something this delicious, right?"
"This should be made from the shells and powder..."
…
After harvesting the barley, part of it was sown, part of it was stored in warehouses, and the rest was distributed to people in the tribe, basically about five or six kilograms per person.
Zhu Zhan and others also had it, and the next day, after consulting Kumano, they began to learn how to husk the wheat.
Finally, they made pancakes according to Kumano's description.
Although the noodles they made were not as delicious as Zhou Ji's, they were not bad either... Zhu Zhan sighed with emotion: "After being exiled once, my cooking skills have improved instantly! When I go back and let Zhu Zhu taste my cooking skills, she will definitely not be willing to beat me!"
"Brother, what do you mean by going back? Shouldn't you bring Zhuzhu back with you?" Zhu Zhan's subordinates said.
"Why call me Zhuzhu? Call me sister-in-law!" Zhu Zhan said, and began to think about his wife again.
Actually, his wife can’t be said to beat him, she just likes fighting and always wants to compete with him…
Zhuzhu also loves to eat and is plump after eating so much. If she came to the Big Bear Tribe and saw so many delicious foods, she would definitely be very happy!
Zhu Zhan thought so, took a big bite of the pancake, and said, "I don't know how that pickle is made... Next time Xiong Ye comes to fight us, we will ask for the method of making pickles!"
Zhu Zhan's men nodded one after another.
They are really depraved. They actually sold themselves out just for a bite of food...
Zhou Ji was a man of his words. After he told the priest about building a house, the next day he asked the people in the tribe to cut down all the trees he didn't want in the area he had designated. After trimming the branches of these trees, they could be used directly as fences.
At the same time, looking at the cleaned area, Zhou Ji had more and more ideas about his future home.
He wanted a small pond, a well, a garden, and some fruit trees. Of course, a house was also important. In addition to the mud house, he wanted to build a cool wooden house...
Sadly, no pets allowed.
It’s no big deal. Whenever you want a pet, just let Kumano transform into a beast!
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