The wood used to smoke bacon varies from place to place.
Meng Changjin didn't find any of the same things she knew around her, including when she went out hunting, but only found similar ones.
Meng Changjin didn't know whether this was the same tree as many years ago, but she cut off a few branches and smelled them. There was no smell, so she chose another tree with some unique fragrance.
Meng Changjin remembered that she seemed to have heard that if the smoked wood itself has a fragrance, then the fragrance will be smoked into the bacon, and in this way, the bacon will also have a unique fragrance.
The fragrance is pretty good. Meng Changjin checked it himself and found that the tree is non-toxic, so there is no need to worry about the smoked bacon having any problems.
Smoky smoke, the focus is on the smoke, not the fire.
How to control the fire so that there is only smoke but it does not go out? Meng Changjin’s method is to keep an eye on it all the time.
Even if you don't stare at it without blinking, at least you should check on it every once in a while.
Meng Changjin couldn't let anyone else do this matter, because no one else in the Yan tribe knew how to do it, so Meng Changjin had to do it himself.
He had to do it himself and teach others, so Meng Changjin had no time to go hunting with the hunting team.
Meng Changjin did not go with them. Everyone in the hunting team did feel the pressure, but they were actually quite relaxed inside.
If Meng Changjin goes with them, then the safety of everyone in the hunting team will definitely be guaranteed.
But it also puts everyone under a lot of mental pressure.
Meng Changjin did not go with them these times, and the physical stress on everyone was indeed increased. They could not even get a good night's sleep during the hunting period.
And because Meng Changjin did not go with them, some people in the hunting team were also injured.
The one who was most seriously injured almost had his leg broken.
But even so, they are more relaxed mentally.
Meng Changjin also saw through it, but she didn't expose it. She just gave healing pills to the people who were seriously injured.
After moving to the cabin, Meng Changjin had time to make pills because he was away from everyone.
There was nothing blocking her view in the cave. If someone went to look for her, they could just stand at the entrance and see everything inside. In this situation, how could Meng Changjin dare to make the elixir?
But after moving to the wooden house, because it was far away from the cave where everyone lived, some people would come to her during the day, but at night, only the patrol team would patrol outside and would not disturb her.
It was precisely because no one disturbed him that Meng Changjin had time to refine the elixir.
Meng Changjin also saw the situation of the hunting team and kept it in mind.
Meng Changjin could guess why no one really wanted her to go hunting with them.
Because she makes people feel safe.
Security is naturally not a derogatory word.
But for the members of the Yan tribe's hunting team, if Meng Changjin always followed them hunting, the excessive sense of security would sooner or later reduce their vigilance in the mountains and forests to the extreme.
In this way, once Meng Changjin does not participate in hunting, the remaining hunting team members cannot be said to be completely useless, but they will definitely relax their vigilance against the forest. Relaxing their vigilance against the forest is the fastest way to death for the hunting team members.
So everyone would rather Meng Changjin not follow, even though the possibility of them getting injured or even dying would be higher, they still wanted to do so.
The more Meng Changjin understood, the more he understood why the client was so persistent.
Such a tribe and such companions are indeed a cause for pride.
It just so happened that Meng Changjin was busy smoking bacon recently and had no time to participate in the hunting operation. She was also preparing to quietly figure out how to locate herself.
When going to the mountains in the future, Meng Changjin thought that she might consider going alone.
It’s not that there haven’t been cases where a hunting team has gone out hunting alone, but such cases are rare.
Meng Changjin has the ability to do this, so she can go out hunting alone.
Since she couldn't go hunting with the hunting team, she just needed to prepare some healing pills.
Meng Changjin felt that she had defined her own identity, the best being pharmacist + teacher.
The pharmacist's part is naturally to prepare healing pills to treat those hunting team members who are seriously injured while out hunting.
As for the teacher's part, it is of course to teach the people of the Yan tribe how to use farm tools, how to store meat, how to find wild vegetables and so on!
As long as he can do these two things well, Meng Changjin feels that he doesn't need to worry too much about other things.
The Yan tribe should have their own way of development. What Meng Changjin needs to do is to be the guardian of the Yan tribe for a period of time as it thrives.
When the Yan tribe has developed to the point where they no longer have to worry about food and clothing, but they still need to be frugal when necessary, then the Yan tribe will be fine as long as there is no major disaster.
It takes ten days to half a month to smoke bacon. During this period, Meng Changjin really didn't go anywhere. He was very busy smoking bacon and checking on the rice and wild vegetables grown in the fields.
Although it was expected, Meng Changjin still didn't expect that the rice planted in dry land would eventually grow.
Meng Changjin still doesn’t know what the final fruit will look like, but right now the seedlings look especially like wheat.
It would be great if this could grow like wheat and then be harvested into rice.
The bacon, which had been smoked for more than ten days, was finally ready.
The surface color of the meat has changed slightly. I took a piece and smelled it, and it was particularly fragrant.
Meng Changjin thinks that this bacon should be smoked successfully, right? !
You must taste the freshly smoked bacon.
Stewed bamboo shoots with bacon is a very delicious dish.
Now that winter is over, the winter bamboo shoots are naturally gone.
But we dried winter bamboo shoots before, and if there are no winter bamboo shoots, what is the use of winter bamboo shoots? Meng Changjin's cooking skills can only be considered acceptable, but the taste of the ingredients is too good. A meal of bacon and bamboo shoots, the taste of the ingredients themselves is very good, and when combined, it is even more delicious.
Meng Changjin deliberately chose to stew the bacon during the day and even stewed it outside the house.
The fragrance wafted far away, and everyone who smelled it swallowed their saliva.
Only a few families, who had already smoked bacon with Meng Changjin, came to ask Meng Changjin how it was made after smelling the fragrance. After getting the recipe from Meng Changjin, they went back to try it themselves.
Meng Changjin had a delicious meal, then took out a few pieces of smoked bacon and gave some to the chief witch and the three leaders.
Although Meng Changjin stewed the bacon outside, her wooden house was still a bit far from the cave.
There are people who can smell it, but not many.
But when the families over there in the cave also started stewing bacon with bamboo shoots, the smell spread much further than when Meng Changjin stewed bacon.
Now, the people of the Yan tribe who were eating barbecue at home suddenly felt that the barbecue in their hands was not so fragrant anymore.
Some people also regretted that they should have joined in when Meng Changjin was doing it.
Now, when I see others enjoying the delicious food while I can only smell it, I feel a little regretful.
After regretting, of course you have to learn and do it again.
During this period of time, the salt-exchanging team went to the Crystal Tribe to exchange salt twice, and each time they exchanged more salt than the last, so the Yan Tribe now has no problem with salt at all.
As for meat, there is even less of a problem.
The people in the hunting team are still the same group of people, but with the pressure of Meng Changjin, the recent hunting gains are really incomparable to before.
There is salt and meat, all that's left is to cook it. At this point, any embarrassment or anything like that is just empty talk.
Of course, even though they said so, everyone was too embarrassed to ask Meng Changjin directly.
Then we can only ask those families who smoked bacon with Meng Changjin.
People in the tribe don’t like to hide their skills and are very willing to share them with others.
However, before this sharing, these people specifically came to ask Meng Changjin whether she agreed to let them teach the technology of smoking bacon to other people in the tribe.
Need I say more? Meng Changjin was naturally willing.
Now she doesn’t have to teach in person, she is so happy.
A wind of smoked bacon blew inside the Yan tribe, and every day one could see puffs of green smoke in the sky above the Yan tribe.
The tribe was growing and becoming stronger. Thanks to Meng Changjin's constant search for edible wild vegetables, everyone's food had changed dramatically.
There were more things to eat, but the people of the Yan tribe had no intention of wasting anything. They were still frugal and never greedy. As for wild vegetables, they would only dig as much as they could eat because they would spoil quickly. There would never be a situation where they dug too much and couldn't eat it all.
Therefore, Meng Changjin also taught everyone how to dry vegetables.
Although it is good for everyone to dig as much as they can eat, wild vegetables will become old. Although they can be eaten even when they are old, not only will they taste bad, some people may not be able to chew them at all.
Therefore, Meng Changjin taught everyone how to dry vegetables. When wild vegetables are available, eat some and dry some. Then when the wild vegetables are gone, such as in winter, you don’t have to eat only meat.
The Yan tribe was visibly getting better, and in the summer, some people finally wanted to try building wooden houses.
In the summer, the cave entrance cannot be closed, so there are naturally insects and ants.
Because of the fire, many birds and beasts in the tribe did not dare to approach the range of the fire.
But insects and ants are excluded.
Every summer, insects and ants would appear in the tribe. The buzzing sound was ear-irritating and very annoying. The most important thing was that these insects and ants also bit people.
A bite would leave a big bump which was extremely itchy. At this time of year in previous years, many people would go to the witch doctor to get medicine.
But even with medicine, it is inevitable that you will itch for three to five days after being bitten.
If it were in previous years, everyone would just endure it and it would pass, and by autumn, these insects and ants would be gone.
But this year, with Meng Changjin here, things are naturally different.
There were no insects or ants in Meng Changjin's wooden house, so everyone was naturally attracted to it.
There are very few insects and ants during the day, and large groups of them only appear at night, especially when everyone is sleeping. The buzzing sound of swarms of them will make a constant noise all around people.
Meng Changjin looked at the people in front of him. They were all preparing to build a wooden house. They asked Meng Changjin to help them cut down some trees and give them guidance on how to build it.
Obviously, this was a very serious matter, but Meng Changjin looked at them and began to hold back his laughter.
There were traces of insect bites on these people's faces and exposed arms and legs.
The traces are a number of large bulges.
The bulge was also coated with green medicine prepared by the witch, which doubled the sense of humor when applied on the bulge.
In fact, Meng Changjin knew that this was very miserable, but he just couldn't help it. He really wanted to laugh. Meng Changjin had no choice but to force himself to hold back the urge to laugh.
After all, the client is still young in the tribe, and it would be inappropriate to laugh out loud.
Trying hard to hold back his laughter, Meng Changjin didn't waste any time and started covering it.
There are quite a few families who want to build wooden houses this time, probably because they can't stand the bites of insects and ants.
So there are quite a few trees to be cut down this time.
Now that they were up, Meng Changjin simply joined the group and started chopping.
After cutting it down, a piece of land can be freed up.
Although there are tree roots under the ground where trees once grew, it is impossible to dig them up and plant crops.
But Meng Changjin felt that this was considered an expansion of the Yan tribe's territory.
Wild beasts generally do not rush out from the mountains and forests to the plains.
As the plain expands, the scope of the Yan tribe's activities will also be larger.
Cut down trees, select land, and flatten and compact the land.
Carving wooden nails, digging holes for mortise and tenon structures and so on, in this summer, the people of the Yan tribe were busy and contented, sweating profusely, but they didn't care at all.
Meng Changjin also has a huge workload. In order to pursue efficiency, she has to do a lot of work such as digging holes and cutting trees.
Of course, it’s not that others don’t want to help.
They wanted to help, but their tools didn't allow it.
It’s not that it can’t be done, but the result is a bit too rough.
Not to mention the roughness, I'm not pursuing beauty anyway.
The point is, the holes are not of the same size, which is not acceptable.
It's not a big deal if it tilts, the key is to worry about the structure being unstable.
The structure is not stable, and if the house collapses or something like that, it could be fatal.
It is precisely because of this that Meng Changjin is the only one who handles these things.
It's just right to let other people go and pound the ground flat at the selected location.
There are many people, and Meng Changjin is responsible for the key parts, while other non-critical but scattered parts will naturally be taken care of by other people.
Overall, the speed is not slow.
After more than ten days, five wooden houses were built.
As soon as the house was built, someone moved in first. When the rest of the people saw that the people living in the wooden house were indeed not bitten by insects and ants, they immediately became more motivated.
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