Chapter 6 Huge Harvest
Last night's bonfire party made Jian Mo feel a rare relaxation. The next day, not only did he not feel tired, but he also woke up early.
Wu Jiong woke up earlier than him and was already busy with matters at home and outside.
The two of them divided the work tacitly and started a busy morning.
The sun outside gradually came out, dispersing the morning mist in the mountains and forests.
The fragrance in the house gradually drifted out and drifted far away.
First, the little kid who had not yet transformed ran over curiously, staring inside with a pair of big round eyes, and then the children who could transform also came over.
A group of little guys squatted outside Wu Jiong's house.
The beastmen and sub-beastmen who came out to look for their cubs were soon attracted and then enveloped by the rich aroma of the food.
Someone couldn't help but ask Jian Mo loudly: "Jian Mo, what are you doing? It smells so good!"
Jian Mo just served the food and said: "It's fried meat and steamed eggs."
People refused to believe: "Fried meat doesn't smell like this, does it?"
Jian Mo raised his head and smiled: "What's the difference? I fried the meat with pickled vegetables today, and this is the smell."
Seeing Jian Mo talking, everyone walked in to see.
The freshly fried meat was steaming hot, covered with a glossy and sticky sauce, and the meat pieces shrank slightly, and it looked very tender.
Wu Jiong took out new bowls and plates and let everyone eat at home.
Many people were embarrassed to refuse, but seeing the beautifully fried meat, they could not open their mouths and could only thank him. They secretly decided to send a batch of meat to Wu Jiong's family in the evening.
The people's chaotic psychological activities did not end until they tasted the meat -
"So hot! So fragrant!"
"It's too tender, why is there so much juice in it?"
"Is it still forkhorn meat? Why does it taste like forkhorn but not forkhorn?"
"It's so delicious, I like this taste!"
Jian Mo nodded: "It's forkhorn meat, but I started marinating it with fruit wine and seasonings last night, so it is more flavorful."
The fruit wine has a slight sweetness and wine flavor. When it is added to the meat, the taste of the meat becomes more complex and can remove the fishy smell and enhance the fragrance.
In order to make the meat more tender, he also mashed a piece of stem to replace starch.
As for the pickles, they are also used to increase the complex taste of the meat.
To achieve this smooth and tender effect, it is necessary to heat the stone slab to a very hot state, add more oil, and stir-fry the meat in batches as soon as it is cooked.
Jian Mo explained everything about knife skills, pickling, and heat.
Many people's eyes were straight, and they couldn't say anything, just nodded madly.
The children and kids squatting together also looked at Jian Mo with bright eyes.
Wu Jiong was eating quietly at the side, looked at the person who came, and lowered his head to eat again. There
were more and more people in the room. After they finished their meal, Wu Jiong took the dishes to wash.
Others surrounded Jian Mo and asked various questions.
The sun was rising higher and higher, it was time to go out hunting or gathering.
Everyone said goodbye to Jian Mo contentedly and prepared to go out.
Jian Mo was going out with Zhou Fu and the others to collect herbs and tubers today.
Before leaving, he went to see the winged beast tied outside.
The winged beast, which was eating, shrank a little nervously when it saw people coming. The round ears on its head pressed back, and there was fear in its big eyes: "Oh."
The calls of this big guy were surprisingly sweet, and the eyes were very clear. It didn't look like a beast.
However -
Jian Mo took a look at the poisonous bone spur at the end of its tail and felt that it was not so harmless.
Jian Mo carefully checked the condition of the winged beast.
After a night of rest, most of the pus-filled areas of the flying beast became dry again, and several wounds had scabbed over.
It seems that this fellow has a very good recovery ability.
Perhaps in less than a month, all the wounds on its body will be healed.
While he was checking, the sub-beastmen in the tribe who had made an appointment with him to go out today came over and waited for him.
Many sub-beastmen touched the tightly tied flying beast.
The flying beast hooked its claws and curled them under its furry belly, without saying a word. It looked quite nervous, so it seemed particularly well-behaved.
Jian Mo couldn't help but pat its chubby butt, then turned to the others and said, "Okay, let's go."
A beastman kindly suggested, "It's okay for you to look at it for a while longer, there's no rush."
Jian Mo smiled and said, "It's really okay."
After hearing what he said, everyone put on their backpacks and prepared to set off.
Today they wanted to take Jian Mo out to collect herbs, so they had to go to a mountain with more herbs and a longer way.
There are more herbs here than Jian Mo imagined.
Along the way, the beastmen told Jian Mo about a lot of herbs - herbs for swelling, pus, hemostasis, hair removal, detoxification, etc., and Jian Mo's eyes lit up when he heard them.
Jian Mo couldn't help but ask: "Who discovered these herbs?"
Everyone shook their heads:
"I don't know."
"Anyway, everyone knows how to use them."
"Not only us orcs, but also wild animals outside sometimes pick these herbs. They are born with the ability to do so."
"Yes, yes, especially those that can detoxify and dissolve hair. Many wild animals eat them. We learned how to use some herbs from wild animals."
Jian Mo: "It's amazing. Are these herbs still useful after they are dried? Do you collect them and store them?"
Zhou Fu was surprised: "Why should we collect them? Just come out and collect them when you need them."
Jian Mo: "What if there are no herbs when you need them? For example, it snows heavily in winter and all the herbs outside are dead."
"No." Another Asian orc said seriously, "It doesn't matter if it snows. You can find the herbs underneath by digging through the snow."
Zhou Fu: "That's right, if this one doesn't work, try another one, you can always find one anyway."
Jian Mo understood. Everyone was used to digging as they needed it.
However, as far as he knew, most herbs would have the same effect after being dried.
He put the collected herbs in a backpack, intending to take them back to try.
While digging herbs, they encountered many wild fruits and edible roots on the road.
Everyone dug as they walked, and the backpack soon became heavy.
Jian Mo was also working hard, when suddenly someone shouted in front of him: "Come here quickly, there is a patch of wood ding roots here."
"Where is it?"
"Wood ding roots?!"
The person who shouted was full of surprise.
Jian Mo followed the crowd in the direction where the sound came from.
I saw an orc pulling aside a patch of weeds, and turned around and said, "Look, there's the root of the wood tinkle."
"Really." Zhou Fu put down the backpack, "Then let's dig here, I think we can dig out a lot."
Everyone took out stone hoes and stone awls and started to work skillfully.
Jian Mo also chose one and dug with everyone.
The stem of the wood tinkle is long and strip-shaped, a bit like yam, but sweeter than yam, with a very fine and glutinous taste. It is very easy to digest after eating it, and it will not cause acid reflux. It is one of the most delicious stems in this season.
Wu Jiong's family didn't store much, and Jian Mo counted the meals he cooked these days, and even ate several other stems before eating a meal of wood tinkle.
There are so many wood ding roots today that they can eat for a long time.
Digging wood ding roots is a strenuous job.
The soil here has not been plowed and is very hard. There are also a lot of grass stems and a small amount of stones underneath. It is very strenuous to dig with a stone hoe.
Jian Mo was out of breath after digging for a while. He had to hold the stone hoe
with his hands on his waist and breathe. Xilu, his partner, took over the hoe swiftly and called him: "Jian Mo, you take a break, I will dig."
Jian Mo gave up his position tiredly: "Call me when you are tired."
Xilu dug quickly: "I am not tired."
Jian Mo saw that Xilu was very energetic and went to the side to rest.
Soon, Jian Mo found some round fruits on the ground.
He squeezed it open, and there was green flesh and black core inside. He put it under his nose and smelled it. There was a special bitter smell.
Xi Lu raised her head in her busy schedule and said to him: "This is the fruit of Mudinggen. It is bitter and astringent. After eating it, your throat will feel numb and you will have diarrhea. You can't eat it."
Jian Mo twisted the fruit and said, "Put it in the soil and it will Will it sprout and grow new roots?"
Xi Lu was puzzled: "Of course, this is its fruit."
Jian Mo picked up the fruit and put it in a basket lined with leaves. "Then I'll try to plant it."
Xi Lu: " Why plant it? If you want it, can't you just go up the mountain and dig it? There are a lot of them on the mountain. If you want to eat it, you can ask me and I will take you up the mountain to dig it. "
Zhou Fu, who was digging for wood ding roots not far away, said, "There are several mountains nearby where wood
ding roots grow. When you want to eat it, go up the mountain and look for it. It's easy to find it." Jian Mo shook his head: "That's different. Just think that I like wood ding roots."
As he said that, Jian Mo changed the topic.
Everyone didn't notice and soon talked about other things.
This place might be very suitable for the growth of wood ding roots, which spread over a large area.
They picked herbs while digging, and soon dug up a pile.
Jian Mo saw that the soil nearby had been turned over, thought about it, and buried some of the wood ding roots he picked back in the turned over soil.
Everyone looked at it, but didn't say anything, but cooperated to help bury it.
Just when Jian Mo was concentrating on his work, a shout suddenly came from the front: "Come and see, there are so many wood roots here! They have all grown into the cave!"
"Where?!"
"Let me see!"
Jian Mo was pulled by Zhou Fu and squeezed outside a dark cave with others.
The outside of the cave was full of weeds and vines hanging down. If you don't look carefully, you really can't find it.
Zhou Fu sniffed: "It's the cave of the long-headed beast. It has been abandoned for at least three or four years."
Xilu stared at the cave and was eager to try: "What a pity. If it was still here, we could have killed a long-headed beast today."
Zhou Fu: "Not necessarily. What if it is particularly fierce and chases us?"
Xilu: "There won't be so many of us here. One person can sit on it to death."
Jian Mo listened on the side and roughly knew that this was a carnivorous beast with a very long head.
He couldn't smell the smell of beasts in the air at all, nor could he judge how many years this cave had been abandoned. He could only roughly judge from the dense plants at the entrance of the cave that there were no permanent wild animals inside.
Everyone used shell knives to cut the plants at the entrance of the cave and looked inside.
Xilu went in first, walked a few steps inside, and after making sure there was no danger, she turned around and waved for others to come in.
At this time, Jian Mo discovered that Xilu's ears had turned furry again, and her pupils had become large and round.
The same was true for the others, with their beast ears, claws, tails, etc. all exposed.
- They released the Beast Mark in the dangerous environment to adapt to it.
Jian Mo did not have the Beast Mark, and had insufficient experience in dealing with danger, so he could only walk among the crowd.
When his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he soon discovered that the hole was larger than he had imagined, at least twenty square meters.
People walking on the solid soil could even hear echoes.
"There is no danger."
Jian Mo heard Xilu say in the dimness.
Many people breathed a sigh of relief. Jian Mo heard Zhou Fu beside him muttering, "There are so many weeds here. I almost tripped just now."
Another orc said, "Let's cut these weeds and throw them away first. They are too inconvenient."
This statement was unanimously agreed by everyone.
Soon, the Yabeast people cleared away the plants in the cave.
Jian Mo stood in the crowd and finally smelled the unique fishy smell of carnivorous beasts.
That was the smell of feces - the feces of the long-headed beasts piled up most of the cave, and until now, the feces also exuded a strong smell.
He finally knew why the plants in the cave grew so well. With so much fertilizer, it would be strange if they didn't grow well.
Jian Mo grabbed the stone hoe and was hesitating where to start digging.
Xilu pulled him: "Come over here and dig, can you see it?"
Jian Mo widened his eyes and looked ahead seriously: "I can see it roughly."
Xilu: "It's okay, if I dig it up, I'll tell you."
Everyone held the hoe and dug enthusiastically.
Soon, someone dug out the first dingchi root, grabbed it in his hand and exclaimed: "This dingchi root is so big, it's almost as thick as my thigh."
Everyone rushed forward to take a look.
The dingchi roots outside were at most as thick as lotus roots, but the dingchi roots inside were as thick as someone's thigh, and looked particularly plump.
It seems that sufficient fertilizer and a long growth period are necessary conditions for dingchi roots to grow well.
The quality of the dingchi roots in the cave made everyone excited, and everyone worked harder with their hoes.
Soon, other dingchi roots were dug out one after another, all of which were bigger than a person's thigh.
The dingchi roots underground were not only thick and long, but also grew densely, with two or three roots dug out per square meter.
Maybe because their roots fully absorbed fertilizer in the cave, the vines climbed outside to absorb sunlight and rain, and they grew big and healthy.
Everyone dug and threw all the debris outside the cave.
Jian Mo looked up and found a lot of white flocs: "What is that?"
Xilu looked up and said in a normal way: "Hair."
Jian Mo didn't understand for a moment: "What hair?"
Xilu: "It's the hair shed by the long-headed beast. It changes its hair twice a year. It sheds a lot. These hair balls should be the hair it sheds."
Zhou Fu next to him took a look: "There are so many hair balls. It may have lived in the cave for six or seven years."
Xilu: "I guess more than that."
Jian Mo reached out and picked up a hair ball. The hair ball felt soft and delicate, and it felt very comfortable.
He put the hair ball away: "Don't you want such a good hair ball?"
The people around were puzzled. Xilu asked: "What are you going to do with it?"
Jian Mo: "Just use it to make something, such as clothes."
Xilu: "There are animal skins for making clothes. Won't the tribe leader give them to you? If he doesn't give them to you, I'll get you a few when I go back."
Seeing that Wu Jiong's reputation was about to be damaged, Jian Mo hurriedly explained: "It was given to me. I can use the animal skins at home, but the materials of animal hair and animal skin are completely different, and they have different uses."
The people around looked at each other.
Zhou Fu: "Aren't they different? Don't they both have hair?"
Jian Mo: "They are different. Animal hair is much more breathable. Forget it, everyone will know when I make it."
Jian Mo picked up the hair balls scattered in the cave and put them in the backpack.
The fur is quite soft, he can see if he can make a pair of socks out of it.
He only has one pair of socks, which he washes every night and wears during the day. They are almost worn out, and he urgently needs a new pair of socks.
Maybe he can make a few more pairs for backup.
The Asian beasts didn't understand, but they still helped to collect the scattered fur balls for him.
Xilu looked at the fur balls: "It's a little dirty."
Jian Mo: "It's okay, just wash it with soap when you get home."
At this time, Jian Mo was a little glad that he had made soap before.
The cleaning ability of soap is much stronger than that of gray water and sand. This kind of dirty fur ball should be able to be washed clean by soaking and washing.
Everyone had originally planned to come out today to pick some herbs and gather food, but they didn't expect there to be so many ding roots in the cave.
They dug from morning to night, and they hadn't finished digging until the sun was about to set.
Because there wasn't much left, everyone didn't want to come back tomorrow to dig.
When it was getting dark, many of the beastmen's companions came to them and took over the hoes from everyone.
With the beastmen's help, they dug much faster.
The backpacks they brought were not enough, so a group of beastmen went to the wild to cut vines, tied the ding roots into bundles, and let the beastmen carry them down the mountain.
Finally, they returned to the tribe and counted. Today, they dug a total of thirteen baskets and twenty-one bundles of ding roots.
Jian Mo weighed it and conservatively estimated that they had dug at least 1,500 kilograms of ding roots today.
Collective hunting and gathering require half of the harvest to be left for the tribe, and the remaining half is divided equally among the hunters or gatherers.
Jian Mo finally got most of the basket of wood ding roots, enough for him and Wu Jiong to eat for five or six days.
Wu Jiong helped to carry the wood ding roots back: "Is it particularly hard today?"
Jian Mo said happily: "Fortunately, we harvested so much, so we don't feel tired."
Wu Jiong smiled.
They carried the wood ding roots back and put them in the corner where food was stored.
Jian Mo looked at the pile of tubers, wild fruits and vegetables in the corner, and the various meats hanging outside, and his heart was filled with a rare sense of accomplishment.
He also contributed a small part to these foods.
Wu Jiong looked at the remaining hair balls and wood dinggen fruits in the basket: "Are these hair balls and fruits still useful?"
"Yes." Jian Mo came to his senses and explained to Wu Jiong, "I will plant the fruits as seeds, and see if the hair balls can be spun into threads and made into something."
Wu Jiong nodded: "Where do you want to plant them?"
Jian Mo asked tentatively: "Can we plant them behind the house? I see there is a large open space behind the house, and it doesn't seem to have any other use?"
Wu Jiong: "Sure, let it grow near the foot of the mountain."
Jian Mo: "No problem, I'll plant it tomorrow!"
Wu Jiong: "Call me tomorrow and I'll plant with you."
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