Chapter 873: Ancient Farming by Internet Celebrities (7)
“This time, we will only pick the inflorescences and take them back to dry. In another month, I will take you to dig the tubers, and you should try to remember their locations.”
After Xu Yin finished speaking, he began to teach them how to identify Panax notoginseng plants.
“Great witch, is this flower head useful?”
"Well, Panax notoginseng is a treasure all over the body. You already know that the leaves stop bleeding and reduce swelling, and its flowers also have hemostatic effects. In addition, Panax notoginseng flowers can clear away heat, soothe the nerves, and lower blood pressure... When you have a sore throat, soak some Panax notoginseng in it. Qihua comes to drink it, and the effect is very good."
Once you hear that such an inconspicuous little flower has so many uses, what are you waiting for?
Everyone is actively picking.
Xu Yin was picking and popularizing science: "You don't have to pick them all, just leave a few for proofing. Next time I take you to dig tubers, the flowers will be bright red or deep red. When you go out and see this kind of flower, you will be surprised. Know that underneath is the Panax notoginseng tuber.”
The tribesmen nodded their heads like garlic, their great shaman knew so much! He must have been the most capable general beside Empress Nuwa!
After harvesting a batch of panax notoginseng flowers, Xu Yin took a look at the trap she had set on her way back and caught a pheasant that had been hungry for two days.
The pheasant was so fierce that it wanted to bite her. Ah Chun stepped forward and said, "I twisted its neck and lifted it back."
Xu Yin quickly stopped her: "Forgot what I said? If you can catch it alive, catch it alive. The weather is hot now, and the meat they hunted back in Dashan is enough for us to eat. We can keep the ones caught alive until the weather gets cold and it is inconvenient to go hunting. Eat them again.”
They understand this, "But they can fly."
“Then cut off the wing feathers.”
So, next, Xu Yin taught them how to clip pheasant wing feathers and how to raise them in captivity.
Pheasants can fly, and they can fly higher than ordinary pheasants. Ordinary breeding sheds cannot stop them at all.
Xu Yin wielded a wooden shovel and took the lead to dig a pit more than one meter deep. A 1.5-meter-high wooden fence was erected around the pit, entangled with thorns, and then drove the pheasants with their wings clipped in.
From the bottom of the pit to the top of the fence, there is a height of at least two and a half meters. The fence is covered with thorns. Even if the pheasant's wing feathers grow back, it will be difficult to fly out.
By then, they will have become accustomed to being fed by humans, which is easier than foraging for food in the forest, and they may not be willing to fly even if they are allowed to fly.
One thing is clear, since pheasants can be raised, what about other meats?
So, after that, we went out hunting, and the hunting team tried their best to hunt as many people as possible.
Until he found the hare locked up in the shed, he dug a hole in the ground and escaped.
…”
Everyone was at a loss.
Xu Yin held back her laughter and said, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you clearly. Rabbits can dig holes. If you want to raise them, build a wooden cage and put them in a cage."
There are no nails, and the mortise and tenon structure is too time-consuming. If you have this time, you might as well go out and hunt a few more.
So everyone gave up and left one rabbit to live in the model cage made by Xu Yin for the tribe's kids to play with. The rest were made into smoked rabbits by Xu Yin and hung in the wind outlet for a while. time.
The tribesmen had never eaten smoked rabbit before. When they ate it for the first time, they thought it tasted great. Their eyes lit up, as if a new world of taste buds had been opened.
Since rabbit meat can be eaten like this? What about other meats?
The weather was hot, and the hunted meat could be kept for several days without being put into smoke. The taste was so good that the people smoked other meats spontaneously.
Of course, this is also the reason why the tribe is not short of salt recently.
In the past, people could not eat salt, so they relied on drinking raw animal blood to relieve the body's need for salt. How could you imagine such a luxury?
Xu Yin brought the mineral salt, boiled it with water, removed the impurities, and then boiled it to dryness. The precipitated salt is cleaner and more environmentally friendly than sea salt. With salt, the roasted meat tastes much better.
“I didn’t expect meat could be grilled like this.”
In the past, they were skewered on branches and grilled over an open fire. If they were not turned over in time, they were often burnt, with some parts burnt and some still raw. Even when it's cooked, it doesn't taste that good.
Having said that, this is all thanks to the salt. With salt, the meat roasted over an open fire is not unpalatable, but compared with Dawu's roasted meat, they lost their appetite for the large pieces of roasted meat in their hands.
When it’s meal time, adults will eat a few bites even if they have no appetite, but the children’s reaction is very straightforward, pestering their parents for delicious barbecue:
“Father, the great wizard knows how to roast crispy meat, why don’t you do it?”
“Mom, I want to eat the kind of meat that Dawu roasts, that one is delicious.”
…”
Who doesn’t know that the meat grilled by Dawu is delicious? The problem is they won't.
They were pestered by the brats, but of course they wanted to learn it themselves. Once they learned how to do it, they could grill it and eat it. After having tasted the crispy roasted meat once, who would want to eat meat that was both burnt and charred?
So, he cautiously approached Xu Yin and asked:
“Great wizard, can you teach us?”
“Sure, it’s easy.”
There is no technical content at all, so Xu Yin gave a cooking teaching class on the spot—
Teach them first to cut off the fat from the animal meat, which is suet. The meat that has just been hunted is still very fresh and can be grilled directly after being cooked.
But the weather is hot and the suet may smell bad if left out overnight.
Xu Yin taught them to make suet first, pour the refined oil into a stone pot to cool down, and put it in a cool place. They can dig out a piece and use it later.
With oil, you can roast anything you want. In addition to meat, you can also roast wild vegetables.
The tribal people were once again opened to the new world by their great witches.
Didn’t expect that tasteless grass can be roasted and eaten? It tastes really good!
In the past, they only ate wild vegetables when they had difficulty in defecating. Who would like to eat these things? They are not herbivores.
Now I’m learning teppanyaki from Xu Yin...no, it’s slate-yaki, which has ignited my strong thirst for knowledge—
Everything is roasted, including potato slices, garlic sprouts, purslane, and many unknown wild vegetables.
Among them, potatoes and garlic sprouts are the most delicious. The potato slices are roasted on the stone slab until they are browned and crispy on both sides. They taste crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, just like McDonald's potato chips.
The boys love baked potatoes.
The same goes for garlic sprouts, which are juicy and tender when roasted, making them more delicious than stir-fried.
After discovering these two delicacies, the tribal people not only opened the door to the new world, but also opened the window of the new world—
Not only wild vegetables, they also tried wild fruits.
Not to mention, some of them do taste better when roasted than raw, while others are just unpalatable.
But no matter what, if they eat too much fat-containing vegetables and fruits, they will definitely have smooth excretion, and defecation will no longer be painful, making them feel refreshed.
Once again, I sighed: Their great witch is really smart! Know everything!
This made them more determined and confident to follow the steps of the great witch.
The big witch said that they would never go west, the big witch to the west, they would never go east!
Whoever betrays the great witch will become an enemy of the entire Xu tribe!
(End of this chapter)