Curing bacon and bacon, making sauerkraut and pickles all require a lot of salt, and what the tribe brings back is not enough.

Taking advantage of the "miracle" wind, Wu Nuo used the oracle as an excuse to pretend that the gods had a dream, and announced the existence of salt crystals to everyone in the tribe.

Having just witnessed a miracle with their own eyes, everyone's belief in God has reached its peak, and no one doubts Wu Nuo's words at all. Everyone believed in Wu Nuo's nonsense, and regarded the salt crystal as a gift from the gods, and the appearance of the salt crystal was indeed very good. Compared with the yellow and black coarse salt grains, the whole block of red crystal was more fake. There is no pressure at all from God-given things.

The matter of the salt crystal mine is very important, even the stupid half-orcs know that they must not let the outside tribe know, otherwise it will bring terrible disaster to the tribe.

However, it is one thing for everyone to be clear in their hearts, and the warning that should be given is still indispensable.

When Wu Nuo announced the existence of salt crystals with an oracle, he also pulled the tiger skin of the gods to warn everyone that if anyone leaked the existence of salt crystals, the gods would surely bring disaster on him, and those who leaked the secrets would suffer the most cruelty in the world. He will die in pain and despair, fall into the demon realm forever, and never be freed.

These warnings, which in the eyes of modern people have no deterrent effect, are like a thunderstorm to the people of the Changhe tribe, which cannot be crossed half a step.

If it is not necessary, everyone is not even willing to mention the word Yanjing.

The salt crystals mined from the salt crystal mine are extremely pure and can be used directly without any refining. However, the whole salt crystals can be broken into pieces for cooking, but they are not good for directly using them to marinate food.

When Wu Nuo was in modern times, he had heard of boiling salt, but he didn't know how to make it. With the idea of ​​giving it a try, he poured the salt crystals into a stone pot, added water and boiled them repeatedly, and finally let him boil the salt out.

The salt boiled from the salt crystals has extremely fine grains and is as bright red as blood. It tastes pure and without the slightest bitterness, which is many times better than the coarse salt of the Muyuan tribe.

In order to distinguish it from coarse salt, Wu Nuo named this salt blood salt. Out of professional habits, he also made up a twists and turns bizarre life history for blood salt. The beast god accidentally cut his finger, and the dripping blood turned into blood salt or something. Not only the tribe's cubs, but also the adults listened with great interest and their eyes lit up.

Wu Nuo was just a habitual gimmick for Blood Salt at first, but he didn't expect this casually made-up story to be passed on from word to mouth, becoming one of the most widely spread myths and legends in later generations. Countless generations have grown up listening to this story.

But by that time, blood salt, the protagonist of the story, was rarely seen in this world.

And even now, the amount of blood salt is not much.

Most of the tribe's meat is pickled with coarse salt, and blood salt is used only after all the coarse salt is used up. Even so, the sum of the two salts is still not enough to marinate so many foods.

Wu Nuo considered that the temperature in the cold winter here is completely different from the place where he used to live. In the freezing temperature, even if the salt content of bacon is lower, there is no need to worry about it spoiling after a long time.

He minimized the salt content of cured bacon, the amount of salt is only two-thirds of the normal cured, and after smoking with a branch with a natural fragrance, the taste is unexpectedly good.

Dragon beast (dinosaur) meat is hard, almost all lean meat, and has a strong fishy smell. Wu Nuo originally thought that it would be unpalatable after making bacon, but when it was actually made, the taste was no less than the most tender meat The lira beast bacon is poor. After the cured dragon meat marinated in blood salt and smoked with fragrant wood is cooked and sliced, the meat color is pink and white, and the meat slices are clear. Don't have a flavor. The orcs especially like the taste. They only need to cut a small bowl with cured dragon meat for each meal. They can eat half a pot of boiled white sweet potatoes, and they will not be hungry for a long time, which is far more satisfying than ordinary animal meat.

Kimchi, sauerkraut and pickles are almost all pickled with blood salt. The sauerkraut and kimchi have not been pickled yet. After soaking long melon and pepper together, they will be ready to eat in a few days. After the snow-white and translucent long melon slices are soaked, they are dyed with a touch of carmine because of the blood salt. Besides being sour and crisp, there is also a little bit of sweet and spicy taste, which is appetizing and refreshing.

Even the orcs, who don't like vegetarian dishes the least, like to chew two pieces for nothing.

It's a pity that there are not many kimchi jars cooked by Xing, and each family can only be divided into three big, two small, and five jars. Three large jars are used to hold sauerkraut and pickles, and two small jars are used to hold kimchi. Some greedy guys eat up all the kimchi within a few days after the kimchi is soaked.

They didn't reflect on their greed at all, but blamed Xing Xing for making the jar too small.

Wu Nuo just wanted to tell them that a kimchi jar that can soak thirty to forty catties of vegetables at a time is not too small! (╯‵口′)╯︵┻━┻Compared to eating kimchi directly, Bai prefers to eat Wu Nuo's fried dishes with pickled peppers, especially the sliced ​​pork with pickled peppers. Hot and sour, it couldn't be more delicious, every time he can eat it until there is not even a little soup left. The little angel also praised him as a rice bucket, it is said that only the person who can eat the most in God's Domain is eligible to be called a rice bucket, I will try to eat more in the future ︿(￣︶￣)︿ If Wu Xiaonuo knows what Bai Dayao thinks, he will cry and faint in the toilet.

When you are busy, time flies very fast.

One morning, Wu Nuo was awakened by the urge to urinate, put on homemade simple animal skin slippers, and opened the animal skin curtain in a daze.

Wu Nuo lived in the south since he was a child, and he hasn't seen snow once in several years. This is the first time he has seen such a heavy snowfall when he grows up. Wu Nuo froze for two seconds, another gust of cold wind hit, and immediately clamped his legs and ran towards the bathroom.

When the convenience was over and the cold wind blew, Wu Nuo's mind was finally fully awake. He excitedly pulled Bai Da Miao, who was still sleeping late, out of the bed, and played with him in Tianxue. Reluctantly go back to the house.

Three days ago, the big witch had predicted the heavy snowfall, and everyone rushed until yesterday evening to collect the last bit of white sweet potatoes in the field, pick out the good ones, and send them to the cellar overnight for storage.

The temperature has dropped sharply in the past few days, but the weather has been good all the time. Wu Nuo still wonders in his heart whether the Dawu made a mistake, the modern weather forecast is still not good, can the Dawu tell when it will snow with just his eyes? As a result, I didn't expect Daxue to come as soon as I said it.

Fortunately, the big witch saw that the weather had changed and made a decisive decision. He asked everyone to stop what they were doing and concentrate on digging out all the white sweet potatoes in the field. Otherwise, if it is frozen by the heavy snow, not to mention that it will be difficult to dig in the ice and snow at that time, even if it is dug out, the white sweet potatoes that have been frozen by ice and snow will not last long.

It's a pity that the heavy snow came too early. Many dug up white sweet potatoes hadn't had time to be dried into dried sweet potatoes, so they could only be eaten before they spoiled. If they couldn't be eaten, they had to be fed to livestock.

Fortunately, the yield of white sweet potatoes is extremely high this year. If there is no accident, those that have been dried and stored in the cellar are enough to support everyone through the cold winter, and there are still leftovers. Besides white sweet potatoes, everyone also kept a lot of wild melons, wild vegetables, sauerkraut, pickles, bacon, bacon, etc. in the cellar.

The cold winter has always been extremely difficult, and everyone never expects to eat well in the cold winter, as long as they are not hungry or cold, it is enough.

The food problem has been solved, and the next step is to seize the last bit of time to build as many houses as possible.

During this period, a large amount of coal was transported to the land of the dead. With enough energy support, the progress of firing bricks and tiles was much faster. Xing Ren dug 4 more earthen kilns, plus the previous ones, a total of 12 kilns. The earthen kiln is running at full capacity, and the fired brick kiln is opened every day. Bricks and tiles were continuously transported back to the tribe through bullock carts, and one after another, more than 20 new houses were added to the tribe.

Together, the tribe has built a total of 40 new houses.

However, the tribe has a total of 150 or 60 households, and more than two-thirds of them have no new houses yet.

Seeing that the snow has already fallen, if the foundation of the new house is not laid before the land is completely frozen, the house can only be built after the snow melts and the permafrost thaws when the weather gets warmer next year.

According to past experience, once it starts to snow, the soil will be completely frozen within a month at most. The situation this year is not the same as in previous years. In previous years, there were sporadic light snow at the beginning, and the light snow gradually turned into heavy snow. was completely frozen.

In half a month, it is impossible to build hundreds of houses, but it is still possible to dig the foundation and put everyone together.

Facts have proved that the temptation of a new house is huge. Turning it into motivation, everyone laid the foundation in less than half a month. The housing problem of ordinary residents was solved, but where the slaves lived became a new problem.

Slaves with owners are arranged by their masters. The Changhe tribe only allows orc warriors to own slaves, and the conditions of orc warriors are usually better. Not to mention that each has a decent stone house, at least they don't sleep in animal skin tents. Generally speaking, At worst, there is a house with a mix of stone and wood.

Slaves generally don't live with their masters. The orcs who have slaves will let their slaves build a small hut with some wood, branches and discarded animal skins next to his house, and make do with it. Usually it's okay, but in the cold winter, slaves with a slightly weaker physique have a hard time getting through.

In the cold winter, slaves can't do much work, and they have to eat. Orcs usually don't care about their lives.

The Changhe tribe expressly forbids the eating of two-legged sheep, and a very small number of cannibal tribes kill slaves as livestock and freeze them in the snow to eat slowly in the cold winter.

This year, without exception, all residents should be able to live in new houses. With a brick house sheltered from wind and snow, who cares about an old house with air leakage on all sides?

Some orc warriors who had already moved into the new house simply gave up their old house to the slaves. The orcs who had no new house for the time being also made a promise to make their slaves work harder.

Although the old houses of the orcs can't be compared with the newly built brick houses, they are at least ten times better than the random shacks made of wood and animal skins. At least living in them will not freeze to death.

The problem of housing for slaves with owners has been solved, and where the more than 800 slaves in the tribe live has become a big problem.

After discussing with the big witch and the leader, Wu Nuo decided to build a collective dormitory for these slaves. There are 15 big rooms on the left and right rows, men and women live separately, and 6 big rooms in the middle are built as canteens for everyone to cook, eat and rest.

The toilet is also built a little far away from the dormitory. If there are extra bricks and tiles, they will be covered with bricks and tiles. If not, they will be built with wood and animal skins.

When the new slaves heard that they could live in a brick house, even if they had to lay the floor with dozens of others, they were very excited. For the new dormitory, everyone threw off their arms and worked desperately, trying to fix the foundation of the collective dormitory before the soil froze.

Some of the remaining manpower rushed to the place of death to help, and some stayed in the tribe to cut trees and repair houses.

This year's cold winter weather is extremely harsh, and the temperature drops very fast. People who don't have a new house to live in for the time being and can't stand the cold have moved into their cellars one after another.