After dinner, A Chu and Luther left. After helping to pack up, A Xu said to several people, "You guys have a rest today, and tomorrow morning I will take you to the Salt Mountain to quarry salt rocks."

Chen Qi nodded, they originally planned to exchange enough salt rock for the entire Qi Zecheng before next summer, but there were a lot of impurities in the salt rock, and Chen Qi wanted to bring the refined salt Going back, this can not only save the trouble of having to deal with it again after going back, but also bring more.

"Axu, can I ask the orcs of your tribe to help refine the salt stone tomorrow?" Chen Qi took advantage of the busyness of others to check his recent drawings, and by the way simplified the scene of Achu and others hunting in the evening recorded it.

"Yes, after refining it here, you don't need to carry the impurities back." Since eating the salt without bitter taste in Qize City, the two brothers A Xu are not ordinary about the unrefined salt stone. Disgusting, it's just that the salt stone in Qize City had already been processed when they went there. Even if others explained to them how to deal with it, A Xu couldn't understand the refined salt stone well without seeing the actual operation with his own eyes. A step of.

"It's just that I don't quite understand the steps to refine the salt stone. I'll trouble you to demonstrate it tomorrow." Asu said apologetically.

Chen Qi smiled, "It's natural."

"I'll teach you tomorrow. Refining salt stone is very simple. I've learned it a long time ago." Ale knew that Chen Qi was busy drawing materials for his map. Anyway, he didn't have anything special to do here. He took the initiative to take things on his own, so that Chen Qi could have more time to do his own thing.

Seeing that Ale was so active, Chen Qi didn't try to rob him. Tomorrow, he planned to walk around the neighborhood. Rocks like this were rare on the Dora Plain.

Ah Shu has been used to sleeping with them for a long time, and he didn't plan to go to his father's stone cave at night. He found a few pieces of animal skins and placed them by the fire. Xu didn't stay here. He left for more than two months. He couldn't wait to tell his father and father in detail about what he saw along the way, especially the skills he learned from Qize City, and he wanted to teach himself as soon as possible. people of the tribe.

After tidying up the artwork, Aze had already put animal skins under the slate bed at the farthest corner of the wall. The two slate beds in the cave were not big, only enough for an adult man to lie down. I was afraid that I would fall off the bed if I turned over.

There was no way to sleep on the slate bed with Chen Qi, so A Ze laid a beast skin under the bed to make do with it, and gave the other slate bed to Ah Xu.

"Aze, go to bed tonight." During this period of time, Aze had to carry heavy luggage and himself on the road, and also took turns to watch the night at night. Chen Qi was very distressed. When I arrived in the Luoshui tribe, I naturally hoped that the other party could have a good rest.

Aze shook his head, "I'll just sleep on the ground, Chen Qi, go to bed."

Chen Qi walked over and pulled Aze onto the bed without a word, while he pulled out a piece of animal skin in his backpack and rolled it up to use it as a pillow.

"Chen Qi, what are you doing?" A Ze stood beside the bed at a loss and looked at Chen Qi who had already laid down on his own.

Hearing Aze's question, Chen Qi spread his arms and pointed to the position beside him with a smile, "Do you want to sleep with me?"

A Ze naturally knew what Chen Qi meant, but the other party was hurting himself, and he was not hurting the other party. Chen Qi yawned and rubbed the corners of his eyes, "Aze, you are very tired today too, hurry up and sleep." After speaking, he ignored Azer who was still tangled, closed his eyes, and it didn't take long for him to go to sleep. fell asleep.

A Ze sighed helplessly, and took a thin cloth as a quilt to cover him. Even in summer, because it was close to Luoshui Lake, the cold on the ground was still quite heavy.

After helping Chen Qi cover the quilt, he looked up and found two pairs of curious eyes looking at them. Seeing that they had been discovered, Ale and Ashu hurriedly turned over and pretended to sleep.

A Xu came over just after dawn the next day. In addition to A Xu who was making breakfast, there were two people on the other side of the fire who were sleeping on their heads. Chen Qi and A Ze were not in the cave.

"Where did Chen Qi and A Ze go?" A Xu asked strangely.

Ah Xu pointed to the top of the cave, "Chen Qi said that he wanted to see the sunrise, and A Ze carried him to the top of the mountain early in the morning. He should still be on it by now."

A Xu nodded, rolled up his sleeves and walked to A Xu's side, "Let me cook for you."

The top of the rocky mountain where Asu lived was covered with jagged rubble, and there was only one huge piece of sandstone that could barely hold two adults sitting on it.

The surroundings were very quiet. There were several open bamboo tubes beside Chen Qi. In front of him was a piece of paper that had already been painted on. A Ze stood quietly behind him, watching the breeze blow the other person's hair. .

When A Xu climbed up and called for the two to eat, Chen Qi drew a panorama of the rocky mountains in addition to the sunrise picture, which made A Xu envious, but he was embarrassed to ask Chen Qi to ask, and decided to go later. After picking the salt stone, he went outside to find some dyed fruit and came back. While Chen Qi was still here to learn how to draw with the other party, he might be able to draw a panorama of the tribe at some point.

After a simple breakfast, a few people cleared out a few empty animal skin backpacks and set off for Yanshan.

Yanshan is far from the outermost part of the tribe and is close to Luoshui Lake. It can be reached by walking along Luoshui Lake for about half an hour.

Leaving the beach and walking forward for a certain distance is a rocky beach. The finely broken stones were wet by the water, covered with moss and clusters of dark brown things. Chen Qi looked familiar, and approached to take a look, bent over to break it. I placed one, looked up and down for a few minutes, and finally determined that this rocky beach that stretched for several hundred meters was actually densely covered with mussels.

A few people stopped when Chen Qi was walking towards the stone beach, watching Chen Qi holding a dark-brown thing for a while and then waving to them excitedly, motioning them to go over. Several people looked at each other and walked over suspiciously.

Chen Qi handed the mussels in front of A Xu, "What do you call this kind of thing?"

A Xu looked at it and shook his head, "This kind of thing doesn't have a name." Although the names of many animals and plants here are the same as Chen Qi's perception, but for things that are useless, orcs generally rarely go to Come up with a name to remember.

"You don't even eat mussels?" Chen Qi said in surprise, no wonder the mussels in this place grow so densely.

There is still a long way to go from here to the salt mountain, and I am afraid that the salt stone will be mined in the afternoon. Chen Qi thought about it and looked at everyone expectantly, "Do you want to eat a new food?"

Ah Shu pointed to the dark-brown mussels in Chen Qi's hand, "Do you want to eat this kind of thing? This kind of thing is very hard."

Chen Qibai glanced at him, "Who asked you to eat the shell together."

"I'd like to try it." Seeing that Chen Qi was obviously attracted by these so-called mussels, A Xu turned to ask A Xu, "Is it okay to pick the salt stone in the afternoon?"

A Xu spread his hands, "Of course, you can go whenever you want." After speaking, he looked at Chen Qi, "Do you want to pick these mussels now?"

Chen Qi nodded again and again, and he didn't have any objections when he saw a few people. With a big wave of his hand, he bent down and started to pick the largest mussels.

Chen Qi probably picked a small half bag and took a few people back. He didn't know if the orcs could eat mussels. If they picked too much and they didn't eat it, it would be a waste.

When returning to the beach, Chen Qi directly washed the mussels with the water of Luoshui Lake. After returning to the cave, he took out the pottery plate for cooking the food, put the sliced ​​ginger and wild onions, and put the mussels on the Put it in a pottery plate, fill it with water, cover it with a wooden lid, and wait for the mussels to boil until they open.

Because the mussels themselves are salty, Chen Qi did not add any additional salt. After the mussels were served, Chen Qi couldn't wait to pick one up, directly holding the shell with his hands, and using chopsticks to pick out the meat inside, it tasted delicious. , For Chen Qi, who has not eaten seafood for more than a year, even just boiling it in water is much more delicious than the usual barbecue.

After eating one by himself, Chen Qi picked up the other one, clipped the meat out and brought it to A Ze's lips. Seeing that A Ze chewed and swallowed a few times, he asked nervously, "Is it delicious?" People like Aze who have lived near the Chishui River for a long time should rarely eat fresh seafood. Chen Qi was worried that the other party would not be used to it.

Aze nodded, "Delicious."

Chen Qi breathed a sigh of relief, and then invited the others to eat together.

Ah Shu picked up one. When it grew by the lake, it was obviously a hard one. Now, after being boiled in water, the shell was opened, and he could see the yellow-brown flesh inside. After twisting it out and putting it in the mouth, after chewing it a few times, he commented inarticulately: "I thought these were stones, but I didn't expect to be able to eat them."

The taste of mussels is not the same as meat. A few orcs are not used to this taste at first, so every time they eat one, they will taste it carefully before swallowing it. After eating a few, they feel that the taste is not bad, so they let go. A little, because it didn’t take long after breakfast, half a bag of mussels in animal skins was a bit too much for a few people. In the end, Asu took the uneaten ones to other caves and distributed them to the tribe. the orc.

Soon after, everyone in the Luoshui tribe knew that the dense piles of black-brown things that were as hard as stones growing on the rocky beach were edible.

After tasting the delicious mussels, Chen Qi made up his mind to bring mussels back to Qize City. He took a few people to Shitan again, and this time he came back after picking two big bags full of them.

After cooking the mussels, remove the shells, then spread a layer of mussels on the open space outside the cave, spread the mussels on the leaves to dry, and plan to make mussels into mussels before returning. Dried away, raw mussels can't be kept for too long, but as long as dried mussels are stored properly, there is no problem in eating them in winter.

Mussels can’t just be exposed to the sun all the time, Ale and Ashu took the initiative to stay and help take care of them. Axu’s family still has a lot of unrefined raw salt stones, and Ale plans to take advantage of this time. Teach Ah Shu the method of refining salt stones, and ask Ah Shu to teach the rest of the tribe.

Under the leadership of A Xu, Chen Qi and the others went to the Salt Mountain to pick salt stones.