Chapter 889: Ancient Farming by Internet Celebrities (23)

Xu Yin came over for inspection several times and saw that they were learning well, so she took Achun and others to deal with the batch of nuts.

 The first thing to deal with is Ganli.

Peel off the thorn shells, dry them in the sun, and then use them as firewood.

 Fruits can be stored for a long time after being dried.

 “Great witch, can you eat it like this?”

Ah Chun opened a large chestnut with force and looked at the light yellow pulp inside.

“It’s ready to eat. The texture is different from when it’s cooked. You can try it.”

 “I want to eat! Mom, give it to me!”

"I want to eat, too!"

The boys squatting nearby to help peel the thorn shells couldn't break the sweet chestnuts in their hands, so they stretched out their hands to get the ones in Achun's hand.

 Xu Yin rubbed their little heads and said, "Don't worry, everyone can taste one."

She picked a few larger chestnuts, held them in her hands and gently broke them apart. The brown hard shell of each chestnut cracked open, revealing the golden flesh inside.

The boys looked at Xu Yin with admiration with their bright black eyes:

 “Great witch, you are so powerful!”

“That goes without saying! Our great witch is the most powerful among all the tribes!”

 “My father said so too!”

 “My father and mother said so!”

 “My father, mother, and grandfather all said so!”

　　　…”

This can also make a noise?

Xu Yin laughed dumbly and gave each of them a raw sweet chestnut: "Try the raw ones first, and then taste the cooked ones later to see which one tastes better."

It goes without saying that cooked chestnuts are definitely more delicious.

Although raw sweet chestnuts are fragrant, sweet and crunchy when chewed, they always have this same taste.

There are more ways to eat cooked chestnuts, and the taste is richer: boiled chestnuts are glutinous and glutinous, with original flavor; roasted chestnuts have a slightly burnt aroma and are rich in flavor; stewed meat is nourishing and nourishing the stomach.

　　After a feast of sweet chestnuts that night, the boys were so stretched that they could hardly move their legs.

 In the past, after dinner, they would play and jump around in the open space in front of the cave until their parents took them into the cave to sleep.

They ate too much tonight. As soon as they were full, Xu Yin asked them to sit down for a while before moving around. They leaned on their parents’ arms obediently and helped sort the acorns.

Xu Yin picked out the skinny little acorns that were sifted, and taught them to use small tree branches and animal skin scraps to make slingshots over the campfire, using the skinny little acorns as bullets.

“It’s okay to play for fun, and it’s okay to beat bad guys, but you’re not allowed to bully your fellow tribesmen.”

“Great witch, we listen to you!”

 The boys were so happy to receive this gift.

Their parents were also happy, because the wizard said that although the plump acorns cannot be eaten raw, they can be made into a food that has a completely different taste from sweet chestnuts and can be used as both a staple food and a vegetable.

 “Go to bed early today and I will teach you tomorrow.”

 Everyone cheered in unison.

“Kun, the great shaman of the Xu tribe knows a lot!” Kun’s tribesmen said enviously.

"I heard what Achun and the other women were saying. With just one kick, their great witch killed a ferocious beast that even ten people might not be able to defeat."

“I’ve also heard that their great witches are extremely powerful! They can fight one against ten.”

"Otherwise, I can't subdue the four-legged winged beast." Kun nodded.

Even though their great witch knows a lot, the recent crisis was resolved by his ability to predict.

 Otherwise, they had no idea that the Featherwing Tribe would besiege them, and would not be able to send people to the other side of the river to ask for help in advance. Then, that night would be the day their entire tribe perished.

 But in other respects, he had to admit that it was the great shaman of the Xu tribe who knew more, was extremely powerful, and ran extremely fast, let alone one against ten, or one against a hundred.

 Think of what Min said that day: "Guangming, the Guangming tribe is not in the south."

Kun put his hands behind his head and had a sudden thought: Could the light be in the Xu tribe?

It is better to be friends with them rather than enemies.

Kun and the others learned how to make pottery and make bows and arrows. They knelt down to Xu Yin with the highest etiquette, and then went back to the tribe to get busy.

As he expected, the tribesmen were dumbfounded when they heard that they had learned the skills of making pottery and bows and arrows from the Xu tribe.

Yu blurted out: "Father, the Xu tribe does not agree to trade with us, so don't daydream like this!"

Kun was angry and funny: "What are you daydreaming about? We have really learned these two techniques. How could we delay it for so long? But we didn't learn them in vain."

 He described Xu Yin's conditions in detail.

Even so, the tribal people were still surprised.

“Just the first two years? Will it be ours to use freely after two years?”

"Bows and arrows only need one year? Six sets a month, only seventy-two sets a year. After teaching us such a powerful weapon, we only need to pay seventy-two sets and it will be ours?"

They looked at each other in confusion. They all thought that the Xu tribe was too easy to talk to, right?

"That's because they regard us as brothers in the tribe, brothers whose blood is thicker than water, so they don't care so much and are willing to help us become stronger together." Kun San Ling Wu Shen said, "So, in the future, when we encounter good opportunities and discover good things, and share with them.”

"that's for sure!"

“Not to mention anything else, just because they saved our lives, we should share it!”

Min stroked his long gray beard and smiled happily.

 Think again of the starry sky they had glimpsed not long ago: the light was neither in the south nor in the north, but right before their eyes.

As for what Kun said, the great shaman of the Xu tribe wanted to learn the art of foresight from him, which put him in a bit of a dilemma.

 It’s not that I don’t want to teach, it’s that I don’t know how to teach.

  His ability to predict has existed since he could remember, but it can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.

"However," he stroked his long gray beard, "I am willing to tell her everything I know, but I can't guarantee that these are precognition techniques."

Min was willing to tell her everything he knew, and Xu Yin was very happy.

It’s okay if you can learn a little bit, and it doesn’t matter if you can’t learn it. It’s always good to have more knowledge.

 What’s more, this knowledge goes beyond the scope of science and is a bit mysterious in metaphysics.

 But then again, isn’t there a saying that “the end of science is metaphysics”? Maybe the mystery of the universe is really related to metaphysics?

After Min agreed, Xu Yin flew to the Cross-River Tribe every two days on a winged tiger to listen to Min talk about his thoughts and ideas, and to talk about each other's views on the development of the tribe.

The great shamans of the two tribes often sit together to chat and drink tea, which also makes the people of the two tribes closer and have more frequent contacts.

When not going to the Cross-River tribe, Xu Yin took the women of the tribe to put all the nuts away.

 Chestnuts can be stored for a long time after being dried, so you can cook them whenever you want.

The same goes for hazelnuts, which are dried and put in rattan bags. Occasionally they are fried in a pot and shared with everyone for leisure.

She planned to keep the walnuts for pressing oil.

 I always eat animal fats, and the blood in my body feels like it has solidified.

It can be boiled or stewed. Many wild vegetables are not very tasty. Even if they are boiled and served cold, she wants to use vegetable oil instead of deer fat, beef tallow or goat fat.

 (End of this chapter)