Searching for food through the beast world

Chapter 141 Arable Land Reclamation and Distribution Conference

Arable Land Reclamation and Distribution Conference

After eating the fried frogs, everyone silently thought about the frogs near the streams and rivers near the village.Fortunately, Ding Xiao "warned" that if the frogs disappeared, the number of mosquitoes in their village would increase several times, and this group of people gave up the idea of ​​eating them frequently.

Ever since Jing decided to catch and raise rabbits by himself, he has been very interested in breeding.Although he has still not been able to catch any prey alive, and there are no survivors under the hunting fork, his father and Muwa still caught him a few.Now the first thing Jing does when he gets up every morning is to go to his own rabbit cage to feed the rabbits. He is very much looking forward to having a baby rabbit. Have a harmonious life soon...

Now that he ate this delicious frog meat that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, he thought of raising toads again: "Xiaoxiao, do you think these frogs are easy to raise?"

Ding Xiao raised his forehead: "I don't know if it's good to feed them, but if you feed a large group of frogs near the village, think about the consequences yourself."

"Uh..." With just one sentence, Jing collapsed. "It's true, the quarrel is very annoying. Forget it, it's not bad to eat two or three times a year."

Ding smiled: "It's not the only way to eat it. It's also very nourishing to cook porridge with frog meat, so you don't need six or seven in a pot. After the rice nuts or pearl fruit are ripe , I’ll make it for you to try. But it’s definitely not as delicious as the deep-fried ones, but it definitely has a different taste. It’s also good to make spicy stir-fries, and it’s definitely not as expensive as a snack.”

Dong Yi suddenly sighed: "Smile you are fine, you can do everything. You can do a lot of things. I can't do it. I am not good at hunting, and my food cooking skills are average. I don't know how to make clothes, and I don't know how. Raising animals and growing plants. It’s useless to think about it.”

"Don't say that. I think the mats you weave out of reeds are denser and more beautiful than Kun's. Besides, you can take your time to make food and clothes. As for raising animals and farming, I don't know much about it." , In fact, most of it is Kun and my father and father. I always talk about it. I am too ashamed if you say that.” The food has nothing to show off except that the people here know how to use materials and seasoning.Well, he admits that he is definitely better at sewing clothes than the people here, but there is very little room for his design talent here, and he still doesn't understand the local people's aesthetic standards.Other kinds of land-raising animals are known to everyone in the previous life, and finding fresh food is also thanks to the eyes of heaven.Alas, the more I think about it, the more I feel that I really need to learn how to hunt well. I am really ashamed that Kun is doing everything at home!

"It's because I was fine when I was a child, and I learned bamboo basket weaving from my grandmother and elder sister. It's not a great skill." Dong Yi still sighed.

Ding Xiao raised his eyebrows: "Why isn't it a great skill? You weave the straw mats and sell them in the market. There will definitely be people coming to buy them this season."

Dong Yi's eyes widened, her face full of surprise.But then he wilted again. "This is something you and Kun came up with, how can I sell it."

"Isn't this similar to weaving a basket or something? The two of us just turned the round one into a square one. What you make is your own handicraft. If you feel uncomfortable, you can help me weave a mat as a gift." Everyone has a job that they are willing to do and do it well, and life will be more enjoyable when there is a "job".If every day besides eating, you are just in a daze and chatting nonsense, then it is really boring.So Ding Xiao is not stingy with teaching the little skills he knows to those around him.What's more, this is not something he taught, let alone something he invented.The more people like it, the more things will improve.The point is that no one person has all the jobs and skills available.Still the same sentence, hello everyone is really good!

Since returning from the trip to the lotus pond, everything seems to be back on track. Without the busy work inside and outside, the summer heat is not so difficult.

Because of the pick-up vehicles, there are many more stalls in Tianhe Village's market than at the beginning, but Dan Dingxiao didn't go shopping much.The jerky is still being sold, and they are still with Dad.The lucky boy still came every time, and paid 100 yuan as usual, but I never saw him again and had nothing to say.Both father and son wanted to give the shellfish and meat they earned to each other, but after a "family meeting" discussion, they decided to exchange the meat for the meeting, except for continuing to make jerky, and Ding Xiao made it into dried bacon. Naturally, it should be placed here with Abba Joan.Before moving in, Kun and Ding Xiao agreed that Papa Joan would come back for lunch at noon, so it was considered as food expenses.As for giving all the money to Ding Xiao, it is true that in the beast world, few people are particularly obsessed with "currency". Anyway, it is not of much use in the village, and it doesn't matter if you leave it there...

Originally, people thought that after the summer market started, there would be fewer people in the market, but it turned out to be quite prosperous.It wasn't affected much.Of course, the number of people going to the wall each time is also limited. After all, not all the old, weak, women and children can go to the depths of Aomori when they leave the territory.But this small market is different. Now Tianhe Village also has a special car to pick up and drop off. The last time the market opened, Ding Xiao saw a 450 seven-year-old old orc from Baishi Village.When the old man came to his stall, Ding Xiao gave away ten pieces of jerky without saying a word.Respecting the old and loving the young is a virtue that is more important in the animal world than in modern society.

The time of the summer market is the shortest, and the distance from the autumn market is also very close.You can exchange for special foods from many different regions.Dante smiled and really didn't want to go.It took half a month to talk back and forth, and it didn't take long for them to stop, it was too much trouble, it's better to have less activities.On the contrary, Jing, Luxi, and Dongyi, who finally confirmed their relationship with Heiyi, went with their prospective partner.In fact, their main purpose, apart from going out for a walk, is to buy enough shellac.They don't pay much attention to the fake glass, but they like the ground with water and the ground rotation.

When the people who went to the fence came back, Ding Xiao still got the good things he asked his friends to bring to buy.Two packs of dried sea cucumber and two packs of dried abalone.It was replaced with only a barefoot cow and a full-grown giant horned deer.The price is really gratifying.Well, this is just what Ding Xiao thinks, and that person from the Tianyu clan is probably having fun right now.

It took Kun a long time to return the cow and deer to Feng.But everyone is curious about what Xiaoxiao asked them to exchange for.Would that dry, hard-looking and weird-looking thing be delicious?It smells like a sea fishy smell, but the smell is not particularly strong.It's not easy for them to ask the Tianyu clansman who sells things.If people know that they don't even know how to eat this food, they will exchange it with two big beasts, and they will die of laughter.

Ding Xiao didn't intend to be stingy at all, so he invited everyone to his home at noon the next day, made a big pot of mantou fruit, and made twenty sea cucumbers soaked yesterday.As for the abalone that was soaked at the same time, it seemed that the next day was not enough, so it had to be postponed.

Ding Xiao doesn't know how to do it next to it, but there is a recipe for roasting sea cucumber with green onions.The appetite for Shandong cuisine is still very similar to that of Ding Xiao, a Northeast native, so even if the cooking is not authentic at all, he still accepts it very well.Anyway, he ate quite well by himself, and eating it with mantou fruit dipped in the juice of roasted sea cucumber with scallions was really indescribably delicious.

Although people did not taste the thing called abalone, which is clearly a shellfish.Dante laughed and gave them a taste of stewed pumpkin.

Some of the pumpkins in the field have matured, especially those hanging on the vines in my yard. For some reason, they ripen earlier than those in the experimental field, and they are bigger.Today he just stewed a big pumpkin weighing forty catties.After removing the seeds, three full jars were stewed including soup and meat.

Ding Xiao learned how to stew pumpkin from his father.Simple as hell.You don't even need a hot pot.Boil the water directly, put the pork belly slices, pumpkin and dried clams brought back from the sea.Just simmer until the squash is soft and rotten, and add a little salt.As for whether to put green onions or not, that's a matter of personal preference, and Ding Xiao didn't let it go. Of course, it's all because he has a preference for the fishy smell of the sea.

Pumpkin is a very filling thing, but it also varies from person to person.Ding Xiao is a person who eats pumpkins to satisfy hunger, but he believes that these males have round stomachs after eating, and they will be hungry again before dinner at night.But that's not his responsibility, it's just a taste of something new, and he doesn't intend to introduce pumpkin as a staple food to everyone.But these orc cubs and Lian's sister paper all agree that pumpkin is delicious.The salty and fresh taste complements the sweetness, and it tastes especially delicious when paired with pork belly.And soft, there is a feeling that the more you eat, the more you want to eat.Anyway, a few of them are struggling enough.

Brother Kun didn't have a stingy attack today.Each person distributed a pumpkin, which weighed about ten catties.In this way, the hanging shelves in the yard will not appear so fruitful.Everyone was a little embarrassed, but Ding Xiao said that the melons on the melon shelf can continue to grow in the past two months. If these big melons are still there, they will take away the nutrients.Although it sounds confused, the overall meaning is understood.The embarrassment in the big guy's heart also subsided a little bit.

Before the big guys left, Ding Xiao told these people not to throw away the pumpkin seeds, pick them off and dry them in the sun, and plant them directly in their own yards in the spring of next year. The yard is also full of pumpkins.This can be regarded as giving these good friends a little benefit in advance.

Just as a group of good brothers became more and more longing for planting, many people in the village also began to care about farming.

At first, there were some people who were on the sidelines, or even not optimistic, but now seeing the fruitful appearance of the experimental field, especially the large field of pearl fruit, no one doubts whether farming is beneficial or not.Just imagine that you can harvest a warehouse full of food at the door of your house. Do you still have to worry about winter?

So when the fruits in the experimental field are getting closer to maturity, the attitude of the villagers has changed very obviously.

No one would ask Kun, because this guy would smile except in front of Ding Xiao, and he always had a cold face when he saw everyone.

Few people had the opportunity to ask Ding Xiao.Ding Xiao has been very busy these days, because the flavored green vegetables pickled before are delicious, so he began to think about pickling other ingredients.Familiar home-cooked dishes like red lettuce, carrots, purple melon, etc., as well as pickled cabbage, kohlrabi, mustard greens and white beans.He also marinated a jar of salted eggs with the eggs saved by his family and his father's family, but this is a private collection and cannot be shared with others.

Looking at the doors of pickled vegetable jars completely filled with No. [-] warehouse, Ding Xiao finally felt a complete sense of accomplishment.But just when he thought he could finally rest for two days, the village chief asked him to attend a meeting at the village headquarters.

Actually learned to use the most unpopular vocabulary of "meeting"!Ding Xiao depressedly put down the teacup in his hand and sighed.Specially hold a meeting when Tiaokun is not at home, alas, I am really afraid that I will accidentally say something out of my mouth again.

Fortunately, when he arrived at the village, Kun was replaced from the patrol team not long after he sat in the shed.

Hurry up and sit next to his partner. Kun asked with his eyes. After seeing Xiaoxiao shaking his head in a daze, Brother Kun calculated what the people in the village were talking about in the past few days. It was probably related to farming It's related.This group of people is also in a hurry.

It should be said that today is the "Villagers' Congress". Apart from some people from the village department, several captains of the patrol team and priests, there are also some half-orcs and females. These people are either older or have more prestige. High.Mr. Wen is among them.

Ding Xiao was a little confused about this lineup. He was the youngest person who watched the excitement outside the courtyard and had a meeting inside the courtyard. However, the position the priest arranged for him was still a very important place, so it was inevitable to feel guilty.Even after secretly whispering a few words to Kun, he roughly understood the purpose of this meeting, but he didn't feel much comfortable, but became more entangled.

After counting the people, it was determined that all the important personnel were due, and the village chief began to preside over the meeting.

The issues are about how to plant the land, what to plant, where to get the land, how to divide the land, and who can get the land.

Of course, this is what Ding Xiao summed up. The village chief's words are quite level. He is thinking here, his own black tiger really does not have his father's demeanor, and he is indeed young!

As for how to grow the land, this is the last thing people discuss.And the people who have the most say are Ding Xiao and Kun.In other words, a group of people did not give them both a chance to speak at the beginning.This also fits Ding Xiao's mind.If you talk less, you will lose in the future.

The first thing people care about is where to plant the land.Everyone has a high degree of unity on this issue, that is, it is within the patrol range of the village.Otherwise, some half-orcs with average abilities would not be able to hunt, and it would also affect the living conditions of some animals.But in this way, there will be less land.

First of all, everyone agreed that the village must reserve a piece of land.The area of ​​the land should not be too small, just like the male patrols, the village land needs to be taken care of by the villagers in shifts, so that the harvested food will be returned to the village for storage in winter.Just like prey, when the time comes, the orcs who are old, weak, women and children who are unable to get enough food will be taken care of first, and then sent out on a shared basis.

As a result, less land can be allocated.The wife of the village chief who came to the meeting suggested that each family’s yard is far away from the nearest neighbor, so a three-foot-square area can be opened around one’s own yard for planting.According to the estimation of the same size area in the experimental field, if it is pearl fruit, it can also be two or three bags.

This proposal was supported by all.Anyway, the land beside each yard has been covered with long grass or even bare, so it is not a waste of space to use it.And although I think of it as a square of three feet, although it is not big, it is actually not small.Ding Xiao did some calculations and found that this area is about one and a half minutes wide, which is actually just enough for the people here to take care of them easily.It can also provide a lot of rations for females who can't hunt and half-orcs who are not proficient in hunting. After all, except for their own family, other families still mainly eat meat.Anyway, the people here won't sell the grain they harvested.

But the problem still exists, what kind of talents are eligible for the remaining places?Everyone looked at the priest and the village chief, waiting for the decision maker to speak.But in fact, everyone wants this treatment. After all, seeing the fruitful appearance of the experimental field is too envious and enviable.