The cattle and sheep of the nomadic people are just like the cultivated land in the Central Plains. They are not meant to be eaten whenever they want.
It’s just that after Yan Liuyuan arrived, Hassan kept killing sheep for Yan Liuyuan to eat in order to show respect. However, for other people in the tribe, only young and strong laborers could eat the meat. It was still a blizzard. dead livestock.
Little girls like Qiqige, even though she is Hassan’s daughter, do not receive any preferential treatment.
Probably it was Hassan's fair character that made him the leader of this tribe.
Because Yan Liuyuan had the most noble status when he arrived here, he had never experienced the hardships of the nomads. He and Sister Xiaoyu saw that these people owned their own cattle, sheep and horses, and thought that they were quite wealthy. However, they did not know that cattle and sheep could not be slaughtered at will. If such a large tribe only ate beef and mutton, they would probably eat it every day. Several heads.
Their tribe cannot withstand this kind of torture.
When Yan Liuyuan heard this, he began to ask Qiqige carefully about the situation of the tribe. Only then did he realize that not only could the tribesmen not only not be able to eat meat often, but they also rarely eat salt. arrive.
Salt is scarce on the grasslands. Nomads have always supplemented their salt content with mutton, beef, goat milk, and milk. The meat they usually eat has no taste. Only the meat Yan Liuyuan eats tastes good. Put some salt.
Now, because meat is not allowed to be eaten and there is no salt supplement, many women and the elderly will suffer from dizziness, muscle spasms, and nausea.
After this happened to the people in the tribe, due to lack of knowledge, they all felt that they might be sick, so everyone prayed for the blessing of the gods beside the fire pit, hoping that the gods could cure their illness. Cure.
There is no salt or medicine here. The sheep will be killed only when they are too hungry.
"Yes, you are all poor people in this era. How could I think that you are living a good life?" Yan Liuyuan said with a bitter smile: "This is my fault."
Yan Liuyuan asked Qiqige to call Hassan. Hassan glared at his daughter on the way, and then respectfully asked Yan Liuyuan: "Master, don't listen to Qiqige's nonsense. The tribe has not arrived yet. It’s such a difficult situation.”
“Okay, listen to me,” Yan Liuyuan said calmly: “Women and the elderly have symptoms of nausea because they can no longer eat meat, so they can’t do anything. "Salt is very scarce. Only large tribes have it. We must pay tribute to cattle and sheep every year to get the precious salt."< /p>
Yan Liuyuan suddenly realized that this was very much like one of the methods used by the consortium to control the refugees. Wasn't Hassan and his tribe just like the refugees outside the barrier, controlled by others in every aspect.
But thinking of this, Yan Liuyuan became more interested. He wanted to lead these people to live a good life.
Yan Liuyuan asked curiously: "Don't you have the ability to find salt yourself? This grassland is so big, you should be able to find some, although it is small.But not at all. "
"The salt ponds are all controlled by the big tribes, and there are not many salt ponds on the grassland," Hassan explained: "I heard that the big tribes don't even have enough salt. ”
Yan Liuyuan carefully recalled some wilderness survival knowledge that Ren Xiaosu told him. He didn’t like to learn, but he always kept in mind what Ren Xiaosu told him.
p>Yan Liuyuan suddenly said to Hassan: "Gather all the herdsmen together and ask them if they remember where the cows licked when they were herding cattle. ”
He remembered that Ren Xiaosu told him that all mammals must ingest salt. Human beings have long lost the instinct to survive in the wilderness, but human beings rely on wisdom. If they can’t find salt by themselves, they will let the animals eat it. Go find it for you.
How do livestock on the grassland replenish their own salt? Some cattle farms in the Central Plains will put some coarse salt in the cattle shed for the cattle to lick, and there are salt stains on the grassland. The cattle would find such a place to replenish their salt. Sure enough, Hassan asked several tribesmen and got the answer.
After all, they herd cattle. There are only a few places where cattle like to lick.
Yan Liuyuan immediately set off and led Hassan and others towards the grassland.
Then things became simple. He led a group of people to dig up the snow and bring back a lot of soil under the turf to the tribe.
Yan Liuyuan didn't know how to extract it. He only knows that there must be salt in these things.
He can only use this method, stir the water with the soil, and then filter it with cotton cloth again and again until the water is clear and then place it in the fire pond to distill it!
After just a while, Hassan, who was standing around, saw a layer of faint yellow-white crystals at the bottom of the pot. There were very few. Because the extraction process was substandard, the appearance was also very poor.
Hassan couldn’t wait to rub a little with his fingers and put it in his mouth, then looked at Yan Liuyuan in surprise: “Master, it’s really salt! ”
No matter how it looks, this is salt!
Yan Liuyuan breathed a sigh of relief. In the past, Ren Xiaosu would go to the wilderness to find the roots of walnut trees to boil water. The water was salty. At that time, it was Ren Xiaosu's job to find food, but now it was his turn.
He told Hassan: "Scrape these off before you go. Salt the ground, like I just did, you know? "
"Okay, okay," Hassan said excitedly. He is indeed a god. He can extract salt from barren soil. It's amazing!
In fact, nomads They had mastered similar abilities long before the disaster, but after civilization developed to a certain extent, there was no shortage of salt on the grasslands. In the north, they could even eat salt thousands of miles away.
And. When the grassland people before the disaster went to school, they already learned the standard education. No teacher told them how to find salt on the grassland.
So, in the event of a disaster.At the moment of change, some people may still know that there is such a thing as the Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion, but they have no idea how to survive on the grassland.
Slowly, the pressure of survival hung on everyone's head, and they even forgot the preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion.
The rest is just instinct, and then heroes rise up and begin to integrate the forces on the grassland, hoping to use the Central Plains as their own granary.
It’s just that there was a mistake in their perception. When they went to the Central Plains, they discovered that they were the worst after the disaster. The Central Plains had already established barriers and guns...
The nomads on the grassland don’t even know what the south is like now. Only Yan Liuyuan and Sister Xiaoyu know it best.
Yan Liuyuan was sitting in the tent, and Sister Xiaoyu next to him kept smiling at him. He asked: "Sister Xiaoyu, why are you laughing?"
"I'm laughing, you are very happy now." Like your brother," Sister Xiaoyu said gently, "He will definitely be proud of you."
As a result, Sister Xiaoyu found that Yan Liuyuan suddenly became silent and looked downcast.
Yan Liuyuan whispered: "Sister, I miss my brother a little bit."