As the leaves of the trees in the forest become redder, the grass on the hillside gradually turns dry.Before the last rain of Wu Shuo fell, the herbivorous orcs in the tribe had already begun to carry out winter storage.In the cave, the stove that Lin Xi had in mind had been built two days ago.Four new large stone jars were also dug up, and there were now six stone jars in the house, filled with pickled animal meat, waiting to be taken out to dry ten days later.Two days ago, after Lin Xi said that he wanted those giant beasts to appear, Bai Nu took the warriors of the tribe to the eastern forest once.This time, a total of five giant beasts were hunted back, and three were given to Lin Xi first.The remaining two, one with a witch, and one with a witch, should be pickled to prevent the winter time from being too long, and the orcs in the tribe do not have enough food, so they can be taken out for emergency relief at that time.As for the giant beast that still owes Lin Xi, it will take this time to slowly hunt it back and then hand it over to Lin Xi.Lin Xi felt that this arrangement was very good, and it just so happened that she didn't have any extra stone jars to hold those giant beast meats now!
As soon as the three giant beasts were sent to Lin Xi, Lin Xi immediately made all the meat into cured meat.All the shaved bones are roasted, preserved, and kept as raw materials for various tools.As for the skins on several giant beasts, they were stripped off after they killed the giant beasts, and after they got them back, the black dust was disposed of on the same day, and now they are drying outside the cave.There is nothing else today.Early in the morning, after eating breakfast, Lin Xi stood at the mouth of the cave and looked at the dust of the big animal skins on the hillside: "Wuchen, let's go pick fruits today!"
A few days later, it should be plucked off!
”Wuchen listened, stopped what he was doing, and looked up at her: "Then I'll go get the back basket." ”Wuchen turned into the cave to get the basket, and Lin Xi hurriedly followed up, bringing his bow and a bag of arrows.Since she has entered the forest, she will inevitably encounter one or two small animals, which is just right for her to try the effect of these few days' practice.Although her strength has only increased a little, her accuracy has improved a lot.But when she reached the mouth of the cave, she turned back and took a few leather bags and put them in the basket.Since you go out once, you should get more fruit and come back, otherwise as long as the basket is full, you will run back one trip after another, which is too troublesome!
The black panther slowly lay down at the mouth of the cave, Lin Xi climbed on the back of the panther and sat firmly, and then the panther took a step towards the slope of the mountain, and the two female beasts holding the same basket as Lin Xi in the hands of the two female beasts passing by the hillside, it seemed that they were also going to the forest to find food.Seeing Lin Xi, Xue Ying waved her hand happily: "Xixi!
Are you going to the woods too?
”"Hmm."
Lin Xi nodded, and when she saw the back basket in her hand, she leaned over and stretched out her hand: "Aunt Xue Tian, Xue Ying, I'll help you take the back basket!"
”Otherwise, it would be very inconvenient for them to go to the forest with the basket in their mouths.Xue Ying's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she hurriedly took Aunt Xue Tian's back basket, stacked it with herself, and handed it to Lin Xi: "Then thank you, Xixi!"
”Lin Xi smiled, put the two back baskets on his back with his own, thought about it, and said to them: "Aunt Xue Tian, do you want to take two more animal skin bags, so that you can come back with more fruits at a time!"
”Aunt Xue Tian listened, but before she said anything, Xue Ying had already reacted first.She said "yes" again and again, ran back to the shed like the wind, and after a while, she took out two large animal skin bags and handed them to Lin Xi.Lin Xi took it, folded it, and simply held it in his hand.At the same time, Xue Ying and Aunt Xue Tian next to them also turned into two huge rabbits with snow-white fur in the blink of an eye.The place they were going to today was a little deeper in the forest.The two giant rabbits followed behind the galloping panther, slightly behind, and Wuchen occasionally stopped to wait for them.After more than half an hour, the group finally came to a lake.This is a lake in the forest.Lin Xi was here for the first time, and there were already many other orcs around the lake at this time.Lin Xi looked around and found that most of them were herbivorous orcs in the tribe, and there were also a few carnivorous orcs.Maybe it's because of the change from beasts to humans, so these orcs have habits.It is also slowly transforming into omnivorous human habits.In addition to these orcs who came to collect food, Lin Xi also saw the figures of several warrior orcs who were familiar to the tribe.Because most of the people who came out to collect were female orcs, and some time ago there was just a matter of Lin Xi being attacked by a lone beast.And now is the season when the lone beasts outside are frequently active, so they were specially arranged by Bai Fu to protect these orcs who went out to gather.Although there are many orcs by the lake, but after a while, they all have their own corners and seem to disappear into the forest, but if you listen carefully, you can still hear the movements of the orcs occasionally.Xue Ying changed back from the rabbit form, took back her and Xue Tian's grandmother's back basket in Lin Xi's hand, then she looked around, and finally pointed in a direction to Lin Xi and said, "Xixi, let's go over there, I remember that there are a lot of purple peel fruits there, and there should be freshly ripe ones now!"
”So the four walked all the way in the direction of Xue Ying's finger.The road in the forest is not easy to walk, but fortunately, there is black dust in front of the road.After walking for a few of them, Wuchen stopped, only to see him pointing to the ground in front of him: "Is this here?"
”Lin Xi looked in the direction he was pointing and saw purple peel fruit grass in a place.Sure enough, it's a big one.In addition to the purple peel grass, there are also sweet leaf grass mixed in and a few small sweet fruits full of fruit.Lin Xi didn't let it go.The soil under the woods was easy to turn over, and Lin Xi took a small self-made shovel and pushed a piece of land directly under his feet.Just as she was turning over a piece of dirt buried in a thick layer of fallen leaves, something in the fallen leaf layer suddenly caught her attention!
Is that......
Mushroom?!
Lin Xi's eyes widened, and he was stunned for two seconds before he reacted, and hurriedly took the mushroom in his hand to check it carefully!
It's a little soft and tender to the touch, it looks a bit like an oyster mushroom, and it smells like a mushroom!
Lin Xi immediately became excited!
She took the mushroom in her hand, got up and ran to the nearest Wuchen, and handed him the mushroom in her hand: "Wuchen, can you eat this?"
”As soon as Wuchen looked up, he saw the white food still stained with mud in the hands of the little female beast, he fixed his eyes, the expression on his face was a little softer, and nodded: "This is a white flesh fruit, which can be roasted and eaten!"
”When Lin Xi heard this, he immediately put his mind at ease, it was not a poisonous mushroom.She carefully put the mushroom in the back basket for fear of crushing it.You must know how rare it is for her to get a new ingredient here!
After putting the mushroom away, Lin Xi hurriedly ran back to the place where she had just been and continued to rummage.Mushrooms should all be nests long, and since there is this one here, there should be one nearby.Sure enough, it didn't take long for her to find more than a dozen more, plus Wuchen also dug up some, and these mushrooms took up half of the space in the back basket.Lin Xi put all these mushrooms into the back basket and put them carefully, this mushroom not only looks like an oyster mushroom, but also looks very similar, and the largest one is Lin Xi's forearm length.She plans to take it back, and if she can't finish it in a day, she will dry it into dried mushrooms and keep it to eat slowly.After picking the mushrooms, Lin Xi continued to turn his gaze back to the main staple food, purple peel fruit.These purple peel fruits are like potatoes and sweet potatoes, plants that grow underground, usually Lin Xi pulls up a purple peel fruit grass, and the roots can bring out a dozen egg-sized purple peel fruits at once, but it is easy to collect.The basket was soon full.Lin Xi sorted out the contents of the two back baskets, one basket of purple peel fruit was packed separately, and the other basket was carried out, half of the purple peel fruit was placed at the bottom, and the top half was a layer of white and tender mushrooms.On top of the two baskets, a thick layer of sweet leaf grass is covered, which can not only be used to prevent the contents of the back basket from falling out, but also can be brought back, dried, and kept for winter to eat.When Xue Ying saw it, she immediately followed Lin Xi's example, and filled the back basket of herself and Aunt Xue Tian with sweet leaves.Aunt Xue Tian watched from the side, couldn't help but shake the back basket full of Dengdeng, and then looked up at Lin Xi, smiling lovingly: "Xixi little beast is very smart!"
”When Lin Xi heard this, he laughed quite smugly.As the time progressed to noon, there were fewer orcs in the forest.The four of Lin Xi had already gone far to the side from the place where they had dug the purple peel fruit at the beginning.In addition to the baskets, the bags they each brought were almost full.Wuchen put the bundle of sweet leaf grass he had just gathered on top of the bag, and turned his head to look at Lin Xi.As a result, I saw Lin Xi squatting under a tree, not knowing what he was tinkering with.When he took a closer look, he saw that Lin Xi was picking off a small seed bag in the core of the sweet-leaved grass that had grown too tall and could clearly be seen that the leaf stem had hardened.He hurriedly spoke: "Xixi, this sweet-leaved grass is about to dry up and can't be eaten." ”Lin Xi heard Wuchen's voice, looked up, and saw the orc's worried face.She laughed and held up the thing in her hand to him: "This is not for eating, Wuchen, this is the grass seed of sweet leaf grass, I will take it back." ”Lin Xi said, stood up, and held the grass seed in his hand closer to the dust, so that he could see it clearly: "When the next spring begins, I will plant this grass seed outside our cave, and when the time comes, the sweet leaf grass will grow, and I won't always have to come to the forest to collect these sweet leaf grass!"
”"Planted outside the cave?"
Listening to Lin Xi's words, Wuchen was a little incomprehensible, he frowned and looked at the grass seeds in Lin Xi's hand, and said in confusion: "If you plant it outside the cave, can you grow sweet-leaved grass?"
”Lin Xi nodded: "Of course, as long as there are seeds, any plant can be grown!"
Including the purple peel fruit and black worm fruit we eat, we can grow it, so we don't have to come to the forest to look for it all the time!
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