The calm days always pass quickly, and two months have passed in a blink of an eye.

Summer is here.

"Crazy..."

In the stream, many people in the Mang tribe were swimming, splashing large splashes of water. After two months of training, most of them had learned to swim. After the weather became hot, they had to go into the water every day.

The creek was cleaned up by the fishing team, and almost all the dangerous fish were caught, and it is relatively safe now.

As for the fishing team, they have already used canoes to fish in the river, and their efficiency is indeed much higher. Now they can't finish all the fish in the Mang Tribe.

Not only fish, but also the meat of animals has become richer as food becomes rich. These meats cannot be released for a long time in summer, and will smell after being released for a long time. This is also a worry of happiness.

"What are these fish and meat used for? Dried?"

Chen Bei shook his head and said to himself: "No, even if you apply salt, it will smell bad when you use it to dry in this weather. It's too hot."

Chen Bei thought for a long time, suddenly saw the stove, his eyes lit up, and he said, "If you have it, you can't dry it, but you can smoke it dry!"

"You can build two grilled rooms, one for grilling fish and the other for grilling meat. After the grilling, you can use it to trade with other small tribes!"

One thought can be understood, every thought can be understood.

Chenbei soon thought that as long as healing the fish and meat with salt and baking them dry, it can be stored for a long time.

If a tribe wants to grow and grow, trading is essential. Just like the Diao tribe, trading can bring rich returns and make the tribe grow stronger and stronger.

He didn't want to sell salt directly. Although the profit was very high, it could easily attract others' jealousy and even cause attacks from the large tribe. For the miraculous tribe, it would be a disaster.

However, selling bacon is different, at least it doesn't look so conspicuous.

Chen Bei told Qingzhu and the elders what he thought and discussed with them.

The elder touched his beard and said with a smile: "Since the leader has decided, then go and do it. I believe in the leader."

Qingzhu also nodded and said, "The elder is right."

Neither of them had any objections, and Chen Bei had a lot of ideas in his mind.

"Okay, I'll go find someone to build a baking room, and then take someone to transport a batch of salt and soil back, cook it into salt, which is specially used to make bacon."

Chen Bei immediately went to summon stonemasons, carpenters, and people who were good at building houses, and asked them to temporarily put down their work and build a baking room first.

This time, because it was not for people to live in, the stone house was built, and the gaps were filled with a mixture of mud and wood ash. Such a house was much better for making a baking house than a civil-structured house.

When building the house, Chenbei took a hunting team to the salt flat to transport salt soil. They brought ten rhinos and a large number of animal skin bags, which could transport a large amount of salt soil back to the tribe.

The salt flat is very large, and there is a lot of salt soil deposited in countless years. Even though Chenbei has been here several times, there is not much salt soil, and it still looks white and a large area.

Chen Bei picked up salt and soil and said, "Everyone picked the condensed ones, the whiter the better. If you don't have those salt and soil with too many impurities, you can't do it."

Yun couldn't help but approach Chen Bei and asked in a low voice: "Chief, why are we picking up this thing?"

Chen Bei said mysteriously: "You will know when you go back."

"Okay, then I won't ask."

Although Yun was very curious, since Chen Bei said he would tell him again when he went back, he didn't dare to ask again.

With the efforts of everyone, all the animal skin bags carried were filled with salt and soil, and most of them were placed on the rhino's back, and some small bags were carried by the hunting team themselves.

Chen Bei also picked up his animal skin bags and piled them all on the rhino king's back. At the same time, he himself sat on the rhino king's back.

For the Rhino King, this weight is nothing.

"Back to the tribe!"

With Chen Bei's order, the hunting team began to return to the tribe. Because of the existence of these rhinos, they were not harassed along the way and returned to the tribe smoothly.

After returning, all the salt and soil were piled into the witch's yard, because the witch's yard was wide enough and no one dared to break in.

Qingzhu looked at the mountain of salt soil in the yard and frowned slightly, "If it were you, I, and the elders, who had to cook salt, how long would it take to cook so much?"

Chen Beidao: "What the witch means to let other people in the tribe join in?"

Qingzhu nodded and said, "You can let people in the tribe who are sure to trust you can join in first."

Chen Bei nodded and said, "Okay, then let Yun, Lie, Baicao, Yan and Lao Lu join in first."

What Chen Bei mentioned was the five captains in the tribe, hunting, fishing, gathering, planting, and breeding. All of them were quite a few.

In fact, Chen Bei didn't want to call Lao Lu because he was older and might not be able to bear such physical work.

But other captains called him. If he missed him alone, it would be difficult to guarantee that he would have other thoughts in his mind. This would be a hidden danger in the future.

So Chenbei simply called over, leaving no sequelae.

That night, after the five captains returned to the tribe, they were all told to go to the witch's yard.

After they arrived, they saw several large pots that were being prepared, and Chenbei, who was dissolving salt soil and filtering salt water.

"This... isn't this the soil we brought back from the mountains and forests?" Yun was a little excited. He knew that Chen Bei was finally about to reveal the answer.

Chen Bei put pieces of salt soil into the bucket filled with water, and explained while putting it on: "That's right, it's the soil brought back from the mountains and forests. This is not ordinary soil. In fact, it is salt soil. By filtration, precipitation, and braised, we can get the salt we eat."

"Salt?" The five people were shocked. No one expected that this thing would be the most scarce salt.

"Yes, this is how the salt we eat in our tribe now."

"You have also seen that the salt brought by the Diao Tribe is extremely expensive. Ten big lobsters have barely exchanged for one pound of salt. Where can our tribe afford it?"

"So, later the Totem God instructed me to use this method to turn the poisonous salt soil on the mountain into non-toxic and edible salt."

That's right, it was the instructions of the Totem God. Chen Bei's face and heart beats when he said this now, because the Totem God never refuted him, so he just made accusation.

Sure enough, when Yun and others heard that it was the instructions of the totem god, they believed it directly. They would not ask questions at all, and even worshiped a few times in the direction of the altar.

Chen Bei continued: "The reason why I don't disclose this secret in the tribe is that I'm afraid that someone will spread it. If the tribe knows that we can make salt, it will be a catastrophe. Do you understand?"

Yun Zhengse said, "Don't worry, leader, we will definitely keep the secret. Just say that the salt was obtained by the leader's exchange for it in other tribes."

Chen Bei nodded with satisfaction, and the child could teach him.

"Now, I'll teach you how to make salt. You need to turn this pile of salt into edible salt."

In fact, the process is not complicated. The most important thing is to filter. Palm bark can filter out larger particles of impurities such as sand and gravel.

Charcoal is a key thing. It can absorb a large amount of toxic substances. As for substances dissolved in salt water, Chenbei cannot solve the problem for the time being.

However, when the autumn is the harvest of a grain crop in the field, he has a way to obtain truly pure salt without bitter taste.

Chen Bei didn't say this because he didn't know if he could succeed.

The five people learned it quickly because there was really nothing complicated. They looked at the salt they cooked with their own hands and looked satisfied on their faces.

Baicao approached Chenbei while burning the fire, and said, "Chief, there is so much salt here for us to eat? We shouldn't finish it, right?"

Chen Bei smiled and said, "Did you guess what?"

Baicao said: "How could I guess the leader's thoughts? I just think that the leader must have some good ideas when building a stone house outside."

Chen Beidao: "Well, you will know about this soon, it's okay to tell you now."

"I'm going to marinate fish and animal meat with salt, then smoke it dry with fire, and take it to another tribe for trading. I think they'll be happy to pay a high price."

Baicao thought about Chen Bei's words carefully, and her eyes suddenly widened and she said, "There is salt in the meat!"

"That's right."

Baicao looked at Chen Bei in admiration and said, "Chief, you are so smart."
Chapter completed!