Good luck with koi carp

Chapter 124 Handling Pork
Originally, it was just Jian Yuan's guess that the big wild boar had been injured before, and Chi Li used it as an excuse to deal with him.


Unexpectedly, when they were preparing to use a knife to dissect the wild boar later, they discovered that the wild boar had some messy wounds on its limbs, legs and buttocks before it met them. It looked like it was injured by a blunt instrument or a not-so-sharp weapon. of.


Since the weapon was not powerful, the wound was not very deep, but it still somewhat scratched the wild boar's skin, leaving scars.


These injuries looked quite fresh, and some were even oozing blood. They had obviously been suffered recently. In other words, it was precisely because of the injuries that this big wild boar went crazy and suddenly ran out to attack people.


Feeling that her inference was reasonable, Chi Li ran to check on the little wild boar again. As expected, the little wild boar also had some injuries, not serious, but enough to make the sow angry.


"Someone should have attacked the wild boar mother and her son before, but failed. Instead, they were stimulated to go crazy. Then somehow, these three wild boars came to our side and saw us, who are also humans. We should treat them as accomplices of those who attack them, and they attack us madly."


Chi Li told Jian Yuan and the others about her guess. Although it was somewhat different from the truth, it was still pretty much the same.


"Fortunately, we were lucky. These wild boars were already injured before we encountered them, and they didn't move so neatly. Otherwise, they would have suffered more than this injury."


Sun Wen happily touched her injured arm. She was extremely frightened and angry at the same time. She couldn't help but curse angrily: "We are the only ones who can attack wild boars, so we must be the ones who did it." What a bunch of scoundrels. I don’t even think about how they can kill a wild boar with just a few of their losers. They also cost us our home and my hands are still hurting so much. I’m so angry!”


She was so angry that she started stamping on the ground.


Chi Li had no doubt that if another wave of people appeared in front of them now, Sun Wen would be the first to rush up and beat them with a stick.


"Okay, okay, don't be angry. If you are angry, your body will suffer a big loss. Think about the good, it is because these wild boars were injured that they were killed by us. Isn't this just giving us food in vain? Are you ready? With these wild boars, we won’t have to worry about food for a long time in the future, but now we have to think about how to deal with these pigs.”


The summer is hot, and it is still rainy, neither of which is conducive to food storage. Therefore, how to keep wild boar meat from wasting as much as possible has become Chili's primary problem.


"Let's dissect the pig first and then talk." Jian Yuan said.


"Okay, I'm here to help." When she thought of the delicious pork in her memory, Sun Wen immediately forgot all her previous unhappiness and actively devoted herself to the dissection of wild boars.


The only knife they have that is better for cutting pork is the multifunctional knife. Other knives are of no use to wild boars with rough skin and thick flesh. Even if they are available, it is quite laborious to use those tools to cut wild boars.


Therefore, Jian Yuan, who was stronger, was the main cutter, while Chi Li and Sun Wen were the helpers.


None of the three of them had learned professional anatomy skills, so they could only rely on feeling. Jian Yuan first aimed at the belly of the wild boar, sharpened the knife, then plunged the knife into the pig's belly, pulled hard, and cut open the pig's belly bit by bit. …


After exhausting the efforts of nine oxen and two tigers, Chili and the other three finally dissected the first wild boar.


Then they got a complete set of pig guts, as well as a pile of randomly chopped pork bones, four pig trotters, a pig tail, and a pig head.


"My hands are sore."


Jian Yuan waved his arm. He also didn't expect that dissecting a pig would be so laborious.


"Let's take a break and get another one."


Chi Li poured a glass of water for Jian Yuan and let him drink some water to take a breath.


In order to avoid polluting the living environment, they dragged the wild boar to the foot of a big tree a little further away and dissected it. They thought it would be bloody, but unexpectedly the wild boar's blood seemed to drain away.


Sun Wen even said regretfully: "I originally wanted to get some pig blood and eat it."


"Pig blood seems to have to be obtained immediately after the pig is killed."


Chi Li remembered that she had seen other people killing pigs on TV before. The butcher would hold the pig and cut it sharply under the neck, and then someone would hold a big basin to collect the pig's blood.


Pigs that have been killed for several hours will either have their blood drained out of their bodies or solidified in their skin and flesh, and can no longer be used to make pig blood.


The pig blood incident was just a small episode, and everyone soon had new worries.


"What should I do with these things? I don't know how to deal with them." Jian Yuan was the first to express his stance.


"I do not know either."

"I do not know."


Chi Li and Sun Wen followed closely, and then the three of them fell into silence for a while. After a while, Chi Li took the lead and said: "Let's keep the edible ones and use the rest as bait for fishing. .”


Jian Yuan nodded immediately: "Okay."


That's the only way to do it.


After picking and choosing, they finally left the pig heart, pig lungs, pig kidneys, pig belly, and other stinky intestines that didn't need to be processed. They just couldn't deal with them.


And they are not that short of food, so there is no need to embarrass themselves.


If it hadn't rained, Chili and the others might have had to worry about how to clean the hundreds of kilograms of pork, but now with rainwater as a natural faucet, they didn't need to bother so much. They could just wash the meat in the rain. good.


At this time, there is no way to pay so much attention.


The cleaned pork was packed into four handbags, so full that it was almost impossible to lift them.


Jian Yuan was asked to stay where he was to deal with the remaining little wild boar, while Chi Li and Sun Wen carried two bags each, one bag at a time, and transported the meat back to the vicinity of the shelter in two trips.


They thought about it and decided to boil all the meat at once, and then eat it before it goes bad in the past two days. The fat meat would be used to make lard, so that they would have oil for cooking in the future, and lose weight. Part of the meat and pork belly will be made into smoked bacon, and part of it will be made into barbecued jerky, so that it can be stored longer.


In fact, if the weather hadn't been bad, Chili and the others would have wanted to make air-dried bacon.


To process so much meat, naturally you need a special place, at least a place where you can make a fire and not get wet from the rain. So after pulling all the meat back, Chili asked Sun Wen to go to the place where the bamboos were piled next to him. Use a few to build a simple shed.


Building a shed is quite simple. It is nothing more than pushing one end of the bamboo into the soil so that it can stand up to the sky. A total of four bamboos are erected at the four corners of the square.


Then a horizontal bamboo pole is connected between every two bamboos, and then tied and fixed with ropes to build a cube frame, or is it a cuboid?

It does not matter.


After the frame was completed, Chili also added two long crossed bamboos to the top and sides of the frame as supports and reinforcements. As the saying goes, triangles are the most stable structure.


This is the principle she is applying now.


Then wrap the rope around the top and go back and forth a few times to create a horizontal strip-shaped rope net. Finally, insert large waterproof leaves one by one and cover it. With the rope net fixed, these leaves will be less likely to be damaged. The wind blows away.


In this way, a simple rain shelter is ready.


Chi Li stood in and took a look. Most of the rain outside was blocked, but it was impossible to say that the inside would not leak at all. There were still a few gaps that were not covered. She went to find some leaves to cover them. He covered it carefully, checked for leaks and repaired them until it was confirmed that all the leaking points were no longer leaking. Then he and Sun Wen moved a few large stones and surrounded them to look like a stove, preparing to light a fire later.


If you want to make a fire, you naturally need something to burn, but now everything is wet, and it's hard to find something that can burn.


After picking and picking, Chi Li found some things that could be used to make a fire, threw them into the middle of the pile of stones, and then used a piece of paper towel that he couldn't bear to use every day to start the fire.


If it were someone else, this fire might not be able to catch fire, but if this person is Chi Li, it's a different matter.


Fortunately, Chili lit the fire in one go, but because the burning material was too moist, the fire was filled with thick smoke, but it didn't matter, as long as it caught fire.


Initially, Sun Wen was a little hopeless, but she didn't expect the fire to start all of a sudden. She was stunned, and immediately realized what she was doing. She ran all the way to pick up a lot of wet firewood and put them one by one next to the fire. , as if he was about to roast wood.


"What are you doing?" Chi Li was puzzled.


"Dry the firewood." Sun Wen replied.


There are many places where they will use fire next, and there is no telling when the weather will clear up. They can't just rely on the firewood that is not so wet to keep burning, right?That's unrealistic, so we still have to dry the wet firewood while we have the conditions now.


"I didn't expect it, but luckily I have you." Chi Li suddenly realized after hearing Sun Wen's explanation, and then said apologetically.


"It's okay, it's okay, I just thought of it." Sun Wen waved her hands nonchalantly, and then asked Chi Li: "Then what should we do first?"


"The smoke is so big, it's perfect for making smoked meat. We hang the meat on top to let it smoke. We can also set up several pots underneath to refine the oil, and we can also bake dried meat together."


This can be said to be a fire with multiple uses.


But before doing this, they still have an important step.


Remove the hair from the pig.


The hair of wild boars is black and thicker than that of ordinary domestic pigs. It is difficult to remove it without the support of professional tools, but it is absolutely impossible for Chi Li and the others to give up so much pig skin.


So they can only use the most primitive method of removing pig hair, burning.


First turn over the pork part with the pig skin, use the pig skin to face the fire, let the fire burn the surface of the pig skin black, then take out the cooked pork, wash it with the rain, and use a shell knife to Scrape off the charred part of the surface bit by bit, so that the hair on it will also be scraped off and it will be clean.


This step is not difficult, but it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so until Jian Yuan's side has finished dissecting the little wild boar, they are still busy here.


Seeing Jian Yuan coming back with the meat, Chi Li, who was struggling to scrape the pig skin, assigned a new task to him without raising his head: "Go and salt the pork we prepared, just that pile."


Afraid that Jian Yuan would not know exactly which meat to marinate, Chi Li pointed out a finger.


"Okay." Jian Yuan put down the meat in his hand and went to deal with another pile of meat.


The meat that Chi Li and the others set aside for smoking were relatively lean pork belly and pure lean meat, as well as those pig trotters, pig tails and pig heads, and the remaining fat meat was used for refining oil.


Jian Yuan first used a large amount of sea salt to marinate the meat to be smoked. Being on an island, salt was the most indispensable thing. They used to purify some edible salt from time to time and store it, so they had a large inventory. There are two large jars, both of which are full. They are still large jars made of bamboo tubes, so even if they are used to pickle two wild boars now, it is more than enough.


Marinating meat is very simple, you just need to sprinkle more salt and rub it with your hands to let the salt fully integrate into the meat. It can be done in no time.


After doing this, Jian Yuan looked around at the two people who were still busy. Without disturbing them, he consciously picked up a piece of processed fat with skin and cut it into small cubes as thick as two fingers with a knife, then stuffed it into a quilt with only the top part. A small opening was opened, and the coconut shell with the pulp inside was still hollowed out. When it was nine-tenths of the way full, it was put on the fire and let the high temperature squeeze out the lard inside little by little.


In addition to coconut shells, bamboo tubes were also used as oil refining containers. Even their disposable water cups were not spared and were placed in the cracks of the rocks to warm themselves over the fire.


There was a crash outside, a crackle inside, and thick smoke mixed into the rain curtain. You could vaguely see a few busy people under a shed, forming a scene of fireworks in the world.


When the first batch of pork was refined, Chili and the others finally processed all the pork that needed to be dehaired. This was the result of Jian Yuan joining in to help later.


The three of them worked together, one roasted the pig skin and the other scraped and washed it. It took a long time to finish the pork. When it was done, Chi Li suspected that her hands were pickled by the pork.


"Take a break."


It takes some time to marinate pork, while refining lard only requires looking at the fire. Finally able to breathe, Chili and others found a place to sit down, panting and staring at the fire in front of them, adding some quilts to it from time to time. Dried firewood.


As time went by, the wet firewood was replaced with dry firewood, and the smoke became less intense, but this did not affect Chili and the others' bacon smoking.


After they estimated that it was almost done, they tied one end of the marinated meat with a straw rope, and then hung it one by one on the shelf on the roof, allowing the fireworks below to slowly smoke.


There is smoked meat on top, and there is nothing idle underneath.


Except for the side where oil is refining and roasting firewood, Chili and three others cooperate, one cuts the meat, one pierces the meat with bamboo skewers, and the other takes the dressed meat and puts it on the fire to grill.


Of course they are not grilling, but making jerky.


Dried meat is also a food that can be stored for a long time. It tastes different from smoked meat. It can be regarded as a change of taste for their future meals.


"Chili, open your mouth."
When she heard someone calling her, Chi Li opened her mouth subconsciously, and then she was fed a piece of barbecue that was slightly scalding to her mouth.


She gasped and was reluctant to spit out the meat. She put one hand under her mouth and continued to eat the meat with her mouth squirming.


The meat to be grilled into jerky is also marinated, but it is not made very salty. Instead, only an appropriate amount of salt and oil are added. The seasoned meat is then grilled over charcoal fire, with the surface slightly burnt and with a hint of oil. The unique aroma of charcoal fire is quite delicious even without all the fancy spices.


"good to eat."


Sun Wen didn't need to ask, Chi Li gave the answer she wanted to hear most.


"Hehe, let me try one too." Sun Wen, who was convinced, took another two skewers of meat that were almost grilled and handed them to Chi Li and Jian Yuan, and then picked up one skewer and ate it herself.


This move seemed to turn on some inexplicable switch. They were obviously busy working to reserve food, but the three of them ended up eating barbecue. In the middle, Chili felt a little tired of eating meat all the time, so she ran to get some wild fruits and a few I brought a coconut over, and when I came back, I found that Sun Wen was not satisfied with just eating lean pork, but also got some pork belly, pig heart and liver to roast.


Just... quite happy.


The sudden barbecue feast came to an end only when the stomachs of the three of them were so full that they could no longer hold any more food. By this time, their lard had basically been refined.


Yes, they did not forget to continue roasting lard on firewood while eating barbecue, so basically no work was delayed.


The refined lard and the lard residue inside are put into bamboo tubes with lids and sealed. When the temperature drops, the lard will naturally solidify into a snow-white paste, which can be dug out when needed. It works.


It is worth mentioning that since the pots used to refine lard are different, Jian Yuan also specially stores different lards according to different pots, including those made from coconut shells, those made from bamboo tubes, and those made from stainless steel. Made from a water cup.


Among them, they are distinguished by different tying methods of sealing ropes.


Having never tasted it, Chili didn't know whether the pork made with different utensils would taste different, but it didn't matter, she would always have the opportunity to eat it in the future.


"Here, snacks."


At first, for the sake of convenience, Jian Yuan would pour the lard into the bamboo tube along with the lard residue. Later, he found that there was too much lard residue and couldn't fit it in, so he simply took it out, drained the oil, and poured it into the bamboo tube. Sprinkle some more salt into it, mix well, then take three diabolo tubes and pack them, giving one to each of Chi Li and Sun Wen. He also keeps one for himself as a snack.


"Wow, thank you." Chili took the snack from Jian Yuan in surprise. Unfortunately, her stomach was too full and she couldn't eat it anymore, otherwise she would have to take one out to try.


The bamboo tube that holds the lard residue also has a lid. Jian Yuan made a lot of the same bamboo tube when he had free time, and he also lost enough to be able to fill up all the oil refined from the two wild boars and still have a few left.


The covered bamboo tube can be tied up with straw rope, so that it is not afraid of falling apart. You can carry it with you and take it out when needed, open it and eat the contents inside.


Therefore, the three people who got the snacks decided to take these snacks with them. This is actually a kind of emergency dry food in the wild.


After all, it contains oil and salt, so it may not be of much use in critical moments.


Of course, the snacks inside may be eaten up before that.


The lard is refined, and the next step is to dry the meat and boil the water.


Not to mention the dried meat, Sun Wen didn't cook it for a long time. As long as it was cooked, she could cook it again when she wanted to eat it. This kind of cooked food would not go bad if left at room temperature for two days.


Most of the body parts of the two wild boars have been arranged, leaving only a pile of bones.


Some meaty bones, such as ribs, were also rubbed with salt and hung on the roof of the shed to be smoked. It wasn't that they didn't want to eat the other bones, but they didn't have such a big pot to cook them.


In fact, if they had a normal-sized pot now, they would definitely smash the bones and throw them into the pot to make soup. Now they can only look at the bones and sigh, and then use a knife to remove as much of the meat as possible, leaving the rest The clean bones were thrown aside.


They didn't know what the bones could be used for other than making soup, so they just left them alone.


Bacon is a long-term job that cannot be done in a few hours. Although I have never made bacon myself, and I have never seen anyone else do it in my daily life, my only relevant impression still told Chili and the others, The preparation of bacon requires continuous smoking and roasting for several days.


Therefore, fearing that the meat would spoil if the fire broke out, Chili and the three of them could only take turns watching the fire, day and night, until the wind and rain finally stopped two days later, and their meat... was not yet healed.


"What should I do?" Sun Wen began to doubt whether they could make the bacon successfully. Otherwise, if so much meat was wasted, she would definitely feel heartbroken.


"There is no other way but to continue baking."


Chi Li sighed and left Sun Wen watching the fire in the shed, while she went with Jian Yuan to look around.


After the storm, the island looked like a typhoon passing through. There were broken and collapsed trees everywhere, grass that had been damaged to the point that it was no longer the same as before, and many wild fruits were completely ruined and fell to the ground together with the mud and water. It was rotten, with only a few scattered ones still hanging on the branches, which looked extremely pitiful.


Bad news, one of their food sources is gone.

The good news is that the raw materials for building houses are all over the place, so there is no need to go to the trouble of cutting down trees and bamboos yourself.


Not only the trees in the forest, but also many bamboos in the bamboo forest have collapsed to the ground. If Chili and the others want them, they can just drag them back, eliminating the need to cut them down.


They had no intention of lamenting over this ravaged island. If they didn't want to become victims of the next storm, Chili and the others had to hurry up and build a new home.


Two bundles of bamboo, one big and one small, one for each person.


Use a rope to wrap one end of the bamboo, tie several bamboos together, and then use manpower to pull the bamboo in front, letting the other end of the bamboo drag on the ground. This is Chili's method of transporting bamboo.


With Chi Li's strength, she could only drag five bamboos at most, but Jian Yuan was different. He actually dragged twelve bamboos by himself, and they were still very long and strong bamboos.


The two dragged the bamboo back to the high platform, put it down, then turned back and dragged it for the second time. They went back and forth like this. After dragging it several times in one day, they finally built a small mountain of bamboo.


They didn't ask for trees, not only because they were too heavy and they couldn't drag just one tree, but also because if the wood hadn't been professionally treated with antiseptic treatment, it would be easily corroded by insects and was not as practical as bamboo.


But it's not certain, it's just that I don't have any extra energy now. When I have free time later, I can go to the woods to find some fallen trees, or use them as firewood, or make furniture or something.


Sun Wen was still in charge of lunch and dinner. She made smoked pork ribs stewed with radish soup, fried bamboo shoots with lard, grilled mushrooms, and boiled crabs, which were divided into two meals.


What is the most popular thing to say on a day after a heavy rain?

Of course it's a mushroom.


When she gets bored watching the fire, Sun Wen will add more firewood to the fire, and then run to the nearby woods to pick mushrooms.


Of course, these picked mushrooms need to be re-identified by Chili to make sure they are non-toxic before they can be eaten.


Although under the guidance of Chi Li, the other two people have become familiar with several common non-toxic edible mushrooms, but occasionally they are deceived by some mushrooms that are too disguised. At this time, Chi Li is needed. The poison testing machine comes into play.


In addition, the crab pot made by Jian Yuan is really useful.


During the storm, when there was nothing to do, Jian Yuan tried to make a crab pot out of boredom and the desire to get more food for everyone.


Of course, he didn't understand the principles and production methods of professional crab pots, so he just made them by himself.


Chi Li watched the whole process and saw that he used pieces of bamboo to bend into two large circles, fixing them with some small bamboo pieces of similar lengths in the middle, creating a cylindrical bamboo frame like a wheel, and then covered it directly with a layer of bamboo on the outside. They woven a straw net bag, put the pig intestines they didn't want into it, waited for it to be put into the water, then tied a long rope to the cage, and just threw this thing into the sea.


To be honest, no one, not even the maker himself, thought highly of the crab pot. But they thought it would be a waste to have pigs in the water without eating, so they thought of ways to reuse the waste. For this reason, I even made a Really caught something out of the crab pot.


The results are quite surprising.


This thing actually caught crabs, and even a lot of them. When Jian Yuan pulled the rope to pull up the cage, he saw dense crabs gathered around the ball of meat. The scene made people feel a little uncomfortable for a while, but the crabs It tastes really delicious too.


Although they could catch crabs by catching them with their bare hands, not to mention that it was time consuming, and the crabs they could catch were actually not many, just enough to fit between their teeth.


How is it like now, when you can eat crabs directly and enjoy it?

For this reason, Jian Yuan was specially praised by the other two people. The prize was a wild flower randomly picked by the roadside, and the picker was Chili.


Asking is a ritual.


When night fell, they still slept in the shelter built during the storm. The person watching the fire tonight was Jian Yuan, so only Chi Li and Sun Wen were resting together in the shelter.


Sun Wen originally wanted to talk to Chi Li at night, but when she got up she didn't hear the response. When she turned around, she saw that Chi Li was asleep.


"Sleep so quickly."


Maybe I'm tired from working during the day.


He reached out to help lift the quilt, and his close fingertips accidentally touched the skin of Chili's neck, and he felt a scalding heat. This was obviously not the normal heat that human body temperature can emit.


Sensing something was wrong, Sun Wen immediately sat up with excitement and reached out to touch Chili's forehead: "It's so hot!"


The obvious high temperature already indicated the fact that she was running a high fever. Sun Wen subconsciously ran out and shouted: "Jian Yuan, Jian Yuan, come here quickly, Chi Li has a fever!"


Hearing the sound, Jian Yuan, who had been dozing, woke up. He quickly got up and ran over, asking urgently: "Is she still conscious?"


"She was unconscious. I thought she was asleep just now, so I wanted to cover her with a quilt. Unexpectedly, when I touched her, I found that her body was very hot."


Jian Yuan leaned into the shelter and put the back of his hand against Chili's hot and red forehead to confirm that she was really hot. He quickly stepped away and groped around her for a few times. He found her pocket and opened it. , rummaging through Chili's things.


Chili had a fever when she first lived on this island with him, and she happened to have medicine with her. These medicines were later put into her pocket by Chili, and Jian Yuan wanted to find them at this time.


"Can you give her medicine?"


I found the pills, carefully compared the usage and dosage written on them, and took out a few pills. However, I had trouble feeding people to take the pills, so I could only ask another companion.


"Let me try."


Sun Wen picked up Chili's upper body hard and put it in her arms. Then she took the pills handed over by Jian Yuan and the water poured behind her. She first put one pill into Chili's mouth and then fed her water.


"Chili, Chili, come and drink some water and swallow the medicine."


She softly called to the sleeping person and gently coaxed her to take medicine.

Chi Li was in a daze, and she didn't know where she was. She only heard someone in her ears calling her to take medicine, and a bitter pill was stuffed into her mouth.

She didn't like the bitter taste, so she subconsciously frowned and wanted to spit out the pills, but she was given a sip of water and had to swallow the pills with a gulp.

I thought this would be the end, but I didn't expect another pill to be stuffed into my mouth. Fortunately, this was a capsule and it was not bitter, so when the water was poured again, Chili did not resist and drank the water obediently. Swallow it.

She took several pills in this way. After taking them, Chili felt like she was being laid down on a hard and uneven bed, which made her feel uncomfortable. Go back to being surrounded by water.

I just didn't have the strength to get up. It was so hot that I felt like I was about to be burned into a steamed fish.

After giving Chili the medicine, Sun Wen didn't bother her anymore. She even got up wrapped in her own quilt and went to the shed outside to sit at the door of the shelter, guarding Chili in a daze.

After Jian Yuan saw Chi Li fall asleep peacefully, he went back to watch the fire. Before leaving, he told Sun Wen to remember to call him if anything happened. Sun Wen nodded as a response.

To be honest, she still hasn't recovered yet.

High fever is a very dangerous disease even in modern times with advanced medical treatment. How many people just can't get through it... Sun Wen was very afraid of what might happen to Chi Li. She even started to blame herself. If she had discovered Chi Li earlier, Li's abnormality would be fine. If Chi Li could take medicine earlier, it would not have developed to such a serious stage.

Just by measuring the temperature with her hands, she could tell that Chili's body temperature was definitely above 40°C. With such a dangerous temperature, before anything happened, they would have rushed to the hospital right now.

(End of this chapter)