Chapter 164: Old pumpkin

Master Niu took hundreds of totem warriors, striding forward in the mountains under the falling snow.
The snow is not heavy, so the thin snow on the ground after a night is not enough for people to use snowboards to advance, so walking on their legs has become their only choice.
Fortunately, in today's mountain forest, while various animals have become scarce, the danger of running in the mountain forest has also been greatly reduced; before the time is noon, the position of Master Niu and his party is hundreds of miles away from the Blackstone tribe. Far away.
Snow falls on the head and face that are not covered by clothing, or slides directly into the neck along the collar. The cold and cold is very uncomfortable, but no soldier has any complaints about it.
Instead, they looked at these snowflakes, and their eyes showed infinite hope; when the snow melted, there would be water, and after the water, the cracked earth would be nourished again.
This means that as long as they can sustain this winter, next year's spring will be familiar with the surrounding forests, various plants will flourish again, and the fruit will be extraordinarily fat; even those beasts who have moved away will also again Back to this familiar home.
The premise is that they must be able to survive this winter, and all these hopes are in the cow who is now trekking in the mountains and forests ...
In this snowy weather, Master Niu is not staying in the tribe, but appears in a place far away from the tribe; there are compelling reasons:
In the negotiations last night, the 13 tribes such as the Weak Water Tribe not only agreed to the request for the establishment of a tribal alliance, but also Niu Ye served as the first leader; Promised down.
But the witch of the mustard and the other twelve tribes, as the top indigenous elites in the Luolei Mountains, are not so easy to be fooled; they immediately put forward their conditions. Before handing over the inheritance, the master Niu must first It proves that there are tens of thousands of people who can lead the league to survive this winter.
So there was such a scene: the witches of the twelve tribes, staying in the log cabin of the Blackstone tribe, began to use secret techniques to copy their inheritance on the hides; The team formed by the guards and the Blackstone tribe warriors set off early in the morning to the farther mountains.
Master Niu wants to tell these earth buns with practical actions. In the mountain forest, you ca n’t find food in the case of a drought, but you know nothing about what you can eat; you can find some food in the mountain forest. This is still a cow. One of the many means of the master.
Of course, if Master Niu did this, he naturally had his energy in his heart. Even if he couldn't find anything else, Huaishan and Pueraria, the long-proven things, could always be found in the mountain forest.
This is why he had to run so far, because within a hundred miles of the Blackstone tribe, they were basically dug a few months ago.
After his understanding, among the many plant species in the mountain forest, the indigenous people of the Luolei Mountains currently have no more than one hundred edible species; most of them are still various berries and fruits on the trees. , And mushrooms or something.
They have not yet formed a concept for the consumption of various rhizomes of plants; that is, among the few less than one hundred foods, they have made countless dauntless attempts by their ancestors in past dynasties. It was only discovered after a few people.
Every food proven to be edible is an extremely precious legacy for them.
After learning about Master Niu's plans, the faces of people such as Mustard and Witch all showed strong emotions; they all knew how much meaning a new food meant to them.
And looking at the appearance of Master Niu, he obviously made more than one this time.
In a sense, the new food category is also extremely important knowledge and inheritance of a tribe; in this way, the witch who had to hand over the inheritance in desperation suddenly felt that they were not What's wrong ...
Suddenly, a series of huge yellow fruits on the thin snow attracted the attention of Master Niu, and he rushed all the way in the past; these have irregularly round fruits, and the big feet have the size and smallest weight of a person. No less than ten pounds.
"Is this a pumpkin! But why does it look so bad?" Master Niu muttered in a low voice.
Keeping up with the footsteps of Master Niu, I intend to prevent accidental reckless news at all times, and lowered my voice to remind me:
"Master Niu, I do n’t know if this is a pumpkin in your mouth, but we call it a melon; the melon shell is very hard, and the flesh inside is a bit bitter, and if you eat more, you will diarrhea. Things, except for some large herbivorous beasts, no other beasts will eat these things. "
In order to prove his claim, Mang took out the stone knife on his body; Master Niu clearly saw that when Mang did not use the power of the totem, it took a little effort to open up the hard work. Shell.
Obviously, this thing is not a concept with the pumpkin that rotten in Lord Niu's mind.
Master Bai Niu rejoiced at the scene. He could only helplessly turn around and leave, but his heart was filled with strong unwillingness, because the flesh in the shell of the melon was surprisingly similar to the flesh in the pumpkin.
He suddenly stopped, but it was not because he knew that the flesh of the melon was very bitter, and it would make people diarrhea to try another bite; instead, he opened the watch on his hand ~ www. EbookFREE.me ~ Find it in the huge database downloaded from it.
Soon a hint of laughter rose in the corner of Master Niu's mouth. The fruit in front of him was indeed not a pumpkin, but if the experts in the data were not bullshit, this thing was simply the ancestor of pumpkin.
For a while, I really didn't know that Mr. Niu, who called this stuff, decided to call this stuff Old Pumpkin.
Considering that there is a surprisingly similarity in the two plane species, Master Niu decided to believe the information.
According to the information, the ancestors of pumpkins in the prehistoric era had a hard shell, and only large beasts could use their teeth to bite open to eat; at the same time, it was also spread by the seeds discharged after the large beasts were eaten.
Moreover, most of these old pumpkins are bitter for humans, and the cucurbitacin contained in them is very harmful to the human body; eating too much is just diarrhea, which already reflects the strong physical strength of these indigenous people, like animals. .
But the pumpkins of the modern plane are gradually domesticated based on these old pumpkins; this also means that not all of these old pumpkins are inedible.
There will be a small part of it that is not so bitter, and the harm to the primitive people is also within the acceptable range; after eating, Mr. Niu estimates that the stomach will be a little uncomfortable 1
Therefore, under the direction of Master Niu, Mang and others opened a small mouth for each old pumpkin and took a little tasting; in the end, of the dozens of old pumpkins in this area, seven were selected. The edible old pumpkin weighs more than six hundred pounds.
To be honest, it is estimated that these seven old pumpkins are taken back, and after stewing, the taste is still quite unpalatable; it is just that Master Niu is convinced that the indigenous people in this part have no choice!