Chapter 482 You are talented with knives
Nearly every household in the tribe was busy processing prey, and Frederick was pulled into the house by Sisen to help.
Sisen contributed the most to the hunt and got a male bear and a stag, which contained about 200 kilograms of meat excluding internal organs.
The meat seems to be a lot, but he also has a wife and three children at home, so the average for a family of five is not much.
This type of collective hunting is not something you can go whenever you want. It only happens once in summer and autumn. During the rest of the time, you can only hunt small animals such as rabbits, pheasants and squirrels around alone.
It's not impossible to go deep into the forest alone. I don't know if I can come back.
Sisson’s eldest son is a fisherman. Today he and his future father-in-law are fishing at sea, and his fiancee Fuli comes over to help pack up the prey.
Frederick was a little surprised, this young girl was good at skinning.
Skinning is a technical job. The depth of the knife cut on the hide does not exceed half of the skin thickness. The wound exceeds half of the skin thickness but does not penetrate. There are holes in the skin. These mistakes will reduce the quality of the skin. Selling Not giving a good price.
The location of the fur incision also has requirements. Not only does the body need to be incised along the central axis, but the limbs must also be incised straight. If it is unfolded asymmetrically, it will also affect the quality.
The knife in Fuli's hand is fast, accurate and stable, and every cut is no more, no more, no less. Being able to reach this level at such a young age can only be said to be an extraordinary talent.
Frederick was cleaning the internal organs on the side. These are not easy to store for a long time. They will be stewed in a pot tonight and eaten for a few days.
From time to time, he glanced at Fuli who was working hard, which made Sisen worried, fearing that he was poaching his son.
What Sisson didn’t expect was that hundreds of years later, in the northern land, Fuli’s name would be more revered than Frederick, and every town would have a street named after her.
On the other side, Sisen and his wife cut off the meat, refined the fat into oil, and prepared some of the cut meat strips for bacon. The other part of the meat strips was washed and placed in a wooden barrel, and poured into the prepared meat strips. whey.
Whey is a by-product of cheese making and is often consumed as a water substitute.
Because there are a lot of lactic acid bacteria in whey, which can kill other bacteria, people here use whey to preserve meat for a longer period of time.
At the same time, the meat marinated in whey is more tender and tastes better.
Sisson's second daughter was baking pancakes in the kitchen, and the younger daughter washed the vegetables she had just picked and prepared to stew them with the offal.
The Bear Claw tribe is located at a higher latitude. The daytime now starts from 4:00 to 23:00 and night falls for about 19 hours. Further north, there will be extreme daylight. People follow the rule of life and rest at sunset. The prey was taken care of by dinner time.
Frederick was a little unaccustomed to this kind of lifestyle, but when he thought about the 19 hours of darkness here in winter, he couldn't get anything done hibernating at home. He could only grab time in the summer, just like the rain on the construction site that delayed the construction period on a sunny day. Same as coming back.
While eating, Frederick experienced the difference in local lifestyle.
Sisson’s wife calculated how long the family’s food was expected to last, and determined the amount of two meals a day. When the meal was divided, Sisson and his eldest son, two strong laborers at home, ate 60 to 70%, and the women and children shared the rest. part.
Frederick was a distinguished guest, and he was treated the same as Sisson. There was an extra squid in the bowl, which was brought back by their eldest son.
Sisson kept asking Frederick all kinds of questions. He was very curious about the world in the south, but he almost drowned when he fell into the water when he was a child. From then on, he became severely seasick as soon as he stepped on the deck of the ship.
After Frederick answered "Put medicine into the blood vessels", he asked Fuli: "Are you interested in becoming a doctor?"
"Me?" It took Fried a while to realize that Frederick was Talking to myself.
Sisson also looked at Frederick with curiosity and surprise, thinking that the big man with tens of thousands of cows in his family must have different ideas from his own, let's take a look and talk.
The head of the family did not speak, and everyone else also shut up. Fuli shook her head and said: "I can't. I am not a doctor. I can't even tell the difference between wheat seedlings and weeds."
Talents are scarce here. For example, Razon’s wife Uli is a pharmacist and also a doctor. The first step to becoming a pharmacist is to recognize herbal medicine.
When Fuli was a child, she left weeds in her family's wheat fields and was almost beaten to death by her parents.
Frederick said to her: "I just saw that you were very accurate and steady when peeling the skin, so I think you have the talent to be a surgeon."
"People have some diseases that need to be cut. Treatment can only be done by opening the body. However, if the doctor's hand is unstable and he cuts too much or makes the wrong cut, it will cause additional pain or even death to the patient."
"This time I went to Cedar University. The church will talk to the chief minister about expanding the number of international students. Medical students are an important part of it, and you can sign up when the time comes.”
Sisson was the first to understand what Frederick meant, and asked seriously: "Is it okay to remove the arrow stuck in the body?"
It is not difficult to remove the arrow, but the difficult thing is that the patient is still alive after being removed.
Frederick replied: "Yes, this is one of the basic contents of treatment."
Sisson put half a bowl of stewed peas with bear offal on the table, folded his hands and thought seriously stand up.
His wife, children and Fuli did not dare to express their anger. The youngest daughter hugged the bowl tightly and stopped eating, all waiting for him to make a decision.
Frederick stopped eating when he saw this and stopped holding the bowl.
"Oh, you don't have to worry about me." Sisen waved his hand immediately after noticing that he stopped, "You eat your food, I'll go out."
Sisen didn't eat either. A box of happy water went out.
Frederick didn’t have much to say, so he took a few bites of his own portion of the dinner.
Sisson’s wife wanted to help fill another bowl, but Frederick said he was full and immediately withdrew.
There are no street lights in the tribe, and the windows of the houses here are generally small. The roads are dark, and fluffy cats lie on the roadside or on the roof waiting for mice to appear.
The street was filled with the aroma of cooking meat. From time to time, the voices of men bragging about their bravery in hunting and the exclamations of children came from the houses. In some houses, the great harmony of life had already begun.
Several rooms looked deserted, with only the cries of women unable to live their lives and the sighs of men.
Some people have little success in hunting and only get a few pheasants or rabbits, not even squirrels with more expensive fur. They can only starve in the following days, or risk hunting around by themselves.
If the tribe had a surplus of food in winter, they might be able to help them, but they only had some soy flour and salt, so they could save a little to last until next spring.
Frederick turned around and walked to the back of the church when he saw Sisson and another man of similar age knocking on Larson's door. One of them was carrying happy water, and the other was carrying two large fishes.
The two just handed the things to Larson, said a few words and left without entering the door, leaving Larsen confused.
Frederick smiled when he saw it. The man with Sisson should be Fuli's father. This matter is probably related to the church's selection of people to study abroad soon.
(End of this chapter)