I led the Goblin Culture to victory.

Chapter 89 Taking Precautions

Ziyi has been worried about this problem for a long time.

He knew he could use that bucket of salt to cure meat.

But then I think it's too wasteful.

Surely my teacher had a better way?

"Refined salt definitely shouldn't be used like that."

Li Moss shook his head; he had already made up his mind.

"Remember those two iron grills? We used them to dry the meat."

Zi'an asked doubtfully, "Roasted meat can only be kept for three days, right?"

The saintess looked over, puzzled.

"That's why it's called drying. Don't let the meat sit directly on the fire, or it will become as hard as armor."

Li Mosi emphasized it again.

The two disciples nodded, looking as if they understood but not quite.

Li Mosi could tell at a glance that these two apprentices were inexperienced.

That's normal.

The practice of drying by baking is also uncommon on the estate.

Drying it over a fire requires constant monitoring and wastes a lot of fuel.

Ordinary people have to pay taxes to collect fuel in the woods on the estate, and they don't have much free time.

They more often use air-drying methods that do not require constant management.

Those with a little wealth could simply marinate it, while nobles would choose to add a large amount of spices and smoke it.

These are all better than drying.

But since goblins have plenty of manpower and time, this method is most suitable for them.

Li Mosi quickly finished eating, walked to the pile of spoils, and found two grills.

Both of these barbecue grills are made of copper, square like musical instrument cases, and stand up to be more than half a person tall and more than a person wide.

They are open at the top, with a lot of openwork and decorative patterns around the sides and bottom, and each has four feet.

It is very exquisite.

He casually beckoned to a few goblins who had already finished eating, and had them lift the barbecue grill and move it to the open space that was originally used for fighting.

Then, he took out a knife and began to break down the pieces of meat that the goblins had cut once.

The goblin pieces they casually cut were all quite large, the smallest being about the size of two fists.

Such a large piece of meat, once the inside is dried out, the outside will turn into charcoal.

Li Mosi used her fingernail to measure the thickness, determining it to be about four millimeters, and then cut off pieces of donkey meat.

As he cut, he told his two disciples, "Later, cut all the meat into slices this thick, then divide them into palm-sized pieces. They must be thin, not thick. All the fat must be removed."

Zi Yi agreed and turned to call the goblins to get to work.

Li Mosi cut a few pieces as a demonstration, while Zi Yi used the demonstration pieces of meat to explain the requirements to the goblins.

"Yes, Chief!"

"Understood, Chief!"

This matter is simple to begin with, and with a demonstration, there is nothing to doubt.

Just cut it and that's it.

The goblins quickly broke it down into hundreds of pieces of meat.

Li Mosi also lit a fire in one of the two barbecue grills.

He didn't waste the time before the flames started burning; he called Zi Yi to gather the goblins who had been helping him carve the log frame together.

He taught the goblins how to make makeshift tongs for roasting meat.

Ziyi and Zian also watched and learned.

Choose a straight, fresh pine branch about the thickness of a finger and cut it open, but don't cut it completely through.

"Spread out the meat and sandwich it between the branches you just cut. Once you've sandwiched it on both sides, spread the meat out flat."

"Find another straight branch, peel off the bark, and use the bark to tie the branch holding the meat in place, so the meat won't fall off..."

Under the current conditions, the process of making temporary frames is very complicated.

But the principle is very simple.

It's the same mesh-shaped barbecue tongs that Li Mosi saw before she traveled through time.

Sometimes they are made of thin wire and placed directly on the grill.

Sometimes they are made of thin iron rods welded together, but these are generally used to hold grilled fish.

Now, the iron clamps have simply been replaced with freshly made ones from pine branches.

Short branches are used to hold the meat, long branches are used to tie the short branches together, and the bark is used as a makeshift rope.

After a flurry of activity, a bunch of things resembling small drying racks were ready.

Looking at the twenty-odd drying racks, each as big as a goblin's torso, Zi Yi scratched his head.

"Master, it seems the barbecue grill can't hold this many meats?"

Although the barbecue grill was longer than he was lying down, it definitely wouldn't fit all that meat.

Li Mosi naturally knew about this.

He said to Zi Yi, "So I need to build a large frame and put these in layers on it. Go and tell the prisoners to dig some more pits in the open space, and then we can light fires in them to make temporary grills."

Zi Yi ordered the goblin warriors to do it, and when he returned with the warriors and prisoners, Li Mosi was leading the goblins to build a wooden frame.

It's just a wooden frame that outlines a rectangular prism.

He also used fresh pine wood, sawn directly, to make it.

A saw can do far more things than an axe when it comes to processing wood.

Moreover, pine wood is very soft and can be processed quickly if needed temporarily.

Li Mosi first sawed out long wooden strips and nailed them vertically into the ground near the four corners of the barbecue grill.

Then, carve a small indentation on the side of the vertical wooden strip and use a simple mortise and tenon joint to attach the horizontal frame.

Then he used tree branches to carve simple wooden nails and hammered them in to secure the frame.

Finally, place the "drying rack" you just made on top of the wooden frame, offsetting it, and make sure the flames won't directly burn the wood.

This way, you can bake four to five layers at once.

The only problem is that the upper and lower floors receive different amounts of heat, so you need to keep an eye on them and flip them over or change floors from time to time.

The goblins responsible for cooking are going to be busy.

Wisps of smoke drifted from the flat ground into the sky.

This is the first time the goblins have cooked in an open area since they first discovered the slave-catching team.

They no longer need to hide their whereabouts.

While the prisoners were digging the pit, Li Moss taught the goblins to continue processing pine wood and prepare materials for making frames and shelves in advance.

Once the pit was dug, they started a fire, prepared the meat, and built the framework.

After working for most of the afternoon, almost all the meat had been clamped and placed on wooden frames, leaving only enough fresh donkey meat for the goblins to eat for two and a half days.

The goblins who were originally cutting meat were seamlessly sent to gather firewood around the area.

They had no firewood left except for the firewood they had prepared for cooking.

Freshly cut trees cannot be burned, as they produce a thick cloud of black smoke, which will make the meat taste bitter and inedible.

The prisoners were then sent to the surrounding high platforms to continue cutting down trees.

Zi'an touched the brown bear ears on his head and looked at Li Mosi, asking, "Master, we can't burn the trees we just cut down, so why do we keep cutting them down?"

Li Mosi turned her head but hadn't said anything yet.

The saint turned her head curiously.

Zi Yi guessed, "Should we continue living here to prevent that human from bringing more people over?"

Li Mosi was very pleased that his two disciples were no longer just asking him for advice.

He confirmed Zi Yi's guess: "Zi Yi is right, I did want to prepare for battle in advance. However, if humans hadn't appeared during these two days of processing the dried meat, we wouldn't be staying here."

Ziyi was pleased with himself, and then asked, "So where should we make our preparations next?"

Zi'an blurted out, "South of the cave? Right?"

Li Mosi nodded: "Of course."