Searching for food through the beast world

My game, my turf, my rules

When Xiaoxiao was making hats, Luxi was in charge of making animal ears.However, Luxi doesn't like the smell of the black hazel beast, so naturally she also dislikes the skin very much.Based on the principle of proximity, Ding Xiao asked him to go to his own warehouse to pick a piece he likes, and then send it back tomorrow to make up.

It was still brown-yellow animal skin, and Ding Xiao couldn't remember what kind of beast this piece of skin belonged to.But it feels good to the touch, but it is slightly thicker than the black hazel animal skin, and the leather itself is not very elastic under the fur, so it should be more difficult to sew than the hat given to Jing.

With the experience of helping before, Luxi and Jing already have a good understanding of the process of making animal ears. In addition, there is no difficulty in making the bamboo blanks that support the inside of the animal ears, so it took less than an hour to complete the animal ear hat. And so was born.

Seeing the way Luxi put on the animal ear hat, Jing was a little envious.But he felt that the first hat Xiaoxiao made was his own, and the round earbags looked pretty good, so he automatically balanced his mind. "Xiaoxiao, where's your own? What kind of one is it made of? Is it the ear bag or the animal ear?"

Ding Xiao grabbed Jing's wrist: "Teach me the way you used to wrap your head, I'm more interested in that."

Papa Joan came home just in time to make dinner.Excitement could still be seen on his expression, seeing his son already busy in the kitchen, he hurried over. "Your feet aren't healed yet. You had a busy day yesterday. Why did you go into the kitchen again today? What are you going to do? Tell me, Dad will do it."

Ding smiled and asked: "Let me do it. I just woke up and wanted to exercise. Dad, when will Dad come back?"

Seeing that Xiaoxiao was cutting ribs just now, Joan hurriedly took over the job. "When it's dark, wait for the team that patrols at night to exchange with him."

It turns out there are morning and evening shifts. "That's right, I want to make a fruity pork rib, it will take a little longer, and it should be ready when Dad comes back. Dad, do you have such patrols every winter?"

Joan replied: "That's not true. It will be tighter when you find a beast infested. And this time Ge Zhong has gone out, so your father's responsibility will be heavier. Now your father is in charge during the day, and your Uncle Pengjia will take care of it." The person is in charge of the night. Xiaoxiao, if you have to make food, cook more, and let your father bring it to your uncle tomorrow morning."

Although in this primitive environment, there are still etiquette among relatives.Ding Xiao knew that Dad wanted to maintain a better relationship with Kun's family, so he nodded immediately: "Okay. My spareribs are the same when they are cold, so I will make all of them." .At first I wanted to divide it into two. By the way, Dad, are you patrolling with Dad today?"

Joan nodded: "That's right. But while the big guys were eating, I told your father about the bow you mentioned. He thought it was very useful, but we have to wait until Kun and the others come back to figure out how to do it. There is no time now."

Ding Xiao raised the corners of his mouth: "Abba, it's actually quite interesting to patrol with Apa, right? Isn't Apa very enviable today?"

Joan froze for a moment, then blushed slightly. "Stinky boy! You actually laughed at your father!"

The fruity pork ribs that Xiaoxiao plans to make are sweet and sour. The clean ribs without much fat are chopped into thumb-sized pieces, and then soaked in cold water to remove blood.

Ding Xiao asked Dad to take out six green oranges and six apples, a handful of sour fruit garlic, ten onions and three large carrots from the vegetable cellar.Then mash the two fruits into a puree, and dice the onion and carrot into small cubes.

After about half an hour, take the ribs out of the water and wash them, then pour the green orange juice and apple puree on the ribs, grasp them with your hands, and set aside to marinate for flavor.

While marinating the ribs, the father and son began to make other dishes and staple foods.Tonight, I decided to make pancakes, stir-fried pork with scallions, and roast wolf back meat.

In about an hour, the ribs have been marinated very tasty.Put lard in the frying pan, fry the diced onion until it turns into a brownish-yellow onion mash, then put the diced carrot in the pan and stir fry for two to three minutes.After adding black peppercorns and minced lemongrass for aroma, pour in the marinated pork ribs with fruit flavor and continue to stir fry.Add pork bone broth, add vegetable salt and a spoonful of soy sauce to enhance the color.Finally, when the soup is about to dry up, pour in the mashed sour fruit and garlic, stir evenly, and when the soup in the pot is completely dried up, sprinkle sesame seeds and take it out of the pot!

When the ribs are stewed, the kitchen is full of a special taste that combines the smell of boiled fruit and the aroma of stewed meat.After the sour fruit and garlic paste was poured in at the end, it was heated like this, and the sour aroma immediately overflowed, and the smell made the saliva drop.

In fact, the reason why Ding Xiao came up with the sudden idea of ​​making this was because he wanted to make a "sweet and sour" ribs without sugar and vinegar.Hence the idea.

The acidity of the fruit can make the meat soft and tender, and it has a fruity aroma. There will be absolutely no problem with the taste and sense of smell.The sweet and sour of green oranges and the sweetness of apples are combined with the unique sweetness of fried onions and carrots, and finally the sourness of sour fruit and garlic is added, so the sweet and sour taste will not be too unpalatable.Of course, it is unknown whether the dish will be as good as imagined after it is cooked. Everything is unknown before eating.

Abba Joan volunteered to be the first to try.Pick up a piece of fruity pork ribs with chopsticks, first put it under your nose and smell it. "The taste of the fruit is really strong, but it smells quite sour." After taking a bite, the first thing you taste in your mouth is a very smooth sour taste, then sweet, followed by a slightly salty taste, followed by It is the fragrant but refreshing gravy that spreads in the mouth.The meat on the ribs was so soft and so easy to bite, that Joan found it rather novel, in addition to being delicious. "This meat is very soft. I guess your father will have to eat it with the bones."

Hearing what Dad said, Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered the first time he went to "picnic" with Kun.He could eat part of the bone of a chicken like a biscuit.The bones on the pork ribs are stewed and can be chewed by themselves. Dad eats them... there must be no problem!It is said that eating bones can also supplement calcium. Is this the secret of male strength?

In the next four days, apart from making a gray wolf fur cloak for Dad, Ding Xiao was thinking about making some fresh food and drink all day long.

But in fact, he can't be as successful as Fruity Ribs every time.For example, on the third day, he thought of adding melted cocoa stones to the noodles, and then tried baking chocolate-flavored cakes.As a result, he tasted it after burning the first one, and it was so bitter that he stomped his feet.Fortunately, the foot had fully recovered at that time, otherwise the injury would have worsened.

Fortunately, the cocoa stones and the dough that came out were not too much, and the rest was made by steaming. The taste was okay, and I ate it all wrapped in hawthorn sauce.Otherwise, it would be a waste of food.But after this incident, Ding Xiao also knew that cocoa stone and pearl fruit are no problem together, but the oil must not be used for heating and frying, otherwise the bitter taste will be comparable to that of Coptis chinensis!This discovery was also recorded by him in the "Fresh Book", so that future people will not make this mistake again.

Of course, success is more certain than failure.Xiaoxiao successfully made spicy beef offal.Beef heart, beef liver, beef lung, and beef intestine marinated with various spices and several warming medicinal materials, sliced ​​and coded.Then scoop out some of the marinated soup, boil it with chili, pepper, soy sauce, vegetable salt and a little red mahua sauce to make a spicy sauce, pour it on the beef offal, sprinkle sesame seeds and fried peanuts at the end, and eat it It is fragrant, numbing and spicy, and it is very enjoyable.But this is not an innovation, but the couple's lungs seen on the tree...

Besides making food, Ding Xiao writes and draws in his room, and then continues to finish his horn comb that has been placed for several months.

Joan understood his son's mood very well.In fact, when I was waiting for He Zaidong to hunt down the beasts at home for the first time, I was so nervous.Xiaoxiao thinks that she talks and laughs every day, and it seems easy to be busy with delicious food, but in fact, it can be seen through at a glance.

After all, everything is different the first time.Compared with Kun who walked for more than ten days to exchange things before, although the number of people in this siege is larger, the purpose is different.One is that you can avoid the beast when you see it, and there is no need to head-on.One is that jackals and leopards must be found and hunted down, and they will definitely "fight each other". This is an essential difference.Ding Xiao wasn't overly worried about Kun's safety. To be precise, it was his unfamiliarity with the world and his unaccustomedness to the world all came out after Kun's departure this time, and some psychological changes occurred.

No matter how much you want to follow and integrate into this brand new world, but strangeness is strangeness after all.What is strange is not the relationship between people, but the ignorance of the whole world.This disease is not something that can be resolved in a day or two, a month or two months.

Ding Xiao always fantasizes about what the real depths of Aomori look like, and even what other lands farther away look like.How powerful are all kinds of animals, especially ferocious beasts.The old saying "know yourself and the enemy" is the fundamental condition for people to feel at ease. He feels that he has no confidence in anything except food now.He even looked forward to the arrival of next spring so that he could systematically learn how to hunt and survive in the forest.He also thought that after he married Kun in the future, maybe he could let Kun take him to tour the world.In short, he wants to understand this place, just as important as understanding the people around him.He knew from a very young age that even if someone could protect him, even if he could be incompetent, he must not be ignorant.

On the morning of the seventh day, Ding Xiao took on a new job.The priest hopes that Xiaoxiao can help him make the red clay for the New Year festival.In the ceremony of the New Year's Ceremony, there is a very important part that the oldest male orc in the village uses red clay to draw the totem symbol of his clan on the face of the newly grown male.This means that these males are responsible for the glory and rise and fall of the tribe from this moment on.Even if you leave your hometown, you cannot betray your tribe.

Ding Xiao didn't know much about the New Year's Ceremony.He just knew that this should be the New Year of the Beast World.However, the ceremony only occurs during the year when a male comes of age.It seems that I was in time, and I can see Kun's coming-of-age ceremony with my own eyes~!

Red mud is made from two medicinal materials.

The most important kind of red gum is a jelly-like object boiled from the leaves of the red tree. This thing is very magical. It is obvious that the leaves are dark green before boiling, but after being heated at high temperature, they will gradually become bright. red.Moreover, red gum also has the effect of stopping blood heat, so it is an essential medicinal material for making trauma medicine.

Another medicinal material here is called white stone powder, which is a powder of white stone that can be easily crushed.This white stone powder can treat headaches, toothaches, sores on the mouth and tongue, and is also effective for scalds and burns.But in Ding Xiao's eyes, this is not white stone powder, but gypsum, a natural gypsum that can be used!Plaster that can be used to order tofu! !

Originally, the priest wanted to find Xiaoxiao, a careful and skillful child, to help him, but in the end, Ding Xiao saw something that he thought he would have to search for a while to find. "Sacrifice, why haven't we seen this white stone powder before? Can we collect it here?" Ding Xiao asked excitedly as he rolled the gypsum block with a medicine roller.

While boiling the red stone leaves, Teng replied: "This has always been wrapped in oil skin, so you didn't see it. But we don't have Baishi in Tianhe Village, but we have a Baishi Village in the Pinghu Clan. Their There is a high mountain behind the village, and many of these white stones can be collected on the mountain. Why, this white stone is also useful? Can it be eaten?" If Ding Xiao is curious, it is likely to be something to eat.

Ding Xiao replied: "It's really edible. But it can't be put in too much, and it can only be made into tofu with soybean milk ground from soybeans. Soybean is a kind of bean that Kun bought from the Feibao tribe before. Made a lot of things."

Teng has seen what Kun exchanged for Ding Xiao, but she has never tasted anything except chili, so she is inevitably a little curious. "I heard from Kun that you plan to plant those things that our winged tigers don't have in the spring?"

"Yes. I keep the seeds of peppers, soybeans, long beard sticks, kenaf flowers, and hard melons. It's like worshiping you and planting the seeds of some commonly used herbs on the side of the village and in the yard. , I also plan to grow these things. If they can be planted, we don’t need to exchange those things in the future. And I think pearl fruit can also be planned, so that our food in winter will no longer have problems gone."

When Kun told himself about planting, Fuji had already fully understood the benefits of this behavior.So he discussed this matter with Peng Jia and Ge Zhong for a long time, but he never told Ding Xiao. "Do you want to plant it in your father's and father's yard, or in your and Kun's yard?"

Ding Xiao raised his eyebrows: "You are so unkind. I must plant them all. Besides, there is no telling when Kun's house will be built."

"Even if a male builds a house alone, it won't last long, but we must have high requirements for Xiaoxiao. Kun should be busy for a while with such a big skill. Okay, don't stare, am I telling the truth? Now, I discussed it with the village chief before. We plan to enclose a special piece of land for you to plant those things next year."

After Ding Xiao heard it, his eyes widened immediately: "Really? Can you really give me a piece of land to grow things?"

Teng nodded: "Of course. And if you want to plant a lot of things, you can also send someone to help you with the work. But the condition is that you have to write down how to plant and how to raise those things. Then share half of the seeds after the harvest. village."

This condition is no problem for Ding Xiao at all.Although he didn't want to give others what he planted from the seeds he had collected so hard, he was very willing to let the Yihu tribe, at least the people in Tianhe Village, eat all kinds of food.Planting and animal husbandry are the best ways to increase food sources and improve living standards, and promotion is inevitable.No matter how big the yard is surrounded by myself and Kun, it is limited after all, so it can't be too unreasonable.

And planting itself is a matter of zero concealment.If the village chief and the priest asked him and Kun to help them complete this major reform, that would be a different matter.But Ding Xiao is not stupid, since the village wants to let him be the experimenter, and the seeds are still provided by himself, then the benefits must be discussed clearly by himself. "Then can you give me that piece of land?"

Fuji smiled.This little cub is really smart and thinks a lot.No wonder it is the messenger of the beast god.If the harvest of planting things is really so good, every family in the village will definitely have a piece of land for planting in the future.First come, first better. "Of course it's for you. And the seeds are only collected from you in the first year. It's just that if the seeds are really planted in the future, you will help anyone who wants to plant something."

Ding Xiao put down the small stone mill in his hand, and slapped his chest: "This is on me! Although I don't know how to farm the land, let's try it together! Can I pick the land by myself?"

Teng tapped Ding Xiao's forehead: "Little guy, you really think carefully. When Kun comes back, you two can choose. But this matter must be kept secret for the time being, even your father and father can't tell."

Ding Xiao laughed silly: "Don't worry, I'm very strict with my mouth!" In this way, I can choose the large area behind Abba's house!