The Little King Next Door

Back in the cave, Haidan had already returned, and threw the anti-mosquito herbs into the fire, and left some for them.

There were also a few long wooden branches about three fingers thick beside the fire, and they looked very strong.

Lei Mu and Wang Ye's eyes met, and Wang Ye immediately burst into a big smile.

Lei Mu couldn't help but also laughed.It is rare for him to see children not afraid of him, he is very self-aware of his tattoos, even adults find them scary, let alone ignorant children?I didn't dare to look at the child named Haidan without looking at his face.

But this boy named Wang Ye is really courageous, and he doesn't care about his tattoos at all.Sometimes when he looks at himself, it even gives him the illusion that the other party seems to have lived with him for many years.

"You're back, what did you get?" Haidan poked his head out curiously, only to see a pile of shellfish with no meat, and immediately said in distaste: "How do you get these things to eat? No one in our village eats them." These."

"What? Isn't it delicious?" Wang Ye quite likes seafood.

Haidan shook his head: "It's not that it's not delicious, it's just that I'm tired of eating it. There are so many of these things, they grow everywhere, and the meat is so little that you can't get enough if you eat them."

Wang Ye thought to himself that this is the happiness that only the seaside people have, and it is the happiness that the island natives who have no industrial pollution in the sea can enjoy.

"Don't you guys also eat sea crabs? Those with hard shells and eight claws."

"Of course I don't eat it. It doesn't have much meat, so it's troublesome to eat." Haidan was even more disgusted.

"Then what do you usually eat?" Wang Ye put the broken wooden barrel by the fire, found a large oval stone from the hole, cleaned it, and threw it by the fire to roast.

Haidan pouted his buttocks to help, and replied while he was busy: "Eat pink fruit, pink fruit is our staple food, and black pork. Black pig was originally a wild boar, and there are many wild boars on our island. Grandpa, the village chief, went to Haicao Village to learn How to raise pigs, I caught the little black pigs to raise, and cut the balls of those little pigs. Those little black pigs were very fierce at first, but after cutting their balls, they became honest. But we can’t eat them all year round. When it comes to meat, I still eat fish the most.”

Wang Ye can understand the islanders' pursuit of meat and staple food, and he can't bear to ask him to eat fish every day: "It sounds like you are doing well, don't you fish?"

"Fishing. But fishing at sea is very dangerous, and the village only goes out once every half a month. Usually, everyone uses small boats to catch some seafood nearby."

Haidan was not wary of the seemingly small Wang Ye. Whatever Wang Ye asked, he said what he said, and in a short while he had completely covered the situation of Haigou Island and Haigou Village that he knew.

Wang Ye learned from Haidankou that Trench Island is rich in products. Fruits are available all year round, and there are many wild animals in the mountains and forests. Every morning and evening, you can pick up enough seafood to eat. If people don’t pursue good food, even if they don’t You can also eat and drink enough when you go fishing in the sea.

The pink fruit tree does not need to be specially planted by Haigou Villagers. It grows all over the island, and it is a perennial. It can bear fruit every year, and the fruiting period is still very long.

Perhaps because food is easy to obtain, people in Haigou Village are a bit lazy, not because they are unwilling to work, but because they are too lazy to change their lives, let alone invent and create.No one will just eat fruits, wild animals and seafood that others have not eaten.

Trench Village can wear rough clothes and use more tools. The change still starts with the establishment of Prisoner Island. The Haicao Village was built on Haicao Island 50 years ago. The talents of Haigou Village have more communication partners and have learned a lot of knowledge from the outside world, but there are still very few changes on the island.

But think about the fact that most of the common people in China maintained a similar way of life thousands of years ago. As long as a village does not experience wars, the life inside can remain unchanged for thousands of years. Wang Ye can understand why Haigou Village is like this. Sometimes it's not that you don't want to change, but that you don't know how to change and are afraid of change.

"Shall I open the pink fruit for you?" Haidan asked while holding the pink fruit.

Wang Ye turned his head: "Okay... ah!"

He's so stupid, isn't this just a ready-made pot?

The shell of the powdered fruit is very hard and looks like a coconut. It is not easy to cut with an oyster shell knife, so it can only be chopped with a stone knife.

Haidan picked up the stone knife and cracked the shell with two bangs.

This fruit, about the size of a football, is full of slippery starch.

Haidan told Wang Ye that the powder in the powder fruit cannot be eaten raw, it must be cooked.

Wang Ye saw that Haidan's fingers with black mud in his nails were directly scratching into the fruit, and quickly grabbed his hand, indicating that he would come by himself.In this life, he planned to live with his master and Mu Mu for a long time, and he didn't want to leave any hidden dangers to his body at all.

In his previous life, he had to take on the responsibility of cooking at home since he was four years old. Later on, he lived alone and developed a fairly good cooking skill.

Wang Ye washed his hands, took half of the husk, added a little water and sea salt grains, held the husk between his legs, and stirred the starch inside into a paste with one hand.

When the batter became thick and could be rolled up with hands, Wang Ye moved it to the fire.

"What are you going to do?" Hai Dan leaned over. He originally wanted to make balls of the batter and put it on the palm leaves, and then put it on the side of the fire to bake. As long as it is cooked, it can be eaten.

Wang Ye's method is similar, but instead of using palm leaves, he directly wipes the batter on the hot stone, which is the way of spreading pancakes.

The unique burnt aroma of starch emerges.

In a few seconds, a pancake is ready.

Haidan's eyes lit up.

Lei Mu didn't want to just lie down, so he also came to help. He took off the pancakes that Wang Ye had spread out from the stone, and put them on the palm leaves prepared by Haidan.

"Lie there and don't move! If the wound bursts again, I'll beat you!" Wang Ye yelled at Lei Mu fiercely.

Lei Mu: "...I'm fine."

"You have something to do! Lie down and wait for me to serve you." Wang Ye asked Haidan to wash his hands again, and he must wash them clean.

Haidan was puzzled, but seeing Wang Ye's fierce appearance, he obediently went to Shuiyan to wash his hands.

After washing, it was very bright for Wang Ye to see.

Although Wang Ye felt that those little paws were still very dirty, he didn't ask him to wash them a second time. Instead, he ordered Haidan to help peel off the baked pancakes from the stone.

"Okay, okay, I'll do it!" Haidan was eager to do this job, he thought it was fun.

Lei Mu didn't care about him, so he had to lie down.

One person bakes, one person uncovers, the speed is quite fast.

Wang Ye baked half of it, and asked everyone to eat the baked pancakes first.

The crepes are smooth and tender, with a bit of saltiness, very similar to the kudzu root pancakes that Wang Ye had eaten on Earth, and they are delicious for hungry people.

Both Wang Ye and Lei Mu were hungry, and they ate very fast.

Haidan is not weak either, he doesn't have the slightest awareness of the guests, and he is no slower than Wang Ye in grabbing food.

Then Wang Ye made the starch in the remaining half of the powdered fruit into balls, and spread them on the stones one by one for baking.

In this way, two hemispherical shells are vacated.

Without guilt, Wang Ye instructed Haidan to clean up all the shellfish he brought back and cut open the oysters.

Haidan rolled his eyes, the islanders cooked and ate them directly, what a waste.

Wang Ye thought that the seawater here was not much polluted, so he reluctantly accepted the barnacles and mussels that had only been washed casually, and boiled them all in the fruit shell.

There are few ingredients, only a little sea salt can be sprinkled to enhance the taste.

In fact, steamed barnacles are more delicious, but now the conditions are not enough and we can only make do.

But seafood is fresh. Most of the barrels of barnacles and mussels brought by Wang Ye are the freshest. Even if they are boiled, the taste is quite good.

Especially barnacles, which are harmful to ships and large fish, have fresh and tender meat, which is actually more delicious than mussels.

The cut open oysters are put on the fire and roasted, and the juice inside is swallowed after roasting, which is also very delicious.

That is, Wang Ye can only use one hand, so it is very inconvenient to eat.

Lei Mu saw Wang Ye staring at the luck of the sea eggs, took the seafood in a funny way, picked out the meat inside, and put it in front of Wang Ye, but his hands trembled after picking it for a while.

He was assassinated and besieged. In addition to the external injuries, his tendons were also severely damaged, resulting in weakness in his hands and feet. He couldn't even do such a small thing.

In fact, his condition could not have been so bad. When he was on that ship, his injuries had already begun to improve, but unexpectedly, the killer followed up and found him.

He desperately killed the killer, but he was also seriously injured and passed out, and was finally thrown overboard by the captain of the ship as a dead man.

When he fell into the sea, he woke up because his wound was stimulated by the sea water. He had to risk aggravating his injury, and forced his strength from the injured tendons to swim to the shore. It took a lot of effort to pull a child up.

After such a toss, his injury, which had started to improve, turned around. Not only did it not improve, but it even worsened.

"You eat by yourself, don't worry about me." Wang Ye was also greedy, but he had an intuition that Lei Mu needed nutrition more than him.

Haidan saw that Wang Ye was inconvenient, so he suddenly realized: "I forgot that you broke a hand, let me fix it for you."

Wang Ye: "..."

Lei Mu also laughed, Wang Ye's busy and industrious appearance makes it easy for people to forget that he is a little disabled now.

Lei Mu looked at the child with the injury on the back of his head, and naturally had a doubt in his heart: Is this child not afraid of pain?Still feel no pain?

After eating seafood, the powdered fruit balls are also baked. This kind of baked powder balls has a burnt aroma, and the mouth is not dry after eating. The best thing is that it can fill the stomach.

Wang Ye used the other half of the husk to boil a pot of water.

After the two half shells are burned once, they become a little crispy. I don't know if they can be used for the second time.

Haidan shook his head without confidence and said, "It's not bad if it can be burned once without breaking. I'll go to the big reef beach for you tomorrow to find out if there is a suitable stone pot."

"I'll go with you." He needed to find his way, mainly to find out if there was anything useful.

"By the way, you know there are some caves on the cliff, right?" Wang Ye asked casually.

Haidan mopped his mouth and nodded, "I know."

"Does anyone live there?"

"No. How could anyone live there? It's very humid there, and the holes are full of mud. We don't go there to play."

"Are there other outsiders besides me and my brother on that island?" Wang Ye asked again.

Haidan continued to shake his head: "No more, just you two."

Wang Ye didn't ask any more questions. He originally planned to go to Haigou Village with Haidan before it was dark when he went back, but after knowing that there were people in the cliff cave over there, he was even more worried. Lei Mu was left alone in the cave.

The author has something to say:

Lei Mu: Do you want to tell the little guy that I am injured, but I can still kill people.Forget it, let's not talk about it, it feels good to be taken care of by the little one, it feels like raising a filial son.

Wang Ye: What if my eldest son accidentally becomes a medicine man when I am not paying attention, always be on guard.