Chapter 008 Dining Table Strategy

This time Xiao Yun didn't faint for long time. He woke up as soon as he returned to the tribe. After all, he was suffocated for a short time by the severe body odor, and he didn't nearly kick a concussion like last time （Uncle Ashan kicked Xiao Yun to faint last time）...

It seemed that this fainting seat made him weak, and the three snow werewolf cubs looked at him very cautiously... When he borrowed Sal's wooden barrel to prepare water for washing vegetables, the girl Fleece immediately took the wooden barrel away from him, as if the hundreds of meters from the tribe to the water point would cause him to be exhausted.

There was no way to explain this anyway, Xiao Yun simply found a stone and sat and sorted wild vegetables. Because this time there were three snow werewolf cubs to help, the digging up of wild vegetables was much more than when he was digging around. Except for the mos common dandelions, plantains, and relatively few chenopodium album , and accidentally they found some perilla.

Perilla, Xiao Yun is very familiar with this herb, not because it is a kind of Chinese medicinal material, but because he is a southerner. When southerners make pickles, they add perilla leaves to the pickle jar. This herb can prevent bacteria growing inside, Xiao Yun's mother used to soak sour radish and sauerkraut, he saw his mother add it. And perilla leaves have their own fragrance, and many places in the south use the perilla leaves as a seasoning.

"It's a pity that there is no houttuynia... Does the houttuynia grow in places with high latitudes? Anyway, it's not in season now.

The plantain begin to produce seeds is too old to eat, but it can prevent dysentery by adding a little bit when it is cooked. Snow werewolf didn't pay attention to the concept of hygiene. Even if the physique is beyond human, it can't help getting diarrhea; dandelion tastes a bit bitter. It is just right to mix and match with chenopodium album, and add some perilla leaves to enhance the fragrance, it will be taste great.

He was picking wild vegetables on one side, and on the other side, the tribesmen who had returned to the tribe stared at him from a distance.

"Ashan, what's wrong with Ayun? Suddenly beginning playing grass now?" Another snow werewolf warrior who just came back sat in front of his tent and sharpened his bones arrows, staring at Ayun who was "playing grass" in surprise for a long time, in puzzled,asking about Ashan who was bending over to clean up wild fruits.

"That's not grass, it's vegetables."

Ashan didn't know how to answer at all, but Oxhorn who just finished dealing with boar next to him said: "It's wild vegetables, I have eaten it, it's delicious."

"Oh—?" The snow werewolf warrior and Ashan made a long tone, "How delicious is it?"

Oxhorn held a cattle skull cup with drinking water, heard them question, answered"It tastes well, anyway." With his lack of vocabulary, he specified no words of praise, but his expression showed his good feeling with tasting.

Snow werewolf warrior and Ashan looked at each other, and left behind the works they were just doing--stop sharpening the bone arrows, stop picking the wild fruits, and then walked toward to Xiao Yun's tent.

Xiao Yun knew that the snow werewolf's appetite had no leftovers, so he picked out the chenopodium album, dandelions collected this afternoon and put them in a piece, and prepared them to cook together in the pottery pot for a while. Some perilla should be kept in reserve, plantains should be picked out to cook and remaining part could take seeds. As he was busy, uncle Ashan and another snow werewolf warrior who was as strong as Oxhorn were coming and squatted down next to him, and stared at the piles of wild vegetables which he placed.

Xiao Yun: "..." Forget it, pretend to be invisible.

Ashan stretched out his hand, took up a plantain, and saw that Xiao Yun didn't respond, then... opened his mouth and then stuffed the whole plantain into his mouth.

"Uncle?!" Xiao Yun was startled. Can't you see so much mud on the root? !　　

"..." Ashan did not speak or spit out, with a solemn expression, chewing hard on the old plantain.

Xiao Yun was completely shocked, even if he didn't understand the micro expression, he could see how uncomfortable uncle Ashan's swallowing movements were.

After swallowing the whole plantain with difficulty, Ashan's face was about to twist, but with a solemn expression, he nodded and praised Xiao Yun: "Sure, it tastes delicious!" 　　

Xiao Yun stared at his uncle blankly...

The snow werewolf warrior who came with Ashan stood up and left immediately, and went back to sharpen his bone arrows... Ashan 's performance was too bad to fool the snow werewolf...

...Uncle, this is not eaten like that. You can't eat it raw, and don't eat too old parts. Even if you eat cold dishes, you must first blanch it-- boil it in water, and before it is boiled, the mud on it have to wash it off first..." Xiao Yun could not know how to say about his uncle's behaviour...

　　 "Oh." Ashan didn't hide his funny behaviour anymore, showing his uncomfortable expression, contorting his face...　　

Xiao Yun... Xiao Yun really has no idea about the snow werewolf's brain circuits at all, really...

Washed the vegetables with water which was brought back by Fleece, tidied them and put them aside, Xiao Yun thought that he don't need to pay attention to impact the snow werewolves slowly, because that way was wasting time purely, so he did not keep a low profile and hide his ability and straight went to the boar which Oxhorn dealt with .

It was shocked when he saw the boar. This so-called tidying up... was the whole boar with its skin peeled, belly broken and internal organs taken out--because there was no knife-edge in the tribe, so the snow werewolf couldn't break the whole wild boar into the pieces of meat. In addition, no bleeding when killing the wild boar, Xiao Yun approached and almost fainted by the strong smell of blood.

"Damn, the fragrant roast boar in the novel is really in a lie. The wild boar has been castrated and the blood is not completely removed, it will be vomited by the smell when it is roasted!

Xiao Yun covered his nose for while, if the supper would be eating this he was indeed reluctant. Thought a while, he waved his hand to call Oxhorn:"Oxhorn, should we make the boar better?"

"Of course." Oxhorn answered immediately.

Oxhorn had eaten the wild vegetables he brought back, So he was better than his uncle Ashan to understand Xiao Yun's idea . Xiao Yun asked Oxhorn to carry the wild boar, and he carried a bucket with the wild boar innards, and took the stuff together to the river for secondary processing.

Oxhorn had eaten the wild vegetables he brought back, So he was better than his uncle Ashan to understand Xiao Yun's idea . Xiao Yun asked Oxhorn to carry the wild boar, and he carried a bucket with the wild boar innards, and took the stuff together to the river for secondary processing.

After leaving the tribe, walk about 500 meters to the southwest and you will see the tributaries of the big river where enabled the migrating tribe settled. The river in autumn is not as turbulent as in summer. It looks calm. The width of the river is about 20 meters. There are a few waterfowls on the water surface. There are lush reeds on both sides of the river. The side near the tribe was dug by the snow werewolves, a semi-circular pit with a diameter of about two meters and a depth of one meter was created, probably to prevent the tribe from falling into the river when taking water.

Xiao Yun first pointed out how to clean the innards of wild boars with Fleece. Snow werewolf does not eat the innards when there is no food shortage, but Xiao Yun doesn't want to waste it. Even if there is no ginger and garlic to remove the fishy, the nutritional value of the innards of wild boars is still worth looking forward to. Washing the innards at the river bank is also less nauseous than washing in a basin in a tent...

After arranging work for Fleece, he then joined Oxhorn to discuss how to process the wild boar. The original wild boars are unusually strong, but after all they are not specially raised domestic pigs. The fat layer is quite thin and there is not much lard. This must be taken out and used for other purposes. It cannot be eaten as soon as it is baked. It is too wasteful.

Then, it is the problem of removing the blood streaks in the pork... Pigs that have not been gelled before, if you don't remove the blood streaks as much as possible, it will be so meaty smell

The wild boar must be broken down into pieces, but there is no deboning knife available, this is really a problem when snow werewolf can only rely on their own claws.

However, Xiao Yun already had an idea. He asked Oxhorn separated the wild boar with brute force and carefully observed the spine, ribs, the fat layer, and then Xiao Yun changed into a snow werewolf form and stretched out his claws and cut for a while...Because snow werewolf-form consumes a lot of energy, so he has to work fast to save time.

Xiao Yun spent some time cut the pork into chunks and soaking them in the river water, Oxhorn was never idle and jumped down into the river to catch fish with his claws. Xiao Yun didn't have this ability, so he simply searched the reeds by the river to see if he could pick up some bird eggs...

The northern grassland has a high latitude and low height. It is a plain area. Except for the northern part of the grassland, which has been ruled by snow and ice for a long time, other places can be said to have a pleasant climate and lush vegetation. However, the abundant water resources make the entire grassland vigorous, and it is also accompanied by flooding. In the memory of the original owner, the more the grassland goes south, the denser the swamps. Although the tribe migrated to the southwest, it was in the south of the tribe. Less than a hundred miles always, there is a very large swamp that cattle and sheep can't get out again if they accidentally step into it.

Xiao Yun's hometown lives near the historical "Yellow River flooded area". He has his own understanding of this: There is no strong country on the grassland, and there is no artificially constructed water conservancy project. Then, in the annual flood season, The two big rivers on the grassland are naturally overflowing wantonly, wherever they want to go...

The aboriginal people on the grassland dare not live near the two big rivers, they are looking for their tributaries. Even the most inseparable from water tauren tribe who know how to cultivate are afraid to enter the southeast region where floods are flooded year after year, and the rivers and streams are full of water. You can imagine how serious the flood disaster is here.

The ancestors of the snow werewolves were also injured by the flood, so they had to move to the southwest. The choice was the pasture northeast of the tributary of the big river. The tribe moved directly to this tributary a few hundred meters away. Once the water volume of the tributary is abnormal, the snow werewolves can be the first time to discover, move cattle and sheep.

Xiao Yun, who hadn't picked up the bird eggs, stood by the river, watching the calm water, pondering his Snow Werewolf's self-reliant production plan. Obviously, with the convenience of abundant water resources, the way to farming is feasible. But before there is not enough manpower to construct out water conservancy projects, we must be alert to prevent flooding...In other words, the "experimental field" cannot be set up closer to the river than the tribe, so irrigation is a troublesome thing as well.

"...Don't worry, farming is next year's business, and the most important thing this year is how to survive in the winter." 　　 Pulling back his thoughts, Xiao Yun turned his sight to the lush reeds on the bank of the river.

"If I remember correctly, the reed leaves can also be used as feed for cattle and sheep, and can be used for transition if necessary. If we want to build a house for the winter, reed poles can be used as a roof... The house must be built, but now if I propose building houses for the winter, it is estimated that no one will respond. Although the snow werewolves are not smart enough, they must first recognize my abilities if I want they are willing to listen to me."

Xiao Yun, who was thinking silently, looked towards Oxhorn who could catch a lot of fat freshwater fish with his claws.

Freshwater fish are spiny, and people who cannot use chopsticks flexibly will not like to eat freshwater fish. Snow werewolves don't like it too... Except Oxhorn, he will grill larger fish as a snack and eat slowly with his claws. Pulling a fish-bone is still a little game for him.

"Oxhorn, don't throw the smaller fish back. We have lard, so we can deep-fry the fish!"

When the sky was getting dark, the patriarch who was in charge of herding work returned to the tribe with more than a dozen tribesmen who had returned to rest in rotation.

The open space in the middle of the tribe was burning with a blazing bonfire, and the placed rattan mats were covered with food and a few wild fruits. The hungry tribesmen waved happily when they saw the patriarch and greeted everyone sitting around the bonfire ans sharing a delicious meal.

"The food today is different?"

The patriarch who is the eldest in the tribe first checked whether there were few cubs left in the tribe. Then he turned his attention to the food on the rattan mat. Unlike the past, which was all grilled meat or boiled meat, there are many more cubs on the mat today. A pottery pot with green grass, and some strange-looking palm-sized burnt black lumps are placed on the wide leaves.

"Well, there are wild vegetables and fry-fish today." Oxhorn seemed very blunt when he said the new words that he had never said before.

"Fried fish pieces?" The patriarch was taken aback.

"It's deep-fried, deep-fried..." Xiao Yun sitting in the pile of cubs pulled his mouth and said, "It's okay to say that it is fried fish pieces. The efficiency of heat transfer in a pottery pot is not as good as an iron pan. The heat is difficult to control, so many pieces are burnt...but the fish pieces are thinly sliced, the thorns are fried and crispy, and you can try it."

"Eat first, I'm going to starve to death, I'm going to starve to death just now." Oxhorn urged, and his saliva ran out when Ayun was frying the fish.

The tribe adopts a meal-sharing system. In the face of wild vegetables and fish nuggets that they have never seen before, the patriarch in charge of the meal-sharing is completely daunting. Just order and taste, it's the same as distributing wild fruits, but how to divide the wild vegetables in the pottery pot? ! Use bowls? There are not so many pottery bowls in the tribe!

It is no choice but to put a few pottery pots together, whoever wanted to eat wild vegetables could grab the vegetable in their hand...

This distribution method made Xiao Yun's eyes twitching. He forced the clansmen who stayed behind and returned early to wash their hands, but the claws of the group of people who had just returned with the patriarch were still very dirty!

Especially, in order to show encouragement to the young cub Ayun who came back from looking for wild vegetables, the patriarch took the lead in grabbing a handful of wild vegetables from the pottery pot. This one, It doesn't know how much mud and ash were brought into the pottery pot...

"Um...ooh!"

The patriarch didn't know that Xiao Yun was staring at his dirty hands, he grabbed the grass and stuffed grass into his mouth, and then his expression immediately changed. He ate at least 25 grams of dust with wild vegetables in three or two bites. Looking at the "sensible" Ayun, he was embarrassed to not continue touch Ayun's body, and took a bite of the deep fried fish piece allocated to him.

The patriarch didn't know that Xiao Yun was staring at his dirty hands, he grabbed the grass and stuffed grass into his mouth, and then his expression immediately changed. He ate at least 25 grams of dust with wild vegetables in three or two bites. Looking at the "sensible" Ayun, he was embarrassed to not continue touch Ayun's body, and took a bite of the deep fried fish piece allocated to him.

After experiencing the new food, the patriarch's expression was obviously different when he ate roasted wild boar-the pork after the blood was removed and cut into small pieces and then roasted was more evenly heated than the whole wild boar rack. Because Xiao Yun asked Uncle Ashan to get some long manes of some wild animals and washed it to make a small brush, it is convenient to brush the fish oil on the wild boar. Although there is still only salt and no other seasonings, the meaty smell is greatly reduced and brush a little bit more fish oil on the pork. The delicious fragrance is smelling better than the barbecue they used eat in the past.

Xiao Yun, who didn't have the courage to eat wild vegetables in the pottery pot, silently gnawed wild pork that he was barely able to eat. Seeing that the snow wolves including Sal were full of praise, he showed a melancholy face with a long sigh: "The dining table strategy can be regarded as a beautiful first battle...but, why is my sense of accomplishment so low?"