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Dinner Table Guide: Part 1

Updated: Jun 19, 2020

Xiao Yun woke up after returning to the tribe. After all, he smelled a strong body odor and added to the suffocation. He didn't nearly get a concussion last time.


It seems that this faintness has solidified his weak body and they are very cautious of him. When he borrowed Thrall's wooden bucket to prepare the water to wash the vegetables, Wool immediately snatch the barrel, the water point seems to be hundreds of meters away from the tribe and she is scared and worried that it will make him tired.


There is no way to explain this. Xiao Yun simply found a stone to sit and start sorting the wild vegetables. This time, the three Snow Werewolf boys who helped to dig up the vegetables, it was dug up in a huge amount more than when he doing it alone. Except for the most common ones, Dandelions, Plantains, and relatively few gray ash vegetables have been picked by them and some perillas which were found by accident.


Shiso, Xiao Yun is very familiar with it, because it is a kind of Chinese medicinal material, and he is a southerner. When southerner makes their kimchi, they will add perilla leaves to the jar, when Xiao Yun's mother makes pickled radishes and sauerkraut, he saw his mother add it. Moreover, the perilla leaves have their own fragrance, and many in the south also use this as a seasoning.


The knotty plantains are too old to eat, but they can prevent dysentery by adding them when they are cooked. The snow werewolf does not know any concept of hygiene by not caring about it would cause diarrhea. The dandelion tastes a bit bitter, however, mixing it with the gray ash vegetable neutralizes it, and adding a few perilla leaves enhances the fragrance and improve the flavors all together.


He picked the wild vegetables on his side, and the adults who returned to the tribe stared at him from afar.


"AhShan, what happened to AhYun, and why does he suddenly like to play with grass?" Another snow werewolf soldier who just came back sat at the door of his tent and polish the bones of the arrows. He looked at AhYun who was "playing with grass" for a long time, puzzled.


"This is not grass, it's vegetable."


AhShan didn't know how to explain. Instead, Horn who had packed the wild boars and were resting next to them said: "It's wild vegetables, I have eaten it, it's delicious."


"Oh--" The Snow Werewolf Warrior and Ashan dragged their voices, "How delicious?"

The bull skull was used as a cup that Horn was using, he licked his lower lip and smack his lips: "It is delicious every way ." due to his lack of vocabulary, he could not say any other praise but his expression already explained his feelings. Snow werewolf soldiers and AhShan faced each other, bones and arrows were not polish enough, wild fruits were not packed, the two stood up together and strode towards Xiao Yun.


Xiao Yun knew that there is no food left in the wolf man’s stomach, so he picked out the gray ash vegetables and dandelions he had collected this afternoon and put them together, preparing to cook them and pick out some plantain to cook then set the rest aside and take the seeds back to try and grow it. While he was busy preparing everything, Uncle AhShan and another Snow Werewolf elder who was about the size of Horn came over, squatted beside him, and stare at the piles of wild vegetables.


Xiao Yun: "..." decided to pretend to be invisible.


AhShan reached out and pinched a piece of plantain, to see that Xiao Yun didn't respond, and then filled his mouth with it.


"Uncle?!" Xiao Yun was startled. You couldn't see so much mud on the lying it? !


"..." AhShan didn't speak or spit out, his expression stubbornly chewed the plantain.


Xiao Yun was completely shocked, and even if he didn't understand the micro-expression, he could see how fearful he was.


Swallowing the entire plantain with difficulty, Ah Shan's tense face was about to crack, but he also had a solemn expression, nodded at Xiao Yun, and praised: "Sure enough, its delicious!" Xiao Yun stared at him dumbfoundedly.


The same Snow Werewolf warrior got up and walked away, went back to grinding his bone arrows...Ashan's acting, even the Snow Werewolf can't be deceived.


"...Uncle, this is not the way to eat it. You can't eat it raw, or eat the too old parts, even if you want to eat cold dishes, you should boil it with water first, before the water is boiled, the mud must be washed off first." Xiao Yun couldn't help nut cry out.


"Oh." AhShan unmasked and exposed his uncomfortable expression, grinning sheepishly.

Xiao Yun really has no idea what is going on in their mind.


Washing the dishes back with Wool, washing them, and putting them aside, Xiao Yun felt that he really didn’t pay attention to his pace and slowly affected by the Snow Werewolves. He was too lazy to do anything, so he decided to look at how Horn is dealing with the wild boar.


I was shocked to see that this so-called tidying up is the whole pig being peeled and its internal organs removed since there is no blade, the Snow Werewolf can’t break down the wild boar into smaller pieces of meat. The boar was not bleeding when it was killed when Xiao Yun approached them he could smell the heavy smoke.


"Yes, the deliciously roasted wild boar in YY's novels are really deceiving. The wild boar has not been fanned and the blood foam has been completely removed. The smell of roasting can be so suffocating?"


Xiao Yun covered his nose, and he would not eat this for dinner. After thinking for a while, he beckoned Horn: " Horn, shall we make this meat taste better?"


"Yes!" Horn answered.


Horn had eaten the wild vegetables he brought back, which was better than uncle AhShan's. Xiao Yun simply asked him to carry the wild boar, and he brought an empty bucket to fill the boar giblets and went to the river for processing.


After thinking for a while, it seemed that a helper was needed, and Xiao Yun shouted for Wool again-he was originally thinking of calling Thrall, but he was also worried that this human will suffer due to the cold water



 

TN

1) Plaintains:

2) Gray ash vegetables: it either means vegetables covered in ashes or ash gourd



3) Sauerkraut is finely cut raw cabbage that has been fermented by various lactic acid bacteria. It has a long shelf life and a distinctive sour flavor, both of which result from the lactic acid formed when the bacteria ferment the sugars in the cabbage leaves.


3) Shiso aka Beefsteak plant, Perilla frutescens var. crispa, or shiso, belongs to the genus Perilla, in the mint family, Lamiaceae. Shiso is a perennial plant that may be cultivated as an annual in temperate climates. The plant occurs in purple-leaved and green-leaved forms. Red Shiso is used as a dye to make umeboshi and that delightfully spicy pickled ginger. Shiso is used in traditional medicine as well, as it is believed to help prevent anemia and contain cancer-fighting properties.


4) Dysentery: infection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces.

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