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Dinner Table Guide: part 2

Updated: Jun 19, 2020

After leaving the tribe, about 500 meters southwest there are tributaries flowing into a bigger river, near where noman tribes stayed. The river in autumn is not as rushed as it is in summer. It seems that the river is still calm. The width of the water is about 20 meters. There are a few waterbirds on the surface. There are reeds growing on both sides of the river. a semi-circular pit with a diameter of about two meters and a depth of one meter allows the tribe to take water without falling in.


Xiao Yun first teaches Wool how to clean the boar offal, Snow Werewolves does not eat the offal unless there is a shortage of food. Xiao Yun does not want to waste it. Even if there is no ****(seasoning) and garlic, the nutritional value of the boar offal is still worth looking forward to. It’s less disgusting than was at the sink

After arranging the work for Wool, he then discusses with Horn on how to process the wild boar. Originally wild boar meat is extremely strong, but it is not a domesticated pig. The fatty layer is quite thin so there is not much lard.

Then, the problem is how to remove the residue blood. The pigs that have not been fanned(cooldown), it is terrible to not remove the blood as much as possible, which requires the wild boar to be broken down into pieces since there is no boning knife available, we have to use our claws.


Xiao Yun already had an idea, let Horn use brute force to break the wild boar apart, the wild boar's spine, ribs, and the fat layer will be separated. Xiao Yun rarely transformed into his wolf form. it consumes a lot of energy, and it takes time to recover the energy


It took some time to break down the pork and wash it in the river water. Horn couldn't help jumped into the river and used his paws to catch the fish. Xiao Yun didn't have this ability. Search in the reeds by the river to see if there is any bird egg.

The northern grasslands have high latitudes and low altitudes. They belong to plain areas.

Except for the long winter in the northern part of the grasslands, other places can be described as a pleasant climate with lush grass. But the abundant water resources made the whole grassland full of vitality, but also accompanied by flooding.

Xiao Yun’s own home lives near the historical “Yellow Pan Area”, and his understanding: there is no powerful country on the grassland, and there is no water conservancy project built artificially. Due to raining seasons, the two big rivers on the grassland will start flooding. The indigenous people on the grassland dare not live near the two big rivers, they are only looking for tributaries, and most will not be able to do without water It is also imaginable that the Tauren tribes who farms do not dare to enter the southeastern area where its floods and spread all over the Chuanxi Jianquan, every year.


The ancestors of the Snow Werewolf also suffer from the floods. They had to migrate to the southwest. They chose the grassland in the northeast of the tributary of the big river. The tribe moved directly to this tributary hundreds of meters away. Once the tributary has abnormal water volume, the Snow Werewolf will be the first discover, they will bring the cattle and sheep away.

Xiao Yun, who didn’t pick the bird’s egg, stood by the river and watched the calm river while thinking about his plan for the snow wolves people tp have a better production rate. With the convenience of water resources, the road to farming made sense, before having enough manpower to carry out water conservancy projects, one must be aware of ways to prevent floods. That is to say, "experimental fields" cannot be located closer to rivers than the tribe, so irrigation is also a problem.

[let's not think too much, farming is next year's business, and the important thing is this year winter.]Putting it behind his mind, Xiao Yun's eyes turned to the lush reeds on the river bank.

[If I remember correctly, it seems that reeds can also be used as cattle and sheep feed. If you want to build a house for the winter, the reed rods can be used as a roof... The house must be built, but how do I suggest this to the tribe? I'm sure they will not agree to it. They must first let them recognize me if they want to listen to me.]


Xiao Yun, silently thinking, Horn caught a lot of fat freshwater fish with his paws.

Freshwater fish have many bones, and people who can't use chopsticks flexibly will not eat freshwater fish, the others do not like it except Horn. He will grill the larger fish as a snack and slowly use his claws to eat it.


"Horn, don't throw the smaller fish back, we have lard and we can fry the fish!"


When the sky was dark, the patriarch who was working in the herd had returned to the tribe with more than 10 people who had returned to rest in rotation.


The open space in the middle of the tribe was a burning bonfire, and the spread vine mat was covered with food and a few wild fruits. The hungry tribe members saw the patriarch and happily beckoned everyone around the bonfire sit down and share the delicious meal.

"The food today is different?"


The oldest patriarch in the tribe first checked if there were fewer cubs left in the tribe, and then turned his attention to the food on the vine grass mat, which was different from the barbecue or cooked meat in the past. There is more food on the grass mat today. A clay pot with green grass-like objects and some strange-looking slap-like scorched black lumps were placed on the wide leaves.


"Well, there are wild vegetables and fish chunks today." Horn seemed awkward when he said it


"Fish pieces?" The patriarch froze.


"It's deep-fried." Xiao Yun sitting on the sides twitched his mouth and said: "It's okay to say fried fish pieces. The heat transfer efficiency of the pot is not as good as that of the iron pot. It's pasted...but the fish is cut thin and the thorns are crispy and ready to eat."


"Let's eat first. I'm going to starve to death." Horn urged everyone. When AhYun fried the fish, he was drooling.


The tribe adopts a meal-sharing system. In the face of unseen wild vegetables and fish fry, the patriarch responsible for meal-sharing is completely intimidating. The fish nuggets placed on the wide leaves are good. Anyway, the total number is not much. Just taste that matter, just like the wild fruit distribution, but how to divide the wild vegetable in the pot!? Use a bowl to distribute? There are very little pottery bowls in the clan!

There is no choice but to put a few pots together, who wants to eat wild vegetables will grab a handful.


This distribution method made Xiao Yun's eyes widen in shock, he forced the clan head who returned early to wash his hands, but his claws were black!


In order to encourage the young cub who found the wild vegetables, the patriarch took the lead in grabbing a handful of wild vegetables. [I don’t know how much mud and ash was brought into the pot]


"Well!"


Xiao Yun stares at the patriarch's dirty hands, and his expression changed immediately after grabbing and eating the vegetable. After eating a few handfuls of vegetables, He glanced at the "mature" AhYun with joy and he wasn't embarrassed to continue to grab it. He picked up the fried fish given to him and took a bite.


"Well~~~~~~"


The patriarch sighed with ecstasy, slowly chew the crispy skin of the fish. After all, the body of snow werewolves is not made of steel as they grow their body starts to malfunction and become weaker meaning their body will not be strong anymore with the patriarch continuously destroying his body. Thus, causing his past injuries to become more serious. The patriarch who is over 60 years old has difficulties in eating barbecue food. The fish is easy to eat and does not hurt the teeth.


After tasting the new food, the patriarch's expression is obviously different from usual when eating roasted wild boar meat, the blood was removed and cut into small pieces and then roasted more evenly than the whole wild boar. Xiao Yun asked his uncle AhShan for some strands of beast hair, washed them, and made a small brush out of them to brush the fish oil onto the wild boar. Although there are only salt and no other seasonings, the fishy smell is greatly reduced and there is fish oil. The delicious fragrance is very different from the roast meats they ate in the past.


Xiao Yun, who had no courage to eat the wild vegetables, quietly nibbled on the wild pork that was barely acceptable to him. Seeing that everyone, including Thrall, was not looking up, he showed a melancholy face like a big tail wolf. Sighed and thought [The dinner table guide is the first battle won! ]


 

T/N

1) ****: it was in the original text 2) Boning knife: A boning knife is a type of kitchen knife with a sharp point and a narrow blade. It is used in food preparation for removing the bones of poultry, meat, and fish. Generally 12 cm to 17 cm in length, it features a very narrow blade

3) [...] means inner thoughts

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