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Chapter 12 Stone Cooking
Everyone in the cave waited anxiously.

The young and strong who went out to hunt and gather have already returned. They harvested slightly less food than yesterday, and all hope of falling is pinned on the fishing team.

But they never returned.

"Mom, we're back!"

Hearing this cry, everyone ran out of the cave to greet them, eager to know how the harvest was today.

A beam of fire came from the dark forest.

Grandma counted the heads against the knots in her hand, and the children who went out during the day came back one by one, and brought back two bamboo cages of fish and shrimp.

The crowd rejoiced, and in this day and age there is nothing more invigorating than ample food.

Only Grandma was not very happy, and said with a stern face: "I have to tell you once a day, you must come back before dark, Tian and Xiao are fine, why are you so ignorant?"

Hutou said happily: "Grandma, we are hunting bears!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked.

Hutou was very satisfied with everyone's reaction, so he told everyone about his plan of trapping and hunting bears.

"That bear must go fishing by the river a lot. Tomorrow we'll set the bait, and sooner or later he'll fall in!"

Everyone was frightened by this bold plan. In all the stories, Xiong was portrayed as a forest overlord who could crush rocks with his bare hands, even more ferocious than tigers. Those tribes who provoked Xiong paid a heavy price without exception.

Can that thing called a trap really kill a bear?What if it escapes?Will it bring disaster to the tribe?

Grandma said worriedly: "When I was young, I heard from adults that bears are very dangerous beasts. They don't take the initiative to attack people, but if they are attacked, they will definitely retaliate wildly. If possible, Better not to provoke the bear."

Owl said: "But the bear has occupied the waters where we fish, and we have to kill it for food."

He felt aggrieved when he thought that all the fish he had worked so hard to catch had been paid off to the bear.

In order to be able to fish with peace of mind in the future, I will kill the bear no matter what!

Knowing that bear hunting is for food, Grandma no longer objected. Compared with the survival of the tribe, this risk is nothing.

Seeing that the people in the tribe were worried, Zhang Tian said: "Yesterday we prayed to the sky, hoping to harvest more food today, and we caught more fish! Hunting bears is the guide of the sky, and our ancestors will not harm us. It will do us no harm to believe that."

Hutou, Xiao, Lanhua and others agreed one after another. Hutou took out the machete and showed it to the people, saying that it was a gift from the sky. He saw it fall from the sky with his own eyes. A tree as thick as a thigh was chopped down in a few strokes!

After he finished speaking, he took the bamboo to demonstrate for himself, easily split the bamboo into small sections with a machete, then quickly sharpened the bamboo, aimed at the fish, and with a puff, instantly stabbed the fish like a leaf. wear.

Everyone gasped, just cutting the bamboo, the bone knife can do it with a few more cuts, but it is very difficult to cut the bamboo so sharply with the bone knife!

Hutou said firmly: "There are sixteen bamboos like this in that trap, any beast that falls into it, can't come out alive!"

[Faith value: 27]

Hutou's words and the powerful effect of the machete convinced the 23 people. They worshiped the sky sincerely and hoped that they could also get a knife that cuts bamboo like mud.

The so-called "three people become a tiger", Zhang Tian's words were worn out last night, but few people took it seriously. Today, with the help of Hutou and others, a few words won him a vote of believers.

With a faith value exceeding double digits, he unlocked the first divine spell.

[Entering the dream: Consume 10 points of faith to enter the believer's dream to convey the oracle. 】

The original intention of this skill was to realize the interaction between the player and the game character, so as to guide the development of the tribe remotely. Now that he is here, it seems that it is not very useful.

The fish in the bamboo cage was poured out and disemboweled, and the cave was full of fishy smell. Zhang Tian couldn't bear it a little bit, and ran outside the cave to catch his breath, but for others, it was a taste of happiness, and the clansmen talked and laughed happily , as sweet as sugar.

Tiger Claw borrowed a machete, he had been using a bone knife to peel the skin and remove the flesh before, but now the shotgun was changed to a cannon, and with a light stab at the tip of the knife, a small opening was made. He easily tore the rabbit skin from the flesh, followed by two aggressive The knife cut off the legs and the head effortlessly.

Tiger Claw was completely conquered by the sharpness of the machete, and kicked the bone knife aside in disgust, unwilling to use it again.

The tribe did not develop pottery, so it is rare to heat food by boiling, and "rarely" means that it is able to do it but not often.

In the past two days, Zhang Tian has seen two methods of using wood as cooking utensils for heating.

The first method is to use bamboo. Bamboo has a hollow structure. After being cut open, it is a natural vessel. It has a thick skin and is not easy to ignite and burn. People of the tribe often use thick bamboo to boil small things such as animal internal organs and plant roots. .

This is in line with the bamboo tube rice of later generations.

However, limited by the caliber of bamboo, there are not many things that can be cooked at one time, so the tribe people often use the second method: stone cooking.

Tonight is the day of stone cooking. If you are tired of eating barbecue, primitive people will occasionally change their tastes. The gene for foodies was born the day people mastered fire.

"God! Come help!"

"coming!"

There are several large tree stumps in the hole that need to be hugged by two people. The flesh in the tree stumps has been hollowed out, leaving only a cylindrical shell.

Zhang Tian and Xiao carried the tree tube to the bonfire, poured the water in the water bag into the tree stump, then poured in fish, shrimp, bamboo rat, hare and bird, and threw in red-hot stones, and the water immediately boiled.

Take out the heated stones and put in new hot stones to keep the water boiling until the meat is cooked, then add winter bamboo shoots and plant roots, boil them and eat them.

The cooking method is a bit like a shabu-shabu, but the eating method is quite brutal. Use a bamboo basket to scoop it into the water, fish out the food in the tree tube, and then divide it and eat it.

Everyone sat around the tree barrel, eating the hot food silently under the hot water vapor.

There is almost no conversation during meals, the food is hard to come by, and there is only one regular meal a day, and everyone eats very seriously.

There is one thing to say, the food cooked in this way, the flavors of meat and vegetables blend with each other, and it is more fragrant than roasted food.

If there is enough salt, it will be even better with some chilli, sesame oil and green onion, ginger and garlic.

Just thinking about it makes my mouth water.

I want to eat hot pot.

Zhang Tian slowly chewed the fish meat and unnamed wild vegetables. It was obviously just a soul piercing, but he felt that his mouth was bland and tasteless. He mourned the pleasure of the pepper blooming on his tongue. It seemed that the spicy and delicious fragrance had been engraved into his soul.

The remaining fish is enough to eat tomorrow. It is cold now, so there is no need to deal with it. It will not go bad if it is left like this for a day.

For the sake of safety, Zhang Tian will not go fishing in that backwater bay until the brown bear is "caught". He plans to go downstream tomorrow to see if there are any waters suitable for fishing.

(End of this chapter)