Chapter 20: A Whole Feast
“Are you planning to make a bone knife?” Luka asked, seeing the animal bones in Luo Zhen’s hand, as he scooped out a husk of water from the stone pot, and took a sip.
Luo Zhen looked at him in surprise, “You know what a bone knife is?”
Luka continued drinking water, “You don’t?”
Luo Zhen’s knowledge of this world was still limited to the small place of the Black Panther tribe. Luka came from the distant Golden Lion’s tribe so maybe there has been a civilization of its own that used more advanced tools. Luo Zhen was afraid that their lifestyle would be much better than the Black Panther tribe’s, and their weapons would be much stronger than the crudely made stone knives.
Luo Zhen felt that his mind had been too small- this world is so big so it was normal that there are better-developed tribes. Thinking about this, Luo Zhen was very enthusiastic about Luka’s attitude, “What else does your tribe have besides bone knives?”
Luka looked at the expressions of the other people. It was obvious that except for Luo Zhen and Lu Zhan, who knew how to hide his emotions, Jiao Zhu showed a confused expression at what the two were talking about. Obviously, the other party did not understand them as they were discussing bone knives.
Luka was lost in thought when his fingers rubbed the shriveled nutshell that was used to hold water unconsciously.
The Black Panther tribe was the first tribe he encountered after crossing Changfeng Mountain. Because he fell asleep after coming here, when he woke up, he immediately went hunting to repay his favor. Luka hadn’t had the time to understand the situation of the Black Panther tribe. In the tent where he was staying, there were almost no traces of man-made objects except for a few shabby animal skins. They still had to use nutshells to hold water for their guests.
This tribe is very primitive.
He has heard people say that the opposite of Changfeng Mountain is still an uncivilized and wild land, a place forgotten by the Beast Gods. Luka never took this matter to his heart so when he went over Changfeng Mountain, he never even thought he would meet a tribe here.
Will there be something I’m looking for here? Luka’s thoughts turned sharply, but his face was calm, and he smiled, “Our tribe is similar to yours, bone knives are used by women, but our warrior’s claws are much sharper than bone knives.”
“Then you can sharpen bone knives?” Luo Zhen was a little disappointed when he heard that, he thought that their Golden Lion tribe would have already developed daily necessities such as dishes, clothes, etc. It seems that even if they were a more developed civilization, Luo Zhen thought that they seemed to be no different from the Panther Tribe.
“Of course.” Luka nodded, his gaze swept across Luo Zhen’s half-polished bones. The method of making bone knives is not difficult, it can be called a bone knife as long as the bones are sharpened. Seeing that they have already made prototypes, Luka didn’t do much to conceal his knowledge, and even generously picked up another bone that Lu Zhan put aside and said, “If you don’t dislike it, I can help.”
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Luo Zhen’s eyes lit up when he heard the words, “In that case, let’s have a full cattle feast today, and you can call Hei Ya and A-Shui over, Jiao Zhu.”
“That’s fine, I’ll bring food.” Jiao Zhu nodded, stood up, followed Luo Zhen, and walked outside. Since eating Luo Zhen’s food last night, he also wanted to learn how to cook food with him in order to make it better so he didn’t refuse Luo Zhen’s suggestion.
The bison that Luka hunted back was very big, with big horns that curled up, and one of the horns was cut off, the cut was a bit new, as if it had been violently broken.
Without a handy tool, it was very difficult to deal with the whole bison. Jiao Zhu directly transformed into his beast form so that the meat and body could be easily dealt with using his claws and teeth. It is just that the scene is too bloody and violent, which makes Luo Zhen unable to look straight.
Because the bones and internal organs do not need to be thrown away, Luo Zhen was very happy. Jiao Zhu also moved the two remaining stone pots in his house and Luo Zhen directly filled one of the stone pots with water- making the bones and the meat boil in a big pot of bone soup.
Luka’s movements were very fast. He had already polished the bone knives when they finished dealing with the entire bison. Although the shape is a little different from Luo Zhen’s original plan, but fortunately it is still sharp and much better to use than stone knives. Luo Zhen took the bone knife and swung it around twice, feeling very satisfied.
“Is this the bone knife?” Hei Ya heard the other party talk about bone knives last night and was always a little curious. At this moment, he saw Luo Zhen demonstrate the effect of cutting meat and found that it is much more convenient than stone knives so he was a little envious.
Luo Zhen smiled and handed the bone knife to Heiya, “I have set aside a few bones suitable for making bone knives. You can make another one later.”
“Can I?”
“Of course, can you please help me cut these meats into thin slices?” It was now halfway through noon, and he only ate a few wild fruits for breakfast. He was already hungry by now.
In addition to the boiled bone soup, Luo Zhen also made a pot of cassava stew. Of course, the meat that the beasts often eat is grilled so in order to use the same kind of meat in different dishes, Luo Zhen planned to make pan-fried meat, unfortunately, he was lacking in spices so the taste would probably be compromised.
As for the internal organs and bones, these are things that the beastmen are not used to eating so Luo Zhen didn’t do much, after cleaning them, he got two wooden sticks and hung them up.
“Here you are.” After dismembering the bison, Jiao Zhu went back home, and when he came back, he held with him an animal skin wrapped around some things. The animal skin was used to wrap meat from other wild animals. Since today, their family of three is here to eat, they can’t do so for free so they exchange meats.
In addition to this animal skin package, Jiao Zhu also handed Luo Zhen another thing carefully wrapped in several layers of animal skins. Luo Zhen opened it and took a look. The contents inside were yellowish-white, a bit like a stone. They looked hard but were easily crumbled.
“What is this?” Luo Zhen flipped through it. He didn’t think that Jiao Zhu would give himself an ordinary stone.
“Stone salt.”
“Stone salt?” Luo Zhen was taken aback. He already knew from Lu Zhan the preciousness of stone salt to them, and the piece of Jiao Zhu that he took out was almost the size of a palm.
“Well, yesterday I saw that you used salted fruit to cook meat. If you eat too much salted fruit, your tongue will tingle. In addition, it is not the season for salted fruit to mature, so there are not many that can be found. There is not much stone salt, you should save this little bit and you should be able to use it until next year.”
“You are giving this to me? Do you still have stone salt?”
Jiao Zhu smiled, “Don’t worry, there are still some left at home.”
“Thank you.” Luo Zhen said gratefully.
Jiao Zhu didn’t care too much. After handing the things to Luo Zhen, he went to see how the meat was grilling.
Luo Zhen broke off a little bit of rock salt and put it in his mouth to taste it. It was very salty and astringent, he could taste a lot of impurities in it. If he refined it then he should be able to get good salt.
With the help of other people, their meal was done very quickly. Jiao Zhu learned very seriously and had been watching the meat carefully so nothing had been burned.
According to Lu Zhan’s appetite, he can eat half of the bison by himself, but Luo Zhen didn’t really cook the whole bison. He only cooked half of it but it seemed that the number was already very large.
In order to facilitate their cooking, the area of the fire pit has been expanded to more than twice. Luo Zhen returned to the tent to help Lu Zhan out, and the three people sitting by the fire pit were already drooling at the meat in the pot.
“Don’t wait for us, you can eat first.”
The others were not too polite so as soon as Luo Zhen’s voice fell, they started to eat.
Luo Zhen was really not used to using just his hands to eat food. These primitive people hadn’t learned to use chopsticks and spoons so to Luo Zhen’s surprise, Luka used a bone knife to cut a piece of meat for himself. One end is flat like a spoon, and the other end is thin and pointy, making it easy to fork meat.
It seems that the Golden Lion tribe is developing faster than the Black Panther tribe.
“This cassava tastes a bit meaty as if you are eating meat itself- how did you think of mixing them together?” Luka was more interested in the cassava that was cut into strips, and couldn’t wait to eat a piece. Even though the Golden Lion tribe has developed enough to be able to use certain tools, it is obviously as developed as the Black Panther tribe in terms of food.
“It tasted better this way, so I mixed it up and cooked it.”
Jiao Zhu and his family ate the fried cassava yesterday. The taste of the cassava with the stewed meat now is different from last night. Jiao Zhu silently wrote down these two methods and started to think, since cassava can be mixed with meat and cooked, can bird eggs and green pears be cooked with meat as well?
Jiao Zhu thought so and asked. Luo Zhen suddenly had black lines over his face. He could accept that bird eggs and meat could be cooked together. What the hell was with cooking green pears and meat together? He knew that 80% of green pears were water, and with the lack of seasoning, one could guess how bad the taste would turn out just by thinking about it.
However, Luo Zhen did not vehemently reject Jiao Zhu’s ideas. If he wants to slowly improve their eating style then he has to ask them to think more about cooking, as he is also not a professional chef. Many things here are his own improvisation so there are also big discrepancies, maybe if he lets Jiao Zhu experiment on his own then they could make some new dishes.
“You can try it next time, but at first you’d better not cook too much. If it tastes bad, not much would be wasted.” Luo Zhen said so and reminded him that he might fail.
“Yeah.” Jiao Zhu wrote them down one by one.
“Can I teach people in the tribe to cook like this?” Hei Ya interjected next to him.
Luo Zhen nodded, “Yes, this method is not difficult to learn. If you have any questions, you can always ask me.”
Jiao Zhu and Hei Ya looked at each other, and they were very happy, in the future they won’t have to always eat grilled meat or boiled meat in plain water.
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