Chapter 36- You Won’t Miss It In The Future
This is a relatively flat basin, surrounded by layers of mountains. If they had not been guided by Lu Zhan then it would have been impossible to go deep into such a place and discover the existence of this basin.
There is a river flowing around the foot of the mountain. It is a tributary of the Heihe River and many herbivorous animals are grazing leisurely on the wasteland. It was probably because they rarely see traces of human beings that at this moment, when they saw a group that suddenly appeared of human beings, they only looked up, and then wandered to another place with luxuriant weeds to continue foraging.
The timid rabbit was afraid of all large creatures and hid early. A small group of staghorn horses drinking water by the river raised their heads and quickly ran back to the mountains and forests.
There are natural mountain barriers, sufficient water sources, and groups of various fat-bodied animals. There are even many plants and trees on the wasteland with ripe wild fruits, even if it is not clear whether there are hidden dangers under these appearances, at least everyone who came here and saw the scene in front of them had only one thought in their minds.
This is indeed a very suitable place for them to live in. This winter, even if they are unable to organize the warriors to go out hunting, the prey in the basin alone will prevent them from going hungry.
Everyone’s tired faces were full of smiles, and they cleared out a place for rest in a relatively flat place by the river.
“Are we going to set up a tent here?” A-Xue was impatient and couldn’t help asking even when she just settled down.
Hei Fu shook his head in a good mood, “We have to patrol this place first to make sure that there are no dangerous beasts before we decide to set up a tent.”
“No.” Lu Zhan said after hearing this, “There are no large beasts here, this place is the territory of staghorn horses.”
“Staghorn horses?” Luo Zhen was a little curious in his heart when he heard the name of this animal for the first time, and even thought of whether this animal could be tamed as a mount like a wild horse.
Lu Zhan pointed to the tall figure not far away. Luo Zhen looked in the direction pointed by him. A tall male staghorn horse was standing there but because the distance was a bit far away, Luo Zhen could only see a vague outline. He felt that it was a very beautiful deer and the big pair of antlers with many prongs seemed to be glowing against the setting sun.
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The staghorn horse seemed to know that these people were looking at him, raised his head and made a loud “neigh” sound, then turned and left.
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“The rest of our food has been roasted. There is not so much fat to be fried into oil.”
“It’s okay. There are so many animals here. I can go hunting and come back now.” Lu Zhan is familiar with this place. He would come here to have a big meal in the winter when there was not enough food. Naturally, he knew what animals were fatty, and he was clear on what animal has only a handful of fur and bones.
In the past few days, Luo Zhen was so tired that he didn’t have the energy to make food. Every time he ate, it was cooked by others. He was used to eating Luo Zhen’s cooking so Lu Zhan only felt that other people’s barbecue was hard to swallow. It’s better to eat raw food for him at that point, now when he thinks of Luo Zhen’s craftsmanship, Lu Zhan can’t help but drool.
“I’ll go hunting with you.” Hei Fu handed the child in his arms to his partner, stood up, and said to Lu Zhan.
Lu Zhan glanced at him and nodded.
The two immediately left and Luo Zhen could only build a simple earthen stove with others, set up a fire, and wait for the hunters to return.
Even if Lu Zhan said that there was no danger here, the warriors did not dare to slacken in the slightest. They still sent a few people to maintain a beast-like defense nearby, and their beasts could frighten off ordinary carnivorous beasts.
Luo Zhen boiled two pots of bone soup with beef bones from last night. Luo Zhen likes to throw two dried plantains in because there are no seasonings. However, most people don’t like the taste of plantains, except for wild fruits. Besides, they don’t eat other plants.
On the contrary, A-Xue and a few other women would like these wild vegetables, and a few of them ate the remaining wild vegetables.
Soon Lu Zhan and Hei Fu came back with two fat goats and Luo Zhen finally saw goats here for the first time. The animals they hunted back were either strangely shaped or all kinds of cows, deer, pigs, etc., which are more or less not the same as what he had in his memory. The animals mostly looked different from what he had in his world but Luo Zhen was surprised to see that the goats here nearly looked the same.
Lu Zhan is now obsessed with fried foods and is not interested in the barbecue and boiled meat they have been eating. Luo Zhen can only cut the meat thinly to suit his taste and fry it on a stone slab, brushing it with a little salt water before it can be eaten. This method can also be learned by other people, but there is no need to squeeze together, all waiting for Luo Zhen to do it.
They rested by the river for a night, and Hei Fu set out with four warriors early the next morning. The long-term experience of survival in the wild made him not feel at ease if he didn’t patrol the basin thoroughly.
Lu Zhan didn’t stop him, nor did he go with him. Instead, he picked some wild fruits nearby to make breakfast for Luo Zhen. Normally, he only needs to have a full meal a day, so he doesn’t need to rush out to hunt prey.
“A-Zhan, is that an arrowhead plant?” Luo Zhen squatted by the river after wetting the animal skins to wash. This is a shoal. Some river water flowed in and formed a small puddle. The puddle was full of all kinds of water. Luo Zhen didn’t know most of the various water plants, but one of them had leaves that were very different from the others, like a green arrow, even if they were mixed among the dense aquatic plants, they were very conspicuous.
Lu Zhan shook the cleaned wild fruit and threw it into his mouth. A sour and astringent smell made him frown. He looked at the red berry the size of a thumb and picked another one and put it in his mouth. It was sweet. Lu Zhan satisfactorily picked out the darker red berries and packed them with a leaf that he picked at hand.
“Arrowhead?” Lu Zhan had never heard of this name. He was not familiar with all the plants. He only recognized the prey that could run on the ground with four feet.
“Yeah.” Luo Zhen looked at the distance from him to the plant that was suspiciously like an arrowhead plant. The soil in this puddle was soaked for many years so it was very sticky. Luo Zhen no longer recklessly did things, he couldn’t be careless just because he could not see the danger. He found a wooden stick and inserted it into the puddle. The wooden stick did not go in for the most part. It seemed that the puddle was only about half a meter deep.
“Let me come.” Lu Zhan pulled back the person who wanted to walk into the puddle, reached out his hand to the arrowhead plant that Luo Zhen mentioned, and asked with confirmation, “Is it that thing?”
Luo Zhen didn’t insist. He stepped back to the edge of the puddle and nodded. It was obvious that there was a puddle more than half a meter deep. Lu Zhan walked in but it didn’t reach his calf. He easily pulled out the arrowhead plant.
“It’s really an arrowhead plant.” Luo Zhen cleaned the silt from the roots of the arrowhead plant. It was probably because of the mixed growth of weeds and insufficient nutrition that these plants were not big, but the appearance was the same as in his memory.
When Lu Zhan saw that the other party looked like he liked it, he walked to the depths of the water puddle and brought back several arrowhead plants, all of which were picked and put into a small bag.
Luo Zhen was very cautious. Even though it was exactly the same as what he had known in his memory, he still cut a bit to give the two cuckoos a taste after returning. The two cuckoos were omnivorous, even if they had never eaten them, they ate the food that he had given them and were even unsuspectingly happy. After eating these two little things, there were no adverse reactions, and they were still so alive. Luo Zhen then happily used the newly picked arrowhead plant to make a big pot of stew.
Because the stewing time is long enough, the arrowhead is full of meaty flavor, and eaten with the meat, it can get rid of the greasy taste of stewed meat, even warriors who only like meat, like this new food.
If it weren’t for them remembering that this basin was still a strange place to them, they would be tempted to look around for this kind of plant called arrowhead.
“I’ve seen this kind of plant before near Heihe, but I didn’t expect this kind of plant to be edible.” The veteran developed a bad tooth when he got older. Usually, the roasted meat has to be burned for a long time and even then, he can’t eat much, but after the boiled meat is boiled for a long time, all the meat tastes are lost. It is very unpalatable. The veteran can only eat a little bit of ripe wild fruit and has long forgotten the taste of the food he once ate.
Unexpectedly, he thought that he was just staying because he didn’t want to be a burden to the tribe. The decision to wait silently for death could actually make him taste the meat again. The stew was so badly stewed but that arrowhead plant was soft, even for people without teeth, they can eat too, the veteran took a bite, and his eyes could not help but be filled with tears.
People like them live in this world, aren’t they just hoping for such a bite?
Luo Zhen filled the veteran with a bowl of arrowhead stew. He was always a little bit soft with the old man. “Now that you know that this plant is edible then you won’t miss it in the future.”
“That’s true.” The old warrior wiped the corners of his eyes, grinned with a few sparse teeth, and smiled at Luo Zhen.
“I think the biggest surprise after I stayed is to meet you.” A-Xue ate with her mouth full of oil, she wiped her mouth the back of her hand without caring for her image, and said enviously, “Lu Zhan is so lucky, why didn’t I pick up one like you? How could he find someone who could make so many delicious things?! Obviously, we are both half-beastmen!”
Lu Zhan threw an eaten bone on A-Xue’s head, and A-Xue wailed, under Lu Zhan’s fierce gaze, he held his wooden bowl aggrievedly and sat a little further away.
The people with Hei Fu came back after noon. The area of this basin is actually not large, but they checked carefully, even the foot of the surrounding mountains, so it took such a long time.
The results obtained are naturally similar to what Lu Zhan said, there are no ferocious large predatory beasts here.
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