Chapter 38 – Half For Each of Us
After all, the stone pot boils water slowly, and it took a long time before the hot water filled the large wooden stump.
Jiao Zhu’s back had no other wounds except for the part where his skin had been torn apart when they tried to separate them at first. At this time, he was still in good spirits, and he still had the energy to comfort his worried partner and children.
The water in the stump cools very quickly, and after only half an hour of soaking, the water inside has changed from being hot to a lukewarm level.
Luo Zhen has been paying attention to the changes in the mud. After soaking in hot water, although it had become softer, he was still a bit reluctant to completely tear off the animal skin from Jiao Zhu’s back.
“Perhaps regardless of it, it will automatically fall off after a long time.” Looking at Luo Zhen’s expression, Jiao Zhu knew that being soaked in hot water was not ideal. At least for the time being, there was no way to remove the stuck beast with hot water alone.
“What are you talking about? What if it keeps sticking and won’t fall off? Do you plan to make this your second skin?” Hei Ya disagreed. Fur is a very important thing for warriors who can transform into beasts. It not only keeps the body warm in winter but also has a strong defense when fighting. Warriors who lack fur will lose more than half their strength.
Luo Zhen pursed his lips. He thought for a while, “Shall we try heating the water directly?”
“How will we heat it directly?”
“Dig an earthen stove or something.” Luo Zhen made a gesture and explained to everyone, “Put a stone slab on it to isolate the flame, then put the big wooden stump on the stone slab, and then light the fire under the earthen stove so that the water inside the stake will not get cold so quickly.”
“Are you going to boil the Jiao Zhu?” The little warrior A-Qing exclaimed.
Luo Zhen glanced at him and shook his head, “No, we can control the fire in the earthen stove. If the water temperature is too high, just remove some of the wood inside.”
A-Qing flushed when he heard the words, touched his nose, and silently reflected on his actions.
With the help of the warriors, the work of setting up the earthen stove was quickly completed, and water that had just been boiled in a stone pot was added to the wooden barrel, and it started to ignite in the earthen stove.
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With the blessing of the flames, the water in the big wooden stakes did not get cold anymore this time, and the hard mud became softer and softer in the hot water.
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“Let’s eat something first, thank you for all your hard work.”
Luo Zhen looked at the piece of golden yellow that he handed to his mouth. Only then did he finally see the original appearance of the flame ant larva.
It was a beautiful spar-like cocoon, semi-transparent, and it could be seen that there was a caterpillar-like thing much larger than a normal ant in it.
“I think it’s enough to eat a few wild fruits.” Luo Zhen, whose head was a little hurting because of being awake the whole night, rubbed his eyebrows with a headache and refused the food that Lu Zhan handed over.
This time Lu Zhan didn’t say a word and tried to stuff it in his mouth to comfort him, but even though Luo Zhen was used to most of the food in this world, he didn’t want to force himself to eat those strange things when his stomach didn’t give a strong suggestion.
Thinking of the feeling when the flame ant larva crossed the esophagus last time, and the burning of the fire, even if it was sweet enough to throw up, it couldn’t hide the taste, Luo Zhen had rejected such a thing inside out.
Even if this thing looks beautiful on the outside, the unpalatable thing cannot be changed.
“Why don’t you eat it? It can replenish your energy.” Lu Zhan didn’t understand why Luo Zhen refused. The larvae of flame ants are not so easy to get as the group of flame ants protects it very well. If so, the queen would rather eat the larvae herself than leave the enemy a little chance.
What’s more, what he holds in his hand is the larvae of the next queen ant. It will take over the position of the queen to lead the entire ant family. He had never seen so many despite being this old, this time he was lucky. There was a group of them in the place where the flood happened.
If it weren’t for the fact that Luo Zhen’s body was so bad that he looked like he was dying after a few days, and now that he stayed up all night he had lost his energy. Otherwise, Lu Zhan really wasn’t willing to feed Luo Zhen the royal larva of the flame ant.
Unexpectedly, the other party would even dislike this good thing, and Lu Zhan handed the larva closer again in dissatisfaction.
Luo Zhen looked at the larva with a tangled face, and then at Lu Zhan, who was reluctant to give up and couldn’t eat. Although the taste of this thing is a bit disagreeable, it is undeniable that it can really supplement his energy, a few days ago, he relied on the flame ant larva that was stuffed into his mouth to get to the destination.
“How about we take half each?” Knowing that Lu Zhan was doing it for his own good, Luo Zhen couldn’t help struggling for a while.
Lu Zhan was unmoved, just staring at him steadfastly.
Luo Zhen swallowed his saliva, knowing that he couldn’t hide it, so he could only close his eyes, open his mouth, and swallow the larvae as soon as he opened his mouth. The familiar taste made his entire facial features wrinkle together.
Luo Zhen’s soft tongue accidentally touched Lu Zhan’s fingertips, as if a small flame was burning on that piece of skin, he coughed and retracted his hand and saw Luo Zhen’s expression on the corners of his mouth. “Is it that unpalatable?”
“Next time you can try it by yourself.” No matter how good this thing was, Luo Zhen, who had just eaten something so sweet that he couldn’t feel his tongue, gave Lu Zhan a bitter look.
Lu Zhan curled his lips and took out the red berries he had prepared. “It’s troublesome. This is your breakfast. Eat it quickly. Go to bed after you finish it. I’m still waiting for you to make lunch.”
After eating enough and sleeping, Luo Zhen finally had the energy to play around with his house.
This time he took advantage of the fact that he wanted to build a house to discuss with other people while everyone gathered for dinner in the evening. Everyone was pleasantly surprised when they heard this idea. If it can be built, they should live much better.
“Hei Fu, what do you think?” Luo Zhen saw Hei Fu staring thoughtfully at the wooden plank with the design drawing in a daze, so he could only ask the other party for his opinion on whether his house could be built. They also needed the help of these powerful fighters.
“This house.” Hei Fu seemed to be thinking about something, and said uncertainly, “I seem to have seen it before in the Liger Tribe.”
“You’ve seen it before?” Luo Zhen looked at Hei Fu in surprise. He thought that this world was still in the most primitive era, and there weren’t even many edible plants found. Could it be that different tribes had already produced a lot of Is the difference?
Not only Luo Zhen, but everyone else had unbelievable expressions at Hei Fu’s words. Even the old warrior who had migrated here from the other side of Changfeng Mountain with the tribe, it was the first time he had heard people at such an age mention this so-called house.
Hei Fu lowered his head and thought for a while, and finally nodded affirmatively, “Yes, you all know that the Liger tribe does not allow foreigners to enter their territory, and every transaction will be carried out in a selected place. But the first two times I went there, when the Liger tribe was exchanging stone salt, a naughty little warrior wanted to climb up to see the situation inside the Liger tribe. After all, the Liger tribe could bring out so much stone salt every time. Is it all made of rock salt?”
“I was worried about the safety of that little warrior, so I followed him. Of course, we didn’t see a tent made of stone and salt, but we saw something built of stone and wood, which looked a bit like an animal skin tent, but it was much larger than an animal skin tent. I didn’t pay attention to it at the time. I just thought it was piled-up materials. After all, there are still many animal skin tents in the Liger tribe.”
Hei Fu clicked on the wooden board with the picture on it, “But now that I heard you say that, I think the stones and wood piled together should be the houses of the Liger tribe.”
“They lived in the house so early.” Someone sighed enviously.
But regardless of whether the Liger tribe has the technology to build houses, the Liger tribe is separated from here by Changfeng Mountain and two large plains. Even if they want to consult the Liger tribe, it is impossible.
What’s more, the people of the Liger tribe have exchanged with them for so many years, and they were not allowed to enter the tribe every time. It is conceivable that they didn’t want the house matter to be known by other tribes.
The attention of everyone fell back to Luo Zhen’s body, and now among them, only Luo Zhen knew what the house looked like.
“Do you remember the silt that Jiao Zhu picked up the prey before? I want to try to see if the mud there can be used as an adhesive for building a house.” They had all seen that it took a lot of effort to unstick Jiao Zhu with the mud, and after seeing the adhesion of the silt, he felt that this method was feasible.
“Tomorrow, I’ll get some back and show it to you.” Hei Fu said.
Luo Zhen shook his head, “I’ll go with you, I want to see what that muddy tan looks like.”
“Okay.” Hei Fu agreed.
“Then I will go too.” Lu Zhan, who had been eating the green bitter berries beside him, said lazily when he heard the words.
In the past few days of contact, Hei Fu has long acknowledged Lu Zhan’s strength. If the other party wants to go together, he will naturally not stop him. What’s more, Luo Zhen is still Lu Zhan’s partner now that he is by his side. Warriors are less willing to give their mates to other warriors for protection.
Luo Zhen wants to build the house. Naturally, he can’t just wait for to work out the mud usage. There is still a lot of preliminary work to build the house, such as cleaning the surrounding weeds, digging the foundation, cutting down trees, and the like to build the house.
The tools they use are still limited to bone knives. Naturally, they are far from enough. To create new tools, they must do it as soon as possible.
After such a discussion, I found that there are a lot of things to do. Even the child, A-Shui has been assigned tasks to help take care of younger children, feed the cuckoo birds, and help pull up the surrounding weeds in free time. Basically, no one can be idle.
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