Chapter 8 – I’m Also A Foreigner
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In addition to the food that the tribe regularly provides to ordinary people, Lu Zhan does not intend to be responsible for Luo Zhen’s food needs if he wants to fill his stomach, whether it is picking or hunting, Luo Zhen needs to do it himself, but Lu Zhan still introduced Luo Zhen to several places suitable for ordinary people to pick wild fruits. But these places are outside the tribe, and they need the picking day organized by the tribe to go together, if they go alone, it is difficult to say whether they can come back all the time.
Once again, during the period of cooperation between the two, Luo Zhen could not have any opinions on Lu Zhan’s behavior, after all, in front of outsiders, he was still a delicate half-beastman, it might be reasonable that he might change because he had an additional “partner”, but he also didn’t want to change his lifestyle for the time being.
After the two happily agreed, Luo Zhen felt very satisfied, and the following days were intended for him to slowly find out the situation in this world and see if there was a way to let himself go back.
The roasted meat emitted a tempting aroma, and Luo Zhen had never eaten cooked food since coming to this world, so he almost drooled at this time.
Seeing this, Lu Zhan also stopped talking, took out a wild fruit he especially left over from his arms and threw it to Luo Zhen, and then picked up a stone knife to cut off the top piece of roasted meat and handed it to the other party, while he directly took the piece of meat that was still blood-red and had not been thoroughly roasted and ate it directly.
Just simply roasted on fire, the lamb-like meat without any seasoning still has a sheep-like smell, but this is already a rare delicacy for Luo Zhen, tearing off a large piece of meat, and chewing twice, he couldn’t help but swallow it, leaving a mouth full of meat aroma.
“Don’t you have salt here?” Lu Zhan didn’t give him too much barbecue, but it was enough for Luo Zhen to become half-full.
Although Luo Zhen ate urgently, he was reluctant to eat all the barbecue at once, he could only chew slowly in small bites, and while doing so, he inquired about the situation in the Black Panther tribe, after all, if there is no accident, he will stay in this tribe for a long time. Luo Zhen does not want to live like a wild man who drinks blood like a few days ago, since he has a safe environment, he naturally has to change his quality of life.
“Salt?” Lu Zhan tilted his head slightly as he held the leg of lamb meat to look at him.
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“It’s a white stone with a salty taste.” Luo Zhen was afraid that the other party would not understand, and explained.
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“You want stone salt?”
“Do you have ways to get some?” Luo Zhen’s eyes showed his surprise- before when he saw that Lu Zhan was directly drinking the blood of the beast, and that blood was enough to replenish the salt in their bodies- he thought that these primitive people would choose to drink blood directly because they did not find salt.
Lu Zhan nodded, “In the next spring, the tribe will send people to exchange for some stone salt, even if there is still stone salt in the tribe, there should not be much, if you need stone salt, I am afraid it will take a lot of food to exchange for some.”
Luo Zhen was a little disappointed, he now even needed to rely on others to fill his stomach, where could he get a lot of food to exchange for precious stone salt, he could only suppress this matter first and silently remember it in his heart.
There was little entertainment in the primitive society, after eating the roast meat and fruits that were barely considered dinner, it was dark, and after there was no sunlight, the tent suddenly became dark, Lu Zhan threw a few animal skins to Luo Zhen, and he climbed back to the only stone bed and slept.
Luo Zhen naturally would not grab the only stone bed from the other party, so he casually prepared a place to sleep with animal skins next to the stone bed.
Although there is no tool that can measure the time, it is only about seven o’clock at most when darkness falls, and even if Lu Zhan did sleep this early a few days ago, Luo Zhen will hold on for a while and stay awake, so Luo Zhen did not feel sleepy after getting the place prepared at this time.
Luo Zhen observed more clearly, that this truly was a simple set-up- Lu Zhan only cleaned up the insects on the ground and the weeds in the corner of the tent, but in the wilderness, in addition to those insects crawling on the ground, there are many mosquitoes that can fly. Luo Zhen’s whole body was originally only covered by an animal skin skirt. With only a moment of effort, his body was bitten by mosquitoes several times, and several red and itchy bumps appeared.
He doesn’t know how Lu Zhan can sleep so peacefully in such an environment. After driving the mosquitos away several times and finding that it was useless, Luo Zhen was no longer afraid of heat, and directly wrapped a piece of animal skin on his body, and later found that there would be fewer mosquitoes when staying by the fire, Luo Zhen simply moved the animal skin cover to the edge of the fire, which meant that he could now sleep a little.
Most of the fire pits of the Panther tribe are built outside the tent, in order to save firewood, after roasting the meat, the people in the tribe will turn off the fire early and go back to sleep, so for a while in this vast plain, only this part is still lit up by a little orange-red fire, accompanied by the undulating sound of insects around, until the sky was dark as it slowly extinguished.
Lu Zhan woke up very early, and as soon as he went out, he saw the man who was curled up by the fire and fell asleep there, perhaps it was because of the hot weather but the animal skins originally worn on the body had long been scattered aside, and large and small red dots could be seen on the exposed skin, which was particularly conspicuous on the fine skin and tender flesh.
There were even two mosquitoes greedily lying on Luo Zhen’s arm and sucking his delicious blood, even if they knew that someone was approaching, they had no intention of leaving.
Lu Zhan frowned and stretched out his hand to pinch the two greedy mosquitoes to death one by one, the mosquito’s stomach was swollen, and after pinching, two drops of bright red blood slipped down Lu Zhan’s thumb- one can imagine how much of that person’s blood was sucked by just these two small things.
Throwing the mosquito’s corpse aside, Lu Zhan looked at the blood on his fingers for a while, suddenly leaned over and sniffed with his nose, and then stretched out the tip of his tongue to lick it, the sweet taste was very different from the usual taste when drinking of beast blood, no wonder those little things like it.
He sighed and gathered the animal skin clothes on his body, he did not wake Luo Zhen up and walked directly around the other party to the forest behind him.
Until the sunlight penetrated the branches and leaves of the cedar tree and fell on his body, only then did Luo Zhen wake up. He slept for a long time, and his body was a little sore, plus he was tossed around by various mosquitoes last night, and many of the red bumps that were bitten on his body were also disturbing him- it was simply a miserable way to sleep.
Luo Zhen gritted his teeth and decided that he must find some weeds that could repel mosquitoes today, otherwise, he wouldn’t get a good night’s sleep.
He got up and moved his stiff body, looked into the tent, and found that Lu Zhan was not there, because the two had discussed their terms yesterday, Luo Zhen didn’t care too much, just touched his somewhat shriveled stomach, and couldn’t help but sigh when he remembered that he would have to find a way to fill his stomach from today onwards.
He arranged the animal skins and piled them aside, Lu Zhan has too few tools, and he does not even have tools for gathering water. Lu Zhan told him that there was a big river outside the tribe, usually people in the tribe had to go to that big river to get water. However the big river is a little far from the tribe, and occasionally there will be large beasts drinking water nearby, the general work of taking water is handed over to the warriors too, Luo Zhen can only postpone the matter of taking water first as he plans to wait for Lu Zhan to come back and let the other party take him there.
The outside of the tent is full of knee-length meadows, and since he had eaten barbecue last night, and even if he was hungry at this time, he could still endure only having a small meal.
After cleaning up all the inside of the tent, all the hides were taken out and spread on the weeds to dry, and just after they were ready, he saw a tall man leading a small child towards him, and the man was still holding a small bag of things wrapped in animal skins.
Luo Zhen simply wiped the mud on his hands on the animal skin and stood up.
“My name is Jiao Zhu, and I live in that tent.” Jiao Zhu handed the things in his hand to Luo Zhen and then pointed to a tent not far from them and introduced himself, but his eyes kept looking at Luo Zhen, and when he saw the red marks on the other party’s body, he narrowed his eyes in understanding.
“Hello.” Luo Zhen was a little restrained, and did not rush to open the bag after taking it, “My name is Luo Zhen.”
Jiao Zhu nodded, “I know you, you are the foreigner who became A-Zhan’s partner yesterday.” Jiao Zhu did not go to the square yesterday, and later Lu Zhan mentioned him when they exchanged wild fruits but this was the first time he met this foreigner.
“I’m also a foreigner.” Jiao Zhu explained, “The Black Panther Tribe is very good, and A-Zhan is also very good, you can stay here with peace of mind.”
Jiao Zhu didn’t say much, after saying that, he nodded to Luo Zhen and planned to leave, the child he brought with him kept biting his fingers and looked at him curiously, Luo Zhen recognized this child- when he first came here yesterday, Lu Zhan gave this child a wild fruit, but yesterday this child was dirty and he didn’t see him all night. He was a lot cleaner now, he was obviously cleaned by someone.
“If you need help, come to me, I will stay in the tribe until the next hunt.” Jiao Zhu told him, before leaving, turned back to explain.
Luo Zhen thanked the other party gratefully, and after seeing this big one and small one leave, Luo Zhen opened the thing sent by Jiao Zhu, and inside was a piece of fresh meat, much smaller than the lamb meat that Lu Zhan exchanged for yesterday, but just based on Luo Zhen’s food consumption, this piece of meat was enough for his food for two days.
Just remembering Lu Zhan’s food consumption that can eat a whole deer in one meal, he was afraid that this piece of meat in his hand was not enough for Lu Zhan to even stuff his teeth.
However, with this extra food, Luo Zhen was still very happy, and he quickly walked to the fire pit, intending to roast the meat to fill his stomach first.
Hm hm, did Jiao Zhu misunderstand about the marks on Luo Zhen’s body??
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