89. Visitors of the Wasteland
When the young nobles of the North Shore gathered to eat cold wheat cakes, they didn't even light a campfire. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info It's hard to find even some low bushes in the wasteland near the north shore here, and you can't sustain a bonfire by relying on dry alfalfa leaves, but it seems that some people really can't stand the dry bread, and go into the grass to pick up dead grass stalks, it should be to make some preparations for dinner, after all, you have to eat at least a hot meal before nightfall, and the early spring night in the wasteland is still very cold.
Kuzi did have a way to get oil, so he hunted back an adult male boar of more than three hundred pounds, and tied a hemp rope to the pig's leg and savagely returned it to the camp, I found that the male boar had only two arrow wounds on his body, one arrow hit the right eye socket and made the wild boar lose his right vision, and the latter arrow was inserted directly into the heart from the part between the two front legs on the lower side of the neck.
We set up a cauldron on the bank of the river, and there was a fire gathering magic scroll below to boil the water in the pot, and I shaved off the thick fat under the skin of the boar's flesh with some helplessness, and threw the two plates of oil in the abdominal cavity into the pot, and waited for the hot water to be boiled dry, and the fat in the fat would slowly be revealed. That's what Kutz gave me, and he would rather walk five or six kilometers to hunt a male boar in order to eat fried rabbit legs, and the purpose was only to get the fat from his body.
Qige happily ran back from the meadow and told me that there were too many hemostatic herbs in the meadow to count, and that she could even find some kudzu and tranquility grasses, and she held a kudzu root that had just been dug out of the soil in her hand, and kept shaking it in front of me, and said to me proudly, "Look! Jia, this is the first time I've dug up such a big kudzu, the ones grown in our academy's medicine garden are not even as thick as a finger, when I first saw this kudzu, I thought it was very inconspicuous, it looked dry, I really didn't expect it, I didn't expect it! There would be such a big one, maybe I could use it to make a bottle of primary strength potion when I was in the Potions Master's graduation exam. ”
Kudzu, a primary magic herb of earth type, can be formulated into potions to make earth-type magic potions. The beast herb parchment scroll that old Kuru showed me clearly recorded the function of kudzu, and the scroll even introduced that the power magic potion refined by the growth period of more than 100 years can permanently increase the strength attribute after processing, and the primary strength potion that Qige said is not an eternal power magic potion, but a temporary power-enhancing potion, but even so, the primary attribute potion is also expensive in the market, and it is very popular with warriors, and it is generally used in life-saving situations or important tasks or duels, which is very precious。
I marinated the steak in salt and peppercorns, and laid it on the washed and flat pebbles, and the blood flowed slowly down the pebbles into the river, into which Kuzi threw the boar's entrails, bloody fur, and hideous head into the river. These things are very troublesome to deal with, and the four of us can't eat them at all, it's useless to keep them, and the strong smell of blood may also attract hyenas or wolves, so it's better to throw them away, if it weren't for the river here, Kuz would even dig a dirt pit and bury them, and these waste materials thrown into the river attracted a group of small fish with silver-white chopsticks to gather by the river, and then I realized that this glacier is not without fish, It's just that the river is very deep, and these fish that live in the glacier usually live in deep water, but it seems that the fish here are born without any sense of danger, and they actually eat the internal organs of the animals discarded in the river under our noses.
"This is a paradise for primary herbs, and you can even find intermediate herbs further inside. Most of the hunters who had a way to cross the river didn't look down on the primary herbs here, and they would go deep into the wasteland to find those intermediate herbs. Kuz squatted on the ground, desperately fanning the wind against a pile of charcoal with the lid of the pot, and in order to get this charcoal, the loser boy Kuz burned a piece of wood used to build a tent and threw it into the water to turn it into a pile of black charcoal. This guy really doesn't care about anything in order to have a bite of delicious food, claiming that as long as he has something to eat, he can sleep on the grass wrapped in a leather jacket.
Kig was greatly moved, although she did not have a good impression of Kuz, perhaps she was naturally a little hostile to orcs, which is a common problem among the people of the Grimm Empire, who thought that orcs were hillbillies who had never seen much of the world.
In the orc world, if they can marry a girl of the Sky Fox clan as a wife, it will mean that their future children will have the opportunity to learn magic and become the most respected shaman priest of the orc tribe, which directly leads to the gradual disappearance of the once prosperous orc tribe Sky Fox clan in the long river of history.
And then there is the reason for the old Kuru, for the old Kuru's wariness, Kig has always been hostile to Kuz. It wasn't until we formed a team together that Kige's opinion of Kuzi gradually changed, and when he heard Kuzi say that he could find a mid-level magic herb that was rare in the Grimm Empire, he couldn't help but ask, "Can you find heather, flame flower, and ice grass there?"
"Heather grows in stone forests near the mountains, not here. I haven't seen a fireflower, but I've heard that there's an entrance to the underworld in the wasteland, which leads to the Grey Dwarf's underground castle, and there are some fireflowers growing in the tropics of that land. There is ice grass, but then we have to go through the hyena camp completely, and we will meet the lions, which are the natural hunters of the grassland. If you're unlucky enough to encounter a first-class Demonic Beast, the Manticore, you must remember to throw away all your cumbersome supplies and run as far as you can!" Kuz said as he placed the lit charcoal into an iron pot with a grate woven of steel wire the thickness of chopsticks.
In order to be able to eat the special flavor of the barbecue, we also took great pains to ask for it from the caravan blacksmith uncle, charcoal is placed on one side of the iron pot, after the iron grate is placed in the pot, the marinated pork chops are placed on the other side of the grate, and then the round lid is fastened, just waiting for the charcoal heat to smoke the meat marinated in the iron pot, the barbecue made tastes great, and there will be a smell of bacon.
Kig and Caterina could only wait on the sidelines, unable to help at all. Kuzi and I were very different from these dazzling cooking techniques, and they directly said that these cooking techniques were regarded as secret cooking techniques in the orc tribe, because ordinary orcs were not very good at it! At this time, the wild boar lard in the other oil pot had been boiled, and I asked Caterina to help remove the oil residue and put it in a leather bag. Kutz likes the fat residue of the meat, it tastes fragrant, crispy and hungry, and if you add a little salt, it is easy to store, even if you take it on the road.
I fished the meat of the hare out of the river, cut it into half palm-sized pieces, marinated it with spices, wrapped it in a layer of potato starch paste and rolled it in a circle in the crumbs of black bread, and fried it directly in the oil pan, and the aroma of the rabbit meat came out at once. Qige stood aside and looked at it, his eyes lit up, his little nose smelled the aroma, and he kept asking me if I had just gone down to the oil pan and had not fried the discolored pieces of meat and were cooked, and the girl's mouth was the most gluttonous.
At this time, I was a little self-deprecating: we foodies, even when the group of people who were chasing us were only a river away from us, what we did was not to run away, but to set up camp on the bank of the river and live there, and go to great lengths to make ourselves a sumptuous meal, which is too heartless.
The rest of the pork leg meat was chopped into meat balls by Kuzi into meat patties, and placed on a copper plate like a small mountain, and at this time, I also fried them in the oil pan and turned them into flat meatballs. In this season, these meatloaf should be able to sit for three to five days without going bad, and we can take it with us to eat on the road, or when we stop somewhere, we only need to boil a pot of water and put a few fried meatballs in it, and it will easily become a pot of delicious stewed meatballs, and it will be even more delicious if we can pick some wild camellia and put it in.
We spread a clean tablecloth on the grass by the river, and it was filled with delicious food, including roasted brown and crispy wild boar meat cutlets, hare meat pieces fried until golden brown, and a large plate of meatballs。
At this time, Caterina sat next to me and suddenly looked a little nervous, the white tender hand shook and almost spilled the meat steak on the plate, I clearly felt the fear in her heart, and at the same time marveled at the alertness of the beasts in the wild, I really have nothing to say, I think that my ears and eyes have become very sharp recently, but in the wild I can't catch up with Kuz, and now I find that even Caterina is inferior, these skills are brought from the mother's womb. Caterina sat next to me and said in a low voice, "There's someone over there!"
The first thing that came to my mind was that the nobles suddenly had a way to cross the river!, but I immediately reacted, it couldn't be, because Kuz and Caterina were not looking at the north bank of the river, but at the meadows to the south. I followed their gaze and saw a dragon running rapidly on the horizon under the blue sky and white clouds, its pale cyan scales reflecting dazzling light in the sun, and a tall figure sitting upright in the leather saddle on the dragon's back, carrying the reins in one hand and holding the leg in the other hand as steady as Mount Tai.
In the cattle market in Yemen Town, I have seen the Zosaurus reaching a height of more than two meters, these low-level land dragon creatures are very irritable and untamable, and the wings on their bodies have long been degenerated like two lost chicken wings, and the two thick and powerful long legs are said to be able to reach more than ten meters away in a single leap, which is a rare land creature with great speed. And according to Kutz, only the most powerful warriors would dare to ride such a ferocious mount. Looking at the direction in which the dragon was running, we decided that it was running straight towards us, and for such a strong man who dared to walk alone in the wasteland, we didn't know what to do for a while.