Chapter 21: Harvest Season (1)
The way back was not as anxious as when he came, but in order to go back to meet the harvest season and the arrival of the exchange day, Huo Bai and the others still decided to go back quickly, Ji Shan used the time he spent with Gu Xi to learn a lot of things, and Gu Xi of the province went to the leopard clan again, which shows that education and communication are very important.
Gu Xi is still full of missing the Tiger Clan, they have been out for almost two months, so when the surrounding scenery begins to be familiar and they are already close to the Tiger Clan, Gu Xi is extremely happy, and his heart begins to miss him and Huo Bai's home infinitely, after these two months of long journey, he is tired, and he can finally go home.
Tong Qi, who was standing on the sentry tower, saw them coming back from afar, and immediately snorted in the tribe, and everyone came out, Huo Bai's white hair was particularly dazzling, and he knew that it was them at a glance, and Xiao Moli, who was originally touching the snail in the shallows with Xiao Luda, was the fastest runner, Gu Xi saw a round little tiger running in their direction from afar, and he didn't see him for two months, and he felt that Moli had grown up a lot.
Song Xuan hugged Mo Mo and the people in the clan to greet them outside the tribe, and Uncle Tong and Uncle Mo Ken were leading the team to hunt outside.
"It's back," Song Xuan said, they had been gone for so long, and they didn't know any news, they had been worried.
"The matter of the bear clan has been solved, you don't have to worry about the problem of infectious diseases" Huo Bai first gave everyone a reassurance.
Everyone in the clan showed smiling faces, as long as it was useful, Xiao Moli obediently let Gu Xi touch his head, expressing how much he missed Gu Xi, and when he heard Gu Xi say that he was ready to eat at night, he screamed.
Then Huo Bai and Gu Xi went back to their homes first, put down their things, Huo Bai packed up his things, Gu Xi didn't care about lying on the bed without taking a bath, and said with emotion: "I sleep so well like this!" So comfortable! ”
Although the back of the big white tiger is also very comfortable, but the wild is always not as good as the one at home, and there are many insects in summer, thanks to the fact that I took some powder from the research of Doctor Xue when I left the bear clan, the mosquito repellent and insect repellent are very powerful, Gu Xi has never been poisoned by mosquitoes anymore, and the mosquitoes in the beast world are also very powerful, not to mention the size, just to give a bite, can produce a bag of the boss, itchy, Gu Xi has suffered this hardship, and later when Huo Bai sleeps at night, he is always used to fan Gu Xi with his tail, which is much better.
The two simply lay on the bed and rested for a while, and only got up at lunchtime, and went to Uncle Song's house, Song Xuan said that he would make lunch, and let them go directly to Tong's house when they got to the meal, they just came back and didn't have the strength to cook, and before Gu Xi left, he gave all the food in the grocery room that could not be stored for a long time to the Tong family and distributed it to the people in the clan, and there was no need to be polite, the Tong family and Huo Bai Guxi were together for lunch, because they also planned to make a big dinner in the evening, and the people in the clan gathered together to eat, which was also regarded as a dinner party before the harvest season.
"Gu Xi, eat more meatballs, I think you are thin and black when you come back from this trip" Song Xuan was very distressed, and put a big meatball in Gu Xi's bowl, Gu Xi took a bite of the small green vegetables, and looked at the big meatball, is this a special treatment, why are his meatballs so much bigger.
Huo Bai saw it in his eyes, and he was also full of distress, Gu Xi was exposed to the wind and sun all day, it must be a lot darker, he was busy on the road and didn't eat well, he definitely had to lose weight, and he would try to make up for it as soon as possible in the next days.
Gu Xi himself is very satisfied, in fact, he is not much darker, he is not the kind of physique that tans as soon as he gets sunburned, and he can come back in white after winter, and now he looks like he is in a lot of energy.
"When you have rested in the afternoon, many people in the tribe have found a lot of things waiting for you to recognize" Song Xuan said, everyone took Gu Xi's words to heart, and when they went out to collect, they all wrote down the location when they encountered something new and thought it might be food, and waited for Gu Xi to come back, and they all picked it up and recognized it.
Gu Xi nodded, and told Song Xuan about finding chili peppers, Song Xuan had long heard Gu Xi say how delicious chili peppers were, and he couldn't wait to take Gu Xi home to take a look, Gu Xi told him that he was going to make some delicious chili peppers for everyone to taste at night, and they would bring them together when the time came, and the chili peppers could be planted with seeds, so Song Xuan gave up.
Song Xuan heard that An Hua had found a partner, and he was also happy, he kept looking at the orcs in the tribe, but it looked like there were only a few, and An Hua couldn't look down on it, he thought that An Hua was going to be alone for a lifetime, and there were many orcs in the orc world who were single for a lifetime, but it was really rare for a sub-beast to be single for a lifetime.
"I think Weida is good to An Hua, what a good orc" Gu Xi couldn't help but praise, and the image of his wife and slave immediately came to mind.
"That's good, that's right, I have good news for you, Wei Shan and Sanjie of our tribe have cubs, as soon as you leave, Sanjie reacted, and at first I was worried that I was sick, and our tiger clan was finally going to add a new life" Song Xuan's eyebrows fluttered, and he wanted to see the tribe become stronger.
Gu Xi vaguely remembered that Sanjie was the tall and thin young man in the tribe with slightly curly light brown hair, they had just married in the harvest season last year, Wei Shan was a small-eyed orc, not handsome, but very good, they were a very lucky family in the tribe, whether it was Wei Shan or Sanjie, their father, mother and father had survived the previous incident, the three families were next to each other, and the younger couple was in the middle, and they lived happily.
Looking at Song Xuan looking at himself, with a look of hurry up, Gu Xi could only look at Huo Bai helplessly, he had already confessed to Huo Bai about this problem, he was not a sub-beast in this world, he definitely couldn't give birth, and he was somewhat incompetent, the two men lived together, Huo Bai also said that the birth rate in this world was not high, and what he wanted more was to live with Gu Xi for a lifetime.
Before dinner in the afternoon, sure enough, several families brought some things over to Gu Xi, this recognition, there is really something to eat, and the most surprising thing for Gu Xi is the edamame brought by the sub-beast Fanfei of the Lu Shi family! What does edamame mean, you can ferment soy sauce! You can make soy products! I heard that it is still a large area, and it is not far away, to be honest, edamame that has not grown fruit before, and Gu Xi really didn't see it in so much grass.
Immediately afterwards, the orc Wei Shan took out another thing, and when Gu Xi looked at it, his eyes lit up again, it was a loofah: "I went out hunting with my father, and when I walked far, there was a tree with a lot of vines growing on it." ”
"Gu Xi, look at what this is, hiding in the grass, it grows weird, and it caused me to fall" Yan Yan came over with a big melon, this melon is really big, he was a little tired when he walked over, he was walking well in the grass at the beginning, he didn't pay attention to his feet, and he fell down.
"Oh, this is winter melon, you can eat it!" Gu Xi happily looked at the big winter melon on the ground, how many times did he have to eat it, and it was too long.
Gu Xi nodded repeatedly, indicating that he could eat it, and sure enough, there were many people with great strength, and he didn't find much by himself: "This is called edamame, only eat the beans in this shell, this bean also has many ways to eat, in addition, it can be dried and stored for a long time, and it can make more food after drying, it is a very rare good ingredient, this long melon is called a loofah, the skin on the outside is peeled, and you can stir-fry vegetables and make soup, but it can't be stored for a long time, but after this thing grows on the tree, the things inside are very good for cleaning things, This big piece is called winter melon, and there are many ways to do it, but most of them are used to stew soup with meat, and the stewed bone broth is very delicious, and it is very good to eat when it is hot. ”
In the evening, every household took out the utensils and food gathered in the square, Gu Xi occupied a large cauldron, and next to it was the fish that had already been marinated with gurgling bird egg whites, salt and flavored fruit powder, the fish was cut by Huo Bai, crisp and neat, if Gu Xi came by himself, he would definitely cut it into large pieces of small fish, and finally simply put the fish pieces into the pot.
Gu Xi took out the pickles that had been pickled before, soaked them in water a few times, cut them into sections and put them away, and if he didn't make sauerkraut, he could only use pickles instead, the onions, garlic and peppers were cut well, and when he got out of the oil pot, the fragrance immediately wafted out, and the fragrance of these three things together was really fragrant, Gu Xi put down the pickles again, stir-fried them a few times, poured water, and began to stew.
On the other side, Song Xuan put the big bones of the fish and the halved fish head into the oil pan and fried them according to Gu Xi's meaning, and put them into the previous pot and stewed them with pickles.
Gu Xi likes to eat such dishes very much in modern times, but the amount of sauerkraut fish and meat outside is always so small, so he bought the fish himself and went home and made it according to the recipe, but the sauerkraut fish material that he would buy directly would only have simple condiments, and he would make it.
When the fish bones and fish heads in the pot were stewed with a strong fragrance, and the soup became snow-white, Gu Xi immediately sliced the meat, and after a while, the modified pickled fish of the beast world was made, and everyone couldn't help swallowing saliva with that fragrance.
Over there, Song Xuan had already made loofah egg drop soup with loofah, and edamame listened to Gu Xi's direct cut two ends to make boiled edamame in salt water, Xiao Moli took Xiao Luda back from touching a lot of snails by the river in the morning, and just made a pot in the evening, plus the crispy clucking bird soup that has been stewed and the pork rib soup with winter melon, as well as the barbecue that has been sprinkled with chili powder, the rich dinner is ready, everyone sits around the bonfire, and the one who eats is called a happiness.
"This harvest season, we will definitely collect more abundant food to prepare for the cold winter! We don't have to fear the cold winter anymore! Huo Bai said.
The whole tribe was filled with faith and hope.