Chapter 108: The Smell of Meat
But there is no way, you can only eat it when it is cooked, and you can only swallow saliva in the process.
The meat obtained from hunting in the mountains must be cooked, preferably thoroughly, even if it is cooked for a longer time and the taste is worse, the most important thing is to cook the meat, and the insects and insects in the meat will be completely scalded to death, so that you will not eat bad stomach, and you will not get sick, if you get a disease, it will be troublesome.
Because when hunting, it is very likely that you will come across an animal that is in poor health or has just contracted a disease, and if you accidentally eat it, you can only consider yourself unlucky, and the way to prevent it is to cook the meat thoroughly.
After eating, it was already midnight.
In the middle of the night, no animal came except for a marmot that came to the door and wandered for a while.
Everyone was very tired from the day, and they didn't have the heart to stand guard carefully, but just looked around nervously, instinctively guarding the safety of the cave.
Tonight's standing guard arrangement is five to one, and only one person will be arranged to sleep and rest at a time.
Why is this arranged, my father felt very tired today, but the instinctive sense of security made him feel that he was not safe tonight, maybe it was the instinct of a hunter for many years.
In the middle of the night, it was my father's turn to go to bed and rest, and he had just fallen asleep when he was woken up by the children.
When he opened his confused eyes, he saw that everyone was far away from him, and they just hinted to him with their eyes that they were in danger now.
The father picked up a killing knife casually, but he was still lying on the ground, looking around vigilantly, and seeing that there was nothing, he slowly stood up.
The mother looked at his father and told him again with her eyes to be vigilant, and looked at him with a hairy look in his heart, but he still didn't know what his mother meant.
When he was in a hurry, my father woke up suddenly, and saw that the fire around him was crackling, and the people standing guard were drowsy, and they were talking without a pair, and realized that they had just had a dream, but fortunately nothing happened.
After the water inlet culvert was rebuilt last time, in fact, the inside of the stone cave is now very safe, and there is generally no danger, and no animals can enter casually.
The father thought that he was too careful yesterday, and estimated that the time was almost the second half of the night, so he stood up and asked everyone to go to bed and rest, and he and his eldest son just stood guard.
After everyone lay down, the father whispered to the eldest son, "Are you hungry, or shall we get something to eat?"
The eldest son yawned, rubbed his eyes, and said, "I'm hungry." Then I'll cut two pieces of meat and roast them. ”
As he spoke, he picked up a burning firewood and walked inside, and the other hand held a kitchen knife in his hand, and after a while, he cut two pieces of meat the size of his palm. This is still the same sloppy meat from some time ago.
Some of it has been salted and smoked with cypress branches to make bacon, so that it can be left for a longer time and roasted and eaten without salt.
The meat squeaked on the fire, and the thick aroma of the meat spread out for a while, filling the entire stone cave, drawing out the saliva of the father and son, but the meat must be roasted before it can be eaten, as long as it is a little undercooked, it may be infected. The eldest son sucked his mouth, his eyes staring directly at the meat on the fire that turned from red to white, from white to red, and then from red to burnt yellow, just hoping that it would be roasted early, and his throat "rumbled".
When the two of them were concentrating on waiting to eat the barbecue, they suddenly heard the sound of "Xi Xi Suosuo" from the door of the stone cave, and the father was so frightened that he quickly stood up, put on the steel drill and walked to the door, the eldest son gently put down the barbecue, walked to a pile of firewood next to him, picked up a killing knife in his hand, and followed his father quietly walked over.
By the light of the fire, my father saw that there was an animal probing its head at the lookout of the cave, and the beard on its head and mouth was a long one, and it stretched out its mouth, as if it was greedily sucking the smell of roast meat wafting from the cave.
Probably because it was so sudden, the animal came to smell the scent, and did not notice that two people were walking towards it, and of course it did not know anyone, because it had never seen it before.
The father looked at such a cute little cutie, and felt quite funny, so he gently told the eldest son that this is a giant squirrel, do you want to eat rat meat, rat meat is a good thing.
The eldest son didn't say anything, walked over and grabbed the neck of the giant squirrel, so shocked that the giant squirrel trembled, it didn't expect to be targeted by other animals, and when it woke up, it turned its head and wanted to bite the eldest son's hand, but where to get it, only to be in a hurry.
After playing with it for a while, the eldest son looked at the little cutie and suddenly didn't want to eat it, so he stuffed its head and body out of the lookout.
The giant squirrel didn't expect to be caught by other animals and escape with a life, and after getting out of the hole, he escaped with a "rustle" life.
With this little thing, the father and the eldest son were not sleepy, and hurriedly went over to pick up the barbecue meat that was still hot and roasted it for a while, and then chewed it in a big gulp.
The aroma of the barbecue made the two of them eat with their mouths full of oil and long saliva flowing out.
Since then, everyone has been picking wild vegetables for a day, chopping wood for a day, and sometimes harvesting some seeds.
The days passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, twenty days passed.
The vegetables and grains that can be seen here have basically picked enough seeds, and the rest of the seeds have left it to fend for itself, and Guangya dug up two roots to take back to plant, and also picked a widely ripe red Sizi that is a seed, a bit like a sorghum seed. Once the seeds are dried, they can be taken back to the castle.
In order to protect these rare seeds, my father specially made several cones for seeds, which were sealed at both ends and could be waterproof.
After a little more than a month, everything was ready, and my father was ready to lead everyone back to the castle. They have been out for too long, and the family must be very worried.
On this trip, my father planned to stay in the middle for only two nights, the first stop was to spend the night in the thatched hut halfway up the mountain, the second day to spend the night directly in the stone cave by the pond, and the third day to leave early in the morning to go home.
The things to eat on the road, in addition to bringing some wild vegetables suitable for eating after drying, most of them are marinated bacon, because then there is no need to hunt on the road, not to mention that the meat is basically eaten until now, if there is meat left, everyone feels that it is a pity.
The way home was very smooth, and on the third day at noon they came to the castle, and the eldest uncle, who was working nearby, saw them, and hurriedly ran over to help them get things, and when the dog and the little wolf saw them, they also pounced on them at once.
Slowly, they gathered around, took them into the castle, took what was in their hands and on their shoulders, poured them hot water, and brought them wild fruits from the mountains, as if they had been hungry for three or five days, and needed to replenish them.
Yes, they had been out for too long, but fortunately they brought back a lot of fresh seeds, so that the basic life on the castle side was sufficient, and there were more varieties of flowers and vegetables for eating.