"Really?!"

The patriarch smiled excitedly, his eyes narrowed into a slit, "Then I'll arrange for the orcs to pick." ”

Picking food is urgent.

He couldn't wait to see how much food could be harvested from this rice.

Fox Jiaojiao smiled and told the patriarch how to pick the rice, and the patriarch immediately summoned a hundred orcs to pick the rice.

Rice should be picked together with straw and wheat ears, and then the rice should be taken out with tools, further threshing, washing, and drying to ensure that the rice is dry and can be preserved.

Orcs don't have scythes, but their claws are the best tools.

One by one, the orcs went down to the ground, bent over, pinched the top of the straw with one hand, and conjured the claws of the beast to act as a sickle with the other, and in a short time the rice in the field lay down in pieces.

A total of 30 acres of rice were planted.

In modern times, two machines can be harvested in a few hours.

But they didn't have to worry, the number one hundred orcs went into battle, all of them were good at work, and they were not afraid of the wind and sun, and with the excitement of harvesting food, they harvested thirty acres of land in one day.

The next step is to take the paddy and dry it.

The patriarch took matters into his own hands and took the orcs to deal with it for two days before taking out all the rice.

Looking at the bags full of rice, the patriarch was overjoyed.

I didn't expect them to be able to stock up on so much food in the spring.

This was something he never dreamed of before.

"Patriarch, these paddies have to be taken back to the tribe to dry for a period of time, so that they are not easy to spoil." Fox Jiaojiao did not forget to tell the patriarch.

For the past two days, they have been collecting rice in the rice fields.

But it can't be dried here, it's easy to be eaten by birds and beasts, and it's too late to collect it in case of rain.

It just so happened that the tribe had a large open space to dry.

"Okay." The patriarch wrote them down one by one.

Some orcs were curious, and couldn't help but twist a grain of rice and put it in their mouths.

After biting twice, I only felt tasteless, and I was reluctant to waste food, so I swallowed it.

Then asked with a bitter face:

"Patriarch, why is this food so hard, it doesn't taste yet......"

It's also very throat prickly.

Is this thing really edible?

The orcs were a little skeptical in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say it directly, not because they were afraid of wasting so much time, but because they were worried that Fox Jiaojiao would blame herself after hearing it.

Hearing the orc's words, the fox Jiaojiao smiled.

"This is not eaten like this, the outer layer of shell has to be removed, and it is cooked with water, so it can be eaten with meat, and it is easier to fill the stomach."

After listening to Fox Jiaojiao's explanation, the orc suddenly realized.

Scratching his head embarrassedly, "So that's the case, fox Jiaojiao, you're so amazing." ”

"But...... This rice is so small, how do you remove the husk? It's too slow to peel one by one. ”

The orc next to him asked again.

Peeled off like this, before they could eat enough, they starved to death.

The speed of peeling can't keep up with the speed of digestion!

"Removing the husk of rice requires a tool, and when the time comes, you can use a tool to remove the husk and cook it before you eat it yourself." Fox Jiaojiao explained simply.

"Oh! It's the same as skinning your prey. The orc nodded knowingly.

You don't have to peel it by hand.

In order to reassure everyone, Fox Jiaojiao called an orc on the spot, polished a stone mortar with stones, found a wooden stick to make a mortar pestle, and showed them on the spot.

In ancient times, the process of hulling rice was called rice husking.

Hit the rice inside the stone mortar with a mortar and pestle, and the husk that comes off the rice is rice bran, and the rice grains inside are rice.

Seeing the round and plump rice grains exposed inside, the orc was shocked.

"It turned out to be white inside."

"It looks so clean, I can't even bear to eat it."

The orcs raised their dirty hands and looked at them, and suddenly they were all a little farther away from the stone mortar, and they did not dare to touch the clean rice.

"Why don't you cook some today and give everyone a taste?" Seeing the expressions of these orcs, Fox Jiaojiao's heart moved, and she proposed.

They have worked hard for so long, and the first bite is naturally for them to eat.

"Is that okay?"

"Can we eat it, it's not good......"

The orc, who has always been rough and heroic, seems to have become a little daughter-in-law at this moment, twisting and pinching, and looking embarrassed.

Food is given to females first, which is a habit engraved in the bones of orcs.

There is no reason why they eat first.

"Of course." Fox Jiaojiao smiled and looked at the patriarch.

The patriarch immediately understood, and asked people to carry two large cauldrons, build them with stones, put the pots on them, and make a fire to cook rice on the spot.

Fox Jiaojiao also wanted them to believe that rice was edible.

Otherwise, if you haven't even tasted it, the enthusiasm of the orcs for planting will be greatly reduced in the future.

Hu Jiaojiao used the same method of cooking rice in the countryside as before.

Boil the rice with water, pour out the rice and drain it after it is half cooked, and put it in the pot again to simmer for a while to cook.

Doing so not only has rice soup to drink, but also pot to eat.

When she was a child, her favorite was the rice balls wrapped in the pot, which tasted delicious.

When I grew up, I left the countryside, and I used the rice cooker to cook rice, and I could no longer taste the rice cooked on the stove.

When Fox Jiaojiao thinks about it now, she is a little greedy.

Taking advantage of the boring meal, Fox Jiaojiao distributed the drained rice soup to everyone.

Only an orc can get a small bowl and drink it all in one sip.

They were reluctant to drink it and tasted it carefully.

"What is this, it's too delicious."

"Why is this water so fragrant, I am hungry when I drink it."

The orcs who tasted the rice soup widened their eyes and were full of praise.

Looking at their exaggerated expressions, Fox Jiaojiao wondered if these orcs had found their own nursery.

Childcare is not as dedicated as they are.

Accustomed to eating greasy meat, suddenly tasting the sweet and thick rice soup is indeed a great taste bud.

After a while, the orc finished drinking the rice soup, and the fox Jiaojiao lifted the lid of the pot.

A burst of fresh fragrance wafted out.

Unlike the rich aroma of meat, the aroma of rice has a sweet and fragrant smell that makes you want to taste it.

Fox Jiaojiao still gave each orc a small portion, not the size of a fist.

The orcs regarded it as a treasure and carefully held the bowl.

The white rice is fragrant and tender.

Since they didn't have chopsticks, they washed their hands in the river and grabbed the rice with their hands and put it in their mouths.

"Yum!!"

"It's a little sweet, fragrant and soft."

"It turns out that the cooked rice is so delicious, if you take another bite of the marinated meat, it will definitely be even more fragrant!"

After a day's work, the orcs were already hungry, and they ate the rice they had grown with their own hands, and they only felt that it was a rare delicacy in the world.

The admiration came one after another.

Seeing that everyone could accept the taste of rice, Fox Jiaojiao was also relieved.

"Jiaojiao, this rice is really a good thing, I'll let them cultivate more land to grow rice!"

The patriarch tasted the sweetness of rice and couldn't wait.