Chapter 4: Silver Bell
The claws of orcs are their sharpest weapons.
In the face of a grinding stone, a stone that is far from being hard against their claws, it is better than a chisel, an axe, an electric drill, and the like.
The sound of rattling is endless.
Occasionally, sparks pop up during their processing.
When the hunting party returned, they shouted outside the cave to divide the meat.
The pots that Mu Kui wanted were all made.
By the way, there is also a chopping board, two grinding stone kitchen knives, four steaming grids, five high stone plates, six large stone basins with ears, two large bowls and four thick-bottomed chicken heart bowls.
In this way, the guys they ate ate were almost alive.
After several boils, the inferior sea salt had been almost purified, and the wood sunflower extinguished the fire, allowing the residual water in the stone jar to slowly evaporate under the residual heat.
"Good white salt."
Mu Zhao looked at the snow-white refined salt in the stone jar, carefully dipped it and put it in his mouth, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Salty, no bitterness."
"Hmm." Mu Kui nodded with a smile and explained: "I boiled it with water to remove the impurities in the sea salt, and now this should be regarded as refined salt, and the taste will be much better than before when you use it to roast meat." ”
"It's good, but it's ......"
Mu Zhao looked at the salt in the stone jar that had obviously shrunk by a section, and said worriedly: "After removing the impurities, the salt has become less, and I am afraid that it will not be enough to eat next." ”
He's still conservative.
In fact, even if the salt before refining is not enough, it is not enough to eat, and on weekdays, they will drink animal blood and eat a bitter, astringent and throaty gray grass to replenish the salt.
"Don't worry, I know how to get salt."
Mu Aoi smiled mysteriously.
"Let's go later! There will be no shortage of salt to eat. ”
"Really?" Mu Zhao was a little surprised.
The days without salt are too uncomfortable.
If only there was an endless supply of salt......
Mu Zhao dipped in a little salt and tasted it.
A sense of well-being arises.
Next, Mu Kui drew a three-dimensional picture of tables, chairs, benches, soup spoons, colanders, chopsticks, forks, rolling pins, and whisks, and asked Mu Zhao to use wood and ordinary stones in the cave to work with them.
Mu Kui, on the other hand, began the process of making dinner.
Add water and salt to the flour, then mix the dough, knead it into strips on the cutting board, and cut it into small pieces.
Then, roll out the dough into the dough.
Wrap the minced meat with egg wash and salt.
Chickens in the beast world are generally larger.
The Coo Chicken is a gray chicken with pockmarks, half a human in size, able to jump and flutter flexibly between the treetops, with a very blunt beak, no pain in pecking, and tender meat, which is very popular with females and cubs.
There were six eggs they had found, each the size of an open palm, and bigger than a goose egg.
Mu Kui puts these glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in the filling into the steaming compartment of the antimony pot, and when they are steamed, they are the salty version of the glutinous rice balls.
In addition, there are salty glutinous rice cakes with no sugar and no sesame seeds, and are coated with a layer of nut flour; glutinous rice balls with fruity stuffing and fresh meat filling; Salty rice cakes with no sugar and no milk and salty baked glutinous rice crackers.
The conditions are simple, and there are not many tricks that Mu Kui can do.
But even so, when the final product was served, it was really shocking to Mu Zhao, who had only eaten barbecue, stew, and wild vegetable soup before.
"Sister, can you really eat this?"
Mu Zhao looked at the same exquisite food on the table, smelled the tempting aroma of the food, wanted to take it, but was afraid of spoiling these exquisite foods, and looked entangled.
"Go wash your hands, wash your hands and eat." Mu Kui Road.
"Oh, okay."
Mu Zhao cheered, quickly washed his hands and came back, picked up a snow-white glutinous rice ball, and couldn't wait to bite it.
The next moment.
"Good times!"
The stars in Mu Zhao's eyes flickered, he narrowed happily, muttered vaguely, and couldn't stop anymore, like a wind sweeping away leaves, quickly sweeping the food on the table.
Looking at Ah Di's thin body like a hemp stick because he couldn't eat enough for a long time, Mu Kui was a little distressed, took a bowl of broth and handed it over, and instructed: "There is still a lot of food, eat it slowly, don't choke." ”
"Uh-huh, sister, you can eat it too." Mu Zhao took the broth and took a big sip, and hurriedly urged Mu Kui to eat.
"Okay, I'll eat." Mu Kui smiled, scooped up a rice ball with a wooden spoon, and ate it slowly.
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"Aoi, is Aoi at home?"
Halfway through the meal, a crisp female voice with a childish spirit came in from outside the cave.
Mu Kui put down the wooden spoon and responded: "Here, Yinling, come in!" ”
With that, she stood up and walked out of the cave.
Outside the cave.
A little girl with silver hair and silver eyes, holding a green fruit the size of a basin, stood there prettyly.
The little girl has fair skin and a delicate face, and is a rare little beauty, but her silver hair is wet by the rain and sticks to the side of her face, and she looks a little embarrassed.
This is Silver Bell, a female who is about to become an adult and has a good time with Mu Zhao.
The ratio of men to women in the beast world is very exaggerated.
Take the Winged Tiger Clan, for example.
In order to cope with the harsh living environment.
Male cubs are born in animal form, and after three years of development, they will reach adulthood and can freely switch between animal and human forms.
Female cubs, on the other hand, are born in human form, and without the protection of fur, it takes seven years to reach adulthood.
The growth cycle is more than twice that of male orcs.
Born in human form, the high mortality rate of female cubs without fur protection, coupled with the unequal growth cycle, has led to the current male-to-female ratio of the Winged Tiger tribe to an astonishing 5:1.
That is, on average, for every five male orcs, only one female can be paired.
And this, it has to be someone else's female who takes a fancy to you and allows you to enter the door before you can join that big family.
If the female is not happy, then you can only fight the single.
If you don't have a wife, you won't have offspring.
This is the current situation of the Winged Tiger Tribe.
If there is no accident, Mu Zhao will do the same in the future and become one of Yinling's companions.
However, the experience of living on Earth gave Mu Kui a great shock.
That peaceful world, where everyone can eat well, is simply heaven in her opinion.
Therefore, the monogamous marriage system in the mother country is also as deep in her mind as a heavenly rule.
Mu Kui naturally wouldn't let Ah Di Mu Zhao become one of Yinling's countless companions, but she couldn't feel too much evil for Yinling.
Survival and reproduction are the eternal main themes of the beast world.
The environment is like this.
Unless one day the ratio of men and women in the beast world tends to be balanced.
Otherwise, this situation is always unavoidable.
"Aoi, I heard you're sick, are you feeling better?"
Seeing Mu Kui, Yinling looked at her with some confusion and wondered in her heart.
Didn't I hear yesterday that Aoi was pushed into the flood by Yixuan's people, infected with a cold and high fever, and people were about to be burned stupid?
Why now, looking at Aoi's complexion, it doesn't look like he's seriously ill.
"Well, it's much better." Mu Aoi nodded. She saw the confusion in Yinling's eyes, but she didn't mean to explain more.
"By the way, Yinling, did you come to me for something?"
"This is the persimmon fruit picked by my mother, for you." Yinling handed the cyan fruit in his hand forward and said, "Auntie asked me to see if you were better, and said that if you are well, you can follow her to collect it tomorrow, and there is ......."
Yinling's little face was flushed, and he looked left and right and said, "Aoi, what did your family do?" It smells so good. ”
Mu Kui knew that she was actually coming to see Mu Zhao, so she didn't break it, but said with a normal expression: "I made some fresh food." What do you think? Come in and have a try? ”
"Is that okay?" Yinling's silver eyes were shining, and she looked expectant.
I don't know if she is looking forward to food, or looking forward to going inside to see Mu Zhao.