Chapter 78: Source Water
The prickly palms of the topaz tree are sliced out and have a warm color, like fine topaz, and they are cut into pieces and put into a plate folded out of large emerald green leaves, like pieces of exquisite art.
Inserting a piece into the mouth, the sweet and sour taste of star fruit that belongs to it echoes in the mouth, making Mu Kui have a feeling that he has not seen for a long time.
Speaking of which, what a wonderful time it was on Earth!
There are no natural disasters, there is no need to worry about food, what you want to eat, place an order online, even if it is a specialty of Tiannan and Haibei, you can eat it in a few days.
It's really like being in heaven, if only the life of the beast world could be like that at any time.
After remembering for a while, Mu Kui shook his head and pressed those good wishes to the deepest part of his heart.
The days still have to be down-to-earth day by day, and it's too early to think about that.
What she should do now is to gather more and store more food, enough food to survive the following brutal dry and snow seasons.
In addition, I insisted on praying every day, and tried my best to cultivate all the things that were carved with sacrificial patterns in my home.
This is especially true for the ice cellar and storage room.
The temperature in the dry season is already high, and the food is perishable.
The cooler the temperature in the ice cellar and storage room, the more food they can store for longer.
The thorn palms of the red heart thorn tree are steamed, the yellow prickly tree and the azure ball thorn tree are roasted, and the green palm thorn tree is used for cold dressing.
In addition, it is supplemented with glutinous rice balls, tree flour cold cakes, and glutinous rice balls with Qili fragrant filling.
Steamed meat and broth are also the main meats.
A cool version of the recipe for the dry season, freshly baked.
The three little ones all love the prickly palms of these thorny trees, because they can eat them.
Not to mention, topaz thorny trees, whether they are cut into thin slices for them to put in their mouths and eat slowly, or squeezed into juice or mashed into puree, and then put in the ice cellar to chill for a period of time, in this hot and dry season, it instantly becomes their favorite.
The cold green palm is prickly tree prickly palm, they can only taste it, and they can't chew it at all without teeth.
But the Red Heart Thorn Tree, the Clear Yellow Ball Thorn Tree, and the Azure Ball Thorn Tree, they can eat it again.
The red heart prickly palm is sweet and soft and glutinous.
The taste of the clear yellow prickly palm is a bit similar to that of sweet potatoes, but it is sweeter and has a unique fruity aroma.
The azure thorn palm is sweet and sour and a little sandy, if it weren't baked, anyone would think it was a fruit.
The house is full of the fragrance of Qilixiang, even though the temperature in the house is quite high now, so high that it can make people sweat without doing anything, but it is still refreshing, and it feels so hot that it is not so unbearable.
The bouncing rabbits, cooing chickens and garlic turtles at home seem to be a little abnormal, wilting and unable to lift their spirits.
The garlic turtle has its back against the pool, which is better.
But the bouncing rabbit and the cooing chicken, it is really listless, and they are all sullen as if they are depressed.
These three animals are all species that should have survived the Great Purge on the day of the Great Purge, and then became extinct.
Mu Kui was also a little worried, and was busy carving cooling sacrifices on the rabbit cage and chicken cage, and sprinkled water into the cage from time to time, hoping that they could survive, but don't really die of water and soil.
It's been raised for half a month, and if that's the case, the loss of their family will be great.
In addition, the two scimitar-horned sheep were also a little afraid of the heat, Mu Kui looked at the hair that had grown on their bodies that was half an inch long, and decisively shaved them and let them be bare-haired sheep.
On the side of the coo-gu chicken and the bouncing rabbit, Mu Kui was also watching.
If their condition continues to deteriorate, it is impossible to say that Mu Kui will have to shear them as well.
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The river in front of the tribe was not always there, either.
The fourth month of the dry season is a turning point.
The sun was at its hottest and the temperature was the highest, high enough to evaporate many of the mountains, rivers and lakes on the earth, and high enough to make the trees natural, causing widespread forest fires.
This month is also known as the Burning Moon.
Just as terrible as the hot moon are the hurricane moon in the third month of the wind season, the flood moon in the second month of the rainy season, and the cold moon in the fourth month of the snow season.
This April, known as the Ultimate April, is the month when the orcs can be trapped at home and unable to go out.
After the hot moon, the earth is scorched, the rivers and lakes are dry, the earth is cracked, the cracks in the ground are bottomless, the vegetation is almost non-existent, and food is difficult to find.
Therefore, before the arrival of the hot moon, Mu Kui and them must have at least three months of food to store.
Only after surviving the hot moon and the two months after the hot moon, when the temperature begins to drop during the dry season, new plants will grow in the land under the mass extinction of plants under the hot moon, and new animals will be nourished, so that they can find enough food to eat in the wild.
The river in front of the gate of the Yihu tribe is called the Ripple River, which means that the water surface is clear and sparkling.
The river is rich in water, but it also dries up during the hot months.
Only by waiting for the altar to be opened to pray for rain and reactivate the source water of the river can the river be revived and re-emerged.
And the source water is one of the treasures of the beast world!
Wherever there is a water source, there must be a source of water.
This is a common saying in the beast world.
It is said that the strength of the source water directly affects the storage capacity of the water source, and the powerful tribes, even if they migrate, will have a great sacrifice to perform forbidden arts, and take away the source water of the original habitat directly, and then release the source water after settling down again, so that you can get a water source with abundant water.
The same is true of the source water of the Ripple River, which is said to have been brought directly by the Winged Tiger tribe when they first migrated here.
Source water can be maintained and nourished through large-scale sacrifices.
If the sacrifice is sufficient, and the sacrifice and scale are large enough, it can also make the source water grow continuously and produce more abundant water.
The Winged Tiger Tribe has been preparing sacrifices to the source water recently, and even the hunting tax of the hunting team is higher than before.
This has also led to the fact that the pace of food storage by Mu Kui's family has been slowed down a lot.
But Mu Aoi knew it was a must.
The source water is like a device that does not light out the water, if you don't maintain it regularly, can you still expect it to operate normally and continue to produce water continuously after the hot moon?
It took ten days for the tribe to finally gather the sacrifices for the source water.
The entire tribe, all the orcs who can go out as adults, and those who have important tasks such as patrolling orcs and can't get out, there are more than 10,000 orcs, all of whom are gathered in the big square in front of the tribe.
The altar in the square was also full of offerings at this time.
Tsubaki held the staff in her hand and danced the sacrificial dance, and the awkward sacrificial words gently spit out from her mouth, but they spread clearly and clearly echoed in the ears of every orc present.
Roar! Roar!
The female closes her eyes in prayer, and the male turns into a beast and roars to the sky.
Above the clear sky, a line of fire shot out from the sun, and in an instant, it turned into the incarnation of a half-cut beast god wearing a crown and a golden emperor's robe only up to his shoulders.
This avatar was very huge, occupying almost half of the sky above everyone's heads, and at this time, he looked at the orcs below indifferently, and the mighty and melodious voice reached everyone's ears.
"Call me, what's the matter?"