Chapter 43: A Litter of Tigers
The "Eden Tiger" carefully sniffed the roasted "Sasa" for dozens of seconds, opened his mouth and bit "Sasa", pulled it away from the branch in Joseph's hand, and ate it with a taste.
After chewing and swallowing the roasted "Sasa", the "Eden Tiger" licked his four-petaled lips and raised his chin at the small half bird next to him.
Joseph muttered, "You'll enjoy it, I'm still hungry." After that, he picked up the bird meat, plucked the feathers from it, skewered it and continued to roast the bird.
After roasting and sprinkling with salt, the cooked meat is handed to the mouth of the "Eden Tiger".
At this time, the "Eden Tiger" shook his head, stretched out his claws and pushed the meat towards Joseph.
"For me? Thank you, Brother Tiger, thank you, Brother Tiger. Joseph thanked him repeatedly, then retracted his hand and devoured the roast.
After the other party finished eating the roast bird, the "Eden Tiger" took Joseph to pick up the crossbow, carried the quiver, and walked around the vicinity, hitting a half-meter-long lizard with a three-petaled mouth.
After bringing the prey back and roasting it, the tiger and the one finally no longer had to be humble to each other and had a full meal.
After resting for a while, the "Eden Tiger" escorted Joseph back to the knapsack, grabbed the bottom of the knapsack, poured out all the contents in one go, and then looked at the other party.
Joseph thought that this guy was going to go through the security check, so he first picked up the fur coat, leather quilt and leather boots on the ground, put them on or covered his body, saw the other party nodded, and then folded these leather goods and put them back in his backpack.
Then Joseph demonstrated the use of stone knives and water bladders made of lizard skin, as for the stone pot and the packets of medicines wrapped in leaves, spoons and other objects, Joseph did not know how to explain, so he simply handed them to the "Eden Tiger" one by one and let it sniff it, and then put it back in the backpack directly, and the "Eden Tiger" did not mean to get to the bottom of it.
But then again, it can ask aloud.
After Joseph packed up his belongings and carried his backpack, the "Eden Tiger" took his crossbow back and carried Joseph deeper into the swamp.
After walking about three kilometers in the meadow, Joseph saw more than a hundred meters ahead
There was a shallow river, and on a dirt bag on the other side of the river, a black female "Eden Tiger" was standing quietly looking at this side.
After a man and a tiger crossed the river and reached the edge of the dirt bag, the female "Eden Tiger" looked at Joseph with a wary expression, and then let out a low roar at the male "Eden Tiger" who was escorting him.
The male "Eden Tiger" let out a low moan with his throat "grunt", and the female "Eden Tiger" walked down the dirt slope after listening, sniffed up and down at Joseph, then nodded, turned around and rubbed the male "Eden Tiger" affectionately with her neck.
Joseph guessed that the female tiger must be the wife of the male tiger, and he also saw a mud hole dug under the small dirt slope, and faintly heard the sound of a puppy humming inside.
At this time, the female "Eden Tiger" walked up to Joseph and pressed the hard bone at the tip of her tail against his lower back.
The male "Eden Tiger" walked to the edge of the dirt slope, dropped the crossbow that had been in his mouth, and burrowed into the mud hole.
It turned out that there were three newborn "Eden Tigers" in the cave, nestled up to each other and lying in a hay nest in the cave.
After looking at the three tigers for a while, the male tiger returned to the ground, took his crossbow and walked to Joseph's side and threw it in front of him, and then looked at a few dead branches on the bank of the river not far away, and let out a low roar.
Joseph knew that the guy was going to get his wife some barbecue to taste, so he nodded, unloaded his backpack, and picked up the crossbow.
The male tiger took over from the female and continued to put his tail on Joseph's waist and escort him to hunt.
Perhaps there were more animals at the water's edge, but this time one man and one tiger were lucky, and after walking along the river for a while, Joseph shot a medium-sized "platypus" and a fish in the shallow water that looked a bit like a terrestrial salamander, but with smaller limbs and no forked toes.
At the same time, on the way to hunting, Joseph picked a number of stems and leaves of plants he knew could be used for spices on the banks of the river and put them in his pocket.
The male tiger motioned for Joseph to carry the "platypus" on his back, then took the crossbow back and escorted Joseph the fish back to the den.
The female tiger jumped and dragged the "platypus" to the ground from the male tiger's back, and was about to bite it, but the male tiger raised his claws to stop her.
Seeing the female tiger looking at him suspiciously, the male tiger let out a low "purr" moan at it.
Seeing the female tiger nodding, the male tiger turned to look at the backpack on the ground, and then roared at Joseph.
Joseph took out a stone pot and a knife from his backpack and said to the tiger, "I will cook the broth for you to drink." ”
Although the tiger did not understand, he probably guessed that Joseph had something to offer, so he nodded.
Next, under the supervision of the tiger, Joseph built a stove near the earthen bag with dry mud blocks, collected firewood, and put it in the stove.
Then put a pot of river water in a stone pot, put the pot on the stove, and light the fire.
The platypus was then dragged into shallow water, skinned with a stone knife, and cut into large pieces of flesh on a large rock on the shore. And he cut the fish into small pieces.
A few pieces of "platypus" meat and fish, seasoned plant stems and leaves are put into a pot that begins to boil and boil for about half an hour, and the aroma of the broth will attract the female tiger who feeds the tiger cub in the mud hole.
After adding some salt to the broth, Joseph pulled out the charcoal fire with a twig, took out a small spoon made of a gourd-like but more slender plant fruit from his backpack, put it into the pot and stirred it for a while, scooped a spoonful of the broth, and drank it after it cooled.
"Roar!!"
The tigress let out a threatening roar.
Joseph scratched his head, scooped out another spoonful of soup, blew a few bites, and respectfully handed it to the tigress's mouth.
The female looked at the spoon hesitantly, then turned her head to look at the male.
The male tiger nodded to the female tiger, so the female tiger tentatively opened her four-petal mouth, stretched out her tongue and ordered a little soup with the tip of her tongue, smashed her mouth, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
Joseph then relentlessly bold, and motioned for the tigress to open her mouth and raise her head.
When the tigress complied, he poured a whole spoonful of soup into the tigress's tongue. The tigress quickly closed her four-petal mouth and drank the soup.
Next, Joseph took turns sharing the pot of fragrant broth and the soft-boiled meat with the two tigers, a bite of it and a bit like a boiled chunk of earth turkey meat with catfish meat in a mixture of milk and salad.
Then the fire was re-lit, and some pieces of "platypus" raw meat were roasted one by one, sprinkled with salt, and handed to the two tigers to eat together.
Since Joseph and the male had just eaten roasted lizards before, the boiled meat and roasted meat were mainly enjoyed by the females.
After eating and drinking, the female tiger looked at Joseph with a lot less guard at this time, and even had a hint of appreciation.