Chapter 41: Rainbow
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"Uncle Tyrant, don't be like this. She is still a child, and it is understandable that she is afraid of life, and she is slow to talk......"
Fengyun saw that the storm treated Hong like this, and hurriedly persuaded him.
Finally, someone came to help with the cooking, and he saw the hope of walking away from the stove, and if he really scared the storm away, he would regret it.
"Haha......"
Storm suddenly let out a burst of laughter, interrupting Fengyun's words stiffly.
"Child, if she's a child, what are you? ”
"Uncle Tyrant, you are so energetic, you don't seem to be hungry, I don't think you need to eat dinner today, right?"
In order to avoid the violence making the situation worse, Fengyun decided to carry out a critical attack.
"Don't ...... Other...... Don't. ”
As Fengyun expected, he was suddenly shocked.
"I was wrong, I won't say it, I'm out. ”
Before the words fell, the storm quickly retreated, as if he was afraid that if he retreated slowly, the wind and clouds would make him hungry.
Glancing at Tyranny's embarrassed back, Fengyun couldn't help but shake his head.
No matter how strong a person is, as long as he has weaknesses, he can be easily subdued.
"Rainbow, don't you mind. Uncle Tyrant is just talking about it, he really has no bad intentions. ”
Fengyun looked at Rainbow and smiled kindly.
"I know I don't hold a grudge against him. Well, you can let me do anything, I'm very capable. ”
Rainbow nodded hurriedly, but her voice was small and a little timid.
"It seems that the personality is a bit introverted. ”
This is the first impression that Rainbow left on Fengyun.
"Bamboo, come here. Rainbow is not familiar with the situation, you take her. ”
Fengyun beckoned the bamboo over.
"Well, I need some ingredients now, you show Rainbow and ask her to help you, and then you come over and help me deal with the fish. ”
Fengyun understands a truth, if you want to eliminate the inhibitions of a newcomer, it is best not to make her feel out of place.
It's better to get her to do something, even if it's just a little thing that doesn't make sense, than to hang her out on the side.
"I see. ”
Zhu nodded to Fengyun, turned his head to look at Hong, and led her to a corner of the house, where a lot of spices were piled up.
"Sister Hong, you don't have to be nervous, Yunren is fine, you can talk to him directly if you have anything to say. Also, the food he cooks is delicious. You'll be sure to swallow your tongue in your stomach when you eat it. ”
Zhu, who has been cared for by Fengyun, knows that he knows the kindness of the newspaper, sees the stitches, and says good things about him to Hong.
"Hmm. ”
Hong answered, but did not speak.
But her heart was not at peace.
The Flame Snake Tribe is not big, and the movement made by Fengyun is so big, there is no possibility that she does not know him.
Previously, she had only seen him from afar, and her impression of him was only that he was smart enough to invent such a novel thing, and nothing else, after all, the gap between them was too far, and there might be any intersection.
This time Wu found her and asked her to help Fengyun make food, and she was very surprised.
At the same time, she had some hesitation.
Her personality is more introverted and she doesn't like to contact people very much, while Fengyun is a teenager in her eyes, and she is worried that he has a bad temper and is difficult to get along with.
She finally agreed, and Wu persuaded her with a reason.
As long as she goes to Fengyun, he guarantees that she can be fed.
When she was very young, her parents had both died, and she lived on tribal handouts, and even then, her rations were often snatched away by other older children, causing her to go hungry.
To make matters worse, she was not able to awaken successfully at an age where she could participate in the Awakening Ritual.
Since each awakening ritual consumes a lot of resources, each person only has a maximum of three opportunities to participate in the awakening ritual.
If you don't fail all three times, you will no longer be allowed to participate.
In fact, giving only three chances to a person is not just because of the cost, but also because there is a consensus that everyone agrees on but does not speak.
If a person fails to participate in three awakening rituals, the possibility of awakening is already very small.
Whether a person can awaken or not depends mainly on one's talents.
Succeeding at the first time, the potential is huge, the chance of being promoted to an intermediate totem warrior is very high, and the possibility of being promoted to a senior totem warrior is also there.
The second success, the potential is average, you can become a formal totem warrior, that is, a junior totem warrior, there is a certain possibility to be promoted to an intermediate totem warrior, as for the senior totem warrior, don't think about it.
Three successes, poor potential, if there is no accident, you can only be an honest junior totem warrior for the rest of your life, and it is impossible to be promoted again.
In primitive society, there is a lot of pressure to survive, and strength is needed to obtain food, and strength is also needed to defend the homeland, so the strength of strength is particularly important.
Although people don't talk about it, the success of participating in several awakening rituals has invisibly divided people into several levels.
In the case of limited opportunities, the first to get the opportunity is always the group of people who succeed in the first awakening ceremony.
This is still a successful awakening, and the situation of those who have failed to participate in three awakening rituals is even worse.
At a certain age, usually sixteen, the tribe stops handing out handouts and needs to take care of the food itself.
If the parents are alive and well, although they are not valued, they will never ignore them, and if they have a bite to eat, they will inevitably give them some.
The worst are the orphans whose parents have died, who are helpless and rely mainly on working for others and finding food for themselves.
If the year is good, the problem is not big, and it is not possible to eat well, but it is basically possible to just fill the stomach.
If the year is not good, it will be miserable, and they will have nothing to eat, so how can there be food to share with them.
Even if some people have good hearts and are willing to help them, they can't do it, and the result can only be a full meal and a hungry meal, or even starve to death.
Rainbow is about to face this terrible situation.
She was about to turn sixteen, which meant that the tribe was about to stop helping her and that she needed to be self-reliant.
Since she was a child, she has not had enough to eat, her body is thin, and she has no skills, so it is very difficult to survive.
If she can go to Fengyun's house to help, it will undoubtedly be a good way out.
This is also the reason why the Witch Society chose her.
Wu is actually very clear about the situation in the tribe, but he is also more than willing to do it, and can only try every means to find a way for those helpless orphans to survive.
Hong was persuaded by Wu, but before she really saw Fengyun, she was actually very worried in her heart, and she didn't know what kind of fate would await her.
But she soon realized that her worries were unfounded.
Fengyun is very kind, and she took the initiative to defend her when they met for the first time, which also made her determined to complete the things Fengyun explained.
At the same time, her impression of him has changed.
One of the things that impressed her the most about him was that he was far more mature than he looked.
She even had the illusion that he was not a ten-year-old child, but an adult.
If Fengyun knew how she felt, I am afraid that she would have to sigh at the terrible intuition of women.
Bamboo is very good to Hong, almost hand-in-hand to teach her how to deal with seasonings, select, wash, cut...... Attention to detail.
Rainbow is also smart and learns quickly.
"Sister Hong, you're busy yourself. I'm going to help the clouds. ”
Bamboo put a handful of peeled green onions in a clay pot, stood up, and walked towards Fengyun.
Out of habit, Fengyun will give the same name to things similar to those in previous lives, such as various ingredients.
"Yun, what are you going to do with these fish? wash or ......"
"Neither. Smash!"
Fengyun handed over a smooth stick.
"Smash such a good fish, wouldn't it be bad?"
Bamboo screamed.
Hong, who was immersed in cleaning the chili peppers, also raised her head and looked at the wind and clouds, with irrepressible regret in her eyes.
She hadn't had meat in almost a year.
When she entered the door, she saw the fish piled on the board, and even though they were all raw, she couldn't help but swallow her saliva secretly, eager to pounce and eat her fill.
Now Fengyun is about to spoil them, and the impact on her can be imagined.
She almost screamed, "You don't want it, give it to me, give it all to me." ”
"What nonsense? When did I say I'm going to spoil the fish?"
Fengyun glared at Zhu angrily.
"You said smash, isn't it bad/ruined? If you smash it, can they still eat it?"
"Who said you can't eat it. Okay, without further ado, take a closer look at how I do it. ”
Fengyun grabbed a piece of fish meat, set it aside, scattered some reddish powder on it, picked up the stick and smashed it.
The reddish powder is a type of pollen that comes from a very tall tree.
This tree produces very large flowers, each one larger than a basin, and Fengyun simply calls it a giant flower tree.
There is a lot of pollen in the flowers of the giant flower tree, and the pollen of a flower is collected, which is half a catty.
The pollen has a faint fragrance and a hint of sweetness, but unfortunately it cannot be used as flour.
When making soup, Fengyun will add some, the taste and texture are good, and he deliberately collected a lot.
Due to the presence of pollen, the smashed fish did not appear to splash around, and obediently changed its form according to Fengyun's intentions.
"Yun, I was wrong, I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions. ”
At this time, Zhu finally realized that he was wrong to blame Fengyun and quickly apologized.
"It's okay, just pay attention next time. You handle the fish, and I'll make the fish balls. ”
Fengyun walked to the other side, picked up a bone knife, scraped it on the slices of fish, and smeared the delicate meat crumbs into a large clay pot.
"Hmm...... Well...... Yun boy, it's really yours, it's so delicious. It's tender, it's slippery, it's fragrant, put it in your mouth, you don't have to swallow it, you slide it into your stomach, it's really ......"
Storm gulped it down while constantly praising Fengyun.
Lei, Bamboo, and Rainbow are also eating their heads.
In addition to the rainbow, because of the new arrival, there was some restraint when eating, and the plackets of Lei and bamboo were soaked in soup.