sinovels Chapter 87
Chapter 87
Regarding barley, not to mention the slaves who just arrived, in fact, even those who participated in barley cultivation don't know much about it.
The last time the beast god sent a miracle to make all the barley in the tribe mature at once, most of the barley was used as seeds.
Not only that, but the harvesting of barley was done by the priest himself.
After all, it was a miracle!
For these reasons, the people in the tribe didn't know much about barley at all. Now that Zhou Ji said that the barley could be harvested, they all gathered together and wanted to know how to harvest the barley.
This day happened to be a day when there was no hunting, Kumano followed Zhou Ji and looked at the large piece of barley in front of him, and especially missed the bread that Zhou Ji made for him.
This barley was brought back by Zhou Ji, and Zhou Ji could get a lot... He felt that he should have the opportunity to eat a lot of bread, and maybe he could also eat other foods.
"The barley is harvested!" The priest said: "Come some strong ones, pull out the barley and bring it back to the tribe!"
He has researched it, and it is too troublesome to just pick the tassels. If you want to cut them off, you don't have tools, so they just let people pull them back.
"Let's pull it out!" Many people responded, and Kumano was one of them.
The priest selected some people, and Kumano was among them. Then these strong people started to pull barley. After pulling out, they piled the barley together, and finally took it to the place where pottery was made.
Although there is an open space in the valley, there is relatively little sunlight, so the barley needs to be exposed to the sun... The priest finally chose a place for firing pottery, and even leveled out a special place to dry the barley.
For the people in the tribe, plucking barley is much easier than digging eggs. It didn't take long for all the barley to be dried in the open ground.
Kumano put all the barley away, and was about to go out to hunt for Zhou Ji's extra meal, when Zhou Ji stopped him: "Kumano, help me get some barley back."
"Okay." Kumano responded, holding a wooden basin and began to pluck the ears of barley.
After a while, he pulled a pot of tassels.
"Kumano, is Zhou Ji going to make delicious food again?" Seeing this scene, the priest felt a little greedy.
"I don't know either." Kumano said, and returned to the cave with the pot of tassels.
When he returned to the cave, Zhou Ji was not there, Kumano put the wooden basin on the ground, and then found a little helplessly that his cave was a bit small.
There are more and more things in the cave. Although he has expanded the cave a bit, it is still not enough. Not only that, but there are many things in the cave that he has never noticed.
He was so busy these days that he was often away from home, so that he didn't know what was in the bottles and jars next to him.
Thinking of this, Kumano opened a wooden jar he had never seen before, and saw inside... a little bear?
Kumano looked at the cub in surprise.
With just one glance, he recognized the little bear as himself.
In their tribe, only Xiong He has the exact same animal shape as him. This little bear, which was carefully placed in a wooden jar, is obviously made by Zhou Ji. It can't be Xiong He, so it must be him!
Zhou Ji actually made such a little bear to hide!
Kumano was indescribably happy. He knew that Zhou Ji went to squeeze mud a few days ago, but he didn't expect Zhou Ji to pinch him...he wanted to squeeze Zhou Ji too.
Kumano put the wooden jar back and looked at the other jars.
Finally, he opened the jar of honey, dipped some of it with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth.
So sweet!
Kumano narrowed his eyes, then closed the lid, intending to put the honey jar back.
At this moment, he heard Zhou Ji's voice: "If you like it, eat more."
Kumano: "..." Why did Zhou Ji come back so quietly? !
Also, he can eat more... Kumano took a spoon, dug a spoonful of honey and put it in a bowl, then dipped it with his chopsticks and tasted it slowly.
Honey is really delicious!
Kumano held the bowl and asked, "Zhou Ji, what are you going to do with barley?"
"Make barley pumpkin porridge." Zhou Ji showed Kumano the pumpkin he was carrying.
The previous time he went out, he brought back pumpkins. Because there are not many pumpkins, people in the tribe can't get them for the time being, but he can eat them.
Kumano had eaten the barley porridge cooked by Zhou Ji and also eaten pumpkin, and asked, "Is this kind of porridge sweet?"
"Yes, I will put sugar." Zhou Ji said.
Kumano suddenly looked forward to it.
He has no resistance to sweet things, and he likes to eat all kinds of sweet food!
Zhou Ji said again: "However, you have to help me shell the barley first."
"Shedding?" Kumano was puzzled.
"It is to remove the outer shell." Zhou Ji said.
Kumano looked at the big pot of barley in a daze. The barley was so small, how long would it take to peel off all the shells?
Wait, what they ate last time seemed to be shelled. How long did Zhou Ji spend peeling the shell?Kumano looked at Zhou Ji with admiration.
Zhou Ji said: "If you tap lightly with a wooden stick, the upper shell can be knocked off."
Kumano tried it with a wooden stick, and accidentally broke some of the barley.
Fortunately, he did not use much force, and did not break the barley into pieces.
He studied it slowly.
In the beginning, he couldn't grasp the strength well and broke a lot of barley, but gradually, he could control his strength, not only that... He found that he could knock the barley even better by using energy.
Kumano knocked with all his concentration.
He didn't know how long he knocked, but he only knew that after a long time, he finally knocked all the barley.
At the beginning, he crushed a lot of barley, but in the end, the barley he knocked out had many husks off, but the grains were still intact.
"I've done it." Kumano said.
"It's done so quickly, it's amazing." Zhou Ji said with a smile.
Kumano was a little embarrassed: "A lot of them were smashed, and those shells were mixed in..."
"It's okay." Zhou Ji said, he rubbed the wheat grains with his hands, added water, and then all the shells floated on the water, picked up the shells and threw them away, and then poured out the water...Zhou Ji took the barley Ren poured into the pot and boiled.
A lot of barley is broken, but it doesn't really affect the porridge.
Zhou Ji was cooking slowly, and when the water boiled, he put all the pumpkins in, and then began to grill the meat for Kumano.
Cooking in a stone pot is really slow. Zhou Ji roasted all the meat for Kumano to eat, and then the porridge was ready. He added a little sugar and gave Kumano a bowl.
The porridge is sweet, the pumpkin inside is soft, and the cooked wheat kernels are even more delicious...
Kumano thinks this kind of porridge is really delicious.
But he didn't eat too much, it's better for Zhou Ji to eat this porridge!
However, as soon as he finished eating, Zhou Ji added another large spoonful to his bowl with a wooden spoon.
Kumano smiled, and drank slowly, to avoid Zhou Ji having to serve him again after he drank it all at once.
After drinking the porridge, Kumano left the cave.
He went to a place where pottery was made, and asked for a piece of clay to make Zhou Ji.
He had the image of Zhou Ji in his heart, and thought that he could pinch a lifelike Zhou Ji like Zhou Ji pinched a bear, but he didn't expect that no matter how hard he pinched it, he couldn't pinch it well.
It must be too small to carve... Kumano got an extra piece of clay and started to make it, and then found a kind of needle-like, hard plant to carve this person.
Then, the finished product is still ugly.
Kumano: "..."
When Kumano was a little depressed, Zhu Zhan, who had just returned from hunting outside, walked towards Kumano: "Kumano, why didn't you go hunting outside today?"
The barley was harvested in the morning, and Kumano should be free in the afternoon, but for some reason, he didn't go hunting.
"I have something to do." Kumano said.
"What is it? Make a clay figurine?" Zhu Zhan sat down next to Kumano, and then looked at the you that Kumano was sculpting, showing an indescribable expression—this clay figurine Kumano made too ugly!
"Yes." Kumano agreed.
"Who is this clay figurine you made?" Zhu Zhan asked again.
"I want to be a Zhou Ji." Kumano said, he was ashamed to tell Zhu Zhan that he was doing a Zhou Ji, so he could only say that he wanted to be a Zhou Ji.
Kumano wanted to be Zhou Ji, but in the end... just made such an ugly doll?Zhu Zhan was a little helpless, he didn't feel that the ugly clay figurine in front of him looked like Zhou Ji at all.
However, Kumano had a good idea: "You made this clay figurine to coax Zhou Ji, right? You have a good idea."
Kumano must be able to catch up with Zhou Ji, he must have some skills, he thinks he can learn from it.
In this way, he can coax his woman well in the future, and then let her stop beating himself!
He also wants to face the pig war!
Kumano didn't know what Zhu Zhan was thinking, he kneaded the clay figurine into mud again, and couldn't help frowning: "I can't do it well."
"Actually, it's okay." Zhu Zhan said, he felt that he couldn't pinch Kumano so well.
"Zhou Ji made it look like the real thing," Kumano said.
"He is different from us, he is the messenger of the beast god." Zhu Zhan said, Zhou Ji has real skills, they cannot compare with him, and there is no need to compare.
"That's right, Zhou Ji is very powerful." Kumano said.
Seeing Kumano's happy face, Zhu Zhan said, "You guys really have a good relationship. I hope your relationship can last forever."
"Of course, we are partners blessed by the beast god!"
"What about the partner blessed by the beast god? Isn't someone still leaving?" Zhu Zhan said.
"What nonsense are you talking about? How can a partner blessed by the beast god be separated!" Kumano said: "After forming a partner, they will be together for a lifetime."
"Is there still such a thing in your tribe?" Zhu Zhan was a little confused.
"Aren't you like this?" Kumano asked.
"Of course not." Zhu Zhan said, there are many people in their tribe who form a partner, basically two-thirds of them will find a partner for themselves when they grow up.
The vast majority of people will grow old together with their partners, but not everyone is like this. There are many people who live separately.
"How are you guys?" Kumano asked.
Zhu Zhan talked about the situation in the tribe, and said: "I have a partner, and I like her very much."
Kumano didn't pay attention to Zhu Zhan's calm face when he mentioned his partner, and only said: "You guys are mistaken, after forming a partner, they cannot be separated for the rest of their lives!"
Pig War: "..." Is there such a thing?
Zhu Zhan originally wanted to raise doubts, but thought that Zhou Ji was the messenger of the Beast God, but gave up again—maybe, this is really the case?
Zhu Zhan didn't dwell on this any longer, and was about to chat with Kumano about something else, Kumano said: "You must treat your partner well in the future, and you must not betray her, otherwise the beast god will be unhappy and will punish you."
In recent days, Zhu Zhan often goes hunting with Kumano, and the relationship with Kumano has improved. Of course, the most important thing is that their relationship has improved, because the misunderstanding has been resolved-knowing that Zhu Zhan has a partner After that, Kumano's hostility towards Pig War completely disappeared.
"Okay." Pig Zhan said.
Kumano asked again, "What does your partner like? What would you give her?"
Zhu Zhan said: "She likes to beat me and eat meat. I usually give her prey or weapons."
Kumano originally wanted to learn something from Zhu Zhan, but he didn't expect to get such an answer, and he was a little disappointed—Zhou Ji didn't like weapons, and as for the prey...who wouldn't give it away?
Kumano felt that he might not be able to make clay figurines well, and was thinking about a gift for Zhou Ji, Zhu Zhan said again: "Kumano, how does it feel to be with a man?"
"Very good." Kumano said.
Kumano almost blurted out, Zhu Zhan said: "Looks like Zhou Ji is great...he looks really good, he must be comfortable to hold, but he is a bit tall, I know a man outside, he likes men, but only likes the figure A slender and good-looking man."
Kumano was a little confused: "Slender body can still look good?" Isn't the stronger the body the better?
Zhu Zhan said: "You really... By the way, I know he will use something, do you want it? It will make you feel better."
"What?" Kumano asked.
"It's the liquid inside a fruit." Zhu Zhan said.
The more Kumano listened, the more he felt something was wrong.
What Zhu Zhan said is different from him and Zhou Ji!
Did he make a mistake when he was with Zhou Ji before?
Kumano suddenly figured it out, feeling like he was struck by lightning.
"What's wrong with you?" Zhu Zhan asked.
"Men and men together, don't they use their hands?" Kumano asked.
Pig Zhan: "..." So, what did these two people do when they became a couple? !
Zhu Zhan was a little dumbfounded, and Kumano could not wait to beat his chest - how much time did he waste? !
Kumano immediately ran to the cave.
Seeing Kumano running away, Zhu Zhan remembered what he was here for: "Kumano, you won't fight with us today?"
He is still waiting for his men to fight Kumano, and then change the seasoning!
In the end, Kumano ran away?
But he can also understand Kumano, suddenly knowing that he has had a partner for so long and hasn't eaten his partner in his mouth, everyone would be anxious!
Zhu Zhan had no choice but to go back, ready to eat the most common grilled meat rubbed with salt, but at this time, Kumano had already run into the cave: "Zhou Ji, I know something."
Zhou Ji was puzzled: "What is it?"
"It turns out that men and men should be like this..." Kumano said quickly.
Zhou Ji covered his head helplessly.
He knew that Kumano would know about this sooner or later, but he really didn't expect Kumano to know so soon.
"Who told you?" Zhou Ji asked.
Kumano said: "Pig War... Kumano, shall we try?"
Kumano has always been straightforward and bold, as he said that, he hugged Zhou Ji.
He wants to make out with Zhou Ji!
He believes that Zhou Ji must also want to make out with him!
Kumano thought so, but Zhou Ji said: "Wait, I'm a little scared."
"Afraid?" Kumano was puzzled.
Zhou Ji said: "I'm afraid of pain, so...will it hurt?"
Kumano thought about it for a while, and felt that there should be a little pain, and immediately said: "Well, you come!"
Zhou Ji: "..." Kumano was happier than he imagined!
Moreover, what he thought Kumano would insist on, Kumano did not insist.
It's just... Zhou Ji said: "I'm also afraid that you will hurt, maybe you will get hurt."
Zhou Ji said some reasons, and these reasons are all reasonable.
But he didn't agree, mainly not because of these.
When he agreed to Kumano's "marriage proposal", it was just to help Kumano, but he didn't think much about it. If Kumano came to his door at that time, he might have fallen asleep.
But now that his relationship with Kumano is getting deeper and deeper, he has many worries.
For example, does Kumano really like him?At that time, if he didn't agree, would Kumano choose someone else as his partner? If he chose someone else as his partner, would he treat that person as well as he did?
And how does he feel about Kumano?
Zhou Ji looked deeply at Kumano.
Kumano kissed Zhou Ji, and felt that Zhou Ji was so cute that he was worried about getting hurt!
Actually... how men do it should be similar?Actually it doesn't have to be that way...
"That's fine." Kumano said.
Zhou Ji: "..." Forget it?Kumano won't fight for it?
Kumano really forgot about it, after going to bed that night, he immediately fell asleep.
Zhou Ji injected a little energy into him, and fell asleep with a complicated mood, but he didn't fall asleep all night.
Waking up early the next morning, Kumano got up, ready to hunt, and when Zhou Ji followed him out of the cave, he found Zhu Zhan watching him.
Now I know who the culprit who caused him not to sleep well last night...
Zhou Ji rubbed his brows and sighed.
Seeing that Zhou Ji was walking as usual, Zhu Zhan didn't feel any abnormality at all, so he was very hard on Kumano.
But this is someone else's business, and he didn't care too much.
With this skill, he might as well try to make more boats!
These days, Zhu Zhan took a lot of small pieces of wood back to the cave where he and his men lived collectively. He wanted to build the boat that Zhou Ji had mentioned. How to deal with the predators in the game is also a big problem.
The pig war is very worrying.
And when Zhu Zhan was sad, pottery was fired for the third time in the tribe.
This time, Zhou Ji paid great attention to it. He personally put the things he made, including the little bear made of mud, into it, and then asked people to put other things in. After everything was put away, he ignited the flame again.
The fire blazed up.
That evening, when everyone was eating by the pottery pit, Zhu Zhan's subordinates asked Zhu Zhan: "Brother, do you think the Big Bear Tribe can make pottery this time?"
"Maybe, but there are definitely not many pieces." Zhu Zhan said, the high priest of the Beast Temple does not have many pottery, which means that the production of this pottery should be quite complicated for the Beast Temple.
The Beast God Temple has been making pottery for so many years, and there are very few pottery made every year. The Big Bear Tribe has only made a total of two times. What can they make?
Although Zhou Ji has been recognized as the messenger of the Beast God at this moment, Zhu Zhan still can't fully believe in the things that the big bear tribe said that the barley will ripen soon and the potatoes will grow in one day.
As for those slaves who joined the Big Bear Tribe for only ten days...
These ten days of life are simply paradise for them.
During these ten days, they could eat two meals a day, and each meal was full. Although what they ate was not meat, but mainly potatoes, this was already extremely happy for them.
These people gained weight almost at a rate visible to the naked eye.
They are very grateful to the Big Bear Tribe, but they are puzzled by the fact that the people of the Big Bear Tribe played with mud and burned the mud with fire.
When they came here last time, they were still burning, and it seemed that only some fragments were burned out in the end. It should be similar this time?
I don't know why the people of the Big Bear Tribe do this...
Everyone was very curious, and at this time, the fire finally went out, and the temperature in the pit slowly dropped.
Seeing that the fire was extinguished, Kumano was the first to jump into the "fire pit".
He saw Zhou Ji put the little bear in, and he didn't know if the little bear had been fired...
Kumano hoped that the cub would not be burned.
After he went in, he immediately wanted to see the little bear, but it was a little hot...
"Be careful." Zhou Ji reminded, and as soon as he reminded, he saw Kumano turned into a brown bear.
Kumano, who has turned into a brown bear, has rough skin and thick flesh, and is not afraid of being scalded, so he quickly took out the pottery inside.
He took out a beautifully baked little bear with surprise on his face: "It's not broken."
In fact, Zhou Ji already knew that the little bear was not broken. How could the thing he pinched and protected with his mental strength be broken?
As for the others... Zhou Ji said: "You take out the others too."
Kumano nodded, and then took out a whole clay pot.
Then, he took out the complete clay bowl, clay basin, and clay pot.
These things are very thin, except for the thick pot, everything else is very light, and it is very smooth.
Kumano had polished stone tools, and no matter how hard he polished stones, he couldn't make such a pot!
Before Zhou Ji was going to make pottery, he actually didn't understand it, he didn't know what pottery looked like, but now... Kumano looked at the pots and pans in front of him, a little excited.
These things look amazing!
"These are all ours, take them back." Zhou Ji pointed to the ones he made.
When he did this, he said that what he did was his.
"Zhou Ji, you are worthy of being favored by the beast god. None of the pots you made were broken!" the priest said excitedly.
Zhou Ji: "..."
"There are pots made by you, and even other pottery has been fired!" The priest said again, looking at the finished products except Zhou Ji's in surprise.
In the previous two firings of pottery, except that the people in the tribe had more pottery pieces for decoration, there were actually no achievements. This time it was different.
This time, in addition to Zhou Ji's, a complete pottery pot, a pottery pot with a hole missing, two pottery bowls, and a pottery pot were fired.
Compared with those made by Zhou Ji, these pottery are a bit rough to the naked eye, but even so, they are still pottery!
When the priest picked up the pottery and felt its weight, he already understood how precious it was.
Stone tools are not easy to use, especially stone pots. Every time, a lot of firewood is used to cook the contents inside, but this pot...
The priest said: "These... take them to my cave first!"
Xiong He said: "Should you just want a pot?"
"This gap is for you." The priest said.
After everyone "divided the spoils", they each returned to their caves with their things.
Then... Zhou Ji started cooking.
There are a lot of vegetables in the tribe recently, and he fried several of them.
I used to fry things in a stone pot before, and it felt really bad, and sometimes it seemed that I was cooking instead of frying. The vegetables were always overcooked by accident, or they were not cooked well no matter how I cooked them.
It's different now.
Even though cooking in this earthenware pot is not as good as an iron pot, it is better than a stone pot, not to mention that Zhou Ji also made some very large dishes.
Zhou Ji fried several vegetables in one go, and cooked barley rice with shelled barley.
Barley can be cooked directly. The cooked rice is very chewy and fragrant, but it is a bit hard, which is definitely not as good as rice.
But where there is no rice to eat, a bowl of wheat rice is also very good.
Zhou Ji hasn't eaten for a long, long time, and now he is serving serious stir-fried vegetables with rice...he has a big appetite.
As for the priest... the first thing the priest did after returning to his cave with the clay pot was to fry the meat with chili.
He was not good at cooking, but the meat he used was bacon that was salty and bland, so he wouldn't make mistakes when frying it, and after this frying, he found out how easy it was to use a clay pot.
Priests who have never used iron pots do not like clay pots for a while.
There is only Xionghe...
The patriarch Xionghe returned home and planned to cook some meat in an earthenware pot, but he put water on the fire and the whole earthenware pot cracked.
Xiong He: "..."
Seeing this, Xionghe's woman took half of a pottery pot and put it on her head, and asked Xionghe, "Do you think I look good like this?"
Xiong He said: "Looks good." He put the other half of the clay pot on his head, thought for a while, then took it off and began to polish it.
When Kumano and Zhou Ji were cooking and eating in the cave at night, Zhu Zhan was still in a daze.
The Big Bear Tribe fired pottery so quickly!
Forget about the ones taken by the priest, the pottery that Zhou Ji made and fired after he made it himself is really perfect!
Such pottery, not to mention changing dinosaurs, can even be used to exchange territories!
"I've decided!" Zhu Zhan said suddenly.
"What was decided?" Zhu Zhan's subordinates asked one after another.
Zhu Zhan said: "I want to join the Big Bear Tribe!"
He used to be the patriarch of the giant pig tribe, but he is no longer the patriarch, and he doesn't want to go back to be the patriarch.
He felt that it would be more promising to join the Big Bear Tribe.
His father didn't have much pottery, but if he stayed in the big bear tribe, he would definitely use pottery!
The more Zhu Zhan thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good idea.
One of Zhu Zhan's subordinates said: "I thought we had joined the Big Bear Tribe a long time ago, so we didn't?" Didn't they hunt with others every day?
Pig War: "..."
At the same time, Xiong Qi, Xiong Bai and the others climbed into the pottery pit together.
When they ran into each other inside, both of them were a little embarrassed, and then found a place to lie down in silence, and when they lay down...they suddenly found someone beside them.
"This is the place where the artifacts given to us by the beast gods were fired... You are also here to bask in the glory?" The priest's voice sounded.
Xiong Bai: Priest, you old man was still cooking in the cave not long ago, but now you are here, your hands and feet are really neat!