Take Baidu to the Wilderness

Chapter 10 Bamboo Insect

When people who didn't know heard this movement, they thought it was some horrific thing that happened to make an old man exclaim like this. Yan Tu and Tori rushed over to have a look, and they couldn't laugh or cry.

A big dark-skinned man was actually scared back three steps by a chubby white insect with narrow eyes and a small black mouth. Even his dark complexion couldn't stop the frightened look on his face.Seeing Tori, the big man took another step back silently before explaining: "When I was just digging bamboo shoots, I suddenly saw it eating bamboo shoots."

Tori nodded to express his understanding. Mulu was most afraid of soft bugs. He just shouted when he was shocked when he saw it. This is already a great improvement.

Yan Tu glanced at the worm that could scare a big man, couldn't help laughing, and walked over to grab the fat and white worm: "This is a bamboo worm. It lives by eating young shoots. When it grows up, it is called a bamboo worm. Elephants will harm the growth of bamboo. But we can eat them all while they are still young, and bamboo worms are also an unforgettable delicacy."

When the big man named Mulu heard this, his face became even more ugly, and he almost ran away to the side with nausea.He couldn't understand at all that such a horrible and squishy bug could be a delicious food.

But other people were very interested. After hearing this, Tori specially cut a piece of bamboo and took the small knots to make a bamboo tube and handed it to Yan Tu to paint the insects.By the way, make all the remaining bamboo joints into bamboo tubes. Except for Muru, everyone else is equipped with one. When digging bamboo shoots, if you see bamboo insects, you can grab the stuffing.While preventing the bamboo from being harmed in the future, another kind of delicacy is obtained.

Because there are too many treasures and delicacies found in this small bamboo forest, knowing that another delicious food that is famous for its good nutrition and rareness will not appear in this small bamboo forest, Yan Tu is still a little bit unwilling and plans to go everywhere. Look around and try your luck.

The clansmen continued digging bamboo shoots and catching bamboo insects, and Tori followed Yan Tu and continued to keep his eyes open in the forest and look around.What Yan Tu is looking for this time is the bamboo flower, known as the bamboo bird's nest, which he has been famous for a long time in modern times but has never seen.

Bamboo flowers only grow in the dense forest deep in the bamboo forest, and the temperature and humidity must be suitable. Once there is a slight difference between the two, it will disappear automatically.

Yan Tu was just looking for it with the idea that if he had it, he would be lucky, and if he didn't have it, he would lose it, so he went all over the bamboo forest, and everyone dug up almost all the bamboo shoots, but he didn't find it, so he wasn't too disappointed.Originally, although the disordered growth cycle of crops in this time and space is unreasonable, but bamboo flowers are such rare treasures that have such strict requirements on the living environment, so it is normal to find them.

Thinking of this, Yan Tu was lost for a while, before Tori could figure out how to comfort him, he revived with blood on the spot, got together with the clansmen, chatted and went back home.

Tori stood where he was, looking helplessly at Yan Tu's back in the bamboo forest, withdrew his hand that was about to pat him on the shoulder to comfort and encourage him, and chased after him.

When we came out of the forest, we passed the wild fruit forest and met other tribesmen who were digging wild vegetables, so we all went back together.

After returning to the tribe, because he didn't go hunting in the afternoon, Tori simply distributed all kinds of food he got in the afternoon and announced his disbandment.

Everyone went back to each house with their things, and Yan Tu and Tori went back to the cave side by side.Originally, Yan Tu wanted to make salty bamboo shoots and pork head meat. Although it was still long before dinner, Yan Tu could not restrain the itching of his hands. He carried the wild vegetables, bamboo shoots, bamboo worms, bamboo fungus, and bamboo Sundan got into the kitchen.

Tori seldom cooks. After all, most of the clan eat together, so his kitchen is very simple, not even the most basic kitchen utensils are complete.Of course, other people's families are not much better.Yan Tu looked at the abundant ingredients, and then at the lone utensils that could be counted on one hand, covered his eyes in pain, and couldn't bear to look directly.

Thinking of the embarrassing problems encountered during cooking at noon today, Yan Tu felt that other things are not considered important now, but pottery must be put on the agenda.No matter what, he had to make it as soon as possible. He could no longer bear the stone pot that would take half a day to boil water; the bamboo tube that was used as a bowl, but its caliber was so small that it was not much bigger than a cup; he wanted to To decorate things, I can only find out that there is no other choice except tree bags.If such a ghostly life continues, he might as well become a ghost directly!

After roaring crazily in his heart, Yan Tujuan was in a state of resignation, and in the end he honestly thought about how to use limited tools to make as much delicious food as possible.

Apart from a grill, firewood, flint, and stone knives, there were no other tools in the kitchen.Fortunately, today I cut a lot of bamboo to make bamboo tubes, and I don't think I don't have any utensils to hold things.

Yan Tu looked around the kitchen, gave Tori the task of finding a stone to grind into a pot, and kicked him out.After finishing all this, Yan Tu took some ingredients and a few bamboo tubes out of the cave and walked towards the stream.

Remove the bamboo shoots and wash them.Dictyophora and bamboo fungus eggs were also washed separately. After washing, put them back into bamboo tubes and soak them in clean water, and filled the other diabolo tubes with water for later use. After finishing, Yan Tu carried these things back.

Although there are few things in the kitchen of Tori's house, fortunately, there is still salt.Use a sharpened stone knife as a kitchen knife, cut the bamboo shoots into slices, put them in a bamboo tube filled with water and soak them in salt, because Tori hasn’t come back yet, and there is no pot, so the next step is temporarily stranded. For cutting pork head meat.In modern times, he once helped his mother when she was cooking pig's head meat, and he was very familiar with the steps of cutting pig's head, so it was done quickly.

Putting the cut pork head meat into the tree bag, Yan Tu began to cut the bamboo fungus eggs.Dictyophora eggs are not the same as bamboo fungus eggs. Dictyophora eggs are not easy to taste, so they need to be cut into lotus shapes one by one, so that the taste can penetrate and blend in.

Although it is not difficult to cut, but the tools are not strong enough. I am used to stainless steel knives, but I suddenly switch to stone knives. Even though they are very sharp, Yan Tu still feels a little blunt.The stone knife is heavy and blunt, and it is not easy to cut the slippery bamboo fungus eggs. At least for Yan Tu, he did not cut the last bamboo fungus egg until Tori ground the stone into a stone pot and carried it back into the kitchen. .

Putting down the stone knife, Yan Tu took over the clean stone pot and placed it on the grill with the help of Tori.This stone pot is relatively small, about half a meter long, half a meter wide, and half a meter deep, so the grill can still support it and not spread out.

After finishing the stone pot, Tori took the initiative to pick up the flint to start a fire, and Yan Tu asked while pouring the salted bamboo shoots into the pot, "Where did you get such a big stone pot? Fresh grinding is not so fast." Originally, Yan Tu thought that it would be great if he could grind out a stone pot the size of a modern casserole before dinner, but he didn't expect Tori to give him such a surprise.

"It just so happens that it is different from the one you picked up on the bank of the stream at noon. This one was picked up by me in the stream, probably because the water has been flowing down, and it has been impacted year after year and day after day. , part of this stone is sunken in the bottom of the stream, part of it is exposed to the water surface, and the remaining two sides are protected by other small stones, so the middle of the stone is sunken by the impact of water, but the surroundings are fine, forming a natural pot. I fished it out After getting up, polish it a little and then take it back to use, and the speed is naturally fast."

How lucky!Yan Tu was amazed, in fact, both of them were lucky, they picked up a natural stone pot casually and came back.But even so, it could not shake his determination to burn pottery.

Now is not the time to think about this, Yan Tu regained his composure and added a handful of salt to the pot.Except for a little water, the rest of the stone pot was bamboo shoots and salt. Toli lit a fire, because there was little water in the pot, and it was boiled dry in a short time.

Yan Tu does not put much salt, so the salty bamboo shoots are not too salty.Originally I wanted to make fried pork head meat with salted bamboo shoots, but unfortunately, I searched the kitchen and couldn’t find the necessary oil for cooking, so I had to change the frying to stewing in frustration.Fortunately, although these two dishes have different tastes, they are both equally delicious, so Yan Tu was not too disappointed. He quickly poured pork head meat and water into the pot and started to stew.

Tori's fire was burning fiercely, especially after smelling the aroma, it increased the firepower even more.It didn't take long for the soup in the pot to start bubbling and boiling, and the soup was getting less and less.

Seeing that the heat was almost ready, Yan Tu took the largest bamboo tube and started to stew the pork head with salted bamboo shoots.However, because there are too few kitchen utensils and there is no spatula, Yan Tu tried to replace it with a stone knife, but unfortunately the stone knife was not easy to handle, and he had just scooped up two pieces of pig head meat, and before they were put into the bamboo tube, they fell back tremblingly In the stone pot.

Yan Tu didn't believe in this evil, tried several times, but still failed, then he was out of breath, took a bamboo tube and asked Tori to split it in half with a stone knife, and then used half of the bamboo slices to shovel the meat, and it went smoothly a lot of.

After scooping up all the stewed pork head meat with salty bamboo shoots in the pot and putting them into the bamboo tube, Yan Tu put the bamboo tube aside, rinsed the stone pot with clean water, put the pork ribs in and added clean water to start stewing.

Although most of the pork ribs that Toli and Yantu got this time were spare ribs, the advantage was that the quantity was large, and the taste was good enough to still fill them up.After everyone shared most of the good meat at noon, the rest was given to families with the elderly, children and women.Adult males who are single get all kinds of meaty bones such as spare ribs and tube bones.

This is the default rule in the clan, and no one will object to it.When young and middle-aged men are going to hunt and food is in short supply, the old, weak, women and children will take the initiative to save more than half of the food to feed the young and middle-aged men, so as to ensure that they have enough strength to fight wild animals and will not lose their physical strength due to hunger. No defeat, injury or even death.But in normal times, when food is plentiful and everyone can eat enough, young and middle-aged men will choose to eat poor food for themselves, and give the good food that is easy to digest and swallow to the old and weak women and children.

Even the patriarch must abide by this rule, and Yan Tu is no exception, even if he has an unusual status, it is the same for Abu Kuna, so the meat they got this time is three ribs and a pig's head.Well, it turned out to be a tiger head.

The pork ribs were stewed for a while, Yan Tu added some bamboo fungus and bamboo fungus eggs and continued to stew.

When the smell of bamboo stalks mixed with the pork ribs came out, Yan Tu waited for a while to prevent the ribs from being cooked and clogging his teeth before announcing that he was done.

The soup is ready, and there was another dish - fried bamboo worms, but because there is no oil at home, this dish can only be postponed temporarily.Wait until tomorrow to recapture the prey, and then collect the dripping grease to fry it while grilling.

Although there were only two dishes, fortunately, the portions were sufficient, and both of them ate with gusto.

Yan Tu is because of the long-lost salty bamboo shoots and pork head meat. Although it is not fried, it is also comforting.After all, he hadn't eaten this dish since his parents passed away.

Unlike Yantu, Tori is purely obsessed with delicious food.It is also stewed pork ribs. The one at night is much more delicious than the one at noon. The ribs are soft and rotten, and the bamboo fungus is delicious. Occasionally, I get a bamboo fungus egg. It feels smooth and tender in the mouth, and it also brings some The fragrance of bamboo.Chewing and drinking a sip of the hot soup that is full of the essence of these three ingredients, the taste is so good that people can't help sticking out their tongues and licking their lips stained with soup, and they don't want to waste a little bit.

The pork ribs soup with bamboo fungus is delicious, and the stewed pork head with salty bamboo shoots is also delicious.The saltiness of the bamboo shoots is just right, and the meat is even more fragrant and delicious, fat but not greasy.There were only two courses in this meal, but Tori wanted to swallow them with his tongue.

Tori's performance satisfies Yan Tu's vanity as a cook. What could be more proud than a dish made without kitchen utensils and seasonings, which still makes people unable to stop eating?

After eating, Yan Tu cocked his tail, and maintained this posture to wash the dishes with Tori.It wasn't until after washing the things and coming back that Yan Tu's frightened state of mind eased up.Ahem, it was because everyone was too calm during the noon meal, which caused him to lose his composure just after he regained his pride as a chef.

In fact, it wasn't that everyone was too calm at that time, but that they were all too good at disguising.It's a pity that Yan Tu doesn't know the truth yet!

Back in the cave, the fire was still extinguished, and the sky was getting dark, just enough to keep the light on.

By the light of the fire, Yan Tu laid out animal skins on the ground after putting away the tableware, and placed the uncooked bamboo fungus, bamboo fungus eggs and wild vegetables on it to dry. Now that it is dark and there is no sun, these fungus The vegetables and wild vegetables can only be left overnight in this way, and then moved outside to dry when the sun comes out tomorrow morning.

However, generally speaking, the taste of fungi will only improve after drying, but wild vegetables are different. Not only will they lose some nutrients after drying, but they cannot be directly dried when dried.

But it was tomorrow. Yan Tu climbed into bed first and closed his eyes. Tori put out the fire and then went to bed.

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