Rebirth in Another World: Beginning of the Orcs

Chapter 9: Mind and Food

Li Xia's face flushed red, with his hands behind his back, his eyes flicked left and right, but he didn't focus on Ernst.

Ever since Lixia realized that he could not return to the earth, he began to work hard to let himself get rid of Kevin's predecessor and integrate into the current life as Lixia.Whether it is meeting new friends or teaching new skills, it is the capital that allows him to gain a foothold in Al Continent.And Ernst, whether it is for Kevin or Lixia, has been with Lixia as a lover from the very beginning.At first, Li Xia's definition of Ernst was just a handsome doormat, but after getting along slowly, more and more shining points of Ernst appeared in Li Xia's eyes.

The wolf is Lixia's favorite animal for 10 minutes. Others say that the wolf is a cruel and emotionless creature, but he believes that the wolf is the most flesh-and-blood creature. It is loyal, brave, and arrogant. The overlord is also the loneliest ronin.Carried a lot, but never defended himself. When sad, he would only scream at the moon. When his partner died, he would die alone.As Ernst with a wolf-like beast body, Li Xia felt that many descriptions of wolves fit him very well.His thoughtfulness and gentleness, as well as his inner perseverance, are gradually attracting Li Xia's attention.Different from just feeling sorry for Ernst before, now Li Xia feels that he likes Ernst more or less.

Anyway, I can't go back, and besides, I like men. In this continent of Al where there are no women, Li Xia feels that he is gay.Maybe it would be a good idea to be with Ernst too.After Li Xia glanced at Ernst, the blush on his face became bigger again. It wasn't 01:30, and his hands behind his back kept stirring together.This makes him a bit like a little girl who has just started dating, shy and shy.

"It's getting late, let's go back quickly." Li Xia didn't lift his head, turned around and left after pulling the back strap.

Before catching up, Ernst took the sling from Lixia's hand and carried it on his back, holding the salt jar and following Lixia.Li Xia, who was walking in front, hurried forward a few steps, stumbled with his left foot and staggered with his right foot in a hurry, and almost fell, but at the critical moment, he corrected his posture and strode forward calmly.Only the exposed thin neck and earlobes were red.

Ernst looked at Lixia's back and smiled silently. Can he say that what happened just now was not accidental but intentional? Although wolves are very loyal, don't forget that wolves are also cunning.In the [-]th century, the Dominican priest St. Thomas Aquinas reduced the eight evils that damage personal spirituality originally written by the Greek theological monk Pang Yifa to seven, and defined them as the seven original sins, of which greed ranked third. bit.Ernst is greedy. When a person has nothing, he wants it, and when he gets it, he wants more.Lixia is such an existence to Ernst.Lixia is Ernst's salvation, liberating him from boundless pain, but now, he greedily wants more. He likes Lixia, wants to get Lixia's love, and wants to integrate Lixia into his flesh and blood.But he also knew that he couldn't be impatient, he didn't know if Li Xia would like him, so he tried little by little in his daily life.Every orc is very kind to his female, and he is even more kind to Lixia. Although these kindnesses are sincere and willing, more or less he wants Lixia to understand him through these. thoughts.Regardless of whether Li Xia has feelings for him or not, it is undeniable that Li Xia is now used to his existence and his presence.After slowly boiling the frog in warm water, Li Xia couldn't escape from his palm after all.

The two returned home one after the other.Lixia instructed Ernst to barbecue, and he got up and closed the gate, and then went back to the well to sort out the spoils he had just brought from the sea.After thinking all the way, Li Xia's mood has calmed down.Why is the big man so shy, the two of them still have a long time in the past, no matter how they develop, they have to take their time.The first problem he has to face now is how to satisfy his stomach. He hasn't had a mouthful for a long time.As for these delicious foods, it is better to close the door and enjoy them at your own house before you have figured out how to explain the origin.

Put the shrimps and crabs in a wooden basin filled with water to spit out the sand. Lixia sits on a small wooden pier to handle the oysters, takes a stone knife and inserts it through the seam of the oysters, pries the two shells up and down to make them open, and then Insert the joint between the meat and the shell, and cut the meat along the sides of the shell. The sea oyster shell is very brittle and easy to break, and the stone knife itself is not as sharp and smooth as the earth props. Six out of ten shells were broken by Lixia.While cleaning the dregs sticking to the meat repeatedly, Li Xia secretly rejoiced in his heart. Although the house is dilapidated, it is good that he has a well at home, otherwise he would be exhausted just by bringing water to the house.

Lixia peeled off the shells and cleaned the meat of the remaining shellfish, and put them on mats in the yard without shade to dry.In this way, the finished product after drying can be stored for a long time, and it can be re-soaked until it is ready to eat.

With no outsiders at home, the space on Lixia's farm came in handy.As early as the day he discovered the space, Lixia planted the seeds. At that time, he found that the land could be eradicated and planted new crops after moving the flat peaches. Because of the nature of QQ Farm, one seed on a piece of land can harvest dozens of products. Lixia planted without saying a word. I bought 24 different crops that can mature in a few days, and most of them are mature now. Since I want to cook, I can just pick them up and use them.After looking at the ripe crops on the farm, Lixia planned to cook a pot of oyster porridge, get some steamed crabs, and stir-fry spicy shrimp.

Lixia was a little worried when entering the space to harvest rice.Who doesn't know that rice has husks.Now that I don’t have any tools for pounding rice, do I have to rub them out one by one?Then we have to go to the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.But to Lixia's surprise, the rice stalks disappeared as soon as they were cut by the bone knife, and an extra oil-paper bag appeared out of thin air in the hand that was still holding the rice stalks, and when I opened it, it turned out to be white rice.Li Xia was overjoyed and turned to harvest the wheat. What surprised him even more was that there were actually two packs this time, one was milled flour and the other was wheat kernels.Looking at the three oil-paper bags in his arms, Li Xia's mouth almost reached his ears in excitement.

Lixia brought all kinds of dishes brought out from the space to Ernst to identify them one by one, especially the rice and noodles. Lixia tried to express the necessity of their existence to Ernst, and even stretched out her hand in the air when talking about excitement. Gestures come and go.That high-spirited look made Ernst feel like a small animal begging for praise from his master, so he couldn't help but also bent his eyebrows and stretched out his big palm to caress Li Xia's head.This small movement made Li Xia's neck red again.

The washed rice is boiled in clay pots with water, and Lixia puts another clay pot on the fire to prepare for steaming crabs.This meeting can reflect the benefits of a simple stove, which is convenient and easy to build, and you can get as many as you want.Lixia added water to the clay pot, and the simple grate (bamboo drawer in the steamer) woven with Domi rattan was placed on the pot, because the pot was in the shape of a big belly, and the grate was just stuck in the middle.Put all the cleaned crabs into it, and it doesn't matter if the feet are tied. Anyway, the mouth of the clay pot is curved, and the crabs can't climb up even if they want to.Use the pottery bowl placed on the side as the lid to cover the mouth of the pot and turn around to process the ingredients of spicy shrimp.Peel the potatoes and cut them into strips. The thickness is about the same as the French fries you eat in fast food restaurants. Scoop the water in the bucket to rinse the starch on the surface. Soak the potato strips in order to prevent the potatoes from oxidizing and discoloring. Cut into strips, cut the parsley into sections, and cut the dried chili into sections with your hands.Lixia uses a stone knife to cut off the shrimp's whiskers and shrimp guns, cuts the back of the shrimp to a certain depth, and removes the black shrimp thread. After the shrimp is processed, it is marinated with a small amount of salt.In the previous month, Li Xia had asked Ernst to refine the fat from the meat that was distributed into lard and store it in a jar. He had already accumulated half of the jar, so he would dig out some of it and use it without feeling like it was a waste.Lixia puts enough oil in a stone pot and heats it until it is 7% hot. Put in the shrimp when there is a little smoke, and fry it until it turns into a golden shrimp ball. Take it out.Then fry the potato strips with the remaining oil in the pan, remove and drain the oil.Use a fur rag to cover the edge of the pot and pour back the excess oil, leaving only a little base oil in the pot, add garlic slices, dried chili segments, and sauté until fragrant.Lixia put the chopped parsley and red pepper into the pot and stir well.Add fried shrimp and potato chips. Originally, there is no ginger, soy sauce, sugar, scallion, etc. that are needed to make this dish. Lixia can only put some salt on it.However, he believes that in the continent of Aer, this kind of practice alone can make the local bumpkins here feel that this dish should only be found in the sky, and it must be tasted several times in the world.

Li Xia smashed the garlic and mixed lemon juice with water to prepare the dipping sauce. Looking back at the rice porridge cooking in the earthenware pot, the rice had already boiled and blossomed, rolling up and down in the soup as the porridge opened.Li Xia took the sea oyster meat that was placed in a small bowl on the side, poured it in, lighted it with a little meat oil, and boiled it for a while before adding salt.

Ernst's barbecue over there has also passed the test. Under the guidance of Lixia's experience from reading novels in the past, Ernst brushed peach juice on the barbecue, and there was a faint smell on the fat and tender meat. The fruity aroma can't help but make people move their index fingers.The steamed crabs in the pot were almost ready. Li Xia scooped out two bowls of sea oyster porridge and put them on the wooden pier and picked up the crabs before calling Ernst over for dinner.Ernst sniffled at the food that he hadn’t tasted on this table. He had never been exposed to these flavors before. Except for the barbecue he grilled himself, the sea oyster porridge in the ceramic bowl was thick and soft The taste is matched with the smooth and tender sea oyster meat, which is full of fragrance; the red, green and yellow spicy shrimp is not only beautiful in color, but also spicy, because the shell was cut before cooking, and the Q-bomb shrimp balls are shaken gently It can fall off the shell, and when eaten with side dishes, the tip of the tongue can still feel the slight numbness after being spicy; what Ernst was most curious about was the plate of steamed crabs. Only the big pincers and the four pairs of feet are stunned, still maintaining the previous bravado.The embarrassment is that he doesn't know how to start with this dish.

Li Xia, who was sitting opposite Ernst, couldn't help being amused when he saw Ernst's way of using steamed crabs, so he offered to help him borrow crabs.Li Xia pulled off the crab's claws and legs and put them aside, opened the crab's navel and uncovered the crab cover.Lixia uses a small wooden spoon to dig all the crab roe in the middle of the crab cover into a small bowl, remove the crab lung, crab heart and crab mouth attached to the crab body, dig out the crab roe and crab paste attached to the crab body, and pour the previously prepared dipping sauce on it. , turned around and handed the small bowl to Ernst, who was watching Lixia's making, and motioned him to try it.Ernst took a spoonful and put it in his mouth, only to feel that it was thick and mellow, and the mouthfeel was dense, and it was even thicker with the dipping sauce.Li Xia looked at Ernst with a face full of enjoyment, and his subordinates also speeded up, breaking the crab body in half and tearing along the lines of the crab legs, picking out a piece of silky milky white crab meat, the crab legs that were broken off earlier After the crab claws are cooled, the meat in them will automatically separate from the crab shells, which is just right now.Lixia divided the crab legs into three sections, and the crab toes at the end temporarily acted as tools to poke out the meat section by section.The dug out crab meat was poured with dipping sauce and passed to Ernst.The taste at this moment is different from the previous crab roe, the fresh and sweet meat is firm and chewy with the taste of the sea.What made Ernst even more amazing was that those crab shells could be restored to their original state under Li Xia's hands.

It's been a long time since I had a meal like this, and Li Xia almost shed tears after eating this meal.Ernst was also deeply attracted by the different flavors.Looking at Lixia who was wolfing down his porridge, Ernst felt that his decision to take Lixia to the seaside was very correct at this moment, and it was worth it for nothing but the smile on Lixia's face at this moment.

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