Xia Cao’s eyes showed doubt, “Why does the Witch ask this? Isn’t this something that everyone knows?”
Everyone knows it?
“Is that so……” Lu Yu frowned in thought.
“Xia Cao, Witch!” A skinny dark-skinned boy ran in and said happily, “The meat has been divided. The King called you to come out and eat.”
Xia Cao put down her things and stood up, “Okay.”
Lu Yu also stood up.
The little boy looked up at Lu Yu with stars in his eyes, “Witch, they say that you make things appear and disappear out of nowhere, and can also heal injuries.”
He scratched his hair, looking annoyed, “It’s all because I ran out to catch the rabbit just now, and couldn’t see it.”
Lu Yu thought for a while, and held out his hand in front of him, palm up.
A small red pill suddenly appeared.
“For you. If you get hurt while catching rabbits, eat it.”
The boy’s eyes widened in surprise, “Really, are you really giving it to me?!”
Lu Yu nodded with a smile.
“Thank you, Witch!” The boy took the pill, held it carefully in his palm, turned, and ran out, with his fist raised, “Mum! Look at what the Witch gave me!”
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“Witch, such a precious thing……” Xia Cao was worried.
Lu Yu smiled, “It’s alright. This pill was originally meant to heal their wounds.”
Moreover, this was dropped by a rabbit killed by Shan Pu. It was a result of their cooperation. It was only natural to be used by the Matai people.
Outside the cave.
The once huge mammoth corpse was now nothing more than a bloody skeleton, which looked quite appalling at first sight.
All the Matai people sat on the ground, with a clean leaf in front of them, on which lay a piece of red and white raw meat, still dripping with blood.
“Witch, come and sit here.” Shan Pu, who was sitting next to King Matai, stood up and waved his hand at Lu Yu.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Lu Yu felt that something was wrong, and when he heard his shout, he walked over without thinking.
Along the way, he received countless glowing stares, especially from the pile of children where the little boy was just now. Everyone looked at Lu Yu excitedly, like a row of puppies, almost wagging their tails.
Shan Pu pointed to a piece of meat placed in the lower right hand of King Matai, “Witch, this is the tenderest meat we have prepared for you. I don’t know if you can eat it or not. If you don’t eat it, there are still a few fruits, but it’s better to eat meat. Eat meat will make you full, and have the strength……”
“Wait!”
Lu Yu finally realized what was wrong.
……There was no firewood here?
Lu Yu asked dryly, “This meat…… just eat it like this? Eat it raw?”
“That’s right……” Shan Pu scratched his head, “Could it be that the Witch wants to eat it with fire?”
Of course! Drill wood for fire! Barbecue! Your language is so developed, don’t tell me you don’t understand!
Lu Yu forced a smile on his face, “Yes.”
Shan Pu said distressedly, “But we don’t know how to make a fire, and the clansmen who can make a fire are gone……” In the end, he pouted, “What’s so delicious about roasted meat? It tastes bitter and dry, and it’s not easy to bite, it’s better to eat it directly.”
Lu Yu was speechless, “Then…wouldn’t your body feel uncomfortable if you ate like this?”
Shan Pu said innocently: “No way——ouch.”
Xia Cao slapped him away and said worriedly, “Yes, we will be weak every once in a while, and we will not be able to eat. We will vomit out after eating, and it will take two or three days to recover. In the past…… this was not the case when there were clansmen who helped to barbecue.”
Eating raw meat every day, even Iron Man can’t handle it.
But Lu Yu understood. The Matai tribe is a race with strict discipline and a very clear division of labor. These people who managed to escape at the beginning are estimated to only know to hunt and kill, and their eyes are smeared black1上是两眼一抹黑(Two eyes are black) a common saying, meaning to be ignorant of the surrounding situation in terms of logistics.
It is clear that the cave is neatly taken care of, but they wear crude animal skin skirts and use wooden sticks as weapons. They don’t even have a stone hammer.
Now they can’t even make a fire, and they still enjoy eating raw meat for more than ten years.
Very unenterprising2的不思进取了make no attempt to make progress.
Lu Yu had no choice but to turn his head and say to King Matai who was sitting with a Golden Sword of Dama3大马金刀(dà mǎ jīn dāo/Golden Sword of Dama)means in a bold and imposing manner; not a real sword: “King, I can make a fire. Shall I cook meat for everyone? You will get sick if you eat raw meat.”
Before King Matai could say anything, the Matai people who had been sitting quietly below began muttering.
“Our Witch is so powerful. He can even make fire!”
“But the Witch wants a barbecue, I don’t want to eat barbecue……”
“Yes, I don’t want to eat it either. It’s too unpalatable……”
“Although eating raw meat will be uncomfortable, but we won’t feel pain, ah.”
“If the Witch wants to eat barbecue, just give it to the Witch, but we won’t eat it.”
“Anyway, even if I can’t eat for three days, and can only lie on the grass bed unable to move, I still won’t eat a bite of barbecue.”
“Me too……”
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Lu Yu smiled politely.
Very good. His Lu family has been Royal chefs for generations and has made countless delicacies, which can even satisfy the emperor’s dragon’s belly and make the child next door cry4隔壁小孩都饞哭了(The children next door were crying)means that the food is cooked so well that children want to eat it and cry when they smell it. Ever since he learned to cook, no one has said the word ‘unpalatable’ in front of him.
Today, I experienced it.
King Matai ignored the mutterings of his tribe, and said lightly, “Do it.”
Lu Yu nodded and turned to let the Matai go pick up some branches and stones.
The Matai people did not dare to disobey the king’s order, and they all got up to look for it.
But they have made up their minds to never eat the barbecue made by the Witch.
Anyway, King can’t stuff the meat into their mouths!
Lu Yu made a simple bonfire by forming a circle with stones and putting flammable branches and leaves in the middle. Then two thick Y-shaped branches were inserted on either side of the campfire as a barbecue grill.
He asked Shan Pu to thread the meat prepared for him on a long branch.
Shan Pu hesitated, “Witch, why don’t you roast other meat first?”
It’s not that he’s reluctant to give the meat. It’s okay to give the Witch as much meat as he wants, but this piece of meat has the freshest and most ten, and there’s not much fishy smell. In case it was roasted but the Witch did not want to eat it anymore, it would be gone.
Lu Yu’s face remained expressionless, “Just use this.”
“Ok, ba……”
Aggrieved, Shan Pu went to the side to skewer the meat.
Lu Yu took out his back basket from the ring and took out two flints from the basket.
Fortunately, the game panel told him that this kind of stone could make fire. He was a little unskilled at first, but now he is much better.
He gripped the two stones, struck them together a few times, and a little spark landed on an extremely flammable leaf. The leaves suddenly burst into a small flame. He protected the small flame with his hand and put it in the branches and leaves that were piled up in the campfire.
The fire started.
The Matai raise their hands and cheer beside him.
Lu Yu dialed the flame, adjusted the height of the Y-shaped branches, took the giant meat skewers skewered by Shanpu, and placed them horizontally.
“Ai? Witch, why don’t you put the meat in the fire? Shan Pu hurriedly stopped him.
Lu Yu: ? ? ?
Shan Pu instructed earnestly, “That way the meat can be cooked well.”
……I dare say that what you have been eating is charred meat, right?
Lu Yu pushed his hand away.
Lu Yu twirled the skewered branches, roasted them for a while, and then took out a few important items from the back basket.
Salt stone powder, pepper seeds, wild pepper.
These things were sealed in hollow wood by him. They are all the treasures he found in the past ten days.
Seeing that the meat had been roasted a little brown and its oily juices flowed out, he used a thin branch to poke a few holes in the meat and sprinkled salt, pepper, and ground wild pepper evenly over the meat.
The meat, which originally had only a faint meat aroma, suddenly burst out with a rich, slightly pungent fragrance.
The onlookers swallowed their saliva involuntarily.
“Witch, What did you sprinkle? The barbecue smells different after sprinkling it on……”
“It smells so fragrant……”
Lu Yu continued to roast the meat patiently.
The barbecue looked simple. It seems that as long as the meat is put on the rack, it is enough to brush some seasoning in small amounts many times, but in fact, this is not the case. To roast such a large piece of meat with uneven texture, it is necessary to carefully grasp the time of roasting each side of the meat.
Only when the meat is cooked in the right places, can it be roasted deliciously, cooked but not overcooked.
As the seasoning penetrates the meat little by little, the meat on the fire becomes more and more fragrant.
The sound of the Matai people swallowing their saliva got louder and louder.
“Witch,” Shan Pu wiped the corner of his mouth, “Is it cooked? How about I help you taste it?”
As soon as he spoke, he immediately received contemptuous eyes and righteous words from all directions.
“Shan Pu, you just said that the barbecue is bitter and dry, not delicious at all!”
“Don’t try to deceive the Witch!”
“Go away!”
Shan Pu.
Did he say that?!
Taking advantage of the opportunity of Shanpu being crusaded, a few little radish heads sneaked in.
Compared to the adult Matai people who were like eight hundred ducks at every opportunity, the little Matai were very well-behaved. They didn’t speak, only biting their fingers, and watched eagerly.
Lu Yu saw that the roast was almost done, so he cut off a piece of meat with a thin stone, and brought it near the mouth of the youngest girl who looked to be only seven or eight years old, and said with a smile, “Open your mouth.”
The girl’s eyes lit up. She raised her head and tried to open her mouth wide, “Ah——”
Lu Yu blew on the meat twice and put it into her mouth.
“Woo woo!”
The girl covered her bulging mouth with both hands, her eyes were wet.
Lu Yu frowned, “Is it hot?
The girl shook her head vigorously, afraid that the meat would fall out, she held her chin and said incoherently, “Good!!”
It was so delicious that tears appeared in her eyes.
Lu Yu rubbed her fluffy head and smiled.
The young man smiled gently, and the light of the campfire danced in the corners of his lips and eyes, casting a soft orange glow on his fair skin.
The girl looked at him vaguely through her tears.
The bottom of her heart is as happy as a little sparrow.
Their Witches is so nice.
“Witch, Witch, I want to eat too.”
“I also want to……”
“I also……”
The little Matais, who were originally quiet, couldn’t help it when they looked at the fragrant appearance of the little girl.
Shan Pu, who shrank to the side, poked his head out suddenly, “I want to eat too!”
Lu Yu looked at the Matai people around him who also showed longing expressions, feeling a little helpless, “I don’t bring enough seasoning. It’s no problem for everyone to take a bite and let the children eat the rest, okay?”
The Matai people, no matter how hungry they are, will leave food for the little Matai. So no one has an opinion, besides, everyone can get a bite, right?
The Matai people are optimistic and easily satisfied.
Lu Yu called Xia Cao and another female Matai, and the three of them gave each adult Matai a small piece of meat.
The roasted mammoth meat is fatty and tender with golden and crispy skin. The pink meat inside melts after chewing twice, and the salty and mellow gravy slowly flows from the tip of the tongue to the throat……
Shan Pu took the meat in his mouth and as soon as his throat rolled, before he could even chew, the meat went directly into his stomach.
He was dumbfounded and looked pitifully at his clansmen.
The other Mata people ignored him. They are so excited by the deliciousness of the meat that they can’t wait to lick all the barbecue sticks.
“It’s delicious!”
“I really want to eat some more.”
“Let’s go find the seasonings for the Witch tomorrow.”
“Good, good, I feel more motivated to hunt!”
Lu Yu sat on the Nala grass and ate his share of the seasoned meat. Originally, he wanted to let the little Matais eat it, anyway, it was not the first time he ate it, and he was not greedy, but the Matai people strongly disagreed. The little Matai also said that this is the labor of the Witch. If the Witch doesn’t eat, they will also not eat.
Lu Yu had no choice but to accept it, thinking about it while eating.
He certainly can’t cook so many meals for the Matai people by himself, and he has to follow Tai Lie and the others to hunt and collect treasures, so there’s no time. He should quickly teach some Matai how to barbecue and season.
He thought about a lot of things, and before he knew it, he finished eating the meat, biting the leaf and almost swallowing it.
“Pei, pei, pei5spiting sound.” Lu Yu spat out the bitter leaves.
A big hand stretched out holding a leaf with a piece of meat on it, “Take it.”
Lu Yu raised his head. From this angle, one can see the perfect eight-pack abs, a deep wound like a ravine on the abs, and a mermaid line hidden behind the animal skin skirt. The strong male hormones burned his eyes.
Tai Lie stood tall and majestic, his expression still as cold and serious as before.
Lu Yu looked away embarrassedly, and looked at the meat in his hand, “Is this…for me?”
“Um.”
Lu Yu’s ears felt inexplicably hot, and waved his hand, “No, no need, I’m full.”
“The leaves are not edible.” Tai Lie put the meat in front of him, turned, and left.
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Holding the meat, Lu Yu was in a delicate mood.
Night.
A gust of evil wind blew away the lingering aroma of barbecue into the distance.
Lu Yu couldn’t fall asleep, turned over, paused for a few seconds, and then quietly raised his eyes to look up to the right.
Tai Lie closed his eyes, leaning his back against the stone wall, sitting on the ground, with one long leg bent, his right hand grasping the wooden stick, maintaining a vigilant posture ready to stand up and fight at any time.
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How can he sleep well like this? Isn’t this being too cautious? Isn’t there someone guarding the entrance of the cave……
Lu Yu was thinking wildly when suddenly he heard a thunderous roar.
“Wolves Attack——”
