Free Web NovelChapter 2132: Chapter 1553: Wait! I’ll Dig Up My Grandpa’s Grave Right Now...
"What are you talking about, cattle and horses? I can’t understand... This bowl used to be my Amma’s large bowl. I didn’t even remember much when he died, and it became my large bowl! How did he die? Hunting, he ran into other Tribes, got smashed to death with a hammer. At least he left a corpse, wasn’t taken to be eaten... Then, I’ve been using this large bowl to eat, can eat two bowls in a meal! But eating two bowls is impossible, because there isn’t that much food in the tribe..."
"What to eat? Usually, it’s half a bowl of more watery stuff in spring, a full bowl of dry stuff in summer, and only half a bowl of watery stuff less than usual in winter. The best time is autumn, when there are more prey, easier to catch, plus Acorns and barnyard grass, can eat two bowls of dry stuff... Now it’s summer, and we didn’t catch any prey this time. If it weren’t for you bringing food, today we’d only eat half a bowl of watery stuff..."
The Turuting Mountain Guard can station a thousand people, so the fortress is quite large. Even if half of the buildings collapsed, it wouldn’t be a problem to house five hundred people and horses. But right now, counting a horse-buying group of a hundred and fifty people, and more than a hundred tribespeople, altogether it’s around three hundred people, making the village seem empty.
The evidence Ming Army left behind was quite intact, mainly because the roof was solid and wouldn’t leak on rainy days, so it stored plenty of dry firewood collected by the Du’erbi Tribe. However, Tribes typically don’t cook in the mess hall and prefer to cook in the fire pit outside. Hmm, everyone watches the food go into the pot and watches the food get distributed, feeling at ease.
As for stealing food? Stealing is impossible, there’s no way to steal food in this lifetime. If Tribespeople are caught stealing food, once discovered, they’re basically beaten to death and start over in the next life. Hungry? There’s no solution to hunger; who isn’t hungry? Even Chieftain Wudou Wen is hungry in five out of six meals over three days. Hmm, three days, six meals, two a day. Which good family eats three meals a day? In the Tribes, especially in winter, it’s the hardest, truly exhausting mountains and endless ice and snow hunger. Which winter hasn’t claimed a life? But no matter how hungry, one can’t steal food! Food must be kept for men capable of hunting and pregnant women, or the tribe can’t continue.
"Stockpile food? Where can you store food? From the long winter to spring, everyone suffers from hunger, with eyes green like a starving bear! I’m the most capable, most hunting-savvy chieftain, and naturally, I eat the most, but I still can’t eat enough. If it’s women and children, they can only eat a little... Hunting? How can you catch big prey every day? It’s impossible in autumn; there aren’t so many deer and wolves in the forest! Usually, it’s various Teeth Crispy, sour crispy, crunch together and boil them to eat... Must be boiled to eat, or you can’t get through! As for Teeth Crispy and poke mouth crispy, that’s still better, quite fragrant, and good to digest after eating, but not much..."
Under the gaze of the three leaders, Du’erbi Tribe Chieftain Wudou Wen holds the "helmet bowl" in one hand, digging in with the other, eating big mouthfuls without wasting a moment. He spoke indistinctly, Ali didn’t quite understand, but Maha Agudah had previously taken the Tribes southward, truly eating raw and drinking blood, sleeping on snow and eating ice, enduring through hunger and cold. As soon as he heard Wu Xiong’s description, he instantly understood and laughed.
"Ancestor! That’s the saying in the forest tribes... Teeth Crispy is wild vegetables! In spring it’s fern and shepherd’s purse, wild asparagus, in summer it’s Chenopodium, bittercress, yellow daylily, wild garlic, Watercress, in autumn, there are only Ma Lian Roots in the earth... Right! The taste is all bitter, only the yellow daylily slightly sweet. Hmm, doesn’t really fill up, fern and Ma Lian Root slightly better, but far worse than barnyard grass..."
"Sour crispy is wild fruits! Only available in summer and autumn, you dry them to store as much as possible for the winter. Blueberry, mountain grapes, thick plum, hawthorn, Black Fruit, all sour and astringent, no animals to compete, easy to find... Apples taste better, a bit sweet, but often bitten by birds and chewed by deer, so quite rare. Naturally, the best are autumn’s pine nuts, hazelnuts, and Acorns! These genuinely stave off hunger, not just bluffing the stomach, good stuff that can satisfy!... During autumn hunting, we follow squirrels to find their nests, scoop out their stored nuts. As for the squirrel meat, although fragrant and tender, only a handful, just two bites, and gone..."
"Crunch described as bugs! What bugs can be eaten? Locusts, silkworm pupae, beetle larvae, stick insect larvae, tree beetle larvae... Soft and delicious, all roasted or boiled to eat, crunchy with the shell! The tastiest? It’s definitely horsefly and queen bee larvae! Eating them brings a bit of sweetness, soft and tender, and wriggle in the mouth... Right! Eating raw is fine! Then scoop out the honey from the beehive, that’s the real good stuff, can be used for wounds... How to scoop? Smear a layer of Mud on your body, then smoke them out. Be careful not to set the hive on fire, leave the Queen Bee, don’t hurt her. So come back in a few months, and you can scoop again..."
"As for Teeth Crispy, that’s barnyard grass, boiled to eat still gritty, like eating sand, inferior to this smooth Potato Mud. You said it can be ground? Haven’t tried it, too troublesome, no tools, mostly just boil and mash a bit... Haha! Poke mouth crispy, that’s fish! Our Maha Tribe is named after fish, best at catching Big Mahayu! Fish can’t be eaten raw, Lake God doesn’t like it, stomach rumbles death. However, after frozen, eating raw is fine, also the most important winter food... Chief Divine sees! Our Maha Tribe’s main tent in the future must be set by Big Sea producing fish, that’s where we can nurture cattle and horses and fish!..."
