Chapter 89 Snacks (2)

"Look at Brother Xu Que! This kind of backpack has wide straps, it's so comfortable to wear on my shoulders, it doesn't feel tight at all! You know what? The animal skin food bag I was carrying had a narrower strap, and the animal skin shrinks even more when it dries, making it even narrower. The narrower it is, the more it hurts my skin! I don't dare to carry too much stuff! Look at my shoulder, there's still a red mark here! It hurts so much!" Hou held the brown leather backpack in one hand and used the other hand to lift up her clothes on her shoulders for Xu Que to see.

Xu Que took out a spray for treating sprains and bruises that he had previously exchanged and stored in the system's exchange shop warehouse, and sprayed it on the red and swollen area of ​​Hou's shoulder: "Are there any more of these red marks on your other shoulder?"

Upon hearing Xu Que's words, Hou pulled down the shirt on his other shoulder: "There shouldn't be any red marks on this shoulder, right? I can't feel any pain! There shouldn't be!"

"Hmm! Just a little bit! Let me spray some on for you!" Xu Que picked up the bruise spray and sprayed it on Hao's shoulder!

"Wow! What is this? It's so refreshing! Spraying it on will relieve the pain a lot! It's great!" After waiting for Xu Que to finish spraying it on her, Hou gently pulled up her clothes that had fallen off her shoulder.

Xu Que handed Hou a spray specifically for sprains and bruises: "Here! Put it in your bag! Spray it wherever it hurts! I feel like it's quite useful!"

"Okay!" Hou put it away and then continued to explain to Xu Que her experience using the backpack that Xu Que had given her.

Hou fiddled with the buckle on the brown leather backpack and touched it with his hand: "Brother Xu Que, look, the leather is really good! It's delicate, smooth and soft! Look! There's a layer of brown velvet here! It feels so comfortable to touch! Just like Brother Xu Que's face! Touching this feels just like your stubble!"

"I don't believe my face is that rough," Xu Que said, reaching out and touching the spot where Hou was touching.

"Not here, you pig! You're so stupid! You touched the wrong place! It's here!" Hou pulled Xu Que's hand, which had touched the wrong spot, and placed it on the softer, smoother leather so that he could feel it again!

"How about it? This spot here is just as soft as your face! Isn't it? I told you so, didn't I?"

"Hmm! This is more like it," Xu Que nodded at Hou.

"Hmm! Look inside! What's inside? This thing feels like leather, but it's not leather at all. What is it? This is the first time I've ever seen something like this!" Hou turned the brown leather bag that Xu Que had given her inside out and gently rubbed the contents of the bag with her fingers as she spoke to Xu Que.

"This is synthetic fiber fabric! It feels quite smooth to the touch, right?" Xu Que shouted.

"Hmm! It is indeed very smooth! Brother Xu Que, look, there are tiny patterns on it. This is the first time I've ever seen such patterns! Yesterday I opened it and didn't see any of these little flowers inside the bag, but I saw them today!"

Hou continued pointing to the zipper on the side pocket of the bag and said to Xu Que, "This zipper is quite smooth! It's nice! It's convenient!"

"Okay! That's my introduction! In conclusion, the bag is pretty useful! I guess there's nothing else to say besides that it's useful!"

Xu Que jokingly said to Hou, "Now that you've talked about your experience with the bags, what about your experience with the clothes and shoes? Aren't you going to tell me?"

"Alright! Since Brother Xu Que is so eager to hear it, I'll take off my shoes and tell you all about it properly once I get to the tribe!" Hou said, then opened his mouth wide and burst into laughter.

Led by Hua, the primitive people of the Black Deer tribe were cooking beef in a large iron pot!

Not far from the tribe, Hou and Xu Que smelled the aroma of meat wafting over, and a surge of hunger rose in their hearts: "We've been walking for so long! I suddenly feel hungry!" While waiting for the meat to cook, Hou scooped a piece for himself and Xu Que and took the bowl to the open space next to them to eat.

In Hagang and Pingyao, meat is always grabbed directly by hand, without any tools!

Apart from Hagang and Pingyao, the other tribe members used chopsticks made of wood and branches to slowly scoop the meat out of the large iron pot piece by piece!

After finishing their meal, everyone entertained themselves in their own preferred ways.

Two members of the Black Deer tribe, their heads shaved from being yelled at, played rock-paper-scissors while they were bored after a meal. The winner flicked the loser's forehead.

"Hahaha, you lost! I'll flick you to death!"

"Hahaha! It's finally my turn! I'll flick you to death!"

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Not far from the tribe, in an open space, a group of tribesmen who had eaten their fill gathered together to play cockfighting.

Closer by, a group of slightly older members of the tribal community were playing mahjong together.

A group of children were playing a rope game not far away!

There was another group of people seriously jumping rope on the side.

The two primitive children started fighting while playing.

The little girl with pigtails pounced on the little boy with his pigtails sticking up! The little boy didn't fight back, he just kept crying loudly.

When Hou saw this, he quickly ran over and separated them, and gave them his walnut cart to play with!

The children then stopped crying!

Xu Que felt incredibly bored lately, especially after meals.

He opened the system's exchange shop, scrolled down, and in the snacks and non-staple foods section, he used exchange coins to exchange for a whole bunch of snacks, candies, chewing gum, and the like. He then lay down on a haystack not far from the tribe, leisurely and boredly cracking sunflower seeds.

After calming the crying children who had been fighting, she came to Xu Que's side and sat down next to him.

"What are you eating?" Hou's eyes followed Xu Que's finger as it picked up sunflower seeds back and forth on the clean cowhide.

"Sunflower seeds!" Xu Que said, then deliberately spat a mouthful of sunflower seed shells onto Hou's face.

"Is this delicious?" Hou watched Xu Que happily cracking sunflower seeds, and couldn't help but pick one up from his pile and put it in his mouth. He chewed it for a long time but still couldn't separate the kernel from the shell.

"Hahaha! Can't taste it anymore? Just eat it like this! Learn from me!" Xu Que picked up a few more sunflower seeds from the pile, held them upright in his hand, and squeezed them with his other hand to remove the shells, leaving the kernels in his hand.

After peeling many sunflower seeds using this method, Xu Que transferred the pile of kernels to Hou's hand: "Try it and see how it tastes!"

He gulped down all the sunflower seeds in his hand and chewed them: "Mmm! So fragrant! It has a fragrant and oily taste! So delicious! But these are such small seeds, it's not enough, there aren't enough!"

"I suddenly have a question for Brother Xu Que! How do I collect enough sunflower seeds to fill a bowl? I mean, when will my big wooden bowl be able to hold a lot of sunflower seeds?" Hou said, taking out a bowl she used for eating from the backpack Xu Que had given her and placing it in front of them.

Xu Que was stunned for half a minute, and for a moment he didn't know what to say!

"My goodness! I bet even if the two of us shelled sunflower seeds all night, we still couldn't fill a bowl this big! Just shell them one by one slowly!" Xu Que said, then took out two bags of spiced sunflower seeds from the system's inventory and handed them to Hou.

Looking at the two large bags of sunflower seeds, Hou was so anxious that he wanted to hurry up but couldn't, which made people both laugh and cry.

"I'm not eating this stuff anymore! Eating just one is so slow! Humph! Nobody's helping me!" Hou deliberately glanced at Xu Que.

"I really didn't want to peel sunflower seeds these past few days, otherwise I would have peeled them for you already! You know me very well, right? I love you the most, don't I? Since you can't peel them and you're peeling them so slowly, then you can just eat this lollipop! Here! This is more suitable for you!" Xu Que said, taking out a few lollipops from a pile of packages in front of him and handing them to Hou.

"What is this?" Hou asked, pouting in confusion.

"Hey candy! Here, let me open the wrapper for you! You can start eating now! This is meant to be held gently in your mouth! If you don't have the patience to lick it, you can just chew it with your teeth, it's sweet no matter how you eat it!" After tearing off the lollipop's wrapper, Xu Que, worried that Hou hadn't understood, put the lollipop in his mouth, licked it, and then asked Hou, "Did you learn how to do it this way?"