In addition to salt, Jiang Tangtang also prepared mixed grains in advance for this trip into the mountains.
The man who stayed in the cave to cook made a big pot of pork offal rice with mixed grains and wild boar offal.
Wild boar offal has a strong gamey smell, and when cooked with grains, it will naturally have a gamey, fishy smell.
But Luo Yuquan's father was a head chef at a restaurant before he fled the war, and he learned a lot from his father since he was a child.
He picked some spices to remove the odor, and the resulting pork offal rice not only had no gamey smell, but also smelled especially delicious.
Everyone was incredibly excited when they smelled the fragrance.
Even though the pork offal rice is particularly gamey and fishy, the villagers don't mind. It's real grain and meat; who would complain about grain and meat?
Apart from Jiang Tangtang, the others weren't so particular and didn't bring bowls or chopsticks into the mountains. At this moment, everyone wrapped the food in leaves to eat.
Some people use edible wild grape leaves to wrap pork offal rice and eat it directly, leaves and all.
After the meal, everyone felt extremely satisfied.
They started discussing the night watch.
The cave Jiang Tangtang found this time was different from the one she found when she went into the mountains with Lu Shiyan last time. This cave was large enough, but it was close to the ground.
They processed wild boar here again, so the smell of blood might attract wild animals.
So everyone discussed gathering more wood, building a big fire at the cave entrance, and taking turns keeping watch at night.
Wild animals fear fire, and with people keeping watch at night, plus the fact that, apart from Jiang Tangtang, the rest of them are mostly strong men capable of fighting, there's not much to worry about regarding safety.
After discussing it, they built a big fire at the entrance of the cave and took turns keeping watch at night.
Jiang Tangtang was the only woman in the group, so she wasn't needed to keep watch at night. But she still couldn't sleep.
The cave was damp, and with so many people crammed inside, plus there was cured wild boar meat inside, the atmosphere in the cave was really unpleasant.
Moreover, when she comes out with the villagers, she can't take out the mats and pillows from her space to use.
At this moment, she couldn't help but miss the days she spent with Lu Shiyan.
Every time she was with him, even if it involved traveling hundreds of miles, she was always taken care of perfectly.
I wonder what he's busy with, whether he's selected the men to go to the mine yet.
Lu Shiyan, whom Jiang Tangtang was nagging about, was currently leading a group of soldiers in training in the deep mountains.
This was the special training camp he chose for mining.
However, he did not immediately send the soldiers to mine; instead, he first trained them in various ways.
The soldiers were all miserable from those bizarre training methods.
But no matter how hard or tiring it was, not a single soldier retreated or gave up.
Not only did no one back down or give up, but everyone gritted their teeth and worked hard to avoid being eliminated.
The soldiers worked so hard mainly because the food was good and the carrot hanging in front of them was too tempting.
Unlike in regular training camps, soldiers in special training camps eat four meals a day, each one not only filling but also rich in oil.
The soldiers recruited by Lu Shiyan were mostly refugees. Before becoming refugees, most of them came from poor families.
In this era, ordinary people from poor families usually only eat two meals a day, and those who can eat three meals a day are mostly from relatively well-off families.
But in the special training camp, they were given four meals a day, each one a full meal, with a mix of whole grains and refined grains, and even meat.
At first, the soldiers couldn't believe it was real.
It wasn't until the next few days, with this happening every single day, that they dared to believe they had truly landed in a paradise.
In addition to four meals a day and good food, those who finish in the top three after training will receive a cash reward.
The winner will receive a direct reward of 200 taels of silver. The second-place winner will receive 100 taels of silver, and the third-place winner will receive 50 taels of silver.
Not to mention the generous bonus as an incentive.
Even without the prize money for the competition, the soldiers would still try their best to stay even if they only had four meals a day!
At this moment, the soldiers participating in the night training are holding bows and arrows, trying their best to aim at the prey in the mountains.
These prey served as both tools for practicing archery and provisions for the next day.
Yes, most of the oil and fat in the soldiers' meals came from their hunting. In the beginning, the ordinary soldiers were not good archers, so they not only failed to hunt, but also often disturbed large prey in the forest, requiring Lu Shiyan to come to their rescue.
The meat served was mostly hunted in the forest by Lu Shiyan and a few skilled soldiers.
However, the soldiers in the special training camp were all personally selected by Lu Shiyan; they were men with great potential in all aspects.
These soldiers are making very rapid progress.
Soon, the soldiers transformed from people who could barely protect themselves in the forest into people who could work together to hunt large prey in the forest.
But today's training was different from the previous days.
The previous shootings were almost all conducted during the day.
But tonight is a night hunt.
Visibility is worse at night, and the forest is more dangerous, not to mention that they killed several wolves during their daytime training.
Given the nature of wolves, they will most likely seek revenge.
The soldiers hidden in the woods gripped their bows and arrows tightly, nervously watching for any movement within the forest.
Just as they had predicted, the howls of wolves soon echoed through the mountains as a pack charged towards them.
The soldiers fired their arrows swiftly, but the wolves were too fierce to back down.
After running out of arrows, the soldiers could only draw their long swords and fight the wolf pack.
While the soldiers were fighting the wolves, Jiang Tangtang yawned, called out the system, and checked her recently earned points.
She earned points today for leading the villagers hunting and digging cassava, as well as for teaching the two older brothers of the Jiang family.
After a long day, she decided to treat herself to a random reward.
To her surprise, instead of getting her dream mattress from the random reward, she got a book instead.
Jiang Tangtang was annoyed. "Why is it always books? Can't it be some other reward besides books?"
That damn system keeps sending her books and tempting her with points, forcing her from being a lazy, good-for-nothing to become a diligent and studious student. It's simply outrageous!
[Host, you can open this book and take a look. It's different from the ones you usually read. This book is something you urgently need right now.]
Jiang Tangtang opened the book with some skepticism, then her eyes widened instantly.
To my utter surprise, this is actually a novel.
She had been cramming on all sorts of dry, academic books for a while, and then she suddenly came across a fantasy novel that was both witty and humorous, and also included all sorts of melodramatic love stories. How could she possibly resist it?
Before I knew it, I was reading until late at night.
The consequence of sleeping too late is that you simply can't get up the next day.
On the contrary, the villagers were full of energy. Before dawn, they got up early, took their tools, and left the cave to go to the barren mountain where they had dug cassava the day before.
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