Chapter 12
Lu Shiyu watched the snaketail chicken fall to the ground after being hit by a short arrow, twitching and waiting for death.
Shao Xingyang put down his crossbow, shrugged at Lu Shiyu who was looking at him, and said, "You can't blame me for this. It almost caught you."
"I don't blame you, thank you."
The two people on the other side were also dealt with. Tang Zeyu shook off the blood on the knife before walking over.
"We've taken care of it over there. Shall we leave now?"
Yanhong looked up at the nests in the trees and suddenly said, "Do you think there are eggs in those chicken coops?"
"There should be," Lu Shiyu also looked up: "Just now the female snaketail chicken was not on the ground with the male snaketail chicken, so she must be incubating eggs."
"How about we go get a few?" Yan Hong suggested, and before Lu Shiyu could say anything, she added, "Just a few won't affect the entire tribe."
"Well then," Lu Shiyu said, "You can only take a few."
The task of climbing up the tree to steal the eggs was undertaken by Yanhong, who had made the suggestion. After all, Yanhong was the lightest and most agile among the group, and she could climb the tree much faster than the other two.
Yan Hong used her hands and feet together, and her movements to climb the tree were smooth and fluid. She stretched out her hands and feet and climbed onto the branch, then stretched out her body to reach the eggs in the nest.
Tang Zeyu was on guard at the side to prevent the male snaketail chicken from suddenly coming back. Lu Shiyu and Chen Yunliang were holding a piece of cloth below to catch the eggs dropped by Yan Hong.
The technique for catching the egg is crucial. If the cloth is too tight, the egg may shatter. If it's too loose, the cloth may slip from your grasp, causing the egg to fall to the ground and shatter. Therefore, when preparing, you should slightly relax the cloth as you pull it up, and then pull it inwards slightly as the egg lands on the cloth to help absorb the force. This will ensure a safe landing for the snaketail egg.
The two of them used this method to collect several snake-tail chicken eggs, and they didn't stop until Yan Hong had dug out two chicken coops and was caught by Lu Shiyu.
Lu Shiyu put the eggs and cloth on the ground to check if there were any cracks. When he held them in his hands, he was surprised to find that the eggs were soft.
"Why are they soft?" Shaoxing Yang squeezed the egg and said, "Could it be that these snaketail chickens are calcium deficient?"
"Sometimes chickens lay soft-shelled eggs. It might be because they were frightened and laid the eggs prematurely, causing the eggs to be soft-shelled." However, Lu Shiyu immediately denied this explanation: "But I don't think these eggs are soft-shelled because they were frightened and laid prematurely. It seems that they are soft from the beginning."
Lu Shiyu checked all the eggs and made sure they were all soft.
Chen Yunliang had a guess and said, "Maybe this isn't an egg, but a snake egg?"
"Snake eggs?"
"Yes, after all, the snake-tail chicken is not a chicken in the secular sense. It has a snake tail, so it makes sense that the eggs it lays are similar to snake eggs."
Lu Shiyu thought about it and found that it was feasible, but it was a bit shocking to his cognition.
"So...will these eggs hatch into chickens or snakes?"
Chen Yunliang also fell silent.
"It should be the snake's tail."
At this time, Yan Hong also came down from the tree and said, "They can't hatch anything because they will be eaten by us soon."
Chen Yunliang pressed two fingers against the sides of the snake egg: "Don't listen, it's a bad review."
"Enough, stop pretending," Yan Hong kicked Chen Yunliang and said, "Hurry up and clean up, the rooster will be back soon."
Everyone then hurriedly packed up and got up to leave. When Lu Shiyu was wrapping the eggs with cloth, he suddenly noticed the ants on the ground. These ants were the food for the snake-tail chickens, and they were exactly the same as the ants they encountered last night.
"So that's how it is!"
Lu Shiyu looked as if he had suddenly realized something, but before he could finish his words, he was carried away by Yan Hong and Tang Zeyu, his legs dangling weakly in the air.
"Wait, wait, put me down!"
"You're so slow. By the time you leave, the chickens on the ground will wake up." Yan Hong ignored Lu Shiyu's protest.
Sure enough, just after they walked a distance, they heard a loud "woooo" sound behind them. It was probably the returning male snaketail chickens who discovered the dead female snaketail chicken.
The calls of male and female snaketail chickens are similar but different. The male's call is loud and deafening. Although the volume of the female's call is not as loud as the male's, the frequency is higher and can be heard from a long distance. That is why Yan Hong could hear the call of the snaketail chicken when she was so far away from the snaketail chicken flock.
"What a pity. I killed it but forgot to pick it up. Otherwise, we could have meat for dinner." Yan Hong sighed.
"Who said you forgot?" Tang Zeyu raised his other hand, and a headless female snaketail chicken appeared in front of the three of them.
"Great! We're having chicken tonight! And eggs from snaketail chickens!"
A few people were discussing what to eat in the evening and had already forgotten about the fact that there was one person missing in the team.
A disheveled figure staggered towards the group. Those who were originally chatting and laughing noticed something behind them. They thought it was a male snake-tailed chicken catching up with them, but when they turned around, they found it was a tired man who looked like a zombie.
"Oh my god, if it's not biological distortion, where do the zombies come from?"
The "zombie" made a few hoarse noises before speaking clearly in front of him.
"F*ck, you're all cheating me."
Chen Yunliang spread his hands and said, "I'm sorry, I almost forgot about you."
Shaoxing Yang: "..."
I clearly forgot.
The person being held up changed from Lu Shiyu to Shaoxing Yang, whose legs were weak. Lu Shiyu took out ant honey from his bag, scooped a spoonful and added water to moisten Shaoxing Yang's throat. Shaoxing Yang came back to life after drinking the ant honey water.
Although he still had no strength, he could at least speak. Shaoxing Yang began to talk incessantly about how he led away a large group of snake-tail chickens and then escaped from their clutches.
The attack power of the male snaketail chicken is only higher than that of the female. Shaoxing Yang is definitely no match for it by fighting, so he ran almost the whole time. However, he couldn't run in a straight line, and the snaketail chicken could fly when climbing trees, so he could only shuttle back and forth between the tree trunks, avoiding the snaketail chicken's sharp claws in a roundabout way. His clothes were torn in several holes, and he looked extremely embarrassed.
"But, for the sake of the teammates, it's worth it no matter how hard it is," Shao Xingyang pretended to wipe away non-existent tears, his voice choked with sobs. "By the way, what took you so long to get here?"
"Oh, because we went to take the eggs of the snake-tail chicken."
"What?!" Shao Xingyang just jumped up but then slid back down due to weakness in his legs. The anger in his words did not diminish at all: "You said I fought to the death to buy you some time, but you guys went to get your balls!"
"Don't get so excited. Those eggs will end up in your stomach anyway."
"Then I want to eat the most!" Shao Xingyang gritted his teeth and said, "This is the egg I fought so hard for!"
"Okay, okay, I'll give you the biggest portion." Yan Hong avoided Shao Xingyang's gaze with a guilty conscience.
The sun was about to set, and the group had found a place to camp for the night.
Shao Xingyang lay on his back, letting Chen Yunliang use his powers on him while Lu Shiyu squatted beside him and watched quietly. This was Lu Shiyu's first time seeing Chen Yunliang's powers, and it looked like the "healing" power in novels. Under the power's effect, Shao Xingyang's injuries healed at a visible speed, with new flesh growing after scabs. Lu Shiyu was quite amazed by this and seemed determined to continue watching until Chen Yunliang completely healed Shao Xingyang.
"Lu Shiyu, it's time to cook." Finally, Yan Hong came to urge her, and Lu Shiyu remembered that she should go cook now.
"Here I come."
Lu Shiyu handled the snaketail chicken skillfully and scalded the chicken feathers clean. Lu Shiyu discovered that the meat of male and female snaketail chickens was different. The male's body was longer, while the female's was rounder. The male's meat was firmer, while the female's had obviously more fat, and it tasted more fragrant with more oil.
Lu Shiyu decisively chose to "roast" to cook the fat chicken.
First, remove the excess parts. The chicken head is already gone, so Lu Shiyu only removed the inedible internal organs. Then turn the chicken's belly downward and press the bones and meat to make it easier to string them together later. Next, marinate the whole chicken with seasonings to make it easier to taste. After marinating, you can prepare to roast it.
Lu Shiyu used a knife to sharpen two wooden sticks, inserted them through the sides of the snaketail chicken's buttocks and then out from under the chicken's wings, thus firmly fixing the snaketail chicken to the fire. The snaketail chicken was at a certain distance from the fire, and Lu Shiyu wanted to use the heat of the flames to "cook" the meat, rather than letting the fire directly contact the snaketail chicken.
When the snake-tail chicken was roasted on the fire, Yu poured some water into the snake-tail chicken's stomach. Yan Hong saw it and asked curiously why he added water.
"If you add some water, the chicken won't burn easily. Snaketail chickens are large, so they need to be roasted for a long time. If you roast them directly, the outside will be burnt while the inside is not cooked, so you need to add some water to create the effect of roasting the outside and cooking the inside."
Lu Shiyu turned the roasted snake tail chicken over and brushed it with oil. He also took out some ant honey and brushed a layer of honey on the roasted snake tail chicken, making the roasted snake tail chicken look even more tempting.
Just as Lu Shiyu said, it takes a very long time to roast the chicken, and everyone's stomachs started to rumble.
Lu Shiyu broke off the wings and feet from the snaketail chicken. Everyone thought the chicken was roasted, but Lu Shiyu said:
"We'll have to wait a little longer for the roasted chicken, but the wings and feet are ready to eat. The meat from these two parts cooks first, and if you roast them any further they'll burn."
It’s better to have something than nothing. Everyone was gnawing on the chicken bones with only a little meat on them, getting a taste of the deliciousness in advance, and looking at the roast chicken with eyes full of desire.
Finally, when everyone was about to doze off, Lu Shiyu announced that the snake tail chicken was ready. He took the golden roasted snake tail chicken off the rack, placed an iron pan on the rack, poured a layer of oil on it and heated it. Then he took out the snake tail chicken's egg, tore a hole in it, and let the orange-yellow egg liquid inside flow out, sizzling in the pan.
Only after setting up the pot did I start to process the freshly roasted snaketail chicken.
"Oh my God, I can finally eat!"
Shaoxingyang stretched out his hand to tear off a piece of snaketail chicken, but immediately retracted his hand because of the burn. Shaoxingyang put his scalded fingers in his mouth and watched Lu Shiyu tear the snaketail chicken calmly, as if Lu Shiyu's hands were immune to high temperatures.
Lu Shiyu tore the meat of the snake tail chicken into pieces and divided it into several portions for the four people. Considering that Shao Xingyang had worked the hardest today, Lu Shiyu gave Shao Xingyang the whole chicken leg. Shao Xingyang held the bowl and smiled like a mentally retarded person who could only smile foolishly.
After a while, the egg liquid was almost fried, in a semi-solid and semi-solid state. The bottom was cooked but the upper layer was not fully cooked. Lu Shiyu did not intend to make it fully cooked, this semi-fluid state was just right. Everyone got a piece of half-cooked egg in their bowl.
The golden egg liquid drips onto the honey-colored roasted snaketail chicken, which looks somewhat similar to Benedict eggs.
Honey-roasted whole snaketail chicken and fried snaketail eggs, done!
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