Chapter 34: An equipment that scares international friends - chopsticks



To drink the broth, it is not enough to just have a bowl and a spoon to scoop the soup from the big vat, there is one more thing missing, and that is chopsticks!

In the past, there were only two ways to eat food in the tribe. One was to eat fruits and other things raw, and the other was to eat meat by roasting it over a fire.

Both types of food are solid, or do not require contact with water, so they can be eaten directly with your hands. However, now that we have boiled food, it is no longer possible to eat them this way.

If you encounter larger pieces of meat or bones and they cannot be covered by the hot soup in the bowl, you can pick them up with your hands. But if they are small pieces, it will be troublesome.

Either drink the soup in the bowl first, or be fearless of heat or oil and directly scoop out the meat at the bottom of the bowl and eat it.

But both methods were inconvenient, especially the second one. Han Cheng wanted to lose his temper when he saw them scooping out so much juice.

If we eat like this, wouldn’t we be like Indians and some other international friends?

Before Han Cheng came here, he had seen some videos of dark-skinned international friends eating hotpot directly, and he felt really uncomfortable with it.

So after discovering this phenomenon in the tribe, he immediately stopped it.

In particular, the stone that Han Cheng picked up the most was hit on the hand twice with a ruler that Han Cheng made specifically for teaching.

Everyone felt aggrieved, especially Shi Tou.

Although he was young, he still got a big bowl of soup. He felt a little full before he finished the soup. If he didn't help, he would be full with the soup alone and would have no stomach left for the remaining meat.

There is meat in the bowl but you can only drink the soup. This is a huge torment for primitive people who regard eating as more important than anything else.

Just as everyone was drinking the soup with bitter faces and exhaling hot air in the hope of getting to the meat at the bottom of the bowl, the Son of God, who had been walking outside, came back.

He came in with a small bundle of smooth branches as thick as a little finger in his arms.

Amid the puzzled gazes of the crowd, Han Cheng called his eldest brother over to help cut the trees into segments about 20 centimeters long.

Then he scooped some clean water from another large vat, washed it clean, and gave two to each person amidst the increasingly puzzled gazes of the crowd.

The witch who got the simple chopsticks first put the ceramic bowl in his hand on the ground, held one in each hand and looked them up and down, gesturing from time to time, but still couldn't figure out how to use them.

The witch was very wise, he understood the predicament of the people in the tribe at this time. From the fact that the Son of God did not allow people to eat meat from the bowl with their hands, and then started to make the two small sticks, he could basically guess the Son of God's intention.

But how could something like this get the meat out of the bowl?

Wu held a pair of chopsticks in one hand and dug around in the bowl in a daze. He held a piece of meat above the water surface with two chopsticks. However, before he could lean over to eat it, his hand shook slightly and the piece of meat fell back into the bowl, splashing a lot of the rich and fragrant broth. Wu felt distressed when he saw this.

The rest of the people were even worse than Wu. Except for a few who guessed that the Son of God made these two things to solve the current dilemma, the rest didn't even know Han Cheng's purpose.

They all fiddled with the tree sticks that Han Cheng gave them one after another with curiosity and confusion.

Some naughty children have already hit their friends on the head with the sticks in their hands, which is a good use of the sticks.

Except for the young children who cannot eat independently, everyone in the tribe has a pair of simple chopsticks made from local materials.

Han Cheng knew that they didn't understand the purpose of this thing, and he had no intention of explaining it.

He came to where he had been before, picked up the bowl on the ground, cleared his throat to attract everyone's attention, and then skillfully moved the two chopsticks to his right hand.

Put two chopsticks together, with the upper end leaning against the base of the thumb, leaving about four to five centimeters of space exposed.

About two-thirds of the way up from the bottom, naturally rest it on the first joint of the middle finger, and the index finger and thumb hold the chopsticks respectively. When the fingers move, the chopsticks that are held together will separate.

Han Cheng stretched his chopsticks into the bowl and quickly pulled them back, picking out a piece of meat from under the soup.

Amidst everyone's sudden realization, Han Cheng put the meat into his mouth and began to eat it with relish.

Wu, who witnessed with his own eyes how Han Cheng used chopsticks, showed a look of sudden enlightenment. It turned out that this was how these two thin sticks were used!

He imitated Han Cheng's actions just now, holding the two thin sticks together with the hand that usually held the "slate pencil".

(Before Han Cheng learned the language and writing of Wu Shen, Wu could use both hands to write. However, after Han Cheng told Wu Shen that the language was best written with the 'right hand', Wu used his right hand more often than his left hand when writing.

Just from this, Wu learned a lot. Before, he only knew that people have two hands, but it was difficult to tell which side it was on.

Since the Son of God explained the left and right, this problem has been solved well.

Moreover, the two concepts of "left and right" are very useful. Not only can the hands be divided into left and right, but also the feet, ears, eyes and many other things can be divided into left and right. The emergence of this concept allows the witch to record things in a more detailed and accurate manner.

Wu held the bowl in his left hand and chopsticks in his right hand, and imitated Han Cheng, clumsily and unfamiliarly separating the chopsticks and putting them into the bowl.

However, the thin wooden stick that was as nimble as two fingers in Han Cheng's hand was completely disobedient in Wu's hand.

He tried hard to control them and wanted to pick up the meat in the bowl, but he always failed. After trying several times, he finally picked up a piece crookedly and put it into his mouth.

This made Wu somewhat happy.

The conditions of the others were not much better than Wu's. Their movements were all awkward and clumsy. Many of them couldn't even tell which hand was holding the chopsticks.

The majority of them were adults in the tribe. The children in the tribe who learned from Han Cheng did not make many mistakes because they had already accepted the concept of left and right when they first learned to write.

This is not very difficult for them, they just need to remember which hand holds the pen.

Seeing everyone clumsily using chopsticks to pick up the meat in the bowl and even knocking the bowl over, Han Cheng had no choice but to hold the bowl and demonstrate and teach them one by one...

Many people in the cave did not understand the Son of God's actions. It was obviously fine to eat with hands, but why did he come up with these two things called "chopsticks" to torture people?

It is precisely because of the appearance of chopsticks that the second brother, who loves eating the most, is somewhat afraid of meal time, especially the kind of meal with soup.

However, Han Cheng attached great importance to the use of chopsticks. After discussing with his eldest senior brother, he made broth for six or seven days in a row. Then, when they ate together, he would hold the bowl and chopsticks and look constantly at the people in the tribe, looking for who was eating with their hands instead of chopsticks. Once he found out, he would hit the hand with a ruler.

Although it doesn't hurt, no one wants to endure it because it is a shameful thing.

Under his strong pressure, after about a week, people in the tribe had become accustomed to eating with chopsticks. Some of the more skilled ones even used chopsticks to pick up barbecue food.

And after the second brother broke five pairs of chopsticks and overturned eight bowls, he finally mastered this skill that once made countless foreign friends shudder.


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