After returning home, Ji Nuan first went to take a look at the little lion cub. Seeing him sleeping soundly, curled up like a little meat pie, his little body rising and falling with his breathing, and snoring softly, Ji Nuan felt warm in her heart, as if she now had a family.

He put down the animal-skin curtain and tiptoed to the food storage cave.

He lit the small earthen stove, boiled water in the stone pot, took out three cuckoo eggs from the basket beside and cracked them into the stone bowl, took a few cleaned branches of appropriate thickness and placed them in the stone pot to act as a grate, and then carefully placed the stone bowl filled with egg liquid on the simple grate.

The kid is injured, make him some steamed egg custard.

She picked up the basket in her hand, took out three cuckoo beasts from it, went to the river to clean them up, and then Ji Nuan carried them to the clan leader's house.

"Uncle Patriarch, Aunt Naima, are you here?"

The chief and his female, who were having dinner in the cave, looked at each other and put down the food in their hands at the same time.

"This voice, is it Shanzai'er? Is she regretting adopting that little cub?" Naima whispered to the tribe leader.

Ge Xing's brows also wrinkled, but he did not respond to Naima's words. He just patted her shoulder to signal her to eat first, and then he got up and walked out.

Ji Nuan, who was holding three cuckolds outside the cave, saw the tribe leader coming out. She walked up to him and held up the cuckolds she had prepared. "Uncle tribe leader, these are the cuckolds I caught today. I want to exchange them for some blue ox meat with big bones to nourish the little cub."

When the chief heard that Ji Nuan was not here to raise the little lion cub, he felt relieved. He laughed and waved his hand, saying, "I have been craving the cuckoo beasts you made for a long time. It just so happens that I hunted blue bull beasts today. If you help me cook these three cuckoo beasts, I will give you some blue bull meat in exchange."

Ji Nuan did not refuse. She cleaned the cuckoo beast and brought it here just to help the tribe leader.

Last time she told Aunt Rou how to cook cuckoos, but she didn't expect that the cuckoos they made were either too old or undercooked. Sometimes they were cooked just right but there was always an indescribable fishy smell. In addition, the cuckoos were too small and there was too little meat after cleaning. Except for the occasional females who ate it for a snack, not many people in the tribe ate cuckoos.

For beastmen, instead of spending time catching cuckolds that have little meat and no skins, it is better to go to the forest to catch some large beasts, so that they can eat meat and get skins that can keep out the cold.

Ji Nuan went home and got some fruits and big leaves. The clan leader had already happily mixed the mud.

Put spicy and sour fruits in a stone bowl and mash them into a paste. Use the paste to evenly spread on the inside and outside of the cuckoo beast and knead it to make it tasty. Also, smash several other kinds of fruits commonly eaten in the tribe into pieces and stuff them into the belly of the cuckoo beast. Wrap it with large leaves, apply a suitable thickness of mud on the outermost layer, and stuff it into the fire that the chief has just lit with the fire he has just taken from the amah who is in charge of the fire.

Naima and Ge Xing stared at the three mud balls in the fire and swallowed hard.

Ge Xing took his eyes away from the fire with great difficulty and brought Ji Nuan to his own food storage cave.

Picking up a half-eaten green bull beast from the corner, Ge Xing tore off the other hind leg of the green bull beast and handed it to Ji Nuan: "You can take this leg."

The tribe leader was unable to adopt the disabled cub, so he thought about helping Ji Nuan with food.

Ji Nuan quickly refused, the three cuckoos she brought were not enough to exchange for so much blue ox meat.

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Warm Tips

Friends, I just got home and started writing after washing up! Today's update may be late, so don't wait, go to bed early, and you can read it tomorrow!

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