He divided the huge crocodile meat into three portions, one portion into small, neatly cut pieces, and placed the whole pot on the large stove in the yard to simmer slowly.
Another portion was cut into strips and marinated with oyster sauce and salt, to be grilled later.
The other portion, cut even thinner, is for stone frying.
Besides the crocodile meat, there was also a large bowl of egg liquid, which was now sprinkled with chopped green onions, and mixed with melted lard and salt water.
These four main dishes will definitely make for a satisfying meal today.
Li Sheng rummaged through the pebbles in the other part of the fire, and when he thought it was about right, he carefully scooped them into a large, thick earthenware pot with a wooden shovel.
Although these pebbles were covered in some wood ash, it didn't matter much. While they were still warm, I quickly poured the egg mixture from the bowl onto them.
A sizzling sound came out, and as the sizzling sound came out, the tongue unconsciously secreted saliva.
"The jungler is too good at this."
"I ate this dish when I was traveling. The eggs were only 50 cents each, but they sold it to me for 88 yuan with pebbles on top. They even said they wished me good fortune. I ate it with tears in my eyes, but I couldn't taste it. The past was too painful to recall, and I wanted to cry but couldn't..."
"The upstairs neighbor sells them for 23 yuan, which is considered a fair price. But those pebbles are recyclable. Even if the cost of the eggs is at most three eggs, the owner is making 20 yuan with tears in his eyes."
"To be fair, although this dish is a bit fancy and attention-grabbing, it tastes pretty good. The eggs made this way are especially fragrant and tender."
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Li Sheng is naturally the most qualified to say whether it smells good or not, since he's right next to the dish. It really does smell good; eggs and wild onions are the perfect match.
The aroma of scallions mixed with the scent of eggs filled his nostrils, making him even hungrier.
He tried it with bamboo chopsticks, and it was indeed delicious. It was his first time making it this way, and just as everyone had said, the eggs were very tender.
He then sliced extremely thin alligator slices in the same way, but with a slight difference, since eggs are liquid while alligator slices are not.
First, lay a layer of pebbles, then place the crocodile slices one by one on top. After filling one layer, lay another layer of pebbles, and repeat this process. You will have filled four layers in total.
The aroma wafted out, but this dish was a bit troublesome to eat; after finishing one layer, you had to remove the pebbles on top.
Meanwhile, he skewered the slightly thicker crocodile slices together like sweet potato rinds and grilled them over a fire.
Based on his extensive experience grilling, he had perfected the thickness of the crocodile slices, ensuring they weren't burnt on the outside but uncooked on the inside.
The barbecue is simple; just brush it with salt water and oyster sauce from time to time and it's delicious. As for the big pot of stew on the stove, he doesn't need to worry about it at all.
The weather is gradually getting warmer these past few days, so we should hurry up and eat that tiger meat.
But he wasn't too worried about food, since there were newly discovered crocodile farms.
The temperature change was within Li Sheng's expectations; ten days later, it returned to the same temperature as before, extremely hot and humid.
In such a short time, the forest that was burned bare has now been completely covered in green, with only the towering, dead trees standing there to tell the story of their past.
He has thirty days left. In the blink of an eye, five months have passed. Looking back, time really flies.
The food was very good, and his fractured left hand recovered quickly. However, after a month of not using it, the muscles in his left hand atrophied severely.
In just one short month, his left hand became as thin as a bamboo pole, while his right hand became a very strong and muscular arm capable of drawing silk.
It wasn't that exaggerated. Half the credit goes to the contrast of the right arm. After all, one hand has to wield such a heavy axe all the time, so it's hard not to have a super strong arm.
He checked the condition of his left hand. Although it had recovered well, he still dared not exert any force and kept it tied with a straight tree branch.
There were many doubts about his rough method of setting bones, but when he treated his dislocated left foot with one hand, he silenced most of the doubts.
However, dislocation and fracture are not the same thing.
"Is the streamer's left hand really okay? What if the bone is set crookedly? Will he be disabled?"
"It will make you disabled. When I was a child, I broke my leg bone. A folk doctor in the countryside set it. It was set, but my two legs are different lengths, and I became lame. To cure it, the other leg would have to be broken as well, but the risk is very high. I will not be able to do strenuous exercise afterward, and it will cost a lot of money. I have never been able to make up my mind to do it."
"Wouldn't that mean one arm is longer than the other?"
"If it's not connected properly, won't it have to be interrupted and reconnected after it's finished?"
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Mr. Li: "Thank you all. You are all wonderful people. May you eat well and live a long and healthy life."
There was some dissatisfaction in his words, but he was confident in his skills.
After all, this wasn't the first time he'd done something like this.
Now that the weather is warming up, the more important thing right now is to get the water source back.
The shelter only had enough water for one day.
Bamboo is inherently flammable, so it's easy to imagine that this fire would have burned everything to ashes.
The bamboo grove was also not spared.
The bamboo was burned as a medium. How to bring the water over? There were only two ways: one was to carve wood into a water trough similar to the bamboo, and the other was to slowly dig the water over with a stone hoe.
Both require roughly the same amount of labor, but digging a ditch seems to be more efficient and a more permanent solution.
I estimate it should be done in three or four days.
However, this isn't the only thing they do every day; now their food is mostly fresh.
The first thing I did after waking up in the morning was to cross the mountains and take the crocodile entrails left over from the previous meal to go crocodile fishing.
The technique became more and more skillful, and it also helped to train the little leopard's hunting ability. Although it is still young and cannot do much, it is good to have seen the world.
He never left empty-handed each day. When he had the leisure, he would climb a tree and count the number of crocodiles to see if they could stay until he left.
They were quite competitive; there were more than thirty adult crocodiles there, and he caught one a day. Before he left, they couldn't finish eating them all.
But they seem to have gotten smarter, and it's getting harder and harder to catch them now. Today, when I threw the meat over, those good-for-nothings all shrunk into the pond.
After staking out for over an hour, a naive crocodile was finally lured out, but it remained extremely cautious.
It took a lot of effort to finally catch it.
We need to change our strategy next time.
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