"witch"
Meng wanted to say something but stopped.
The witch was not in a hurry to say anything. She first untied the special leaves wrapped around the wound, then cleaned the green sticky medicine residue covering the wound, and carefully checked the degree of healing of the wound to make sure there was no redness or swelling. This time the medicine turned into a transparent paste, and then she wrapped it with new special leaves.
After finishing all these, more than half an hour had passed. Wu smiled and asked:
"Meng, because someone treated your wound in time, your wound did not become necrotic. Now except for your leg, other parts of your body have healed well. How do you feel?"
"Wu, I feel much better, but my body and legs are a little itchy."
Meng told the truth.
"Well, this is the healing process of the wound. New flesh is growing. Just be patient and don't scratch it."
"I've made a note of that."
Seeing Wu was about to turn around and leave, he blurted out anxiously:
"Wu, when the Beast God punished Si Tian, I didn't want to save her. Wasn't that selfish? After all, she is a female and my only sister."
"Meng, the Beast God punished her like this because she must have done something wrong. She hurt another female and the tribe's most precious cub. Her actions angered the Beast God, so she was taken away by the Beast God. You can't change the will of the Beast God."
Wu's wrinkled face was full of wisdom. He didn't want Meng to have any grudge, so he spoke very bluntly.
"I see!"
Meng bowed to Wu, with a look of relief on his face.
"Get well soon, you still have to repay the life-saving favor of others!"
After saying this, the witch got up and left the straw hut where Meng was recuperating.
On the other hand, Du had been going out hunting with the bear orcs these past two days, and was given a small clay jar of honey. Lianyi was very satisfied.
After communicating with the witch, the chief of the bear tribe specially invited Lianyi and Du to meet him.
The Bear Clan's chieftain, Ri, is almost three hundred years old. He is about to pass the position of chieftain to his son Chang, so when he met Lianyi, his son was also with him.
"Dear guests, welcome to the Bear Tribe. You have helped save our tribe member Meng. Previously, I was treating Meng and then holding a prayer ceremony. In addition, you have come from afar and need to rest, so I have delayed our meeting until now. I hope you don't mind."
The Japanese man is very experienced. His honest face, which is unique to the bear tribe, coupled with his sincere attitude, makes it easy for people to let down their guard and believe what he says.
"You are too polite, Chief. We must have disturbed you. We rested well and had fresh food and hot soup every day. We are very grateful."
Ripple said with a smile.
"That's good! Now is the hottest month of the hot season, it's not suitable for traveling, you can stay for a while."
Ri invited with a smile, and Chang beside him nodded in agreement.
"Thank you for the sincere invitation, Chief. I'm sure Tai has already told you that I have my own mission and I'm afraid I won't stay in one place for too long."
"I know that. Tai said you have seasonings that make barbecue delicious, as well as two new foods that are easy to store and fill the stomach, and you are willing to share them with us."
The patriarch finally turned the topic to the focus of today's conversation.
"Yes, this is part of my mission, to discover new food and spread the new food I have discovered to the animal world."
Lianyi didn't beat around the bush and spoke directly.
The clan leaders Ri and Chang looked at each other, and then the clan leader asked:
"Then can you tell us now?"
As if he was afraid that Lianyi would go back on his word.
"certainly!"
Lianyi nodded, then gestured to Du who was following her.
Du took off the snakeskin bag on his shoulder and started taking things out of it, while Lianyi explained the origins of the foods, the environment in which they grew, and how to eat them one by one.
Chang listened very carefully, wishing he had an extra pair of ears.
After Lianyi finished introducing the food she brought, Chang asked a few questions about what he didn't understand. After more than an hour, Chang stopped asking questions.
"Can you give me some of the Bear Tribe's specialty sweet sticks?"
Lianyi asked directly.
"Of course, this thing is sweet when it's in season, but it will become less delicious as it ages."
The patriarch said very generously.
Sweet corn is very popular among females and cubs, but its edible period is too short. Even if it is picked, the sweet juice in the corn will dry up and it will be inedible, let alone exchanged. In the eyes of the bear clan, it is just a supplementary food.
Lian Yi just smiled and continued:
"Chief, I heard from Tai that sweet sticks are a specialty of the bear tribe and can be found everywhere in the territory. However, they have a short shelf life. Although they can be preserved for a long time, they are no longer delicious, so they are not used as your staple food.
But I was taught by the Beast God that the sweet sticks can be made into a variety of delicious foods, and they are very filling and can help the cubs grow healthier. "
"Is this true?"
Rihechang was surprised. They didn't expect that the food that seemed so useless to them could have such a great effect, but they didn't even notice it.
"Of course it's true!"
Lian Yi once again gave an affirmative answer.
This time, Chang ran out directly without the patriarch's orders.
After a while, Chang brought back two long corn stalks with wrapped corn cobs hanging on them. There were about ten of them, big and small, and they were all quite large. Chang gave them directly to Lianyi.
Lianyi broke one off and peeled off the green husk layer by layer. She pinched the plump corn kernels, and immediately milky juice flowed out, accompanied by a sweet fragrance.
Lianyi is now more certain that this is corn, and it is corn that has just been starched, commonly known as tender corn. There is a bag of water inside the grains. It can be eaten but will not fill the stomach. It needs to wait until it is fully mature, which is what the orcs said, until it becomes hard and tastes bad, before it can be stored for a long time. Of course, there are many ways to eat corn, but they are just waiting for them to discover.
Du, who was standing by, stepped forward and carefully broke off the remaining sweet sticks. He had heard of this kind of food when he was wandering before, but he had never eaten it. Now, with the help of the light from the ripples, he could also eat this kind of food.
"Chief, do you have those sweet sticks that get hard when they get old?"
Lian Yi asked directly.
"I'll ask the elders in the tribe. They will save some and cook them during the cold season. But even after cooking, they are still very hard."
Chang said immediately, then went out again and brought back a small animal skin bag of corn kernels. They were well preserved and not damp, but they were hard like stone.
Lianyi threw one into her mouth and after chewing it twice, she was sure that it was corn kernels that had been collected after being dried. If she boiled it in water, it would indeed waste firewood and might not be cooked soft.
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