This toad is really big, and its two hind legs are as thick as a child's arms... Zhou Ji looked at it curiously: "Is this called a devil frog?"
"Yeah, it's delicious." Kumano said. The devil frog is delicious and Shi Li likes it very much. Whenever he caught a devil frog in the past, he would give it to Shi Li to eat.
But now, he must give it to Zhou Ji!
Zhou Ji doesn't know how to hunt. Although he goes out every day, he can only get some plants. But even so, Zhou Ji will not forget him and always leaves the best food for him.
"Yeah." Zhou Ji looked at the devil frog again. The frog meat was very tender. This one should be similar?
"I'll go wash it and we'll cook it." Kumano was excited.
Of course Zhou Ji had no objection and nodded.
Kumano happily skinned the devil frog and went to kill it.
Although it was for Zhou Ji to eat, he knew that Zhou Ji would definitely leave some for him.
Kumano was already busy, so Zhou Ji took the vegetables and fruits he brought back and climbed towards Kumano's cave.
Xiong Ye saw this and shouted, "Zhou Ji, put your things down there, I'll bring them up for you later."
Zhou Ji smiled and actually put the things down.
Shi Li felt a little uncomfortable when he saw the interaction between Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji.
Kumano has always been like this, but he was the one who was treated like this by Kumano before. When did it become Zhou Ji?
Zhou Ji has no ability at all, why is Xiong Ye so nice to him?
"Zhou Ji is really lucky."
"He gained a lot of weight after living with Kumano!"
"Zhou Ji is quite good-looking. Will Xiong Ye be with him?"
…
Some people in the tribe looked at Xiongye and Zhou Ji curiously.
Xiong Ye likes men. As for Zhou Ji, although Zhou Ji is weak, he looks good!
It was only recently after living together with Kumano that they discovered that Zhou Ji was actually so handsome!
In the tribe, men with poor strength generally cannot find a partner, but if he is good-looking, that’s a different story. Some women don’t care about a man’s strength, they just like good-looking ones.
"There is no smell of Kumano on Zhou Ji, don't talk nonsense!" Shi Li said.
"Niu Er is here recently, maybe he will be here in the future." A young man in the tribe laughed.
Shi Li suddenly felt angry for no reason, and he walked towards where Xiong Ye was without thinking.
Xiong Ye had already peeled off the skin of the devil frog, cut off its head and claws, and dug out its intestines. He gave all these things to the children waiting nearby: "I killed this devil frog with poisonous herbs. You must boil it before eating it."
"Got it. Thank you, Brother Kumano!" The children thanked him with a smile, took the ingredients and went to cook.
Kumano washed the devil frog on his hands carefully again.
"Xiong Ye!" Shi Li called out to Xiong Ye: "Xiong Ye, are you planning to let Zhou Ji live with you forever?"
"What's wrong?" Kumano was puzzled.
"Zhou Ji has no special ability. He eats your food and lives your house. Don't you think there is a problem?" Shi Li asked, "Or do you want to make me jealous and angry?"
Shi Li didn't believe that Xiong Ye would like Zhou Ji. Although Zhou Ji was good-looking, Xiong Ye was not a person who would judge by appearance.
However, it is possible that Kumano did this on purpose to make him jealous.
He knew how much Kumano liked him.
"What does Zhou Ji's situation have to do with you?" Xiong Ye looked at Shi Li with dissatisfaction, thinking that Shi Li was sick - why did he want to make Shi Li jealous and angry? They have nothing to do with each other anymore!
As for Zhou Ji, he is not without ability. Although he is very weak, he knows a lot of things, and... compared with Shi Li, Zhou Ji really didn't eat anything from him.
Xiong Ye didn't want to talk any more with Shi Li, so he turned around and went back to his cave.
Niu Er has already moved out. Kumano helped him move early this morning. When he moved out, Kumano also gave him a piece of meat.
Niu Er did not refuse, but said that he would return it to him later.
Now there are only him and Zhou Ji in the cave, and Xiong Ye suddenly feels that this is a good thing.
Zhou Ji, who had arrived at the cave first, had already lit a fire and started to boil water. Seeing Xiong Ye coming up, Zhou Ji took a few fruits and gave them to Xiong Ye: "They are sweet."
This kind of fruit is the sour fruit that Kumano often ate to fill his stomach when he was a child. He doesn't like the sour taste and doesn't like to eat this kind of fruit, but the ones Zhou Ji picked for him are always very sweet.
Zhou Ji must have spent a lot of effort to pick so many sweet fruits.
Thinking so, Kumano took the fruit given by Zhou Ji and put it into his mouth.
It’s really sweet! It's his favorite flavor!
Seeing that Xiong Ye had eaten the fruit, Zhou Ji took out some vegetables and planned to put them in the pot to cook later.
Kumano should eat some vegetables and fruits every day.
In fact, we should eat some staple food... There are staple foods around the tribe, and the gathering team will also take care of these plants, but unfortunately those plants should not grow in this season.
Zhou Ji felt a little helpless when he thought of this.
After the water boiled, Zhou Ji put the washed and peeled devil frog into the water and added some salt he had processed himself.
The salt brought back by the salt exchange team contains a lot of impurities and has a faint bitter taste, but by adding water to dissolve it and then boiling it dry, after repeating this process several times, relatively pure salt can be cooked out. Zhou Ji has been using this kind of salt for cooking recently.
"We should use salt sparingly..." said Kumano, but halfway through his words he became a little annoyed.
The salt Zhou Ji used was the salt left by his mother, so why did he say it was "us"?
"There will be some in the future." Zhou Ji said. Since he could exchange it for salt before, he would definitely be able to do so in the future.
When cooking the devil frog, Zhou Ji did not add any other seasonings except salt, but even so, the cooked devil frog was very delicious and tasty.
Zhou Ji took a frog leg and ate it, and gave the rest to Xiong Ye. However, after he had taken a bite, Xiong Ye, who was already proficient in using chopsticks, put the other thigh of the devil frog in his bowl and said, "Eat more, so you can have strength."
The most delicious part of this devil frog is the two hind legs, which have the most meat. Now they are all his... Zhou Ji glanced at Xiong Ye and lowered his head to eat the meat.
He actually came into contact with Kumano with the intention of repaying a favor, but Kumano's behavior made him feel... that he would never be able to repay the favor.
That's not bad.
Before, Zhou Ji never had a sense of belonging to this world, but now he feels a little bit.
The bones of the devil frog are not hard, so when eating the meat, Kumano chewed the bones as well.
He ate all the meat of the devil frog except for the two thighs, but it was just to fill his stomach. When he was about to take another piece of meat to roast, he saw Zhou Ji throwing a lot of vegetables into the pot which still had a lot of soup left.
Xiong Ye sighed secretly, with a bad feeling...Sure enough, when the dishes were cooked, he was given a bowl: "Eating some vegetables is good for your health."
Xiong Ye thought that eating meat would keep him healthy, but he had to eat the dishes that Zhou Ji cooked for him...
After Kumano finished eating the vegetables, he saw Zhou Ji start cooking meat again.
Zhou Ji definitely cooked this meat for him to eat.
Xiong Ye was very happy, but Zhou Ji began to miss the iron pot again - it was a waste of time to cook food in a stone pot.
Fortunately, there is nothing to do at the moment, so let it be wasted.
He leaned against the wall of the cave and began to absorb the surrounding energy as usual, and shared some with Kumano.
"Zhou Ji, my beast form has grown bigger recently. In a few years, maybe I can become the biggest in the tribe!" Xiong Ye said. His current beast form is not as big as Xiong He and Xiong Qi, but who knows in the future!
"Yeah." Zhou Ji nodded. Seeing that the meat was cooked, he asked, "Do you want to send some to Niu Er?"
Xiong Ye immediately said: "Okay!"
The next day was another day of collective hunting for the tribe.
After fighting with Shi Li the night before yesterday, Xiong Qi had been staying in his cave. He just came out of the cave today. When he came out, he looked very unhappy.
His injuries became serious and he could not go hunting.
This was not good news for a warrior, but Xiong Qi had no choice but to accept it, and when he could not participate in hunting... Xiong He handed over the hunting team that was originally under his charge to Shi Li.
No one in the hunting team had any objection. Since Shi Li was strong enough, he could become a leader.
Xiong Ye didn't care about what was happening on Shi Li's side. When hunting today, he was more attentive and tried his best - he didn't want to lose to Shi Li.
"Kumano, you are getting stronger and stronger!" Xionghe looked at Kumano with satisfaction.
"I'm not strong enough yet, I will keep working hard!" said Kumano. He likes the feeling of becoming stronger.
That day, Kumano's group had a good harvest. Although they failed to capture a ceratosaurus and some of them were injured, they later caught other prey.
However, Shi Li's group gained more than them, and Shi Li even got some dinosaur eggs.
Kumano was even more motivated, while Shili enjoyed the compliments from the people around him.
He had lived for several decades longer and had gained a lot of experience. For example, this time, he relied on his own experience to find a dinosaur's nest. In the end, he not only got a nest of dinosaur eggs, but also brought his men to kill the returning mother dinosaur.
That night, Kumano got 30 kilograms of meat plus some liver, and even Zhou Ji got 5 kilograms of meat.
Of course, all the meat was from Kumano, and Zhou Ji was not interested in dinosaur meat.
Zhou Ji was not interested in dinosaur meat, but Kumano stayed in the valley, so he followed him down. He also observed the dinosaur eggs and investigated them with his mental power.
The little dinosaurs inside those dinosaur eggs had not yet taken shape and looked no different from chicken or duck eggs.
"Do you want to eat dinosaur eggs?" Xiong Ye asked Zhou Ji. Zhou Ji was quite interested in those dinosaur eggs.
"You didn't get any." Zhou Ji said. There were only five dinosaur eggs in total. Xiong He took one, Shi Li took one, and several warriors who followed Shi Li to hunt shared one. The remaining two were given to the priest by Xiong He.
The priest is old and his teeth have fallen out, so he can't bite through dinosaur meat, so this kind of thing must be important to him.
"I picked some herbs today and can exchange them for dinosaur eggs from the priest," said Kumano.
When he went out hunting, he would pick some herbs, usually giving them to the priests, and he had already given a lot.
It shouldn't be a problem to ask the priest for a dinosaur egg now.
"This can also be given to the priest." Zhou Ji took out a bamboo tube about two fingers thick, and inside the bamboo tube was honey.
He thought the priest would like it.
"It's honey!" Xiong Ye sniffed the smell from the bamboo tube: "Where did you get it from?" The honey that Zhou Ji took out at first, which was left to him by his mother, had been eaten up by them.
"I left some aside." Zhou Ji said.
Kumano always felt that something was wrong, but he did not doubt it. He took the honey and the herbs he picked to find the priest, and soon he brought back a dinosaur egg.
However, before he could get to Zhou Ji with the dinosaur egg in his hand, Shi Li called him and said, "Xiong Ye, why didn't you tell me that you wanted to eat dinosaur eggs? I can give you my dinosaur eggs."
"No need." said Kumano.
Shi Li said: "Xiong Ye, please stop being angry with me, okay? I can't be your partner, but we can still be together."
Seeing the young Kumano wandering in front of him, Shi Li couldn't help but feel a little moved.
"I'm not angry with you, but I won't be with you." Xiong Ye frowned and looked at Shi Li.
"If you don't stay with me, who else can you stay with? Xiongye, I know you like me." Shi Li said.
Kumano's face looked a little ugly.
He really liked Shi Li, and even now, he didn't dare to say that he had no feelings for Shi Li.
Eight years of relationship can’t just be thrown away.
But Shi Li is already with someone else, there will be another man, another woman, and there will be children, so it is impossible for him to be with Shi Li anymore.
He has tried hard to forget Shi Li, but for some reason Shi Li has been hanging around him these days and saying such things.
The current Shi Li made him feel very strange and disgusted. All the good memories he once had with Shi Li were now gone!
"If I don't want to be with you, you can be with someone else." Xiong Ye said, walking straight towards Zhou Ji.
Zhou Ji was sitting alone by the fire, grilling meat, looking particularly quiet.
Kumano suddenly remembered what Niu Er had asked him before.
Actually, it’s really nice to be with Zhou Ji…
Xiong Ye walked up to Zhou Ji, gave him the dinosaur egg, and suddenly asked, "Zhou Ji, are you willing to be my partner?"
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