As for barley, not to mention the newly arrived slaves, even the people who were involved in barley cultivation didn't know much about it.
The last time the Beast God performed a miracle and made all the barley in the tribe mature at once, most of the barley was used as seeds.
Not only that, the barley harvest was done by the priests themselves.
After all, it was a miracle!
Because of these reasons, the people in the tribe knew nothing about barley. Now that Zhou Ji said that the barley could be harvested, they all gathered together and wanted to know how to harvest it.
It happened to be a day when there was no hunting required. Xiongye followed Zhou Ji and looked at the large field of barley in front of him. He especially missed the bread that Zhou Ji made for him.
This barley was brought back by Zhou Ji, and Zhou Ji could get a lot of it... He felt that he should have the opportunity to eat a lot of bread, and maybe even other food.
"It's time to harvest the barley!" the priest said, "Come and get some strong men to pull out the barley and bring it back to the tribe!"
He studied it and found that it was too troublesome to just pick the ears of corn, but he didn't have the tools to cut them off, so he simply had someone pull them back.
"Let's pull it out!" Many people responded, and Kumano was one of them.
The priest selected some people, Kumano was among them, and then these strong people began to pull out barley. After pulling out the barley, they piled it together and finally took it to the place where pottery was made.
Although there was open space in the valley, there was relatively little sunlight, and barley needed to be exposed to the sun... The priest finally chose a place where pottery was fired and even leveled out a special area for drying the barley.
For the people in the tribe, pulling out barley was a much easier job than digging eggs. Before long, all the barley was dried in the open space.
Xiong Ye put all the barley away and was about to go out hunting for Zhou Ji's snack when Zhou Ji called him, "Xiong Ye, help me get some barley back."
"Okay." Kumano responded, took a wooden basin and started pulling out ears of barley.
After a while, he picked a basin of ears of corn.
"Ximono, is Zhou Ji going to make something delicious again?" The priest felt a little greedy when he saw this scene.
"I don't know either." Kumano said, and returned to the cave with the pot of ears of corn.
When he returned to the cave, Zhou Ji was not there. Xiong Ye put the wooden basin on the ground, and then found out a little helplessly that his cave was a little small.
There were more and more things in the cave. Although he expanded the cave a little, it was still not enough. Not only that, there were many more things in the cave that he had not noticed.
He has been so busy these days and is often away from home that he doesn't even know what's in those bottles and jars next to him.
Thinking of this, Kumano opened a wooden jar he had never seen before, and then saw inside... a little bear?
Kumano looked at the little bear in surprise.
At just one glance, he recognized that the little bear was himself.
In their tribe, the only one with an animal shape exactly like him is Xiong He. This little bear carefully placed in the wooden jar is obviously made by Zhou Ji. There is no way it can be Xiong He, so it must be him!
Zhou Ji actually made such a little bear and hid it!
Xiong Ye was indescribably happy. He knew that Zhou Ji had gone to mold mud a few days ago, but he didn't expect that Zhou Ji would mold him... He also wanted to mold a Zhou Ji.
Kumano put the wooden jar back and looked at the other jars.
Finally he opened the honey jar, dipped some with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth.
So sweet!
Kumano narrowed his eyes, then closed the lid and intended to put the honey jar back.
Just then, he heard Zhou Ji's voice: "If you like it, eat more."
Xiongye: “…” How come Zhou Ji came back so quietly? !
Also, he could eat more... Kumano took a spoon, scooped a spoonful of honey into the bowl, then dipped it with chopsticks and tasted it slowly.
Honey is so delicious!
Xiong Ye held the bowl and asked, "Zhou Ji, what are you going to do with the barley?"
"Make barley pumpkin porridge." Zhou Ji showed the pumpkin he was holding to Xiong Ye.
The last time he went out, he brought back pumpkins. Because there were not many pumpkins planted, the people in the tribe could not get any for the time being, but he could eat them.
Xiong Ye had drunk the barley porridge cooked by Zhou Ji and had eaten pumpkin, so he asked, "Is this kind of porridge sweet?"
"Yes, I will add sugar." Zhou Ji said.
Kumano immediately became excited.
He has no resistance to sweet things and loves to eat all kinds of sweet food!
Zhou Ji added: "But you have to help me husk the barley first."
"Shelling?" Kumano was puzzled.
"Just remove the outer shell." Zhou Ji said.
Kumano was a little confused looking at the large pot of barley. Each barley grain was so small. How long would it take to peel all the shells?
Wait, the ones they ate last time seemed to have been shelled. How much time did Zhou Ji spend peeling the shells? Xiong Ye looked at Zhou Ji with admiration.
Zhou Ji said: "You can knock it off with a stick."
Kumano took a wooden stick and tried it, and accidentally broke some barley.
Fortunately, he didn't use much force and didn't break the barley into pieces.
He studied it slowly.
At first he couldn't control the strength well and crushed a lot of barley, but slowly, he was able to control the strength. Not only that... he found that using energy could actually make the barley even better.
Kumano just started typing with full concentration.
He didn't know how long he had been knocking the barley, but he knew that after a long time, he had finally knocked all the barley.
At first, a lot of barley was crushed by him, but later, a lot of the barley he beat out had its husks fallen off, but the grains were still intact.
"I've knocked." said Kumano.
"It's amazing that it was done so quickly." Zhou Ji said with a smile.
Xiong Ye was a little embarrassed: "Many of them were smashed, and the shells were mixed in..."
"It's okay." Zhou Ji said. He rubbed the wheat grains with his hands, added water, and then all the shells floated on the water. He picked up the shells and threw them away, then poured out the water... Zhou Ji poured the barley kernels into the pot and cooked them.
A lot of the barley was broken up, but this didn't really affect the porridge.
Zhou Ji cooked it slowly, and when the water boiled, he put the pumpkin in and started grilling for Kumano.
Cooking in a stone pot is really slow. Zhou Ji roasted the meat and gave it to Xiong Ye. Then the porridge was ready. He added a little sugar and gave Xiong Ye a bowl.
The porridge is sweet, the pumpkin inside is soft, and the cooked wheat kernels are even more delicious...
Kumano thinks this kind of porridge is really delicious.
But he didn't eat much, it would be better to give the porridge to Zhou Ji!
However, as soon as he finished eating, Zhou Ji added another large spoonful of food to his bowl with a wooden spoon.
Xiongye smiled and drank slowly, to avoid Zhou Ji having to serve him more after he finished it all at once.
After drinking the porridge, Kumano left the cave.
He went to a pottery shop and asked for a piece of clay to make a Zhou Ji.
He had an image of Zhou Ji in his mind, and thought he could sculpt a lifelike Zhou Ji like he sculpted the little bear. However, he didn't expect that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't sculpt it well.
It must be too small and difficult to carve... Kumano got a piece of clay and started to mold it, and then found a plant that was like a needle and a bit hard to carve the figure.
Then, the finished product is still ugly.
Xiong Ye: “…”
When Kumano was feeling a little depressed, Zhuzhan, who had just returned from hunting, walked towards Kumano and said, "Kumano, why didn't you go hunting outside today?"
The barley was harvested in the morning, so Kumano should have been free in the afternoon, but for some reason he did not go out hunting.
"I have something to do." Kumano said.
"What's the matter? Making a clay figure?" Zhu Zhan sat down next to Kumano, and then looked at the figure that Kumano was carving with an indescribable expression - this clay figure made by Kumano was too ugly!
"Yes." Kumano responded.
"Who is this clay figure you made?" Zhu Zhan asked again.
"I want to be Zhou Ji." Xiong Ye said. He didn't have the face to tell Zhu Zhan that he was Zhou Ji, so he could only say that he wanted to be Zhou Ji.
Kumano wanted to make a Zhou Ji, but ended up...making such an ugly doll? Zhu Zhan felt a little helpless. He didn't think that the ugly clay figure in front of him looked like Zhou Ji at all.
However, Xiong Ye's idea was quite good: "You made this clay figure to appease Zhou Ji, right? Your idea is quite good."
Kumano must have some skills to be able to catch up with Zhou Ji, and he thinks he can learn a little from him.
This way he can coax his woman and stop hitting her!
Even if he fights like a pig, he still needs to save face!
Xiong Ye didn't know what Zhu Zhan was thinking. He kneaded the clay figure back into clay and couldn't help frowning: "I can't knead it well."
"It's actually pretty good." Zhu Zhan said. He felt that he couldn't control it as well as Kumano.
"What Zhou Ji made looks just like the real thing." said Xiong Ye.
"He is different from us. He is the messenger of the Beast God." Zhu Zhan said. Zhou Ji is a real capable person. They can't compare with him, and there is no need to compare.
"That's right, Zhou Ji is very powerful." said Kumano.
Seeing that Xiong Ye was full of happiness, Zhu Zhan said, "You two have a really good relationship. I hope your relationship can stay this good forever."
"Of course, we are a couple blessed by the Beast God!"
"So what if the partners are blessed by the Beast God? Some people still leave them, right?" Zhu Zhan said.
"What nonsense are you talking about? How can a couple blessed by the Beast God be separated?" Xiong Ye said: "After forming a partnership, they will be together for life."
"Is there such a thing in your tribe?" Zhu Zhan was a little confused.
"Aren't you like this?" Kumano said.
"Of course not." Zhu Zhan said. There are many people in their tribe who form partners. Basically two-thirds of them will find a partner for themselves when they grow up.
The vast majority of people will live with their partners until old age, but not everyone does. Many people separate over time.
"How are you?" Kumano asked.
Zhu Zhan told the situation in the tribe, and then said: "I have a partner, and I like her very much."
Xiong Ye didn't pay attention to Zhu Zhan's expression that softened when he mentioned his partner. He just said, "You are wrong. Once you become a partner, you can't separate for the rest of your life!"
Zhu Zhan: “…” Is there such a thing?
Zhu Zhan originally wanted to raise questions, but when he thought that Zhou Ji was the messenger of the Beast God, he gave up - maybe, it was really like this?
Zhu Zhan didn't dwell on this anymore and was about to talk to Xiong Ye about something else. Xiong Ye said, "You must treat your partner well in the future and not betray her, otherwise the Beast God will be unhappy and punish you."
Recently, Zhuzhan often goes hunting with Kumano, and his relationship with Kumano has improved. Of course, the most important reason for their improved relationship is that the misunderstanding has been resolved. After learning that Zhuzhan has a partner, Kumano's hostility towards Zhuzhan completely disappeared.
"Okay." Zhu Zhan said.
Xiong Ye then asked: "What does your partner like? What would you give her?"
Zhu Zhan said: "She likes to beat me and eat meat. I usually give her prey or weapons."
Xiong Ye originally wanted to learn something from Zhu Zhan, but he didn't expect to get only such an answer. He was a little disappointed - Zhou Ji didn't like weapons, and as for prey... who wouldn't give it to them?
Xiong Ye felt that he might not be able to mold the clay figurine well. He was thinking about the gift to give to Zhou Ji when Zhu Zhan asked again, "Xiong Ye, how do you feel about being with a man?"
"Very good." Kumano said.
Xiong Ye almost blurted out, Zhu Zhan said: "It seems that Zhou Ji is great... He does look good, and it must be comfortable to hug him, but he is a little tall. I know a guy outside, he likes men, but he only likes men with slim bodies and good looks."
Kumano was a little confused: "Can a slim figure be good-looking?" Isn't it true that the stronger the figure, the better-looking?
Zhu Zhan said: "You are really... By the way, I know he will use something, do you want it? It will make you feel more comfortable."
"What is it?" Kumano asked.
"It's the liquid inside a fruit." Zhu Zhan said.
The more Kumano listened, the more he felt something was wrong.
What Zhu Zhan said is different from what he and Zhou Ji said!
Could it be that he had made a mistake when he was with Zhou Ji before?
Kumano suddenly understood and felt as if he was struck by lightning.
"What's wrong with you?" Zhu Zhan asked.
"When men are together, don't they use their hands?" asked Kumano.
Zhu Zhan: “…” So, what did these two do after they became a couple? !
Zhuzhan was a little dumbfounded, and Kumano wanted to beat his chest and stamp his feet - how much time had he wasted? !
Kumano immediately ran towards the cave.
When Zhu Zhan saw Xiong Ye running away, he remembered what he was here for: "Xiong Ye, you're not going to fight with us today?"
He was still waiting to have his men fight with Kumano, and then change the spice!
In the end, Kumano actually ran away?
But he could also understand Kumano. Anyone would be anxious when they suddenly realized that they had had a partner for so long but had not yet had the chance to eat her!
Zhu Zhan could only go back helplessly and prepare to eat the most ordinary barbecued meat with a little salt. Meanwhile, Xiong Ye had already run into the cave: "Zhou Ji, I know something."
Zhou Ji was puzzled: "What's the matter?"
"So this is how men should interact..." Kumano spoke quickly.
Zhou Ji covered his head helplessly.
He knew that Kumano would know about this sooner or later, but he never expected that Kumano would know it so quickly.
"Who told you?" Zhou Ji asked.
Xiong Ye said: "Pig battle... Xiong Ye, let's try it?"
Xiong Ye has always been straightforward and bold. As he spoke, he picked up Zhou Ji.
He wants to be intimate with Zhou Ji!
He believed that Zhou Ji must also want to be intimate with him!
Xiong Ye thought so, but Zhou Ji said: "Wait, I'm a little scared."
"Afraid?" Kumano was puzzled.
Zhou Ji said: "I'm afraid of pain, will it hurt?"
Xiong Ye thought about it for a moment and felt that it would be a bit painful, so he immediately said, "How about this, you do it!"
Zhou Ji: “…” Kumano was even happier than he had imagined!
Moreover, he thought Kumano would insist on something, but Kumano did not insist on it.
But... Zhou Ji said: "I'm also worried that you will feel pain, and you might even get hurt."
Zhou Ji gave some reasons, all of which made sense.
But he didn't agree, not mainly because of these.
When he agreed to Kumano's "proposal", it was just to help Kumano and he didn't think much about it. If Kumano had come to him at that time, he might have slept with him.
But now that his relationship with Kumano has grown deeper, he has begun to have many concerns.
For example, does Kumano really like him? If he had not agreed at that time, would Kumano choose someone else as his partner? If he chose someone else as his partner, would he treat that person as well as he treated himself?
And how does he feel about Kumano?
Zhou Ji looked at Xiong Ye deeply.
Xiongye kissed Zhou Ji and thought that Zhou Ji’s little look of worrying that he would get hurt was so cute!
Actually...what men do should be similar, right? In fact, there is no need to do that...
"Forget it then." said Kumano.
Zhou Ji: “…” Just let it go? Why doesn't Kumano try to fight for it?
Kumano really let it go. After going to bed that night, he immediately fell into a sound sleep.
Zhou Ji gave him some energy and he fell asleep with mixed feelings, but he didn't sleep all night.
The next morning, Xiong Ye got up early and prepared to go hunting. When Zhou Ji left the cave, he found that Zhu Zhan was observing him.
Now I know who is the culprit that caused him not to sleep well last night...
Zhou Ji rubbed his brows and sighed.
Seeing that Zhou Ji was walking as usual and there was nothing unusual, Zhu Zhan couldn't help but feel very sorry for Xiong Ye.
But it was other people's business, so he didn't interfere.
Instead of spending so much time on this, he might as well try building boats!
These days, Zhu Zhan took a lot of small pieces of wood back to the cave where he and his men lived together, wanting to make the boat that Zhou Ji mentioned. Although he made some, it was quite difficult to enlarge it to sit on. In addition, how to deal with the predators in the river was also a big problem.
Pig war is quite worrying.
Just when Zhu Zhanchou was worried, the tribe started firing pottery for the third time.
This time Zhou Ji attached great importance to it. He personally put the things he had made, including the clay bear, into the fire. Then he asked people to put the other things in. After everything was put in, he lit the fire again.
The fire started to burn fiercely.
That evening, when everyone was eating next to the pottery pit, Zhu Zhan's subordinates asked Zhu Zhan: "Brother, do you think the Big Bear Tribe can make pottery this time?"
"Maybe, but there are definitely not many pieces." Zhu Zhan said. The high priest of the Beast God Temple does not own many pottery pieces, which means that the production of this pottery should be quite complicated for the Beast God Temple.
The Beast God Temple has been making pottery for many years, but the amount of pottery produced each year is very small. The Big Bear Tribe has only made it twice in total. What can they make?
Although he had now acknowledged that Zhou Ji was the messenger of the Beast God, Zhu Zhan still couldn't completely believe what the Big Bear Tribe said, such as the barley would mature soon and the potatoes would grow in one day.
As for the slaves who had only been in the Big Bear Tribe for ten days...
These ten days of life were simply heaven for them.
During these ten days, they were able to eat two meals a day and were full every meal. Although they did not eat meat but mainly potatoes, this was already extremely happy for them.
These people are gaining weight at a rate almost visible to the naked eye.
They were grateful to the Big Bear Tribe, but they were puzzled by the fact that the people of the Big Bear Tribe played with mud and burned the mud with fire.
The last time they came over, it was burning, and in the end it seemed like only some fragments were burned out. It should be similar this time?
I don't know why the people of the Big Bear Tribe do this...
Everyone was very curious, and at this time, the fire was finally extinguished, and the temperature in the pit slowly dropped.
When Kumano saw that the fire was out, he was the first to jump into the "fire pit".
He saw Zhou Ji put the little bear in, and he didn't know whether the little bear had been baked...
Kumano hoped that the little bear was not burned.
After he entered, he immediately wanted to see the little bear, but it was a little hot...
"Be careful." Zhou Ji reminded, and just as he finished the reminder, he saw Kumano turned into a brown bear.
The bear that had turned into a brown bear had thick skin and flesh, and was not afraid of the heat, so he quickly took out the pottery that was inside.
He took out a beautifully baked bear and said with a look of surprise: "It's not broken."
Zhou Ji actually knew a long time ago that the little bear was not broken. How could something he held and protected with his mental power break?
As for the others... Zhou Ji said, "Take out the others as well."
Kumano nodded, then took out a complete clay pot.
Then he took out complete pottery bowls, basins, and jars.
These things are very thin. Except for the pot which is relatively thick, everything else is very light and very smooth.
Kumano had polished stone tools before, but no matter how hard he polished the stone, he couldn't make a pot like this!
Before, when Zhou Ji wanted to make pottery, he actually didn’t quite understand it and didn’t know what pottery looked like, but now... Xiong Ye looked at the pots and pans in front of him and felt a little excited.
These things look amazing!
"These are all ours, take them back." Zhou Ji pointed at what he had made.
When he did these things, he said that everything he did belonged to him.
"Zhou Ji, you are worthy of being the one favored by the Beast God. None of the pots you made are broken!" said the priest excitedly.
Zhou Ji: “…”
"We have the pots you made, and even other pottery has been fired!" the priest said again, looking at the finished products in surprise except for those made by Zhou Ji.
The previous two pottery firings did not produce any results other than providing the tribe with more pottery fragments for decoration. But this time was different.
This time, in addition to Zhou Ji's, a complete pottery pot, a pottery pot with a hole in it, two pottery bowls, and a pottery jar were also fired.
Compared with those made by Zhou Ji, these pottery are visibly rough to the naked eye, but even so, they are still pottery!
When the priest picked up the pottery and felt its weight, he realized how precious it was.
Stone tools are not easy to use, especially stone pots. You need a lot of firewood to cook the food inside, but this pot...
The priest said, "Take these...to my cave first!"
Xiong Hedao: "You should only need one pot?"
"This gap is given to you." said the priest.
After everyone had divided the spoils, they each took their belongings back to their own caves.
Then... Zhou Ji started cooking.
There have been a lot of vegetables in the tribe recently, and he fried several of them.
I used to use a stone pot to stir-fry things, but the experience was really bad, and sometimes it seemed like it was not stir-frying but boiling. The vegetables were always overcooked by accident, or not cooked at all.
It's different now.
Although this ceramic pot is not as good as an iron pot for cooking, it is much better than a stone pot, not to mention that Zhou Ji also made some very large plates.
Zhou Ji stir-fried several vegetables in one go and cooked barley rice with shelled barley.
Barley can be cooked directly into rice. The cooked rice is chewy and fragrant, but a bit hard and definitely not as good as rice.
But in a place where there is no rice to eat, having a bowl of wheat rice is pretty good.
Zhou Ji hadn’t eaten for a long, long time. Now, he had rice with some proper stir-fried dishes...and his appetite was whetted.
As for the priest... After the priest returned to his cave with the clay pot, the first thing he did was to stir-fry the meat with chili peppers.
His cooking skills were not good, but the meat he used was smoked meat with just the right amount of saltiness, so he didn't make any mistakes when frying it. And while frying, he discovered how useful the clay pot was.
The priest, who had never used an iron pot, fell in love with the clay pot.
Only the Bear River...
The tribe leader Xiong He returned home and planned to cook some meat in a clay pot. However, he put water in the pot and put it on the fire. As the pot was burning, the whole pot cracked.
Xiong He: “…”
Seeing this, Xiong He's woman took half of a clay pot and put it on her head, and asked Xiong He: "Do you think I look good like this?"
Xiong He said, "It looks good." He put the other half of the pottery pot on his head, thought about it, then took it off and started polishing it.
When Xiongye and Zhou Ji were cooking in the cave late at night, Zhuzhan was still a little dazed.
The Big Bear Tribe actually managed to make pottery so quickly!
Those that the priest took away were fine, but the pottery that Zhou Ji made himself and then fired was truly perfect!
That kind of pottery, let alone exchanging it for dinosaurs, can even be used to exchange for territory!
"I've made up my mind!" Zhu Zhan said suddenly.
"What has been decided?" Zhu Zhan's men asked one after another.
Zhu Zhan said: "I want to join the Big Bear Tribe!"
He used to be the chief of the Giant Pig Tribe, but he is no longer the chief now, and he doesn't want to go back to being the chief.
He felt that joining the Big Bear Tribe was a better option.
His father didn't have much pottery, but if he continued to work in the Big Bear Tribe, he would definitely be able to use pottery!
The more Zhu Zhan thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good idea.
One of Zhu Zhan's men said, "I thought we had joined the Big Bear Tribe a long time ago, but it turns out we haven't?" Don't they hunt with them every day?
Pig War: "..."
At the same time, Xiong Qi, Xiong Bai and others climbed into the pottery firing pit together.
When they met inside, both of them felt a little awkward, then they found a place to lie down in silence. When they lay down... they suddenly found someone next to them.
"This is the place where the divine weapon given to us by the Beast God was forged... Are you here to take advantage of it?" The priest's voice sounded slowly.
Xiong Bai: Priest, you were cooking in the cave not long ago, and now you are here. You are so nimble!
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