Chapter 349: A Meal



I sat on the windowsill and pondered for a long time. Yunwen still stood behind me in a dull manner. Only in front of me, she was an obedient puppet. What was I to her? Was I the one who saved her, or the one who caused her unbearable pain? I was confused. I saved her body, but I couldn't save her heart. Was this really good for her?

I couldn't help but sigh, but I could only turn my back to Yunwen. After all, although her body was out of control in front of me, her memory and vision were still her own. She knew what I was doing, and sometimes if she had the chance to be with other people, she would talk about it. For example, when she was alone with others recently and was free again, she mentioned that I felt pain because of her existence.

Therefore, even though I felt uneasy, I didn't dare to express it, for fear that she would misunderstand me. Of course, I also tried to explain it to her in her ear, but the effect was insignificant. A few words could not change the facts that she had already recognized.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Bai Lu walked in and said, "Brother Zhou Bo, the Hyena Queen is waiting for you outside the door."

"Huahua? When did you come?" I asked in surprise.

"She just arrived not long ago. I asked her to wait for you in the living room. She was holding a potato in her hand, just one. I don't know what it means." Bai Lu said.

"Okay, I'll go down right away," I said.

After Bailu went downstairs, I walked over to Yunwen and helped her tidy up her clothes, just like she used to do for me, turning up her collar, patting the wrinkles on her clothes, etc. Then I touched her cold face and said, "Come with me downstairs to meet someone I know."

She nodded stiffly.

Recently Bai Lu got some mountain flowers and specially made red pigment, and put some blush on Yunwen's face to make her look a little more rosy and not so pale. It did add a bit of her former charm, as if all the misfortunes had never befallen her. But this is just my thought after all. The fact is, she had already died once, and now she is half dead, trapped by me by a special curse and has lost her freedom.

After finishing all this, I deliberately held her cold hand and walked forward. She followed me out of the house, down the stairs, and reached the first floor. I saw the hyena queen Huahua and four personal guards waiting for me on the first floor. They were also looking at the potato in their hands. When they saw me coming, Huahua immediately stood up and knelt down and kowtowed with the four guards around them.

Although it has been a while since I started doing this, I still felt a little uncomfortable, so I quickly raised my hand and said, "No need to do this."

All the hyenas stood up, and when the hyena queen saw Yunwen, she made some sign language. Unfortunately, Yunwen's face was stiff, her expression was dull, and she was like a wooden chicken. Apart from a look of anxiety in her eyes, she did not make any other moves, and there was no way she could make any other moves.

There is no way for the hyena people and I to communicate for the time being. I can only communicate through the hyena queen's facial expressions and actions towards the potatoes. Even when she saluted me, she always held the potatoes tightly in her hands. When I first arrived just now, I saw her face wrinkled slightly, as if I could tell that what she wanted to say was a big thing related to potatoes, and perhaps something that was troubling her. When she used sign language, she had a large vocabulary and kept signing, which showed that what she wanted to express was relatively complex.

Since the hyena queen has come in person, I can only guess that this is something extremely related to potatoes, and perhaps also related to the interests of all hyena people.

However, I didn't know how to reply, and could only slightly interpret its meaning. We were unable to communicate with each other, so I could only ask Bailu for help. However, Bailu was also confused. Looking at Yunwen who was holding her head towards me at this moment, I looked into her eyes, and I realized that she was the only one who could help now. Her eyes were anxious and shining, which showed that she had already seen it clearly.

So I looked her in the eyes and said, "Help me translate what Huahua said."

After receiving my authorization, she immediately spoke, "Your Majesty, this thing is delicious, but the hyenas feel uncomfortable when they eat it. I wonder if it is the wrong way to eat it. Please teach me how to get it. Please give me instructions."

Sure enough, he translated everything at once, but this time he repeated it like a tape recorder, a robot.

I continued to look into Yunwen's eyes and said, "Tell Huahua in sign language that the potatoes need to be roasted over a hot fire. I'll have Bailu demonstrate the specific steps later. As for how to plant potatoes, I'll take her to visit our plantation later and teach her the method."

Yunwen gestured with her hands, and Huahua immediately understood it and gestured a few more times. This time, many of the movements were familiar to me.

I authorized Yunwen to translate again, and she immediately translated: "Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Teacher. In return, if there is anything I can help you with, please feel free to ask."

I smiled and waved at Huahua, and she bowed again.

We were about to have breakfast, so I asked Yunwen to help me translate and asked them to stay for a meal, as if it were a banquet for them. Then I asked Bailu to teach them how to cook potatoes on the spot. Bailu showed off her skills in front of these hyenas. We all gathered around the stove, and Bailu smiled at me with some pride on her face, perhaps because she felt she could do something for me.

Bai Lu took four potatoes from the basket, peeled three of them with a silver knife, cut two of them into cubes and poured them into the stew pot, added water, seasonings and fungus, and simmered them over low heat. She cut the peeled one into four pieces, found a willow branch, strung them on the pot and roasted them on the fire, and threw the last unpeeled one into the firewood. This was how she taught people various ways to eat potatoes.

The hyenas were immediately stunned, and they were extremely greedy after the smell came out. After all, they have the same way of processing information as human brains, and they drool at the smell. Huahua was also constantly taking note of these. After the baked potatoes and stewed potatoes were ready, she immediately prepared some other food, such as grilled fish and shrimp, and served them on the table together, sprinkled some flower petals and seasonings on them. It was both imaginative and beautiful, and it would be very impressive to use it for a banquet.

Served on the table on a silver plate, there was a plate of stewed potatoes and black fungus, a plate of roasted potatoes with dried fish and shrimp, and a small earthen bowl filled with potatoes roasted and stewed over charcoal fire. They were peeled and sprinkled with seasonings. There was also some recently collected milk in the military kettle, and I asked Bai Lu to pour some of it as a gift.

I sat in the main seat, Yunwen was behind me, the hyena queen Huahua sat on the left, the guards were behind her, Bailu sat on the right side of the dining table, and everyone had a small bowl. In order to take care of the hyenas, we left the silver forks that we rarely used for them. Bailu and I used chopsticks and earthenware cups, one in front of each of us, with hot milk poured into them.

In this way, it is complete.

Huahua sat in the guest seat and clumsily used a fork to pick up a piece of baked potato and tasted it. It was clearly the face of the hyena man, but it felt uncomfortable to eat potatoes. It was very different from the animal world I saw on a certain channel. The way he ate was also particularly uncomfortable. I was afraid that the hyena man himself was not used to eating such vegetarian food. However, after he finished eating, it was a completely different concept.

I saw it open its eyes wide, and it immediately took another bite of the baked potato and started chewing it again. It ate with a crunching sound, its mouth full of oil, and it kept giving thumbs up, dancing with admiration. It was just that the potatoes were just baked, and it was so excited just now, maybe because they were too hot.

Watching it eating the potatoes cooked during the White Dew Festival, which became more and more fragrant, reminded me of the local dog in my hometown. Every time it ate potatoes, it was so dirty that the crumbs were all over the floor.

We then followed up with the potato set meal, which just completed our breakfast for the day. After eating, I asked Yunwen to help translate and tell Huahua that I would ask Bailu to help check on the hyena's abdominal pain and prescribe some medicine. It was grateful again and said that it would give us some more food in return in the near future.

After dinner, I took Yunwen and the hyena people to the fields outside. I let Yunwen communicate in sign language, and I personally demonstrated how to plant potatoes, so that they could learn these knowledge and experiences that they might only learn after hundreds of years of reproduction. Of course, it is impossible to teach them just by words, so in the future I will inevitably have to teach them by hand so that they can gain more experience.

At this time, the hyena queen Huahua gestured to me, and I asked Yunwen to translate. She meant that she wanted me to go to their place, saying that there was something she wanted to show me.


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