Chapter 192 No Chirp
Jian Mo and his team went into the mountains to collect herbs early the next morning.
Because of the presence of the Fatty Chirps, the team was particularly lively. Everyone chatted along the way and did not feel that the journey into the mountains was difficult.
Jian Mo told them roughly the herbs they needed and asked them to look for them.
They had just entered the mountain for a while when a man from the Yuqi tribe shouted, "Is the herb we are looking for up ahead? I see a stinky banban there."
Everyone looked ahead and then at Jian Mo.
Jian Mo followed the man's line of sight and looked over: "It seems to be true. We can dig it up."
The young people in the team immediately ran to the front and dug out the herb called "stinky banban". Among the young people were people from the Yuqi tribe and the Baizhi tribe.
The young people ran back together and held up the herbs for Jian Mo to see.
Jian Mo took the herbs and examined them. The leaves were ovate, opposite to each other, with fine hairs on the back. When the leaves were rubbed, there was a distinct smell of moldy wood. It must be the stinky banban. Jian
Mo nodded: "It is indeed the stinky banban. Let's continue looking."
The young people cheered and took the lead to walk to the front and continue looking for herbs.
There are abundant herbs in the mountains. In addition to finding a lot of herbs to be used today, Jian Mo and his friends also found some additional herbs, including some tonics. Jian Mo asked people to dig them all out.
Autumn is also a good season for collecting herbs. Most of the herbs are mature, especially the herbs with skins and roots. The medicinal effects are very good when they are dug at this time.
Everyone has been wandering in the mountains for a day, and everyone's backpack is almost full.
Today's harvest was great, Jian Mo was in a good mood, and he even suggested hunting some prey to make soup.
This was unanimously supported by the young people, and everyone said that they didn't need to do anything, and the young people could just go.
Then, Jian Mo saw a group of fat birds flying in the air and caracals running on the ground, and they ran directly towards the forest.
Qi Ming shouted from behind, "Remember to hunt prey that is more suitable for stewing soup--"
I don't know who spoke: "Got it."
The voice echoed in the mountains.
Jian Mo and the others went back to deal with the medicinal materials first. They
collected more herbs today, but the herbs were not very complete. Jian Mo picked and chose, and finally came up with three prescriptions.
There was nothing he could do about it. After all, they were wild herbs. Whatever he could collect was what he could get, and there was no room for being picky.
The collected herbs need to be further processed before they can be used. Jian Mo divided the work among people and let some people be responsible for some herbs.
Everyone took the herbs and went to work on their own. Some scrubbed, sliced, mashed, baked, and soaked in oil.
Jian Mo specially asked people to wear masks to avoid being poisoned.
Many people stayed to process the herbs today, and the herbs were processed very quickly.
Before it got dark, they got three small buckets of liquid medicine.
Jian Mo took a look and said, "Let's use it today. It's just in time to observe the effect tomorrow."
Whether the pesticides for pest control are effective can basically be observed in one day.
Qi Ming had no objection: "Then let's go up the mountain again."
Jian Mo followed everyone up the mountain, personally diluted the pesticides, and divided the vegetable field into a large triangle, and sprinkled the three kinds of pesticides on the three corners to prevent them from affecting each other.
Anyway, the damage to the entire vegetable plot was similar, and there was no particular plot with more or fewer insects.
The sprinkler in the Yuqi tribe looked like a flower sprinkler—it had tiny holes drilled in the spout, so the sprinkler sprayed fairly evenly.
After checking, Jian Mo marked the three vegetable plots, and specially used charcoal to write the prescription for this plot on a wooden board, and then stuck it on the edge of the vegetable plot.
"Okay." Jian Mo walked over to the cold water pond far away from the vegetable field to wash his hands, saying, "We can come back tomorrow morning to see it."
Qi Ming: "Then let's go down the mountain. The hunters should have brought back the prey."
Jian Mo had no objection: "Let's go, let's go back and make soup."
Wu Jiong turned back into a giant wolf, and the other beastmen also turned back into beasts. Everyone ran down the mountain and returned to the Yuqi tribe before it was completely dark.
Then Jian Mo saw the prey that the young people brought back today - the one in the front was a big cave beast.
It was the kind of cave beast that farted like it was thickened with starch, and its farts were particularly smelly.
Jian Mo doubted his life: "Aren't you going to hunt prey that can be used to make soup?"
Wan Zheng quickly took out a purple bird and a long-tailed bird from the cave beast: "These are the prey for making soup. Cave beasts can be used for stir-frying and stewing."
A young man from the Yuqi tribe quickly added: "We didn't want to hunt cave beasts before, but we encountered them and couldn't just let them go, so we brought them back."
Jian Mo understood that neither of these two tribes was particularly good at hunting, so it was not surprising that they couldn't hunt suitable prey, so they could only make do with what they had.
Qi Ming asked: "Doctor Jian Mo, how do you want to eat? You decide."
Jian Mo didn't be polite with him: "The two birds are used to make soup, and as for this cave beast, just stir-fry it and eat it while it's fresh."
"Brother Jian Mo." A young man from the Baizhi tribe raised his hand and said with sparkling eyes, "Can we have hot pot? Or the spicy hot pot invented by your Riverside tribe?"
Jian Mo: "That's fine. You should have peppers here, so we can just make a soup base."
Qi Ming: "Yes, we have recently exchanged a lot of ingredients with vegetables, so we can find a few more to cook hot pot."
Jian Mo became interested: " Let's cook hot pot. It happens that the clear soup pot is used to simmer vegetables, and the red soup pot is used to simmer meat. We can chop bones and cook the hot pot base now. As long as there are peppers and pepper cores, it will be fine. "
Qi Ming: "All, I'll prepare them."
Others said: "Let's help."
So, in the busyness of everyone, two rows of hot pots were ready, one row of clear soup pots and one row of red soup pots, and people can choose the flavor freely.
Everyone chatted while eating hot pot, and the chat was
very pleasant. Jian Mo sat in the crowd, watching the two originally hostile tribes chatting enthusiastically, and he was in a good mood.
After dinner, the fat birds turned back into beasts and flew away.
They have night vision and can fly at night. Moreover, they will not encounter large wild animals when flying in the sky, which is safer than walking on land.
Everyone let them go back without worrying about it, and told them to come back the next day if they were interested.
The fat birds came early the next day, and they were chattering outside, urging everyone to go and see the effect of the pesticides.
Jian Mo yawned, got up sleepily, and was pushed out the door.
When they started to climb the mountain, he lay on the back of the giant wolf, hugged the giant wolf's neck, and soon fell asleep again.
The giant caracal Qi Ming ran beside the giant wolf and asked with some concern: "Doctor Jian Mo fell asleep, is it okay?"
The giant wolf looked back, gently touched Jian Mo with his mouth, and whispered: "It's okay, he's safe. If he's about to slip, I can feel it and will bring him back. Let him sleep."
The caracal said nothing more and passed the giant wolf to lead the way.
When they ran up the mountain, the morning sun had already risen. The warm sunlight shone on the vegetables, showing the condition of the vegetables clearly.
Among the three vegetable plots sprayed with potion, the leaves of one of them turned yellow, which should have been affected by the potion. Fortunately, they didn't spray too much, so the loss was not great.
The vegetables in the other two plots looked normal, except that there were more dead insects in one plot and fewer dead insects in the other.
Jian Mo yawned and checked carefully, then said, "We must not use potions that can kill vegetables together with the spray, and we can't use potions that are not very effective in killing insects. It seems that this potion is the only one left. Let's think about it and see if we can improve the formula."
Qi Ming agreed, "I think it's okay."
Jian Mo: "Then let's go find some herbs today, try again in the afternoon, and make a few more potions."
No one had any objections.
It is difficult to create a prescription independently, but it is much easier to modify it based on an existing prescription.
Jian Mo tried several prescriptions that night, and finally decided on one of them based on the results the next day.
Jian Mo said to Qi Ming and the others, "You guys use this prescription for now, I'll think about it when I get back to see if I can come up with a better one."
Qi Ming nodded, "Then it's up to you. As for rewards, we'll give you a batch of seedlings and seeds, and we'll give you one-tenth of this year's vegetables."
Jian Mo: "Okay. I'll also bring some of the herbs I picked these two days back to the tribe, so I can try to make a few more prescriptions."
Qi Ming agreed immediately, "You can bring them, do you want to pick some more herbs?"
Jian Mo: "Not for now. We don't grow much in autumn and winter. These herbs are enough. We'll come back to collect herbs when we want to grow something."
Qi Ming: "That's fine. Anyway, you have Jiujiu and Yingao, so it's convenient for you to come to our tribe."
Jian Mo smiled and said, "Yes, we'll come back if we need you. If you need fertilizer, you can also come to our tribe to exchange it. We have a lot of fertilizer in our tribe."
Qi Ming: "Then it's settled."
Jian Mo and his friends were about to go back, and Feijiu said they would send them off.
"We don't have much to do anyway, so
we'll carry some things for you." "We haven't been to your tribe for a long time. We want to go and play with Ban Ming and the others."
"Brother Jian Mo, please let us go. We have wings and it is not difficult for us to fly."
Jian Mo looked at the fat birds and did not have any objections. He just reminded them: "It is not easy for you to travel such a long distance. You can exchange some things and do some business on the way."
Wan Zheng agreed in one breath: "It just so happens that we have some supplies piled up in the tribe, from cloth to metal, to seasoning, everything. We will just carry those supplies."
Jian Mo: "Just keep it in mind."
Wan Zheng nodded and discussed with Jian Mo and the others: "Then we won't camp outdoors on the way. We can stay in Tianning tribe for one night. Then when we get to your place, we will go to Mengshui tribe to exchange things, and then go to Hepan tribe to find you."
Tianning tribe has absorbed a lot of pottery making techniques and pottery patterns this year. The pottery made now is becoming more and more exquisite. It would be nice to go to their tribe to exchange some pottery.
Jian Mo agreed, "No problem. Tomorrow morning we have to go to the Xuejiao Tribe to catch fish, and then fly to the Tianning Tribe. Let's meet on the way, so we don't have to take a detour to meet."
Wan Zheng was a little surprised, "Why do we have to go fishing? We can help catch them."
Jian Mo smiled, "Ordinary fish won't work. We just want to catch the big fish in the Snow Lake. You don't have to do anything. We can just catch a few and bring them back as a specialty. If it's convenient for you, help us carry some supplies, and we will carry the fish directly then."
Wan Zheng, "Okay, see you at the Tianning Tribe." They
hadn't been home for a few days, and knowing that they would have to go back, Jiujiu and Ying Ao were both excited.
When Jian Mo and Wu Jiong directed them to the wild lake of the Snow Foot Tribe, Jiujiu became even more excited, flapping its wings, obviously still remembering the fish in the lake.
Jiujiu seldom flew so fast, Jian Mo wrapped his coat tightly around him, grabbed the reins, and shouted, "Jiujiu, fly slower, save some energy, we'll go down to the lake to catch fish later."
Jiujiu: "Jiu--"
Jiujiu flew very fast, and Ying Ao's speed also increased. When they arrived at the wild lake, it was still early.
Jian Mo had been tensing his waist and abdomen all the way and holding the reins tightly. His body had already started to move. Standing by the lake, he sighed, "Well, there's no need for any warm-up exercises. Let's go directly into the lake to catch fish."
Wu Jiong came over and rubbed his head, "You're on the shore, the fish are a bit fierce, don't bite you then."
Jian Mo thought about it, "Okay, I won't cause trouble for you."
Wu Jiong directed Jiujiu and Ying Ao, "Jiujiu, you go into the water from this side, Ying Ao, you go into the water from that side, try to drive the fish over here, I'll wait here to catch the fish. Don't worry about the small fish, we just need to catch the big ones."
Jiujiu's eyes lit up, he panted twice with his tongue out, took a run-up and flew over to drive the fish in the direction Wu Jiong pointed.
As soon as it landed on the lake, it began to dive underwater.
Its experience of diving at the seashore near the Xingchu tribe gave it a lot of experience. It dived very smoothly and chased the fish very smoothly. After a few breaths, it splashed water everywhere, and it was obvious that it was fighting with the fish.
In comparison, Ying Ao was not as good at chasing fish - after all, if it chased the fish, the fish would just run away desperately, unlike Jiu Jiu, who fought hard.
Wu Jiong turned into a giant wolf and waited for it to come.
When Jiujiu and the fish swam over, he immediately went to catch them.
The giant wolf's hunting skills were amazing, and it killed several big fish in just a few bites.
The big fish turned over and floated to the surface of the water, and was pushed to the shore by Jiujiu.
Jian Mo quickly transformed the hand beast into a cat's claw, and with his sharp claws, he hooked the skin of the big fish and dragged it to the shore.
With the buoyancy of the water, Jian Mo successfully dragged all the big fish to the shore.
Each of these fish weighed at least 60 to 70 kilograms and was slippery. If he hadn't been able to use his claws, Jian Mo might not have been able to drag them ashore.
After all the fish were dragged up, Jian Mo's two beast ears flicked, and a proud expression appeared on his face.
He has really trained well now.
Jiujiu was very happy to see the abundant harvest, and ran to the other side to attract fish.
It soon fought with another group of fish, fighting and howling as it fled to Wu Jiong's side.
Ying Ao, who had struggled for a long time to catch a fish, saw this situation and swam to the giant wolf to cooperate with Jiujiu to catch fish, no longer fighting alone.
Jian Mo was impressed again when he saw this, Ying Ao grasped the rhythm of hunting so well, and gave up decisively, worthy of being Ying Ao.
Everyone cooperated to catch fish, and after two rounds, they caught a total of seven fish.
Jian Mo felt a little cold and shouted, "Enough, stop catching, let's go back quickly, otherwise we won't be able to fly to Tianning Tribe before dark."
Giant Wolf: "Okay. Jiujiu, Yingao, get ashore."
Yingao quickly swam to the shore, but Jiujiu unwillingly dived to the bottom of the lake, trying to catch more fish.
However, the big fish had been caught by them once, and now it had learned its lesson, and ignored Jiujiu.
Jian Mo looked at the big fish that was caught: "Let's deal with it first before leaving?"
They now removed the dirt, marinated the fish, and then flew to Tianning Tribe. This would not only reduce the weight, but also preserve the fish by marinating to get the best flavor.
Wu Jiong: "I'll kill the fish, you prepare the seasoning."
Jian Mo: "Will you add some throat eyeballs later?"
Jiujiu likes the taste of throat eyeballs, so it should like it if you add some when pickling the fish.
Wu Jiong: "Okay."
Jian Mo found the throat eyeballs from the basket and said with some regret: "I forgot to ask them to help plant some throat eyeballs when I was in the Yuqi tribe."
Wu Jiong said while processing the fish: "We will keep the seeds and let Wanzheng and others take the seeds to the Yuqi tribe, and let the Yuqi tribe help plant them."
Jian Mo: "Then remind me when the time comes, so I won't forget."
When they were pickling the fish, Jiujiu and Yingao were watching.
Jiujiu was already greedy and his mouth was watering.
Jian Mo quickly stuffed dried meat into its mouth: "Please restrain yourself."
Jiujiu: "Hmm."
Wu Jiong cut the fish into two large strips and gave one to Jiujiu and Yingao respectively: "It's okay to try it now, the fish meat is quite clean."
Jian Mo: "That's fine, I'll make insect repellent for them when I get back."
Jiujiu held the piece of meat in his mouth and looked at Jian Mo eagerly, not knowing whether he could eat it or not.
Jian Mo was pickling the fish and had no free hands, so he bumped his body with his head: "Eat it, just remember to take the medicine when you get back."
Jiujiu then tilted his head back and happily ate the fish meat, still not satisfied, and stretched out his pink tongue to lick the minced meat and blood on the edge of his mouth.
Wu Jiong looked up at them and gave them a big piece of fish. After eating it, they didn't have to carry it on the road.
Jiujiu was very happy, lowered his head and rubbed against Wu Jiong's back: "Jiujiu!"
Fortunately, Wu Jiong was strong and squatted steadily, otherwise he would have been rubbed to the ground.
After collecting the fish, they hurried on their way.
They hurried all the way and finally arrived at the Tianning tribe when the moon rose.
Feijiu and his friends had arrived a long time ago and told the people of the Tianning tribe that they would come too.
The people of the Tianning tribe had dealt with Jian Mo and his friends several times and had a good relationship with them, so they cleaned up the house in advance for them and prepared fodder for Jiujiu and Ying Ao.
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong were grateful, so they started a fire and cooked a big pot of meat for Jiujiu and Yingao to share. As for the grass prepared by the Tianning tribe, it was just a side dish.
Dara, the skinny flying beast who came to play with Jiujiu and Yingao, looked at the meat that Jian Mo had carefully prepared with envy in his eyes: "Ying."
Yingao had no interest in Dara and didn't even look at Dara.
Jiujiu, on the other hand, heard Dara's cry, hesitated for a moment, and pushed the food bowl to Dara's side: "Jiu?"
Jian Mo looked at Jiujiu, who had learned to share food, and felt that she was very cute. He was just about to praise Jiujiu.
Unexpectedly, Dara couldn't resist the temptation, facing the food bowl, buried his head directly into the food bowl, and took a big bite of meat: "Hulu Hulu."
This made Jiujiu so distressed that he almost got angry, and he stopped chirping and immediately grabbed the food bowl with his claws and dragged it back: "Jie——!"
Its meat!
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