Chapter 91 Sour Soup Pot The
people who came out this time were the backbone of the two tribes, and both the sub-orcs and orcs were very skilled.
The orc who avoided the plucking of leg hair took the initiative to ask for help, and gently stuck his companion's leg hair to the green velvet insect.
The hair was light enough and large enough. After sticking it to the green velvet insect with resin, the green velvet insect struggled for a while, but still flew up, flying crookedly forward.
Everyone observed for a while and found that the green velvet insect seemed to have no intention of collecting pollen anymore. It should be flying to the insect nest. Suddenly, everyone was refreshed and quietly followed the green velvet insect.
After the green velvet insect was attached to the hair, no matter how fast it flew, it could not escape everyone's eyes.
Everyone ran after the green velvet worm all the way. After running a long distance, they finally saw the green velvet worm stop, land on the ground, and start to drill into a hole the size of a soybean.
If it weren't for the green velvet worm leading the way, they really wouldn't be able to find such a small hole in the vast wilderness.
Now it's much easier.
Everyone looked at each other.
"Dig?"
"Dig!"
Those who had daggers took their daggers, and those who had hoes took their hoes, and everyone started digging along the hole together.
Jian Mo squatted on the side and watched.
When the hole was dug a little wider, he soon found that the wormhole inside the hole was quite obvious. The surrounding soil was very wet, but the walls of the wormhole remained dry and smooth.
They dug along the worm tunnel and soon saw the green velvet worms burrowing around.
Then, they dug up the nest of the green velvet worm.
The nest of the green velvet worm was like an underground palace, more than one meter high.
The nest was tightly integrated with the soil and exuded a special sweet smell. Even Jian Mo, who did not have a keen sense of smell, could smell it at once.
"We really dug out a nest."
"Yes, this nest is big enough."
"Be careful, don't collapse this nest. Hey, start from the four corners, and take only half of it."
Everyone carefully broke off the nest and put it in a backpack padded with dry grass.
When breaking it, as they squeezed it, a lot of mucus overflowed from the nest.
Jian Mo kept staring at the mucus.
Ye Luo watched him from the side and asked him, "What's wrong?"
Jian Mo felt incredible: "How do you use this mucus?"
Ye Luo lowered his voice: "Squeeze it out and filter it, then boil it and let it cool before use. Some people will add animal oil to cook it together, which makes it better to use."
Jian Mo touched his ears and lowered his voice: "By better, does it mean that the lubricating effect will be very good?"
The two of them, one is a single orc, and the other is not good at doing these things, were squeezed outside the crowd, so they could chat in a low voice.
Ye Luo said: "Not only that, I heard that this mucus has some aphrodisiac effect."
Jian Mo widened his eyes with a "wow" expression on his face.
Ye Luo was a little embarrassed by him, and his voice became more serious: "The elders in the tribe said that using the mucus from the green velvet worm nest can help you get pregnant."
People in this world don't get pregnant easily, so this temptation is really great.
Jian Mo was skeptical: "Is it true?"
Ye Luo: "Several beastmen who got together and had cubs soon said that they used the mucus from the green velvet worm nest."
Then Jian Mo stared at the worm nest. If that was the case, could the green velvet worm nest make sperm more active?
Everyone who came out to collect basically only took half of the collection.
The green velvet worm nest is relatively rare, but no one meant to take all the nests away.
The person in charge of collecting the nest quickly collected half of it and told the others that they could fill the soil back in.
After the soil was filled in, a path would be left for the green antlers, and they would build nests in the original place.
The next time people came, they might be able to find the nest and collect half of it.
Jian Mo kept staring at the insect nest and watching everyone's actions, and suddenly said, "Wait."
Everyone was puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Jian Mo pondered and said, "Do you think this insect nest is particularly new? The outermost part is almost as new as the center."
This view was quite novel. Everyone observed it and agreed with him: "It is indeed quite new, but what's the matter?"
Jian Mo tried to reason: "The insect nest is so new, which means they may have moved here recently. The entire insect nest was built together and has not been expanded. Since they moved here recently, there should be other insect nests nearby, otherwise where did they move from?"
Although Jian Mo was not familiar with green antlers, he was familiar with bees.
When he was in school, as a veterinarian, he also took courses related to beekeeping. If he works in a veterinary station or something like that after graduation, these skills will be useful.
According to the habits of insects, even if they move, they will probably not be too far away from their original place, but will find a familiar place to continue to settle down - if the original place has no natural enemies.
No one thought of this, but after thinking about it, they felt that it made sense:
"Then let's look for other green velvet insect nests nearby?"
"Green velvet insects are so small, it will probably be difficult to find."
"Ya Zheng, come and look? Ya Zheng, aren't you from the giant armored beast clan? With your sense of smell, you should be able to find it, right?"
"Let's look separately, first look for a small hole on the ground, and then Ya Zheng, come over and smell it when you find it?"
After a preliminary discussion, everyone decided on a search strategy.
Jian Mo, Qing Kuang and Ye Luo led the way and then searched for the nest of the green velvet worm.
During the search, they found a lot of wild vegetables, bird eggs and insects. As long as it was edible, they put it in the basket without hesitation. They
didn't find it here, and another group of beastmen from the Riverside Tribe first discovered a suspected cave and hurriedly called Ya Zheng to go over.
Ya Zheng smelled it and indeed smelled the scent of the green velvet worm.
Everyone rushed over to dig without hesitation. After a while, they dug up another nest of green velvet worms. They also took half of the nest and filled the soil back, leaving only a worm tunnel for the green velvet worms to continue to enter and exit.
With the experience of the first time, everyone quickly tried to find the third nest of green velvet worms. According to everyone's observation, the second nest of green velvet worms was also quite new, and it didn't look like it had been lived in for a long time.
According to Jian Mo, he felt that this nest of green velvet worms was not as easy to recognize as the first one, and it didn't look too new.
However, everyone said that this nest was new, and he didn't have any objections. Anyway, there was nothing to do if he continued to follow everyone to search, and he could also pick up other spices or food on the way.
During the search, Jian Mo was puzzled: "The nests of green velvet worms are so useful, why don't people raise some? Since the nests have been dug up, it should be easy to dig out the green velvet worms inside, right?"
Qing Kuo: "The major tribes have really tried to raise them before, but none of them survived. They won't come out of the nest if people move, and they die inside. Even the nest is unusable."
Jian Mo was puzzled: "Could it be that they can't stand the smell of people? Then breaking off half of the nest will... , are they still willing to live in it?"
Qingkuo: "That's no problem, I don't know how they judged it."
Jian Mo: "That's really strange. By the way, there is another question--"
Qingkuo helplessly: "Why do you have so many questions?"
Jian Mo: "The last one."
Qingkuo had to say: "You ask it."
Jian Mo coughed lightly: "That's right, is it really useful to use insect nests for pregnant cubs? Your two cubs--"
Qingkuo knocked Jian Mo's head and refused to answer.
Ye Luo laughed beside him and did not answer.
Jian Mo guessed in his heart that it should have been used, otherwise there would not be this reaction.
They were looking here, and the other two sides sent news at the same time, saying that they had found it.
After digging it up, there were indeed two insect nests of green velvet worms, one of which was particularly large and old.
After that, we won't be able to find any other beetle nests. There
are probably only four beetle nests in this area.
The sun has risen to the top of our heads, and the weather is getting hot. We hurried to the temporary camp.
On the way, the beastmen from the two tribes divided the beetle nests.
A total of four beetle nests were found today, two for each tribe, divided equally.
The two tribes will then distribute them according to their own situations.
After returning to the camp, the single beastmen and the beastmen with partners from the Riverside Tribe each took a beetle nest.
Jian Mo also got two pieces in his hand.
Qing Kuang specifically reminded: "Use it after returning to the tribe."
Jian Mo's ears turned red: "Am I such an unreliable person?"
Qing Kuang shrugged: "Who knows? Young couples are quite impulsive."
Jian Mo: "Then we won't."
Jian Mo stuffed the insect nest into a clean jar, and covered the mouth of the jar with a layer of cloth, covering it tightly.
When the beastmen came back, they saw that the atmosphere in the temporary camp was a bit strange, and asked questions one after another, and then they were unanimously rejected by the Asian beastmen and told them not to care.
Wu Jiong also whispered to Jian Mo.
Jian Mo glanced at him and put his hand under his nose.
He knew it as soon as he smelled it: "Green antlers?"
Jian Mo nodded mysteriously and tapped the jar lightly with his fingers, making a soft "ding" sound, indicating that it was inside the jar.
The beastmen brought back more beasts today, including some that were as big as elephants.
These beasts have long hair and two thick and large horns. They are said to be cross-horned beasts.
Jian Mo was shocked when he stood in front of these beasts.
They were so big that they didn't even look like land beasts, but more like marine animals in the sea. For
the newly hunted beasts, everyone took the time to skin and meat them, and also to preliminarily tan the leather.
While Jian Mo was helping out, two orcs came to him. One of them was accidentally stepped on by a cross-horned beast, and the other was hit by its horn. Both needed treatment.
Jian Mo quickly took them to the side to check their wounds.
Fortunately, neither of them was seriously injured, and they only needed to apply some medicated oil to reduce swelling and prevent infection.
With the orcs' physical condition, it is estimated that they will fully recover within three days.
When Jian Mo came back after helping the two orcs treat their wounds, he saw that everyone had taken out the skin and meat, leaving a pile of white bones next door.
The meat on these bones had been basically shaved off, and Jiujiu took a bone with more meat and chewed it for fun.
Unfortunately, this guy's teeth were not very good. He gnawed the bone from the left to the right, and then from the right to the left, but he couldn't even chew off a few strips of meat.
Jian Mo shook his head helplessly and ran to find Wu Jiong.
Wu Jiong was rubbing the leather with leaves and saw him coming over: "What's wrong?"
Jian Mo: "Let me help. Are these bones useless?"
Before Wu Jiong could answer, Ban Ming next to him said: "Yeah, there are only a pile of bones left. Even Jiujiu doesn't eat them, so what use can they be?"
Jiujiu was gnawing on the bones. When he heard his name, he took time out of his busy schedule to respond: "Jiujiu--"
Jian Mo: "There are bone marrow and other things in it."
Ban Ming: "That's useless. We have so much meat here, why do we need a little bone marrow?"
Yun Qie, who was working, heard their voices and asked with a smile: "Doctor Jian Mo wants this pile of bones? If you want, just take it, so we don't have to find a place to dispose of them."
Jian Mo looked at Wu Jiong, meaning to ask if it would be bad to take it.
Wu Jiong said, "Take it. If you want to carry it back to the tribe, we will have to make another trip to transport it back
." Jian Mo waved his hand, "No need, it's too heavy to carry back. I just want the bone marrow inside. When you're done, can you use an axe to split the bones? Or just knock it off."
Wu Jiong: "I'll try it later."
Soon, everyone took the meat off.
Jian Mo ran to the big pot to prepare dinner.
There are a lot of dirty things to eat today, so he took out the pickled vegetables from the jar and planned to make some pickled vegetables and dirty things first. He
happened to bring two large iron pots, which could make the fire very strong. The pickled vegetables and dirty things would have a strong wok flavor and should taste good.
In addition to the large iron pots that can be used to stir-fry two dishes, the clay pot can be used to stew bone soup. Put all the wild vegetables picked today in it, which can clear away heat and detoxify while replenishing vitamins.
The main course must be barbecue. After a busy day outside today, everyone has consumed a lot of energy, so they have to eat something substantial.
Everyone was busy with their own things, and finally had dinner when night fell.
Jian Mo was the chef and received unanimous praise from everyone.
The people of Mengshui tribe said one after another:
"Doctor Jian Mo, it would be great if I could go out with you every day."
"I have also learned to cook from you, but the dishes I cooked are not so good."
"After this meal, when can we eat your dishes again?"
Jian Mo said quietly: "Tomorrow morning." As soon as
he said this, everyone laughed.
Jian Mo continued: "There is nothing special about my cooking. I have a good pot, I have the courage not to be afraid of burning the dishes, and I am willing to add seasonings, so the dishes I cook will not be bad."
For example, when cooking with a large iron pot, sometimes the fire is too strong and the pot directly catches fire, and the people around subconsciously want to throw away the spatula and run away.
In fact, the dishes cooked in this way can remain crisp and taste good.
Not to mention the seasonings. Even though there is no soy sauce or oyster sauce now, he can use five or six kinds of seasonings when cooking, such as sugar, salt, shellfish powder, garlic powder, pepper powder... With so many seasonings, it is hard to imagine that the food is not delicious.
This is also the reason why people around him can't learn how to cook even though he is not hiding anything. Whether it is tools, seasonings or cooking concepts, they are all too advanced.
After a break after dinner, Wu Jiong began to split the bones.
He is strong, so the bones are easy to split. With one axe, he can split cracks. Then he puts it on the stone and hits it with the back of the axe, and the bone breaks.
Jian Mo picked up the bone and checked the bone marrow inside.
There is indeed a lot of bone marrow inside, because the bones are very large, and the bone marrow can be dug out with a spoon.
He had wanted to throw the bones into the pot to stew, but now he thought that the bones were too big and the pot probably wouldn't be able to hold them all. So digging out the bone marrow and boiling it would probably be enough.
Everyone was curious about how he did it. Some people stayed to help him smash the bones and dig out the bone marrow, while others went out to help him collect fuel.
That night, Jian Mo set up two pots and started to boil the bone marrow on the spot.
The bone marrow is different from animal oil and smells more fragrant.
It was getting late and they were ready to go to bed. The patrolling beastman agreed to help watch the fire. If the fire was about to go out, he would add fuel under the pot.
So all night long, the aroma of the bone marrow floated throughout the temporary camp, and many people dreamed of the taste of delicious food.
Some wild animals were attracted by the smell and came over to have a look. They were picked up by the patrolling beastmen, who cleaned them up and put them aside for breakfast the next day.
Jian Mo was thinking about the bone marrow, so he got up early the next day.
The bone marrow had been boiled until it was clear, but there was some dried bone marrow on the edge of the pot. He scooped a piece off with a shovel and put it in his mouth. It was very fresh and fragrant.
This fresh fragrance was completely different from the fresh fragrance of animal oil. Instead, it had a bit of the fresh fragrance of dried chicken, and tasted a bit like chicken powder.
The bone marrow had cooled down, but it had not solidified yet.
Jian Mo put them into jars, filling up three jars in total. There was still some base oil left in two of the pots.
Everyone came over to have a look, curious about what the bone marrow tasted like.
Seeing them like this, Jian Mo simply scooped out some bone marrow for them to taste. Unexpectedly, it was very popular.
"This bone marrow is so fragrant, and there is no blood smell at all."
"No wonder you said it's a waste to throw away the bones. If the bone marrow is not taken out, it is indeed a waste."
"I think we can also try to boil the bone marrow next time. It should be delicious to cook something with it."
Everyone gathered around the pot to share the bone marrow. Jiujiu smelled the fragrance and saw that everyone had it but it didn't. It got anxious and twisted its fat butt to squeeze over: "Meow!"
Seeing that it was so anxious that it was about to talk, Jian Mo had to scoop out a piece for it: "Go eat over there, don't come over here."
Jiujiu held the big piece of bone marrow with its front paws and moved to the side to chew it with satisfaction.
Seeing that everyone liked it, Jian Mo suddenly had an idea: "Didn't we use up all the sour fruits we picked yesterday?"
The sour fruits looked a bit like the girl fruit, which was the fruit of a certain kind of grass. They were small but very sour. Everyone used them as seasonings. Jian Mo used some when he fried the internal organs yesterday.
Qing Kuang dragged out the basket to show him: "It's not used up. There are still a lot."
Jian Mo: "I want to use it to make a kind of delicacy from our place. It's probably to stir-fry it, cook it into soup, and then use it to boil meat and vegetables. You can also put bird eggs and the like in it to boil."
He gave a general description and received unanimous support from everyone, who expressed their desire to try the delicacy he made.
Jian Mo: "You may not be used to it, or I can use one pot to cook this delicacy, and the other pot to cook normal dishes."
Yun Hao, who came over, said with a smile: "It sounds delicious. Cook in both pots, otherwise there won't be enough for everyone. If you don't like it, you can just deal with the two. If you really can't be used to it, you can take some meat and grill it on the side."
The Mengshui tribe had no objection, and the Riverside tribe had even less objection.
Jian Mo then cooked the hot pot base for them on the spot, but the peppers were replaced with pepper cores, the butter was replaced with animal bones, and the taste was not spicy, but sour soup.
The advantage is that there are enough ingredients here, all kinds of animal meat, poultry, offal, fish fillets, as well as bird eggs, mushrooms, wild vegetables and the like.
The dipping sauce is still scallion oil and mushroom sauce. If you like it, you can make it yourself. If you don't like it, just eat the vegetables and meat in the pot.
Everyone worked together, putting various vegetables and meat in leaves and arranging them in two circles around the big pot.
One hundred and sixty people, eating hot pot around eight pots, including two huge iron pots and six ceramic pots, still looks very spectacular.
However, this lazy hot pot is much easier than cooking.
When cooking, Jian Mo estimated that it would take two or three hours to cook for so many people, using both the iron pot and the clay pot, plus the barbecue.
Now it only took them more than half an hour to eat hot pot, and everyone was already sitting around the pot, ready to eat.
Jian Mo taught everyone to use chopsticks to blanch the meat, and to wait until the meat changes color before picking it up, but not to wait too long, or the meat will become tough and not tasty. Boil
the meat first, and then put the mushrooms and bird eggs in to cook, but it's best not to put all kinds of wild vegetables in so quickly.
Everyone looked at this novel way of eating and agreed.
Although most people used chopsticks in a messy way at the beginning, they soon became proficient and could even snatch food from each other.
The soup in the pot was bubbling, and everyone was sitting close together, grabbing the meat quickly:
"My meat is cooked, who wants it?"
"Eggs! My bird eggs seem to be gone."
"Are the mushrooms ready to eat? No, I'll wait a little longer."
"Meat, meat, meat, you can put the meat in the dish, use a big spoon to scoop it up!"
"Oh! So spicy, sour, hot, and fresh!"
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong sat next to each other.
Wu Jiong, with his skillful use of chopsticks and long arms and strong strength, could always calmly grab the best meat and stuff it all into Jian Mo's bowl.
Jian Mo ate while breathing heavily and laughing: "How does it taste?"
Qing Kuang on Jian Mo's left sniffed and said: "No need to ask, just look at how everyone is going crazy for it and you'll know."
Now, no matter which tribe people are from, they can't help but ask:
"Your previous tribe was really good at making delicious food, right?"
"If you hadn't done it, we wouldn't have known that bone marrow could be eaten like this?"
"Can we just skip the bone marrow and cook the soup thickly, then use it to cook meat and vegetables, and it will also be delicious?"
Jian Mo didn't expect them to be able to draw inferences from one example, and nodded: "If the soup is delicious, the food cooked in it should be similar. In addition to this sour and spicy taste, spicy is also fine, but you need to put a little more oil."
Ya Zheng from the Mengshui tribe said: "Let's have another meal when we go back today. Can we put more animal oil in it?"
Jian Mo thought for a while and said: "Is it okay? It's best to stir-fry all the seasonings, and use meat broth or bone broth as the soup base. If the taste is not good enough, add some dipping sauce."
Yun Ke: "Not bad, we have learned a new way to eat it."
Jian Mo also didn't expect that the hot pot made with sour fruits would be so sour and fresh, and it tastes even better when dipped in mushroom sauce.
Although the fresh dishes and the competitive atmosphere added some flavor to the hot pot, it must be said that this hot pot was a real success.
After returning, he and Wu Jiong can eat two more meals.
Today, he used up a pot of bone marrow oil in making hot pot for everyone, so he didn't share the remaining two pots, which was just right for making a few more hot pots. After
eating a delicious hot pot, the beastmen took advantage of the early morning and went out hunting.
The Asian beastmen stayed in the camp, collecting the meat that had been sun-dried for the past two days and also cleaned up the camp.
They had already caught enough prey in the past two days, and they probably wouldn't be able to carry more if they continued to hunt.
So at noon today, everyone will bring the prey back to process it, and then they can go back in the afternoon. If everything goes well, they will bring a lot of prey back to their respective tribes in the evening.
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