"Really?!"

The chieftain was so excited that his eyes narrowed into a slit. "Then I will arrange for the beastmen to pick the rice."

Picking food is urgent.

He can't wait to see how much food this rice can harvest.

Fox smiled and told the chieftain how to pick rice. The chieftain immediately summoned a hundred beastmen to pick rice.

Rice should be picked together with rice grains and wheat ears. Then use tools to take out the rice grains, and further thresh, wash, and dry them to ensure that the rice grains are dry and can be preserved.

The beastmen don't have sickles, but their claws are the best tools.

One by one, the beastmen went to the field, bent their waists, held the top of the stalks with one hand, and used the other hand to make a beast claw as a sickle. Soon, the rice in the field lay down in patches. A

total of thirty acres of rice were planted.

If it were in modern times, two machines would be able to harvest it in a few hours.

But they were not worried. One hundred beastmen went into battle together. Each of them was a good worker. They were not afraid of wind and sun, and with the excitement of harvesting food, they harvested thirty acres of land in one day.

The next step was to take the rice and dry it.

The tribe leader personally took the beastmen to deal with it for two days before taking out all the rice.

Looking at the bags full of rice, the tribe leader was very happy.

I didn’t expect that they would be able to stock up on so much food in the spring.

This was something he would never have dreamed of before.

"Chief, these rices need to be taken back to the tribe and dried for a period of time so that they are not easily damaged when stored." Hu Jiaojiao did not forget to remind the clan leader.

They have been collecting rice from the rice fields for the past two days.

But you can't dry them here, as they can easily be eaten by birds and animals, and you won't be able to harvest them in time if it rains.

It just so happens that the tribe has a large open space to bask in the sun.

"Okay." The clan leader wrote them down one by one.

Some orcs were curious and couldn't help but twist a grain of rice and put it in their mouths.

After taking two bites, I felt it was tasteless, and I didn't want to waste food, so I just swallowed it.

Then he asked with a grimace:

"Chief, why is this food so hard and tasteless..."

It also hurts the throat.

Is this thing really edible?

The beastman was a little suspicious, but he didn't dare to say it directly. It was not because he was afraid of wasting so much time, but because he was worried that Hu Jiaojiao would blame himself after hearing it.

Hearing what the beastman said, Hu Jiaojiao laughed.

"This is not how you eat it. The outer shell should be removed, and then boiled with water. It can be eaten with meat, which is easier to fill your stomach."

After listening to Hu Jiaojiao's explanation, the beastman suddenly realized.

He scratched his head embarrassedly, "So that's how it is, Hu Jiaojiao, you are so amazing."

"But... this rice grain is so small, how do you remove the shell? Peeling it one by one is too slow."

The beastman next to him asked again.

If they continue peeling like this, they will starve to death before they are full.

The speed of peeling is not as fast as the speed of digestion!

"You need a tool to husk the rice. When you eat it, you can use the tool to remove the husk, and then cook it and you can eat it." Fox Jiaojiao explained it briefly.

"Oh! That's just like skinning prey." The beastman nodded in understanding.

No need to peel it with your hands.

In order to reassure everyone, Fox Jiaojiao called a beastman on the spot, polished a stone mortar with a stone, found a wooden stick to make a mortar and pestle, and showed them on the spot.

In ancient times, the process of husking rice was called pounding rice.

Use the mortar and pestle to hit the rice in the stone mortar, and the husk of the rice is rice bran, and the rice grains inside are rice.

Seeing the round and plump rice grains inside, the beastmen were shocked.

"It turns out that it's white inside."

"It looks so clean, I can't bear to eat it."

The beastmen raised their dirty hands to take a look, and immediately moved away from the stone mortar, not daring to touch the clean rice.

"Why don't we cook some today and let everyone taste it?" Seeing the expressions of the beastmen, Fox Jiaojiao suggested.

They have worked so hard for so long, and they should eat the first bite.

"Is it okay?"

"Can we eat it? This is not good..."

The beastmen who have always been rough and bold seem to have become little wives at this moment, timid and embarrassed.

It is a habit ingrained in the beastmen that food is given to females first.

There is no reason for them to eat first.

"Of course you can." Fox Jiaojiao smiled and looked at the chief.

The chief immediately understood and asked people to bring two large pots, put them on top with stones, and light a fire to cook rice on the spot.

Fox Jiaojiao did this to make them believe that rice is edible.

Otherwise, without even tasting it, the enthusiasm of beastmen for planting will be greatly reduced in the future.

Fox Jiaojiao used the method of cooking rice in the countryside before.

Cook rice and water together, pour out the rice when it is half cooked, drain the water, and put it in the pot again and simmer for a while until it is cooked.

In this way, not only can you drink rice soup, but you can also eat hot pot.

When she was little, her favorite was the rice balls wrapped in pot, which tasted delicious.

After she grew up and left the countryside, she used electric rice cookers to cook rice, and she could no longer taste the taste of rice cooked on the stove.

Foxy Jiaojiao is a little greedy when she thinks about it now.

While the rice was stewing, Foxy Jiaojiao shared the rice soup with everyone.

Each beastman could only get a small bowl, which they drank in one gulp.

They were reluctant to drink it, and took a sip carefully.

"What is this, it's so delicious."

"Why is this water so fragrant, it makes me hungry."

The beastmen who tasted the rice soup opened their eyes wide and praised it endlessly.

Looking at their exaggerated expressions, Foxy Jiaojiao even suspected that these beastmen were hired by her.

Even hired men were not as dedicated as them.

After being used to eating greasy meat, suddenly tasting the sweet and thick rice soup really made people's taste buds open.

Not long after, the beastmen finished drinking the rice soup, and Foxy Jiaojiao opened the lid of the pot.

A burst of fresh fragrance wafted out.

Different from the strong aroma of meat, the aroma of rice exudes a sweet and fragrant smell, which makes people want to taste it.

Foxy Jiaojiao still served each beastman a small portion, not even the size of a fist.

The beastmen treated it as a treasure and held the bowl carefully.

The white rice was fragrant and tender.

Because they had no chopsticks, they washed their hands in the river nearby and put the rice into their mouths.

"Delicious!"

"It's a little sweet, fragrant and soft."

"It turns out that cooked rice is so delicious. If you have a bite of pickled meat, it will definitely be more delicious!"

The beastmen worked all day and were already hungry. When they ate the rice they grew with their own hands, they thought it was a rare delicacy in the world.

There were exclamations one after another.

Seeing that everyone could accept the taste of the rice, Fox Jiaojiao was relieved.

"Jiaojiao, this rice is really a good thing. I will let them open up more land to grow rice!"

The chieftain tasted the sweetness of rice and couldn't wait to say.