"You say you're a wolf?! Then why do you look so much like a dog? Are you a purebred wolf? How do you know that's a chicken? Do you two have a bloodline? When you bit me just now, were you trying to make a pact with me? How many days old are you? You don't seem like a newborn cub at all!"
In response to Lin Ru's barrage of questions, the little puppy patiently replied, "I am a wolf, a purebred wolf. We have a bloodline, so even with my eyes closed, I know that the taste is chicken!"
"I was just forming a bond with you! I don't know how long I've been alive! It feels like it's been a long time, but I've always been in a daze until you appeared, Master, and I gradually developed self-awareness!"
"Master, I'm a little tired. Could you give me a couple more sips of that sweet stuff?"
Lin Ru quickly put the pacifier to the puppy's mouth, and the puppy began to suck on it frantically again. After finishing the bottle of milk, the puppy fell asleep!
Seeing this, Lin Ru put it down, and then used her mind to teleport all seven rabbits and five chickens back to her!
She first picked two apples and put them on the ground, then gave them a handful of rice grains!
The rabbit and chick immediately started eating!
Looking at the empty space, she planned to cut two logs tomorrow, put them in, and build a fence around it to keep the chicks and rabbits locked up!
To prevent them from polluting her spiritual spring water and ruining her food!
In the morning, while everyone was cooking, she used the excuse of going out to relieve herself to successfully shake off Wu Ling. Then she found a few large trees, cut them down, and put them into her space. One year, she leveled the trees and used them to build two fences. She then put the rabbit and chicken into the two fences respectively!
Finally, we provide them with good food and drink, and quietly wait for them to lay their eggs and give birth!
As for the little wolfhound, I bought a super large pet bowl from Taobao, poured in milk powder and spiritual spring water, stirred it well, and then placed it next to the puppy. As long as it wakes up, it can drink milk even if I'm not there!
Everything was ready, and just as she was about to head back, she unexpectedly discovered medicinal herbs in the mountains!
Moreover, there are many varieties, including Astragalus membranaceus, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, and Atractylodes macrocephala!
This mountain is covered with medicinal herbs, especially some that are extremely drought-resistant and sun-loving, so they grow very well!
If we harvest and sell this stuff, we can get quite a bit of grain in return!
This area is so large, it would take her a whole day to harvest it all by herself. She should go back and call the villagers to help! That way, when it's time to buy grain later, everyone will have some spare money!
When she returned, she saw the encampment bustling with activity!
Everyone was busy preparing the game they had hunted the day before. Even though some families hadn't received any meat, the women from those families came over to help, their faces beaming with joy. They were all thinking about how they would send their husbands over next time to try their luck! That way, their families might get some meat too!
About half an hour later, the animals' fur and internal organs were all cleaned up!
Seeing that the villagers were having a tough time, Bai Chengye, with Lin Ru's permission, cut the wild boar they had into small pieces and distributed them to the villagers who had helped, so that they too could have a taste of meat and share in the joy!
While everyone's rice was almost cooked, the bear meat stewed in Wuling was also nearly ready!
Wu Ling personally ladled out a large basin of bear meat, which also contained four bear paws. He deliberately didn't chop the bear paws into small pieces; he put them whole into the pot to cook, so that when it was done, he could serve it to Lin Ru whole! Let her taste the bear meat!
When Lin Ru saw the pot of bear meat and the four bear paws on top, she couldn't help but swallow. She was really curious about the taste, after all, one of the dishes in the Manchu Han Imperial Feast was steamed bear paws!
Even in the later modern era of cultivation, eating such endangered protected animals is still forbidden!
However, in ancient times, one could certainly enjoy a delicious meal!
Lin Ru eagerly picked up a bear paw, but a fishy, pungent smell hit her in the face, almost making her vomit up her dinner from the night before!
Lin Ru looked at the bear paw in her hand with some suspicion, wondering if this thing smelled bad but tasted good.
So she gritted her teeth and took a big bite, and then spat it out the next second!
Hmph~
Lin Ru had never eaten such unpalatable meat before, and it was also a bit hard to chew. She looked at the bear paw in the bowl with some worry. She had heard that this kind of thing hibernates in tree holes!
With its head facing inward, it uses one hand to block the tree hole and its buttocks, while its other hand is covered in honey. When it gets hungry, it licks the honey off its hand!
She strongly suspected that the bear paw she ate was the one used to plug her butt!
So, quite unwillingly, she picked up a second one!
She took another bite, and then ran to the side and vomited! This time she vomited violently! She even brought up her dinner from the night before!
This terrified Wu Ling. Before anyone could react, he ran over, squatted down beside Lin Ru, gently patted her back to help her catch her breath, and then took out a water pouch from his pocket and handed it to Lin Ru!
"Lin Ru! Quickly drink some water and rinse your mouth!"
Lin Ru quickly took the water pouch from Wu Ling and began rinsing her mouth frantically. Then she took several large gulps of water to suppress the nausea.
She vomited so much that she cried out in her saliva, and through her teary eyes she looked at Wu Ling beside her!
"Wu Ling! This bear paw is absolutely awful! How did you guys make it?"
When Wu Ling saw Lin Ru's already breathtakingly beautiful eyes now filled with tears, looking so pitiful, he couldn't help but twitch them!
He dared not look into Lin Ru's eyes again and lowered his head with some guilt!
"We just added some salt and boiled the meat! We're so sorry!"
Lin Ru saw Wu Ling lower his head with great remorse, his long eyelashes drooping!
She felt a little guilty, as if she had bullied someone!
So he stood up and waved his hand!
"Wu Ling! Put all that bear meat back into the pot!"
"Simply boiling it in salt probably won't remove its fishy smell!"
"I thought precious ingredients only needed simple cooking, but it seems this method is useless against this bear!"
Under Lin Ru's command, Wu Ling ordered everyone in the Wu Clan to immediately stop eating and pour all the bear meat back into the pot!
Lin Ru returned to her cart, rummaged around for a while, and took out a bunch of seasonings, which she had bought from the Chinese medicine shop before she left!
She took out an empty basin and, under the cover of night, filled it with a large basin of spiritual spring water!
The meat this time was not only not tasty, but it also seemed undercooked. But then again, with water resources so scarce these days, they must be reluctant to use water!
Sure enough, when Lin Ru brought over a large basin of spiritual spring water, Wu Ling tried to stop her!
"Chief! We have water here! You don't need to deliberately bring water from over there. This much water is enough for your parents and relatives to drink for a long time!"
"And this meat just needs to be stewed until cooked. If you really want to eat bear paws, when there's no shortage of water, I'll go up the mountain and hunt another bear for you, and you can stew it however you like!"
"We can just eat it like this!"
Lin Ru didn't even look at him before pouring the large basin of spiritual spring water into the pot!
"Your teeth aren't made of iron. This bear meat, though cooked, is clearly too tough to chew! And it smells terrible! How are they supposed to eat it? The worst part is, we worked so hard to hunt it, if we don't cook it properly, it would be a disservice to all our hard work!"
Wu Juan, standing to the side, said nonchalantly, "Chieftain! Don't worry, we're used to it! As long as the food is edible and not poisonous, it's fine with us!"
"Otherwise, with our appetites, if we were always chasing after delicious food, we would have starved to death long ago!"
"If they hadn't been thinking of serving you a bowl, they wouldn't have even put in any salt!"
"You have no idea how lazy our elders were when we were in the mountains. The meat wasn't even cooked properly, and it was still bloody when you bit into it!"
"Even so, they still forced us to eat it, or we would be beaten!"
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