An open space of about seven or eight acres was cleared near the camp.
A simple fence was built around it using wooden stakes and canes.
Close to the hillside, there is also a square wooden house courtyard.
At this time, many barbarian men, women, and children were busy preparing dinner around the wooden house. There were bonfire smoke and birds rising in the yard, adding a touch of civilized human life to this primitive and wild lake.
Hearing the sound of horns and the shouts of hunters coming from the direction of the hillside, after a brief silence among the barbarians gathered in the camp, a large number of men soon began to gather, while the women and children hid in the yard of the wooden house with some fear.
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However, when all the barbarians were waiting nervously when they saw several tribal flags and a large group of hunters wearing leather armor and holding bows, arrows and spears coming out of the woods. When the first one was Lei, the leader of the Ba Kingdom whom they were familiar with, they all relaxed instantly, with faces on their faces.
The nervousness turned into incomparable awe, and then a relatively neat team ran up to them, squatting on the ground and making excited ooh-ah-ah gestures to express surrender and respect.
Although the barbarians are barbaric and their language is underdeveloped, it does not mean that they are brainless.
On the contrary, bullying the weak, fearing the strong, and submitting to the strong are the primitive attributes possessed by all higher animals.
Although they were conquered not long ago, the two groups of barbarians who moved here to build houses and settle here no longer have the courage and courage to resist.
Especially when Lei was stationed here and building barracks, he strictly managed and trained them, and also took them on several large-scale hunting activities. This has left an extremely terrifying murderous intention in the hearts of these barbarians, and also
It formed a supreme majesty.
Lei now has a much higher status than Xu Chen in the minds of the barbarians.
After he cut off the head of the barbarian leader with one sword to establish his power, now the barbarians in the entire salt factory can't help but tremble when they see Lei, and they are completely scared to the core.
Although the barbarians here had never seen Lei's domineering demeanor as if he were a god coming from heaven, they were also trained by him to be obedient.
As a former warrior of the Wu tribe, Lei is a fully qualified hunter leader. At the same time, he is also the leader of the tribe and the deputy commander of the military and political hall responsible for the training of all tribal hunters. He has a very majestic and commanding temperament.
Lei usually seems calm and polite in front of Xu Chen, but in fact, among the entire Ba country hunter group, his reputation is second only to Xu Chen and far higher than Long.
And this is why Xu Chen asked him to command and manage all tribal hunters in Ba.
Seeing the arrival of Xu Chen and others, the barbarian women, children, and children who had hid in the house slowly came out with expressions of great awe. Especially when they saw Lei leading the way and a group of armored hunters, many of them lay directly on the ground.
He was lying on the ground, unable to move.
The shadow of the famous tree.
The reputation and magic of Ba's hunters have completely conquered this group of barbarians.
Xu Chen, led and accompanied by Lei, returned from a brief inspection of the camp. A group of hunters and barbarian men skinned and disemboweled several beasts and more than a dozen monkeys that they had killed on the road and began to prepare dinner.
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Seeing the skinned monkeys grilled on the campfire, Xu Chen felt nauseated.
He had always stayed away from these semi-humanoid creatures.
However, monkeys have always been a high-quality meat that is often eaten by barbarians and hunters from various tribes in Pakistan.
Because there are so many of them, they are almost everywhere once you enter the mountains and forests. There are almost a group or several groups of monkeys on every mountain.
Like humans, these groups of monkeys not only compete with each other for territory and food, fight and fight all year round, scream, jump and make noise on the mountain all day long, but they are also enemies of human existence.
Because their food almost overlaps with that of humans. All kinds of wild fruits, dried fruits, bird eggs, turtles and snakes, whatever the mountain monkeys can eat, can also be eaten by humans.
Moreover, in winter and spring, when there is a lack of food in the mountains, these monkeys will go in groups to fight against the autumn wind near human settlements, snatch food dried out and even steal infants and young children.
Therefore, generally primitive tribes hate monkeys very much and will beat them to death when they see them. Beating them to death will naturally lead to a full meal.
Eating monkeys is not only not a sin in various tribes, but it is a kind of honor and pride.
In this primeval forest in the south, there are more monkeys than elsewhere.
On the way here, there were almost no signs of monkeys jumping and roaring among the trees.
If it weren't for the need to save arrows, it is estimated that there would not be more than a dozen dead monkeys now, but countless dead monkeys.
No matter how advanced your martial arts skills are, they are still afraid of kitchen knives. No matter how flexible these monkeys are, they can only die in the face of dozens of archery masters.
Xu Chen found a bonfire where the monkeys were not roasted and sat down alone. He poured out a lot of ginkgo and cinnamon fruits from an animal skin bag.
These were picked up from nearby when I visited the camp just now.
Ginkgo fruit is about the size of a quail egg. It turns yellow-green when mature. There is a layer of pulp on the outside. After rubbing off the pulp, the core inside is the seed. It is snow-white in color and is commonly known as ginkgo. It is a high-quality dried fruit that is rich in nutrients.
Ginkgo tastes good after being fried, but it is poisonous, so you should not eat more of it.
The tung fruit is relatively rare and is about the same size as the tung fruit, but the seeds inside are completely different. They are somewhat like walnuts with strip-shaped ribs and are not as hard as walnuts. They feel similar to pecans.
"Here, help me peel out the nuts and stew them with the mutton meat!"
Xu Chen asked Pu and Jia, two personal assistants who were almost inseparable, to help.
So the three of them started working by banging stones, daggers and hatchets next to the campfire.
"Chen Ga, put in the spicy nuts!" Pu asked as he put the peeled nuts into the clay pot.
"If you don't put it in, it won't taste good if you add spicy fruits!"
"Okay!" The tool man continued to work.
Compared with Gu and Ju, two teenagers of the same age, Pu and Jia, two teenagers who are only fifteen or sixteen years old, are more flexible in their work, and Xu Chen is more satisfied.
Seeing Xu Chen and the others working on a pile of wild fruits, Lei and a large group of hunters naturally came over to take a look curiously. Many people were surprised to learn that they were preparing to stew these wild fruits.
The Lei Dai people built a camp here and stayed here for more than a month. They knew that there were many wild fruits of these two kinds around, but they didn't know that they were edible.
Generally speaking, all primitive people rarely eat unfamiliar things.
Because there are too many types of fruits and too many are poisonous, primitive tribes have their own ancient inheritance and have accumulated knowledge from generation to generation. They understand what they can and cannot eat from an early age.
Jiangbei had never seen either Ginkgo biloba or Ginkgo biloba, and none of the hunters knew them, so they naturally didn't go back to eat them.
The barbarians do not know how to use fire, let alone eat them, because these two fruits, like almonds and peach kernels, are extremely bitter when eaten raw and can only be eaten when they are ripe. Therefore, the barbarians have never regarded these two fruits as food.
But Xu Chen knew that ginkgo stew was a very rare delicacy.
Although the Gongtong fruit is not eaten as much as the Ginkgo fruit, he has eaten it when he was surveying in Guizhou. Some people there use the Gongtong fruit core to make bracelets, and outsiders in Hulong sell them as bodhi bracelets for fifty yuan a bunch.
Xu Chen was deceived the first time he went there, because later he discovered that there were plenty of them in the area and could be used to extract oil.
The sun gradually sets, and the extremely beautiful lakes and mountains slowly fade into the darkness of dusk.
The evening breeze carrying the scent of the clear lake water swept through the camp.
The surrounding mountains and forests were bursting with waves, and the roars of wild beasts and the cries of night birds began to sound everywhere.
The campfire was roaring and burning in the camp, and there was a strong aroma of barbecued meat and cooked meat, mixed with the aroma of pepper and the pungent smell of spicy fruits.
Around the bonfire, everyone was kneeling or sitting on the grass, talking and laughing loudly, waiting for the meal to begin.
For Xu Chen and the hunters who came with him, this was just a slightly sumptuous ordinary dinner.
But for the barbarians, this is another magical feast for the gods that requires worship.
Although they have lived in a wooden house for more than a month, learned how to make and use fire, and even learned to barbecue and use pottery to boil water for cooking, they are unable to make the food so fragrant.
Barbecued meat can only be grilled to a charred state, let alone the use of spices.
Before Xu Chen and others showed up, they had been in a state of drinking blood. Even if it was rock salt, they would just take a few sips of it as a special need.
But the exquisiteness of the food prepared by Xu Chen and others has completely surpassed all barbarians.
As for pottery, it is completely a sacred object and cannot be understood at all.
As the aroma of the food became stronger and stronger, the hunter in charge of the barbecue tasted the barbecue and felt that it was cooked, so he began to cut and distribute it with a dagger.
So the mood around several bonfires suddenly became lively, and everyone began to eat. Some people were chewing monkey legs, some were eating monkey steaks, and some were eating multi-grain meat porridge in pottery bowls or drinking spicy and sour rice in pottery cups.
Bone broth.
Since the spicy fruit began to be popular during the construction of river embankments, more and more people are now able to accept this spicy taste.
The most important thing is that the taste is very addictive and addictive.
Especially after dried, the sourness is much less, but the spiciness is stronger. In this cold season of autumn and winter, drink a bowl of spicy and fragrant big bone broth, and your whole body will be warm at night.
It's not cold even when you sleep.
Xu Chen stayed away from the behavior of a group of barbaric guys eating monkeys. He stayed alone with his stewed can of fragrant ginkgo and tung fruit wild deer meat, and he was also sweating profusely and satisfied.
The ginkgo and tung nuts are extremely soft after being stewed, with a unique fragrance and sweetness. In addition, the wild deer meat is also relatively tender, unlike wild boar and other wild beasts, which are fishy and smelly, so it tastes very delicious.
strength.
Lei and other hunter officers saw that Xu Chen was eating with satisfaction, and they couldn't help but sit around and ask for some to taste. Once they tasted it, they couldn't stop. After Xu Chen had eaten two bowls, he was ready to have another bowl.
, I found that the soup in the clay pot had been drained out.