Chapter 34 A piece of equipment that makes international friends look dismayed - chopsticks
To drink broth, it’s not enough to just have a bowl and a spoon to serve the soup from a big vat. There’s one thing missing, and that’s chopsticks!
In the past, there were only two ways to eat food in the tribe. One was fruits and other things that could be eaten raw, and the other was meat, which was roasted over fire.
Both types of food are solid, or do not stick to water, so you can just eat them with your hands. But now that we have boiled food, it is no longer possible to eat them like this.
When it comes to larger pieces of meat or bones, the hot soup won't cover them in a bowl, so you can lift them out with your hands. But when it comes to smaller pieces, it's a problem.
Either drink the soup in the bowl first, or take the spirit of not being afraid of hot or oil and directly take out the meat from the bottom of the bowl and eat it.
But these two methods were inconvenient, especially the second one. Seeing the dripping juice they fished out, Han Chenggong wanted to lose his temper.
By eating like this, wouldn’t it make us become Ah San and other international friends?
Before Han Cheng came here, he had seen some videos of dark international friends eating hot pot, which really made him feel awkward.
So after discovering this phenomenon in the tribe, he immediately stopped it.
Especially the favorite stone he caught was struck twice by Han Cheng with a ruler specially made for teaching.
Everyone felt aggrieved, especially Shi Shi.
Even though he was young, he was given a large bowl. He hadn't finished the soup yet, so he was a little full. If he didn't fish it out, he would be full from just the soup, and he wouldn't have the stomach to deal with the remaining meat.
There is meat in the bowl but only soup. This is a huge ordeal for primitive people who value eating more than anything else.
Just when everyone was trying hard to drink the soup with a grimace and spitting out the heat, hoping to eat the meat at the bottom of the bowl, the Son of God, who had been outside for a while, came back.
He came in holding a small bundle of smooth-surfaced branches as thick as a little finger.
Under everyone's puzzled gazes, Han Cheng called his senior brother to come over and help cut these into sections of about 20 centimeters.
Then he scooped some water from another large vat and washed them clean, and gave two to each person as everyone looked at them with increasing confusion.
Wu, who was the first to get the simple chopsticks, put the pottery bowl in his hand on the ground, holding one in each hand and looking up and down, making gestures from time to time, but still couldn't figure out how to use this thing.
The witch is very wise. He understands the plight of the people in the tribe at this time. From the fact that the Son of God did not let everyone use their hands to fish out the meat in the bowl to eat, and then began to make these two small sticks, he can basically guess the Son of God's will.
intention.
But, how could something like this get the meat out of the bowl?
Wu was dazed, holding a chopstick in one hand and digging into the bowl. He used two chopsticks to hold a piece of meat out of the water. As a result, before he could even eat it, with a slight shake of his hand, the piece of meat fell out of the water.
It had fallen back into the bowl and splashed a lot of the fragrant broth, which made the witch feel a little distressed.
The rest of the people were not as good as witches. Except for a few who guessed that the Son of God got these two things to solve the current dilemma, the rest of them didn't even know Han Cheng's purpose.
They all curiously and puzzledly played with the tree sticks that Han Cheng and them sent out one after another.
Some naughty children have already knocked their friends on the head with the tree stick in their hands. This is a good use.
Except for the young children who cannot eat independently, everyone in the tribe has a pair of simple chopsticks made from local materials.
Han Cheng knew that they didn't understand the purpose of this thing, and he had no intention of explaining it.
He came to the place where he had been before, picked up the bowl on the ground, cleared his throat, attracted everyone's attention, and then skillfully moved the two chopsticks to his right hand.
The two chopsticks are placed together, with the upper end leaning against the tiger's mouth, exposing four to five centimeters in length.
About two-thirds of the way from the bottom to the top, it naturally rests on the first joint of the middle finger. The index finger and thumb hold the chopsticks together, and the chopsticks are separated as soon as the fingers move.
Han Cheng stretched his chopsticks into the bowl and quickly retracted them, and he picked out a piece of meat under the soup.
With everyone's expressions of understanding, Han Cheng put the meat into his mouth and ate it deliciously.
The shaman who witnessed how Han Cheng used chopsticks showed a surprised expression. It turns out that this is how the two thin sticks are used!
He followed Han Chengcai's example, holding two thin sticks together with the hand that usually holds the 'stone pen'.
(Before Han Cheng taught the language and writing of the witch god, both hands of the witch could be used to write. However, after Han Cheng told the witch god that the language was best written with the 'right hand', when the witch wrote again, he used his right hand.
The left hand has more time than the left hand.
From this alone, Wu learned a lot. Before, he only knew that people have two hands, but it was hard to tell which side it was.
Since the Son of God spoke out, this problem has been solved very well.
Moreover, the two concepts of "left and right" are very widely used. Not only can hands be divided into left and right, feet, ears, eyes and many more things can be divided into left and right. The emergence of this concept allows witches to record things.
At that time, the records became more detailed and accurate.)
Wu held the bowl in his left hand and chopsticks in his right hand. Following Han Cheng's example, he separated the chopsticks awkwardly and unfamiliarly and put them into the bowl.
It's just that in Han Cheng's hand, the thin wooden stick was as dexterous as two fingers, but in the hands of the witch, it didn't obey the orders at all.
He tried hard to control them, trying to pick up the meat in the bowl, but he couldn't. After trying several times in a row, he finally picked up a crooked piece and put it into his mouth.
This made Wu a little happy.
The condition of the rest of the people was not much better than Wu's, their movements were all unfamiliar and clumsy, and there were many people who couldn't even tell which hand was holding the chopsticks.
Among them, the majority of adults were in the tribe. The children in the tribe who followed Han Cheng had already accepted the concept of left and right when they first learned to write, so they did not make many mistakes.
This is not difficult for them, they just need to remember which hand holds the pen.
Seeing the people who were clumsily unable to pick up the meat in the bowls with their chopsticks and even knocked over the bowls, Han Cheng had no choice but to hold the bowls and demonstrate one by one...
Many people in the cave didn't understand what the Son of God was doing. It was obviously good to eat with his hands, but he still made these two things called 'chopsticks' to torture people.
It is precisely because of the appearance of chopsticks that the second senior brother, who likes to eat the most, is a little afraid of meal time, especially the kind of rice with soup.
But Han Cheng attaches great importance to the use of chopsticks. After discussing with his senior brother, he specially made the broth for six or seven days in a row. Then when they were eating together, he would hold the bowl and chopsticks and keep looking at the tribe.
He scanned everyone's bodies to see who was eating with his hands instead of using chopsticks. Once he found out, he would beat his hands with a ruler.
Although it doesn't hurt, no one wants to suffer it because it is a shameful thing.
Under this kind of pressure, after about a week, people in the tribe have become accustomed to eating with chopsticks, and even some skilled people now use chopsticks to eat when eating barbecue.
The second senior brother, after breaking five pairs of chopsticks and overturning bowls eight times, finally mastered this skill that had once made countless foreign friends jealous.
