Chapter 1413 Certificate (1/2)

The pipe was hand-carved, and the tobacco was crushed by the girls' own hands. A group of heavy smokers smiled as they smoked, and it looked really good.

As they smoked, food came in. There was smoked fish, bacon, wild herb stew, whole roasted rabbits, some home-brewed wine and so on.

Among vegetables, there were what Tavisi called ”baba,” baked, steamed, fried, and mashed.

This ”baba” was potatoes, which originated in America. They were first consumed by people living in the Andes in South America, Peru and Chile, about 8000 years ago. A native tribe migrated from the east to the cold of the Andes, set up camp in the Lake Titicaca area, and discovered potatoes in the wild.

Until this day, potatoes were the most important edible plant of the Native American tribes, and while some were cultivated, most of them were still wild potatoes.

Not everything was better in its natural state. Wild potatoes were low in starch, and they were not as prolific and provided less energy than cultivated potato plants.

The chief smoked his pipe and beckoned them to eat. Li Du tasted some baba, which was not much different from the potatoes he usually ate. If he tasted them carefully, he would find them bitter and slightly harder.

Hakatulama, who sat near the Chief, said with a sour face, ”The tribe's food stock is getting low, chief. Why waste supplies on these strangers?”

The chief frowned and said, ”Keep your mouth shut, Hakatulama. Where are the manners that your parents taught you? We are not savages. Don't let the guests hear you!”

When rebuked, Hakatulama fell into sullen silence.

Sadisram said as he ate and drank, ”Chief, Mr. Li really had a holy wolf, and Catulom and I owe our lives to him. Especially Catulom, who would have been dead for sure if it was a little late!”

The chief nodded his head and looked curiously at Ah Ow.

Ah Ow noticed that someone was looking at her, turned her head and gave him a dirty glare, then continued to state at Li Du's mouth as he ate.

Sadisram whispered to Li Du, ”Mr. Li, show us the power and wisdom of the Holy Wolf.”

Li Du decided to play dumb. He sipped his wine and said, ”What power and wisdom? What are you talking about?”

”She can understand you, just as she did on the way here. She has potential, and could jump on a rock as tall as a man…” Sadisram said in ae when he heard this.

On the way, Li Du had played with the little ones because he felt bored. The abilities displayed by Ah Meow and Ah Ow were quite ordinary to Li Du, but they made Sadisram and his nephew, who saw them for the first time, feel shocked.

Li Du smiled and said, ”Let's eat first. Ah Ow is not a circus monkey. She is not good at performing.”

Sadisram became more anxious and tried to persuade him. Hakatulama laughed and said contemptuously, ”The Holy Wolf is noble, it will not be ruled by men. You are really stupid, Sadisram, aren't you?”

Li Du ate his food in silence. He was not interested in the tussles of the Tavisi.

Hakatulama was a rough man, a most troublesome kind of fellow. He mocked Sadisram, and then turned to Li Du, ”Is this really a wolf? She doesn't really look like one. She's more like a dog, isn't she?”

While Li Du wasn't interested in conflict, he would not just sit back and let some idiot make fun of him.

He noticed that the chief was looking at him with interest. He had no idea what he was thinking, but he assumed that the other side was still interested in Ah Ow's identity.