Chapter 14 - Delicious (1/2)

Ch14 - Delicious

After Xiong Ye left, Zhou Ji took a look at the fish.

He had still been in college when the apocalypse came.

His parents were both researchers and had no time to look after their home, so they had hired a nanny. He had basically never entered the kitchen prior to attending college and hadn’t had any opportunity to use the kitchen after starting college. After the apocalypse hit, he had learned how to cook things, but his skills halted at the stage where he would put everything together and cook it all at once.

Right now, this fish…

Zhou Ji was contemplating whether he should use the simplest method of putting it into the water and boiling it.

However, it seemed that fish needed to be lightly fried with oil? With spring onions or ginger or something to deal with the fishy smell?

He hadn’t found spring onions or ginger yet, but as for the oil…

The meat that Xiong Ye had hung up had fat, but Zhou Ji was worried that the oil would have its own taste and ultimately chose not to use it. The good thing was that he had collected some plants that had vegetable oils while wandering around outside and spent some time squeezing out some oil-Some vegetables weren’t appetizing when raw, and he would stir-fry them or blanch them in water before mixing in a little oil.

After washing the stone pot, Zhou Ji poured a little oil inside. He had just gotten everything ready when Xiong Ye returned.

Xiong Ye carried in a lot of firewood and even a bucket of water… Zhou Ji said, “Rinse the fish and put it inside the pot.”

“Alright!” Xiong Ye responded. He yanked off the fish head and then rinsed the fish before tossing it in. The snake was a bit long and wouldn’t fit inside, so he tore it into several pieces and threw them all inside the oiled pot.

Zhou Ji kept a straight face as he looked on, and after the sound of sizzling from water meeting the oil had stopped for a while, he tried to use chopsticks to flip the fish over and discovered that the fish had become stuck to the pan.

Stone pots, particularly stone pots that weren’t smooth enough, were really difficult to use after all.

“What is this?” Xiong Ye asked, pointing to the oil inside the pot.

“Oil.” Zhou Ji said.

“Why is the oil like this?” Xiong Ye was amazed. Shouldn’t oil come in white pieces? How had Zhou Ji made it become like this?

Xiong Ye stood to the side and didn’t dare move as he watched Zhou Ji. He felt that there was too much he didn’t know.

“If you put fat into an empty pan, you can reduce it into this kind of oil.” Zhou Ji explained.

Seeing that the fish in the pot was about to fall apart because it was stuck to the sides, Zhou Ji expressionlessly poured some water inside.

The stone pot transferred heat very slowly, so the water in the pot only began to boil after a long time. Zhou Ji then added a little salt.

However, he didn’t put in any vegetables. He couldn’t expose his abilities, and he hadn’t prepared any vegetables in advance, so it was better not to add any.

More importantly, he didn’t know what vegetables to add to the fish to make it more tasty…

“It’s ready.” Zhou Ji said.

“You eat first. I’ll only eat if you can’t finish it.” Xiong Ye sucked in a mouthful of the rich fragrance coming from the soup in front of him as he spoke.

This fish was really aromatic! The milky white broth also looked very clean.

Zhou Ji didn’t refuse. He brought out his chopsticks and picked out a bit of fish and snake meat, then said, “I’ve had enough.”

“These two sticks are supposed to be used like that?” After Xiong Ye saw Zhou Ji’s movements, he copied Zhou Ji and clumsily used the chopsticks to pick up some fish to eat.

When he ate fish as a child, he had eaten it raw for a while. Later on, he had learned how to roast it to eat, but the taste of roasted fish wasn’t great-It was particularly easy to burn!

This fish right now… Xiong Ye’s eyes lit up after he tasted it.

This fish was really flavorful, and it didn’t have that fishy taste at all!

Xiong Ye chomped, chewed, and ate the entire fish, bones and all, only bothering to spit out some of the larger pieces of bone.

Zhou Ji, who had carefully spat out even the small bones, “…”

“I hadn’t thought that you could make such delicious food!” Xiong Ye finished the soup along with the fish and looked admiringly at Zhou Ji.

Zhou Ji really didn’t feel that the fish he had cooked was tasty. Of course, this fish was still a bit more palatable than dinosaur meat, and at the very least, it was quite tender.

However, seeing Xiong Ye eating so happily also put him in a great mood.

Feeding others was a very enjoyable thing.

After Xiong Ye finished eating, he took the initiative to clean up the cave and even washed the stone pot outside-Zhou Ji’s body was so thin that he might not be able to handle the stone pot. How could he let Zhou Ji wash it?

When he finished cleaning up, Xiong Ye generously cut off half of the Scelidosaurus meat he had cured himself and gave it to Zhou Ji, “This meat is for you!”

Zhou Ji thought about it and accepted it, then watched as Xiong Ye took down the roasted Pentaceratops meat that he hadn’t finished eating yesterday and directly started gnawing on it while holding it in his hands.

Zhou Ji: “……” What a big appetite!

However, his own appetite was also very big, and he had to eat a lot in order to be full recently. Of course, he could eat less if he chose to eat plants that were full of energy.

“You… Why are you willing to let me live with you?” Zhou Ji suddenly asked.

Xiong Ye was stunned, then immediately replied, “I have space here anyway.” Actually, his offer for Zhou Ji to live with him today had been a bit impulsive.

The smell of Lang Yin on Shi Li’s body had made him very upset, and Zhou Ji had been standing there all alone, which made him feel like they were very similar.

Since Shi Li was living together with someone else, he had gone ahead and invited Zhou Ji.

“You’ll have to move out if I find a mate.” Xiong Ye added, “But I probably won’t be looking for a mate for the time being.”

“Oh.” Zhou Ji responded.

Xiong Ye then asked, “How did you hang up your curtain?” It wasn’t until now that he finally noticed the animal hide curtain that Zhou Ji had hung up in front of his bed… Xiong Ye looked at it curiously as he spoke, then noticed that a hole had been made in the stone wall of the cave that a rope could be tied to.

“I drilled two holes up there and tied a rope.” Zhou Ji replied. The words he spoke came out much more smoothly and no longer sounded strange to others like it had at the start.

“You must have spent a lot of time drilling those holes, right? Are you tired? You should sleep earlier.” Xiong Ye said.

Zhou Ji, who had slept for the entire afternoon, nodded and went to his ‘room’ to sleep.