Chapter 71 - Fried Meat (1/2)

Ch71 - Fried Meat

The fruit looked very cute, but Xiong Ye’s expression changed as soon as it was in his mouth, and he quickly spat it back out.

What kind of terrible taste was this?!

His mouth felt like it was on fire. It was unbearably painful, and tears suddenly streamed out of his eyes. He was so stimulated that he even turned into his animal form and ran out to the valley, wrapping himself around the big barrel of water in the middle of the tribe, dunking his head in, and drinking and spitting out mouthfuls of water.

That fruit had to be poisonous!

After eating such a toxic fruit, he needed to quickly spit it out and drink more water!

“Xiong Ye, what’s wrong with you?” Zhou Ji returned with some vegetables in hand. He immediately ran over when he saw Xiong Ye acting like this, then used his spiritual powers to inspect Xiong Ye.

Xiong Ye was fine. There wasn’t anything wrong with his body at all.

“Ouch…” Even the sound of Xiong Ye’s roar had changed. He felt that his tongue had already swelled up from the poison.

Zhou Ji could make poison. Why had he thoughtlessly gone and eaten that fruit as soon as he had seen it without asking first?

He wasn’t going to die during a hunt. Instead, he was going to be accidentally poisoned to death. How unjust!

Oh, he might not die, but he felt really terrible!

The huge brown bear had tears in his eyes as he looked at Zhou Ji. He then placed his head on Zhou Ji’s thighs and splayed out on the ground without moving, looking like he was about to expire right then and there.

The people in the tribe were all startled, “What’s wrong with Xiong Ye?”

“Is Xiong Ye alright?”

“Wasn’t Xiong Ye fine when he came back?”

……

Only the priest realized something, “Xiong Ye drank a lot of water and even spat water out… Was he poisoned?”

Zhou Ji knew that Xiong Ye hadn’t been poisoned, but on the topic of poisoning… Zhou Ji asked, “Did you eat the chili that I placed inside the cave? That little red fruit.”

The huge brown bear nodded listlessly.

Zhou Ji: “……” Although he quite enjoyed spicy food, he also couldn’t bear eating chili peppers raw, let alone Xiong Ye who had never eaten chili before in his life.

He now basically understood what had happened to Xiong Ye.

Zhou Ji said, “That fruit isn’t poisonous. It just makes people’s mouths feel uncomfortable when they eat it… You should still be full of energy.”

Xiong Ye’s mind had been full of various terrible scenarios before, and he thought that he might die. Now that Zhou Ji had said this…

He stood up and suddenly discovered that nothing was wrong with him. It was just that his mouth hurt a little.

Xiong Ye: “……”

Zhou Ji said, “Go back to the cave then.”

Xiong Ye immediately went and climbed back into the cave––how embarrassing! He was really alright, but he acted as though he was dying down in the valley!

Seeing that Xiong Ye was returning back to the cave, Zhou Ji also followed him back. He then heard Xiong Ye, who had turned back into human form, say, “Ugh… Exactly what kind of thing was that… Ouch…”

“Adding a little bit of this chili will make things like roasted meat very tasty.” Zhou Ji added.

Xiong Ye hurriedly shook his head, “That… I’ll pass.”

Zhou Ji wasn’t about to force him and immediately smiled and agreed, “Alright.”

Xiong Ye was a bit scared of it after his experience today, so it was fine for him not to have any, but he could have Xiong Ye give it a try later on.

Of course, Xiong Ye might be unaccustomed to it at the start… He could give him a bit less at first.

Zhou Ji marinated the vegetables he had brought over with some salt. He also crushed the juicy chili peppers and added some of the salt he had purified as well as a type of plant that made meat more fragrant when added to roasted meat.

Xiong Ye really liked the meat that was roasted with this kind of plant. Zhou Ji also enjoyed it. Of course, he was much pickier about meat.

Zhou Ji was just thinking about that when he noticed the huge bird in the cave.

Xiong Ye pointed to that bird and said, “Zhou Ji, this is the bird that I caught today. It’s for you!”

“Thank you.” Zhou Ji said, “Bring the dinosaur meat that you’ll be given today to the cave and eat it here. I’ll make something delicious for you to eat today.”

“Alright.” Xiong Ye agreed, then looked towards the bright red sauce that Zhou Ji had just made, “That… this…”

“Don’t worry. I won’t give you this.” Zhou Ji assured him.

Xiong Ye relaxed and then ran down to the valley to ask Xiong He for a large piece of meat.

The tribe hadn’t turned all the meat into smoked meat. They had left some fresh meat that could be eaten over the next few days. At this time, everyone was getting meat and preparing to eat.

Xiong He had allowed everyone to eat as they liked yesterday, but he had resumed distributing the meat according to the work that was done today. The hunt yesterday had been led by Xiong Ye, so his portion was quite large. Others received relatively less, particularly the people from the gathering team.

Of course, their appetites were smaller, and they couldn’t eat that much anyway.

At this time, everyone was gathered together to roast their meat. Seeing that Xiong Ye was bringing his meat back to his cave, some of them were a little envious, “I heard that Zhou Ji will make delicious food for Xiong Ye.”

“Unfortunately, we don’t know how to make delicious food.”

“Even if we knew how, we still don’t have pots and materials… Xiong Ye caught a large bird to eat today, while we only have dinosaur meat.”

……

These people sighed and began to gnaw at their roasted meat.

They should be content with what they had. Just a few days ago, they hadn’t even been able to eat roasted meat at all!

While the people in the tribe were roasting meat, Zhou Ji had placed the ‘flat pot’ that Xiong Ye had ground out for him on the fire.

This ‘flat pot’ had basically been almost finished before he had given it to Xiong Ye to polish. It had a diameter of about 60cm and was very large and quite thin.

After the pot was heated up, Zhou Ji poured in some oil and had Xiong Ye slice the meat into thin slices that he then fried.

He fried the terror bird meat on one side and used the other side for the dinosaur meat. It was divided very clearly; the dinosaur meat was kneaded with salt before being fried, while the terror bird meat… He placed it straight into the pot for frying, then used a piece of wood to dab some chili sauce onto the meat.

Xiong Ye could feel his mouth throb a little when he saw this scene.