Chapter 88 - Building A House (2/2)

“It tastes pretty good too. It’s a little bitter, but very fragrant.”

“It’s really delicious.”

“I don’t feel hungry anymore after eating just a small amount. This food should be quite useful in the winter.”

……

Zhou Ji felt that eating barley with the shells still on was a little rough, but the people of the tribe obviously didn’t care and even seemed to enjoy the toasted barley.

This barley carried with it the fragrance of food. Although it was a little bitter, the bitterness wasn’t unbearable… Everyone treated barley as a snack and enjoyed it quite a bit.

Xiong Ye even felt that chewing it and eating it directly was quite tasty, but was also quite reluctant to have Zhou Ji eat something so coarse.

“Zhou Ji, let me shell the barley!” Xiong Ye offered.

“Alright.” Zhou Ji gave Xiong Ye one hundred kilograms of barley, “This barley all needs to be shelled.”

Xiong Ye: “……” So much!

“This barley has been drying for a long time, so it should be easier to remove the shell than the previous batch.” Zhou Ji added.

Shelling the barley would allow Xiong Ye to practice his control over his energy, so he didn’t mind letting Xiong Ye do more of this kind of work.

“I’ll go and do it right now!” Xiong Ye said.

Compared to last time, Xiong Ye’s skill in removing the shells from the barley was much better this time. When he was finally done, most of the barley was still intact.

Zhou Ji no longer used water to separate the barley shells from the grain. He told Xiong Ye to pour the mix of barley and barley shells from one barrel to another, and then used a fan to blow away all the shells as he poured.

After they cleaned up the barley, he told Xiong Ye to continue breaking it down to make barley flour.

Compared to barley rice, flatbread tasted even better. And… He knew that Xiong Ye wanted to eat it.

Now that they had a pottery pot, making flatbread had become easier!

As usual, Zhou Ji prepared the filling.

He made two kinds of filling. One was chopped up fresh dinosaur meat fried with salted vegetables, while the other was smoked meat mixed with chili.

One flatbread after another emerged, wrapped around its filling. It became even more fragrant after it was fried in oil…

Xiong Ye only had to use two pieces of flatbread to convince the people from the Giant Pig Tribe to spar with him.

Zhu Zhan and his people cut apart the flatbreads, and everyone was able to try a small bite…

“I never thought that something so good could be made out of barley!”

“The people from the Beast God Temple have never had the chance to eat something so good, right?”

“This should be made out of hulled barley that has been ground into powder…”

……

After harvesting the barley, a portion of it was taken back to be planted, some was stored away, and the rest was split amongst the tribe. Everyone had basically two or three kilograms worth of barley each.

Zhu Zhan and his people were also given a portion. The next day, they went to learn from Xiong Ye so they could start removing the shells from their barley.

Next, they followed Xiong Ye’s descriptions and tried to make flatbread.

Although the bread they were able to make wasn’t as tasty as the flatbread that Zhou Ji had made, it wasn’t bad… Zhu Zhu was very moved, “I was exiled, but my cooking has improved… After going back and letting Zhu Zhu try my craft, she definitely won’t beat me anymore.”

“Big brother, what do you mean by going back? Shouldn’t we be trying to bring Zhu Zhu here instead?” One of Zhu Zhan’s subordinates asked him.

“Why are you calling her Zhu Zhu! Call her sister-in-law!” Zhu Zhan started to think about his mate again.

In fact, it couldn’t be said that Zhu Zhu liked to hit him. In fact, she simply liked to spar and fight with him…

Zhu Zhu enjoyed eating and was quite plump. If she came to the Big Bear Tribe and saw so much delicious food, she would be very delighted.

With that in mind, Zhu Zhan took an extra big bite of his flatbread and said, “I wonder how this salted vegetable is made… Next time Xiong Ye asks us to fight, we can ask for the method of making salted vegetables!”

Zhu Zhan’s subordinates all nodded.

They had really fallen so far, now willingly selling themselves for the sake of food…

Zhou Ji was someone who would do something as soon as it was decided. After telling the priest that he wanted to build a house, he asked the people of the tribe to cut down all the trees that he didn’t want within the area he had marked out. They then removed the branches from the trees and used the trunk to start building the fence.

At the same time, looking at the area that had been cleared out, Zhou Ji began to look forward to his future home more and more.

He wanted a small pond, a well, a vegetable garden patch, a variety of fruit trees, and of course, the house itself was also very important. Aside from a mud house, he also wanted to build a breezy wooden hut…

Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible to raise a pet.

That didn’t matter. Whenever he wanted to have a pet, he could have Xiong Ye turn into his animal form!